UW-Madison officials say that senior running back and Heisman Trophy hopeful Montee Ball suffered a concussion and facial injuries following an unprovoked attack early Wednesday morning.
Montee Ball, Wisconsin?s star running back and a leading contender for this season?s Heisman Trophy, sustained a concussion and injuries to his face after being attacked by a group of five men near the university?s campus early Wednesday morning.
University of Wisconsin running back Montee Ball may have suffered a concussion, but received no other significant injuries, in what Madison police are calling an “unprovoked assault” early Wednesday morning near campus. Ball was treated at a local hospital and released, according to a UW statement.
MADISON, Wis.- The University of Wisconsin athletic department said running back Montee Ball was beaten up in an unprovoked attack downtown just after bar time early Wednesday. Now, a witness has told WISC-TV?s Marc Lovicott that the attack seemed targeted. The incident happened in the 500 block of University Avenue at 2:15 a.m. Wednesday.
UW football coach Bret Bielema said in the statement that “My concern right now is for Montee?s health and well-being.” “We will continue to evaluate him as we approach the start of fall camp this weekend,” Bielema said. “I do expect Montee to make a full recovery.” The suspects were described as black males, all within 5 feet 8 inches to 6 feet 3 inches tall, with small to heavy builds. Shirt descriptions were given for four of the five: a blue polo shirt, a purple polo shirt, a white shirt and a red shirt. The suspects were last seen running south on North Frances Street toward the Kohl Center, the release states.
Ball, a finalist for the Hesiman Trophy last season, was taken to a hospital with head injuries. Coach Bret Bielema said Ball has been released and is under the care of the school?s sports medicine staff. Bielema says he expects Ball will make a full recovery, but did not address Ball?s availability. The season opens Sept. 1 against Northern Iowa. Police say Ball apparently didn?t know who the men were.
MADISON (WKOW) — Police are searching for a group of males believed to have attacked Badgers running back Montee Ball while he was walking on University Avenue. Witnesses reported to Madison police that five men jumped 21-year-old Ball while he was walking in the 500 block of University Avenue around 2 a.m. on Wednesday. He was knocked to the ground and kicked. Ball was taken to a hospital with head injuries. Police say it doesn?t appear that Ball knew his attackers. The incident is being investigated as an unprovoked assault.
MADISON, Wis. – The University of Wisconsin athletic department said running back Montee Ball was beaten up in an unprovoked attack downtown just after bar time early Wednesday. The incident happened in the 500 block of University Avenue at 2:15 a.m. Wednesday. According to police, a man was walking down University when witnesses said five men jumped the victim. Police said he was knocked to the ground and kicked. A statement from the UW athletic department confirms Ball was the victim.
Five high school students are spending six weeks this summer exploring the field of surgery, even practicing skills like suturing at the simulation center that opened last fall on the first floor of UW Hospital. The minority students are participating in a first-ever Clinical Research Experiences for High School Students made possible because the UW School of Medicine and Public Health was one of nine institutions nationwide to receive grants from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. The foundation launched the program because minorities remain underrepresented in medical research careers and some of the participants may become the first in their families to attend college.
A Sun Prairie woman was convicted Friday of homicide by negligent driving after a jury found she was writing a text message when she slammed into a UW-Madison student as he stood behind his broken-down car on East Johnson Street in 2010. The jury of seven women and five men apparently rejected Stephanie Kanoff?s contention that she was driving behind a car that had blocked her view of Dylan Ellefson?s car and the brightly-clad Ellefson, 21, who was wearing a Halloween costume to work at Hot Topic in the East Towne Mall.
The weekend after police had to use pepper spray to quell several fights among a hostile crowd in the troubled 600 block of University Avenue, officers were out in force driving home the message that violence and intimidation by people congregating outside Downtown bars won?t be tolerated. At 12:30 a.m. Saturday, three marked police vehicles were parked on the north side of the 600 block of University Avenue with several officers standing watch on the street as two others handcuffed a man suspected of dealing drugs. A fourth squad car was stationed across North Frances Street from Wando?s bar, where the mayhem had broken out early July 22.
The Madison Police Department is boosting the number of weekend officers patrolling the area around State Street, including the 600 block of University Avenue that has been plagued by a series of violent incidents.
A jury could decide Friday whether a Sun Prairie woman was distracted by writing a text message before she struck and killed a UW-Madison student at his disabled car on an East Side street in 2010. Testimony in the case of Stephanie Kanoff, 21, who is charged with homicide by negligent driving, will wrap up Friday as Kanoff?s lawyers try to convince a jury that she was not writing a text message while driving before she struck Dylan Ellefson, 21.
Listening to NCAA President Mark Emmert?s speech announcing the penalties handed down against Penn State, I couldn?t help but wonder if he was doing it with a straight face. For at one point he said: ?One of the grave dangers stemming from our love of sports is that the sports themselves can become too big to fail, indeed, too big to even challenge. The result can be an erosion of academic values that are replaced by the value of hero worship and winning at all costs. All involved in intercollegiate athletics must be watchful that programs and individuals do not overwhelm the values of higher education.?
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Madison is moving to impose new parking rules on mopeds and motor scooters to address concerns about safety, blocked sidewalks, aesthetics and ruined grass on terraces. Meanwhile, UW-Madison, the city?s moped epicenter, is raising moped parking permit prices and changing its program to encourage users to park in one spot and take buses or walk around campus.
More and more across the nation, universities are recognizing that the youth of a spoken word and hip-hop generation really have a lot to offer. And the University of Wisconsin-Madison has prided itself on being on the cutting edge of realizing that trend.
College stress can lead to much more than unwashed hair, red-rimmed eyes and the caffeine jitters of an all-night cram session. Higher education?s pressures, mixed with underlying mental factors, can push college students to violent thoughts ? or even acts, local educators say.
Stephanie Kanoff?s lawyer and Dane County prosecutors agreed that she made calls and sent text messages on her cellphone as she drove home from work on Oct. 24, 2010. But as jurors heard during opening statements in Kanoff?s negligent homicide trial, they differ on whether she was working on one last text message when she struck and killed UW-Madison student Dylan Ellefson, 21, whose car was disabled in the 1400 block of East Johnson Street.
David disappeared 10 years ago this past Sunday, but what has happened in the decade since is a journey that can be documented. It?s extraordinary, but it happened all the same. It?s still happening, in a way. It was pretty well summed up this week by David?s father, retired UW-Madison philosophy professor Mike Byrd, who said: “One way of confronting this is to expand who you love.” Mike and his wife, Maggie Felker ? a Madison nurse and David?s mother ? have embraced the country where their son spent his final months….For his part, Mike felt the need to retire from his UW-Madison position and find something “intensely meaningful.” There is something profound in how he, and Maggie, too, found it at the center in Quito. “It’s a place of hope,” Mike said. “It radiates out to everybody.”
Native Madison ? a new camp run by the Madison Children?s Museum ? originated from a fascination with the effigy burial mounds on Observatory Hill on the UW-Madison campus. The camp, which ran July 16-20, was designed for third-, fourth- and fifth-graders who toured the effigy burial mounds with guide Aaron Bird Bear, a Native American who works in the School of Education.
A 21-year-old woman escaped a man who held her at knifepoint near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus early Saturday morning.
INDIANAPOLIS ? The NCAA slammed Penn State for the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal Monday with an unprecedented series of penalties, including a $60 million fine and the loss of all the school?s victories from 1998-2011, knocking Joe Paterno from his spot as major college football?s winningest coach. Other sanctions include a four-year ban on postseason games that will prevent Penn State from playing for the Big Ten title, the loss of 20 scholarships per year over four years and five years? probation. The NCAA also said that any current or incoming football players are free to immediately transfer and compete at another school.
Juan Zalapa, a child of Texas and Guadalajara, now studies the genetics of cranberries at UW-Madison. The horticulture professor credits a federally funded grant program he was admitted to as an undergrad at Texas Tech University for setting him on his unlikely journey north. “I had no concept of more education beyond a bachelor?s degree,” he said of his mindset before entering the Ronald E. McNair Scholars program, designed to smooth the path to graduate school in the sciences for minority and low-income students. “It really changed my perspective.”
The same program, named for a black astronaut and physicist who died in the 1986 Challenger explosion, has helped more than 1,370 undergraduates throughout the University of Wisconsin System over the past two decades ? but it could end or be significantly reduced in the coming school year.
Noted: Laura L. Dunn, a sexual-assault survivor who founded the advocacy group SurvJustice, said her experiences illustrate the need for reform. When she was sexually assaulted, as a freshman at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, she had little awareness of what assault was, let alone how to press charges.
?The single most important experiment in higher education,? reads the headline to this piece posted at TheAtlantic.com. Slate.com asks: ?Will online education startups like Coursera end the era of expensive higher education?? Those posts were related to the news announced earlier this week that a dozen more universities have signed on with Coursera to deliver free, online classes to the masses that are known as MOOCs (massive online open classrooms).
?The news certainly caught my eye,? says Paul Peercy, the dean of UW-Madison?s College of Engineering, which has a long tradition of delivering master?s degrees and continuing education online. ?I?m convinced that the rapid advances in information technology are going to change the world. And they?re going to change education at all levels.?
Noted: #3: The University of Wisconsin: A diverse student body full of men who are ?passionate and enjoy opening new doors in their school?s community?? I?m sold.
Noted: Attitudes are similar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Wisconsin School of Business. ?We don?t look at what we?re doing as a training program,? says Steve Schroeder, assistant dean for the bachelor?s of business administration program and director of its Business Career Center. ?We?re different than that. We?re not in the profession of training students for a particular job. I think what we do?and do particularly well?is train students on how to think, how to solve problems and how to analyze situations.?
Noted: After much soul-searching, runner Mohammed Ahmed, a competitor for Canada in the 10,000-meter race, decided to take the exemption.
University of Wisconsin senior safety Shelton Johnson?s day wasn?t finished last season at the end of practice. Johnson, from Carrollton, Texas, who was in his first year as a starter for the Badgers, accumulated the most community service hours of any player on the team. Because of that, Johnson has been named as one of 117 nominees to the 2012 Allstate AFCA Good Works Team.
Wisconsin has a “long way to go in all our racial/ethnic groups,” said Adam Gamoran, director of the Wisconsin Center for Education Research at UW-Madison. My hope is that, given Wisconsin?s overwhelmingly white population, proficiency problems among white students will spur more people to push for policies inside and outside of school that help children ? all children ? learn.
Matt Stoltz isn?t earning his arm and leg tan lines while at the beach this summer, but by biking on the side of the road.
Noted: Samantha von Sperling is an image consultant in New York, but lately her bread-and-butter Wall Street clients have asked her to help their daughters get ready for rush at schools like Harvard; the University of Wisconsin, Madison; and New York University, which has added three chapters since 2006 and more than doubled the number of sisters, to 570.
Nearly two-thirds of Wisconsin students who took the state reading test last fall scored below proficient, and less than half were proficient in math, according to recalibrated results released Tuesday by the Department of Public Instruction. In previous reporting of the same results, about 80 percent of students scored proficient on the reading and math tests. The difference is a change in the yardstick used to measure “proficiency” ? what students in a certain grade level should know and be able to do ? rather than a change in how students performed on the tests.
Still, the new results should be a “smack in the face” for Wisconsin, said Adam Gamoran, director of the Wisconsin Center for Education Research at UW-Madison. “It?s going to be a wake-up call,” Gamoran said. “It?s a more honest reckoning of where Wisconsin students stand relative to other students across the nation and relative to the goals we want for all of our students.”
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay students aren?t just spending money on tuition and books when they return to class in the fall.
In 1951 a young Yale undergraduate wrote the book God and Man at Yale, which was a scathing criticism of the liberal ideological bent held by the instructional staff at Yale. The author, a young William Buckley, would go on to become the leading voice of the conservative movement during the second half of the 20th century. Unfortunately for those who share Buckley?s sensibilities, today the majority of collegiate institutions retain their liberal partisanship. As a young and eager student stepping out of my sheltered Waukesha County home onto this campus, I was in for a cultural shock. The two locales couldn?t be more politically polarized. The difference was night and day.
Madison?s top police official said in a July 12 letter to the Wisconsin State Journal the Mifflin Street Block Party could be ?eliminated? unless it is ?drastically? changed. Most significantly, Madison Police Department Chief Noble Wray wrote police are looking to find a new venue for the block party to spare its costliness to the city and foster a safe environment.
Ever wonder what Big Ten Conference mascots do during the offseason? This summer, they play out their addiction to the song “Call Me Maybe” in a hilarious music video posted Wednesday.
In my first semester at UW-Madison, my dorm?s resident assistant or some other upperclass stand-in for the university escorted a bunch of us to the local polling place or to register to vote ? I forget which.It was a nice gesture in a presidential election year for kids who?d only recently arrived from out of town or out of state, but I would have voted anyway.
The former name of a Madison casino will now be the name of a new residence hall at UW-Madison. Dejope Residence Hall on the campus? west side near Lake Mendota will be home to 408 students beginning Aug. 26, according to a UW-Madison news release. The Ho-Chunk Nation Legislature approved the name in May, saying “it was in the best interest of the nation to support and promote the education of its members and the education of others about the Ho-Chunk Nation.”
“We worked with the Ho-Chunk Nation on a name for this facility because this area was home to the Ho-Chunk for thousands of years,” said UW-Madison housing director Paul Evans in the release.
A study of UW-Madison students found no link between Facebook use and depression, calling into question a warning by a national doctor group last year that the popular social media site could cause depression. “We?re not really sure ?Facebook depression? is something parents or patients really need to be advised about yet,” said Lauren Jelenchick, a UW School of Medicine and Public Health researcher who led the study.
Recent news stories have praised the announcement by the University of Wisconsin Colleges to offer high school students the opportunity to obtain high school and college credits simultaneously through dual-enrollment programming. We applaud the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction and the University of Wisconsin Colleges for their efforts to improve access to higher education, because more degrees lead to a stronger economy….UW-Madison accepts more transfer students from our campus than from any other institution, including all of the UW Colleges combined. And full-time students who complete their associate degrees at Madison College save thousands of dollars a year in tuition compared to UW-Madison, making us a high quality yet affordable point of access to a four-year degree.
In a bid to boost voter turnout, Madison City Council members are proposing that landlords must provide voter registration forms when tenants move into a residence. The move could have an impact around UW-Madison, where thousands of students take new apartments each year, as well as other parts of the city with concentrations of rental units, supporters said. Nearly half of the city?s dwelling units are rentals, the U.S. Census says. But many landlords are opposing the proposal because it strays dramatically from the city?s core responsibility to regulate housing conditions, fair housing, ethical practices, public health and safety.
When his brother returned from a mission trip to Central America with photos of kids playing baseball with equipment fashioned out of trash, Matt Stoltz discovered a mission of his own.
Stephen Lee says some of the scariest parts of his experience serving his country have nothing to do with military combat: “Right now to me, I am far more scared of sitting in an interview room getting interviewed for a job, than when I?ve had people shoot at me.” After he left the service in 2009, Lee, now 32, came to Madison to attend the University of Wisconsin. In May, he completed his final semester of coursework in political science. Alongside his responsibilities as a student and parent, for two years Lee also served as Wisconsin?s state director for the Student Veterans of America, and was active in its campus chapter, UW Vets for Vets. Lee?s accomplishments are testament to his work ethic, as well as to the resources and encouragement provided by fellow student veterans. He is among the 30 percent of veterans in the civilian labor force who have a bachelor?s degree or more. But, for Lee, having a diploma has not been a guarantee of employment.
On the 30th anniversary of her death Monday, University of Wisconsin police again asked the public for any information about the killing of Donna Mraz, a UW-Madison student who was stabbed to death outside Camp Randall Stadium.
With red and blue lights flashing, the Wisconsin Rapids Police Department and Wood County Sheriff?s Department escorted Matt Stoltz out of town late Sunday morning.
People know me as: Ka Man ?Melody? Ng, doctoral student in piano performance and pedagogy at UW-Madison, studying with professors Jessica Johnson and Christopher Taylor. I?m also coordinator for the university?s Sound Health Community Program, a teaching assistant at the piano department, a continuing studies instructor, a piano teacher at the Piano Pioneers/Piano Lab Program, and president of the Music Teachers National Association UW-Madison Collegiate Chapter.
Teams of UW-Madison students won big in Las Vegas last week ? not at a casino, but at two national food science competitions. UW students had one first-place finish and two second-place finishes in separate contests sponsored by Disney and the Mars company, at the Institute for Food Technologists? annual meeting, according to a UW-Madison news release.
Flexibility has not been the hallmark of higher education. Rather, tradition and familiar processes tend to rule the day on college campuses. All of which makes the recent announcement of a “flexible degree” program throughout the UW System so exciting. The concept put forth by UW System President Kevin Reilly and UW Extension Chancellor Ray Cross, with a strong endorsement from Gov. Scott Walker, makes so much sense.
Donalvin Weatherby was found safe on Madison?s east side Thursday afternoon, according to the UW-Madison Police Department. UW-Madison police had asked for the public?s help in locating Weatherby, a 17-year-old student from Milwaukee who was reported missing Thursday.
Congressional leaders have come to a tentative agreement on freezing student loan interest rates.
Swimmers and shoreline users are being warned to be careful along the Lake Mendota shore after toxic algae was discovered in the water.
The announcement isn?t going to silence all of the NCAA?s many critics. But after years of tough talk without meaningful action, it appears college sports? governing body is gradually getting more intentional about ensuring athletic programs take academics seriously. The NCAA announced earlier this week it has barred 15 teams — including the perennially powerful University of Connecticut men?s basketball program — from postseason play due to poor academic performance.
?When a university as prominent as Connecticut is sanctioned due to low rates of academic progress, it?s a signal to all universities that the NCAA is serious about this and that colleges need to ensure that their students are making academic progress,? says Adam Gamoran, co-chair of the UW Athletic Board’s academics and compliance committee, and the director of the Wisconsin Center for Education Research.
The announcement last week of the University of Wisconsin System?s new “flexible degree” is a worthy start. The program, to be rolled out over the next year, will allow students to learn online at their own pace and provide college credit for proving they?ve mastered skills learned at work. It?s about time the public education establishment started really shaking up the standard high school-to-college-to-career path. Economists and education-reform types have been saying for years that a changing world requires changing education models.
The University of Wisconsin plans to start a ?flexible degree? program online focused on allowing undergraduates to test out of material they have mastered.
For one local swimmer, her lifelong goal of making it to the Olympic Games comes down to a solid performance at next week?s Olympic Swimming Trials.
“This is the first public university in the country, actually in the world, to do this,” said Ray Cross, the chancellor of U-W Colleges and U-W Extension.
With federal college loan rates set to double in less than two weeks unless Congress takes action, some Democrats are using the time until then to draw political capital from the hot-button issue.
Considering that Wisconsin is below the national average in the percentage of adults who have college degrees, almost any move to make college more accessible should be applauded.
The University of Wisconsin System on Tuesday announced a new flexible degree program aimed at graduating nontraditional students. It will focus on competencies rather than class work and allow students to move at their own pace. As WUWM?s LaToya Dennis reports, the program is in its early stages, but the hope is, to have online classes ready to go by fall.
