Barry Alvarez and Bret Bielema are the latest UW officials to tell potty-mouthed students to keep it clean at Badgers football games. The UW-Madison athletic director and football coach sent an email Thursday to all student season ticket holders asking them to end the tradition of yelling obscenity-laced cheers back and forth at Camp Randall.
In an instant, Patterson High School graduate Jimmy Anderson of Wisconsin lost his mother, father and brother, and he would soon lose all movement of his arms and legs. Rowell, who drove through a stop sign while under the influence of alcohol, left behind friends and family in Patterson. More than a year later, Anderson hopes to get the word out about the perils of drunken driving through word of mouth and public-speaking engagements as he continues to earn his law degree at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He remains thankful for Patterson residents who hosted vigils for his family after the accident and gave donations that helped him as he was trying to get his life back together.
The new Union South has six dining spaces that have opened fulltime only this fall. The wide selection of cuisines and the modern, clean ambiance of each eatery is an appealing change from the sub-sandwich-ridden cafes that dominate other university options. The only problem is deciding where to start. Here?s a cheat sheet.
With UW-Madison?s annual homecoming parade taking place Friday evening, Madison residents should be on the lookout for street closures in the downtown area as early as mid-afternoon.
Although a new state law disallows students from using their student ID as identification to vote, Dean of Students Lori Berquam said UW-Madison will provide students access to identification cards that will allow them to vote.
Tyler Engel transferred to UW-Madison for its engineering program, but he faced more challenges than the average transfer student. Engel, a wheelchair-bound fifth-year senior who suffers from spinal muscular atrophy, had to deal with accessibility issues he rarely faced at UW-Whitewater.
Issuing new student ID cards to out-of-state students could run a cost of up to $700,000 for the University of Wisconsin System as officials continue to weigh how to meet the requirements of the Voter ID law.
Following cuts in funding for the Alcohol Policy Coordinator from the University of Wisconsin, Mayor Paul Soglin said the role would likely face a revamping in the scope of its focus in the near future.
Jordan Taylor says his surgically repaired right ankle isn?t 100 percent, but the senior point guard doesn?t expect anyone to notice when the University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team begins practice for the 2011-12 season on Saturday.
City officials discussed Monday and Tuesday new services included in Mayor Paul Soglin?s proposed operating budget they say will enhance safety and quality of living throughout the city.
What started as an optional program with roots in the University of Wisconsin for graduate students in scientific disciplines to exercise their own teaching abilities will now expand to 25 different universities across the country, according to a UW statement.
Members of the University of Wisconsin Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Campus Center are hoping the events and performances held as part of Coming Out Week will raise awareness in the areas campus climate can improve.
Wisconsin?s voter ID law will present new hurdles to some students and cost UW-Madison as much as $700,000 if the university provides all students new identification cards to comply with the law. It?s not clear how many students would use university IDs to vote, and school officials are waiting further clarification from the state Government Accountability Board about what kind of university ID would be acceptable at the polls.
Dear Editor: This letter is in regard to the UW Badger football game against the Nebraska Cornhuskers. We went to the game with our four sons ? 16, 13, 9 and 7 months. We were appalled by the clothing worn by many UW fans as well as the general attitude toward Husker fans.
The first rains of October will set the stage for cooler, more seasonal weather for the weekend….The UW-Madison Homecoming parade is scheduled for Friday evening, and parade goers should bundle up as lows drop to the low 40s and winds blow up to 30 miles per hour. Saturday should be nice for the Homecoming football game between the Badgers and Indiana, with mostly sunny skies and a high near 60.
New changes to Student Orientation, Advising and Registration (SOAR) aim at improving advising for incoming freshmen by removing placement testing from the program.
The UW System Board of Regents approved building designs for a new $52.8 million UW-Madison School of Nursing facility Friday.
Two campus bars are defending their newly implemented policy to only accept drivers licenses and passports as proof of legal age for bar entry.
Dear Editor: Both the ACT and SAT tests do what they were designed (and are constantly revised) to do: measure academic aptitude. A higher score on these tests is the boxing equivalent to a boxer being heavier. To admit students with lower test scores to compete with students with higher scores is the academic equivalent to putting middleweight or lightweight boxers into the ring to fight against heavyweights.
The Assembly?s Committee on Colleges and Universities is holding an informational hearing next week to examine the process for admissions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The impetus behind this event is two studies released last month by the Center For Equal Opportunity. The conservative think tank said it found “severe” racial discrimination at UW-Madison and its reports purport to show whites and Asians aren?t getting a fair crack at being admitted to Wisconsin?s flagship institution of higher education.
Despite the summer-like weather, a symbol of fall brought some fun to those by Lake Mendota at the Memorial Union on Saturday.
GREEN BAY ? The University of Wisconsin System is looking to boost graduation rates by making it easier for students to transfer to its campuses, and regents heard Thursday about an online tool that could help students plan for the move.
Each year, 17,000 students move between Wisconsin?s public technical colleges and universities. The UW Board of Regents is getting an update on how transfers affect a student?s academic career, and ways schools are trying to make the process easier.
UW-Madison Vice Provost and Chief Diversity Officer Damon Williams announced the university?s plans to enhance campus diversity Thursday at the 2011 Diversity Forum.
On Thursday, state election officials retracted changes which could have circulated recall petitions for the possible upcoming recall efforts more efficiently, including the effort to recall Gov. Scott Walker.
The Board of Regents explored the current state of the University of Wisconsin System transfer programs and sought ways to improve the transition at their meeting Thursday.
This Friday marks the ?Bucky Badger?s 100 Greatest Hits? themed celebration of the University of Wisconsin?s century-old tradition of Homecoming which will hold events until the end of next week.
Now that the Badger Bus terminal on West Washington Avenue is long gone, the UW Memorial Union is becoming the city?s de facto bus depot.
GREEN BAY ? The University of Wisconsin System is looking to boost graduation rates by making it easier for students to transfer to its campuses, and regents heard Thursday about an online tool that could help students plan for the move.
Just last month, the Government Accountability Board made several recommendations to state lawmakers regarding new recall petitions and voter identification provisions.
The University of Wisconsin System is trying to help transfer students get a degree quicker and cheaper as part of its effort to increase the number of college graduates in the state.
STEVENS POINT (WKOW) — A grand opening ceremony is being held Thursday for a food panty for poor and hungry students.
The University of Wisconsin System hopes that making it easier for students to transfer to its campuses will boost graduation rates. About 17,000 students transfer into and within the UW System each year. Sometimes credits and money are wasted when course requirements don?t match.
The student and theater lounge addition on the north side of the Union Theater will be for open use by Memorial Union- and theater-goers after a vote by Union Council Tuesday.
A couple walking on a city street near the UW-Madison campus was mugged early Saturday morning, with the woman injured during the attack. The mugging was reported at 3:06 a.m. Saturday on North Prospect Avenue, Madison police said. According to the report, the 20-year-old woman from Beloit was walking with a 19-year-old Madison man when they were approached by three young men.
Homeowners facing a foreclosure suit can get free help at a walk-in legal clinic offered tomorrow by sponsors including the Dane County Foreclosure Prevention Taskforce. Staffed by volunteer lawyers and UW-Madison law students, the clinics provide homeowners in foreclosure with basic legal information.
UW-Madison campus leaders and minority students responded as expected to the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Equal Opportunity report that revealed ?severe discrimination? based on race and ethnicity in UW-Madison undergraduate admissions.
University of Wisconsin-Madison police said that although 36 people were arrested at the Badgers? home game against Nebraska this weekend, Saturday night was a “best-case scenario.”
From the time he learned to read, Alex Avalos? parents told him he would someday go to college to create a better life for himself. The first glimmer of that day arrived last week, although not in the way Avalos expected, as the 14-year-old Addison Trail High School freshman visited the University of Wisconsin- Madison campus with 99 of his classmates.
Nearly 500 participants are registered for the annual UW-Madison Diversity Forum set to take place Thursday, Oct. 6, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Union South.
Jayme Memmel drove himself to campus every day last year, and often had to park five or six blocks from his classes. For someone who is a quadriplegic in a wheelchair, that distance can be problematic.
The University of Wisconsin is preparing a Diversity Forum Thursday featuring keynote speakers and presentations from student organizations across campus just weeks after the campus reacted to reports alleging the university discriminates against Caucasian and Asian applicants.
Nebraska defensive end Chase Rome, who was ticketed by Dane County deputies for allegedly vandalizing a restroom at Madison?s airport early Sunday, has been “disciplined internally” by the coaching staff.
Dear Editor: My son and four friends attended the Wisconsin-Nebraska game in Madison on Oct. 1. They have since returned home, and I am appalled and shocked at the stories he has told me.
Defensive tackle Chase Rome of the Nebraska Cornhuskers officially had one solo tackle in Saturday night?s 48-17 loss to Wisconsin, but a tackle he made later in the night cost him. Rome, 19, was cited by Dane County deputies for criminal damage to property after he allegedly ripped a paper towel dispenser from the wall of a bathroom at the Dane County Regional Airport.
An alleged burglar was no match for a houseful of campus area roommates early Sunday morning, with the roommates piling on top of the suspect until police arrived. Carlo Walkes, 25, no permanent address, was tentatively charged with burglary and two counts of battery following his arrest at about 3 a.m. at a house on Lathrop Street.
UW-Madison shouldn?t deny the fact that it admits minority students at the expense of more qualified white students, and shouldn?t apologize for it. It?s a state institution serving a population with 6 percent blacks, yet its enrollment has fewer than 3 percent blacks. UW has an obligation to help solve the racial disparity in academic achievement of K-12 students by helping to produce more black college graduates who, as teachers and other professionals, would serve as role models for minority youth.
Dear Editor: I am a student at UW-Madison, where students learn every day about the dangers of fossil fuels. Hearing about Convergence Energy?s solar farm was such a bright spot for me. It is one of the largest solar projects in the state, uses local businesses, and allows individuals to buy a stake in the project. Right now, our government is backing off on environmental protection for no good reason.
The other day, a journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison asked me if I knew where the Center for Equal Opportunity gets its funding.
Fans packed the Badger Bash before Saturday?s game.
As the flu season rapidly approaches the University of Wisconsin campus, University Health Services is suiting up for battle by offering free vaccinations for students and staff in Madison.
After two years of reviewing orientation programming for incoming University of Wisconsin students, UW is changing the first-year registration program to give students more time to pick classes and get advising before they start off their first semester on campus.
Whenever the University of Wisconsin football team is preparing to host a big game, as it is Saturday, it never hurts to retell the story of the stampede that took place at Camp Randall Stadium in 1993 following a big Badgers win over Michigan that sent a reported 69 people to the hospital — 10 with serious injuries.
Talk show host Bill O?Reilly called him “a loon.” The head of a conservative think tank said he fed students propaganda and egged on a student “mob.” The comments were directed at UW-Madison?s Chief Diversity Officer, Damon Williams, who has been at the center of an admissions maelstrom ever since the Virginia-based Center for Equal Opportunity alleged in a report this month that the university gives preferential treatment to black and Hispanic students.
The other day a journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison asked me if I knew where the Center for Equal Opportunity gets its funding.It?s a good question. The Virginia-based center, which opposes affirmative action and bilingual education, recently released a pair of reports accusing the UW-Madison of rampant discrimination ? against white people and Asians. The beneficiaries of this alleged bias are African-Americans and Latinos. That an outside group would raise a fuss about reverse discrimination at UW-Madison, commonly seen as having too little diversity, struck some as peculiar.
PayScale Inc. has the answers. The Seattle company, which surveys compensation, has ranked hundreds of schools by the median salaries of graduates when they are at mid-career. PayScale also ranks the schools based on average starting salaries for graduates. The top school in Wisconsin turned out to be the Milwaukee School of Engineering, with graduates on average starting careers at $54,100 a year. That’s well ahead of the second-ranked school in the category, the University of Wisconsin-Madison. UW-Madison grads start at $46,900 a year, on average.
The UW-Madison rugby club plays its home matches on the western edge of the University Bay fields, prudently near UW Hospital. Its out-of-the-way location recalls an Oscar Wilde description of the sport: “Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.”
All registered students, faculty, and staff at the University of Wisconsin-Madison can once again get free flu shots from the University Health Services (UHS). The first immunization clinic of the year will be for students only from noon to 5 p.m. at the Southeast Recreational Facility- or the SERF.
A Madison commission granted Freakfest 2011 the final go-ahead required from the city to take over State Street with thousands of students and residents eager to take in concerts and other Halloween-themed festivities.
With the rise of rumors circling around a new piece of legislation that would allow institution-wide differential tuition that could increase the base rate currently paid by students, the University of Wisconsin student government is taking preemptive action.
