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).
Despite an Education Trust report released Nov. 20 lambasting flagship universities� access for low-income and minority students, UW-Madison administration maintains it is doing everything possible to open the university to all.
The University of Wisconsin Roman Catholic Foundation may be dropping the charges they brought against the Student Services Finance Committee Nov. 15.
College graduates are experiencing the best job market in four years as a stronger economy leads more employers to ramp up hiring. Employers expect to hire 17.4% more new college graduates in 2006 and 2007 than in 2005 and 2006, according to a new survey by the Bethlehem, Pa.-based National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE).
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.
In his recent state of the university address, Chancellor John Wiley said that he was considering making it mandatory for all students to participate ââ?¬Å?in at least one documentable ââ?¬Ë?out-of-classroom activity.ââ?¬â?¢Ã¢â?¬Â
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.”
The nation’s public flagship universities are becoming less accessible to students who are from low-income families or who are members of underrepresented minority groups, according to a report released on Monday by the Education Trust.
In its new report, “Engines of Inequality: Diminishing Equity in the Nation’s Premier Public Universities,” the trust, an independent research and advocacy organization based in Washington, grades the flagship institution in each state on access for low-income and minority students and on the gaps in graduation rates for those students and the student body as a whole.
Eight state universities received failing grades on the organization’s report card, while 24 states were given D’s, and 14 states were given C’s. Just four institutions — the Universities of Hawaii, New Hampshire, New Mexico, and Vermont — earned B’s. No A’s were awarded.
Taking the next step in the UW-Madison Campus Master Plan, the Chazen Museum of Art held its campaign kick-off Friday evening for its forthcoming expansion.
The Chazen, 800 University Ave., will take over the space currently occupied by the Alfred Walter Peterson Building, 750 University Ave.
This is in response to Jacob Stockinger’s Oct. 12 column in Rhythm. In it, he described the Madison Symphony Orchestra concert that featured bassist Edgar Meyer. He shared his thoughts and predictions about the pieces that were to be performed and his expectations for the audience.
Wisconsin may have voted ââ?¬Ë?yesââ?¬â?¢ on the amendment banning gay marriage, but many Madison residents refused to concede the fight against the ban as they gathered to protest Friday on Library Mall.
On Wednesday evening, more than 60 people took their own time to find the DNR offices, show up for a public hearing, stand up, and be heard. Every last one of those people voiced their concerns about the UW�s antiquated, dirty coal-fired power plant and asked the UW to take a lead on combating global warming, and to start by cleaning up the Charter Street plant
In the aftermath of the recent passage of the gay marriage and civil unions ban, the fight for gay rights continues as scores of amendment-dissenters gathered Friday in protest.
Here’s a reason to be proud of Wisconsin’s young people: They voted.
Thirty years ago, the ââ?¬Å?generation gapââ?¬Â reflected the cultural gulf between World War II-era parents and their children. Parents then just didn’t get sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. Today, the gap is about debt.
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
“Oh my gosh, yes, Monroe Street has changed,” Hank Reese acknowledges. “But is it really such a bad thing?”
It is 10:55 on a recent midweek morning, and the 81-year-old Reese, dapper as ever in a powder blue shirt and beige cardigan sweater, is standing in the same spot where he has spent much of the last 59 years – behind the cashier counter at Mickies Dairy Bar, the most popular diner this city has ever known.
He is also giving me his own no-holds-barred perspective on the vast transformation that continues to take place in the neighborhood southwest of Camp Randall Stadium.
Madison will have $100,000 to work with for fighting downtown crime following a city council vote Thursday night.
The Wisconsin Union Travel Centerââ?¬â?established in 1976 as a student market for discounted bus tickets to Chicago, non-UW study abroad advising and discounted passport and visa photosââ?¬â?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.
It�s the most anticipated college football game of the year in one of the longest-running rivalries in history, as the Michigan Wolverines travel to face the Ohio State Buckeyes Saturday afternoon.
ON Nov. 1, just two months shy of its 50th birthday, the plastic pink flamingo went extinct. Or more accurately, it stopped reproducing, when its manufacturer, Union Products, shut down the factory in Leominster, Mass.
Instead of skipping class to play video games, University of Wisconsin students may be able to actually go to class instead find similar entertainment in upcoming semesters.
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.
The University of Wisconsin Roman Catholic Foundation has been in and out of lawsuits with the university for the past four years, and, at approximately 9 p.m. Wednesday, they filed another one.
The complaint not only calls for a reversal of Monday�s Student Services Finance Committee decision, but also seeks to remove four members from SSFC.
The recently passed gay-marriage and civil unions ban continues to draw scrutiny on the University of Wisconsin campus, as students and staff gathered Wednesday to discuss the controversial resolution�s possible implications.
UW students, faculty and staff, as well as members of the Madison community, met in Memorial Union Wednesday evening to talk about the amendmentââ?¬â?¢s effect on the future of domestic partner benefits at UW. Dane County was the only county in the state to vote ââ?¬Å?Noââ?¬Â in last Tuesdayââ?¬â?¢s general election.
UW-Madison faculty members expressed anger and discussed plans to leave the university at a listening session on the recently approved gay marriage ban Wednesday.
The hearing was held to give campus community members an opportunity to voice feelings related to ban and discuss the implications for domestic partner benefits.
In attendance were Chancellor John Wiley, Provost Patrick Farrell and Interim Dean of Students Lori Berquam.
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.
Arsenio Cicero came to Madison from Havana seven years ago, and his life has not been the same.
“I had two lives, one before in Cuba and one studying here,” he said.
Dear Editor: It appears that another UW football player has received preferential treatment by a Dane County Circuit Court judge.
….It is hoped the new football coach at UW does not endorse this practice and will institute appropriate punishment to any athlete who breaks the law even if the court system appears to be too biased to do the same.
Clients come to the center voluntarily or by ambulance, after police and fire officials find them dangerously drunk. From Aug. 31 through late September, 24 UW-Madison students had been taken from campus to the detox center or a hospital bed, the highest total ever recorded at that point in a school year, campus Police Chief Susan Riseling said.
A University of Wisconsin-Superior religious group that is suing the university over its decision to refuse to recognize it will be able to operate on campus while the lawsuit is pending.
….Fatal plunge: A 19-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison student leaped to his death Tuesday from the top of a downtown parking ramp.
The student jumped from the sixth level of the UW Frances Street ramp, located at the intersection with Johnson Street, at about 1:30 p.m., landing in an alley between the ramp and the Fluno Center.
Dear Editor: As an election observer in the student ward, I sat in awe of non-stop lines of students exercising their right to vote. A huge turnout convinced me that students care about this state. It also convinced me that without same-day registration, we disenfranchise one of the most thoughtful, passionate and hopeful segments of society.
They join with different majors, have different career goals and come from different military branches. But UW-Madisonââ?¬â?¢s Reserve Officer Training Corps students have one aspect in commonââ?¬â?passion.
From the beginning, the details surrounding the UW Roman Catholic Foundation�s attempts to gain Registered Student Organization status have been murky.
Culminating with a lawsuit filed last Thursday, the UWRCF now alleges religious discrimination. But why did it have to come to this?
Madison�s downtown area is once again under scrutiny due to a recent increase in burglaries of student laptops, iPods and other electronic devices.
A 19-year-old UW-Madison student jumped to his death from the top of a downtown parking ramp Tuesday afternoon.
While the rest of the University of Wisconsin campus was going about yesterday like any other day ââ?¬â? attending class, studying at the library and going to work ââ?¬â? a fellow Badgerââ?¬â?¢s life came to an abrupt end.
Parents are often the first people college students go to when they�re strapped for cash, particularly when it comes to tuition costs. But according to a new study, students might have to start thinking twice.
University of Wisconsin students organized Tuesday night in the Humanities building to decide a theme and format for Fridayââ?¬â?¢s ââ?¬Å?Protest the Banââ?¬Â rally, a public display of opposition to the newly passed state marriage amendment.
It isn�t everyday a University of Wisconsin student organization celebrates its 10th anniversary at a popular downtown venue in front of more than 1,000 devoted fans.
The Madison Police Department warned University of Wisconsin students about the risk of theft Tuesday, reporting unusually high numbers of residential burglaries recently.
A University of Wisconsin student fell from the top of a parking garage outside the Fluno Center Tuesday and died a short time after at a local hospital.
A group of graduate student researchers from UW-Madison’s Water Resources Management Program have come up with a plan that could eventually help enhance what we love about Monona Bay and minimize the things that cause us to shake our heads.
I just read Mondayââ?¬â?¢s editorial, ââ?¬Å?UW Student Org. Idea Misguided.ââ?¬Â If someone suggested that all students be required to join a student organization, then I would agree with you: Itââ?¬â?¢s a bad (or misguided) idea. Thatââ?¬â?¢s not what I suggested to the Senate, though.
UW Chancellor John Wiley will hear the proposal to renovate Memorial Union and rebuild Union South.
The Associated Students of Madison Student Judiciary dismissed a complaint Monday that would overturn the passing of the Student Union Initiative, and petitioners said it is unlikely they will appeal the decision.
Yesterday, the Associated Students of Madison Student Judiciary decided to uphold the election results from the Student Union Initiative referendum that students voted on in October.
Universities statewide are recognizing International Education Week, celebrating the importance of international studies in today�s world.
A Dane County judge sentenced former University of Wisconsin running back Booker Stanley to one year in jail for sexually assaulting an ex-girlfriend.
Amid a federal lawsuit with the University of Wisconsin System and four UW-Madison administrators, the UW Roman Catholic Foundation requested student-segregated fee funding Monday night.
MADISON, Wis. — Former University of Wisconsin-Madison Badger football player Booker Stanley was sentenced on Monday to one year in jail with work-released privileges after being convicted of attacking his ex-girlfriend.
During his sentencing on Monday afternoon, the ex-running back blamed alcohol for his legal troubles.
Stanley was convicted in July of sexually assaulting and battering his former girlfriend last year. Before that, Stanley was arrested at the Mifflin Street Block Party following a violent scuffle, WISC-TV reported.
