The removal of the Memorial Union’s colorful orange, yellow and green terrace chairs — that bellwether of impending winter — will start the last week of October.
Festivities begin with the “Badger Games,” which is a bracket-style student intramural volleyball tournament. That goes from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Nicholas Recreation Center.
The Union will continue to host concerts, art events and other activities inside once the outdoor area closes.
Wisconsin Union announced the move on Monday. The removal date is subject to change based on factors including staffing. Crews will remove 2,000 chairs and 431 tables from the Terrace.
The iconic chairs are expected to be removed from the Terrace on Oct. 28. The more than 2,000 yellow, orange and green chairs and more than 400 tables mark an end to the Terrace summer entertainment season.
Rabbi Andrea Steinberger of Hillel at University of Wisconsin-Madison she set tables for a pre-fast meal Friday and prepared for services that hundreds of students were expected to attend.
Those hoping to see British band Coldplay take the stage at Camp Randall next summer might have a hard time snagging tickets to the stadium’s first concern in nearly three decades.
On Friday, over 50 students came to UW-Madison’s Library Mall to protest its investments in Israeli companies. Protesters took aim at how the university treated ongoing calls for divestment and new rules on free speech that followed late Spring’s encampment. The protest from SJP marks the last demonstration in its “Week of Rage” during the anniversary week of the genocide in Gaza’s start.
The revised Creando Comunidad program aims to bring together students interested in addressing systemic oppression by engaging with communities of color.
Protest leaders criticize university police, administration’s response to demands.
SJP marched from Library Mall to Bascom Hill, calling for the university to divest their funds and for an end to violence in Gaza as a part of their final event during their “week of rage.”
“There are consistent general eligibility requirements, such as maintenance of valid F-1 status and practical training directly related to the degree program. However, federal regulations on CPT are quite vague, so it is up to each institution to develop its own CPT policy and procedure that match institutional policies and procedures,” says Samantha McCabe, international student services director at the University of Wisconsin—Madison.
Robyn George: I’m 22 years old and I’m from Milwaukee, Wisconsin … I entered college at UW-Madison as a political science major which really heavily informed the way that I use the medium to digest the world around me, it also pushed me to create spaces like The Issue on campus where art and culture can combine to create something new and unrestricted.
The design phase is nearly done. Then, the college will take the plans for the new facility to the UW system Board of Regents and State Building Commission, said UW-Madison College of Engineering Dean Ian Robertson.
UW history assistant professor, SJP student leader, members connect Palestinian resistance to historical examples.
Hillel has been foundational to so many Jewish stories over the past century. In the 1930s, it established a student refugee program, saving the lives of nearly 150 young European Jews. In 1947, it helped Hungarian-born Tom Lantos come to the U.S., where he became the only Holocaust survivor to ever be elected to Congress. In the 1950s and ’60s, Hillels across the country organized robust support for the civil-rights movement. In 1960, at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, the Hillel director Max Ticktin addressed 500 students in a march on Library Mall and called for an end to both local and national discrimination, and encouraged students to fight against racist Jim Crow laws.
“They are not numbers. We will remember their names,” said Students for Justice in Palestine (SPJ) on the one-year anniversary since the genocide began while pro-Israeli counterprotesters mocked them at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Speakers share their accounts of the day, hopes for the future.
‘I’m disappointed, but not shocked,’ SJP member said of counter-protest.
“Many people on campus on both sides were touched by the news of this conflict a year ago, but today they are just used to it and have stopped caring,” SJP protester Junyao Wang told The Daily Cardinal. “We are not going to give up because we’re tired. We need to give people stimulation.”
Roughly 200 students gathered in Library Mall Monday night to remember the victims of the Hamas attack on Israel.
On Tuesday, Coldplay announced that it’s bringing its “Music of the Spheres World Tour” — the highest-grossing and bestselling rock tour ever, according to Billboard— to the home of the Wisconsin Badgers on July 19, 2025.
Coldplay is coming to the Wisconsin Badgers football stadium July 19, as part of its “Music of the Spheres World Tour,” the Chris Martin-led British band officially announced on its website Tuesday.
Coldplay has been confirmed for a Camp Randall Stadium concert in 2025 and the date is set, according to announcements by University of Wisconsin Athletics and Coldplay.
Latino judges from across Wisconsin spoke about their careers and the obstacles faced on their path to the bench at a panel held at Memorial Union.
Camp Randall Stadium is hosting its first ever concert in 30 years and it will most likely be Coldplay.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced that they will be hosting a concert after Saturday’s blowout victory over Purdue.
The University of Wisconsin athletic department showed a promotional video at Saturday’s football game for the first concert at Camp Randall Stadium in 28 years.
The teases continued Sunday with an apparent confirmation of the group.
The University of Wisconsin Marching Band were not the only ones performing at Badger Bash Saturday.
Fans will have to chance to jump around and enjoy live music at Camp Randall when Coldplay arrives at the stadium next year.
The demolition of the Mosse Humanities Building and construction of new art and music buildings are under discussion after regents approve $855 million budget increase.
Spring in October. That’s what David Stevens, curator of the UW Arboretum’s Longenecker Horticultural Gardens, is calling the unusual fall blooming of local lilacs that’s drawing crowds to see and smell the typically spring-blooming flowers.
UW considering constructing new residence halls to solve housing shortage issues.
‘The students deserve to know where the money that is being donated in their name is going. They deserve to know where it’s coming from,’ SJP member says.
$90,000 budgeted for UW schools for the fall cycle of the Wisconsin Institute for Citizenship, Civil Dialogue grant program.
UW Hillel board member Ari Rosenblatt shares holiday traditions, reflects on impacts of Oct. 7.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Students for Justice in Palestine member Vignesh Ramachandran denied responsibility for three non-academic misconduct charges related to the spring encampment.
The People’s Farm and University Housing encouraged volunteer participation, gave insight into food production during Eagle Heights open farm tour.
Black student enrollment at the state’s flagship university has never surpassed 3 percent of the student body, according to data from the Universities of Wisconsin. In 2023, 1,327 students out of 50,335 identified as Black, about 2.6 percent.
This year, the percentage of underrepresented students of color in the freshman class dropped by 3.7 percentage points from last year to 14.3 percent, according to UW-Madison data.
Besides selling the expected cheese and ice cream, the Babcock Dairy store at UW-Madison is also a sandwich shop.
UW continues to strengthen commitment to faculty diversity with 22nd annual reception.
Community members learn the art, history behind making paper.
UW aims to boost civic engagement through live music, voter registrations.
After recommendations from a working group on Registered Student Organization code of conduct, the University of Wisconsin-Madison required student organizations to have an advisor listed and outlined consequences for organizations that do not participate.
“Out of the whole 300 applicants, we took about 20 total,” said Tim, a person on a hiring committee for a sought-after position at UW-Madison whom the Cardinal is identifying by a pseudonym due to privacy concerns.
Shylee Ravid and Lexi Gold are freshman at UW-Madison and have multiple friends that are currently studying abroad in Israel. Ravid said that she texted her friends to check in, after learning of the missile attack Tuesday morning.
There’s a wonderful new book by a scholar at the University of Wisconsin [at Madison], Xueli Wang, called Delivering Promise, and she says, “We need to be students first and educators first.”
Two graduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are facing campus disciplinary hearings linked to an op-ed they authored in support of the student pro-Palestine encampment movement this spring. At least five other open hearings will take place over the next month.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison named a new executive director for the Office of Student Financial Aid Monday. UW-Madison Office of Student Financial AidPhil Asbury will begin the role on December 1.
Ryan Podolak, Associate Director of the Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards, is alleging that Vignesh Ramachandran is in violation of 17.09(11) False Statement/Refusal to Comply With Reasonable Request, 17.09(14) Violation of Ch. UWS 18 and 18.07(04) Picnicking and Camping, per the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System (UWS) Administrative Code, Chapter 17 and 18.
Scalpers and scammers stand to make huge profits on facebook marketplace, GroupMe, Snapchat, Student Seats.
Some campus organizers at schools like Arizona State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison are leading community campaigns for legal defense to support students and community members facing legal action. These efforts have persisted throughout the summer with groups at the University of Wisconsin-Madison “packing the court” for their peers’ hearings, raising money for bail funds, and leading public pressure movements to get charges dropped.
The Wisconsin Black Student Union hosted a candlelight vigil on Friday to commemorate Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams, who was executed in Missouri on Tuesday.
UW Madison students, faculty, staff and alumni worked together at Makeathon 2024 to build Toddler Mobility Trainers on Friday. Volunteers, no matter their experience with engineering and shop, could help in different areas of building a small, customized wheelchair for young children with disabilities.
Showcase continues to connect new students with campus sustainability resources.
‘I’m tired and drained of the collective mourning, the constant disappointment and blatant racism,’ WBSU Outreach Director says.
UW-Madison’s overall ranking dropped slightly from 35th in 2024 but still stayed 10 places higher than its 49th-place ranking in 2019. Its ranking among public universities fell one spot from 12th last year.
The University of Wisconsin (UW) system has instituted two new admissions programs meant to make this process easier and encourage more Wisconsin students to attend their institutions: The Wisconsin Guarantee and Direct Admit Wisconsin.
College students can play a pivotal role in a swing state like Wisconsin, where elections are often won by razor-thin margins.
Voting rules can be confusing to navigate — and even more so for college students, most of whom live at a new address each school year. Here’s a guide on what to know, where to register and how to vote:
This year’s freshman class has a lower percentage of Black, Indigenous, and Latino students compared to last year.
‘If you go out and try to find the truth and tell the story it’s always there for you,’ Maraniss says.
