Yet another high-end, high-rise apartment building could be going up soon on the UW-Madison campus.
A local real estate group is proposing a 14-story, 169-unit apartment building at the corner of West Johnson and Mills streets.
The project at 1022 W. Johnson would require demolition of two older homes while also encompassing an existing surface parking lot. Parking — always an issue on campus — would be provided underground with space for mopeds, bicycles and 125 vehicles.
Dear Editor: Currently, there are 178 eligible UW-Whitewater students waiting to find out if they will receive financial aid for the coming school year through the Wisconsin Higher Education Grant (WHEG) program. WHEG is a state-funded grant available to eligible undergraduate Wisconsin residents who have demonstrated financial need.
These students are waiting for funding because of the delay in approving the state budget.
Convicted killer Ralph Armstrong has waited 27 years for a new trial, and now may have to wait a little longer.
Armstrong was convicted of the 1980 killing and sexual assault of Charise Kamps, 19, a UW student from Platteville who was found murdered in her apartment on West Gorham Street.
Designers of the UW-Madison’s new Ogg Hall, which opens to 615 students next week, have thought of pretty much everything — security, academics, water conservation, art.
The six-story residence hall at North Park and Dayton streets cost $28 million to construct, with costs for design, green space, art and demolition of the old Ogg bringing the total cost to $36 million.
Matzo ball soup and kugel will soon be sharing a spot at the table with cheeseburgers and shellfish at UW-Madison.
A box brimming with favorite photographs will travel with Grace Duray, 18, when she moves across the country next month to start classes at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The 2007 Tumwater High School graduate also will bring picture frames and a bulletin board she’ll use to make an unfamiliar dorm room feel like home. But Duray decided against taking along many other South Sound mementos in part because she knows her living quarters will be small. Plus, traveling with extra luggage isn’t any fun.
Next Wednesday, many incoming students to UW Madison will be moving into a new Ogg Hall.
The new residence hall on the university campus opened its doors Thursday for tours.
615 students will call the new dorm home this fall semester, and it is filled to capacity.
As students head to the nation’s college campuses, relishing their new independence, criminal prosecutions in the deaths of two young men are a sober reminder of how quickly alcohol-fueled “fun” can spin out of control.
Charges were filed this month against students and administrators linked to the recent fire death of a 19-year-old sophomore at Bradley University in Peoria, Ill., and the alcohol poisoning of a 18-year-old freshman at Rider University in Trenton, N.J
“Freakfest 2007,” the informal name for the Halloween party on State Street this fall, was the first item on the city’s Street Use Staff Team meeting Wednesday morning.
As in 2006, the party will be fenced and gated along the length of State Street and access permitted only with a ticket — this being the city’s response to the early-morning disturbances of the previous four years. Unlike last year, though, the event organizer is not the city, but Frank Productions, a national concert promoter based in Madison.
Advocates for the homeless, anxious to inch up their issues on the local political agenda, are stepping in early to lobby for more funding.
The Dane County Homeless Services Consortium, a group of more than 30 agencies serving the homeless, is asking the county and the city of Madison to boost funding for specific services to keep people in housing and assist those already homeless to a total of more than $4.4 million.
….The death of a homeless man in a Madison park in 2004 spawned a flurry of activity demanding more resources for homeless services, led by a group of University of Wisconsin-Madison students who at one point staged a sit-in at Cieslewicz’s office.
University of Wisconsin-Madison administrators will be pleased, but students may be disappointed by the fact that the university was not the No. 1 “party school” in the Princeton Review’s annual rankings.
In fact, the UW didn’t even make the top 20 list, which is developed from a survey of 120,000 students at 366 top colleges in the nation.
….UW-Madison also came in 16th for Best College Newspaper and 18th for Students Pack the Stadiums. The Princeton Review also summarized what UW-Madison students say about the university….
A Madison man, out on bail for allegedly beating and trying to rape a University of Wisconsin student last August, was charged Tuesday with lewd and lascivious behavior and two counts of felony bail jumping for allegedly exposing himself to two women last Thursday.
Federal officials on Tuesday warned students moving to college to take steps to protect themselves from the rising number of fires on and near campuses.
At a media briefing on the University of Maryland campus, officials released a new National Fire Protection Association report that cites an increase in college housing fires: 3,300 in 2005, up from 1,800 in 1998. From 2002 through 2005, there were 39 deaths and about 400 injuries in dormitories, fraternities, sororities and barracks as a result of fires.
But the report, which was based on estimates from two national databases, did not include off-campus fires. USA TODAY reported last year that off-campus fires were the most deadly.
WE FIND IT amusing that a growing number of college and university officials are upset by the annual rankings produced by U.S. News & World Report magazine.
In most respects, the magazine is a distant third behind its competitor newsweeklies, Time magazine and Newsweek magazine. But once a year, when it comes to college rankings, U.S. News is second to none. At least on college campuses.
Forget Paris. Today’s kids increasingly want to speak the languages of Beijing and Baghdad.
In Wisconsin and nationwide, the study of Chinese and Arabic remains dwarfed by long-taught counterparts like French, German and Spanish. But they are gaining a toehold.
While some dismiss the trend as short-lived, akin to the Sputnik-era rush to learn Russian, and some media reports suggest a post-September 11 wave of interest in Arabic has already waned, others foresee a long-term shift.
For most students starting college this fall, bottled water is taken for granted, stadiums and rock tours have always had corporate names, Nelson Mandela has always been free and phone calls have never been private.
For the class of 2011, instantly updating autobiographies on “Facebook ” or “MySpace ” is as common as being a latchkey kid or having nutritional information on food labels. “Off the hook ” has nothing to do with phones and being “lame ” has more to do with being dumb or inarticulate than being disabled.
This might come as a shock to those of you who spent a few years and a few dollars earning your college degree at a University of Wisconsin campus, so have a seat and take a deeeeeeeeep breath.
Here goes: A ranking of the nation’s top party schools was published Monday, and NO WISCONSIN SCHOOL WAS ON THE LIST.
No, seriously. This really happened.
Somehow, Wisconsin escaped yet another national survey’s notoriety that would have only cemented the state’s reputation as a heavy-drinking, hard-partying mecca for college-age folks.
She got bed bugs three different times — the itching nearly drove her bonkers, she says — and is still taking medication for a stomach parasite she apparently got from the drinking water.
She spent every weekend for four months hauling bags of sand and gravel, sawing hundreds of rebars by hand and mixing concrete while helping construct a new crafts workshop for the Mantay Women’s Housing Project, which provides jobs, education, health care and a secure place to live for 15 single Peruvian moms — all victims of rape….
There was nothing unusual about Kim Royston’s journey across the Interstate 35W bridge over the Mississippi River on the evening of Aug. 1.
It was a slow ride, but that wasn’t shocking considering the brutal combination of rush-hour traffic and closed lanes on the bridge due to construction. At least Royston had company; three of his buddies were along for the ride, helping him enjoy his final few days of freedom in his hometown of Minneapolis before he reported back to Madison for the start of the University of Wisconsin football team’s fall training camp.
English or engineering? Business or biology? When college students select their majors, a variety of factors influence them. Maybe healing the sick or teaching children is their passion. Perhaps musical or artistic skill directs them toward the arts. And some students don’t settle on a course of study until sophomore or junior year.
MADISON â?? Alaska teen Jessica Schallock was thrilled when a wealthy neighbor offered her a $96,000 scholarship in June so she could study music at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
But then she got the bad news: On-campus housing was full. Schallock would have to find her own place to live in a city 3,600 miles from home.
Many college students are moving back to Madison and others are getting ready to head off to their campuses for the semester. There’s a few things students should keep in mind to keep them safe.
With Iowa’s first-in-the nation presidential caucuses less than five months away, some UW-Madison students are already hoping to spread their Obamania to the neighboring Hawkeye State.
Even before classes start, the campus chapter of Students for Obama has begun recruiting volunteers from Madison to contact their peers in Iowa in support of Democratic U.S. Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential bid in the critical Jan. 14 vote. The Obama group is the first to begin organizing for next year’s presidential race; typically, the UW has been a major source of votes for Democratic candidates.
Madison-based movie producer Nick Langholff helped make a dream come true for UW-Madison senior Justin Daering this week.
Daering, a Verona native, had saved some money and was trying to make a film, but things weren’t working out. So Langholff stepped in to help.
“We met at my office above Mickey’s Tavern and I told him that I get to spend whatever amount he has, however I can. I ‘ll hire everybody,” Langholff says. “And I guaranteed him, It will feel like you ‘re spending three to four times the amount.'”
A 20-year-old UW-Madison student from Hartford helped catch a man fleeing police early Thursday, right after the alleged eluder plowed his car into the sleeping student ‘s house and scratched his prized truck.
“It was an interesting morning, ” said Jake Krebs, a civil engineering major whom police are recommending for a citizen commendation. “I just wanted my truck to be OK. “
Dean of Students Lori Berquam appointed three higher education professionals last week to vacant positions in the University of Wisconsin Offices of the Dean of Students.
A tuition reciprocity deal between Minnesota and Wisconsin won approval Thursday from Wisconsin’s budget-writing committee, sealing the deal that had been worked out between the two states.
The Minnesota board that governs most of that state’s two- and four-year schools approved it last month.
The deal reached between the state’s two governors in June extends a long-standing agreement allowing students to get in-state rates if they attend college across the border.
Jacob Krebs knew the man he was chasing wasn ‘t going to get away. In the midst of the chase, the guy tried to light a cigarette.
Krebs, a UW-Madison junior and Navy ROTC member, was rudely awakened about 1:30 a.m. today when a car slammed into his apartment at 125 N. Randall Ave. It turned out the car that hit his porch had recently come off the Beltline, where police had been chasing it at speeds approaching 100 mph.
UW-Madison student Andrew Parkhurst says his summer internship in southern California’s movie mecca is essential to his future career. But it wouldn’t have been possible without an alumni-funded scholarship arranged through the University of Wisconsin.
“It was the only way to make it out here, considering tuition and loan costs. I was unable to take on more debt,” said Parkhurst, 23, of Waukesha, whose scholarship organized by the Communication Arts Department and the UW Foundation enabled him to accept the internship with Columbia Pictures in Culver City, Calif.
Paula Tran, a senior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, relies on her school’s health center for affordable birth control pills. Even though she doesn’t have insurance, she bought a year supply from the clinic for only $7 per pack last fall.
But when she goes back for more this September, she’ll be hit with a bill five times that amount, something she says will definitely affect her spending. “It will cut into the kinds of notebooks I buy to the kind of groceries I get to the cable package that I order,” she says.
MADISON, Wis. — Students were faced with rain Wednesday as they started moving into their apartments near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Thousands of students began moving in soggy conditions Wednesday after being displaced when their leases ended Tuesday afternoon.
NEW YORK (AP) — A member of the Rutgers women’s basketball team has sued Don Imus and CBS, claiming the radio personality’s sexist and racist comments about the team damaged her reputation.
Kia Vaughn filed the lawsuit alleging slander and defamation of character in state Supreme Court in the Bronx Tuesday, the same day Imus settled with CBS Radio in a deal that pre-empts his threatened $120 million breach-of-contract lawsuit against CBS. The settlement allows him to make a comeback bid at a new station.
University students aren’t the only ones who have to deal with the frantic, traffic-choked, junk-strewn atmosphere on moving days, when apartment leases end on Aug. 14 and begin again the next day.
Professional movers also carry a lot of the weight of the ordeal, though they didn’t have to worry about finding a place to sleep Tuesday night.
This is the peak weekend of moving season for UW-Madison students, with thousands of them leaving mountains of trash as they change apartments Downtown.
In a partnership aimed at easing the mess and helping the community, the university has teamed with Goodwill Industries and the Society of St. Vincent de Paul to collect usable items and unopened, nonperishable food at three sites through Tuesday.
Amy Smith is anxious. She’s known for years this time would come, but now the day when she and her husband, Stan, will deliver Alynna, their oldest child, to UW-Madison for the first time is almost upon them.
“We’re sending our child into unknown territory,” said Smith, of Darlington. “She’s been under my wing. I know all of her friends, I know what she’s doing during the day, I know what she’s doing at night. We’re very close.
“We’re small town. When you hear about UW, it seems huge, almost overwhelming and I’ve felt panicked sending my child there. It’s going to be a huge transition. Huge.”
Enter the UW-Madison Parent Program.
Wisconsin boosted its participation rate and average score on the ACT college admissions test for the high school graduating class of 2007 – tying Iowa for second place among states where at least half of the students take the test.
MADISON, Wis. — Tuesday is moving day for many residents near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Many downtown Madison apartment leases expire on Tuesday with new leases beginning on Wednesday, WISC-TV reported.
In something akin to an annual ritual, thousands of students move in and out of downtown apartments in August, often leaving behind mountains of garbage.
TOWN OF MENASHA â?? Lesley Lathrop’s heart still aches for her missing son, Andy Lathrop, who disappeared two years ago this week in Japan.
Outwardly, she puts on a brave smile and speaks fondly of the intelligent, thoughtful and loving 20-year-old son who “used to love to garden with me.
MADISON, Wis. — Students and landlords were busy Tuesday as they dealt with the chaos of moving day in downtown Madison.
Most downtown leases ended at noon on Tuesday, leaving thousands without a home until noon on Wednesday, when the new leases begin.
Some students on Tuesday were playing a waiting game for moving trucks.
“It’s more of a praying game. We really can’t have rain with mattresses and stuff out and electronics and stuff,” said Jon Oelke, a University of Wisconsin-Madison student.
Tuesday night is the night many UW students dread finding a place to sleep on the night of August 14th.
Many students who had to scramble to find a place to sleep. Most made hotel reservations. Others found friends to stay with. But, there are some who rely on the very vehicles they are using to move. Most students describe the experience pretty much the same.
Wisconsin’s top teacher expresses pride in the record amount of students taking the ACT test.
Seventy-percent of our state’s 2007 high school grads took the ACT college admissions test during high school, compared to 68% in 2006.
“They represent the highest percentage of students to take the ACT ever in Wisconsin history.”
Wisconsin had more than 46,000 of its 2007 graduates take the ACT. And State Superintendent Elizabeth Burmaster boasts, their average composite score of 22.3 is higher than the seven-year trend of 22.2, and tied with Iowa for second place in the nation.
Amy Smith is anxious. She ‘s known for years this time would come, but now the day when she and husband Stan will deliver Alynna, their eldest child, to UW-Madison for the first time is almost upon them.
“We ‘re sending our child into unknown territory, ” said Smith, of Darlington. “She ‘s been under my wing (until now). I know all of her friends, I know what she ‘s doing during the day, I know what she ‘s doing at night. We ‘re very close.
“We ‘re small-town. When you hear about UW(-Madison), it seems huge, almost overwhelming and I’ve felt panicked sending my child there. It ‘s going to be a huge transition, huge. ”
Enter the UW-Madison Parent Program.
Move over, Madison residents â?? the Badgers are coming back to town.
Campus apartment leases expire today, sparking a moving frenzy that will ensue through Wednesday, when new leases take effect.
MADISON, Wis. â?? The University of Wisconsin-Madison has delayed a plan to increase tuition for undergraduate engineering majors by $1,400 over three years, a school official said Monday.
College of Engineering Dean Paul Peercy proposed the idea earlier this year as a way to increase funding to hire more faculty and make other academic improvements.
For many students pursuing their secondary education at colleges and universities, summer is more than just recreation and relaxation in the sun – it’s hard work. Recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicate 59 percent of all 16-to-24-year-olds were in the work force.
In a basement laboratory at Haverford College, Monica Kishore and Peter J.J. O’Malley, two undergraduates, have hit a snag in a fluid-dynamics experiment they’re conducting.
The two physics majors are doing research in the laboratory of Jerry P. Gollub, a professor of physics. The experiment they have helped to design requires them to find a way to get tiny plastic beads to hover at the interface between a blue liquid and a clear liquid. Then they will run an electric current through the liquids, and a camera will track the particles’ motions.
But when Mr. O’Malley, a senior, follows their usual protocol of sprinkling the beads onto the liquid, some of them float on the surface instead of sinking to the interface.
There are bold ideas from task forces studying security improvements on University of Wisconsin campuses in the wake of the Virginia Tech murders this spring, from polishing “crisis plans” to creating “review teams” to proactively probe reports of aberrant student behavior.
But there are a couple of things that could specifically help the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and the Oshkosh Police Department better prepare for and respond to a serious emergency here:
A review team to monitor troubling behavior is one of the recommendations that a University of Wisconsin commission made to improve campus safety.
The President’s Commission on University Security looked at campus safety in light of the shootings in April at Virginia Tech where 23-year-old Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people on campus before committing suicide in a classroom building.
(MADISON) Madison officials are already planning for this yearâ??s annual Halloween celebration. While the weekend event typically draws thousands of revelers, this coming observance coincides with another huge celebration.
Security and safety officials note that this yearâ??s stakes are higher, because the Halloween celebration coincides with UW-Madisonâ??s homecoming activities, which means more partying. In past years, tens of thousands of costumed revelers have flooded State Street. This has often sparked brawls, vandalism, and rioting, such as in 2004, when Madison police dispersed a mob with pepper spray.
It’s that time of the year again. The streets of downtown Madison are filling up with anything from used sofas to unwanted stereos.
As leases end, UW students are clearing out their homes in preparation for the official move-out day on August 15.
And though all the discarded odds and ends don’t exactly make the best street decor they’re fair pickings for anyone who might find something worth taking home.
Some say it’s a Madison tradition to raid the mess during move-out time. The city has designated 3 days of trash pick-up. Work crews will clear the curbs on august 14th through the 16th.
University of Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema couldn’t resist the punch line. Or rather the “paunch” line. Speaking in Chicago to a gathering of Big Ten sportswriters, who should know paunch from punch, Bielema related how one of his football players had reshaped his body through a weight loss program. Which one? Jenny Craig? Nutrisystem? Weight Watchers? Atkins Diet? LA Weight Loss? South Beach Diet? None of the above. “Our weight loss program? ” posed Bielema. “We send kids to China. ”
University of Delaware student Michelle Rigney has stage-four malignant melanoma, and her biggest fear, next to dying, is losing her health insurance.
By federal law, students 19 to 24 are eligible to keep their parents’ health insurance only if they attend school full time, leaving a tough choice for those like Rigney.
If she stays in school, she may not be able to balance a full load of classes and the demands of treatment. If she’s too sick to go to school, she could lose her health insurance when she needs it most.
The University of Wisconsin votes for a 5.5% tuition hike, but lawmakers are discussing a 4% cap. So, which is it?
It’s a 5 ½-percent increase. That’s what UW System spokesman David Giroux says. In lieu of a state budget, the UW Board of Regents earlier this week voted to jack up tuition for the upcoming academic year, starting in September. Giroux says a tuition cap sounds good for students, but not if it means driving down the quality of their education.
UW-Madison officials are cautioning parents of in-coming students that using the website Facebook and other similar on-line sites to do background checks on the assigned dormitory roommates of their sons and daughters can backfire.
UW-Madison housing director Paul Evans told 27 News there’s been nearly a dozen situations this summer, where info on Facebook has caused the families of in-coming students to question a roommate pairing.
As a young boy helping his big brother work on cars for a living, Matt Young knew somehow, someway he was destined to get his hands dirty working in the automotive industry. â??Iâ??ve always enjoyed working on vehicles,â? Young tells Biodiesel Magazine. â??My brother was the big mechanic so I learned as much as I could when I was real young.â?
In the competition, MSU tallied 895.5 points out of a 1,000 total points while the runner-up University of Wisconsin, wasnâ??t far behind with 888.3 points.
State lawmakers are focusing on funding the University of Wisconsin as they try to reach a budget compromise.
At colleges around the country this summer, one topic has vaulted to the top of the agenda at freshman orientation: campus safety.
The nation’s first incoming freshmen since last spring’s shootings at Virginia Tech are heading to class soon, and colleges have been fielding more questions from parents and students about security and mental health issues.
As housing officials at colleges around the country send out roommate assignments to freshmen this summer, a growing number of schools say they’re getting more requests for changes â?? from parents who don’t like the roommates’ Facebook profiles.
“They were getting an impression â?? false or accurate â?? of what the student would be like to live with,” says Magda Manetas of The College of New Jersey in Ewing.
Housing officials say parents who cite Facebook most frequently mention party-related content and photos as their primary concerns.
But Robin Berkowitz-Smith of Syracuse University says race, religion and sexual orientation are the top three concerns from parents contacting officials there.
UW Regents are studying new ideas for tuition and financial aid. Nothing in the pipeline will alter the tuition increase at all four year UW System campuses, which Board of Regents approved Tuesday. However UW System President Kevin Reilly said there is a study group looking at possible changes to tuition and financial aid.
UW students who will have to pay that five and a half per cent tuition hike are looking for a silver lining in the Board of Regents action.
The United Council of University of Wisconsin Students says it’s pleased a tuition freeze was put on the thirteen two-year campuses.
