Category: Campus life

Members of the Bassett Street Neighborhood had their first opportunity Monday night to meet their new community officer, Mark Allen.

A 19-year-old University of Wisconsin student was struck by a car and dragged for several feet in front of Memorial Union Monday night.

Kevin Barrett has his fair share of critics, but according to last semesterâ??s course evaluations, most of his students were not among them.

Statistics aren’t available, but an official said there are at least 350 student-parents at UW- Madison. Almost all student-parents grapple with the cost of child care. Infant care at a campus center will cost about $10,872 per child this academic year, said April Kigeya, a parent resource specialist at UW- Madison’s Office of Child Care & Family Resources.

Jake Warner lashes out when his classmates at the University of Wisconsin-Madison protest the war. Katie Nelson, a junior at UW-Milwaukee, gets confused by her financial aid. Four years after enrolling at UW-Oshkosh, Todd Johnston still feels lonely; he misses having friends by his side 24 hours a day.

A slew of government benefits, including a new Wisconsin G.I. Bill, is propelling record numbers of veterans into Wisconsin’s colleges and universities. But even with the financial assistance, the transition to college can be difficult, as veterans can attest.

On rare occasions, a high school diploma is not required for admission to one of the highly-coveted freshman slots at UW-Madison.

“We get some inquiries about this, but in light of the enrollment demands here, don’t do this (apply without high school diploma)unless it’s truly an unusual set of circumstances,” Office of Admissions Associate Director Tom Reason told 27 News.

A highschoolerâ??s race, income level and the amount of clubs and sports he or she joins will now offficially help decide if the student is admitted any UW System school.

President George W. Bushâ??s Pell Grant aid, announced earlier this month, will provide more opportunities for students to attend the University of Wisconsin-Marathon County.

University of Wisconsin-Madison Provost Patrick Farrell touted campus research but discussed the challenge in retaining staff Friday morning at the UW System Board of Regents meeting.

The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents voted unanimously Friday to allow all state universities to consider non-academic factors â?? including race â?? in their admissions decisions.

Now that the lakes have finally frozen over, longtime Madison residents may gaze (if their eyes don’t tear up too badly) over the bleak landscape of Lake Mendota and reminisce about that fateful February 28 years ago when the Statue of Liberty came to town.

The Board of Regents Education Committee passed the contested UW System freshmen admissions policy Thursday and the full Board will vote on it today.

The UW-Madison Police Department took a 39-year-old man into custody Thursday for the Tuesday night Witte Residence Hall robbery.

With $24,000 in prize money up for grabs, amateur inventors pitched designs and prototypes to judges Thursday, kicking off the University of Wisconsinâ??s Innovation Days.

If the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approves a revised admissions policy today that includes non-academic factors such as race, the board might be in violation of state law, Regent President David Walsh admitted Thursday.

University of Wisconsin police arrested a suspect Thursday in connection to a late-night robbery in Witte Hall earlier this week.

MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin-Madison police said they have made an arrest in connection with an attack and robbery at dorm on Tuesday.

UW-Madison’s Witte Hall has locked doors with special sensors to detect any breaches. It also has elevators and stairwells whose access is supposed to be restricted to key-holders, and surveillance cameras that monitor comings and goings.

In this weather, it’s hard to keep someone waiting outside a locked glass door.

“Common courtesy, just hold the door for them. Let them in,” said Nick Propson, UW dorm resident.

On Tuesday night, a student in the UW’s Witte Hall did just that.

And the person they let in proceeded to attack and rob another student who was in her dorm room.

And that attack has left a lot of students thinking twice before performing a good samaritan act of their own.

UW Police warned students in the dorms to keep all their doors locked and make sure to not let people into the dorms that shouldn’t be there.

It came after two female students were attacked in their Witte Hall dorm room by a burglar Tuesday night.

MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin-Madison dorm residents are being warned not to let strangers into their buildings after a student was attacked earlier this week.

Now that all three finalists for the UW-Madison Dean of Students position have visited and conversed with students and administrators, the campus community has the opportunity to submit confidential feedback on the candidates.

University Housing and the UW-Madison Police Department are again asking students to be aware of their personal safety after a robbery was reported late Tuesday night at Witte Residence Hall.

A team of two seniors and one graduate student will represent the University of Wisconsin in Tokyo early next month at a worldwide computer programming competition.

The Madison City Council officially approved funding for the Downtown Safety Initiative Tuesday, and some Madison community members are already speaking in favor of the plan.

Over the next two days, the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents will decide if they will allow all state universities to consider non-academic factors � including race � in their admissions decisions.

Another violent attack struck the University of Wisconsin campus late Tuesday night when two female students were reportedly robbed in Witte Hall by a middle-aged man.

Two UW-Madison students were robbed in their dorm room Tuesday night by a man who grabbed one of the two women by the throat before fleeing, UW-Madison Police said.
The robbery occurred at Witte Hall about 11:45 p.m., police said. The women were in their room when a man entered, put his hand on the throat of one of the women and left with an undisclosed amount of money.

UW-Police are looking for a man whom they say walked into a dorm room, grabbed a girl by the throat and then demanded money.

It happened just before midnight Tuesday in the “A” tower of Witte hall.

Police are currently looking at surveillance video to see if they can find how the suspect got in the building.

MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin-Madison dorm residents are being warned to not let strangers in after police said a man got into Witte Hall and attacked and robbed a female student on Tuesday night.

UW police and housing officials are reviewing security camera video of an emergency door that the attacker might have used to flee to dorm.

UW police said that at about 11:45 p.m. on Tuesday, a white man who is about 40 years old got into Witte Hall, walked into an unlocked dorm room with two women inside, choked one of them, demanded money and then fled with an undisclosed amount. (Video)

Dangerously cold temperatures of minus 35�with the wind chill factor included�were enough to force the closing of most Wisconsin high schools and colleges yesterday, but they were not cold enough to close UW-Madison.

Despite subfreezing temperatures and bitter winds across campus Monday, the University of Wisconsin decided to take no administrative action in canceling classes.