Category: Campus life

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 regents of the University of Wisconsin System will be considering a proposal to admit a higher percentage of out-of-state students.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

?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.

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.