Category: Campus life

When an apartment fire broke out on the 2600 block of Pheasant Ridge Trail Sunday night, second-year law student Rocco DeFilippis came to the rescue, UW news reported Wednesday. Fire officials said the apartment?s resident was asleep while the stove was on just before 6 p.m. Hearing there were children in the apartment, DeFilippis acted to ensure no one was hurt.

After being selected by the Nominations Board, two chairs of student council who had been removed from their seats resumed their positions Wednesday. Nominations Board Chair Niko Magallon and Associated Students of Madison Vice Chair Beth Huang were removed from their positions in September after the Student Judiciary ruled they failed to complete required service hours on time.

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The Memorial Union Reinvestment Project Design Committee met Tuesday to discuss changes to the proposed renovations in wake of the recent Associated Students of Madison referendum and budget cuts facing the university.

Following a recent student vote against a proposed redesign project of the student theater lounge addition to the Memorial Union, members of the Memorial Union Reinvestment Design Committee considered their next steps in moving the project forward at a meeting Tuesday night.

The Memorial Union Reinvestment Project Design Committee met Tuesday to discuss changes to the proposed renovations in wake of the recent Associated Students of Madison referendum and budget cuts facing the university. The proposed addition to the Play Circle lobby, one of the project?s major components and the source of recent controversy, was recently rejected by student voters, with 50.24 percent of voters saying they did not support the addition?s design.

The Student Service Finance Committee approved a budget of nearly $150,000 for the Wisconsin Student Public Interest Research Group (WISPIRG) Monday.

Members of a student government committee voted almost unanimously to pass the budget of an advocacy-based student organization, though with several caveats, at a meeting Monday.

City of Madison officials are redoubling their efforts to recruit Madison residents to fill numerous vacancies on a diverse pool of city committees, including targeting students to lend their perspective to city politics.

Saturday?s Freakfest was a success from a safety and security standpoint, but this year?s paid attendance was one of the lowest in recent years.

Freakfest, the city-sanctioned Halloween celebration in downtown Madison, came and went on Saturday night with fewer arrests than in years past.

The notoriously rowdy Halloween weekend at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will be the biggest test so far of the campus? new alcohol sanctions.

With Freakfest fast approaching, both city officials are making last minute preparations to ensure optimal security and fun on Saturday night.

In a ruling released on Wednesday, a federal judge said he would not force the University of Wisconsin at Madison to award money from mandatory student fees to a conservative student group called Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow, the Wisconsin State Journal reported. The group, known as CFACT, sued in 2009, saying the university had veered from a policy of awarding funds on a ?viewpoint neutral? basis when it denied the conservative organization?s request, while at the same time awarding funds to the Wisconsin Public Interest Research Group. CFACT argued that the two groups were essentially identical, but that WISPIRG was politically liberal while CFACT was politically conservative.

Wisconsin students are reacting to President Barack Obama?s plans to help alleviate debt from higher education. University officials said that during the 2009-2010 academic year, nearly 12,000 University of Wisconsin-Madison students took federal subsidized Stafford loans, totaling $65 million. Students said they are hopeful the plan will work, but they said more should be done to reform higher education.

A federal judge issued an opinion Wednesday that he won?t force UW-Madison to fund the conservative student group Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow. CFACT filed a lawsuit in 2009 arguing that the university had denied its request for funding because of its conservative views on environmental and social issues.

A federal judge says he wont force the University of Wisconsin-Madison to fund a conservative student group.

While the UW-Madison student government?s Diversity Chair said students in the past had called the Diversity Committee unproductive, she said the committee is now working to improve diversity within ASM and on campus.

Madison?s first gated Halloween got under way peacefully on State Street early Saturday evening as ghouls and goblins and witches waited patiently in lines to present their tickets and get their hands stamped.There were a few grumbles from party-goers about the fences and the tickets. But, at least early in the evening, patrons appeared pleased with the orderly way everything seemed to be operating.

Saturday night?s Halloween crowd on State Street wasn?t as big or as rowdy as those in the late 1970s and the 1980s – but it was close, said Madison Police Capt. George Silverwood.Minor injuries and at least 10 arrests resulted as the estimated 60,000 to 70,000 merrymakers rocked the streets and State Street bars until almost 3 a.m., Silverwood said Sunday.

There was a time in the history of Halloween on State Street when a pair of naked rumps would have elicited only the briefest of attention. That time was not Thursday night, as the street itself was disguised as an ordinary street. Sure, there was the odd wandering cleric, the occasional dance hall girl with a sagging garter, the usual bundle of giggling dormies dressed as M&Ms, or public displays of confection.

At a press conference Monday, city leaders outlined final details regarding Freakfest, including plans to reduce police presence compared to previous years.

Frank Productions and the Madison Police Department released details about the Freakfest entertainment schedule and costume contest and reviewed safety precautions at a press conference Monday morning.