Robberies are on the rise, especially in the northern, central and eastern parts of the city, according to a report compiled by Madison police.
The recent report, prepared by Lt. Joe Balles, shows a 60 percent increase in robberies in the first half of 2006 compared with the same time period in 2005.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison student has been elected vice president of the College Democrats of America, the Democratic Party of Wisconsin said today. Awais Khaleel, who will be a senior at UW-Madison, was elected vice president at the group’s national convention in St. Louis over the weekend. (Part of the PoliticsWatch blog)
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Wisconsin students will continue to pay less in tuition at Minnesota schools than their Minnesota counterparts under an extension of the two states’ tuition reciprocity agreement.
A new agreement that went into effect July 1 for the coming school year means Wisconsin residents will pay between $2,700 and $1,000 less than Minnesota students, depending on the campus.
Flash back 25 years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and you’d find admissions standards that are sure to shock aspiring Badgers of today.
The university guaranteed admission to all high school graduates in the top half of their class. It accepted more than 80% of applicants.
“I walked upright,” Dan Conley, a 1981 graduate, said with a chuckle. “That’s how I got in.”
How times have changed.
More than 5,500 students received degrees during the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s spring commencement ceremonies, May 12-14.
A jury found Booker Stanley, a former running back for the University of Wisconsin football team, guilty of three felonies and three misdemeanors Thursday in the sexual assault of his girlfriend during a Dec. 21 fight.
After five hours of deliberation the jury convicted Stanley of second-degree sexual assault, second-degree reckless endangerment, felony bail jumping and one count of misdemeanor battery. He was acquitted on three additional battery charges.
As more Wisconsin companies do business around the world, they’re also finding themselves becoming global employers. Some businesses have begun to tap into the pool of Chinese students who come to train as engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A new report sheds no new light on why the scores of more than 4,400 SAT college entrance exams taken in October were incorrect or why it took the College Board until March to alert students and schools. The scoring process, including several steps put in place after the errors occurred, ââ?¬Å?is reliable and has prudent controls in placeââ?¬Â says the report, by consultants Booz Allen Hamilton. It offered recommendations for 16 ââ?¬Å?secondary risks,ââ?¬Â including making No. 2 pencils available to students and adding an ââ?¬Å?anchor pointââ?¬Â to answer sheets to help ensure they are aligned properly in scanners. College Board President Gaston Caperton said he is ââ?¬Å?pleased with (the) assessment.ââ?¬Â Critics were not. The College Board’s ââ?¬Å?lack of accountability in this matter goes to the heart of the arrogance that exists when an organization basically holds a monopoly in a certain market,ââ?¬Â said New York state Sen. Kenneth LaValle.
Amanda Pratt graduated from Arrowhead High School with scholarship offers, a 4.0 grade-point average and acceptance letters from colleges that included the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Northwestern University.
But when she reports to school in the fall, it won’t be to any of those better-known institutions of higher education.
Instead, Pratt’s off to a small, unaccredited college outside of Boston that graduated its first class of students this spring – 66 out of a beginning group of 75 students.
Each summer ââ?¬â? and sometimes into the year ââ?¬â? a college-age army nearly 150,000 strong spills out across the nation hawking wares for such companies as Southwestern, Mary Kay, Avon and Cutco Cutlery. Some go door to door. Many others set up appointments or hold ââ?¬Å?product partiesââ?¬Â to reach customers.For the companies, the students provide a windfall.
Every Halloween, the 500 block of State Street transforms into a rebellious, outrageous, often riotous party.
As general manager of State Street Brats, Matt Goetsch has a front row seat.
MADISON, Wis. — On Tuesday, Madison’s mayor announced significant changes in the way the city will handle the annual Halloween party on State Street.
It’s a big change, but a change city officials say is necessary to gain control of the crowds on Halloween weekend. A gated perimeter will be set up around State Street — and unless you pay up, you’ll be forced to keep out. Police will provide three access points for people who purchase tickets to the event.
It will cost $5 to trick-or-treat on State Street this Halloween. And you’ll have to pass through a gate to get in.
Sources close to the mayor’s office confirmed, in advance of Mayor Dave Cieslewicz’s noon news conference today, that the mayor would announce plans to fence off and charge admission to the hugely popular, but sometimes chaotic party scheduled this year for Saturday, Oct. 28.
Demand for a new meningitis vaccine has created a shortage, and health officials say doctors should give priority to older teens and hold off on giving the shots to pre-teens.
The latest Middle East crisis has led the U.S. to start evacuating some citizens from Lebanon, but officials with University of Wisconsin-Madison student organizations say they’re not aware of any students who have been hurt or who are in danger.
The president of UW’s Arab Student Organization, Karima Berkani, said there are currently no UW programs operating in Lebanon and that the only UW students in the area are Lebanese citizens or students pursuing independent studies.
As professor John Decker reviewed bail guidelines and other criminal procedures one recent evening, some students in his DePaul University College of Law class had other things on their minds.
MADISON, Wis. — A number of tips have come in regarding possible suspects in an assault on Observatory Drive earlier this month, University of Wisconsin police said.
Spc. Megan Papierniak, 20, of Osseo takes the vital signs of a 10-month-old Afghan boy this week at a free clinic for residents near Camp Salerno in Khost, Afghanistan. Papierniak is a UW-Madison sophomore who hopes to become an orthopedic surgeon someday.
Campus police want the public’s help in finding two people suspected in the violent mugging of a 31-year-old UW-Madison graduate student on Observatory Drive last week.
On Thursday, police took the unusual step of presenting the victim, Stephen England, who spent eight hours in the hospital after the attack, at a news briefing at the scene of the crime. He spoke about the case and made a plea for help in finding the pipe-wielding man who hit him multiple times and a female accomplice who may have helped the attacker get away in a red sedan.
Most beating victims are reluctant to tell their story, but Stephen England says there’s a dangerous man still on the loose and he hopes his story will help catch him.
UW Police are asking anyone on campus late at night not to walk alone after a mugging and beating last week.
MADISON, Wis. — A University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student who was the victim of a campus attack one week ago has spoken publicly for the first time about the attack with the hope that someone will recognize the man who attacked him.
All that apparently stands between Joe Pavelski and a spot in the San Jose Sharks’ organization is a phone call.
The University of Wisconsin center has done everything else – received a contract offer, signed it and shipped it back to California – to make the jump to the pro ranks and forgo his final two seasons of college eligibility.
About 500 students at Wake Forest University this fall will have a special cell phone/personal digital assistant that will have a feature that could be a professor�s dream: The cell will automatically be linked to students� course meeting times, so it will be silenced during class hours.
College graduates, shaped by such events as Sept. 11, Hurricane Katrina and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, are applying to service organizations such as AmeriCorps and the Peace Corps in record numbers.
Downtown does appear to be thriving, even amid recent reports of late-night violence.
MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin police are investigating another violent mugging in Madison’s downtown area.
Emily Bawden wrote the following essay when she applied to the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where she will be a freshman in the fall:
Mind. Body. Spirit. Built like a triangle, these gifts support each other, as one cannot be had without the other.
Clark University sophomore Julia Charvat and her boyfriend make a point to always use a condom when they have sex ââ?¬â? always, that is, except for one lapse in judgment last fall during the semester break.
Wisconsin college students will need to pay between $1,999 and $2,406 more for federal student loans starting today, according to a report released Friday by the research arm of the Campaign for America’s Future.
Users of a popular lakeside parking lot at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will see a significant price increase come this fall.
Increasingly, hardworking students like him — as well as much wealthier ones — are winning merit scholarships that do not take into account financial need. It comes at a time when local and state schools have continued to raise tuition at rates far higher than the rate of inflation, a Chicago Sun-Times survey found.
MADISON, Wis. The last of four men arrested last year for their roles in an anti-gay hate crime at the University of Wisconsin at Madison was sentenced Thursday for his part in that incident.
MADISON, Wis. — July 1 is the deadline for a decision that could mean big money for those with student loans.
Each year, thousands of students decide whether to consolidate their student loans, but this year, it’s thousands of dollars ride on making that decision by the Friday deadline.
“I had no idea that I had to consolidate until a few weeks ago when I got all these notices in the mail,” said recent UW graduate Katie Doherty. She has about $30,000 in loans, so saving money in repayment is important.
Demographers differ on just what ages they include in this next generation. Some include those born since 1980; others start with 1982 and go to about 2000. Most researchers have focused on the ââ?¬Å?first-waveââ?¬Â millennials ââ?¬â? those roughly ages 16 to 25. Although there’s no one set of traits that everyone shares, research has suggested some commonalities in areas ranging from home life and education to workplace behavior and leisure-time interests.
College students and parents are clogging phone lines and rushing to Internet sites in a scramble to refinance college loans before a sharp interest rate increase this weekend.
An almost 2 percentage point interest rate increase for federal student loans kicks in Saturday, and advisers say that not refinancing could cost thousands of additional dollars in interest in the decades after a student enters the work force.
College student Sierra Bethke is a little nervous about the rising cost of higher education ââ?¬â? but she has a chance this week to save more that $1,000 in interest on her student loans.
The nation’s top party school could get a sobering jolt from a change in state law that puts alcohol on a par with date-rape drugs as an aggravating factor in certain sexual assaults.
The change, long sought by rape- victim advocates in Wisconsin, means that victims who are very drunk during a sexual encounter can be judged incapable of giving consent, triggering a possible second-degree sexual assault charge.
UW Officer Heidi Laundrie credits UW staff for covering up or cleaning graffiti on campus as soon as it’s reported. So far it cost the University 20-thousand dollars to fix the graffiti in the Humanities building
This week, an excited group of Protestant clergy members and nonprofit officials broke ground on a new and unusual dormitory project that will serve the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Once constructed, the building will allow just under 300 students to live in an environment that is supportive of spirituality and religion, say organizers.
60,000 big ones.
That’s how much Laura Pickart expects to owe, despite a partial scholarship, after earning a biology degree from St. Norbert College in DePere.
It started already in elementary school ââ?¬â? pushing young kids to pick a career path, says college junior Jennifer LaBorde.
But the cost of college is pushing back, she maintains.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has expanded a program that guarantees admission to qualified transfer students from state technical colleges. (Final item)
Benjamin Fortin does not mince words when discussing Ogg Hall, a University of Wisconsin-Madison dormitory where he lived last year.
“It was no fun,” the sophomore said with a sigh. “I was on the bad floor.”
A socially conservative, practicing Presbyterian, Fortin was turned off by the drinking, smoking and general troublemaking that went on in the dorm. He craved a more serene place to lay his head.
As the university’s Presbyterian ministry sees it, Fortin is not alone. The ministry, known as Pres House, is spending $17 million to build a private residence hall for the university’s students of faith.
The family of a Japanese man who disappeared in January after coming to Madison to study English is expected to arrive soon to claim his body, which was found Monday in Lake Mendota.
“It must be an awful, horrible thing to have happen in any family at any time, and to have it happen 7,000 miles away is just hard to comprehend,” said Dan Perreth, co-director of the Wisconsin English as a Second Language Institute, where Kenji Ohmi, of Kyoto, had been studying only a short time before he vanished on Jan. 28.
Adding another wrinkle to the growing range of housing options at UW-Madison, leaders of the Pres House today will hold a ceremonial ground breaking for a $17 million private dorm aimed at helping students explore their faith.
The seven-story building, slated for a church-owned parking lot just behind the Pres House at 731 State St., will provide beds for about 280 students starting in fall 2007. Reservations will be taken starting this fall, and construction will begin in early July.
If you’re planning to consolidate your student loans, you no longer have to dance with the date that brung you. An emergency spending bill signed into law last week eliminated a decades-old rule that required borrowers whose student loans were all from one lender to consolidate with that lender.
STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) ââ?¬â? A team from the University of Wisconsin-Madison won the National Concrete Canoe Competition for the fourth straight time Saturday. Wisconsinââ?¬â?¢s 21-foot-long, 162-pound natural gray canoe, named ââ?¬Ë?ââ?¬Ë?Forward,ââ?¬â?¢Ã¢â?¬â?¢ bested 22 other entries from engineering schools in the U.S. and Canada.
Area educators, for the most part, are waiting to see the execution of the University of Wisconsin System�s plan to increase student diversity before praising or pounding it.
Another University of Wisconsin team wins a national championship. The U.W. team competing in the National Concrete Canoe Competition in Oklahoma took home their fourth straight title this weekend.
Social networking, event announcements, roommate vetting, law enforcement, and recently a bit of job browsing � Facebook.com has an impressive array of uses.
Bo Ryan pointed to a number of factors that led to the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team earning the highest overall grade-point average of all the men’s teams at the school this spring.
“If one thing here is emphasized more than another, it wouldn’t be right,” said the Wisconsin coach. ” It was a combination of everything.”
What mattered to Ryan is that the Badgers, who had a cumulative GPA of 3.2, made a remarkable turnaround after three players stumbled during the fall semester and were ruled academically ineligible to play in the spring semester.
I have little sympathy for any student or family member who finds it hard now to pay for student loans (ââ?¬Å?In debt before you start,ââ?¬Â Cover story, News, Monday).
After revamping a fake Facebook.com profile they had quietly established for University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor John Wiley calling him a “rage-aholic” and “Sweatshop Chancellor,” a student group sent a campuswide e-mail inviting students to view the page and register.
Enrollees in Wisconsin’s two state-sponsored college savings plans will be able to earn tuition credits at some private colleges and universities beginning Tuesday.
MOE KNOWS: Before calling a moratorium on college prank recollections, I’ll share Madison attorney David Relles’ tale from the 1970s. As Relles notes, “The statute of limitations has passed.”
In the early ’70s on the UW-Madison campus there was a mini-scandal involving the selling of term papers. A company had actually taken out an ad in the Daily Cardinal offering harried students a chance to buy, rather than write, term papers on a wide variety of subjects….
Some graduates are now leaving college with student-loan debt in the six figures. Graduates with more than $100,000 in debt still account for a small subset of borrowers. But their numbers are rising. And the proportion who are leaving college with some level of unmanageable debt ââ?¬â? debt they can’t repay without significant hardship ââ?¬â? is swelling.
The infamous Pail and Shovel Party’s flamingo prank on Bascom Hill, several UW-Madison alumni, and genetics professor David Schwartz are mentioned in this Doug Moe column.
After three years of effort developing one of the cleanest and most fuel-efficient SUVs in North America, a group of UW-Madison engineering students placed second in the “Challenge X: Crossover to Sustainable Mobility” contest sponsored by General Motors and U.S. Department of Energy.
