Category: Campus life

Less than a month until the national spotlight will be focused on Wisconsin?s Republican presidential primaries, figures central to the campaign to reelect President Barack Obama visited Madison Wednesday to encourage students to begin campaign efforts of their own.

University of Wisconsin students shared their experiences and opinions on the current system of undergraduate advising at an open forum Wednesday afternoon in Bascom Hall.

Members of Madison?s City Council introduced a resolution to create a permanent position for University of Wisconsin students on an alcohol review committee in an effort to further open discussions between students and city officials.

Strategists with President Barack Obama?s reelection campaign plan to meet with University of Wisconsin students in Madison on Wednesday.

University of Wisconsin students will have the chance to meet with strategists with President Barack Obama?s campaign in Madison on Wednesday. The hosts of this summit are former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs and Obama?s national field director Jeremy Bird. The summit is to mobilize young people to support President Obama; it?s part of Obama?s re-election effort.

STEVENS POINT, Wis — Police in Stevens Point are conducting an extensive search using volunteers and tracking dogs for a missing University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point student. Eric Duffey, 21, is a Fitchburg native and a Verona Area High School graduate. Police said Duffey was last seen about 1:15 a.m. Saturday leaving Joe?s Bar in Stevens Point. He was believed to be heading home.

To solve the problem of the unruly Mifflin Street Block Party, Mayor Paul Soglin is turning to an unlikely source: the rabble-rousers themselves. Soglin has asked students to work with city officials to tame the annual drunk-fest ? which turned especially ugly last year. A committee is meeting once a week to develop a plan for the end-of-the-school-year party on May 5. Their deadline is mid-March.

High school girls wanting to be the belles of the ball will be lining up early Saturday for the annual free prom dress hysteria known as “All Dressed Up.” Hundreds of gently used and new dresses, along with accessories, will be up for grabs at Madison Area Technical College on Saturday, beginning at 7:30 a.m. at the Truax campus, 3550 Anderson Street. The event is put on by the Junior League of Madison and the Panhellenic Association at UW-Madison.

A member of the Wisconsin Rapids Lincoln High School wrestling team is in jail, and two of his teammates received deferred judgments after the three agreed Friday they would not contest disorderly conduct charges filed against them for behavior in the locker room.

While the winter months can draw disdain and wonder, in equal measure, snow lovers have been left wanting so far this season. For students on the UW-Madison campus, Friday?s snowstorm provided the perfect opportunity to enjoy a frosted version of Bascom Hill, which has historically been a focal point for snowball fights and other winter recreation.

UW-Madison Transportation Services is working on an initiative that would discourage students from driving mopeds from class to class throughout the day, officials said Thursday.

On March 9 and 10, Playboy will be coming to town looking for “Girls of the Big Ten”. 

David Nguyen pumped his legs up and down on a stationary bike outside of UW-Madison?s Natatorium, keeping up both a steady cadence and banter with the other students in the triathlon training class. The 23-year-old said he feels lucky to be taking the class. The course is slated to be eliminated after this spring. “It seems like there are other classes that could be cut before this one,” Nguyen said.

Police assisted a UW-Madison student who was assaulted on University Avenue between Lake and Francis Streets early Saturday morning.

Katie Cierzan?s flat on the 500 block of West Mifflin Street has been standing 110 years and shows its age with tall pillars and noisy radiators. Even though her house is in good condition, those surrounding it are slanted with crumbling foundations. But Cierzan has made her house and neighborhood her home?and she would like to keep it that way.

An attack on a University of Wisconsin student near campus early Sunday morning has resulted in serious injuries, according to a Madison Police Department report.

A UW-Whitewater student was attacked by a man wielding a baseball bat outside a near west side house where a party was going on early Saturday morning, Madison police reported. The 20-year-old male student suffered a gash to his hand when the attacker used the bat to smash a glass beer mug the victim was holding, according to a police news release. The attack was reported at 3:26 a.m. Saturday in the 1100 block of Mound Street.

A UW-Whitewater student was attacked by a man wielding a baseball bat outside a near west side house where a party was going on early Saturday morning, Madison police reported. The 20-year-old male student suffered a gash to his hand when the attacker used the bat to smash a glass beer mug the victim was holding, according to a police news release. The attack was reported at 3:26 a.m. Saturday in the 1100 block of Mound Street.

A UW-Madison student ended up carrying his teeth early Saturday morning after he was hit in the mouth by a trash talking stranger, Madison police reported. The assault was reported at 2:49 a.m. Saturday in the 600 block of University Avenue, according to a police news release. The 19-year-old victim had the two knocked-out teeth put back into his mouth by a doctor, and he also got a few stitches in his lip.

After four revisions and an ongoing debate since July, the city unanimously approved an ordinance to help reduce the number of out-of-control house parties Monday.

College Library and Wendt Commons Library, debuted $2.5 million in renovations designed to centralize technological resources for students Tuesday.

Independent journalist and social media researcher Anna Day addressed a crowded Red Gym yesterday about how social media gives countries in peril an outlet to organize and speak out, as well as her personal experiences living in the Middle East.

Madison?s City Council voted to approve the hotly contested nuisance party ordinance in its third form, which includes additional amendments that some officials said cast the ordinance in a more favorable light for both students and city officials.

With the election for Dane County Board of Supervisors approaching, both student candidates vying for the position released blueprints for their initiatives for the office and ways to better engage students in the body.

Students were more in control of the UW-Madison campus than the administration was by Feb. 13, 1969.

A tour organized for President Barack Obama?s reelection campaign will make a stop at the University of Wisconsin campus March 7, according to two senior organizers with the campaign Monday.

Members of the University of Wisconsin?s student government have entered the early stages of planning a campus forum to address Madison city services.