After being sexually assaulted on campus by a summer acquaintance in the fall of 2008, a UW-Madison female student walked to her classes, feeling unsafe and consumed with anxious thoughts.
Despite recent bad luck the 2009 Mifflin Street Block Party has had acquiring sponsorship, the University of Wisconsinâ??s WSUM 91.7 confirmed Thursday the station is looking to potentially manage a soundstage at the event.
Tree huggers had some extra love to give this Earth Day. Wednesday marked the second annual hug-a-tree event at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. For every person who wrapped their arms around a tree, the school’s bookstore donated a dollar to charity. That money went to one of three charities — Clean Wisconsin, the Nature Conservancy and Wisconsin Environments.
Chancellor Martinâ??s proposed Madison Initiative for Undergraduates will supposedly close the gap in funding created by the recession and will magically make college more affordable while increasing tuition. While this may seem like a reasonable solution to the universityâ??s money woes, it is merely a short-term patch for a problem that is continuously ignored.
Still grumpy because your dream political science class is full again? The school has something more to offer: UW-Madison just launched an iTunes page last week, featuring a series of podcasts and videos, including a political science talk show. For an institution of global ambitions, there couldnâ??t be a better way to extend its outreach.
The UW-Whitewater head football coach apologized today after banning student reporters from interviewing players and coaches.
In an e-mail to a reporter from the student newspaper, the Royal Purple, coach Lance Leipold said he was sorry for his behavior and especially his use of inappropriate language, according to a university press release.
With a 35-lb. head, itâ??s no wonder our dear Bucky Badger acts a little cocky from time to time. The independent film â??Being Buckyâ? gives an in-depth look into the lives of those underneath the sweat-laden Bucky costume.
ReThink Wisconsin will be kicking off its 2009 recycling season in a “crazy” way on Saturday.
The student organization dedicated to improving waste management will have 50 volunteers at Camp Randall Stadium, collecting thousands of plastic water bottles being drained by 17,000 thirsty runners and walkers participating in the 28th annual Crazylegs run and walk.
The Associated Students of Madisonâ??s Student Council voted to endorse Chancellor Biddy Martinâ??s Madison Initiative for Undergraduates, which will raise student tuition and provide additional aid and services.
In a statement, Martin said she was deeply grateful for the councilâ??s endorsement.
â??As you know, I am deeply committed to ensuring the quality and affordability of a UW-Madison education and the long-term value of our degree,â? Martin said. â??To members of ASM, I thank you for the effort and commitment that you have demonstrated. I look forward to bringing this proposal to fruition.â?
The Associated Students of Madison voted to fully endorse the Wisconsin Initiative for Undergraduates Wednesday despite uncertainties about student support.
The initiative, drafted by Chancellor Biddy Martin, would raise tuition to increase financial aid and academic support. According to Martin, the initiative would help UW-Madison remain competitive with other Big Ten schools. It will go before the Board of Regents May 7-8.
â??I think weâ??re at a tipping point in terms of faculty hired and the quality of this institution relative to our peers,â? ASM representative Jeffrey Wright said. â??Something needs to be done and itâ??s certainly not going to happen, at least in short term, out of the Capitol.â?
Theyâ??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.
For the first time, recent Wisconsin college graduates will be able to stay in state this year while participating in Teach for America.
The service program will put 30 to 40 teachers in Milwaukee schools this fall, said Garrett Bucks, executive director for Teach for America Milwaukee.
Teach for America recruits college graduates to work at least two years in urban and rural communities with high poverty rates.
UW students have crowned a new All-Campus Idol.
Of the top ten finalists, Cari Rongstad of Eau Claire received the most text-message votes from the audience.
“I was really excited.” Cari said after the win. “I’m really surprised. This is my first time playing a big crowd, I’ve played coffee shops. But, I’m happy. I’m excited. It’s cool that people got to hear me sing and they liked it!”
Celebrity judge Michael Johns, who was in the top ten American Idol – Season 8, called Cari’s voice ‘pure’.
For the first time, recent Wisconsin college graduates will be able to stay in state this year while participating in Teach for America.
The service program will put 30 to 40 teachers in Milwaukee schools this fall, said Garrett Bucks, executive director for Teach for America Milwaukee.
A new clinical services director has been named to UW-Madisonâ??s University Health Services.
The Street Use Staff Team granted a permit on Tuesday to DCNY PRO to organize the 41st annual Mifflin Street Block Party, but because of deadline and funding issues, it is unlikely the event will be sponsored this year.
The ongoing revision process of University of Wisconsin System non-academic misconduct policies (UWS 17 and 18) has elicited a prolonged and lively debate on the merits of these amendments. In addition to a campus forum co-hosted by the Offices of the Dean of Students and the Associated Students of Madison, there have been numerous editorials and individual discussions. While I am glad the university community engaged on this issue, I feel through the course of this discussion, participants have lost sight of a few of key points about the revisions.
The Madison City Council unanimously voted to brighten up the city as plans to expand lighting in Districts 4, 5 and 8 were approved.
After weeks of uncertainty, officials announced Tuesday there will be no sponsorship or stage at this yearâ??s Mifflin Street Block Party, scheduled for May 2.
University of Wisconsin officials told a crowd of community members Tuesday that domestic partner benefit legislation has so far been met with approval in Wisconsin as a result of major change in the national political climate.
The Wisconsin Alumni Association announced its endorsement of the Madison Initiative for Undergraduates Tuesday, adding one last vote of support before the finalized proposal goes before the Associated Students of Madison tonight.
â??We think itâ??s a very smart plan, an important investment in undergraduate education,â? WAA President and CEO Paula Bonner said. â??We just wanted to make sure, as an organization, the students and the regents knew the association supported it.â?
The owners of a local music and event promotion company told city officials Tuesday they are dropping their bid to host the annual Mifflin Street Block Party this year.
DCNY PRO, operated by Ny Bass and Dave Coleman, had proposed setting up a stage for musical acts and possibly bringing in food vendors but withdrew their street use permit application because there wasnâ??t time to properly organize for the May 2 event, said Kelli Lamberty of the city Parks Division.
UW-Madison campus leaders reframed and broadened the image of diversity on campus through speech and performance Monday as part of the Multicultural Student Coalitionâ??s Hip Hop as a Movement Week.
To the younger set, it’s not Milwaukee – it’s Ill Mill, said endearingly.
That’s according to the City Dictionary, a Web site aiming to flesh out city-specific language and cultural information. It’s the brainchild of Thomas Carmona, and it won the top $10,000 prize in the 2009 G. Steven Burrill Business Plan Competition.
As the May 1 deadline for high school seniors to choose a college approaches, a survey conducted by the College Board and the Art & Science Group confirmed a widespread prediction that the current national economic climate is playing a large role in high school studentâ??s college decisions.
If the University of Wisconsinâ??s approximately 40,000 students condensed into only 200, 11 of those students would be Asian, six would be black, six would be Latino, one would be Native American and the remaining 176 would be Caucasian.
They bought into the notion that if they went to college â?? never mind the debt â?? their degree would lead to a lucrative job. And repaying their student loans would never be a problem.
But the economic crisis has turned those assumptions on their ear as thousands of recent graduates have been unable to find jobs or are earning too little to cover the payments for loans that are sometimes as high as $50,000.
Megan Rebers will have something equally important to go with her degree when she graduates next month from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.
A job.
Rebers, 22, of Campbellsport, who launched her job search in earnest last fall and accepted an offer from Target Corp., is one of the fortunate grads this year. CareerBuilder’s annual college job forecast, which polled about 2,500 employers, learned only 43 percent of them plan to hire recent grads this year, down from 56 percent in 2008 and far lower than the 79 percent the year before.
Noted: Before they arrive, the local district has submitted a wish list of jobs to be done and, in this case, raised $16,000 to pay for the materials.
â??Itâ??s just neat to see 180 people working together on one project,â? said Jared Marx, a University of Wisconsin-Madison student from Antigo. He had spent his time pruning tree limbs, helping to move monkey bars and hanging a new classroom door, among other jobs.
Marx said his roommate did the Outreach program last year.
â??He said some phenomenal things about it,â? Marx said.
As a graduating senior, I have not paid as much attention to the Initiative for Undergraduates as I perhaps should have. However, Chancellor Martinâ??s last e-mail compelled me to look more closely at the plan that is being proposed, and I was somewhat surprised by the similarity to the Growth and Access Agenda proposed by UW-La Crosse in 2007.
Chancellor Martin, Iâ??ve read with great interest your Undergraduate Initiative. Enhanced student services are mentioned several times. I think that is code for better academic advising. As someone who spends a lot of time â?? and I mean a lot â?? talking to students, I am thrilled to hear that.
UW-Madison could soon be home to the funniest college student in the country, according to one measure.
Sophomore Adam Voll from Wheaton, Ill., is one of four finalists for the national â??Funniest College Student on Campusâ? competition sponsored by Twix.
University of Wisconsin students are throwing a huge party this week. That’s nothing new — but this bash has all of the activities without the alcohol.
A kind of springtime serenade greeted students at Engineering Mall on the UW campus.
“Excellent bands,” said Drew Deitz, All Campus Party Week co-director. “They braved the weather — it was a little cold and windy out there.”
UWPD officers trained members of SAFEwalk for Badger Watch, a UW-Madison crime prevention organization, at Memorial Union Sunday.
The annual Take Back the Night rally brought hundreds of students and community members into the streets of downtown Madison Saturday evening to raise awareness and initiate dialogue about sexual and domestic abuse.
When viewers tuned in to last week’s premiere of “College Life,” MTV’s new reality show, the first thing they saw was a disclaimer: “The following program is not endorsed by the University of Wisconsin-Madison.”
While UW was initially eager about possibilities for a show based on campus, the school has since distanced itself from the show, calling it a misrepresentation.
The last (and first) time “American Idol” finalist Michael Johns was in Wisconsin, he and David Cook sang a show in Green Bay wearing cheesehead hats.
He’ll be back on Tuesday evening — minus Cook — at the Overture Center downtown to judge All-Campus Idol, one of the headlining events this week at UW-Madison’s All-Campus Party. It’s co-sponsored by the Wisconsin Alumni Association and the Blair Beinhaker Friendship Foundation.
Two Blackhawk helicopters from the Wisconsin Army National Guard landed a little before noon on Friday at the recreational fields just north of UW Hospital and Clinics.
The large, four-bladed “birds” picked up about 20 Air Force ROTC cadets from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and flew them to Volk Field Air National Guard Base, which is located at Camp Douglas, Wis., some 85 miles northwest of campus.
University of Wisconsin-Madison ROTC Air Force cadets are undergoing intense training this weekend, and they got a surprise Friday.
The second annual Commandant’s Challenge started with a surprise landing of two Blackhawk helicopters, which flew about 20 cadets to Volk Field at Camp Douglas to set up a base camp for the other half of their class. The rest of the class was set to arrive on buses later Friday night.
Some University of Wisconsin-Madison students said that they believe organization and sponsors are the keys to a peaceful Mifflin Street Block Party in the city’s downtown.
For decades, the annual event has gone on with no one person or group organizing it, but this year, a couple students said that they hope to change that.
UW-Madison lost its top spot in Playboy Magazineâ??s rankings of top party schools but still made the top 10, hitting the No. 6 spot in this yearâ??s poll.
Playboy doesnâ??t put out the list every year and UW-Madison was ranked No. 1 in 2006, the last time Playboy came out with the rankings.
â??The top party school from our previous list makes it again as the northernmost representative,â? according to UW-Madisonâ??s write-up in the magazine. â??Negative: Itâ??s cold, no doubt. Positive: It has the coldest beer on any campus.â?
Electric bicycles. Bring-your-own-bottle vending machines. Ergonomic piano benches. Disease assessment tools for developing countries.
Those are some of the ideas that UW-Madison students want to turn into working companies.
They presented their concepts Friday at the G. Steven Burrill Business Plan Competition at Grainger Hall, home of the School of Business.
An environmentally friendly soda vending machine that doesnâ??t use bottles.
A snowmobile powered by an electric engine so that it doesnâ??t pollute or sound like the Indy 500.
An inexpensive windmill that can be built from junk and provide power to homes without electricity.
Madison Police arrested a 49-year-old homeless man Thursday afternoon for allegedly stealing mail from someone’s porch.
Two UW-Madison students living at a home on W. Mifflin called police to report seeing a man stealing a package from their porch. It was addressed to a neighbor and contained a purse that had been ordered.
A state lawmaker criticizes the governor’s budget proposal for raiding yet another segregated fund.
Republican Senator Rob Cowles (R-Green Bay) wants the Joint Finance Committee to remove a provision in the two-year spending plan that takes $25-million from UW system student fees and places it in financial aid programs.
Since Chancellor Biddy Martin unveiled her supplemental tuition proposal weeks ago, it has been fervently discussed across campus. The Herald Editorial Board sounded off in favor (with conditions) immediately after the announcement and the enemy paper followed suit with an endorsement as well. On the other side of the issue has been the venerated Board of Roommates. Their editorials have run the gamut from â??huh?â? to â??fuck that.â?
With the Madison Initiative for Undergraduates proposal scheduled to be sent to University of Wisconsin System officials Thursday, Chancellor Biddy Martin sent an e-mail to students last week updating them on the direction the initiative is taking.
The e-mail outlined several updates to the proposal, which was originally announced March 24. The updates concern common questions asked by students and details on the parts of the proposal that have been deemed especially important or were added after its initial unveiling.
An environmentally friendly soda vending machine that doesnâ??t use bottles.
A snowmobile powered by an electric engine so that it doesnâ??t pollute or sound like the Indy 500.
An inexpensive windmill that can be built from junk and provide power to homes without electricity.
A golf cart that can raise paraplegic golfers into a standing position so they can swing their club.
What do all of these ideas have in common? Other than being eye-opening innovations, they all come from the minds of UW-Madison engineering students.
Ted Shultz of Madison was just checking. Though he’s not himself visually impaired, he always uses the machine provided for those who are to make sure it’s working properly.
“I want everyone’s vote to count,” says Shultz, a grad student in mechanical engineering at the UW-Madison.
Have you seen your adviser lately? Who are these people anyway?
Each student on campus has an assigned adviser, typically depending on whom you saw at SOAR. Unfortunately, many students fail to fully appreciate and use this important resource. The value of advising cannot be underestimated.
The truth is, there arenâ??t enough advisers to go around. Wouldnâ??t it be nice to have easy access to good advisers across campus, regardless of your major? There have been lots of questions and discussion about Chancellor Biddy Martinâ??s Madison Initiative for Undergraduates.
Recently, Chancellor Carolyn â??Biddyâ? Martin proposed a tuition increase called the Madison Initiative for Undergraduates. While some of the goals of this initiative seem worthy and noble, many students have found problems with parts of this plan and have voiced valid oppositions and concerns through the Madison Initiative for Undergraduate websiteâ??s forums (www.madisoninitiative.wisc.edu) and through local student newspapers.
While it is admirable that Chancellor Biddy Martin tried to collect student feedback through the Madison Initiative for Undergraduates website, thus far no action has been taken to change the proposal to accommodate the concerns of current and future students and their parents. Therefore, if students do not take real action to oppose this proposal, it will soon be passed by the Board of Regents.
There seems very little sense in trying to get water from a dry well. Chancellor Biddy Martin, however, feels otherwise. The chancellor released a plan, the Madison Initiative for Undergraduates, that would increase in-state tuition $250 and out-of-state tuition $750 annually for four years. The proposal has noble enough goals; half the money will go to financial aid to needy students, while the other half will go into better undergraduate education.
You donâ??t need to be rich to get into UW-Madison if youâ??re from Wisconsin or Minnesota, according to the results of a new study.
An analysis conducted by researchers at the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs at UW-Madison found that the relative family income of Wisconsin and Minnesota applicants to UW-Madison has remained flat over the past few decades.
The annual G. Steven Burrill Business Plan Competition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business will take place on Friday.
This year’s entrants range from high-tech flavored plastics and eco-friendly vending machines to micro-gifting services and medical devices for emerging countries, according to a UW news release.
UW-Madison Dean of Students Lori Berquam isnâ??t the only one disappointed by MTVâ??s new reality show about UW-Madison students.
Hundreds of students apparently donâ??t like it either.
At least two Facebook groups have sprouted up in protest against the show. One, called “Dear MTVâ?¦,” with more than 2,600 members, argues that the show makes UW-Madison students look like “a bunch of immature morons.”
UW-Madison Dean of Students Lori Berquam isnâ??t the only one disappointed by MTVâ??s new reality show about UW-Madison students.
Hundreds of students apparently donâ??t like it either.
At least two Facebook groups have sprouted up in protest against the show. One, called “Dear MTVâ?¦,” with more than 2,600 members, argues that the show makes UW-Madison students look like “a bunch of immature morons.”
You donâ??t need to be rich to get into UW-Madison if youâ??re from Wisconsin or Minnesota, according to the results of a new study.
An analysis conducted by researchers at the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs at UW-Madison found that the relative family income of Wisconsin and Minnesota applicants to UW-Madison has remained flat over the past few decades.
The income of out-of-state applicants has increased considerably over that same time.
The study also found family income does not affect who gets admitted or rejected.
http://www.dailycardinal.com/article/22842
UW-Milwaukee student journalists traveled to the state Capitol Wednesday requesting clarification regarding how Wisconsinâ??s open record and open meeting laws apply to UW System student governments.
The UW School of Public Health is in the process of phasing out its Clinical Laboratory Sciences program by the end of 2012. The UW School of Public Health will no longer be accepting students into the Clinical Laboratory Sciences program.
A 54-year-old Madison woman who lost her little green fuzzy purse with $100 inside had the purse returned to her, with the money intact, by a 22-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison student who found the purse lying in a driveway near her home.
The return of the purse took some doing. The female student left a note on the older woman’s front door saying she found a purse and gave an e-mail address to contact her, but the older woman told the police officer responding to her call that she didn’t know how to use e-mail.
