Category: Campus life

UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences Dean Molly Jahn will step down Jan 1., according to the university.

Just a few years ago, the most common Halloween garb on State Street for Madison?s traditional celebration was not Lady Gaga or a political candidate, but instead a line of police officers decked out in riot gear.

In the fall of 2005, some 100,000 college students stormed State Street, the main drag in Madison, Wis. Many of them looked for windows to smash, shops to loot, and things to set on fire.

Plans are in place for the fifth annual Freakfest in downtown Madison this weekend, but one local official says the cost of keeping it peaceful remains a concern.

A public visitation for UW-Madison senior Dylan Ellefson will be held Oct. 29 at the Cress Funeral Home in Sun Prairie from 5-8 p.m.

Approximately 40 advocates against sexual assault and domestic violence marched down State Street to the Capitol Wednesday to participate in the “Take Back the Night” event hosted by the Campus Women?s Center.

?Take back the night, the time is near! We will not be controlled by fear!? chanted about 50 students and community members as they marched up State Street toward the Capitol Wednesday night.

Madison police said they have arrested a 35-year-old homeless man suspected of grabbing a University of Wisconsin-Madison student while she was walking down State Street on Sunday night.

Stephanie Mendel has worked at the Dane County Detox Center for 13-years. She says every day is different, but one thing remains the same: the amount of money Tellurian gets for running Dane County?s Detox center. “We can?t afford to lose $100,000 doing this level of care.”

Noted: During Burton?s senior year of high school, she sought out to be a member of the most recognized urban arts collective at the University of Wisconsin-Madison called First Wave. This collective offers a full-tuition scholarship for all four years and it?s based around building an artistic community on campus. It was perfect for what Myriha wanted to do, which was pursue arts, and her financial situation, which was rough. Though it?s still tough financially and being 430 miles from everything she?s ever known to call home, she?s happy for her decision to attend school out of state (even if it?s Wisconsin).

Schoolhouse, meet Animal House. Hundreds of costumed kids will be exposed to the inner sanctums of Greek Row on Wednesday, during the traditional “Trick or Treat with the Greeks” on the UW-Madison campus.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison says its tuition surcharge on undergraduates has allowed 55 new faculty positions to be authorized and increased need-based financial aid.

In the wake of a University of Wisconsin student?s death Sunday, friends and family are mourning the loss as new information about the accident comes to light.

MADISON, Wis. — Madison police said they have arrested a 35-year-old homeless man suspected of grabbing a University of Wisconsin-Madison student while she was walking down State Street Sunday night.

Madison police said the 21-year-old UW-Madison student was walking with her 14-year-old sister on State Street Sunday night when a stranger grabbed the older sibling from behind and threw her over his shoulder. Police said the victim reported that the man who grabbed her seemed to either to be drunk or on drugs and was laughing.

Leadership of St. Paul?s University Catholic Center unveiled updated designs Monday for a new $45 million, 14-story facility on the State Street Mall.

The Rev. Eric Nielsen, St. Paul?s director, said the new 10,000-square-foot facility would include a modern student center with study and gathering spaces, and apartments to house up to 200 people. It also would include a chapel, which would seat about 500 people and use reclaimed elements of the current St. Paul?s sanctuary.

No one was seriously hurt when ebullient students rushed onto the field at Camp Randall two Saturdays ago to celebrate the Badgers? historic win over then-No. 1 Ohio State. This Saturday, city officials are so confident revelers will be peaceful during Madison?s annual Halloween blowout that they?ve cut the contingent of police working the event.

The UW-Madison is mourning the loss of one of its students who died Sunday afternoon in a crash on Madison?s Near East Side. According to Dean of Students Lori Berquam, the 12:30 p.m. crash killed Dylan Ellefson, 21, a senior who was studying to become a Spanish teacher.

In October, President Barack Obama came to Madison in a shameless attempt to beg the liberal-leaning student population on the UW-Madison campus to blindly vote for Democratic Party candidates Russ Feingold and Tammy Baldwin.

it?s changed the atmosphere from “let?s drink til we?re blind” to “hey, let?s socialize,” said a supporter who lives Downtown. It?s “legislated the corner bar, a classic Wisconsin thing, out of existence,” said an opponent who owns a bar Downtown. The two views capture the passion still brewing over the city?s alcohol density plan Downtown. Passed by the City Council in 2007, the plan aimed to limit the number of new taverns in the student-heavy district and reverse a troubling uptick in alcohol-related violent crime. With strong support from both the police and UW-Madison, the plan has momentum to be renewed in the spring.

Officials with the St. Paul Catholic Student Center at UW-Madison unveiled a new, less-boxy design Monday for a $45 million housing development and campus worship center. The design keeps the same square footage and 14-story height as an earlier version but presents it in a way that will better fit with surrounding historic buildings, they said.

Catholics on the UW campus have unveiled plans for a new facility. The Reverend Eric Nielson is director of St. Paul?s University Catholic Center on the Madison campus, a facility that?s showing it?s age.

A 21-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison student was killed on Sunday after a two-vehicle crash on East Johnson Street in Madison.

St. Paul?s University Catholic Center is hoping to renovate its outdated facilities.Center officials are planning to build a $45 million residential college building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.

Student leaders at the UW Platteville says the school?s at risk of losing some minority students after repeated incidents of racist graffiti. “At UWP, it?s ?what college should be?… I feel as a black student on campus… this is not what college should be,” Senior Darryl Meek says.About a week ago, two racist threats were discovered, scrawled on the doors of two residence halls.

A University of Wisconsin senior was killed in a car accident on his way to work Sunday afternoon on Madison?s near east side.

Recent acts of discrimination and assault against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals in the University of Wisconsin System have caused university officials and student to react, inspiring anti-bullying rallies and debates about freedom of speech.

MADISON – Members of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus community are remembering Dylan Ellefson as a warm and funny friend who would have made an outstanding Spanish teacher.

Ellefson, 21, was killed in a two-car accident in the 1400 block of East Johnson Street around 12:30 p.m. on Oct. 24, according to Madison Police. Madison Fire Rescue transported Ellefson to a nearby hospital where he later died, according the report.

Ellefson, originally of Sun Prairie, was majoring in Spanish education in the School of Education.

“Dylan was one of those friends that are too good to be true,” recalls his friend and roommate, UW-Madison senior Melissa Janssen. “He always had a big smile on his face. He enjoyed life so much! I remember him saying once that he wanted to live life for the laughter and funny moments.

Federal figures show reports of sexual assaults are more common at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay than at all but two other campuses in the UW system. The Green Bay Press-Gazette said Sunday the 29 reports of forcible sex offenses at UW-Green Bay from 2004 through 2008 are higher than numbers reported at larger UW campuses in Madison and Milwaukee. Only UW-Whitewater and UW-Oshkosh had more.

Good news for anyone trying to drive around the UW-Madison campus: construction season is nearing an end. Two-way traffic on North Park Street is scheduled to resume on or about next Wednesday, along with Observatory Drive. Buses 80 and 85 will be able to resume regular routes. Two-way traffic on Langdon Street, from Lake to Park Streets, is expected to resume in mid-November.

Nervousness, concern and embarrassment are among the lingering feelings of students this weekend following news of allegations that two University of Wisconsin-Green Bay soccer players sexually assaulted a student earlier this month.

Getting the most out of the college experience means many different things to the students of UW-Madison. And now, for the Foursquare addicts among them, it means becoming the mayor of the university.

A University of Wisconsin senior was killed in a car accident on his way to work Sunday afternoon on Madison?s near east side.

Federal figures show reports of sexual assaults are more common at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay than at all but two other campuses in the UW system.