Category: Campus life

Police are still investigating two stabbings that happened at the Mifflin Street Block Party last night.

Of the two men who were stabbed at the Mifflin Street Block Party in Madison on Saturday, a University of Wisconsin-Madison student whom friends and neighbors have identified as Matt Warnert suffered by far the worst injuries.

In an appointments meeting spanning nearly nine hours, the Associated Students of Madison elected Allie Gardner as chair and Beth Huang as vice chair of Student Council for the body?s eighteenth session.

Next fall, a group of 10-12 students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will live together in a dorm dubbed the Russian House.

The Associated Students of Madison passed legislation endorsing the proposed New Badger Partnership and the Campus Services Fund at the final meeting of the 17th session of ASM Wednesday.

Members of the University of Wisconsin student government grappled with whether to support new initiatives in the last meeting of the session and voted to formally support the New Badger Partnership for the first time since the proposal was announced.

Before the Vietnam War ended, attending the Mifflin Street Block Party meant dancing in the streets and opposing police power by declaring the sovereignty of ?Miffland,? all in the name of protesting U.S. action overseas.

Every year in Madison on a Saturday in early spring, there is a huge outdoor beer bash for UW students in a neighborhood southeast of campus. This year the officially organized and heavily policed bash, known as the Mifflin Street Block Party, is taking place on Saturday, April 30. And most of the thousands of undergraduates who go there to get publicly drunk know nothing about how the party came to be.

There will be some big changes at the annual Mifflin Street Block Party this weekend.

MADISON (WKOW) — Madison Mayor Paul Soglin hopes that an increased focus on live entertainment, including music, will lead to a decrease in bad behavior at this year?s Mifflin Street Block Party.

The street is back in the Mifflin Street Block Party. For the first time in years, revelers at the annual end-of-the-school-year party on Saturday will be allowed to drink beer in the street on designated blocks of Mifflin and North Bassett streets. Majestic Theatre and Capitol Neighborhoods Inc., the co-sponsors of the event, obtained a beer license and the party will feature a stage with live bands. The party started in the late 1960s as a peace festival, but it has since morphed into a UW-Madison student tradition to celebrate the end of the school year. It has not been legal to carry open containers of alcohol on the street at the festival since the early 1990s, when the Mifflin Street Co-op stopped sponsoring the event.

The arrival of food carts on the UW-Madison campus and around Downtown is a sure sign of spring ? and street food in Madison has never been more popular than it is right now, officials say. This year a record 39 food vendors were approved for the State Street Mall and Capitol vending areas ? four more than last year and 13 more since 1997, the earliest year a consistent record was kept. In addition, up to eight carts are expected in the vending area on the southeast side of campus, now in its second year.

Madison aldermen, neighborhood students and police gathered at the Madison Senior Center Monday to discuss changes and protocol for Saturday?s Mifflin Street Block Party.

Members of the student government are ironing out the details of a plan that would give students with minor alcohol policy violations a chance to opt for a $50 class instead of a drinking ticket.

For a group of women at Yale, the last straw came in October, when fraternity pledges marched on campus shouting a sexually offensive slogan. The women complained to the Department of Education, which began an investigation by its Office of Civil Rights.

When she was sexually assaulted in a UW-Madison dorm last year, there were three other students present.

Three late-night campus bus services will have different routes and stop times by next semester, ultimately resulting in less frequent service to the Lakeshore residence hall area, Madison Metro announced late last week.

Living in Madison, it can be easy to take the University of Wisconsin?s Memorial Union for granted. Doesn?t every college town have a massive student center perched on a glorious swath of lakefront, with sailboats lazily gliding by in the summer? (I love to sip a New Glarus brew and watch for the Holstein-spotted one to go by.)

I?m glad Isthmus dedicated a cover story to the opening of the new Union South. Its a big project worthy of big print space. It?s a helluva upgrade from the eastern european airport terminal that we used to call Union South. Essentially, it looks like a facility built by rich people, rather than students.

I had the privilege of addressing the Phi Beta Kappa induction dinner in Great Hall at the Memorial Union last weekend, but the speech wasn?t anywhere near as exciting as what happened afterward.

Among those in attendance at the dinner was economics professor emeritus W. Lee Hansen, one of several distinguished Phi Beta Kappa lifetime members who came to applaud the 137 new inductees to the exclusive honor society that recognizes academic and leadership excellence in the liberal arts and sciences. One of the inductees, Steven Olikara, gave a speech on behalf of the new class.

Madison police called to a house left a man who had been drinking with a responsible party Monday night, believing the drinking was over for the night. The man didn?t get a second break when officers were called back to the home about 90 minutes later, police reported.

….UW-Madison and Madison Area Technical College are open, but instructors have been advised not to schedule important tests or deadlines for Good Friday at UW, in case students are not in class, ostensibly for religious reasons.

There?s no question that Union South is an enormous upgrade for the southwest side of campus, but the question remains: Will students use it? It will surely settle into being a prime meeting spot for the engineering community that lives and attends class nearby. The building is a convenient thirty-second walk from Wendt Library.

But the building also has enough features not found elsewhere – bowling, the climbing wall, and The Marquee – that it will probably draw crowds from other parts of campus, as well it should. The building definitely deserves the student body?s attention, so here?s hoping that the openness of the new Union South never feels like the emptiness of the old.

Metro Transit staff will hold a service input session on Tuesday, April 26 from 7 PM – 9 PM at Union South to present and discuss proposed service changes on the University of Wisconsin campus.

When most students think of Langdon Street, safety is rarely the first word that comes to mind, but one Madison Police Department officer?s entire job is making sure students can walk and play in the area free from harm.