If you’re a college kid going on spring break, always pack your condoms.
This tidbit of information is from University Health Services at UW-Madison, which issued a list of helpful hints for students going on trips during the annual spring break that starts March 15.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will hold a campus forum to discuss sexual assault tonight, in the wake of allegations that surfaced last week that a student was raped at a fraternity.
The Badger Herald, a campus newspaper, first reported last week that police are investigating an alleged October sexual assault at the Sigma Chi fraternity house.
The fraternity has voluntarily suspended its social activities during the investigation.
Tough economic times have caused thousands across the country to lose their jobs. Now, many looking for new careers are asking themselves which fields are recession-proof.
While no job is totally secure, there are some that are still in high demand.
At Madison Area Technical College, many students are coming back to supplement their education after a layoff. Some switch fields altogether, and many are flocking to information technology and health care careers, which offer a wide array of options.
When it comes to the Wisconsin Union, this board â?? and likely many members of the student body â?? hate that segregated fees are going to fund the reconstruction of the new Union South. We have stated in the past that the Student Union Initiative was an unnecessary proposal and irresponsible use of what is essentially student taxation to remedy what is essentially a nuisance at its worst.
When twelve UW-Madison students traveled to Kenya through a study abroad program in the spring of 2008, they had no idea how much the experience would affect their outlooks on life.
I am in an uncomfortable situation when it comes to discussing the horrendous acts of which brothers of the Sigma Chi fraternity have been accused. On one hand, I am a staff writer for The Badger Herald; I pride myself above all else on giving a perspective, regardless of whether or not anyone agrees with me, that will make people talk and make people think outside the box. On the other hand, the extracurricular activity I care most about is my role as president of one of the biggest fraternities on this campus, Alpha Epsilon Pi. My house is located almost directly across the street from Sigma Chi, and we have a very good relationship with them. When it comes to the extraordinarily unfortunate situation facing the victim I want to be able to write a completely unbiased piece, but unfortunately my proximity to the situation does not allow me to do that.
PAVE (Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment) was saddened by the front-page article, â??Alleged Rape at Sigma Chi,â? published Wednesday, March 4 in The Badger Herald. While the report of the assault itself was extremely disturbing, some of the comments posted by UW students on The Badger Herald website in response to the article were equally troubling. Many of these responses reveal we live in a culture in which we are more apt to blame sexual assault victims than to hold perpetrators accountable.
The Sigma Chi fraternity and at least one other Greek chapter house were vandalized late last week, resulting in an emergency meeting between university officials and Greek community leaders Saturday.
For the second time in as many months, the University of Wisconsin Varsity Band will perform in north central Wisconsin.
The band, the spring version of the famous UW Marching Band, will perform at 7 p.m. on Monday, March 9, at Mosinee High School, 1000 High Street. The performance will raise money for the Mosineeâ??s marching band, said Joe Martens of Mosinee, a member of the programâ??s organizing committee.
A dreary day in Jefferson was nowhere near as gloomy as a day more than six years ago now that keeps leading Gail Bailey back to Greenwood Cemetery.
“I’ll never forget that day as long as I live,” said Bailey. “My whole world ended.”
Her son Eddy was a junior at UW Madison. On a November weekend, he made a trip a friend’s football game in LaCrosse. Less than three days later, Eddy died of meningitis.
A group of local grads might be going back to school. They won’t be going back as students, but with the hopes of making waves in the very classrooms that molded them, WISC-TV reported.
For the first time in the 18-year history of “Teach for America,” the program will be part of Milwaukee public schools. For many new graduates looking to work with today’s youth, this means their service to the community can be felt right at home.
Between studying and going to class last week, second-year University of Wisconsin-Madison medical student Siavash Sarlati flew to the White House to brainstorm ideas for health care reform with President Barack Obama and other leaders.
Sarlati, a 24-year-old from Milwaukee, was one of seven citizens invited to join lawmakers, business leaders and others gathered in Washington, D.C., for a forum billed as a â??first stepâ? to health care reform.
UW students say new code of conduct rules that could punish them for what they do off-campus go to far.
The Board of Regents is working on updating the student code of conduct, which hasn’t been revised for over ten years. The United Council of University of Wisconsin Students is participating in that process, but is not happy with some of the changes the board wants to make to chapter 17 cases.
Students working on college newspapers across the USA are learning an all-too-real-world lesson: Their papers face the same advertising revenue declines and expense cutbacks as their professional counterparts.
Since the start of the current school year, daily newspapers at schools including Syracuse University, New York University, the University of California-Berkeley, Ball State, Boston University and Georgia Southern have cut one edition a week â?? usually Friday’s â?? because of weak advertising.
Noted: Siavash Sarlati is a 24-year old Iranian-born, American citizen, and a medical student at the University of Wisconsin. After completing high school, he pursued a degree in Biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, graduating with honors. Siavash is currently a second-year medical student at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, and he hopes to pursue a Masters in Public Health. Siavash hosted a health care community discussion in December. He is interested in doing his residency in an under-served urban area.
Amid the controversy surrounding the proposed changes to the UW student code of conduct, Adam Kissel of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education discussed their potential effect on studentsâ?? rights Wednesday at Memorial Union.
Allegations of a rape at the Sigma Chi fraternity house dominated the thoughts of students, faculty and staff across campus Wednesday when the alleged victim decided to come forward and share her story.
I would like to thank The Badger Herald for Tuesdayâ??s coverage of a critical campus issue (â??Alleged rape in Sigma Chi,â? March 3). This article provides a powerful reminder of the toll of sexual assault on a survivor.
As if double-majoring in both physics and French wasnâ??t enough, UW-Madison senior Grant Teply decided to add a third major in math. Then he tacked on astronomy. And finally, for good measure, philosophy.
Teply, who is graduating this spring in a highly efficient four years, said his decision to quintuple major wasnâ??t exactly pre-meditated. Once he learned he could, his attitude was more one of, why not?
A University of Wisconsin-Madison fraternity has voluntarily suspended its social activities while Madison police investigate an alleged October sexual assault at its Langdon Street house.
Madison Police Capt. Mary Schauf confirmed that police are investigating the reported assault at Sigma Chi, 221 Langdon St.
There have been no arrests but Schauf said there has been an active investigation since early October.
Directors of the third annual Wiscontrepreneur Challenge awarded cash prizes to four creative, unique student projects.
After concluding the Plan 2008 diversity program did not entirely meet its intended results, the University of Wisconsin System is forming a new program to speed up the increase in diversity and close the diversity achievement gap through a series of reforms.
A public hearing scheduled by the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents will take place today to discuss final changes to the student conduct code regarding student behavior outside off university property.
At the City Council meeting Tuesday, the Peter Talen Memorial Ordinance was unanimously approved, enstating the first city regulation to be named in someoneâ??s honor.
On Feb. 25, The Badger Herald sat down with a University of Wisconsin student who made allegations of rape against unknown members of the Sigma Chi fraternity, as well as a friend of hers who was present to tell a portion of the story and give emotional support. Below is the transcript of the 44-minute interview.
â??My life is ruined because of this. I donâ??t trust anyone; I honestly feel as if I canâ??t be a normal college student anymore. There are days I donâ??t want to get out of bed. Iâ??ve never had that before in my life.â?
The Sigma Chi fraternity has placed itself on a form of social probation amid a controversial investigation into at least one sexual assault that allegedly took place at its Langdon Street house last October.
Four young women having breakfast in their apartment on Feb. 25 had an unexpected visitor come to their patio door, prompting a call to police and a warning to residents on the near west side to call 911 if suspicious characters are seen lurking about.
The brief encounter between the four women, three 19-year olds and a 20-year-old, and the man was in the 100 block of North Brooks Street.
On Monday afternoon, for what may have been the first time in 30 years, I was back in a classroom on the UW-Madison campus.
Like the old days, I tried to hide in the back row. Still, once I heard about this event, there was no keeping me away.
“This is like the Academy Awards,” Doug Bradley was saying into a microphone, up on stage. “Only a week later.”
Dozens of entrepreneurial University of Wisconsin-Madison students took part in a 100-hour “Wiscontrepreneur” challenge.
The contest required teams to use materials from the UW Swap shop — the campus store selling surplus equipment — to create a valuable, innovative or socially beneficial product.
“I think you learned a little bit about what it might take to be an entrepreneur. I hope some of you are invigorated with that spirit and are ready to take the plunge and do something with this,” Doug Bradley, of the UW-Madison Office of Corporate Relations, said to the participants.
Madison Alderman Eli Judge is working with UW-Madison students to develop a “Madison Property Ratings” website for the campus area.
The project will help renters and property owners by focusing on the quality of campus area housing in Madison.
The site will be similar to the already popular “Rate My Professor” site, but instead will enco
Madison City Council Members unanimously passed a new stricter smoke alarm ordinance.
It’s called The Peter Talen Memorial Ordinance. Named after a 23-year-old Plymouth man who died in a fire inside a home on North Bedford Street on UW’s campus on November 18th 2007.
Three people escaped. Talen did not.
The UW marching band took their instruments on the road today to deliver meals to people who are homebound.
Members played mini concerts and helped deliver 200 meals in Madison to those who have difficulty leaving their homes or are disabled.
Tragedy brings change to Madison. The city council has approved changes to the city’s fire code, almost a year-and-a-half after a college student lost his life in a fire downtown.
Tim and Patty Talen described Tuesday as being “bitter sweet.”
They lost their son in a blaze in November of 2007.
The UW System wrapped up its 10-year plan to increase diversity on campus with mixed success.
Plan 2008 was meant to attract more students of color to UW campuses through recruitment, scholarships, retention efforts, and diverse coursework.
A new report says Wisconsin made progress, but much work remains to be done.
The new economic-stimulus law includes more than $29-billion in provisions directed at making college more affordable in the next two years. That includes $13.9-billion budgeted over 10 years for education-tax-credit changes in 2009 and 2010, $15-billion in additional Pell Grant support, and $200-million for the Federal Work-Study program. But what will all that money actually do for students?
Among many items guaranteed to cause a fuss in Gov. Jim Doyleâ??s plan to fix the troubled state budget is the inclusion of a provision that would allow faculty members in the University of Wisconsin System to collectively bargain with the university administration. Currently, UW relies on a haphazard assortment of payment structures and hiring processes for its untenured professors that rely primarily on their merit as instructors and researchers. Doyleâ??s plan in essence allows staff of all ranks to unionize for improved benefits.
University of Wisconsin Chancellor Biddy Martin told members of the Faculty Senate Monday she predicts UW will be subject to over $50 million in budget cuts under Gov. Jim Doyleâ??s proposed biennial budget.
A dress made of air filters, a â??drunk tankâ? that captures party crashers, a water purification system and a terrarium made of test tubes became winners Monday of the University of Wisconsinâ??s third annual 100-Hour Challenge.
MADISON (WKOW) — Madison Alderman Eli Judge is working with UW-Madison students to develop a “Madison Property Ratings” website for the campus area.
The project will help renters and property owners by focusing on the quality of campus area housing in Madison.
The site will be similar to the already popular “Rate My Professor” site, but instead will encourage renters to rate their landlords and the properties they rent.
A dress made out of air filters, yellow wire, vacuum filters and foam peanuts was the most creative entry in the annual 100-hour Wiscontrepreneur Challenge on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
A record 63 entries made by almost 200 students competed for honors in four categories in the third annual competition, put on by UW-Madison Office of Corporate Relations.
Struggling college students are having an even more difficult time because of the financial downturn. Some opt to wait in food-pantry lines. Others have stopped drinking soda, using their cars or eating out.
Those who watched the University of Wisconsin Varsity Marching Band concert at Hartford Union High School on Sunday night likely recognized a few familiar faces on stage.
HUHS graduates Michelle Gehlhausen (trumpet), Christy Fritche (mellophone) and Jessica Scheunemann (trumpet) were joined by Slinger grads Nathan Retzlaff (trumpet) and Heather Wheiland (trombone) for a rousing performance of arrangements and compositions.
Winners were announced Monday in the University of Wisconsin’s 100-Hour Wiscontrepreneur Challenge.
The third annual event attracted a record of nearly 200 students and 63 entries, compared to last year’s 17, during the four-day competition.
As the U.S. war in Iraq appears to be winding down, officials at UW-Madison are exploring a unique partnership with the university in Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit.
President Barack Obama’s recent promise to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq by the end of this summer is good news for supporters of a plan to establish a formal relationship between UW-Madison and Tikrit University in Iraq.
So far, negotiations have involved only U.S. embassy staff in Iraq and the Department of International studies at UW-Madison. But plans are underway for a video phone conference between Tikrit University faculty and their counterparts in Madison within the next six weeks. UW-graduate Brett Bruen, now a U.S. Foreign Service officer in Baghdad, is helping design a memorandum of understanding between the two campuses. Heâ??s hopeful that the agreement will be mutually beneficial. (Second item.)
More than 80 UW-Madison community members attended Saturdayâ??s basketball tournament at the Southeast Recreational Facility to support the City of Chicago as a candidate for the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The Wisconsin Dance Marathon raised almost $57,000 for the American Family Childrenâ??s Hospital Friday and Saturday during the overnight dance marathon event at the Shell.
President Barack Obamaâ??s new budget for the 2010 fiscal year proposed Thursday called for the abolition of bank-based student loan programs and directed funding towards maximum Pell Grants.
Apple’s iPhone can help you find a restaurant, discover who is singing the song you’re listening to, play on Facebook, tweet on Twitter, and stream Internet radio into your ears.
Thanks to a couple of enterprising, entrepreneurial University of Wisconsin-Madison students, Apple’s popular smart phone – as well as its iPod Touch – soon may be able to help you sleep better, too.
PLATTEVILLE, Wis. (AP) — An art display at a southwestern Wisconsin college has prompted free-speech debates after campus police ordered it modified.
Student Michael Hannigan wanted to juxtapose the innocence of teddy bears against the ferocity of real bears. So he lined up 25 stuffed bears in the University of Wisconsin-Platteville Art Building — with kitchen knives in their laps.
With just $15 in their pockets and a time limit of 100 hours, University of Wisconsin-Madison students dreamed up and created such inventions as an egg-cracking machine and an isolation chamber for studying.
The winner of the 100-hour Wiscontrepreneur Challenge will be announced Monday.
There could soon be more money than ever to help students go to college, but figuring out how to get it is the trick.
Both the proposed state and federal budgets included significant investments in financial aid, beefing up grant and loan programs and creating new ones.
The concern among some officials is that the federal application form for aid â?? a labyrinthine 109 questions â?? intimidates prospective college students and their families from applying to college.
Itâ??s a story that stretches the bounds of credulity: Police arrest a man, pour blood on him and plant a blood-smeared knife in his truck to frame him for a murder he didnâ??t commit.
Prosecutors and police then withhold, alter and destroy the evidence that could let the man prove his innocence.
Kenneth Hudsonâ??s account of what happened the day 19-year-old UW-Madison student Shanna Van Dyn Hoven was stabbed to death in Kaukauna in 2000 may seem improbable.
While University of Wisconsin students are looking forward to spring break in just two weeks, the U.S. State Department is issuing new travel warnings.
Citing rising violence in the country, the State Department is asking the estimated 100,000 American college students that head to Mexico for spring break every year to take extra caution.
Officials said that among the U.S.-Mexico border, escalating violence by Mexican drug cartels has created dangerous situations, including large firefights in some towns.
A record number of University of Wisconsin students rolled out of bed Saturday morning to attend a seminar on personal finances.
More than 120 students attended the Alumni Student Board’s annual personal finance seminar. That’s more than double the number last year.
UW-Madison students and community members will participate in a recreational basketball tournament this weekend to support the city of Chicago in its bid to host the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
“Requesting you write a column on Ali Marie Raddatz, the recently passed UWM student,” said an e-mail I received this week.
My response: What would I say? She was only 18. It’s tragic beyond words. What more can anyone tell college kids to convince them that drinking yourself into a stupor is dangerous? I wouldn’t have listened at that age.
Fewer prospective freshmen have applied for admission to the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay compared with a year ago, reflecting a trend also evident in Madison.
As of Feb. 15, UWGB freshmen applications were down about 5 percent versus last year, said Pam Harvey-Jacobs, director of admissions. Officials had received 3,175 new freshman applications for fall, versus 3,345 at the same time in 2008.
Affording tuition and other school expenses is proving harder than ever in the current economic recession, but for student-parents, paying the bills is becoming nearly impossible.
Marcus Landry is by no means the best basketball player in the country, but what some players have in skill, Marcus Landry has in passion and drive.
