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.
The family of slain University of Wisconsin student Brittany Zimmermann is partnering with the Madison Area Crime Stoppers to host a 5K run and walk slated for Oct. 2.
Don?t mess with Bongo Jesus. The street musician apparently didn?t appreciate others criticizing his guitar playing, as he allegedly committed a string of offenses on State Street Thursday afternoon.
A Florida pastor?s plan to burn Korans is resonating with UW students.Reverend Terry Jones said he?s still undecided on whether or not to go forward with the burning. On Thursday, Jones said he would call off the burning ? welcome news to Muslim students in Madison.
Let?s face it. Madison is more often than not deemed a fabulous university on account of its outstanding academic reputation and its plethora of beer. Yet, there is more to the University of Wisconsin than high GPAs and a nice, cold brew. The unique, passionate, and truly creative minds and personas of the students that bring this campus to life are something to observe with awe. It seems to me that Chancellor Biddy Martin agrees, as this past week she has deemed this fresh school year ?The Year of the Arts?.
After a tenure longer than most deans at other law schools around the nation, the dean of the Law School at University of Wisconsin announced his resignation from the post Wednesday.
Chancellor Biddy Martin emphasized the importance of the University of Wisconsin gaining more independence to decide important issues like tuition increases to a student government group Wednesday night.
The hour when Ariana Kramer will begin her college career is fast approaching – and her parents are in an office supply store, disagreeing about hanging files, of all things.
You don?t know Kevin Solis. Why should you? He?s a quiet but articulate sophomore at the University of Wisconsin, who at first glance is much like any other kid his age. But arriving in Madison by way of the impoverished Los Angeles Unified School District, there?s something unique about Solis.
Bucky Badger?s $4,000 mascot head was stolen last Sunday from the apartment of a UW-Madison student who portrays Bucky at sporting events.
A survey released by the University of Wisconsin?s Division of Information Technology revealed students at UW are more connected than ever.
In the early morning hours of Sept. 6, a University of Wisconsin student woke up missing something important.
Someone took the head of UW mascot Bucky Badger after a gathering at the student?s ?one of several Buckys on campus ? W. Gilman St. apartment the night before.
A federal appeals court has ruled that the University of Wisconsin imposed unconstitutional limits on the activities of a Catholic student group at the school.
If you are Bucky Badger, the last thing you want is to lose your head. That?s exactly what happened Sunday night, when one of the UW-Madison students who portrays the iconic symbol of Wisconsin sports had his 28-pound over-sized Bucky head stolen from his campus area apartment.
The head of Bucky Badger has been returned. A University of Wisconsin-Madison student who?s one of several who play the role of mascot Bucky Badger told police he and his roommates had a get-together with friends at their Madison apartment Sunday night. He said the 28-pound Bucky head was missing when he awoke Monday morning.
Jeremy Crane, 22, started a business derived from all the old furniture you see on Mifflin and Langdon Streets and everywhere in between when the students are moving in and out. The business is called Furnish U, and it?s likely only one of what will be many entrepreneurial successes for Crane.
UW-Madison is making the college experience easier for its student veterans, and that?s because of John Bechtol. He?s the Assistant Dean of Students at UW-Madison and a former professor of military science there.
Shopping for colleges? Location may be more important than you think, according to a new index of 75 “best cities” for college students. “The education and experiences you get extend beyond the walls of the campus,” says Kerry Lynch, senior fellow at the non-profit American Institute for Economic Research, whose 2010-2011 College Destination Index is out Wednesday.
Note: Madison is ranked #6 in its size category.
A thief had a change of heart and returned Bucky Badger?s head.
Noted: Certainly, Brazil?s top universities find they have no shortage of suitors from abroad. A number of Brazilian institutions have signed deals recently with universities elsewhere. The University of São Paulo recently arranged a student- and faculty-exchange agreement with China?s Henan University. In April, the University of Wisconsin at Madison announced a plan to deepen its ties to Brazil and its higher-education establishment.”We have started a series of symposia about Brazil. We are identifying some strategic partnerships with universities in Brazil,” says Giles Bousquet, dean of international studies and vice provost for globalization. “It is a paradigm shift, and that paradigm shift is refocusing the university in educating graduates that are going to see the emerging powers as a key group of partners and Brazil as a key country.”
Madison?s Islamic Center is a busy place. Only a few blocks from campus many students pour in for prayer. They do it with a lot on their mind. Muslim Students Association President Rashid Dar says, “It gets kind of disheartening after a while.”
It was fitting to see two well-reasoned opinion columns in the Daily Cardinal about UW-Madison tuition policy. While Samantha Witthuhn and Todd Stevens had different perspectives, the debate is welcome because, in my opinion, nothing is more important to the future of the university than our relationship with the state and our approach to tuition.
A federal appeals court ruled last Wednesday that UW-Madison was wrong to deny funds to Badger Catholic, a student group for religious activities.
In what has been more than a five-year battle, a federal court in Chicago ruled the University of Wisconsin should not deny religious student organizations funding due to worship, prayer or proselytizing, a suit brought on by the UW student organization Badger Catholic.
Regardless of whether college students are reaching new intellectual heights, their phones are certainly getting smarter. Almost half (45 percent) of UW-Madison students reported owning a smart phone, a handheld Internet device like an iPhone or Blackberry, according to the university?s 2010 Computing Survey.
Quoted: Justin Doherty, assistant athletic director for external relations.
Even for average parents, the letting go is difficult ? more so, they and many others say, than it was for parents of college-bound freshmen in decades past. Robin Kramer recalls how her own parents, who never attended college, dropped her off with a trunk full of belongings at Drake University, also in Iowa, in 1978. She set up her room and attended orientation without them there. “Its just what you did then,” she says. It was much the same for Paul, whose father took him to the University of Wisconsin in 1977 and then went fishing. But some say its often hardest for parents, who remember the days of college when there were fewer support systems in place for students.
UWM has nearly doubled its student housing in the past eight years. Officials say that has led to more students participating in campus activities such as student organizations and intramural sports.
A growing number of UW-Madison students are bringing smart phones with them to school, according to a recent campus survey. The university is hoping to take advantage of the growing presence of the technology by launching its own smart phone application later this fall
It is not everyday University of Wisconsin Chancellor Biddy Martin pops up online for all of Madison to chat with, but on Sept. 1, she did just that.
University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema believes the Big Ten Conference?s new divisional alignment will help the Badgers in recruiting.
Be true to your school on Friday, and proudly wear your colors. Friday is College Colors Day, a national event that started in 2005 to celebrate the start of the collegiate school year by encouraging students and alumni and fans to wear the colors of their favorite college or university. UW-Madison?s news service put out a statement on Thursday to get Badger fans to make a fashion statement.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison improperly denied funding for some activities of a Roman Catholic student group, imposing unconstitutional limits on activities involving worship, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.
As summer construction continues throughout the University of Wisconsin campus, the new Union South is preparing for the arrival of classes and winter snowfall.
Following the University of Wisconsin?s decision to cut ties with Nike over workers rights concerns early this year, the Board of Regents approved a five-year extension to a major apparel contract with Adidas.
Students and professors hoping to light up between classes on the UW-Stout campus are out of luck. Well, at the very least they?re likely to get the “evil eye.”
Students on this UW System campus in Menomonie voted in the spring of 2009 to make UW-Stout smoke-free and a year later voted to extend the ban to all tobacco products.
Quick facts to questions about the impact of Wednesday?s announcement of divisional placements within the Big Ten for football, starting with the 2011 season.
Here?s more evidence that smoking is slowly but surely heading for the ashtray of history. UW-Stout in Menomonie, about 200 miles northwest of Madison in Dunn County, just banned smoking and the use of all tobacco products on its entire campus, including outside in parking lots, on lawns and sidewalks. The ban kicked in Wednesday. Classes are to begin next week. It wasn?t faculty, administrators and parents who forced the change. It was the students themselves.
The University of Wisconsin football team unveiled its Big Ten Conference schedules for the 2011 and 2012 seasons Wednesday in conjunction with the official announcements of division alignments in the new 12-team structure. One big development is that the Badgers host Nebraska in the Cornhuskers? first game as a Big Ten member on Oct. 1, 2011.
UW athletic director Barry Alvarez says his football program will suffer if a proposed $76.8 million support center doesn?t get built.
Barry Alvarez?s pitch for a regional emphasis in realignment falls on deaf ears as the Badgers land in the division opposite the three league schools closest to Madison ? Iowa, Northwestern and Minnesota ? as well as incoming member Nebraska.
When the Big Ten unveiled its divisional alignment and scheduling formula Wednesday, very little about the arrangement was alluring for Badgers fans. No school was going to get everything it wanted in this process, but where UW was concerned, the Big Ten trampled on tradition and ignored fan appeal.
“Never heard one scenario that would have included us with Iowa,” UW athletic director says.
A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court?s ruling that the University of Wisconsin-Madison must pay for student activities involving prayer, worship and proselytizing. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision Wednesday that the university?s policy of turning down funding requests from student groups for such activities violates their First Amendment right to free speech.
A UW-Madison student was robbed at gunpoint by two masked men Tuesday night while walking home on the north side, Madison police reported. The armed robbery happened at about 10:30 p.m. near Dexter?s Pub on North Street, police said. The victim told police he had been walking home after getting off a charter bus that had broken down on Wisconsin 30.
As students flock back to Madison for the start of the fall semester, many search for a cheap bite near campus aside from the usual Subway or Potbelly sandwich. A bit off the path from the usual State Street eateries, MacTaggart?s Market & Deli provides inexpensive made-to-order sandwiches with Boar?s Head meats, cheeses and dressings, along with freshly baked breads. Only real insiders know about MacTaggart?s, 230 W. Lakelawn Place, which is a standard late-night stop for Langdon Street locals.
Quoted: Craig Roberts, a physician assistant with University Health Services at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. [See third item.]
A year ago, the Cap Times asked a range of people associated with higher education in the Madison area if there was “something you wish every college student would know before the start of the school year?” We then posted these “words of wisdom” as the academic year kicked off.
With the start of another school year upon us, do you have any advice you?d like to pass along to college students?
UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin is welcoming new students to campus with an event at noon on Wednesday at the Kohl Center. Promoted as a bookend to commencement, the Chancellor?s Convocation for New Students will both offer advice for kicking off one?s college career and detail some characteristics about the campus that Martin enjoyed when she was a student at UW-Madison.
The Madison Police Department is encouraging UW-Madison students to not walk alone late at night, following an attack on a 19-year-old female student early Friday morning. The woman was walking alone at about 2:15 a.m. Friday on Bassett Street when a stranger grabbed her from behind, police said.
Some who left college a few credits short of graduating are getting a second chance at earning that degree. The Institute for Higher Education Policy and the Lumina Foundation for Education announced a joint initiative that works with both community colleges and four-year institutions in select states, including Wisconsin, “to find formerly enrolled college students whose academic records qualify them to be awarded an associate?s degree retroactively.”
MADISON (WKOW) — Members of the UW Marching Band confirmed for 27 News they have been informed band members will not travel to Las Vegas for next week?s home football opener between the Badgers and the University of Nevada-Las Vegas.
Band members spoke to 27 News on the condition of anonymity because band officials have yet to publicly release the decision.”We?re disappointed,” one band member said.
Last week, Eric Neumaier caught the bus in front of the East Side apartment complex in which he has lived for four years. This Wednesday, the UW graduate student went to the same Fordem Street spot for his daily trip to campus and found a hole in the ground where the bus stop sign used to be. “The driver told me they wouldn?t be stopping there anymore,” he said. “They?ll still drive by, but won?t hit the brakes.” The stop was one of 20 eliminated under a new schedule that took effect Monday and caught some riders unaware; one affected area is home to many UW students. Metro Transit spokesman Mick Rusch said the changes were made to improve wheelchair accessibility, line up with pedestrian crosswalks and be closer to sidewalks.
Baseball commissioner Bud Selig, along with owners of the Milwaukee Brewers, Oakland A?s and Boston Red Sox, are donating an undisclosed amount of money to the University of Wisconsin. The donations were announced on Friday at a news conference at Miller Park. Donations from Brewers owner Mark Attanasio, A?s owner Lew Wolff and Red Sox co-owner Tom Werner will go toward a scholarship in Selig?s name. Hank Aaron?s Chasing the Dream Foundation also announced a new scholarship in Selig?s name. Selig gave money to support a new faculty position in United States history focusing on the relationship between sports and society from 1900 to the present.
It?s no “Vegas, baby” this year for the University of Wisconsin marching band.The band has traveled to Las Vegas for previous Badger football games. But this season, the band doesn?t have enough money to make the trip.
Madison police are looking for two suspects who allegedly beat up and robbed five different young men in two different incidents downtown early Wednesday morning.The strong arm robbery and battery incidents happened at about 1:45 a.m. in the 200 block of North Bassett Street, Madison police said.
UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin and history professor Jeremi Suri will appear on Wisconsin Public Radio?s Joy Cardin Show on Wednesday from 8 to 9 a.m. to talk about online education at the university.
MADISON, Wis. — Drivers will want to avoid the downtown area this weekend as 6,500 UW students move into campus housing. This year, ongoing road and utility construction will make the big move-in weekend even more hectic than usual. Several city streets will be closed and turned into one-way streets for several days this week.
Large message boards will be up in the campus area to help direct people to the appropriate places, according to a release from the university.
If you see dazed and confused parents, driving packed-to-the-roof SUVs with out-of-state license plates, going round and round the UW-Madison campus, looking for a parking spot, it can only mean one thing: It?s move-in week.
Beginning Wednesday, 6,500 UW-Madison students will start moving into the 17 residence halls on campus: 1,300 with housing jobs move in on Wednesday, then 2,600 on Friday and another 2,600 on Saturday. To add to the fun and excitement, a pile of campus streets are torn up due to utility and road construction.
