The University of Wisconsin-Madison is starting a campaign to address the bullying of gay and lesbian students. The “Stop the Silence” campaign aims to start a “campus conversation” on the bullying and harassment of students who are gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgender. It comes in response to a tragedy at Rutgers University and others across the country in which gay students have committed suicide.
A video produced to help boost the University of Wisconsin?s reputation has gone viral.And it may be winning the hearts of future students.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is starting a campaign to address the bullying of gay and lesbian students.
In the wake of multiple homosexual student suicides across the country, UW-Madison?s LGBTQ Campus Center is launching “Stop the Silence,” an anti-bullying campaign, as well as holding its annual Coming Out Week this week.
Coinciding with National Coming Out Day, the University of Wisconsin?s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Campus Center sponsored ?Coming Out Week,? which started Monday with a giant closet on Library Mall to urge students to ?come out.?
The hate crimes and suicides are pushing a UW-Madison group into action, saying even here bullying is a problem.In the last month we?ve seen one report after another of hate crimes suicides and beatings all related to a victim?s sexual orientation and bullying.
Candidates flooded campus for Homecoming weekend to take part in the fun and get their messages out to students in the crucial final stretch of the election season.
UW-Madison launched a new anti-bullying campaign called “Stop the Silence,” designed to support L.G.B.T. students. The campaign will seek to raise awareness about homophobic harassment and bullying, in the wake of several incidents across the country, including the death of an 18-year-old Rutgers University student.
China?s Bingyu (Betty) Wang is proud of her Olympic curling bronze medal, but it hardly draws celebrity attention on the streets of her home country.
Saturday warm weather greeted competitors in an unusual annual fall race in our state?s capital.The 7th annual Giant Pumpkin Regatta took place on Madison?s lakefront.
News of last week?s $86,000 ticket handed out to three University of Wisconsin-Madison students didn?t seem to stop other students from celebrating UW?s Homecoming weekend.
Some UW-Madison students are working hard to “go green.”
Fifty people were ejected from Camp Randall Stadium on Saturday for poor behavior or for breaking the law during the University of Wisconsin?s 41-23 win over Minnesota, police said. Twenty-nine of the 50 were UW-Madison students, according to the UW-Madison Police Department.
Some are calling it an epidemic.Perhaps out of confusion, perhaps out of fear, at least five gay teens have taken their own lives in just the last couple of weeks.
The UW System Board of Regents discussed the Access to Success Project Thursday, an initiative to increase the number of minority and low-income students attending and graduating from Wisconsin colleges.
The Board of Regents continued working on their goal of increasing the number of minorities and low income students who are enrolled in the University of Wisconsin System during their Thursday meeting.
MADISON, Wis. — Authorities have identified the three people killed in crash with a man suspected of drunken driving on Interstate 39/90 near Madison on Thursday.
The victims were identified as Marcus S. Johnson, 19, of Milwaukee, Elysia M. Rapp, 20, of Racine, and Wilfredo Ugarte, 23, of Puerto Rico. Two of the victims were identified as University of Minnesota students.
University of Minnesota spokesman Daniel Wolter said the two students were with the university’s Spirit Squad, a cheerleading squad. Wolter said the group was driving from the Twin Cities to Milwaukee when the crash happened.
Noted: Cornell and Princeton Universities and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are among the top-ranked institutions with ROTC programs that operate without incident. Leading public institutions including the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and the University of Wisconsin at Madison, all with histories of protests and activism, continue to offer ROTC to their students.
MADISON (WKOW)– Three University of Minnesota students are dead following a crash that happened early Thursday morning on Interstate 39 near Madison.
….University spokesman Ryan Maus tells the Star Tribune of Minneapolis that two of the students were cheerleaders with the university?s Spirit Squad. Maus says the students were driving home from the Twin Cities to Milwaukee when the crash happened.
UW-Madison students discussed the importance of the ethnic studies requirement in producing an informed student body at a student-run talk Wednesday as part of Ethnic Studies Week.
For the many students living in University of Wisconsin residence halls, house fellows act as a resource and beacon of guidance. However, University Housing?s recent decision to clamp down on condom distribution by house fellows has left many wondering why.
Just months after the family of slain University of Wisconsin student Brittany Zimmermann decided to drop their wrongful death lawsuit against Dane County, a group of media outlets have settled their open records lawsuit against the county related to the case.
Can it be that freedom of speech is truly alive and well at UW-Madison? As I listened to a pre-game interview with junior Bradie Ewing, he humbly acknowledged that he?d had a good start to this football season. Then he quickly and quietly gave credit to his lord and savior, Jesus Christ, for endowing him with a talent that allowed him to do well.
Three UW-Madison students face an $86,000 party bill after police slapped them with 130 citations. But will they get in trouble with the university? UW-Madison will review the case to see whether the students violated non-academic misconduct rules, as they do with every case of student criminal behavior, a spokesman said.
Despite a steady increase over the past decade, only 26.5 percent of students in the University of Wisconsin system graduated in four years in 2008.
Three UW-Madison students are fined $86,000 after police busted their drinking party. The high fine is now making some UWM students think twice.
UW-Oshkosh is responding to current trends by creating mobile phone applications compatible with iPhones and other versions of smart phones.
Senator Russ Feingold made a pitch for support from students on the UW Madison campus Wednesday.
Several Wisconsin media outlets — including WISC-TV — have reached a financial settlement with Dane County officials in a lawsuit about the release of 911 calls in the Brittany Zimmermann slaying.
Officials from the Madison Mayor?s Office, the Madison Police Department and Frank Productions announced details Tuesday for this year?s Freakfest celebration, scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 30.
Gameday on Sept. 11, 2010 may have been a victorious win for the Wisconsin Badgers, but a dramatic loss for three UW-Madison students who face up to $86,000 in fines for allegedly distributing alcohol to minors.
Approximately 100 people attended a panel of UW-Madison professors that addressed the historical, linguistic, and contemporary social roots and implications of the “Coastie” and “Sconnie” stereotypes Tuesday as part of Ethnic Studies Week and the Jewish Heritage Lecture Series.
Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz presented the 2011 Operating Budget Tuesday, which cuts back on student safety services and provides a 4.8 percent tax increase for the average home.
Five years after Mayor Dave Cieslewicz decided to limit access to State Street at Halloween for the first time, city officials have said they are making few changes to the Freakfest plan compared to last year.
College students who are studying in Europe may have to be more cautious after information on a possible terrorist attack caused the U.S. State Department to issue a travel alert for the whole continent.
Regardless of whether they are ignoring their professor in the classrooms of Humanities or the walking through the autumn leaves of Bascom Hill, thousands of University of Wisconsin students are glued to their smartphones.
The controversial and frequent use of the terms ?sconnie? and ?coastie? became the center of debate at a panel by University of Wisconsin faculty and staff Tuesday night, which traced the terms? history and true meaning.
It must have been some party.Madison?s city attorney?s office has slapped three University of Wisconsin-Madison students with fines totaling more than $86,000 – that?s about $28,000 apiece – for hosting a house party last month that led to more than 130 citations, Madison police said Tuesday.
Sixty percent of parents have saved money to help put their child through college, and those who are doing so project they are on pace to save a little more than $48,000, on average, by the time their kid turns 18 according to a new national study released by Gallup and Sallie Mae.
Wow. Does anyone else feel like they?re falling a bit behind the curve?
The report also indicates nearly a quarter (24 percent) of parents who are saving to put their child through college are risking their own financial future by using retirement accounts.
The recent suicide of a Rutgers University student is a heartbreaking and tragic reminder that harassment and bullying can have serious, even deadly consequences. It also speaks to the need for acceptance and support for gay teens and young adults and those who might be struggling with their sexuality, and for a greater conversation around these issues in our schools and on our college and university campuses.
Where have all the candidates gone? According to a report published Tuesday by Politico, many candidates are doing just about anything to avoid spending too much time in the public eye during the weeks leading up to the election.” The article, titled “Year of the missing candidate,” includes a shout-out to Wisconsin?s Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Ron Johnson, saying Johnson?s campaign has refused to share his daily schedule with the press As for U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, his staff members have said they notify reporters once public appearances are scheduled. For example, he?ll be at UW-Madison?s Library Mall on Wednesday afternoon to encourage early voting.
Three UW-Madison students just wanted to throw a post-game party. Now they face $86,000 in fines. One of the three, Travis W. Ludy, says the fines ? which authorities said were higher than any others in memory for just three people in one incident ? are out of proportion.
Graduates of the University of Wisconsin Law School and Marquette University Law School won?t be forced to sit for the state bar examination anytime soon.
More than a week following a brutal hate crime against a UW-Whitewater student, university leaders are hosting a difficult discussion about hate speech.
An underage drinking party results in some big problems for 3 UW-Madison students. Big, to the tune of 86-thousand dollars in fines.If that number sounds astronomical it should. Even police admit they don?t issue those kinds of citations for every party they bust and now the kids responsible complain they?re being singled out.
The city of Madison attorney?s office has issued municipal complaints against three University of Wisconsin-Madison students with fines totaling more than $86,000 in connection with a house party the students hosted last month, Madison police said.
The LGBT Campus Center is launching Stop the Silence: LGBTQ Anti-Bullying Campaign to address ongoing incidents in both UW-Madison and broader communities. Bullying toward students identified as LGBT, or those perceived to be, is a long standing issue for students. While a number of LGBT students have committed suicide in the last few weeks, this is by no means a recent phenomenon, nor does it truly reflect the pervasiveness of bullying that students face on a regular basis.
The student body government continued working Monday toward providing students amnesty in situations when they or their friends need medical help after a night out drinking.
….there is no doubt in our mind that some UW students will, following the president?s visit, be more inspired than ever to get out and vote Republican or Libertarian or Green. So be it with those choices as well. Election seasons should be energizing and challenging. They should stir Americans to all sorts of action. And university campuses should be hotbeds of political activity and engagement.
So we find it comic that anyone is complaining — or even worried — about the UW welcoming Obama. Anytime a president, or a leader of the opposition to the president, wants to appear on the UW campus, officials should bend over to make the visit happen. In fact, if Sarah Palin wants to come and campaign in Wisconsin, we hope she?ll consider a visit to the UW campus. Then students — and the rest of us — could compare the two. And the discourse would be the better for it.
So how about it, governor? Fancy a trip to the UW? You?re invited.
UW-Madison?s first Faculty Senate meeting of the 2010-11 academic year was held Monday evening at Bascom Hall. Following are a couple tidbits worth noting:
** Few faculty members seemed overly interested in learning more about Biddy Martin?s Badger Partnership ? which is the chancellor?s vision for a new UW-Madison business model ? or her plans to pay an outside consultant $3 million or more to examine how the university might run more efficiently and effectively.
Graduates of Wisconsin?s two law schools still won?t have to take the bar exam to practice in the Badger state. Wisconsin Supreme Court justices on Monday decided to keep Wisconsin?s so-called diploma privilege intact. Critics argue the practice is discriminatory but supporters say University of Wisconsin and Marquette University law grads are prepared well to practice here.
Graduates of Wisconsin?s two law schools still won?t have to take the bar exam to practice in the Badger state. Wisconsin Supreme Court justices on Monday decided to keep Wisconsin?s so-called diploma privilege in tact.
At first, Kaitlyn Skalet, thought it was some sort of ruse.The 2008 Neenah High School graduate, who is a junior at the University of Wisconsin, got a call from her pastor in Madison on the evening of Sept. 27, and he posed a question that nearly took her breath away.
UW-Whitewater campus leaders say a female freshman is recovering from a hate crime attack.
Over 400 people braved the crisp fall weather by Lake Mendota for the Brittany Zimmermann Memorial 5K Run/Walk Saturday to remember the UW-Madison student and raise money for the investigation into her April, 2008, murder.
Hundreds gathered at Library Mall Saturday morning for the inaugural 5K Memorial Walk/Run honoring Brittany Zimmermann, the UW student who was murdered in her West Doty Street Apartment in 2008.
The nation?s political spotlight was shining on Wisconsin this week. Don?t believe us? Just ask the approximately 26,500 people (including 17,200 packed into Library Mall plus the overflow crowd) who gathered to hear President Barack Obama fire up Madtown. The president chose UW-Madison for the first of a series of rallies aimed at re-inspiring his supporters and getting them out to vote for Democrats in the Nov. 2 election.
About 400 people, some wearing gloves and earmuffs, gathered on UW-Madison?s Library Mall on a chilly Saturday morning to show their support for the family of slain UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann. The Brittany Zimmermann Memorial 5K Run/Walk was organized by the Madison Area Crime Stoppers and Zimmermann?s family as a way to celebrate Zimmermann?s life and to raise money for reward funds for information about her murder. Zimmermann, 21, was strangled and stabbed to death in her Doty Street apartment on April 2, 2008. No arrests have been made.
In last week?s coverage of President Obama?s visit to Madison, a UW-Madison student from Minnesota was quoted as saying she waited in line more than five hours to see the president but likely wouldn?t vote this November because getting an absentee ballot would be too much work. To be legally eligible to vote in a place, the person must have lived there at least 10 days, said Reid Magney of the Government Accountability Board. So if a college student considers a campus residence home and meets that requirement, he or she can vote at that address, he said.
Saturday is a day for the Madison community remember a young woman whose killer has not yet been apprehended. The first annual Brittany Zimmerman Memorial 5K Run and Walk will take place on the UW Madison campus.
