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.
After 10 years of working at rape crisis centers across the country, Kelly Anderson knows that when it comes to sexual assault incidents, one can never judge them just by the statistics.
For the second time in a week, a computer error forced the cancellation of the Associated Students of Madison spring Student Council election. The error might also threaten the results of the contentious referendum election that ended Tuesday.
MADISON ââ?¬â? For the second year in a row, students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison voted down a measure that would have increased a student fee to help pay for building improvements.
The measure asked whether students should pay $192 more per year toward improving the campus’s two student unions.
MADISON ââ?¬â? For the second year in a row, students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison voted down a measure that would have increased a student fee to help pay for building improvements.
The measure asked whether students should pay $192 more per year toward improving the campus’s two student unions.
Freshman implicated in campus hate crime gets reduced charges
Written by Jamie Thomas
Wednesday, 05 April 2006
A UW-Madison freshman charged in a hate crime in December saw reduced charges Tuesday after a Dane County assistant district attorney dismissed a count of criminal damage to property.
Where’s the best place for a college kid to party? Right here in the heartland, Playboy magazine says.
The magazine, breaking a four-year hiatus by issuing a list of top party schools, has named University of Wisconsin-Madison No. 1 in its study of “books, babes and beer.”The issue hitting newsstands Friday cites two annual parties that UW-Madison students love: a Halloween Party that attracts up to 100,000 people and a rowdy spring block party on Mifflin Street on the southeast edge of campus.
Since its launch in 2002, Facebook has become an indoctrinated element of college social life and a way for students to chronicle extracurricular activities that are not always congruent with university policies or even the law.
French students and young workers are fighting a new labor law in the streets because it cements their status as second-class members of the workforce, said panelists at a University of Wisconsin-Madison forum.
Jonathan Zeitlin, a UW-Madison professor of sociology and public affairs at the La Follette Institute, said young French people are employed with precarious contracts that don’t give them more than a few months’ job security. The new law would “institutionalize second-class status” for those under 26, he said.
Students overwhelmingly approved a Living Wage Referendum in Tuesday�s Associated Students of Madison elections, while a Wisconsin Union Referendum was turned down by an almost 700-vote margin.
Patrick Harrigan believes that once you raise a fee, it won’t ever go back down.
So when presented with the question of whether University of Wisconsin-Madison students should pay $192 more per year over 30 years to build a new Union South and renovate the Memorial Union, Harrigan voted no. So did the majority of students, who defeated the measure, 4,654-3,959.
Felony charges have been dropped against the two University of Wisconsin students involved in an incident in Ogg Hall that resulted in hate crime charges last December.
From books to babes to beer, Playboy magazine believes that when you say Wisconsin, you�ve said it all.
In its upcoming May 2006 issue, to hit newsstands this Friday, Playboy magazine ranked the University of Wisconsin No. 1 in its list of top 10 party schools, a Playboy representative said Tuesday.
Student fees will not be raised to fund renovations to the Wisconsin Unions, but many university employees stand to receive higher wages as a result of Tuesday�s student-government election outcome.
UConn President Philip E. Austin has publicly endorsed the college anti-sweatshop movement by pledging to work with other universities on a plan to deal only with college-apparel factories that support workers’ rights.
New Provost Farrell begins duties at UW
Written by Erica Pelzek
Tuesday, 04 April 2006
New Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Patrick Farrell began his duties Monday.
The UW-Madison administration defines the provost position as ââ?¬Å?the chief operating officer of the University and deputy to the chancellor in the overall academic leadership and administrative management of the University,ââ?¬Â according to the Provostââ?¬â?¢s Officeââ?¬â?¢s website.
Donations in the amount of $150 million will fund a brand-new UW-Madison science research facility, Chancellor John Wiley announced Monday.
Graduate programs at the University of Wisconsin ranked consistently high in the U.S. News and World Report released Friday, which named 33 programs to the top 10 in the nation.
New University of Wisconsin provost Patrick Farrell assumed his duties on campus for the first time Monday, meeting with faculty and other fellow administrators.
University of Wisconsin Chancellor John Wiley announced a total of $100 million in donations Monday toward the construction of an on-campus biomedical research complex.
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, responding to allegations that an anti-Israel bias is rampant on college campuses, approved recommendations Monday aimed at ensuring that Jewish college students are protected from anti-Semitic harassment.
“A Night Among The Stars” was the theme of the seventh annual Junior-Senior Prom on Sunday at the Madison Senior Center, 330 W. Mifflin St.
From 6-8 p.m., the juniors (from UW-Madison) and the seniors (older adults from the area) enjoyed live music, dancing, refreshments, door prizes and more. And it was all for free.
U.S. News and World Report released a series of national graduate school rankings Friday. UW-Madison placed in many of them.
It�s not unusual for a 19-year-old college student to be itching for a new car, especially when he doesn�t have one to begin with. For junior wide receiver and return man Marcus Randle El, however, that itch is more like a burning desire.
The referendum portion of the Associated Students of Madison election is on schedule to resume Monday, Student Election Commission Chair Tim Leonard said Sunday.
Twelve Rio High School Spanish students will participate today in the “Don Quixote in Wisconsin” project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Today’s event, which will be held at the Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St., is the culmination of a year-long project through the UW Center for the Humanities for more than 100 students from around the state. About a dozen other high schools and five colleges are participating in the program.
