Category: Campus life

Halloween weekend is about six weeks away, and artists Mac Miller and Big Gigantic have been selected to headline this year?s Freakfest on Oct. 27.

Last month, the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents approved a proposal for renovations and expansions to UW-Madison?s Chemistry Building and chemistry facilities at two other UW System schools to better serve students.

A 5K run/walk honoring a University of Wisconsin student murder on campus will be getting a new name and a new location this year.

A man who told police he didn?t want to walk anymore was arrested Friday after allegedly stealing a $900 bicycle off the bike owner?s front porch. Craig Greengrass, 46, no permanent address, was tentatively charged with theft of moveable property, according to a news release from the Madison Police Department. The theft was reported at 3:54 p.m. Friday by a 20-year-old UW-Madison student, living in the 100 block of West Doty Street.

A technological glitch is confounding information technology experts and causing major headaches for some students and professors across the UW System as the 2012-13 academic year gets under way. The problem lies within the university?s online learning and course management system, which is provided by the company Desire2Learn and managed by UW-Madison?s Division of Information Technology (DoIT). According to this university update posted Friday at noon: ?DoIT technologists continue to work daily with experts from Desire2Learn (D2L) and Microsoft to address the issue of slow application response. We?re keenly aware of the problem and regret the impact on the UW educational community.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is attempting to increase awareness and prevent sexual assault violence on campus with a new online program that all first-year students are expected to complete. University Health Services and the Division of Student Life at UW-Madison helped produce the “Tonight” program based on UW student and staff input as well as statistics about sexual assault on campus.

The Student Services Finance Committee hosted a direct services demonstration night Thursday to give campus organizations the opportunity to display the services they provide to the student body.

The University of Wisconsin sent the 14th-largest amount of graduates to the Teach For America program in 2012, the organization said Wednesday. 

University of Wisconsin students were welcomed by hundreds of pink flamingos perched on Bascom Hill Tuesday in a unique advertisement by UW Housing.

This Friday, a campus-wide scavenger hunt executed via social media will return to the University of Wisconsin for its second year.

Outreach Specialist of Visitor and Information Programs Nick Gonzales said the event, titled #FindUW, will have a narrower focus than last year?s hunt and will encompass the combined goals of promoting student services, teaching students about different facets of campus and familiarizing them with social media.

With a study abroad fair for students fast approaching this semester, concern regarding current social political issues across the world may impact decisions by University of Wisconsin students considering the possibility of studying in a different country.

Student government heard legislation proposing a new Associated Students of Madison constitution at a meeting Wednesday night that calls for a complete restructure of the current student government institution. The proposed constitution would establish four different branches of ASM, which include the executive, legislative, judicial and appropriations branches. These would replace the institution?s three current branches: Student Council, Student Services Finance Committee and Student Judiciary.

Associated Students of Madison Chair Andrew Bulovsky signed a document Wednesday night that could lead to a lawsuit with University of Wisconsin System administration over last year?s Wisconsin Union and Recreational Sports budgets. The Student Services Finance Committee voted last February to deny funding increases for both budgets because the committee felt neither budget provided adequate details for a sound evaluation, according to former SSFC Chair Sarah Neibart.

It?s the first day of the fall semester at UW-Madison. The university posted this YouTube video featuring some familiar UW-Madison faces — including Bucky Badger, the Abe Lincoln statue, football coach Bret Bielema, Heisman Trophy candidate Montee Ball and interim Chancellor David Ward -? welcoming students back to campus. But the video saves the best for last. That?s when Dean of Students Lori Berquam pokes fun at herself by looking at the camera as it backs out of her office, saying ?Don?t go. Don?t go. Don?t go.?

Mayor Paul Soglin told a campus learning community at Gordon Commons Tuesday afternoon, among various social justice issues affecting Madison residents and University of Wisconsin-Madison students, lack of housing poses the biggest threat to the area. Soglin discussed various social issues including lack of housing and pollution, with students from the Multicultural Learning Community, a campus learning community focused on social justice and diversity at all levels of society.

Larry Davis, a current Residence Life director and founder of the MLC, said the purpose of Soglin?s visit was to inspire them to get involved with campus, like he did when he was a student at UW-Madison.

Mobile computing has gone viral at UW-Madison while regular cell phones are going the way of the land line, according to the university?s 2012 Student Computing Survey.

Is there something you wish every college student would know as the 2012-13 academic year gets under way?

Muggers were busy early Saturday morning near the UW-Madison campus, with three attacks reported within 24 minutes.

Madison police said two muggings in the same area of the city Saturday morning might be connected.

A 20-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison student told police he was mugged by three men Saturday morning.

The father of one of three UW-Madison students accused of attacking Badgers running back Montee Ball said Thursday that his “heart fell out” when he learned his son had been arrested.

A UW-Madison student who drowned Thursday morning in Lake Mendota, John “Vietnam” Nguyen, was a fledgling rap artist from Chicago who sang about multiculturalism and identity.

The Dane County Medical Examiner?s Office is releasing the name of the person who was recovered from Lake Mendota this morning. The male had been swimming with several friends when he went under the water and did not resurface. This event occurred a short distance from a pier in the 600 block of North Park Street.

Authorities have identified a swimmer who drowned in Madisons Lake Mendota as a Chicago man who was a full-time student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Authorities have identified a swimmer who drowned in Madison?s Lake Mendota as a Chicago man who was a full-time student at the University of Wisconsin.

The man pulled out of Lake Mendota and taken to UW Hospital Thursday morning has died. Eric Dahl of the Madison Fire Department told Madison.com the victim was a UW-Madison student. The identify of the victim will be released after notification of family, said UW-Madison Police Sgt. Aaron Chapin.

The Madison South District community policing team was out Wednesday, knocking on doors and speaking with students on how to keep burglars out.

The MPD is taking steps to provide information to residents in this off-campus area to ensure students are aware of how to prevent themselves from being victimized, including sending South District community police door-to-door Wednesday with safety information for residents, DeSpain said.

MADISON, Wis.- Madison police are investigating a sexual assault reported by a 19-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison student. The woman told police she was walking on North Brooks Street between Fahrenbrook Court and Spring Street Sunday at 10:15 p.m. when she was approached by two men.

The bulk of more than 7,000 students will be moving into residence halls on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus on Wednesday and Thursday. 

Three men have been arrested in connection with an attack on Wisconsin running back Montee Ball.

University of Wisconsin-Madison students could see fewer mopeds and less congestion between classes this fall, after UW Transportation Services established a new Moped Parking system that aims to cut down intra-campus moped transportation. Under the new policy, which will take effect Sept. 1, students can purchase a $120 moped parking permit and choose one lot from a list of approved parking lots located throughout campus.

You know it?s the end of summer when hundreds of confused drivers try to find parking on the UW-Madison campus. Football? No, move-in days. The annual migration of underclassmen to campus ramps up on Wednesday, with more than 7,100 students lugging boxes, computers and mini-fridges into residence halls.The students have assigned days when to move into their rooms, either Wednesday or Thursday, with the halls opening at 8 a.m. each day to accept the eager freshmen and sophomores.

The 22-year-old and 24-year-old victims are from an Asian country and are students at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Police said nine similar robberies have occurred in the same area the past couple of years and that several of those have also targeted Asian women.

University of Wisconsin transportation officials are putting new restrictions on students moped use.