Category: Campus life

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.

Thirty University of Wisconsin-Madison College Republicans traveled to Marquette and joined hundreds of enthusiastic supporters to hear Ann Romney, wife of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, speak at Marquette University Thursday. The visit is the latest in a recent influx of campaign activity in Wisconsin and underscores the importance of the state in November?s presidential election.

Vegan students feel welcome in Madison. That?s according to Hannah West, a music education student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. West, 22, is involved in several groups working to bring more vegan choices to the UW campus and area restaurants, but says Madison is already ahead of the curve when it comes to vegan dining.

A recent study by Kaplan Test Prep found notable differences regarding the importance law school rankings have for prospective law school students in deciding where to apply for graduate school.

Mayor Soglin got into a heated debate during the City Council meeting with a University of Wisconsin-Madison student representative who supported allowing taxis to cruise from 7 p.m. until 4 a.m. ?Students need to get home, perhaps they?re under a variety of situations,? David Gardner said. ?Having a very visible option at one in the morning, when there isn?t a bus running, but there is a cab driving down State Street, is absolute common sense.?

City officials and University of Wisconsin-Madison student representatives plan to collaborate in arranging an alternative late-night transportation service to SAFEcab, a nighttime cab service recently eliminated from the university budget.Although the Student Services Finance Committee voted in April to reinstate funding for SAFEcab, UW-Madison Transportation Services said they would no longer manage the nighttime cab program, leading to its discontinuation.

Student leaders are encouraging University of Wisconsin-Madison students to attend Tuesday?s Madison City Council meeting to support legislation allowing late night taxicab use on State Street, which they say would increase campus safety. The city?s Transit and Parking Commission drafted new legislation in a meeting last Thursday that would allow cabs to drive the city?s most energetic street between the hours of 7 p.m. and 4 a.m. looking for hailing patrons.

The Madison Police Department is hoping to reach college students by stepping up its presence on Twitter.

Three UW-Madison students have been charged in the attack on Badgers running back Montee Ball. A criminal complaint is shedding new light on the attack, which took place in Madison in August.

Students for Barack Obama hosted White House staffer Kal Penn at the Memorial Union last Friday to discuss ways students can be involved in the upcoming election and to the importance of youth involvement.

The University of Wisconsin environmental studies program was singled out by U.S. News and World Report as one of the ?new college majors with a future.?

With Madison the site of another college football game day, the Madison Police Department crashed a total of 26 parties this past weekend.

Members of the Mifflin Neighborhood Association agreed Thursday that University of Wisconsin-Madison students and administration should play a bigger role in planning the 2013 Mifflin Street Block Party. ?The students should have some input,? association Chair Larry Warman said at a meeting. ?Last year, students felt that Mayor Paul Soglin made some decisions without their input, and it may have caused some ill-will.?

With fewer routes and longer wait times, some University of Wisconsin-Madison students said changes to campus bus routes are ?inconvenient.? As of Aug. 26, routes 80, 81 and 85 changed due to a budget deficit of $1 million and campus area construction, specifically near the Memorial Union, according to UW-Madison Transportation Services. Student Services Finance Committee Vice Chair Joe Vanden Avond said eliminating route 85 and merging it with the ?super? route 80 is the biggest change.

On Friday, September 14th at 6:45 pm DNC Convention speaker Kal Penn will speak with students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

EAU CLAIRE ? Playing to a younger audience, Vice President Joe Biden stressed differences Thursday between the presidential campaigns on education, college debt and entitlement programs more in doubt for future generations. The education emphasis during a stop at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire figures into the campaign?s newfound urgency to protect a state the Democratic ticket of Biden and Barack Obama won with ease in 2008. Younger voters were a key part of their victory.

In the most recent incident in a series of crimes in the downtown and campus area, two men were beaten early Sunday morning after attempting to aid a woman who was being assaulted, according to Madison Police.

The parents of murdered University of Wisconsin student Brittany Zimmermann announced a newly-named ?Brittany Run? in remembrance of the 2008 killing of their 21-year-old daughter.

A UW-Madison student said when two men, who appeared to be homeless, approached and asked him and his girlfriend “for a buck” he gladly gave them one early Monday morning.