Category: Campus life

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Starting this spring, the University of Wisconsin will offer a new method of notifying students in case of a campus emergency: text messaging.

Five Memorial Union workers were charged Wednesday with stealing more than $14,000 from the Stiftskeller last year.

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.

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.

A high-speed car chase in downtown Madison ended with an overturned car and a foot chase early Wednesday morning.

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 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.

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-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.

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.

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.

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.

A large acid spill occurred Friday in the Engineering Research Building on campus, forcing it to be evacuated by the Madison Fire Department.

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.

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.

A University of Wisconsin building was evacuated Friday after several gallons of chemicals were spilled in a 12th-floor laboratory.

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.

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.

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.

The Recording Industry Association of America released its 13th wave of pre-litigation letters Thursday.

This wave, which did not include UW-Madison among the 12 offending universities, is the most recent in the RIAAâ??s year-long campaign to combat illegal downloading on university campuses.

For University of Wisconsin sophomore Daniela Juarez, a typical day doesnâ??t really have a beginning or an end.

A University of Wisconsin student spoke out Thursday on charges of disorderly conduct, after allegedly pulling a knife on two students in Witte Residence Hall following a night of drinking Feb. 1.

The bells of the Carillon Tower at the University of Wisconsin solemnly tolled for an entire minute Thursday, stopping all pedestrian and vehicle traffic in the area as the ROTC honored the victims of last weekâ??s shootings at Northern Illinois University.