More than 300 people were lined up to see U.S. Sen. Barack Obama at the Monona Terrace Convention Center before the doors opened this morning at 9:30 a.m. About 3,000 tickets had been sold before the event began, driven largely by a UW-Madison student campaign push.
The University of Minnesota Board of Regents unanimously approved a revised tuition reciprocity deal between Wisconsin and Minnesota Friday that will continue to allow students to attend public universities in the neighboring state without paying nonresident tuition.
A new reciprocity agreement between Minnesota and Wisconsin was finalized at the University of Minnesota Board of Regents meeting Friday.
Safety must be the top priority as Madison prepares for its annual Halloween party on State Street later this month.
But Mayor Dave Cieslewicz and Police Chief Noble Wray also need to get a handle on escalating costs.
State Rep. Stephen Nass, R-Whitewater, has long been critical of the University of Wisconsin System and the Board of Regents.
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., will be speaking to University of Wisconsin students and Madison residents Monday as part of his â??Countdown to Changeâ? tour.
MADISON, Wis. â?? When presidential candidate Barack Obama comes to town on Monday, the Democratâ??s support from younger voters will be on full display.
Obamaâ??s low-dollar fundraiser was originally scheduled for a downtown theater that can seat about 1,500 people. But tickets sold so fast that within days his campaign changed the venue to a ballroom a few blocks away thatâ??s twice as big.
MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin will get in on the presidential political action on Monday as Democratic candidate Sen. Barack Obama comes to town.
More than 3,000 people are expected at the Obama rally.
It’s estimated 80 percent of them will be students, reported WISC-TV.
The president of the UW System and the president of the UW Board of Regents said a $25 million cut would drastically affect all 160,000 UW-Madison students, in response to Gov. Jim Doyleâ??s most recent budget proposal.
Festivities for the 2008 University of Wisconsin Homecoming Week are well underway.
The Big Ten Network is looking for University of Wisconsin students to host a new â??magazine-style show,â? the network announced Thursday.
Dear Editor: Our student rights are under attack, and we must defend ourselves and fight back!
Currently the segregated fee policy committee of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents is meeting to review the systemwide segregated fee policy. While the committee is composed of five administrators and five students, the administrators are marginalizing the student voice and railroading through a slew of student-unfriendly policies.
MADISON, Wis. — Police on Thursday released new information to the public in a two-year-old sexual assault case in hopes of finding the attacker.
Police said a 22-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student was walking along a path at Division Street and Eastwood Drive on Madison’s East Side when she was jumped by a stranger and raped.
In 2005, a 22-year-old UW graduate student was raped while walking on a bike path alongside Eastwood Drive on Madison’s East Side.
Two years later, police haven’t made an arrest. Detectives said today they’re sure someone in the community knows who the suspect is, and detectives believe he could still be living in Madison.
As more and more consequences of the budget impasse emerge, it is obvious that the situation is becoming dire, even for students. Oct. 4, the UW System Board of Regents had to make a tough call: after evaluating many alternatives, if the budget is not passed by spring semester, a not-yet-determined tax will be added to the 5.5 percent increase in tuition.
In a Sept. 28 press release, Gov. Doyle reported that if there is no new state budget, students might face an additional $800 tuition surcharge next semester to cover the $96 million UW Systems needs to continue operating. Though this is only one option UW System could take to cover the shortage, it proves a point:Students will pay if the state Legislature wonâ??t. And if the $800 does not come from studentsâ?? checking accounts, it will come from the classroom.
University of Wisconsin Police Chief Susan Riseling detailed the system-wide security review team, commissioned to prevent a Virginia Tech-like incident from occurring at UW, at a roundtable presentation at Memorial Union Wednesday.
University health officials told Ingraham Hall employees Wednesday that the mold spores present in the building since mid-September will be controlled shortly and communication issues are actively being resolved.
University of Wisconsin Police Chief Susan Riseling said Wednesday if the crisis on the campus of Virginia Tech occurred in Madison last year, UW â??wouldnâ??t have done so well.â?
A new version of the 2007-09 Wisconsin state budget introduced by Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle has been met with mixed reactions from state legislators.
University of Wisconsin health officials started to address a mold outbreak Wednesday affecting several UW departments located in Ingraham Hall.
Shortly after eating a sandwich wrap and drinking a bottle of milk, Nick Deering sat in a state of disgust at Einsteinâ??s Cafeteria in Union South.
The state Supreme Court last week heard arguments on the seemingly endless antitrust suit against 24 campus area bars, mostly mom-and-pop taverns, underscoring just how unfair the legal system can sometimes be.
The suit, which alleges that the taverns illegally conspired to eliminate drink specials for their mostly college student clientele, has already cost these family-owned establishments more than $600,000 to pay for the lawyers who have defended them from a seemingly endless trek from circuit court to the federal courts to the appeals courts and now to the Wisconsin Supreme Court. That kind of cold, hard cash undoubtedly wipes out the profits that the establishments hoped to make these past couple of years.
I just spent the past week visiting several colleges â?? Auburn, the University of Mississippi, Lake Forest and Williams â?? and I can report that the more I am around this generation of college students, the more I am both baffled and impressed.
I am impressed because they are so much more optimistic and idealistic than they should be. I am baffled because they are so much less radical and politically engaged than they need to be.
If youâ??re a candidate counting on those enthusiastic college voters, donâ??t. For some college students, getting to the ballot box can be as difficult as registering in that Nobel laureateâ??s honors seminar.
Turnout on college campuses has been depressed by some simple but strong barriers.
The Governor’s use of UW students to make a point about the delayed budget draws a federal complaint.
The UW sent emails to students who applied for but have not yet received state financial grants due to the state budget impasse. The emails asked if the students wanted to appear with Governor Doyle at a news conference today to make an appeal for a state budget that would give them their grants.
A handful of UW students held up signs of protest during Governor Doyle’s Tuesday campus news conference on the state budget impasse, which included a student speaker, who had been approached to participate through university e-mail, from a confidential list of students eligible for financial aid.
“This is not a legitimate educational interest, recruiting people to stand with the governor at a press conference, while he launches into an attack on all Republicans in the state,” said UW-Madison student Mike Hahn of Wisconsin College Republicans. “It’s not a legitimate education interest.”
In late July, college officials lobbied successfully to defeat a U.S. Senate proposal that would have forced some institutions to buy computer tools to detect student music and video piracy. But the administrators were in no mood to celebrate: It was only a matter of time, they said, before the House of Representatives brought up a similar measure.
Summary: Students must assert their independence from the partisan figureheads, network with one another and act as diplomats on behalf of the thousands of students reliant on state funding.
The Wisconsin College Republicans filed a formal complaint against the UW-Madison Monday, claiming the university violated student privacy rights with an e-mail about a Gov. Jim Doyle press event.
Members of the WCR claim the university violated the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 in that studentsâ?? personal information was used to â??recruit students for a political rally,â? according to the formal complaint.
The e-mail was sent to 33 UW-Madison students still awaiting financial aid due to the budget impasse.
University of Wisconsin students gathered on Library Mall Monday to celebrate Indigenous Peopleâ??s Day in efforts to spread awareness and appreciation of Native Indian culture.
Initiated by Wunk Sheek, a UW American Indian student organization, the event consisted of native dance, music and speeches given by the groupâ??s leaders in opposition to Columbus Day.
University of Wisconsin Chancellor John Wiley and members of the Campus Antiwar Network discussed Monday the possibility of having a campuswide referendum to decide whether Halliburton should be included in future graduate recruiting fairs.
The meeting with the chancellor comes in light of a recent demonstration in which nearly 200 students protested the inclusion of Halliburton in a College of Engineering recruiting fair last month, accusing the company of making billions of dollars off the Iraq war.
The Wisconsin College Republicans filed an official complaint Monday against the University of Wisconsin-Madison, claiming the university violated federal student privacy laws.
The allegations stem from an e-mail UW-Madison sent to an undisclosed number of students who previously received Wisconsin Higher Education Grants, but were not awarded them this year due to the undecided state budget. The message told students Gov. Jim Doyle would hold a press conference today at Memorial Union to address UW System financial aid concerns and the need for a state budget.
In a move to finally get the stalled state budget passed, Gov. Jim Doyle said today that unless lawmakers pass the spending bill by Friday, he will call them into special session on Monday to take up a compromise proposal.
Doyle, who has played host to two weeks of closed-door negotiations between Senate Democratic and Assembly Republican leaders, said he has “become convinced” that the two sides cannot reach agreement. Doyle introduced a budget plan in February, and the two houses have each passed a version of the bill, but the attempts by the two sides to reach a final compromise have dragged on since July.
The governor’s comments came this morning during a news conference on the steps of the Memorial Union, where he underscored the need for a new budget to provide more student financial aid.
Representative Steve Nass (R-Whitewater) said UW-Madison officials had no business using state e-mail, to invite select students who were on a wait-list for a financial aid program, to a news conference with Governor Doyle.
In the e-mail from UW-Madison’s Associate Director of Financial Aid, students who received a Wisconsin Higher Education Grant (WHEG) last year but did not receive one this year are told “the Governor is looking for a few UW-Madison students…’wait-listed’ due to the budget impasse.” E-mail recipients were told, “you are under no obligation whatsoever to participate in this press conference.” Federal privacy law shields the names of the students who are WHEG applicants.
Complete shock and devastation — that’s the only way to describe University of Wisconsin senior wide receiver Luke Swan’s season-ending injury.
The Greek community on the UW-Madison campus is offended and worried about two cartoons in the Badger Herald that recently depicted fraternity and sorority members as receiving oral sex from pledges.
One of the cartoons also implied that the other fraternities might show the new Delta Lambda Phi fraternity — a progressive fraternity for gay, bisexual and progressive men — what real Greek life is like by smashing up their house.
The controversy comes at a time when alumni are returning to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for an Oct. 19 weekend of fraternity and sorority events honoring the Greek community’s 150th anniversary on campus.
As I travel around Wisconsin, I consistently hear one question from high school students, parents and counselors: What does it take to get into the University of Wisconsin-Madison?
Because I analyze every part of an application, from grades and class rank to personal statements and special talents, there isn’t one magic answer to that question.
However, during the past 30 years that I’ve worked in college admissions, I’ve seen hundreds of thousands of applications. I’ve also experienced the process firsthand, as my son ventured into his own college search.
An idea that was the brainstorm of members of two small, student organizations, morphed into a spectacle of Star Wars characters, video game tournaments and role playing theater at UW-Madison in the first Geek.Kon.
“We were just blown away,” said Geek.Kon organizer Sarah Eichhorst. “I never expected to see anything this huge.”
An estimated one thousand people were expected to attend the weekend event at UW-Madison Humanities. Geek.Kon also included lectures from science fiction writers, and internet, television and film producers.
At this weekendâ??s Geek.Kon, all coexisted peacefully: The otaku got their share of anime, once arguments over English overdubs versus subtitles were resolved. The Trekkies and Star Wars junkies â?? often fierce rivals â?? shared limited space. And the classic nerds were bound to find something to pique their interest, from comic books to Guitar Hero.
Some Republican lawmakers say UW-Madison and Gov. Jim Doyle acted inappropriately when they e-mailed 33 students waiting for financial aid to participate in a press conference Tuesday.
The notified students, who are typically low-income, are awaiting Wisconsin Higher Education Grants they need to pay tuition this semester. Since they have been waitlisted, funds can only be awarded after the state budget is finalized.
The e-mail asked students if they wanted to appear with the governor, who is asking for the prompt passage of a budget that funds higher education at the levels the UW System has asked for.
Associated Students of Madison launched its Neighborhood Watch Program Friday night in an effort to increase the presence of student safety watchers on and near campus during crime-prone weekends nights.
Volunteers will cover the Spring Street/College Court and Camp Randall areas, an area south of Regent Street and an area south of State Street, including West Washington Avenue and Mifflin Street. Two shifts will run every Friday and Saturday night, from 10 p.m. to 12 a.m. and 12 a.m. to 2 a.m.
Hundreds of self professed geeks converged at the UW Saturday afternoon to celebrate what they say nerds do best.
The Geek.Kon Convention was for anyone that enjoys, role-playing, video gaming, costumes, fantasy novels and of course science fiction.
MADISON, Wis. — You might call them “nerds,” “techies,” or just “those guys from the AV Club.” But this weekend, ‘”geeks” have taken over the UW-Madison.
More than 600 people got their “geek on” Saturday and Sunday on the UW campus for “Geek.Kon,” which bills itself as a conference for all things geeky.
Washburn Observatory, which has hosted public star-gazings since its opening in the 1880s, announced Thursday it will close for renovations until summer 2009.
When the Badgers meet Northern Illinois in the next home football game Oct. 20, UW-Madison students might be surprised to know they may be on videotape.
The UW System Board of Regents unanimously passed a resolution Thursday that may â??taxâ? all UW students come next semester if the 2007-â??09 biennial budget is not passed by the Conference Committee soon.
Attention Madison geeks: start practicing your Elvish, polishing your best works of fan fiction and putting the finishing touches on your costumes, because Geek.Kon is coming to campus this weekend.
With ticket sales for this weekâ??s Freakfest Halloween celebration beginning this morning, the eventâ??s organizers continue to make preparations.
University of Wisconsin students can be in wheelchairs, be blind or be deaf.
But when a student cannot attend class because she is repeatedly hospitalized due to a genetic mutation, one student believes the line between what qualifies someone as a UW student begins to blur.
The University of Wisconsinâ??s Washburn Observatory will close its doors late October due to a renovation project budgeted at $2.5 million.
Neighborhoods just outside of the University of Wisconsin will soon see extra patrol on the street, but instead of police, they’re students! They aren’t being trained but instead they are working with Madison Police. It’s all part of a student watch program to increase off-campus safety.
Starting tomorrow, with flashlights in hand, students will be pounding the pavement to kick crime to the curb.
“There were a lot of muggings going on so we wanted to put a lot of students on the streets more later in the night and this is something that came out of it,” says Campus Safety chairman, Kelly Arendt.
Jack Ikegwuonu lost part of his motion to supress statements made to police during a court appearance Thursday in Sycamore, Ill.
The judge denied part of the motion, which means those statements would be admissible at trial, while taking the rest under advisement. Ikegwuonu’s attorney had sought to suppress the statements on the grounds Ikegwuonu was not read his Miranda rights.
Ikegwuonu and his twin brother, Bill, both from Madison, were arrested last November in DeKalb, Ill., after they allegedly broke into an apartment and stole an Xbox system.
Outcast and vilified in many places, they are coming together in Madison to be cool amongst their peers. They are the proud, the few, the . . . geeks.
The basement of the Sigma Phi Epsilon house at the University of Missouri-Columbia is filled with familiar fraternity icons like a well-worn pool table, stacks of violent films like Kill Bill on DVD, and of course, the stench of stale beer.
A closer look reveals a much different scene. With the soothing sounds of a Zen Cafe CD playing in the background, Sig Ep brothers listen raptly as a campus yoga instructor leads them through a series of contortionist poses during an 8 a.m. workout.
Early morning yoga is just one of the changes at the fraternity since the Missouri chapter adopted its “Balanced Man” program in 2006 â?? just a few years after the university punished the chapter for hazing.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Sports Illustratedâ??s declared â??Best College Sports Town in America,â? now has another thing to add to its bragging rightsâ??its very own sports drink.
Igal Hendel, a former UW-Madison economics professor, resigned two years ago along with several other professors due to the declining salaries and resources of the university.
Wisconsin has now entered its fourth month without a budget for 2008, leaving the state with last yearâ??s provisions and a guarantee for fiscal failure before next summer. Students can be forgiven for largely ignoring the political spitting match unfolding between Democrats and Republicans at the Capitol since July, but now the budget â??impasseâ? threatens to directly affect UW-Madison, and it is time to take note.
The Madison Police Department briefed UW students and residents in a meeting at Memorial Union Wednesday about crime and safety issues in the downtown area.
The Student Labor Action Coalition delivered â??face-to-faceâ? demands Wednesday to Chancellor John Wiley, insisting he cut UW-Madisonâ??s athletic apparel contract with Adidas.
