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.
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.
