It could limit the number of bars in downtown Madison, but only if it ever gets past the revision stage.
Madison’s Alcohol License Review Committee again discussed the Alcohol Beverage License Density Plan tonight, but there was still no vote on the proposed law.
Last Fall, the committee proposed limiting liquor licenses to help decrease downtown crime.
Downtown businesses do not support the plan.
Surrounded by high-rise apartment buildings and cushy fraternity houses, the Emma Goldman Cooperative at 625 N. Frances St. might be seen as a throwback to the Madison of the 1960s.
The three-story wood and stucco house is home to activism and casually dressed, relatively young people, who eat communal vegetarian meals and pay low rents near the shore of Lake Mendota.
….In 1992, facing budget deficits and gender equity issues, the University of California-Irvine eliminated its baseball program. This was just one year after the University of Wisconsin-Madison, facing budget deficits and gender equity issues, eliminated its baseball program.
Now, Cal-Irvine has not only resurrected its baseball team, but the Anteaters have moved up from Division II to Division I and this year have reached the semifinals of the College World Series.
Question: If Cal-Irvine can do it, why can’t UW-Madison?
This week, the UW- Madison’s Office of Multicultural Initiatives is teaming with the Hip-Hop Association and Urban Word NYC, in offering a program on spoken word programs and how they can be used by educators.
University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh officials on Monday defended a contract that allows students to use their college Ids to open accounts at U.S. Bank following a newspaper’s report that the university was promoting the bank’s services even though no other bank in the Oshkosh area charges students a higher overdraft fee for checking accounts.
University officials said the arrangement, which pays the university $15,000 plus royalty payments, generates revenue that helps pay for campus services.
The former chairman of the biology department at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point was removed from his post in March after having sexual relationships with two students.
A university report made public today (6/16) shows Robert Bell started one of the relationships with an undergraduate student at a time when he was her adviser. The report says their first kiss was in his university office and the woman later sneaked Bell into her dorm room.
How about comparing Charles Dickens with Mos Def?
Madison area teachers may doubt it can be done. But they can learn the technique at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in a new summer program that demonstrates hip-hop in the classroom.
The UW’s Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives will team up with Urban Word NYC and the Hip-Hop Association to instruct community leaders and teachers on the dynamics of using spoken word and hip-hop in the classroom.
The proposed resolution also would encourage organizations to sponsor free or discounted tickets. Verveer said UW-Madison students expressed interest in receiving a free or discounted ticket, while students flocking from across the Midwest to party in Madison would pay full price.
SEATTLE (AP) – And you thought badgers were land animals.
For the fifth year in a row, the University of Wisconsin-Madison won the National Concrete Canoe Competition over the weekend in Seattle.
The Wisconsin team used a 179-pound, natural gray canoe — named the Descendent — to capture the “America’s Cup of Civil Engineering” prize at what is officially called the American Society of Civil Engineers’ National Concrete Canoe Competition.
Mark Bradley, recently elected president to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents stopped by the Wausau Daily Herald on Friday to discuss the UW System’s mission and its challenges.
Among his hopes are to ensure access is provided to capable students and to make sure the Regents’ Growth Agenda, an initiative that would provide greater access, growth and affordability, becomes a reality. All components of the agenda have been approved by the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee.
The legislature’s budget committee recently put limits on free tuition for veterans, and now the governor says those lawmakers raised a legitimate issue.
Governor Jim Doyle questions whether tuition remission for veterans should be “completely open-ended” for Wisconsin veterans enrolling in our universities and colleges.
Governor Doyle said information on potentially violent, college students needs to be shared, at least with roommates. The governor’s challenge to navigate privacy protections and find more ways to disclosure was issued to his new task force on campus security.
“They can lock down a high school. Faculty have keys. Everybody’s trained. They know what to do … On a college, it’s so much different,” UW Milwaukee Police Chief Pam Hodermann says.
Two months after the tragedy at Virginia Tech, Wisconsin begins its closer look at campus safety.
The issue is complex — how to keep your child’s campus safe. Wednesday, a panel of experts — charged with looking at ways to improve campus safety — began its work.
Emily Blankenheim knows what the best-dressed Badger fans will be wearing next fall.
She’s forecasting trends for the Insignia brand as part of her internship this summer with University Book Store. The internship grew out of her studies in retailing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She hopes her consumer science degree will earn her a top retail job after graduation next year.
Recent college graduates, including tens of thousands graduating this spring, are seeking community service jobs, where they can learn marketable skills while doing work they find meaningful. For many, it offers a chance to test out a career before settling into one. But as interest in service grows, some organizations are getting more selective; others are feeling the squeeze of a competitive market for idealistic young adults.
MADISON, Wis. â?? Lawmakers are moving to scale back a fast-growing tuition benefit program for Wisconsin veterans, eliminating the promise of free graduate school and a lifetime to use the aid.
Their plan also would shortchange the landmark program by tens of millions of dollars, forcing universities and technical colleges to raise tuition or make cuts to other programs to accommodate the veterans who are enrolling in greater numbers than expected.
If University of Wisconsin fullback Chris Pressley thought Michigan had an impenetrable defensive line, maybe akin to the Wall of China, he has since learned that nothing compares to the real thing. And if he thought winning a Big Ten championship was an uphill climb; maybe akin to scaling the Himalayas, he also since learned that nothing compares to the real thing. But if he thought Pasadena was paradise, maybe akin to Shangri-La, he knew all along that nothing compares to real thing — the Rose Bowl — even after seeing Shangri-La in northwest Yunnan province.
To this end, the 20-year-old Pressley has shared his awakening with fellow classmates during an ongoing three-week field trip to China arranged by the UW Business School.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The University of Wisconsin men put the wraps on another outstanding track and field season Saturday, but coach Ed Nuttycombe says he’s still waiting at the finish line for sprinter Demi Omole.
Nuttycombe said he plans to meet this week with Omole to discuss a Trackshark.com blog item, credited to Omole, which indicated the standout senior was held out of the NCAA meet due to an unspecified “incident at home.”
A UW news release said Omole was academically ineligible. Nuttycombe declined to go into details about Omole’s academic standing, citing privacy laws.
Did Sen. Glenn Grothman really want the government checking bloodlines?
He’s proposed that those seeking a racial preference show that their ancestry’s at least 25% of the favored minority or that they show some knowledge of the culture they’re said to be diversifying a university with.
Does he mean this? The West Bend Republican wouldn’t say directly. But everything else he said suggests he’s really calling the race charlatans’ bluff: “If we don’t stop this thing, it’ll ruin America,” he says.
Second place is a good finish for one UW team. The UW Madison team was among 17 schools to re-engineer a 2005 Chevrolet Equinox, using advanced propulsion technologies to increase fuel efficiency and reduce environmental impact. Challenge X team leader Becky Gunn says their biodiesel hybrid gets about 36 miles per gallon, compared to seventeen mpg for a stock Equinox.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents moved Thursday to eliminate ties between campus officials and private lenders that pose conflicts of interest, saying a national student loan scandal that touched Wisconsin required a swift response.
When he started college at UW-Madison five years ago, Marcus Marty had no idea he’d be working for a NASCAR race team one day.
But after graduating with a degree in mechanical engineering this spring, Marty was hired by Roush Fenway Racing — the team that Cambridge native Matt Kenseth races for — to work on its vehicle dynamics and road simulation.
The University of Wisconsin-La Crosseâ??s Growth and Access Plan has suggested the need to increase the diversity on this campus. The plan is now considered in the governorâ??s budget and likely to see implementation. However, it seems that the UW-L administrationâ??s, especially the Office of Residence Lifeâ??s, view of diversity and their record on it is pitiful.
In White Hall, on Nov. 6, 2006, messages of â??White Power,â? and the Nazi swastika, among others, were written on paper in the stalls that were intended to let people convey ideas for hall apparel. After a hate-incident report was filed, the hall director stated that these messages were not covered by the First Amendment.
Sick of paying $40 or more to fill up your tank? Worried about global warming? If so, you might be interested in the advanced drive systems that student engineers showed off in downtown Detroit on Thursday.
As gas prices remain above $3 a gallon, teams of college students involved in the Challenge X automotive engineering competition used a variety of advanced propulsion technologies. Their goal was to increase fuel efficiency and make vehicles more environmentally friendly without sacrificing their appeal to consumers.
The propulsion systems aren’t planned for production right away, but top engineers from General Motors Corp. and the U.S. Department of Energy said the students’ work could influence future product decisions, help address concerns about the nation’s dependence on foreign oil and limit the emissions believed to cause global warming.
UW-Madison finished second in the contest.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — University of Wisconsin seniors Chris Solinsky and Joe Detmer are talented, personable, charming young men. But don’t let that stop you from hating ’em.
Track and field rivals hate Solinsky and Detmer for beating their brains out.
….Solinsky (5,000 meters) and Detmer (decathlon) made it look ever-so easy with impressive first-day performances that eased the sting of senior sprinter Demi Omole’s stunning absence Wednesday at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships.
Badgers coach Ed Nuttycombe said he was shocked to learn Monday that Omole was academically ineligible for the meet. Omole, the Big Ten Conference Athlete of the Year, was unbeaten in the 100 meters this year.
A growing number of Americans crossing the Atlantic to get postgraduate business degrees, as the global economy continues to erase borders and as the demand for the degrees and graduates who earn them explodes.
Steve Schroeder has been director of the Business Career Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the past year and a half. The center serves undergrad business students as well as students in the five-year professional accounting program and master’s candidates in actuarial science and quantitative finance. The majority of Madison undergradsâ??78%â??find jobs in the Midwest following graduation, with the top sectors being accounting, financial services, merchandising, investment banking, and real estate and appraisal.
Schroeder spoke to BusinessWeek.com reporter Janie Ho. Here are edited excerpts of the conversation.
She shootsâ??and scores: Janese Banks.
GREENWICH VILLAGE. A history class from the University of Wisconsin crowded into the backroom of the Stonewall Inn on Monday. The bar, of course, is famous as the site of the Stonewall riots, sparked by a police raid 38 years ago this month.
That uprising is considered the defining moment of the gay rights movement. But the students in the bar had been studying the less-celebrated history of gay activism in the years before Stonewall.
A team from UW Madison is competing against the best in the nation, but not on the playing field. This group of Badgers is going head to head with teams from 16 other schools, in a three year automotive competition known as Challenge X.
(MADISON) A legislative panel studying affirmative action shot down a proposed constitutional amendment Monday (6/4) night that would have ended the practice in Wisconsin.
The special committee on affirmative action broke out over and over again into all-out cacophony. Most of the yelling had to do with process. Opponents of affirmative action accused GOP Senator and Committee Chair Glenn Grothman (R-West Bend) of stifling debate in an effort to ram through his own agenda. Grothman accused them of some kind of filibuster.
MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin’s Affirmative Action laws could take a drastic turn under new proposals.
A special legislative committee on affirmative action is considering a handful of proposals.
The sometimes controversial committee spent hours on Monday night in a heated debate.
Hundreds of UW students marched last winter to convince state lawmakers to save affirmative action. After tonight’s special committee meeting, many of them may have reason to march again.
Sen. Glenn Grothman, the committee’s chairman and a Republican, plans to introduce several proposals. He wants to force students or workers seeking government contracts to prove they are at least 1/4 minority.
A legislative committee takes a step tonight toward eliminating Affirmative Action.
Committee chair, State Senator Glen Grothman (R-West Bend), says Affirmative Action has outlived its usefulness. It’s time to make everyone truly equal.
The committee’s recommendations would apply to University admissions, state contracts and state government jobs.
OTHER CITIES have claimed the pink flamingo as their own, but Madisonians know the truth.
For many reasons, this city can lay claim as the true spiritual home of the pop culture classic pink plastic flamingo. News this week that the presumed demise of the plastic bird was premature offers city leaders a nice opportunity to seize the moment and name the plastic pink flamingo Madison’s official bird.
The UW-Madison is hosting about 100 talented minority and low-income undergraduate students from around the nation this summer to do graduate-level research with faculty members — in the hope they will decide to continue their education in Madison.
The Summer Research Opportunity Program, partially funded by the National Science Foundation, includes programs in 10 fields, ranging from neurology and biology to engineering and education.
In the past year, Molinda Henry has filled out 57 scholarship applications looking for help in paying for her UW-Madison education.
“I’ve got a lot of rejections, a lot,” said the Madison undergraduate. “But I refuse to hang my head down because this is something I want. I want this more than anything I’ve wanted in my life.”
DODGEVILLE — Within minutes of starting her workday, Dr. Amy Robinson plunges her left arm into a cow’s rectum to determine on which side of the bovine’s uterus she will place a frozen embryo.
As a large animal veterinarian in rural Wisconsin, this task is not unusual, and Robinson, 32, goes about it with the matter-of-factness of an accountant creating a spreadsheet.
UW-Madison provides small grants to low-income staff to help pay for child care, said Lynn Edlefson, campus child-care coordinator. Those grants, typically $500 each to four employees each year, are paid for with private money, she said.
The panel lauds the crisis team at the University of Florida. That team, according to the report, includes representatives of the campus police department, the legal counsel’s office, the university counseling center, and the offices of student affairs and residential life. It meets weekly to “review and evaluate specific individuals and incidents … and channel the institution’s coordinated response.”
Several other institutions, including the University of Wisconsin at Madison, have similar intervention teams.
A university class from the Midwest passed through Philadelphia yesterday on a two-week tour of historic sites in the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender equal-rights movement.
When their red-and-white bus, adorned with the University of Wisconsin badger mascot, pulled up in front of Independence Hall, Mark Segal, publisher of the Philadelphia Gay News, had a surprise for them.
Speakers described mental-health issues as a growing concern among providers of study-abroad programs. More students are disclosing pre-existing mental-health problems, and are seeking help in finding counselors overseas or taking medication into a foreign country, said Julie Z. Lindsey, assistant director of international programs at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
She and two other administrators at the university talked about the importance of preparing for potential problems, and working out legal, insurance, and logistical issues.
Bo Ryan, men’s basketball coach at the University of Wisconsin, has been named a member of a new NCAA study panel that will develop ways to enhance academic performance and graduation rates in Division I men’s basketball.
The UW-Madison Formula SAE Racing team recently claimed the prestigious SAE Foundation Cup at the international racing competition in Detroit, which featured 130 schools from 11 countries on five continents.
Vying to build the best bridge to nowhere, engineering students from across the U.S. and Canada on Saturday joined trusses to struts and abutments to beams, creating sturdy 20-foot spans as they raced against the clock in the finals of the National Student Steel Bridge Competition at Cal State Northridge.
The 16th annual contest drew teams from 43 schools that had drilled and pounded their way through regional contests to reach the finals, held for the first time at the campus’ main athletics building, Redwood Hall.
The UW-Madison team came in third.
MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Badger fans have celebrated success in several campus sports — men’s and women’s hockey championships; men’s basketball in the NCAA tournament; and back-to-back Capital One Bowl wins — but athletes of a more unique sport are taking the national stage this weekend in hopes of bringing another championship back to Madison.
Story mentions that the Legislature’s Joint Fince Committee refused to endorse other projects: building new dorms at six UW campuses; building or expanding student centers at UW-Madison and UW-Eau Claire; and providing $500,000 toward a planned Civil War museum in Kenosha.
MADISON – No new dorms for the University of Wisconsin System. No student union renovations. And no Hmong cultural center or Civil War museum to boot.
The Legislatureâ??s budget-writing committee on Thursday wiped all those projects out of the 2007-09 state budget. Republicans on the panel argued that they had to set priorities and draw the line on state debt, while committee Democrats said their GOP counterparts were being cheap.
â??You want to save money but at the same time you donâ??t want to be petty,â? said committee member Rep. Pedro Colon, D-Milwaukee.
Madison, Wis. – Employers who wonder where their future technologists will come from, take heart.
Fourteen Madison area high school students soon will graduate from an intensive information technology training program offered through the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Information Technology Academy.
Plans for a major renovation of Memorial Union and the replacement of Union South suffered a setback Thursday when the state Legislature’s budget committee rejected the proposed bond funding for the projects in the 2007-09 state budget.
In October, UW-Madison students voted to increase student fees to pay for the projects, but construction won’t move forward unless the state issues $126.2 million in bonds, Wisconsin Union Director Mark Guthier said Thursday.
They won’t be replacing famous siblings like the Cusacks and Gyllenhaals in Hollywood anytime soon, but Joe and Ann Detmer’s film debut has its moments.
A guy with a gun in his kilt is not the State Street poster child the Chamber of Commerce wants for Madison’s main street.
That said, Tuesday night’s shooting won’t stop me from going down to State Street tonight to catch dinner and CTM’s production of “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Jim Doyle has appointed Colleene Thomas to the University of Wisconsin System’s Board of Regents. She will replace Christopher Semenas as the student representative. Her appointment is effective immediately and will expire May 1, 2009.
Thomas lives in Poplar. She is a student at the UW-Madison where she is majoring in political science and geography.
MADISON, Wis. — In the wake of Tuesday night’s fatal shooting, some University of Wisconsin-Madison students and downtown business owners said that they’re worried about safety.
UW student Steve Caringello said on Wednesday that for the first time at school, he was scared on State Street as he and his friends walked past the crime scene where a 23-year-old man was shot and killed. (For more on this story, click here.)
(MADISON) A University of Wisconsin-Madison official is stressing patience as the school probes reports of worker abuse and corruption with Hermosa Manufacturing, a former subcontractor for Adidas.
Dawn Crim, of the UW Chancellorâ??s Office, told the campusâ?? Labor Licensing Committee that Adidas has pledged to: crack down on blacklisting among its suppliers, start a hotline for reporting worker abuses and help 63 blacklisted workers find new jobs.
Crim acknowledges some labor advocates want UW-Madisonâ??s contract with Adidas cut now, instead of letting it expire in 2011. She says the school intended all along to monitor the situation, to ensure that workers are in fact being rehired and to ensure that the strategy is working. However, she says they feel like they need to give the strategy an opportunity to work. (Second item.)
Just two years after inventing a better keg tap for the stadium market, Matthew Younkle knows it’s time to expand.
Already, the inventor of TurboTap — a nozzle that attaches to beer kegs and delivers a pour with the right amount of foam in less than three seconds — claims to own leases in 30 percent of the U.S. professional stadium market.
“While the stadium market is big and profitable, it only represents a small fraction of beer taps in circulation,” said Younkle, 32, who created a prototype of the product for an investor’s competition in his senior year at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
DAVIDSON, North Carolina (AP) — With 1,700 students, Davidson College may be small. But you’d never know it when you see the stuff students leave behind at the end of the year.
In a large room at a fraternity house, stacks of clothing, furniture, lamps and electronics were already piling up days ahead of last Sunday’s graduation. Mixed in were odds and ends that could only wind up together in a college trash pile: a pair of giant Homer Simpson slippers; a collection of Pokemon cards; a batch of fashion disaster dresses you can only hope were costumes from a campus theme party called the Five Dollar Prom.
Futons are strapped to cartops. Old, stained carpets are tossed in the trash. Football game ticket stubs and textbooks are stuffed into boxes.
It’s move-out time at UW-Madison’s residence halls, a process that’s done with surprising efficiency.
Ask any college student to define a mutual fund or a money market account, and odds are they won’t be able to.
But Christine Muggee, a UW-Madison sophomore majoring in business, will proudly tell you she put hours of research into picking out the best of these two investments for herself.
For the presidents of 19 colleges, this month’s mail has already produced at least one unpleasant surprise: a letter, signed by five influential lawmakers, warning of a “troubling” epidemic of online music and movie piracy on the campuses.
Leaders of two committees in the U.S. House of Representatives sent the letters to the top 10 colleges on each of two lists released recently by the Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America. The lists, which overlap slightly, named the colleges that the trade groups said had received the most notices of copyright infringement over the past academic year.
