LA CROSSE (AP) – In an effort to address binge drinking in a town where eight intoxicated men have drowned since 1997, the La Crosse Common Council approved a public intoxication ordinance Thursday.
Mayor Mark Johnsrud called the 15-1 vote a “turning point in the history of La Crosse,” saying months-long debate on the ordinance alone had improved public awareness of the dangers of binge drinking.
A federal judge upheld the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s policy not to fund a campus Catholic organization with student segregated fees, saying it didn’t meet the UW’s requirement for student control of student groups.
In a preliminary ruling, U.S. District Judge John Shabaz denied the injunction request from the UW-Madison Roman Catholic Foundation, which had challenged the UW administration’s decision as “viewpoint discrimination” in violation of the First Amendment.
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Alarmed by recent reports of student depression and fearing malpractice lawsuits, colleges are struggling with ways to treat suicidal students. Overwhelmed by a rise of troubled students in the past several years, colleges are dealing with mental health issues with renewed intensity. A 2006 survey found that more than 9 percent of college students seriously contemplated suicide in the previous year. Further, college researchers estimate that more than 1,000 kill themselves each year, making it the second leading cause of death among college-age men and women (after auto accidents).
A federal court ruled Thursday that the UW Roman Catholic Foundation cannot be recognized as a UW-Madison Registered Student Organization unless it changes its leadership to be more student-directed, according to UWRCF Director Tim Kruse.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents Education Committee voted unanimously Thursday to recommend the approval of a degree that students could attain with credits earned at both a state technical college and a UW school.
A student at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine won the 2006 Starcherone Fiction Prize with her first published novel, and she is looking to promote the book throughout the country in the coming months.
The University of Wisconsin Roman Catholic Foundation is not eligible to receive student-segregated fees from the university, a federal judge ruled Thursday, since it does not currently meet the criteria of a student organization.
MADISON, Wis. – A federal judge Thursday rejected a Catholic group’s attempt to get student fees from the University of Wisconsin, saying the organization is not controlled by students.
U.S. District Judge John Shabaz’s ruling means the UW-Madison Roman Catholic Foundation, for now, cannot receive more than $250,000 in student fees to run religious programming.
In a technical sense, a ruling by a federal judge Thursday handed defeats to both the University of Wisconsin at Madison and to a Roman Catholic group seeking to receive support through student fees at the university. But the fault that the judge found with the Catholic group is one that it can fairly easily fix. On the key issue of legal philosophy, the judgeâ??s ruling was very much what the religious students wanted: an order that the university not deny them recognition on the basis of Madisonâ??s non-discrimination policy.
The large endeavor taken on by The Daily Cardinal to explore campus crime and safety had many goals in mind. We wanted to acknowledge the crime problem on campus, highlight current efforts to keep students safe and, perhaps most importantly, suggest what students and campus officials can do in the future to ensure studentsâ?? safety.
Dina Marieâ??s dorm is wallpapered by Bob Dylan and Rolling Stones posters and photographs of her friends and family smiling. When her boyfriend from France calls, Dina Marieâ??s face lights up and her voice switches from English to French. Dina Marie looks like a happy UW-Madison student.
“Are you going to give me my calculus notes?â? Dina Marie asked the man who had just sexually assaulted her. He was about to let her out of his car onto campus. He had already handed over her purse after rummaging through it. She took her notes, which had been lying on the back seat.
Wisconsin and Minnesotaâ??s tuition reciprocity agreement will continue as it exists now, according to a decision made Wednesday by the higher education boards of both states.
After disrupting English Department offices in Helen C. White Wednesday morning in what was described as a fit of rage, a University of Wisconsin student was arrested by campus police for disorderly conduct.
Wisconsin high school seniors thinking about attending the University of Minnesota next year can breathe a sigh of relief today.
Changes to a tuition reciprocity agreement between Minnesota and Wisconsin will not affect students entering college next fall.
Higher education officials from both states said Wednesday that incoming reciprocity students will be covered under the current agreement for at least the next four years.
The announcement comes as the states negotiate potential changes to the agreement for students beginning in the 2008-09 academic year.
Two months ago, NBC 15 told you of one family’s mission to remember their son by rebuilding the lives of other young men. This week, the family of Aaron Meyer is one step closer.
In 2003, 16-year-old Aaron Meyer became addicted to marijuana. His family sent him to Mount Bachelor Academy in the state of Oregon for seventeen months of rehabilitation and recovery. Aaron was completely sober when he was killed in car accident just after his eighteenth birthday.
A â??noticeable spikeâ? in downtown crime in the first half of 2006 led city officials to push for a separate fund for downtown safety programs. In February, the City Council passed the Downtown Safety Initiativeâ??$100,000 set aside for the Madison Police Departmentâ??s central district.
Students and faculty evacuated Van Vleck Hall Tuesday afternoon after an air-handling unit overheated and triggered fire alarms throughout the building.
The date for the Mifflin Street block partyâ??Saturday, May 5â??was set in stone Tuesday night by the City Council.
The racial diversity at the University of Wisconsin can only be characterized as shamefully lacking. Itâ??s no secret. According to university statistics, African-Americans and Hispanics make up a mere 6 percent of the student body.
On Monday, University of Wisconsin law professor Leonard Kaplan finally broke his public silence.
Smoke and the smell of a burning odor forced hundreds of University of Wisconsin students to evacuate a campus building Tuesday.
With every stroke she takes, University of Wisconsin women’s swimmer Yi Ting Siow isn’t just pulling herself through the water. She’s pulling for her school.
“She’s definitely the leader on our team, in terms of point production, and she knows that,” said UW coach Eric Hansen.
She’s pulling for her country…..And she’s also pulling for her family, still living far back home in Seremban, Malaysia.
Members standing on polar opposite sides of the separation of church and state debate recreated the age-old whirlwind of controversy at a panel discussion Tuesday night in Memorial Union.
The Madison City Council voted Tuesday to ban glass bottles May 5, effectively confirming that date for the annual Mifflin Street Block Party.
WASHINGTON â?? Spring break it wasn’t.
With temperatures in the 20s and wind gusts that provided a chilly reminder of home, about 50 Wisconsin college students joined hundreds of others at an outdoor rally near the U.S. Capitol Tuesday as part of a day of lobbying lawmakers to help make college more affordable.
One lawmaker reminded the large conti
Each year, more than 25,000 women become pregnant after being raped. 16,000 of those unplanned pregnancies end in abortion. But, there is an alternative, one supported by most rape survivors and at least one state lawmaker.
“It was my second or third night there. My friends on the trip dragged me to the hospital. I didn’t even want to go. It never really occurred to me that this could result in pregnancy,” says Amanda Harrington, a 21-year-old UW student.
As soon as they started to appear, the quotes seemed remarkably offensive: â??Hmong women are better off now that Hmong men are dying off in this countryâ? or â??all Hmong men purchase their wives, so if he wants to have sex with his wife and she doesnâ??t consent, you and I call it rape, but the Hmong guy is thinking, â??man, I paid too much for her.â?? â? The remarks were attributed to Leonard V. Kaplan, a professor of law at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
“Iâ??m going to pull the hat off. You run and you donâ??t turn around,â? Dina Marieâ??s rapist warned her before he let her go. â??Donâ??t look at my car. Donâ??t look at my license plate. The man pulled off the black hat he had used to cover Dina Marieâ??s eyes. Immediately, she heard the door slam and the car drive away.
Crime levels over the past three years have remained steady in Madisonâ??s central district, but recent violent crime, such as sexual assaults and robberies, has prompted both students and city officials to identify safety as a key issue.
A heightened sense of fear has spread over the UW-Madison community, a sentiment administrators acknowledge and students attribute to high-profile crimes that have shocked the campus and its greater community this school year.
Police and city officials are urging student safety following the first reported sexual assault of the semester which took place on Spring Street Saturday morning. The two male suspects are still at large.
Alderman Vereerâ??s comments on the recent Spring Street sexual assault were inappropriate. Too often our society downplays sexual harm when it is not accompanied by additional physical brutality
A proposed merger between the University of Wisconsin campuses in Waukesha and Milwaukee would be less cost-efficient than other alternatives, UW System President Kevin Reilly said at a legislative hearing Tuesday.
In a public statement released Monday, a University of Wisconsin professor denied making several controversial statements about Hmong culture attributed to him in a February lecture.
The Morgridge Center for Public Service at UW-Madison will mark its 10th anniversary with a conference titled “Celebrating the Many Faces of Public Service at UW-Madison” on Friday and Saturday.
The conference will focus on UW-Madison’s past as a leader in public service, as well as the current accomplishments and goals of the Morgridge Center.
On Sunday afternoon, students trudged up and down Spring Street, weighed down by laundry, groceries and backpacks full of books.
I stood in their path, like the scary nagging mom they thought they left at home.
I asked, “Have you heard?”
I told them, “A student said she was attacked here early Saturday morning.”
I demanded, “What are you doing to be safe on campus?”
To a one, all of the dozen or so college girls I talked to said yes, they were aware, and yes they were being more careful about their safety.
UW-Madison sophomore Kelly Anger figures it’s best to be on the safe side. In the wake of Saturday’s sexual assault near campus, she and her roommates will probably be carrying pepper spray from now on.
“When it happens on your own street, you’re a little more scared,” said Anger, who lives on the 1000 block of Spring Street, where a sexual assault took place just before 2 a.m. Saturday. The area is a block west of Smith Hall, the newest UW-Madison dormitory.
Many economists believe that entrepreneurs and small business owners are the major drivers of job growth in the United States. The Small Business Administration says companies with fewer than 500 employees have accounted for nearly 80 percent of the new jobs created in the United States over the past decade, and this trend is likely to continue.
Back in the late 1960s, when disposable clothing was all the short-lived rage, your household names in fashion were not the Armanis, Ann Taylors and Calvin Kleins of today. They were Scott Towels, Kimberly-Clark, Hallmark cards. And Reynolds Aluminum, of kitchen-foil fame.
The recording industry is again seeking the names of college students it suspects of downloading songs illegally, but it will now let students settle out of court at a discount before suing them, industry officials said.
Cary H. Sherman, president of the Recording Industry Association of America, said in a letter to college officials last week that the trade group had revived its campus lawsuit campaign, which had been dormant for about a year, as “a last resort.”
The music industry is ramping up its campaign against illegal file sharing by college students â?? and asking campus administrators to play a more central role in that process.
Programs like Colleges Against Cancer allow students to increase awareness and one UW student is doing just that. Kari Liotta is the survivorship chair for Colleges Against Cancer.She was diagnosed with cancer in high school–now a cancer survivor, she’s says she’s thankful to live and tell her story to help others.
The U-W Madison athletic department is celebrating a big milestone. Collectively student athletes are posting the highest GPA in the school’s history, on the heals of a darker spot on the university’s academic record. Last year the basketball Badgers were plagued with ineligibility that likely hurt them on the court, but this year the team is rebounding with the help of additional resources and a dedicated staff.
MADISON, Wis. — Four University of Wisconsin-Madison students were recognized by the American Red Cross Thursday for helping pull a mother and two children from a crashed van just moments before it burst into flames.Paul Thoresen, Robert Johnson, Alex Hill and Ryan Oldenbury received the Youth Good Samaritans award at a ceremony at the Monona Terrace on Thursday.
A 21-year-old UW student says she was sexually assaulted while walking home early Saturday morning, but a friend says that’s about all she remembers.
“She was out walking with friends and walking home,” says Travis Johnson.
A female UW student told police that two men attacked and sexually assaulted her on Spring Street in the early morning hours on Saturday. In the wake of this report, the university says demand for its late-night safety programs is growing.
“Every weekend our phone lines are maxed out,” said Jacob Hahn with UW’s transportation office. The number of students asking for a walking escort more than doubled since 2003, this fall, 1,350 students called.
Police are seeking two suspects in a near west side assault of a 21-year-old UW-Madison student over the weekend.
The woman was walking in the 1000 block of Spring Street at about 1:40 a.m. Saturday when two men she did not know approached her, forced her to the ground and assaulted her.
According to police reports, both suspects are white, in their mid-20s and about 6 feet tall. One had dark hair and a goatee and was wearing a blue puffy jacket. The other was clean-shaven and had on a dark blue “skull cap” and a black puffy jacket. Anyone with information regarding the incident is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 266-6014.
Programs like Colleges Against Cancer allow students to increase awareness and one UW student is doing just that.
Kari Liotta is the survivorship chair for Colleges Against Cancer.
She was diagnosed with cancer in high school–now a cancer survivor, she’s says she’s thankful to live and tell her story to help others.Programs like Colleges Against Cancer allow students to increase awareness and one UW student is doing just that.
Kari Liotta is the survivorship chair for Colleges Against Cancer.
She was diagnosed with cancer in high school–now a cancer survivor, she’s says she’s thankful to live and tell her story to help others.
Madison Police say a UW student is recovering after being sexually assaulted and they need your help in finding the two men suspected of the attack.
University of Wisconsin police are investigating an attack on the campus early Sunday morning.
The University Committee for Academic Freedom and Rights released a statement Friday saying UW Law School professor Leonard Kaplanâ??s academic freedomsâ??and the academic rights of all UW-Madison professorsâ??must be protected, after Kaplan was accused of making racist remarks regarding Hmong people in his Feb. 15 Legal Process class.
Two men sexually assaulted a female UW-Madison student early Saturday morning on the 1000 block of Spring Street, Madison Police reported.
It is late at night, and you are out walking alone. Suddenly you hear footsteps behind you. Your worst fears about who it is flash through your mind, and you break out in a cold sweat. You speed up, but the footsteps keep pace, and finally you turn. Then what?
….Madison campus residents are particularly on guard after media focus on campus stranger assaults this past year. Recent statistics show eight UW-Madison students were victims of serious stranger assaults in 2006, nearly three times the number assaulted by strangers in 2005. All but one of the stranger assault victims in the past two years were male.
The number of stranger assaults pales in comparison to the 43 students, primarily women, who reported sexual assaults in 2005.
A veritable Pandoraâ??s Box of ethnic strife has been opened in the wake of law professor Leonard Kaplanâ??s comments.
A law professor at the center of a growing debate about racist comments he allegedly made in lecture spoke out for the first time since the controversy arose at an open meeting Friday.
College students from across the country flocked to the University of Wisconsin Friday for the second annual Midwest Student Clean Energy Conference.
A 21-year-old University of Wisconsin student was sexually assaulted early Saturday morning on the 1000 block of Spring Street, according to a report filed with the Madison Police Department.
The last of the Free Silver Cheese Co. scholarships was recently awarded – the winner’s name was pulled from a hat at the county fair – and with it went a small part of Wisconsin’s cultural and economic history.
The amount was $100, a sum that represented a certain rural generosity of spirit but surely has little impact in these days of $3,000 per semester tuition.
