Category: Campus life

Madison?s annual spring Mifflin Street Block Party encountered a setback this week.

A UW-Madison fraternity had just recently come off “alcohol probation” when it was temporarily suspended this week because members allegedly yelled racist slurs and threw a bottle at two black female students. The probation, which was lifted March 1, meant that Delta Upsilon fraternity couldn?t hold events, including parties, with alcohol.

Before leaving town on spring break, UW-Madison students and city residents have eight more days to vote by absentee ballot for the spring primary on April 3.

For the first time, the UW-Madison School of Business was ranked within the top 25 business schools in the country by Bloomberg Businessweek, a magazine that has been ranking top undergraduate business schools each year since 2006.

UW-Madison officials are investigating a report that students at a Delta Upsilon Fraternity party racially harassed two African-American students last week.

After a potential sponsor for the Mifflin Street Block Party recently backed out of negotiations, the city is returning to the idea of planning the event on its own.

University of Wisconsin officials are investigating a campus fraternity after releasing a report of a racial incident involving two black female students last Friday morning.

U-W announced theyd suspended Delta Upsilon,the frats president and other members declined to comment.

University of Wisconsin-Madison officials said they are investigating a report of a racial incident involving two African-American female students and members of a campus fraternity.

MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin-Madison officials said they are investigating a report of a racial incident involving two African-American female students and members of a campus fraternity. UW-Madison Dean of Students Lori Berquam and Vice Provost for Diversity and Climate Damon Williams called the allegations against members of Delta Upsilon “deeply troubling.”

A UW-Madison fraternity has been temporarily suspended as the university investigates allegations that fraternity members used racial slurs and threw a glass bottle at two black female students. The investigation stems from a March 16 incident at the Delta Upsilon fraternity, 644 N. Frances St.

Few students complain about the warmer than average mid-March temperatures outside, but the temperatures inside UW-Madison buildings are a different story.

The only potential sponsor for the Mifflin Street Block Party retracted its application to sponsor the event Tuesday, leaving Madison to plan the event on its own.

Northwestern has Dillo Day. Illinois has Unofficial Saint Patrick?s Day. Indiana has the Little 500. In an especially obnoxious display of aristocracy, Virginia students drive to a horse track wearing seersucker and fancy hats to spend a day drinking at the Foxfield Races.

Street lights went out Saturday night and early Sunday morning on State Street, leaving an area stretching from the Capitol to Lake Street in the dark on St. Patrick?s day.

A Mifflin planning group made up of city officials, student representatives and Mifflin residents decided Sunday on ?Mifflin Now, Mifflin Forever? as the theme for the 2012 Mifflin Street Block Party.

If there was ever a day to show off student life, the amenities of campus, and the scholastics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wednesday would be the day.

It is rare to embrace summer-like sunshine in March in Wisconsin, but plenty of people are doing just that.

A lot of people like the idea of providing shelter for the homeless, but ?no one really wants a homeless shelter in their neighborhood,? Conner Wild writes in the current issue of Street Pulse, Madison?s newspaper about the homeless community. Conflating homelessness with alcoholism and criminal activity, and laziness is the palliative Americans swallow in order to rationalize the increasingly callous treatment of the homeless. It reflects a profound classism and skewed perception of what homelessness is and who is homeless,? writes Wild, a student at UW-Madison. Wild, who has been working with the nonprofit Street Pulse for four years, acknowledges in his column that the shelter attracted some disruptive people, but he goes on to say that homeless people aren?t the only ones who disturb the peace of Madison neighborhoods.

A relative of a UW-Madison student wired $4,000 to Peru after a caller impersonating the student said she needed money to be bailed out of jail.  

University of Wisconsin students hosted an informational meeting Tuesday to generate theme ideas for the Mifflin Street Block Party, addressing concerns that the party is not community-friendly.

Marking the latest development in a case involving an accusation of alleged rape at a fraternity on campus three years ago, a circuit court has denied a former University of Wisconsin student?s appeal.