Category: Campus life

A week after creating a YouTube video she admitted was ?disastrous,? Dean of Students Lori Berquam resorted to her usual mass e-mail to warn students of the dangers associated with the Mifflin Street Block Party.

Many students who are Mifflin residents signed a protection plan with police at the last Mifflin Street Block Party information meeting Wednesday.

As part of a newly launched scholarship initiative, one student could win up to $3,000 for creating a plan to solve a problem on the University of Wisconsin campus.

Madison police are working to prevent a porch collapse at this years Mifflin Street Block Party.

1969 marked Richard Nixon?s first year in office. ?Sugar Sugar? by The Archies topped the music charts. And in May, UW-Madison students threw the first Mifflin Street Block Party. The block party was born out of the climate of social protest, the shadow of the Vietnam War and a polarized national political system.

UW-Madison?s embattled dean of students is taking a second stab at telling students not to go to the Mifflin Street Block Party on Saturday. It?s ?Don?t go,? take two. Except this time, Lori Berquam is using a more traditional approach: sending a written message warning students of the safety risks and suggesting there are better things to do.

Madison?s Transit and Parking Commission is conducting a special meeting on proposed service reductions to routes 80 and 85 serving the UW-Madison campus from 7 to 9 p.m. at UW Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St. More details on the proposed reductions will be presented at the meeting.

MADISON ? Madison police are bracing for a big weekend. Saturday, May 5th is Cinco de Mayo, and also the annual Mifflin Street block party.

Starting next fall, moped users will only be able to park in designated campus lots, and moped permit prices will increase.

UW alumna and former Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz will return to Madison to deliver the address at the university?s commencement ceremonies May 19 and 20.

City officials are inviting students and Mifflin residents to an informational meeting on the upcoming Mifflin Street Block Party where residents can register their house parties with police.

Last June, senior Danez Smith was walking down Langdon Street when a hanging figure caught his eye.

Four-legged stress busters will be looking for head and haunch scratches and faces to lick on the UW-Madison campus. Dogs on Call, a local non-profit that brings man?s best friend to nursing homes, schools, hospices and hospitals, will be bringing dogs to campus through May 15, according to a news article from UW-Madison.

UW-Madison police are advising bicyclists on campus to be on the alert and secure their bikes after an increase in thefts.

Although newly passed legislation surrounding voter ID requirements is tied up in court, college students may still face a number of other obstacles while heading to the polls for the upcoming recall elections. 

The UW-Madison Police Department is reporting an increase in thefts of bicycles on campus.The UWPD is asking you to be aware of suspicious activity and report the behavior to police.

The former chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point is now the chief academic officer the University of Wisconsin System.

A report from a University of Wisconsin faculty committee has recommended the university eliminate the Division of International Studies? administrative function. 

The University of Wisconsin will bring in world-renowned astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson as the keynote speaker for its first-ever Senior Day for graduates next Thursday.

Some Occupy supporters began an effort Sunday to see if the encampment could be relocated to a former Army Reserve Center at 1402 S. Park St., next to a Copps grocery store. Noah Phillips, 19, the UW-Madison student leading the effort, said the group did not have permission to occupy the land and acknowledged it would be illegal to do so. But the homeless have few other options, he said.”It?s an abandoned lot, and it?s ludicrous that it?s just sitting there,” he said. City officials apparently got wind of the idea Monday morning and put a quick halt to it.

Ryan Silber says he rarely cooks, but there he was at Hillel, the Jewish community center at UW-Madison, kneading a tub of flour and other ingredients. He?d had a hard week of tests and was ready to ?beat up on some dough,? he said. Silber, a freshman, is among a couple dozen students who spend every Thursday afternoon at Hillel baking 70 to 100 loaves of challah, the traditional Jewish egg bread….The UW-Madison students are part of a nationwide effort called ?Challah for Hunger,? with chapters at dozens of universities. In addition to raising money for charities, the effort keeps Jewish students connected to their cultural roots, both as bakers and customers.

It?s not clear what will happen at this year?s Mifflin Street Block Party, so Julia Mercer and her roommate are taking no chances. They live on the 400 block of West Mifflin Street ? party central ? and after last year?s trouble-filled bacchanalia, they?re planning to lock all their valuables in their bedrooms, including their dishes and the TV. ?We?re kind of freaking out,? Mercer, a UW-Madison junior, admitted to police officers who stopped by her house Wednesday to talk about rules for the May 5 event.

One hundred-twenty years of printing a daily newspaper has generated thousands of loyal writers, contributors and editors for The Daily Cardinal. That loyalty showed strong last weekend as nearly 250 alumni returned to their journalistic roots in Madison for the newspaper?s 120th anniversary celebration.

Lori Berquam, dean of students at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, posted a Youtube video in which she somberly asks students not to attend the school?s massive Mifflin Street Block Party, saying she?s seen smart students make stupid decisions at the booze fest.

University transportation officials are looking for input from students on changes to campus bus routes that could double the wait time on two major routes.

There are about 8,000 living alumni of the Daily Cardinal, UW-Madison?s oldest student newspaper. And that?s not a wild guess. “I?ve spent 18 months looking up every byline and photo credit and masthead from 1959 to 2011,” said Anthony Sansone, president of the Daily Cardinal Alumni Association, which this weekend welcomes more than 200 former staffers for a weekend of events celebrating the paper?s 120th anniversary.

William Henry sums up the thrill of the annual Mifflin Street block party like this: “The crowd. The mob. And being able to be belligerently drunk under the eyes of the cops, to be blunt.” The UW-Madison student lives on the 500 block of West Mifflin Street, the party?s epicenter.

Proposed changes to transportation services offered by University of Wisconsin officials will make adjustments to the current regulations on campus parking and the bus system.

Stabbings at last May?s Mifflin Street Block Party mired the future of the event in uncertainty for the past 12 months. Its occurrence now all but certain, the block party is still unable to outrun controversy, as the first Saturday in May of 2012 happens to be the fifth ? also known as the date of Cinco de Mayo. The combination of events in plans for the upcoming celebrations has members of the university community concerned with cultural insensitivity.

After the violence at Madison?s Mifflin Street block party last year, Madison police are trying to talk to people in the area before it becomes a problem again this year.

Madison police met with University of Wisconsin-Madison students Wednesday to go over new rules for the annual Mifflin Street Block Party.

Noted: At the University of Wisconsin in Madison, about a dozen students demonstrated outside Memorial Library, soliciting signatures in the rain.

An unidentified suspect hit a student with their car on Park Street near State Street Tuesday afternoon and fled down Lakeshore Path.

Student backlash toward Dean of Students Lori Berquam?s ?Don?t Go? to Mifflin video prompted UW-Madison to pull the video from its YouTube channel.  But despite the criticism, Berquam said Tuesday she stands behind her original message that students should not attend the party.

University officials are investigating a threatening comment directed at members of the Student Services Finance Committee left on a Badger Herald comment section Tuesday.

In a heated meeting last night, members of University of Wisconsin student government once again did not vote on a funding eligibility decision for a student organization.

The University of Wisconsin administration and Police Department are investigating an apparent safety threat against ?those in power and those with perceived power? posted anonymously on Tuesday in the online comments of a Badger Herald article.