Category: Campus life

The Freedom From Religion Foundation, an atheist advocacy group, has issued a seemingly bizarre invite, offering students, faculty and the general public at the University of Wisconsin-Madison the opportunity to ?stone? them at an upcoming event commemorating ?Blasphemy Rights Day.?

A 3-acre lakeside park with picnic spots, gardens, broad grassy plazas and an outdoor classroom-in-the-round will sprout by 2015 in a patch of UW-Madison land now occupied by a parking lot, officials with the school?s alumni association announced Friday.

Work in very dangerous situations. Put in long hours ? 12 to 20 at a stretch ? with a limited number of breaks. Facilitate and manage all aspects of threat assessment. Those lines are taken from a job description for the director of threat intervention services, a new position at UW-Madison.

Although Stephanie O?Neal didn?t blow a whistle to start the action, no one got to grab a plant until 10:30 a.m. ? sharp. Until then, members of the Wisconsin Hardy Plant Society could only scope out future additions to their gardens at the organization?s annual plant exchange held under blue skies and in an idyllic setting at the Allen Centennial Gardens at UW-Madison on Sunday.

Madison police are searching for a man who sexual assaulted a college female.It happened around 2:55 a.m. Sunday morning on Langdon St and Frances St near downtown Madison.

A University of Wisconsin student with a nickname of “Silo” is eating his way through school ? competitively.

Fifty-one University of Wisconsin-Madison freshmen who aspire to be engineers aren?t sitting in a classroom this semester, listening to technical lectures and doing canned experiments.

A student in Wisconsin has found an unusual way of paying for his studies. Eric Dahl, nick-named Silo, is a competitive eater and spends his winnings on paying for his education.

The giant cafeteria on the UW-Madison campus that took up residence in the old Gordon Commons, or ?Pop?s,? is something to behold.

A woman described by police as “college-age” was robbed of her purse and cell phone at gunpoint early Friday on the Near West Side, according to a news release from Madison police.

Off stage, UW-Madison senior and computer engineering major Eric Dahl ? Silo?s alter ego ? has the young, hip look of a college student.

Safety concerns rising after shots are fired on the UW-Madison campus Wednesday night.  Police say two teens were attempting to rob a student at gunpoint.  

Starting this year, Madison required AlcoholEdu for incoming freshmen, transfer students and those returning to University housing, said Reonda Washington, community health specialist for Madison?s University Health Services.

UW-Madison?s online course to teach students about the dangers of high-risk drinking hasn?t come a moment too soon.

Seven women at UW-Madison are being honored with the Outstanding Women of Color award for their work in social justice, service, research and community building.

Four residences on Langdon Street, were hit by burglars during the weekend, with money and electronics the targeted items.

Another practice gaining traction — one from which non-trans students will benefit just as much — is a preferred name policy. The new one at the University of Wisconsin at Madison allows students to note their preferred name through their online learning platform, which is then transmitted to class rosters and the online student directory. While plenty of students of all gender identities may prefer a nickname to a given name, the issue is important for many transgender students for whom the name with which they were born represents a gender with which they don?t identify.

The burglary, in the 100 block of Lathrop Street, was the fourth reported to police in the Downtown/Near West Side/UW-Madison campus area in recent weeks.

Replacement parts and new technologies needed in deep space may only be a print job away if  an interdisciplinary team of University of Wisconsin undergraduates succeeds in designing and constructing a collapsible 3-D printer for use on manned, zero gravity space explorations like those of the International Space Station.

Concerned about increasing pressure for development, a group of UW-Madison students is asking the city to consider creating a local historic district in the Langdon neighborhood near campus.

Gerald Kocken of De Pere bought his first telescope 15 years ago, and he didn?t stop there.

Benjamin Newman, a lieutenant with the police department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will become the new director of the Department of Public Safety at Southern Illinois University Carbondale on Oct. 9.

Besides warnings about alcohol and sexual assault, the UW Police Department?s September newsletter contains a story about a group of student volunteers performing “bleeding/wound care, spinal immobilization and advanced airway management.”