MADISON, Wis. — The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claireâ??s plan for a new student union wonâ??t require a tree with historic significance to be cut down or moved after all.
The university said last fall its $48 million union would be built on the site of the Council Oak tree, which once served as a gathering place for Native Americans and later, for students.
The Daily Mirror blog on the Los Angeles Times Web site offers a glimpse into life on the UW-Madison campus 110 years ago.
A University of Wisconsin student is balancing his education with his career as a professional snowboarder.Sophomore Colin Tucker put himself on an eight-year plan in which he will continue to enroll at UW-Madison in the fall semesters and take off in the spring to concentrate on snowboarding.
The Free Application for Federal Student Aid FAFSA used to be really, really, really tough to fill out. An estimated 1.5 million low-income students probably are eligible for federal aid but dont apply, in part because they find the process so daunting. The new FAFSA, often used by states and colleges to determine aid amounts, was launched Friday for the 2010-11 academic year. More than 90% of families apply online, and technology is responsible for most of the changes so far.
A fund has been set up in the name of a University of Wisconsin-Madison student killed last week when a vehicle fleeing Milwaukee police struck her car.
Jan. 7, 1900: I think I just found my new favorite kicker, â??An Idiotic Idea.â? Itâ??s almost as good as â??Created Two-Headed Dog,â? but not quite. What is it with the University of Wisconsin? The faculty bans flirting â?¦ and the students give up sleep.*Â
I stumbled across the following opinion piece which appeared in the Boston Globe last month.
Itâ??s penned by Kara Miller, who teaches rhetoric and history at Babson College in Wellesley, Mass. While the headline “My lazy American Students” caught my eye, I found the following two paragraphs to be especially noteworthy.
Wrote Miller: “Teaching in college, especially one with a large international student population, has given me a stark — and unwelcome — illustration of how Americansâ?? work ethic often pales in comparison with their peers from overseas.”
The city of Madison has gone two years in a row without a fire fatality, something that hasnâ??t happened since the early 1980s, Madison fire officials said Tuesday. The push in Madison for smoke alarms was driven by the family a 23-year-old former UW-La Crosse student who died in a North Bedford Street fire in 2007. The student was visiting his brother, a UW-Madison student.
One of Madisonâ??s most beloved terms is on the path toward national recognition. The word “Sconnie” is up for City Dictionaryâ??s 2009 Local Word of the Year award.
MADISON, Wis. — The University of Wisconsin has paid a $5,000 fine to the NCAA for mistakenly allowing a womenâ??s hockey player to compete in 2007 even though she was academically ineligible.
The university discovered the player was ineligible for the fall 2007 semester during an audit last year and reported the infraction to the NCAA. The university did not release the name of the athlete, who played in 20 games that semester.
Shanica Adkins, 21, died in a car crash early Thursday when she was hit by a car fleeing police in Milwaukee. The UW-Madison School of Social Work is planning a memorial service for her when school resumes later this month, a UW-Madison spokesman said.
Since the Hammes Co. proposed a massive redevelopment of the venerable Edgewater Hotel this summer, debate has raged over whether the project is suitable to the historic region appropriately named Mansion Hill. But thereâ??s much more to the region than the area surrounding the Edgewater. The neighborhood, which stretches from the lake to the Capitol, and west toward the UW-Madison campus, encompasses a wide range of residents, from students to long-time owners, fraternities to cooperatives, churches and bed and breakfasts.
Three universities in the University of Wisconsin System have made the list of the countryâ??s best values in public colleges.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has been ranked 14th in the nation for value to its students.
Kiplingerâ??s Personal Finance reviewed more than 500 public four-year colleges and universities to determine the best values, taking into account academic measures — ACT or SAT scores, admission and retention rates, student-faculty ratios and graduation rates — as well as affordability, which includes total expenses and available aid.
The life of a promising University of Wisconsin-Madison student was cut short after she is killed by a suspected drunken driver on New Yearâ??s Eve in Milwaukee. Shanica Adkins, 21, was killed early Thursday morning when the car she was riding in was struck by a suspected drunken driver fleeing from police. Adkinsâ?? boyfriend was critically injured in the crash.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is ranked as one of the best values in public education according to Kiplingerâ??s Personal Finance.
For in-state students, UW-Madison ranked 14th on the websiteâ??s list of the “100 Best Values in Public Colleges for 2010.” It is the highest-ranked Big Ten Conference institution.
UW-Madison is ranked 15th for out-of-state students.
This is probably good news for current UW-Madison students. But in the future, donâ??t be stunned if rankings like these are used by cash-strapped administrators to argue that tuition at Wisconsinâ??s flagship university is too low.
Ralph Armstrong, whose charges for the 1980 rape and murder of a UW-Madison student were dismissed in August after almost 30 years in prison, remains in a New Mexico prison on decades-old parole violations.
Armstrong, 57, was transferred in August from Wisconsin to New Mexico after the Dane County district attorneyâ??s office decided not appeal the dismissal of charges against Armstrong in the death of Charise Kamps.
A program that provides free cab rides for stranded UW-Madison students will be cut back significantly next month because of cost overruns and misuse, a student leader said. Designed for late night, emergency situations, the SAFEride cab service currently allows students to take four free taxi rides per month â?? the equivalent of about 16 rides per semester. But beginning Jan. 2, students will only be able to take six rides per semester. The program, funded through student fees, ran over its budget by almost 50 percent last year, said Michael Romenesko, member of a student-led transportation committee.
Continuing a trend, a developer is proposing to demolish older student housing and replace it with two housing towers near UW-Madison. Otto Gebhardt III hopes to demolish rental houses at 1208, 1212 and 1214 Spring St. to erect a 10-story, 92-unit apartment building designed to meet the needs of older and graduate students.
At Madison Media Institute, the definition of media goes far beyond radio and TV to include training in such careers as Web site design, 3D animation, music production and video production. Tuition at Madison Media Institute is $14,000 a year, significantly higher than at UW-Madison, where Wisconsin residents pay about $7,300 in tuition this fall or at Madison College (formerly Madison Area Technical College), which charges $101 to $136 per credit. Madison Media Institute only competes â??to a small extentâ? with UW-Madison and Madison College, says President Christopher Hutchings. â??Weâ??re a very focused school,â? he said.
Madison Area Technical College has long been overshadowed by UW-Madison, its bigger, high-profile sister. But like community colleges across the country, MATC has recently been thrust into the spotlight by the poor economy. With an 11 percent increase in enrollment this fall, President Bettsey Barhorst is charged with the critical task of figuring out how the college will train future workers.
Some students at UW-Fox Valley in Menasha are objecting to a new policy that gives preferential parking to those who drive fuel-efficient cars, arguing that it favors the wealthy.
Police officers who pursued vehicles that killed three people in two separate crashes used proper judgment and followed department procedures, Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn said Saturday.
University of Wisconsin-Madison student Shanica Adkins, 21, was killed Thursday when the Geo Prizm driven by her high school sweetheart, Donta Brown, was struck by an SUV that ran a red light at N. Sherman Blvd. and W. Center St. The suspects in the Mercury Mountaineer that killed Adkins were fleeing police, who had attempted to pull the SUV over because it was missing a front license plate.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison student was killed and her high school sweetheart critically injured early Thursday when the car they were in was struck by an SUV fleeing Milwaukee police.
UW Oshkosh grad student Janelle Drews pays for her own health insurance, but says she canâ??t afford to get sick.”Iâ??m paying for graduate school myself, that and health insurance is getting really expensive,” Drews said.
Milwaukee police said a suspected drunken driver who was fleeing from police struck and killed a 21-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison student Thursday.Police said the incident occurred around 2:30 a.m. Thursday near Sherman Boulevard and Center Street in Milwaukee.
A passenger killed when the car she was riding in was struck by an SUVÂ fleeing Milwaukee police early Thursday has been identified as Shanica Adkins, 21, according to a Milwaukee County Medical Examinerâ??s report.
Itâ??s been quite a year for health care. Once the province of policy wonks and hypochondriacs, in 2009 even Joe the Plumber has gotten involved in the intricate details of reform and practice. Most of our top picks this year are stories about health care coverage, not the traditional tales of illness or medical breakthroughs. Thatâ??s because in 2009 the spotlight is focused not on the diseases that threaten peopleâ??s health but on the broken system that makes it tough to treat them.
The University of Wisconsin football team, ranked 24th, will play its final game of the season tonight against 14th-ranked Miami in the Champs Sports Bowl at Orlando, Fla. Could it also be the final game as a Badger for standout running back Johnny Clay?
A former UW-Madison student who was convicted in 2004 of jamming police radios during Madisonâ??s Halloween celebration was charged Monday with possessing and creating child pornography.
Morris native and University of Wisconsin-Madison student Megan Norton recently participated in the third annual Army ROTC Ranger Challenge at Fort McCoy, Wis.
As the echoes of the band leave Camp Randall after another successful Badger football season, the Wisconsin band has been preparing for more performances and the Champs Sports Bowl on Tuesday.
Steven Schecher, a sophomore trombone player from Juneau, has been out practicing with the band as the snow flies onto the practice field at the edge of Lake Mendota.
While the change in emphasis on the name at Madison College (aka, Madison Area Technical College) has received a lot of attention, itâ??s really the sea change at the school that should be noted.
News of the University of Wisconsinâ??s slang term “Coastie” exploded over the weekend with a song called “Whatâ??s a Coastie” quickly going viral on Youtube. A “Coastie,” as explained in the song, is an out-of-state student who wears East Coast fashion and is a “rich Jewish girl.”Â
Noted: Many private institutions, such as the University of St. Thomas, have slightly shorter semesters and wrapped up their finals last week. But the last exams at UW-Madison begin at 2:45 Wednesday, by which time snow and gusty winds could be hampering travel to Minnesota.
A man trying to strike up a conversation with a UW-Madison female student went a little too far Thursday night, grabbing the woman by her shoulders before she screamed and fled, Madison police reported. The incident happened shortly before midnight Thursday on North Park Street, Madison police said.
The events of a lifetime sometimes get bumped out of order. Take Frank Schultz, who walked across the stage this weekend at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewaterâ??s commencement.
He earned his degree 50 years ago. He has been retired from his teaching career for a decade now.
The graduation ceremony was denied to him in 1959 because of what turned out to be a clerical error showing he missed the cut by a fraction of a credit.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin-Madison enforces a similar policy. Four students died from alcohol-related causes during the last school year. Since then, officials have revised their policies, said Ervin Cox, assistant dean of students. Wisconsin students only face formal disciplinary action for off-campus drinking incidents when they result in a trip to the hospital, an assault occurs, previous disciplinary history is on record, or alcohol was provided to a minor who needed medical care.
Both the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Edgewood College held Winter Commencement ceremonies on Sunday. UW- Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin spoke at the UWâ??s graduation. Chancellor Martin said she believes grads are well-prepared to face the hiring world. She says their education was one of the best investments theyâ??ve made.
International Student Services not only offers a range of assistance to foreign students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, but it also works to bring international and American students together through a variety of programs, says director Laurie Cox.
The BRIDGE Program, for instance, is designed to help new international students connect with U.S. students. And through the International Reach program, international students give short presentations about their home countries and culture at such venues as elementary schools and local senior centers.
â??In that way, weâ??re not just internationalizing the campus, but the community as well,â? says Cox.
When Jin Hoe Ng decided to leave Malaysia more than two years ago to attend the University of Wisconsin-Madison, his knowledge of the state and campus was limited.
He knew Wisconsin was â??an agriculture state famous for cheese and dairy products,â? that the universityâ??s student population â??lacks racial diversityâ? and that UW-Madison â??is a party school.â? Similarly, Indiaâ??s Hardik Modi knew UW-Madisonâ??s industrial engineering program was â??highly ranked,â? that Madison is a â??great university townâ? and that it â??gets really cold here.â?
Yet like hundreds of thousands of others from across the globe, fear of the unknown did not deter Ng and Modi from traveling to the United States to earn a college degree.
The UW-Madison Odyssey Project is a free, six-credit course taught by university faculty.
UW-Madison: All ceremonies are at the Kohl Center.
Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen says student government groups on University of Wisconsin campuses are likely subject to the open meetings law. Van Hollen issued an informal opinion Thursday responding to an inquiry from a group of college reporters who wanted to know whether Wisconsinâ??s open records and meetings laws applied to UW System student government.
The Odyssey Project provides six free credits at UW-Madison to jump-start college coursework for people who have gotten sidetracked along the path to higher education. On Sunday, for the first time, a student who started in the 7-year-old program will see it to the idealized end — graduating from UW-Madison. Kegan Carter, a 32-year-old mother of three, participated in the programâ??s very first class in 2003.
Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen says student government groups on University of Wisconsin campuses are likely subject to the open meetings law. Van Hollen issued an informal opinion Thursday responding to an inquiry from a group of college reporters who wanted to know whether Wisconsinâ??s open records and meetings laws applied to UW System student government.
Madisonâ??s Mayor says Freakfest cost the city a lot less this year.Mayor Dave Cieslewicz Thursday said the cityâ??s net cost for the annual event is down 68% from 2008 and 88% from the eventâ??s first year in 2006. The cityâ??s net cost for 2009 dropped to $41,667.
Itâ??s study day on the UW-Madison campus. Exams start tomorrow. Also, UW-Madison got a $10 million grant to research lighter-weight metals.
A 19-year-old UW-Madison student was punched in the face by a mugger Tuesday night while she was exiting an underground parking garage near campus.
The mugging happened at about 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in the 900 block of Spring Street, just off Park Street. Madison police said the victim was leaving the garage when the suspect grabbed the hood of her coat.
So, whatâ??s a coastie?
Chances are until this fall, most folks, even in Madison where the term appears to have originated, would have told you itâ??s one of two things:Anyone not from around here.
Or, a privileged East or West Coast transplant, often a woman of a certain look: black tights, Ugg boots, oversize sunglasses and sporting a Starbucks cup.
If you care about how Dane County grows and spends your money, consider running for the County Board. Only three out of 37 Dane County supervisors are planning to leave their seats this spring. One open seat is in the 5th, which covers the student-dominated UW-Madison campus area, and where Sup. Wyndham Manning is leaving after a single two-year term.
When two students recorded their first rap song together, they wanted to have fun with a cultural icon unique to the University of Wisconsin-Madison: the coastie. The term is widely used here to describe out-of-state students who tend to wear certain clothes, come from wealthier families and live in more expensive private dormitories. They are teased by “sconnies,” the Wisconsin kids who make up a majority of the student body. The “Coastie Song” has launched the music careers of students Quincy Harrison and Cliff Grefe, itâ??s also raised complaints of anti-Semitism, shed more light on a cultural divide among students and renewed complaints about a long-standing housing policy.
When I first moved to Madison seven years ago anyone who hailed from one of the coasts was, understandably, considered a “coastie.” Iâ??ve watched as over the past couple of years that term has morphed into a more direct stereotype.
Itâ??s called the “coasties” song, and itâ??s drumming up controversy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The song, written by two UW students, pokes fun at some of their classmates, particularly out-of-state students who tend to wear certain clothes.
When two students recorded their first rap song together, they wanted to have fun with a cultural icon unique to the University of Wisconsin-Madison: the coastie. The term is widely used here to describe out-of-state students who tend to wear certain clothes, come from wealthier families and live in more expensive private dormitories. They are teased by “sconnies,” the Wisconsin kids who make up a majority of the student body.
As the fall semester comes to a close, many students have begun to think about what student groups they want to join during spring semester. However, some groups on campus do not have a history as well known as others.
Over the past semester, a countless number of new development projects began popping up across Madison. The city soon found itself at the center of controversy and excitement as the line between new and old Madison continued to grow, despite a nation-wide recession.
I write to bring you up to date on an important issue. Some of you have been following the news and publicity about the workers of two now-closed apparel factories in Honduras, Hugger de Honduras and Vision Tex.
Beginning immediately, the swine flu vaccine will be available for the general population, the Department of Health Services announced Monday.
The University of Wisconsin Student Labor Action Coalition distributed its â??report cardâ? Monday to Chancellor Biddy Martin, based on observations of how she has been handling the Honduras-Nike labor issue.
