Despite witness accounts and the identification of a suspect, a Madison police investigation of a bar attack languished for months, as the suspect allegedly attacked yet another victim — a Badger football star.
Nine to 15-year-olds on the city?s north side on Saturday played basketball and ran drills with UW Badgers Keaton Nankivil and Charlie Wills.
Near as University of Wisconsin men?s hockey coach Mike Eaves can tell, his roster for next season is set.In addition to the signings Thursday of two freshmen ? defenseman Joe Faust and winger Gavin Hartzog ? junior winger Jordy Murray has told Eaves he intends to return.
A slain University of Wisconsin-Madison student?s fiance cannot sue authorities for mishandling her 911 call or the couple?s landlords for lax security because he doesn?t have the legal standing, a court ruled Thursday. The District 4 Court of Appeals dismissed two lawsuits filed by Jordan Gonnering, whose fiancee, Brittany Zimmermann, was stabbed and strangled by an intruder in their Madison apartment in April 2008. The killing remains unsolved.
Several top Chinese athletes are due to arrive in Madison on Friday to kick off a new exchange program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Seven athletes and two coaches in sports ranging from track to Taekwondo will study on campus through December under the exchange with Beijing Sports University, where they are graduate students. Through the collaboration announced by UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin in March, the group will participate in seminars and internships that focus on training and coaching
A slain University of Wisconsin-Madison student?s fiance cannot sue authorities for mishandling the Marshfield High School graduate?s 911 call or the couple?s landlords for lax security because he doesn?t have the legal standing, a court ruled Thursday.
The fiancée of a slain UW-Madison student can?t collect damages in her murder.
A slain University of Wisconsin-Madison students fiance cannot sue authorities for mishandling her 911 call or the couples landlords for lax security because he doesnt have the legal standing, a court ruled Thursday.
With the 40th anniversary of the Sterling Hall bombing approaching, the news from the Federal Bureau of Investigation is really no news at all ? Leo Burt is still on the lam. The FBI held a press conference Wednesday in Madison to issue an update on its 40-year investigation into the whereabouts of Burt, the last remaining fugitive from the bombing and one of the longest-listed individuals on the agency?s list of domestic terrorism suspects.
It?s been a manhunt 40 years in the making, and the FBI says they refuse to up in their search for Leo Burt.
Special Agent Kevin Cassidy sat down to answer questions this morning about the FBI?s search for Leo Frederick Burt, as we approach the upcoming anniversary of the Sterling Hall bombing. Authorities have been looking for Burt since shortly after a truck, rigged with explosives, exploded near Sterling Hall on the UW campus August 24, 1970.
A month away from the 40th anniversary of the Sterling Hall bombing, the FBI is still actively searching for Leo Burt, the only one of the four bombers who has not been caught.
As the 40th anniversary of the bombing of Sterling Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus nears, one suspected bomber remains at large.
MONCTON, New Brunswick ? Mohammed Ahmed, who will be a sophomore this fall at the University of Wisconsin, finished fourth in the 10,000-meter run at the IAAF World Junior Championships on Tuesday. Ahmed, competing for his native Canada, registered his second straight top-10 showing in the event with a time of 29 minutes, 11.75 seconds.
Two other athletes with UW ties will race this week. Incoming freshman Emily Sisson will represent the U.S. in the 5,000 on Wednesday after finishing 10th in the 3,000 on Monday, while incoming freshman Gregory MacNeill is slated to compete for his native Canada in the prelims of the 400-meter relay on Friday.
Christina Garcia had her heart set on going to the University of Washington in Seattle.
But with annual out-of-state tuition topping $25,000, the recent Cedarburg High School graduate and her family calculated it would cost more than $40,000 per year to go to school at her first college choice. In the end, it only made sense to head to another UW ? the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
….UW-Madison officials say they are committed to making their institution accessible and affordable to all, with Chancellor Biddy Martin playing a leading role in ratcheting up efforts to raise more need-based aid to ensure those who most require financial assistance are being ?held harmless? from tuition increases. And compared to other Big Ten Conference schools, Wisconsin?s flagship remains a steal for in-state students, with only those attending the University of Iowa paying less in resident tuition and fees ($6,824 in 2009-10).
It?s been nearly 40 years since a deadly bombing on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, but authorities said the search for one of the men responsible for the bombing continues.The FBI will speak to the media Wednesday about the manhunt for Leo Burt.
With a combination of older rental homes, a 1970s cement block apartment building and several redevelopment projects, the 400 block of West Dayton Street offers a curious mix of real estate.
Now one of the street?s most active landlords — Dan Bohl — is pursuing a four-story, four-flat “walk up” student apartment at 431 W. Dayton. The brick building would have a total of 23 bedrooms, making it one of the city?s most dense developments by that measure.
Metro Transit had a slight decrease in ridership while revenues continued to grow in the first five months of 2010. Ridership is a touchy subject for city officials because some feared a decrease after Metro raised fares in April 2009. The current decrease, however, may partly be the result of new drivers not counting riders on ?no fare? routes at UW-Madison, Metro General Manager Chuck Kamp said.
UW-Madison ranked fifth among large schools contributing graduating seniors to the 2010 Teach for America pool. This fall, 56 recent graduates from UW-Madison will join the corps, committing two years of service to underserved schools in rural and urban areas.
Megan Abel. I even remember her name.She was the red-headed girl I met at college orientation.
University of Wisconsin quarterback Scott Tolzien has been named to a number of preseason watch lists for college football awards.
Would you prefer to live in a tent while retaining your job and savings, or in a temporary housing structure with nothing? Luckily, that?s a question most of us don?t have to answer.
Former Janesville Parker standout Catie O?Leary has transferred to Bradley University after one season with the University of Wisconsin women?s basketball program.
A generation ago, college orientation was a perfunctory affair, lasting little more than a day. The focus was on registering for classes and buying textbooks. If parents were needed at all, it was primarily for their wallets.
Despite an increase in reported bicycle thefts in major cities across the nation, the city of Madison has seen a drop off over the past few years. The number of reported bike thefts citywide fell from 492 in 2007 to 426 in 2008, and then down to 346 in 2009, according to Madison Police Information Systems Coordinator Thomas Dull. Through the end of April, there were 48 bikes reported stolen this year.
“It seems a little odd from what I see,” Dull said of the decrease, adding the police aren’t exactly sure why there have been fewer reported bike thefts in Madison in recent years.
However, Dull said the decrease might stem from the Downtown Safety Initiative, which increased the police presence on the Isthmus, where most bicyclists live and ride, in 2007, and also from the UW-Madison Police Department’s use of a “bait bike” program.
Four Madison area public gardening ventures, including the Eagle Heights Community Garden, are competing for a free orchard from the Fruit Tree Planting Foundation and Edy?s fruit bars. In the national contest ? in which supporters vote online for their favorite public garden project ? five winners will receive fruit and nut trees and equipment. UW-Madison?s Eagle Heights Community Gardens, which is in the Lakeshore Nature Preserve, plans to extend a fruit tree management program that started in 2007 with 36 dwarf fruit trees, including heritage apple varieties. Organizers there hope to press their first cider this fall.
Bicycle thefts in Madison have dropped 30 percent in recent years, and police say one reason might be a new program designed to help track down thieves. Police say about 500 bike thefts were reported citywide in 2007. That number fell to about 425 the next year and 350 last year. The decrease coincides with a “bait bike” program launched by the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s police department. The program involves an unspecified number of bikes fitted with GPS tracking devices and left at various spots around campus.
For the sailing club at the University of Wisconsin, what to do with used sails is in the bag. Tom Barry, Head of Instruction for the Hoofer Sailing Club, says with 100 boats and 1200 members, they go through a lot of sails each year.
One of Madison?s most popular summer music venues has been expanded. The Terrace at the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Memorial Union is bigger than ever.
The late-night phone call Tuesday from the West Coast brought good news for followers of the UW men?s hockey team. Defenseman Jake Gardiner said he will return for his junior season and not become the fifth underclassman to leave the Badgers for the NHL since April.
“I?m coming back to Wisconsin,?? he said.
Dear Editor: UW students will thank Sen. Herb Kohl on Thursday, July 8, for supporting Wall Street reform and will encourage him to vote with Main Street, not Wall Street, on the final vote on the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act later in July. They?ll meet at 11:30 a.m. outside Kohl?s Madison office at 14 W. Mifflin St., Suite 207. If it?s raining, meet in the hallway outside Kohl?s office.
Rare were the times in recent weeks when University of Wisconsin men?s hockey coach Mike Eaves saw Ryan McDonagh at ease. If McDonagh wasn?t straining through an off-season conditioning session with his UW teammates at the Kohl Center, the captain-elect and standout defenseman was usually deep in thought about his future.
….This summer, one of the largest state universities in the country — Ohio State — is launching a new program to encourage every incoming freshman to get a U.S. passport. The program, ?Gateway to the World,? is designed to encourage the roughly 6,600 freshmen — 30 percent of whom are first-generation college students — to get used to the idea that their community is a global one.
….OSU is encouraging, but not requiring, entering students to get the passports. Part of the reason is cost. U.S. passports cost about $100, which does not include the price of required photos. Evanovich said OSU is exploring ways to help those students in need, with passports and studies abroad.
I hope that OSU figures this out sooner rather than later and that other colleges and universities across the country follow suit in starting their own passport programs.
It?s too easy to argue that the University of Wisconsin men?s hockey team is in the midst of the most turbulent offseason in program history. How about UW history? How about college athletic history?
Since advancing to the NCAA championship game April 10, the Badgers have bid adieu to seven seniors ? including their first Hobey Baker Award winner ? lost four underclassmen to NHL contracts and seen two proven assistants accept head coaching jobs elsewhere.
Building on the outstanding rookie season he enjoyed with the University of Wisconsin men?s track and field team this year, freshman Mohammed Ahmed laid claim to his third consecutive Canadian junior national championship in the 5,000 meters Sunday.
Ahmed, who had already claimed the Big Ten title and earned All-America honors in the 10,000 meters for the Badgers this season, solidified his spot on the Canadian national team by winning the 5,000 meters at the 2010 Canadian Junior Championships in 14:15.92.
Dorcas Akinniyi will cap her first outdoor track and field season at the University of Wisconsin by representing the United States in a international competition next week in Florida.
Akinniyi, who claimed the Big Ten Conference heptathlon title and finished fifth at the NCAA championships, will compete in the North American, Central American and Caribbean Under-23 championships.
Grandparents and children alike moved to the beat of the University of Wisconsin Marching Band on Monday afternoon.
Men?s Health magazine recently named Madison the 10th most patriotic city in the country.The magazine used percentage of people who vote, volunteerism, flag sales and who spends the most on fireworks to rank a city?s patriotism. Portland. Ore., landed the top spot with Salt Lake City and Kansas City, Mo., taking second and third slots.
It took awhile, but another institution finally decided to follow the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s lead in putting a little pressure on athletic apparel giant Nike.
Back on April 9, UW-Madison decided to cut ties with Nike due to alleged labor rights abuses at two factories in Honduras. Nike paid UW-Madison nearly $50,000 for the right to use the university?s name or marks — such as Bucky Badger or the “motion W” — on apparel it made during the most recent academic year.
A Dane County judge ruled Wednesday a negligence claim filed by the family of slain UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann against Dane County and 911 dispatcher Rita Gahagan should be halted pending release of evidence from an ongoing criminal investigation. But, at the same time, Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi did not dismiss the claim, which was brought by the slain student?s parents, Jean and Kevin Zimmermann.
The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point will no longer sell bottled water on campus. School officials say they?re trying to help the environment by eliminating plastic containers.
Ellen Nordahl was frustrated when she began scoping out the job market in the fall of 2008, at the start of her senior year at the UW-Madison. Like other UW business students, she relied on career services for guidance and job fairs to find potential employers.
When students return to UW-Stevens Point this fall, they will no longer be able to buy bottled water on campus. The school says it?s trying to help the environment and its bottom line by eliminating plastic containers.
Expanding the Big Ten Conference was difficult enough, but now comes the really hard part. Dividing up the Big Ten now that Nebraska has become its 12th team. Among the remaining items on the Big Ten?s fast-moving expansion agenda is splitting the conference into two divisions for football starting in 2011. There is no easy solution to the riddle of divisional placement and no one?s going to get exactly what they want, which is why the University of Wisconsin could end up being one of the key variables.
The Big Ten-bound Cornhuskers boast a number of successful programs in lower-profile sports, including volleyball, track and field, women’s basketball, gymnastics ? and riflery.
A Dane County judge ruled Wednesday a negligence claim filed by the family of slain UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann against Dane County and 911 dispatcher Rita Gahagan should be halted pending release of evidence from an ongoing criminal investigation.But, at the same time, Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi did not dismiss the claim, which was brought by the slain student?s parents, Jean and Kevin Zimmermann.
A Dane County judge issued a ruling Wednesday on a negligence claim filed by the family of Brittany Zimmermann.
If foreclosure is threatening your future, one local group wants you to know you donâ??t have to fight it alone.
A recent sample of court filings shows that in 85 percent of foreclosure cases in Dane County, the homeowner doesnâ??t have a lawyer, according to a news release this week from the Dane County Foreclosure Prevention Taskforce. But that could change soon.
Starting tomorrow and continuing on the first and third Thursday of every month, a free legal clinic staffed by volunteer lawyers and law students will be open in Madison from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Room 310 of the City-County Building, 210 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Sponsored by the taskforce along with the Dane County Bar Association and UW-Madisonâ??s Law School, the Foreclosure Answer Clinic is for homeowners who have been served with a foreclosure lawsuit, and they should bring their summons and complaint with them, organizers said.
After returning from six months in Brisbane, Australia, I worked for the International Academic Programs office at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I know, from personal experience and from working with perspective students, that the decision to go abroad can be overwhelming.Â
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a state law school may refuse to recognize a religious student group that discriminates against gay students and non-Christians, in a 5-4 decision that could affect campuses nationwide. Dividing along ideological lines with the liberals in control, the justices said that a public university may condition official recognition of a student group on the groupâ??s agreement to open membership to all students who want to join.
As I promised a couple weeks ago â?? my thoughts on my return after almost 2 years to Madison, those x square miles surrounded by Reality. In my case, the 2 days in Madison were bookended by the reality of Step 1 and now, starting tomorrow, the Major Clinical Year. All the more reason to hold onto those Happy Thoughts in preparation.
Big changes to how student loans will take place July 1, and while the students themselves arent likely to notice much, taxpayers stand to save $68 billion over the next 11 years.The changes — part of the health care reform legislation passed by Congress in March — moves all taxpayer-backed college loans for students to the Department of Education and away from private banks.
Susan Fischer, director of financial aid and the University of Wisconsin in Madison, said that the school has made the changes to its computer system to handle the direct loan switch. They also have a big push to tell their students that they need to sign a new loan document promising that they will repay the balance.
A University of Wisconsin system-wide practice allowing sexual assault victims to report anonymously not only protects the victims of assault, but it may also be protecting the perpetrators. Laura Podgornik looks at the practice of anonymous reporting.
Kevin Reilly, the University of Wisconsin System president, said his goal is to keep tuition increases at four-year schools â??reasonable and predictable.â?
In a span of just 36 minutes Monday morning, undergraduates gobbled up their allocation of season tickets to University of Wisconsin football games this fall. Tickets went on sale at 7:30 a.m. to full-time undergraduate students â?? which includes incoming freshmen and transfers â?? and were gone by 8:06 a.m.
Is it anything to worry about? Freshman enrollment at UW campuses is not growing as fast as many other campuses around the country.
A publication has ranked the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health 20th in the country in how well it fulfills its social mission.
Coffee with a view: As a University of Wisconsin-Madison student in Milwaukee for the summer, thereâ??s one place that feels a little like home – Alterra at the Lake, 1701 N. Lincoln Memorial Drive. The chairs on the patio are just like those found at the Memorial Union in Madison. The only difference is the view: Instead of looking across Lake Mendota, youâ??re looking at Lake Michigan. I can plop down in one of those iconic chairs, grab a drink – nothing says summer to me more then an iced mocha with whipped cream – and take in the moment. – Cailley Hammel
Engineering students are descending on San Luis Obispo, Calif., this week for the annual National Concrete Canoe Competition, where teams build concrete boats according to different specifications each year and then race them in sprints and endurance contests, often dressed in costume. The University of Wisconsin is a heavy favorite after having won five times over the past 10 years, but back on campus the engineers say they still donâ??t get treated like jocks. When they took an old 20-foot concrete vessel sledding this winter, “everyone was pointing and laughing at us,” says Wisconsin senior Julie Chapman.
If you call Betty Merten an athlete, sheâ??ll laugh.
â??Athletes are supposed to be tall and buff,â? she says. â??Iâ??m short and plump and I use a seat to get around.â? But last Sunday Merten rolled across the finish line of the Capital View Triathlon in 3 hours and 30 minutes â?? an impressive feat given that only two years ago she had a tough time transferring from her wheelchair to the exam table.
Quoted: UW-Madison professor of kinesiology Tim Gattenby and Kara Mathys, a UW-Madison undergraduate
