Category: Campus life

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.

Touting his issue-oriented analytical style, the third and final University of Wisconsin dean of students candidate met with students in the Red Gym Monday.

The rivalry between two, auction-style websites run by UW-Madison students is getting as intense as Pepsi versus Coke.

Microsoft versus Apple.

The financial stakes at the student-run sites appear high. The measures to get ahead, drastic.

The sites are competing for the same customers-students-to buy and sell books and tickets to athletic events.

MADISON, Wis. — UW students are sending a cold letter of concern to the chancellor after classes were not cancelled on a day when wind chills dipped below -35.

“I had to skip my first class,” said UW freshman. “It was far too cold. I didnââ?¬â?¢t want to get up and go out in -18.”

Bitter cold coupled with wicked wind chills caused even the most diligent students to have doubts about going to class.

The University of Wisconsin-Stout suspended a campus fraternity last week � with no chance of appeal for four years � after city police cited more than 100 underage drinkers at a Feb. 1 party.

Although the Associated Students of Madison continued its ongoing battle against UW System policy Wednesday night by officially approving the budgets of all General Student Services Fund organizations, UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley will most likely strike off-campus rents from the budget.

More women are making their ââ?¬Å?wheyââ?¬Â into the Wisconsin cheese industry, according to Jeanne Carpenter, spokesperson for the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection.

Within the last three years, half a dozen women have pursued their cheesemaker�s license, compared to only 38 within the past 60 years.

UW-Madison Interim Dean of Students Lori Berquam voiced her plan to reach out to every student on campus and to cater to varying student opinions as the next dean of students at a forum in the Red Gym Thursday night.

Interim Dean of Students Lori Berquam said Thursday the current recruitment and retention rates of minority students at the University of Wisconsin is a ââ?¬Å?crisis.ââ?¬Â

In his budget proposal for the 2008 fiscal year, President Bush plans to call for raising the maximum Pell Grant by nearly 14 percent, or $550, next year, the biggest one-year jump in the award for low-income students in more than three decades, the secretary of education, Margaret Spellings, announced on Thursday afternoon.

The plan also calls for an increase of 33 percent, or $1,350, over the next five years, bringing the maximum award to $5,400.

“This is real money that will help more low-income students achieve the dream of a college education,” Ms. Spellings said in a wide-ranging speech on higher education, delivered at North Carolina State University.