Category: Campus life

A UW-Madison student suffered several facial fractures after being robbed and attacked early Sunday morning. According to Madison Police Department spokesperson Joel DeSpain, the victim was returning to his place after walking his girlfriend home when he was blindsided with a blow to the head on Broom Street.

The Student Services Finance Committee passed the Associated Students of Madison?s internal budget of over 1.3 million dollars on Thursday, striking over $90,000 from the $100,000 ASM alumni training request. SSFC Chair Sarah Neibart said $100,000 was too much money to go towards training.

A 20-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison student contacted the Madison police Wednesday afternoon wanting to report a strong-armed robbery that occurred around 2:30 a.m. Sunday morning. The victim said he was walking on North Broom Street, just south of State Street, when he was blindsided with a blow to the head. The man told police he thought he was punched, but he said he was definitely knocked to the ground.

The American Red Cross is utilizing the iconic Badger-Gopher rivalry to help increase participation in a two-month long blood drive that began Tuesday, by holding a competition between the two universities called the ?2012 Border Challenge?.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison this year ranks third among large universities nationwide in the number of alumni currently serving as Peace Corps volunteers, up from eighth last year.

Five University of Wisconsin classes have gone digital, and are joining forces with other large universities around the country in an eText pilot program this semester.

The Student Judiciary denied the Multicultural Student Coalition?s request for an appeal Tuesday, upholding the decision to deny the group funding eligibility. MCSC requested the judiciary reconsider its decision in the group?s original appeal challenging the Student Services Finance Committee?s decision to deny it funding.

University of Wisconsin-Madison student John Magnino announced his candidacy for the Dane County Board of Supervisors Tuesday. If he were to be elected, Magnino said he would focus on securing the necessary resources for public protection, campus safety and social services, for which the Board is responsible for funding. He also emphasized the need to increase student participation in local government, but acknowledged the obstacles presented by Wisconsin?s Voter ID law.

With hopes to restructure the current student government system at UW-Madison, the Students for a Constructive Associated Students of Madison hosted its kickoff meeting Monday. The group is looking to implement a new ASM constitution that would divide ASM into an executive branch consisting of a president and vice president, a legislative branch made up of a Senate, a judicial branch similar to the current Student Judiciary and an allocations branch that would appropriate student segregated fees. Currently, ASM consists of a student council, the Student Services Finance Committee and the Student Judiciary.

MERRILL — An Iraq War veteran who will spend the rest of his life in prison blamed his military experience and the country for ignoring the needs of returning war veterans for the death of his mother.

The UW has a unique student organization on campus thats gaining popularity.Its the Synchronized Skating Club.

Members of different student groups from across campus are working to rewrite the Associated Students of Madison Constitution, a move that could alter the makeup and structure of student government at UW-Madison.

The University of Wisconsin is taking part in an experimental program that offers students the opportunity to access textbooks online.

Residents of a UW-Madison fraternity house escaped injury early Friday morning when fireworks were set off in the basement of the house. A lawn mower with gas in the tank was also in the basement. The fire call came in at 2:45 a.m. Friday at 627 N. Lake St., according to a news release from the Madison Fire Department. City assessor records show the building is the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.

There is a revolution brewing in the way college students buy and read textbooks. And, perhaps surprisingly, it does not center entirely on Apple?s announcement on Thursday about new textbook technology on iBooks 2.

Big Ten campuses in Wisconsin and Minnesota, along with four other major universities, will experiment with buying electronic textbooks in bulk

The University of Wisconsin-Madison joined forces with five other large universities to bulk purchase electronic textbooks in an effort to find ways to curb skyrocketing textbook costs for students. According to the university?s most recent Data Digest, students at UW-Madison spent an average of $1,100 on books and supplies during the 2010-11 academic year ? up from $680 a decade ago.

UW-Madison and five other major universities announced plans this week to try buying electronic textbooks in bulk, an experiment that officials say could help rein in burdensome textbook costs and bring e-textbooks into the mainstream. The university will try it on a small scale at first, in five courses involving about 600 students when the spring semester begins Monday.

St. Paul?s Catholic Center appears to be closer to moving forward with a new campus student center. A new proposal to build a six-story building at 723 State St. received initial approval from the Madison Urban Design Commission at Wednesday?s meeting.

When English major Alexis Brown realized there was no place where she could submit her undergraduate essays for publication, she decided there was only one solution ? create one from scratch.

In a session at the 2011 Educause conference in October, Bradley Wheeler, the chief information officer at Indiana University, issued a challenge to his colleagues. Unless universities assert their power as customers, the vendors that sell them products and services will continue squeezing those institutions for cash while dictating the terms under which they go digital.

An effort by college leaders to shake up the textbook industry got a boost this week, as five universities announced plans to try bulk purchasing of e-textbooks. The news comes just one day before an Apple news conference that is expected to feature that companys entrance into the e-textbook space, and it highlights steps that colleges themselves are taking to rein in textbook prices rather than wait for the market to reshape itself.

Nearly 100 residents of a transitional housing apartment building that caught fire Friday night have returned to the facility at 306 N. Brooks St. near the UW-Madison campus. However, 16 women whose rooms were too severely damaged will move around the corner to St. Francis House Episcopal Student Center, said Dave Black, a St. Francis House board member. Black said the church plans to deconstruct the residential part of its building soon to make way for a student housing project, but for now, the building has enough vacant living space ? including bedrooms, a kitchen and showers ? to accommodate the women.

UW-Madison?s Engineers Without Borders organization will be featured on “Impact the World,” a new series which airs Tuesday nights at 8:30 on the Big Ten Network. Engineers Without Borders is a student-run, non-profit organization that does community-development projects around the globe.

Imagine learning to beatbox and breakdance in a college class. Imagine watching lectures and performances by hip-hop artists like Chuck D and Janelle Monáe as program requirements. Students studying as a part of the University of Wisconsin?s First Wave program don?t have to imagine. It?s what they do.

In a generous gift, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater alumni Quint and Rishy Studer have donated $1 million for scholarships for Janesville high school students who attend UW-Whitewater. The newly established Janesville Promise Fund will award $50,000 annually to graduates of Craig and Parker high schools.