Category: Campus life

A student government committee finalized plans for an upcoming ethnic studies roundtable and announced the music group that will perform at the event next week. 

A Madison Police Department officer addressed possible police strategies for both the planned alternative spring event and the Mifflin Street Block Party in a neighborhood meeting Monday.

Two inventions that incorporate Wisconsin?s well-known pastimes of hunting and fishing won the top awards Friday at a University of Wisconsin-Madison invention contest for undergraduates.

A recent crackdown on the sale of unlimited bus passes to unauthorized users has yielded hundreds of confiscations.

MADISON ? Scott Resnick always wanted to be involved in politics, but there is some irony at work as the 26-year-old begins a campaign to keep his seat on the Madison City Council.

Yet another proposal for new student housing was brought before a city body Wednesday as the Mansion Hill Neighborhood Association considered plans to convert a church-owned school building on West Johnson Street into student apartments. 

The University of Wisconsin System is in the national spotlight for being the first public university system to roll out a flexible option for working adults that awards degrees based on competency – not time in a classroom.

Despite statewide talks of rising tuition and cuts to state funding, The Princeton Review has again named University of Wisconsin as one of the best values in higher education in the nation.

The Peace Corps announced Tuesday the University of Wisconsin boasted the third highest amount of Peace Corps volunteers for 2013.

As students made their way to classes on a typical winter day yesterday, some paused along with faculty and alumni to celebrate University of Wisconsin?s Founders? Day, marking the 164th year since the start of classes.

After months of deliberation over logistics and concerns voiced by community members, Madison?s City Council approved a proposal to build a six-story student apartment building in the Langdon Street neighborhood Tuesday evening.

Four years after the construction of the Student Activity Center, the facility will undergo massive renovations in response to student demands and complaints.

The Board of Regents for the University of Wisconsin System is looking for a new student representative to replace an outgoing student.The Board of Regents establishes policies and rules for governing the UW System. The board also deals with budget issues and admission standards.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison ranked third on the Peace Corps? annual list of top volunteer-producing, large U.S. universities for the second consecutive year.UW-Madison has 103 graduates currently working overseas in 47 countries around the globe, according to a university press release. University of Washington and the University of Florida top the list this year, each sending 107 volunteers to serve abroad.

Among large universities ? those with more than 15,000 students ? the University trails the University of Washington, Seattle; the University of Florida; and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, which all have more than 100 volunteers serving.

Despite recent setbacks for downtown safety, a local alder told a student government committee that the city is continuing to attempt high standards of safety in the campus area. 

University of Wisconsin-Madison?s annual Innovation Days will bring together 21 UW-Madison students to show off their creativity and inventions in a competition for the chance to win more than $28,000 in prizes.

Experts see a slight increase in norovirus cases among University of Wisconsin-Madison students. Norovirus can make people sick all year round, but the peak is late fall into winter months like February and March.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison will enter the RecycleMania competition against 300 other colleges and universities Feb. 3 to increase recycling and decrease the amount of trash on campuses across the country.

The Student Services Finance Committee heard budget proposals Thursday from the Child Care Tuition Assistance Program and the Student Activity Center Governing Board.The SAC, which is home to the student radio station, student government and numerous student organizations, presented a budget of $389,520, which is a $58,534.56 increase from last year.

The African American Student Academic Services (AASAS) is an essential campus agency that provides support services to African and African American undergraduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Karla Foster is the coordinator for AASAS, which is housed under the Center for Academic Excellence (CAE) in the College of Letters and Sciences.

Students and faculty at the University of Wisconsin are gearing up for the biannual career and internship fair next week. 

A city decision could mean students will have the opportunity to attend an alternative festival to the Mifflin Street Block Party May 4, leaders from the Wisconsin Union Directorate and the Associated Students of Madison said Tuesday. 

A student-led group will soon officially propose a university-sponsored end-of-the year event on May 4, the same day as the 2013 Mifflin Street Block Party.The event, which has been in its beginning stages since late November, would be a music and arts festival held near Randall Avenue in the Union South area, according to Associated Students of Madison Vice Chair Maria Giannopoulos.

In an effort to weigh possible reforms to the University of Wisconsin?s ethnic studies requirement, the Associated Students of Madison Diversity Committee announced plans for a roundtable event on campus.

The Student Services Finance Committee approved budgets for the Associated Students of Madison Student Judiciary and WSUM Monday

An upcoming roundtable dinner will give students and staff an opportunity to provide feedback on the mandatory ethnic studies requirement as part of a student government campaign to reform the current structure.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison has a similar admissions strategy to the University?s. John Lucas, a university spokesman, said officials use a comprehensive review in which academic preparation is the most important factor.

The Dane County Circuit Court ruled Jan. 15 to allow former adidas workers to join the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s contract lawsuit against the company, allowing the workers to directly participate in the litigation.

When Badger Coaches turned its bus terminal at the corner of West Washington Avenue and South Bedford Street into apartments and retail space in 2009, Madison?s bus passengers were dealt a blow.

If you were to think of Madison, Wisconsin, “fashion capital” is probably not what would come to mind. The Badgers, liberal politicals and partying college students are most likely what you may ponder, not to mention our charmingly odd accents and love for cheese. In these cold, long Wisconsin winter months, add some thoughts of long underwear, slushy sidewalks, dry skin and piles of (often homemade) blankets to the mix. It?s a wonder that the glamorous people of the world haven?t flocked to this Midwestern city yet. New York City?s got nothing on us and our cheeseheads.

In one courtroom Monday afternoon, a Dane County judge sent a former UW-Madison doctoral candidate to prison for three years for possessing child pornography, because a recent state law said she had to.

On Monday, a former UW-Madison doctoral student will be the first in Dane County to go to prison under a new wrinkle in a state law that bans the possession of child pornography.