Category: Campus life

(MADISON) Most students are now back from spring break. While many took in beach parties and dance clubs, some chose to do some volunteer work down by the border.

Last week, ten UW-Madison students drove 30 hours to San Juan, Texas, which has a large immigrant community. They worked with LUPE, a group affiliated with the United Farmworkers Union, to visit with farm laborers and fix up their homes.

UW senior Adrian Coon says the trip was also a way to reconnect with his Mexican heritage. He says he now understands what they had to go through and adds it makes him even more grateful of what he has and how lucky he is to be one who succeeded.

Alternative Breaks sponsored the event. The organization has coordinated other community service trips across the country, including New Orleans and South Dakotaâ??s Cheyenne River Indian reservation.

 UW-Madison senior Johnathon Godlewski is frank about why he wants UW-Madison to sever ties with athletics apparel manufacturing giant Adidas.”I would just like to wear a Bucky Badger shirt without feeling bad about it,” Godlewski said.

Responding to a rising tide of similar sentiment, UW- Madison Chancellor John Wiley is sending an envoy to El Salvador this week to look into allegations that Adidas isn’t doing enough to address workers’ rights abuses at an apparel factory it formerly contracted with there.

Two Student Wage Committee members are challenging a decision by University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor John Wiley that the living wage concept does not apply to student hourly employees because they are primarily engaged in pursuing an education, not supporting a family.

UW-Madison sophomore Eli Judge secured Ald. Austin Kingâ??s former District 8 City Council seat last Tuesday night in the cityâ??s 2007 elections by defeating UW-Madison senior Lauren Woods.

Though spring break scattered University of Wisconsin students across the globe, Madisonâ??s student-dominated District 8 elected a new representative to the City Council April 3: UW sophomore Eli Judge.

The University of Wisconsin student government will take part in a proactive nighttime safety program aimed at curbing crime around campus.

While many college students around the nation relaxed on beaches over their spring breaks, some University of Wisconsin students spent their vacation doing service work to help those in need.

With 280 beds of student housing in 176 rooms, a residence hall being built on a former parking lot in the 400 block of North Murray Street is on schedule to open in August.

A student in a public university dormitory room had a â??reasonable expectation of privacyâ? for his personal computer and its hard drive, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday. The decision also found that despite that right to privacy, an administrator in the case under review had the right to conduct a remote search of the computer â?? without a warrant â?? because of the circumstances involved.

The decision â?? by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit â?? is among the highest level court rulings to date on a set of legal questions pitting privacy vs. security that are increasingly present in academe. While experts cautioned that the decision involved a specific set of facts, several also said it provided guidance for students on their privacy rights and for administrators at public colleges and universities on setting computer policies that give them the flexibility they feel they need to prevent security breaches.

The ruling dates back to an incident in 1999, and the actions of administrators at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, when they were notified by Qualcomm Corporation, a San Diego company that produces wireless computing devices, that someone on Madisonâ??s network was hacking into the companyâ??s network.

The list is always too long.

In the last week alone, one University of Minnesota student died after falling from the third floor of a parking ramp, three days after another Minnesota student drowned. One Northeastern University student died Tuesday after falling down the stairs of a bar,

Construction won’t interrupt business on State Street this summer. City officials agreed Thursday to delay the project for a year.

Students and officials are surprised at UW-Eau Claire’s prominence in the Record Industry Association of America’s spate of lawsuit threats.

‘It’s weird that we would have so many,’ junior Brianna Schieve said.

Possible causes include university policy, students’ view of file sharing and the RIAA’s own methods.

A battle to replace PD City Council President Austin King with another PD-endorsed candidate, Lauren Woods, ended in a victory for Eli Judge in the student-dominated 8th District.

More than twice the usual number of absentee ballots for a spring Madison election were cast, most likely the result of UW-Madison, Edgewood College, Madison Area Technical College, the Madison School District and several other area school districts being on spring break this week.

Though spring break scattered University of Wisconsin students across the globe, Madisonâ??s student-dominated District 8 elected a new representative to the City Council Tuesday â?? UW sophomore Eli Judge.

Dear Editor: As a Hmong man, I do not feel that law Professor Leonard Kaplan said anything that is “hateful.” I think what he said might have been misinterpreted by the students in his classroom.

There are times when people take what is said and hear what they think is being said. I truly think that if statements of this magnitude were made in the classroom, the students should have addressed the issue with Professor Kaplan in the classroom. The class should have asked for clarification of what he meant by what he said there and then.

MADISON, Wis. — The Tenant Resource Center is taking a big hit to its budget.

The group has helped thousands of area renters resolve disputes with their landlords.

Now it is losing $55,000 in funding from UW Madison’s student government, which is about 15 percent of its total budget.

TRC officials said the cut means outreach projects on the UW campus will take a direct hit.

Just over a month ago the Recording Industry Association of America released a list of universities allegedly beset by music piracy — 25 institutions that, over the last academic year, had received more notices identifying cases of copyright infringement than any of their counterparts (The Chronicle, February 21).

After nearly a year-long struggle for Registered Student Organization statusâ??the factor that makes a student organization at UW-Madison eligible for large amounts of segregated fee fundingâ??the UW Roman Catholic Foundation was granted the status Thursday afternoon.

For some UW-Madison students, the April 3 election will come and go as fast as the tropical fruity drinks in their hands. Still, many of those students who made their way to warmer destinations this spring break remembered to cast an absentee ballot before leaving.

How do you organize trips by 120 University of Wisconsin-Madison students to 12 widely separated destinations in the United States where they are to help with social or environmental efforts cheaply, safely and efficiently?

Very carefully.

Melissa Mamayek, adviser for the Alternative Spring Breaks Program at the University of Wisconsin, said some solid processes have been developed during the 17 years since the program started on campus.

Although both aldermanic candidates for District 8 prioritize campus safety as their main concern, they diverge on their approaches to preventing crime and assault.

Eli Judge and Lauren Woods are Chicago natives, current University of Wisconsin students and well-known campus leaders and civil rights supporters.

But they’re offering voters different plans to combat what many students believe is an increasingly unsafe atmosphere around the university campus.

Ten UW-Madison students will start out Saturday for a spring break trip that doesn’t involve wild beach parties or exotic vacation locales.

They will head to New Orleans to help clean up the still horrific remains of Hurricane Katrina.

Two UW-Madison juniors have been selected as 2007 Truman Scholars, according to a University Communications release Wednesday.

More University of Wisconsin students are satisfied with their college experience today than a decade ago, according to survey results released Wednesday by university officials.

Thousands more voters than usual are seeking absentee ballots from the Madison city clerk’s office as Tuesday’s election approaches.
This year’s spring election falls during spring break for UW-Madison, Edgewood College, Madison Area Technical College, Madison public schools and many suburban school districts.

As she announced her retirement Tuesday, University of Wisconsinâ??s vice provost for climate and diversity expressed doubt over whether the goals of Plan 2008 can ever be achieved.

Seeing the light bulb of comprehension go on for a student is something UW-Madison professor Bernice Durand has never grown tired of.
“There is nothing that beats having a student understand something that you’re teaching, and having the students make it their own,” said Durand, whose career at UW-Madison has spanned 37 years.

Students with a family legacy at their university are more likely to experience academic problems than both athletes and minority students, according to a Princeton University study released Monday.

Two well-known national news reporters will travel to the University of Wisconsin this April to take part in the annual Writers in Residence program, the university announced Monday.

Representatives of the University of Wisconsin student government officially proposed adding a guaranteed full â??study dayâ? prior to the start of finals week Monday.