Twenty-one fans were ejected from Camp Randall on Saturday as the Wisconsin Badgers routed Marshall University’s Thundering Herd 51-14.
Eight people, four of them UW students, were cited for underage consumption of alcohol. One also was ticketed for throwing hard objects, according to UW-Madison Police and Security.
UW-Madison students and staff, family and friends are invited to the Red Gym on campus Monday night for a campus memorial service for three students killed Aug. 27 in a car crash on Madison’s west side.
The service for Lindsey Plank, Dan Myers and Richard Putze will be at 8 p.m. in the historic facility located at 716 Langdon St. on campus just east of the Memorial Union.
The service is being coordinated by University Religious Workers in cooperation with the offices of the dean of students. Attendees are invited to share stories and reflections about the lives of the three students. Dean of Students Lori Berquam is also expected to speak at the service.
Where once there were stacks of books at UW-Madison’s College Library, now there are big tables, littered with laptops and pizza boxes.
In the place of journals, there is a coffeehouse and cafe. And windows that were blocked by bookshelves now reveal an expansive view of Lake Mendota’s blue water.
This is the changing face of College Library, housed within Helen C. White Hall.
Dane County 911 Director Joe Norwick, who came under heavy fire following the center’s mishandling of a call from homicide victim Brittany Zimmermann’s cell phone, has resigned.
Norwick, 54, a 30-year veteran of the Dane County Sheriff’s Office and former chief deputy, tendered his resignation Tuesday. Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk said Norwick indicated that stress was a major reason for his decision.
There will be no competition for the top grade among first-year medical students this year at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
That’s because the school is eliminating grades for first-year medical students in favor of a pass/fail system, a trend in medical education already embraced at Harvard, Stanford and the universities of Minnesota and Michigan, among others. The last three years of medical school will still be graded.
Hundreds of students attended the Multicultural Student Centerâ??s 27th Multicultural Orientation Reception Friday, an event consisting of fairs, a multicultural showcase and a dance.
The eveningâ??s theme was â??Mind, Body and Soul: Making Every Experience Count,â? to reflect the challenge â??to make the very most of your experience here while youâ??re at this campus,â? according to Candace McDowell, chair of the planning committee for the MCSC.
Having a legal drinking age of 21 reduces but certainly does not eliminate the likelihood of teenage alcohol use. This is where the rest of us must play a role. A colleague and good friend drove her son to the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus to begin his freshman studies a few years ago. After a loving embrace, she began the journey home. Within a few hours her son had toppled from the second floor of an apartment due to alcohol and suffered severe brain damage. He now functions at a very basic level and can never continue his studies.
Whether we are parents, friends, siblings, co-workers, store merchants, etc., we have the opportunity to help our young people make good lifestyle decisions. If young adults are not legally able to consume alcohol, are they “missing out”? What they won’t experience are the harmful health issues, the embarrassing situations, the hangovers and the potential for injuries or death.
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While the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh announced last week it will provide as many fair trade products as possible to its students, UW-Madison is not currently moving in the same direction.
UW spokesperson John Lucas said the chancellorâ??s office has been encouraged to look at purchasing fair trade products, but it would be a â??stretchâ? for such a large university to move in the same direction as UW-Oshkosh
MADISON, Wis. — While Badger fans cheered on the football team Saturday, the student section in Camp Randall was less crowded at kickoff than the rest of the stadium.
Many fans start tailgating early before the game, but students tend to keep on partying through the beginning of the game and miss kickoff, which has university officials concerned.
“We think, partially, it’s a fashionably late thing, but we also believe that they’re valuing the drinking rather than being at the game early and supporting the team,” said Kipp Cox, assistant dean of students in charge of student advocacy and judicial affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Embattled Dane County 911 Center Director Joe Norwick resigned, five months after the mishandling of an emergency call from the cell phone of a murder victim led to intense scrutiny of 911 Center operations.
Joe Norwick, the embattled director of Dane County’s 911 Center, has resigned effective Sept. 19.
Norwick came under heavy criticism this summer following the revelation that the 911 Center had received a call from Brittany Zimmermann just prior to her murder on April 2. Although the call came in, it was disconnected, and dispatchers did call back, so police were not dispatched to Zimmermann’s apartment on Doty Street until after her death. There have been no arrests in the case.
Five months after University of Wisconsin-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann was found dead in her West Doty Street apartment, a $5,000 reward fund has been created in the hopes it will lead someone to come forward with information regarding her death.
An emotionally charged message written by Brittany’s parents, Kevin and Jean Zimmermann, and read by her aunt, Kim Heeg, at a news conference Thursday morning said: “The past five months have been agonizing and today we still have no answers as to who took our daughter from us. … The days since Brittany’s death have been very dark and we are desperate to find justice for our daughter.”
The family of slain UW Madison student Brittany Zimmermann launched a reward fund Wednesday with an emotional appeal for information that will bring her killer to justice.
“We have to believe that someone has additional information that has not been shared with the police,” said Kim Heeg, Zimmermann’s aunt, as she tearfully announced the fund, now at $5,000, for information leading to an arrest and conviction.
The nation’s largest freshman class in history is moving into college dorms, hanging posters, meeting roommates and learning fight songs. In Indiana University’s Assembly Hall last Friday, a remarkably large chorus hailing from private high schools in the Northeast was singing the school’s ode to the “Cream and Crimson” in a pronounced New York accent.
She attended high school in Middleton, but Y Mae Sussman’s musical tastes span the globe. Most recently, she’s been making sonic journeys to exotic pop landscapes like Sweden and Denmark.
For Sussman, the names of Scandinavian artists â?? Jens Lekman, the Figurines and Peter, Bjorn & John â?? come as easy as John Mayer and Coldplay.
Sussman will be broadcasting an hour of Scandinavian folk, rock and electronic tracks every Friday at 3 p.m. this fall on WSUM, 91.7 FM, the student-run radio station of UW-Madison. At 11 a.m. each Friday, Sussman will be on the air with her roommate, Mary Beth, spinning Bollywood hits.
Thursday morning, the Madison Police Department reported the sixth murder in Madison in 2008. Juan J. Bernal, 22, of Madison was stabbed outside the Plaza Tavern following an altercation with another bar patron Wednesday evening.
This homicide comes only two days into the new school year and follows a tragic end to the 2007-â??08 academic year.
In February 2007, the Madison City Council approved the Downtown Safety Initiative, citing the need to decrease crime before and after bar time. The Initiative received $100,000 in funding to increase police overtime on Friday and Saturday nights in addition to the installation of new security cameras in the downtown area.
Somewhere between the election of Mayor Dave Cieslewicz and the appointment of Noble Wray as police chief, the annual Mifflin Street Block Party began to lose its spark. Revelry was replaced by restriction as the arrest tally ballooned from seven in 2003 to more than 400 last May.
In the wake of this frivolous increase in official presence, the Majestic Theatre has proposed sponsoring the event in order to address the cityâ??s concerns about security as well as student concerns about arrests.
The titles of senior class president, vice president, treasurer and secretary may soon become a thing of the past, Associated Students of Madison leaders said Thursday.
Senior class officers currently do not officially report to ASM, nor do they have many responsibilities beyond finding commencement speakers and photographers.
The family of Brittany Zimmermann announced Thursday they have established a $5,000 reward fund to help further the investigation of the University of Wisconsin studentâ??s homicide.
â??We are here today to remind all of you to please remember her as much as we still are,â? said Kim Heeg, Zimmermannâ??s aunt. â??Itâ??s been five months, and it feels like we are at a bit of a dead end.â?
MADISON (WKOW) — A $5,000 reward has been established for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or people responsible for UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann’s April murder.
Madison police chief Noble Wray said authorities were particularly interested in anyone who may have seen Zimmermann, 21,  during the mid-morning hours of April 2 as Zimmermann made her way from campus to her West Doty Street apartment.  Zimmermann was found fatally wounded by her fiance in the early afternoon.
Letâ??s take a minute, step back and take a good look at the amazing university we belong to. Not only do we have phenomenal professors leading cutting-edge research, top-notch academic facilities in all areas of campus and across-the-board excellent arts programs, we also have an amazingly vibrant campus extending beyond the reaches of the academic world.
As UW-Madison students, we literally have hundreds of opportunities to become involved in our campus. Last year alone, there were 750 student organizations registered through the Student Organization Office. Nearly all areas of interest are represented in one way or another in the multiple student-run organizations. Only at UW-Madison are we able to attend meetings about the importance of divestment in Sudan, greener energy solutions, volunteer opportunities in the Madison public schools and martial arts techniquesâ??all on the same night.
The Offices of the Dean of Students and University religious workers will hold a campus memorial service Monday for three UW-Madison students killed in a car crash last week.
The service will commemorate the lives of UW-Madison chemistry lecture volunteers Lindsey Plank and Richard Putze, as well as elite pianist Dan Myers, who died in a car crash Aug. 27 on Midvale Boulevard, days before the start of the fall semester.
UW-Madisonâ??s Office of the Registrar issued a new Wiscard to incoming freshmen and business school students this semester.
In addition to acting as a debit card, the new â??one cardâ? gives students access to some classrooms and computer labs across campus. Freshmen received the first round of Wiscards this summer.
According to Wiscard administrator Jim Wysocky, the university plans to increase key-card access throughout campus, and Grainger Hall, the School of Pharmacy and campus residence halls already have security card technology in place.
The UW-Madison Athletic Department, Student Athlete Advisory Committee, and Rethink Wisconsin are working to boost recycling during Badger football games this fall.
According to Vince Sweeney, senior associate athletic director for external relations, Rethink Wisconsin formed as a student organization last fall in response to studentsâ?? completion of an environmental studies class with professor Jack Kloppenburg.
MADISON, Wis. — Authorities are hoping a new reward fund will help investigators solve the killing of a University of Wisconsin-Madison student from Marshfield.
At a news conference Thursday morning, Madison police announced the reward fund through the Carole Sund/Carrington Memorial Foundation for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the death of Brittany Zimmermann.
MADISON, Wis. — Authorities are hoping a new reward fund will help investigators solve the killing of a University of Wisconsin-Madison student from Marshfield.
At a news conference Thursday morning, Madison police announced the reward fund through the Carole Sund/Carrington Memorial Foundation for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the death of Brittany Zimmermann.
The fund will start at $5,000 and increase as more donations come in, WISC-TV reported.
If the separation anxiety isn’t enough, teens headed to university have to face a scary fact: They’ve got no choice in a first-year college roommate. But that doesn’t have to spell dorm doom, according to a study from University of Michigan researchers.
University of Wisconsin women’s basketball player Brittany Heins has decided to leave the team to concentrate on her academics.
When Yahoo! employees call for technical assistance this fall, the accent they hear may be “Cheesehead.” The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh announced Wednesday that tech giant Yahoo! will establish a student-staffed technical support center in Oshkosh.
The Yahoo! CareCenter, which is about two years in the making, will provide technical support to some of the company’s 17,000 employees.
Students staffing the Yahoo! CareCenter will be able to earn $10,000 or more per year working part time, UW-Oshkosh said in a news release. Twenty students will be recruited initially, with 20 more added as needed.
About 20 UW-Madison students will be cruising around campus on a free Huffy this fall â?? the only catch is they’ll also be peddling a product.
Free Bikes â?? a business started by Matt Lerner, a graduate of the UW-Madison School of Business â?? offers students a semester bike rental, lock and storage, and in exchange they ride around with an advertisement affixed to the bike’s basket and between the frame.
After the first two days of classes, lines are wrapping through the aisles of every bookstore on campus as University of Wisconsin students shell out lots of cash to pay for their books.
But while most students complain about the steep prices of textbooks, individuals are turning to other websites and methods to get the needed material at a cheaper price.
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Wisconsin Democratic officials elected UW-Madison junior Analiese Eicher as national chair of the College Democrats of America Womenâ??s Caucus during the CDA National Convention last week in Denver.
Eicher said educating women about their option to be vaccinated against HPV and challenging students around the country to do their part and vote are major priorities.
An anticipated 10 to 15 UW-Madison students will participate in the â??Show and Blowâ? program Saturday at the Badger football game because of alcohol-related offenses at the first game against Akron, university officials said Wednesday.
Pre-game Breathalyzer tests will be given to the students as part of UW-Madisonâ??s Offices of the Dean of Studentsâ?? program implemented last fall. Underage students must blow .00 percent to enter, and of-age students must blow below .08.
MADISON, Wis. — Madison police are offering a correction following the investigation of a University of Wisconsin student hit by a car in downtown Madison last week.
Police have now said that the pedestrian was crossing Lake Street last Thursday when a car ran a red light. Initial reports said police ticketed the woman but tickets were dropped, WISC-TV reported.
MADISON (WKOW) — From Wisconsin Democrats:
Last week at the College Democrats of America (CDA) National Convention in Denver, Colorado, Wisconsin student Analiese Eicher was elected National Chair of the CDA Women’s Caucus….Eicher is a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison majoring in political science. She has been active in the College Democrats of Wisconsin as the Women’s Issues Director for the past two years and was previously the CDA Women’s Caucus Campus Outreach Director.
Brittany Saylor is a typical college student: She likes pizza, meeting new people and spending time on the computer navigating Facebook.
Though she’s quick to dismiss any differences, what sets the Wisconsin Rapids 19-year-old apart from many young adults who began classes Tuesday at UW-Whitewater is that she gets from place to place by wheelchair and uses a ventilator at night to help her breathe.
A record spike in University of Wisconsin merchandise sales will double the number of grants for low-income students for the 2008-09 school year.
According to Cindy Van Matre, UW trademark licensing director, Bucky apparel raked in $2.8 million in royalties by the end of June 2008. Half of the royalties will be given to the UW athletics department, and the other half will be designated to the Bucky Grants fund.
On the night of May 12, University of Wisconsin sophomore Nate Anderson and junior Mike Miesen were both studying for their upcoming finals â?? one was at the library and the other in the study of the Sigma Phi Epsilon house, 237 Langdon St.
At about 11:30 p.m., Miesen, the fraternityâ??s chapter president, heard screaming and yelling. When he turned to look at the back of the house, he saw a fire
Outgoing University of Wisconsin Chancellor John Wiley overturned two decisions made by the student finance committee this summer, granting contract status to a student organization and funding another for the upcoming academic year.
After experiencing several systemic issues last semester, the University of Wisconsin student government is awaiting approval of a new constitution in the October elections they hope will build a more sound and receptive organization by next spring.
According to Jeff Wright, Associated Students of Madison Constitutional Committee chair, 10 appointees of the constitutional committee have worked vigorously this summer to create a document he hopes will generate direct accountability and a more effective structure.
Each fall, thousands of new University of Wisconsin students pile into the dorms. Fresh out of high school, many of these students are anxious to live far from the watchful eye of their parents for the first time.
But for many of UWâ??s military veteran students, on-campus housing options may not be the best fit.
The University of Wisconsin-Madisonâ??s senior class president pled guilty Friday to misdemeanor theft of less than $2,500 at the Dane County Courthouse.
Oliver Delgado, who was elected to his office in April, admitted to stealing six Van Galder bus tickets from Memorial Union last March.
Thinking about ways to spend $30 at several very special campus locations can be pretty fun.
I could buy several paperbacks at the University Bookstore â?? or if Iâ??m lucky maybe a used textbook. I could purchase a series of meals at the Union and maybe even pick up a sandwich from the Ingraham Deli if Iâ??m feeling adventurous. I might hit up the Digital Outpost and pick up some good quality headphones.
The second season of â??Show and Blow,â? a program through the Offices of the Dean of Students to help curb high-risk drinking at UW-Madison home football games, will resume Saturday.
Launched in fall 2007, Show and Blow requires students with a previous alcohol-related ejection to blow into a portable Breathalyzer test before subsequent games to prove their sobriety.
Underage students need to blow a .00 for admittance, while those over 21 need to blow below .08 percent. Studentsâ?? names added to Show and Blow do not carry over from year to year.
Last fall, the Offices of the Dean of Studentâ??s introduced â??Show and Blow,â? a program intended to curb excessive drinking by students on Badger football game days.
Noble in its intent, Show and Blow required all students previously arrested for belligerent behavior at Camp Randall to take a Breathalyzer test upon entering the stadium for the remainder of the season. To enter, previously cited fans under 21 needed to blow a .00, while those of age needed to register below the legal limit of .08.
Last month, the leaders of roughly 100 American universities convened in Raleigh, N.C., to discuss efforts to lower the national drinking age of 21. Although the Amethyst Initiative, as it is called, has yet to articulate sound alternatives to current law, its core message â?? that 21 is not working â?? is worthy of serious consideration.
UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin told the crowd of several thousand freshman who gathered to hear her speak at the Kohl Center on Friday that they have something in common with her.
They’re all new to campus.
Martin, whose official first day is Monday, told the new students in a welcome address that they are “beginning a great adventure.”
For the better part of the 21st century, those in the UW Athletic Department have been trying to bring a sense of decorative order and honor to the university’s sports history.
That’s especially the case in football, where bronze statues have risen from concrete, uniform numbers have been retired and grainy images that date back to the 1880s have been enlarged and put under display lights inside refurbished Camp Randall Stadium.
With a collective high step, the trumpet section kicks up a cloud of dust. Then the trombones and euphoniums. Then the drums.
Soon, the whole UW Marching Band tromps forward through a swirling dust storm of its own making.
In 2004, UW-Madison senior Sol Grosskopf was a guest at the final night of the Republican National Convention in New York when President Bush gave his acceptance speech.
The University of Wisconsin weighed advice from a student focus group and an e-mail survey before replacing its first-come, first-served approach with a weighted lottery system. Class standing as of June 1 determined the number of chances each student carried into the July drawing, with graduate students and seniors receiving four chances to a freshman’s one. Each undergraduate class was guaranteed 2,000 lottery winners, with at least 500 tickets going to grad students.
MADISON, Wis. — The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s new chancellor hasn’t officially started yet but she has already begun to take the lead.
Dr. Carolyn “Biddy” Martin made her first address to the campus body Friday.
She spoke before nearly 4,500 incoming freshmen and welcomed them to campus.
MADISON, Wis. — A 19-year-old woman is recovering after being hit by a car on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus on Thursday night.
The UW student was crossing Lake Street when she was struck by a vehicle at about 11:15 p.m., authorities said.
MADISON, Wis. — A University of Wisconsin student group is hoping more people will pitch in and start thinking green.
Students from REthink Wisconsin – – a group dedicated to sustainability on campus – – are teaming up with UW athletics to start a recycling program called “W ear red, think green, Badgers recycle.”
“What were doing is we started a recycling program with the office of the Athletic Department and our student organization,” said Maria Davis with Rethink Wisconsin. “We want to be here in order to guide them and educate them primarily on our program and how were working with the Athletic Department.”
College presidents have long gotten flak for refusing to take controversial stands on national issues. Some say the bold presidents of the past, like the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh and William C. Friday, have been replaced by timid fund raisers.
But last month a large group of presidents opened an emotionally charged national debate on the drinking age. In doing so, they triggered an avalanche of news-media coverage and a fierce backlash.
MADISON (WKOW) — A UW student was taken to the hospital after she was hit by a car Thursday night in downtown Madison.
Police say at around 11:30 p.m., the woman stepped into the intersection at the corner of lake Street and University Avenue.
A car, which approached a yellow light, then hit the woman in the crosswalk.
UW System’s ten-year plan to increase diversity on state campuses ends this year.
Some progress has been made after a lot of hard work on recruitment, retention and pre-college programs.
Yet it’s unclear if the System is getting much bang out of tens of millions of bucks it spends on the effort each year.
With the college football season set to kick off, the University of Wisconsin Alumni Association is promoting sales of The Red Shirt — a one-of-a-kind, collectible T-shirt.
Proceeds will contribute to the more than $550,000 awarded to UW-Madison students each year through WAA’s matching dollar scholarship program.
UW-Madison will be kicking off another school year next week, and for many returning faculty and staff- the murders of Joel Marino and student Brittany Zimmermann are still fresh memories.
So this year the UW is putting more emphasis on safety.
Both the Zimmermann and Marino murders happened in off campus neighborhoods highly populated by students, and because of those violent crimes the UW is emphasizing safety in those communities.
Not with extra officers or a change in patrol routes, but with information.
A group of university presidents, including David Joyce of Ripon College, have signed the Amethyst Initiative, which has among its goals reopening debate over the nationâ??s drinking age. Their move is well-intended: Alcohol is frequently abused at college campuses around the country â?? including the University of Wisconsin-Madison and other UW campuses. Kids are hurting themselves. But this is actually a well-settled question.
It’s unwise to consider lowering the drinking age, especially if that lower age is 18, which would put alcohol into the hands of high school students.
