MENOMONIE ? A UW-Stout student from Waunakee who was assaulted before a bike crash on Sept. 18 died Thursday afternoon as a result of serious head injuries. Two men have been arrested in connection with the death.
Catching up on a couple higher education-related items …
** The FBI is stepping up its efforts to locate Leo Burt due to his connection with the bombing of Sterling Hall on the UW-Madison campus just over 40 years ago, the Washington Post reported.
** ** Most colleges with NCAA Division I sports programs are using mandatory student fees to help fund athletic department budgets, according to this USA Today report.
President Barack Obama?s appearance in Madison next week to campaign for Senator Russ Feingold and gubernatorial hopeful Tom Barrett will be at the UW Library Mall.
University officials say you should expect traffic delays when President Barack Obama visits UW-Madison?s Library Mall on Tuesday.
Downtown Madison will likely be packed with people Tuesday as President Barack Obama holds a rally outside in the heart of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Chancellor Biddy Martin, former Kimberly-Clark Executive Kathi Seifert and UW Board of Regents President Charles Pruitt held a panel to discuss financing public higher education Wednesday at a Public Representation Organization of Faculty Senate event.
President Barack Obama will speak on Library Mall Tuesday to kick off his Moving America Forward tour in preparation for the upcoming midterm elections, according to the Democratic National Committee.
University of Wisconsin students may not pay the cost of increased UW autonomy with extra tuition dollars if the university is able to set its own tuition levels, Chancellor Biddy Martin said Wednesday at a forum.
President Barack Obama will appear at UW?s Library Mall to to garner support for the Democratic Party as the Nov. 2 election approaches, DNC spokesperson Derrick Plummer said.
President Barack Obama?s rally on Tuesday will be held on Library Mall, an outdoor venue that connects the UW-Madison campus to State Street, according to the Democratic National Committee. The event will be open and not ticketed, although the committee is asking people to RSVP to this website: http://wi.barackobama.com/MadisonRally.
President Barack Obama?s rally will be outside in the heart of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus on Tuesday. The Democratic National Committee announced Wednesday that Obama will appear on Library Mall, which is adjacent to the student union and where State Street, which leads to the Capitol, begins.
It?s been over two years since Marshfield High School Alum and UW-Madison student, Brittany Zimmermann was found dead in her off campus apartment.
President Barack Obama will speak at a political rally at University of Wisconsin-Madison next Tuesday, which is being organized by the Democratic National Committee.
A 55-year-old Columbus man is recovering from being beaten up severely over the weekend while working as a security guard at an apartment complex near the UW campus. Police said the man was patrolling outside the complex in the 1000 block of West Dayton Street just before 2 a.m. Sunday when he saw two men twisting mirrors on mopeds and trying to knock them over.
….Police are looking for a white male, 19 to 21 years of age. He’s approximately 6 feet tall, 145 to 165 pounds, with short blond or brown hair worn in a “buzz cut.” He was wearing blue jeans and a blue and black checkered button-down shirt. Anyone with information on the assailant would be asked to contact Madison Area Crime Stoppers at 266-6014.
Linda Randall says her daughter, Randi-Lyn, a student at Radford University in southwestern Virginia, is not a “die-hard” follower of the Highlanders sports teams. Even so, by the time Randi-Lyn graduates in 2012, her parents probably will have paid an average of nearly $1,000 a year in fees to the school?s athletics department. They just didn?t know it from the school?s billing statements or website.”We?re looking at five years because she changed majors. That?s $5,000,” Randall says. “I don?t think I?d have as much of a problem with it if I knew I was paying it. With what we?re paying, it doesn?t seem right.” Like most other schools in NCAA Division I, Radford relies on student fees to help support ever-expanding athletics budgets. Many schools, including Radford, do not itemize where those fees go for those who pay the tuition bills, USA TODAY found in an ongoing examination of college athletics finances. The amounts going to athletics are soaring, and account for as much as 23% of the required annual bill for in-state student.
In order to allow for more time to tweak a measure that would change the Downtown apartment rental season, the City Council voted to refer it to their Oct. 19 meeting late Tuesday night. At issue is a measure that would move back the period when landlords can start showing and leasing occupied apartments for next year?s rental cycle to the third week in January. Currently, landlords are allowed to begin showing and leasing after 25 percent of the current lease has expired, which falls on or near Nov. 15.Alds. Verveer and Bridget Maniaci, 2nd District, who sponsored the measure, amended the language from 25 to 45 percent in the referred measure.
A 55-year-old Columbus man working as a security guard outside an apartment building on Dayton Street allegedly was beaten and spit upon by a young man early Sunday morning. The attack happened at about 1:40 a.m. Sunday in the 1000 block of West Dayton Street outside the Dayton House apartments, Madison police said.
….According to the police report, the security guard was hired to watch over mopeds parked on the property, since there had been vandalism problems in the past.
President Barack Obama is coming to the UW-Madison campus next Tuesday during his trip to Madison, a university spokesman confirmed. The Sept. 28 event is being described as a political rally, hosted by the Democratic National Committee, the spokesman said.
President Barack Obama will hold a rally at the University of Wisconsin-Madison next week, and just two weeks later the first lady will be in Milwaukee raising money for U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold. The Obamas? visits to Wisconsin point out the importance of the swing state in midterm elections, with Feingold facing a tough challenge from millionaire Republican Ron Johnson and Democrats hoping to hold on to the governor?s office.
In March, 16 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee students were taken into custody during a protest over rising tuition costs. As silly as college student protests can be, this one actually made some sense. Tuition costs across the entire country are sky-high.
President Barack Obama will hold a rally at the University of Wisconsin-Madison next week and just two weeks later the first lady will be in Milwaukee to raise money for U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold.
President Barack Obama will be coming to the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus during his visit to the city next week.
President Barack Obama will be coming to the University of Wisconsin campus during his visit to Madison next week.
The City of Madison Plan Commission unanimously approved a conditional use request to construct a new UW-Madison Lakeshore residence hall and food service facility Monday.
Two women were on the receiving end of a Taser after an altercation broke out just outside Memorial Union Friday night.
A roundup of a some interesting On Campus items includes news of a “Meeting of the Minds” in New York City for alumni and UW-Madison friends on Wednesday, Sept. 29. The event will feature four faculty members talking about what it means to live in a democracy in 2010. Also, a team of UW-Madison undergraduate students is one of three groups that won $48,000 to build an “inflatable loft” for NASA.
For the typical student attending a four-year public university, the financial investment in college begins to pay off at about age 33, a report says Tuesday. Compared with a high school graduate, the typical four-year college graduate who enrolled in a public university at age 18 has earned enough by then to compensate for being out of the labor force for four years and for borrowing enough to pay tuition and fees without grant aid.
Unlike last week?s victory over San Jose State, the number of ejections in the Badgers? latest victory against Arizona State greatly exceeded the total of the game?s final score.
University of Wisconsin Chancellor Biddy Martin may hire a consultant firm to look at the efficiency of the entire university, which may cost millions of dollars, but could potentially save tens of millions.
Police say 71 people, including 46 students, were ejected from Camp Randall Stadium during Saturday?s Wisconsin-Arizona State football game. The Wisconsin State Journal reports that 35 people were arrested, including 29 UW-Madison students.
Chynna C. Haas had just about had it with the University of Wisconsin at Madison by the fall of her sophomore year.
Noted: To mobilize younger voters who supported him in 2008, Mr. Obama will hold four big campaign-style rallies, the first Sept. 28 at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, with satellite transmission to campuses in other states. The later rallies will be in Ohio, Philadelphia and Las Vegas. He also will send e-mail and record robocalls to spur voters, and conduct a national ?town hall? Webcast in October.
The large lighting trucks previously located on State Street will no longer illuminate Freak Fest this year after the Downtown Coordinating Committee approved a new appropriation of funds for the event.
The Year of the Arts began with a bang at the University of Wisconsin Thursday with a parade down Lake Street, followed by a speech inaugurating the year.
MADISON, Wis. — A student audience will be welcome for a pair of live ESPN broadcasts on Monday at the Memorial Union Terrace. Colin Cowherd will host his radio show live from 9 a.m. to noon and the ESPN2 show SportsNation will be live from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. ESPN2?s SportsNation features co-hosts Cowherd and Michelle Beadle.
OSHKOSH, Wis. — A student at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh has been diagnosed with a case of viral meningitis. The Northwestern newspaper reported that according to the Student Health Center, the student was admitted to a local hospital for treatment on Wednesday.
If my parents thought it was hard to keep track of my major, they should try keeping tabs on the availability of embryonic stem-cell research funding.
Twelve University of Wisconsin-Madison undergraduate students will be constructing an intergalactic inflatable habitat for astronauts this year for a course offered by the Engineering Department.
Crime rates in Madison reached a 36-year low in 2009, according to a UW-Madison Police Department report.
As part of UW?s Year of the Arts, a group of faculty and students from the MFA Lighting Design program will set up lighting designs on various locations throughout campus for the next three days. Tomorrow night?s display is set to appear on Lathrop Hall along University Avenue.
Police arrested one of two young men they say beat and robbed five others in two incidents downtown last month. The 15-year-old male, tentatively charged with two counts of battery, was identified in a photo lineup by two of the victims, Madison police said.
When UW-Madison chemistry lecturer Jeanine Batterton accused 42 students last fall of plagiarism on a written lab assignment in Chem 104, she was floored by the range of ?bizarre excuses? offered by the undergraduates.
Some contended that cutting and pasting information out of Wikipedia ? the Web-based, user-generated encyclopedia ? was OK because no single author writes the entries.Others argued that since the assignment was a group project, and since they didn?t write the part of the report in question, how could she punish them for any wrongdoing?
Crime rates on the UW-Madison campus are at their lowest level in 36 years, according to the UW-Madison Police Department?s 2009 annual report.
UW-Madison students will have plenty of opportunities this week to research career options, hunt for exciting internships or look into study abroad programs thanks to a range of “fairs” on campus.
Like many University of Wisconsin students, junior Lindsay Taylor spent time at the beach last spring break. Unlike other UW students, Taylor visited a beach in Galveston, Texas, to help local community members fix their homes after Hurricane Ike damaged the city.
UW-Madison junior James Richardson scoffed when he checked his bank statement after he paid his last tuition bill. He found a total of $4 left in his account. Although frustrated with his depleted funds, he managed to muster a smile.
UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann will be commemorated at the first of four memorial 5k run/walks October 2 at 9 a.m.
Prosecutors in Minnesota and Wisconsin are investigating dozens of cases in which voters may have illegally cast ballots in both states in the 2008 presidential election. The number in question is a tiny fraction of the 5.9 million ballots cast in the two states, which both have same-day voter registration. But it represents the first look at a practice that some activists feared was widespread, particularly among thousands of college students who live in one state and go to school in the other.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison ranked 16th out of the top 25 colleges recruiters are targeting to hire new graduates, according a new survey in Monday?s Wall Street Journal.
Police on the University of Wisconsin campus are ramping up enforcement of bicycle laws.
It?s been nearly two and a half years since University of Wisconsin-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann was slain in her campus-area apartment.
Madison Police Department held a news conference Monday afternoon regarding the first Zimmermann Memorial 5K, in honor of UW student Brittany Zimmermann who was murdered at her home near campus.
University of Wisconsin police are searching for an approximately 25-year-old man who allegedly sexually assaulted a man in the shower at the Natatorium on Observatory Drive.
Mentions that Eric Bean, a medical student at the University of Wisconsin Madison, led the local competitors with a third place finish, 13 minutes behind Gambles.
UW-Madison ranked among the top 25 schools in the nation according to a Wall Street Journal survey of recruiters who work for the 479 largest public, private, nonprofit and government agencies. UW-Madison checked in at No. 16.
Mentions that math is still Emily Siira’s strong suit, and if everything adds up in her recovery, she hopes to start at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the spring.
Total student loan debt exceeds total credit card debt in this country, with $850 billion outstanding, according to Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of FinAid.org and FastWeb.com, websites that provide information about student aid and scholarships. Consumers owe about $828 billion in revolving credit, including credit card debt, according to seasonally adjusted numbers in a report on July credit from the Federal Reserve.
Beginning next Sunday, Blackhawk Church, the large evangelical congregation on Madison?s Far West Side, will offer two morning worship services every week at a downtown club. About 700 of the congregants each week are college students, with 300 or so of them bused in from the UW-Madison area.
Thirty-nine people were ejected from Camp Randall Stadium on Saturday for poor behavior or breaking the law during the University of Wisconsin?s 27-14 win over San Jose State, police said. Thirty-five of the 39 were UW-Madison students, according to the UW-Madison Police Department.
You might be more likely to get pulled over on the UW-Madison campus this month. Especially if you?re on a bicycle.UW-Madison police officers will be out conducting “concentrated bicycle education and enforcement. “They?ll be stopping cyclists who violate the rules, such as not having lights at night or riding against traffic.
