The Madison City Council approved Tuesday the addition of a citizen member and an alder to the cityâ??s Alcohol License Review Committee, and Mayor Dave Cieslewicz said he will appoint a student to the citizen member position.
College students in Madison want to have a say when it comes to who gets a liquor license in the city.They hoped to earn a permanent spot on the committee that makes those decisions, but instead, reached a compromise.Tuesday night, the Common Council passed a new ordinance 16 to 2, allowing the mayor to appoint a Madison resident on the alcohol committee.
The Madison Initiative Oversight Committee is meeting Tuesday to decide which proposals will be implemented immediately with the use of Initiative funds and which need to be revised.
Mayor Dave Cieslewicz announced his intention of appointing a student voting member to the Alcohol License Review Committee Monday.
UW-Madisonâ??s Faculty Senate almost unanimously approved a resolution Monday opposing any action to restructure the graduate school until a thorough, shared governance process is completed.
In response to racist and threatening graffiti in a University of Wisconsin-River Falls bathroom, university community members banded together through rallies, discussions and demonstrations Monday to show their support for diversity.
The total number of reported swine flu cases on the University of Wisconsin campus showed a slight decrease this week following several weeks of fluctuating numbers, as University Health Services continues to wait for a second shipment of vaccines for the third week in a row.
Mayor Dave Cieslewicz announced Monday he will appoint a student to the Alcohol License Review Committee, given the expected success of a proposal coming before City Council today that would add two new voting positions to the ARLC â?? a citizen member and an alder.
As a young girl, Leela Hazzah spent long summers in her parentsâ?? native Egypt, lying awake at night on a rooftop hoping to hear lions in the desert. Her father had slept on the same roof as a child to stay cool and listen to lions roar. “Every summer I would come and wait; I want to say years of waiting,” says Leela, a childâ??s excitement and frustration alive in her voice. Her father didnâ??t have the heart to tell her she would never hear them: The lions there had long since been hunted to extinction.
Last Thursday, Gov. Jim Doyle sent out an executive order clarifying an existing statute on health insurance to young adults. This would allow citizens in their 20â??s to be covered under their parentsâ?? health-care plan starting January 1 next year. Any Wisconsin resident would be eligible if you are between 17 and 27 years of age, unmarried, and either not eligible for health coverage through your employer or your premium contribution is more than the amount your parents would pay to add you to their plan. Currently, only childless full-time students can stay in their parents plan till the age of 25. But with the passage of this new policy, potentially 100,000 young adults in Wisconsin could benefit.
Last fall the corners of Madisonâ??s streets became soapboxes for political diatribes and the sidewalks transformed into mile-long billboards featuring the â??Rock the Voteâ? campaign.
Freakfest began four years ago as a city-sanctioned event to offset years of Halloween violence and riots downtown, with this year being the tamest yet.
Maggie Sasso, 26, has expertise in woodworking art, in which she is a graduate student at UW-Madison. She also excels in “found stuff.” Those skills have been on rolling exhibit through an experimental art project, the Mobile Museum of Material Culture, a hand-crafted wooden trailer attached to a tandem bicycle created by Sasso and fellow artist Kara Ginther
Chad Sorenson knows a thing or two about starting a business. He has helped create two of them. The first, Fluent Systems, developed a wireless, remote system for farmers to monitor how much anhydrous ammonia is in the fertilizer tank riding behind their tractor. The invention won Sorenson top honors – $10,000 – in the UW-Madisonâ??s Schoofs Prize for Creativity in 2000. Then he won an even bigger derby. Fluent Systems was sold in 2003 to Raven Industries, a publicly traded, South Dakota company, for $1.5 million, just 18 months after Sorenson earned his masterâ??s degree in business administration at UW-Madison. Now Sorenson is passing on his knowledge to a new crop of potential entrepreneurs. He is teaching a seminar at the UW-Madison College of Engineering on innovation and entrepreneurship, as part of the schoolâ??s Innovation Days.
Starting in January 2011, students who fulfill the Wisconsin Covenant Pledge and demonstrate considerable financial need will receive a $1,500 grant from the Wisconsin Covenant Foundation, Gov. Jim Doyle announced Friday.
The creatures of the night — the warty witches, the busty barmaids, the gruesome undead, the Michael Jacksons — came out in hordes. An almost full moon gleamed on the crisp October-into-November night. Yes, the ghouls were out on State Street, but throughout the night they were relatively well-behaved.This is the fourth year of the city-sponsored Freakfest, the gated event that began in 2006 in an effort to tame Madisonâ??s wild and unwieldy Halloween party. Since then, city officials and police have called the event a success. About 44,000 tickets were sold this year, police said, up from 38,000 last year.
Halloween is more than a holiday for the residents and students of Madison â?? it is an opportunity to spend the night on State Street listening to music and taking in all of the creative costumes that flock to the street.
Freakfest concluded Saturday night without any major incidents, a decrease in the number of arrests and an increase in attendance.
Middleton High School will perform “Live Broadcast,” a 1940s-style live radio drama written by former Middleton students Charles Stone and Timothy Wendorff, who are now students at UW-Madison.
University of Wisconsin Police arrested 15 people and ejected 36 from the UW Badgers football game at Camp Randall against Purdue on Saturday. Fifteen people were arrested, 12 of whom were UW-Madison students, the department said.
Future doctors and nurses are learning about acupuncture and herbs along with anatomy and physiology at a growing number of medical schools. Itâ??s another example of how alternative medicine has become mainstream. The federal government has spent more than $22 million to help medical and nursing schools start teaching about alternative medicine. Jimmy Wu, a newly graduated doctor from the University of Wisconsin-Madison who was raised in a family originally from Taiwan, said traditional healing practices are “very much ingrained” in how he thinks about sickness and health. Wu spent a summer in Beijing with a university faculty member observing traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture, and hopes to include these in a family medicine practice someday. With so many people using alternative care, “it is important that it be treated more than just an afterthought” by medical schools, Wu said.
University of Wisconsin freshman defensive end David Gilbert celebrated his 18th birthday Saturday, but that doesnâ??t mean the nickname given to him by the older players on the team is going to change. Gilbert, called “Young David” by the teammates who tease him about his age, was little more than two months removed from his 17th birthday when he enrolled at UW in January.
Two years ago, incoming high school freshmen became part of something new. The Wisconsin Covenant was billed as a way to make it easier to get into college.”It was my parents that gave me the push to sign it,” recounts Madison East High junior Mariah Burmah.
Officials at the University of Wisconsin-Madison say they defused threats from 125 troubled students, employees and area residents under a little-known program launched two years ago in response to deadly tragedies on college campuses in Virginia and Illinois.
For the fourth year since it became a gated and ticketed event, Madisonâ??s annual Halloween street party ended without any major incidents.
Ah, fall. The trees are alight with the fire of autumnal color, thereâ??s a decided chill in the air, Hoofers are pulling their boats out of the water by the Memorial Union Terrace, and good Madisonians everywhere are scrambling to come up with that perfect Halloween costume.
Thousands of costumed revelers descended on State Street on Saturday night for Freakfest, the city-approved annual Halloween party, and police said that the event was a success for the fourth year in a row.
As many as 6,000 students from low-income families who graduate from high school in 2011 will be eligible for $1,500 college grants under the Wisconsin Covenant, Gov. Jim Doyle announced Friday.
Doyle in 2007 started the Wisconsin Covenant, an agreement signed by eighth-graders that guarantees them a place in a Wisconsin college if they maintain B averages, take classes to prepare them for college and donâ??t get into trouble. The program also will provide financial assistance beyond the grants announced Friday to those who need it, but the particulars of the aid have yet to be spelled out.
A new law will go into effect in January 2010 that requires all young adults up to age 27 to receive coverage from their parentsâ?? health insurance policy, Gov. Jim Doyle announced Thursday.
The Wisconsin Assemblyâ??s Committee on Colleges and Universities heard and unanimously passed a bill Wednesday that offers incentives in the way of tax deductions to those helping pay college studentsâ?? tuition.
The Student Health Insurance Plan corrected its exclusion clause Thursday night after realizing expenses acquired from self-inflicted injury were not covered under the plan.
Time is running out for those still without a costume â?? Freakfest 2009 is tomorrow.
The annual Halloween celebration on State Street will run from 7:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. Saturday. While tomorrow brings the switch of daylight savings time, the gala ends at the first occurrence of 1:30 a.m.
Former UW-Madison basketball recruit Jeremy Glover pleaded guilty Thursday to burglarizing a campus dorm room with a fellow recruit and was placed in a first offenders program.
The University of Wisconsin Police Department has clarifyied its carry-in policies for Camp Randall Stadium and the Kohl Center for athletic events. Halloween costumes will also be allowed at both venues this weekend, but the costumes must fit in a normal seating space and be “of an appropriate nature.”
Itâ??s (mostly) all over now, except for the shouting.
As the two-week run date for the inaugural project of All Together Now winds to a close, itâ??s time to take stock of what was achieved. To do, in other words, a little shouting.
The University of Wisconsin Athletics and the UW Police Department are clarifying past stories about what you can and canâ??t bring into Camp Randall and the Kohl Center.
The University of Wisconsinâ??Madison is famous for many things: a beautiful campus, enthusiastic fans and delicious dairy products. The university is also infamous for many things, and at the top of that list is a riotous Halloween history.
WASHINGTON, D.C. WKOW — A new report shows more young Americans than ever are in college. It found the number of 18 to 24-year-olds attending college hit a record high in October of last year, at just under 40 percent.
Craig Houston, a UW-Madison student, was killed in a motorcycle accident Saturday Oct. 24 near Oshkosh, Wis.
University Health Services has postponed a Nov. 3 H1N1 vaccination clinic due to vaccine shortages throughout the entire state of Wisconsin.
Iâ??ve been to two town hall meetings on reorganizing the research enterprise at UW, and like other commentators, I donâ??t get it. Not only do I not get how the changes are going to fix some of the problems weâ??re facing on running our research programs but I also donâ??t get why so much of the faculty is so fearful of this proposal.
The Madison Police Department will be partnering with the Wisconsin State Patrol to enhance and bolster traffic law enforcement Friday in anticipation of city Halloween festivities.
Carl Hutter returned to Wisconsin from Ecuador with a few hundred pictures and a rash on his arm. At 24, the University of Wisconsin senior has not had health insurance for years, but his rash was bad enough to prompt a visit to the dermatologist. Five months later, after a biopsy and a prescription for medicine he said â??doesnâ??t do anything,â? Hutter still has the rash â?? and an outstanding bill.
Those who thought Langdon Street was invaded by ghosts and goblins Wednesday afternoon had no cause for fear â?? the screams and laughter came from children celebrating â??Trick-or-Treat with the Greeks.â?
A UW-Madison student was killed late Saturday when his motorcycle crashed on Highway 41 near Oshkosh. Craig T. Houston, 20, of Neenah, was a junior in the College of Letters and Science.
University of Wisconsin-Madison sophomore Meg Six is earning national recognition for her unselfish sportsmanship at the Midwest qualifying race for the national sailing championships. Six, who races for the University of Wisconsin Sailing Team but was out of contention for nationals, gave her boat to Lauren Knoles of Michigan State, whose own boat had become disabled.
Students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison expecting to get vaccinated against the H1N1 virus on Tuesday will have to wait a while longer.
University Health Services UHS postponed the free large-scale H1N1 vaccination clinic it had originally scheduled for Tuesday on campus because thereâ??s no vaccine available to do a large-scale clinic.
UW-Madison joins a long list of schools, communities, clinics and businesses waiting for more doses of the H1N1 vaccine to be shipped by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
Forty computers in UW-Madisonâ??s Chemistry Department were hacked and 2,920 names and Social Security numbers were potentially exposed, mostly during the past 18 months, according to an e-mail from UW-Madison spokesperson John Lucas.
As Congress continues to deliberate on a bill that would eliminate banks as middlemen for students receiving federal financial aid, the Department of Education has raised concerns about the ability of institutions to meet the demands of the July 1 deadline.
A serious data breach exposed the social security numbers of 2,920 people when 40 computers in the University of Wisconsin chemistry department were hacked over the last 18 months.
MADISON — UW-Madison does not have enough housing for its freshman students, forcing them to find alternate means of shelter. Whether itâ??s a student lounge in a dormitory or a science laboratory somewhere near campus, many students have to resort to unusual living situations.
UW-Madisonâ??s two campus newspapers have called for a student boycott of the Nitty Gritty after its owner, Marsh Shapiro, opposed putting a student on a powerful city committee.
The badger leads an online survey to help gauge the popularity of four possible designs for a new Wisconsin Endangered Resources license plate. State Department of Natural Resources Secretary Matthew Frank cited lobbying from University of Wisconsin-Madison students for the badger’s popularity.
Noted: Madison is home to one of the most vibrant ultimate communities in the country with hundreds of players participating in recreational leagues running year round. The Hodags, UW-Madisonâ??s open club, has won college nationals three times â?? 2003, 2007 and 2008. Bella Donna, the womenâ??s team, is consistently ranked among the top teams nationally.
Officials at the University of Wisconsin in La Crosse have been vaccinating priority groups on campus to protect them from the H1N1 virus. However, limited doses raise questions as to who will be next.
As of last week, UW-La Crosse had received 300 nasal spray doses of the H1N1 vaccine. Dr. Brian Allen, director of Student Health at UWL, says they will finish vaccinating priority groups this week. If the university receives more vaccine, Allen says the question is who will get it. He says with 100 doses left, student-teachers may be next in line since theyâ??re out in the classrooms, exposed to sick kids. (Fifth item.)
Frank Productions and Madison city officials announced details Monday for Madisonâ??s fourth-annual Freakfest celebration.
Damon Williams, UW-Madison vice provost for diversity and climate, encouraged students and faculty to consider the creation of a hip-hop studies program during his discussion Monday.
After another rise in swine flu levels on the University of Wisconsin campus and President Barack Obamaâ??s declaration of a national state of emergency due to an unexpected shortage of swine flu vaccine, University Health Services is re-examining its vaccination strategy.
Freakfest planners were optimistic about this yearâ??s Halloween celebration when they presented the final plans for the annual State Street party Monday at the Overture Center.
….If the county prevails, all sorts of adjusted pricing structures can be adopted. One or more days a week can be free admission days. There can be a maximum charge for children in a group. School classes can be free or reduced. County residents can get reduced prices or even season passes. UW, Edgewood and MATC students could get special student admissions,
Itâ??s worth a shot.
