Category: Campus life

At 4 a.m. Thursday, six college chums huddled for warmth on a UW-Madison sidewalk just west of Bascom Hill, sharing three Badger blankets and arriving long before anyone else with the hope that later they?d see President Barack Obama close enough that, as Allison Berg of Chicago put it, “we could take a picture without having to zoom in.” Almost half a day later, at 3:40 p.m. Thursday, Obama took the stage not far from where they kept their predawn vigil.

he University of Wisconsin Board of Regents will meet Friday to see how it can boost enrollment at UW system schools.

President Obama hopes to increase his lead in Wisconsin with a visit to Madison Thursday. He?s up 11 points in the latest Marquette Law School poll out Wednesday.

President Barack Obama will make a visit to Madison today. He hopes to increase his lead in Wisconsin.

When thousands of University of Wisconsin-Madison students pack the slopes of Bascom Hill to hear President Barack Obama speak Thursday, students from the College Democrats and College Republicans plan to capitalize on the large crowds, but for different reasons. College Republicans Chair Jeff Snow said his group plans to canvass campus all day Thursday, wearing Romney T-shirts and promoting Romney?s ?positive agenda for the country? to young voters.

Preparations are under way on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus ahead of President Barack Obamas campaign rally Thursday.

City Council unanimously voted to move a polling location from the fire station on West Dayton Street for convenience reasons at its meeting Tuesday evening. It will be conveniently relocated for students, and the City Council hopes to make South Park Street more accessible to businesses, bikers and pedestrians.

When it comes to sexual violence, particularly domestic/dating violence, it is easy for students to dismiss the issues believing it an issue that does not affect them. Unfortunately, students are more at risk than many believe. According to domestic violence expert Dr. Sandra Stith, about 30 percent of college students have been in relationships involving physical aggression and even more have been in emotionally abusive relationships. Beginning today, Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment (PAVE), a student organization on campus, will be recognizing Domestic Violence Awareness Month throughout the month of October.

Mike Daniels got a presidential view of Bascom Hill as he walked between classes Tuesday, with a stand of trees with glowing yellow leaves at the base of the hill and the Capitol dome in the distance. Come Thursday President Barack Obama will see what Daniels saw, this time with tens of thousands of cheering supporters on the hill. But Daniels may not be in that crowd. The senior dietetics major from Milwaukee supports Obama and will vote for him a second time. He saw him on his last visit to UW-Madison in 2010 but doesn?t feel the same tug of history this time. “For the younger students it might be a bigger deal,” he said.

UW-Madison officials on Tuesday morning released more details about President Barack Obama?s campus visit. And although the university reports that it is doing its best to minimize the disruption of a normal school and workday for faculty, staff and students, it?s now clear that Obama?s Thursday campaign rally is going to force significant disruptions for those who utilize academic and administrative buildings housed on Bascom Hill.

All those planning to attend President Barack Obama?s campaign rally at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Thursday, Oct. 4 should keep in mind several important logistical details.

A federal judge has dismissed a civil rights lawsuit filed by a man whose 1981 conviction for killing a UW-Madison student was overturned in 2009 because the lawsuit does not identify the people or agencies he alleged violated his rights. U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb wrote in a decision last week that Ralph Armstrong, who was convicted of murder for the 1980 rape and strangulation of Charise Kamps, must follow federal rules of procedure when deciding who can be sued for the alleged rights violations.

University of Wisconsin-Madison earned the dubious distinction of a No. 10 ranking among “Party Schools That Pay” in the 2012-2013 PayScale College Salary Report.

Expect big crowds, protests, closed roads, rerouted buses and crawling traffic near campus on Thursday: The president is coming to town. Officials gave few specifics on Monday, as many details remain to be worked out, but acknowledged that as when Barack Obama visited UW-Madison two years ago, life will get a bit chaotic when he returns. “People can expect significant delays in the isthmus area on Thursday,” said police spokesman Joel DeSpain.

For the second time in two weeks, President Barack Obama will visit Wisconsin, making a stop at Bascom Hill in Madison Thursday for a grassroots event, according to a statement from his campaign Saturday.

Nearly 300 walkers and runners participated in the third annual ?Brittany Run? Saturday, a 5K run/walk to remember 21-year-old Brittany Zimmermann, a University of Wisconsin student who was murdered in her apartment on West Doty Street four years ago.

President Barack Obama is making a campaign stop in Madison on Thursday.

President Barack Obama will campaign at the center of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus Thursday outside of Bascom Hall.

Brittany Zimmermann was just 21 years old when her murdered body was found in an apartment near the UW-Madison campus in the spring of 2008.

President Barack Obama will visit Madison on Thursday, and the campaign has just released some details of the event.

For nearly 10 years in the 1980s and ?90s I worked in UW-Madison?s Ogg Hall. Ogg was populated mostly by freshmen required to live on campus….I’ll bet that many of them, looking back, would not trade the time spent in the dorm for the opportunity to live in a residential “palace.” The incomes of student families then were closer than now to the median for the state. Today most families can’t envision their kids getting into UW, let alone being able to pay for it. This may help explain the frayed support for UW-Madison among many taxpayers.

Brittany Zimmermann was just 21 years old when her murdered body was found in an apartment near the UW-Madison campus in the spring of 2008.

A University of Wisconsin student was arrested for alleged theft in university housing residence halls including Cole Hall and Sellery Hall.

More than four years ago, University of Wisconsin student Brittany Zimmermann was murdered in her apartment on Doty Street, leaving the campus and city communities shaken.

The Associated Students of Madison will hold a town hall meeting Oct. 10 at 5 p.m. to discuss campus safety issues. According to ASM Press Director David Gardner, the meeting will attempt to bring all stakeholders into one room for a discussion of current project ideas involving ASM?s Campus Safety campaign and possible collaborations. The Madison Police Department, city officials, University of Wisconsin-Madison police and any interested UW-Madison students are invited to attend the meeting.

University police identified the suspect in the Sellery and Cole residence hall theft investigations Wednesday. Investigators questioned Nicholas Suarez, a University of Wisconsin-Madison student, as a person of interest in the early evening of Sept. 26. Shortly after questioning, Suarez confessed he committed the crimes.

A University of Wisconsin student center unveiled Wednesday a series of celebratory programming intended to bring the campus community together to commemorate Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History Month in October.

In its first meeting in nearly three years, the State-Langdon Neighborhood Association laid the groundwork for tackling prominent safety issues at its meeting Wednesday night.