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.
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.
Four entrepreneurs with connections to UW-Madison spoke to students about the three Ms of entrepreneurshipâ??money, marketing and mentorshipâ??Tuesday night at Memorial Union.
I donâ??t mean to shock anyone, but Wisconsin is a pretty white state. Itâ??s telling that the University of Wisconsin, which itself is nearly 90 percent white, seemed like an oasis of diversity when I first moved here from my Green Bay suburb.
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.
People don’t immediately think of State Street as a neighborhood where people live, but Bill Cosh has lived on the street for the past 10 years.
His apartment, in a 38-unit building above Walgreens on the corner of State and Lake streets, sits across from where the popular campus bar Madhatters planned on opening, causing an uproar.
That the bar’s owner decided not to relocate to the bottom of State comes as a big relief to Cosh and others like him.
….(Ted) Gervasi, who could not be reached Tuesday night, told (Alderman Mike) Verveer that he would still like to open Madhatters somewhere in the campus area and that he was going to start a new search for a suitable location.
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.
In the past week, sections of UW-Madison campus were locked down twice. The first was last Tuesday after Jesse A. Miller called the Dane County Crisis Center and saying he was at the UW Hospital, had a weapon and wanted to be killed by police.
The second occurred Friday after a man robbed an Italian deli on Regent Street. Following the robbery, police locked down the Welcome Center, Newell Smith Residence Hall and Ogg Hall because a suspect of interest was inside the Center.
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.
The latest plans for the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery building to be constructed across from Union South were unveiled Monday at the first of three town hall meetings hosted by UW-Madison and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
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.
Members of the UW System Board of Regents are calling for full state support of student veteransâ?? tuition, demanding legislative leaders to fund it in the current budget negotiations.
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.
Wisconsin ‘s military veterans deserve our gratitude and support. One way we recognize their sacrifice is by helping them earn their college degrees. Those educational benefits should be preserved, and they should be paid for.
Together with state legislators on both sides of the political aisle, the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents has steadfastly supported veterans.
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.
Two dormitories are under immediate lockdown on the UW campus as police search for an armed robber who went into a UW administration building on Park Street.
Students and staff are asked to stay out of the area around 21 N. Park St., and students in Ogg and Smith halls are asked to find shelter in a safe place.
UW police issued an emergency campus alert at 12:15. People on the street around 21 N. Park should follow on-scene police instructions.
(Since this was written, the situation has been resolved. Fraboni’s Italian Deli was the robber’s target. )
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.
The Wisconsin Budget Conference Committee received two letters Thursday expressing the necessity of appropriately funding the University of Wisconsin System.
The Wisconsin Budget Conference Committee received two letters Thursday expressing the necessity of appropriately funding the University of Wisconsin System.
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.
Student rights are under attack. Thatâ??s right, I said it.
Dean of Students Lori Berquamâ??s recent comments on student activism indicate that either she is willfully ignorant of student organizing around issues affecting this campus or she would prefer to divert attention away from campuswide activism completely.
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.
Ald. Mike Verveer admits “the timing is absolutely atrocious, it couldn’t be worse.”
On Sept. 19, just hours after voting for a Alcohol Density Plan that Verveer promised would stop State Street from turning into Bourbon Street by freezing the number of taverns, he voted with the majority of the city Alcohol License Review Committee to allow Madhatters tavern to open at 651 State Street.
And if the timing is bad, the location is worse.
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.
As UW police search for a man who claimed to have a gun on campus, there was a new emphasis on keeping students informed, prompted in part by last spring’s massacre at Virginia Tech.
“I would say we worked a little bit closer making sure the message was got out, and got out more quickly, than they would have previously,” UW Police Sgt. Jason Whitney said.
….University officials said incidents like the Virginia Tech massacre — and more recently last week’s shooting at Delaware State that wounded two students — have heightened the focus on communicating with students during incidents that carry the potential for danger.
UW-Madison operations were back to normal today after fears of a possible deranged gunman Tuesday prompted the closing of several campus buildings and the cancelation of classes and other events in the west campus area.
“At this point, it’s business as usual,” University of Wisconsin Police Sgt. Jason Whitney said today.
The search for 19-year-old Jesse A. Miller, an escapee from the Dane County Jail’s Ferris Huber Center, continued today but police were unsure if he was even in the area.
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.
her piece, Ms. Turcotte describes the moral oppression of the universityâ??s policy toward drinking. The policy states that if a student is ejected from or receives a ticket during a football game, the student will take a Breathalyzer test before they enter the stadium for the next game.
After winning two consecutive NCAA championships, the Wisconsin womenâ??s hockey team will dawn the preseason No. 1 ranking for the third-straight season.
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.
University of Wisconsin and Madison police spent nearly all afternoon and evening Tuesday searching the west side of campus for a 19-year-old inmate with a history of mental problems, who claimed he was armed and wanted to be killed by police.
U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D. Ill., is coming to Madison Oct. 15, according to an announcement by his national campaign Tuesday.
I got out of work around 9 last night, ushering for a show in the Humanities building. Before I left, I checked my phone, as many do religiously. Seeing that no one had called, I began my walk home. It was dark out and the sidewalks eerily empty, although Iâ??ve never felt particularly uneasy at night in Madison. I arrived at my dorm to a group of house fellows asking if I was aware of what was happening on campus. They informed me of the suicidal man, the campus lockdown and the additional information that could be found on the University of Wisconisnâ??s webpage.
Two male University of Wisconsin students were asked to have sex by a 56-year-old man who came to their doorstep Monday night.
Presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, will be speaking in Madisonâ??s Orpheum Theater on State Street Oct. 15 as part of his Countdown to Change tour.
o the delight of some and displeasure of many, the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department announced Tuesday the lottery winners of coveted basketball season tickets.
Some University of Wisconsin students found themselves trapped in campus buildings Tuesday when a gunman scare forced university staff to lock down some area facilities.
The University of Wisconsin remained on high alert late Tuesday night as police continued to search for an armed man on campus who said he wished to commit suicide or be killed by police.
The Booze News can now be found at Illinois State, Indiana, Iowa and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, along with Missouri and Illinois.
After police swarmed part of the UW-Madison campus in search of a suicidal man who claimed he had a weapon, students were out and about Tuesday night but had the incident on their minds as the university sent out e-mails asking students and staff to take extra precautions.
Arron Lokrantz, an 18-year-old freshman, said he first heard about the scare through an e-mail sent by UW-Madison police to his WiscMail account.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Higher education leaders in Wisconsin say none of their employees broke state ethics laws in maintaining cozy relationships with private lenders.
University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly and Wisconsin Technical College System President Daniel Clancy say reviews of their financial aid practices uncovered no wrongdoing.
