Category: Campus life

President Barack Obama announced a proposal Monday that would extend loan forgiveness and reduce monthly payments for students working low-income jobs after graduation.

Officials are highlighting the necessity of maintaining vigilance when traveling alone after one woman was robbed at gunpoint and another woman was battered on local bike paths this weekend.

Darnell Adkins on Monday remembered his 21-year-old daughter, Shanica. He recalled she played the angel Gabriel in a church program.

“One thing I do know,” Adkins said. “She is definitely with the angels now. She is definitely with the Lord. My daughter believed. My daughter is gone, but she is definitely not forgotten.”

About 200 friends and family members attended a tribute at UW-Madisonâ??s Memorial Union for the Milwaukee student. She was killed when an SUV being chased by police rammed into the car in which she was a passenger on Dec. 31, authorities said.

Campus and city police are urging UW-Madison students to be on guard after a student was robbed at gunpoint on campus Saturday night.

The 20-year-old female student was walking on the bike path in the 100 block of North Mills Street at about 7:40 p.m. Saturday when a man approached her, holding a long-barreled handgun.

The Board of Regents is expected to consider a four-year plan to raise tuition by $1,200 for students at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

Monday, a tribute was held for a Milwaukee college student killed on New Yearâ??s Eve. Shanica Adkins, a senior at University of Wisconsin-Madison, was in a car when it was hit by a vehicle that police said was driven by a drunken driver fleeing officers.

Members of the UW-Madison community turned out Monday to honor a student killed in a car accident New Yearâ??s Eve.Students, staff and faculty attended the tribute to Shanica Adkins, who died December 31 in Milwaukee.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison community came together on Monday to remember a student who was killed in Milwaukee just before the New Year by an alleged drunken driver.

Shanica Adkins was killed on New Yearâ??s Eve after a suspected drunken driving who was fleeing police crashed into the vehicle that she was riding in. At Mondayâ??s memorial at the UWâ??s Memorial Union, the focus of the event was on the kindness, ambition and passion that made 21-year-old not just another university student.

UW Madison has made some progress in efforts to decrease student drinking, but there continues to be a â??binge drinking cultureâ? on campus. Madison alcohol counselor Janet Duberry runs classes called Alcohol Smart for UW students who run afoul of the law. â??Unfortunately, our classes are very full, in fact weâ??re adding classes this semester,â? she says, adding that her close up view of the campus drinking culture is â??a little scaryâ?

The Academic Staff Ad Hoc Committee on the Research Enterprise delivered a resounding message to University of Wisconsin administrators late last week, finding that the UW Graduate Education program is â??strong, effective and needs no restructuring.â?

An academic staff committee released a report Wednesday stating their belief that the proposed restructuring of the graduate school is unnecessary.

A 20-year-old female UW-Madison student was robbed at gunpoint Saturday night while walking on a bike path on campus, Madison police reported.

The armed robbery happened at about 7:40 p.m. Saturday on the bike path in the 100 block of North Mills Street.

Patti Ristau says she was terrified when she first landed in Seville, Spain, for a semester studying abroad. Though she had a double major from the University of Wisconsin-Madison that included Spanish and felt sure of herself speaking the language in Mexico and the Caribbean, Ms. Ristau was worried she would be like a taco at a tapas bar in Seville. And she was all alone.

Twenty years after their son was killed in an accident, a Waterloo couple is honoring his memory with a University of Wisconsin band concert in Waterloo.The UW Varsity Band has agreed to give a benefit concert at the Waterloo High School gym on Monday, Feb. 22. Organizers believe it may the first time the band will perform in the city.

International students wonâ??t be allowed to join a union for research assistants at the University of Wisconsin-Madison under a new policy that labor activists believe is the first of its kind in the U.S.

Students at the University of Wisconsin often arrive on campus with dreams of making a difference in the world.

Now, they have a legitimate opportunity. On Thursday, students from the UW will volunteer their time at booths across campus, asking for donations, in whatâ??s being called the Day of Action for Haiti Relief.

The University of Wisconsin at Madison says that it is trying to protect its international students by keeping them out of a new union for graduate research assistants. The argument — which union activists and some independent experts call unprecedented — has angered graduate students and advocates for international students.

The future of the Associated Students of Madison bus pass program was the subject of discussions at the Downtown Coordinating Committeeâ??s first meeting of the year Thursday. Committee members also discussed new electronic parking meters and the possible introduction of longer, articulated buses.

UW-Madison junior Maggie Baker is not the only student on campus who was devastated to hear about the earthquake in Haiti and felt compelled to do something to help out.

What began as a simple presentation became a heated debate as the University of Wisconsin Union Council finalized plans to keep students involved in the design and renovation of the Memorial Union Thursday night.

University of Wisconsin-Madison student Shanica Adkins, 21, was killed Dec. 31 when the Geo Prizm in which she was riding was struck by a Mercury Mountaineer driven by a man who was fleeing from police.

Itâ??s 12:30 p.m. on a Friday in December. Dalia Saleh and her friends are kneeling on the floor, bowing their heads in reverence to Allah. These are the weekly services at the Islamic Center, 21 N. Orchard St. Everyone has removed his or her shoes, out of respect for Allah. About 30 men are at the front of the hexagonal building, women at the back of the room.

A man who allegedly killed University of Wisconsin senior Shanica Adkins with his car in Milwaukee on New Yearâ??s Eve was arrested Sunday.

The Wisconsin Union Directorate gave permission Wednesday night for the Distinguished Lecture Series to bring controversial anti-Islamic and feminist speaker Ayaan Hirsi Ali to campus.

The H1N1 virus has largely disappeared from the front page, but that doesnâ??t mean we are out of the woods — aka flu season — yet.

Itâ??s the prime time of the year for flu, so vaccination clinics still are scheduled for those who havenâ??t gotten shots against H1N1 or seasonal flu.

A tribute to UW-Madison senior Shanica Adkins, who was killed in a car crash Dec. 31, will be held Monday on campus.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court wonâ??t intervene in a dispute over whether the fiance of a slain University of Wisconsin-Madison student can recover damages in the death.

Haiti native and UW-Madison graduate student Gergens Polynice will return to Haiti as soon as possible to bring in medical supplies and help his family.

Five UW-Madison engineering students and an advisor returned home safely Saturday after working in Haiti when the earthquake hit.

Two groups of University of Wisconsin students and alumni volunteering in Haiti are finally safe, after several went missing following the Jan. 12 earthquake that tore through the capital city of Port-au-Prince.

A 31-year-old man charged this month with killing a University of Wisconsin-Madison student in another vehicle while fleeing from Milwaukee police has been arrested, the Police Department said Monday.

A contingent of UW-Madison engineering students on Saturday arrived back home from Haiti, safe but saddened by the devastation they say could take decades to repair. “We all would have loved to stay, to help. But there really isnâ??t a place except for aid workers,” said Randi Schieber, of Portage.

A small group of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering students who were working in Haiti during Tuesdayâ??s earthquake are now back home safe.

Two University of Wisconsin-Madison students from Haiti avoided the earthquake but said they are shaken by the images of suffering and devastation in their home country.

UW students in Haiti at the time of the quake arrived back in Madison Friday night. On Saturday, we spoke with three of the five students whom were visibly exhausted. Memories of Tuesdayâ??s earthquake still fresh in their minds.

Several University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering students who were working in Haiti at the time of Tuesdayâ??s devastating earthquake are now back home safe.Students Tyler Lark, Eyleen Chou and Randi Schieber crossed into the Dominican Republic to fly home.

They were with a group of six people from the university working 70 miles north of Port-au-Prince on an assessment and surveying project to repair a bridge, WISC-TV reported.

The man accused of being responsible for a New Yearâ??s Eve hit-and-run in Milwaukee that killed a University of Wisconsin-Madison student has turned himself in.

Five University of Wisconsin engineering students are back in the United States and on their way home. The UW students were about 70 miles from Port Au Prince when the earthquake happened.

Gergens Polynice has a decision to make: Stay at UW-Madison and finish graduate school, or return to Haiti immediately and put his skills to use? Polynice, a 41-year-old masterâ??s student in Caribbean and African studies with an interest in sustainable development, is the only student from Haiti at the UW-Madison, according to the Office of International Students. He had been back in Haiti since Dec. 23, visiting family and supervising a family-owned water purification plant managed by his brother. He left Port-au-Prince hours before the earthquake.

Seven University of Wisconsin-Madison fraternity members had been volunteering there. Five returned last night and two still behind sent word of their safety Wednesday morning. Haiti Project coordinator, Jan Byrd, said they posted a Facebook message Wednesday that they were on a roof of a guesthouse when it collapsed and they are safe.

American colleges were struggling to extractâ??and, in some cases, even reachâ??students, and faculty and staff members studying and traveling in Haiti in the wake of a deadly earthquake there Tuesday, a task made more difficult by the extent of the devastation and by already poor infrastructure in the Caribbean nation.

Rob Howell, director of international academic programs at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said five engineering students and an adviser working in a rural area about 70 miles north of Port-au-Prince were safe. The group, from Engineers Without Borders, were working on a hydroelectric power-generation facility in Bayonnais.