Wisconsinâ??s unique culture is defined by an industrious work ethic and an exuberant, inescapable party scene. We work hard, and we party hard â?? itâ??s a Midwest thing. No matter where weâ??re originally from, UW-Madison students can relate to this dynamic.
With the annual Mifflin Street Block Party only two days away, city officials and campus leaders gathered to discuss the binge drinking culture that remains in the University of Wisconsin community even after the streets are cleared of beer cans.
Wisconsin is leading the nation in census form return, according to the United States Census Bureau.
Dear Editor: Would that Madison voters were able to exercise as much direct democracy as UW-Madison students. Their student government has made it possible for students to vote in binding referendums on capital expenditures financed from segregated student fees. Knowing their votes would determine the outcome, 34 percent of eligible voters cast ballots on financing and expansion/renovation of Natatorium facilities.
The small orange, black and white can touts world domination.For now, Madison entrepreneurs Dave Kruse and Paul Pucci would be happy just adding a few more convenience stores to sell the energy drink theyâ??ve created and dubbed Flatt Cola. The UW-Madison business school graduates are also trying to attract more investors to their fledgling company so they can increase the marketing campaign that includes â??Everyday World Domination,â? and purchase more cans for another batch of the high-octane drink.
Professor Ken Mayer calls it the UW-Madison version of “Kids Say the Darndest Things.”
Every spring he invites Josh Reinekingâ??s kindergarten class into his 350-student lecture, Political Science 104: Introduction to American National Government, to the amusement of his students, the kindergartners and himself.
A day earlier Mayer goes to their classroom at Stephens Elementary School on the West Side and challenges them to come up with questions to stump him.
n 2008 there were 440 people arrested for 614 violations. Last year only 164 people were arrested for 228 violations. Thatâ??s a big change from 1996 when riots broke out at the party. City officials are hoping nothing like that happens this year and theyâ??re banking on a more is less strategy to ensure everyone has a safe fun time.
A group of University of Wisconsin-Madison students have developed a system to help give those in developing countries electricity in their homes. UW-Madison electrical engineering graduate student Dan Ludois was looking for a way to provide power to people in developing countries without any.
A new bill introduced in both the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate would make it easier for students to erase private student loan debt when they declare bankruptcy, if the bill is signed into law.
Mifflin Street residents, city agencies and event organizers will come together this evening to address any preliminary concerns and expectations for the fast-approaching Mifflin Street Block Party.
University of Wisconsin fraternity Sigma Phi Epsilon made further steps toward rebuilding its house that burned down in 2008 when the cityâ??s Landmarks Commission approved its plan to construct a new house Monday.
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There were two brothers named Grimm who collected and published fairy and folk tales in Germany in the 1800s, including some of the most famous tales we know — “Cinderella,” Snow White” and other legends that propelled Walt Disneyâ??s animated films.
The Brothers Grimmâ??s work will be prominently displayed at the Dane County Regional Airport beginning on Wednesday, thanks to the sister county relationship Dane County has with the Grimmsâ?? adopted homeland of Kassel, Germany.
Not everyone in medical school is smart.
How else can one explain the fact that someone thought it would be a good idea to have a stripper show up at the “Black Bag Ball,” an event put on by the UWâ??s Medical Student Association and funded by the universityâ??s Medical Alumni Foundation?
“Weâ??re really disappointed,” Patrick McBride, an associate dean of students with the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, said Monday.
There was concern it wouldnâ??t go forward. A guy who used to write for me at the Herald, Steve Horn, was sending around a facebook petition trying to get people to protest Memorial Unionâ??s cancellation of the event.
With the annual Mifflin Street Block Party only days away, organizers are outlining new plans and Madison police say it will be cutting back on their patrolling of the popular campus event this weekend.
An anti-war panel discussion featuring Cindy Sheehan and a group of national political activists will take place Monday night in the Memorial Union after all.The event will be held at 7 p.m. in the Old Madison room, said Marc Kennedy, the Wisconsin Union communications director.The location of the event had been up in the air after sponsorship withdrawals and concerns over security costs forced event organizers into scramble mode.
UW-Madison officials are investigating the appearance of a stripper at a Medical Students Association event last Friday at Memorial Union.
An anti-war panel discussion scheduled to be held at Memorial Union tonight was displaced due to security costs, communication breakdowns and sponsorship withdrawals.
Students got a crash course in muralism and spray-painting during a student-run art workshop Friday hosted by a student organization specializing in Chicano culture.
A Medical School party got a little too festive last weekend when a small group of attendees created a â??back roomâ? featuring their very own erotic entertainment.
Forums featuring the final four candidates for director of admissions and recruitment were held last week, giving campus community members an opportunity to meet the individuals who may have a hand in shaping future generations of Badgers.
At this yearâ??s Wisconsin Film Festival, it wasnâ??t uncommon to hear the audience burst into applause before the opening credits had even rolled. It wasnâ??t in anticipation of the film, but in appreciation of the bubbly trailer preceding it. UW-Madison junior Brittany Radocha created the trailer, where geometric moths dance across a blue screen toward a lightbulb, and then form the Wisconsin Film Festival logo.
Playboy magazine sent out a press release last week with its list of the top party schools in the country, and UW-Madison ranked third. The general reaction to these lists on campus is a few grins from students along with some hand-wringing from the administration.When I received the release, I had a different reaction. I let out a primal scream. The release reminded me of a strange episode from my occasionally strange past. I think of it as “the story that wonâ??t die.” It began a decade ago and it still doesnâ??t really have a satisfactory ending.
Ronald Wiggins stood on the front stoop of his West Side apartment Saturday morning. As he watched, volunteers dug up the front lawn at 5818 Russett Road to plant fruit trees and shrubs, vegetables, herbs and flowers. About 70 volunteers worked from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday to transform the front yards of eight Russett Road apartment buildings into a community garden and beautification project. Members of the Madison Permaculture Guild created distinct designs for each building, whose owners agreed to turn over their front yards to the effort.The Russett Road Garden Project was made possible by about $3,000 in grants, donated plants and dozens of volunteers, including students from UW-Madison and Edgewood College.
Anti-war soccer mom Cindy Sheehan and a panel of national political activists are in town today to challenge both political partiesâ?? support for the war, but the event location remains up in the air. The event was originally scheduled to be held in the Memorial Union, but Steve Horn, the local student organizer, didnâ??t have the appropriate sponsorship lined up when he reserved the space, Wisconsin Union communications director Marc Kennedy said.
The moment last week he found out official Crazylegs Classic T-shirts had been shipped to countries such as Austria, France, Germany and Switzerland was when it really hit Terry Murawski that the event had gone global. â??I kind of got goose bumps,â? said Murawski, the executive director of the National W Club. â??I thought, â??Man, oh, man, thatâ??s kind of cool that we can reach out to people who want to be connected to the (University of Wisconsin) and UW athletics in this way.â??â? Crazylegs World added a whole new element to the 29th annual event that took place Saturday. Some who couldnâ??t join the runners and walkers in Madison staged their own version of Crazylegs, complete with their own wrinkles.
Officials at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are investigating how a stripper ended up at a school-sanctioned function involving dozens of medical school students. WKOW-TV in Madison reports the annual “Black Bag Ball” was April 17 at Memorial Union. Itâ??s put on by the UW Medical Students Association with financial support from the UW School of Medicine Alumni Foundation. In attendance were about 150 students, guests and faculty members.
The Wisconsin Historical Society in Madison has renovated its Library Reading Room.The seven-month, $2.9 million project has restored historic details missing or obscured since a 1955 renovation, including a replicated stained-glass skylight in the roomâ??s 30-foot-high ceiling.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus Womenâ??s Center is in jeopardy after it has, for the first time, been found ineligible for its student funding.
If former Stevens Point Area Senior High and University of Wisconsin-Madison defensive tackle Ross Kolodziej learned anything during his draft experience in 2001, it was to expect the unexpected.
In this academic year, between 200,000 and 450,000 U.S. college students will be raped.Thatâ??s what author Jessica Valenti and founder of the Feministing blog told a UW-Madison audience Thursday night. She calls it a “national epidemic,” and she blames what advocates call our rape culture.
UW-Madison officials are investigating the presence of a stripper at a university-sanctioned function involving dozens of medical school students. “This is not consistent with our school, our campus, our profession,” UW School of Medicine Associate Dean of Students Patrick McBride told 27 News.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine is investigating a university-sanctioned event where a group of medical students paid a stripper to attend and dance. The investigation focuses on an April 17 annual formal dinner and dance at the Great Hall in the Memorial Union.
A number of UW-Madison student groups honored the 40th anniversary of Earth Day with campus events Thursday.
A Madison man accused of stalking a University of Wisconsin member of the womenâ??s cross-country and track team made his initial appearance in court Thursday.
Glad to see the powers that be are coming to their senses on locating Madisonâ??s Amtrak station.Everyone, from the state to most city and county officials, seemed hellbent on siting the station at the Dane County Regional Airport, far from the hustle and bustle of central Madison.
The UW-Madison students who rejected a $108 increase in their annual fees to fund an expansion of the Natatorium certainly showed a better understanding of todayâ??s economic conditions and burdens on students and their families than the empire-building and wasteful administrators within the entire UW System.
First, the UW-Madison Campus Womenâ??s Center was stripped of its funding. Now itâ??s going to be stripped of its furniture. Because the center didnâ??t get funding from the General Student Services Fund for next year – a fund paid for and administered by students – the group has to give back all the capital purchases it has made over the years, said Tina Trevino-Murphy, programming coordinator.
The Madison Police Department said Thursday that officers busted a very large and sophisticated marijuana grow operation on April 13. One of the suspects is a UW-Madison student.
First, the UW-Madison Campus Womenâ??s Center was stripped of its funding. Now itâ??s going to be stripped of its furniture.
Because the center didnâ??t get funding from the General Student Services Fund this year – a fund paid for and administered by students – the group has to give back all the capital purchases it has made over the years, said Tina Trevino-Murphy, programming coordinator.
A Madison man was charged Wednesday with stalking for allegedly giving a runner from the UW-Madison womenâ??s cross country team unwanted gifts, following her and constructing a shrine to her outside the teamâ??s practice facility.
David Hose, 21, of Madison, is scheduled to appear in court Thursday. According to a criminal complaint, the 20-year-old woman told police that she didnâ??t know Hose before the incidents began in August.
The first incident, the complaint states, was outside a State Street bar, where the woman said a man later identified as Hose was acting so bizarrely that she took his picture to document who he was.
The UW-Madison students who rejected a $108 increase in their annual fees to fund an expansion of the Natatorium certainly showed a better understanding of todayâ??s economic conditions and burdens on students and their families than the empire-building and wasteful administrators within the entire UW System.
I hope the students at the other campuses follow their lead, and that the administrators and Board of Regents learn from their example.
â?? James Pawlak, West Allis
Habitat for Humanity volunteers on the UW-Madison campus will be constructing one of the more unusual homes in the area on Friday.
The organization will be constructing a shack on Library Mall with the goal of showing how many people live across the globe.
Projects from a group of University of Wisconsin students ranging from youth outreach to developing websites were presented at a conference honoring the 40th anniversary of Earth Day Wednesday afternoon.
The world will be a little greener thanks to the winners of the University of Wisconsin 2010 Climate Leadership Challenge who were chosen earlier this week.
What happens to your online accounts and records when you die? A new Madison company, Entrustet, helps people designate what they want done with their digital assets, such as e-mail, Facebook, LinkedIn, PayPal and others. Entrustet founders Jesse Davis and Nathan Lustig won the Studentsâ?? Choice Award in the 2009 UW-Madison Burrill Business Plan Competition.
How does one restore a “sense of place” when there is little evidence of what the original looked like? Architectural detective work, attention to quality, brilliant – meaning both bright and intelligent – solutions and persistence were brought to the task of restoring the Library Reading Room at the Wisconsin Historical Societyâ??s campus headquarters. For the $2.9 million renovation and restoration project, the society received a room demure in tone, expansive in structure and inventive in meeting an odd challenge of in-with-the-really-old, out-with-the-old. These subjectives the public can test for itself in tours Friday and Saturday, but students and other researchers have already responded positively to the new room: The comfy brown leather reading chairs, the special soothing color tones, the lovingly restored column plaster curleys and cues and dangly bell flowers, the mahogany tables, the handy outlets for laptop computers and the inviting green-shaded lamps.
Madison officials have long labored to keep the Mifflin Street Block Party from turning the street into a “beer garden,” but this yearâ??s celebration will likely have one with the cityâ??s blessing. The 41st annual party, nearing final approval, is set to have a sponsor for the second straight year, two music stages, portable toilets, vendors, and, for the first time since 1995, a city-approved beer garden. The fete is a UW-Madison student tradition to celebrate the end of the school year, but it has bedeviled police and city officials because of its focus on alcohol and history of trouble. This year, officials hope to reduce alcohol use at the party by monitoring its flow. The idea is that sponsors and the police have more control at the beer garden than at house parties that rage along Mifflin Street.
When it comes to a cappella groups at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the divas in Tangled Up In Blue might take the crown. Experience the talent of this all-female a cappella group when they host their annual spring show at the Overture Center on Thursday, April 22, and Friday, April 23, at 7:30 p.m. in Promenade Hall.
The mountain of data compiled for every NFL prospect – including Wisconsin senior Chris Maragos – has been studied intensely. From Maragosâ?? stopwatch times to his demeanor to his interests, just about everything there is to know about the 2005 Horlick High School graduate has been out there for the leagueâ??s 32 teams to contemplate.
….I saw young children sprawled on the Capitol lawn. Judging by the school buses parked in the area, it appeared that these young people had traveled from rural areas of Wisconsin to visit, perhaps for the first time, our grand Capitol and to develop a patriotic sense of democracy. Their smiles and enthusiasm were indeed a heart-lifting scene in contrast to the bitterness and hatred on the other side of the building.
Continuing down State Street and through campus, I saw hundreds more people, mostly young, optimistic students, hurrying off to classes and choosing not to participate in destructive rhetoric, but instead choosing to enjoy the day by pursuing the truth through education and civil conversation. They too were a refreshing contrast to the depressing gathering on the other end of State Street.
As this yearâ??s high school seniors choose colleges, parents might be surprised to learn that Harvard, Yale, and other elite schools have far more permissive attitudes toward underage drinking than many othersâ??and alcohol-related hospitalization rates are rising. Is it smart policy or reckless negligence?
When Madison Police Officer Chris Masterson isnâ??t working his State Street beat, he bikes the highways of Dane County, training for triathlons.Masterson, 27, is among the departmentâ??s new generation of bike officers seeking to maximize the tactical potential of their two-wheelers. After UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann was killed in her West Doty Street apartment in April 2008, Dexheimer and other members of the community policing team went out on bikes to distribute fliers and talk with neighborhood residents.
A negligence claim by the family of slain UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann against the owners and managers of the apartment building where she died will go forward, a Dane County judge ruled Tuesday.
Noted: In 2002, Eddy Bailey was a 20-year-old student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Similar to Good, his roommates took him to the hospital after he reported flu-like symptoms. Eddy was dead within hours.
Noted: Also in Europe, a UW professor stuck in London. 27 News emailed with Professor William Murphy Tuesday. He said in an email, “There are lots of stranded travelers here and the situation is becoming desperate for some. Flights are supposed to resume this evening, but it is not clear when I will be able to return.”
UW-Madison communications leaders say theyâ??ve sent an email to the 500 students studying in Europe. They say a handful of students were on spring break trips during their semester or year-long stay: some have had troubles getting back.Â
A negligence claim by the family of slain UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann against the owners and managers of the apartment building where she died will go forward, a Dane County judge ruled Tuesday.
Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi denied a motion for summary judgment that was sought by Wisconsin Management, which managed the apartment building at 517 W. Doty St. where Zimmermann lived, and building owners Russ Endres and Carl Van Rooy. Sumi ruled that there are too many issues of fact that, by law, should be addressed by a jury and not by a judge.
The Sustainable Design and Energy Committee hosted a presentation Monday by graduate students in the Energy Analysis and Policy certificate program in an attempt to establish a carbon baseline for reducing energy consumption.
Recently proposed legislation may require universities to report the number of sexual assault hearings and their outcomes annually.
In the wake of a volcanic eruption that left flights both to and from Europe grounded, a number of Madison residents have been stranded across the Atlantic.
