Category: Campus life

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.

This isn?t 2008.

The authors of a recently released survey by Harvard University?s Institute of Politics report that over the past 11 months there has been a drop-off in college-age voters? enthusiasm for politics — a flip-flop from the trend leading up to the 2008 elections, when the youth vote helped carry Barack Obama to the presidenc

The murder of his son seven years ago has turned Robert McGuigan into an activist against compulsive gambling. As he puts it, “If I can save just one family from having to go through what I?ve been through, my work will be worth it. “Jason McGuigan was 28 when he was murdered by Meng-Ju “Mark” Wu over a gambling debt. Two innocent men, Dustin J. Wilson, 17, and Daniel R. Swanson, 25, were also killed in the Verona home they shared in the early morning of June 26, 2003.

Freakfest is just around the corner. Next Saturday, thousands will dress up and take to the streets for Madison?s annual Halloween bash.

Approximately 100 people attended a vigil on Library Mall Wednesday night in honor of LGBTQ students across the country who have been affected by bullying. The event was co-hosted by the LGBT Campus Center and the UW Housing Diversity Squad.

In the wake of the recent suicides and assaults on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender teens and students across the country, University of Wisconsin campus organizations banded together to stop the silence Wednesday night.

Gabe Peeples didn?t act very girly as a child, but wore feminine clothing and was teased in school. Aiden Caes was spat on and run off the road as a teenager. According to others who spoke at a vigil on a chilly Wednesday evening on Library Mall, treatment such as this toward people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or questioning has not improved. Amid the glow of small purple lights, with many people sporting purple shirts and armbands, dozens of students and Madison residents gathered to recognize the effect of bullying that has led to suicides among gay teenagers. The Stop the Silence vigil, which began in 2008, is held to acknowledge the prevalence of bullying, harassment and homophobia, said Kassie Brown with the UW-Madison LGBT campus center, which held the vigil.

Dozens of people gathered Wednesday night in hopes of putting an end to bullying based on a person?s sexual orientation.

Approximately 100 people attended a vigil on Library Mall Wednesday night in honor of LGBTQ students across the country who have been affected by bullying. The event was co-hosted by the LGBT Campus Center and the UW Housing Diversity Squad.

UW-Madison’s LGBT campus center has launched a campaign called “Stop the Silence.” Dean of Students Lori Berquam says that she hopes that the community will start to pay attention to the connection between bullying and a student taking his or her own life.

In the wake of the recent suicides and assaults on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender teens and students across the country, University of Wisconsin campus organizations banded together to stop the silence Wednesday night.

A glow-light vigil will be held Wednesday night on the UW-Madison Library Mall as part of “Stop the Silence,” the anti-bullying campaign in the campus LGBTQ community.The vigil starts at 8 p.m. on the mall which is across Langdon Street from the Memorial Union. During the vigil, a moment of silence will be held for students around the country who?ve committed suicide following bullying.