Category: Campus life

A University of Wisconsin law student was allegedly mugged early Thursday afternoon walking on West Gilman Street toward State Street.

he University of Wisconsin announced Thursday that Broadway, television and film actor André De Shields will speak at spring commencement.

he University of Wisconsin law student who first started the outrage regarding a professorâ??s comments about the Hmong community will be honored with an award May 18.

The University of Wisconsin announced Thursday it reached a settlement with the UW Roman Catholic Foundation over a discrimination lawsuit filed in November over the groupâ??s funding.

Madison Police Department officials say they are ready to regulate Saturdayâ??s 38th annual Mifflin Street Block Party and are prepared to make upward of 500 arrests.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) – In a case closely watched in higher education, the University of Wisconsin-Madison agreed Thursday to award $250,000 in student fees next year to a Catholic group to settle its religious discrimination lawsuit.

Both the university and the UW Roman Catholic Foundation praised the agreement, which settles a federal lawsuit filed after the university refused to recognize the group despite a campus presence dating to the 1880s.

The dispute has been watched closely because it could set clearer standards on whether student fees at a public university can go to religious groups – and for what activities – without violating the constitutional separation of church and state or discriminating against religion.

Shortly after a federal judge ordered the University of Wisconsin to hand over the names of 53 UW System students targeted as habitual illegal music downloaders, the Recording Industry Association of America cracked down on more campuses Wednesday.

You will be ticketed if you break the clearly-defined rules of the Mifflin Street Block Party.

That was the message echoed by representatives from the Madison Police and Fire Departments Wednesday night at a meeting meant to allow Mifflin residents and police to voice concerns to one another about Saturdayâ??s party.

The Dalai Lama arrived in Madison Wednesday afternoon to start his three-day visit, and tomorrow he will give a sold-out talk to University of Wisconsin students and community members at the Kohl Center.

A congressional committee sent letters Wednesday to the University of Wisconsin and 19 other universities identified as having received the highest number of illegal-downloading infringement notices for the purpose of gathering information.

It is not every day that college students discuss their house parties for the upcoming weekend with police officers before they even occur.

How many people show up for the annual Mifflin Street block party Saturday is anybody’s guess. A lot of it depends on the weather, which right now calls for coolish conditions.

….”It could be a thousand people, it could be 40,000. We have no feel for it at all,” said Madison Police Sgt. Dave McCaw, adding that another factor is the final exam schedule of colleges and universities in surrounding states.

The police are introducing mounted horse patrol to Mifflin Street for the first time in the event’s 38-year history. “They won’t be as much crowd control as they will be crowd management,” McCaw said.

MADISON, Wis. — With days away from the Mifflin Street Block Party, Madison police are urging residents to do their part to help keep the annual bash safe.

With great weather in the forecast, high turnout is expected on Saturday, but police said they hope revelers will keep problems to a minimum.

“I don’t think we’ve had a block party in recent years that hasn’t attracted at least 10,000 partiers throughout the day, and I think with the nice weather, we’ll more likely double that figure,” said Alderman Mike Verveer.

A new law approved by the Madison City Council on Tuesday will require shops that buy secondhand textbooks to keep lists, available to police, of the people who sold the books.

Textbook theft, which the ordinance is intended to address, is a major problem, according to Eli Judge, Mike Verveer and Robbie Webber, the council members representing the districts with the highest concentrations of UW-Madison students.

The new regulations, however, will only deal with people who are looking for quick cash from stolen books, not the people who sell the books they steal on eBay and other Internet sites, said Ald. Zach Brandon, who supported the proposal.

Members of the Mifflin-area community will have an opportunity to voice concerns about the upcoming Mifflin Street Block Party tonight.

City Council President Mike Verveer, whose district includes Mifflin Street, and members of the Madison Police Department will be on-hand to answer questions at the meeting.

Police arrested four Madison men early Tuesday morning after a fight occurred on Lakelawn Place involving a machete and a pitchfork.

Madison police responded to a call early Tuesday morning about a scuffle in which pitchforks and knives were drawn to stop vandals from ruining a tent near a fraternity on the 200 block of Lakelawn Plaza near Langdon Street.

Madison police spokesman Mike Hanson said the fight started because residents of ACACIA fraternity spotted vandals attempting to tear down a tent in front of their house. The ACACIA house, 222 Langdon St., is in the vicinity of the area, but no one confirmed it was in fact ACACIA property being vandalized.

The Madison Police Department held a meeting Monday night to relay downtown crime statistics to the public and further review the $100,000 Safety Initiative.

We are writing on behalf of the Wisconsin Alumni Student Board (WASB) in order to thank the thousands of students who participated in last weekâ??s All-Campus Party (ACP).

In an attempt to continue the University of Wisconsinâ??s efforts to reduce energy consumption, residence halls competed this month to conserve the most electricity and the winner was announced Monday.

Traditional walls are tumbling down at universities across the country because of a new policy allowing students to choose their roommates with no questions asked â?? including the gender.

Two Madison residents charged with stealing property from University of Wisconsin students in February and March of this year made their initial court appearances Monday.

March 2007 has seen an increase in aggravated battery, sexual assault and retail theft when compared to March 2006, according to new crime statistics released Monday night at a Madison Police Department community briefing.

When Karen Carlson was young, she and her friends used to “push a few limits” by driving out to the country, parking their cars next to each other and turning their radios to the same stations.

MADISON, Wis. — The UW is a bargain — that’s the word from the Princeton Review.

Each year the Princeton Review ranks the top colleges that offer the best education for the dollar.

This year the UW is No. 9 for public colleges.

A UW-Madison student was arrested by Madison police early Sunday morning and is suspected to have burglarized multiple houses on the 100 block of Langdon Street.

….Campus break-ins: A UW-Madison student was arrested by Madison police early Sunday morning for allegedly breaking in to multiple residences in the 100 block of Langdon Street.

Nathan J. Castner, 20, was found after police were called to Langdon Street at 2:30 a.m. for a possible burglary in progress.

Police arrested a 20-year-old University of Wisconsin sophomore in connection with two burglaries that occurred early Sunday morning on the 100 block of Langdon Street.

Brett, a UW-Madison sophomore, downloads about three new albums per day with a few clicks of the mouse and without the help of a credit card. However, he may soon be in court.

After several Recording Industry Association of America companies went to U.S. District Court demanding the University of Wisconsin release contact information for 53 individuals who received settlement letters for illegally downloading music, the university is complying.

The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire has again been placed on the list of Americaâ??s Best Value Colleges Thursday, compiled by the Princeton Review.