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.
Stern emails and promises of a free trip to a bowl game were apparently not enough to stop the UW-Madison student section?s sophomoric tradition of yelling chants laced with four-letter words. Saturday?s Badgers game against Penn State at Camp Randall was the last chance for students to abstain from the chants-that-shall-not-be-named at least in a family newspaper, per the request of Barry Alvarez and Bret Bielema.
Even after the old-fashioned method of checking out books, journals and resources with cards catalogs ended at UW-Madison?s Memorial Library in 1986, the library continued to house millions of cards on the second floor.
The era of the card catalog is coming to a close at the University of Wisconsin.
The 6,700 drawers used for decades to house Memorial Library?s public card catalog will be removed in the coming months in order to allow space for additional projects, a UW statement announced Tuesday.
An Edgewood College student claims another student ripped up a recall petition he was circulating against Gov. Scott Walker. But law enforcement officials have not determined whether they will file charges in the incident.
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.
Call it a case of overconfidence, but some Badgers football fans are already booking tickets to the Rose Bowl. Oh sure, the football team still needs to beat current nemesis Michigan State in the inaugural Big Ten Conference title game before securing a Rose Bowl berth, but that?s just a mere formality in some fans? eyes.
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.
The student government Legislative Affairs Committee discussed student issues Monday they would like to present at a UW System student “lobby day” at the Capitol.
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.
Wisconsin?s backfield tandem of senior quarterback Russell Wilson and junior running back Montee Ball each were named the best at their positions and highlighted a list of 17 Badgers named All-Big Ten on Monday as the league announced its postseason awards and all-conference teams. After scoring a Big Ten-record 34 touchdowns this season, Ball was named the inaugural winner of the Ameche-Dayne Running Back of the Year award. Wilson, who is on pace to break the NCAA record for passing efficiency, became the first recipient of the Griese-Brees Quarterback of the Year honor.
Success in national collegiate entrepreneurial competitions landed two UW-Whitewater students at the White House on Monday. Andrew Hoeft of Onalaska and Daniel Fink of Ashwaubenon were selected to represent the university?s Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization, or CEO, at the “I Am An Entrepreneur” event.
The University of Wisconsin football team is home to more than one dynamic duo. Quarterback Russell Wilson and running back Montee Ball have received most of the attention this season, and it was no different on Monday night, when they led a record-setting number of Badgers picked to the All-Big Ten Conference first team. Both were also named the top players at their respective positions, leading a group of nine Badgers selected to the first team by either the coaches or media ? including five consensus picks.
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.
A University of Wisconsin student-run health program for community outreach and student education recently received an accolade for its volunteer effects with a prestigious award from the White House.
The Government Accountability Board?s recent approval of another University of Wisconsin System campus? design for student identification cards that comply with the Voter ID law marks the eighth campus to adopt a plan addressing students affected by the new voting laws.
Two University of Wisconsin students teamed up to create the nonprofit Madison Fund in an effort to combat the effects that recent years of economic uncertainty have had on small businesses in the community.
Senior Day for Russell Wilson was much like his football career at the University of Wisconsin. Short and oh-so-sweet. After the Senior Day festivities at Camp Randall Stadium were over Saturday, after he had quarterbacked 15th-ranked UW to a shockingly easy 45-7 victory over 20th-ranked Penn State, after he had helped the Badgers qualify for the Big Ten Conference championship game and a shot at redemption against Michigan State, Wilson reflected on the final home game of a one-and-done UW career that will never be forgotten. “This,” he said, “is definitely one of the best things that’s ever happened to me.”
A new group has been formed to try to give a helping hand to people in Madison who may not be able to be helped through traditional lending practices.
Boxes are stacking up in Murfie.com?s airy offices on the eighth floor of the U.S. Bank building on Capitol Square. But that?s a good thing. The brown packing boxes hold dozens, if not hundreds or thousands, of music CDs that Murfie will catalog, store and make available for their owners to download or sell. It?s the latest business venture for serial entrepreneur Matt Younkle, a UW-Madison graduate and Ashwaubenon native who invented the TurboTap beer dispensing device and began selling it to sports stadiums in 2005.
The state?s spring primary is nearly three months away, with more high-profile votes — including a possible recall attempt of Gov. Scott Walker and the 2012 presidential election — even further down the road. Yet major efforts already are underway to make sure college students who want to vote will be able to do so under the state?s new voter ID law. State elections chief Kevin Kennedy says the law is the biggest administrative change for voting since 18-year-olds were granted the right to vote in 1971. Some fear that it could keep students away from the polls.
Taking a cue from the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, two University of Wisconsin-Madison juniors are aiming to lift people out of poverty by lending them money.
The Madison Fund, founded by Alex Rosenthal and Andrew Tapper, recently made its first loan to a local man who used the money to apply for U.S. citizenship. The man found the not-for-profit organization by doing a Google search, said Rosenthal, the fund?s co-founder and executive director.
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.
In a sense, this movement was inevitable. Higher education has been transformed over the last 50 years, reshaped in many ways that bring into question what it?s for, how it works, who should lead it, and most importantly who it is serving. It is the failure of colleges and universities to sufficiently grapple with and address those key questions that led students to Occupy Colleges, and faculty to stand with them, and that set up college administrators to be largely inept in response.
Sara Goldrick-Rab is an associate professor of education policy studies and sociology at UW-Madison.
Tickets to the inaugural Big Ten football championship game between the Wisconsin Badgers and Michigan State Spartans go on sale to the general public at 8:30 a.m. Monday. UW-Madison students bought up all of the available student tickets at $40 each when those tickets went on sale Sunday night, so the student tickets are sold out. Tickets for the general public cost $80 for regular seating, $175 for club level seating.
Homework doesn?t stop, even for a newly minted Rhodes Scholar. After surviving a nerve-wracking interview and learning she won the coveted award, Alexis Brown had to set aside her excitement momentarily to finish the task at hand: a paper due before Thanksgiving break. “I was completely stunned,” said the 21-year-old UW-Madison student a few days after the announcement. “Still am.”
At first glance, a program launched last week that will provide college scholarships for up to 2,600 current ninth-graders attending public schools in Milwaukee looks similar to a growing number of initiatives across the country designed to give students the boost they need to pursue a college degree. But The Degree Project is different in one significant way: It was built from the ground up as a research project to collect data and to examine whether these so-called promise programs are a wise use of funds in an era of limited resources.
“What we want to look at is if there is clear evidence that these programs work,” says Douglas Harris, a UW-Madison associate professor of educational policy studies who helped design the project and is its evaluator.
Eight of the 13 four-year campuses in the University of Wisconsin System have finalized plans to issue photo IDs so that students can use student identification cards to vote.
City officials approved the first phase of a revised plan for the Wisconsin Union Redevelopment Project Monday, which included a smaller theater lounge than what was proposed in the former plan.
A city committee on Monday night unanimously approved phase one of a plan to renovate the Memorial Union, a proposal that comes a month after a previous plan to renovate the Union was voted down by just 23 votes in the Associated Students of Madison fall elections.
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.
A planned mass deputation organized by members of Student Council on Monday night coincided with the announcement that the University of Wisconsin will be issuing voter IDs to students requiring them.
University of Wisconsin?Madison students without a Wisconsin driver?s license will be able to get a free ID card in order to vote.
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.
