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.
William Bowen, Matthew Chingos and Michael McPherson had already begun their study of graduation data at public colleges and universities when President Obama this year challenged America to lead the world in educational attainment by 2020. Now, they hope findings, published today in Crossing the Finish Line: Completing College at Americaâ??s Public Universities by Princeton University Press, will help achieve that goal. The authors found that minorities and students from poor or less educated families have markedly lower graduation rates and take longer to earn degrees than their more privileged peers. Thatâ??s true even when other variables, including academic qualifications, are taken into account.
Van Galder Bus Co. is starting double-decker bus service Thursday to serve growing demand for travel from Madison to downtown Chicago. The closed-top, two-level bus can carry 81 people, up from the 57-passenger capacity in a regular coach-style bus, spokesperson Amanda Mullin said.
For the first time, swine flu has hit Marquette University.One student has a confirmed case of the swine flu, and that student is now recovering.
On the UW-Campus an H1N1 flu outbreak is now confirmed!University Health Services say they are seeing a marked increase in patients with flu-like symptoms, and studies now confirm H1N1 is causing a majority of these symptoms.University Health Officials tell us well over two hundred students have been evaluated.
The University of Wisconsin Badgers play Fresno State Saturday at Camp Randall, but just who will be playing became a real question Tuesday as a flu outbreak appears to be spreading.
The H1N1 virus continued its spread across college campuses nationwide Wednesday, but here in Madison, the University of Wisconsin says thereâ??s no need to panic.H1N1 is so widespread that doctors both here in Madison and nationwide say if you have any flu-like symptoms itâ??s safe to say you have some form of the virus.
On the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, so many students are visiting University Health Services with flu symptoms that a so-called “surge plan” has been put into effect.
University Health Services implemented its â??surge planâ? Tuesday in response to a continued increase in the number of students reporting influenza symptoms across campus.
The Wisconsin football team has had at least 10 players affected this week by flu-like symptoms, UW officials announced Tuesday.
When trying to pick which college to attend, many incoming freshmen look to rankings made by hundreds of institutions on hundreds of different levels of analysis. The question then becomes, what is the difference between these rankings and what is their real value?
University of Wisconsin officials are offering support and guidance to community members after a studentâ??s suicide Tuesday evening in the Lakeshore dormitories.
Every University of Wisconsin student tested for swine flu returned positive results last week, leading University Health Services to use more selective testing.
The University of Wisconsin football team is scrambling to prepare for a home game against Fresno State Saturday after a large number of players came down with flu-like symptoms this week.
Dennis Helwig, director of sports medicine at UW, met with the media Tuesday night and would only confirm a number in the “low double-digits.”
Other reports had the number much higher. Brian Wozniak, a freshman tight end, wrote on Twitter.com just after noon that 45 players were out.
Two members of the University of Wisconsin menâ??s basketball team have been released from the Dane County Jail and are scheduled to appear in court later this month.
At least 10 members of the University of Wisconsin football team have been hit with flu-like symptoms, UW officials announced Tuesday.
It is not known yet if any of the players have contracted the H1N1 virus, or swine flu.
