News of another sexual assault has kept students concerned about safety in the area just south of the UW-Madison campus.
Madison police reported that a 21-year-old UW-Madison student was sexually assaulted by two men just before 2 a.m. Saturday in the 1000 block of Spring Street. Police said the two strangers forced her to the ground and assaulted her.
The recording industry continued its crackdown on illegal downloading Wednesday by threatening to sue what it says are its worst offendersâ??college students.
Mayoral candidates Dave Cieslewicz and Ray Allen focused on Madison poverty at a debate Thursday night at Witte Hall.
A woman alleging she was sexually assaulted at a campus fraternity party spoke with a University of Wisconsin advisor shortly after a police investigation began, according to a representative from a campus support organization.
Discussing issues such as downtown safety, Halloween, the proposed Alcohol Density Plan and Madisonâ??s transportation system, Mayor Dave Cieslewicz and mayoral candidate Ray Allen showed students their unique â?? and opposing â?? viewpoints at a debate Thursday evening.
An emotionally charged group of hundreds of students, faculty and community members met Thursday night to address a University of Wisconsin professorâ??s statements about the Hmong community.
Clearly, eloquently and sometimes tearfully, the seven young Asian women who raised the issue of a law professor’s allegedly insulting remarks about the Hmong told their story at a public forum Thursday night.
The other side was not heard, however, as Professor Leonard Kaplan did not attend the forum at the University of Wisconsin Law School, to the intense disappointment of many of the more than 200 who came, hoping to hear both sides of the matter.
Many UW-Madison students are scrambling to find affordable birth control in reaction to a sharp rise in prescription contraceptive costs because of a federal law that went into effect in January.
Drug companies previously provided low-cost pricing to University Health Services and many other college health services nationwide, but the Federal Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 required the cancellation of those contracts as of Jan. 1, 2007. But the law has some costly consequences.
By the April 3 city elections, if you don’t know the differences between the candidates for Madison mayor, it’s not because you didn’t have your chance.
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.
University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor’s alleged comments about Hmong stereotypes last month sparked a heated discussion on campus Thursday night.
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.
Madison’s two mayoral candidates went head to head on Thursday vying for the votes of one of the city’s most elusive groups: UW-Madison students.
A UW-Madison instructor may have broken the law when the instructor did not report to higher authorities after a student revealed she was sexually assaulted at a UW-Madison fraternity, WKOW said Wednesday.
A panel of Madison-area entrepreneurs shared their business experiences Wednesday in an effort to tap into the young minds of University of Wisconsin students and promote entrepreneurial awareness.
At the Stetson Law and Higher Education Conference Feb. 19, representatives from colleges and universities around the nation attended an information session about strategies for avoiding liability for negligent management of emergency situations.
The University of Wisconsin is still searching for answers after a review last fall showed more than 80 area employers owe the university $150,000.
The former UW-Madison student whose alleged sexual assault at a campus fraternity party is under Madison police investigation told 27 News she informed one of her instructors during the fall, 2006 semester of the alleged sex assault.
A UW-Madison Safety Task Force may soon form after a private safety summit held Tuesday in Bascom Hall analyzed current campus safety and plans for improvement.
As a national leader in foreign language studies, the University of Wisconsin made an effort Tuesday evening to help UW students discover the plethora of opportunities available to students who can communicate in different languages.
A new cancer support center named for a former Saturday Night Live comedian is scheduled to open in Madison early next year.
Student government leaders might vote today to formally join many University of Wisconsin students in opposition of a hotly contested alcohol policy recently introduced by university administrators affecting all registered campus organizations.
A student who is in Professor Leonard Kaplan’s legal process class questions the accuracy of the quotes distributed in an e-mail complaining of his characterization of the Hmong.
Nicole Vadjunec, a second-year law student, said the main point of the Feb. 15 class discussion was how Wisconsin government has failed to bring the Hmong and Wisconsin cultures together.
Peng Her wonders how a man as educated as University of Wisconsin law Professor Leonard Kaplan could have been ignorant enough to make the ethnic slurs Hmong students have reported.
What’s more, Kaplan is a tenured professor at the Law School, prized for its nationally recognized diversity, he noted.
“We’re trying to figure out why he would say things that would jeopardize his career and the university’s reputation,” said Her, a local business owner and Hmong activist.
Administrators at the University of Wisconsin took a step yesterday to address campus safety under the direction of its new permanent dean of students.
Once Jolene Anderson is finished with basketball, she would like to pursue a career as a prison guard.
The junior standout with the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team admitted that she has received some strange reactions after sharing her occupational goals with others.
Dear Editor: We, the Hmong parents of Hmong students at UW-Madison, want to send you, Professor Leonard Kaplan, a message:
….We want you to respect us, Hmong people and culture as well as our sons and daughters as we respect you. Of course, your remarks not only made Hmongs and Hmong students mad and confused, it also devalued us as Hmong people living in the community and our sons and daughters as Hmong students at the university.
As a matter of fact, we need a truly public apology from you to us (Hmong), to the university who is your employer, and to the community at large that this is a mistake from your part and you will never again use any racial slur or misleading information about any minority group to illustrate your lecture in the class.
A column by Timothy Tyson says:
My first job after getting my Duke Ph.D. was at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where I taught for 10 years. Wisconsin is the un-Duke: a public school in the Midwest with 40,000 students. But this matter of women getting sexually assaulted by classmates did not change. It was not just a Duke thing.
One of my students at Madison was raped by a highly touted running back and one of his friends. She had dated him before. She let the two men into her apartment. The violence that followed seared her soul. I walked her to classes for two weeks afterward because she was afraid to leave home. The district attorney thought it was “too confusing” to prosecute. I watched her recover, graduate, complete her doctorate and land job offers at major universities across the country. But her pain is still there, eight years later. Not that it matters, but so is mine.
Today’s college students are more narcissistic and self-centered than their predecessors, says a new study by psychologists who worry that the trend could be harmful to personal relationships and American society.
UW-Madison is a nationally renowned institution of higher education, well known for its research, outstanding faculty and beautiful campus.
However, one thing that usually slips through the cracks in UW-Madison recruiting measures is the severe problem the university has with the retention of students of color. In trying to increase the level of diversity on campus, UW-Madisonâ??like many state schoolsâ??falls short in graduating minority students.
Research has shown that students of color leave the university due to campus climate. Thus, research serves as evidence of racial problems on a predominantly white campus.
A licensing committee prepared a statement Friday urging the University of Wisconsin to cut its clothing ties with Adidas after the Student Labor Action Coalition delivered a giant paper mache boot to Chancellor John Wileyâ??s office last week.
SLAC has been a longtime supporter of the rights of workers in a particular El Salvador factory that produces Adidas clothing.
While the factory closed more than two years ago, several investigations said nearly 63 workers remain unpaid and on a blacklist.
Low-income students continue to face increasing difficulties with getting into college and having the resources to complete a degree, according to new research conducted at the University of Wisconsin.
Patrizio Piraino and Matthew Steinberg, researchers from the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education, have been dissecting the factors contributing to the decline in enrollment of lower-income students.
With nearly two feet of sticky and wet snow expected to cake the University of Wisconsinâ??s streets and walkways, crews are working at fever pace to ensure safe conditions for todayâ??s classes.
Even with most of the campus buried under the heavy snow, Amy Fisher of UW Communications said students should plan on business as usual.
â??As of right now, the campus will be open and classes will be held â?? itâ??s extremely rare that we would close,â? Fisher said. â??Iâ??d be really surprised if [classes] were cancelled.â?
The law school dean the University of Wisconsin at Madison sent an e-mail message to students and faculty members last week apologizing for the hurt caused by a professorâ??s anti-Hmong comnents during a class lecture, while also saying that no harm had been intended by them.
â??All of us in the Law School administration deeply regret this unfortunate course of events,â? wrote Kenneth Davis, the dean. He added that the professor involved, Leonard Kaplan, â??feels deeply sorry that his classroom remarks have caused so much pain for some of his students.â? Of the law school more broadly, the dean said: â??I can assure you that the school takes very seriously the professional conduct of our faculty, both in and out of the classroom. The Law School also takes very seriously our long-held core values of diversity, fairness, and respect for all.â?
The Department of Justice received a letter Thursday requesting the legal opinion of Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen regarding the University of Wisconsin Systemâ??s new admissions policy.
The letter, signed by state Rep. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, and 18 other state legislators, questions the Board of Regentsâ?? decision to use race and ethnicity in evaluating applicants to all 26 UW System campuses. It is set to go into effect this fall.
I would like to respond to Emily Friedmanâ??s Thursday column, â??Incident puts UWâ??s dedication to safety in question.â? Emily and I agree on more than we disagree, but there are several points I would like to call attention to.
I was surprised and angered to read in the â??Alleged Rape at UW Fratâ? about how the University is handling the latest sexual assault allegations. University officials are attempting to pin the blame on alcohol, fraternities and the Greek System in general rather than the underlying problem. While alcohol lowers the need for force in sexual assaults, the larger societal issue is Wisconsinâ??s drinking culture that tolerates abuse.
University of Wisconsin Law School Dean Ken Davis issued a public apology Thursday after UW-Madison law professor Leonard Kaplan was accused of making racist comments against Hmong people in one of his classes Feb. 15.
Law student Kashia Moua circulated an e-mail to organize a meeting of Hmong law students and UW-Madison administrators Wednesday nightâ??the e-mail contained Kaplanâ??s alleged comments.
According to Moua’s e-mail, obtained by the Capital Times, Moua quoted Kaplan saying, â??Hmong men have no talent other than to kill,â? â??All second-generation Hmong end up in gangs and other criminal activity,â? and â??All 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 Recording Industry Association of America ranked UW-Madison 10 out of 25 colleges with the most illegal downloads for Fall 2006. (Christopher Guess/The Daily Cardinal)
Even though UW-Madison ranked high on the list of universities receiving the most number of music copyright complaints this year, campus administrators say they do not plan on cracking down on downloading.
UW-Madison ranked 10 on the Recording Industry Association of Americaâ??s list for the most amount of illegal downloads among college campuses, with 513 copyright complaints so far this school year.
When the subject of money comes up, most college students talk about how much they – or their parents – have spent to pursue a degree.
That’s not the case for UW- Madison students Ben Fiechtner and Troy Vosseller, who turned their college experience into a money-making venture by forming the campus clothing company Sconnie in 2005.
UW-Madison Acting Associate Dean of Students Elton Crim told 27 News if violations of drinking rules during a December Zeta Psi fraternity party are deemed to be “egregious,” the fraternity’s social priveleges will be immediately suspended.
Crim said a decision on potential sanctions could be made within days.
In an exclusive 27 News interview, a woman said Madison police detectives have spent more than two months investigating her alleged sexual assault at the Dec. 9 party. The woman was 20 and a student at the time. She told 27 News she drank at the party, remembered little of what happened there, and underwent a hospital rape examination which determined she had injuries consistent with a sexual assault.
A UW law professor has angered Hmong students for making what some deem racist remarks.
But, one student in the class says those comments were taken out of context.
Law students in Professor Leonard Kaplan’s class say last Thursday they were discussing how laws are made and viewed by different groups.
That’s when students say Professor Kaplan went on a rant about the Hmong.
The room was almost silent, completely absent of all sounds typical of a university classroom setting. There were no backpack zippers. No dropping lecture trays. No papers shuffling. Instead the instructorâ??s sole voice at the front of the room was heard over the heavy exhaling of her 10 students dressed in leotards, tights and tank tops.
“You buy, we fly.” That’s the motto of a new Madison business that caters to the late night whims of University of Wisconsin campus area residents.
Every night except Monday and Tuesday until as late as 4 a.m., Madtown Munchies delivers everything from soda and chips to cigarettes and condoms to an area between lakes Monona and Mendota from roughly Camp Randall Stadium on the west to James Madison Park on the east.
Members of the Minnesota state Legislatureâ??s Higher Education and Work Force Development committee debated a bill Wednesday that has the potential to make Wisconsin residents pay the University of Minnesotaâ??s higher in-state tuition rate.
Most would think it absurd to step out into the snowy and frigid weather wearing sandals, but after enjoying the luxurious spa treatment of a pedicure during the winter months, that is exactly what women are forced to do.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – Minnesota lawmakers might insert themselves into a dispute over a tuition reciprocity agreement that has some Wisconsin students paying less to attend Minnesota universities than their home-state classmates.
A House higher education panel heard testimony Wednesday on a proposal to raise Wisconsin students’ tuition rates to Minnesota levels by fall 2008. Under the reciprocity pact, a Wisconsin student pays about $2,000 less a year to attend the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus.
Newsflash: The University is not proposing a new alcohol policy because you were too hung-over to make that 8:50 class last Friday morning. Rather it is because we have a definite alcohol problem on this campus.
Keeping secrets is a bad idea. First, facts are hardly ever worse than rumors. Second, secrets usually donâ??t stay secrets forever.
University of Wisconsin officials highlighted their comprehensive student information database Wednesday, nine years after the system was first implemented.
College students at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse held an open forum Tuesday to discuss the cityâ??s proposal to institute a public intoxication ordinance.
Alando Tucker and Joe Chrnelich are separated by 23 seasons on the UW basketball floor, but the two still share something in common.
For many University of Wisconsin students, bar time on a Saturday morning means time to stumble home after a long night of drinking and maybe devour some after-hours Ianâ??s Pizza or Taco Bell along the way.
The president of a University of Wisconsin fraternity Wednesday responded to allegations of a sexual assault at a party in his fraternityâ??s house last December.
Nineteen state legislators asked the state attorney general Wednesday for a formal opinion on the legality of using race and ethnicity as factors in University of Wisconsin admissions decisions.
At a time when most radio stations, including college stations, are locked into a narrow format, UW-Madison’s WSUM- FM (91.7) has found its niche by allowing individual students to find theirs.
“You’re not going to find another place like this,” said senior Michelle Koffel, former station manager of WSUM, which is celebrating its fifth anniversary on the air after years of court battles to erect a radio tower in the town of Montrose.
MADISON, Wis. — Authorities said that the desire to buy more crack and alcohol appears to be the motive behind a robbery and battery at a University of Wisconsin-Madison dorm earlier this month.
According to court documents, Brian Buhler allegedly told police he was coming down from a crack and alcohol high the night of Feb. 6 when he decided he needed to steal money to buy more.
Sudanese refugee August Mayai attended a Capitol press conference Wednesday announcing the bill. The UW-Madison student fled the country in 1989 at the age of seven. Mayai says he was recently able to finally get in touch with his brother, only to find his parents and many other family members had been killed since he fled the country. Mayai says the state needs to help send an economic message that the Sudanese government will understand.
The executive chairman of the UW-Madison’s Zeta Psi fraternity chapter told 27 News he did not believe a woman student at his fraternity could have been sexually assaulted during a December party of about 100 people at the fraternity house.
“There was no opportunity,” UW-Madison senior Ari Metzger told 27 News. “I think we do a really good job of monitoring our guests.”
Put down that beer and trade it for an ice cold sodaâ??the new alcohol policy brought forth by the Office of the Dean of Students and the Student Organization Office looks to severely limit alcohol consumption among student groups. At least that is what the controversy makes it seem like so far.
