Six University of Wisconsin schools, including the Madison and Milwaukee campuses, will issue identification cards to students who want them that can be used for voting and that will be separate from their main student ID cards.
A UW-Eau Claire study has found that a popular website used to rate college professors is “providing useful feedback about instructor quality.” RateMyProfessors.com allows students to voluntarily rank their professors, but there is conflicting research on the validity of the website. Skeptics say students who use the site are not representative, tend to have extreme views, and give high ratings to easy instructors.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students who do not have valid Wisconsin identification will be issued free IDs to be used for voting.
The scandal exposed at Penn State University earlier this month is nothing short of devastating. Weeks after its initial surfacing, it is still a highly discussed issue on campus, especially with this Saturday?s upcoming matchup. When the Nittany Lions come to Madison this weekend, emotions are sure to run high. Per usual, we want to win, but we?re also playing a team recently led by some detestable people, a reality that stirs up strong emotions in most. Around campus, I?ve heard students joke about chanting ?Pedo State? come gameday. Others have discussed switching out the ?asshole? chant with ?rapist.? One student even proposed shouting, ?You rape little boys! You rape little boys!?
The Student Services Finance Committee approved a budget of over $35,000 for the UW-Madison Legal Information Center Monday but tabled its decision on the Associated Students of Madison internal budget until next week. According to the group?s website, the LIC is a campus group that provides free legal information to students and community members. The committee gave the group less money than it requested for salaries and increased funding for telephone services.
Members of the Student Labor Action Coalition held a demonstration Monday protesting UW-Madison?s main licensing partner, saying it fails to give severance pay to recently unemployed factory workers. The demonstration was a response to an Indonesian factory contracted by Nike and UW partner Adidas that closed abruptly in January, leaving 2,800 workers jobless. Legally, the companies still owe 1.8 million of the original 3.3 million employees monetary compensation for the factory?s closure.
UW-Madison has solved its ID crisis. University officials announced Monday they will issue free identification cards for voting purposes to those students who do not already have valid Wisconsin IDs. It will cost an estimated $100,000 over five years. The university?s ID cards do not currently comply with a new voting law, which requires all Wisconsin voters to provide a valid photo ID. The university had considered several options, including giving all students a new ID at an estimated cost of $700,000.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will issue free, supplemental identification cards which comply with the state?s new voter ID law to students who need them. Darrell Bazzell, the university?s vice chancellor for administration, said the Government Accountability Board — a panel of six judges that oversees state elections — signed off late last week on a mock-up of a proposed student ID card that could be used for voting purposes.
This fall, UW-Madison admissions counselors marched into the hallways, gyms and guidance offices of more high schools than ever before. The effort is two-fold: spread the gospel of Bucky Badger and lure the best and brightest for the freshman class. “Our goal is to make sure we are identifying the most talented young people who are appropriate for a UW-Madison education wherever we can find them,” said Adele Brumfield, director of undergraduate admissions.
For the first time in 11 years, a UW-Madison student earned a Rhodes scholarship.
UW-Madison senior Alexis Brown was announced Saturday as one of 32 recipients of the prestigious award, which will grant her two to three years of study at Oxford University.
Medical School hopefuls at the University of Wisconsin may face additional curriculum challenges following the recent announcement that changes to the Medical College Admissions Test will be fully implemented in 2015.
A University of Wisconsin senior will be packing her bags along with 31 students from around the U.S. to continue her studies at Oxford this October after being awarded a Rhodes Scholarship announced Saturday.
Two students with ties to Wisconsin have been named 2012 Rhodes Scholars
A senior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Wisconsin native who is studying at Princeton University are among 32 American students who have been named Rhodes Scholars for 2012.
A trio of UW-Madison students took first place in a North Central region computer programming Battle of the Brains last weekend involving 218 teams.
University of Wisconsin-Madison senior Alexis Brown was named to the American Rhodes Scholar Class of 2012. Brown, an English major from Algonquin, Ill., is the first person from UW-Madison to earn the prestigious scholarship since 2000. Brown will be invited to spend two to three years studying at Oxford University in England.
Dear Editor: I hope we treat our technical school students with the same respect as UW students. This possibility that the state Legislature will not allow the technical school students to use their current student IDs with a sticker to vote seems very demeaning to all the Wisconsin citizens who are working hard to improve their job prospects.I attended UW-Madison and MATC. The students at both schools are hardworking people who deserve the right to vote without additional problems.
UW-Madison senior Alexis K. Brown is one of 32 American students chosen as Rhodes Scholars for 2012. The awards, announced early Sunday, provide all expenses for two or three years of study at Oxford University in England. The winners were selected from 830 applicants endorsed by 299 different colleges and universities. The scholars will enter Oxford next October.
A senior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Wisconsin native who is studying at Princeton University are among 32 American students named Rhodes Scholars for 2012.
Alexis Brown is an English and history major at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. The Algonquin, Ill., native applied for the scholarship so she could finish her master?s degree in English language and literature.
For the first time in 11 years, a UW-Madison student earned a Rhodes scholarship. UW-Madison senior Alexis Brown was announced Saturday as one of 32 recipients of the prestigious award, which will grant her two to three years of study at Oxford University.
In the midst of increased political activity around the state, UW-Madison posted guidelines Wednesday reminding faculty, students and staff of appropriate political activity on campus.
Syracuse Chancellor Nancy Cantor says the school won?t turn a blind eye to child molesting allegations against longtime assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine. The school placed Fine on administrative leave Thursday night “in light of the new allegations” and an investigation by the Syracuse City Police. ESPN said the accusations were made by two former ball boys.
The UW-Madison College of Engineering will provide a two-to-one match of any gift made by a student or recent graduate. The college?s Industrial Advisory Board gave more than $30,000 to support the gift-matching program. The board is made up of 16 prominent engineering alumni.
The UW-Madison College of Engineering announced an initiative to promote the importance of giving back to the college: The college will match and double any donation made by its students or recent graduates.
The student government finance committee unanimously approved a budget of over $150,000 for Movimento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA) Thursday. According to the group?s website, MEChA is a student group that works to educate campus and the community about Chican@ culture and struggles.
In the midst of increased political activity around the state, UW-Madison posted guidelines Wednesday reminding faculty, students and staff of appropriate political activity on campus. The rules discourage students, faculty and staff from engaging in political activity in university buildings and housing. They also prohibit employees from using university resources for political advocacy or participating in political actions when they should be working.
Though University of Wisconsin Housing has a system in place for reporting discriminatory and hateful incidents, one campus leader in the LGBT community says many incidents in the campus community still go unreported.
Hateful homophobic graffiti left on Sellery Hall residents? door this week has spurred an investigation from the University of Wisconsin Police Department, University Housing and the Division of Student Life.
Starting the first of the year, Dane County?s detox center will cease to be the “drunk tank” it?s often lampooned as and use its funding to become a pathway to treatment and recovery, Dane County Human Services officials said. In a statement, UW Hospitals and Clinics said the “proposed changes ? will undoubtedly result in increased numbers of intoxicated patients in the region’s only Level One Trauma Center.”
?Stop the problem before it starts.? This timeless adage has been offered as a solution to dilemmas both big and small, each time serving as valuable and effective words to live by. In the case of certain problems facing the UW-Madison campus, the situation is no different. Sexual assault, dating violence and stalking are already issues plaguing this community, but ones that need to be addressed before the number of victims gets even higher.
International education is more than learning a second language or becoming well-versed in world geography. In today?s new economy, it is all about preparing our young people to live, work, lead and compete in an interconnected, interdependent world. In a word, it is about employability. It also is about making sure that home-grown employers ? private, public and nonprofit alike ? can locally recruit the talent they need to fuel their growth in today?s increasingly global marketplace.
A former UW-Madison student who faced more than $400,000 in fines for operating an illegal liquor delivery business got his penalty reduced to about $3,000. The city of Madison filed a 575-count complaint against Danny Haber in May 2010 for operating Campusdrank.com, a website that sold and delivered alcohol to customers, mainly to UW-Madison students. The complaint charged Haber and fellow student Matthew Siegel for selling alcohol without a license and to underage customers.
MERRILL — Chase Boruch thought he could fool investigators and get them to believe that his mother died in a tragic accident so he could claim her insurance benefits.
A legislative committee asked state election officials to turn their motions on electoral issues into formalized rules to be approved by the governor Tuesday, a move critics say takes away the group?s independence from the Legislature.
MADISON ? Republican lawmakers ordered state election officials Tuesday to make their policy allowing technical college students to use their school IDs at the polls into a formal rule.
Two downtown roommates were busy doing their homework and watching football Monday night when they heard their garbage can getting kicked over.
….College students at University of Wisconsin schools, who have long benefited from a world-class education, keenly feel the effects of a state administration which refuses to put education among its priorities. The Walker administration has cut over $300 million from the system – and at least $125 million will come out of UW-Madison. UW System spokesman David Giroux responded with the reality of the situation: “We do not know how we can take these cuts without negatively affecting the education of our students and the expectations of their families for a quality experience.” Students will be forced to bear the brunt of these costs in higher tuition bills, less financial aid, more student debt, and fewer course offerings with larger class sizes.
As of Monday, the results of a student government survey indicate a majority of students want the Mifflin Street Block Party to continue. The Associated Students of Madison Legislative Affairs Committee said they plan to present the results to city officials in discussions about the future of the block party.
….In English, “Wisconsin Idea” is said to be the tradition of a university system offering its services and expertise to government, making it more transparent and responsive to the needs of citizens. I?m sure there?s a Chinese way to say the definition, too. It?s just that given China?s autocratic regime and shoddy human rights record, it probably wouldn?t be of much practical use.
Quoted: Laurie Dennis, associate director of the UW-Madison Wisconsin China Initiative. Edward Friedman, a UW-Madison political science professor who has been active in advocating for human rights in China, agreed that engagement hasn’t produced democracy there.
….College seniors in Wisconsin who graduated with student loans last year owed an average of $24,627, according to an analysis by The Project on Student Debt, a nonprofit that gets money from the Ford Foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates, and others. Something has to change because the cost of a college education is growing so much faster than incomes and inflation.
The Chinese Champions program hasn?t gotten a lot of attention here, but it has been crucial to bringing the UW-Madison brand to China. Last year, the first of three groups of Olympic-caliber athletes came to UW-Madison through a partnership with Beijing Sport University and the China Scholarship Council to study English and kinesiology.The second group ? including gold medal winners in skiing, table tennis, swimming and more ? is here right now. A third group will come next year.
They?re here, they?re hungry and they need haircuts. The explosive growth in the number of Chinese students at UW-Madison has created boom times for Chinese-owned businesses near campus.
Eighteen-year-old Xinyi Wang?s bus rolled up to Memorial Union on an August night. After a 14-hour plane ride from her home in Eastern China, then a 3-hour bus trip from Chicago, she stepped onto the UW-Madison campus for the first time. She plans to spend at least the next four years here. ?It is my dream, when I was young, to study in the U.S.,? said Wang, a UW-Madison freshman.
UW-Madison faculty discussed ways to improve programs for first-year and transfer students at the annual First-Year Conference Friday. Dr. Jennifer Keup, director of the National Resource Center for First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, said universities nationwide should integrate learning communities, diversity training and undergraduate research into their curriculum. She said these are among guidelines that can help first-year students succeed.
Wisconsin Democrats will begin circulating recall petitions for Gov. Scott Walker across the state and on the UW-Madison campus starting Nov. 15. The Democratic Party of Wisconsin and United Wisconsin, a political action committee organized around recalling Walker, will have until Jan. 13, 60 days, to collect the 540,208 signatures necessary to prompt a recall election. College Democrats Chair Jordan Weibel said the student group plans to raise awareness about the Walker recall effort on campus.
We have a budding superstar in our midst, and among other things, that means if you have a box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal in the cupboard, you might want to check to see if it?s still there. Cinnamon Toast Crunch is the favorite food of Eric “Silo” Dahl. At least that?s what he told me. He once told another reporter it was pancakes. Dahl is the No. 1-ranked collegiate competitive eater in the country. He’s a new student at UW-Madison ? studying computer engineering ? which is fitting because Madison is where Dahl first discovered his genius, if that is the word, for gluttony.
It?s been a good year for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Cinematheque, and also for its first director of programming, Jim Healy.
They are plentiful, they pay full tuition and American colleges and universities are eager to enroll them — despite questions about their credentials.
The Student Services Finance Committee discussed employing a controversial fund that would allow student groups to hire non-university-employed staff members Thursday. SSFC Chair Sarah Neibart said the committee could amend the Campus Services Fund to allow the Wisconsin Public Interest Research Group (WISPIRG) and other student groups to contract non-university employed staff members.
Members of UW-Madison?s Phi Gamma Delta (Fiji) fraternity began the first leg of a 268-mile philanthropic run from Camp Randall to the University of Minnesota?s TCF Bank Stadium Thursday. About 35 participants in the third annual Fiji Rivalry Run, which raises money for the American Red Cross, will take mile-long shifts toward the stadium with the game ball in hand.
As an air traffic controller in Chicago for nearly 24 years, Will Crump made a lot of money. He was never exposed to the hopelessness of alcoholics, addicts and the homeless. “They were not part of my world,” said Crump, 59. But in 2009, Crump, a divorced father of four, moved to Madison to overcome his own addictions to alcohol and drugs and, eventually, homelessness. “It was my first exposure to a segment of society I never knew existed,” he said. “It was a stark and rude awakening.” A Wisconsin native, Crump said he started drinking as a freshman at UW-Madison.
Stephanie Schuebel is way ahead of her time. You might not think so at first glance, especially if you carry the prejudices of the high-debt, big-name-college generation.
Using excerpts from their academic work and personal experience, a panel of professors, a graduate student and a Madison photographer examined various issues presented to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community by globalization.
UW-Madison opted against using stickers on identification cards, which means students will likely receive updated forms of identification to accommodate stipulations in the law that require voters to show valid forms of IDs at polling places.
Look at any university ranking table, and the overwhelming majority of top universities are American. The Shanghai Rankings list 35 American universities among the top 50 universities with the world. The UK is next, with three among the top 50.
STATE COLLEGE, Pennsylvania (CNN) — The child sex abuse scandal at Penn State bringing down legendary Penn State football coach Joe Paterno and his vaunted reputation smoldered on Thursday. Angry hometown students rioted in support of Paterno overnight, a state legislator issued a call for tougher state law on reporting abuse and a wave of soul-searching permeated the nation?s airwaves and sports pages.”In less than once week, the Penn State we knew unraveled,” reported the Daily Collegian, the school?s newspaper.
The Madison Symphony Orchestra, housed in the Overture Center for the Arts, is considered one of the best regional orchestras in the country, and lucky for UW students, it is welcoming Badgers with open arms.
The Wisconsin Government Accountability Board took a second look Wednesday at some of the rules for voter ID, voting to reverse one decision and not to reverse another.
It took a couple of years to complete the deal but a new $5 million, mid-rise apartment is going up behind the historic Acacia fraternity house on the UW campus. A groundbreaking ceremony is Thursday at 229 W. Lakelawn Place, just off Langdon Street at 4 p.m. The five level building has 14-units and 59 bedrooms of student housing, along with 20 moped and 61 bicycle parking spots. No vehicle parking is provided.
Last week?s Associated Students of Madison decision to reinstate two former representatives was determined null and void Wednesday, meaning ASM Vice Chair Beth Huang and Nominations Board Chair Niko Magallon are back off student council.
