Category: Campus life

Two former hockey players at the University of Wisconsin-Stout have been ordered to stand trial in the death of a fellow student who was allegedly shoved off his bicycle.

Thanks to funding from the Madison Initiative for Undergraduates, students in one University of Wisconsin class were able to help animals conceive offspring.

Members of the University of Wisconsin-Madison cycling team will be back on their trainers spinning in the cold on Thursday to raise money for the Safe Kids Coalition. The charity group provides car seats and bike helmets to people with limited means in the Madison area.

Nearly six months after his mother?s drowning in Lincoln county was ruled suspicious, a 24-year-old University of Wisconsin student is being charged with homicide and has a warrant issued for his arrest.

It?s refreshing to see University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly and chancellors of UW campuses, including Joe Gow of UW-La Crosse, call for civility. Sadly, this year has seen its share of problems, both here and throughout the system.

A University of Wisconsin junior was arrested in Madison Monday and accused of murdering his mother, who drowned in a lake in Northern Wisconsin in June.

After 25 cases of hate-crime graffiti, UW Platteville officials move some black student leaders to secret locations.

Police arrested a man they say is wanted for murder in Lincoln County. Boruch is a UW-Madison student.

In the wake of a number of racist incidents on the University of Wisconsin-Platteville campus, faculty members are stepping in.

The UW System released a statement in response to violence, bullying and vandalism on campuses across the state this fall, including a series of hate crimes on the UW-Whitewater campus.

It?s with sadness and concern that I have followed stories of physical and emotional assaults of students on and around various UW System campuses.

Nineteen people were arrested Saturday and 43 were ejected from the Wisconsin Badgers football game against the Northwestern Wildcats at Camp Randall Stadium, UW-Madison police said.

A Wisconsin man received his dying wish to see his son graduate from college, thanks to a little help from the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh.

A lawsuit between Dane County and the family of a slain UW-Madison student has been settled. Under the agreement, Dane County will contribute $5,000 to the Brittany Zimmermann reward fund and $2,5000 to the family?s attorney.

It?s good to see the Madison Plan Commission keeping an open mind about taller buildings Downtown. Commission members expressed interest Monday in a proposed 14-story Catholic center with student housing located on the edge of the UW-Madison campus. St. Paul?s Catholic Student Center wants to replace its much smaller and aging existing building with a $45 million worship center that could house up to 175 students and a chapel.

The president of the University of Wisconsin System and its 14 chancellors are calling for civility after reports of harassment and violence that included the death of one student.In the most recent incidents, the off-campus homes of two UW-Platteville students were vandalized Monday night, said Platteville Police Chief Doug McKinley. Racial slurs targeting blacks were written in marker, one on a door to an apartment and another on a window. A letter by UW System President Kevin Reilly and the chancellors says everyone should work to prevent the behavior that has included vandalism, bullying and assault. The system scheduled a conference on civility for Feb. 22-24 at UW-Oshkosh.

UW-Platteville students and community members are dealing with two dozen hate crimes reported since the beginning of the fall semester.

A University of Wisconsin campus is reaching out to former students who never finished their degrees. UW-Oshkosh has had the program for several years and is now showing other schools how it?s done.

UW-Stout is reacting to reports that students have been harassed because of their sexual orientation.

Two leaders of the Black Student Union found derogatory words written on their homes.

Platteville: UW Platteville has been dealing with a racial graffiti problem for some time, with racial slurs written in campus buildings.

The University of Wisconsin System president and its 14 chancellors are calling for civility after reports of harassment and violence that included the death of one student.

Officials with the St. Paul Catholic Student Center at UW-Madison say they?ll move forward with plans for a 14-story campus worship facility and housing development after getting what they called encouraging feedback Monday from the city Plan Commission. The proposed $45 million student center would replace ? on the same site ? the Catholic campus facility at 723 State St. on State Street Mall.

St. Paul?s University Catholic Center is hoping to raze its existing building and replace it with a new one.

The worldwide economic downtown hasn?t put a big dent in college study abroad programs. An annual study shows a slight decline in U.S. students participating; however UW-Madison ranked 8th for participation.

The student center does not operate as a traditional Catholic parish, but is run by a 10-person lay board that is responsible for overseeing the center?s $800,000 annual operating budget, said the Rev. Eric Nielsen, St. Paul?s priest. Most of the money comes from foundations and people who support campus ministry and higher education, he said.

Sorority members gave five tours of their houses on Langdon Street Sunday, most of them populated by five or six people, said Maria Lopez, who helped organize the event. “We?re starting out small, but we?re hoping to make it a bigger event next year.”

International students at La Crosse?s three higher education institutions generate more than $9.5 million in spending for the local economy in 2009-10, according to NAFSA: Association of International Educators.

UW-Madison?s international students brought in the most money, with about 4,300 students contributing more than $99.8 million, according to the report.

“Blackout in a can” and “liquid cocaine” are just two names used to describe an alcoholic, caffeinated drink that federal officials have now deemed as unsafe for public consumption. Some University of Wisconsin-Madison students who like the drink are heading to local liquor stores and stocking up while they can.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is joining other schools around the country in purchasing apparel from a Dominican Republic factory that pays its workers a living wage.

With Thanksgiving just around the corner, hundreds of UW students are coming together to fight hunger in Dane County. The third annual Red and White Hunger Fight wrapped up Wednesday night.

UW-Madison ranks in the top ten among all U.S. research institutions for the number of students who earn academic credit abroad, according to an Institute of International Education report based on the 2008-?09 academic year.

The Institute of International Education ranked the University of Wisconsin among the top 10 in the nation for study abroad programs, UW officials announced Tuesday.

On Wisconsin! Those words greeted me during my ascent of the Great Wall last summer while studying abroad in Tianjin, China. After I was mobbed by Chinese tourists eager to take a picture with me and get an autograph from a “real” American, those two words were as welcome as an Ian?s pizza on Friday night. What made me more ecstatic was this person, one of the few foreigners I saw outside of Beijing, was an alumnus of UW-Madison.