Category: Campus life

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.

How much say should students have in how their mandatory fees are used? It?s a topic UW-Madison sophomore Sarah Neibart is attempting to bring some attention to by contacting reporters and writing letters to the editor.

Here are some basics: A full-time student attending UW-Madison pays about $540 in mandatory segregated fees each semester (a figure that?s on top of tuition, which is $4,835 per semester for an in-state undergrad). Over the course of an entire academic year, this means students across campus contribute a combined $42 million in segregated fees.

Madison has had valuable sister city relationships with cities such as Camaguey, Cuba; Freiburg, Germany; and Arcatao, El Salvador ? some stretching back almost 30 years. Now, a 29-year-old Madison native is forging a sister community center for the Meadowood Neighborhood Center with a planned neighborhood center in Camarones, Ecuador, about three hours northwest of Quito, the country?s capital.

University of Wisconsin officials expressed early optimism about changes incoming students can expect for this summer?s Student Orientation, Advising and Registration program at a recent forum, including placement testing alterations and a revamped advising schedule.

How is it that some people in America scrape by on rice and beans every night, while others dine on lobster bisque and drink fine wine? This inequality in American society will be on the table March 1 during the Hunger Meal, sponsored by UW-Madison?s La Follette School of Public Affairs, UW announced in a news release. The meals will be served at 6 p.m. at the historic Red Gym, 716 Langdon St.

Think Boys and Girls Club, and you might think after-school recreational activities, but the Boys and Girls Club of Dane County commits a lot of money and many volunteer hours to helping kids do better in school. And Michael Johnson, the CEO for Boys and Girls Clubs here, wants to make sure the organization is part of the solution to the academic achievement gap for minority students that has everyone talking in Madison and beyond.

WSUM, UW-Madison?s student radio station, will celebrate a decade on the airwaves Wednesday with an anniversary celebration at Union South.

A University of Wisconsin student will get the rare opportunity to work at Facebook as a part of a summer fellowship for his research in computer science. 

Madison city officials and University of Wisconsin students are currently in the early stages of organizing the next Mifflin Street Block Party?s sponsor and permit holder.

Noted: Where that kind of big-picture thinking could lead is illustrated by what the University of Wisconsin and the city of Madison have accomplished.

MADISON (WKOW) — Miss Madison 2012 has been named. Chelsea Ann Hammett, 22, was crowned Sunday night. Hammett is a student at UW-Oshkosh, studying elementary education. As Miss Madison, she?ll spend the next year sharing information about a topic that?s important to her–suicide awareness and prevention.

Anthony Shadid was the best of all of us.

We just didn?t know it then.

We were aspiring college journalists, righteous about our passion.

University of Wisconsin officials are evaluating resources available to nontraditional students after a report released Tuesday recommended federal government methods to track the progress these students are making.

Crowds led by UW-Madison?s Teaching Assistants? Association marched on the Capitol Tuesday to demonstrate their continued dissatisfaction one year after the first major protest against Gov. Scott Walker?s reforms.