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.
It won’t come to this, but none of the 10,000-plus students expected at today’s big college fair will know if Cristan Trahey and her staff show up in their pajamas.
“Some of us will be in our office,” says Trahey, acting admissions director at American University, a private college in Washington, D.C. “Some of us will be at home on our laptops.”
The two-day event, billed as a first-of-its-kind international “virtual college fair,” is from 3-11 p.m. ET today and Wednesday at www.college weeklive.com. It’s expected to give students worldwide a chance to talk to admissions officers at about 100 colleges, see streaming video of experts and hear panel discussions on the college admissions process â?? all without rising from their armchairs.
Dave Gruenwald and his team have developed a one-of-a-kind boat. Now all they need is the cash to float it.
Luke Schrab looks over a Briggs & Stratton 26-horsepower riding lawn mower engine that had been put into a Vent-T Boats prototype. Allenton-based Ven-T Boats Inc. is one of 21 firms pitching for investments at a Madison symposium this week.
The Vent-T Boats prototype employs an air-cooled engine coupled with a propulsion system that uses a surface-breaking propeller.
It features a propeller tucked so high, the boat can operate in 12 inches of water. Its air-cooled Briggs & Stratton engine means there’s no water pump to overheat or winterizing to do.
When Mark Werth moved into the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Ogg Hall dormitory as a freshman in 1965, everything was new: the beds, the closets, the fluorescent lighting and the rotary phone in each room.
A large sculpture has been installed in the common area in front of the new Ogg Hall dormitory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
University of Wisconsin-Madison student Kelly Eickert (left) talks with her roommate, Jessica Zahn, in their new Ogg Hall dorm room. The rooms in the new dormitory complex are wider and deeper than the rooms in the old, 13-story Ogg Hall, which is undergoing demolition.
Werth helped build Ogg’s raucous reputation from scratch, pulling fire alarms and lobbing water balloons.
Early Monday morning, a fire erupted inside a fraternity house on UW-Whitewater’s campus. All 10 students inside got out safely because the house dog started barking.
All are staying with friends.
On Saturday, a fire at an apartment complex on Carroll Street in Madison sent UW-Madison students onto the streets.
MADISON, Wis. â?? Old Ogg Hall at University of Wisconsin-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: â??The night someone dropped a boulder down the trash chute…â?? and â??The Fire.â??
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Demolitions crews started ripping down the old hall last week. A new version of Ogg opened this fall across the street, with larger rooms, shared bathrooms and air conditioning.
Early Saturday morning an apartment fire on North Carroll Street left more than 30 peopleâ??most UW-Madison studentsâ??homeless after Madison firefighters spent several minutes battling the flames.
Several UW-Madison student organizations will be able to re-apply for eligibility to receive university funding the Associated Students of Madisonâ??s Student Judiciary.ruled Friday.
According to the ruling, ASMâ??s Student Services Finance Committee misinterpreted bylaw criteria when it denied funding to groups earlier this semester and must re-evaluate any group that was previously denied funding based solely on the bylaw.
Fire investigators have returned to the scene of an apartment fire downtown, still trying to determine the cause of the blaze that forced about 30 UW students to seek other accomodations since early Saturday morning.
The blaze at 505 N. Carroll Street caused about $206,000 in damages. Thirteen Madison Fire Department units responded to the two-alarm blaze, which started in a sixth-floor apartment of the seven-story building.
I am writing to describe to you my experience at this weekâ??s football game, which was one of the best and worst experiences I have had at a Badger game.
College students facing life-threatening illnesses would no longer have to worry about remaining full-time students in order to keep their health insurance, if Gov. Jim Doyle signs a recently passed bill into law.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents discussed the future of postsecondary education in Wisconsin during a meeting Friday.
The Associated Students of Madisonâ??s Student Judiciary issued a ruling Friday in response to the Roman Catholic Foundation of the University of Wisconsinâ??s appeal in hopes of receiving student segregated fees.
JANESVILLE, Wis. â?? A 58-year-old Whitewater man has been charged with stalking the 20-year-old East Troy woman who represents the stateâ??s county fairs.
Joseph G. Schraeder reportedly asked Sheri Nelson to be his â??first ladyâ? in June at the Walworth County Diary Breakfast and told her was planning their wedding for a year later, according to a criminal complaint.
Nelson is a former Walworth County Fairest of the Fair and the 2007 Wisconsin Fairest of the Fair. The University of Wisconsin-Madison student helps promote Wisconsinâ??s county fairs.
A fire early Saturday morning has caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage to a Madison apartment building, which was home to a number of UW students.
Witnesses reported flames shooting from the building in the 500 block of North Carroll Street around five o’clock Saturday morning. No one was injured, but about 30 people have been displaced.
A fire captain on the scene says most, if not all, of the residents go to the U-W.
The UW System Board of Regents discussed the emerging College Portrait initiative Thursday, highlighting a feature that would measure how much students learn between their freshman and senior years in college.
UW-Madison ranked second in a list of top national research universities for the 2006 fiscal year, improving from third in 2005, according to statistics released Thursday by the National Science Foundation.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents heard a presentation Thursday about how information from each campus will be collected and compiled with the intention of improving accountability.
Thousands of parents will have a chance to participate in the University of Wisconsin experience this weekend, as a part of the Wisconsin Alumni Associationâ??s First Year Parentsâ?? Weekend 2007.
Earlier this year, ESPNâ??s Scott Van Pelt called Madison the â??greatest college sports town in America.â?
For the first time in memory, no University of Wisconsin students, staff or faculty showed up at a trust funds investment forum conducted yearly by a Board of Regents committee.
The committee seeks comment on socially responsible issues such as protecting the environment or opposing discrimination, to help guide investment decisions.
“Two years ago, the room was full,” Tom Reinders, portfolio analyst for the investment funds, said at the unattended event Thursday.
It never fails.
Whenever a team has an opportunity to thank its fans, everyone from the head coach to the last scrub off the bench crows about how their supporters are the greatest in the world.
Such superlatives have been bestowed upon the sea of red that frequents Camp Randall Stadium on fall football Saturdays, especially after the Badgers started regularly giving their faithful something to cheer about again in the early 1990s.
But how do you measure the caliber of a crowd?
It’s about knowing how to take care of yourself to avoid ever having to tell a story like this…
“I tried to leave but he was so much stronger than I was,” says Abby, a rape survivor. “He was much bigger than I was. I tried going out the fire escape because it was on the 3rd floor and I tried to leave the bedroom door. I just couldn’t get out.”
Abby says she was raped during the Mifflin Street block party last year. The path she took to find herself in danger is one that sometimes can be avoided if you know how to guard your safety.
UW-Madisonâ??s Wisconsin Singers, a song and dance ensemble, will celebrate its 40th anniversary this weekend with campus performances.
From a swanky tapas bar to a gloriously carnivorous Brazilian grill, the recent additions to the roster of Madisonâ??s downtown restaurants are very exciting for many University of Wisconsin students. However, one restaurant opening that will surely have the greatest impact on these individuals is last Sundayâ??s grand opening of Rhetaâ??s at Chadbourne Residential Collegeâ??s newly redesigned dining hall.
