Category: Campus life

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.

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.

Fans packed the Badger Bash before Saturday?s game.

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.

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.

A library, an education room and a resident scholar in a fraternity house? Welcome to the 21st century, Sigma Phi Epsilon. The fraternity?s new $2.2 million house at 237 Langdon Street will be dedicated on Friday from 6-8 p.m. for UW-Madison and city officials, as well as fraternity members and alumni. A tailgate party is also planned at the house for alumni on Saturday from 1-6 p.m.

Dear Editor: UW-Madison?s position on admissions is disingenuous. Preference given to any ethnic group is racism; indeed, it is the very definition of racism. The university divides students up along racial lines, and then has the audacity to portray as racist the attempt by an outside body to call attention to the plain truth of the university?s own biased stance.

With the finalized lineup for the city?s Freakfest 2011 now public, students and Madison residents alike will likely find reason to kick their brainstorming of costume ideas into high gear.

Enrollment at University of Wisconsin Colleges increased for the seventh straight year this September, according to a statement from UW Colleges.

In the pre-dawn hours of Sunday, Feb. 20, 2000, campus police entered Chancellor David Ward?s office at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, ordered a group of students within to get on their knees and put them in handcuffs. These students were part of a group of over 150 who had been occupying Bascom Hall for the previous four days. During that time, the students had put up banners, issued press releases and held rallies, all the while braving not only academic consequences, but also physical assault and pepper spray. Their demand was simple: They wanted a meeting with the president of their university.

The true test of a viable admissions plan for UW-Madison is how many of the admitted students graduate.

When Allie Gardner was considering where to go to college, about the only thing the Sun Prairie native knew for certain was she wanted to leave the area.

“I really had no intention of coming to UW-Madison,” says Gardner. In the end, however, the 2009 graduate of Edgewood High School realized she couldn?t afford to pay out-of-state or private college tuition, and Madison was the only UW System campus she had applied to.

A new business designed to help college students track and share social events on and around campus has launched at seven campuses in Iowa, Nebraska and Wisconsin this year and plans are to expand to as many as 300 schools.

As students scan the classroom for an empty seat, one person tends to stick out. Usually quietly seated in the back row, this person, who could pass as many of the students? grandparent, eagerly awaits to learn from UW-Madison professors free of charge.

UW-Madison students will have a chance to express their opinions this fall on a controversial project to expand the Union Theater in an advisory referendum. The vote will not necessarily affect the project. Associated Students of Madison, UW-Madison?s student government, voted Wednesday night to put a question on the ballot for an election that will be held Oct. 17 through Oct. 19.

Despite concerns that it could hurt the long-term viability of a neighboring church, a student apartment building has been approved for the site of UW-Madison?s Episcopal student center. On a 15-4 vote, the City Council early Wednesday approved the project at St. Francis House Episcopal Student Center, 1001 University Ave.

Bradley Residence Hall was evacuated Wednesday morning because of a damaged underground gas line at a nearby construction site.  

City officials refocused Wednesday an ordinance meant to curb large house parties to more specifically address the problem of underage drinking in downtown Madison.

Dear Editor: After all of the controversy in the past week generated by the Center for Equal Opportunity study claiming bias in admissions to UW, I had hoped that there would be a move toward thoughtful discussion, heralded by Chancellor David Ward?s statement last week. But apparently professor Marshall Onellion wants to fan the flames. In his email to the Cap Times, he refers to the student protesters as ?thugs,? a charged term these days in Madison.

On Tuesday I posted a strongly worded letter from UW-Madison physics professor Marshall Onellion. He is no fan of the university?s “holistic” admissions policy or UW-Madison?s response to a report by a conservative think tank which purports to show whites and Asians aren?t getting a fair crack at being admitted to Wisconsin?s flagship institution of higher education.

In that letter, Onellion is not only highly critical of UW-Madison interim Chancellor David Ward, but he also singles out a student — referring to her as a “thug” and ripping comments she made to the Wisconsin State Journal about the Center for Equal Opportunity?s (CEO) findings. That student, Mia McKinney, a senior from Racine, emailed me a letter of her own Tuesday night.

A dormitory at UW-Madison was evacuated Wednesday morning after a gas line was damaged at the construction site adjacent to the UW Natatorium. Students living in Bradley Residence Hall were evacuated from the building shortly after 11 a.m. while crews from Madison Gas and Electric repaired the leak. The portion of Elm Drive between Observatory Drive and the lakeshore path was also shut down.

Last week, the University of Wisconsin paid almost $500,000 to the Alliance Defense Fund for violating the First Amendment rights of Badger Catholic, the Catholic student organization on campus. ADF has litigated a number of cases against the University of Wisconsin over the years challenging the unconstitutional abuses inflicted on students and student groups by its mandatory student fee system.

In her fifth year in the University of Wisconsin Marching Band, it?s fair to say Sun Prairie native and newly named drum major Sarah Edlund?s passion for music has only gotten stronger.

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In her fifth year in the University of Wisconsin Marching Band, it?s fair to say Sun Prairie native and newly named drum major Sarah Edlund?s passion for music has only gotten stronger.

“My two older brothers went through the band program in Sun Prairie and the oldest one is eight years older than me, so since I was 6 or 7, I?ve been going to band concerts and then when I was old enough I got to do it myself. It?s been a big part of my life since I was very young,” Edlund said. Edlund beat out four other band members for the title of drum major. The competition took place in mid-August.