A woman?s deeply personal op-ed detailing her experience of rape at Amherst College has moved women at other universities to speak out about their own experiences of inadequate response to sexual assault on campus.
This year has brought news of student athletes charged with sex crimes at Boston University and at Temple, along with countless other less publicized cases.
A television producer, writer and University of Wisconsin alumnus spoke as part of a UW Homecoming event yesterday, highlighting a life dedicated to non-profit work.
A University of Wisconsin student was the victim of a recent fraud involving suspicious contact from the suspect, who threatened the victim with police involvement.
City officials, the Madison Police Department and Frank Productions have finalized the plans for this year?s Freakfest celebration, which is expected to draw up to 45,000 people.
More than 1,600 students came together on the Kohl Center court to participate in an event supported by University of Wisconsin men?s basketball head coach Bo Ryan and his wife that ultimately raised $41,279 for cancer research.
A recently-released survey found the majority of American professors are politically liberal, and there has been a swing to the left within the group since three years ago.
While President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney have traded barbs about Big Bird and big government, two of the nation?s foremost economic advisers were at UW-Madison Thursday to speak to students about the role of economic issues in the upcoming election.
University of Wisconsin-Madison men?s basketball coach Bo Ryan issued the Charity Stripe Challenge to UW-Madison students Thursday, and over 1600 responded to ?Make Bo Pay.?
While Freakfest was plagued with riots and violence in 2006, officials say the city?s annual Halloween bash is on its way to becoming as safe as any other weekend night on State Street.
The Associated Students of Madison University Affairs Committee unveiled its plans to establish a regular forum to discuss students? concerns about safety on campus at a meeting Wednesday night.
Madison will once again host Freakfest Saturday, the annual Halloween bash that takes over State Street with music, food and costumes, which has become an integral part of Madison?s culture as a party destination on Halloween.
Wisconsin men?s basketball head coach Bo Ryan and his wife, Kelly, will host the Charity Stripe Challenge, a fundraiser for Coaches vs. Cancer and The American Cancer Society, Thursday at the Kohl Center. The Ryans will donate $1 for every UW-Madison student who comes to the arena between 3 and 7 p.m., and each student will have the opportunity to shoot a free throw and a half-court shot on the Kohl Center floor. The Ryans will donate $10 for every free throw made and $1,000 for each half-court shot made, and students who connect from long distance will also win men?s basketball season tickets.
A group of University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty and students won grants from the 2012-13 Fulbright Scholar Program, an organization that gives grants for study abroad and teaching abroad opportunities.
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., spoke about economic issues and their importance in this year?s election at Union South Tuesday prior to a debate between members of a student panel representing different political opinions.
Madison?s annual Halloween festival alone is enough to make city officials and local law enforcement batten down the hatches.
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., spoke to students at the University of Wisconsin Tuesday night to educate them about the nation?s deficit and to urge their participation on Election Day.
Following an increase in online education at the University of Wisconsin, faculty and experts are highlighting the benefits and shortfalls of the university?s initiative to innovate education.
Wisconsin?s sophomore U.S. senator spoke to students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Tuesday night.
Freakfest, Madisons Halloween event, returns to State Street this weekend, and with the Badgers homecoming football game the same night, getting around the downtown area will be more difficult this year.
Why are Wisconsin voters so changeable? Polling results reinforce our independent streak. The Capital Times asked UW-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin, who is conducting polls this election season as a visiting professor at Marquette University Law School, to review recent survey results and pull out data on how Wisconsinites say they will vote based on their beliefs on several social issues: the Affordable Care Act “Obamacare”, Medicare, immigration, gay marriage and abortion.
The University of Wisconsin welcomed Mario Capecchi, a Nobel Prize winner in Physiology and Medicine, to campus Monday to deliver a series of lectures.
Student government members brainstormed methods for furthering the future of a state bill that would encourage underage individuals to call authorities in emergency medical situations.
University of Wisconsin-Madison sophomore Amber Cypcar works four days each week at Gordon Commons and nearly 40 hours a week at Buffalo Wild Wings in her hometown during semester breaks. But instead of spending her money on State Street shopping sprees or eating at expensive restaurants, she saves money to pay for her entire college education.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison released a joint statement Monday with University Health Services and the UW-Madison Police Department after a UW-Madison alumna published an account of her sexual assault in The Daily Cardinal. Erin Reilly, a UW-Madison alumna, wrote about her experience with sexual assault on campus, which included being discouraged from reporting the incident by counselors. Dean of Students Lori Berquam, UWPD Chief Susan Riseling and UHS Director Sarah Van Orman contributed to the statement, which expressed the university?s sympathy for Reilly, and detailed the available resources on campus for victims of sexual assault.
MADISON ? UW-Madison Police issued 24 citations and made 23 arrests while ejecting 47 people during the Badgers? 38-13 victory over Minnesota on Saturday at Camp Randall Stadium.
The University of Wisconsin Athletic Board shared its excitement for the grand opening of the school?s women?s hockey team home arena during their meeting Friday, hoping the new facility will positively affect both the team and the sport.
The University of Wisconsin?s Homecoming is taking on a new light this year with the Volunteer Campus Clean-Up Kickoff Sunday, as the planning committee prepares for a week focused on community outreach.
A walk across campuses locally and across the nation will show more faces like (Arwa) Alsughayyer, a graduate student at Edgewood College, and her husband, Suliman Alghnam, a graduate student at UW-Madison. They?re here thanks to a massive scholarship program funded by the Saudi king that pays for promising young Saudis to earn undergraduate and advanced degrees in the U.S. and other countries.
Online education still tends to get a bad rap in some circles — especially among those of us who grew up listening to professors talk at the front of a lecture hall. But it?s becoming increasingly apparent that a good mix of online and face-to-face teaching and learning can trump the more traditional (old-fashioned?) ways.
Quoted: Aaron Brower, who is serving as a special assistant to UW System President Kevin Reilly for new educational strategies, a role that allows him to provide leadership for the system?s new flexible degree initiative. Also mentioned, John Booske, chair of UW-Madison’s electrical and computer engineering department, the director of the Wisconsin Collaboratory for Enhanced Learning (WisCEL), and a believer in the value of the flipped classroom and blended learning.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students, faculty and staff will receive a test alert from the WiscAlerts notification system Tuesday morning. According to a university release, the test will run between 10 a.m. and 12 p.m. Tuesday. The UW-Madison Police Department will send out the test alert via email, text messages and voice calls. Notifications will also appear on the UW-Madison home page, Facebook and Twitter.
….My rape incident happened to me in the least expected of places ? at UW-Madison, a university that I had grown to call home. It happened in my apartment ? a place I had lived comfortably for three years. It is true what they say. You never think it is going to happen to you until it does. And then, it is all you can think about. Sometimes for weeks, or in my case, for months…It is a well-known fact that sexual assaults are one of the most underreported crimes in the nation. And I contributed to that trend. But I never thought that university officials, or police officers, would play a part in that process.
?Do you hate America?? This was one of the questions Saad Siddiqui, secretary of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Muslim Students Association, remembers hearing while growing up as a Muslim in a post-9/11 world. A panel on the origin, impacts and iterations of Islamophobia in the United States, where Siddiqui told his story, brought together UW-Madison professors, students and experts Friday. The MSA and the Muslim-Jewish Volunteer Initiative, along with the Lubar Institute for the Study of Abrahamic Religions, co-sponsored the event, which featured six speakers and two First Wave performances, each touching on a different nuance of Islamophobia.
The college basketball season is right around the corner! On Thursday, Oct. 25, UW-Madison students will have the opportunity to team up with the Wisconsin men?s basketball team and Coaches vs. Cancer to take a shot at fighting the world?s deadliest disease.
Members of the Downtown Coordinating Committee addressed how to prepare for the uniquely large crowd Freakfest is expected to draw next Saturday.
The Muslim Students Association, the Muslim-Jewish Volunteer Initiative and the Lubar Institute for the Study of Abrahamic Religions will co-sponsor an event Friday to examine and discuss the way Islam is viewed in America. The event, entitled ?Understanding Islamophobia,? will feature five speakers from UW-Madison and around the nation who will discuss how Islam is depicted in American media and how it is treated in politics. The forum will also include performances by First Wave and a Q&A session for attendees.
Despite acknowledging concerns about the increasing costs associated with earning a college degree, the Regents this past June ultimately voted to increase tuition by 5.5 percent for the 2012-13 academic year for in-state undergraduates. It was the sixth straight year in which resident undergrads attending one of the UW System?s 13 four-year campuses have had their tuition bumped up by that exact same percentage. Add it up, and tuition and mandatory fees at UW-Madison are topping $10,000 for the first time in 2012-13, costing an in-state undergrad $10,378.
The University of Wisconsin furthered efforts to involve the public in the search for the next UW chancellor with the Search andScreen Committee?s second open forum held Wednesday afternoon.
Matt Romney, son of presidential candidate and former Gov. Mitt Romney, R-Mass., gathered with a crowd of University of Wisconsin students at The Kollege Klub Wednesday evening.
In the midst of the controversy surrounding the Palermo?s Pizza workers? strike, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Teaching Assistants? Association and the Student Labor Action Coalition released a joint resolution calling for the university to cut all ties with Palermo?s.The issue began when workers at Palermo?s were fired from a Milwaukee factory after attempting to unionize. Workers also condemned poor working conditions and Palermo?s lack of effort to correct them.
UW-Madison administration is aware of the current dispute between the pizza company and its workers and will continue to monitor the situation, Vice Chancellor for University Relations Vince Sweeney said in an email. ?It appears to be a difficult and complicated issue and we are hopeful that the parties can reach a resolution in the immediate future,? Sweeney said.
A typical Badger home game experience includes walking with throngs of people through the Camp Randall arch, singing ?Varsity? with thousands of other Badger fans, and shaking the stadium during ?Jump Around.? But this year?s sudden enforcement of an assigned seating policy is leading to more students being ejected from one of their most anticipated traditions.
Just before Whitney Hite conducted his first practice as the men?s and women?s swimming and diving coach at the University of Wisconsin, he took grease pen in hand and scrawled his code for life on a white board for his charges to see. “Entitled to nothing, grateful for everything,” he wrote. “If you can live your life with that motto,” he told them, “then life becomes a heck of a lot more fun and a heck of a lot more enjoyable.” That sentiment is meant to be applied 24/7, but there are moments when its ring is a bit truer.
For young actors graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s theater department, finding work is all about flexibility, both physical and intellectual. In response to students who are starting their own companies and forging multifaceted careers, the UW Department of Theatre and Drama has created a new, combined graduate degree in acting and directing starting this year.
Dane County and figures at the University of Wisconsin are striving to successfully treat drug and alcohol addiction in Madison with a new anti-abuse programs from both institutions.
In an effort to involve campus and community input in the search for a new chancellor, the University of Wisconsin?s chancellor search and screen committee hosted its first public forum Tuesday morning to address the characteristics and qualifications the candidates should have.
A nationwide study, conducted in part by the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, has begun work analyzing the nation?s decrease in science, technology, engineering and math undergraduate degrees, despite a relatively opposite trend seen at the University of Wisconsin.
The second leg of the Rock the Vote Bus Tour 2012 rolled into Madison Tuesday, with the bus parking on East Campus Mall and workers targeting students who have not yet registered to vote.
The author of the this year?s Go Big Read selection spoke about her book as well as her experiences combining research and art at Union South Monday evening.
Members of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity at UW-Madison and the University of Minnesota are running for the Red Cross.
The Gophers are wearing No. 51 patches on their uniforms to honor linebacker Gary Tinsley, a senior last season who died last April of an enlarged heart. In addition, one player will wear No. 51 every game, and an award, exemplifying Tinsley?s underdog mentality, will be given out after the season.
If we can learn anything from the Associated Students of Madison, it is that history repeats itself. With each session comes new representatives, ideas and debates, but through it all ASM has seemingly been forever plagued with the unofficial ?parties? that impede its progress. So far this year, student council has seemingly operated productively with mutual respect on both sides of the table. In comparison to last year, meetings have run smoother and been hours shorter.
A 42-year-old mother in Oshkosh showed the world that it?s never too late to get a degree ? or run for homecoming queen. Heidi Hansen, a senior nursing major at UW-Oshkosh, became the most publicized finalist for the crown in school history last weekend.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison released the names of three finalists for assistant dean in the Division of Student Life and director of the Center for the First-Year Experience. Carren Martin, interim co-director of UW-Madison?s Center for the First-Year Experience; Elizabeth John, Edgewood College?s assistant dean of Students and Director of Student Activities; and Emily Arth, Indiana University?s senior assistant director in the Office of First-Year Experience Programs are the three finalists chosen by a six-member search committee.
County and city officials jointly held a forum Monday to hear University of Wisconsin-Madison students? input and to answer questions about the 2013 city and county budgets. Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, and County Board Supervisor and UW-Madison student Leland Pan discussed a wide range of issues at the forum, from explaining where revenues for the county and city budgets come from to talking about proposed cuts and expansions of programs affecting students, such as the implementation of surveillance cameras throughout downtown streets.
Rock the Vote, an organization dedicated to encouraging the youth vote, is bringing its bus tour to the University of Wisconsin campus Oct. 16.
The keynote speaker of University of Wisconsin?s Diversity Forum addressed issues of diversity in higher education by bringing light to the larger problems in admissions and student success Friday.
Of the 42,818 students enrolled at UW-Madison this fall, 4,753 are international students, according to preliminary figures produced by the university. That?s a record high for UW-Madison and means that one of every nine students on campus today hails from outside the United States….One of the people tasked with providing information, programs and support to these international students is Laurie Cox, an assistant dean with the Division of Student Life who directs the International Student Services program.
Even with increased focus on concussions, football remains by far the most popular high school sport. In Wisconsin, 29,807 football players compete at about 420 schools in Wisconsin ? nearly double the number of track and basketball players. But greater awareness of the effects of head injuries has prompted much conjecture about the viability of the game, said Dr. David T. Bernhardt, a pediatrician in primary care sports medicine at the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.
Tigers with toothaches, capybaras with upset tummies and penguins with dings in their flippers will soon have a larger dedicated space to be treated and healed. ….The zoo has a 600-square-foot treatment room in the administration building but it has limited capabilities. Animals are typically taken to Stoughton, where the zoo?s longtime veterinarian, Michael Petersen, has a practice, or are treated at the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine. The upgrade in facilities will not only lead to improved health care but also aid in training veterinary students from UW-Madison and improve the zoo?s breeding programs.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Ultimate Frisbee club team capped off its season by winning a second-straight national title at the Ultimate Players Association College Championships.
