An emergency alert e-mail takes almost 20 minutes to reach the thousands of UW-Madison students and faculty. A text message could shorten that to a few.
New text message system aims to shorten alert time
Daily Cardinal
Category: Campus life
Student loans are safe here
Capital Times
WASHINGTON — Many college students across the nation will begin to see higher costs for loans this spring, while others will be turned away by banks altogether as the credit crisis roiling the U.S. economy spreads into yet another sector, student lenders and Wall Street firms say.
But most students in Wisconsin won’t feel a thing, university and finance officials said today in interviews.
….The situation in Wisconsin is much better than in many other states, so student loans will not be much of a problem here, according to UW-Madison and Great Lakes Higher Education Guaranty Corp. officials.
Susan Fischer, director of student financial services at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said today that just 200 students out of about 17,000 who have loans have lenders who will no longer lend.
“He crossed the finish line, he gave a smile and dropped”
Capital Times
Adam Nickel had everything going for him. He was set to begin his last year of UW’s demanding pharmacy program. He was an accomplished runner and had just reached his fundraising goal for an upcoming charity marathon, which he was running in honor of his grandmother.
On Sunday, Nickel’s promising life came to an end as he crossed the finish line in Little Rock, Ark.
“All I know is he crossed the finish line, he gave a smile and dropped,” his mother, Cynthia Nickel of Kaukauna, said today.
Nickel, 27, who was running his sixth marathon, finished 18th in a field of 1,600. He was pronounced dead 21 minutes after crossing the finish line.
State Senate feeds funding for expansion of Veterinary School
Badger Herald
The state Senate voted in favor of allowing the University of Wisconsin to construct an addition to the School of Veterinary Medicine late last week.
UW to look at tuition policies
Badger Herald
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents will discuss a set of strategies Thursday for improving the UW Systemâ??s tuition and financial aid policies.
Track runs laps around Big Ten
Badger Herald
Some things just never get old.
For the Wisconsin track team, winning the indoor Big Ten championship is one of those things.
Wangard, Grosskopf: UW has no business giving scanners to bars
Capital Times
Dear Editor: The University of Wisconsin administration has once again stepped out of line with our tuition dollars in hand — this time with its proposal to fund electronic ID scanners for local bars.
According to the chancellor’s office, “This is the university saying we are concerned about underage drinking.”
In our opinion, all the university is saying is that they do not know why we are paying them so much for tuition every year. Students are paying for an education, not to help offset costs that local businesses incur to comply with the law.
Is the administration really that out of touch with the students who pay the bills?
UW regents eye tuition changes to hike revenue
Capital Times
The University of Wisconsin System is looking at a variety of tuition options as a way to increase access to college while also gaining more revenue if state budgets slide.
An advisory committee will recommend to the Board of Regents on Thursday that it consider tuition stratification — charging more for institutions in high demand — and differential tuition — charging more for more expensive programs such as engineering, which is already being done to some extent.
The UW System also already uses tuition stratification to some extent, charging higher tuition for UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee than for other four-year universities and charging less for the two-year UW colleges than the four-year institutions.
Doctors To Perform Autopsy After Madison Man Dies During Marathon
WISC-TV 3
LITTLE ROCK, Ara. — Officials said that there is no word yet on what caused the death of a Little Rock Marathon runner. The 27-year-old Wisconsin man died after completing the 26.2 mile race.
Adam Nickel, 27, was attending graduate school, studying pharmacy, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He collapsed shortly after he crossed the finish line in Little Rock and died later at University Hospital.
Nickel was running his sixth marathon; his official Little Rock time of 3:02:26 is considered an elite time. He was preparing for a spring event in San Diego as part of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Team In Training, as a tribute to his grandmother.
UW grad student, 27, dies after marathon
Capital Times
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A 27-year-old Wisconsin man collapsed and died after completing the 26.2-mile Little Rock Marathon.
Adam Nickel from Kaukauna, who was attending graduate school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, collapsed Sunday shortly after he crossed the finish line.
Emergency personnel used mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to try to revive Nickel until an ambulance arrived with a defibrillator. He could not be revived and was pronounced dead after being taken to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Hospital.
The marathon’s medical director, Dr. Kent Davidson, said at a news conference Sunday that no determination had been made yet on what caused Nickel’s death.
Quartet of UW a capella groups come together for charity
Wisconsin State Journal
Sixty-six: Number of young women who auditioned in 2005 for three vacancies in Tangled Up in Blue, an all-female a cappella singing group on the UW campus.
2,251: Seats in Overture Hall, which the all-male a cappella group The MadHatters has sold out for its annual spring concert three times.
Two: Other student a cappella groups — the all-male Fundamentally Sound, and the co-ed Redefined — that will join Tangled Up in Blue and The MadHatters at Union Theater Friday for a first-ever “A Cappella Showcase ” to benefit Madison charities.
Uw To Add Text For Urgent Notices
Wisconsin State Journal
An emergency notification system is only effective if people quite literally get the message.
To increase those odds, UW-Madison is preparing to add an emergency text messaging service to its system of getting the word out to students, faculty and staff about any urgent situation involving the campus.
Kaukauna native collapses, dies after marathon in Arkansas
Appleton Post-Crescent
A Kaukauna native collapsed and died Sunday after doing what he loved â?? running in a marathon.
Adam Nickel, 27, who currently lived in Madison and attended graduate school in pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, died late Sunday morning after completing the 26.2-mile Little Rock Marathon in Little Rock, Ark.
Report gives regents options to raise UW tuition revenue (AP)
MADISON, Wis. â?? The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents should consider raising tuition at high-demand schools and continue a trend of charging more to fund specific programs, according to a report released Friday.
Those options would increase tuition revenue and help the system sustain its goals to educate more students in coming years, the report from a task force concludes.
Program Offers Free ID Scanners To Downtown Bars
WISC-TV 3
MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin-Madison is offering free identification scanners to downtown liquor stores and bars to help crack down on underage drinking.
On a weekend night with visitors buying from liquor stores and heading to bars up and down State Street, employees said they usually spot at least three fake IDs through the course of a night.
As manager of Riley’s Wines of the World in downtown Madison, Andy Beaulieu has developed a keen eye for spotting fake IDs.
UW-System clarifies conduct rules (UW-EC Spectator)
The UW-System has invited public comment on changes it recommended to rules regarding student conduct, including conduct on university property. The rules are contained in chapters 17 and 18 of the administrative code.
The chapters in question involve what the university can do with a student who is repeatedly in trouble off-campus.
David Giroux, spokesman for the System, said this administrative code has the force of law within the university systems. He said that while it lays out the process for disciplinary problems, it never included a “scope” for these rules cover, which is why they needed to make clarifications.
A Team Effort
WKOW-TV 27
You could hear the pounding from practically anywhere from inside Alliant Energy Center’s Exhibition Hall.
Badger football players, using their brute strength to build a home.
“We’re out working for Habitat For Humanity- got quite a bit of guys about 60 guys from the badger men’s football team,” says Badger Football player Andy Kemp.
UW Student Dies after Marathon
NBC-15
A Madison man dies at the finish line of a marathon in Arkansas Sunday morning.
Officials with the Little Rock Marathon say 27-year old Adam Nickel collapsed as he crossed the finish line of the 26.2 mile race.
CPR attempts on Nickel were unsuccessful. No word on the cause of death.
NBC 15 has confirmed Nickel was a graduate student at UW-Madison. Spokesman John Lucas says he was in his third year at the School of Pharmacy.
UW-Madison to add emergency text messaging service
Wisconsin State Journal
An emergency notification system is only effective if people quite literally get the message.
To increase those odds, UW-Madison is preparing to add an emergency text messaging service to its existing system of getting the word out to students, faculty and staff about any urgent situation involving the campus.
Union officials deny loss of â??student voiceâ??
Daily Cardinal
Wisconsin Union officials denied allegations of student- worker mistreatment Thursday, after a group of students sent a letter to the Offices of the Dean of Students alleging management has deteriorated the vision of Memorial Union.
Employees charged in Union thef
Daily Cardinal
The District Attorneyâ??s office filed a criminal complaint Wednesday against five former employees at the Memorial Unionâ??s Stiftskeller for allegedly stealing a total of nearly $15,000 from cash registers.
UW turns to TXT alerts
Badger Herald
Starting this spring, the University of Wisconsin will offer a new method of notifying students in case of a campus emergency: text messaging.
Police charge Union workers
Badger Herald
Five Memorial Union workers were charged Wednesday with stealing more than $14,000 from the Stiftskeller last year.
Band of others: At UW, one need not be a music major to be instrumental to the program
Wisconsin State Journal
The College of Engineering does not tend to invite students to build bridges just for fun. The University of Wisconsin-Madison ‘s genetics department doesn ‘t train amateurs to analyze DNA as an unpaid hobby.
But for every credit the UW School of Music awards to music majors, it gives nearly four to non-majors. On Sunday three of the concert ensembles designed for non-majors, the University Bands, will perform.
Call it the Wisconsin Idea in music, the philosophy that the university should share its resources with all.
Crash That Injures Two Near Campus Raises Safety Concerns
WISC-TV 3
MADISON, Wis. — A recent car crash involving pedestrians on Madison’s University Avenue has some community members re-evaluating safety in the downtown and campus areas. The isthmus area is often jammed with commuters along with more than 40,000 students and staff on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, WISC-TV reported. In the first incident on Monday night, a car apparently struck two people as they crossed the street at the intersection of University Avenue and Mills Street. The two went to the hospital with minor injuries, authorities said.
College students slow to embrace text alerts
USA Today
The massacre at Virginia Tech last year sent colleges nationwide scrambling to improve how they get alerts to students during crises on campus. One solution: Text messages sent to cellphones.
But while hundreds of campuses have adopted text alerts, most students are not embracing the system â?? even in an age when they consider their mobile phones indispensable.
Med students lobby at Capitol
Daily Cardinal
UW-Madison medical students lobbied at the state Capitol Wednesday, attempting to gain support for the Healthy Wisconsin legislation. Thirty-five medical students wearing white lab coats held signs supporting the universal health care proposal and lobbied legislators from their home districts.
Textbook ordinance seemingly effective
Badger Herald
The University of Wisconsin Police Department released statistics indicating a City Council ordinance passed seven months ago aimed at stemming textbook thefts was effective in the second half of 2007.
Converting the Kohl
Badger Herald
The University of Wisconsinâ??s Kohl Center is one of the most impressive, state-of-the-art college sports facilities in the country. Four UW teams consistently call it home, as it stands proudly on Madisonâ??s West Dayton Street.
Car takes crash course
Badger Herald
A high-speed car chase in downtown Madison ended with an overturned car and a foot chase early Wednesday morning.
Med students get in the legislative game
Badger Herald
University of Wisconsin medical students sounded off in favor of universal health care at the state Capitol Wednesday, voicing their opinions to legislators face-to-face.
Union employees blast â??incompetentâ?? managers
Badger Herald
Several Wisconsin Union student workers are unsatisfied with working conditions at the Memorial Union and said the union has lost its â??student voice,â? according to a letter sent to the Offices of the Dean of Students Wednesday.
Five charged for stealing at Union’s Stiftskeller
Capital Times
Five bartenders at the Memorial Union’s Stiftskeller were charged Wednesday with stealing thousands of dollars by skimming off sales from various cash registers in the bar.
The complaint says the five, including one who said skimming from the tills was widespread and part of the “culture” of the Stiftskeller workers, took a total of more than $14,000 from the Union.
UW’s Bucky’s Bargain Butchery: ‘Really good meat’
Wisconsin State Journal
Each Friday a few dozen customers, mostly UW-Madison students and employees and all in on a campus secret, make the trek to Classroom 140 in the Meat Science and Muscle Biology Lab.
In a converted spice room, white-coated UW-Madison students take orders and sift through a big freezer in the middle of the room, pulling out bacon, steaks, lamb chops and the ever-popular Jordan and Clayt ‘s Hot Sticks sausages.
Buckley helped UW paper
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Nick Loniello never expected to get a chance to edit and comment on a column by William F. Buckley Jr. before it was published – let alone to do it while he watched Buckley give himself a shave in his underwear.
Then again, he never expected the conservative columnist who died Wednesday to rescue the newspaper Loniello helped found.
In 1969, as a University of Wisconsin-Madison student, Loniello and five others launched The Badger Herald to offer conservative views to counter the student-run Daily Cardinal. Two years later, the paper was nearly bankrupt.
2-year colleges may grant 4-year degrees under new proposal (AP)
MILWAUKEE â?? Adults who have some college credits but never finished four-year degrees could earn their diplomas at one of the stateâ??s 13 two-year colleges, under a proposal being developed by University of Wisconsin System officials.
The proposal is part of a growing focus on boosting per-capita income in a job market where recruiters increasingly demand bachelorâ??s degrees.
David Wilson, chancellor of the UW Colleges and UW Extension, expects to submit the proposal at the March meeting of the Board of Regents. Under the plan, the two-year colleges would expand their mission by granting their own four-year degree to a targeted group of adult students.
The RIAA One Year Later (Ohio University Post)
As the recording industryâ??s nationwide legal battle against college music sharers enters its second year, Ohio University â?? once ground zero in that campaign â?? is no longer under fire.
Identified last February by the recording industry as the recipient of more music sharing complaints than any other university, OU shelled out more than $75,000 last summer for a device that scans data crisscrossing its network for copyrighted media.
Editorial: Feedback should help shape UW student conduct rule changes (Oshkosh Northwestern)
Any university student who figures the University of Wisconsin System for a heavy-handed Goliath, large and in charge, should probably take the UW up on its most-recent, fair, open-door feedback offer.
The UW System wants to hear what everybody thinks about proposed administrative code changes that, among other things, would make a sweeping policy shift, amending “Student Nonacademic Disciplinary Procedures” to give a system university some power to reprimand a student based on his or her off-campus conduct.
UW to give ID scanners to some campus area bars
Capital Times
The UW-Madison plans to help some downtown bars and liquor stores identify underage drinkers by providing free ID scanners that can read driver’s licenses or identification cards to find out if they are real.
University of Wisconsin officials want to offer scanners to those businesses based on UW’s successful use in the Memorial Union’s Rathskeller for the past year and a half.
The technology has been gradually upgraded and about 100 false IDs were found last year, according to Union spokesman Marc Kennedy.
“We have found identification scanners to be very effective,” said Dawn Crim, acting special assistant to the UW-Madison chancellor. “We plan to offer them to establishments to assist them in making responsible sales.”
UW student awarded $20,000 entrepreneurial research grant
Daily Cardinal
UW-Madison doctoral student Michael Ciuchta was awarded a 2008 Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship Monday for his research in entrepreneurship, an area of study that the university is attempting to expand within the student body.
Forum gives advice for next campus chancellor
Daily Cardinal
UW-Madison students, faculty, alumni and Madison community members voiced opinions, concerns and suggestions for the next UW-Madison chancellor to a panel of representatives from the Chancellor Search and Screen Committee Tuesday.
Forum reveals campus requests
Badger Herald
Attendees of the University of Wisconsinâ??s Search and Screen Committeeâ??s open forum Tuesday said they want the next chancellor to take the university to the next level.
Vice Provost decision overdue
Badger Herald
Nearly four months after the three finalists were announced, the University of Wisconsin still does not have a new vice provost of diversity and climate.
Student’s the boss
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Mike Jurken doesn’t think he could get into the School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison – his grades aren’t good enough, and he doesn’t have time to keep up with the competitive atmosphere. Instead, he’s busy running his own company.
UW Could Discipline For Off-Campus Conduct (AP)
MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin campuses could discipline students for certain off-campus misconduct under a proposed rewrite of system rules.
The UW System is seeking feedback on the rules, which would be the first revisions of the system’s conduct code in more than a decade. The Board of Regents could approve them in April.
UW Seeks Input On Union Upgrades
WISC-TV 3
MADISON, Wis. — The UW is getting input on how to rebuild its student unions.
A mini-conference was held on Monday to discuss upgrades to the Memorial Union.
Details are also forthcoming about a new Union South, which will be at the same site as the current one.
UW officials want feedback from faculty, alums, students and staff by May 5.
UW building evacuated over acid spill
Daily Cardinal
A large acid spill occurred Friday in the Engineering Research Building on campus, forcing it to be evacuated by the Madison Fire Department.
Alvarez addresses BTN, athletic dept. success
Daily Cardinal
The full UW Athletic Board met Friday at Camp Randall to address current issues facing the athletic board and university community.
Grocery store coming to new University Sq.
Daily Cardinal
Roundyâ??s Supermarkets, owner of the Copps and Pick â??n Save chain stores, announced Friday it is in negotiations to lease retail space for a grocery store in the new University Square development.
Ties to state key for UWâ??s future
Badger Herald
One of the enduring legacies Chancellor John Wiley will leave when he steps down in September is the increased non-state funding he has procured for our university. Our endowment has skyrocketed; over the Wiley years, we have joined an elite group of universities with endowments above $1 billion.
Crime climbs; officials ask residents to beware
Badger Herald
In light of recent increases in residential burglaries and robberies, Madison and Dane County officials are calling on people to use caution late at night and keep their eyes peeled for anything suspicious.
Fire department evacuates UW building after acid spill
Badger Herald
A University of Wisconsin building was evacuated Friday after several gallons of chemicals were spilled in a 12th-floor laboratory.
Badger ticket prices will not increase, board decides
Badger Herald
The University of Wisconsin Athletic Board officially approved the 2008-09 athletic department budget Friday, including no ticket price increases for UW athletic events in the upcoming academic year.
Joel McNally: Arrogant UWM students try to outlaw their critics
Capital Times
When we hear sedition is raging out of control at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, prompting student government to ban free speech on campus, citizens everywhere have a right to be alarmed.
What’s alarming, of course, is the apparent overwhelming ignorance of many of today’s student leaders at UWM about the principles of democracy and the Constitution of the United States.
Madison civil rights pioneer Percy Julian Jr. dies
Capital Times
Percy Julian Jr., a pioneering Madison civil rights and liberties attorney, died Sunday in Madison. He was 67. Julian never regained consciousness after suffering a stroke at his home Saturday, according to Jeff Scott Olson.
“He was a pioneer in the field of civil rights litigation,” said Olson, Julian’s close friend and fellow attorney. “He started out during the time of Martin Luther King Jr. and was one of the people who made the civil rights laws passed in the King era real tools for justice, especially for African-Americans.”
Julian was best known for representing University of Wisconsin-Madison students charged in the Dow Chemical demonstrations in the 1960s and handling pioneering employment discrimination and voting rights class action suits across the United States, often in cooperation with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
Julian received his law degree from UW-Madison in 1966.
UW eyes raising money for need-based scholarships
Capital Times
The leadership of the UW-Madison Faculty Senate is proposing a campaign to raise as much as $1 million for need-based scholarships for students as a way of resolving concerns about lack of access to the university for low-income residents.
The senate — the governance body of the university faculty — will vote on March 3 on a resolution that would launch a campaign to provide and raise funds for such scholarships.
The University of Wisconsin Foundation would match contributions to the initiative.
Aaron’s House offers hope
Capital Times
A pleasant house on Gorham Street is offering hope and help to young men with alcohol or drug addiction problems.
That house is the result of Tom and Cathy Meyer’s devotion to their deceased son and their wish to make one of his ideas become reality. It’s also the result of many donations of time, furnishings and renovation by a caring community.
‘An opportunity to just dive into the research world’
Wisconsin State Journal
When you think of an apprenticeship program, working in a biotechnology lab at UW-Madison doesn ‘t immediately come to mind.
But such opportunities reflect the diversity of the Youth Apprenticeship Program coordinated by the Dane County School Consortium.
UW Donating Hi-Tech ID Scanners To Downtown Bars
WKOW-TV 27
UW officials want downtown bars to crackdown on underage drinking. They’re even giving away the latest technology to help bar owners find fake id’s.
The id scanners cost up to $700 a piece.
Wisconsin Flu Season in Full Swing
WKOW-TV 27
The UW is reporting more students coming to university health facilities in the past few weeks with flu-like symptoms. The worst is yet to come since cases are still increasing and haven’t leveled out yet. College campuses are perfect for virus breeding grounds.