Category: Campus life

A committee of University of Wisconsin-Madison students, staff and faculty on Friday said it wants Adidas to make payments to more than 2,800 Indonesian workers after a contract factory closed without making severance payments.

Former Badger football lineman Jake Wood, the co-founder and president of a nonprofit organization that deploys military veterans to aid in disaster relief internationally, will be this year?s mid-year commencement speaker at the ceremonies taking place on Dec. 18 at the Kohl Center.

The founder of a national veterans? service organization and former University of Wisconsin football player Jake Wood will provide a commencement address on the Wisconsin Idea as Badgers prepare to receive their diplomas later this month.

On the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, a design committee has approved a smaller project for the Memorial Union terrace and its theatre lobby.

Members of UW-Madison?s AHA (Atheists, Humanists and Agnostics) will square off against those from Badger Catholic in a debate at Union South on Wednesday. The discussion will touch on issues such as stem cell research, abortion, contraception and same-sex marriage.

The Penn State scandal has brought to light the issue of campus sexual assault and how, in many cases, such attacks go unreported to law enforcement. CBS News correspondent Debbye Turner Bell says, when a person experiences a sexual assault on a college campus, they usually turn to campus police for help. But with university reputations on the line, those campus police sometimes put the school before the victim.

Representatives of UW?Madison student organizations met with members of the student government to discuss concerns, challenges, suggestions and future goals of their respective organizations Thursday. Much of the town-hall-style meeting focused on the issue of communication between the Associated Students of Madison and the student organizations.

The UW-Madison Vote Coalition kicked off a campaign to mobilize student voters Thursday. ASM Legislative Affairs Committee Chair and Vote Coalition member Hannah Somers said the group?s main goals for the year are to register students to vote, make sure students are informed on new voter identification laws and motivate students to vote.

Black and Hispanic students in a special Madison School District college preparatory program have higher grade point averages, attendance rates and test scores than their peers who aren?t in the program, according to a UW-Madison analysis.

A smaller footprint for a new Union Theater lobby was approved by a UW-Madison committee Thursday in response to public outcry over the original plans.Members of the public said the initial design, part of $52 million in renovations to the Memorial Union, would obstruct views and inhibit seating on the Union Terrace.

A proposed ordinance aimed at curbing nuisance house parties around the University of Wisconsin campus and downtown Madison was once again placed on hold by a city committee Wednesday evening, despite officials? attempts to revise its language.

City officials tailored a proposed ordinance Wednesday to more specifically target large, underage house parties downtown.

The city?s Board of Public Works considered the reconstruction and assessment of several student-occupied downtown areas in addition to the renovation of a Madison Police training center during a meeting Wednesday.

For many University of Wisconsin students, the holiday spirit has translated into efforts to team up with local food pantries and combat the growing problem of hunger in the Madison area.

The Alcohol License Review Committee referred legislation concerning penalties associated with student-hosted house parties to next month?s meeting in order to give the Madison Police Department time to prepare a plan for it during a meeting Wednesday.

Second-year UW-Madison student Leland Pan announced his candidacy for a seat on the Dane County Board of Supervisors Tuesday. Pan is running for the fifth district, an area where almost all residents are students. Incumbent Annalise Eicher has not yet announced whether she will run for re-election or step down from the seat.

Every year American colleges and universities send more than 270,000 students to study abroad and more of them are choosing unconventional destinations, which in places like Egypt can entice students to ignore well-meaning warnings from back home and plunge into the political upheaval in the streets.

Research on impoverished women in Madison with postpartum depression is one of six projects funded by UW-Madison?s Morgridge Center for Public Service. The projects, totaling $141,032, are part of the Morgridge Challenge Grant program to support community-based research or service-learning courses. Philanthropists John and Tashia Morgridge pledged to match 50 percent of the researchers? grants and gifts. The program is in the third of five years.

UW-Madison students have the opportunity to win a dinner with the editor in chief of The Onion by submitting stories to a writing contest hosted by the popular satire newspaper, which was founded by two UW-Madison alumni.

The Onion is returning to its roots. Joe Garden, an Onion editor and Badger alum, and Carol Kolb, from the Onion News Network, will present a behind-the-scenes look at the satirical news outlet on Monday, Dec. 5 at 7:30 p.m. at Memorial Union through the university?s Distinguished Lecture Series. The newspaper was launched by UW-Madison students in Madison.

Just about everything has turned up in the UW-Madison Stock Pavilion since it opened in 1909. Prize cattle. Bill Clinton and Harry Truman. All genres of music. But when it comes to spectacle, it would be hard to surpass the regular practices of the armed combat group of the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA). This is not your ordinary fight club.

Representatives from the Wisconsin China Initiative and other University of Wisconsin departments are traveling to China to meet with education, government and business leaders in an effort to explore options for establishing a UW facility in Shanghai for students and faculty.