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.
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.
