Students at UW System schools likely will face a tuition increase of at least 6 percent, a member of the Board of Regents said Friday.
At UW-Madison, that would mean about $400 more per year for resident undergraduates.
George Ceremuga spent the last week in June helping his father, Dr. George Ceremuga, Sr. and 10 medical students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison conduct health clinics in remote areas of Guatemala.
UW students say they’re being more cautious following the murder of 22-year-old Kelly Nolan.
Her body was found Monday–two weeks after she disappeared after a night of drinking downtown.
But, when 27 News visited State Street Sataurday night we saw women walking alone, talking on cell phones–all things Madison police officers say are risky behaviors.
Police also say downtown Madison is, for the most part, safe.
MADISON, Wis. — A University of Wisconsin-Madison senior participating in a study-abroad program in South Africa was killed in a vehicle crash on July 1 during a guided tour in Botswana.
Andrea Sperka, of West Allis, had completed her spring semester-aboard program and was traveling with a friend to the neighboring countries of Zambia and Botswana, according to the news release from UW-Madison.
MADISON – Kelly Nolan’s death has people in Madison thinking twice before walking home alone.”You hear about that and you take an extra precaution,” University of Wisconsin student Brooke Saias said.
Especially knowing Kelly Nolan’s killer is still on the loose.”I make sure I’m always with a friend and if not I’ll call someone to walk home with,” Saias added.
Since Kelly went missing three weeks ago along State Street, UW Madison’s Safe Nightime Services has been extremely busy. The service offers students and staff free walks and rides home at night.
MADISON, Wis. — Thousands of University of Wisconsin college students from across the state might be heading to college this fall without knowing if they can afford it.That’s because the battle over the state budget has prompted some officials to put all state financial aid grant applications on hold.
College students returning to campuses this fall will see steep increases in the cost of prescription birth-control pills as a result of regulations issued last week by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Making Madison more bike- and pedestrian-friendly, cutting taxes and eliminating Lisa Link Peace Park were three of the ideas that middle schoolers presented to the mayor Thursday after working as city planners for four weeks through a UW-Madison computer simulation.
Associated Students of Madison is appealing a decision by University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor John Wiley to refuse to allow student organizations to use fees paid by students to rent off-campus offices.
A Web site established to aid in the search for UW-Whitewater student Kelly Nolan has become a condolence book of sorts for the young woman’s family after the 22-year-old’s body was found Monday north of the village of Oregon.
….”Rest in peace, Kelly. I didn’t know you, but because of what happened my group of friends has formed a buddy system that we are not going to break,” Cassandra Hein of Madison wrote on Tuesday night.
“We decided that every time we go out, one of us will be sober, and we will take turns and if someone gets angry that we won’t let them go with someone, then we will either take them straight home or call the police and have them escorted home.
“There will be no more thinking, ‘Oh, nothing will happen to me.'”
In an era of rising gas prices, a team of UW engineering students is trying to help a car company build a vehicle that gets better gas mileage. It’s part of General Motors Car X Challenge. As part of the multi-year contest, teams from 17 universities are taking a 2005 Chevrolet Equinox and trying to increase its mileage by 50-percent.
With the changes the UW team has made so far, faculy advisor Glenn Bower said the SUV can get about 40 miles to the gallon in lab tests, a little more than 30 in real time road tests.
Responding to a published report on freshman John Clay’s eligibility, University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema issued a statement Tuesday denying that anything has been resolved yet.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Monday that Clay, a running back from Racine Park, was ineligible.
Investigators today continued the painstaking work of analyzing a wooded area where the probable remains of Kelly Nolan were found Monday morning.
“They’ll have a team of police officers and detectives who are literally going to be on their hands and knees, going shoulder to shoulder, going through a grassy area near the woods,” Madison police spokesman Joel DeSpain said today.
Coroner’s officials have yet to make a positive identification of the body found on private property off of Schneider Drive near its intersection with County MM north of Oregon. Indeed, as of this morning, police had yet to approach the body, for fear they might disturb valuable evidence in finding a suspect.
This is why parents live frightened lives.
Police said Monday they found a body in a field near Oregon after a search by more than 100 police officers that began at 4:30 a.m. Monday. Authorities could not confirm the body was that of Kelly Nolan, the 22-year-old UW-Whitewater student who disappeared June 23 after spending an evening drinking with her friends in downtown Madison. But Madison Police Department spokesman Joel DeSpain acknowledged the massive search was undertaken in a hope of finding items connected with Nolan.
The grisly discovery Monday of a body believed to be that of Kelly Nolan, who disappeared after a night of bar-hopping Downtown, has left some State Street regulars uneasy.
Stephanie Willette, 21, who is taking summer classes at UW-Madison, said she was a “little bit alarmed” when she first heard about Nolan’s abduction but wasn’t initially worried about her own safety.
UW-MADISON assistant professor of theater Patrick Sims was on a stage in Utah Monday night, acting in “10 Perfect,” the one person show he wrote based on the life of James Cameron, who survived a lynching as a young man and later founded America’s Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee.
The play — which had a reading at the Madison Rep last November — was scheduled for performances Monday night and July 16 at the Caine Lyric Theatre in Logan, Utah. Sims, who last spring starred in the Madison Rep’s production of “Home,” is working this summer with the Old Lyric Repertory Company in Logan. “10 Perfect” is being directed by UW-Madison grad student and adjunct theater instructor Sheri Williams Pannell.
Police discovered a body Monday that they believe is Kelly Nolan, the 22-year-old woman who disappeared June 23 after a night of bar hopping in downtown Madison, in a wooded area at the edge of this capital city suburb.
MADISON, Wis. — In the wake of Kelly Nolan’s disappearance and probable death, some are questioning the safety of downtown Madison, the last spot Nolan was seen alive.
Madison city officials told News 3 it’s too early to make assumptions about the safety of downtown Madison.
“There’s no way to deny something as scary and tragic as a woman being killed,” said common council president Mike Verveer. “Who knows where she was killed of course, but last seen in downtown Madison will lead to this perception problem that downtown Madison has, that we are an unsafe, scary place to be.”
The search for a missing 22-year-old woman from Waunakee came to what may be a tragic end this morning outside the village of Oregon when police found a body during a search for University of Wisconsin-Whitewater student Kelly Nolan.
Police are treating the case as a homicide.
Madison police spokesman Joel DeSpain said at a news conference this morning that there is no positive identification yet that the body is that of Nolan, who has been missing since June 23, but the remains were found during a massive search for her on private property near a quarry northeast of Schuster Road, which forms the eastern boundary of the village.
University of Wisconsin System students will have to wait until next month to find out how much their tuition for the coming academic year will cost.
The UW System Board of Regents announced Friday it will delay a decision on tuition increases from next week until early August because of uncertainty surrounding the state budget.
The regents said they are shooting for a 3.3 percent increase, which would boost tuition by $198 at UW-Madison and $150 at most other campuses. But they said the increase could grow if lawmakers do not fully fund raises for faculty and staff or if they cut funding in other parts of the system budget.
University of Wisconsin System students will have to wait until next month to find out how much their tuition for the coming academic year will cost.
State Street partiers know the rules: Stay in groups. Count your drinks. Walk in well-lit areas. Be alert.
But once the drinks start flowing, it’s common to feel a sense of invincibility – especially with a trusty cell phone at hand.
Maria Wittman of Appleton woke up during finals week at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, ready to go to a review for her math exam. She checked her e-mail to confirm the review still was scheduled but was startled by an e-mail from the registrar’s office telling her she had been subpoenaed for illegally sharing music online.
“The purpose of this letter is to notify you that the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater’s Office of the Registrar has received a valid subpoena for the release of your education records,” the e-mail said.
With graduation from the University of Wisconsin-Madison just months away, Andrea Sperka had reached a decision on her future after college while studying abroad this past spring in Cape Town, South Africa, her mother, Carol Sperka, said Sunday.
“She was going to tell us all the stuff she had decided on when she got home” in the next few weeks, Carol Sperka said. “She was going to tell me where she was headed, but we didn’t get that far.”
That conversation with her parents never occurred, because Sperka was killed in a car crash on July 1 in Botswana.
A former UW student who faked her own abduction has finally paid off her debt to the city of Madison.
Audrey Seiler told police she was kidnapped from her dorm in March 2004.
UW students will have to wait until next month to find out how much their tuition will cost during the coming academic year.
The UW System Board of Regents announced today it will delay a decision on tuition increases from next week until early August because of uncertainty surrounding the state budget.
University of Wisconsin students will have to wait until next month to find out how much their tuition will cost during the coming academic year.
Amid the modern, austere buildings of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, something peculiar and esoteric is taking place at the Stock Pavilion.
On the front steps, two women dance in tandem to the sounds of the Middle East, their chain belts emphasizing the sinuous gyrations of their hips.
Through the open doors of the pavilion, a flash of metal beams into the evening air, followed by the sound of muted blows. Men and women clad in glittering armor rush at each other, rattan weapons at the ready.
The search for Kelly Nolan, a UW-Whitewater student who was last seen downtown in the early morning hours of Saturday, June 23, is widening each day. Utilizing Facebook, a blanket of fliers around the city, and a swell of national media attention, the family and friends of the 22-year-old woman persist in their search and efforts. Their latest tool is a blog, helpfindkelly.org, through which they are tracking the search and offering background information, photos, and flyers for persons looking to help.
Twenty-two year old Kelly Nolan disappeared from downtown Madison nearly two weeks ago after a night out with friends.
Her mother, Mary Jane Nolan has been searching. She’s also been recruiting. Trying to get anyone who will listen to be on the look out for her daughter. She says it could be their daughter and hopefully will think what they would do.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Was Kelly Nolan kidnapped? Is she lost, hurt, or worse? Or did she just walk away and not look back? All anyone knows for sure is the 22-year-old college student has been missing for a week and a half, and Madison detectives have been unable to pick up her trail.
“Under most circumstances, I’d be less hopeful, but if you knew Kelly, she’s just a really tough girl. That girl, I’m sure she’s out there. I’m sure she can be found,” said Nolan’s co-worker, Megan Janeway.
….Janeway said Nolan “was always up for a good time, like any other college student.”
Buoyed by information from Madison detectives, the family of Kelly Nolan announced Tuesday they were offering a reward for information leading to her whereabouts.
“We’re here with hope and optimism,” Nolan’s mother, Mary Jane Nolan, said at a press conference Tuesday on Library Mall near the UW campus.
More than 10 days after a 22-year-old college student went missing, police continue to search for the woman who virtually vanished from a downtown campus.
Kelly Nolan, a University of Wisconsin-Whitewater student who was planning to take advantage of part-time job opportunities at the university’s main campus in Madison this summer, was last seen in the early morning hours of June 23 in the downtown area.
An American exchange student studying at the UCT was killed on Sunday and another was injured in a car accident during a guided tour in Palapye, Botswana.
Andrea Sperka, in her early twenties, a senior from the University of Wisconsin Madison, died at the scene.
Five downtown and campus bars are being slapped with suspensions and fines tonight by the Madison City Council, a sobering reminder to all bars that if youth is served, penalties will follow.
Underaged drinking is the primary reason for the actions against Bull Feathers, 303 N. Henry St.; Kollege Klub, 529 N. Lake St.; Church Key Pub and Grill, 626 University Ave.; City Bar, 636 State St. and the Orpheum Theatre’s lobby bar, 216 State St., for incidents dating back to 2005 and 2006.
Police are reviewing surveillance videotape of a bar in Madison, Wis., where a 22-year-old college student was reportedly spotted before she vanished more than a week ago.
It used to be that new students were dropped off at college with no more than a hug from Mom or Dad. They were thrown into the classroom with little advice from the school.
Today, colleges roll out lengthy orientations that are part pep rally, part counseling session. Many encourage parents to participate.
Visit one of UW’s two-day sessions, and you’ll understand why.
This week Kelly Nolan became a statistic, one of nine adults reported to the Madison Police Department as missing in June.
Most of those nine have been found, police said, but Nolan is an open case, a troubling question mark.
The search for a 22-year-old woman missing since Saturday is getting a boost in exposure both locally and across the nation. Mentions UW-Madison’s efforts to publicize the case of a missing UW-Whitewater student.
Dear Editor: As a UW graduate student affiliated with the Center for Climatic Research, I would like to respond to Professor Reid Bryson’s recent statements, which display a disrespectful attitude toward graduate students in his department.
Krysta Huser, Tracy Peterson and Tara Grant, 2004 graduates of River Falls High School, were â??The Fabulous Three,â? â??The Three Musketeers,â? â??The Three Stoogesâ? â?? or whatever nickname you wanted to tag on to the number three.
Low-income students in the University of Wisconsin System applying for a popular financial aid program this fall will be put on a waiting list for the aid due to uncertainty surrounding the state budget, officials say.
The Higher Educational Aids Board is imposing the waiting list for applicants starting today. The agency says it is running out of money for the Wisconsin Higher Education Grant program, which gives grants of up to $2,730 per year to thousands of students.
Gowtham Karri looks young for a city planner. He wears tennis shoes and shorts on the job and can’t be much more than four and a half feet tall.
But he brings a professional intensity to the task of redesigning Madison’s neighborhoods.
College students kick their weekends off early by drinking more alcohol on Thursday nights when they don’t have Friday classes before 10 a.m., a study shows.
The study, published in the July issue of Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, found that the later their classes started on Friday, the more college students drank on Thursday nights. Students with a 9 a.m. Friday class drank an average of 1.39 drinks on Thursday night, while students who did not have class on Friday drank an average of 2.41 drinks.
A computer game that takes place in the real world as well as the virtual world is helping more than a dozen Madison area middle school students think and act like city planners.
A 21-year-old woman from Spring Valley died early Sunday morning, apparently from carbon monoxide poisoning from electric generator fumes, in a tent at the Chip-pewa Valley Country Fest grounds.Tara M. Grant was taken to St. Josephâ??s Hospital in Chippewa Falls shortly after a 12:42 a.m. 911 call, but efforts to revive her failed.Her friend, Jesse J. Jenson, 24, also of Spring Valley, was taken to the hospital for observation for an elevated level of carbon monoxide.
The Chippewa County Sheriffâ??s Department says it believes carbon monoxide poisoning led to a death at the Country Fest grounds in Cadott early Sunday morning.
The department got a call around 12:45 Sunday morning of an unresponsive female in a campsite on the Fest grounds.
For country music fan Tara Grant, 21, of Spring Valley, Wisconsin, Country Fest was an event to look forward to all year.
For the past five years Tara had camped at the Cadott music festival with a group of former students from River Falls High School. But overnight Saturday the good times ended.
The booming popularity of Web sites offering rock-bottom airfares, along with the plethora of Internet travel resources and do-it-yourself guidebooks, have drawn many students away from traditional travel agencies.
But despite this trend, a local branch of a world-wide agency continues to flourish at the University of Wisconsin campus.
Peter Jones came to the University of Wisconsin-Madison from the University of Bristol thanks to a scholarship from the Worldwide Universities Network, a global research and graduate education network that develops collaboration among 18 universities here and internationally — and helps individual students.
MADISON â?? Students at University of Wisconsin System schools can expect higher tuition rates this fall semester â?? possibly by 4 percent or more â?? but the exact increase won’t be determined for several weeks.
Full-time undergraduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay qualifying as Wisconsin residents paid $2,857 for the spring semester. A 4 percent hike would increase tuition by $114.
Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle and Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty announced Friday that a deal has been reached between the two states over tuition reciprocity.
Under the deal, beginning in fall 2008, Wisconsin students attending University of Minnesota schools, which are more expensive than University of Wisconsin, will get a “tuition reciprocity supplement” from Wisconsin to cover the higher tuition.
A reciprocity agreem
We return again to the case of Goldie Gopher vs. Bucky Badger. You may recall that followers of Goldie, the University of Minnesota’s mascot, were upset with supporters of Bucky, his counterpart at the University of Wisconsin. The issue was a successful and longstanding tuition agreement that Minnesota and Wisconsin have had for nearly four decades, known as reciprocity.
A Minnesota child, should he or she choose to abandon poor Goldie, can attend a public college or university in Wisconsin for the same tuition rate charged back in Minnesota. And a Wisconsinite who wishes to bolt from Bucky can attend Minnesota colleges and universities at the prices charged back in Wisconsin.
WAUKESHA – Waukesha native Becky Gunn has known all of her life that she was going to help people in one form or another.
When Gunn graduated from high school in 2003, she decided that she was going to pursue a career that would help people, such as working in the medical field.
However, Gunn decided that she could make more of an impact by working in a field that could help prevent people from getting hurt as opposed to just healing their wounds – mechanical engineering.
Minnesota parents planning to send their kids to the University of Wisconsin- La Crosse can breathe a sigh of relief. The governors of Min-nesota and Wisconsin said Friday they settled a long-simmering tuition reciprocity dispute without making students pay more to attend universities in either state.
â??The river shouldnâ??t be a barrier,â? UW-L Chancellor Joe Gow said. â??It should be a bridge that brings us closer together.â?
Mike Wilkinson, the former Badger basketball star now playing professionally in Greece, was back in Madison this week and did something he did all the while he was in school.
Wilkinson got a haircut from Don Fine at the College Barber Shop at the campus end of State Street.
Fine, 77, has been cutting hair in the shop since 1953, and he isn’t stopping anytime soon, but come next month, there will be a difference.
University of Wisconsin hockey player Kyle Klubertanz and former hockey player Jeffrey Slinde were each assessed $200 fines (yesterday) for tipping over a cow last August in front of the Kohl Center, home of Badger hockey.
ST. PAUL (AP) – The governors of Minnesota and Wisconsin said Friday that they settled a long-simmering tuition reciprocity dispute without making students pay more to attend universities in either state.
Their pact means that starting in the fall of 2008, Wisconsin students attending higher-priced University of Minnesota schools will see a bigger number on their bills — but the state will kick in the difference in the form of a “tuition reciprocity supplement.”
Heidi Hinners fired a 3-over par 77 at Maple Bluff Country Club Wednesday to capture her first Madison Women’s Golf Tournament title.
Hinners, a University of Wisconsin golfer and former Middleton athlete, finished with a two-day total of 149 at the 50th annual event, five shots better than runner-up Vickie VandenBrook.
A couple of college kids are trying to make restaurant-goers healthier … or at least give them that option.
It’s touted as a business-friendly alternative to implementing an outright ban. UW-Madison students Dan Chavas (chuh-VAHS) and Eli Persky are co-founders of Informed Consumers Equal Improved Health. Chavas says we can check the food labels and control what we eat at home, but when we go to a restaurant, there’s no way of knowing the amount trans fats in our meal.
