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.
University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema is doing everything he can to lend a hand to suspended running back Lance Smith, and he’s hoping his help will soon pay off.
Bielema implied that he would like to see Smith’s five-game suspension reduced on his weekly television show Sunday and said he has had a recent discussion with UW Dean of Students Lori Berquam about the situation.
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Ah, college life. All-night study sessions in the library. Professors challenging the conventional wisdom. Snowball battles on the quad. Get real.
For students at the University of Missouri-Columbia, college is all about casual sex, meddling parents, foul-mouthed friendships and partying until you puke. At least that’s the portrayal in The Booze News, a new weekly newspaper that glorifies the wonders of excessive drinking.
The publication’s founders, a pair of University of Illinois graduates, call The Booze News (motto: “Today’s News … Under the Influence”) an over-the-top satire modeled after The Onion, the popular parody newspaper started by college students in Madison that has since gone global.
In this era of â??greenâ? living, universities across the nation are taking the necessary steps toward developing a sustainable society. UW-Madison is among those universities. Still, critical sustainable measures remain absent at UW-Madison. Most notably, Camp Randall and Kohl Center events offer little to no active recycling, so recycling at many UW Athletic events is essentially nonexistent.
Agustin Garcia, the national chairman of the Lambda Theta Phi Foundation, will speak on campus Saturday about civil rights, immigrant rights and the emergence of a Latin society in America.
The speech follows the cancellation by the UW Police Department of a Lambda Theta Phi event scheduled for Sept. 15. UWPD officials cancelled due to safety concerns.
UW Badgers football coach Bret Bielema announced Monday at a press conference he talked to the dean of students office last week about trying to get â??a fair shakeâ? for his troubled running back, who is suspended for all of UWâ??s road games this season.
The new â??Show and Blowâ? procedure implemented at last Saturdayâ??s Badger football game received mixed reviews from those involved.
â??I blew zeroes which pretty much made my game day un-fun,â? said a 21-year-old UW-Madison junior on the â??Show and Blowâ? list who showed up about five minutes into the game. â??[The of-age limit of] .08 is pretty low so I pretty much didnâ??t drink at all.â?
With the Wisconsin state budget now nearly three months behind schedule, politicians from both sides of the aisle are speaking out in support of sufficient funding for the University of Wisconsin System.
The University of Wisconsin Athletic Board reviewed plans for a new, comprehensive Wisconsin Athletics Facilities Master Plan, which would include a new indoor ice rink to be connected to the Kohl Center.
Officials from a University of Wisconsin fraternity will meet with university administrators Friday to discuss recent allegations of racial profiling by the UW Police Department.
The Recording Industry Association of America last week targeted students at 22 American universities, sending out 403 of its “pre-litigation settlement letters,” according to the group, which represents major record labels. As in the past, the letters were not sent directly to those accused of copyright infringement, but to administrators, who were then expected to “forward the letter to the appropriate network user.”
The national leader of a fraternity who said its Madison members may have been the subject of racial profiling is scheduled to speak in Madison Saturday on the topic of civil rights.
Agustin Garcia is the national chairman of the Lambda Theta Phi Foundation, whose UW-Madison branch is looking for an apology from University of Wisconsin administrators after the cancellation of an event they say may be for reasons of racial profiling.
Though Garcia said the talk was scheduled before the incident, he believes it is more relevant now.
You may have heard about UWâ??s new questionably titled â??Show and Blowâ? policy, which requires students with a previous ejection or citation during a football game to blow into a Breathalyzer before games to prove sobriety. Mess up just once and youâ??ll be blowing into a tube for the police before kickoff.
An Alpha Phi Alpha dance party in Memorial Unionâ??s Great Hall with an estimated 2,000 attendees was shut down by police and fire departments Friday night due to the eventâ??s over-capacity.
The final seconds ticked off the clock at Camp Randall Stadium Saturday night, as the student section, in a thundering chorus, echoed â??Letâ??s get wasted.â?
This impromptu chant gave police an idea of the chaos to come.
Lori Berquam ought to be careful what she wishes for.
One week ago, this newspaper ran a news story in which Ms. Berquam, the University of Wisconsin dean of students, bemoaned the lack of student activism regarding the ongoing war in Iraq.
