Thousands of college students enthusiastically gathered on the UW-Madison campus Thursday; not for a concert or festival, but to listen to a 76-year-old grandfather lecture them on the need to maintain a budget.
With less than a week to go before the Wisconsin presidential primary, Texan congressman and Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul made a stop on the University of Wisconsin campus Thursday night, calling for an end to the Afghanistan War as well as an end to the Federal Reserve.
It was a warm reception for the first Republican presidential candidate to visit Madison Thursday.
A surprise off the court for Badgers basketball player Rob Wilson.
U.S. Rep. Ron Paul drew a crowd estimated at more than 2,000 for a town hall meeting Thursday night on the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison.
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI), the nation?s premier Hispanic youth leadership development and educational organization, is hosting Linda Gomez of Madison, a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, along with 11 other university students from across the United States for its nationally recognized and highly competitive spring Congressional Internship Program.
As UW-Madison students awoke with pounding heads the morning after St. Patrick?s Day, one house fellow began a floor-wide initiative to encourage students to find alternative activities to drinking. Ogg Hall House Fellow Bob Freidel planned educational but fun activities for his house, Rundell House, during the week of March 18 through March 25 that encouraged students to enjoy Madison without consuming alcohol.
UPDATE 10 a.m. Thursday: A spokesman for the Wisconsin Union said reserved seating is not allowed on the Terrace. People can come early but they can?t reserve a whole area or supplant others sitting there. He said Union staff members will be making sure everyone complies.
Students urged UW-Madison student government leaders Wednesday to act against hate crimes at the university, saying campus is not a safe place for racial minority students.
Food vendors will not be permitted during the Mifflin Street Block Party due to numerous safety and organizational issues cited during a city meeting Wednesday.
GOP Presidential candidate Ron Paul will be in Madison Thursday on the UW campus.
Texas Rep. Ron Paul is scheduled to hold a town hall meeting on the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison.
Dear Editor: The student population at UW-Madison has a justifiable concern about sweatshops and feudal factories employed to make clothes and other gear for the UW. At the same time, taking Chancellor David Ward to task for these abuses, or violating the terms of a contract with Adidas, will not get compensation to those laid-off Indonesian workers, who deserve to be paid for their efforts. The real problem is that these practices cannot be adequately monitored by UW-Madison.
In 1988, UW-Madison?s Zeta Beta Tau fraternity was accused of sponsoring a slave auction party that included members of the fraternity wearing blackface and Afro wigs. The incident sparked a small, but passionate, student-led protest on ZBT?s property, at which eight students were eventually arrested.
University of Wisconsin students and members of the Human Resources Design Advisory Committee examined the university?s Human Resources Design Project and concerns involved with it at a Tuesday event.
Madison city officials, University of Wisconsin students and Mifflin neighborhood residents considered multiple presentations concerning safety issues for the upcoming block party at a meeting Tuesday night.
If the Mifflin Street Block Party does not work this year, city officials said they will shut it down.
Appeals courts sent two lawsuits challenging Wisconsin?s blocked new voter ID law directly to the state Supreme Court on Wednesday, determining it was imperative to resolve the cases quickly given the slate of important upcoming elections, including the state?s presidential primaries next week. If the Supreme Court agrees to take the cases, it could reinstate the state’s new requirement that voters show photo identification at the polls just days before Tuesday’s election. However, attorneys challenging the law said it is unlikely a decision would come that quickly.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students are reflecting on recent shootings that have taken the lives of two young black men.
Wisconsin kids enrolled in private school choice programs aren?t performing as well as their public school counterparts on standardized exams, according to data released Tuesday by the state?s Department of Public Instruction, sparking another round of partisan debate about whether taxpayers should be funding voucher programs. John Witte, a UW-Madison political science professor and a national expert on voucher programs, counters that some of his most recent research is suggesting that while math scores between public and voucher school students in Milwaukee are similar, kids attending the private schools are starting to make strides in reading.
A UW-Madison student committee has voted to end a long-standing service that provides late-night cab rides for stranded students. But the decision may be revisited Thursday. The Student Services Finance Committee voted Monday night to eliminate the SAFEride cab service, citing cost inefficiencies and declining use.
About 150 people gathered Tuesday on the UW-Madison campus to call for repeal of a state law that allowed a homeowner to claim self-defense in the March 3 killing of Bo Morrison, a 20-year-old from West Bend. Morrison?s shooting death came roughly a week after a neighborhood watch volunteer in Sanford, Fla., shot and killed Trayvon Martin, 17, in another disputed case of self-defense. Both young men were black and unarmed, which has ignited charges that the shootings were racially motivated.
In November 2009, the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison received support to establish a small office devoted to “globalizing the undergraduate experience in the sciences.” Thus far, they have identified three “core challenges” that faculty encounter when internationalizing science curriculum and are actively supporting projects and programs designed to accommodate these challenges.
UW-Madison administration is simplifying protocol for students to report incidents involving prejudice conduct, speech or expression.
Associated Students of Madison Chair Allie Gardner and other student government leaders were arrested protesting in Washington, D.C. Monday.
Student government?s Legislative Affairs Committee discussed plans to advocate making a campus-wide policy to protect underage students who have been drinking from being punished after reporting an incident into a state law Monday.
Madison Police Chief Noble Wray informally announced his opposition to the Mifflin Street Block Party and his desire to eventually shut the party down permanently on Monday.
Washington, D.C. police arrested three University of Wisconsin students who serve or have been elected to serve in student government positions during a protest against rising student debt outside a prominent student loan lender.
Wisconsin Union Council members voted to approve the direction of multiple interior designs for the Memorial Union Reinvestment project, paving the way for construction on the project to begin this summer.
Members of the University of Wisconsin?s student government met Monday to review drinking problems on campus and at the Mifflin Street Block Party, following sponsorship difficulties for the event.
With it?s future uncertain, Madison?s Police Chief says he wants to put an end to the Mifflin Street Block Party.
University of Wisconsin quarterback Jon Budmayr was not made available to reporters during offensive player interviews on Saturday, but spoke with UWBadgers.com and said he would know more about his injury situation after spring break. The junior-to-be visited a specialist in Michigan last week and was scheduled to visit the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., on Monday.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Chief Susan Riseling honored two UW students for their life-saving actions Monday night.
Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig is slated to deliver an April 10 lecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW-Madison officials say they will try to make it easier for students to report incidents of bias ? conduct, speech or expression motivated by prejudice ? and they are working on a better system for tracking such reports. The university is currently investigating an allegation that members of the UW-Madison chapter of Delta Upsilon yelled racial slurs at two black women and threw a bottle at them.
Kevin Helmkamp, associate dean of students, said the current reporting mechanism is ?not the easiest.? A student needs to fill out a paper form and drop it off at the Dean of Students Office. He said the university is working on a system that will allow students to send complaints electronically, likely through a website.
When Rosita Gonzalez proposed an after-school enrichment program for Thoreau Elementary School students this year, she wanted to make sure anyone could participate….Thoreau also formed a partnership with UW-Madison computer science department students, who were led by professor Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, to teach the elementary students about computer programming.
When a permit for beer sales at last year?s Mifflin Street Block Party opened the way for drinking on the street and sidewalks, that?s the only message that got out about the already troublesome annual gathering, said Mark Woulf, the city?s alcohol police coordinator. The results, said Madison Police Chief Noble Wray, were among the worst in the 42-year history of the event, with unprecedented levels of alcohol, two stabbings, three sexual assaults, numerous fights, strong-armed robberies and reports of property damage, and three officers injured. This year, police, city officials, neighborhood residents and students are putting out a decidedly different message.
“It?s remarkable the kinds of absurd questions you get asked,” said Andrew Maxfield, 31, a UW-Madison graduate student. He developed a good-humored campus seminar in response to the increased curiosity, dubbing it “Mormonism 101: What the Heck?” The title refers to the Mormon aversion to swearing. About 35 people attended the event earlier this month.
Madison Police Chief Noble Wray said Monday that it won?t happen overnight but he hopes to see an end to the annual spring Mifflin Street Block Party in years to come. Madison police said last year?s event was one of the more violent, troublesome Mifflin Street Block Parties in years.
Last Thursday, The Daily Cardinal, Badger Herald, Wisconsin State Journal, Madison.com, UW-Madison and other news outlets broke headlines on a report detailing an unfortunate alleged racial incident against two black female students walking through frat row.
People are often surprised when I tell them I am in a fraternity. I joined Delta Upsilon my freshman year and lived in the house last year, but I am no frat star. In the past two years, I?ve been to maybe three DU events, however I am close to active and inactive members. Considering I am a non-white member of an allegedly racist fraternity, I can speak to last week?s racial incident with some clarity. There are three things that I am sure of: excessively punishing DU is a mistake, disciplining the individuals involved needs to be firm and fair and DU?s proximity to the end of Frances Street is a factor that has been ignored.
Robbers targeted pedestrians early Sunday morning in a series of three strong-armed robberies in a student neighborhood.
A series of robberies near the University of Wisconsin campus early Sunday morning led Madison officials to believe the same group of individuals had committed the three crimes.
Confirming his intentions expressed earlier in the week to overturn two budget decisions made by student government, Interim Chancellor David Ward put forth his final decision Friday afternoon.
Members of the campus community gathered in the McBurney Disability Center Saturday to learn about implementing social change for the community affected with disabilities in Madison in the second Pathways to Inclusion conference.
Voicing claims of an ?institutional racism? in student government, a student organization has officially requested funding eligibility for the 2012-13 fiscal year in addition to a two-hour meeting this week with Interim Chancellor David Ward.
When UW-Madison officials recently announced that they?re investigating a report of racial harassment linked to a fraternity party during the early morning hours of March 16, some within the campus community admitted to reflexively wondering how such an occurrence could take place these days. But others found the incident troublingly familiar. ?This type of stuff happens all the time,? says Niko Magallon, who chairs the Associated Students of Madison?s Diversity Committee.
People know me as: Greg Grube. I jokingly refer to myself as a man about town, primarily because I am currently taking a bit of a break from the real world….I?ll perform with the improvisational dance group the Red Herrings, in tandem with the Madison aerial dance company Cycropia, in a free half-hour show Thursday at 5 p.m. in Paige Court of the Chazen Museum of Art, 750 University Ave. The performance intends to welcome hundreds of dance students from universities across the Midwest as part of the American College Dance Festival?s North Central Regional Conference, hosted this year by the UW-Madison Dance Department.
Madison police are investigating three overnight strong-arm robberies downtown that they believe are linked.
The Los Angeles Police Department has started a criminal investigation into the allegations that John Chadima, former UW-Madison Senior Associate Athletic Director, sexually assaulted a student Athletic Department employee while in a Los Angeles hotel during the Rose Bowl Weekend. The LAPD initially stated they would not conduct a formal investigation into the incident. However, the department confirmed Friday that a criminal investigation is in the works, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.
….A UW-Madison lecture series focusing on hip-hop as a educational tool will feature Professor Marc Lamont Hill of Columbia University. Hill has appeared on CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC. The series focuses on how hip-hop culture and culturally relevant teaching can be used to help bridge the achievement gap in schools. The lecture is at 7 tonight in Room 1101 of Grainger Hall, 975 University Ave.
Puzzled by the sight of empty seats in the student section at University of Wisconsin men?s basketball games, athletic director Barry Alvarez is considering a change in how season tickets are allocated starting in 2012-13. He?s thinking about a return to the format where all 2,100 student season tickets are sold on a first-come, first-served basis and they encompass all of the games at the Kohl Center.
It began with James Abrahamson and concluded 13 minutes and 78 names later with Ronald Zielinski. UW-Madison medical student Lauren Brown read each name Saturday afternoon, memorializing people who donated their bodies for medical research in an annual ceremony at a packed auditorium at UW Hospital.
Madison police say it is likely that the same robbers struck three times early Sunday morning, targeting people walking near the UW-Madison campus. “Based on the similarity in the suspect and vehicle description it appears likely that the same suspects were involved in a total of three robberies overnight,” Madison police Sgt. Ann Lehner said in a news release.
Unlike some of my peers, I never really listened to Springsteen before taking Craig Werner?s class at UW Madison — “Bruce Springsteen?s America.” My parents were fans of the Boss, but he and the E-Street crew took a back seat to David Bowie, U2, The Clash, and R.E.M.
Stop the presses: college kids acting like assholes! This time, it?s brothers at the Delta Upsilon fraternity at the University of Wisconsin, who, mere weeks after having alcohol-related probation lifted, allegedly drunkenly shouted racial epithets and threw a beer bottle at two black female students. The fraternity?s been suspended yet again pending a university investigation, but this isn?t the first time this year that racial tensions have run high on the Madison campus.
He has yet to graduate from college. But Jordan Heginbottom, a Plymouth resident and junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has learned a critical lesson already: ?You have to continuously excel to avoid becoming obsolete.?
Republican presidential candidate U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas plans to campaign in Madison next week. Paul?s campaign said Friday that he would hold a town hall meeting Thursday on the UW-Madison campus.
A new national figure that suggests total student debt is now more than $1 trillion has led many in the University of Wisconsin System to express concern over the implications the hikes may have on students.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison official said a trespassing dispute preceded campus fraternity members allegedly using racial slurs against two African-American students.
