Category: Campus life

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

The nationally touring rock band Lifehouse announced Friday it will be performing at Freakfest 2007 for the Saturday, Oct. 27 Halloween festivities on State Street.

They turned up their noses at raw fish.

No frou-frou sauce or frilly shapes either.

Ten University of Wisconsin-Madison students settled on fruit and rice as key ingredients. Their creation, sushi with a striking resemblance to a maki roll, nabbed second place in the biggest student product development competition this summer.

Madison police reported two cases of alleged strong-armed robbery occurred Wednesday night on the outskirts of campus.

Over 100 protestors joined the campaign to kick the Halliburton Corporation off the UW-Madison campus Thursday.

The corporation participated in the engineering schoolâ??s annual career fair at UW-Madisonâ??s Engineering Centers Building.

The Recording Industry Association of America, which began its effort to eradicate illegal downloading last year, announced Thursday it has reinvigorated its effort with the start of the new academic year.

UW-Madison is among 22 universities nationwide to receive a new wave of pre-litigation settlement lettersâ??â??62 of which were sent to UW System studentsâ??â??as part of the most recent installment of the RIAAâ??s comprehensive anti-piracy campaign.

Albert Wellsteinâ??s harassing behavior toward women on the UW-Madison campus led him to become the firstâ??â??and onlyâ??â??person on the universityâ??s â??persons banned from campusâ? list.

I want to thank the Badger Herald for taking a keen interest in the Offices of the Dean of Students (ODOS) and student life in general and take this opportunity to clarify some of the statements in Mondayâ??s article â??Get up, stand upâ? by Nick Penzenstadler.

Thousands across the United States, including some at the University of Wisconsin, responded to the incident in Jena, La., where six black teenagers were incarcerated after being accused of beating a white classmate.

Preparations for the infamous Madison Halloween celebration have begun.

University of Wisconsin students discussed the possibility of an open forum to debate UW Police Department procedures concerning hip-hop-based events targeted to minority students at a meeting Thursday.

Protesting the presence of Halliburton Co. on the University of Wisconsin campus, nearly 200 students marched from Bascom Hill to the recruitersâ?? stand Thursday.

A number of strong-armed robberies have hit Madison streets, as the Madison Police Department reported four attacks in less than 48 hours.

The Campus Antiwar Network on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus is protesting Halliburton’s decision to recruit the university’s engineering students.

Campus activism has a long tradition at University of Wisconsin. In the 1960s, students protested Dow Chemical’s involvement in Vietnam. Chris Dols, a leader of the Campus Antiwar Network speaks to Noah Adams. (Audio.)

Trying to evoke the ghosts of campus protests past, an estimated 200 UW-Madison students converged Thursday on the UW-Madison Engineering Centers Building to serenade Halliburton Co. recruiters at the annual engineering career fair.

MADISON, Wis. â?? A couple hundred students jammed into a University of Wisconsin-Madison building Thursday to protest Halliburton Co.â??s recruiting at a campus job fair.

The protesters sat in front of the companyâ??s booth, virtually blocking access to the its four recruiters. Engineering student and protest organizer Chris Dols led the group in song.

About a hundred students marched and protested Thursday to try and stop some recruiters at the U-W. The group was protesting Halliburton’s participation in a campus job fair.

They claim the company profits from a war they feel is unjust. But, this is not the first time the university has seen students use their first amendment to try to get a company kicked off campus.

“We are going to march from the top of the hill here,” said organizer Zach Heise. “We are going to march to ECB. We are going enter the building and sit down peacefully.”

The target of 125 protesters at UW-Madison’s Engineering Hall Thursday was Halliburton: Vice president Dick Cheney’s former company, with past ties to the war effort in Iraq.

It was crowded with protesters and engineering students by Halliburton’s recruiting table, but there were no arrests, and the disruption was managed.

The students sat in front of the company’s booth, singing anti-war songs and virtually blocking access to the company’s four recruiters. The Campus Antiwar Network accused Halliburton of profiting from war. Its former subsidiary had large contracts to aid the U.S. military in Iraq.

The event ended peacefully after about 90 minutes. But some of the students attending the career fair were clearly annoyed by the disruption.

UW Madison students rallied Wednesday, against on campus recruiting by Haliburton. Protest organizer Chris Dols, with Campus Antiwar Network, got the rally started outside Bascom Hall on the Madison campus.

I want to thank the Badger Herald for taking a keen interest in the Offices of the Dean of Students (ODOS) and student life in general and take this opportunity to clarify some of the statements in Mondayâ??s article â??Get up, stand upâ? by Nick Penzenstadler. It seems as though some people may have misinterpreted my comments about student protests and the war in Iraq, so Iâ??d like to expand upon the message I intended to convey in that article.

Halliburton will still appear on campus Thursday to recruit UW-Madison engineering students for employment, the company said, despite protest threats from a campus anti-war group.

Several University of Wisconsin student organizations will meet today with representatives of the UW Police Department to discuss policies regarding planning and execution of events taking place at the student unions.

MADISON, Wis. â?? The memory of William â??Curlyâ? Hendershot is alive and well on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.

Hendershot was the Dow Chemical Co. recruiter whose 1967 visit here sparked one of the most important protests of the Vietnam War era. A sit-in against the company that made napalm used in Vietnam ended in a bloody clash with police that turned many students into radicals.