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.
The UW Board of Regents voted Tuesday to increase tuition by 5.5 percent at the state’s four-year universities â?? the smallest boost in several years â?? despite great uncertainty over their budget.
As August creeps towards its final days, university students across the state are already starting to turn their thoughts to returning to campuses, hitting the books and readying themselves for careers.
Some of those students will be minority students, as well they should be.
Just as the Wisconsin idea espouses the theme that the boundaries of the university are the boundaries of the state, we would like to think that the makeup of the student body on our campuses reflects the diversity of people within those boundaries if our colleges are to truly serve the interests of the state.
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.
Administrators at some schools have begun to talk to students and parents in advance about the tendency to look up roommates online. Paul Evans of the University of Wisconsin-Madison now includes a statement about social-networking sites in orientation literature for first-year students.
“It can be a problem, and we’re just trying to warn people about taking everything that they see on there as fact,” he says.
MADISON, Wis. â?? University of Wisconsin System regents voted Tuesday to increase tuition by 5.5 percent at the stateâ??s four-year universities, the smallest boost in several years despite great uncertainty over their budget.
The Board of Regents voted 14-3 to approve the increases totaling $330 for the coming school year for in-state students at UW-Madison, $323 at UW-Milwaukee and $251 at the 11 other four-year universities.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents today approved a 5.5 percent tuition increase this fall for the four-year universities in the system.
The UW System Board of Regents ruled today that student fees cannot be used to rent off-campus facilities by student organizations at UW-Madison.
The annual tradition of moving days — when student apartment leases end on Aug. 14 and begin Aug. 15 — is approaching, with its familiar mess of clogged traffic downtown and some hapless students sleeping outdoors with their stuff.
UW-Madison junior Joe Xaypharath doesn’t want to think about how much debt he’s piling up as he works toward his pharmacy degree. He’s not even sure how much he owes right now, except that it’s a lot.
Officials at St. Paul’s University Catholic Center plan a new center on the State Street Mall and a residence hall for UW-Madison students.
For many years, environmentalists have fought the stereotype that they are always saying “No”:
“No” to power plants and power lines, to new freeways, to urban sprawl, to bulldozing the desert, to toxic waste dumping, to gas-guzzling cars, to air pollution and to open-pit copper mines, to name a few.
But since mid-June, 13 environmental advocates in their 20s have had a chance to travel around the country and inspect a host of eco-friendly and American Indian-run projects whose leaders are saying “yes”:
Quoted: Julie Curti, 23, a graduate in environmental studies and geography from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Undergraduate students attending the four-year universities in the UW System will likely face a 5.5 percent tuition increase this fall.
That is the increase system President Kevin Reilly will recommend to the Board of Regents when the board meets Tuesday at 10 a.m. in Van Hise Hall on the UW-Madison campus.
Reilly also is recommending that tuition be frozen at the two-year colleges, which often function as “feeder” schools for the larger institutions.
Tucked away in Madison ‘s University Heights neighborhood is a $10 million home that is one of the few remaining houses created by Louis H. Sullivan — the man referred to as the “father of modern architecture ” and known as Frank Lloyd Wright ‘s mentor.
This house, named the Harold C. Bradley House in honor of its first owner, however, is not sitting collecting dust but is in fact home to 22 brothers — the members of the Sigma Phi fraternity.
UW-Madison junior Joe Xaypharath doesn’t want to think about how much debt he’s piling up as he works toward his pharmacy degree. He’s not even sure how much he owes right now, except that it’s a lot.
“I wanted to come to this school, so no matter how much it cost, I just took out the loans. Loans and more loans,” said Xaypharath, of Merrill.
The UW-Madison PEOPLE program helped Nana Asante struggle against a feeling of non-acceptance at the mostly white Verona Area High School.
Asante, who will be a senior at the high school this fall, said that being able to interact with other academically achieving minorities from other schools through the program helped her confidence grow.
“I had experience with people like myself,” Asante said.
The UW Board of Regents is expected to consider a proposal next week that would hike undergraduate tuition at all four-year UW campuses by 5.5 percent. State Representative Steve Nass (R-Whitewater) says that’s too much of an increase.
Nass prefers a GOP plan to cap tuition at four percent over the next four years. He says it’s an opportunity to have the UW System live within its means.
Undergraduate students attending the four-year universities in the UW System will likely face a 5.5 percent tuition increase this fall.
That is the increase system President Kevin Reilly will recommend to the Board of Regents when the board meets Tuesday at 2 p.m. in Van Hise Hall on the UW-Madison campus.
Reilly also is recommending that tuition be frozen at the two-year colleges, which often function as “feeder” schools for the larger institutions.
UW System President Kevin Reilly said Thursday he will recommend a tuition increase of 5.5 percent for resident undergraduates at all four-year UW campuses for the upcoming academic year.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-M) Engineering Department Formula SAE Team, supported by signature sponsor United Wisconsin Grain Producers LLC (UWGP), won its first world championship in Romeo, Mich., in May. Running on E85, the UW-M team finished first in a field of 130 participating teams from around the world.
Madison – University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly is recommending tuition be raised 5.5% at four-year universities this fall even though state lawmakers have yet to agree on UW funding.
Legislative leaders on the eight-member conference committee debating the state budget met for several hours Thursday, but took no action on the UW budget or other areas of funding. Republicans and Democrats on the committee remain far apart on key spending issues.
Some University of Wisconsin students could see a 5.5 percent tuition hike this fall.
The UW Board of Regents will be asked next week to consider tuition increases at all four-year campuses. System spokesman Dave Giroux says that will amount to about a $251 annual increase for students at smaller campuses, while students at the UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee could see tuition climb by up to $330.
Campus file sharing briefly hit prominence in Congress last week as colleges lobbied against a proposed amendment in the Senate to the Higher Education Act reauthorization that would have required universities to use â??technology-basedâ? systems to try to block illegal downloading activity. While the amendment was withdrawn, it may be revived in the House â?? and certainly the entertainment industry has no intention of letting the issue go away.
Life can change in an instant.
That message was brought home this summer with news of three Wisconsin women – Kelly Nolan, Mahalia Xiong and Francine Tate – who disappeared in separate and unrelated incidents within weeks of each other.
(MADISON) University of Wisconsin chancellors say the upcoming state budget will be a tipping point for the UW System. They gathered at the Capitol yesterday (M) to give the Governor and the press a taste of cuts they say theyâ??d have to make if Assembly Republicans have their way.
University of Wisconsin chancellors warned Monday the budget approved by the state Assembly would require them to cut courses, increase class sizes and delay or scrap needed building projects.
Gov. Jim Doyle said the budget would also hurt access to the UW System by limiting financial aid for low-income students and denying resources that campuses need to make room for additional students.
The Democratic governor hosted university officials from around the state at a roundtable event to discuss the potential impact of the Republican-controlled Assembly’s budget on the system of 13 four-year universities and 13 two-year colleges.
