University of Wisconsin officials have told students to expect classes on Thursday even though teacher assistants are calling for a “teach out” on campus.
UW Remains Open, TAA Calls For ‘Teach Out’
WISC-TV 3
Category: Campus life
UW-Madison Chancellor speaks out about rumors
WKOW-TV 27
UW-Madison chancellor Biddy Martin is speaking out about what she calls misleading headlines about the UW?s hope for a new partnership with the state.
Martin hopeful UW-Madison split from System included in Walker’s budget (WisPolitics.com)
UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin said today she?s hopeful that the campus will be split into a new public authority in Gov. Scott Walker?s budget bill, arguing that questions of administrative structure aren?t as important as the strength of the state?s research university.
Martin clarifies confusion over new model
Badger Herald
A January memo containing explicit details on the University of Wisconsin?s plan for increased flexibility was a hypothetical response to hypothetical questions, Chancellor Biddy Martin said Thursday.
After more than 400 students walk out, TAs call ?teach out?
Badger Herald
With continued uncertainty over the fate of the budget repair bill reigning over the Capitol, University of Wisconsin students organized a mass walkout from classes Thursday morning, and teaching assistants called for all activity on campus to halt.
Chancellor defends talks with state
Daily Cardinal
After being accused of misleading students regarding the proposed split from the UW System, UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin held a press conference Thursday in hopes of dispelling what she deems inaccurate rumors.
Campus Connection: Key Republican will fight Walker’s UW plan
Capital Times
If UW-Madison is granted the authority to set its own tuition rates, a key Republican legislator won?t be backing Gov. Scott Walker?s apparent plans to break Wisconsin?s flagship institution away from the UW System.
The Necessity of the New Badger Partnership (The Campus First)
So, I was initially going to wait and blog this after the Senate voted on the Budget Repair Bill, but seeing as how events today are stacking up, that won?t happen soon.
?New Badger Partnership is 100% necessary to ensure the survival of UW-Madison as we know it.? (University and State)
?New Badger Partnership is 100% necessary to ensure the survival of UW-Madison as we know it. The question becomes this: do you want Biddy Martin in control of UW or people like Scott Walker? I?ll take the one with at least a B.A.
Teachers, TAA protest over bargaining rights
Daily Cardinal
UW-Madison Teaching Assistants and Madison teachers and students joined protesters in and around the Capitol rotunda throughout the day Wednesday.
Rallies in opposition to budget repair bill enter 3rd day
Badger Herald
The third day of mass protesting against the budget repair bill on the Capitol steps on Wednesday was marked by another day without arrests or any major disturbances and an emphasis on the importance of the state?s educators and student life.
TAs will stage ?teach-out? as UW administration urges students to attend classes
Badger Herald
In their most extreme display of student opposition to Gov. Scott Walker?s budget repair bill so far, teaching assistants at the University of Wisconsin announced they will hold an off-campus ?teach-out? to continue protests against the legislation.
ALRC votes to extend law limiting bars downtown, discusses changes that would loosen law
Wisconsin State Journal
The city?s Alcohol License Review Committee voted Wednesday night to extend an ordinance aimed to limit the growth of new taverns in the student-heavy Downtown district and reverse an uptick in alcohol-related violent crime. The alcohol license density ordinance, passed by the City Council in 2007 and scheduled to sunset on March 5, was extended to July 5 and will be up for a final council vote at the March 1 meeting.
Letter reveals Chancellor knew of proposed split from UW System
Daily Cardinal
Despite professing a lack of details about UW-Madison?s relationship with the state at three student forums, a drafted letter obtained by The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel revealed Wednesday that Chancellor Biddy Martin advocated for the university?s separation from the UW system, and knew it was likely.
Revelations: The Cloak Has Been Lifted (The Campus First)
I wrote this in a fit of passion and the language is strong. I?ve had time to rationally think everything through and I think my feelings are more aligned with Erik Paulson?s. Read his comment down below (it?s long) for that. I was just trying to express my professional disappointment in the entire process; I feel that I have been slighted by administrators whom I trusted. So if some of this reads as a little bitter, it probably is.
Editorial: WALK OUT!
Badger Herald
At 10 a.m. today, drop everything.Stand up and walk out of that classroom door to meet your fellow students at Library Mall at 10:30 a.m. Walk up State Street. Wave some signs. Yell at the top of your lungs. And protest the budget repair bill with everything you have got.
Student organizations react to Budget Repair Bill
Daily Cardinal
As thousands of protestors flooded campus on their way to the Capitol, some UW-Madison student groups tried to make sense of the proposed Budget Repair Bill for students.
TAA seeks stronger response from UW
Badger Herald
The Teaching Assistant Association (TAA) calls on Chancellor Biddy Martin to take a strong stance in opposition to Gov. Scott Walker?s budget repair bill. Her response to the bill to this point has been anything but.
Unknown persons vandalize statue
Badger Herald
A Madison icon marking over 30 years of campus and community history from the frozen waters of Lake Mendota was vandalized early this week on the University of Wisconsin campus.
The Badger Herald: Joint Finance public hearing goes until morning
Badger Herald
Amid protests in and around the Capitol Tuesday, hundreds of citizens testified their concerns with the budget repair bill to the state?s main financial committee, lasting the majority of the day and into the early hours of this morning.
On Campus: Update: UW-Madison’s Lady Liberty statue vandalized, may be salvageable
Wisconsin State Journal
A piece of Madison history is in pieces. Vandals struck the replica of the Statue of Liberty – which rises from the ice of Lake Mendota.
Hundreds protest Wis. plan to cut worker rights
Madison.com
Hundreds of Wisconsin?s public employees clogged a hearing for hours and camped out in the state Capitol overnight in a desperate attempt to delay action on Republican Gov. Scott Walker?s plan to strip away most of their collective bargaining rights. The Legislature?s finance committee is preparing to vote on the measure, which would end collective bargaining for all state, county and local workers except for police, firefighters and the state patrol. “So many people are against this,” UW-Madison senior Kylie Christianson said early Wednesday as she sat in the Capitol rotunda on her blanket, putting the finishing touches on a protest sign. “His job is to help us, not to hurt us.”
Dems take testimony through the night as budget bill committee vote set for noon
Wisconsin State Journal
Hundreds of Wisconsin?s public employees clogged a hearing for hours and camped out in the state Capitol overnight in a desperate attempt to delay action on Republican Gov. Scott Walker?s plan to strip away most of their collective bargaining rights. The measure would end collective bargaining for all state, county and local workers except for police, firefighters and the state patrol. Two floors below the hearing, dozens of University of Wisconsin-Madison teaching assistants and students surged into the Capitol rotunda late Tuesday evening, putting down sleeping bags and blankets. Many were still asleep on the floor when the hearing ended.
Grass Roots: Labor activists strategize for ‘class war’ ignited by Walker budget bill
Capital Times
What?s happening now in Wisconsin, with thousands of workers flooding the Capitol to protest Gov. Scott Walker?s move to snuff the collective bargaining power of public employees, is much more than backlash against a union-busting maneuver, labor activists and their supporters said Tuesday evening at a forum at the Orpheum Theatre in downtown Madison. It is, they insist, the first counter-strike in a class war being waged against workers.
Blood vessel stent technology awarded top UW-Madison prize
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A mechanical engineering senior has for the second year in a row claimed the top prize in the University of Wisconsin – Madison?s Schoofs Prize for Creativity, the school said Monday.
Brain drain: Are we losing our best, brightest when they graduate?
Amy Lewis catches herself browsing the Internet for jobs when she should be doing homework. The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse senior has a world of job opportunities at her fingertips ? and many of them are out of state.
Wisconsin Students Protest Governor’s Attack on Unions (The Nation)
Protests have engulfed the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where students are standing against a proposed bill that threatens teacher?s unions. The outcries come as the state?s new Republican Governor Scott Walker announced a plan to end collective bargaining for most of the state?s 175,000 public employees.
ASMatters?
Badger Herald
As students at the University of Wisconsin, we?re fortunate to be party to a strong and vibrant history of political activism, civil disobedience and an enthusiasm for social change.
U. of Wisconsin Students and Professors Join Thousands Rallying Against Governor’s Plan
Chronicle of Higher Education
Thousands of protesters gathered on the steps of the Wisconsin State Capitol here on Tuesday to voice their opposition to a fast-moving proposal that would strip the union bargaining rights for University of Wisconsin faculty and staff members, while almost eliminating bargaining rights for nearly all other state workers, including graduate students.
College Republicans dispute ASM e-mail
Badger Herald
Monday morning, the Associated Students of Madison sent an e-mail to the student body attacking Gov. Scott Walker?s ideas to solve the budget crisis. The message claimed to be informative and representative of the stance that is supposedly in the best interest of the students.
Letter to the Editor: Biddy’s response to Budget Repair Bill: Disappointing
Daily Cardinal
The Teaching Assistant Association (TAA) calls on Chancellor Biddy Martin to take a strong stance in opposition to Gov. Walker?s budget repair bill. Her response to the bill to this point has been anything but.
Walker?s budget plan sparks protest
Daily Cardinal
Hundreds of Madison residents, including UW students and faculty, rallied at the state capitol to protest Gov. Scott Walker?s budget repair bill Monday, kicking off what promises to be a turbulent week for the new governor.
Students, TAA rally for workers? rights in march to the Capitol
Badger Herald
The voices of University of Wisconsin staff members, students and community members shouting ?Kill this bill? reverberated through the Capitol rotunda Monday as nearly 1,100 protesters marched down State Street to the governor?s office door.
On Campus: Another $10,000 idea for UW-Madison student
Wisconsin State Journal
Another year, another $10,000 idea from UW-Madison senior Tom Gerold. For the second year in a row, Gerold won the Schoofs Prize for Creativity – worth $10,000 – for coming up with an innovative and marketable idea at UW-Madison?s Innovation Days.
On Campus: Happy 125th birthday, UW Marching Band
Wisconsin State Journal
Happy quasquicentennial, UW Marching Band!UW-Madison is celebrating 125 years since the earliest rendition of the UW Marching Band. It was called the Wisconsin Regimental Band when it was first authorized in fall of 1885.
On Campus: Tuition discount for some legacy students approved by UW Regents
Wisconsin State Journal
Some University of Wisconsin System schools are trying to lure out-of-state students by giving a discount to the children of alumni, under a program known as Return to Wisconsin. The program has been operating as a pilot, but the UW Board of Regents voted to make it permanent Friday. The Return to Wisconsin program gives up to a 25 percent discount off the price of out-of-state tuition to the children or grandchildren of alumni who don?t live in Wisconsin. Currently, seven institutions participate in the program. But don?t count on UW-Madison joining any time soon. It?s not cost-effective for the state?s flagship university, said Joanne Berg, vice provost for enrollment management.
Both campus editorial boards at UW-Madison back the New Badger Partnership (University and State)
There?s the student voice for you. Two groups that aggregate campus opinion without direct ties to self-interested political groups. They recognize the reasonable nature of the plan, lack of coherent alternatives from opposition, and general need to give UW-Madison flexibility.
To respect the game, students must first learn to respect the players … from both schools
Daily Cardinal
For a while Saturday afternoon I thought the events that had transpired at the Kohl Center brought out nothing but the best this university has to offer. Then I read this on Twitter:
Oates: Taylor’s one-man show is one for the ages
Madison.com
The University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team wasn?t taking any chances Saturday against top-ranked Ohio State. But all the Badgers really needed was Jordan Taylor. Taylor, UW?s underappreciated junior point guard, will be underappreciated no more after the show he put on in the second half to lead the 13th-ranked Badgers to a 71-67 victory over the previously undefeated Buckeyes at the revved-up Kohl Center. It was only the second time in school history UW has knocked off the No. 1 team and it triggered a wild celebration on the court.
Taylor sparks a rally as UW stuns No. 1 Ohio State
Madison.com
Thad Matta looked at the stat sheet after the University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team?s stirring 71-67 victory over No. 1 Ohio State and couldn?t help but notice the Buckeyes did just about everything better than the Badgers Saturday afternoon at the Kohl Center. “They had to play, for that stretch, darned near perfect to get us and they did,” Matta said after the No. 13 Badgers handed the Buckeyes their first loss of the season behind a bolt-of-lightning 15-0 run that ignited one of the greatest rallies in program history. If few outside the state of Wisconsin knew who Jordan Taylor was before this game, the Badgers? 6-foot-2 junior guard delivered an emphatic introduction with the 27-point, seven-assist, four-rebound hammer he pounded on what was the last undefeated team in NCAA Division I.
Walker prepared to call up the National Guard
Badger Herald
In response to questions about possible state employee reactions to his new budget repair bill Friday, Gov. Scott Walker said he has contingency plans and is prepared to call up the state?s National Guard if necessary.
UW responds to Walker?s budget repair bill
Badger Herald
In the wake of Gov. Scott Walker?s announcement of a budget repair bill, some University of Wisconsin students and faculty are preparing to mobilize in opposition an act that would eliminate many collective bargaining rights of unionized employees.
Extensive campus construction to begin in coming weeks
Badger Herald
Students can expect construction on the new Gordon Commons and Lakeshore residence hall to begin in the coming weeks as part of a vast University of Wisconsin Division of Housing plan to overhaul the campus neighborhoods.
On Campus: UW-Madison students to Walker: “Don’t Break My (heart)”
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison students and staff plan to deliver Valentine?s Day cards to Gov. Scott Walker today that read, “We (heart) UW: Don?t Break My (heart),” as a protest to his budget repair bill that eliminates collective bargaining rights for public workers. The delivery is set to take place at 12:15 p.m. today at Walker?s office in the Capitol.
More older students head to college; programs help
USA Today
It?s no longer unusual to see older students on college campuses around the country. About half of today?s students are financially independent, 49% are enrolled part time, 38% work full time, and 27% have dependents of their own, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.
Board of Regents hear from experts on tuition and student alcohol consumption
Daily Cardinal
The Wisconsin Board of Regents met Thursday to hear from experts on two of the most pressing issues in college life: Tuition and alcohol.
UW researcher gets 1.5 million to look at diversity programing
Badger Herald
As University of Wisconsin students and faculty begin to revive lines of communication to improve campus climate, two researchers have received $1.5 million to study and support successful outreach programs in minority-serving institutions.
Regents talk ?sticker price? of education
Badger Herald
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents heard a presentation about sticker-price effects and the benefits of higher education during a meeting Thursday, and a board committee approved requests for facility expansions and land acquisitions for UW.
On Campus: College sticker price can be deceptive, expert says
Wisconsin State Journal
Some students experience “sticker shock” when looking at college costs, said Sandy Baum, a higher education expert who spoke to the UW Board of Regents Thursday. That?s because a college?s listed tuition and fees are often far greater than the amount students actually pay, Baum said, with the aid of grants and scholarships.
Mayor proposes annual city snow day, rail reform at WISPIRG event
Daily Cardinal
Just weeks before the mayoral primary, Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz spoke about hot-button issues to an enthusiastic crowd of over 250 students at the Wisconsin Student Public Interest Research Group kick-off meeting Wednesday night.
Cieslewicz urges students to renew advocacy efforts
Badger Herald
Mayor Dave Cieslewicz encouraged University of Wisconsin student advocates to renew their efforts to influence environmental policy-making on campus and at the state level by educating fellow students and the larger campus community.
Greyhound bus parking near Memorial Union sparks debate
Daily Cardinal
The dispute over bus parking on Langdon Street near Memorial Union was the topic of debate at the Transit and Parking Commission meeting Tuesday night.
Possible benefits, drawbacks for voter ID bill on UW campus
Badger Herald
When University of Wisconsin junior Erica Winters voted in the midterm election, she did not have a Wisconsin driver?s license or state identification to show poll workers. She did not have to show them any form of photo ID at all.
Bus routes cause traffic problems for Union
Badger Herald
After the arrival of Greyhound Bus Lines caused the the elimination of several parking spaces along Langdon Street throughout the past several weeks, city officials have intervened to begin solving the controversy.
Construction zone: The business case for Union South (IBMadison.com)
Anyone who remembers the stolid concrete façade and aloof interiors of the old Union South ? which to many a weary studier suffered greatly in comparison to the vibrant gemütlichkeit of the iconic Memorial Union ? is sure to be tantalized by the prospect of the bigger, more modern, presumably more inviting (and fun) new Union South.
Extensive campus construction to begin in coming weeks
Badger Herald
Students can expect construction on the new Gordon Commons and Lakeshore residence hall to begin in the coming weeks as part of a vast University of Wisconsin Division of Housing plan to overhaul the campus neighborhoods.
Students Oppose Plans For Mifflin Street Development
WISC-TV 3
Some UW students are worried a developer?s plan to build a new apartment building in the Mifflin Street neighborhood will drive up the cost of rent in the campus-area neighborhood.
The plans call for turning Mifflin?s vacant Planned Parenthood building into a 4-story, 45-unit apartment complex. While developers are hoping to offer something new, a group of student residents said that offer may compromise the character of the neighborhood.
At issue with Ben Merens (WPR)
Wisconsin Public Radio
College freshmen are experiencing increasing declines in emotional health, according to a new survey. After five, Ben Merens and his guest discuss how students? mental health has been impacted by the recession and concerns about their futures, and why women are faring less well than men. Guests: Linda DeAngelo, Higher Education Research Institute, University of California, Los Angeles Danielle R. Oakley, Director of Counseling & Consultation Services, University Health Services, UW-Madison. (Audio.)
Polls: Young non-drinkers up in down economy
USA Today
Outside the Classroom, an organization that provides alcohol education training at colleges, finds that since 2006, the percentage of incoming freshmen who abstain from alcohol has jumped from 38% to 62%.
Berquam: A word of encouragement to engage in New Badger Partership
Badger Herald
As we battle the cold weather and accumulating snow, spring semester is upon us. We are adjusting to new classes, new experiences and new opportunities. Through all of this, I can sense a buzz around campus regarding the New Badger Partnership and what it entails. I?d like to take a moment to throw my support behind this initiative.