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.
Nimroz Momin was worried about his job prospects.Born in India and raised in Houston, the senior finance major fired up his computer last fall, sending a flurry of 75 applications, mostly over the Internet, to companies around the Midwest and in Texas.
Student-government elections saw a second delay Thursday after unsuccessful attempts to fix technical problems by a noon deadline pushed the voting into next week.
In response to the recent misscoring of thousands of SAT exams, the College Board has changed its policy and will now scan answer sheets twice, among other new precautions.
In a largely partisan vote, the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation Thursday aimed at reforming the nation�s higher education system.
Gunshots were allegedly fired at a University of Wisconsin parking garage on Lake Street early Thursday morning, causing university police to respond and take two suspects into custody.
Unable to successfully install an updated online voting system by Thursday�s 12 p.m. deadline, the Student Election Commission postponed the referendum portion of the Associated Students of Madison election until 8 a.m. April 3.
Balloting was supposed to restart Thursday in the Associated Students of Madison elections after a computer glitch stalled the three-day process, but elections officials now say it will not begin until next week.Initial turnout was heavy in the elections, which featured a referendum asking students whether they want to spend an additional $192 per year each from their student fees to rebuild Union South and renovate the Memorial Union.
Students will begin voting on referendum questions again at 8 a.m. Monday, and will be able to vote through 8 p.m. Tuesday, said Tim Leonard, chairman of the Student Election Commission.
A voting debacle at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is almost enough to make us long for the days of hanging chads.
Students at the university were turning out in droves to vote on referenda regarding fee increases and election of student government members. Less than halfway through the three-day election, about 15 percent of the student body had cast ballots; for higher education, that’s an outstanding number.
However, the students were voting by computer and unfortunately learned a very valuable lesson: technology is not a panacea.
UW-Madison’s student government suspended its spring election Wednesday – after more than 6,000 people had voted – because a computer bug invalidated some of the ballots, officials said.
Thousands of ballots cast by students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have been thrown out because of a computer glitch.
Undergrad research and writing earn publication
Written by Andrew Peck
Thursday, 30 March 2006
Undergraduate research journals on campus are giving a younger set of UW-Madison academics opportunities to publish research, previously only offered to graduate-level students.
Illumination, the journal for humanities-related content, is publishing its second issue at the end of April. According to Editor-in-Chief Adam Blackbourn, the upcoming issue will contain approximately 10 poems, three short stories, three essays, three articles and 15 to 20 artists, publishing about 34 students.
After-hours frat scuffle draws cops to Bascom
Written by Jackie Martin
Thursday, 30 March 2006
Alleged UW knife-wielder arrested
A scuffle between two UW-Madison students resulted in an arrest after a knife was pulled on Bascom Hill at approximately midnight Tuesday, following an initiation event hosted by UW-Madison�s Alpha Phi Alpha chapter, a historically black fraternity.
Election officials halted voting on student government elections and two campus referenda Wednesday after technical errors due to high voter turnout rendered the results invalid.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students are receiving instructions today on how to vote in the Associated Students of Madison elections following a computer glitch that stalled the three-day voting process after about a day.
That’s after heavy turnout in an election that featured a referendum asking students whether they want to spend an additional $200 per year to rebuild Union South and renovate the Memorial Union.
Normally, I espouse a rather conservative economic ideology ââ?¬â? one that endorses low taxes, frugal government spending and limited regulation. However, the Taxpayer Protection Amendment, introduced this year in the state Legislature, does not fit into that line of thinking.
Its supporters say it will force legislators to be fiscally responsible and be accountable. Its detractors say it will deleteriously affect the state of Wisconsin so much so that even the state�s largest economic engine, the University of Wisconsin, could become privatized or worse.
Bummed out about missing Sundance? Writhing in anticipation for Cannes? Well the solution is simple. Anyone looking to find the cure for filmfest-itis need not go any farther than their own backyard.
Cries of outrage slammed the Student Election Commission at a press conference Tuesday after the commission announced the abrupt cancellation of this week�s Associated Students of Madison elections.
Nearly 11 hours after postponing the Associated Students of Madison online election, the Student Election Commission resolved the situation Wednesday by dividing the ballot into two parts and reopening their vote on separate dates.
“It’s about the F-word,” read the note from the Jewish Women’s Archive, “about a story we’d like you to consider.” That’s the F-word as in “feminism.”
In 2005, the JWA unleashed its newest educational tactic in hopes of preserving rapidly aging history from the mid 20th century and inspiring new generations of women to preserve their histories. Their meticulously compiled Web site� details the contributions of dozens of women to the Jewish feminist movement.
On March 27 you quote Vice Chancellor Bazzell in the article ââ?¬Å?UW leaders question LTE wage planââ?¬Â as warning students that the proposed ââ?¬Å?Living Wageââ?¬Â initiative would eliminate student control over funding for general student services such as University Health Services and the student unions. Bazzell goes on to say that should the initiative pass, Chancellor Wiley will assume control over funding for general student services.
Senior cross country runner Bobby Lockhart has a chance to wipe his record clean after the state filed battery charges against him last November. Lockhart, whose felony charges were reduced to a misdemeanor March 23, may have all charges dropped upon completion of a defender�s program run through the District Attorney�s office, said Lockhart�s lawyer, Marcus Berghahn, Tuesday.
The debate over the War in Iraq will go to the polls next week, as cities across Wisconsin are gearing up to weigh in on whether U.S. troops should be brought home.
Students for Sensible Drug Policy filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education last week, calling the denial of financial aid to students convicted of drug misdemeanors unconstitutional.
Like many college students, Racine native Jessica Schelling spent a good chunk of her spring break on the beach.
But for the 20-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison sophomore, the time walking the sand wasn’t about fun and sun.
Schelling was picking up hurricane debris in Ocean Springs, Miss., just west of Biloxi, along the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast.
Students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are voting this week on whether student fees should be raised to pay for reconstruction and upgrades of the two campus student unions.
If the referendum passes, segregated fees would go up 30 percent, or about $200 per student each year. The money would help pay to rebuild Union South and renovate Memorial Union.
The increase would make the university less affordable, said Ashok Kumar, a member of the Student Labor Action Coalition, a campus group opposed to the measure.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students are voting today to decide whether they will pay more to build a new Union South and renovate the Memorial Union.The online voting will continue through Thursday.
The question asks whether students would pay $96 more per semester in segregated fees for the next 30 years to replace the 34-year-old Union South, and provide infrastructure improvements and architectural restorations to the 78-year-old Memorial Union. The Wisconsin Union Theater also would be renovated.
UW-Madison is starting the Safer Space Initiative in response to campus incidents such as hate crimes in Ogg Hall, a verbal assault at 433 Dayton Street and community incidents regarding the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, like the kissing contest at West Towne Mall.
If this week�s ASM referendum passes and the current Union South comes down, a new green union is set to sprout from the rubble.
Proposals to change some Madison Metro bus routes faced debate at a neighborhood meeting for students and campus area residents Monday.
With resident assistant policy effectively changed, and the lawsuit over the issue settled, many in the University of Wisconsin System are breathing a sigh of relief.
With a 3-0 win over Minnesota, the Badger women became the 2006, hockey national champions.
A title that’s left their fans reeling with excitement.
Excitement is everywhere for the UW men’s hockey team’s first trip to the Frozen Four since 1992.
The Badger men face Maine at the Bradley Center in Milwaukee on April 6 at 9 o’clock in the morning.
Current UW Madison students with season tickets can be in a lottery drawing beginning at 8 o’clock Tuesday morning at the UW athletic ticket office.
Hundreds of fans, friends and the University of Wisconsin-Madison officials gathered at the Kohl Center on Monday evening to celebrate the national championship victory by the Badgers women’s hockey team this weekend.
In the wake of a series of gaffes this month involving incorrect scores on the SAT reasoning test, some students who are preparing to take the test on Saturday already are worried. And growing skepticism about the College Board’s handling of the matter is prompting more colleges to consider making standardized test scores optional in admissions.
UW-Madison students will vote today through Thursday on a referendum to raise their segregated fees by 30 percent to build a new Union South and renovate Memorial Union.
