University groups continued to take sides last week on the prospect of UW-Madison splitting off from the rest of the University of Wisconsin System. While the Teaching Assistants? Association – which represents nearly 3,000 graduate employees at the university – voted to oppose the plan, a group of students started a new organization in support, called Students for the New Badger Partnership.
“Teach Me How to Bucky” was a music video turned Internet sensation. Now, some of the men behind that video are making news for another reason – a battery incident that left multiple University of Wisconsin students injured at least one student seriously injured. That student suffered a broken nose, broken orbital bone, and a serious cut on his face.
A 19-year-old Madison man was left with broken bones after police said a fight broke out early Friday morning on Langdon Street over the “Teach Me How to Bucky” music video.
A financial dispute about the popular ?Teach Me How to Bucky? video resulted in a fight early Friday morning, a Madison Police report said.
With great traditions that define us, why is our state government trying to blast Wisconsin?s tradition of political activism by ramming the voter ID bill through the Legislature? I am an out-of-state student, but I have lived here for almost two years, so I consider myself a Wisconsin resident and voter. This voter ID bill would eliminate student IDs as an acceptable form of voter identification. Our ID cards are secure enough to be used as debit cards, so why not for voter registration?
More than a year-and-a-half ago, a woman known only as Jane Doe sued the Sigma Chi Fraternity because she said she was drugged and gang-raped at the UW-Madison chapter house. Last month, Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Timothy G. Dugan dismissed the civil case and last week, he ordered Jane Doe to pay Sigma Chi Fraternity and its underwriters a total of $11,514 for certain court costs.
Wade DalaGrana (Lesotho, 1977-79) and Angene Wilson (Liberia, 1962-64) were chatting Sunday afternoon outside a conference room at Monona Terrace as part of the “global education” element of the Peace Corps 50th birthday party. In the past 50 years, 2,942 UW-Madison alumni have served in the Peace Corps
Kaja Rebane wants Dane County residents to send a message that corporations aren?t people and money isn?t speech. The UW-Madison grad student helped organize a successful effort to put referenda on the April 5 ballot in both the city of Madison and Dane County.
Two men were arrested shortly after 3 a.m. Friday morning after a fight broke out on Langdon Street.
Twin brothers from Madison face battery charges after a fight that stemmed from a disagreement surrounding the taping of the popular music video, “Teach Me How To Bucky,” according to the Madison Police Department.
MADISON, Wis. — The University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor said if her school is allowed to spin off from the rest of the UW System she won?t recommend a tuition increase of more than 8.5 percent next year. Biddy Martin said the in-state rate hike would match what Madison students absorbed in the past year. She said grants would cover students from lower-income families.
NEW ORLEANS ? The University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team, like just about everyone else in the Crescent City, was swallowed up by Jimmer-mania this week. Instead of getting Jimmered in the NCAA tournament?s Southeast regional, however, the Badgers got Butlered.
For decades the theory that farmers are getting old and there are no young people taking over has been a popular subject of discussion presented by so-called ag experts. However, the line of young people waiting to take over the home farm or set out on their own career in farming or agribusiness is long and enthusiastic.
The recent 15th Badger Invitational Holstein heifer sale hosted by the UW-Madison Badger Dairy Club is a showcase of good dairy cattle and the 75 or so students who put the event together.
City Council candidates from four downtown districts worked to distinguish themselves on key neighborhood and city issues, from the city budget to the downtown entertainment district, at a forum Thursday night.
Cornell soon could join the growing ranks of universities with full-time Muslim chaplains working alongside the Christian and Jewish chaplains already common on college campuses.
As this fall?s freshman admissions season continues, the numbers are out and UW-Madison has seen a large increase in applications. At approximately 28,000 applications, this is a 12-percent rise compared to last year?s 25,522 applications.
All the city approvals are in place for a new four-story 44-unit apartment at 424 W. Mifflin St. Now, developer Pat McCaughey just needs to line up the financing.
This is the time of year when almost everyone is a sports fan. It?s hard to miss the NCAA tournament, and who would want to? It provides some of the best entertainment around. And it was hard not to come to work Monday morning without a bit of a glow after the way Wisconsin?s teams performed.
Japanese students who attend the University of Wisconsin, Madison are doing their part to help donate to the Japan relief efforts.
Some members of the UW Marching Band used their music skills to brighten the day of those in need.
The Joint Southeast Campus Committee heard new ideas Monday for the planned expansion of the St. Paul?s Catholic Center.
After initial concern over the height and proximity of a 14-story building planned for Library Mall, designers for St. Paul?s University Catholic Center presented a revised plan Monday that significantly scales back the height.
Leadership of St. Paul?s University Catholic Center announced Monday they are considering reducing the scope of their proposed 14-story, $45 million facility to be located on the State Street Mall.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Teaching Assistants? Association voted Sunday to pass a motion opposing the university being granted public authority status and breaking away from the UW System.
The motion reads: “The TAA opposes the New Badger Partnership, especially the separation of UW-Madison from the UW System, the formation of the public authority model, and the threat to affordability and accessibility it poses to public education and the lack of protection for labor unions on campus. The TAA also objects to the non-transparent and undemocratic process by which the New Badger Partnership was designed.”
** Eight UW-Madison graduates are receiving the Wisconsin Alumni Association?s 75th annual Distinguished Alumni Awards. This honor is the association?s highest accolade.
** A long-running battle over how student fees are distributed at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point is intensifying, with student senate leaders threatening the chancellor with a vote of “no confidence,” reports the Superior Telegram.
** Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. is speaking on the UW-Madison campus about ethics and race during a lecture on Thursday. Gates is to discuss issues aired in his PBS documentary “African-American Lives,” which showed how blacks are using genealogy and genetic science to understand their past.
Bowing to height concerns, officials with St. Paul?s University Catholic Center said Monday they likely will drop all student rental housing from their project on State Street Mall. The project would replace the outdated chapel and student center on the same site, 723 State St. The initial proposal had been heavily criticized by some students, neighbors and city officials as too tall for its surroundings.
UW-Madison received a record number of freshman applications this year, totaling over 28,000.
According to the school?s admissions website, that figure represents a 12 percent increase in applications from last year.
Regular-season conference champions, conference playoff champions, winners of 37 games, a team led by the nation?s most valuable player and now, after one of their best games of the season, national champions.
Erie, P.A. ? Four national championships in six years. It doesn?t get much better than that.
The Wisconsin women?s hockey team claimed the Western Collegiate Hockey Association conference trophy and playoff trophy, and now it completes the trifecta: bringing the National Championship trophy back to Madison after beating Boston University 4-1 Sunday afternoon.
In a move to provide all University of Wisconsin System campuses with new flexibilities to help combat extensive cuts in state funding, the Board of Regents endorsed a proposal that would retain the Madison campus as a member of the system in a meeting March 10.
In another demonstration of the University of Wisconsin?s increased visibility and positive recognition over the past year, a record number of prospective Badgers submitted freshman admission applications.
In the wake of an 8.9 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami off the coast of Japan that caused thousands of casualties and left many civilians without food, water or basic shelter, 14 University of Wisconsin students abroad in the country will return home following the suspension of all study abroad programs.
UW-Madison?s College Library recently touted a new acquisition, and it wasn?t the complete works of Dostoevsky or Byron. It was the video game, Call of Duty: Black Ops. The undergraduate library has had a video game collection since 2008. Since then, it?s grown to about 300 titles. Students checked them out nearly 5,000 times last year.
As she took what would turn out to be her final shot in college, Alyssa Karel hoped for the best, but deep down inside knew she was going to come up short.It was only fitting the ball would end up in Karel?s hands as the University of Wisconsin women?s basketball team attempted to finish off a furious rally against Illinois State in the final moments of their second-round WNIT game Sunday at the Kohl Center.
Another late March, another welcome home celebration for the NCAA champion University of Wisconsin women?s hockey team.It?s a scene that certainly never gets old for Mark Johnson, his players or the Badgers? loyal fan base.This year?s edition will be held Monday at the Nicholas Johnson Pavilion adjacent to the Kohl Center. The event, which starts at 6 p.m., is free and open to the public, and free parking is available in lots 88 and 91 starting at 5:30 p.m.
It?s great that the University of Wisconsin women?s hockey team will have a civic celebration Monday to celebrate its fourth NCAA title in the last six seasons, as well as Patty Kazmaier Award winner Meghan Duggan. One way to make the 6 p.m. get-together at the Nicholas-Johnson Pavilion even more special is to include UW swimmer Maggie Meyer.
ERIE, Pa. ? For months it?s been said that the heart, soul and character of the University of Wisconsin women?s hockey team is its rare chemistry. There was absolutely no reason to debate that Sunday afternoon when the top-ranked Badgers finished off one of the greatest seasons in history with a dominating 4-1 victory over Boston University in the NCAA championship game before a crowd of 3,956 at Tullio Arena.
Lin Zastrow, notorious homebody, isn?t ready to leave her home away from home just yet. Zastrow made sure she?ll get to hang around the Kohl Center for at least a few more days as she led the University of Wisconsin women?s basketball team to a 68-48 home victory over Butler in the first round of the WNIT on Wednesday night.
Bicycle use and abuse on Picnic Point will be the subject of a listening session at the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Memorial Union from 7-8:30 p.m. on Monday, March 21. “Bikes and pedestrians sometimes come into conflict on the narrow path running down the spine of Picnic Point,” says Bill Barker, chair of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve Committee. To deal with the issue, Barker said, the Lakeshore Nature Preserve Committee will reconsider the appropriateness of bicycle access to Picnic Point at the session.
For the past decade, women have outpaced men on key measures of college success. They attend college and graduate at higher rates, according to several studies, and they tend to earn higher grades. Yet on many campuses, student government is dominated by men, echoing gender gaps in state and national politics. At the 50 colleges ranked highest by U.S. News & World Report, less than a third of student presidents are women. Three of 12 major colleges in the Washington area have female student presidents: the University of the District of Columbia, Marymount University and Trinity Washington University, where nearly all students are women. The American Student Government Association estimates that 40 percent of student presidents nationwide are female, including those at community colleges. The share is believed to be lower at four-year colleges, though precise figures were unavailable.
A UW-Madison committee is considering banning bicycles from Picnic Point ? a beloved recreational spot in Madison ? due to continued conflict between pedestrians and ?irresponsible? cyclists.
More than 28,000 students applied to be part of UW-Madison?s freshman class in the fall, a record number and the biggest increase in at least 20 years. It?s a bump of 3,214 students, or 12.6 percent, from last year?s 25,522 applications. Adele Brumfield, UW-Madison?s director of admissions, attributes the increase to a number of factors: an increased presence internationally with UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin?s trips to China, prestigious awards for professors, $1 billion in research expenditures and more recruiting trips.
Author David Maraniss is fascinated by connections. Maraniss?s critically acclaimed history, ?They Marched Into Sunlight,? juxtaposes the stories of soldiers marching into an ambush in Vietnam with anti-war protests at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, all taking place over two days in October 1967.
It is these connections between people, places and time that provide the basis for two new dance works, together called ?March Into Sunlight,? premiering Saturday, March 26, at 8 p.m. in the Wisconsin Union Theater. The program is part of the Sunlight Project and Symposium, a three-day event focusing on war, peace and protest.
Officially, the WNIT will be the final part of the 2010-11 season for the University of Wisconsin women?s basketball team. But in many ways the postseason, which begins with Wednesday night?s game against Butler at the Kohl Center, represents a head start on the 2011-12 season.
It is a season that promises many transitions as the Badgers adjust to life without their senior class, which has been the heart of the program for three years. And no one figures to play a bigger role going forward than 6-foot sophomore guard Taylor Wurtz.
Jake Gardiner played two distinct roles for the University of Wisconsin men?s hockey team, which helps explain why the junior defenseman made the move he did Monday. Gardiner signed a three-year entry level contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs, forgoing his final season of college eligibility even though he said it may be a year or two before he reaches the NHL.
The 14 UW-Madison students studying in Japan can get a free flight back, but it?s too late for them to enroll in spring semester classes here. Advisors in UW-Madison?s International Academic Programs office informed the students by e-mail that if they choose to leave the country by Friday, their flight costs will be covered by insurance. After that date, expenses will no longer be covered unless evacuation becomes mandatory.
Senior forward Jon Leuer and junior guard Jordan Taylor from the University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team are among the finalists for the John R. Wooden Award, it was announced Monday. Leuer and Taylor are among 20 players on the final ballots for the award given to college basketball?s best player who also maintains at least a 2.0 grade point average and is making progress toward graduation.
Amid the rubble of a ruined season there are encouraging signs of life where the University of Wisconsin men?s hockey team is concerned. Two prominent underclassmen ? sophomore defenseman Justin Schultz and sophomore center and assistant captain Craig Smith ? have indicated they plan to return for 2011-12 instead of turning pro.
Jake Gardiner has signed an entry-level contract with the NHL?s Toronto Maple Leafs and will forego his senior season at the University of Wisconsin, according to a report on the Minneapolis Star-Tribune?s website. Michael Russo, who covers the Minnesota Wild and the NHL, broke the news and later tweeted that he had validated the report “100 percent.”
Catching up on a couple higher education-related items …
** How far would the University of Wisconsin-Madison men?s basketball team advance in the NCAA Tournament if winning was based on outcomes in the classroom? The Badgers would falter in the first round according to results of Inside Higher Education?s annual Academic Performance Tournament.
** A photo of UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin anchors the front page of this week’s Chronicle of Higher Education. The article is headlined: “Flagships Just Want to Be Alone.” The deck headline explains: “Hard times strain relations between big public research universities and their states.”
A recent UW study finds that white nurses work harder to ease their patients? suffering when those patients are also white. The finding fits in with decades of research showing a pattern of black patients consistently receiving less treatment from doctors and nurses than white patients. But it may not take much to fix this racial bias.
Universities nationwide are moving to establish on-campus recovery programs, some including residences, for students who have gone through drug or alcohol treatment. Plans are in the works for programs at Southern Methodist University in Texas and for a facility near New York University. Those schools would join Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Texas Tech and Rutgers University in New Jersey, which have established programs. It?s part of a trend of schools realizing they should provide resources for students with substance abuse problems, says Matt Russell, an associate director at Texas Tech?s College for the Study of Addiction and Recovery.
More than 1.5 million people have watched the University of Wisconsin hate on the University of Minnesota (and some other schools) in its now-viral “Teach Me How To Bucky.”
The Dane County District Attorney?s Office charged a Random Lake High School teacher Monday with beating his girlfriend, a UW-Madison student, and pushing her down a flight of stairs.
Gov. Walker?s two-year budget proposal was the subject of another big protest Monday. Student organizations ? along with pro-labor and faith groups ? gathered at UWM to oppose the governor?s plan to separate the Madison campus from the rest of the UW System.
There?s a new option for local bicyclists looking to shift their participation in the sport into a higher gear – an option that?s temperature-controlled. Speed Cycling, which opened in late November in Fitchburg, offers cyclists of all abilities an indoor place to train and helps them to become more involved in the area?s fast-growing “community of cyclists,” said co-owner Gordy Paulson. Speed Cycling sub-leases its space to other groups, such as the UW-Madison club cycling team.
Fourteen UW-Madison students studying abroad in Japan are believed to be safe, said university officials, after a massive earthquake struck off the coast, followed by a tsunami. Nine are studying in Tokyo, three in Nagoya in the north and two in Sapporo in the south.
The percent of state aid coming to UW-Madison has dropped over the years, but the university is still doing a little better than the average of its peers when it comes to the state dollars spent directly on students, according to data from the Chronicle of Higher Education. In the 2008 fiscal year, UW-Madison got about $8,600 per student, compared with an average of $8,400 at the nation?s major public research universities, the Chronicle reported. The amount of aid per student given to UW-Madison declined by 7 percent in five years.
The percent of state aid coming to UW-Madison has dropped over the years, but the university is still doing a little better than the average of its peers when it comes to the state dollars spent directly on students, according to data from the Chronicle of Higher Education.
The protests that rocked Madison over the last month drew union members and students ? but some key figures in the mobilizations were both. Members of the Teaching Assistants? Assn. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison spearheaded the two-week occupation of the Capitol that began Feb. 15 ? two days before Democratic senators fled the state to stall legislation limiting public employees? union rights. The students helped organize food and other supplies for the makeshift overnight campground in the rotunda.
