After receiving initial approval from the Urban Design Commission, representatives of the Edgewater Hotel expansion project faced off with the Plan Commission Monday night in hopes of receiving approval for the redevelopment and construction on the Edgewater.
Reactions to the passage of a significant health care reform bill Sunday remain divided in Wisconsin, with some heralding the bill as a long-awaited insurance solution while others claim it is a dangerous move away from American ideals.
Somewhat lost in the House of Representativesâ?? approval of the health care reform bill on Sunday night was its vote in favor of President Obamaâ??s overhaul of the federal student loan system. Under the measure, fees paid to private banks as intermediaries would be eliminated; the maximum value of Pell grants would rise â?? though not by as much as in previous versions â?? and college graduates in low-paying jobs would have an easier time paying back loans.
Tuition for technical college students will increase by 4.5 percent if the Wisconsin Technical College System Board approves proposed 2010-2011 rates Tuesday. The change means students taking a full load of liberal arts courses at a Wisconsin technical college would pay roughly the same tuition as a student attending one of the 13 UW Colleges, the University of Wisconsin Systemâ??s freshman and sophomore campuses. Each would pay about $4,270 per year.
The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire is among schools canceling student trips to Mexico because of continuing violence there. The universityâ??s Center for Service Learning has canceled a spring break trip to Durango, Mexico.
In a throwback to a more politically active era on the University of Wisconsin campus, more than 200 people attended a teach-in Friday night at the Pyle Center covering the United Statesâ?? current involvement in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
A University of Wisconsin student was allegedly sexually assaulted on Langdon Street last Thursday, the second incident involving a female UW student to take place in the area in recent weeks.
The University of Wisconsin Police Department is still searching for the party responsible for spraying graffiti on several campus buildings last week.
HOBART, Wis. (AP) â?? The family of a 21-year-old Wisconsin woman says she died in her sleep while on a spring break trip to Florida.
Marie Sumnicht says her daughter, Julia Sumnicht of Hobart, died this week while visiting Miami.The Green Bay Press-Gazette says tests to determine the cause of death could take several weeks. Julia Sumnicht was a junior at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
….Stopping rape on campus may require a few extraordinarily strong survivors to file Title IX charges against their schools. It will require visionary campus administrators who care more about the safety of students than they do about their public image. It will require parents, students and alumni to demand real change. We will all need to recognize that, because the veil of silence must be pulled back for the real work to begin, the campuses we love may have to suddenly appear less safe if theyâ??re going to actually become safer.
An innovative UW-Oshkosh project will help students who dropped out of college — but had at least 45 credits — complete an associate of arts degree, according to a university news release. The program, called the Graduation Project, is designed to increase the number of degree-holders in the state. The idea is to reach students who were in good academic standing, but left college before getting a degree.
Cancun, Panama City and Miami are some of the traditional university break destination spots, but Costa Rica? This Latin American country, with its high level of biodiversity, has been a tourist destination for years. Now, with ticket prices cheaper than some domestic flights, its popularity among university students is growing. For $280 and a passport stamp, the door to a tropical paradise opened for me and my roommates during our UW-Madison winter break.
Applications for admission to the UW Colleges – the 13 freshman and sophomore campuses of the University of Wisconsin System – are up 10 percent over the same time last year. As of March 17, UW Colleges had received 5,040 applications, up from 4,576 one year ago.
Walter Pridham didnâ??t so much sweep his future wife off her feet as bowl her over.It was 1952, and they were both singing in the choir at Pres House, the Presbyterian student chapel on the UW-Madison campus. He was 21 and in the Air Force, stationed at Truax Field in Madison. She was an 18-year-old nursing student. After practice one night, he came around a blind corner from the coat room and crashed into her. As he picked her up, he invited her to coffee, thus beginning their courtship. Pres House has rarely been far from their thoughts ever since. Now, 58 years later, the Pridhams have donated $72,000 to replace the pipe organ in the chapel. Of the total, $22,000 is an outright gift, and $50,000 is a matching grant, part of an effort to raise $125,000 for the Pres House music program.
A University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire student from Minnesota is dead after accidentally falling from an elevated walkway at an apartment complex. Police say 22-year-old Kyle Joswiak of Inver Grove Heights, Minn., either climbed onto a safety rail and fell or tried to jump over the safety rail to the parking lot below.
Plans for the 2010 Mifflin Street Block Party are beginning to take shape and include more live music, beer and bathrooms.
The U.S. Census Bureau provided students with key information about the 2010 Census Wednesday on Library Mall.
University of Wisconsin freshman applications for fall 2010 bounced back after a sharp decline last academic year, in contrast to some universities in the UW System that saw a decrease in applications.
Until he took a statistics class on it this spring, Christian Reyes barely knew what the U.S. Census was, much less that he has a legal obligation to return a completed form in Pittsburgh, where he is a freshman at Carnegie Mellon University. Now that he has become a bit of an expert on the topic, he suspects most students are similarly unaware. “Even the people who are supposed to know donâ??t know,” says Reyes, 18, who is helping encourage participation in the 2010 count as a class project. He was surprised to find that some student leaders and resident advisers had facts wrong.
It sounds like an impossible mission: find 2,400 people who will take an hour-and-a-half out of their day to help prepare 500,000 meals to send to Haiti, over a three-day period in April. Whatâ??s more, each volunteer is being asked to donate $25 to help pay for the food for survivors of the Jan. 12 earthquake that hit the poverty-stricken nation. In the past six weeks, a committee of nine has been created to steer the event, and more than half a dozen businesses already have committed to make contributions.ATo get the volunteers, committee members are contacting friends, posting information on Facebook and spreading the word on the UW-Madison campus.
On Friday night some UW-Madison students will gather in a classroom, choosing to attend a war policy debate instead of â?? or at least before â?? a keg party. It may sound more befitting the UW campus of the 1960s, but thatâ??s kind of the point.UW-Madison is hosting a “teach-in” on the war in Afghanistan this weekend, reviving a practice common during the campusâ?? turbulent Vietnam War years.Some of the faculty members giving lectures at the event say there are many parallels between that war and the nine-year conflict in Afghanistan.
A video posted online of a University of Wisconsin Milwaukee student being arrested during class is going viral. It happened on Monday during an anthropology class.
The U.S. Census Bureau is looking to count everyone in the city, and that includes college students who might be a little confused about where they get recorded.The agency has answers about what students and their parents should do.
From a long list of submissions, a UW-Madison student committee this week narrowed down the list of possible names for the new south campus union to four: Discovery Union, Randall Union, Union South, and Varsity Union.
The Joint Southeast Campus Area Committee met Monday to discuss further redevelopment plans for Gordon Commons.
Discovery Union, Randall Union, Union South and Varsity Union will most likely go before students as options for the name of the new south campus union after a committee chose them as finalists Monday night.
Birds are singing, the snow has melted, Saturday marks the first day of spring and, in true Madison fashion, construction throughout the city will soon resume.
A city committee approved a revised design for the new Gordon Commons Monday that includes an expanded plaza, among other aesthetic changes.
Online voting starts today to win orchards for Madison. A grass roots group, Madison Fruit and Nuts, worked with city officials to get the okay to plant fruit trees in Madison parks and other local supporters of edible landscapes have mobilized to enter five local sites in the running. One is the Eagle Heights Garden on UW Campus.
A University of Wisconsin student was robbed outside of her Langdon Street residence late Thursday night when a stranger stripped her of her purse in a struggle.
Streets Division spokesman George Dreckmann agreed residents are doing a better job complying with alternate-side parking restrictions, but said the cityâ??s efforts to get Downtown residents to move their cars during snow emergencies are not bearing much fruit.
About 5,100 people have signed up to get e-mail alerts of snow emergencies, Dreckmann said, and 2,500 or so get text message alerts. But such outreach “doesnâ??t seem to have any impact on compliance,” he said, and some people seem to consider the tickets part of the price of being a UW-Madison student or living Downtown.
Call it “Vietnam Redux.”
Taking a page out of the old teach-ins on campus about the Vietnam War, UW-Madison professors are organizing a teach-in on campus this upcoming weekend to teach students about the conflict in Afghanistan.
The 10-question census forms are to arrive in the mail at every residential address in the nation starting Monday. The census bureau has enlisted local governments and community groups to push for as complete a count as possible, pointing out that the census guides the distribution of many types of federal aid, including money for health care, highways, anti-poverty programs and education. Local government officials are working with community organizations to spread the word about the importance of participating, especially in UW-Madison student neighborhoods and low-income areas, where response rates are lowest, said Brian Grady, a city planner who is heading up the effort for the city of Madison.
Q With the census coming up, what criteria are used to determine whether UW-Madison students are counted as city residents rather than residents of their hometowns? A Each person can be counted only once and at one location, said Lydia Ortiz, a U.S. Census Bureau spokeswoman in Chicago.
The distance between the Rosedale neighborhood in Queens and the town of Delafield, Wisc., is approximately 925 miles. To a kid from the streets of New York, it can feel a whole lot farther than that.
Members of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Marching Band teamed up with Independent Living, Inc., once again to jazz up the organizationâ??s Thursday evening Meals on Wheels delivery.
Some surprising â?? and, perhaps, more sober â?? destinations are cropping up on studentsâ?? radars. Two youth-oriented travel agencies report European locales are besting Caribbean counterparts. A survey by STA Travel shows 34% of its spring break customers are bound for Europe. Only 10% are going to Mexico, a reversal from last year. Europe may be an easier sell to parents who are paying the bill, STAâ??s Patrick Evans says.
Mixed-media artist Kathryn Petkeâ??s creatures are creepy and cute, a little like the work of Tim Burton with slightly more softness. The creatures wink, grin and express joy, staring out of strange surroundings.
Petke, a master of fine arts student at UW-Madison, said that when she embarked on the work for her MFA show, “Circus of Dirt,” she imagined a scientist attempting to improve the world by making “hybrid creatures.” These were blends of plants and animals that could survive in harsh environments.
Itâ??s hard for me to believe it has been 12 years since a UW-Madison student from Minnesota named Katie Oâ??Phelan called me at the newspaper and demanded to know why there wasnâ??t a St. Patrickâ??s Day parade in Madison. She organized one, and though the weather didnâ??t cooperate that first year — it was cold and rainy — the parade up State Street started a tradition that continues today.
The program, evening Meals on Wheels is getting more musical starting Thursday. Independent Living, Inc. is again partnering up with the UW Marching Band to deliver meals and music throughout town called, “March for Meals.”
Chancellor Biddy Martin announced Wednesday that U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will be the 2010 Saturday morning commencement speaker.
Campus officials are urging students to be alert after two new phishing scams targeting the University of Wisconsinâ??s NetID login service were detected.
Preliminary discussions regarding the installation of a liberal studies program in the University of Wisconsinâ??s College of Letters and Sciences began Monday, although UW officials said no concrete decisions have been made.
The United States Secretary of Education and the founder of a non-profit organization will speak at the spring commencement ceremonies, University of Wisconsin officials announced Wednesday.
MADISON (WKOW) — With the 2010 Census starting in the next week, UW-Madison officials are asking campus community members to take part.
The results of the 2010 Census will be used to help Madison and Dane County receive a fair share of $400 billion in federal funding. That money can be used for schools, health facilities, transportation and local programs.
“UW-Madison believes that participating in the Census – and supporting Madison and Dane County – is very important,” says University of Wisconsin-Madison Dean of Students Lori Berquam, noting that an all-campus e-mail is going out to students, faculty and staff with Census information.
It was the video that stunned Milwaukee: 16 people detained and 15 arrested during an afternoon rally at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. But senior Rachel Mattesen says the video doesnâ??t tell the whole story. “I was arrested for being part of a peaceful and legal demonstration here at UWM. I was arrested for standing up for my rights as a student,” Mattesen said.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan will deliver a commencement speech to University of Wisconsin-Madison graduates this spring. The university announced Wednesday that Duncan will speak at the morning commencement on May 15 at the Kohl Center.
The Associated Students of Madisonâ??s Academic Affairs Committee met Tuesday to discuss several initiatives designed to ease student financial burdens at UW-Madison.
The Public Safety Review Committee discussed and approved the Downtown Safety Initiative plan for 2010 Tuesday.
Academic Affairs Committee announced at its meeting Tuesday it is working to implement a new committee to promote affordable textbook solutions for students at the University of Wisconsin.
The cityâ??s Public Safety Review Committee approved the Downtown Safety Initiative plan in a meeting Tuesday, moving the plan to increase patrol levels at key times closer to final approval by the City Council.
It sure seems like Gov. Jim Doyle promised 50,000 Wisconsin schoolchildren more than he could deliver, but his spokesman insists the promise is being fulfilled. Itâ??s too soon to tell.
One of the hallmarks of Doyleâ??s tenure as governor has been something he called the Wisconsin Covenant: If you graduate from high school having maintained at least a “B” average, take all the college prep classes you need and stay out of trouble, youâ??ll be guaranteed a place in a Wisconsin college or university and youâ??ll get the financial aid you need to pay for that education.
The percentage of students who used their tickets at UW menâ??s basketball games at the Kohl Center this season, according to the UW Athletic Department.
A federal judge Tuesday denied a preliminary injunction sought by a conservative UW-Madison student group that would have reversed the rejection of its request for funding from student fees.
There have been few seasons when the University of Wisconsin menâ??s basketball team has provided more thrilling home games for its fans than this one. But UW students were erratic when it came to filling their sections at the Kohl Center despite the fact the Badgers 23-7 were ranked most of the season and contended for the Big Ten Conference title right down to the last game.
A federal judge Tuesday denied a preliminary injunction sought by a conservative UW-Madison student group that would have reversed the rejection of its request for funding from student fees.
The problem of rape on college campuses is so big and so distressing that itâ??s hard to know where to start. But the nonprofit Wisconsin Center for Investigative Reporting has provided in-depth reporting that at least provides a starting point.
The New Union Naming Committee met Monday to determine the protocol for naming the new south campus union, which is currently under reconstruction on West Johnson Street.
Grades awarded to U.S. undergraduates have risen substantially in the last few decades, and grade inflation has become particularly pronounced at selective and private colleges, a new analysis of data on grading practices has found.
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