Category: Campus life

This letter is in response to Mike Hahnâ??s recent opinion piece â??Students Shouldnâ??t be forced to pay segregated fees.â?

Federal Judge John Shabaz wisely put the First Amendment ahead of political correctness at UW-Madison last week when he told the university to stop discriminating against student religious groups.

UW-Madison administrators should follow Shabaz’s direction by altering their policy on funding student organizations.

Federal Judge John Shabaz wisely put the First Amendment ahead of political correctness at UW-Madison last week when he told the university to stop discriminating against student religious groups.

UW-Madison administrators should follow Shabaz’s direction by altering their policy on funding student organizations.

The UW Roman Catholic Foundation officially voted Tuesday night to dedicate nine spots on its 12-member leadership board to students, following a federal court judgeâ??s orders, to gain eligibility for Registered Student Organization status from UW-Madisonâ??s Student Organization Office.

Two cases of sexual assault in less than two weeks have rattled students and raised questions about safety downtown and the prevalence of sexual violence on and near the UW-Madison campus.

The University of Wisconsin Roman Catholic Foundation altered its bylaws to include more students on its board of directors Tuesday, bringing the group into compliance with a federal judgeâ??s recent ruling.

The University of Wisconsin Marching Band staged a high-spirited and energy-packed pep rally Tuesday night in La Crosse perfectly suited for a Badger sports fan in a March Madness mood.

THE SPRING issue of On Wisconsin, the magazine of the University of Wisconsin Alumni Association, is out with a terrific cover story on Kentucky Fried Theater and the four brilliantly warped minds behind it.

The four – David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Dick Chudnow – are pictured on the cover looking as solemn (and, it must be said, damn near as old) as the faces on Mount Rushmore.

Safety issues along State Street and the Capitol Square at bar time prompted Madison Police, some alders, and the Madison Common Council to discuss limiting the number of new alcohol licenses the city hands out.

Representatives from Downtown Madison met at Hawk’s Bar today to discuss its stance. Owner Hawk Schekel disagrees. “This bar could literally be worth $100,000 more overnight…and I’m totally against it,” he said. Hawk wants to see other measures taken up to address safety.

The criticism of UW-Madison law professor Leonard Kaplan deserves an Emily Litella ending.
Litella was a character made famous on the “Saturday Night Live” TV program by comedian Gilda Radner. She would deliver a commentary on a public issue that she considered offensive, becoming increasingly agitated, until she discovered that she had misunderstood the whole thing. At that point, she would respond: “Never mind.”

University of Wisconsin Law School senior faculty members and UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley issued separate statements Friday surrounding the recent controversy involving law professor Leonard Kaplan and student accusations of racist comments toward Hmong people during his Legal Process course Feb. 15.

Defending free expression in the classroom and criticizing the backlash against University of Wisconsin law professor Leonard Kaplan, Chancellor John Wiley and senior faculty members of the UW Law School weighed in Saturday on the ongoing controversy surrounding the racist comments attributed to Kaplan by some of his students.

Police are seeking the driver in a downtown Madison hit-and-run crash that critically injured a 20-year-old University of Wisconsin student as he was walking near campus.

Shortly after 2 a.m. Saturday, a dark-colored minivan hit the pedestrian at the intersection of Park Street and Regent Street and then continued driving southbound on Park Street, according to police.

Julia Randall has seen a lot of places and driven from California to New England, but this summer the former Westboro and Cambridge resident, now a freshman at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, will make the trek from east to west by bicycle to support Habitat for Humanity.

APPLETON â?? Michelyn Cynthia Butler, 24, a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was chosen Saturday as Miss Fox River Valley 2007 at the Thompson Community Center, 820 W. College Ave.

Both sides say they got a favorable ruling from a federal judge on dispensing UW student fees to a religious organization.

The judge said, in order to receive $250,000 in student fees, the UW-Madison Roman Catholic Foundation must be run by students. “He said you need to have at least six students on your board and so we’re completely willing to do that.” … Pending expected approval of the executive board according to the Foundation’s Tim Kruse.

MADISON, Wis. — A UW student is in critical condition after a hit-and-run crash early Saturday morning.

The incident happened around 2:30 a.m. Saturday at the intersection of Park and Regent Streets.

The student is being treated at UW Hospital for life-threatening injuries.

Police have not yet tracked down the driver of the vehicle.

Dear Editor: I’ve followed the story of Professor Leonard Kaplan in the press since it broke, attended the forum at the Law School, and now have read his own statement. I’ve learned five lessons.

….Finally, after reading Professor Kaplan’s own statement, I learned that here was the same friend I’d had for well over 30 years â?? a teacher with an intellectually ambitious agenda, a persistent advocate for the less powerful in our society, and one who, like all of us profs, occasionally misspeaks and misjudges the impact of his remarks on his students.

Francis Schrag, UW professor emeritus of educational policy studies and philosophy, Madison

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Smoke and the smell of a burning odor forced hundreds of University of Wisconsin students to evacuate a campus building Tuesday.