Dear Editor: Am I the only one who?s been struck by the near absence of public debate in the community following our School Board?s 5-2 vote to reject Madison Prep?s charter school proposal?….A recent story by Todd Finkelmeyer in the Cap Times noted the relatively passive political posture among UW-Madison students nowadays, compared to years past. Is that affliction contagious?
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is named one of the best values among public universities by Kiplinger?s Personal Finance ? coming in at 13 in the 2012 rankings.
UW-Madison is once again one of the best values among public universities.
That?s according to Kiplinger?s Personal Finance.
Ten miles in wool uniforms. 80-degree heat. Wake-up calls at 4 a.m. It?s at least as tough as eating a rock. But the 300-member UW Marching band got a little taste of the glamorous on its trip to the Rose Bowl when singer will.i.am showed up to perform with them in downtown Los Angeles Sunday night. Then, the L.A. Times tagged along on game day. Artist will.i.am from the Black Eyed Peas reportedly told Band Director Mike Leckrone: “I want to be like you when I grow up. You?re the coolest man on the planet.”
The Madison City Council unanimously approved a resolution urging the state to once again allow children of undocumented workers in Wisconsin to qualify for in-state tuition to public colleges. It is highly doubtful the Council?s action Tuesday, one of its first decisions of 2012, will lead GOP state legislators to rethink their recent repeal of a short-lived law that had made Wisconsin one of 12 states to provide such reduced tuition to these students.
Congratulations to the UW football team and coaches for a great season that has taken them to the Rose Bowl tournament! We are proud of their accomplishments. I now challenge the students to have pride and integrity. Your future employers will look for people who take pride in their work and their company. They will also look for employees with integrity.
Four UW-Madison students got V.I.P. treatment from Facebook when they were flown out to the company?s Palo Alto, Calif. headquarters, put up in classy hotels, and showered with food for a couple of days in early December. “It was awesome to see (Facebook?s campus). Being in the middle of all that – it?s the nerd mecca,” said UW senior Ryan Schmukler, 21, of Madison.
PASADENA, Calif. ? For more than 30 years, a thrilling loss in the Rose Bowl stood as perhaps the most glorious moment for the University of Wisconsin football program. The ninth-ranked Badgers have moved far beyond that point, so there was little solace to be gained from a highly entertaining 45-38 loss to No. 6 Oregon on Monday night in the 98th Rose Bowl. It was a cruel ending to a season that included two other heartbreaking last-second losses that kept UW (11-3) from playing in the national championship game.
Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said that there was a tremendous police response resulting in the 100 block of State Street closing down, restaurants closing early, and the presence of a police mobile command post, which is only used during extreme circumstances. UW-Madison senior Lisa Anderson, who lives on the 100 block of State Street, discovered the scene after leaving her apartment for Ian?s Pizza around 2 a.m. Police questioned her since the 100 block was closed to pedestrians. In response to Anderson?s safety concerns, police said it was safe at the time and to return to her apartment. Anderson said it was “kind of unsettling” not knowing the details of the incident. She also reported seeing overturned tables and broken glass in Frida?s later Sunday morning.
MADISON, Wis. — After one final practice on Thursday, the University of Wisconsin Marching Band is ready for the Rose Bowl. Band members packed up their gear before an early flight on Friday. They said that they?ll arrive in Pasadena and then head to the practice field to gear up for the 123rd Tournament of Roses Parade on News Year?s Day.
….At UW-Madison, it was bye, bye Biddy after Biddy Martin, the popular chancellor, abruptly announced in June she was bailing for the president?s job at Amherst College in Massachusetts. The move came after her push to split UW-Madison from the other 25 campuses in the system, rejected by lawmakers after an outcry from UW System leaders. For her temporary replacement, the university turned to David Ward, a familiar face on campus who previously served as UW-Madison chancellor from 1993 to 2000. Students showed they could still get their drunk on, gathering in April for the annual Mifflin Street block party and turning it into a crime scene: two stabbings, three sexual assaults, three substantial batteries, four strong-armed robberies and numerous reports of property damage, according to Madison police, who have joined Soglin in calls to end the annual event.
MANITOWOC ? Milinda “Mindy” Kahlenberg knows exactly what she hopes to be doing at about 7:30 Monday evening.
A 22-year-old Madison man faces substantial battery charges after pushing and punching his roommate on Dec. 21 after he realized that the victim had unplugged his stereo equipment, according to the Madison Police Department. Police said the victim, who was also 22 years old, was trying to get some sleep during finals week, so he unplugged the speakers of Clifton Grefe at their North Lake Street residence.
It?s hard to “jump up and get down” with no music. So when it became clear Rose Bowl organizers for a second straight year wouldn?t play the song “Jump Around” at Monday?s game ? a Camp Randall tradition ? the L.A. chapter of the Wisconsin Alumni Association came up with a plan for Badgers? fans to create their own stadium soundtrack. Enter: Operation Jump Around. The chapter is asking fans to download the House of Pain song on their phones, turn the devices to speaker mode and hit “play” at the exact moment when the clock hits zero at the end of the third quarter of the Rose Bowl.
In a place where walking down the street can become something of a winter sport during the final months of the year, Madison?s recent bout of (relatively) warm weather has been a relief to many of us. It?s also been a blessing for the city?s food cart vendors, who have been able to keep warm and extend their business hours further into the month than the weather has allowed in previous years.
When a college football team is successful, students put down their books and pick up some beers.
In her blog about serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Mozambique, Lena Jenison of Hartland marveled over things great and small in a country she was growing to know.
Secondary student identification cards and downloadable proof-of-enrollment papers will be made available for University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh students to comply with the state?s new voter ID law.
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Wisconsin and Oregon returned to the Rose Bowl this week determined to succeed on the fabled field after losing in their last trips. But first, they had to conquer the Matterhorn and some whirling teacups. The No. 6 Ducks (11-2) and the ninth-ranked Badgers (11-2) descended on Disneyland on Tuesday for the traditional start to Rose Bowl week festivities. Both teams basked in the warm sun on a picture-perfect Orange County day, although Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema assured fans the weather was exactly the same back in Madison.
It was the Monday afternoon of finals week on the UW-Madison campus, and Noah Phillips still had two reports to write and two exams to take before wrapping up his second semester as a Badger. After spending three weeks immersed in the Occupy Madison movement shortly after it organized on Oct. 7, the freshman from Washington, D.C., admitted he needed to “finish the year strong” after missing some quizzes and falling behind on his schoolwork. And yet, Phillips wasn?t hunkered down in his campus dorm room banging out the reports or trekking to a campus library for a marathon study session. He was in the state Capitol on Dec. 19 with a few hundred others to take part in the Solidarity Singalong, a vocal vigil that?s been held every weekday since March 11 to rail on Gov. Scott Walker and his anti-union legislation.
Next fall, thousands of students on college campuses will attempt to register to vote and be turned away. Sorry, they will hear, you have an out-of-state driver?s license. Sorry, your college ID is not valid here. Sorry, we found out that you paid out-of-state tuition, so even though you do have a state driver?s license, you still can?t vote.
Political leaders should be encouraging young adults to participate in civic life, but many Republican state lawmakers are doing everything they can instead to prevent students from voting in the 2012 presidential election. Some have openly acknowledged doing so because students tend to be liberal.
The lead editorial in Tuesday?s New York Times focuses on how Republicans nationwide have fixated on making it harder for students to vote. Opines the Times: “Next fall, thousands of students on college campuses will attempt to register to vote and be turned away. Sorry, they will hear, you have an out-of-state driver?s license. Sorry, your college ID is not valid here. Sorry, we found out that you paid out-of-state tuition, so even though you do have a state driver?s license, you still can?t vote.”
Early in the debate, the state Department of Public Instruction said it could support the school only if it could prove that single-sex classes were effective. UW-Madison professor Janet Hyde was quick to point out such research did not exist. Yet we have ample proof that the current school model fails minority students, especially boys.If Hyde and the DPI applied the same test to Madison schools, the whole district would be shut down!
University of Wisconsin football fans are known for traveling to bowl games both in numbers and style, but it?s guaranteed no one will have road tripped to the Rose Bowl quite like Shane Prichard and his sidekick. Fueled by junk food, an expansive iPod playlist, the thrill of charging more than $500 at a pop to the company credit card and the reaction of excited Badgers fans on the open road, Prichard and student assistant Zack Dubois made the 35-hour road trip to Pasadena last week behind the wheel of the semi-trailer that essentially relocates the football offices from Camp Randall Stadium.
Badgers and Ducks fans will put aside their football rivalry and work together on a service project the day before the Jan. 2 Rose Bowl. About 100 volunteers from UW-Madison and the University of Oregon will work on a New Year?s Day community service project in Los Angeles.The students, alumni, and fans will sort and pack food for clients of Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles? SOVA Community Food and Resource Program.
A 19-year-old female UW-Madison student was attacked early Wednesday morning while walking home alone after studying at a campus library in an assault similar to two other attacks in July, Madison police reported.The mugging was reported at 4:05 a.m. on North Carroll Street near Langdon Street, police said in a news release.
A man attempted to mug a 19-year-old female UW-Madison student early Wednesday morning as she was returning home alone from studying at a library on campus, reminiscent of two attacks that occurred in July.
The Madison hazardous materials team responded to a chemical spill in a UW-Madison biochemistry laboratory Monday after a graduate student spilled a highly flammable solvent, injuring one person.
Last Friday, I was taking my second trip to the campus of University of Wisconsin, Madison, to help with the seemingly impossible decision of where to go to school.
Fish responsibly this season. The fishes are of questionable nutritional value anyway, so just catch and release to keep our best in-lake eutrophication control strong.
? Erika Cardenas, student, UW-Madison
Even with degrees in hand, the only certainty for many winter graduates is the ceremony signifies the end of their college studies.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison sent yet another class off at its winter commencement on Sunday.
“I think it?s safe to say the goals of Madison Prep would be universally shared,” said Adam Gamoran, director of the university?s Wisconsin Center for Education Research and a supporter of the school. But there’s disagreement among faculty about whether Madison Prep is “the right vehicle,” he said, and “for that reason, it would not be appropriate for the university as a whole or the school of education or WCER to take a stand as an institution.”
As a Marine, 2005 UW-Madison graduate Jake Wood was the ?point man? leading a sharpshooter team through land mines and booby traps in Afghanistan?s notorious Helmand Valley, a Taliban stronghold. As UW-Madison?s 2011 mid-year commencement speaker Sunday, Wood told graduates he had to close his eyes and clench his teeth but never stopped pressing on ? even leading reconnaissance missions ?in the most dangerous city, in the most dangerous province, in the most dangerous country on the face of the Earth.?
Leaving the Kohl Center on Sunday, graduates will embark on a similar journey, he said. ?You?ll have fewer land mines, but you?ll have perhaps more uncertainty,? he said. ?You enter adult life in a downtrodden economy, an uncertain labor market, foreign markets in shambles, and two political parties unwilling to create solutions.?
In August, Wausau native Ben Koch was working in Rwanda with a local construction crew building a system that would catch rainwater for use in a school.
According to the University of Wisconsin Police Department incident log, police were called to Witte Residence Hall for sexual assault offenses on Tuesday afternoon at approximately 12:28 p.m.
This is the time of year college campuses can get stressful with the holidays coming and exams to get ready for “Dogs on Call” is here to help.
Studying for finals has gone to the dogs on the UW-Madison campus. Pooches from Dogs on Call Inc., a local non-profit that uses dogs for stress relief at a variety of sites, are on campus this week, visiting residence halls to help students make it through final exams.
All University of Wisconsin System schools will issue IDs before next year?s spring elections after Wisconsin?s Government Accountability Board approved voter identification cards designed for UW Colleges Monday.
WASHINGTON ? Politicians love to celebrate, not chastise, big-time college athletics. There were two exceptions: More than 100 years ago, when President Theodore Roosevelt intervened to clean up the brutality of college football, and almost 40 years ago, when Congress passed Title IX, requiring colleges and universities to allocate a fair share of their athletic budgets to women. Both worked. Washington may be about to step in again.
The Collegians For A Constructive Tomorrow appealed a student government decision that deemed the group ineligible for funding to the Student Judiciary Tuesday. The Student Services Finance Committee said CFACT intentionally violated Associated Students of Madison policy two years ago when they turned in equipment late, making them ineligible for funding. But CFACT president Josh Smith said the group did not intentionally violate the policy, but rather was confused by the requests made by ASM.
A UW-Madison student was robbed early Monday morning after giving a man money to take the bus. According to Madison Police, the victim gave bus money to a man after being approached in the South Bassett Street and Main Street area. The victim walked away but was followed by the suspect. “The stranger caught up with her a second time, pushing her against a wall and demanding her wallet,” police said.
UW-Madison Police have arrested a suspect after an incident Sunday at one of the university?s athletic facilities where a male exposed his genitals.
On December 11th, 2011, UW Madison Police arrested a suspect after an incident where a male exposed his genitals in the South East Recreational Facility (SERF).
A UW-Madison student has been arrested after he allegedly exposed his genitals at a campus fitness facility on Sunday. Sandeep Omladi, 19, was tentatively charged with lewd and lascivious behavior following his arrest on Sunday, UW-Madison Police said. The incident happened at the South East Recreational Facility (SERF) on Dayton Street.
While UW-Madison set a new university record last year by conferring more than 10,000 undergraduate, graduate and doctorate degrees, a poor economy could make it difficult for students to translate their degrees into jobs.
The search for a new dean of the University of Wisconsin?s School of Human Ecology is in full swing following last week?s announcement of a 13-person search and screen committee.
Members of the University of Wisconsin?s student government provided insight into a number of current issues central to student life on the UW campus at a meeting Monday.
Christmas carols with a labor-oriented twist could be heard atop Bascom Hill Monday as members of a student organization rallied to demand action over the university?s relationship with Adidas.
UW-Madison class of 2011 graduates have until Dec. 31 to see their donations to the university doubled. Philanthropists John and Tashia Morgridge promised to match donations from 2011 grads dollar for dollar, starting at $20.11 and continuing to $120.11. That deal ends Dec. 31.
In light of sexual assault allegations against former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky and former Syracuse University assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine, university officials in Madison are urging students, faculty and staff to report any inappropriate conduct to authorities.
The University of Wisconsin Colleges — the UW System?s 13 freshman-sophomore campuses — will start issuing ID cards that can be used for voting purposes to students who need them starting Jan. 23.Rich Barnhouse, associate vice chancellor for student services and enrollment management, said in this news release that the state?s Government Accountability Board has signed off on the documentation and card process.
In response to the recent shooting of a Virginia Tech campus police officer, UW-Madison Police Chief Sue Riseling discussed improvements the university and campus police departments have made to their crisis prevention and response strategies.
Early in my career, years before I recall being pejoratively called a “filter” or a member of the “mainstream media,” discussions of journalism ethics focused on the straightforward divide between so-called “objective” news reporting and editorial page writing. Today, the Internet has blown up traditional definitions of who is and isn?t a journalist by removing virtually all barriers to entry. There was this adage: Don?t start a fight with someone who buys his ink by the barrel or paper by the boxcar. So obsolete.
Quoted: UW-Madison professor of journalism Stephen Ward, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics.
If you?re heading to Pasadena, there are plenty of fan events in conjunction with the Rose Bowl.
Nowhere does it say the WIAA state basketball tournaments must be played in Madison and I, for one, say it?s time to hit the road. The hockey tenants at the Kohl Center apparently want to exercise their right to use the building every March for postseason play. We?re told they?d rather have access without tripping over a bunch of high school basketball players or having a hardwood floor cover their ice.
In light of recent scandal surrounding alleged sexual abuse by coaches at Penn State and Syracuse universities, the UW-Madison Athletic Board discussed how it could prevent a similar situation at Wisconsin. Athletic board members said the department has a variety of mechanisms to respond to an abusive situation.
The Teaching Assistants? Association decided to not retain its official status as a union, despite a report showing a vast majority of teachers unions throughout Wisconsin voted to recertify.
A University of Wisconsin System spokesman says election officials have approved nine campuses? designs for secondary college ID cards for voting.
Overshadowed for much of the season by the quarterback of his own team and now, in the Heisman Trophy race, by Alabama running back Trent Richardson, Wisconsin?s Montee Ball is the dark horse in the stable of finalists for college football?s greatest treasure.
