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 six University of Wisconsin football captains made an appeal to season ticket holders via email Tuesday morning to show up for the final home game of the season on Saturday against Northwestern.
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.
Representatives from the Division of State Facilities, UW System, UW-Madison School of Music and other campus offices have selected an architect firm to design the new School of Music performance center.
Making their rounds to several city committees, officials with the St. Paul Catholic Student Center and Residential College at UW-Madison presented plans for the proposed redevelopment of the center to the Plan Commission Monday.
While many University of Wisconsin students consider Thanksgiving a time to take a break from school, return home and eat delicious food for a change, the true meanings and origins of the holiday are still remembered.
The Madison Plan Commission passed the proposal for construction to begin on the Kohl Center and Nicholas Johnson Pavilion, which would add a new hockey arena and locker room facilities to the existing structures.
The University of Wisconsin football team is playing for at least a share of the Big Ten Conference title on Saturday against Northwestern at Camp Randall Stadium and the game is not yet a sellout. Big Ten football titles don?t come around these parts too often. The Badgers are attempting to secure their 12th in school history. About 1,000 tickets remained as of late Monday afternoon, despite aggressive marketing tactics, including a deal in which football tickets were packaged with tickets to the UW men?s hockey game against Michigan State that night.
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.
Wisconsin has long been touted as ?a leader? in education. The latest statistics show we are the top ranked state in the nation when it comes to high school graduation rates. We graduate 89 percent of our students.
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.
New legislation introduced in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives on Thursday would require institutions of higher learning to have anti-harassment policies in order to receive federal funding if passed.
As a sophomore last year on the UW-Madison campus, Jeffrey Vinokur decided he?d had it with dancing alone. So Vinokur, a biochemistry major from New Jersey with a talent and passion for the hip-hop subspecialty called “popping,” rallied student dance groups from every genre and every corner of campus. “It seemed like dancers (across campus) didn?t have much interaction, even though we share something powerful,” he said. “I wanted to create a more cohesive community.” He began pairing student dance clubs for style-bending collaborations over several months, capped by a one-day Madison Dance Conference. The idea was such a success that this year?s Madison Dance Conference stretches over a full weekend, with free dance workshops for the public Saturday and Sunday and a two-hour dance performance and social dance Sunday evening in the Memorial Union?s Great Hall.
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.
….Sundance manager Merijoy Endrizzi-Ray said demand for seeing the new “Harry Potter” movie was huge, and both the film?s midnight screenings sold out less than a week after they went on sale. Both theaters were bought out by UW-Madison dorms who are hitting the movie en masse, Endrizzi-Ray said.
“They?re just at that age, where they started the first books when they were kids, and now they?re in college,” she said.
They come from the United States, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Finland, Germany, Sri Lanka, and the list goes on. They run businesses ranging from a social-network application that is claiming 20,000 new users a day, to a company that turns the scraps from textile processing into rugs sold around the world, to a company that arranges travel and accommodations for college football fans headed to away games.
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.
The Wisconsin State Building Commission gave final approval to a new UW-Madison hockey and swimming facility Wednesday.
For more than a decade there?s been a small but vocal group of students, faculty and staff on the UW-Madison campus trying to curb sweatshop abuses at companies that produce college-logoed apparel. To be certain, over the past year alone there have been some noteworthy victories against sportswear giants such as Russell Athletic and Nike.
But as a university official confided over the summer, significant change in this industry seems unlikely until consumers start shunning companies that have little interest in paying living wages — and start buying from those that do.
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.
UW-Madison students are studying overseas in record numbers, particularly in China, according to a report this week from a national group. The Open Doors Report from the Institute of International Education ranked UW-Madison fourth among all U.S. research institutions for students studying overseas for a semester in the 2008-09 school year.
The report also placed UW-Madison sixth for studying abroad in year-long programs.
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.
The Joint Southeast Campus Area Committee unanimously recommended plans for a new UW athletics ice hockey and swimming facility Monday.
The city of Madison Joint Southeast Campus Area Committee reviewed and approved the new University of Wisconsin hockey and swimming facility plan Monday.
Everyday masses of students march up and down Bascom Hill at the University of Wisconsin and on their way, pass a piece of history.
A man allegedly peeping into bedroom windows has been reported in a housing area near the UW-Madison campus.
They scored and they scored and they scored some more. And it poured and it poured and it poured some more. Saturday?s twin deluge of points and rain may have pained the Indiana Hoosiers and their faithful. But the real hurt fell to the forearms, biceps and noses of the three Bucky Badgers at Wisconsin?s 83-20 massacre of Indiana at Camp Randall.
Three cheers for the members of the UW Band who were riding their bikes on a wet, dark and cold early Saturday morning down Walnut street with instruments on their backs for a final game day rehearsal.
UW-Madison Police issued 14 citations, ejected 26 people, and made 13 arrests at the Badgers 83-20 blowout of Indiana on Saturday.
A group of runners decided Sunday to bare it all. About 150 people brought clothes and ran in the annual “Bare it All for Charity” 5k at UW-Madison.
“KKK” was spray painted on three cars owned by African-American UW-Whitewater students Monday, marking the third hate crime at the university this semester, UW-Whitewater Chancellor Richard Telfer said.
On another seasonally warm night in November, friends and family members gathered at the University of Wisconsin to share memories about a student whose impact on their lives will never be forgotten.
Police at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater are investigating a hate crime involving three African-American students that occurred hours after school officials condemned an alleged anti-gay assault.
For the second time this week and third time in the last few months, police on the campus of The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater are investigating a hate crime.
A group of UW cadets paid a special visit to veterans hospitalized at the VA Medical Center.ROTC students from the Army, Air Force and Navy delivered appreciation cards to patients in honor of Veterans Day. The group says they make cards for VA patients for holidays throughout the year.
Approximately 200 students, faculty, and community members gathered on Bascom Hill to participate in the making of a video hosted by the LGBT Campus Center and UW Housing Wednesday.
More than 70 people participated in a video shoot to raise awareness about bullying of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals Wednesday.
Three cars owned by African-American students at UW-Whitewater were vandalized this week, in what university officials are describing as the third hate crime incident on campus this semester. The owners of the vehicles notified police that the tires were slashed and “KKK” was written in spray paint on the doors and hoods. The cars were parked in residence hall lots and the incidents happened between 11 p.m. Monday and 10 a.m. Tuesday.
WHITEWATER, Wis. — The chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater said he?s working with students on strategies to prevent people from committing hate crimes on campus. Chancellor Richard Telfer made the pledge after authorities said a freshman student walking on the north side of campus at about 6:45 p.m. on Sunday was approached by two men, and one of the men shoved her into a fence and called her “gay” before letting her go.
ABC News posted an eye-opening story about a business professor at the University of Central Florida catching some 200 students cheating on a mid-term exam. The report shows an emotional Richard Quinn telling his business management class that as many as a third of the 600 students in his course had cheated. Quinn was tipped off by a student who anonymously gave him a copy of the exam with the answers.
Perhaps the most disturbing part of this story is one student at Central Florida telling ABC: “This is college, everyone cheats. Everyone cheats in life in general…”
Zachary Chappell was a wrestler at Madison East, but he?s become a reputable track and field athlete in college. In Peru. The University of Wisconsin senior, a Latin American Studies major who is in his second semester in a study abroad program in Lima, Peru, earned three medals for University Pontifica Catolica at a regional competition last weekend.
On the eve of Veterans Day, some R.O.T.C students at UW-Madison are showing their appreciation for the soldiers who came before them.
The University of Wisconsin System has launched a new website with information about all of its online degree programs in one place.
Six presidents, six University of Wisconsin chancellors and one presidential visit later, a downtown Madison fixture closed up shop Tuesday afternoon after 31 years weathering a constantly changing Madison landscape.
As if one was not appalling enough, this Sunday the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater had its second alleged hate crime on its campus this semester.
