Category: Campus life

The Madison Police Department held a meeting Wednesday evening at Memorial Union to report crime statistics and discuss area safety with downtown residents.

UW-Madison engineering student Zach Heise, a member of the Campus Antiwar Network that organized the recent protest of Halliburton ‘s appearance at a campus recruiting fair, said he knew the rally was being videotaped by campus police.

He even talked to the plainclothes officer with the camera. “I saw his earpiece. I asked him and he told me right away he was with the police, ” Heise said. “I personally have no problem with the police videotaping us. If that ‘s part of their standard procedure … I ‘m not going to make a big deal of it. “

In the wake of the Virginia Tech tragedy, college administrators, students, faculty and parents have become hyper-sensitive about the time it takes for a campus to be notified of an emergency.

Last April it took several hours for students to receive formal notification from the University of a bomb threat on campus. Subsequent emergency test e-mails took a matter of minutes. But even if e-mails appear in an inbox minutes after a threat is discovered, the chances that students would be at a computer or checking their University e-mail accounts are slim.

We live in a day and age where before anybody says or does something that affects the mass population, they must be cautious not to make their comments or actions related to race, no matter how remotely correlated they are.

Sometimes, however, minority groups need to be a little less hasty when they throw out the racial trump card.

Recently, the UW-Madison Police Department decided to cancel a party that would have kicked off Hispanic Heritage Month. It was scheduled by the fraternity Lambda Theta Phi, a Hispanic fraternity on campus, according to an article in the Daily Cardinal.

Members of UW-Madisonâ??s PACE Coalition discussed the cityâ??s new Alcohol License Density Plan Tuesday as well as strategies for upcoming Halloween events.

Two UW-Madison chapter fraternities will appeal to the Interfraternity Council after an alleged hazing last spring and a violation of probation earlier this semester that led to expulsion from the University.

University of Wisconsin students will have the opportunity to voice their safety concerns to the Madison Police Department tonight at a downtown community safety meeting.

Members of a local coalition met Tuesday to discuss the cityâ??s plans for Halloween and possible new alcohol policies for the future.

A University of Wisconsin fraternity is being investigated by the Intrafraternity Council for allegations of misconduct, in a case that could lead to the groupâ??s suspension from campus.

As it turns out, the first step to world peace is sharing some couscous pilaf and cracking a joke or two about soccer teams.

That’s the main thrust behind Dialogue International, the organization that sponsored an interfaith dinner and discussion last night at Hillel, the Jewish center on the UW campus. A group of Turkish Muslim graduate students started Dialogue International shortly after the terrorist attacks of September 11 with a goal of fostering cultural understanding and debunking religious stereotypes with social events.

For the first two years Danielle Barker attended UW-Madison, almost every phone call home â?? and they were pretty much daily â?? involved tears.

“I would just bawl. I’d have these conversations with my mom, ‘I’m just not happy, I don’t want to be here,’ ” recalled Barker, now a fifth-year senior from Racine. “I listen now to my mom say how heart-wrenching it was for her that I was so very, very homesick.

Dean of Students Lori Berquam again sent important campus safety information to members of the UW-Madison community Monday to highlight services available on campus.

Chancellor John Wiley commended efforts to urge the state budget conference committee to pass a budget sufficient for UW-Madison, but again stressed the need for enough funds at his State of the University address Monday.

Students will no longer have to travel far to find a United States Post Office, as Monday marked the opening of a relocated campus area University Station Post Office.

The number of University of Wisconsin campus-area burglaries has increased more than sevenfold in the past year, according to a safety report released by the university Monday.

After University of Wisconsin-Madison police got reports of an armed, suicidal man near the university hospital last Tuesday, officials locked down part of campus and alerted students using Facebook, e-mail and the school’s Web site.

MADISON, Wis. — State Street residents who have been outspoken in their opposition to the relocation of a popular local bar said that they are now claiming victory.

Ted Gervasi, the owner of Madhatters, had won approval by the Madison Alcohol License Review Committee to relocate to 651 State Street, the former location of Fuddruckers Restaurant. However, in light of the complaints from area residents, shop owners, and landlords, Gervasi said that he has now decided to abandon that plan, WISC-TV reported.

LA CROSSE, Wis. – A drunken Twin Cities man fell from a bridge to his death in an inky, algae-covered Mississippi River slough just as this river city’s famous Oktoberfest celebration was getting under way.

Twenty-four-year-old Christopher Melancon’s death Sunday appeared to underscore how little progress La Crosse has made in its years-long battle with binge drinking.

Agustin Garcia, the founder and national chair of the Lambda Theta Phi Fraternity, visited UW-Madison this weekend to speak about the integrity of Latin culture and also met with university officials Friday to discuss the cancellation of an event celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month.

Parts of the southern section of the UW-Madison campus were put on lockdown Friday afternoon when police swarmed the area to search for a suspicious, possibly armed man, who was believed to be inside a UW-Madison building.

The recently developed Public Child Welfare Training Program in the University of Wisconsin School of Social Work will pay studentsâ?? tuition in exchange for a promise that, upon graduation, the students will work in Wisconsinâ??s public child welfare system for at least one year.

University of Wisconsin officials and members of a campus fraternity are one step closer to creating a new logistics procedure for Wisconsin Union events, after UW police were accused of racial profiling for canceling a frat event mid-September.

Police arrested a suspected armed robber Friday who fled into a University of Wisconsin building on the south side of campus.

The man accused of causing a campus scare last week, which including a bomb threat at University of Wisconsin Hospital, was arrested in San Diego Friday morning.

For the second time in less than a week, UW-Madison and Madison police worked together to respond to a campus crisis involving a man with a gun – but this time they found him quickly.

By 1:20 p.m. Friday, police had arrested Marcus T. Chavous, 46, of Madison as a suspect in what Madison police spokesman Joel DeSpain called a “rather brazen” armed robbery of a Regent Street deli during the busy lunchtime hour. Chavous was being held on a probation violation pending formal charges on the robbery.

Madison Metroâ??s five new hybrid-electric transit buses are taking a little longer than expected to get out on the road.

Madison area police officers are still investigating the whereabouts of 19-year-old Jesse Miller, who allegedly called a Dane County Crisis Center Tuesday claiming he wished to commit suicide or be killed by police.

Campus police say the emergency messages students received Tuesday night was a successful execution of a new crisis plan, while students say the updates produced a range of reactions, from fear to laughter.

When University of Wisconsin sophomore Marie Piontek was walking home with her boyfriend downtown on a recent Saturday night, she had no idea they would soon be involved in a potentially disastrous situation.

Business returned to normal Wednesday on the University of Wisconsin campus after three buildings were locked down Tuesday evening.

MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Black Student Union held a protest on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus Wednesday to support the “Jena Six.”Participants wore black and protested the jailing of six young men in Jena, La. The rally was modeled after last week’s protests in Jena by thousands.

Visitors to UW Hospital are allowed in once again as of 10:25p.m. Tuesday night.

Police started searching the area around UW Hospital around 5p.m. for a person, who UW Police tell 27 News is not a patient, but claimed to have a gun. 27 News learned the subject of the search is escaped Dane County jail inmate Jesse Miller, 19, who was convicted of armed robbery with use of force in 2006.

As Madison police and University police search for a potentially dangerous man, the university is keeping students updated through e-mail and on the university website. Around 6:00 Tuesday evening, the UW-University police department sent an e-mail to all students alerting them of the situation.

Classes resumed at UW-Madison Wednesday morning. But, police say they still haven’t found the man who tried provoking a deadly shootout with authorities Tuesday evening.

Campus Police Sergeant Jason Whitney says they don’t believe Jesse Miller is on campus, but may be in the Madison area because of his local ties.

Classes resumed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Wednesday morning, but police said that they still haven’t found the man who allegedly threatened to provoke a deadly shootout with authorities on Tuesday night.

The Madison Police Department arrested 56-year-old Kevin F. Howard Monday night for allegedly asking two UW-Madison students for â??recreational sexâ? on the 1200 block of Spring Street.

U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D. Ill., is coming to Madison Oct. 15, according to an announcement by his national campaign Tuesday.