Category: Campus life

A University of Wisconsin group wants administrators to open its doors to Iraqi students, to help them achieve their academic goals away from the war zone. Brian Bull reports.â?¦(Audio.)

As states and the federal government continue to debate financial support for military personnel who want to attend (or return to) college, some states have taken their own initiative. Now, recently released enrollment data for the University of Wisconsin System could offer a preview of what states can expect in the coming years â?? despite new research documenting the persistent educational gaps between veterans and non-veterans.

UW-Madisonâ??s Roman Catholic Foundation filed a motion against the university Monday claiming it determined money distribution based on the groupâ??s religious ties.

Specifically, the complaint asks UW-Madison to not use the groupâ??s religion in deciding funding, to treat RCF-UW like any other registered student organization and to reimburse $39,000 in costs university officials said they would cover in the groupâ??s budgets, but later retracted.

The University of Wisconsin decided Tuesday to cover nearly $1,300 in safety fees recently charged to a student group.

With the fall semester winding down, room cleaning probably isn ‘t high on the agenda of most UW-Madison students. But some residents of Chadbourne Residential College weren ‘t given an option over the weekend.

A broken radiator coil in a seventh-floor dorm room Saturday morning led to partial flooding all the way down to the west wing ‘s main level, forcing dozens of students to scoop up belongings and temporarily evacuate their rooms.

With local forecasts calling for continuing snowfall and freezing rain early this week, the university issued a statement regarding ongoing snow removal after facing scrutiny from some students.

Chancellor John Wiley announced Friday his plans to step down in September 2008 as head of UW-Madison after seven years of promoting the universityâ??s private funding and building relationships with students.

Chadbourne Residential College experienced flooding on several floors Saturday, with many residents of the buildingâ??s west wing forced to evacuate their rooms and remove their belongings to avoid water damage.

University of Wisconsin students are choosing to study abroad in record numbers despite the U.S. dollar weakening in comparison to foreign currencies.

With the announcement Friday that University of Wisconsin Chancellor John Wiley will step down from his position at the end of the school year, his mark on the university is still to be determined.

After nearly seven years as head of the University of Wisconsin, John Wiley announced Friday he will step down as chancellor effective September 2008.

A gust of winter weather has not deterred one group of downtown motorists from braving the streets during and after the snow, sleet and general slushiness that covered Madison this week. These drivers, however, were not manning the city’s snowplows.

It was moped drivers on the UW-Madison campus and the surrounding areas who took to the roads sporting parkas and face masks during and after Saturday’s storm and Tuesday’s snow.

According to University of Wisconsin Police officer Kristin Radtke, Madison has the highest concentration of mopeds in the country.

UW-Madison officials said they will review whether a student Republican group should be charged nearly $1,300 to cover security for a campus speech by a conservative commentator.

UW-Madison police continue an investigation of sexual assault that happened Nov. 30 in the Ogg Hall dormitory.

I feel that Sam Cleggâ??s opinion column (â??Donâ??t bother with diversity positions,â? Dec. 5) necessitated a response representing the student body that does care deeply about diversity and racial equality at the University of Wisconsin and in America. First, Mr. Cleggâ??s claim that the Office of Diversity and Climate be â??put to rest once and for allâ? is ignorant of the barriers preventing racial equality from occurring.

The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents will continue to explore what can be done to maintain affordable textbook prices, as decided at their monthly meeting Thursday.

Las Cruces, N.M., police have determined a body found in a canal near Calle de Alegra last week is a University of Wisconsin student.

Student organizations cannot use segregated fees to pay for off-campus rent or salaries of non-University of Wisconsin employees, according to a final decision announced at Thursdayâ??s UW Board of Regents meeting.

ESPN SportsCenter anchor Scott Van Pelt will deliver the charge to the University of Wisconsinâ??s graduates in the winter 2007 commencement ceremonies.

Police in Las Cruces, N. M., who discovered a charred body on Nov. 21, identified the man as UW-Madison student Michael J. Mowers on Thursday after Wisconsin detectives matched the fingerprints through a national database.

UW System administrators announced Thursday the adoption of a new segregated university fee policy, which aims to continue the shared responsibility between students and campus administrators in the allocation of segregated fees and protect their use in the best interest of students.

Scott Van Pelt, an ESPN SportsCenter anchor who called Madison â??Americaâ??s best college sports town,â? will be speaking to UW-Madisonâ??s December graduates on Dec. 16 at the Kohl Center.

MADISON â?? University of Wisconsin System leaders today approved a controversial new policy that will make it harder for some nonprofit groups to receive student fees.

UW System vice president Don Mash said the policy protects universities from increasing pressure by groups seeking money for services that donâ??t benefit students.

Only about six out of 700 student groups on the UW campus in Madison will be affected by the policy change, which will allow fewer groups to use the money for salaries and off-campus rent.

University of Wisconsin system leaders approved a controversial policy Thursday that will make it more difficult for some groups to get money from student fees. It’s a change the University says will ensure the fees are spent how they were intended to be. Money generated from student segregated fees will now be better protected they say – and used directly for students.

The system for dispersing these fees has been questioned for years. The university admits there are plenty of non-profit groups that benefit students in Madison. Some of those groups, like the Wisconsin Public Interest Research Group argued they do use the money for the good of students.

LAS CRUCES – The partially burned body of a man found in south Las Cruces last month was that of a University of Wisconsin-Madison student, police said Thursday.

The body of Michael J. Mowers, 22, was discovered Nov. 21 in a culvert leading to a canal near Calle de Alegra, off South Main Street.

It was not known what Mowers was doing in Las Cruces.

As a high school senior, Aleks Olszewski was too lazy to visit many colleges, so she thumbed through books – such as â??351 Best Colleges,â? an 800-page compilation by the Princeton Review weighing more than two pounds – to learn the positive and negative aspects of the schools and read what their students had to say.

But, now a freshman at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she cautions that may not be the best approach for all.

â??I’m happy with my decision,â? Olszewski said. â??But I know a lot of people who are transferring at semester or at the end of the year.â?

Almost 10 months after one of his legal process classes erupted into intense open hearings about what he did or didn’t say about the Hmong people, UW Law School professor Leonard Kaplan said in a lunchtime speech that he was trying to illustrate how the legal system can poorly serve minorities.

Wednesday’s speech before the Rotary Club of Madison marked the first time Kaplan has spoken at length about the controversy in public.

University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly is scheduled to issue his report today on the hotly contested segregated fee policies at the monthly Board of Regents meeting.

Enrollment throughout the University of Wisconsin System is at an all-time high, up 2.1 percent from fall 2006.

Poetry slams are intense. Filled with politics, hurt, laughter and always music, they have an energy and emotional involvement that can be compared to an amazing concert you just danced for hours at. And the finals for the inaugural UW Collegiate Slam on Tuesday night at the Wisconsin Union Theater were an impressive display of the young creative talent the state has to offer in a genre that is becoming more and more popular.

Obstacles left by Saturday’s storm has made getting around extra hard for Ben Schifsky whose wheelchair gets stuck in the thick slush and ice.

So this morning he gave himself a little more time to get to class.
But when he took his normal route to the bus stop he was blocked by a barrier of ice.
“So i tried to go to my bus stop and there was a giant chunk of ice jetting out of the sidewalk,” Schifsky says.

MADISON, Wis. — Disabled students on the UW campus are having a hard time making it to class this week.

While most sidewalks have been cleared, even small patches of snow and ice can create barriers for some students.

“That’s what we’ll see, stretches of a path that will be clear and then there will be three or four feet of rutted ice,” said Cathy Trueba, Director of the UW’s McBurney Disability Resource Center. “For somebody walking, they can navigate that small stretch, but if you’re using a chair or a person with difficulty in balance, gait, or vision that stretch basically creates a barrier that student may not be able to get past.”