Students from an interdisciplinary service learning course took time off from their hectic end-of-semester schedules Monday to show off their help to local nonprofit organizations.
ePICS, short for e-Projects in Community Service, is designed as a learning community in which students can develop professional skills in a way that fosters civic engagement.
MADISON – A Catholic group could use University of Wisconsin-Madison student fees to print religious booklets and support religious activities under a recommendation by the school’s chancellor on Tuesday.
Chancellor John Wiley said he would endorse $145,000 for the UW Roman Catholic Foundation even though he has concerns it may violate the separation of church and state.
To help prevent a repeat of a test-scanning mishap in October that led to thousands of college-bound students learning that their SAT scores were incorrect, a New York state senator said Tuesday that he wants to force test companies to make public more information about tests and to respond more quickly when errors occur.
Statistics show the only group whose smoking rates are increasing is college-age women. Now there’s an effort to reverse that trend at U-W Madison.
Bucky wants you to quit smoking. Liz Ledvina of the “Kick Your Butt” campaign says they’re putting on an event Tuesday on Library Mall, targeted toward college women. Ledvina says the U-W Cancer Center and University Health Services are working with them on the campaign, and Tuesday’s event will encourage college age women to quit now. She calls the trend towards smoking by her peers a disturbing one.
With the end of the semester approaching, nearly 5,000 undergraduate and professional students are planning to graduate. But before a single cap is tossed in May�s graduation ceremonies, students must ensure that they have met the necessary degree requirements.
While the hype surrounding Saturday�s Mifflin Street Block Party winds down, several houses are still in the process of receiving citations and fines.
The third case of mumps ââ?¬â? the second in just two days ââ?¬â? hit the University of Wisconsin Monday.
Last week, the residents at 518 W. Mifflin St. were pumped for the street’s annual block party. But today, after police shut down their backyard house party – featuring a live band and a pig roast – they were feeling a little deflated.
“We were kind of bummed after that happened,” said Ted Horstick, one of the organizers.
Sometime this week, 11 people who organized the party are expected to be handed fines totaling thousands of dollars for a variety of municipal violations, including procuring alcohol for minors, dispensing alcohol without a license, and knowingly allowing underage persons to consume alcohol.
Erin Hatton knows that Jamie Peck is unusually devoted to his work.
Last summer, Hatton needed to defend her dissertation so she could move to Buffalo, N.Y. Her dissertation was in Peck’s area of expertise, so his participation was necessary, she said.
But there was a problem: Peck, an avid cyclist, was seriously injured May 22 when a drunken driver hit him and fled the scene. Nevertheless, Peck honored the late July appointment, even meeting with her ahead of time to talk about the project, Hatton said.
Joe Monty, a starting defensive end for the Wisconsin Badgers football team and UW-Madison senior, suffered serious facial injuries after a motor-vehicle accident early Friday. Monty had allegedly been drinking beforehand.
UW-Madison is failing its commitment to diversity, according to a panel of the University�s senior administrators, faculty and students at the Plan 2008 Student Forum Friday.
Despite steady rain and chilly temperatures, Madison police made 267 arrests during Saturday�s Mifflin Street Block Party.
University health officials confirmed the first case of mumps in University Housing Friday, with the infection of a 19-year-old female in Witte. The case marks the second confirmed case of the disease on the UW-Madison campus.
Separated from the chilly waters of Lake Monona by no more than a thin skin of concrete, college students from UW-Madison and 11 other schools put faith in their ability to design and build canoes out of a material usually more fit to be an anchor.
This feat of flotation, not always entirely successful on Friday, was part of the Great Lakes Regional Concrete Canoe Conference in which engineering students competed against one another for the chance to advance to a national competition while demonstrating the versatility of a rigid material.
With rain pouring down on the Mifflin Street Block Party Saturday, cleanup could have been a nightmare, but instead, residents were pleasantly surprised by a few extra helping hands.
While approximately 10 to 15 thousand people packed Mifflin Street Saturday, drinking and partying from morning until evening, more than 13,000 decided to do something a little bit healthier.
University of Wisconsin football player Joe Monty suffered lacerations and fractures after crashing his moped into another vehicle early Friday morning.
A heated crowd of students interrogated University of Wisconsin administrators and student representatives about efforts to enhance the college experience for minorities at the Plan 2008 Student Forum Friday.
April rain showers failed to stop University of Wisconsin students and others from partying at the annual Mifflin Street Block Party Saturday.
MADISON, Wis. — Two 2005 graduates of Waubonsie Valley High School were sentenced Thursday to a form of probation for their roles in an anti-gay hate crime late last year on the campus of the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Purdue University’s yearbook has problems. One of them is that its name conjures up images of trash.
The publication was named Debris back in the 19th century, when, according to the yearbook’s lore, its founders took the word to mean “a collection of works.”
MADISON – Thousands of grinning, hollering college students in superhero costumes, flip-flops and bathrobes jammed the streets Saturday for an annual spring block party.
They won top honors a week ago at the UW-Madison’s Burrill Technology Business Plan Competition. Now, the students who run Internet Privacy & Identity Credential are facing a big question: Should they remain in Madison?
The company, which helps provide secure Internet transactions, is being courted by investors, banks and others from around the country, the students say.
The rain couldn’t keep a parade of people from perusing Mifflin street during the annual block party.
MADISON, Wis. — Technology takes UW teachers and students to a whole new level.Cashing in on the popularity of mp3 players, UW professors are now producing their own podcasts. These mp3 files provide educators with an opportunity to talk about more than can be discussed in class. Containing music, speech and interviews the files are meant to help students gain a better understanding of the material.
Joe Monty, a starting defensive end for the University of Wisconsin football team, sustained facial fractures and other injuries early today when he slammed into the back of a car with his moped.
Monty, a fifth-year senior from Fort Collins, Colo., sustained “numerous facial fractures,” head trauma and lacerations to his face and legs, according to Madison police spokesman Mike Hanson. His injuries were not considered life-threatening, Hanson said.
….It appeared Monty had been drinking before the crash and will likely face a drunken driving citation, Hanson said.
While fun lovers revel in the debauchery that is the Mifflin Street Block Party Saturday, city residents averse to raucous crowds, hawk-like police presence and a vastly underage, out-of-town throng will have somewhere else to turn.
“Most people who go to Mifflin are not from Madison, and most people from Madison do not go to Mifflin,” said Chris Dols, organizer of the inaugural Pinckney Street Block Party.
….Dols said the purpose of the Pinckney party is to fill a niche that has been left empty by the Mifflin party’s current format.
Two college students pled guilty to charges stemming from their involvement in the Ogg Hall hate crime in December after seeing their charges reduced. Kevin Cochacki, a freshman from Purdue University, and Caleb Moore, an Auburn University freshman, pled guilty to disorderly conduct misdemeanors after felony criminal damage to property charges against them were dropped.
No one was more surprised at the success of the Crazylegs Classic than the race’s namesake.
Who would have believed the race, dreamed up by three running buddies over beers at the old Charley’s Cafe a quarter- century ago as a way to raise money for the UW Athletic Department, would become a springtime institution in Madison?
Very few college towns across the nation gather nearly 20,000 students every year for a block party that gains national attention.
MADISON, Wis. – State health officials want college students to avoid sharing their beer to keep mumps from infecting people at a massive street party planned this weekend.
The Mifflin Street block party, a University of Wisconsin-Madison tradition, is scheduled for Saturday. Tens of thousands of college students pack balconies and porches and fill the streets for the bash.
A recent survey found that women fret about the shape of their bodies every 15 minutes, even more frequently than men think about sex, if that’s possible.
This insecurity does not seem to bedevil 19 female students at UW-Madison who get bucky naked or nearly so in the May issue of Playboy and its glossy tribute to America’s top 10 party schools.
Some will roast and host; another’s twice shy
Ted Horstick and Ryan Well are taking two very different approaches to this year’s Mifflin Street Block Party.
Well — who lives at 448 W. Mifflin, where the residents last year drew more than $11,000 in fines — is locking his doors. But Horstick is ordering some kegs and roasting a pig, like last year.
Memorial Library has implemented a new policy that prohibits patrons from using cellular phones in all library locations aside from the West Corridor.
It is not everyday University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly serenades a class full of students.
Wednesday night, Reilly gave a lesson in Irish literature to Odyssey students, passionately reading a passage from James Joyceââ?¬â?¢s ââ?¬Å?Finnegans Wakeââ?¬Â and even singing an Irish-American tune about the revitalizing powers of whiskey.
Memorial Library officials hope a new policy will succeed where annoyed glances and subtle reminders of ââ?¬Å?shut the hell upââ?¬Â have failed: getting cell phones out of silent study areas.
A new effort to limit government spending intensified debate Wednesday between the University of Wisconsin and the state.
As with every annual Mifflin Street Block Party, city police expect a high level of intoxication among the majority of people attending the party.
Something’s changed in the air on the University of Wisconsinââ?¬â??Madison campus. Something hangs there outside lecture halls and bar doorways, clinging to clothes, masking perfume and lingering in the long hair of college-age women.
A new transfer program at UW-Madison is a smart way to increase minority and low-income students on campus.
The university will guarantee a place to any liberal arts student with a 3.0 grade point average and 54 credits from the Madison Area Technical College, according to a recently signed agreement.
Gino Cruse and Antonio Freeman, each cited recently for marijuana offenses, have been dismissed from the University of Wisconsin football team, continuing a house cleaning by first-year coach Bret Bielema.
The moves were announced in a statement that accompanied the release of the Badgers’ two-deep roster. The release of Cruse and Freeman, who were expected to be reserves next season, means three players have been booted from the program by Bielema.
As the Mifflin Street Block Party approaches, residents of the street are preparing for a heavy police presence on their block.
The first case of the mumps to appear at UW-Madison occurred Monday as a 20-year-old female undergraduate who lives off campus was daignosed, prompting local health services to warn students to take extra measures to avoid contracting the contagious disease.
With more than 20,000 people expected to gather on Mifflin Street this Saturday for the annual block party, two University of Wisconsin students are hoping each one will ââ?¬Å?pitch inââ?¬Â for an art project.
This year�s Mifflin Street Block Party promises a big turnout as students gear up to rub shoulders with 20,000 of their closest friends.
Undergraduate student researchers from 22 University of Wisconsin System schools presented their findings during a public event at the Capitol Tuesday.
Many University of Wisconsin students stand to pay less for textbooks next semester with the launching of an Associated Students of Madison-sponsored pilot textbook rental program.
University of Wisconsin and city officials celebrated the 10-year anniversary of the Policy Alternatives Community Education project Tuesday afternoon at the Pyle Center.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison�s first case of the mumps was confirmed yesterday, leaving university officials and students alike wary of whether there will be more in coming weeks.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison�s first case of the mumps was confirmed yesterday, leaving university officials and students alike wary of whether there will be more in coming weeks.
Mumps has been diagnosed in a 20-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison student who lives in an off-campus apartment. That student has been asked to stay away from school until he or she is no longer contagious.
Madison: The first confirmed case of the mumps on the UW campus belongs to a 20 year woman. University Health Officials say her case was confirmed late Monday, and now they’re trying to figure out who else may have been in contact with her while she’s been contagious.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials today said they have identified the first case of mumps among students here.
A blood test on a female undergraduate, conducted Thursday, came back positive on Monday, said Craig Roberts, epidemiologist with University Health Services. The 20-year-old woman lives off campus, according to a written statement from the university.
Mumps has a two- to three-week incubation period, Roberts noted. Two to three weeks from now will be around the end of the semester, he noted.
UW-Madison sophomore Ray Rosing was alert and in good condition Monday after a bike accident in which he was hit by two cars and dragged approximately 60 feet under the back tires of a car.
The UW-Madison POSSE Foundation held a celebratory dinner Monday night at the Pyle Center in recognition of its first four graduating scholars, who will officially finish school with their commencement in May.
A proposed UW-Madison plan to revoke season tickets from unruly fans may affect the way students buy and sell tickets. At the crux of the issue is the stipulation that season ticket holders are responsible for the actions of any person who occupies their seat.
Ordinances concerning underage drinking, open alcohol containers and noise will be enforced at Saturday�s Mifflin Street Block Party, city officials said at a meeting Monday.
The Wisconsin Capitol Rotunda will be alive with displays of undergraduate student research today for this yearââ?¬â?¢s ââ?¬Å?Posters in the Rotunda.ââ?¬Â
University of Wisconsin student Raymond Rosing remains in stable condition after being hit by two cars while riding his bicycle Sunday night.
Despite losing four full-time clinical doctors since July 2005, University Health Services Executive Director Kathleen Poi said Monday the student health-care provider would return to full staff by next fall.
