Category: Campus life

A house fire early Sunday morning on Bedford Street left one dead and three UW-Madison students injured, according to Madison fire officials.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

If the University of Iowa administration gets its way, students at the university had better cancel their Thursday night party plans.

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.

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.

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. “

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.