Category: Campus life

University of Wisconsin-Madison students are reflecting on recent shootings that have taken the lives of two young black men.

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.

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.

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.

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-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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Madison police are investigating three overnight strong-arm robberies downtown that they believe are linked.

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.

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.

A University of Wisconsin-Madison official said a trespassing dispute preceded campus fraternity members allegedly using racial slurs against two African-American students.

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.