Following the April 16 shootings at Virginia Tech, Gov. Jim Doyle recently signed an executive order creating the Governorâ??s Task Force on Campus Safety. The goal is to ensure campus security and preparedness in emergency situations on all Wisconsin college campuses.
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.
After the tragic events that occurred at Virginia Tech last month, Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle announced plans Wednesday to form a task force aimed at developing safety practices for all Wisconsin colleges.
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.
After hearing outcry and criticism from students regarding football season tickets, the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department responded Wednesday by arranging a lottery that will offer between 100 and 300 additional tickets.
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.
Fifty-three “John Doe” subpoenas issued Tuesday against the UW System will force the System to give up the names of students the Recording Industry Association of America says have illegally downloaded music, a UW-Madison official said.
Brian Rust, communications manager for Madison’s Division of Information Technology, said Wednesday that 16 of the students are from Madison, but he could not confirm any numbers from any other UW schools.
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.
If campus technology officers have been feeling left out as their colleagues in the financial aid office get all the fan mail from Congress, never fear. Now itâ??s their turn.
Voices rise up like flowers in bloom, and once again spring seems the perfect time for singing.
This time of year, many smaller local choral groups, including the Festival Chorus of Madison, the Philharmonic Chorus, the Wisconsin Chamber Choir, the Edgewood Women’s Chorus and the University of Wisconsin Concert Choir, have either performed concerts or will perform one.
….The Capital Times asked some of the participants in the upcoming concerts what draws them to and keeps them active in group singing.
A love of singing often seems to run in families, and many choruses count among their members husbands and wives, parents and children, and siblings.
The UW Choral Union, for example, currently has two generations of women, two sisters and a daughter-niece, from the same family.
Nicole Grapentine-Benton, 20, is a UW senior majoring in Portuguese and minoring in environmental studies who joined the Choral Union this year after being in another UW choir last year. She sings with her mom, Lori Grapentine, and her aunt Joy Grapentine.
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.
The music industry is moving forward with its legal campaign against students, sending subpoenas Tuesday to the University of Wisconsin seeking the names and contact information of 53 individuals who allegedly shared music on the Internet without paying for it.
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.
