Over the past year, UW-Madison has received a considerable amount of bad press. From the UW�s reputation as the No. 1 party school to its lack of diversity, criticism of the university is the highest it has been in recent memory. However, lost among all of the negative media coverage are the students themselves and the extraordinary efforts they are making to correct these stereotypes.
Students at UW-Madison have come together to organize a chapter of one of the few non-partisan student think tanks in the country called the Roosevelt Institution.
Though a total of six student organizations had their proposed segregated fee budgets returned to the Associated Students of Madison for reconsideration by University of Wisconsin Chancellor John Wiley last week, only one saw its entire proposal called into question.
After about one and a half years of marriage, UW-Madison student Claire Hanschke and her husband, Tim, a recent graduate, finish each other’s sentences like a seasoned married couple.
Both are comfortable in their new roles and say they have benefited from marriage. But being a student and a spouse can be difficult, others say.
As a student of the University of Alabama, I took pride in two things: our football team and our reputation as a party school.
I began reflecting on my alcohol-infused college years when I saw that the University of Wisconsin topped Playboy’s list of top party schools in the magazine’s May issue. Reading the story about Wisconsin being No. 1 in its study of “books, babes and beer,” I thought about the notoriety surrounding the rowdiness of Duke lacrosse team parties.
MADISON, Wis. — Controversy is brewing between the UW Roman Catholic Foundation and the Chancellor as funding for the group is in question.Chancellor John Wiley has agreed with a national group to cut funding to the UWRCF.Wiley said the money comes from university funding and therefore cannot support a religious organization.
Robbie Earl called it “pretty much a disaster” when he fell to the sixth round of the 2004 NHL entry draft. Today, the teams that kept passing on the speedy winger that weekend almost two years ago might be thinking the same thing about their decisions.
Earl told the Daily Breeze of Torrance, Calif., he would sign today with the Toronto Maple Leafs and forgo his senior season with the University of Wisconsin.
A review committee has unanimously decided a reprimand given to demoted UW Madison administrator Paul Barrows was unjust.
Prison is the last place a grown man wants to be seen crying. So Christopher Ochoa often wept alone in his cell, asking God how this could have happened to him.
Ochoa, 39, missed the 1990s while spending more than a decade in prison as punishment for a brutal rape and murder he didn’t commit.
Ochoa likely will cry publicly next month when he is handed his law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School. The commencement address he gives won’t intimidate him because he has grown accustomed to giving speeches.
A Harvard University national poll released Tuesday shows religion and morality to be significant factors in students� politics.
For the past several years, LaMarr Billups has been the university’s point person on the development of the university’s policy on labor licensing.
As more women apply to be undergraduates at UW-Madison, mathematically, more must receive the ââ?¬Å?thin envelopes.ââ?¬Â
Recent increases in female applicants may have forced college admissions officers nation-wide to scrutinize female applicants a little more closely in fall 2005, according to a March 23 New York Times op-ed article by Jennifer Delahunty Britz.
It is no secret that UW-Madison is a great place to go to college. We have everything: the respect of universities nationwide for being an academic leader and a distinguished research institution, national championship titles, and a locale that boasts great restaurants and nightlife.
In 1999, the University of Wisconsin-Madison implemented Plan 2008 to ââ?¬Å?enhance campus diversityââ?¬Â by recruiting and retaining ââ?¬Å?domestic ââ?¬Ë?targetedââ?¬â?¢ minority students, faculty, and staff.ââ?¬Â
College is a learning experience on many levels. It is more than school and partying, it is about the people that you meet. Some come to UW on scholarships because of athletics, others for academics, and some because of their ethnic background. Ethnic background? It would seem that everyone who has some sort of ethnicity in their blood can get a scholarship, but that is not the case.
While many undergraduate students work in labs on campus, people rarely hear about the real scientific research they perform. But a group of undergraduate students at the University of Wisconsin is about to change this.
Three Minnesota-based law firms filed a class-action lawsuit last Friday against the College Board and its contractor, Pearson Educational Measurement, due to massive SAT scoring errors.
The controversial Taxpayer Protection Amendment cleared its first hurdle Wednesday after an ongoing committee debate that eventually led to the measure�s narrow passage.
As surely as spring flowers follow the rain, the letters arrive in my mailbox.A day or two after we report a sexual assault in the newspaper, I’ll get a letter with a newspaper clipping attached, and the words written next to the story: “Pepper spray may have prevented this.”
For many college students and their parents, paying for their education is a huge worry.Ã? And the process to get financial aid is no comfort.Ã? According to Susan Fischer, University of Wisconsin Student Financial Services Director, “It frightens some families and we’re sorry about that. We’re finding the biggest scary thing is the Federal Application for Student Aid, fondly known as the FAFSA.”
There were a few shrugs, a few approving smiles and even one “Uh, dude, that isn’t exactly a revelation.”
But not one of the 12 UW-Madison students I interviewed Monday at the Memorial Union expressed even mild surprise at the news that, according to the current issue of Playboy magazine, Wisconsin is the No. 1 party school in the country.
With the Crazylegs race and summer on the horizon, more UW-Madison students can be seen breaking out their running shoes to get fit. But do students know the right way to get in shape to run that 8k race or feel good in a tiny two-piece? The rift between those who do not exercise and those who exercise too much is growing larger and will keep growing until the public is informed of how to maintain good health and fitness.
Chronicling the UW Law School groupââ?¬â?¢s efforts since 1998 to exonerate life-term or death-row prisoners based on DNA and other evidence, the Wisconsin Innocence Project held a seminar titled ââ?¬Å?Crime, Punishment and Truth By Testingââ?¬Â Tuesday at the Overture Center for the Arts.
As the UW Master Plan unfolds on campus, transforming the physical nature of the University of Wisconsin over the next two decades, we pause to make a small observation.
The UW could use a few roof gardens.
It�s not everyday that Chancellor John Wiley drops into class to announce a national scholarship recipient�s name.
But Monday he did just that, revealing to University of Wisconsin senior Julie Curti and her entire political science class that she was one of just 75 students across the country named as a Truman Scholar.
With the Mifflin Street Block Party less than three weeks away, city officials continue working with residents in preparation for the annual event.
Trading a spring break of beaches and pina coladas for one of hammers and hazard suits, more than 100 University of Wisconsinââ?¬â??Madison students traveled to New Orleans in the middle of March to help with the devastated areaââ?¬â?¢s reconstruction.Though the students expected a week of hard work, most were unprepared for the lack of organization and supervision that awaited them. Months after the floodwaters have receded, recovery efforts continue to be hindered by those supposed to be helping. UW students discovered some of these problems firsthand as they faced difficult and sometimes dangerous working and living conditions.
A new UW-Madison class about global AIDS offers no shortage of guest speakers – researchers who have met sufferers of the disease in Africa, scientists who are working in their campus labs on a possible cure.
But students in the three- credit course, designed as a “capstone experience” for upperclassmen, said they’re also learning a lot from each other.
Badgers and Hoosiers know how to have a good time. The latest Princeton Review rankings place IU and Wisconsin at sixth and first respectively on the list of top party schools. The rankings then beg the question of which school takes top honors for biggest party in the Big Ten.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison enjoys a national reputation as top-flight. Yet it falls short in one vital area – racial diversity – which is giving recruiters pause. In fact, as the Journal Sentinel’s Megan Twohey recently reported, the problem has prompted some leading companies to cross Madison off their list of must recruiting stops.
IFC creates committee to handle alcohol issues
Written by Jamie McMahon
Tuesday, 11 April 2006
Noah Awwes speaks Monday evening at an Intrafraternity Council meeting regarding kegs within fraternity houses and the recent Playboy house spread. (Grace Flannery/The Daily Cardinal)
The Intrafraternity Council tabled discussion on a proposal to ban kegs from all fraternity house parties for the second week in a row Monday. Instead, the IFC formed a seven-member committee aimed at creating specific proposals to be brought up at its April 24 meeting.
The University of Wisconsinââ?¬â?¢s ââ?¬Å?Safer Spacesââ?¬Â campaign gathered momentum and held its third event of five Monday.
Diversity at Madison’s campus is driving away some employers that recruit students. Companies like Alcoa, General Motors and Proctor and Gamble say they don’t find enough minority students here.
The University says only 10-percent of its students identify themselves as minorities. In comparison, the University of Illiniois boasts a 32-percent minority population.
A plan to tune-up the University’s two unions won’t get the go-ahead until fall at the earliest. The Student Judiciary ruled late last night to nullify results of two referenda because the electronic voting system missed 436 votes.
When deciding where to apply to college, high-achieving high school seniors put the highest priority on the academic rigor of an institution and its reputation in their potential major, a survey released Monday says. The prestige of an institution, the clubs and activities on campus and close contact with faculty also rank high in importance, says the nationwide survey of 600 seniors, all of whom had SAT scores of 1100 and above.
If there is such a thing as the perfect storm in the college admissions process, it hit this year. Students applied to more colleges, and many schools received a record number of applications. At the same time, many high-achieving students zeroed in on the same selective institutions. The result: Admissions deans and their staffs made hair-splitting decisions and left many students and high school counselors stunned.
Programs designed to increase the number of baccalaureate degree holders in Wisconsin will see a funding spike with the announcement of $500,000 in state funding Thursday.
MILWAUKEE ââ?¬â? The Chinese calendar will have to add another animal to its Zodiac because 2006 will forever be known as the Year of the Badger.
Forward-thinking, civic-minded name-droppers at the respect-starved University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee are dog-tired of know-it-alls at a better-known Madison-based higher-learning uber-college and their smarter-than-thou self-importance.
And they think they know what the answer is.
Kill the hyphen.
UW-Madison will review a photo in Playboy magazine that features a campus fraternity, a spokesman said.
MADISON ââ?¬â? The University of Wisconsin-Madison will review a photo in Playboy magazine that features a campus fraternity, a spokesman said.
The full-page picture goes along with an article in which Playboy names UW-Madison its No. 1 party school.
Ã? After one of Ryan Huibregtse’s best friends committed suicide, his priorities as a college student changed and life took some unexpected turns.
During the better part of the tragic episode, the UW-Madison freshman disconnected with Madison and its people. He stopped functioning in school and quit his job with university food services.
Anne Reiland is ready to move on.Like her classmates, Anne feels an understandable excitement about the approaching culmination of her freshman year at UW-Madison, but a short conversation with this promising young woman is all it takes to reveal a deeper urge.
Critics call it violent, dangerous and senseless.But members of the top- ranked UW-Madison Badger Paintball Club say their sport is much more than a bunch of guys running through a haze of testosterone shooting each other with pigment.
Growing up in Tuskegee, Ala., Ninrat Datiri dreamed of becoming an inventor. He attended high school at the Alabama School of Math and Science in Mobile. When it came time to pick a college, he chose the University of Wisconsin-Madison for its engineering program.
“I’ve had a great experience here,” said the 21-year-old African-American senior. “It’s going to be hard to say goodbye.”
If only UW-Madison could find more students like Datiri.
Alexandra Baldari and her parents have talked a good deal over the past year about how to pay for her college education, and the upshot is this: If she enrolls at the University of Miami in the fall, she will bear much of the cost, which could total $40,000 or more a year, on her own.
….UW-Madison is already the only Big Ten school that is not able to offer health benefits to the partners of gay and lesbian faculty members. If this amendment passes, it would make it impossible for the UW to offer partnership benefits to faculty, and this would lessen the appeal of the UW as an employer and may even cause some current faculty to look for employment elsewhere. This would have a very negative impact on the quality of the education that the UW can offer its students because it would not be able to compete academically and offer a quality education….
This year, 90 percent of a record 1.4 million graduating college students won’t have a job lined up upon graduation, according to a recent MonsterTrak survey.
Bob Klein, a UW-Madison graduate, is hoping to change that daunting statistic by teaching college students how to better market themselves. Klein is the founder of FirstJob, Inc. a company that teaches students to think of themselves as an exciting product being introduced to the world.
While most graduating seniors at UW-Madison are still scrambling to send out resumes and rushing to interviews between classes, for some lucky students, their biggest problem is deciding which job offer to accept.
For Rommie Zats and Ben Von Obstfelder, finding a job was easy.
UW-Madison�s avian-flu research may receive more lab space after a UW System Board of Regents committee approved a measure Thursday to lease space at the University Research Park. This space would serve the Department of Pathobiological Sciences and the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine. The Physical Planning and Funding Committee also approved a reconstruction of Chadbourne Hall to commence in coming months.
With summer break only a few weeks away, UW-Madison officials are putting a pause on their search for a new dean of students until next year.
Associated Students of Madison will attempt to open the Student Council election polls for the third time next week, after technical difficulties caused two postponements. The Student Election Commission voted Thursday to use traditional paper ballots at eight campus polling locations.
University of Wisconsin administration suspended the search for a new dean of students Thursday with plans to resume the process in fall 2006.
The day after canceling the Associated Students of Madison Student Council elections for the second time in a week, the Student Election Commission prepared for round three Thursday.
PERHAPS IT’S TIME to hold public universities responsible for the bad behavior of their youthful charges. Don’t expect to earn number-one party school status, and be rewarded for it with more taxpayer money.
Don’t expect to make headlines about bad management and easy spending to prop up failed administrators, and have legislators fatten your wallet.The taxpayers of Wisconsin have provided hundreds of millions of dollars to the system as an investment in their children and the future of the state’s economy. That’s a serious matter. It should be treated seriously, not as a national party joke, or a piggybank for questionable administrators.
The Badger Mens Hockey team has made it into the NCAA championship game. They beat Maine with a score of 5 to 2 in the semifinal game on Thursday night at the Bradley Center in Milwaukee.
Marc and Helen Burish had been through this routine plenty of times before. For the last 18 years they’ve been packing up and heading off to watch their kids play hockey. But the last couple of weeks have been unlike anything they have ever experienced before
Jake DeLillo recalls a rainy Saturday last October when he took the all-important SAT college admissions test at Yorktown High School in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. As captain of the lacrosse team there, DeLillo, 17, had been recruited by several colleges. Then his SAT scores came in lower than expected, and his options appeared to shrivel. DeLillo picked a college only to discover later that his SAT had been scored incorrectly ââ?¬â? 170 points shy of the accurate score.
City officials approved plans for a private dormitory associated with the Madison Presbyterian Student Center, 731 State St., at the Urban Design Commission meeting Wednesday. The two-part plan that involves building a private residence hall and renovating parts of the church was finalized.
The Student Elections Committee decided to halt the Associated Students of Madison candidate election for a second time, throw away all the existing votes and construct a new election system within the next few days, in response to a Department of Information Technology report that 436 of the electronic votes were invalid Wednesday night.
Since Rep. Joe Parisi, D-Madison, was elected to the state Assembly�s 48th District in 2004, he has been an active advocate for education and juvenile justice reformation.
