Category: Campus life

La Crosse – The facts, police say, are that Luke Homan drank, wandered to the banks of the Mississippi River, ended up in the water and drowned.

The headline says it all: ââ?¬Å?Another tragedy.ââ?¬ÂThe story in La Crosse is all too familiar: The mixture of alcohol and a river has deadly consequences.

There are still plenty of tickets remaining for Madison’s annual Halloween party. But an official was pleased after the first day of sales.

On Monday, the city sold 321 ticketsÃ? out of 80,000 printed for the city’s first paid-admission Halloween party on State Street.

“For the first day, I think it’s really quite good,” said Laura Whitmore, city parks community relations coordinator. Most of the tickets were sold at the ticket booth at Library Mall, but a small number were sold at the Parks Office in the Municipal Building at 215 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

The body of a UW-La Crosse student missing since Saturday night was pulled from the Mississippi River Monday morning.

Luke Homan, a basketball player and Brookfield native, was last seen celebrating Oktoberfest at The Vibe, a popular downtown bar, with several of his friends.

The body of a University of Wisconsin-La Crosse student who went missing Friday was found in the Mississippi River Monday.

The Alliance Defense Fund turned up the heat Monday afternoon in a two-year debate surrounding the funding revocation of the University of Wisconsin-Superior�s InterVarsity Christian Fellowship student group.

MADISON, Wis. — Tickets went on sale on Monday for this year’s Halloween festivities on State Street.A ticket kiosk opened for the first time on the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Library Mall, WISC-TV reported.

The discovery of student athlete Luke Homan’s body Monday in the Mississippi River left a legion of his family, friends, coaches and even former competitors in disbelief that he had met the same mysterious fate as seven other young males in recent years.

University of Wisconsin-Madison football players Joe Thomas, Ben Strickland and Steve Johnson, all former Brookfield Central students, helped in the search, along with Brookfield Central High School Athletic Director Scott Nelsen. Former high school athletes who competed against Central also turned up for the search.

So far today, more than 100 Halloween tickets have been sold, many of them to people who aren’t UW students.

Start with 20 computers sitting in a room.

Next, come up with software that lets you run a complex calculation on all 20 computers. Since you�ve got so many computers working on it, they finish the task sooner.

The British Ambassador to the United States, Sir David Manning, addressed global energy consumption and climate change in a speech at Memorial Union Friday, lauding the university and state�s conservation efforts.

Speaking about energy and climate security Friday at the Memorial Union Theater, Britain�s ambassador to the United States, Sir David Manning, said we are amid a worldwide crisis.

A little rain may have kept much of Madison indoors Saturday morning, but some still managed to make their way to Lake Mendota to watch the second annual Pumpkin Regatta.

Tickets to enter State Street Oct. 28 for the annual Halloween celebration go on sale today and can be purchased for $5, with a limit of four tickets per person, at Library Mall or from the Madison Parks Office.

It’s not like Luke Homan to just disappear.

He always checked in with his parents, or else his roommates knew his whereabouts. But when the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse athlete didn’t show for a golf outing Saturday morning, friends knew something was wrong, and reported him missing.

The University of Wisconsin Welcome Center opened its doors to the public Thursday, about a year after initially breaking ground.

While most University of Wisconsin students know exactly what it feels like to receive grades on subjects like history, engineering and political science, few students expect to see their own university handed the grades. More unexpected, is to see the university graded in the subject of sex.

Some UW Madison students are using crutches to rally support for a campus referendum.

It is the UW’s oldest and largest student organization…or it was.Ã?  Now the UW says it will not recognize the Roman Catholic Foundation as a registered student group.Some members of the Roman Catholic Foundation say they feel as though they’re being pushed from campus life.Ã?  But the UW says they’re simply following the rules, and the Roman Catholic Foundation is not.

Those little white earphones are about as common as yellow leaves this semester on the UW-Madison campus. “This the best technology for listening to music,” said UW senior Sarah Pumroy. Ã? Pumroy, who was sporting the latest in video iPods, however, said her device is for fun, not school, so don’t expect her to be listening to a professor’s podcast anytime soon.

It’s 11:30 p.m. on a recent Friday in Madison, and many parties are just picking up steam in the student neighborhoods west of the Capitol.
But when Madison police pull up to an address on Mifflin Street, one young woman is already out cold.

Tickets to be admitted onto State Street for Madison’s Halloween party will go on sale Monday at Library Mall and the Parks Office in the Madison Municipal Building, 215 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Suite 210.

Tickets for Halloween 2006 will go on sale Monday, marking the first time visitors to the event will have to pay to get onto State Street.

Sunday morning, at 3 a.m., three to five men encircled a 22-year-old UW-Madison student just outside of MacTaggart�s, 230 W. Lakelawn Place. Almost immediately, the student felt a sharp instrument against his back and handed his wallet over to the men.

After experiencing particularly bad flooding damage in a rainstorm this July, the University of Wisconsin began launching a pilot project Wednesday to protect parking lots from future occurrences.

In the week since the Madison Common Council approved the final part of the city�s plans for the 2006 Halloween parties on State Street, one major element of planning has focused on the fencing and admissions system for access to the event. On Tuesday, Madison alcohol policy coordinator
(and key Halloween organizer) Joel Plant confirmed that there will be a total of 13
access points along State Street.

Major League Baseball Commissioner, former owner of the Milwaukee Brewers and UW-Madison graduate Bud Selig spoke to a crowd of students Tuesday, mentioning he had spoken with his ââ?¬Å?good friend Hank Aaronââ?¬Â earlier that morning.

Despite all the grim headlines from Iraq, Derek House said he wanted to enlist in the Army Reserve.

The 19-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison student went to an east side Madison recruiting center on Aug. 28, attempting to enlist. When the recruiter asked about “personal relationships,” House whispered “I’m openly gay,” he recalled.

“Personally, I couldn’t care less,” House remembered the recruiter saying. “We don’t have to disclose that.”

Before long, I encountered a scene far less welcoming than that which had preceded it. Standing unhappily next to a bike was a student apparently receiving a ticket from a police officer. How had I forgotten? There was word on the street that the local police had recently vowed tougher restrictions on bicycling, including a prohibition of the act altogether on Library Mall.

A suspect in the Sept. 4 University Avenue sexual assault case appeared in court Tuesday and is being held on $45,000 bail until his preliminary hearing.

City of Madison Police issued misdemeanor trespassing citations to five University of Wisconsin students during an organized protest at a military recruiting office Tuesday.

After more than 40 years of working in the same industry, it�s easy to get worn out, lose passion and throw in the towel.

Not for Bud Selig.

The victim of a beating and alleged sexual assault attempt last month said Tuesday she willed herself to stay conscious, despite numerous blows to the head, so she could fight off her attacker.