The owner of the rental house where a visiting 23-year-old Plymouth man died in a fire Sunday said smoke detectors at the property were working when the current tenants moved into the building in August 2006.
“I know we were in compliance with all the rules,” said Chris Houden, whose Palisades Properties owns the property at 123 N. Bedford St. and several others in the area leased to students.
The death of the first-born son of a Plymouth performing-arts family in a weekend fire in Madison has sent waves of grief through both communities.
Peter Talen, 23, was remembered Monday by Plymouth High School educators as a student whose impact went beyond the classroom and stage.
“Our faculty is broken up about it,” said Principal Dan Mella. “Peter was very involved in community and school activities, in 4-H and the arts.
If you’re among the 27 million people who will be traveling on U.S. airlines over Thanksgiving, this probably won’t come as a shock. But travel experts say the odds are fairly high you won’t have a pleasant experience.
This has been the worst year ever for cancelled flights and long delays, and passenger complaints are up 50 percent over 2006. But are the odds of having a bad experience even higher if you’re a non-American?
MADISON, Wis. — UW students in need, like those who lost their home to fire, can get some financial help from the university, reported WISC-TV.
The crisis loan fund is a program that grants UW Madison students zero interest loans of around $500, for any type of crisis such as fire, an accident, or maybe just to a student who needs help paying an electric bill.
Students can then use the loan money to meet their immediate needs in a crisis situation.
MADISON, Wis. — Madison’s chief building inspector, George Hank, told WISC-TV that despite repeated messages every year about checking smoke detectors, the message, many times, falls on deaf ears.
He said both occupants and landlords are to blame.
Hank estimates that 40 percent of all the smoke detectors they check are not working, even though, he said, “The smoke detector is the greatest advance ever made in home safety.”
MADISON, Wis. — Authorities are investigating what caused a house fire this weekend that killed a 23-year-old University of Wisconsin-La Crosse student and hurt three others, but said that smoke alarms weren’t working.
The Madison Fire Department said that three smoke alarms in the house were disabled.
The blaze broke out at about 5:30 a.m. in the 100 block of North Bedford Street. Madison and UW firefighters arrived at the scene within minutes and it took them about 20 minutes to contain the fire. Firefighters evacuated nearby houses fearing that the fire would spread, WISC-TV reported.
The Dean of Students at the UW is urging everyone across campus to make sure their smoke detectors are working properly.
The urgent reminder follows Sunday’s deadly fire on Bedford Street.
23-year-old Peter Talen of Plymouth, a UW LaCrosse student in town visiting his brother was found dead inside the rental property.
Three others were taken to the hospital and are in stable condition Monday afternoon.
There were no working smoke detectors inside the home that burned early Sunday morning in downtown Madison.
That’s according to the Madison fire investigators working this case.
The fire killed 23-year-old Peter Talen of Plymouth.
As UW-Madison students prepare travel plans to get to and from Madison for Thanksgiving break this week, two student-run bus companies are providing convenient, low-cost services to get home.
A house fire early Sunday morning on Bedford Street left one dead and three UW-Madison students injured, according to Madison fire officials.
Chancellor John Wiley and Athletic Director Barry Alvarez announced Friday that revenue generated from the Big Ten Network would be distributed to campus entities outside the UW Athletic Department.
A judge found Antonio Popeâ??the man accused of two attacks on women near UW-Madisonâ??s campus last semesterâ??guilty of two felony counts of first degree sexual assault and kidnapping Friday, after Pope pled no contest to the charges.
Investigators today were still trying to figure out the cause of Sunday’s campus area fire swept through a nearly 100-year-old house in a student residential neighborhood, which killed a young man who was visiting his brother and injured three others.
Forcing cable providers to provide the Big Ten Network makes about as much sense as passing legislation that mandates McDonaldâ??s carry the Whopper. Not surprisingly, this is exactly what the state Legislature is considering.
An innocent game may have turned violent at the Memorial Union Saturday when a building manager was allegedly punched and kicked several times by two young males.
A Dane County man was found guilty Friday of abducting and raping two female University of Wisconsin students in late 2006.
The University of Wisconsin will receive $6.1 million in royalties from the Big Ten Network by the end of the 2007-08 academic year, Chancellor John Wiley said Friday.
A U.S. district judge granted the Recording Industry Association of America a subpoena Thursday allowing the company to request information on 56 University of Wisconsin System students accused of illegally downloading music.
UW-Madison will earn at least $6.1 million this year under its broadcasting agreement with the Big Ten Network, Chancellor John Wiley said Friday.
An early Sunday morning blaze destroyed a house near the University of Wisconsin campus, leaving a UW-La Crosse student dead and three UW-Madison students with burn injuries.
STEVENS POINT â?? In his three months at UW-Stevens Point, freshman Joe Kooi, 18, has gradually moved more of his possessions to campus from his home in Milwaukee â?? a computer, a microwave oven, his iPod, his shotgun.
A house fire near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus Sunday morning killed a 23-year-old man who was visiting friends for the weekend and injured three others, according to the Madison Fire Department.
On Thursday, when college students take their seats at Thanksgiving tables, there could be some surprises in store. The biggest one might be that there aren’t many surprises.
Anthony Reuter, 20, a junior at the University of Minnesota, told his parents about his shaved head a full month before going home to Viroqua this week.
“My mom screamed,” said Reuter, who also gave them a heads-up when he pierced his lip this time last year.
MADISON, Wis. – The University of Wisconsin will earn at least $6.1 million this year under its broadcasting agreement with the Big Ten Network, Chancellor John Wiley said Friday.
Wiley said 70 percent of the revenue will go to the athletics department to support its strategic plan. The rest will be used for financial aid for low-income students and to support the school’s library system.
The university released the details Friday afternoon, capping a week in which state lawmakers started to question the deal.
Many Badgers fans are angry they can’t get some Wisconsin games on cable TV since the state’s two biggest cable companies and the network have failed to reach an agreement.
Flames swept through a house near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus early Sunday morning, killing one man and injuring three others in a neighborhood largely populated by college students.
A passer-by reported the blaze about 5:35 a.m., according to Madison Fire Department spokeswoman Lori Wirth.
MADISON, Wis. — A 31-year-old Madison man was found guilty of abducting and raping two University of Wisconsin-Madison students on separate occasions last year.
Antonio Pope pleaded no contest Friday to two counts of kidnapping and two counts of first-degree sexual assault in the incidents.
MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor John Wiley said his school will earn more than $6 million this year under its agreement with the Big Ten Network.
Wiley says 70 percent of the revenue will go to the athletics department to support its strategic plan. The rest will be used for financial aid for low-income students and to support the school’s library system.
An early morning house fire in downtown Madison sent three people to the hospital and resulted in the death of a young man. The Dane county coroner says 23 year old Peter Talen died in the fire. He was from Plymouth, Wisconsin. Three others escaped the home and were taken to the hospital Sunday, but are said to have non life-threatening injuries.
Firefighters were called to 123 North Bedford around 5:30 Sunday morning by a passerby who called to report flames on the porch of the two-story house. Dan Miller lives next door to where the fire happened. He was sleeping when the fire broke out. “My girlfriend woke me up about 5:30 in the morning. She had heard some yelling in the street somebody had been yelling, “Get out there’s a fire! A house is on fire!”,” explained Miller.
MADISON, Wis. — Neighbors to 123 N. Bedford St. were up late Saturday night into Sunday morning.
“We were up until 2 a.m. studying for a test we have on Monday,” said neighbor Dan Miller. “We didn’t hear anything out of the ordinary.”
But within hours of calling it a night, tragedy struck next door to Miller.
The house at 123 N. Bedford St. caught fire.
MADISON, Wis. — The Madison Fire Department has confirmed that one person died in a house fire on the UW campus early Sunday morning.
The Dane County Coroner has identified the young man who died as Peter Talen, 23 of Plymouth. City officials told WISC-TV that Talen was a UW LaCrosse student who was taking the semester off. His brother was one of the three victims who escaped the fire.
One person is dead and three UW students are in the hospital after a fire consumed a house on North Bedford place early Sunday morning.
Madison Fire Department spokesperson Lori Wirth says at 5:35am Sunday, a passerby called in a fire at 123 N. Bedford, blocks away from the Kohl Center, in a heavily student populated living district.
Good things appear afoot at UW-Madison’s Lathrop Hall.
A recent string of successful dance concerts, including one last month by Jin-Wen Yu Dance, continued Thursday night with the faculty’s fall program.
Laura Sheets, finance coordinator for the Campus Womenâ??s Center, would like to clear up a myth â?? the Womenâ??s Center is not just for women.
Following the fire at 505 N. Carroll St. Saturday, 30 students found themselves without clothes, books or a place to stay.
Madison is a city that prides itself on its natural beauty. Most of this beauty comes from the five lakes surrounding the isthmus. Unfortunately, these lakes, which are locales of summertime activities and provide majestic vistas, also have foul odors and murky water unfit for swimming in.
A judge found Paul Aud, the man accused of attacking a UW-Madison student in her Langdon Street building in August 2006, guilty of battery and attempted sexual assault Wednesday after several hours of emotional testimony.
University of Wisconsin officials have spent a considerable amount of time and energy this semester expressing their displeasure with student behavior at Camp Randall Stadium.
he MultiCultural Student Coalition is a dynamic group on campus that extends its services of diversity education to all students on campus with a specific emphasis on social justice and campus climate. This specific focus is meant to respond to students whose needs are often unmet or underdeveloped in an intuitional setting.
A judge found a Madison man guilty Wednesday of sexually assaulting a University of Wisconsin student in her Langdon Street apartment in August 2006.
All UW System chancellors received copies Monday of a proposed segregated fees policy that could alter what student organizations can and cannot do with state funds.
A committee of System administrators and students met Nov. 7 to discuss minor changes to the System’s current policies regarding the use of student segregated fees and to condense the two current policies into one document, said UW-Eau Claire Student Senate President Ray French, a member of the committee.
A group of UW-Madison students attended the meeting in opposition to the consolidated policy. But French said the committee was only voting in favor of sending the policy to schools for comment, and he doesn’t think the proposal restricts the student voic
Sometimes tearfully, but often assertive, a former UW student described her vicious beating at the hands of a stranger in the stairwell of a Langdon Street building.
The testimony came during the trial of 34-year-old Paul Aud. Late Wednesday afternoon, Dane County Judge John Markson convicted Aud of substantial battery and attempted sex assault. Aud followed the victim into her apartment building in August 2006, attacked her and tried to rape her.
Jolene Anderson, Danielle Ward and Janese Banks have bonded through adversity during their careers with the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team, and breaking into the Associated Press Top 25 poll has been a satisfying accomplishment for the seniors.
First-term County Board Supervisor Ashok Kumar will not seek re-election in 2008 in District 5, which covers the University of Wisconsin campus.
Kumar, 23, plans to move out of the area, “possibly to the San Francisco bay area,” he said, and continue doing organizing work, “more grassroots efforts.”
A UW-Madison student dressed as mascot Bucky Badger at Saturdayâ??s hockey game against North Dakota will receive an apology from a Sioux hockey player who slashed him on the shins, The Capital Times reported Tuesday.
In the wake of the apartment fire on Carroll Street Saturday, Dean of Students Lori Berquam said displaced UW-Madison students have received close to $5000 from UW-Madisonâ??s Student Crisis Loan Fund.
When University of Wisconsin students approached Dean of Students Lori Berquam with the â??Think Campaignâ? in spring 2006, the idea was easy to support. Fighting oppressive attitudes on campus seemed to be uniquely opportune, especially in light of the anti-gay incident in Ogg Hall.
If the University of Iowa administration gets its way, students at the university had better cancel their Thursday night party plans.
Wednesday, 3:30 p.m., Espresso Royale on lower State Street. The drone of a latte machine and the gentle throb of the indie music mix permeate the cafe.
The results of recent surveys of young peoples political savvy are grim: Just one-third of college students said its important to stay current with political issues and events. More than half of people ages 15 to 25 didnt know that only citizens can vote in the United States.
For the first time, Arabic has made it into the list of the top 10 most-studied languages at U.S. colleges and universities, according to a survey by the Modern Language Association of America.
A UW-Madison education does not just happen on campus, but stretches across the globe.
This week marks the eighth annual International Education Week, and UW-Madison is recognizing its efforts as a global university.
It is important for students to know that their fellow students play an important role in selecting the art displayed at our Wisconsin Union. Also, students have produced a vast number of the art we hold in our collections. I regret to report that there has been a recent string of vandalism in our Memorial Union and Union South that has destroyed pieces of our art collection.
Affirmative action is a withering cause. Since the late 1970s, state referendums and court rulings have given the program a slow but steady beating â?? a bruising that must give comfort to opponents of racial equality everywhere.
In a column I wrote last semester I referred to the new UW holistic admissions policy as racist. I think that the policy adopted by the Board of Regents seeks to solve a legitimate problem â?? a lack of diversity on UW System campuses â?? but does so without addressing any of the underlying causes of why minority students in Wisconsin are unprepared for college.
Madison Fire Department officials said Monday a weekend fire at a downtown apartment will surpass early damage estimates, with possibly more than $500,000 in damages.
Over the years, University of Wisconsin Chancellor John Wiley has expressed a great deal of discontentment with Badger fansâ?? behavior during home football games.
Bucky Badger took a tap on the shins from a North Dakota hockey player on Saturday â?? and now the University of Wisconsin mascot will receive an apology.
WCHA commissioner Bruce McLeod said Sioux defenseman Joe Finley was captured on videotape slashing Bucky Badger â?? played by UW student David Blanchard â?? before Saturday’s game, which North Dakota won 3-1.
Finley must write a letter of apology to Blanchard, McLeod said.
Two recent fires in student housing should give renters and their parents pause as they start looking for a place to live for the next school year.
The advice from experts: Do your homework.
“If you look around the perimeter of the (UW-Madison) campus, there are numerous examples of really good buildings that are in compliance, ” UW-Madison Dean of Students Lori Berquam said Monday. “But there are still those pockets of places that could still potentially be problematic. I tell students and their parents to be very thoughtful before they sign a lease and to know what they are getting into. “
Old Ogg Hall at UW-Madison, home to thousands of students for more than 40 years, is coming down.
But memories are surfacing, in part because of a Wisconsin Alumni Association blog that invites former residents to tell their stories. Dozens of alumni have posted on the site. Topics include: “The night someone dropped a boulder down the trash chute… ” and “The Fire. “
The special Monday at Der Rathskeller in the Memorial Union was a Sante Fe chicken sandwich.
A floor above, in Tripp Commons, the entrees were all business as budding entrepreneurs feasted on the ideas of those who have already taken the plunge into entrepreneurship.
