Category: Campus life

Two Democratic lawmakers asked regulators Tuesday to review whether Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Walkerâ??s campaign violated a law that bans fundraising in state buildings.Reps. Marlin Schneider of Wisconsin Rapids and Amy Sue Vruwink of Milladore asked the Government Accountability Board for the investigation.

MADISON (WKOW) — University Health Services (UHS) reports that 115 students were treated for flu-like symptoms in the most recent week of the fall semester (November 1â??7).

That number is also the fourth-highest number of students with flu-like symptoms since the academic year began… and only the four time more than a hundred students came to UHS complaining of the flu.

With UW-Madison moving forward on a new diversity initiative, officials are examining the effectiveness of past efforts such as Plan 2008.

A routine chemistry experiment gone awry sent a University of Wisconsin student to the hospital with minor injuries Monday afternoon.

Ahead of what would have been her 23rd birthday, the family of slain University of Wisconsin-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann is awarding a scholarship in her name. The scholarship was given to a freshman student from Zimmermannâ??s hometown of Marshfield. The recipient plans a career in medicine.

The family of slain UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann has awarded a scholarship to financially assist a student from Marshfield, Wis., Zimmermannâ??s home town.

Eight proposals have been awarded funding through a tuition increase and associated program approved last summer for UW-Madison, university officials announced Friday.

Acknowledging planned student involvement in the Union South project was lacking in the final stages of the process last summer, Union Council passed a motion ensuring a student design committee would be reinstated for the Memorial Union renovation.

The attorney representing the family of slain UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann will get to hear a 911 call made from Zimmermannâ??s cell phone the day she was murdered last year, a Dane County judge ruled Wednesday.

Just 90 minutes after Air Force One left the Madison airport Wednesday, Mark Halperin, a senior political analyst for Time magazine, give his opinion on President Barack Obamaâ??s performance so far to an audience of UW-Madison students, faculty and community members.

Noted: The conundrum for Democrats is especially obvious here, the liberal bastion around the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where Obama chose to mark the first anniversary of his election Wednesday with an appearance. On campus — described by one Wisconsin pol as an isthmus of liberalism surrounded by reality — young voters said they see a dwindling of enthusiasm. Will Bradley, a senior in Spanish and economics, said he likes much of what he says is Obamaâ??s pragmatic, methodical approach to passing his agenda. But, Bradley said, “he does need to come through on what he promised.”

The Madison Common Council voted Tuesday to add a new citizen voting member, as well as an additional alder, to the cityâ??s Alcohol License Review Committee.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.