Category: Campus life

Associated Students of Madison lobbied the UW Faculty Senate University Committee for a permanent exam study day at its meeting Monday afternoon in Bascom Hall.

Madison: Spring break is having a big impact on next week’s spring election. The Madison city clerk has received a record number of absentee ballot requests.

After successfully piloting a student neighborhood watch safety program last semester, University of Wisconsin students are once again hitting the streets and keeping an eye out for suspicious activity around Langdon Street.

The state Supreme Court will hear a lawsuit originally filed by two University of Wisconsin students over a six-month Madison ban on drink specials in 2002, the court announced Friday.

After only six short months in action, a University of Wisconsin-Madison campus safety plan is being hailed a success by some community members.

The UW-Madison Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) team on Monday won the League 3 regional championship at the Chicago regional tournament.
SIFE is a nonprofit organization that encourages students to apply academic knowledge to real business and economic issues. The organization creates student teams on university campuses, which are led by faculty advisers.

UW-Madison sophomore Austin Cannon was arrested early Wednesday morning after his alleged ring of producing fake identifications was discovered, according to Madison police.

Day two of The Daily Cardinalâ??s mayoral-candidate interviews takes a look into the candidatesâ?? views on a variety of issues on campus. Both Mayor Dave Cieslewicz and challenger Ray Allen said campus events like Halloween and the Mifflin Street Block Party play essential roles in the storied Madison tradition.

A University of Wisconsin sophomore was arrested early Wednesday morning â?? two days before his 20th birthday â?? for making fake California identification cards with intent to sell.

Wisconsin college students beware: Sharing music through peer-to-peer networks could cost you a lot of money.

After a year marred by muggings and assaults, UW- Madison’s Greek organizations will launch a new campaign Saturday designed to remind students to stay safe this spring.
“As it gets nicer out, people are going to feel more inclined to go out more and stay out later,” said Alex Sheridan, a member of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity. “But just because it’s nice outside doesn’t mean the streets are any safer.”

UC Berkeley became one of many college campuses to be affected by the recording industryâ??s renewed effort to crack down on illegal file-sharing after the campus received 19 pre-litigation settlement letters Wednesday.

The Recording Industry Association of America sent out 405 letters this week to 23 universities nationwide where it had detected illegal downloading activity among students or personnel.

MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin officials said on Thursday that the school won’t deliver settlement letters to students it received from a recording industry group.

University officials received 16 letters from the Recording Industry Association of America, a music industry lobby group, on Thursday morning. The letters target 16 students suspect of downloading or sharing music illegally, WISC-TV reported.

A UW spokesman said that the school has decided it will not comply with the RIAA’s desire for the letters to be forwarded to the students.

Spring break fever may have UW-Madison students thinking more about sunny beaches and showing some skin than exercising their right to vote, but the “Vote Naked” campaign on campus is out to capitalize on that.

In high school Marissaâ??s* close friends began smoking marijuana. As their habit progressed, they began choosing to smoke over hanging out with her.

â??I was the only one out of my girl friends that was okay with it. Junior year, I guess, curiosity got the best of me,â? Marissa said.

Senior Special Assistant to the Chancellor LaMarr Billups announced Wednesday he is leaving UW-Madison in May to accept a position at Georgetown University.

The Recording Industry Association of America sent another batch of pre-litigation letters Wednesday in order to warn UW-Madison students who download and share music illegally. However, UW-Madison is still refusing to distribute the letters to the students.

After 11 years as senior special assistant to the chancellor at the University of Wisconsin, LaMarr Billups is moving on.

Continuing its efforts to crack down on illegal file sharing, the Record Industry Association of America sent a second wave of settlement offers to college campuses across the nation Wednesday.

Four times as many students.

Four times as many parties.

Four times as liberal. OK, way more than four.

We’re all familiar with the University of Wisconsin-Madison stereotype: vast crowds of students who attend class between partying and attending liberal protests. So The Marquette Tribune decided to find out if the university lived up to the rumors. Two reporters drove to Badger Country to investigate how different the two schools really are. The Daily Cardinal, a UW-Madison paper, decided to play along and sent its own reporter to find out what Marquette is really about (see story at rig

The music industry has sent hundreds of threatening letters to college
students across the nation, including dozens at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz,
as part of its campaign against illegal music downloading.

Representing music labels such as Sony and EMI, the Recording Industry
Association of America said Wednesday it is going after students who have
downloaded pirated music from the Internet at colleges, including UCLA and
Columbia, sending more than 400 “prelitigation” letters that order the students
to pay a settlement fee or face a lawsuit.

The Recording Industry Association of America is moving full speed ahead with its new campaign of sending pre-litigation notices to campus song-swapping suspects: Today the trade group sent a second batch of 405 notices to 23 different colleges.

MADISON, Wis. – University of Wisconsin-Madison wants engineering students to pay $1,400 more in tuition per year under a plan that would make the popular major more expensive to study than all others.

The stateâ??s flagship university has long charged higher tuition for students seeking professional degrees in areas such as law, medicine and pharmacy.

Youâ??ve heard the complaints about paying more for tuition and textbooks. The latest sticker shock to be upsetting students: the rising cost of birth control.

It’s not what you wear to vote in the upcoming spring elections but what you don’t wear, according to the University of Wisconsin College Democrats, who encourage Madison students to “Vote Naked” by way of absentee ballot before leaving for spring break.

“We thought it was a really good idea just because people do not necessarily care or want to vote by mail,” said Adam Lang, electronic media chair for the College Democrats. “Hopefully saying ‘Vote naked’ is amusing enough or interesting enough to get people to vote.”

The drive from the Menominee Indian reservation to the University of Wisconsin-Madison may only be three and a half hours, but for American Indian students like Fawn Youngbear-Tibbitts, the journey towards completing a college degree canâ??t be measured in mere miles.

Youngbear-Tibbitts is one of a growing number of tribal college graduates pursuing a four-year degree. After earning her associate degree from the College of Menominee Nation, Youngbear-Tibbitts â?? who is a member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe â?? set her sights on UW-Madison.

Picture this: A group of ethnically diverse students studying together in expansive, state-of-the-art libraries or strolling across perfectly manicured campus lawns engaged in intelligent conversation â?? congregating as one in all higher education has to offer. This is an image colleges and universities often portray in recruitment brochures, and sometimes itâ??s even true. But when itâ??s not, these marketing materials can be embarrassing or worse.

Drake University has been criticized for running ads depicting more diversity than there really was. As a result, president David Maxwell now personally approves each ad.

As the University of Wisconsin waits to receive a batch of settlement offers addressed to 15 of its students from the Recording Industry Association of America, university officials have made one thing clear: They wonâ??t play along.

Chancellor John Wiley met with Provost Patrick Farrell and Interim Chief Information Officer Ken Frazier Tuesday morning to affirm UWâ??s decision not to forward pre-litigation settlement letters to anonymous students who the RIAA believes are illegally downloading music online.

After the recent disclosure of potential worker exploitation in El Salvador regarding UW contracted sports giant Adidas, university officials must place workerâ??s rights high on their list of priorities. However, by harassing Chancellor John Wiley an hour after he announced the initiation of his own investigation, the Student Labor Action Coalition only demonstrated that protest is not always warranted.

MADISON, Wis. — With just a few weeks before the spring election, city officials said that more voters are taking advantage of absentee ballots this time around.

Spring break for many area schools, from Edgewood to University of Wisconsin-Madison, lands on the April 3 election, which is why one group advocating absentee voting is asking students to “Vote Naked.”

MADISON, Wis. — A recording industry trade group is going after University of Wisconsin System students suspected of copyright infringement.

The Recording Industry Association of America has sent a letter to UW System President Kevin Reilly and Madison Chancellor John Wiley warning them the group is targeting 68 people on system campuses.

The letter is in response to UW-Madison’s refusal to serve alleged violators with settlement letters from the association. The letters give violators a chance to avoid getting sued if they pay the group.

The Madison Police Department released 2006 crime statistics Monday, showing that over the last year overall crime has remained steady, while violent crimeâ??murder, rape, aggravated assault and robberyâ??increased nearly 17 percent.

The city of Madison experienced an increase in violent crime and robberies last year, according to data released Monday by the Madison Police Department.

University of Wisconsin students could be shelling out $700 more per semester for a College of Engineering degree if a differential tuition plan proposed Sunday night is approved.

Faculty and staff raises at the University of Wisconsin will probably drive tuition increases of between 4 and 5 percent in each of the next two years, according to UW-Madison Vice Chancellor of Administration Darrell Bazzell.

“The Board of Regents proposed a 3 percent annual increase, but that does not include an assumption to pay for the pay plan,” Bazzell told the Madison Academic Staff Association at the Memorial Union on Monday.