Category: Campus life

On Feb. 2, 2010, the members of the Morgridge Center Advisory Board received an e-mail informing them the board had been â??temporarily suspendedâ? by the Morgridge Center staff.

Although the University of Wisconsin Spring 2010 commencement speaker may not be as esteemed as President Barack Obama, who will be speaking for the University of Michigan, UW speakers are chosen with student dollars in mind.

Noted: At the University of Wisconsinâ??Madison, the gap has been roughly halved over the last three years. The university has poured resources into peer counseling to help students from inner-city schools adjust to the rigor and faster pace of a university classroomâ??and also to help minority students overcome the stereotype that they are less qualified. Wisconsin has a “laserlike focus” on building up student skills in the first three months, according to vice provost Damon Williams.

Public health officials said that final state test results indicate that both of the recent meningitis deaths were due the same type of meningococcal disease but different strains. Officials said that confirms the belief that Haleyem M. Thorpe, 16, of Mount Horeb High School and Neha Suri, a University of Wisconsin-Madison student from Singapore, were not in contact with each other.

Dear Editor: Speaking as a UW-Madison student, I was shocked to read about Edgewoodâ??s diversity issue (â??At Edgewood College, a surge in minority enrollmentâ?). The experiences Iâ??ve stumbled upon here in a single semester have allowed me to meet many unique individuals of all ethnicities. Itâ??s almost as if â??diversityâ? swallowed me whole.

Over the last decade, weâ??ve redefined what it means to be healthy. No longer does sitting on the couch eating bags of 100-calorie snack packs and watching marathons of The Biggest Loser count as being health conscious. Frequent exercise and physical activity have become a necessity for many Madison residents, especially college students. But are UW-Madisonâ??s recreational facilities able to accommodate an increasingly active student population?

High school student got into a financial state of mind on Sunday as they sought strategies to map out their futures in higher education. Hundreds of college-bound students and their families packed a Madison College classroom for help applying for financial aid for the fall.

Evan Western is a graduate student at UW. We profiled him and his friends on Thursday, February 11 as they prepared for their trip to the Winter Games. Evan is blogging about his experience.

A sharp drop in the amount of funding awarded to the University of Wisconsin based on the number of National Merit and All-State Scholars enrolled has some officials concerned UW is having trouble attracting high-achieving students.

Thousands gathered at the 11th annual Polar Plunge Saturday to brave the icy waters of Lake Monona in an effort to raise money for the Special Olympics of Wisconsin.

The ingredients in every dish served by University Housing will soon be available online. Here a student selects food from a salad bar in the cafeteria at Elizabeth Waters Hall.

The La Crosse County medical examiner said the college student who drowned in the Mississippi River this week had a blood alcohol level more than three times the legal limit.

UW-Madison dietetic and nutrition students will be this weekâ??s guest breakfast team, with help from chef David McKercher, Mermaid Café, at the â??Taste of the Marketâ? Saturday at the Dane County Farmersâ?? Market from 8:30 to 11 a.m. at the Madison Senior Center, 330 W. Mifflin St. Farmersâ?? market hours are 8 a.m. to noon.

The dispute between Madison and Dane County over the 911 center is not a new development. The tension intensified in April 2008 after the 911 center mishandled a call made from the cell phone of UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann around the time she was killed in her West Doty Street apartment.

The rate of minority students graduating in six years is on the rise at the University of Wisconsin, corresponding to an overall increase in graduation rates.

You could be the one to name the new south campus union.Associated Students of Madison and Wisconsin Union will take submissions beginning Friday.

The Rotary Club of Madisonâ??s Ethics Symposium, to be held Friday, provides high school students a chance to discuss ways to think through ethical issues. A group of talented UW-Madison students, known as the First Wave Spoken Word and Urban Arts Learning Community, will open the symposium with an interactive performance.

A UW-Madison fraternity has been suspended from Greek membership at the university after Overture Center staff complained about the fraternityâ??s behavior during a fall gala. Alpha Epsilon Pi was suspended by the Greek Judicial Board, a student self-governing body, on Monday, said Ashkon Kiarashi, chief justice.

The Wisconsin Union and the Associated Students of Madison are about to start taking suggestions for what to name UW-Madisonâ??s new south campus union, which is currently under construction and slated to open in the spring of 2011.

On the surface, this sounds like a great idea — giving students and others a say in naming the new, $95 million facility. But is it?

The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse is closing the achievement gap between minority students and their classmates. UW-Lâ??s gap in six-year graduation rates between minority and Caucasian students closed by about 5 percentage points within five years, from a 22 percent difference in 2002 to a 17 percent difference in 2007, said Carmen Wilson, special assistant to the chancellor.

Many sexual assaults on college campuses go unreported. Victims tell us it is a culture of shame, silence and secrecy, and often, perpetrators are never charged.A recent study by the Department of Justice found as many as one in four women is sexually assaulted while in college. And according to the Center for Public Integrity, 95% of those go unreported.

Peng Her recalls meeting with University of Wisconsin-Madison officials at the peak of controversy over culturally insensitive remarks by a Law School professor three years ago that focused attention on the Hmong-American student community.

â??We understood that there is a lot of misinformation about the Hmong out there. We wanted to find a way to resolve this,â? says Her, a leader in the Hmong community who is director of the East Isthmus Neighborhoods Planning Council.

The contacts with UW leaders in the hot light of controversy led to assurances, says Her, that they would work to build a Hmong studies program at the university.

The UWM Post and UW-Milwaukee reached a settlement last week for a public records lawsuit filed against UWM by the student newspaper in November of last year.

Beginning this academic year, undocumented immigrants can attend the stateâ??s public universities at the same tuition rate Wisconsin residents pay. Critics say the resident tuition program rewards people who are here illegally. Backers say it will help the economy as well as improve the lives of participants, which include a UW-Madison student called â??Normaâ?.

Local public health officials said on Monday that a 16-year-old Mount Horeb girl who died this weekend had the same strain of bacterial meningitis that recently killed a University of Wisconsin-Madison student last month.

UW-Milwaukee has agreed to settle an open records lawsuit with the universityâ??s student newspaper, the UW-Milwaukee Post.

Roundup of campus events, including UW-Madison’s first Churchill Scholar in 30 years.