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 University of Wisconsin-Madison did relatively well in a 50-college test of how much students learned about history and economics during four years of college, but students in Wisconsin and nationally knew little when they came in and not much more when they left.
No college did better than a D-plus on the Civic Literacy Test released Tuesday by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, a nonpartisan conservative educational organization that stresses the values of a free society.
The national average was F.
The memory of William “Curly” 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.
On Thursday, students plan to carry signs reading “Curly, off campus!” as they protest a recruiting visit by a company they see as a villain in the war in Iraq: Halliburton Co. Protesters plan to disrupt the company’s visit to an engineering career fair by discouraging students from talking to its representatives.
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.
Wisconsin ranks as the most prolific alcohol consumer in the nation, despite falling from The Princeton Reviewâ??s party school rankings earlier this year.
Students don’t know much about history, and colleges aren’t adding enough to their civic literacy, says a report out today.
The study from the non-profit Intercollegiate Studies Institute shows that less than half of college seniors knew that Yorktown was the battle that ended the American Revolution or that NATO was formed to resist Soviet expansion. Overall, freshmen averaged 50.4% on a wide-ranging civic literacy test; seniors averaged 54.2%, both failing scores if translated to grades.
First-year students whose roommates brought a video game player to college studied 40 minutes less each day on average, according to a new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research. Those 40 minutes of lost study time translated into first-semester grades that were 0.241 points lower on the 4.0 grade scale.
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.
Wisconsin has the highest rates of both binge and heavy drinking in the nation, according to a report released by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Population Health Institute.
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.
MADISON â?? University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema might be getting a little thinner at running back, and that would be just fine with him.
Already with one of the best young backfields in the nation led by sophomore P.J. Hill, Bielema said Monday he’s hopeful he’ll be able to redshirt freshman John Clay, one of the top runners in Wisconsin prep history.
Dear Editor: Your story Thursday on the global decline of child mortality cites the need for “training village health workers.”
Your readers may like to know that their university is doing just that in the East African country of Uganda, where approximately one in seven children die before their fifth birthday.
With funding from the Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment, personnel from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the UW-Extension have started a partnership with Uganda’s Makerere University that will ultimately reach over 100 villages.
Heralded freshman running back John Clay likely will redshirt this season, University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema said today at his weekly press conference.
“That’s probably the route we’re going to go,” Bielema said.
Clay, an All-State back at Racine Park who led his team to the 2005 WIAA Division 1 state title, was 11 days late to training camp as he waited for the NCAA to make a ruling on his eligibility.
MILWAUKEE — When he gives lectures on how alcohol harms Wisconsin communities, Dr. Paul Moberg starts by showing an editorial cartoon he calls “sobering.”
The 1994 cartoon by Green Bay Press-Gazette cartoonist Joe Heller shows University of Wisconsin-Madison mascot Bucky Badger in front of a blackboard bearing a series of ignominious state rankings: Wisconsin leads the nation in binge drinking and in percentage of adult drinkers.
“Hello,” the caption says, “My name is Bucky and I have a drinking problem.”
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.
If you are looking to start the semester off on the right foot, researchers advise placing exercise high on your to-do list. Although you may be familiar with the positive effects of exercise on the body, a growing collection of research suggests exercise cannot only make you physically fit, but smarter too.
The deadline for fall tuition has passed for many universities in the UW System, but with the state budget in deadlock, as many as 5,000 students are still unsure if they will be able to completely finance their first semester.
More than 230 national and international employers will network with UW-Madison students Monday night at the 2007 Fall Career Forum.
Part of the ongoing confusion regarding the state of Wisconsinâ??s 2007-09 budget involves a proposal meant to increase the safety of University of Wisconsin-Madison students and downtown residents.
A piece of legislation that would decrease the cost of loan interest rates and increase grant eligibility among college students is expected to soon be signed into law by President Bush.
Dean of Students Lori Berquam is taking on some daunting challenges during her first full semester as one of the University of Wisconsinâ??s top administrators.
The University of Wisconsin Police Department canceled a Lambda Theta Phi Latin Fraternity event last week due to security concerns, representatives of the fraternity said Saturday.
Colleges and universities are intensifying efforts to reduce the growing problem of textbook thefts by marking books with invisible ink, requiring used bookstores to keep logs of sellers and banning the resale of the expensive volumes by non-students.
Mentions University of Wisconsin.
Colleges are starting to wake up to how sleep deprivation cuts into the academic and athletic performance of their students. All-nighters have become a habit in higher education, but a handful of small new studies help document the consequences.
Saturday’s Badger football game is the first of two airing on the new Big Ten Network this season, but no matter if the Badgers win, some who wanted to catch the big game on TV remain at a loss.
The Badgers’ coach has said he wants a “sea of red” at home games. Well, some fans wear red. Others now see red themselves — from outside of Camp Randall.
The first sign that the Lance Smith case was going to be different than other crime sagas involving University of Wisconsin student-athletes came Aug. 6.
That’s when it was announced Smith, a sophomore tailback on the football team, was being reinstated after his suspension for violating the UW student-athlete discipline policy.
This fall, when students at Penn State-Altoona trudge back to their dorms demoralized by a failed test or a romance on the rocks, they can take advantage of free mental-health counseling, on the spot, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday.
All students who come to the health center at the University of Wisconsin, even if just for a sprained ankle or a case of the sniffles, soon will be automatically screened for depression and offered treatment if needed.
The race for the White House kicked off in Madison Thursday night. The 2008 Presidential Election is more than a year away but candidates already want momentum on the UW campus to spread to the entire state. Even though it is starting with students, organizers say the ultimate goal is to get people of all ages involved well before next November.
Wilson Miller is legally blind, but didn’t think that would stop him from getting a college education.
Think again.
He had trouble finding usable textbooks, a problem that, according to state officials, could affect as many as 10,000 students in the University of Wisconsin and Wisconsin Technical College systems who are blind, vision impaired or have other reading difficulties.
Aaron Olson is confident he’s ready for UW-Madison. He graduated from Memorial High School last year with a 3.6 grade point average, scored a 28 on the ACT exam and did it all while being an athlete.
But University of Wisconsin-Madison officials continue to struggle to attract minority students like Olson, and even more importantly, to retain them through graduation.
Itâ??s no secret that underage alcohol consumption is a major issue at the University of Wisconsin, but instead of the issue being glamorized as it has in the past, UW is being applauded for its approach in curbing the problem.
The New York Times ran an article Wednesday about the UW administrationâ??s techniques for handling alcohol violations, including parental involvement and notification.
With the first full week of lectures and discussions coming to a close, it is not surprising that many students are already feeling stressed, particularly regarding all the money theyâ??ve spent on textbooks. Many have saved their receipts, naively hoping December will bring a 50 percent return on the $300 or so they just spent on course materials. Yet what they may not know is that the majority of students attending a University of Wisconsin campus never experience the textbook angst we know all too well.
UW-Madison students have the chance to crown their university â??Americaâ??s top party schoolâ? by voting on a Chicago-based newspaper website.
The Chicago Tribuneâ??s RedEye newspaper is sponsoring the online contest as an imitation of the Princeton Reviewâ??s â??Top 20 Party Schoolsâ? list.
A University of Wisconsin student organization is planning to protest against the inclusion of Halliburton Energy Services in a career fair sponsored by the College of Engineering later this month.
Following years of legal disagreements, the Roman Catholic Foundation of the University of Wisconsin has once again filed a lawsuit against UW.
Formerly known as the University of Wisconsin Roman Catholic Foundation, RCF-UW filed the lawsuit against UW late Monday afternoon.
Few college students do not remember exactly where they were or what they were doing the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.
The University of Wisconsin Police Department said Tuesday they are investigating an incident involving a suspicious middle-aged man allegedly conversing with and looking at photographs of young girls at a College Library computer Monday.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – The University of Wisconsin-Madison isn’t just about football and basketball. The concrete canoe team is pretty good, too.
The team took first place overall in the Dutch Conference Canoe Challenge in the Netherlands this past weekend.
The team won five out of six race categories, and their 20-foot, 176-pound canoe won the construction and innovation categories.
Earlier this year, we reported dozens of non-profit organizations owed the University of Wisconsin almost $200,000 because of accounting issues. The students in the work study program got paid, but because of the glitch in the system the UW ended up paying more than they were supposed to pay.
Officer Brent Plisch drove off to start his shift with the campus police, as all around this college town the planets were aligned for undergraduate excess. It was Friday night of the Labor Day long weekend, the eve of the first football game for the highly ranked Wisconsin Badgers. Classes for the fall semester had yet to begin, so there was no homework to tug at the student conscience for moderation, much less temperance.
Sure enough, half past midnight, Officer Plisch got a call in his cruiser from three other policemen. They had spotted a young woman woozily negotiating a pedestrian bridge between two dorms. When they questioned her, she couldnâ??t spell her name or remember her address. Her breath test showed a blood alcohol level nearly three times the legal limit.
….Has there been any research to show what the alcohol industry means to the university in terms of financial support and student employment? If there is any doubt about the city of Madison’s position on the effects of alcohol — check out the Metro bus sporting the full body paint beer ad: “Drink Miller Genuine Draft!!!”
Now I know a suggestion to make the UW campus area a tavern- and alcohol advertising-free zone will be met with all kinds of sensible reasons why the idea is absurd. However, if the city of Madison, state of Wisconsin and University of Wisconsin were serious about the health of the students, and a vegetable, not alcohol, was the source of the ills, I think we would see a unified effort to rid the campus area of the product.
When Bret Bielema heard of Matt Shaughnessy’s situation, the University of Wisconsin football coach felt he had to do everything he possibly could, because he had experienced a similar situation before.
Shaughnessy — Wisconsin’s starting defensive end — is currently back home in Norwich, Conn., to be by his seriously ill brother’s side….
The situation reminded Bielema of what he went through during his junior year in 1991 as a defensive lineman at Iowa when his sister was killed in a horseback accident.
Scott Seyforth: I work for UW-Madison University Housing at four halls — Friedrick, Tripp, Adams and Slichter — as residence life coordinator. UW-Madison has a high population of transfer students and it ‘s my responsibility to coordinate programs at these halls to help students get to know each other and feel comfortable in the learning environment.
MADISON (AP) â?? A Catholic student group sued the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Monday, saying the school is illegally refusing to allow student fees to pay for certain religious activities.
The Roman Catholic Foundation is asking a federal judge to force the university to pay for things like printing Lenten booklets, running Evangelical Catholic training camps and hosting spiritual retreats where students are counseled by priests and nuns.
With a state budget now two months overdue, a compromise is sought that might help UW students. After weeks of deadlock, state Rep. Joe Parisi says stalled budget negotiations are leaving some 4700 UW students hanging.
UW Regents got a progress report on campus safety Friday. Officials discussed the feasibility of constant police presence and how to best oversee students or teachers who may be planning violence. Shamane Mills reports. (Audio.)
A bill involving emergency contraception actually received a public hearing on Thursday — a rare moment in a state Assembly controlled by social conservatives. But after the hearing, it is not yet clear if the measure will advance any further.
The proposal would require hospitals to provide emergency contraception to rape victims who request it.
Dear Editor: Sports editor Adam Mertz recently suggested the charges against Jack Ikegwuonu, the UW football player who was arrested in Illinois for burglary and criminal trespass, were “somewhat dubious or trumped up in nature.”
This goes along with UW Athletic Director Barry Alvarez stating that Ikegwuonu will play football this fall no matter what the court decides. That is a highly questionable example that is being set for the rest of the players and the reputation of the University of Wisconsin.
As the new academic year kicks off, University of Wisconsin students have high hopes for an enjoyable start to the semester. As penny-pinching college students, we are always looking for a bargain. Unfortunately, our tuition is still mounting, and relief is nowhere in sight.
University of Wisconsin System president Kevin Reilly said at a meeting Thursday the UW System is currently at a â??crossroads.â?
With the Wisconsin state budget nearly two months behind schedule, a state representative is accusing the University of Wisconsin System of trying to influence budget decisions.
Itâ??s a story as old as dating: A boyfriend gets dragged into going to a movie or out to dinner by his significant other, even though he really doesnâ??t want to go.
Several state representatives urged members of the Wisconsin Assembly budget conference committee on Thursday to include grants for the 4,708 University of Wisconsin students still waiting for financial aid in the yet-to-be-determined state budget.
