Around 400 Badger fans gathered at Union South to watch the game on Saturday. UW-Madison junior Lorna Cagann says if the Badgers win it would be the third Rose Bowl trip during her college career. “It?s super exciting,” Cagann said. “We were talking about it earlier. It would be like three years in a row and we?ve been here for all three of them.”
MADISON, Wis.- Madison city alder Scott Resnick, representing District 8, said there is a committee looking into the need for high-rise student housing around the city and the impact of those residences on surrounding neighborhoods. As discussions continue about potential redevelopment of the Stadium Bar property on Monroe Street, Resnick said the city continues to look at housing markets and how many student apartments may be too many around town. Resnick adds that students are often looking to be close to campus no matter the cost.
Downtown Madison?s rental housing boom is continuing with a $40 million-plus, 12-story project being proposed for a third of a city block near State Street. Developer David Schutz is seeking to demolish three existing apartment buildings to construct a project with 320 to 340 apartments and 215 underground parking spaces catering to students and young professionals on the 400 blocks of West Dayton and West Johnson streets and the 200 block of North Broom Street.
As the Wisconsin Badgers football team prepares for another visit to Pasadena, University of Wisconsin-Madison students are taking a little more caution in planning what can be an expensive trip to California and buying their tickets to the Rose Bowl.Tickets to last year?s Rose Bowl sold out within 15 minutes of becoming available to student season ticket holders. The year before it had taken 20 minutes until the only place a student could find a ticket was from someone who had bought it at the original face value.
Noted: Such coercion is a natural augmentation of censorship. Next comes mob rule. Last year, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the vice provost for diversity and climate ? really; you can?t make this stuff up ? encouraged students to disrupt a news conference by a speaker opposed to racial preferences. They did, which the vice provost called “awesome.” This is the climate on an especially liberal campus that celebrates “diversity” in everything but thought.
A couple of years back, when I was in high school, I took part in this debate on the topic ?studying abroad is a mere fad?. I spoke against it. I spoke on how it?s not a fad. I won the debate because I truly believed in the points I had put forward. But now that I am here in the United States of America, studying at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, I am all the more convinced that studying abroad is not a fad at all! The opportunity given to me by my university to experience the U.S. education system at one of the premiere institutes in the U.S.A, is one I will always be grateful to them for.
The Washington Post?s chief political correspondent, Dan Balz, gave an analysis of the latest election at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, where the seats filled with students and community members.
John Lucas, Director of Communications at the University of Wisconsin-Madison confirms the death of a 21-year-old student.
Fans and the Wisconsin Badger football team prepare for the Big Ten Championship in Indianapolis on Saturday.
?Study abroad is a great way to regain a sense of the world outside of this campus,? reads one student?s testimony on the website of UW-Madison?s Study Abroad Office. For those studying abroad in Israel this semester during the assassination of Hamas leader Ahmed Jabari and the ensuing week of rocket exchanges between Hamas in Gaza and the Israeli Defense Forces from Nov. 14 to 21, the experience in a society both at war and under siege was less out of a brochure in the Red Gym than a front page of the New York Times.
….UW-Madison?s safety policies for students studying abroad are largely determined by the advice and travel advisories of Cultural Insurance Services International, which provides insurance to study abroad students, and the U.S. State Department, according to UW-Madison Communications spokesperson John Lucas.
An alleged bike thief was taken off Madison streets Wednesday when the University of Wisconsin Police Department arrested a man for charges regarding a series bicycle thefts on campus.
Dean of Students Lori Berquam and a city alderman confirmed a University of Wisconsin student and Langdon Street resident died yesterday, though details surrounding the death are still developing.
The University of Wisconsin System released Wednesday the first flexible option degrees in a new program aimed at helping non-traditional adult students earn degrees.
An Associated Students of Madison committee reached a consensus Wednesday regarding the development of an ad hoc committee to rewrite a new Diversity Plan for the University of Wisconsin.
MADISON, Wis.-The University of Wisconsin-Madison is mourning a student?s death. Madison police went just after 11 a.m. Wednesday to an off-campus apartment in the 600 block of Langdon Street. Police would only say that they?re working a death investigation.
Madison is home to tons of history and sentimental hotspots. We have the big ones such as the Capitol, Memorial Union, Bascom Hill and many others. However, it?s the smaller, more unnoticed areas that are under attack. Real estate developers have made plans to destroy the Stadium Bar on Monroe Street and put a six-story apartment complex in its place. The Minneapolis-based OPUS Group plans to create a complex with retail space on the first floor and five floors of apartments. This brings the entire building to a total of 100 units and 150 bedrooms with 40 underground parking spaces.While it is extremely important that every student finds a place to live while attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison, this continual construction of more and more apartment complexes is getting out of control.
Sports Illustrated announced Tuesday that fans voted the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s ?Jump Around? as the greatest in the nation, following a season-long campaign to find the best gameday tradition in college football. UW-Madison students and fans alike have celebrated the Badgers by ?jumping around? before the fourth quarter of every home football game since a 1998 game against Purdue.
A 21-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison senior died Wednesday, according to Dean of Students Lori Berquam. Berquam said there is no threat to the community but did not have any additional details Wednesday evening. ?We are going to have to try to make sense of it,? she said, ?and we are going to mourn the loss of what could have been a potentially amazing leader.?
It looks as if UW-Stevens Point could give its students a taste of that ancient to them piece of constitutional history known as the 18th Amendment, which ushered in Prohibition. Among the options before a task force created last year on campus alcohol and drug use is banning booze in all dorms, even for dorm residents of legal drinking age. The UW System is not aware of any such efforts at its other campuses, system spokesman David Giroux said.
Quoted: Richard Brown, director of the UW-Madison Wisconsin Initiative to Promote Healthy Lifestyles.
STEVENS POINT, Wis. (AP) ? One year after a student drowned in a river after a night of drinking, the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point is considering banning alcohol consumption in the dorms, even for students of legal drinking age.
MADISON (WKOW) — University police arrest a man for stealing bicycles on campus. Officers arrested Ryan J. Loughrin, of Madison, in connection with bicycle thefts from campus. Loughrin admitted to investigators that he stole bikes from campus, focusing mainly on those that were secured with cable locks. Loughrin then sold the bicycles on Craigslist.
As a grand kickoff to the University of Wisconsin?s Ethics Week festivities, the commissioner of Major League Baseball presented UW students with a lecture on ethics and integrity in the workplace.
In wake of the semester?s second student suicide last Wednesday, student government officials met with the dean of students to highlight campus initiatives on mental health and other issues.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will be the first school in the UW System to offer a so-called flexible degree, in which students will be able to earn college credit for knowledge already gained through work or life experience.
If you?re looking for a fresh, live Christmas tree and want to help education as well, head on down to the UW-Madison Stock Pavilion this weekend. The Forestry Club is having its 39th annual Christmas tree sale on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with proceeds from the sale used to support educational opportunities in the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology.
American Disability Research scholar Kim Nielsen visited the University of Wisconsin-Madison Tuesday to discuss the history and repercussions of disabilities in the U.S., as part of an event put on by UW-Madison Disability Studies. Nielsen, author of ?A Disability History of the United States,? is a professor in the department of disability studies at the University of Toledo. Her research is one of the first scholarly attempts to examine the history of disabilities dating back to the period prior to European arrival.
Starting next fall, working adults will be able to earn degrees online, at their own pace, in nursing, diagnostic imaging and information technology from UW-Milwaukee. They?re the first degrees offered under a new University of Wisconsin System effort, announced with Gov. Scott Walker in June, to make college more accessible and affordable to state residents.
America needs more workers with expertise in science and math. America needs more entrepreneurs with innovative ideas to start businesses and create jobs here. And that?s why America needs Congress to pass the bipartisan Startup Act 2.0 bill ? with or without a larger package of immigration reforms. The proposal would provide more visas to foreign students who graduate from American universities with advanced degrees in science, math, technology and engineering.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students could see screens that show real-time bus arrival times in university housing and dining locations as early as next semester, according to Associated Students of Madison Legislative Affairs Committee member Ryan Prestil. Prestil said the project, which is a collaboration between ASM?s Legislative Affairs and University Affairs committees and UW Transportation Services, is an attempt to increase safety as well as convenience by allowing students to wait for buses indoors.
University of Washington President Michael Young has terminated its ties to Adidas, responding to a student-generated protest over $1.8 million in severance pay owed to laid-off workers at a factor in Indonesia that made apparel for Adidas.
One of Madison?s most storied Camp Randall-area watering holes is facing the wrecking ball. Plans are in the works to demolish the Stadium Bar at 1419 Monroe St. and replace it with a six-story mixed-used student apartment complex. The tavern operated for decades as Jingles Stadium Bar before being sold by owner Bill ?Jingles? O?Brien in 1999 for $200,000. O?Brien died in 2010 at age 86. A public meeting on the proposed project is scheduled for Thursday at 6 p.m. at Union South.
Memorial High School senior Sohil Shah is at an academic level above most of his peers. Sohil, 17, who takes classes and conducts research at UW-Madison, also is more advanced than many college students. Findings from his nanoscience research project were published in the prestigious Journal of Materials Chemistry ? a feat that could be expected of third-year doctorate students, said Robert Hamers, chemistry professor at UW-Madison and Sohil?s mentor.
The Daily Cardinal, a student-owned and operated newspaper at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was recognized as the best four-year daily tabloid at this year?s National College Media Convention.
The number of student veterans in the University of Wisconsin System has doubled since 2005, and is expected to continue to increase. While UW-Milwaukee is home to the most student veterans receiving GI benefits in the state, educating more than double the number enrolled at UW-Madison, all UW schools are involved. This has caused the UW System Board of Regents to give the situation more attention than before.
….The Wall Street Journal this past week called the SWIB purchase the most expensive college campus housing purchase on record. It also referenced the American Campus Communities Inc.?s $165 million purchase of an Austin, Texas, student housing property known as ?The Block.? The presence of UW-Madison has led to similar ? though not as large ? high-end complexes for millennial college students here, like Grand Central and Lucky Apartments. Vicki Hearing, spokeswoman for the State of Wisconsin Investment Board, says the pension fund purchased the dormitory in large part because of its value as a rental property.
I want to take some time today and move away from the routine talk-about-something-that-happened-over-the-weekend column and discuss an issue on campus I believe is very important. This issue has the potential to affect everyone on campus, but for the most part has largely stayed out of discussing among students and faculty.
Major League Baseball Commissioner Allan H. ?Bud? Selig will give the keynote address for Ethics Week to Wisconsin School of Business students and faculty Tuesday, focusing on ethics and professionalism in the business world. The 1956 UW-Madison alumnus has served as the MLB Commissioner since 1988 and will discuss his efforts to build ethical principles within the Milwaukee Brewers organization and MLB?s headquarters.
A regional labor relations board?s decision that Palermo?s did not violate workers? rights in firing a group of employees will likely not change student labor activists? approach to the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s ties with the pizza company, one activist said Sunday.
University of Wisconsin-Madison police are conducting an ongoing investigation from Nov. 20, when a man approached a UW-Madison student at Memorial Library and demanded her cell phone and other items in the library?s study carrels. In what police are calling a strong armed robbery, the student gave her items to the suspect when he approached her at 10:04 a.m., according to UWPD spokesperson Lt. Mark Silbernagel. She was not harmed during the incident.
A higher number of students from around the world, especially from China and India, have enrolled at the University of Wisconsin-Madison over the past five years, as the school continues to gain international recognition. But such trends are not unique to UW-Madison, as indicated by the 2012 Open Doors Report, which documented trends in international education exchange with an emphasis on international students studying in the U.S. over the past year.
Quoted: Assistant Dean and Director of International Student Services Laurie Cox and Vice Provost for the Division of Enrollment Management Joanne Berg.
On Monday, November 19, 2012 Charlie passed away peacefully at a place he loved. He was born on June 6, 1986 in Tucson, Arizona, the first child of James Giesen and Mary Klink. He was joined three years later by his twin brothers, Nick and Jamie. In 1992, the family relocated to Middleton where Charlie attended the Middleton Public Schools. Next, he attended University of Iowa and then came back to Madison to attend University of Wisconsin. He was working at CapTel helping the deaf communicate by telephone and attending classes at UW at the time of his death.
MILWAUKEE ? The longtime tuition reciprocity agreement between Minnesota and Wisconsin is stoking a cross-border rivalry as the two states compete for a declining number of top collegeprospects.
When William Minter was a graduate student at UW-Madison in the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was active in a group pushing the university to sever connections with companies doing business in South Africa, then under Apartheid.
The University of Wisconsin Police Department is seeking information about Nov. 20 robbery in Memorial Library.
The recently finished Union South was designated a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Gold building, an award given out by the U.S. Green Building Council to buildings whose construction, design and operation meet high environmentally-sustainable standards.
University of Wisconsin?s student government brainstormed solutions to the issue of entertainment accessibility for students under the legal drinking age with the hope of ultimately providing safer nightlife options.
UW is now invested in climate change. Our professors? well-deserved pensions are paid partially from the revenues of the fossil fuel industry. Accordingly, any positive activism we do surrounding climate change, sustainability or environmentalism must be accompanied by a crucial push for divestment or else we?re simply betting against ourselves. We just opened an Office of Sustainability. We have a wide variety of departments, classes and programs which highlight the dangers and moral hazards of climate change. As an institution, we must put our money where our mouth is.
The Wisconsin Union announced Monday that Union South was awarded a LEED Gold certification by the U.S. Green Building Council for its use of sustainable energies. LEED is one of the nation?s leading environmentally-friendly building programs, which allows projects to earn points to satisfy green building requirements. The number of points the project earns determines its level of LEED certification.
A car hit a University of Wisconsin-Madison student while she was biking near East Campus Mall and West Johnson Street on her way to class Monday morning, leaving her hospitalized with a fractured back. UW-Madison junior Stephanie Castillo, who is a reporter at The Daily Cardinal, said she was at the south end of West Johnson Street crossing toward East Campus Mall at approximately 9:45 a.m. when a car struck her.
The University of Wisconsin student government?s decision to fund a secular student group Thursday caused a stir among the national media.
As Madison Metro begins to enforce the existing student ID policy, many have observed a smooth transition into full implementation. According to Metro Madison Bus Driver Frances Craig, the policies, which are intended to eliminate fraudulent use of the unlimited bus pass by prohibiting students from selling their bus passes to non-students, have been successful.
The last home game of the Wisconsin Badgers football season drew tens of thousands of fans to Camp Randall.
According to a University of Wisconsin statement, the university?s La Bahn Arena, a recently-finished hockey and swimming facility, was the first of many campus buildings that will be equipped with new IP security cameras under an initiative by the UW Police Department to enhance security on campus.
Closing the University of Wisconsin?s Shared Governance Week of Action, a panel of representatives from the UW System and student government convened Thursday to address issues about tuition and fees, prompting debate about the future of the UW System.
UW-Madison?s vampire lore expert Tomislav Longinovic attributes the sometimes graphic creatures? foothold in popular culture to people becoming more accustomed to violence through war and what?s seen daily in the news. “As we accept more evil, the image of the vampire becomes more acceptable,” said Longinovic, who teaches “The Vampire in Literature and Film. “Plus, people want an escape. The rise of ?Twilight Saga? … really comes at a time when I think there?s a youth withdraw from reality,” Longinovic said. “It provides a nice imaginary niche … a psychological solace.”
An atheist group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison could receive almost $70,000 in student fees for programming costs, an apparent first for the college and student atheist groups nationwide.
?Support creativity and invention at the junior and collegiate levels,? Ronning said. ?It gets (students) to go out and pursue ideas they think could work.? Ronning, 21, of Lincolnwood, credits a robust education and access to high-tech resources at Niles West High School for giving him ?a leg up? on the art of inventing. Now a junior studying mechanical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ronning created a synthetic hand controlled by a series of pulleys that is replicable with 3D printing.
An atheist student group at a university in Wisconsin will likely be getting an estimated $67,000 from its funding board, making it the largest sum any atheist student group in the United States has ever received.
The Shared Governance Week of Action, a series of events and discussions organized by a committee of Associated Students of Madison, continued into its third day Wednesday with a forum addressing issues of educational innovation.
University of Wisconsin Interim Chancellor David Ward issued a statement regarding the ongoing labor disagreement over the university?s ties with Palermo?s Pizza, saying UW does not currently have any plans to take action.
