In lieu of the recent article, â??Victim comes forward, reveals shocking story,â? published on March 4th in the Badger Herald regarding the alleged rape at Sigma Chi, the Office of the Dean of Students (ODOS) received much flak regarding its role in the investigation and its pursuit of action. In many respects, ODOS was accused of belittling the incident and trying to suppress the inception of an investigation into the case.
A humanities scholar told a crowd at the University of Wisconsin Tuesday that academic outreach programs help share the humanities with the Madison community and world, promoting a discipline currently ailing in the public eye.
Nearly seven in 10 high school students say the struggling economy has affected where they applied to college this year, a survey out today shows.
And yes, they are stressed about it. Most students will find out this month where they have been accepted. The biggest concern: that they will get admitted into the school they most want to attend but wont be able to for financial reasons.
In lieu of the recent article, â??Victim comes forward, reveals shocking story,â? published on March 4th in the Badger Herald regarding the alleged rape at Sigma Chi, the Office of the Dean of Students (ODOS) received much flak regarding its role in the investigation and its pursuit of action. In many respects, ODOS was accused of belittling the incident and trying to suppress the inception of an investigation into the case.
Following up on recent Herald coverage and a campus forum held on March 10, we write today in the hopes of furthering campus dialogue on the subject of sexual assault.
To truly address this problem, the campus will need ongoing dialogues, support of prevention efforts, compassionate response to victims and holding perpetrators accountable. This vision requires us all to endeavor in activities that promote respect, consent, healthy sexual attitudes and excellence.
While experts across the nation are busy drafting solutions to deal with what some call a national economic crisis, UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin is creating her own strategy for sustaining affordability and academic excellence.
Martin unveiled her new plan, titled the Madison Initiative for Undergraduates, to student leaders Tuesday. If passed by the Regents, the initiative would implement a supplemental tuition charge for all students to improve the quality of undergraduate education but still remain affordable, especially in comparison to other Big Ten schools.
University of Wisconsin Chancellor Biddy Martin announced to a group of student leaders Tuesday an initiative to create differential tuition for all UW undergraduates to increase financial aid and the number of faculty positions.
The Madison Initiative for Undergraduates, which will go to the UW System Board of Regents for approval in May, would increase in-state tuition by $250 and out-of-state tuition by $750 per year over a four-year period. This amounts to a $2,500 and $7,500 increase for in-state and out-of-state students respectively over the course of four years.
The debate about tuition canâ??t be led by emotion. It must be viewed using credited quantitative data and in this framework Chancellor Martinâ??s argument is particularly strong. Check out the graph about the amount of aid Wisconsin offers. Last in the Big Ten! Thatâ??s unacceptable when our peers out perform us on such a uniform level.
Rachel Gundacker never thought it would take 3.2 Earths to sustain her personal consumption patterns and waste.
After winning its third NCAA National Championship in four years, the University of Wisconsin womenâ??s hockey team was formally welcomed home by their fans and friends yesterday at the Nicholas Johnson Pavilion.
The University of Wisconsin parking enforcement division is issuing fewer tickets and obtaining less revenue from drivers than prior years, according to UW Transportation Services data.
Concerns are being raised about a proposal included in the state budget to grant illegal immigrants in-state tuition rates at UW campuses.
State Senator Glenn Grothman (R-West Bend) says it a ridiculous proposal and should be an outrage for many people. He says it encourages people to break the law and would end up costing the state money to support that behavior.
Before the storybook finish, before all this talk of a dynasty, there was an emotional gathering behind closed doors that changed the world.
The University of Wisconsin womenâ??s hockey team wasnâ??t playing terribly in early February, but a 1-1-2 stretch suggested there was something wrong and it needed to be fixed.
So UW coach Mark Johnson talked to his veterans and implored them to get everyone back in line. That led to a post-practice, players-only meeting at their Camp Randall Memorial Sports Center headquarters.
â??It was definitely heart-to-heart,â? junior winger and co-captain Meghan Duggan said. â??It was an open floor. There were a lot of tears shed because itâ??s emotional. And weâ??re girls, obviously.
â??We just decided right then and there we were going to win the national championship, almost. From then on out we were unstoppable.â?
The University of Wisconsin held a rally in Madison to honor the National Champion Wisconsin women’s hockey team on Monday. The Badgers took home their 3rd title in 4 seasons with a 5-0 win over Mercyhurst on Sunday in Boston.
UW Athletic Director Barry Alvarez congratulated the team on their success and steady play this season and told the team to enjoy every minute of the experience and not to take winning for granted.
One year of work, a week of testing — all boiled down to two sentences.
“The overall winner for internal combustion is: University of Wisconsin-Madison. The winner of the Zero Emissions snowmobile competition is: University of Wisconsin-Madison.”
The room filled with companies and University teams from across the country cheered for the Wisconsin University that swept the competition this year, winning both the electric and internal combustion categories of the 10th Annual “Clean Snowmobile Challenge.”
UW System officials released data revealing an overall increase of enrolled students for the fall semester at all of the 26 campuses, including UW-Madison.
A provision in Gov. Jim Doyleâ??s 2009-â??11 executive budget proposal would allow certain illegal immigrants in Wisconsin to pay in-state tuition at UW campuses.
Not guilty pleas were entered Monday morning for University of Wisconsin basketball player Trevon Hughes, appearing in court on two traffic matters the day after the Badgers bowed out of the NCAA tournament with a second round loss to Xavier.
Hughes, 21, the Badgers’ starting point guard, was charged with his second offense of operating a motor vehicle without a driver’s license and failure to stop at a stop sign, with both infractions coming Feb. 24 at the intersection of Observatory Drive and Babcock Drive on the University of Wisconsin campus.
….For a relatively small city, Madison has a wealth of opportunities for adults to learn international dance, from drop-in classes at Dance Fabulous to six-week sessions hosted by Continuing Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“The international dance forms have been extremely popular,” said Maureen Janson, a teacher and choreographer who coordinates dance offerings at Continuing Studies. “A lot of our students go because they want an alternative to the gym.
Tom Landgraf teaches a real estate class with a focus on sustainable green development at UW-Madison. Recently a former student of his, Dan Cornelius, Wisconsin Union vice president for project management and also a UW law student getting his MA in environment and resources, came to speak to Landgraf’s class about the Union South redevelopment. In lieu of a conventional lesson plan, the class will complete projects to benefit Union South’s redesign.
“If the class must work on a project, why not make it project about something they live with, like a major student building on campus?” asks Landgraf.
You wouldnâ??t expect detail-oriented, data-based engineering types to go all cross-cultural, change-the-world- one-village-at-a-time kumbayah.
But then Engineers Without Borders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison isnâ??t your typical 4-year-old organization.
For the fourth straight budget, Gov. Jim Doyle has included a provision that would allow illegal immigrants who graduate from Wisconsin high schools to pay in-state tuition at University of Wisconsin institutions.
The state Legislature has stripped the item out of each budget in the past, but with a Democratic majority in both houses, advocates are hopeful it will be successful this time.
BOSTON — For the third time in four years, multiple members of the UW women’s hockey team received All-America honors.
Senior goaltender Jessie Vetter and sophomore forward Hilary Knight were both named RBK Hockey/AHCA Division I first team All-Americans Thursday night. This marks Vetter’s second All-America honor and is the first time since 2007 that multiple Badgers were named to the team.
MADISON, Wis. — The Madison Police Department has updated the sketch of a suspect in a 2005 sexual assault investigation.
Some people come to a crossroads in their life and are so caught up in deciding which way to go that they miss all the great scenery around them.
Meghan Duggan, the junior right winger for the University of Wisconsin womenâ??s hockey team, has stopped for a moment to take it all in.
â??It gives me the chills,â? she said.
Madison police released an updated sketch Thursday of the suspect in a 2005 sexual assault investigation on the citys East Side.
The attack occurred on Oct. 15, 2005, on the 2000 block of Eastwood Drive. Around 8:15 p.m., a UW-Madison graduate student, who was 22 years old at the time, was walking near the intersection of Division Street and Eastwood Drive on her way to a coffee house. Someone grabbed and pulled her to a grassy area nearby where she was sexually assaulted. The attacker threatened to kill her and then fled with the victimâ??s 12-inch by 12-inch green silk purse. The purse had a reddish pink design embroidered on its sides.
Madison Police are hoping a new sketch will turn up information on a sexual assault dating back to 2005.
The attack happened around 8:15 p.m. on the night of October 15, 2005, on the 2000 block of Eastwood Drive.
The victim, a 22-year-old graduate student at UW-Madison, told police she was on her way to a coffee house when she realized someone was behind her. The man grabbed her, pulled her to a grassy area nearby and sexually assaulted her.
170 University of Wisconsin medical students found out their futures Thursday, at the annual Match Day ceremony.
UW officials say more students are choosing to stay in the state for their residency training and about 40 percent plan to pursue a residency in primary care – where physicians nationwide are badly needed.
Associate Dean of Students Dr. Patrick McBride says 96 percent – the highest match rate in the school’s history – matched into their preferred specialty.
As part of national Sunshine Week (sunshineweek.org), March 15-21, the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council is bestowing its third annual Opee Awards in recognition of people and institutions that have had an impact on open government in Wisconsin during the last year.
….Media Openness Advocates of the Year (the “Mopee”): Wisconsin State Journal, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WISC-TV, WTMJ-TV. These four media outlets refused to take “You can’t know” for an answer when they tried to learn more about why police were not dispatched in response to a UW-Madison student’s call for help shortly before she was murdered.
Student leaders in the UW-System say they recognize the state’s tight finances but they hope lawmakers won’t be tight-fisted as they consider how much money to put toward higher education.
Governor Doyle’s proposed budget gives student leaders some of what they want: domestic partner benefits for all UW-System employees; increased pay for faculty; and higher average amounts for need based grants. (2nd item.)
What’s missing, they say, is a tuition freeze at two-year colleges and tuition cap at four-year universities in the UW-System. Students also want need-based grants to more closely match tuition increases. Right now itâ??s calculated on percentage. They want a dollar for dollar calculation.
A man accused of raping a drunk University of Wisconsin student who had become separated from her friends goes on trial Thursday in Dane County for second degree sexual assault, more than two years after the alleged assault occurred.
Anderson Dasilva, 29, who was extradited from Massachusetts to face the charge, faces both prison time and eventual deportation if convicted of the crime. Dasilva is a native of Brazil and the United States government has placed an immigration detainer on him in Dane County, the first step in deportation proceedings.
Enrollment in the University of Wisconsin’s 26 campuses reached an all-time high this year, according to university officials.
Officials said Monday that enrollment was 175,056 last fall. That was an increase of 1 percent or 1,663 from the previous year and an all-time high. They said enrollment is up 12 percent since 1998.
Over that same period, UW-Platteville had the largest growth at 46 percent.
With our country’s health care system at a crossroads and fewer physicians going into the area of primary care, one of the best places to look for answers may be today’s medical students â?? our future health care providers. I have been fortunate to work alongside one of these dedicated students recently, and I thought she may be able to provide a glimpse into her world â?? and into the world of health care in the United States.
Freedom native Abby Schuh is in her final year at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine. I’m confident that many medical students across the country share her thoughts, which follow.
Members of the United Council for UW students gathered at the Capital today to tell lawmakers they want more funds in the budget for education.
The students asked for additional funding for staff retention, domestic partner benefits for employees, student employment and continuing education.
Students come to Madison with their priorities for the upcoming state budget.
Funding the UW System benefits everyone. So says the United Council of UW students. Nicole Juan, executive director of the Council, says they want affordable tuition and financial aid, saying the amount of student debt affects career choices.
Itâ??s almost impossible to imagine a student-athlete at the University of Wisconsin having a fuller, more rewarding existence than Jessie Vetter.
Man, woman. White, minority. Full ride, walk-on. Team sport, individual. Then, now. It doesnâ??t matter how you break it down.
Vetter has spent the past five years joyously squeezing every last drop of satisfaction out of her multi-faceted world.
When UW-Madison graduate student James Kryshak walked onto the stage of the Metropolitan Opera Feb. 15 to prepare for one of the worldâ??s most prestigious vocal competitions, it felt like a big hug.
“It seems like such a massive space, but when you walk out on stage, it kind of shrinks down,” he said. “You feel like youâ??re being hugged by the space. It was really great to sing out there, to hear your voice bouncing off all the space around you.”
Chadbourne and Barnard residence halls on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus soon will get a facelift, but at a higher price tag than initially expected.
The UW Board of Regents approved a request earlier this month to increase the budget to renovate the two dorms by $1.3 million, bringing the total to about $13.7 million.
To pay for the project, the university will borrow about $10 million and pay it back with money generated by room and board charges. The rest will be paid with cash on hand.
Five members of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Student Association Senate have had it with being lost in the shadow of the University of Wisconsin Madison. They want to change their schoolâ??s name to the University of Milwaukee.
â??We deserve a name that kind of gives us a little prestige and individuality,â? said fresh-faced student politico Tyler Kristopeit who is the driving force behind the move. â??When I tell people I go to UWM, they say â??Oh UW-Madison?â?? no, thatâ??s not the case.â?
Over a dozen UW-Madison students in the Wisconsin National Guard will make their way to Iraq in the upcoming weeks.
The U.S. State Department and universities across the country are warning college students heading to Mexico for spring break of an extreme increase in drug-related murders and chaos south of the border.
Phishing scams, fraudulent e-mail and website scams to steal personal information have become an growing problem on the University of Wisconsin campus over the past school year, according to university officials.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison student avoided a “pigeon drop” last week by mingling with a group of other students at an ATM machine instead of handing the $300 she just withdrew over to the “very intimidating” scammer.
The incident happened March 6 around noon at Gilman and Carroll Streets in downtown Madison.
â??We arenâ??t going awayâ? wrote an anonymous commenter on The Badger Herald website last week Friday (â??SSFC votes down increased seg feeâ?).
It has been more than three years since the inception of the Student Union Initiative saga â?? during which students have endured systematic deception, incredible theft and blatant infringements on the jurisdiction over their segregated fees â?? and not once has the good side come out ahead. Every effort made to uphold student democracy and defend accessibility to this university has failed. The student voice has been bruised and then battered, while our pocketbooks have turned emptier and then empty. Ultimately, the valiant efforts of countless and diverse students proved to be too little, too late or both, and now the powerful Wisconsin Union appears destined to get away with it all.
A student talk show produced by UW-Madisonâ??s University Communications will debut nationally Thursday on the Big Ten Network.
The Associate Director of Housing responded Tuesday to the resignation of house fellows across the UW-Madison campus.
Over 50 UW-Madison community members attended a forum about sexual assault on campus Tuesday.
In the wake of allegations of rape at the Sigma Chi fraternity house, members of the University of Wisconsin community gathered Tuesday night to discuss sexual assault and suggest methods for improving campus resources in the future.
Following an act of vandalism last week against a University of Wisconsin-Madison fraternity house involved in rape allegations, Dean of Students Lori Berquam is calling on the Greek community to step up vigilance around Langdon Street.
Three main picture windows were broken at Sigma Chi, 221 Langdon St., early Friday morning, according to Madison Police Department Spokesman Joel DeSpain. Fraternity members found rocks in the common area of the building, DeSpain said.
College kids love to talk about themselves, so it should be a real gabfest when University of Wisconsin-Madison students get their own talk show on the Big Ten Network.
“In My Humble Opinion,” or IMHO for texters, will have its premiere episode on Thursday at 4 p.m. on BTN, then will get a weekly time slot on the network starting Tuesday, April 7 through July.
The program is hosted by five students in a roundtable, unscripted discussion, on topics that include social media, relationships, money, sports, politics — generally anything that could interest the collegian.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s new chief diversity officer wants to make one thing clear about his role on campus.
“I’m not the vice provost for black folks,” Damon Williams, vice provost for diversity and climate, said at a recent meeting of the Academic Staff Assembly.
Williams, who is African American, started work at UW-Madison on Aug. 1 and is in the process of developing a new strategic framework for how the university will approach diversity issues on campus for years to come.
Nearly half of college freshmen who drink alcohol spend more time drinking each week than they do studying, suggests a survey involving more than 30,000 first-year students on 76 campuses who took an online alcohol education course last fall.
Students who said they had at least one drink in the past 14 days spent an average 10.2 hours a week drinking, and averaged about 8.4 hours a week studying, according to findings being presented today at a conference in Seattle for campus student affairs officials. Nearly 70% of respondents 20,801 students said they drank. Of those, 49.4% spent more time drinking than studying.
A surge in drug cartel violence along Mexico’s northern border towns has put the spotlight on safety measures for college spring breakers heading south.
Colleges throughout Wisconsin are issuing warnings, a step to reinforce the State Department’s travel alert for Mexico.
Although no one is discouraging travel, the Mexican tourism industry is doing what it can to quell fears of would-be visitors.
Following an act of vandalism last week against a University of Wisconsin-Madison fraternity house involved in rape allegations, Dean of Students Lori Berquam is calling on the Greek community to step up vigilance around Langdon Street.
Three main picture windows were broken at Sigma Chi, 221 Langdon St., early Friday morning, according to Madison Police Department Spokesman Joel DeSpain. Fraternity members found rocks in the common area of the building, DeSpain said.
The Associate Director of Housing responded Tuesday to the resignation of house fellows across the UW-Madison campus.
Kay Reuter-Krohn said over the course of the current school year, four house fellows have resigned. During the â??07-â??08 school year, three house fellows resigned, which she said is in the ballpark for most resignations.
Allegations of a rape at a University of Wisconsin-Madison fraternity house prompted the dean of students to hold a sexual assault forum on campus Tuesday night.
“What we want to provide for anybody who’s been a victim of sexual assault is for them to know that there are people here on this campus who care about them and who want to make sure that they have a successful career while at the University of Wisconsin,” said Lori Berquam, UW-Madison dean of students.
An alleged rape at the University of Wisconsin prompted campus officials to hold a forum Tuesday night to address sexual assaults.
This action stems from a series of articles in the Badger Herald newspaper chronicling an alleged rape of a student by fraternity members last October.
The third UW-Madison student to resign from a university house fellow position this year moved out of Kronshage Hall Thursday, leaving residents temporarily unmonitored.
A unified city-campus response to sexual assault is a priority for University of Wisconsin-Madison Dean of Student Lori Berquam, who is convening a campus forum Tuesday night to address the issue.
The forum will be at 6:30 p.m. in the Mosse Humanities building, 455 N. Park St., and is open to all students, faculty and staff.
Dean of Students Lori Berquam will host a forum at on campus tonight to discuss sexual assault issues and provide students with information on resources available through the university.
