If a UW-Madison student government committee is going to keep interim Chancellor David Ward from increasing some segregated fees against its recommendation, the panel is going to need an assist from the UW System?s Board of Regents.
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.
UW-Madison Chancellor David Ward overruled several of the Student Services Finance Committee?s rulings from this fiscal year Tuesday in a memo sent to committee Chair Sarah Neibart.
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.
The highly-charged political protests in Egypt during the beginning of 2011 had dramatic effects for the University of Wisconsin students studying abroad there when they received a phone call telling them it was time to come home.
University of Wisconsin Interim Chancellor David Ward has indicated he will likely overturn two budget decisions from the Associated Students of Madison segregated fee budget for fiscal year 2012-13.
Despite her popularity with organized labor, UW-Madison?s teaching assistant?s union decided not to endorse former Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk Tuesday, at least for the time being. The UW-Madison Teaching Assistants? Association voted against two gubernatorial recall-related resolutions at its general membership meeting Tuesday: one to establish the terms of endorsement, and a second on endorsing Falk.
University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez said this week his department is in the process of crafting written procedures for serving alcohol at off-campus functions. Without a written policy, Alvarez said the department?s oversight of alcohol at events had “probably” become lax.
Members of the university?s Faculty Senate fear that professors at UW-Madison will soon leave the university in search of better paying jobs at competing schools. This fear came shortly after a report was released showing that faculty at UW-Madison are paid significantly less than their peers at other universities. In fact, salaries here are about 11 percent lower overall than at competing institutions.
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.
The emergency room costs of treating college students with injuries associated with alcohol-induced blackouts can be more than half a million dollars a year at a university with 40,000 or more students, a new study found.
The University of Wisconsin men?s basketball players haven?t set foot in many classrooms recently, but that doesn?t mean they have put their studies on hold during the NCAA tournament. With all of the excitement of advancing to the Sweet 16 for a second straight season, it?s easy to forget the players? academic obligations do not change.
Students can have a strong impact in politics. Nationally, they were a major part of the coalition that carried Barack Obama to victory over Hillary Clinton and later John McCain in 2008. And many Democrats in the state Legislature with districts near college campuses had students to thank for their victories in 2006, when young people turned out in droves to oppose the state constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, which ultimately passed. But in local politics, unless there is a hotly contested mayoral race or massive protests at the Capitol, students are hardly a blip on the radar. In fact, turnout in the County Board election for the student-dominated 5th District seat has steadily declined in recent years.
The university revealed the details of two sexual misconduct accusations against former Associate Athletic Director John Chadima in a second report Friday, involving a former football player and a second student employee.
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.
University of Wisconsin officials released a second report Friday detailing two alleged cases of sexual assault by former associate athletic director John Chadima against male students in the Athletic Department.
University of Wisconsin officials released a report on Friday about additional allegations of improper conduct leveled against a former Athletic Department official.
People know me as: John Arnold. I am a professional singer in the beginning stages of a career and am also finishing my studies at UW-Madison. Coming up next: University Opera presents Mozart?s masterpiece ?Don Giovanni,? sung in Italian with English supertitles at 3 p.m. today and at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in Music Hall.
Next to a simulated clinic and hospital unit in UW-Madison?s new School of Nursing will be a space not found at most nursing schools: an “apartment.” The mock living area will be wired for the latest in home health technology, such as shoes with computer chips that transmit data about an elderly patient?s mobility and stride.
“We’ll be able to simulate almost an entire cycle of care,” said Katharyn May, dean of the nursing school. “That’s critically important as we try to reform how care is given.”
Members of UW-Madison?s Ballroom Dance Association are worried the new Gordon Commons will prevent the group from hosting its weekly public dances, most of which take place in the current dining hall?s basement. Dance Association President Amelia VanHandel said the Division of University Housing plans to carpet every room in the new building, rendering several rooms that would be otherwise suitable for dancing unusable. While the group has taken its complaints to Division of University Housing Director Paul Evans, he said in an e-mail to the group DUH made the decision because carpeted floors best suit the majority of prospective customers. He added there are other buildings the group can use for dancing, such as the Memorial Union and Union South.
The UW-Madison faculty is disturbed by columnist Chris Rickert cherry-picking two items from a list of 11 possible solutions to the problem of declining faculty salaries, not one of which has been endorsed by the Faculty Senate, in his March 8 column, “Professors, it shouldn?t be all about the money.”
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.
A UW-Madison student organization dedicated to uniting students interested in filmmaking and helping them prepare for careers in the entertainment industry will screen its original, student-produced film, ?The Plunge?, this weekend.
College students who black out from drinking alcohol can cost large universities roughly a half-million dollars per year in emergency room visits, according to research conducted by two members of UW-Madison?s School of Medicine and Public Health.
Our university has a long history of successful shared governance ? something we hold in high regard as active members of the student community. Unfortunately, Interim Chancellor David Ward recently violated shared governance statutes in his failure to acknowledge students? voices regarding our contract with Adidas.
For the way Virginia Tech handled the mass shootings on its campus five years ago, the university has faced investigations by state and federal agencies and an enduring trial in the court of public opinion. On Wednesday, the first jury to examine the events of April 16, 2007, ruled correspondingly: It found the university negligent for not issuing timelier warnings of an active threat and awarded large sums to two families whose daughters were killed.
It is rare to embrace summer-like sunshine in March in Wisconsin, but plenty of people are doing just that.
University Health Services, the UW-Madison on-campus clinic for students, is handing out free condoms, lip balm, sunscreen and safety advice on Wednesday, 10 days in advance of the UW?s spring break holiday from March 31 through April 8. The items and advice will be offered at College Library beginning at 5 p.m. and from 6-7 p.m. on the Ogg Hall lawn during the spring break fair.
“If you normally make good choices, keep it up,” said UHS executive director Dr. Sarah Van Orman in a UW-Madison news release.
He?s 23, a relatively recent graduate of UW ? an institution known for its academics and party scene ? and the city?s alcohol policy coordinator. Mark Woulf, named to the position by former Mayor Dave Cieslewicz in January 2011, just eight months after he graduated with political science and sociology degrees, advises and represents the mayor?s office on alcohol policy issues, serves as staff to the city?s Alcohol License Review Committee and advises license applicants.
Not only did Wednesday?s high of 78 in Madison break the March 14 record of 75 set in 1995, but the long-range forecast shows continued warmth as far as can be predicted by atmospheric science.”The prolonged nature of how likely it is going to stay nice and warm is even more unusual than breaking an individual day?s record,” said Jonathan Martin, chairman of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at UW-Madison.”It?s very unusual,” he said. “But it?s at the tail end of an unusually warm winter, so maybe it?s just part of the deal.”
The mother of all outdoor patios, the Memorial Union Terrace, was caught off guard this week. The terrace is open, but its 650 signature sunburst chairs, which are in storage in Verona, probably won’t be out until the first week of April.
It?s NCAA Tournament time once again and the hoopla surrounding March Madness has been used in recent years by higher education policymakers to help draw attention to the unimpressive graduation rates of college men?s basketball players and the gulf between the academic successes of black and white student-athletes. The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports (TIDES), housed at the University of Central Florida, continued its annual drumbeat on this issue Monday by releasing ?Keeping Score When it Counts: Graduation Success and Academic Progress Rates for the 2012 NCAA Division I Men?s Basketball Tournament Teams.?
….?Having a researcher follow these trends over time has had a positive effect on the academic success of student-athletes,? says Dawn Crim, a former women?s basketball player at Virginia and a former assistant coach at UW-Madison who today serves as the School of Education?s associate dean for external relations.
Among college students who drink heavily, those who black out are more likely to seek emergency care, costing about $500,000 a year at a campus the size of UW-Madison, a new study says. Prevention efforts should be targeted at students whose drinking leads to memory loss, not only at students who drink the most, said Marlon Mundt, a UW-Madison researcher who led the study published Wednesday in the journal Health Affairs.
CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) – A jury found Virginia Tech negligent on Wednesday for delaying a campus warning of the first shootings in a 2007 campus massacre that left 33 dead. Jurors returned the verdict in a wrongful death civil suit brought by the parents of two students who were killed on April 16, 2007, in the most deadly mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
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.
There?s no doubt that finals week is a stressful time. While most students were holed up in the library cramming for exams, one ambitious group of University of Wisconsin students was dealing with another set of stresses. UW-Hollywood Badgers spent their finals week filming a movie that was the culminating project after a semester of planning.
If the University of Wisconsin women?s hockey team is going to successfully defend its national championship, it may have to do so with a gaping hole in its lineup. UW coach Mark Johnson said Tuesday that junior defenseman Stefanie McKeough is day-to-day with an apparent concussion, making her questionable for an NCAA Frozen Four semifinal matchup Friday with Boston College at Amsoil Arena in Duluth, Minn.
University of Wisconsin men?s hockey coach Mike Eaves knew he probably would lose an underclassman or two from his defensive corps this offseason, but the first to do so caught him off guard. Patrick Daly, who played 11 games as a freshman, met with Eaves and his staff Tuesday and informed them he was giving up hockey to focus on school.
When UW-Madison Chancellor David Ward learned that a senior athletic department official allegedly sexually assaulted a student, he called Athletic Director Barry Alvarez within hours with a message: Do not ?interfere.?
As a freshman, one of the first things I was told was ?Don?t walk Rapeshore alone at night.? As unflattering as that nickname is, ?Rapeshore? doesn?t only describe Lakeshore Path anymore.
Members of the University of Wisconsin?s student government weighed ways to improve the UW System-wide Lobby Day, following last week?s event at the Wisconsin Capitol.
A man was arrested after he punched three bouncers at Wando?s Bar and Grill early Sunday morning, according to a Madison Police Department report.
A team of investigators has completed a second report outlining allegations of misconduct against a former senior athletic official, but the university is not releasing it in order to give John Chadima time to respond, according to a university news release. Chadima resigned on Jan. 6 after a student employee accused the senior associate athletic director of sexually assaulting him at a pre-Rose Bowl party. Since then, two more allegations have come out, but the university has released little information about them.
Relatives of a UW-Madison student who had previously studied abroad wired more than $4,000 to Peru after callers said the student needed the money to be bailed out of jail and pay a fine, Madison police said. According to police: Relatives who live in St. Paul, Minn., received a phone call on Feb. 27 from a female who sounded like the 22-year-old student. UW-Madison spokesman John Lucas said the student had not studied in Peru through a university program. Lucas said the university was looking into the incident.
Madison police identified two suspects, one of whom is a UW-Madison student, whose fight with each other resulted in one man stabbing the other with a knife. The Madison Police Department received a call Sunday at 5:22 p.m. and responded to a Brian House apartment complex at 201 Langdon St. At 6:30 p.m., six police cars were at the scene, and the apartment?s backyard was taped off.
Two Madison men have been charged with the sexual assault of a 16-year-old girl in an incident that took place in a Langdon Street apartment, while another suspect has not yet been identified.
Police responded to an alleged stabbing of a Madison man in a student neighborhood near Langdon and Henry streets Sunday.
UW-Madison?s primary licensing committee passed a resolution Friday to define a successful mediation period with adidas as occurring only if the company ensures all workers are paid severance by April 15. This deadline is 60 days after UW-Madison Chancellor David Ward initially announced plans to enter mediation with the company.
UW-Madison interim Chancellor David Ward and members of the university?s Labor Licensing Policy Committee continue to butt heads over how best to convince Adidas to rectify allegations of sweatshop abuses at a factory the company subcontracted with in Indonesia.
In August, when the new federal mandate that insurance plans offer free contraceptive services kicks in, it will save women in Wisconsin hundreds and perhaps thousands of dollars. But it also adds fuel to a long-simmering debate over religious freedom in the state. And the effect on Catholics in Wisconsin could be surprising….Among those applauding the new requirement is Grace Colas, a UW-Madison junior who co-chairs the campus chapter of Advocates for Choice, an affiliate of Planned Parenthood. She pays about $45 every three months for birth control under her insurance plan. Colas, 20, welcomes the mandate but said more should be done to help poor women pay for contraception.
“I think it’s important to remember that this is a matter of making basic health care accessible,” she said.
People know me as: Manon van de Water. I?m the director of the Theatre for Youth Program at UW-Madison, so I do everything that has to do with theatre and drama and young people. I teach prospective teachers about how they can incorporate theater and drama activities into their daily teaching to enhance understanding and engage their students in a different way.
The average student loan debt at graduation from Wisconsin?s public campuses has increased dramatically over the past 30 years along with tuition rates that have consistently outpaced inflation, University of Wisconsin System officials say.
Brittany Griese suffers moments of panic when she thinks about how much money she owes for college. The 20-year-old University of Wisconsin-La Crosse student tries to keep focused on her studies, but the debt is always there ? a nagging concern.
A UW System official told the Board of Regents Thursday that financial aid for students is becoming increasingly important as the nation trends toward decreasing public funding to higher education, forcing institutions to hike tuition.
When students graduate from Wisconsins public campuses, university officials say they have about $27,000 in loan debt.
The UW System?s Board of Regents on Thursday gave UW-Madison the green light to move ahead with the second phase of its $76.8 million Student Athlete Performance Center project. This phase — which will cost nearly $35 million — will focus on upgrades to the McClain Center, the university?s 90-yard-long indoor practice facility that also houses locker rooms as well as strength training and conditioning space. The UW athletic department will remodel the lower level of the center to house new UW football locker suites, including 125 lockers. The area also will include multimedia instructional space, steam and shower rooms, a locker suite for the football coaches and equipment areas.
A presentation to the UW System?s Board of Regents Thursday afternoon on financial aid and student costs was not only informative, but a little scary for anyone hoping to someday help send kids to college. ?Save your brains out,? Susan Fischer, director of financial aid at UW-Madison, said afterward when asked for any tips she?d offer to parents. ?I?m not going to say how or where, because I?m not a financial advisor. But start saving now.?
