The UW System consistently receives more funding and support under Democratic control, John Witte, professor of public affairs and political science in the La Follette School of Public Affairs, said Wednesday in a forum.
Tom Wangard and Brandon Sivret used to head a movement that directly challenged the city�s Halloween plans.
After months of planning and speculation, Halloween 2006 is finally upon us. Considering the blitz of national and local news coverage highlighting the negative aspects of the party, it�s easy to forget it hasn�t always ended with pepper spray.
City officials are looking for final input from residents and students in the design plan for the 500 and 600 blocks of State Street ââ?¬â? the last phase of Madisonââ?¬â?¢s multi-million dollar reconstruction project.
With Halloween weekend becoming increasingly known for its drunkenness, University of Wisconsin nighttime service SAFE is taking extra measures to make sure students get home OK.
Once again bringing higher education to the forefront of this year�s gubernatorial race, Gov. Jim Doyle announced Wednesday a proposal to help alleviate the cost of a University of Wisconsin System education.
For the thousands of University of Wisconsin students who attend Madisonââ?¬â?¢s Halloween celebration every year, participation in the State Street festival is simply a given ââ?¬â? but it was not always that way.
Bringing a self-proclaimed extreme right-winger to speak at the University of Wisconsin created a spark that nearly blew the roof off Memorial Union Theater Wednesday night.
Gov. Jim Doyle on Wednesday laid out a plan to allow middle-class families to deduct the entire cost of college tuition, books and fees from their taxes as part of the next biennial budget.
Doyle made the announcement during a campaign stop at Reeve Memorial Union on the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh campus Wednesday afternoon. Under his proposal, single parents earning $50,000 or less and couples earning $80,000 or less would be able to deduct tuition expenses of up to $6,000, the current cost to attend UW-Madison, for any public or private university and technical colleges.
MADISON, Wis. — Tens of thousands of tickets are still available for Madison’s unofficial Halloween party on State Street, Freakfest
In a bar just a few steps off State street is where Wanda Baker and her friends spent Wednesday night.
And that’s as close as they’ll be on Saturday, when the area is fenced off for thousands of partiers.
Local businesses hope for a boost in Halloween ticket sales for State Street over the next few days.
Wisconsin families would be able to deduct tuition payments of up to $6,000 a year per student from their state income taxes under a proposal released today by Gov. Jim Doyle.
Doyle’s plan would also – for the first time – allow students and their families to deduct the full cost of books and fees from their state income taxes as part of that deduction.
If you’re looking for a security guard this weekend, you’re out of luck. Local security agencies are seeing an increase this year in Halloween business, so much so that they can’t keep up.
“We’re at the point now where we’re not taking any more business for Saturday the 28th,” said John Phillips, a manager at Martin Security, which will have about 45 guards working the downtown area for Halloween.
Fueled by fears that the city’s decision to charge a $5 fee to attend this year’s State Street celebration will squeeze party-goers to outlying neighborhoods, property owners, fraternities and businesses are looking for help.
Staying sexually healthy on a college campus can be pricey. The average cost for birth control pills is $20 to $35 per month, and boxes of condoms can cost between $9 to $15. But thanks to University Health Services and programs like Sex Out Loud, UW-Madison students are keeping their bodies and their wallets healthy.
After taking numerous classes at this university, chances are at one point you have taken a class in which a professor gave a lecture or assigned a book that you did not agree with.
Madison officials will use Halloween ticket profits to fund law enforcement and city programs, not bands or sound systems.
According to Mayor Dave Cieslewicz, the city will not use any of the money earned to fund State Street entertainment during the event. That announcement directly contradicts previous statements made by student leaders concerning the cover charge.
The Tenant Resource Center, a Madison-based center devoted to helping local renters with landlord and other living issues like tenants� rights, declared Monday it is suing the Associated Students of Madison Student Services Finance Committee because it was denied funding eligibility due to not being a Registered Student Organization.
With the race to Nov. 7 intensifying, gubernatorial candidates beefed up their TV advertisements this week with new celebrity cameos and ethics accusations.
The provost at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee sent a comprehensive letter to students and faculty Monday regarding the shutdown of its student government.
Most of todayââ?¬â?¢s students were not even alive to see Ted ââ?¬Å?The Nugeââ?¬Â Nugent take the stage at sold-out venues to perform his hit ââ?¬Å?Cat Scratch Fever.ââ?¬Â Instead, they may know him for his fanatic hunting and outspoken conservative views.
Even though University of Wisconsin student voters passed the Living Wage initiative in last week�s Associated Students of Madison election, the implementation of the initiative might not actually be possible.
College tuition prices are up, no surprise. And to a lesser extent, so is total student aid. But federal Pell Grant funding for low-income students declined for the first time in six years, and students borrowed more from private lenders last year than ever before. Those are just a few of a wide range of findings related to the cost of attending college that were released Tuesday by the College Board.
Shortly after Harvard announced last month that it was ending its early-admission policy, admissions dean William Fitzsimmons got a thank-you e-mail from a woman with a story to tell. She and her best friend had applied to the same school. The friend got in, she didn’t. And that was the end of the friendship. Now, as Fitzsimmons prepares to conduct Harvard’s last review of early-admission applicants (the deadline is Nov. 1), he worries that the admissions ââ?¬Å?rat raceââ?¬Â is destroying ââ?¬Å?the quality of the social fabricââ?¬Â in high schools. ââ?¬Å?It creates a pressure cooker,ââ?¬Â he says. And it’s one reason Harvard is ending its early deadline.
When Jeremy Hynd graduated from Vanderbilt University in 2004, he applied to consolidate $44,000 in student loans. With interest rates then at record lows, consolidation offered the opportunity to lock in a 2.5% rate for the life of the loan. But Hynd discovered that $27,000 of his loans weren’t eligible for federal loan consolidation because they were private student loans. Private loans are the fastest-growing sector of the multibillion-dollar student loan industry.
MADISON, Wis. — A student vote approved up to $150 million in construction and renovations for University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Union South and Memorial Union.
UW-Madison students voted to take Union South down and construct a new building in its place, even though that could mean increasing student fees nearly $100 a year for the next 30 years.
The actual student cost will depend on how much a major fundraising campaign brings in, WISC-TV reported.
When out of town visitors arrive in Madison for Saturday’s freakfest on State Street, they’ll have to fight with football fans for places to stay. Hotel space is nearly booked solid around town, and the University of Wisconsin is locking out visitors from campus dorms.
At Ogg Hall, there’s a sign telling students that visitors will not be allowed in beginning at 9:00 p.m. Thursday.
MADISON, Wis. — With the new city-organized “Freakfest On State Street” only days away, many Langdon Street residents said that they’re bracing for the prospect that Madison’s annual Halloween tradition might move onto their street.
To quell those concerns, University of Wisconsin and fraternity and sorority leaders said that they already have a plan in place to keep Madison’s fraternity row quiet and trouble-free this weekend.
Rumors have swirled for weeks that rogue Halloween partiers will try to move the sometimes infamous festivities to Langdon Street instead of State Street, where the city’s “Freakfest” is scheduled for Saturday, WISC-TV reported.
As Halloween weekend fast approaches, many students are threatening to boycott the planned Saturday night State Street event, ââ?¬Å?Freakfest,ââ?¬Â by doing their partying on State Street Friday night.
Partying Friday will show the mayor what happens when he denies us our right to party, right? Wrong. This is the spoiled and stubborn attitude that got restrictions placed on Halloween in the first place.
Police are leaving many questions unanswered about this year�s Halloween celebration on State Street this Saturday.
There are a few specific regulations about this year�s celebration that have changed from past years. Most obviously, State Street will be fenced off with a $5 charge to enter. The gates will open at 7:30 p.m., and people will be forced off the street at 1:30 a.m. Police have not granted a time extension because of daylight-savings time.
Quoted: Jessica Horne, a recent University of Wisconsin graduate who went to Sydney with a Michigan State University program in 2004.
The Student Union Initiative and the living wage initiative both passed in last week�s Associated Students of Madison elections, the ASM Student Judiciary announced Monday night.
The University of Wisconsin showed its continued interest in the expansion of its research efforts Monday by taking another step toward building the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.
City officials and the Madison Police Department joined forces this weekend to spread the word about Madison�s glass ban and alternate traffic routes for Halloween 2006.
Much of the Memorial Union shook with jubilant celebration as the Associated Students of Madison�s Student Judiciary read off the fall 2006 Student Council election results Monday night.
MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin-Madison officials said that new election problems are keeping the UW student government from releasing the results of last week’s election.
The Student Election Committee counted votes by hand all day on Friday after confusion with the Scantron ballots caused several students to fill them out incorrectly, WISC-TV reported.
The City of Madison hopes this year’s advanced ticket sales and gated entry will ease some of those problems.
Some business owners aren’t buying the plan.
Dan Waisman knows the aftermath of Halloween riots firsthand.
The city of Madison is less than a week away from enacting a Halloween plan about a year in the making. The past four such celebrations have ended with everything from violence to police using pepper spray. This year, however, police are hoping to avoid all that by shutting down the event early.
Last year an estimated 100,000 partygoers donned costumes and took to the street. This Saturday will be different in many ways. It will be a ticketed event, costing $5 to enter, and will be blocked off by snow fence. Like last year a public address system will announce the party is over. This time that will come at 1:30 a.m. daylight time, an hour and a half before bar time.
Get ready to fall back. Daylight Saving Time ends this weekend. The annual time change coincides with the Halloween celebration on State Street this year.
Next year, Daylight Saving Time will begin three weeks earlier, and it will end later, by one week. However, it still will affect the State Street celebration in 2009.
Fraternity and sorority members are used to pledging, but this Halloween they’re making a different kind of pledge.
Last Halloween, the State Street celebration spilled over to Langdon Street, home of the university’s Greek community.
“We don’t want to see any of our chapters asked to leave campus,” says Rhiannon Kelleher.
In its latest biennial ranking, BusinessWeek rates the UW-Madison MBA program No. 4 in the nation in terms of fastest return on students’ investment.
The magazine reported that students who earn an MBA from UW-Madison have their costs of going back to school repaid due to higher salaries in less than five years, compared to more than 15 years for other MBA programs.
The problems at a Mills Street residence began with headaches. They were soon followed by sore throats and itchy eyes. Then one of its inhabitants began getting persistent nosebleeds.
The source, it turned out, was an uninvited houseguest: mold.
A mugger armed with a glass bottle attacked a man on the 400 block of North Murray Street Sunday night, less than a block from Library Mall.
BusinessWeek magazine recently rated UW-Madison�s Master�s of Business Administration program fourth in a national ranking of schools with the fastest return on students� investment. The magazine ranks by considering how long it takes students to pay off tuition based on salaries earned after graduate school.
The Motor City Madman, Ted Nugent, will storm the stage at Union Theater Wednesday to deliver a lecture on “God, Guns and Rock ‘n’ Roll.”
Maybe he’ll bring his hunting bow, which he uses to shoot at photos of Saddam Hussein.
An education at the University of Wisconsin is one of the best investments business students can make, according to BusinessWeek magazine.
Two suspects allegedly attacked a victim near Library Mall on the 400 block of Murray Street Sunday night, causing minor injuries.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee administration shut down the school�s student government Friday after police began an investigation into whether a student leader embezzled $10,000.
A group of Madison residents will be text messaging state street partiers on Halloween. Ã? The group, called CRASH Madison, says they’re picking up where the city has left off, giving up-to-the minute information on dangerous situations.Ã? They say they were motivated to step in once the city announced that snow fencing would line State Street.
The University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee placed its Student Association on suspension Friday after the student government’s leaders refused to release some of the association’s financial records for review by university auditors.
Amber Braun is one witch who does not want to frighten anyone this Halloween.
As president of the Pagan Student Alliance, a new club at the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha, Braun hopes to show non-believers that they have nothing to fear from followers of paganism.
The Freshman 15, a term coined to describe the extra pounds that many college students pack on in their first year away from home, has lost some weight. New research out Sunday shows that the newcomers on campus only gain a little more than half that amount. Call it the Freshman 8.
Call ââ?¬Å?pre-gamingââ?¬Â by any of its other names and it still translates the same for substance abuse specialists seeking strategies to control the ubiquitous ââ?¬Å?pre-party,ââ?¬Â generally defined as a small group of students drinking together in a dorm room or other private space prior to an actual party or social event.
LA CROSSE, Wis., Oct. 22 (AP) ââ?¬â? This month, searchers combing the Mississippi River found the body of the eighth college-age man in nine years to disappear from one of the taverns here and turn up dead in a river.
The boorish and unacceptable behavior of some UW Marching Band members has to stop.
The humanities are an extremely important and integral part of our university. And the University of Wisconsin administration is beginning to disregard the humanities in a way that will negatively impact our campus in the future.
This past week produced a flurry of media attention for the iconic UW marching band. Unfortunately, it hasn�t been the kind of attention the organization is used to receiving.
In a semester in which the University of Wisconsin has seemingly garnered attention for all the wrong reasons, it is easy to overlook professors whose contributions to the school are far more important yet attract considerably less notice.
The recent rash of muggings continued Thursday morning when a 23-year-old was held up on the 400 block of South Brooks Street at 1 a.m.
Given our governmental structure, one of the most effective ways to create policy is for the national government to introduce an idea, back it with funding, and allow states to implement and expand on its initiative. It�s always exciting when this kind of coordinated effort targets education, where change can be slow and funding scarce.
