Category: Campus life

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.

Professor of Chinese literature and visual culture Nicole Huang was appointed to the position of director of the Wisconsin China Initiative.

Andrew Uehling wakes up to a green-blue view, with a carpet of rooftop grass in the foreground and the waves of Lake Mendota in the distance as he looks out the window of his dormitory.”I like the closeness to the water,” he said. “It?s awesome.” A freshman biomedical engineering major at UW-Madison, Uehling lives in the university?s futuristic $47 million new lakeside dormitory, Dejope Residence Hall.

A student government committee received updates on city issues as Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, and Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, joined the table for Monday evening?s meeting.

Two student organizations moved closer to receiving funding Monday when the Student Services Finance Committee voted in favor of allowing both groups student segregated fee funding eligibility. Student groups must devote 51 percent of their time offering direct services, or unique and tailorable educational services available to all students, to receive eligibility.

UW-Madison police are asking students in dormitories to keep their doors locked after a man entered rooms in Sellery Hall and took items from rooms where the residents were sleeping. The thefts happened early Friday morning in the B tower of the residence hall at 821 W. Johnson Street on the UW-Madison campus.

Police are seeking information from the campus community after a burglar raided Sellery Hall dorm rooms early Friday morning.

While traveling to class each morning, students can expect a chaotic and stressful exchange between other pedestrians and cyclists, which Madison police say they hope to fix with a new community outreach program. In August, the Madison Police Department introduced the Pedestrian Bicycle Ambassador program, a new educational tool designed to increase communication between pedestrians and bicyclists.

University of Wisconsin-Madison freshman and Sellery resident Caitlin Wagner said she had always felt safe in her dorm room until she woke up one night to find a strange man dressed in black breaking open her door. The UW-Madison Police Department reported an 18- to 20-year-old white male opening the doors of several residents? dorm rooms Sellery Hall?s B Tower, located at 821 W. Johnson St., early Friday morning.

Members of a city committee said they expect larger crowds at this year?s Freakfest and highlighted details of new projects that are in the works for the city at a meeting on Thursday.

The University of Wisconsin has returned to a list of the nation?s most Military Friendly Schools.

The Madison Police Department?s Central District Community Policing Team is taking to Twitter to communicate with college students and other young adults about topics ranging from out-of-control house parties to bar checks for underage patrons, in 140 characters or less. “Public urination — it?s nasty and it?s a $177 forfeiture,” reads one recent tweet from @MPDCentralCPT.