Category: Campus life

Two UW-Madison students are paying hefty fines of about $700 apiece, for stealing a 20 foot maple tree from a downtown street.

In recent years, University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly has stressed the need to keep tuition increases “reasonable and predictable.”

On Thursday, the Board of Regents is expected to approve a 5.5 percent tuition hike for state students attending one of the UW Systemâ??s four-year institutions during 2010-11. This proposed increase is part of the systemâ??s 2010-11 operating budget, which is to be voted on during regents meetings hosted by UW-Milwaukee.

Reilly is proposing yet another tuition freeze at the systemâ??s 13 two-year colleges — keeping tuition at $4,268, the same as in 2006. The freeze is an attempt to keep the UW Colleges as an affordable entry point to the UW System.

Tuition rates would go up 5.5 percent on most University of Wisconsin campuses next school year under a proposal released Monday.If approved by the Board of Regents on Thursday, it will mark the fourth straight year that base tuition has increased 5.5 percent at the systemâ??s 13 four-year universities. The plan would also freeze tuition for 13,000 students enrolled at the 13 UW two-year colleges for the fourth straight year. The increases would be the sharpest on two campuses – the flagship UW-Madison and UW-Eau Claire – where regents have already approved tuition surcharges being phased in over four years to pay for more professors and services.Rates would jump by $638, or about 8.7 percent, for UW-Madison undergraduates as the campus enters the second year of its plan to raise tuition by an extra $1,000.

Calling it “reasonable and predictable,” University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly is recommending a 5.5 percent tuition increase for the stateâ??s 13 four-year universities for 2010-11. The UW Board of Regents will vote on the increase at a meeting in Milwaukee on Thursday as part of the UW Systemâ??s operating budget, which is expected to exceed $5 billion next year for the first time. This is the fourth consecutive year that Reilly has recommended a 5.5 percent tuition hike. It will mean tuition will rise $638 at UW-Madison, for an annual cost of $7,933. That rate increase â?? 8.7 percent â?? is because UW-Madison is in the midst of implementing a surcharge called the Madison Initiative for Undergraduates to pay for more professors and services. UW-Madisonâ??s tuition will still be the second lowest in the Big Ten conference, according to UW System documents.

Tuition rates would go up 5.5 percent on most University of Wisconsin campuses next school year under a proposal released Monday.

Many University of Wisconsin students will likely paying more for tuition next school year.

Two UW-Madison students are paying hefty fines of about $700 apiece, for stealing a 20 foot maple tree from a downtown street. Police spokesman Joel DeSpain says it appears some late night hijinks were involved.

Robin Mittenthal is chairman of the board that oversees Eagle Heights Community Gardens, which has 537 plots tended by about 1,500 gardeners near the family housing area at UW-Madison. He is a former Minnesota organic farmer and is now a graduate student in entomology who is studying the effects of organic fertilizer on insect pests. Mittenthal, 36, said the huge collection of plots has a 30 percent turnover each year and a small waiting list. Because Eagle Heights has a large contingent of foreign student families, the contents of some plots can be unusual.

In an effort to help college students manage burdensome book bills, a federal law that takes effect in July will require colleges to give students information about textbook prices in course listings. A proposal before the UW Board of Regents next week would change the University of Wisconsin System policies on textbooks to comply with the new federal law. The idea is that students can use the cost information to help them decide which courses to take. For the past year, the UW System has been working under interim guidelines to help students manage costs.

Lake Mendota Statue of Liberty is #1, Bascom Hill pink flamingos is #4.

Jessica Pharm did not come to the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a silver spoon in her mouth. Her father is a truck driver and her mom was a stay-at-home mom until recently when she went to work at Potawatomi. While they would have done so, Pharm was determined not to get support from her parents and become a financial burden to them.

Some of the happiest people to see Rachel McKinsey walk down the aisle to receive her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a major in medical physics were her parents who came all the way up from Louisiana to be with their daughter on her special day. And it wasnâ??t just because of their great parental pride.

As the number of college graduates entering the labor market increases in coming weeks, many will ride out the tough job market with a short-term or part-time internship in the hopes that it will lead to long-term work. The popularity of internships for recent grads and employers continues to grow as the slow economy has forced businesses to be more discerning about the costs of a full-time workforce.

Itâ??s graduation time for students across Wisconsin. For some, itâ??s the end of a long roadâ??for others, a door to a new life. Today, producer Cynthia Woodland brings us the voices of some of this yearâ??s graduates of the UW Odyssey Projectâ??students for whom graduation is the fulfillment of a dreamâ?¦(Audio.)

After choosing a college and (hopefully) figuring out how to pay for it, almost every new college student faces a critical decision: which dorm should I live in?

Bad news if youâ??re on the waiting list for UW-Madison and hoping to get in.

The Office of Admissions at UW-Madison announced today that it will not take wait-list action for incoming freshmen of 2010.

Bad news if youâ??re on the waiting list for UW-Madison and hoping to get in.

After choosing a college and hopefully figuring out how to pay for it, almost every new college student faces a critical decision: which dorm should I live in?

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department said Tuesday that a suspect has been arrested in connection with a series of overnight arson fires in the campus area.

Interest and fees will inflate the amount you owe. If you default, the government could garnish your wages and withhold your tax refund.These dire consequences are avoidable, at least as far as your federal student loans are concerned. The key is to understand your options and take action before you fall behind on payments.

This growing season, a group of UW-Madison students is bringing new meaning to the phrase â??food chain.â? Members of the F.H. King Students for Sustainable Agriculture haul food scraps by bicycle from Fresh Madison Market to turn it into compost for their garden off Lake Mendota Drive, north of University Hospital.

Noted: Roberto McQuade, who majored in communications arts and political science at the University of Wisconsin, has applied for 20 office jobs with pharmaceutical companies and architecture and real estate concerns.

When he moved to Milwaukee from a tiny town in Mexico, Carlos Torres couldnâ??t speak a word of English. Not even hello or goodbye.

He was a frightened kid, plunked into fifth grade at a south side Milwaukee school. His family – heâ??s the youngest of 10 children – rented a place near 14th and Lincoln. Now, a mere dozen years later, Carlos is a standout graduate of Marquette High School and, as of last weekend, the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Faced with an enviable choice among four medical schools that accepted him, he has chosen Harvard on a full-tuition scholarship. Heâ??s the first member of his family to graduate from college.

911 director John Dejung, on the verge of his one-year anniversary in Dane County, is a finalist for a 911 director job in Dakota County, Minn., just southeast of the Twin Cities. Dejung inherited a difficult task after the previous director Joe Norwick resigned amid the controversy surrounding a mishandled call from a murdered UW-Madison studentâ??s cell phone.

A Kenosha man charged in a Dec. 31 crash that killed 21-year-old Shanica Adkins is scheduled to stand trial June 1. Johnny Jerome Jones, 32, was speeding away from a squad car that had tried to pull him over on Dec. 31 in Milwaukee because his Mercury Mountaineer did not have a front license plate, and he ran a red light just before colliding with the Geo Prism in which Adkins was a passenger, the complaint said. Adkins, 21, was active in organizations on campus at UW-Madison and was set to graduate this month with a double major in social work and sociology.

In an account eerily similar to previous claims of prosecutorial excess by former Assistant Dane County District Attorney Mike Verveer, a former UW-Madison student claimed to WKOW 27 News Verveer made an unsolicited telephone call to him when the man was a criminal defendant, and may have tainted a prosecution.

A Madison company that sold alcohol online and delivered it to University of Wisconsin-Madison students could face some hefty fines. The city has filed a complaint in municipal court against Danny Haber and Matthew Siegel, who operated Campusdrank.com. The store that provided the alcohol for delivery is also facing potential municipal citations.

(Varsity, varsity….)
The pomp and ceremony of graduation day at UW-Madison brought thousands of graduates and many thousands more family and friends to the Kohl Center for five commencements last weekend.

(U-rah-rah, Wisconsin)
But, no matter how many people attended, graduation isnâ??t a group thing.

(Praise to thee, we sing)
Itâ??s a very personal event, as personal as anything you can ever go through. When your son or daughter walks across the stage, name announced, video screen high above the floor showing the brief, shining moment, the memories and tears start to flow.

Google search suggestions have shifted public perceptions about nanotechnology away from science to health worries, finds a science communications study. Search engine reliance on popularity rather than accuracy to steer people to information likely distorts societyâ??s view of science, politics and elsewhere, suggest the study authors.

Graduating from college is a landmark for anyone, but itâ??s especially meaningful for 67-year-old Richard Smith, who started pursuing his bachelorâ??s degree in 1960.

From Superior to Kenosha, Green Bay to Madison, thousands of students marched to the strains of pomp and circumstance for this yearâ??s spring commencement.At the UW, more than 6,000 students received degrees over the weekend.U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan gave the keynote address Saturday, urging students to remember lessons they learned while staying in the capitol city.

Let the commencements commence! The rite of passage from undergraduate to graduate will keep both the Kohl Center and the Coliseum at Alliant Energy Center busy from Friday night through Sunday afternoon, as thousands of students get their diplomas from UW-Madison, Edgewood College and Madison Area Technical College. UW-Madison kicks off the graduation ceremonies Friday at 5:30 p.m. at the Kohl Center, with doctoral, professional and honorary degrees being awarded. That will be the first of five commencements for roughly 6,000 UW-Madison graduates.

Let the commencements commence!

The rite of passage from undergraduate to graduate will keep both the Kohl Center and the Coliseum at Alliant Energy Center busy from Friday night through Sunday afternoon, as thousands of students get their diplomas from UW-Madison, Edgewood College and Madison Area Technical College.

UW-Madison kicks off the graduation ceremonies Friday at 5:30 p.m. at the Kohl Center, with doctoral, professional and honorary degrees being awarded. That will be the first of five commencements for roughly 6,000 UW-Madison graduates.

When John F. Kennedy said, “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country,” the message caught fire almost as soon as he uttered it. Nearly 50 years later, Barack Obamaâ??s “call to service” has also spread far and wide, with a modern, high-tech twist. Itâ??s all over the Internet â?? at www.serve.gov, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.