Category: Campus life

Forty-eight little eyes are looking up at you waiting for your next direction. Today�s task: teach 24 first-graders their vowel sounds, addition and the concept of sharing. You rise before sunup and your car is the last to leave well after sundown. You work 12-hour days, and make around $30,000 a year.

UW-Madison is a higher education haven for inquiring minds who may wonder about anything from how many calories one burns walking up Bascom Hill, the date of Parent�s Weekend next fall or why Bucky Badger has so much sex appeal.

With cars zooming by and no traffic lights to be found, pedestrians crossing some of Madison�s busiest streets often turn to little red flags for protection.

David Christopher insists he’s not a salesman.
When he leads tours of the UW-Madison campus, he’s making a pitch, yes, and it’s a job, but he’s also doing it as a labor of love.

A popular website for University of Wisconsin students who are currently scheduling classes added another feature to last week. Pick-A-Prof.com announced its collaboration with Facebook, the popular social networking site.

The UW Roman Catholic Foundation dropped its religious discrimination charges against individual Student Services Finance Committee members Monday night, deciding to focus its complaints on SSFC�s alleged failure to give due process.

The Associated Students of Madison Student Judiciary heard a lawsuit brought forward by the UW Roman Catholic Foundation Monday, stemming from allegations the foundation was wrongfully denied funding because of its religious views.

The UW Roman Catholic Foundation says they were unfairly removed from the student organization status, which provided some of their funding.

The finance committee says there’s no rules where they have to explain why they vote a certain way.

Just a couple months ago, the UW asked the Catholic Foundation to restructure to re-gain status as a registered student organization.

In the early 1920s, university student life was dominated by a group of young men who proudly espoused patriotism, Protestantism, and white racial superiority — the interfraternity Ku Klux Klan honorary society.

Excerpted from “Madison: An Illustrated Sesquicentennial History, Vol. 1, 1856-1931,” written by Stuart D. Levitan (University of Wisconsin Press, 2006).

The University of Wisconsin Roman Catholic Foundation may be dropping the charges they brought against the Student Services Finance Committee Nov. 15.

Josh Zalasky should be the kind of college applicant with little to worry about.

The high school senior is taking three Advanced Placement courses. Outside the classroom, he’s involved in mock trial, two Jewish youth groups and has a job with a restaurant chain. He’s a National Merit semifinalist and scored in the top 3 percent of all students who take the ACT.

But in the increasingly frenzied world of college admissions, even Zalasky is nervous about his prospects. He doubts he’ll get in to the University of Wisconsin, a top choice. The reason: his grades.

The pingpong table stood mightily on the front lawn of a fraternity house near the University of Wisconsin-Madison, one side painted with the red and white stripes of the American flag, the other with the Soviet Union hammer and sickle.

Beer pong – in which players make their opponents drink by sinking a pingpong ball in one of their cups – has been around for more than a decade. But in the last couple of years, it has reached unprecedented popularity – to the chagrin of college administrators who fear the game fuels binge drinking.

UW-Madison hits No. 1 lists often enough that a third-place ranking isn’t worth more than a footnote. Except this one – which is a bit at odds with some of the other surveys.

Madison – The pingpong table stood mightily on the front lawn of a fraternity house near the University of Wisconsin-Madison, one side painted with the red and white stripes of the American flag, the other with the Soviet Union hammer and sickle.

Since its beginnings as a for-sale service in June, Madison�s citywide wireless network has seen a significant uptake, but not without technical problems.

Weeks after receiving funding from the University of Wisconsin�s Student Services Finance Committee, several organizations lost a large portion of their backing last night.

The alcohol policy coordinator for Madison, Wis., shed some light Friday on how organizers there successfully fenced off a downtown Halloween street block party near the University of Wisconsin Oct. 28 and charged admission.

“Flexibility – that was the name of the game,” said Joel Plant, who explained that police were ready to remove the fence if the crowd grew too large. “We’re not going to endanger anyone’s safety for a fence.”

Here’s a reason to be proud of Wisconsin’s young people: They voted.

Madison has not had the drownings of college-age young men like La Crosse.

But it has had its share of alcohol issues, including young people being taken to the city�s detoxification facility and hospitals, mob scenes downtown on occasions including Halloween, and muggings, in which the victims and

Madison will have $100,000 to work with for fighting downtown crime following a city council vote Thursday night.

The Wisconsin Union Travel Center�established in 1976 as a student market for discounted bus tickets to Chicago, non-UW study abroad advising and discounted passport and visa photos�will close in Summer 2007, Wisconsin Union administrators announced Thursday.

In its first meeting since Halloween, the Downtown Coordinating Committee analyzed both the successes and shortcomings of the event Thursday.

The Student Services Finance Committee was forced to reconsider weeks of previous decisions, after an e-mail from University of Wisconsin Chancellor John Wiley Thursday.

While partiers flocked freely through the chilly streets of uptown Athens Oct. 28, a much-larger street party surrounded by a plastic fence raged three states away in Madison, Wisc., where partiers donned armbands to prove they paid admission.

Dooyoung Choi, a student from Korea at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, doesn’t hang out or drink beers with many Americans, he says.

On weekends he typically relaxes by watching Korean television over the Internet at his apartment, where he lives with two Korean roommates. When he has work to do, Choi will often join other Koreans for day-long study sessions at the library. Many of his friends crack the first book at 9 a.m., he says, and won’t call it quits until midnight, except for breaks for food throughout the day.

“It’s a really gloomy, dark, international student life, I guess,” Choi says laughingly.