University of Wisconsin officials outlined a renovation project costing nearly $2.5 million for the historic 126-year-old campus observatory Tuesday, laying out the projectâ??s timeline and logistics during a meeting with university community members.
Baas and bleats combined with the excited chatter and giggles of more than 500 elementary children Tuesday at the annual College of Agriculture and Life Sciences for Kids event at the Stock Pavilion.
Student season tickets for the 2007 University of Wisconsin football season are sold out.
After only three days, every single one of the 10,500 student tickets was gone by Tuesday afternoon.
Dear Editor: I could not help but feel pangs of sympathy for the Korean students who fear retaliation in wake of the Virginia Tech incident….
As difficult and awkward as it can be as an American to reach out to someone from a culture you know little about, it can even more difficult for foreign students, especially for those who are not naturally outgoing. I encourage everyone who is able to extend the hand of friendship to a Korean student.
Mark Huntsman, Baton Rouge, La. (formerly of Madison)
When Loretta Medeiros’ financial aid letter from New York University arrived last summer, she remembers seeing just one lender mentioned: Citibank.
Assuming it was the only lender NYU worked with, Medeiros borrowed nearly $29,000 in a private loan for graduate school. But this year, when she needed $3,000 more, she decided to ask NYU if other lenders were available. The university directed her to a school website, where she says she found a lower-cost option that will save her money.
“I was kind of going in blind” in seeking loans, says Medeiros, 23. “I wish I’d known there were other options, instead of (the school) throwing a main bank in my face.”
Concerns that such students are paying too much for loans because of questionable ties between lenders and universities are reaching a boiling point. With New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo set to testify before a House panel today about his probe of the student-loan business, the industry could be on the verge of transformational change.
After the horrors of the Virginia Tech massacre, a popular game on campuses nationwide called “Assassin” is raising concerns and prompting warnings from police. Officers in three communities in Illinois and Pennsylvania urged students to halt the games, which involve ambushing other players with sometimes realistic-looking toy guns or other objects, after the Virginia Tech shooting last week that left 33 people dead. Police say they worry that players, mostly college and high school students, would be mistaken for real-life killers, endangering themselves and others.
The governor’s budget is designed to cap tuition increases at four percent over the next two years. But that’s still too much, according to Lilia Williams of the United Council.
She says students want a freeze this year because tuition has increased over 70 percent in just the last six years. She says the governor’s proposal would still price too many students out of higher education.
The Joint Southeast Campus Area Committee met Monday and tackled a number of issues ranging from shenanigans in downtown parking ramps to renovations on Regent Street and campus construction this summer.
Expounding on stereotypes and prejudices they have encountered on campus, UW-Madison students and faculty called into question the future of the campusâ?? principal diversity program Monday at an All Campus Party forum.
Type in “Virginia Tech” into the search engine at YouTube, and the top entries, surprisingly and poignantly, pre-date last week’s horrific campus shootings.
There’s an arena-shaking clip of the 2003 Hokies football team rushing onto the field to the tune of Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” against the Miami Hurricanes. And there’s a cute little video prank where some students run through the streets with giant cardboard boxes over their bodies.
Both of these clips got to me in a way a lot of the network news coverage of the shooting and its aftermath didn’t.
Students voiced their frustration Monday with shortfalls in reaching goals to increase diversity on the University of Wisconsin campus.
Exactly one week after the deadly shootings at Virginia Tech, the president of the University of Wisconsin System announced his specific plan Monday to address university security statewide.
University Avenue and Johnson Street will be seeing heavy construction this summer as work begins on building an underground utility tunnel to aid in new construction.
You won’t go broke betting on the short-term thinking of teenagers.
Which is why the ad that landed in some UW-Madison students’ mailboxes right around the time of spring break is a work of marketing genius. It shows a young person wearing a T-shirt that reads:
“I went to Cancun on my Citi/AAdvantage Card, and I got 743 miles, a good start on my credit history and a bunch of memories.”
Is that great or what?
Milk, meat, fruit and veggies â?? all things very important to growing children’s bodies.
Alice in Dairyland spent time at several Oshkosh elementary schools last week â?? Roosevelt, St. Frances Cabrini, Washington, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Oakwood, Franklin and Smith â?? talking to students about the importance of agriculture to Wisconsin health.
Nicole Reese, 23, a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is this year’s Alice in Dairyland. Reese, Wisconsin’s Agricultural Ambassador, frequently travels around Wisconsin to talk with children about the foods they eat. Namely, cheese, beef and Wisconsin-grown fruits and vegetables.
Connecticut College senior Paul Dryden has known for years that he’d have lots of competition for an entry-level promotions job in New York’s music industry. So in a bid to get an edge last summer, he invented a job for himself. The job, as an intern in Universal Music’s Buenos Aires office, had never existed before Dryden proposed it. Yet because he was willing to work without pay, he got his foot in the door and was soon translating interviews with American rock stars for his boss, who didn’t speak English.
Allegations of stalking, like those against Virginia Tech gunman Seung Hui Cho, are common on college campuses, according to psychologists and police. The most widely cited national survey, published in 2000, found that 13% of college women said they had been stalked in the previous seven months, says the study’s primary author, Bonnie Fisher, a criminal justice professor at the University of Cincinnati. Stalking is generally defined as a repeated pattern of behavior or conduct that causes a reasonable person to feel fear, she says.
MADISON, Wis. — Candles lit the way down State Street on Monday night as members of the UW community and city leaders extended the hand of friendship to members of the Korean American Student Association.
Members of the UW campus Greek fraternities and sororities said they want to help reduce any fear that there will be some sort of backlash of Korean students.
As a nationwide controversy recently erupted over student loans, state lawmakers are investigating how UW schools may be affected.
The Associated Students of Madison launched its Neighborhood Watch program at Memorial Union Friday night to help assist police in patrolling areas frequented by its fellow students.
A business plan for bicycle advertising on college campuses took first place and a $10,000 prize in the 10th annual G. Steven Burrill Technology Business Plan Competition Friday.
AdverCycle, a plan presented by Stacy Knuth and Matt Lerner, edged nine other teams from UW-Madison that were competing for $22,000 in prize money at Grainger Hall.
Every year, there are one or two UW-Madison students whose behavior or psychological state raises serious concern among university officials.
“I don’t want to alarm anybody, but it’s not just a ‘very rare’ thing,” said Elton Crim, UW-Madison’s associate dean of students.
Simon Cowell wasn’t there to serve up biting insults, Ryan Seacrest didn’t schmooze the contestants and not one ‘dawg’ was uttered, but the UW-Madison All-Campus Idol competition Sunday night was just as entertaining and talent-filled as the nationally televised version.
Foreign applications to American graduate schools increased last year, but still fell short of reaching numbers before Sept. 11, 2001, according to a study released last week by the Council of Graduate Schools.
Although the Big Ten Network still doesnâ??t have a contract with Madisonâ??s Charter Communications, network officials are confident they will close the deal by kickoff this fall with the aid of University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez.
What does UW-Madison do to help students with mental health problems, and how much authority do university officials have to deal with those who may become a danger?
Those are questions on many people’s minds after a mentally troubled student killed 32 others and himself on the Virginia Tech campus Monday.
The University of Wisconsin has a three-pronged system aimed at helping students resolve problems before they become serious.
U-W Madison’s bell tower rang out 33 times to pay tribute to those killed in Monday’s massacre at Virginia Tech. Virginia Governor Tim Kaine declared Friday a day of morning and called for a moment of silence at noon eastern time to support those touched by Monday’s tragedy.
The UW is made up of thousands of students from hundreds of different backgrounds, but on Friday they all came together with one purpose, to do something.
The newest Neighborhood Watch Program kicked off tonight in Madison’s Spring Street neighborhood.
Students will patrol this area and look for suspcicious activity or students in need of assistance.
If something happens students will notify police.
The bells at UW tolled for Virginia Tech Friday, as the Madison campus mourned victims hundreds of miles away.
At 11 am, the carillon bells at UW rang 32 times…once for each victim of Monday’s massacre at Virginia Tech.
And at that moment, some students and staff stopped what they were doing to send their thoughts and prayers to the families and friends of the victims.
It’s a scary statistic that hits close to home–one in four women will be sexually assaulted in their lifetime.
We’ve recently seen it in Madison.
Last month, a UW student says she was raped by two men on Spring Street.
(UNDATED) College students across the country have tried to comfort those at Virginia Tech, through vigils, memorial funds and other means. Friday at UW-Madison is orange and maroon day — Virginia Techâ??s school colors. Sometimes that support extends beyond those directly affected by the tragedy.
Since the shooting on Monday there have been vigils across the country. Not all the displays of grief and comfort are so public. Less obvious and sometimes harder to uncover is the anxiety that campus counselors are on hand to deal with.
Greg Smith, the director of counseling services at UW-Green Bay, says students identify with others students. Thatâ??s why, he says, even those far removed from the tragedy at Virginia Tech may feel disturbed, especially those who may have gone through some trauma. Smith says even though the trauma may be very different from this event, it can still stir up memories and concerns.
University of Wisconsin System Regent Danae Davis said today the schoolâ??s new policy of holistic admissions gives the stateâ??s business community students who can succeed in a growing global economy.
She said business leaders want students who have a â??total understanding of diverse cultures and diverse backgroundsâ? and have told the regents the System is not producing that type of talent. The policy, which was approved by the regents at their February meeting, puts more emphasis on non-academic factors than the previous admissions policy and â??achieves consistencyâ? for the entire system, she said. (Second from bottom.)
A PROFILE of UW football star Joe Thomas in the current Sports Illustrated focused on next week’s NFL draft has given me an idea for Mike Bie and his classicwisconsin.com Web site.
Bie has conducted some inspired contests on the Web site, which features much that is offbeat and colorful about Wisconsin. One of the most interesting contests was Bie’s search, several years ago, for the best ice fishing shanty in Wisconsin.
Now, with the SI article on Thomas as inspiration, it is time for Bie to try to identify the best college living quarters in Wisconsin.
Afrika Bambaataa is famous across the world, a pioneer of hip-hop and one of its greatest missionaries both home and abroad. And yet, despite over 30 years in the public eye, his real name is not known, and his age is a mystery.
Bambaataa, or Bam for short, has grown into his own mythos as easily as the rest of the world has adapted to his prophecy: hip-hop as a universal language.
Facing increasing needs for services and declining state funding, UW-River Falls undergraduate students will pay an additional $72 next year to keep the library open longer, increase research opportunities and develop a tutoring and testing center.
Studies show criminals often target college students because they’re seen as easy victims, but one step at a time students at the UW Madison are working to change that perception. A second neighborhood watch program is going into effect tomorrow night in the College Court and Spring Street area to help deter crime. The neighborhood watch program is already proving to be successful at doing just that along Langdon Street, and now one student organization is working to make more neighborhoods just as safe.
MADISON, Wis. — The cost of an engineering degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison could go up in the near future, and some students seem to be accepting the idea.
Every year, students gather and try to launch their careers at the UW Engineering Expo at Engineering Hall. Their concepts show the genius that will qualify them for high-paying careers after graduation, WISC-TV reported.
Friday will be orange-and-maroon day on the University of Wisconsin campus, and a red-and-white flag signed by dozens of UW-Madison students and staff will soon be flying over Virginia Tech.
But Wednesday evening at Bascom Hall, school colors didn’t matter, as 200 people attending a memorial service for those killed at the university in Virginia were carried together by a wave of emotion.
After spending a night in Sen. Herb Kohl’s downtown office, most members of the University of Wisconsin’s Campus Anti-War Network decided to end their occupation today and peacefully leave after Madison police threatened to arrest them.
At about 9:30 a.m., police told about 35 protesters in the office to leave and later arrested a lone member of the group who refused the request.
Fearing a backlash in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings, Korean students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are retreating from their normal campus lives.
Some Korean freshmen in student housing here have, for example, taken down their name tags from their dormitory doors out of fear of racially charged retaliation, according to Chai Sun Chang, president of UW-Madison’s Korean-American Student Association.
Tears were shed as students, parents and teachers mourned Mondayâ??s Virginia Tech shooting at a memorial vigil held Wednesday night in Bascom Hall.
â??Our purpose tonight is to send messages of support and healing to our fellow colleagues and students at Virginia Tech University, and also to recognize how we can contribute to our own healing process,â? said UW-Madison Dean of Students Lori Berquam.
UW System President Kevin Reilly announced Wednesday that in light of the deadly shootings at Virginia Tech, UW-Madison Police Chief Sue Riseling will lead a committee to review security procedures at all UW System campuses, according to the Associated Press.
UW System spokesperson David Giroux told the AP the committee will perform an in-depth analysis and incorporate any lessons learned after the deadly shootings Monday at Virginia Tech.
As the University of Wisconsin System attempts to have its proposal for $775 million in building projects approved by the stateâ??s budget committee, the UW System may face a rare opposition to its requests for new building construction. According to The Badger Herald, Republicans within the Legislature may try to block some of the more controversial building projects on the UW campus, such as the construction of a new Union South. Some of the projects, like Union South, will receive little or no funds from the state and will be funded by raising segregated fees and private donations. Some members of the State Assembly, however, may block some of the building projects so that segregated fees do not rise and make UW even more expensive for the average Wisconsin family, many of whom struggle to pay the $17,280 in total costs to send their son or daughter to UW for a year.
When a tragic incident occurs in this country as horrific and devastating as the mass shooting at Virginia Tech, we are often left with nothing more than questions. For those who have lost a friend, family member or colleague, these questions are usually the type of life-altering, existential ponderings that have neither simple nor speedy answers.
As more and more details have surfaced from Blacksburg, we have seen an increased demand for answers to these questions.
Proposed building projects across the University of Wisconsin System received criticism from the stateâ??s budget committee Wednesday, with some legislators calling for more renovation and less construction.
The projects, including six at UW-Madison, were first approved by the State Building Commission and must be approved by the Joint Finance Committee for inclusion into the stateâ??s operating budget.
University of Wisconsin students and faculty joined with Madison community members Wednesday night at Bascom Hall to share thoughts and shed tears as they remembered the victims of the Virginia Tech massacre.
Dean of Students Lori Berquam stressed campus unity and extended a message of support to â??our friends and colleaguesâ? after the tragedy, offering advice and support personnel to help contribute to the healing process.
MADISON – The University of Wisconsin Police Department has a special division that deals strictly with emergency management and tragic situations similar to what happened in Virginia Monday. But police are quick to point out that students have to be vigilant about their own safety as well.
Virginia Tech may be hundreds of miles away, but tonight the pain of that campus was felt on UW’s campus.
Students, faculty and staff remembered the 33 victims killed during Monday’s shooting rampage.
The names of those killed in this week’s shootings in Virginia echoed throughout Bascom Hall tonight.
Students and staff listened. Some crying or sitting in silence and all trying to make sense of what happened to their fellow students.
For some, Monday’s killing spree hit even closer to home.
In Madison, the victims of the Virginia Tech Massacre were remembered.
Hundreds attended a campus memorial, some with close ties to Virginia Tech.
A moment of silence was followed by reading the names of each victim of the Virginia Tech Shootings, including Cho Seung-Hui.
MADISON, Wis. — Hundreds of members of the University of Wisconsin-Madison community gathered on Wednesday night for a memorial service for those affected by the Virginia Tech shootings.
The non-denominational program that aims to support mourners at Virginia Tech began at 5:30 p.m. in Bascom Hall on the school’s campus.
As part of the program, a quartet played inspirational music and microphones were near the audience for those who wish to express their feelings, WISC-TV reported.
Federal privacy and antidiscrimination laws restrict how universities can deal with students who have mental health problems.
For the most part, universities cannot tell parents about their childrenâ??s problems without the studentâ??s consent. They cannot release any information in a studentâ??s medical record without consent. And they cannot put students on involuntary medical leave, just because they develop a serious mental illness.
Nor is knowing when to worry about student behavior, and what action to take, always so clear.
In hindsight, the signs seem crystal clear: A loner on depression medication writes violent stories and frightens his peers. In the Virginia Tech shootings, as the machinery of blame turns, people are asking whether this could have been recognized and stopped.
But college counselors say that cases like that of Cho Seung-Hui are difficult to identify, even as counselors have seen more and more troubled students in recent years. And even when signs do point to serious problems, counselors say their hands are often tied.
UW-Madison reacted Tuesday to what is now being called the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, as a professor expounded on being on Virginia Techâ??s campus as tragedy struck, and UW-Madison police and administrators detailed emergency preparedness methods.
If you continue to charge low rent, you will eventually become low rent. Those were the words posted on my column a few weeks ago, and they couldnâ??t have been more accurate.
Today, the Wisconsin Legislative Joint Finance Committee will pore over hundreds of millions of dollars in University of Wisconsin building plans in an informational briefing. They will begin the process of determining which of the proposed campus building projects receive the stateâ??s approval.
As graduate student tuition continues to rise at the University of Wisconsin, students and teachers alike discussed their current predicament over an increasingly expensive graduate education Tuesday.
A coalition of UW-Madison faculty, staff, labor groups, graduate students and others is fighting a new policy for research and project assistants that moves the burden of $8,000 annual tuition waivers to research grants or department funds.
A University of Wisconsin envoy of three faculty members and five students who were on the scene of the Virginia Tech shooting returned to Madison Tuesday safe and secure, but with heavy hearts.
In light of the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech, University of Wisconsin Assistant Police Chief Dale Burke said Tuesday the university is reviewing its campus emergency plans and will try to learn from Mondayâ??s tragedy.
UW-Madison officials are reassuring students security and notification procedures are in place in the event of a crisis.
But the Virginia Tech shooting spree is unleashing student concerns here.
“These were students and professors who were victims of the violence,” UW Teaching Assistant Robert Schoville told his Critical Thought and Expression Class.
