MADISON, Wis. — Madison police said a student was beaten and robbed on West Gilman Street just after midnight Tuesday.
Police said the student was walking eastbound in the 100 block of West Gilman Street when he was attacked by two men.
Police said the student was struck several times, including a few times with a silver handgun. The attackers took his gray backpack, wallet and cell phone, police said.
Madison Police tell 27 News a 23-year-old man was cut many times in the face during an attack while walking in the 100 block of West Gilman Street overnight.
Police say he was hit in the face several times by two suspects, including a few times with a silver handgun. The victim is a UW student.
UW-Madison officials are trying to track down as much as $1.6 million in missing student refund checks, which were processed by a Milwaukee vendor and were intended for mailing from a Milwaukee post office last month.
In the meantime, UW-Madison officials said the hundreds of students affected by the missing checks were being given the opportunity to receive zero-interest, short term loans to tide them over. Much of the refunded money is from student loans and intended to help students with living expenses.
During a Q & A session following a presentation about the Wisconsin School of Business and its connections to local economic development, I made some remarks about the price of tuition at UW-Madison that were picked up by a Wisconsin State Journal reporter and then repeated more broadly in the media.
While the reporting was not inaccurate, the issues are sensitive and have a rich context, some of which is inevitably lost in a brief account.
Wisconsin Union officials unveiled exterior designs for the new south campus union at a news conference Monday, and said changes to interior designs will be made within the next month.
MillerCoors recently donated over $100,000 in brewing laboratory equipment to the UW-Madison bacteriology department for student education.
A new assistant dean for veterans and ombuds service joined University of Wisconsin staff atop Bascom Hill Monday.
Students will have the opportunity to design the interior of the new Union South.
The collegiate push to get Sen. Barack Obama into the White House begins in Wisconsin Tuesday, with rallies planned in Madison and Milwaukee.
Rallies organized by Students for Barack Obama are scheduled at 7 p.m. in the Humanities Building on the UW-Madison campus and at 6 p.m. in Union Ballroom West on the UW-Milwaukee campus.
Other kickoffs this week are at UW-Stout’s Memorial Student Center and at Reeve Underground at UW-Oshkosh on Wednesday, UW-Superior and UW-Green Bay on Thursday and Alverno College on Friday.
A climbing wall, a 350-seat theatre and an entertainment center will be a part of the new Union South, scheduled for completion in March 2011.
Former University of Wisconsin Chancellor John Wiley and Chancellor Biddy Martin announced a $20 million donation to finance a new music performance hall for the university.
A University of Wisconsin graduate student was found dead in his Broom Street apartment Monday evening.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials held a news conference Monday to unveil new exterior architecture renderings for the $82 million South Campus Union.
The new building is scheduled to open in the spring of 2011, in time for the National Science Olympiad being hosted by UW-Madison in May of that year.
Sending your child off to college can be an anxious time for many parents. But for parents of children with a mental illness or learning disability, the transition is especially challenging. One worry is that parents of adult children have no legal standing in their medical care. In Nashville, Tenn., the Diehl family has worked hard to prepare their son for the move from home to UW-Madison. (Audio and text.)
MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin officials revealed plans on Monday for the new south campus student union, offering the community a new state-of-the-art green facility.
The new Union South will feature the latest in amenities, including numerous restaurants and an indoor climbing wall, but comes with an $87 million price tag, WISC-TV reported.
During a Q & A session following a presentation about the Wisconsin School of Business and its connections to local economic development, I made some remarks about the price of tuition at UW-Madison that were picked up by a Wisconsin State Journal reporter and then repeated more broadly in the media.
While the reporting was not inaccurate, the issues are sensitive and have a rich context, some of which is inevitably lost in a brief account.
Millions of young Americans are off to college, and many will rely on those institutions for health care. But that reliance might be misplaced, because our college health systems are gravely ill. Unless colleges address widespread problems with insurance coverage, students risk being one disease or accident away from losing the potential for getting the education they are paying for.
(Bryan A. Liang is professor of law and executive director of the Institute of Health Law Studies at California Western School of Law in San Diego. This column first appeared in the Baltimore Sun.)
WISCONSIN RAPIDS — Carol Gelhausen had seen her daughter play trumpet many times before, but Friday’s performance in Wisconsin Rapids was just a little different.
Gelhausen, Hartford, visited the city this weekend to see her daughter, Michelle, a junior trumpet player in the University of Wisconsin Marching Band, play during the Lincoln High School and Stevens Point Area Senior High School football game.
Alex Waskawic worked up a sweat this summer and in the end it was all worth it.
The 2005 Omro High School graduate was put through a rigorous workout on a hot August day and it paid off in his selection as the new assistant drum major for the University of Wisconsin Marching Band.
From the most experienced fifth-year senior to the newest of freshmen, we all have felt at one time or another the stress and rigors of college life bearing down on us. Whether we are stressing over financial situations, what our goals for the future may be, relationships, or even that term paper due this Friday you havenâ??t even started yet, college is a tumultuous time that heavily impacts our minds and mental states.
That being said, it should be a top priority for our university (any university or college, in fact) to have mental treatment and counseling readily available to all students for free, or at least at very affordable prices. The fact that a recent UW System audit found that student mental health needs were growing at a much faster rate than the resources available is, therefore, a cause for great concern. The UW System needs to address this issue now before it grows out of control or situations arise in which students are put at risk.
Threats of stabbings and drive-by shootings are just a few things Jason Koepke heard after denying entry to unruly patrons when he worked at Madison Avenue, a popular bar and dance club in downtown Madison.
Koepke, a UW-Madison senior who currently works the door at the Nitty Gritty, also recalled a drunken altercation in February between two men and a male freshman that left the student bloodied on the sidewalk.
â??He had a huge cut across his face, his lip was all split open,â? Koepke said. â??They pummeled him good.â?
A â??digital commonsâ? is on the horizon for University of Wisconsin System students, offering them a wealth of information including more digital journals and databases than ever before.
The Board of Regents discussed the proposal last month, and it is now in the systemâ??s 2010-11 budget request to the state.
An unknown number of University of Wisconsin students are still waiting on thousands of dollars in checks from the Bursarâ??s Office though they were mailed in Milwaukee more than two weeks ago, according to the office.
Bursar Cathie Easter said Friday that the checks, dated Aug. 28, have likely been misplaced or delayed in the mail.
On the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States, several student organizations at UW-Madison joined Thursday as part of an effort to honor and remember the victims.
“So many people forget what happened and forget the meaning of what happened, and we’re just trying to help people remember and memorialize those victims,” said Sara Mikolajczak, chairwoman of the University of Wisconsin College Republicans, the lead group in organizing the 9/11 event on campus.
The home in which Brittany Zimmermann and her fiance, Jordan Gonnering, were living at the time she was stabbed to death in April was lacking in security, and her boyfriend had complained to the management firm about the lack of secure doors and locks, according to a lawsuit filed in Dane County Circuit Court by Zimmermann’s parents.
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Leaders from the Associated Students of Madison met with Rep. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, this week in efforts to forge a relationship between the University of Wisconsin and the Legislature.
Nass has been openly critical of the universityâ??s leadership and has expressed concerns over the appointment of Chancellor Biddy Martin.
The parents of slain University of Wisconsin junior Brittany Zimmermann have filed a lawsuit against Wisconsin Management, Inc. due to inadequate locks and doors at the apartment in which she was killed last April.
Zimmermannâ??s parents had filed a federal lawsuit against Dane County and the 911 Center earlier this year but dropped the case at the end of June with the agreement to file again in state court.
MANITOWOC â?? Returning home last month to the town of Newton after a summer of exploration, 24-year-old Brian Backhaus looked much like the scrawny junior high school kid he’d been more than a decade ago.
Except, that is, for the wiry beard that had sprouted from his chin.
“On the East Coast I was eating rice and oatmeal, but then I couldn’t find gas containers for my stove,” said Backhaus, a third-year forestry student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Once I got out west, I started eating bread and dry cereal and lunch meat.”
Wisconsin School of Businessâ?? entrepreneurship program is one of the best in the country, according to a national survey published recently by the Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine.
The Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship at UW-Madison ranks 13th nationwide in the â??Top 50 Entrepreneurial Graduate Colleges in the U.S.â? out of more than 2,300 undergraduate and graduate schools surveyed for the list. The center stands seventh among public universities.
UW System officials recently updated the set of guidelines university employees and student organizations must follow for campaigning on campus.
According to UW System spokesperson David Giroux, the system has compiled a list of references to policies, statutes and administrative codes about political involvement on campus to make it easier for students and employees to know what their boundaries are.
To the Graduating Class of 2009:
It is with utmost sincerity that I publicly apologize for my lapse in judgment that resulted in the highly-publicized event last semester. My inconsiderate actions have been a disservice to University administrators, the Van Galder Bus Company and our venerable judicial system. Most of all, I disappointed the very people that believed in my goals, trusted my credentials and elected me as class president; the student body. It is at this moment that I humbly ask for your forgiveness.
County, city and university attorneys met in Dane County Circuit Court Thursday to fight subpoenas against various officials in the latest lawsuit filed by the family of slain UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann, The Capital Times reported.
Zimmermannâ??s parents are suing Wisconsin Management Company Inc., who manage the property at 517 W. Doty St. where an intruder killed Brittany on April 2, alleging that unsafe living conditions contributed to her death. The Capital Times reported the lawsuit alleges the management company â??knowingly failed to provide adequate security to residentsâ? after Zimmermannâ??s fiancé Jordan Gonnering complained about the lack of secure doors and locks.
MADISON, Wis. — As Sept. 11 memorials occur all over the world, in Madison, the sentiment is no different.
It’s a history lesson outside the classroom for Alex and Ian Campbell, on Bascom Hill’s memorial for the victims of 9/11.
“They were just coming home from school today,” said Robert Kauffman, the boys’ grandfather, “And we thought, let’s have a little lesson on humanity, humility, and humbleness about this tragic event that happened.”
The boys are too young to remember what grandpa Kauffman remembers so vividly.
About one in five UW-Madison students in last year’s freshman class were first-generation college students, according to a study released Tuesday by the university.
Those students are more likely to be from Wisconsin and tend to be poorer than other freshmen, the study found.
As with any lottery, the odds were stacked against Matt Chakmakian when the University of Wisconsin freshman applied for student football tickets.
But his number came up, and last Saturday he had a wristband placed on his arm that confirmed his place among the faithful in Section P at Camp Randall Stadium for the Badgers’ game against Marshall.
That scenario irks some upperclassmen, and not just that a freshman was standing in the formerly upperclass-only Section P.
University of Wisconsin senior Elizabeth Yurish was feeding elephants in Tsitsikamma National Park, South Africa, while thousands of miles away, fellow UW senior Erica Efron attempted to navigate the narrow medieval streets of Prague, Czech Republic.
Every year, thousands of students stuff their backpacks, grab their passports and hop on a plane to begin what many consider the â??adventure of a lifetime.â?
This is a rare exercise in idealism for me
My co-editor, Sam Clegg, will likely roll his eyes as he reads the bleeding-heart liberalism gush from my pen onto an editorial page once heralded (no pun intended!) as a bastion of right-wing thought. There might be a snide reference in the online comments section to the river of tears that will soak the tie-dye shirts and salt the free-range eggs and vegetarian-fed bacon of many a Madison liberal as they read this article over breakfast.
The beast that killed our baseball team is back. And this time, itâ??s coming for your beakers.
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, or Title IX for short, was designed to reduce gender discrimination in public schools. It decreed that nobody could â??be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination underâ? any federally-funded educational program on the basis of sex.
University of Wisconsin School of Business Dean Michael Knetter apologized for calling UW tuitionâ?cheapâ? Wednesday, after being quoted in an article printed in the Wisconsin State Journal Tuesday.
Knetter said his remark was not meant to be â??insincereâ? to those families who find the tuition at UW expensive.
Although UW-Madison School of Business Dean Michael Knetter told a womenâ??s leadership organization Tuesday the school undercharges for its tuition, he clarified Wednesday he is sensitive to the financial struggles many students face.
â??When I said UW-Madisonâ??s tuition was underpriced, I meant it in relation to both the in-state tuition rate and the economic opportunities created in other Big Ten institutions,â? Knetter said in an interview. â??I specifically did not mean it in relation to all students and all families attending the university.â?
The University of Wisconsin admitted to mishandling the seating of the student section at last Saturdayâ??s football game against Marshall, causing several students to miss part of the first quarter.
After the student section of Camp Randall Stadium was still not filled by the start of the second quarter of the game, many angry students blamed the UW Athletic Department, saying security prevented them from getting to their seats on time.
For anyone who attended college before the era of e-mails and the Internet, the notion that bulky textbooks could someday become obsolete might seem ludicrous.
Yet with a wealth of information on virtually any topic now readily accessible online, more people are starting to ponder if these hefty staples of education will remain relevant.
Two young men walking along Breese Terrace early Sunday morning were beaten, one quite viciously, after one of the two accidentally bumped into another man who was in a group on the sidewalk.
The attack took place at 12:30 a.m. in the 100 block of North Breese Terrace, along the west side of Camp Randall Stadium.
A caller to Madison police said she overheard someone walking by saying he had just severely injured someone, but police responding to the area couldn’t find a victim. At 1:30 a.m., a man was carried by two other men into a local hospital.
UW-Madison undergraduate students are not paying enough for the quality education they’re getting here, School of Business Dean Michael Knetter told a women’s leadership organization Tuesday.
“We dramatically undercharge for a (UW-Madison) degree,” said Knetter. Of the Big Ten schools, only the University of Iowa charges less than UW-Madison for state resident undergraduate tuition and fees last year, a comparison by UW-Madison officials shows.
Soon after I transferred to this campus, I heard talk of a large, puzzling organization. While walking to class, students behind tables tried to convince me to come to this organizationâ??s kickoff, promising me new experiences and opportunities. However, it was not until I got involved in ASM that I began to truly understand the meaning of this mysterious acronym.
The Associated Students of Madisonâ??s Constitutional Committee put together a timeline and recommendation delaying a vote on the newly restructured constitution Tuesday night.
The committee told the Student Council the vote should move from the expected fall election date to a special election in February 2009.
The UW-Madison Department of Economics is currently struggling to provide economics majors with the classes needed to graduate and prospective students with necessary resources.
â??The number of people who are interested in getting an economics degree has exploded over the past 10 years, and that has happened at a time when we have had constrained resources,â? said Gary Sandefur, dean of the College of Letters & Science.
UW-Madison students can register to vote at their campus addresses without facing consequences for registering in locations away from their hometowns, despite recent controversy over the issue in other states.
Virginia Tech students were discouraged from registering to vote when local election officials issued two statements last month incorrectly warning them against registering at their college residencies, according to The New York Times.
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As more and more students decide to major in economics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, some are voicing concern about waiting lists for required upper-division courses, the Wisconsin State Journal reported.
The three young people killed in a car accident late last month on Madison’s west side were remembered for their sparkle, their hard work, their excellence and their quirky personalities during a UW-Madison memorial service Monday night.
About 40 people gathered in the Red Gym to pay their respects to the friends and families of Lindsey Plank, 23, Dan Myers, 22, and Rick Putze, 22, who died when the car they were in crashed into a tree on South Midvale Boulevard between Mineral Point Road and Regent Street Aug 27.
As president of Vanderbilt University and four other prominent schools before that, Gordon Gee perceived an unhappy trend: Student-athletes were drifting away from the core of university life. They lived, ate and studied in a jock bubble.
Sure, most went to class. But they missed out on virtually every other important college experience, from studying abroad to Greek life.
Five years ago this week, Gee decided he’d had enough. At loggerheads with his athletic director, he summoned his top administrators and stunned them with the news: He planned to disband Vanderbilt’s athletic department, and fold it into the division of student life.
This would be Teach for Americaâ??s first effort in Wisconsin, although the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been an active source for participants. Steve Mancini, a spokesman for Teach for America, said 250 UW-Madison students applied and 55 were accepted into Teach for America this year. In addition, 11 Marquette University graduates are beginning work this fall.
Of all the advice parents give to children heading off to college, warnings about alcohol â?? and especially about abusing alcohol â?? may be the most important. At most colleges, whether and how much students drink can make an enormous difference, not just in how well they do in school, but even whether they live or die.
Every state has a minimum drinking age of 21, and the vast majority of college students are younger than that. Yet drinking, and in particular drinking to get drunk, remains a major health and social problem on campuses. Car crashes and other accidental injuries, sexual assaults, fights, community violence, academic failure and deaths from an overdose of alcohol are among the consequences.
A pass/fail grading system for first-year medical students could be instituted by the University of Wisconsinâ??s School of Medicine and Public Health if approved next month by a faculty committee.
A campuswide group consisting of key faculty members recommended the policy for a medical school faculty vote in late July, and two committees related to the medical school have already unanimously approved the measure.
Sixteen bike thieves have been caught red-handed as a result of the University of Wisconsin Police Departmentâ??s â??Bait Bikeâ? program.
Using GPS technology, UWPD officers leave locked and unlocked bikes around campus and wait for them to be stolen. When one of the bikes moves, UWPD is notified and an officer is dispatched to issue the thief a citation. The fine for stealing a bike in Madison is $406.50.
University of Wisconsin community members mourned Monday the death of three students killed in a car accident and remembered them as enthusiastic students who positively affected the UW community.
In attendance were dozens of UW students, staff and faculty who shared stories to celebrate the lives of Rick Putze, Lindsey Plank and Dan Myers.
A new tracking system initiated by the University of Wisconsin Police Department is aiming to cut down the amount of bicycles stolen on campus.
â??Bait Bikes,â? launched in May, places GPS equipment on select bicycles around campus.
UWPD Officer John Deering followed University of Toronto Police officers in starting the program at UW-Madison.
Members of the UW-Madison community gathered at the Red Gym Monday evening to pay their respects to students who died in a car crash days before the fall semester began.
Lindsey Plank, 23, Dan Myers, 22, and Rick Putze, 22, were killed in a single vehicle car accident Aug. 27 on Midvale Boulevard.
Dean of Students Lori Berquam began the service with a reflection of the studentsâ?? lives at the university through a Power Point video.
It’s a new way to catch bike thieves at colleges.
In May of this year, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department began using GPS technology to track stolen bicycles. Sergeant Jason Whitney says despite most students — and their bikes — absent from campus for summer break, police still managed to capture several thieves due to the new “bait bike” program.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department (UWPD) has a new, high-tech answer to the decades-old problem of campus bicycle thefts. In May 2008, the department began placing bikes equipped with GPS units in places around campus where other thefts have been reported.
The program, created by Police Officer John Deering, is showing positive early results. From January 2007 to May 2008, the UW-Madison police took reports of a total of 100 reported bike thefts. During the 2007-2008 academic year, only one person was arrested for a bike theft.
With the GPS program in place, 16 arrests had been made between May and August 1.
