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.
The University of Wisconsin is the ninth most affordable public university in America, according to annual rankings released by the Princeton Review last month.
The list is based on institutional data collected from colleges and universities from fall 2005 through summer 2006 and surveys of students attending the schools.
Police arrested four Madison men early Tuesday morning after a fight occurred on Lakelawn Place involving a machete and a pitchfork.
The Princeton Review ranked UW-Madison No. 9 for â??Best Value Collegeâ? in the 2008 edition of its annual book, â??Americaâ??s Best Value Colleges,â? claiming UW-Madison â??offers an essential education at rock-bottom rates.â?
Senior Editor of â??Americaâ??s Best Value Collegesâ? Adrinda Kelly said the review looked at 650 colleges across the country and identified 30 factors that were applied to each of the universities. The universities were then narrowed down to the top 165, which are the schools that actually appear in the book.
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.
Peter J. Gomes has been at Harvard University for 37 years, and says he remembers when religious people on campus felt under siege. To be seen as religious often meant being dismissed as not very bright, he said.
No longer. At Harvard these days, said Professor Gomes, the university preacher, â??There is probably more active religious life now than there has been in 100 years.â?
Quoted: Charles L. Cohen, a professor of history and religious studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who for a number of years ran an interdisciplinary major in religious studies.
Camped out in a bright red tent Sunday at 3 p.m. until Tuesday at 3 p.m., a group from every single UW Athletics sport team took turns â??practicingâ? on Library Mallâ??jogging, doing crunches or walking around collecting moneyâ??for a cause.
The Recording Industry Association of Americaâ??s lawsuits against UW System students require university employees to devote time and money to processing complaints without reimbursement from the RIAA, according to Brian Rust, UW-Madison Department of Information Technology communications director.
The e-mail sent to UW-Madison students informing them of the April 21 date of football ticket sales missed many studentsâ?? inboxes because of the large size of the universityâ??s student listserv, according to the athletic department.
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.
Badger athletes from all 23 varsity sports, cheerleading and dance, had a kink thrown into their practice schedules this week with the 48-hour marathon practice for charity on Library Mall.
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.
The last thing America needs is to be increasing the number of guns in the hands of civilians.
The first-ever Wiscontrepreneur Challenge provided students $10 each to buy materials from a university second-hand store and allotted them 100 hours to turn those scraps into marketable inventions. Twelve teams entered the competition, creating a range of innovations that include a hand-cranking portable power generator and a designer belt-buckle made out of an old cassette tape.
South Korean student groups at UW-Madison have canceled an upcoming cultural event in
response to the tragedy at Virginia Tech.
Joshua Steinberg knows what he’s going to do when he graduates from UW-Madison in May with a bachelor’s degree in communication arts. He’s going to take a nice, relaxing summer vacation – without having to worry about looking for a job.
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.
Your college experience isnâ??t complete until you take over at least one campus building. At least, that might have made sense back in the 1960s, when the student movement spilled over into the public consciousness and it seemed, if only for a moment, that everything was worth protesting.
If times have changed, so have the tactics for both modern-day campus protesters and those who find themselves on the receiving end of student activism: college administrators. â??Many of the people who now are leaders of universities were students in the â??60s when demonstrations seemed to be â?¦ extremely energetic,â? said Kent Hubbell, dean of students at Cornell University. â??Hopefully, we will have learned from that experience in our current roles.â?
Last Tuesday, students learned that football tickets for the 2007 season were sold out. Although not surprising in itself, as Camp Randall is routinely sold out, the real shock came to many students because they did not even know they were on sale.
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.
After last weekâ??s football ticket sale notification debacle, many Badger fans are again disgruntled with the Wisconsin Athletic Ticket Office.
A University of Wisconsin chemist and her team have discovered a method for identifying new useful compounds for developing antibiotics, and a national science journal recognized the groupâ??s findings Friday.
….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.
The University of Wisconsin Athletic Department announced its new lottery and distribution policy Friday for menâ??s basketball and hockey tickets, drawing mixed reactions from students.
A record number of people participated in Saturdayâ??s Crazylegs Run, which will benefit the University of Wisconsinâ??s Badger Athletics Fund.
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.
Dear Editor: Although panhandling has been a consistent issue in Madison, it’s time to end it for good.
I am a 21-year-old college student working and living downtown. Being a victim of panhandlers has become a natural part of my life, and I’m sick of this being OK.
Students want more seats to University of Wisconsin men’s basketball and hockey games. Because the UW athletic department will never find students more seats to those games, it has continually tried to use a fair student seat allocation plan.
The latest plan, unveiled Friday afternoon on the athletic department’s Web site, includes a two-phase lottery system for men’s basketball games that is weighted toward graduate students and undergraduate upperclassmen.
The UW Athletic Department released details of new procedures for the sale, distribution and allocation of student season tickets for menâ??s hockey and basketball this morning.
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.
Kendl Friedman knows she’s enjoying a lavish lifestyle, at least by college standards.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison freshman has a big bedroom, a private fitness room and even the availability of a personal trainer at her home at the University House Statesider, 505 N. Frances St.
From this experience, she’s become a discerning shopper.
A U.S. district court judge said Wednesday the University of Wisconsin System must release the names and contact information of 53 students accused of illegal file sharing on UW networks.
Sophomore Liz Hutchison is one of a growing number of UW students who doesn’t download music illegally. She pays for every song she downloads.
“I know I won’t get into any trouble or have any problems with my computer,” she said.
It’s a smart decision. A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the UW must cooperate with lawyers from the music industry. The university must hand over the names, phone numbers, and addresses of as many as 53 students the music industry’s lawyers suspect of downloading copyrighted music illegally.
MADISON, Wis. — The University of Wisconsin-Madison said it will comply with a federal judge’s decision and turn over private contact information of 53 students who could be sued for allegedly sharing digital music files over the Internet.
Sixteen record companies filed a lawsuit to get the names tied to 53 Internet connections of alleged copyright infringement.
Judge John Shabaz signed an order on Thursday that requires the university to comply with subpoenas that seek the names, addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses for the individuals.
Angela Steckart, a short, blond young woman, walks into Espresso Royale on a Friday afternoon. With a smile giving off a laid back, confident aura, she orders a latte and sits down after a long day of class. Making small talk, she seems only vaguely interested until the pleasantries give way to her favorite subject. She beams from ear to ear conversing about her â??hysterical,â? sports-loving 2-year-old son, Callen.
To anyone passing her on the street, Steckart looks like any college student but her responsibility as a single parent sets her apart.
In wake of the Virginia Tech tragedy, parents worry about their children and whether UW-Madison would react appropriately if such a dangerous event were to occur here. The UW-Madison system recently started a review of the campusâ?? current security policies and instituted a plan to conduct future reviews to ensure that the campus has a safety plan should one of any number of different scenarios arise.
What do you value about UW-Madison? Chancellor John Wiley and Provost Patrick Farrell want to know. â??We need your help!â? the two said in an e-mail to students Wednesday, inviting them to participate in an online survey running from now until May 4.
UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley, along with other Labor Licensing Policy Committee members, gathered Wednesday in Bascom Hall to hear findings from Special Assistant to the Chancellor Dawn Crimâ??s recent trip to El Salvador to investigate the Hermosa factory situation.
Students, residents and police are gearing up for next Saturday, the date set for the 38th annual Mifflin Street Block Party.
Badger fans across campus expressed both anger and confusion with the UW-Madison Athletic Department Wednesday after discovering season football tickets had sold out before knowing they had even gone on sale.
When I was a freshman, I wanted to live next to Lake Mendota. I knew the southeast dorms were not for this small-town boy. I felt lucky getting my first choice of Kronshage Hall, and when I moved in, my view of the lake from my room was one of the best in Madison. Even now, I still go out to Chamberlin and run along Lakeshore Path down to Picnic Point because it is one of the most serene runs in all of Madison.
The costs for a top-notch education keep piling up for those at the University of Wisconsin, as rising tuition continues to thin out the wallets of students and their families.
Several students expressed outrage Wednesday after learning season ticket packages for home football games had sold out, saying the University of Wisconsin never notified them about the sale.
Chancellor John Wiley acknowledged Wednesday that Adidas has not completely fulfilled its promise to clean up its labor practices at some of its Central American factories.
Dear Editor: By April 16, I was a little concerned when I hadn’t been able to locate any media coverage of the previous weekend’s events sponsored through the “Hip-hop as a Movement” Week.
….To counter the negative publicity that hip-hop venues in Madison have been receiving, positive events like these should be making front pages.
As many as 53 UW-Madison students could be slapped with lawsuits by the music recording industry after a federal judge on Wednesday ordered the university to surrender their names and other information for sharing digital music files over the Internet.
The relationship between a student loan company and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is now more suspect than it appeared at first glance. UWM said it chose Student Loan Xpress as a sole “preferred lender” because of the firm’s “superior customer service and real savings to UWM students.” Yet its loans were more expensive than those proposed by two other companies.
MADISON â?? Trisha Weiland, a native of Menasha who is attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison, spent spring break helping flood victims in Kentucky, through the Universityâ??s Alternative Breaks Program.
Weiland is a graduate of Menasha High School and is majoring in nutritional science at Madison. Weiland volunteered for one week in April during her 2007 spring break through the University organization Alternative Breaks.
Madison Ald. Eli Judge proved last week that swearing an oath to the Wisconsin Constitution in no way implies opposition to gay rights.
Other elected officials in Madison and across Wisconsin should take note and follow his example.
Judge, 19, a sophomore at UW-Madison, was sworn in Tuesday as the youngest member of the Madison City Council, representing the campus area.
In the wake of last weekâ??s tragedy at Virginia Tech, UW-Madison Police Chief Sue Riseling has agreed to chair the UW System Presidentâ??s 2007 Commission on University Security.
That familiar yellow tag on our textbooks that reads â??usedâ? could mean catastrophe for all of us collegiate scholars because we may have unknowingly purchased an outdated chronicle of finite mathematics or an ancient account of what makes a good speech.
After a yearlong legal struggle, a federal court has ruled that the University of Wisconsin Roman Catholic Foundation is eligible to receive segregated fee funding. It seems that the final chapter of one of the yearâ??s most misunderstood stories has been written.
Demand for a business degree is booming worldwide.
In many respects, thatâ??s good news for me as the dean of the UW-Madison School of Business, but that same popularity also carries a downside.
Men are paid more than women immediately following college graduation, according to a report released April 20.
