A crowd of people gathered for a memorial 5K walk/run on Saturday to raise money for Brittany Zimmermann?s reward fund and CrimeStoppers.Zimmermann was murdered in April 2008 in her duplex on W. Doty St. in downtown Madison.
It has been over two years since the murder of University of Wisconsin-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann. On Saturday, the first annual run/walk event was held in her honor and provided a chance to remember the woman whose life was taken far too soon.
Minority enrollment has increased across the board at the UW-Madison. But the university?s lead administrator on diversity calls the gains ?flat? and adds that there needs to be an intensified effort to help more students of color graduate.
Whitewater Police are investigating a hate crime. They say a woman was punched in the face because the attackers thought she was gay. With the attackers still on the loose many on campus are outraged, most of all those fearing they may now be targets.
It is on a quiet Tratt Street just blocks from the UW-Whitewater Campus where police say a female student was assaulted because the attackers thought she was gay. It’s an attack that initially went unreported.
As of Thursday, any remnant that some 17,000 people had crammed into Library Mall Tuesday night waving “Badgers for Obama” signs, eating paper-wrapped brats and screaming wildly, was nearly gone. All that is left is settling the bill. The Democratic National Committee, which organized President Barack Obama?s rally, agreed to pay UW-Madison $10,500 for renting the space. That included 11 police officers, electricians, mechanics and groundskeepers, a green room and six VIP parking passes. But the university is still tallying any additional, reimbursable costs.
PISCATAWAY, N.J — The shocking suicide of a college student whose sex life was broadcast over the Web illustrates yet again the Internet?s alarming potential as a means of tormenting others and raises questions whether young people in the age of Twitter and Facebook can even distinguish public from private.
Cruel gossip and vengeful acts once confined to the schoolyard or the dorm can now make their way around the world instantly via the Internet, along with photos and live video.
Call it ?knitted graffiti? — an unusual art installation in Madison. On a busy State Street intersection, staff and students from the UW School of Human Ecology were busy ?yarn bombing? all day Thursday — covering a Metro bus shelter in knitting. Lisa Frank, interim director of the school?s Design Gallery, said the installation has been in the planning stages for months, but the actual knitting has taken place over the last three weeks or so, by members of the Madison Knitters? Guild.
It?s too soon to tell what kind of an impact the president?s visit had on the city of Madison, but 27 News found out, it may have drummed up more than just votes.
President Obama delivered an impassioned argument to young voters Tuesday night, declaring that the changes he promised in 2008 are underway and that “now is not the time to give up.”
With the midterm elections just five weeks away, President Obama rolled up his sleeves and dusted off a familiar campaign slogan tonight at the University of Wisconsin.
On a Monday night in July, President Obama?s political advisers gathered for their weekly strategy session in a small, windowless, wood-paneled room in the West Wing. After 18 months marked by legislative victories and political setbacks, the question before them was how to re-energize the Democratic base ? particularly young people who turned out in droves in 2008.
President Barack Obama urged students to focus on this fall?s elections Tuesday in his fourth visit to Wisconsin in three months as he tries to keep the governor?s office and a U.S. Senate seat in Democratic hands.
North Park Street doesn?t look much like North Park Street on Tuesday afternoon. An olive-drab helicopter does laps over the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Library Mall, where President Barack Obama will speak in a couple of hours. Hordes of students wait to get through the gate, and a girl stands at the intersection of Lathrop Drive with a pink sign to direct members of the White House Press Pool through a series of checkpoints.
Enrollment at two-year campuses in the University of Wisconsin System is at an all-time high this year, marking the sixth consecutive year of growth.
What if they designated a free-speech zone and no one used it?That?s pretty much what happened Tuesday as President Barack Obama came to Madison to speak at the UW-Madison campus. The city announced that the 600 block of State Street would function as a ?Peaceful Assembly Area,? where people with signs and opinions could get their ya-yas out.
President Barack Obama was welcomed by cheering college students, reminiscent of the crowds he drew in the 2008 election.
Two years after young voters helped send him to the White House, President Barack Obama returned to a campus he electrified two years ago, a city where he crushed Hillary Rodham Clinton and John McCain, and a state with an unusual tradition of college activism and heavy youth voting
A fire caused an estimated $10,000 in damage to a Madison apartment.
Madison police have released a sketch of a young man suspected of beating up a security guard on duty near a campus-area apartment building.The alleged battery took place at about 1:40 a.m. Sept. 19 near the Dayton House apartments in the 1000 block of West Dayton Street, police said.
The 55-year-old security guard from Columbus was watching over mopeds parked outside the apartment building, when he observed two young men twisting mirrors on several mopeds while trying to knock the vehicles over.
The gender gap among college majors once dominated by men is narrowing, and younger generations of women account for nearly half of science and business graduates, a USA TODAY analysis of new Census data shows. In 2009, about 47% of science and engineering degree holders ages 25 to 39 were women, compared with 21% among those 65 and older. For business majors, about 48% of younger graduates were female ? more than double that of older generations.
That old political saying goes something like this: If you?re not a liberal at 20, you have no heart; if you?re not a conservative at 40, you have no brain. No wonder then that President Barack Obama chose Madison ? a town rife with 20-somethings ? to kick off a series of rallies aimed at getting an increasingly down-hearted Democratic base to the polls this November.
Teachers and staff at La Follette High School used words like ?surreal? to describe the detour the presidential motorcade made Tuesday en route to a late-afternoon rally on the UW-Madison campus.
Obama addressed concerns, and more, during his two-day, four-state tour that ended Wednesday in Richmond. In the middle, he drew raucous cheers at a college rally in Wisconsin. “I know times are tough,” he told thousands of students at the University of Wisconsin on Tuesday. In 2008, he said, “the feeling was, well, this is just exciting. You got those nice ?Hope? posters.”
Now that the University of Wisconsin-Madison has cleaned up after Tuesday?s political rally featuring President Barack Obama, officials at the school are preparing a bill for the president?s political operatives.
President Barack Obama urged college students at a Madison campaign rally Tuesday to stick with him and vote in the Nov. 2 elections, promising that “change is gonna come.”
If there?s an enthusiasm gap for Democrats this election, it hasn?t reached Madison.Students and residents in the traditionally liberal city turned out by the thousands on Tuesday to see President Barack Obama at a rally on the University of Wisconsin campus meant to energize the base of the Democratic Party.
More than 26,000 people came to Library Mall to welcome Obama, the first president to visit the campus since Harry Truman in 1950. And today the president sounded more like “candidate” Obama than President Obama.
President Obama, seeking to avert potentially devastating losses for Democrats on Election Day, delivered an impassioned appeal to a cheering throng of college students here Tuesday night, telling them to ?keep believing change is possible? and pleading, ?You?ve got to stick with me, you can?t lose heart.?
Over 26,500 people waited over three hours to hear two words yesterday: “Hello, Madison!”
President Barack Obama spoke at the “Moving America Forward” rally Tuesday in Library Mall, accompanied by fellow Democrats gubernatorial nominee Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., and U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis.
The University of Wisconsin has some of the country?s top doctorate programs across a broad variety of subjects according to a new report from the National Research Council.
As University of Wisconsin students waited to see President Obama?s speech on Library Mall, protesters around Madison Tuesday hoped to provide a counter-rally illustrating Obama?s shortcomings as president.
The audience at the University of Wisconsin, which has been buzzing over the pending arrival of the President of the United States, erupted into applause as President Barack Obama took the stage Tuesday night.
Embattled Democratic candidates in Wisconsin joined President Barack Obama at a rally Tuesday, urging the 17,000 college students in attendance to get energized to ensure Republicans don?t have an enthusiasm gap in the midterm election. “We can?t sit this one out,” Obama told the crowd packed onto an outdoor mall in the middle of the University of Wisconsin?s campus. Another 9,000 people showed up but couldn?t fit into the mall, according to university police.
The usual sight of students meandering leisurely in flip-flops and shorts mixed Tuesday with those of heavily armed police, barricaded streets and snipers atop the campus library, adding an intensity to the toasty fall day as UW-Madison welcomed its first sitting U.S. President in 60 years.
Obama got laughs from the crowd on Library Mall as he reminisced about his early days in Chicago, when he used to visit friends going to school in Madison. “I had some fun times in Madison,” he said. “I can?t give you all the details, but I have good memories here.”
The Wisconsin Union Directorate on Tuesday announced the fall schedule for its Distinguished Lecture Series, which kicks off Monday with Romanian author, poet and National Public Radio commentator Andrei Codrescu.
Welcome to the State Journal?s live blog of President Barack Obama?s rally on Library Mall. Follow along as our reporters and photographers provide dispatches from the scene, or submit your own observations or questions.
Clearly frustrated by Republicans? energy _ and his own party?s lack of enthusiasm _ President Barack Obama scolded fellow Democrats even as he rallied them Tuesday in an effort to save the party from big GOP gains in the crucial midterm elections. At an outdoor rally at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, the president urged thousands of students to stay as inspired and involved in this election as they were two years ago.
President Barack Obama served as the closing act Tuesday for a rock-n-roll, fire-up-the-troops extravaganza on the UW-Madison campus ? a giant rally meant to recapture the excitement of the campaign trail and bridge the so-called “enthusiasm gap” among younger, Democratic voters. Obama took the stage at Library Mall to a raucous crowd, following a performance by musician Ben Harper and a series of speeches by the state?s major Democratic candidates. From the outset, the president made it clear why he was in Madison, and on campus, at this moment.
When the television networks projected Barack Obama had secured the presidency at 10 p.m. on Nov. 4, 2008, much of the UW-Madison campus erupted in jubilant celebration.
….Almost two years later, Obama was attempting to rekindle that unbridled enthusiasm during his trip to campus Tuesday evening for what amounted to a pep rally put on by the Democratic National Committee.
According to the most recent figures compiled by the polling experts at Gallup, 49 percent of Americans disapprove of the job Obama is doing as president, while only 45 percent approve (with a margin of error of 3 percentage points). To the surprise of no one, however, Tuesday’s gathering at Library Mall was distinctly pro-Obama.
President Obama visits Madison today to try and rekindle some of the energy he helped generate for Democrats here two years ago. When the President visited Madison as a candidate in February of 2008, he was riding a wave of Democratic presidential primary victories. Thousands of people — many of them students — waited in the cold to see the Illinois Senator speak at Madison?s Kohl Center.
President Barack Obama urged college students at a Madison campaign rally Tuesday to stick with him and vote in the Nov. 2 elections, promising that “change is gonna come.”
There?s excitement on the UW-Madison campus today, with President Barack Obama due at Library Mall for a late-afternoon rally. Students we talked with today seemed anxious to attend.
President Barack Obama urged students to focus on this fall?s elections Tuesday in his fourth visit to Wisconsin in three months as he tries to keep the governor?s office and a U.S. Senate seat in Democratic hands.
Students at the state?s flagship university Tuesday awaited their first visit from a sitting president in a half century.
The Madison Board of Estimates approved a resolution to amend the 2010 operating budgets of several city divisions to accommodate funding for Freakfest Monday.
Vice Provost for Diversity and Climate Damon Williams held a press conference Monday to discuss the recent reorganization of campus diversity programs at Thursday?s Campus Diversity Forum.
President Barack Obama will focus on the Democratic midterm election campaign at his Tuesday rally in Library Mall, and both his opponents and supporters agree his visit, the fourth to Wisconsin in three months, is evidence the state he won by 14 percentage points in 2008 could slip back into the red this election season.
President Barack Obama announced an education initiative Monday to recruit 10,000 science and math teachers over the next two years.
Nineteen University of Wisconsin students will realize their dreams of studying abroad after receiving Fulbright scholarships, UW officials announced Monday.
Today thousands of people will file onto Library Mall to see President Barack Obama on the University of Wisconsin campus.
Thursday?s annual diversity forum at the University of Wisconsin Memorial Union will outline strategic diversity goals and engage campus community members in discussion about UW?s challenges in reaching these goals, according to UW officials.
aAttendees of Madison?s Freakfest Halloween celebration can expect to see a diminished police presence after the city?s Board of Estimates voted to send the lowest amount of funds to security in the event?s history.
President Barack Obama is returning to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to ask young voters who helped propel him to the White House to support Democrats in key governor and U.S. Senate races.
Tuesday?s visit carries a different political atmosphere than the one that surrounded the then-candidate in 2008, when a boisterous overflow crowd of more than 17,000 people greeted him at the Kohl Center on the Madison campus.
Obama’s popularity has dipped, and many Democrats are facing tough challenges in the Nov. 2 midterm election.
A 20-year-old Madison woman allegedly was sexually assaulted early Saturday morning, her attacker ripping her underwear before running off when she screamed.
The assault happened at about 2:30 a.m. Saturday on Randall Avenue near Vilas Avenue, Madison police said. According to the police report, the woman was walking home alone after drinking at downtown bars.
President Barack Obama plans a University of Wisconsin rally complete with rock bands to ask young voters who helped propel him to the White House to re-engage and save fellow Democrats from political disaster this November. Crammed into an outdoor mall at the Madison campus, Tuesday?s visit carries a decidedly different political atmosphere than the one that surrounded the then-candidate in 2008, when a boisterous overflow crowd of more than 17,000 people greeted Obama at a basketball arena. His popularity has since dipped amid the nationwide recession, and many Democrats face tough challenges in the Nov. 2 midterm election. During a Monday conference call with college journalists, Obama acknowledged excitement has waned in the last two years. But he said he hoped the Madison rally would re-emphasize the importance of the midterm to advancing his agenda.
Surveys by ACT (the non-profit company behind the ACT test) show one-third of freshman do not become sophomores at the colleges where they started. ACT doesn?t track how many students drop out in less than a year, transfer to another school or return later. But just under half get degrees from the colleges where they first enrolled (within three years for associate degrees or five years for bachelor?s degrees).
Signs and posters are among the rather lengthy list of items not allowed at President Barack Obama?s rally on Library Mall Tuesday, which is sponsored by the Democratic National Committee. This bothered local marijuana activist and 2012 U.S. Senate candidate Ben Masel, who said it infringes on his right to speak freely in a public space.
Library Mall buzzed with activity Monday in preparation for President Barack Obama?s visit Tuesday, a rally intended to excite Democrats for the November election. On an autumn day bright with sunshine, workers put up risers, lights and a sound system at the site of the UW-Madison rally, wedged between Memorial Library, the Wisconsin Historical Society and State Street. Many UW-Madison students cited the historic opportunity to see a sitting president, even if they aren?t his biggest fan.
Rock band the National along with singer-songwriter Ben Harper are serving as opening acts to President Barack Obama?s political rally on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus Tuesday. Thousands of students and others are expected to converge on campus for the outdoor rally, the first of four such events Obama has planned before the election.
