Category: Campus life

Will college students take the train? More specifically, will they take high speed rail? The answer is yes, according to UW Madison student Tony Uhl, who helped to organize a statewide tour of college students advocating for high speed rail

A nutritious, mouse-eared waffle could win a team of UW-Madison students $2,500.

The student-created snack, called Mickioli, is a finalist in a food product development competition sponsored by Disney and the Institute of Food Technologists Student Association.

Mickioli is a waffle snack shaped like the head of Mickey Mouse. The waffles are made from quinoa, a gluten free grain, and are layered with strawberry and yogurt filling.

During a night of partying, college students can get rowdy. We’ve all seen it. Many of us have lived it.

They can be loud, obnoxious and, to delicately put it, forget their boundaries.

Irritating? No doubt. But should a university punish students for unruly behavior outside of campus?

If the behavior is serious and repeated, it should.

A judge will decide next month whether to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the family of murdered UW student Brittany Zimmermann.

The suit accuses the Dane County of mishandling the 911 call Zimmermann made from her cell phone the night she was murdered.

A University of Wisconsin-Madison student who was threatened last year with deportation to Nigeria has graduated from the School of Pharmacy, but her future remains unclear.

Temitope “Tope” Awe, 24, made headlines in April 2008 when Immigration Customs and Enforcement planned to deport her and her family, even though she had lived in Milwaukee with her parents since she was 3 years old.

After a first effort failed, Madison police are again threatening liquor license renewals of troubled Downtown bars.

But one targeted bar owner calls the efforts â??selective enforcementâ? and a â??fascist state action every person in the city of Madison should worry about.â?

When the University of Wisconsin-Madison makes its financial aid offer in the coming weeks to rising sophomore Kate Konetzke, it probably wonâ??t account for the fact that the postal service in Neenah recently cut her momâ??s hours or that her dadâ??s working less at a steel fabrication plant.

So the Konetzkes, who live near Oshkosh in Winneconne, may ask the school to reconsider the aid offer, given the fact theyâ??ll likely make less money this year than anticipated.

â??Itâ??s worth a shot,â? said Konetzkeâ??s mother, Sue, as she helped her daughter move out of Sellery Hall last week. â??Otherwise, it looks like weâ??re sitting in a situation weâ??re no longer in.â?

Economic hardship is prompting a growing number of UW-Madison students and families to appeal financial aid decisions â?? which for the 2009-2010 academic year are based on 2008 earnings â?? school officials say.

If you can avoid driving in the southeast part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus area around the Kohl Center this weekend, please do so.

Thousands of students, families and friends will descend on the Kohl Center, 601 W. Dayton St., for three days of five commencement exercises, beginning Friday evening and continuing on Saturday and Sunday.

The commencement congestion will be compounded by dorm students moving out of residence halls on Johnson and Dayton Streets, as well as ongoing road and building construction.

Dear Editor: Recently, purchasing negotiations were initiated for the Drumlin Community Gardens land, yet the conflict remains unresolved. After reading articles, attending meetings and contacting farmers, city representatives, the Alexander Co., and others, it felt like our wheels were spinning in the mud — the stakeholders seemed deeply rooted in different world views and the conflict seemed intractable.

No Joke: The man voted the funniest college student in the U.S. attends UW-Madison.

Adam Voll, a rising junior from Wheaton, Ill., won the TWIX Funniest College Student on Campus Contest.

This weekâ??s University of Wisconsin-Madison student exodus might cause less of a mess than past years as students living in campus housing will be encouraged to recycle items that previously flooded dorm dumpsters.

Students moving out of dormitories on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus this week will be able to recycle many of the things from their dorm rooms that used to end up in the landfill.

Overflowing Dumpsters could become a thing of the past this year when approximately 6,800 University of Wisconsin-Madison students move out of their university residence halls through May 17.

Fewer employers are pursuing graduates from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and other universities, underscoring an increasingly competitive job market for new college grads, according to a new analysis by Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc.

UW-Madison is canceling study abroad programs to Mexico in which students are scheduled to depart before June 1 because of concerns over swine flu.

Chancellor Biddy Martin based the decision on recommendations of the universityâ??s International Emergency Response Committee.

MADISON (WKOW)– Nearly 7,000 UW students have or are about to begin the end of the year move out.

To help with clean up and dumping of old furniture, the UW-Madison Division of Facilities Planning and Management (We Conserve program) has partnered with St. Vincent de Paul, and the Division of Housing. They have designated four locations where people can recycle metal and carpeting and donate reusable items.

Expect ruffled feathers when college freshmen return to the nest for summer break.

After several months flying around on their own, they may bristle over rules, obligations and even questions, such as “Where are you going?” and “When are you going to quit sleeping all day?”

Quoted: Patti Lux-Weber, coordinator of the UW-Madison Parent Program, and student Julie Bohl, a senior who works in the program.

They’re playing in rain-sodden fields near the University of Wisconsin-Madison Natatorium, not in the airspace next to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

And instead of zipping loop-de-loops on bewitched broomsticks, they trot doggedly with kitchen brooms between their legs.

But the nine UW-Madison students – all women – are shouting to each other about quaffles, bludgers and golden snitches, and, despite a steady rain, are clearly delighting in a vigorous game of Quidditch. Yes, Quidditch.

At first, Nehemiah Edwards wasn’t buying it.

Sitting in a room of eighth-graders five years ago, the middle schooler was told the sky is the limit for his education and success – he could be whatever he wanted to be, live wherever he wanted to live and have complete control over his destiny.

“They had big plans for us,” said Edwards, who was extremely skeptical during his first encounter with Dream Chasing, a program that takes the dreams of children and places them within reach.

“I didn’t know what to make of the program, but I decided to stick with it,” Edwards said. “I dreamed of going to college, but I didn’t think I was going to get there. As we got further with the program and hearing them talk, I started to believe it.”

In less than a month, he will graduate from Rufus King International Baccalaureate High School with honors and is heading to the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the fall, where he will study computer engineering.

So far, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has no reported cases of swine flu on campus. But University officials are drawing on past experiences with viruses to manage their response to the current situation.

Dr. Sarah Van Orman is Executive Director of University Health Services at UW-Madison. She says their response to pandemics is shaped by national guidelines, and they’re working with local health officials in developing contingency plans in case the virus hits campus.

â??Most campuses have a lot of experience with how to control an infectious disease in its community, whether that be a residence hall or more broadly,â? says Van Orman, â??Now the specifics of how you do that really vary depending on what youâ??re dealing with.” (4th item.)

A committee of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents on Thursday voted to delay until June the consideration of proposed revisions to the student conduct code.

A key issue was a provision that would allow students to have a lawyer speak on their behalf during disciplinary proceedings where they face suspension or expulsion or have been charged with a crime in connection with their conduct.

Educators at the UW are using video games as teaching tools.

But not video games like the ones you play on a console.

Video games like this one that was developed at the UW.

This is Melody Mixer.

It was developed by Dr. Jamie Henke and Engage.

“We’re involved in trying to develop new horizons of how to teach and how to teach better.”

Engage is made up of educators from all disciplines and other tech professionals.

The program is run by the University’s Division of Information Technology or DOIT.

A man was arrested early Wednesday morning after entering eight unlocked rooms of female residents in Witte Hall on the campus of the University of Wisconsin.