A student labor rights group slammed interim UW-Madison Chancellor David Ward?s decision to enter into a period of mediation with Adidas and promised to hold a protest Friday against the university?s “pro-sweatshop policies.” In a news release from the Student Labor Action Coalition Wednesday, one member called Ward?s action “insulting” and another said that it “warrants his immediate removal.”
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.
In a decision that is frustrating members of one UW-Madison student group, UW Chancellor David Ward announced Tuesday the university will enter a period of mediation with adidas in an attempt to resolve the dispute over whether or not the company owes 2,800 unemployed workers severance pay.
After a report alleged Adidas had violated workers? rights, Interim Chancellor David Ward announced Tuesday the University of Wisconsin will enter into a period of mediation with the company.
A city committee moved forward a long-debated party ordinance Tuesday following several attempts to find a balance between landlords and student tenants.
Price increases for certain football and men?s basketball tickets are featured in the proposed University of Wisconsin Athletic Department operating budget for 2012-13. While there is no change to the cost of general public season football tickets ? they will remain at $42 per game ? single-game tickets at Camp Randall Stadium will now be tiered in three pricing categories of $45, $55 and $65 depending on the opponent. In addition, UW student season tickets will be bumped from $22 to $24 per game.
College students will voice their concerns about the University of Wisconsin System budget on Wednesday.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will enter into a period of mediation with adidas Group in an effort to resolve an ongoing dispute over the apparel firm?s obligations to former workers at a factory in Indonesia.
While the less than 250 voter ID cards issued in the last three weeks seems like a small amount on a campus of 40,000 students, one student leader said it is a decent turnout considering major elections are still nine months away.
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.
President Barack Obama released his 2013 fiscal budget proposal Monday, including a $8 billion education intiative he introduced in a speech at Northern Virginia Community College.
Wisconsin?s controversial new voter identification law has the state?s colleges scrambling since they provide ID cards that students will be able to use at the polls. But one school?s solution is raising concerns about its constitutionality.
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.
In a 300-person lecture at the University of Wisconsin, it?s come to be expected that each student will remain faceless and nameless in the professor?s mind all semester. But, even so, there is hardly a more insulting gesture, in a class of 24, than for an educator to outright refuse to learn the small handful of students? names ? and instead hand out a deck of cards, assigning each person to be known for the next eight weeks as ?the three of hearts? or ?the king of spades.?
Daydreaming during class paid off for UW-Madison student Eric Ronning. He won $11,250 on Friday at UW-Madison?s annual Innovation Days for an invention he came up with during an engineering lecture. “I space out a lot,” Ronning admitted, a sophomore from Lincolnwood, Ill., who is majoring in mechanical engineering.
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.
The Student Services Finance Committee approved a budget for a university childcare service at about $850,000 Thursday, increasing funding for grant programs. The Childcare Tuition Assistance Program provides UW-Madison students with childcare services and assists eligible students with financial expenses through grants.
Despite representatives? attempts to “pump up” the atmosphere with pop music, only around 15 students showed up for the Associated Students of Madison?s Spring Town Hall Thursday. Representatives acknowledged low turnout to ASM-sponsored events seems to be a trend.
As UW-Madison students mobilize to protest the Chinese government?s alleged human right?s violations in Tibet, university officials plan to open an office in the communist nation that is widely considered one of the world?s most emerging countries.
Officers from the University of Wisconsin Police Department arrested three UW students Wednesday in connection with a second degree sexual assault that took place on campus last semester.
University of Wisconsin Police arrested three students for second degree sexual assault early Wednesday.
Police said they have arrested three University of Wisconsin-Madison students in an alleged sexual assault at a residence hall last year.
UW Police arrested three male students allegedly connected to a sexual assault that occurred last September. Brian K. Allen, 18, of Menomonee Falls; Prentice A. Williams, 18, of Milwaukee; and Bruce H. Beckley, 18, of Milwaukee, were arrested Wednesday morning in connection to an alleged second-degree sexual assault that occurred in a UW-Madison residence hall on Sept. 10, 2011, Sgt. Aaron Chapin said in a news release.
Former UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin will be returning to Madison in March to discuss the impact of new technologies on university education and instruction.
The UW-Madison Police Department arrested three UW-Madison male students Wednesday for an alleged second-degree sexual assault occurring in September. Two of the suspects were reportedly receiving full tuition from a prestigious university scholarship.
Just off the coast of Sunset Beach in Cape May, N.J. lies an empty concrete shell. These are not the remains of a pier or other building lost to the seas, but of a ship that once traversed the Atlantic Ocean in a time of war. The final resting place of the S.S. Atlantis is both a curiosity and important part of U.S. history. In her life, she was a transport ship in the World War I Emergency Fleet. Now she intrigues tourists, often raising the question “how did a concrete ship manage to float?”
Students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison spend their nights shut in at the Engineering Centers Building answering this question year after year. These students are members of the UW-Madison Concrete Canoe Team (UW-CCT) and are tasked each year with designing and building a canoe out of concrete.
The first University of Minnesota meme on Facebook was posted at 10:52 a.m., Tuesday.
Police have arrested three University of Wisconsin-Madison students in an alleged sexual assault at a residence hall last year.
Prices for campus parking permits could go up next year, members of UW-Madison?s Student Transportation Board learned Tuesday.
Prices for campus parking permits could go up next year, members of UW-Madison?s Student Transportation Board learned Tuesday. The university?s Transportation Services Committee approved the proposal last Friday, which is now waiting final approval from Chancellor David Ward.
UW-Madison students are experiencing a new distraction from homework, lecture and boredom after a Facebook page dedicated to university-related “memes” launched Tuesday, receiving more than 7,000 “likes” within the first 24 hours of its creation.
Students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison were given two weeks to reinvent the Mifflin Street Block Party.
Isaiah Darden-Roey, 8, gets monthly blood transfusions to manage pain, pneumonia and other complications of his sickle cell disease. Many people with the genetic blood disorder, most common among African-Americans, develop immune reactions from the transfusions because there isn?t enough closely matched blood available.
“I don’t ever want to see the day when there is no blood he can receive,” said Latyna Lewis, of Madison, Isaiah’s mother. “What would I do?” Lewis has teamed up with the American Red Cross in Madison to organize two blood drives this month. The events ? to feature former Badger tailback and Heisman Trophy winner Ron Dayne ? aim to increase the pool of minority blood donors, especially those who are African-American. The blood drive on campus is February 21, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Red Gym.
To earn money to help pay his out-of-state tuition, (Jim) Meehan got a job at State Street Brats. He handled the door, the grill and the bar, and within two years became manager. Meehan ? possessed of ambition, smarts and a willingness to outwork everybody ? was 20 and couldn?t yet buy a drink in his own place. Meanwhile, he was getting a liberal arts education that included majors in English and African-American Studies….Today, Meehan can give you a list of the UW-Madison instructors who influenced him ? Sandy Adell, Craig Werner, Richard Davis and Tim Tyson ? as quickly as those who did the same in the service industry, starting with Kelly Meuer and Ross Johnson at State Street Brats.
Associated Students of Madison Chair Allie Gardner told the student government?s Legislative Affairs Committee Monday that members of the state?s committee dedicated to studying the restructuring of the UW System have been unresponsive to students? requests to speak at its upcoming meeting, where the task force will discuss tuition.
The University of Wisconsin Police Department is investigating a second allegation against former Associate Athletic Director John Chadima involving an adult male.
Members of the University of Wisconsin student government put forward initial expectations for both students and the city in regard to this year?s Mifflin Street Block Party at a series of meetings Monday.
A city commission moved forward with a plan for the reconstruction of a cathedral on the University of Wisconsin campus.
Madison mayor Paul Soglin met with student leaders and city officials Monday night to talk about the future of the Mifflin Street Block Party.
President Obama?s plan to make college more affordable is noble in intent but misses the mark in design. If the president and Congress were to focus on the real culprit of high college costs ? poor college completion numbers ? they could find rare common ground and make substantial headway on a problem that threatens to sink U.S. economic competitiveness.
….College presidents point to what seem like reasonable arguments for rising tuition: shrinking state budgets, for one, and the increasing costs of energy, pensions and health care. But if these circular arguments simply go round and round, an important opportunity will be missed. Data show that time, not tuition, is the enemy of college completion. Today?s college students are dramatically different from the archetype of the U.S. undergraduate.
The same guy who requested Planned Parenthoods across Wisconsin be drained of state and federal Maternal and Child Health funds is now on a mission to green light civil lawsuits against underage drinkers.
The Student Services Finance Committee heard a budget proposal for UW-Madison?s student child care service on Monday. The Child Care Tuition Assistance Program provides UW students with child care services, and also assists eligible students with financial expenses through various grants programs. SSFC will decide on the group?s budget Thursday.
A city commission approved St. Paul?s University Catholic Center?s designs Monday for a new student center for Library Mall. The Catholic Center, located at 723 State St., originally proposed a 14-story building with student housing space but scaled down the plans to six stories with room for a student center, chapel and education center.
UW-Madison?s Faculty Senate heard a recommendation that would give voting rights to the student member on the university?s committee that oversees academic issues and changes. The student representative on the University Academic Planning Council does not currently have voting rights.
A taxi with the right of way hit a woman after she reportedly ran into traffic at the intersection of W. Johnson and N. Frances Street just after midnight Sunday morning. Madison Police Department spokesperson Joel DeSpain said the initial investigation indicates the cab driver had a green light when the 23-year-old woman tried to cross. Police cited the Oregon woman for ?sudden pedestrian movement,? according to DeSpain.
Associated Students of Madison Chair Allie Gardner told the student government?s Legislative Affairs Committee Monday that members of the state?s committee dedicated to studying the restructuring of the UW System have been unresponsive to students? requests to speak at its upcoming meeting, where the task force will discuss tuition. Gardner is asking students to attend the Task Force on UW Restructuring?s meeting Wednesday.
In the past year, 19 Tibetans lit themselves on fire in protest of a Chinese government that recently increased its security forces in Tibet, killing one protester in the process. At UW-Madison, campus group Students for a Free Tibet is speaking out against the alleged human rights violations. This three-part series explores the issue.
Madison Superintendent Dan Nerad?s plan for closing the School District?s persistent racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps calls for spending an estimated $105.6 million over the next five years on a mix of new and existing strategies….Madeline Hafner, executive director of the Minority Student Achievement Network at UW-Madison, said she was pleased the plan boldly discusses the concept of institutionalized racism.
“For it to be the first foundational concept, it looks at the heart of the matter,” Hafner said. “This is how we undo a racialized past and move into a place where every kid in Madison, no matter where they live, receive a high-quality education.”
The Madison Plan Commission unanimously approved a demolition permit and the rezoning of a property that will likely make way for a new St. Paul?s University Catholic Center along Library Mall.
The main question prompted by Mayor Paul Soglin in a meeting with student leaders on the future of the Mifflin Street Block Party was how to go about “threading the needle” to keep this year?s event a safe and viable option.
Mirroring national and statewide trends, demand for mental health services at UW-Madison increased last year, according to a report published by The Center for Investigative Journalism and written by UW-Madison journalism students.
In response to allegations that Adidas closed a factory in Indonesia without paying the 2,800 workers due severance, UW-Madison Chancellor David Ward said he will meet with UW System officials this week to discuss breaking ties with the company. But, some community members say this is not enough.
Just six weeks after she gathered the strength to walk across the stage to receive her UW-Madison diploma in December, Tessia Brown passed away from cancer. She was 22.
A decade ago, Thomas Murphy was a college dropout who used alcohol and drugs to deal with undiagnosed depression. Now he?s back at UW-Madison, where he co-leads a chapter of Active Minds, a national student-run group promoting open conversations about mental illness.
Amid controversy and student protests, University of Wisconsin Interim Chancellor David Ward announced Friday he will conduct a thorough investigation into allegations of labor rights violations brought against Adidas.
