With the claim of saving taxpayers $87 billion, the House of Representatives passed a bill that has been referred by multiple legislators as â??the single largest government investmentâ? in making higher education more affordable.
The End Violence on Campus Program was unveiled Thursday with the aim to raise awareness and reduce the number of crimes involving sexual assault, dating violence and stalking on campus.
A small group of community members made their voices heard Thursday regarding this yearâ??s Freakfest at the Downtown Coordinating Committee meeting, prompting plans to increase student involvement in preparing for this yearâ??s celebration and future events.
The University of Wisconsin System is awarding more than $1 million in grants for 18 projects to help graduate more students.
Reading between the lines is a tricky, oftentimes dangerous exercise when trying to comprehend stories like the one about Jeremy Glover, Diamond Taylor and the University of Wisconsin menâ??s basketball team.
The number of employers at a UW-Madison job fair dropped by 50% from last year.
The UW Business Career Center hosted its annual job fair at the Kohl Center for students in the School of Business and College of Letters and Sciences.
The Associated Students of Madisonâ??s Student Council approved a student oversight board for the Madison Initiative for Undergraduates at the University of Wisconsin Wednesday night, which will give students a chance to propose ideas on how to allocate approximately $5 million of the funds.
A group of University of Wisconsin limnology students ran into quite the surprise Friday when a set of routine experiments led to the discovery of a new invasive animal species living in Lake Mendota.
Third Eye Blind, an alternative rock band originally formed in the early â??90s, is scheduled to perform at Freakfest 2009, according to the bandâ??s website.
Fraternity and sorority recruitment had just wrapped up and classes were about to start when the first wave of coughing and sniffling students reached Washington State Universityâ??s health center.
Facebook isnt just for socializing anymore â?? a new survey of college admissions officials suggests students are increasingly taking care of business on the site as well.More than 70% of officials in the annual survey say they or others in their office have received Facebook or MySpace “friend requests” from applicants. While officials arent sure how students think it will help their chances of getting into college, “Whats becoming clear is that applicants themselves are using Facebook as an essential communication medium and are expecting to use it as a medium with schools,” says Jeff Olson, executive director of research for Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions.
Weight gain is common among college students, according to nutritionists, and many factors are to blame. Dining managers at the University of Wisconsin are working to give students healthy options.”We offer many choices,” said Brian Burke, food manager. “We have a salad bar with 20 to 30 items. We always have four entrees in the serving line, fruit bars. They can get sandwiches made just the way they like them.”
While at least 40 University of Wisconsin-Madison football players were sick last week, many with flulike symptoms, all suited up for Saturday’s double overtime win against Fresno State and some attended practice even though they were vomiting.
At least one member of the team played briefly in the game but was so ill he had to come off the field.
The first cases of what are suspected to be the H1N1 flu have been reported at Wisconsin’s northern-most campus this week.
Four students have notified the UW-Superior Health Services office that they’ve got the flu. Health Services Doctor Dawn Schultze says they’re not calling it H1N1, just flu-like symptoms. But she says the symptoms match that of H1N1, including a dry cough, headache, and fever of 100-plus degrees.
A terse news release appeared to snuff out any possibility that Diamond Taylor and Jeremy Glover will get a second chance to play for the University of Wisconsin menâ??s basketball team after their arrests for a campus burglary earlier this month.
On a University of Wisconsin football team filled with more than 40 sick players last week, it’s impossible to point out the sickest.
But offensive right tackle Josh Oglesby belonged on a short list of players with the most severe symptoms.
University of Wisconsin student-athlete Jeremy Glover has been dismissed from the men’s basketball team for violating the student-athlete discipline policy.
Walter Dickey, chair of the Student-Athlete Discipline Committee and also chair of the institution’s Athletic Board, made the announcement Tuesday.
UW-Madison officials would like your help spending millions of dollars.
Remember the Madison Initiative for Undergraduates? That’s the tuition surcharge of $250 this year for in-state UW-Madison students – which will ultimately grow to $1,000 in four years – to boost undergraduate education and financial aid.
Few students on campus desire to contract swine flu – or as the powers-that-be demand we call it, H1N1. But every year, in fall and winter, we have a flu season. Students get sick, get better, and the world continues to turn.
University administration did not need to send multiple swine flu e-mails offering duplicated information in far too many words. The majority of the student body undoubtedly ignored the e-mails. And this is where problems arise, as one of the keys to getting through this as a campus is communication.
MADISON (WKOW) — Students in a Zoology class at UW-Madison discovered spiny water fleas in a sample of water from Lake Mendotaâ??s University Bay.
The students were about one-quarter mile offshore on September 11 when they dipped a small net into the lake and started poking through its contents. The net was intended to catch plankton and when the students asked associate professor Jake Vander Zanden to take a look, he was surprised at what he saw.
Writing in the Washington Post on Sunday, Zephyr Teachout argues online classes, which can be produced relatively cheaply, will someday soon completely change what “going to college” means.
In the lead of her commentary, Teachout writes: “Students starting school this year may be part of the last generation for which â??going to collegeâ?? means packing up, getting a dorm room and listening to tenured professors. Undergraduate education is on the verge of a radical reordering. Colleges, like newspapers, will be torn apart by new ways of sharing information enabled by the Internet. The business model that sustained private U.S. colleges cannot survive.”
Flu is spreading on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, with 74 percent more cases reported in the second week of classes than in the first week.
University Health Services reported that 345 students with flu-like symptoms were evaluated in week two Sept. 6-12 of the fall semester, compared to 198 in the first week Sept. 1-5.
While the number of flu cases is up, UHSâ?? executive director, Dr. Sarah Van Orman, said she didnâ??t think the outbreak was growing exponentially.
“The good news is the level of activity is fairly similar to the first week,” Van Orman said.
University Health Services released statistics Tuesday revealing that UHS continues to see a steady number of UW-Madison students seeking care for influenza-like illnesses.
UW-Madison students could not miss the gigantic hole that replaced Union South last spring, but few have any clue a new union has opened in its place.
As rapper Rick Ross has continuously stated, it is deeper than rap, and Hip-Hop is far more than just a genre of music. The University of Wisconsin-Madison is in the process of integrating the art form into its school as it will be devoting its fall semester to the scholarship and art of Hip-Hop.
New numbers released yesterday by University Health Services indicate the University of Wisconsin campus is still in the midst of an H1N1 outbreak, but do not suggest the need to enact advanced stages of the pandemic contingency plan the university has established.
Agencies and academic institutions across Wisconsin are on high alert and preparing for a large-scale H1NI virus pandemic.
Chancellor Biddy Martin proclaimed the 2009-10 academic year the â??Year of the Humanities,â? bringing with it a series of lectures, performances and other events that will educate students, as well as the general public, on the impact of the humanities.
The University of Wisconsin kicked off its fall lecture series â??Getting Real: The Future of Hip-Hop Studies Scholarshipâ? Monday with a seminar discussing the relevance of hip-hop in academia.
Playing a little catch-up with some higher education-related news …
*** Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., released a statement late last week reporting that one of the school’s students had “died of complications related to H1N1 influenza.”
UW-Madison officials earlier last week said there already was a rather large outbreak of those infected with the H1N1 flu on campus, but that for most students it is a mild to moderate illness.
*** Wisconsinâ??s weather could undergo some significant changes in the future if the scenarios being calculated by the “worldâ??s most sophisticated computer climate models” are on the mark, UW-Madison announced in a news release.
In tough economic times, more college students are seeking financial aid for school, but officials said that there might not be enough money to go around.
The result of the increasing demand is a huge jump in those who qualify for state financial aid grants, but can’t get any. Those running the state’s largest financial aid grant program, the Wisconsin Higher Education Grant, known as WHEG, said the bottom line is more students are having to take out more loans, or not attend college.
As the H1N1 flu virus continues to spread throughout the country, many local households are finding themselves in a very difficult position in terms of what to do if one person falls sick with the illnesses while those that share their home are still healthy.
Medical experts are urging healthy families to formulate a plan if and when members start to get sick.
The virus, also know as the swine flu, has already hit the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus and has quickly spread, but health officials are offering advice on how people can protect themselves.
UW-Madison students who participated in the Associated Students of Madisonâ??s textbook swap Aug 28-30 saved over twice as much as they did in past semesters, organizers of the event said Wednesday.
UW Hospital is suspending its 350 student volunteers because of the H1N1 virus, commonly known as swine flu, which is spreading quickly across the UW-Madison campus, hospital officials announced Friday.
The University of Wisconsin football program announced Saturday it will be one of the first programs in the country to have a completely carbon-neutral home season.
Barring additional legal action, fifth-year seniors Shane Carter and Aubrey Pleasant likely will never again play for the University of Wisconsin football team.
Fear of the H1N1 flu virus is rising at Cornell University in Ithaca New York, where a 20-year-old student died Friday from the H1N1 flu. The university reports more than 500 students have been diagnosed with flu-like symptoms since the fall semester began a few weeks ago.
The 40th anniversary of the Badger Herald student newspaper was Thursday, and the paper celebrated with a special front page that included two articles on the Heraldâ??s founding and growth.
Police are investigating a reported armed robbery of a 20-year-old UW-Madison student early Sunday morning.
The man told Madison police he was walking near the corner of West Gilman and State streets between 2 and 2:30 a.m., when a man with a small knife ordered him to walk to the 200 block of West Gilman Street, where a second man pushed him into a pickup truck or SUV. The two men then drove him to the Dane County Credit Union, 2160 Rimrock Road, where withdrawals on his account were made at an ATM, police said.
Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema spent last week downplaying the flulike symptoms sweeping through his team. But after beating Fresno State in double overtime Saturday, Bielema acknowledged that more than 40 players were sick earlier in the week and some were feeling ill just hours before kickoff.
Zachary Glembin eagerly eyed the inflated plastic booth set up in the plaza of East Campus Mall, in the University Square complex.
He would be the first to step inside and make a grab for as much play money as he could hang onto in 30 seconds as it flew around in the portable wind tunnel, dubbed the Tycoon Typhoon – play money that would be exchanged for the real thing.
While most recent law graduates spent the summer poring over torts, rules of evidence and property law in preparation for the bar exam, there were hundreds in Wisconsin who marched straight to work as attorneys.
Under Wisconsin’s 139-year-old “diploma privilege,” graduates of UW-Madison’s and Marquette University’s law schools can practice law in the state without passing a bar exam.
Wash your hands. Use a mask. Cover your mouth when you cough. Stay home when you’re sick. As we combat the spread of H1N1 this flu season health experts at the UW are doing all they can to stay one step ahead of the virus. And now they have a new weapon: Isolation.
On the UW campus at Carson Gulley Commons, the Pine Room will now serve as an isolation area for students who are sick.
The UW Marching Band is moving on, a year after hazing allegations sidelined the group for a game.
The UW football staple was silenced for the first time in 40 years last October, after investigations revealed some members were participating in serious hazing rituals. The band was suspended for one game. Leaders identified the misconduct as inappropriate use of alcohol and sexualized behavior, by a small percentage of the band members. UW Band Director Mike Leckrone says the band put those behaviors in the past, last year.
It’s a tragedy that seems to bridge the gap between even the strongest political enemies.
UW-Madison students held a memorial service at Bascom Hill Friday evening. It’s all put on with a joint effort- from both the College Republicans and the College Democrats. Representatives from both sides on campus say especially as politics heat up now in Washington, there’s a time to reflect, and a time to come together.
Student volunteers play a big role at the University of Wisconsin Hospital, but hospital officials have made the decision to restrict access for student volunteers in an effort to limit patients’ possible exposure to the H1N1 virus.
All UW-Madison and Edgewood students volunteering at UW Hospital and Clinics are suspended because of the high number of students already infected with H1N1, or the so-called swine flu.
Carson Gulley Commons will be serving more than food if swine flu cases continue on campus.
A prominent member of the Student Union Design Committee voiced concern to the new Union Council members Thursday that student control of the project has fallen below what was initially promised and is appropriate for the investment studentâ??s have made.
UW athletic director Barry Alvarez alerted Fresno State earlier in the week about the flu-like symptoms the Badgers players came down with this week. But Bielema said he has had no contact with anybody at Fresno State.
While the Badgers’ appear to be getting through the outbreak, Bielema understands the Bulldogs will likely be concerned.
The entryway to the basement of Carson Gulley Commons on the UW-Madison campus isnâ??t blocked off with hazard tape, but visitors might want to enter at their own risk.
Carson Gulley Commons will be serving more than food if swine flu cases continue on campus.
UW-Madison housing officials, in conjunction with University Health Services, are providing students who are sick with the H1N1 virus with rooms on campus where they can recover and avoid spreading the virus to others.
College students invariably share close quarters in dorm rooms, drink from the same cups at parties, cough and sneeze on each other while in class. Within days of the first reported fever, the football teamâ??s front line, half a sorority and an entire hallway in a freshman dorm are all sick.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison reported 198 new cases for the week ending last Saturday. More than 10 members of the universityâ??s football team have reported symptoms since Sunday.
Sarah Van Orman, executive director of health services, said the university is telling healthy students H1N1 â??is something they need to take seriously but they donâ??t need to panic about or be afraid of.â? The administration isnâ??t urging the cancellation of any events or any extra precautions beyond good hygiene and staying away from people who seem to be sick. â??We arenâ??t asking students to change what theyâ??d normally do.â?
There are hundreds of potential swine flu cases on the UW-Madison campus. UW-Madison officials confirm the H1N1 flu virus is on campus. Yet they stress no one has been hospitalized. Student Stephanie Coleman was diagnosed with H1N1 in the spring and was told she has it again.
Since the semester began, the campus area has seen several batteries and one violent robbery â?? but the Madison Police Department says itâ??s nothing out of the ordinary.
Due to increasing concerns surrounding the H1N1 flu, the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents will vote at its meetings this week whether to suspend a rule proclaiming staff must provide a doctorâ??s note if they are sick for more than five days.
Defensive end Oâ??Brien Schofield considers himself lucky. The same could probably be said for the rest of the University of Wisconsin football team.
Somehow, Schofield has managed to avoid the flu-like symptoms that ran through so many of his teammates this week. Heâ??s not sure how he did it, but he took the warnings seriously since the first time trainers talked to the team months ago about the H1NI virus.
Because of the large numbers of students heading to the doctorâ??s office with the flu, regular appointments at the University of Wisconsin-Madisonâ??s health clinic are being restricted.
University Health Services UHS implemented its “surge plan” on Tuesday with the surge coming from students suffering from flu-like symptoms, so staff can take care of the students who are sick.
As of Saturday, about 200 students had visited the health services complaining of the flu. Most of the cases were for H1N1 flu, also known as swine flu.
J.J. Watt was napping on his couch Tuesday afternoon when he got a text message on his cell phone:”Iâ??m outside.” The message was from Connie Watt, the mother of the University of Wisconsin sophomore defensive end. J.J. Watt, like many of the UW players, was battling through the flu that was spreading on the campus and hit the football team late Saturday.
Fresno State isnâ??t taking any chances of contracting the flu that appears to have spread on the University of Wisconsin campus.
Researchers studying how to improve graduation rates at public colleges and universities have come up with a surprising and counter-intuitive finding: Many students may fail to complete a bachelorâ??s degree not because the work is too hard â?? but because theyâ??re not challenged enough.
