When Jordan Gonnering returned to his off-campus home in the afternoon of April 2, 2008, he discovered that something had gone horribly wrong in the first-level apartment he shared with his fiancée, UW-Madison junior Brittany Zimmermann.
The Joint Southeast Campus Area Committee approved plans for the new Union South Monday night, expressing satisfaction with the projectâ??s green efforts and welcoming design.
With the one-year anniversary of the death of University of Wisconsin junior Brittany Zimmermann coming Thursday, the Madison Police Department wants to reassure the public the investigation of her death remains in full-swing.
The bells will toll on Thursday for Brittany Zimmermann, the University of Wisconsin-Madison student murdered a year ago on April 2, 2008.
University officials will conduct a memorial ceremony for Zimmermann on Thursday, with the carillon tower bells ringing 21 times, one ring for each of her 21 years, at 12:20 p.m., the approximate time of her death.
Passing through the Union the other day, I ran into two friends who asked me about Chancellor Biddy Martinâ??s Undergraduate Initiative, unveiled Tuesday to student leaders and the subject of immense speculation since. They were not enamored of the plan, and their objections, coming from people I consider perfectly rational, seemed rather bizarre.
Students and staff raised questions and concerns at a campus forum Monday regarding the University of Wisconsinâ??s initiative to increase tuition.
The tuition increase is an effort to fund more tenure-tracked staff as well as other projects to keep improving the university.
During the event sponsored by the Associated Students of Madison, Chancellor Biddy Martin addressed student issues and explained in detail the reasons behind the increase.
Chancellor Biddy Martin and the Associated Students of Madison will create a student oversight committee to help implement the Madison Initiative for Undergraduates, Martin announced Monday at a forum about the initiative.
â??Iâ??d like to get their advice in advance of making decisions about expenditures, and let them be the messengers to the campus,â? Martin said.
ASM Chair Brittany Wiegand said the committee will likely operate through the Shared Governance Committee of ASM. While seats on the committee will be limited in number, Wiegand said any student will be able to apply.
It was five years ago today that a missing UW-Madison student was found alive in a marshy area across from the Alliant Energy Center.
Audrey Seiler would later admit she lied about being abducted from her campus-area apartment.
Police Chief Noble Wray, who five years ago was just appointed as acting head of the police department, says the case has changed the way the MPD looks at missing persons cases. (Audio.)
Officials and student leaders from UW-Madison are gearing up to participate in a month-long campaign to promote sexual assault awareness on campus, set to begin April 2.
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There will be a lot of “Varsity” sung on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus starting Wednesday, as graduating seniors reflect on four (or more) years of undergrad studies during the first-ever Senior Week on campus.
Math majors aren’t running the event, since it actually is nine days long, but it is being sponsored by the Wisconsin Alumni Association and the UW Foundation.
Being Bucky Badger just suits some guys better than others.
It takes a lot of time. It takes an ability to wear a big clunky smelly thing on your head. It takes an ability to remain silent.
And it takes an ability to lose one’s self and be one’s self at the very same time.
That’s the world filmmakers John Fromstein and Scott Smith dived into with their documentary “Being Bucky,” which screens at 6:15 p.m. Saturday, April 4 as part of the Wisconsin Film Festival.
Jaevery McFadden always wanted to give back to the organization that he fondly remembers having a positive impact on his childhood. He finally got that chance Friday afternoon at the Boys & Girls Club of Dane County — on his second attempt.
“I applied for a job last summer here, and they didn’t hire me,” McFadden said with a grin. “So I don’t know what happened. But it’s all good.”
McFadden was joined by UW safeties Shane Carter and Aubrey Pleasant and cornerback Devin Smith, as the quartet of Badger defensive players hung out and played football with about 30 children between the ages of 7 and 12 in the gymnasium of the Boys & Girls Club of Dane County in south Madison.
The investigation of the murder of UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann is still active, according to the Madison Police Department.
Birth control may soon become more affordable for many local college women, thanks to an obscure provision in the giant federal spending bill signed earlier this month by President Barack Obama.
The measure unsnarls a congressional mix-up dating back to 2005, when legislation aimed at reducing the deficit and squeezing savings out of Medicaid drug costs also led to the elimination of steep discounts that drug companies had been offering college clinics and other “safety net” family planning clinics. When the policy took effect in 2007, the price of contraceptives on campuses across Wisconsin and the rest of the country shot up from less than $10 a month to $40 or $50, sparking a public outcry.
University of Wisconsin students expressed both concern and support Thursday at the first of two campus forums on Chancellor Biddy Martinâ??s Madison Initiative for Undergraduates, which would increase tuition, financial aid and academic services for students.
The forum focused on student perspectives with prominent issues being the transparency of initiative fund spending, how students are supposed to pay the tuition increase and the voice of students in the spending process.
The initiative is focused on adding faculty to the College of Letters and Science, which has lost 65 to 70 professors since 2004, Martin said.
Advocates for domestic partner benefits hope to gain the support of UW students. Once again this year, Governor Jim Doyle includes domestic partner benefits in his proposed budget.
Leia Ferrari of New Berlin is a UW student and member of the Coalition for Domestic Partner Benefits. “Faculty members who have left in the past have documented the lack of domestic partner benefits as one of their reasons for leaving” said Ferrari. “Faculty members don’t feel as if they’re being valued equally. It’s an issue of fairness and equality.”
As police near the one year anniversary of the murder of Brittany Zimmermann, officials are offering up insight into their investigation.
Over the course of the past year, 143 Madison police officers have worked on the case, and an investigative team made up of full-time and half-time detectives and analysts is focused solely on the case.
UW-Madison’s Chancellor wants to make Wisconsinâ??s flagship university more affordable for low and middle income studentsâ?¦by raising tuition.
Chancellor Biddy Martin says the University has far less need-based financial aid than any other Big 10 university, with $20-million in unmet aid every year. To close that gap, the Chancellor’s Madison Initiative for Undergraduates is calling for a $250 annual increase in tuition over the next four years for in-state residents, and $750 annually for out-of-state students. Martin says the increase would not affect students whose families make $80,000 or less.
â??Itâ??s going to be harder for low and middle income families to send students to UW-Madison in these times than it already was,â? says Martin. â??Our students need even better preparation for these challenging times and the economy they face as graduates than they have ever needed.â?
UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin explained her newly proposed initiative to students and listened to their feedback at a forum Thursday.
The Madison Initiative for Undergraduates would propose a supplemental charge in tuition to improve educational quality for undergraduates while helping to make UW-Madison affordable to all students.
UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin announced her decision Wednesday to search internally for the campusâ?? next provost.
A panel sponsored by the Undergraduate History Association Wednesday allowed UW-Madison student veterans to share their experiences with others about their transition from the service to school.
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.
University of Wisconsin Chancellor Biddy Martin announced Wednesday a search and screen committee has begun the selection process for a new provost and will be filling the position with a candidate from within the university.
Chancellor Biddy Martin unveiled a bold plan that would raise the tuition bills of most UW-Madison students in an effort to preserve the quality of the institution, while also making more need-based financial aid available to those who are being priced out of the state’s flagship university.
“Her honeymoon is over now,” said Noel Radomski, director of the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education, a think tank on campus. “She’s putting out a bold proposal. But this is a very good service, and I truly mean that, to put this out on the table for the public, the students, the faculty and staff to look at.”
Noted: Other schools on the entrepreneurship vanguard: Arizona State University; University of Wisconsin-Madison; Oberlin College; University of Iowa; California State University, Fresno; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Stanford University; University of Maryland-Baltimore County.
The Critical Badger picked up on the Madison Initiative. Some good criticism by â??Country Bobâ? in the comment minefield. This caught my eye:
$80,000 is very arbitrary, and doesnâ??t take into account a studentâ??s expected financial contribution (EFC). A family with two kids in college making $82,000 per year is much different than a family with one kid making $79,000 per year.
Totally true! But with a little work the details can be sorted out â?¦ but the devil is in the details. Seems like things are moving in a positive direction at UW after more than a few years of asking each other what we should do.
There will be a lot of empty space at the University of Wisconsin at Madison’s upcoming career fair for students from the College of Letters & Science. Last year, 43 employers turned out to talk up their internship programs and full-time opportunities; this year only 23 plan to attend. It’s gotten so bad that business students, who normally clamor for jobs with investment banks and consulting companies, are settling for less. “Retail used to be not that appealing to business studentsâ??it’s kind of a back-up plan,” says career services director Leslie Kohlberg. Not anymore.
A proposed surcharge would raise UW tuition $1000 for instate students and $3000 for out of state students by the year 2013.
The increases will be phased in over the next four years. Instate students will pay $250 more a year during that time, while out of state students will pay $750 more.
“When this proposal is fully implemented in four years, tuition and fees at UW-Madison will continue to be among the lowest in our peer group, defined as the Big Ten,” reasoned Biddy Martin, UW Madison chancellor.
The school hopes the increase will fill in a $20 million dollar annual budget gap. The ultimate goal is for the money to increase the quality of education while making the university more affordable to lower income students.
Members of the Wisconsin Coalition for Domestic Partner Benefits camped out on Library Mall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus Wednesday to encourage people to support their cause.
The “Day of Action” was designed to make it easy for students and faculty to contact lawmakers about the need for domestic partner benefits for state employees, including faculty on campus.
Madison police on Wednesday released an update on the investigation into the slaying of Brittany Zimmermann nearly one year ago.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison student’s body was found by her fiancé in their campus-area apartment on Doty Street on April 2, 2008.
Nearly a year since her death, investigators said they’ve identified 830 people worth checking out and have interviewed more than 700.
In wake of the announcement of an initiative that would increase tuition, financial aid and academic services for University of Wisconsin students, Chancellor Biddy Martin will host a forum tonight to field questions, comments and concerns of students and other community members.
The Madison Initiative for Undergraduates would increase in-state tuition by $250 and out-of-state tuition by $750 per year over a four-year period, after which rates will top out at $1,000 and $3,000, respectively, more than current rates.
The funding brought in by the initiative would allow for increased financial aid, the restoration of faculty seats and the improvement of studentsâ?? academic experiences.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin on Wednesday proposed increasing undergraduate tuition at the state’s public flagship school by $250 to $750 per year for four years to pay for increases in financial aid for needy students and to add faculty and student services in high-demand areas.
The plan, dubbed the Madison Initiative for Undergraduates, relies on more affluent families and private donors to subsidize financial aid for lower-income students and improvements to undergraduate education at a time when Gov. Jim Doyle is calling for budget cuts throughout the university system.
UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin reiterated her new initiative for increasing tuition and financial aid to students, faculty and staff in a news conference Wednesday at Bascom Hall.
If passed by the UW System Board of Regents, Martinâ??s Madison Initiative for Undergraduates would result in a possible $40 million increase to tuition and financial aid over the next four years.
Martin said she hopes her plan will better prepare students for the current state of the economy.
â??This has to be addressed now, not despite the terrible economic circumstances â?¦ but because of them,â? she said.
At a meeting with student leaders Tuesday, University of Wisconsin Chancellor Biddy Martin took the first 6 1/2 months of her term spent fact-finding and listening and turned it into a bold proposal to increase funding to attract tenured faculty, need-based financial aid and student services â?? calling it the Madison Initiative for Undergraduates. The plan would institute a gradual increase in tuition costs over the next four years â?? in-state students would pay an extra $250 per year every year while the increase would be $750 for out-of state students. After four years, this would mean an increase of $1,000 from current levels for in-state students and an increase of $3,000 in out-of state tuition.
In her first significant action since taking the helm at Wisconsin’s flagship university, UW Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin has announced a new initiative, which she calls a major effort to preserve the quality of an education there, and improve its affordability.
Most University of Wisconsin-Madison undergraduates would eventually pay $1,000 more per year under a long-term plan outlined Wednesday to improve quality and increase financial aid.
Undergraduates from Wisconsin would pay a $250 supplemental tuition charge starting next fall while nonresidents would be hit with a $750 charge. The charges would increase by the same amounts the following three years – for a total in the 2012-2013 school year of $1,000 for residents and $3,000 for nonresidents.
Students from families that earn $80,000 or less – about 6,500 of the schoolâ??s 29,000 undergraduates – would receive enough financial aid to offset the increases.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin is proposing a four-year plan to increase undergraduate tuition to maintain the school’s quality.
Martin wants students from Wisconsin to pay a supplemental tuition charge of $250 starting next school year. The charge would grow by $250 per year through 2013.
Out-of-state students would pay a $750 supplemental charge next fall, and it would increase by that amount through 2013.
Those charges would be on top of any statewide tuition increase.
Six months into her tenure, UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin announced a plan Wednesday that would essentially levy a surcharge on undergraduate students from higher-income families, responding to what she called an â??urgentâ? need to improve affordability and the quality of undergraduate programs.
After listening to students, parents, alumni and others over the past few months, Martin said sheâ??s repeatedly heard that class sizes are getting too big, too many classes are taught by non-tenured faculty and access to high-demand courses and majors is difficult.
Armed with a Democratic majority in both houses, Gov. Jim Doyle is feeling confident about his chances with ideological addendums to this yearâ??s state budget. So confident, in fact, that he believes fourth timeâ??s a charm for a provision that would allow illegal immigrants from Wisconsin high schools to pay in-state tuition at UW System schools. The provision, voted down in three previous budgets due to ideological disagreements in the state senate, comes at a time when higher education is becoming more and more difficult to afford for the average high school graduate.
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.
