When Tiffany Jones, a UW PEOPLE Program scholar, entered UW-Madison aftergraduating from Madison Memorial High School, she had thoughts of pursuing a careerin writing or fashion design. But after the Wisconsin Experience which academicallychallenged her as well as exposed her to the broader world community, she turned hersights to science and medicine with purpose and resolve.
College students across the country may be starting their spring semester on the couch.Only it won?t be for unwinding or easy living, but because of the flu.
Noted: ?We?re sort of working under the assumption ? at least, on our campus ? that we?re going to see cases similar to what we saw three years ago,? said Craig M. Roberts, an epidemiologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison health services. During the swine flu pandemic, 15 to 20 percent of clinic visits at Wisconsin were for flu-like illness. The usual threshold for outbreak is just 2 to 3 percent of total visits.
So here?s the deal: Coupon users are a huge market. Heavy coupon users ? whether they?re frugal adults or poor students ? number an estimated 24 million Americans. So what if you had a mobile app, priced at $5, where these folks could scan coupons, organize them in a file and match them to the week?s grocery list?
Roger L. Perkins directs the Veterans Support Center at the University of Utah. He?s had bedrooms that are bigger than his campus office, whose paper-thin walls make it easy for a sobbing student to be overheard next door.
A man with ties to Chicago, Milwaukee and Madison has been identified as the fourth suspect in the attack of UW-Madison football player Montee Ball last Aug. 1.
Notre Dame?s high-profile re-emergence among college football?s elite has focused new attention on the university?s long-standing claims that it does things “the right way” — that football players are treated like anyone else on campus, with no special favors.
If Wisconsin students and parents are looking for one of the best values in the country in higher education, stay at home.
MINNEAPOLIS ? The University of Minnesota is currently the cheapest school in the Big Ten for nonresident tuition, but possibly not for much longer.
There will be no alcohol on Wisconsin?s Rose Bowl-bound equipment truck this year.
Sarah Wiskow admits she?s spoiled. In her third year at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the 2010 Port Washington High School graduate will make her third trip to Pasadena, Calif., next week to see the Badgers play in the Rose Bowl on New Year?s Day.
About 100 Stanford and Wisconsin fans met at Jewish Family Services of Los Angeles in Van Nuys to package food for Los Angeles-area needy.
As you pull on your jersey or take a sip from your favorite UW mug in preparation for the 2013 Rose Bowl, remember every Bucky Badger and Motion W has a grand purpose: real need-based financial aid for UW-Madison students.
Many UW-Madison students got a pass on final exams Thursday, accompanied by the chance to revive a traditional battle on Bascom Hill as a winter storm blanketed the campus with snow perfect for packing and pelting opponents. Exams and other normal campus operations were expected to resume Friday. Between 500 and 600 students turned out for the snowball fight between the Lakeshore dorms and the Southeast dorms, according to UW Police, who said the Lakeshore residents won the battle.
MADISON, Wis. -Two of the three men accused of attacking Wisconsin running back Montee Ball were accepted into the first-offenders program during plea and sentencing hearings Wednesday. Twenty-one-year-old Wendell J. Venerable and 22-year-old Robert A. Wilks were each facing a single count of battery. The felony charge carries a maximum penalty of 18 months in prison and a $10,000 fine.
MADISON (WKOW) — Two of the three men charged in the attack on Badger running back Montee Ball are scheduled for plea and sentencing hearings Wednesday.
Two of the three men accused of attacking Wisconsin running back Montee Ball are scheduled for plea and sentencing hearings.
The first big snowstorm of the season is ready to hit Madison, but that won?t stop local colleges from conducting final exams this week. “UW-Madison is open for business and finals are expected to be held as scheduled,” the UW said in a news release Tuesday. A caveat was added, however. “Any changes to campus operations will be announced on TV, radio, via social media and the university home page,” the release said.
Redshirt freshman quarterback Joel Stave was so intent on getting back on the field as quickly as possible for the University of Wisconsin football team, he sacrificed a good part of his wardrobe toward the effort. One of the hardest things for Stave after suffering a broken left collarbone against Michigan State on Oct. 27 was keeping his left arm motionless for the first few weeks, to help the bone heal.
An idea for a printable prosthetic hand, first dreamed up when Eric Ronning was bored during an entry-level freshman engineering course, has now been recognized with a national inventors prize for the UW-Madison junior, who?s also parlayed it into a start-up company. “I feel like you could change the world with this idea,” said Ronning, a mechanical engineering major from the Chicago suburbs, in a university release. “And that?s what keeps me going.”
Plea hearings for two men charged with an attack in August on UW football running back Montee Ball were delayed until Wednesday over apparent confusion about what was to happen at the hearings and whether Ball and his father wanted to attend.
Your editorial last Sunday on UW athletics advances the antique idea that “amateur” collegiate sports should involve minimal investment and revenue. That probably worked a hundred years ago. Today, the greatest amateur athletic event ? the Olympics ? involves hundreds of millions of dollars in both investment and revenues. The editorial implies that institutions of higher learning, such as UW-Madison, really don?t need an athletic program. Former UW Chancellor Donna Shalala was smart when she realized the overall value of the athletic program to creating greater interest in and support of the entire UW System.
Almost 200 University of Wisconsin-Madison students gathered on Bascom Hill Friday to pay their respects to the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn. that took place earlier Friday. The vigil was organized by UW-Madison freshman Anthony Birch in response to the shooting of 26 people, including 20 children, by a gunman who entered the school and opened fire.
During these austere times in the UW System, with diminishing state resources and grants and scholarships, it is judicious to question the fellowships and rewards received by athletes in high-profile sports such as football. The football program is currently flush with money and resources (it has not always been), due largely to Pat Richter and Barry Alvarez turning the program around. The lucrative funds from donors are retained within the athletic program and do not help support academic programs.
At UW-Madison?s winter commencement ceremony Sunday, former Athletic Director Pat Richter cleared up one of legendary football coach Vince Lombardi?s famous quotes. ?He?s been misquoted as saying, ?Winning isn?t everything, it?s the only thing.? But what he really said was, ?Winning isn?t everything, wanting to win is.? There?s a tremendous difference,? Richter said during his speech to graduates at the Kohl Center.
UW interim chancellor David Ward started the graduation ceremony by asking for a minute of silence for the people of Newtown, Conn., two days after a massacre at an elementary school there.
Final exams began Sunday in Madison, and college students across the city are cramming for tests, typing out essays and downing enough caffeine to keep campuses buzzing. So to cut down on some of the stress their finals can cause, local schools are offering a little pampering, whether it?s with massages, free coffee or visits from therapy dogs….According to Rob Sepich, a stress management specialist at UW-Madison’s University Health Services, a small amount of stress can help students at finals time. Too much of it, however, can hurt their ability to concentrate and compromise their immune systems.
Governor Scott Walker says he?s considering freezing U-W tuition, or putting a cap on the size of any tuition hikes in the U-W system.
A burglary suspect arrested Thursday night is facing more than burglary charges after a loaded handgun was found in his backpack, Madison police reported. Christopher Mason, 31, of Madison, was tentatively charged with burglary and being a felon in possession of a firearm, police said in a news release. A second suspect in the burglary that happened shortly before 8 p.m. in the 400 block of West Doty Street is still at large, police said. According to the release, a UW-Madison student sleeping on a living room couch woke up to find two strangers in his house.
There is plenty of uneasiness swirling around the UW football program these days. The uncertainty of who the next head coach will be and which of the current assistants might stay top the list for most players. Those players are trying to put all of their focus on the Rose Bowl game against Stanford on Jan. 1. But it?s hard for the non-seniors to keep from wondering who will be coaching them next season.
A large Downtown Madison Catholic church wants to convert a historic school building on its property into rental housing for college students, three years after a different housing proposal by the church hit snags and was abandoned. The latest proposal by leaders of Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, 120 W. Johnson St., would turn the former Holy Redeemer School into apartments at an estimated cost of $4.2 million, according to Monsignor Kevin Holmes, Holy Redeemer?s priest….The student housing would be open to anyone but targeted especially for students of St. Paul’s University Catholic Center on the UW-Madison campus, Holmes said. St. Paul’s recently had to eliminate a student housing component to its proposed new building due to concerns over the building’s mass and height.
Journalists and politicians delight in telling us what is wrong with public education, when in fact they know very little about it. A case in point is Jonah Goldberg?s Wednesday column, a denunciation of historians? use of “left-wing” textbooks. I agree that left-wing historians can be boring, but I disagree when he suggests that history teachers use left-wing textbooks.
? Norman K. Risjord, history professor emeritus, UW-Madison
The New York Times recently called 2012 “the year of the MOOC,” the strangely compelling (and somewhat ironic) term for massive open online course. MOOCs are taking the world of higher education by storm, as millions have signed up for online, college-level instruction from online vendors like Udacity and Coursera. In a college town like Madison, MOOCs are a very big deal indeed.
Twenty-four UW-Madison engineering seniors and graduate students who had enrolled in a mechanical engineering course in fluid power recently received an email that read, in part: “Unfortunately, due to budget reductions, the mechanical engineering department will not be able to hire an instructor for ME 545 for spring 2013.”
A federal judge on Wednesday again rejected a civil rights lawsuit by Ralph Armstrong, whose conviction for killing a UW-Madison student was overturned in 2009. In September, U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb rejected Armstrong?s lawsuit because he had sued the state of Wisconsin and not any of the people or agencies that he alleged had violated his rights.
As Superstorm Sandy barreled toward the East Coast in late October, it became more urgent for Paula Panczenko, the executive director of Tandem Press, to get to New York. So she jumped on a plane before the start of the 2012 International Fine Print Dealers? Association Print Fair, an important event in the art world ? and the most significant sales venue of the year for the artwork that?s created by UW-Madison?s Tandem Press….Sales for Tandem at that show, Panczenko said, were ?very good.?
The tale illustrates Tandem?s entrepreneurial spirit and the broad reach that Tandem Press, founded 25 years ago, now has across the country. More than 300 university students and 63 early-career and well-established artists have worked at the fine art press, whose very name ? Tandem ? is about the collaboration between artists and master printers.
For the last quarter century, college students from Wisconsin have gotten on a plane, landed in Scotland and spent a semester or year together in the most splendid of dormitories: an 18th century castle in Dalkeith, a village six miles from Edinburgh. Starting soon, the castle will get more diverse. Wisconsin students in Scotland will be joined by students from Virginia State University, a historically black college in the shadow of Fort Lee, a key battleground in the Civil War.
Ethan Hemer, a defensive lineman for the Badgers, was treated as a celebrity when he started student teaching at Schenk Elementary School this fall. He is thankful that has changed among the students in the second grade class taught by Kelly Cates and other students. ?Now that I have been here for awhile, I feel more like a teacher,? he said. Hemer also benefits by teaching students so young.
The Institute for One Wisconsin is out to shame us into doing something to fix the nation?s student debt problem. And that it?s a problem is unmistakable. We?re drowning young college graduates in years and years of unconscionable loan payments, and there?s growing evidence that it?s having a profoundly negative impact on the nation?s economy. The institute, which is the research arm of the liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin Now, has embarked on a statewide campaign to show the people of Wisconsin just how serious and onerous student debt has become.
Redshirt freshman quarterback Joel Stave continues to progress in his return from a broken collarbone, taking part on a limited basis during the University of Wisconsin football team?s practice on Sunday.
Redevelopment: The Madison Landmarks Commission will consider a proposal to demolish a building and construct a new fraternity at 210 Langdon St., and a proposed addition and alteration to the Williamson Street Co-op at 4:45 p.m. in Room LL-110 of the Madison Municipal Building, 215 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.
The U-W Board of Regents has signed off on a plan to increase enrollment limits for out-of-state students.
….Most vocal was UW-Madison Police Chief Sue Riseling, who called her objections “a size issue, a noise issue, and a huge parking issue,” and said she couldn?t envision anything higher than four stories in the location next to the UW police station. “Forty spaces? That?s crazy. I don?t even want to think about game day,” she said, referencing UW football Saturdays, which bring 80,000 people into the neighborhood. “There is nothing about that block that says eight stories makes any sense? I just think it?s completely out of proportion for that block.”
A neighborhood meeting Thursday night allowed students and city residents to voice their opinions about the unknown future of the Stadium Bar.
Montee Ball will finish his college career on top of a number of lists in the record books. He?ll also finish it on top of the list of the nation?s top running backs.
At a public meeting Thursday night UW-Madisons Police Chief Susan Riseling and others criticized plans to replace Madisons Stadium Bar with an eight-story building with apartments and commercial space.
The regents of the University of Wisconsin System will be considering a proposal to admit a higher percentage of out-of-state students.
The UW-Milwaukee student newspaper, the Post, announced last week that it will no longer be available in print, shifting in January to an exclusively online news model. It?s not necessarily bad news, since news online is better than no news at all. But the paper?s dueling headlines reflect the ongoing upheaval in the media industry, even at the collegiate level: The headline announcing the news to readers ? THE POST IS DEAD ? does not exactly inspire confidence of a bold, new era of online student journalism. The adjacent headline ? LONG LIVE THE POST ? suggests brighter days may be ahead for the 56-year-old weekly.
A higher percentage of non-resident students would be allowed to enroll at University of Wisconsin campuses under a proposal being considered this week by the UW System Board of Regents. The plan, which would raise the cap on non-resident undergraduate enrollment from 25 percent to 30 percent over a three-year rolling average, has stirred criticism over whether it would make it harder for Wisconsinites to attend UW-Madison. The cap increase would not apply just to new freshmen but the entire undergraduate student body.
MADISON (AP) ? The University of Wisconsin System and other college associations have endorsed a commission finding that calls for an increase in college aid in the next state budget.
An organization of student nonbelievers is likely to receive $69,000 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the largest grant from an institute of higher learning ever awarded to a nontheistic, student-led organization.
Colleges and student advocacy groups across the state showed their support for a financial aid commission?s report that called for ensuring more students get aid.
There were stress balls, tai chi, Shrinky Dinks and free massages, and Stress Reduction fair at the University of Wisconsin?s Education Building was in full force Tuesday evening.
Within the past year, issues surrounding diversity have been hugely controversial throughout the university. From the Center for Equal Opportunity?s allegations that UW-Madison unfairly takes race into account in admissions, to individuals at a fraternity throwing beer bottles and yelling racial slurs at African American students walking past, it is clear that the university needs to strive for improvements in diversity on campus. What is not so clear, however, are the means through which the university is currently striving for these improvements. For this reason and more, we strongly support the initiative to create a new campus diversity plan.
A UW-Madison student magazine turns 10 this week. Curb Magazine, which in 2010 became the first college publication in the nation to include an iPad version, will launch its latest edition Wednesday. The launch is being preceded by a “10 Days of Curb” lead-up on Facebook, in which editors created a puzzle out of the magazine?s cover, filling in a new piece each day. More at facebook.com/curbmagazine.
When David Chen decided to transfer to the University of Wisconsin from a Chinese university two years ago, he knew what he was leaving behind: his job as a radio DJ, his rock band and his position as student government president.
I have been to hell. I have faced down the forces of evil. I have descended into the darkest reaches of existence and I have seen the blackness which resides in the hidden corners of men?s souls. What I mean to say is that I?ve gone to the comments section on an online article related to religion. I will never find a more wretched hive of belligerence and stupidity. Or at least I hope I won?t. Honestly, I don?t really want to talk about it, but I will.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Odyssey Project was featured Sunday on the Big Ten Network?s television show ?Forward Motion,? which is produced by the university. The episode focused on the project?s impact on the participants involved in the program.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison chapter of the Climate Action 350 and Madison residents joined in a protest Monday presenting the UW Foundation with more than 1,200 petition signatures requesting the foundation end its investment in fossil fuels to help decrease the threat of climate change. Climate Action 350-UW is a student group that works to reduce climate change resulting from the unsafe amount of carbon dioxide currently in the atmosphere, according to UW-Madison junior Emmy Burns.
Palermo?s Pizza reached a settlement agreement Friday with the National Labor Relations Board acknowledging it committed labor law violations, following allegations of labor practice violations from employees. The agreement came after workers from Palermo?s factories went on strike, accusing the pizza company of unlawfully firing workers for their attempts to unionize, as well as over immigrant audit threats.
Going to the Rose Bowl: once-in-a-lifetime or not again? It?s a question facing many Wisconsin Badger fans, who so far have appeared a bit tepid in booking tickets to Pasadena, Calif., for this year?s edition of the New Year?s Day game. “I don?t want to say the frost is off the pumpkin but this is the third year they?ve gone,” said Michael Lee, owner of Concorde Travel. His company, which again is selling all-inclusive trips for about $2,300 a person, had received about 40 calls about booking trips by Monday afternoon, he said.
