University of Wisconsin police and Madison police are working with Las Cruces, New Mexico detectives investigating the death of UW sophomore Michael Mowers, 22, whose partially burned body was discovered near a concrete culvert in Las Cruces Nov. 21.
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse students will see a big tuition increase in coming years to pay for a campus expansion and improve quality.
Students at the flagship UW-Madison campus could be next.
UW-Madison police continue an investigation of sexual assault that happened Nov. 30 in the Ogg Hall dormitory.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor John Wiley announced his retirement today.
Wiley has been at the helm of the Madison campus for six years and made the announcement at the Chazen Museum of Art, which was established under his watch.
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.
Ashley Halstead, a sophomore at UW-Madison, was up early two weeks ago chalking. Members of Colleges Against Cancer drew chalk lines 25 feet from several major campus buildings for National Lung Cancer Awareness Month in November. This is the distance one must be from a university building to be smoking a cigarette. Halstead dusted the pink chalk off on her jeans, avoiding her new t-shirt, which proudly declared â??I Put Outâ??Cigarettes.â? After a long day of chalking and classes, Halstead went to study at College Library. She sat at a desk in the café, stretched and rolled up her sleeves.
Those who managed to spend their time on the UW-Madison campus without hearing Madisonâ??s premiere male a cappella group, either by attending one of their other concerts performed during the year, or by being â??MadHatteredâ? on the street, can get more than their vocal-injected fill this weekend.
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?
This past Tuesday, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Conservative Union hosted a speaker by the name of Walid Shoebat. Mr. Shoebat is a self-described former PLO terrorist and was speaking out against jihad. It goes without saying that this contentious topic was not well-received by many at UWM.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Assembly Speaker Mike Huebsch says he’s backing a major tuition increase at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse to pay for a campus expansion.
Huebsch, a Republican from West Salem, says the $1,000 increase will help the school, the community and the entire state.
The plan would allow the university to add 500 students and hire 95 more faculty and staff.
A committee of the UW System Board of Regents approved the plan today.
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.
When a noose appeared on the office door of a black professor at Columbia Universityâ??s Teachers College this October, students and professors were outraged at the blatant act of racism.
As campus administrators worry about how to prevent violence like last spring’s Virginia Tech shootings, students applying to college increasingly face queries about their past behavior: Were they ever severely disciplined in high school? Have they been convicted of a crime?
Although such questions were added to a widely used college application form months before the massacre at Virginia Tech, admissions officers say that the murders made them more vigilant about students’ personal troubles. They say that they won’t reject otherwise strong applicants because of one schoolyard fight or a beer arrest, but they may be wary of troubling patterns.
(John Lucas of University Communications is quoted in this article)
When a student defaults on a loan guaranteed or serviced by Great Lakes Higher Education Corp., there’s no car or home to repossess.
“You can’t take back the education,” said Richard George, the company’s president and chief executive.
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.
Field Pass, Curt and Matt Brink’s proposed new venture at University Square, got a liquor license Tuesday night despite objections by some vocal members of the Capitol Neighborhoods Association and despite the venue’s location within Madison’s new alcohol density control area.
The City Council unanimously supported its Alcohol License Review Committee’s recommendation to grant a license for a 550-person capacity restaurant.
Jamie McCarville, who spoke in opposition to the licensing on behalf of the Capitol Neighborhoods Alcohol Issues Committee, argued that Field Pass’s proposed location within the University Square development — which also includes housing for students, many under the age of 21 — was a really bad idea.
In light of the recent fires that affected two separate residences and impacted more than 35 UW students near our campus, Iâ??d like to publicly recognize the efforts of the following:
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents will hold its monthly meetings in Madison this Thursday and Friday, and among the topics of discussion will be the high cost of textbooks.
After the Madison Police Department declared a recent incident at the La Ciel apartments a suicide attempt, University Health Services is reminding students of the help available to them during this stressful time of year.
he Madison City Council unanimously approved a license for the new campus-area restaurant Field Pass Tuesday night.
The father-son ownership team of Field Pass, opening Aug. 1, 2008, invested millions of dollars to try to ensure its success and according to co-owner Matt Brink, the two-story restaurant â??is going to be very different.â?
Their poetry was by turns personal, political, poignant, hilarious and heartbreaking, but always lightning fast.
Four poets emerged from Tuesday night’s first annual UW collegiate poetry slam, hosted by the Multicultural Student Coalition. The four now move on to the national collegiate finals in Albuquerque, N.M. They were Danez Smith, Sophia Snow, Dominique Chestand and Kelsey VanErt.
The spoken word competition finals drew a crowd of about 300 people to the Memorial Union Theater on a snowy night. Fourteen students competed, culled from the 20 contestants in the semifinals Monday.
A group of University of Wisconsin campus-area legislators sent a letter to UW System President Kevin Reilly Tuesday, expressing their concern regarding proposed segregated fee policy changes.
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.”
Textbooks can rack up a hefty bill, but a Board of Regents request to assess textbook prices has spurred the creation a UW-Madison task force to help students plan expenses.
The Madison Plan Commission decided Monday to refer the plans of a proposed apartment building on the corner of West Johnson and North Mills streets due to uncertainty surrounding the relocation of two houses the highrise would replace.
With textbook prices rising, some University of Wisconsin students are looking at more affordable options.
The University of Wisconsin football team is graduating more of its black athletes and is in better shape academically than at any point in the past six years.
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hat is the conclusion of a study released Monday by the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida, which annually studies the major college football teams that qualify for bowl games.
Wisconsin graduated 52 percent of its black football players who enrolled between 1997 and 2000, the school’s high-water mark since the study originated in the 2002 season, and an improvement from 44 percent last year.
If developers can relocate two century-old homes, a new $24 million, 14-story apartment building could rise next year at the busy corner of West Johnson and Mills streets. Whether they can find appropriate sites for the homes remains to be seen, however.
Aimed at UW-Madison students, professionals and researchers with families, Ten Twenty-Two West Johnson calls for 163 apartments, from efficiency to four-bedroom units. Parking would be provided underground with space for mopeds, bicycles and 161 vehicles.
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse student and faculty leaders will travel to Madison later this week to seek UW System Board of Regentsâ?? approval for its Growth, Quality and Access plan.
â??The implications for the future of the university and the community are huge in terms of enhancing the quality of the university, stimulating the local economy and increasing our visibility in the region,â? said UW-L Chancellor Joe Gow.
The board of regents will vote on the plan Friday, assuming the Business, Finance and Audit Committee recommends it Thursday.
The plan is a modified version of UW-Lâ??s Growth and Access proposal that failed to be included in the 2007-09 state budget.
A UW-Madison student survived a fall late Saturday night from an eighth-story balcony at the La Ciel apartment complex, according to police.
A 19-year-old female UW-Madison student reported being sexually assaulted in Ogg Hall early Friday morning, according to University of Wisconsin police.
MONTCLAIR, N.J. (AP) — It was after 1 a.m. on a Sunday when college freshman Amanda Phillips arrived at the train station. She was nervous about walking alone in the dark to her dorm at Montclair State University.
So Phillips activated a GPS tracking device on her school-issued cell phone that would instantly alert campus police to her whereabouts if she didn’t turn it off in 20 minutes. After a five-minute walk, she safely reached her dorm room, locked the door behind her and turned off the timer.
….Montclair is one of the first schools in the U.S. to use GPS tracking devices, which along with other security technology are increasingly being adopted on campuses in the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre last spring.
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After widespread outrage from users, including a 50,000-member MoveOn.org petition, Facebook announced changes Friday to a new advertising program that many said violated usersâ?? privacy rights.
WHITEWATER — Only a crisis would keep Andy Wolfe from eating Tuesday lunch at the First United Methodist Church.
And he’s not alone.
Hundreds of UW-Whitewater students begin arriving at the Prairie Street church about 10:45 a.m. Tuesdays for free, home-cooked meals in a warm and caring environment.
The standing invitation to university students has no strings attached.
Madison police are considering a UW-Madison student’s fall off an eighth floor balcony Saturday night as a suicide attempt, according to police spokesman Joel DeSpain.
DeSpain said this morning that the 21-year-old student was being treated in a local hospital for non-life-threatening injuries after he fell six stories from an eighth floor balcony to a second floor roof at the La Ciel Apartments on 515 University Ave. around 10:45 p.m.
UW-Madison placed 10th in a magazine’s ranking for athletics and academics at NCAA Division I universities.
Stack magazine, which provides information for high school athletes, published a list of “Elite 50” colleges this year for the first time. The study looked at a combination of academics, athletic opportunity and overall performance.
How could it have come to this? How broken and inept must our governmental and corporate institutions be that, within the span of only a month, both Packers and Badgers fans were unable to get access to two of the most important games of the season?
Our university spent $41 million on campus energy in the 2006 fiscal year: 46 percent for electricity, 47 percent for power plant coal/gas/oil and 7 percent for water and sewage. Gov. Doyle has required all state facilities and campuses to reduce energy use by 20 percent in just four years, from 2006 to 2010. UW-Madison needs your help to accomplish this goal.
Beauties and geeks showed up at the University Bookstore Saturday hoping to earn a spot in season five of Beauty and the Geek, CWâ??s reality television show.
University of Wisconsin System students are becoming less prone to binge drinking, although the numbers are still above national binge drinking rates among college students, according to a survey released last week.
A University of Wisconsin student was rushed to a local hospital Saturday night after falling from the eighth story of an apartment building.
University of Wisconsin Police officials said they are still investigating an alleged sexual assault at a dorm on campus involving a UW student.
More than six inches of heavy wet snow plastered parts of the Midwest Saturday causing several car accidents, delays at airports and a fatal car accident on Interstate 90/94 near DeForest.
A new study says binge drinking among University of Wisconsin System students has declined slightly but remains higher than the national average.
The survey found that 54 percent of UW System students admitted binge drinking at least once in the last two weeks.
A UW-Madison student survived an eight-story fall from an apartment building late Saturday night, Madison police said.
Probably nobody on the University of Wisconsin football team is looking forward to the trip to Tampa, Fla., for the Outback Bowl more than sophomore running back Lance Smith.
“I’m telling everybody, ‘I love playing in Camp Randall, but I’m just ready to get on a plane with my teammates,’ ” Smith said after the Badgers started bowl practices on Friday. “I wasn’t able to do that this year and just fly to a nice environment and play football and get on the field and make plays for my teammates.”
It seemed reasonable enough. Students who vomit, fall down or otherwise draw attention to themselves inside Camp Randall Stadium as a result of excessive alcohol consumption forfeit the privilege of attending future University of Wisconsin football games.
That was nearly the policy that the UW Dean of Students Office put in place years ago to help curb the binge drinking and rowdy behavior that have become synonymous with Badger Saturdays in Madison. “A game ticket is a license that can be revoked, and our initial idea was to just revoke the season tickets of those students who get kicked out,” says assistant dean of students Ervin Cox. “Then we thought, ‘Let’s not do that. Let’s give them the chance to still come, but they have to come sober.’ ”
