Category: Campus life

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee respects free speech and encourages all members of our campus community to voice their opinions. It is this spirit of open exchange of ideas and opinions that make UWM a great place for constructive dialog to occur and higher education to take place.

The University of Wisconsin announced a new tenure track professor who will focus on Hmong and other Southeast Asian groups has been appointed to the Geography Department.

In September, retired New York police detective Kevin Gannon went on national TV and all but said he had uncovered a â??well-structuredâ?? organization of â??smiley-faceâ?? serial killers responsible for a more-than-a-decade-long string of slayings mostly involving young men found drowned in rivers, ponds and lakes near college campuses.

Badger Herald leaders decided Friday not to pull a controversial advertisement in the UW-Madison student newspaper with a link to a Holocaust denierâ??s website.

A UW-Madison student organization held a fundraiser for victims of the earthquake in Chile. The Chilean Student Association is hoping to help those in Chile begin to rebuild. They held a fundraiser Sunday afternoon in hopes of raising money to send back.

Running a newspaper in Madison, or in any city, comes with a responsibility to readers. A current controversy involving a hateful advertisement in the UW-Madison student paper, The Badger Herald, where I serve as publisher, has raised questions about what that entails. The answers, I submit, are more gray than black or white.

A protest over tuition costs turned violent Thursday on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus, with protesters allegedly throwing ice and snowballs at police and officers responding with pepper spray.

A UW-Madison law school student group is trying to stop a Wisconsin Dells resort from continuing to use tigers in a magic show and from building a hotel lobby habitat for the animals.

A UW campus newspaper confronted its critics Thursday after running a controversial ad on its Web site. The Badger Herald accepted a Holocaust denying ad on its Web site last week.

MILWAUKEE (WKOW) — Students participated in a protest at the UW-Milwaukee campus Thursday. The students were protesting tuition costs.