Category: Campus life

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

Tuesday?s article describing UW-Madison?s state-mandated ?performance report? was both enlightening and disturbing. UW System spokesman David Giroux deserves the understatement of the year award for his observation that UW-Madison serves ?a very different population of students compared to most other UW System campuses.? Make that all other. For one thing, median family income for UW-Madison students is pushing $100,000 per year. UW System President Kevin Reilly proclaims ?we?re making progress toward the goals we?ve set.? Would one of those goals be spending billions on new construction at UW-Madison over the last decade?

In the minutes between classes at UW-Madison, hundreds of students hop on mopeds and scooters to drive from building to building, creating a chaotic scene along with pedestrians and bicyclists. Now UW transportation officials, citing what they call inefficient and dangerous use by moped owners, are looking to end the practice of students riding between their classes this year by requiring owners to apply for parking in just one of 52 campus lots starting Sept. 1. The idea is to get moped owners to park in one place and walk or ride buses between buildings, UW Transportation Services Director Patrick Kass said.

Ryan Gosling is a hero; he breaks up street fights in New York, saves British women from stepping into the paths of a speeding NYC taxis and, thanks to a few pro-women statements, has become not only a heartthrob but a thoughtul feminist.

I spent grade 13 at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where I tried to finesse my freshman science requirement by taking a class in horticulture.

After traveling 1,700 miles, dealing with 14 flat tires, getting chased by more than 100 dogs, and developing some prominent tan lines, Matt Stoltz was happy to be home in Wisconsin Rapids this week from his bike trek to West Palm Beach, Fla.

MADISON (WKOW) — It?s moving week on campus and Wednesday, many students have made it to their new homes. Between traffic, moving trucks and a lot of belongings, it can be a struggle along the way, but a UW conservation program is helping people on the move. “Donate and Take” is a tent full of stuff that people want to get rid of– for people who need that stuff. It?s an opportunity that means fewer items will head to the curb. UW-Madison senior Andy Bose came up with the idea for “Donate and Take.”

Using data from every mouse click a student makes doing online course work, researchers from three University of Wisconsin institutions hope to identify students at risk of doing poorly and potentially dropping out of school. The goal of the project by the University of Wisconsin Colleges, UW-Madison and UW-Platteville is to help more students succeed.

As summer is coming to a close and as we all start the grind of new schedules, early mornings and school days, the questions are looming; “How was your summer?” and “What did you do?” Buffalo Grove resident Pam Selman will have a lot to share about her summer break as a White House intern. 

Black youth from the Madison area will be learning about police work in a good way this week. The inaugural Black Youth Career Police Academy is being held Aug. 16 to 18 at two locations, the Boys and Girls Club of Dane County and the Madison Police Department Training Center, with kids getting immersed in what officers do, and possibly looking at careers they might not have thought of. Madison officers will be helped by the Fitchburg and UW-Madison police departments and the Dane County Sheriff?s Office.

He breaks up street fights; he saves hapless women from speeding taxis; he?s the social-minded movie star with the Obama T-shirt and sad puppy-dog eyes who once said, ?It?s misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman?s sexual presentation of self.? He?s Ryan Gosling, and, thanks in large part to one graduate student?s Tumblr, he?s basically a feminist icon.

Before incoming freshmen actually step on to campus, many get their first assignment: a “common read.” Colleges and universities assign the same book for freshmen to read over the summer and follow it up with a discussion once the get to school.

The future of the state of Wisconsin was on display at the UW-Madison PEOPLE Program?s 12th annual Recognition Banquet at the Madison Marriott West Aug. 3. The future looks very promising.

Madison firefighters were busy early Sunday fighting dumpster blazes at two student apartment buildings, with a dozen dumpsters destroyed and siding melted off the buildings. Flames were shooting 20 feet high, and melted siding went up three stories, according to a news release from the Madison Fire Department. The first fire was early Sunday at 12:19 a.m. in the rear of a 32-unit apartment building at 118 N. Brooks St., next to the Southwest Commuter Bike Path.

A few days before thousands of Downtown leases expire next week, neighborhoods around the UW-Madison campus were already filled with hallmarks of the annual August migration Friday. There were the rental trucks packed with furniture and SUVs hauling trailers loaded up with mattresses. There were the tenants and their friends or family helping fill cars in front of apartments and homes. There was also, as always, the waste.

It wasn?t until after their son?s death on Oct. 24, 2010, that Dan and Deb Ellefson knew much about text messaging. What they learned, in the hardest way possible, was that drivers who read and send text messages can be at least as dangerous as drunken drivers, and that young people ? who use text messaging obsessively ? are woefully ignorant of the hazards it poses. “Everybody texts and the general feeling is, especially among young people, they?re texting and driving and they think that?s perfectly OK, they think they?re being safe,” Dan Ellefson said. “But the truth is they?re not. It?s extremely dangerous.”

Scrap metal thieves looking for an easy score this week might be heading to the UW-Madison campus area to scoop up things left curbside by moving students, but the city said leave it be or you could be fined. The Madison Streets Division and Police Department are planning to patrol the streets in and around campus, looking for people taking bed frames, bikes, appliances and other metal items off the curb.

The future of the state of Wisconsin was on display at the UW-Madison PEOPLE Program?s 12th annual Recognition Banquet at the Madison Marriott West Aug. 3.

As UW-Madison students get ready to move next week, Goodwill wants to make it easier for them to donate their unwanted clothes, computer equipment and more.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is maintaining its reputation as one of the nation?s top party schools.

Coming soon: moving madness. This year?s annual mid-August churn of students moving on up from one apartment to another brings with it some changes, mainly in how stuff is junked.

Police are increasing their patrols in downtown Madison after seeing the number of random acts of violence rise.

WHITEWATER, Wis.-The search for answers continues after a University of Wisconsin-Whitewater student?s body was found in a quarry last weekend.

A UW-Madison African Studies professor was charged Wednesday with lewd and lascivious behavior for allegedly exposing himself last month to a student near campus, who, it turned out, had taken one of his classes. Kennedy A. Waliaula, 47, of Madison, an assistant professor of African languages and literature, was charged with the misdemeanor for allegedly exposing his genitals to the woman as he walked past her on North Charter Street mid-afternoon on July 10, according to a criminal complaint filed in Dane County Circuit Court.