Category: Campus life

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.

A city committee moved forward a long-debated party ordinance Tuesday following several attempts to find a balance between landlords and student tenants.

A Madison city official presented a new plan to broaden the definition of a public nuisance to the University of Wisconsin student government Monday night following an ongoing debate over recent nuisance party legislation.

The UW-Madison Police Department said in a news release the attack happened shortly after bar closing time early Sunday morning at 408 N. Lake St. The student was assaulted by three or four males of Asian descent, all about 18 to 25 years old.

A UW-Madison student was beaten and robbed early Sunday morning in a parking lot downtown, UW-Madison police reported. The UW-Madison Police Department said in a news release the attack happened shortly after bar closing time early Sunday morning at 408 N. Lake St.

University of Wisconsin police are looking for three or four young men wanted in connection with a robbery and beating early Monday morning on campus.

Editorial Board Disclaimer: We will address this issue once and only once, because, frankly, it will be in the news until the world explodes and we have only one thing to say about it. Talk of shutting down Madison’s beloved Mifflin Street Block Party has been plaguing our news since last year’s event turned riotous and violent.

The Board of Regents recognized three programs across system campuses for their contributions to furthering the UW System?s efforts to promote diversity, equity and inclusivity Friday. UW-Madison was not an award recipient.

On Feb. 8 at 5:58 p.m., UW-Madison student ?Alex Paverson? checked into Buffalo Wild Wings for dinner. Three of Alex?s Facebook friends saw the post and immediately followed Alex there. Promoting Awareness Victim Empowerment, a student organization dedicated to ending domestic violence, stalking and sexual assault, created Paverson?s page, resembling a typical UW student?s account, to raise awareness about the relationship between stalking and technology on campus.

Jenni Guarascio loved running her own shoe and vintage clothing store in Chicago but she had to give it up.