Category: Campus life

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.

A new bar is slated to open in downtown Madison, but its approval didn’t go without much debate. This less than 24 hours after the Common Council approved an alcohol density plan preventing the approval of new liquor licenses in the downtown area. The proposal passed 4-1.

Student protesters in Madison say a planned demonstration on Thursday is inspired by the famous Dow Chemical riots of 1967 that led to pitched battles between police and students. But a rally organizer says this week’s protest against the Halliburton Corporation will be a peaceful one. (Audio.)

Re â??Calling the Folks About Campus Drinkingâ? (On Education column, Sept. 12):

Samuel G. Freedman notes that since the start of the University of Wisconsinâ??s parent notification program, student detox admissions have increased by 65 percent. Why? Because more than half of our 28,000 undergraduates engage in dangerous drinking at least once every two weeks, and they constitute a reservoir that continues to feed the pipeline to detox.

The Madison City Council voted 13-6 Tuesday night to approve the proposed Alcohol License Density Plan.

The density plan has been in the works for months, and now that it has passed it will ultimately limit the number of new alcohol-licensed establishments allowed to open in a specific section of the entertainment district downtown.

Cutting down the number of alcohol related crimes in Madison. That was the motive behind Tuesday night’s Common Council meeting as they voted whether to adopt an alcohol density plan. At the meeting downtown residents explained how alcohol has negatively their quality of living downtown, but those in opposition said an alcohol density plan will make matters worse.

Lambda Theta Phi planned to throw a latin dance party at Memorial Union on Saturday to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month. But when UW Police cancelled the event for what police called possible overcrowding concerns, the fraternity’s national chairman said he was “flabbergasted.”

Gus Garcia, Lambda Theta Phi national chairman, said the UW violated the civil rights of the students, saying police cancelled the party because it would play hip-hop music.

The University of Wisconsin Police Department said Monday the cancellation of a fraternity event was due to staffing concerns, not racial profiling as the group speculated Sunday.

Kelly Nolanâ??s killer, or killers, remain at large, and Monday, her sisters and the Madison Police Department spoke publicly to reach out to the community for help in solving several unanswered questions.

After being accused of racial profiling for canceling a party at a University of Wisconsin fraternity last weekend, the UW Police Department said Monday their decision was due solely to security issues.

Madison police on Monday said they believe Kelly Nolan ‘s killer is still somewhere in the area, but maintained they have no suspects in the investigation.

How both of those things could be true — how detectives can have a hunch about the location of someone they say they have not identified — was not fully explained in the first public briefing on the case since July 12.

Cancellation of a weekend event at UW-Madison designed to celebrate Hispanic heritage has provoked some to allege racial profiling on the part of UW-Madison Police.

By Hannah Young, correspondent for The Capital Times

A national fraternity says a decision by University of Wisconsin Police to cancel an event that was to kick off Hispanic Heritage Month is “very close to racial profiling, if not racial profiling.”

The Madison branch of Lambda Theta Phi, a Latino fraternity, had arranged for the celebration to be held Saturday in Memorial Union’s Tripp Commons, but was told last week that the event would be canceled due to concerns the University Police had about security.