Category: Campus life

Police at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are renewing a program designed to track down bicycle thieves by planting “bait bikes” around campus.

The LGBT Campus Center, located on the first floor of the Red Gym, started its welcome week festivities Tuesday with an ice cream social and a visit by congressman and part-time ice cream scooper for the day, Mark Pocan, D-Wis., one of seven openly gay members of the U.S. Congress.

Madison Mayor Paul Soglin is proposing a $225.3 million capital budget for 2014 that advances major initiatives and addresses some acute problems.

When dusk falls, Phalen Pierson, 53, puts down a couple of layers of cardboard with a thin foam pad in between and settles in to spend the night on the steps of Madison?s City-County Building.

?Every girl has a porn star/stripper fantasy? and ?Feminists are annoying, not attractive”?these are just two of the tweets sent out by the widely popular Confessions page, one of the most successful and controversial campus blogs these days, run by a student at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Tuition and housing arent the only financial headaches facing this years crop of college students ? add textbooks, which nationally cost students hundreds of dollars a year on average and continue to rise in price faster than inflation.

College presents a lot of choices. Pick your classes. Pick your friends. Pick your name.

One of the first classes many freshmen at universities around the country will take has nothing to do with their major. AlcoholEdu is a two-part online course used by more than 500 campuses seeks to educate students about alcohol.

The city of Madison has proclaimed Friday to be John ?Vietnam? Nguyen Day, which marks the one-year anniversary of the death of the 19-year-old UW-Madison student and Chicago-raised hip-hop artist who drowned in Lake Mendota.

This is generic advice for new assistant professors, which began as a conversation over lunch in the 1980s and has evolved over the years.

A 21-year-old UW-Madison student was injured after his moped was struck by a car early Tuesday evening, police said.

On Wednesday and Thursday more than 7,000 students will move into the dorms at UW-Madison.

A University of Wisconsin-Madison student suffered significant injuries after being hit by a car while driving a moped Tuesday, officials said.

The man whose body was recovered from Lake Mendota Wednesday was identified Thursday as Richard “Grady” DeLaCruz, 20, of Wauwatosa, who had just transferred from Marquette University to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, according to officials.

Many local businesses sponsor a boat, and Madison Schools and Community Recreation (MSCR) and UW-Madison Hoofers generally dress up a craft to join the fun. Between 15 and 25 boats usually participate in the parade. … The UW-Madison Alumni Band performs aboard the anchor boat for a raucous musical finale to the procession.

The apartment dwellers are settling in, so now it?s time for the dorm dwellers to descend on Madison.

A longtime campus tradition is ending. After Labor Day, no traditional breakfast will be served at the UW Memorial Union. No eggs, no toast, no hash browns, no pancakes, toast or bacon, at either Lakefront on Langdon or Der Rathskeller.

A team of seven students from the University of Wisconsin?Madison performed best overall in the 2013 Chinese Speech Contest of U.S. Summer Programs in China

Mid-August is the annual move-out and move-in time for students and others in downtown Madison as leases run out and new ones begin. With that comes the annual “hippie Christmas” where people put their unwanted items on the curb for others to rummage through before the sanitation department gets there.

A closed half-block of Langdon Street in front of the UW-Madison Memorial Union will reopen eastbound only on Thursday, as traffic starts to increase with the pending fall semester on campus.

Moving can be a test of brain and brawn whatever the circumstances, but the managers and tenants of high-rise student apartment buildings near the UW-Madison campus are preparing for the departure and arrival of thousands of students this week.

After months of effort, the city and UW-Madison have preliminary design concepts for a remake of the 700 and 800 blocks of State Street and Library Mall that include more green space, better bicycle and pedestrian routes and changes to the area?s many food carts.

Back in May, the city of Madison installed three chalk boards on the 700 and 800 blocks of State Street with the intention of capturing ideas that college students and other city residents have for improving the space, better known as State Street Mall.

In a final obituary for the beloved former Stadium Bar, developers on Tuesday announced they would break ground this month on Varsity Quarters, a new student housing tower to be built on the bar?s former site despite heated objections from neighborhood residents during the planning process.

City of Madison crews were out before dawn Wednesday, trying to keep ahead of a massive amount of trash and recyclables piling up during the annual move-out, move-in week.

A Fitchburg man garnered his fifth drunken-driving charge early Monday morning after University of Wisconsin-Madison police stopped him for allegedly driving erratically.

It contains one of the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s best-known natural spots, especially for couples: Picnic Point.

As summer begins to wind down and a new school year approaches, various organizations across the city and state have sought to collect and deliver supplies to some of Milwaukee Public Schools? neediest students.

High school scholars in UW-Madison?s PEOPLE program (Pre-College Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence) and incoming PEOPLE college freshmen from across Wisconsin were recognized for their accomplishments at the program?s annual recognition banquet Friday, Aug. 2, at the Exhibition Hall D of the Alliant Energy Center.

As Damon Williams departs from his position as the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s chief diversity officer, two campus figures involved in efforts to create a more inclusive university will help guide its diversity initiatives over the next year.