Category: Campus life

Noted: The father and sister of 19-year-old Shreya Dixit spoke of how Shreya, a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, had accepted a ride home and was killed when the driver momentarily reached for an item in the car. Her father Vijay Dixit has established a foundation in her name that provides high school education modules for safer driving practices.

“The people in the cars next to us. It’s someone’s sister, someone’s mother,” her sister Nayha said. “Is checking that text message more important than someone’s life?”

Iâ??m shocked by how badly UW-Madison students dress for class. Most of them look like they put on any old thing that happened to be sitting on the laundry pile next to their beds.

H1N1 flu cases are tapering off at UW-Madison. Suspected cases of â??swine fluâ? now top 800 on the UW-Madison campus, but the numbers have been declining over the past couple of weeks. Doctor Sarah Van Orman with University Health Services provided the numbers at a Capitol briefing Thursday.

When Louisa Kornblatt was a little girl and saw colorful posters of the Bronfman Youth Fellowship in Israel on a wall of her synagogue, she dreamed of being able to go there one day. â??They really stuck in my mind,â? she recalls.

Pharmacy retailer CVS plans to build one of its first Madison-area stores Downtown, at the former Badger Bus depot, which is scheduled for demolition next week.

Greyhound Bus Lines will use the terminal through Sunday, and the company has not yet confirmed a new location for the intercity bus service. Demolition begins Oct. 8, Badger Coaches co-owner John Meier said.

The Associated Students of Madison, in partnership with the Offices of the Dean of Students, held a town hall forum Monday to gain student opinion on the use of the $1.5 million in student services funds allotted by the Madison Initiative for Undergraduates. 

University of Wisconsin students voiced proposals to faculty in a public forum Monday on how the student services portion of the Madison Initiative for Undergraduates funds should be allocated.

Thousands of veterans going to school under the new Post-9/11 GI Bill will be eligible for $3,000 in emergency aid if they have not yet received their payments.

As the Cap Times reported earlier this month, veterans locally have been frustrated both with the time itâ??s taking the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to process benefits, and the lack of information available to those attempting to check on the status of their claims.

The Associated Students of Madison, in partnership with the Offices of the Dean of Students, held a town hall forum Monday to gain student opinion on the use of the $1.5 million in student services funds allotted by the Madison Initiative for Undergraduates.

University of Wisconsin students voiced proposals to faculty in a public forum Monday on how the student services portion of the Madison Initiative for Undergraduates funds should be allocated.

In an effort to involve more students in the Madison Initiative for Undergraduates and continue the discussion of where studentsâ?? money is going, the Associated Students of Madison will host a town hall-style meeting today.

While students seem to be cutting back on almost everything due to the current economic recession, the University of Wisconsin Systemâ??s two-year colleges are actually seeing an increase in enrollment for the fifth consecutive year.

A record number of students enrolled this fall at UW Colleges — again.

For the fifth consecutive year, more students than ever before poured into the classrooms of the state’s 13 two-year campuses.

The University of Wisconsin announced a new campaign Thursday aimed at vaccinating more students against the flu.

The UW-Madison Schools of Nursing and Pharmacy and University Health Services will team up to offer flu shots at 16 locations beginning Tuesday, September 29 at Sellery Hall and running through November.

Over 7,000 students, faculty and community members gathered in the Kohl Center Thursday to hear author Michael Pollanâ??s lecture on nutrition in modern America.

Highlighting the University of Wisconsinâ??s first annual Go Big Read common book program, â??In Defense of Foodâ? author Michael Pollan told a 7,000 person crowd of UW students, community members and Wisconsin farmers Tuesday at the Kohl Center the Western ideology of food consumption needs reevaluation.

Officials with the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point say they are ready to handle an outbreak of H1N1or swine flu, but are working on plans that would deal with the impact in classrooms.How would attendance and grading be affected if large numbers of students or faculty members missed weeks of class? What if certain campus buildings are closed, but not others? Would students be able to complete the semester?

The H1N1 outbreak at UW-Madison is not over, but it’s not nearly as bad as it was a couple weeks ago.

The number of students University Health Services treated for flu like symptoms last week is way down. In the week ending Saturday the 19th, 168 students had symptoms including fever, body aches and coughing. That’s down more than 50 percent from the week before, when 345 students reported those symptoms.

It’s Go Big Read week on the UW-Madison campus and in the Madison community.

Students and others who have read Michael Pollan’s “In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto” – the inaugural book chosen for a university common book reading program – will finally get to see the author in person Thursday night at the Kohl Center.

A UW-Platteville student whose family will be featured on ABCâ??s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” will get a full scholarship for the 2009-2010 academic year thanks to an anonymous donor.

Joey Stott, who is in her first semester at UW-Platteville, and her family were chosen to be featured in the show earlier this month.

MADISON (WKOW) — University Health Services is reporting a decrease in the number of students contacting UHS with flu-like symptoms.

In Week #3 of school (September 13-19), UHS evaluated 168 students for influenza-like illness (ILI), UHS reporting that ILI visits made up 12.6 percent of the total visits to the primary care clinic for the week.

By comparison, in Week #2 of school, 345 students complained of ILI; and in Week #1, 198 students came to UHS complaining of ILI.

A 21-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison student was “sucker” punched early Thursday morning while standing at a chicken stand on State Street, Madison police reported.

The victim told Madison police he lost consciousness for a short period of time after being struck at about 12:30 a.m. Thursday at North Broom Street and State Street.

Two former University of Wisconsin basketball recruits were formally charged Monday with burglary for allegedly walking into unlocked dormitory rooms and taking electronic equipment.

The University of Wisconsin System announced Thursday 18 different growth agenda projects that received funding, totaling $1 million in support over the next year.

The first weeks of the semester present many exciting firsts, challenges and transitional processes for incoming freshmen at the University of Wisconsin, but many overlook the unique hurdles transfer students face when they arrive at their new home.

Freakfest producer Frank Productions announced new information Friday about this yearâ??s Freakfest including band lineup and costume contest information.

Pledge week, dorm picnics, a carnival at the union – the first weeks of college at UW-Madison are jam-packed with activities for new students.

That is, if you’re a freshman.

But transfer students – who arrive at the university each fall by the hundreds – say their reception traditionally has been a little cold.

UW-Madison is one of seven universities across the nation to receive a competitive federal grant to raise awareness of sexual assault and dating violence on college campuses.

National statistics show one in four women will be sexually assaulted before they graduate from college. That’s a stat UW-Senior Courtney Coen believes to be true.