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.
The recent spate of legal threats from the music industry against the UW campus community apparently has convinced few students to change their file swapping habit, but they’re also using a slew of other tools to find new music.
A stroll down State Street is all one needs to see the pervasiveness of the digital music culture: white wires disappear into students’ ears, an Apple iPod loaded with hundreds, even thousands, of songs on the other end — some tracks likely acquired illegally.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison, whose licensing agreement with Adidas is worth $1.2-million annually, says it will not cut its ties to the athletics-apparel company despite a recent recommendation to do so by its own licensing-policy committee.
Instead, the institution plans to meet with Adidas executives to discuss reports of workers’-rights abuses at one of Adidas’s former subcontractors. The university will also send an envoy this week to El Salvador, where the now-closed Hermosa Manufacturing plant is located, to investigate those claims.
“I am prepared to pursue my very grave concern about what has happened with the Hermosa facility directly to the senior management of Adidas,” Chancellor John D. Wiley said in a written statement.
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.
University of Wisconsin regents may extend a program that gives discounted tuition to children and grandchildren of alumni living in other states.
UW System President Kevin Reilly has recommended continuing the Return to Wisconsin program for three more years. The program has an enrollment of 49 students this year.
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.
Most of what we know about the habits of “helicopter parents” comes from anecdotes about extreme parenting that have made their way into the popular lexicon. Now, though, what’s believed to be the first scholarly research on parents who hover too closely over offspring of any age finds that helicopter parenting appears to cross racial and ethnic lines, as well as socioeconomic status.
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.
Students and Madison area residents will be able to view 183 international and independent films in their own backyard April 12 to April 15 during the ninth annual Wisconsin Film Festival.
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.
American proficiency in foreign languages needs improvement and expansion, according to a report released Wednesday by the National Academiesâ?? National Research Council.
Nov. 10 seems like a lifetime ago. That was the day the University of Wisconsin womenâ??s basketball team defeated Air Force â?? which later finished the season at the bottom of the Mountain West Conference â?? in the regular season debut.
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.
Last year, just 9 percent of UW-Madison’s bachelor’s degrees in computer science – 8 out of 92 degrees – went to women. That’s down from a peak of 16 percent in 1998.
Junior guards Jolene Anderson and Janese Banks combined for 49 points to lead the Wisconsin womenâ??s basketball team (23-12) past Western Kentucky Wednesday evening at the Kohl Center, 79-72. The Badgers now advance to the Womenâ??s National Invitational Tournament championship game, which will be played out on Wyomingâ??s home court Saturday afternoon.
The results of the 2006 UW-Madison Undergraduate Survey were released Wednesday and showed an overwhelming majority of students are satisfied with the university.
Two UW-Madison juniors have been selected as 2007 Truman Scholars, according to a University Communications release Wednesday.
After the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents passed a new freshman admissions policy last month, college admissions has come under increasing scrutiny in the state of Wisconsin.
Two University of Wisconsin juniors were awarded $30,000 scholarships to pursue a graduate education, the university announced Wednesday.
The University of Wisconsin womenâ??s basketball team is just one victory away from being crowned the WNIT champions.
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.
Net Nerds has a new leader and a new format, but it’s still about fixing people’s computer problems.
Kristen Berman, who founded Net Nerds in 2004 after she and her roommates bought beer for a neighbor who fixed their computer, graduated in December and landed a job in Silicon Valley working for Intuit, which produces TurboTax and QuickBooks.
Berman…is retaining ownership of Net Nerds but has handed the operational reins to Chris Friederich, a UW junior finance major.
The Badger Women’s basketball team kept its post season alive with a win over Western Kentucky.
The WNIT Title is still up in the air, but the Badger women already won over many new fans with their home performances at the Kohl Center.
Jolene Anderson scored 26 points and Janese Banks added 23 as Wisconsin defeated Western Kentucky 79-72 in Madison Wednesday night to advance to the Women’s National Invitation Tournament championship basketball game.
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.
Should College of Engineering students pay higher tuition than other undergraduates? If Engineering Dean Paul Peercy has his way, that would be the case.
After losing faculty members, the College of Engineering left many positions vacant due to lack of funding.
â??Showcase 2007,â? an event intended to â??show the universityâ??s best practices,â? was suddenly interrupted Tuesday by students who wished to showcase what they believed to be one of the universityâ??s worst practices.
Problems in neighborhoods surrounding the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus have caused the UW System to consider revising its code of conduct.
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.
Most of the people giddily filling out brackets for their NCAA “March Madness” office pool will never have a problem. But for a few unfortunate young people and their families, the Road to the Final Four, the nation’s fourth biggest gambling event, is paved with personal and financial ruin.
Some college students addicted to sports betting or online poker have taken it to extremes. They have committed crimes, including bank robbery and murder, over gambling debts. Others, unable to face the guilt or consequences of betting away tuition, have committed suicide.
Discussed: Meng-Ju “Mark” Wu, a 19-year-old freshman at UW-Madison who, in 2005, hung himself in jail while awaiting his murder trial committed over a $15,000 sports betting debt.
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.
Since Princeton took the lead among Ivy League schools to formally adopt a grade-deflation policy three years ago â?? limiting A’s to an average 35% across departments â?? students say the pressure to score the scarcer A has intensified. Students say they now eye competitive classmates warily and shy away from classes perceived as difficult. “It used to be that you’d let someone copy your notes if they were sick,” says Mickel, 21, of Monroe, La. “Now, if someone misses classes, you’d probably still let them, but you’re also thinking: ‘Gee, you might get the A while I don’t.'”
Unable to discuss new business Monday, the Joint Southeast Campus Area Committee listened to a presentation by the East Campus Utility regarding the Peterson and Ogg Hall buildings, which are scheduled to come down this fall.
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.
UW menâ??s basketball senior forward Alando Tucker was nominated by the Associated Press to be a first-team All-American Monday.
As students head into that happy place known as â??Spring Break,â? the sense of relief is practically palpable. Sleeping, partying and even homework are just waiting to be caught up on. Whether youâ??re headed to Cancun, California or just your parentsâ?? basement, thoughts of campus will, with any luck, be driven far from the collective student mind.
City officials gathered Monday evening to emphasize the need to bolster support for the UW Transportation Services Initiative and to start work on the East Campus Utility Project.
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.
In early March, the Recording Industry Association of America launched a new â??deterrence programâ? to discourage illegal file sharing on college campuses. In response, UW-Madison officials deterred the program itself, refusing to hunt down and turn in the offending IP address users in campus networks. We support the universityâ??s decision, and hope the RIAA recognizes its folly in pressuring UW-Madison officials to infringe on studentsâ?? privacy with pre-litigation letters.
A 2002 antitrust lawsuit against campus-area bars for fixing drink prices will be heard by the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
According to Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, the suit was filed by two UW-Madison students when more than 20 bars voluntarily agreed to place a limit on drink specials on Friday and Saturdays nights. He said Chancellor John Wiley, among others, is listed as a defendant in the case.
Though lawmakers and economic forecasters may disagree whether Wisconsin really suffers from a so-called â??brain drain,â? officials across the state are examining the challenge of retaining and recruiting college graduates.
With graduation looming for many University of Wisconsin students closing out their undergraduate careers, business recruiters across the nation begin to appear on campus looking for new employees.
Down 14 points with 14:52 remaining on the clock, the members of UWâ??s womenâ??s basketball team looked each other in the eyes and decided Virginia was not going to end their season.
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.
