UW-Madison junior Marie Tapp only budgeted food for about 20 students when she pitched the idea of a diversity forum to her house fellow two weeks ago. Instead, about 150 students showed up at Smith Hall Monday night.
Diversity.
If the article stopped there, the comments section would still be ablaze. While most would focus on the bizarre nature of my minimalist post-modern commentary, the rest of the debate would focus on the definition of the term, the â??racistsâ? on campus who oppose it and the response to being called racist until someone cites Hitler and our comments hit a new low.
Initiated by a recent opinion column in the Daily Cardinal, and reinforced by others in The Badger Herald, hundreds of University of Wisconsin students gathered in Smith Hall Monday with an eye fixed on the future of diversity on campus.
As students gear up to head home for Thanksgiving break, their travel preparations may look different from years past without the familiar Madison Bus Depot to rely on for their ticketing needs.
Just as University Health Services saw a drop in the number of people reporting swine flu-like symptoms for the second straight week, it announced Monday the H1N1 vaccine is now available to all students.
Reported cases of influenza on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus dropped to the lowest level of the semester last week, a good sign for students heading into Thanksgiving and the final month of classes.
The H1N1 vaccination is now available to all UW-Madison students under the age of 24 at University Health Services.
UW-Madison will be essentially closed for business on Friday. It’s a mandated furlough day, or unpaid day off, for most of the university employees.
Young adults and school-age children are now eligible to receive the H1N1 vaccine, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services announced Monday. The increase allows people from six months to 24 years of age to get vaccinated.
Just as University Health Services saw a drop in the number of people reporting swine flu-like symptoms for the second straight week, it announced Monday the H1N1 vaccine is now available to all students. UHS Director Sarah Van Orman said 2,000 doses of the vaccine are currently available and she expects more to arrive in the coming weeks.
He was imprisoned in Wisconsin for 29 years for the murder of a UW-Madison student. Then his conviction was overturned. Yet Ralph Armstrong will continue to serve at least one more year behind bars. This time in a different state.
Wisconsin health officials have expanded the group that can receive vaccination for the H1N1 flu virus to include all school-aged children and young adults up to age 24.
After I read the article â??Race deserves no place in university admissionsâ? in Tuesdayâ??s issue of The Daily Cardinal, I struggled with how to explain the intent of the author. I was caught wholly off-guard by the call for an end to affirmative action.
Three University of Wisconsin System universities, including UW-Madison, will have one of their state-mandated furlough days this Friday, Nov. 27.
University of Wisconsin Dance Program faculty artists came together with campus colleagues Saturday to create â??Splash,â? an innovative convergence of science and art where interpretive dance explores the subject of science.
Public Health-Madison & Dane County distributed H1N1 vaccines to more than 6,000 target group patients at the Alliant Energy Center during a two-day public clinic last week.
For the first time in decades, the city is setting straight how many people can legally live in houses in the Greenbush and Vilas neighborhoods south of UW-Madison. The new information is motivating neighborhood homeowners to push for inspections and get quick action at properties suspected of illegal overcrowding.
Now that the Badger Bus Depot at South Bedford Street and West Washington Avenue has been levelled, the trek to catch a Greyhound bus may be the most trying part of the journey. Most Madison passengers are students and senior citizens.
Dozens of students gathered at Memorial Union Thursday night to watch skiers and snowboarders carve powder at the â??Rail Jam,â? hosted by the Wisconsin Hoofers.
A former University of Wisconsin student staff member pled not guilty to nine counts of theft, two of which were felonies, Thursday in an initial court appearance.
Dear Editor: What is more important: $400 a month to a multi-billion-dollar company, or our nation educating its best and brightest? A pound of flesh, or increasing diversity in academia?
I now face this choice: abandon my field of study to meet obligations to a student loan company, or ruin my financial future.
My graduate program in Latin American history at UW-Madison is arguably the nationâ??s best, and I have excelled in it, receiving numerous awards and fellowships while maintaining a perfect 4.0 GPA. I have a record of service locally and internationally. Were it not for my loan burden, I would be well positioned to become one of the nationâ??s few Latino Ph.D.s (1,157 according to the 2000 census).
UW-Madisonâ??s long-standing focus on â??targeted minoritiesâ? is a much-too-provincial view of â??diversityâ? in the global world of the 21st century. This narrow approach ignores the many channels through which students are exposed to the wide range of subject matter, ideas, people, cultures, and attitudes that characterize UW-Madison.
For starters, in 2008-09 UW-Madison undergraduates came from cities large and small, spread across Wisconsinâ??s 72 counties and all 50 states, plus Guam and Puerto Rico, and more than 100 foreign countries.
The most â??targetedâ? of the â??targeted minorityâ? groups — African-Americans, American Indians, and Hispanics — included 2,088 students. â??Targetedâ? Southeast Asians added another 528 students. To this must be added the 1,149 Asian-American undergraduates who are not counted among â??targeted minoritiesâ? but bring with them a rich cultural heritage and unmatched academic prowess.
My body is sitting in an environmental health lecture in Bascom Hall with 250 students, but my mind is deep in the woods of northern Wisconsin. The glow of my headlight guides me through the early morning darkness as I walk quietly along the mixed maple trail to my deer stand. The air is cold. I can see my breath as I climb the ladder. Wrapped in layers and blaze orange, wearing heavy boots, and with pockets full of hand warmers, I get cozy and prepare mentally for a dusk-till-dark sit. I load my gun. As I wait for the sun to rise, my excitement builds.
I snap back to Environmental Studies 113 and scramble to take notes to catch up. Thanksgiving break is coming, I tell myself. I anticipate it not for the turkey, but for the hunt that excites me every year and for the chance to escape city streets.
The owner of a popular campus-area bar was removed from a powerful city committee by the Madison-Dane County Tavern League for health reasons, its president said Thursday. Barb Mercer, the league’s president for over 13 years, said she would temporarily take over as the nonvoting member position on the Alcohol License Review Committee from Marsh Shapiro, owner of the Nitty Gritty, which has locations near campus at 223 N. Frances St. and in Middleton. Shapiro, 71, who was on the ALRC for more than six years, was removed “because of the stress and his well-being and his business being scrutinized as our representative,” Mercer said. At an Oct. 21 ALRC meeting, Shapiro said he opposed putting a student on the committee, which prompted UW-Madison’s student newspapers to run editorials two days later calling for a boycott of the Nitty Gritty.
According to Greek mythology, and aided by the legend of the Battle of Marathon, the word â??nikeâ? is meant to symbolize victory or success. Yet according to a group of currently unemployed Hondurans, the definition is closer to â??corporation that owes us $2.1 million.â? Obviously, somethingâ??s been lost in translation, and it looks a lot like itâ??s Nikeâ??s commitment to fair business practices.
If UW-Madison student Steven Sobeck asked every clinic in Madison to treat and refill his prescriptions for hyperthyroidism, their response would be unanimous: â??Go home.â?Â
The Associated Students of Madisonâ??s Academic Affairs Committee Chair Jonah Zinn says heâ??s hoping the groupâ??s staunch focus on improving textbook accessibility and affordability this semester will yield solid results.
The new class of actors at UW-Madison is an eclectic bunch. They come from all over the country, from as far away as Texas to as close as Baraboo and Milwaukee. As kids, they dreamed of being ballerinas, comic book authors and stunt men.
Now, theyâ??re looking to make their way as professional actors and teachers, committing the next three years of their lives to the acting training program at the university here. Theatergoing audiences will see them on stages all over the city – as well as in Spring Green and Milwaukee – through 2012 and beyond.
In the past 30 years, coed college dormitories have gone from rare to routine, with nearly all students who live on campus now sharing housing with members of the opposite sex. But a study out today suggests that the shift may have had unintended results. It finds that students in coed dorms are far more likely than those in single-sex dorms to drink alcohol regularly â?? and nearly 2½ times as likely to drink to excess on a weekly basis.
Has the lack of snow on the ground got you down, Wisconsin skiers and snowboarders? No worries, for the UW-Madison Hoofers club is bringing 40,000 pounds of snow to the Memorial Union Terrace, 800 Langdon St., on Thursday, Nov. 19, from 5 to 8 p.m. for the Terrace Rail Jam.
A new report says the University of Wisconsin-Madison ranks among the top ten schools for student participation in international study programs. The Institute of International Education report says Wisconsin’s flagship university ranked sixth among U.S. research institutions in overall study abroad participation with 2,216 participants in the 2007-2008 academic year.
Students in a UW-Madison fraternity are biking from Madison to Northwestern University, where the Badgers will take on the Wildcats Saturday. The nine riders from Sigma Phi Epsilon are taking with them a football signed by Badger football head coach Bret Bielema on the 150 mile trip to Evanston, Illinois.
The anti-sweatshop movement at dozens of American universities, from Georgetown to U.C.L.A., has had plenty of idealism and energy, but not many victories.Enlarge This Image Isaac Steiner/United Students Against SweatshopsIn August, members of United Students Against Sweatshops picketed a Target store in Washington, to pressure the retailer to stop selling products made by Russell Athletic. Until now.
Shortly before the kickoff of the Minnesota-Illinois college football game at the new TCF Bank Stadium this month, two Minnesota students â?? one male, one female â?? slipped into an unmarked entrance about five minutes apart. They dressed appropriately for the unseasonably warm and sunny day, in short-sleeve maroon-and-gold Gophers attire. And they greeted Amy Barsness, a university official, like an old friend.
Early voting policies lead to lower voter turnout according to a new study conducted by UW-Madison political science professors in conjunction with the Government Accountability Board.
Those students who delayed graduation because of a tough job market might want to wait it out a bit longer.
University of Wisconsin students are going international, according to a study released Monday ranking UW students among the top in the nation for their participation in study abroad programs.
University Health Services saw a sharp drop in the number of students reporting influenza-like symptoms over the past week, officials said Tuesday.
Flu cases on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus dropped by two-thirds last week, prompting a student health official to wonder if the worst of the flu epidemic is over.
University Health Services (UHS) reported only 46 students were evaluated with influenza-like illness Nov. 8-14, the eleventh week of the fall semester. Thatâ??s down from 115 cases in week 10, and is the second-lowest number of flu cases seen at the clinic in one week since classes began Sept. 2.
UHS epidemiologist Craig Roberts said itâ??s hard to read what the drop in numbers mean.
A new report says the University of Wisconsin-Madison ranks among the top ten schools for student participation in international study programs.
Diversity is a recurring theme at UW-Madison and, as always, the discussion turns to race. Administrators who focus on the color of studentsâ?? skin continue to find a lack of diversity, which is a nice way of saying we are too white. Responding to this crisis of superficial uniformity has been a favorite task of chancellors, committees, and columnists for decades. While the overwhelming sea of good intentions is aimed at increasing diversity, I would argue that there are almost no students who pay any attention to race.
Faculty from departments across campus gathered Tuesday for an open discussion regarding the decision-making process for the use of Madison Initiative for Undergraduates funding.
The Associated Students of Madisonâ??s Affordable Textbook Campaign presented a resolution addressing campus textbook policies to the Faculty Senateâ??s University Committee Monday.
College students who live in coed dorms are 2.5 more times more likely to binge drink than students in single-sex housing, according to a new study. The results were based on surveys of more than 500 students from five college campuses.
A news release on the study from Brigham Young University said that 42 percent of students in coed housing binge drink weekly. Eighteen percent of students in all-male or all-female situations binge weekly.
The Associated Students of Madison Academic Affairs Committee presented its Affordable Textbook Campaign to the University Committee Monday in hopes of gaining its endorsement before the campaignâ??s appearance before the Faculty Senate.
The University of Wisconsinâ??s Madison Initiative Oversight Board hosted an open forum Monday evening to hear the second round of proposals to be potentially funded by the money gained from tuition increases and private donors.
The summer of 1987 was witness to the murders of three local women — all of the slayings reportedly unrelated to each other.
Two of the cases were solved; two different men sentenced to prison. But was one of them wrongly convicted? Or is he indeed a cold-blooded killer who, today, could have a shot at freedom?
In this riverfront village, a closed case still leaves open wounds.
Quoted: UW Law School professor Keith Findley, co-director of the Wisconsin Innocence Project
….At the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Chinese undergraduates now account for more than half of the 1,109 Chinese students there. That increase is another sign that China is coming because Wisconsin, like many state schools, doesnâ??t provide scholarships for international undergrads. Last year, Chinese students paid out $2 billion in tuition nationwide. â??That money is keeping some American colleges alive,â? said Laurie Cox, who runs the international student center at the Madison campus.
â??Every time I turn around, another campus has signed a memorandum of understanding with another Chinese university,â? said Kevin Reilly, the president of the universityâ??s 26 campuses. Reilly recently joined Doyle on a trip to China. â??I came away thinking, if the 20th century was the American century … you have to believe that the 21st century will be the Chinese century.â?
The University of Wisconsin-Madisonâ??s Labor Licensing Policy Committee voted to recommend that Chancellor Biddy Martin start taking steps to end the universityâ??s apparel contract with Nike, Inc. due to alleged labor rights abuses at two of the companyâ??s factories.
But donâ??t expect Martin to take any immediate action.
….Dawn Crim, a special assistant to the chancellor for community relations, said Monday the chancellor is hoping to hear back from Nike representatives before taking any major action against the company. She said the university is hoping to receive a phone call from Nike by the end of the week.
Police say a 20-year-old University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point student who fell about 35 feet from the roof of a downtown building had gone there with others to smoke cigarettes during a party.
The University of Wisconsinâ??s Madison Initiative Oversight Board hosted an open forum Monday evening to hear the second round of proposals to be potentially funded by the money gained from tuition increases and private donors. This forum heard presentations from members of several departments ranging from the School of Business to the Division of University Housing.
The family of a slain UW student is seeking the publicâ??s help. Brittany Zimmermanâ??s family hopes someone will come forward with information about her murder. Theyâ??ve placed ads on a Madison billboard and inside Madison Metro busses.
Peer reviewers of the University of Wisconsin Transportation Services department expressed concern Friday about aggressive bikers and moped drivers, along with the relationship between pedestrians and car drivers.
Members of the University of Wisconsin Labor Licensing Policy Committee voted Friday to recommend Chancellor Biddy Martin immediately notify UW apparel manufacturer Nike it violated the universityâ??s labor code of conduct by neglecting to pay severances to workers in Honduras.
Winter is coming a bit early this year to the Union Terrace: The UW-Madison Hoofers club is bringing in 40,000 pounds of snow for a ski and snowboarding event, the Terrace Rail Jam, on Thursday.
About 45 to 50 skiers and snowboarders from around the Midwest (and a handful of national athletes) will compete in the rail jam, according to Hoofer Ski and Snowboard Club president Matt Hartig. Participants will showcase their tricks on a variety of obstacles, built on top of a 30-by-70-foot scaffolding covered in snow.
….The military, after all, does not rely solely on patriotic feelings to build its force, and neither should the civilian parts of government. One of the most powerful incentives the military has is the Reserve Officersâ?? Training Corps, which offers assistance to those seeking higher education. Itâ??s time for a civilian ROTC.
Thatâ??s the idea of a bipartisan group of senators and House members who are proposing to create the Roosevelt Scholars program, named after Teddy Roosevelt. Reps. David Price, D-N.C., and Mike Castle, R-Del., have introduced a bill in the House, and a similar measure is expected in the Senate this week from Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and George Voinovich, R-Ohio.
Although there is sentiment to include undergraduates in the program, the House bill is aimed at graduate students, because the federal government has a special demand for highly qualified employees who are otherwise attracted (and heavily recruited) by the private sector. In exchange for generous scholarships in fields such as engineering, information technology, foreign languages and public health, the scholars would commit to three to five years of service in an agency of the federal government.
Two students from the UW-Madison chapter of Engineers without Borders won a $22,400 award for their work in rural Haiti. Kyle Ankenbauer, a civil engineering student, and Eyleen Chou, mechanical engineering, are working to construct a mini-hydroelectric power generator to provide electricity to a school, library and church in Bayonnais, Haiti.
Within the past year, Madison Area Technical College has experienced unprecedented enrollment, adopted a new nickname and logo and unveiled a $350 million facilities plan. Transfer agreements between the college and four-year institutions such as UW-Madison have gone from only a handful five years ago to hundreds now, said Terry Webb, vice president of learner success.
Good grief! UW-Madison is not going to use the Kindle e-book because visually-impaired people can’t find the button that makes the device read to them? Pray tell: Where is the button on a regular book they can push to get that weighty hunk of paper and cardboard to read to them?
Police say a 20-year-old University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point student fell about 35 feet from the roof of downtown building while attending a party at an apartment. Sgt. Greg Bean said alcohol was involved and the circumstances leading up to the fall about 1 a.m. Friday were unclear.
