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.
Hundreds of Badger fans gathered at the Kohl Center Monday night to savor the rare taste of a national championship and greet the UW- Madison women’s hockey team on its return to Madison.
The men’s hockey team delivered a shutout victory on Saturday over Bemidji State in an NCAA Midwest Regional Semi-final. But cheering for Bucky could be bad for your health, if you overdo it.
For UW’s soon-to-be graduates, the real world looks rosy.
“The job market looks very strong for graduating seniors, the strongest that we’ve seen in about 6 years,” says Steve Schroeder with UW’s School of Business.
The men play the longest scoreless game in NCAA tournament play and the women win the national championship!
More than 100 UW students are back from a weeklong trip to Louisiana.
The group from the Wisprig program lent a hand in the hurricane striken neighborhoods around New Orleans.
The Badger women’s hockey team shut out the Minnesota Gophers to claim its first ever NCAA Frozen Four Title.
The end to a remarkable test of wills, and the clinching of the most important victory the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey program has recorded since 1990, came without warning.
As he stood in the locker room and watched his players take turns hoisting the national championship trophy, University of Wisconsin women’s hockey coach Mark Johnson surely wasn’t the only Badgers fan thinking of his father.
University of Wisconsin System will pay $2,500 in legal fees to a UW-Eau Claire resident assistant to settle his lawsuit challenging a campus practice banning him from hosting Bible studies in his dormitory.
The settlement, made public in U.S. District Court in Madison on Friday, also calls for UW System to pay a symbolic $1 in damages to the student, Lance Steiger.
“We’re pleased to have this matter resolved,” UW System spokeswoman Kate Dixon said Friday.
Somewhere, the old coaching legend is smiling broadly, perhaps thinking about amending that famous line of his.
How about: “It’s the greatest day for hockey?”
For the first time in 14 years, the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team advanced to the NCAA Frozen Four, its latest step coming Sunday against a backdrop of exhausting drama and sheer will.
As it turned out, there was no shame to be found in the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team’s version of self-promotion.
Issues of shared governance between the student government and the administration could hinder a referendum that aims to ensure a living wage for UW-Madison employees and goes to a student vote Tuesday.
Formerly a well spring of political activism, the Mifflin and Bassett Street neighborhoods have settled down into adult, residential neighborhoods as students have moved out and new construction has begun in the historic area.
A possible conflict between collegiate apparel company Steve & Barry�s and one of its manufacturers has highlighted some difficulties with implementing UW-Madison�s long awaited anti-sweatshop plan.
As the final buzzer sounded, and the players rushed the ice in hysteric celebration the University of Wisconsin achieved something unprecedented. The UW women�s hockey team was crowned national champion Sunday afternoon at Mariucci Arena in Minneapolis. With sophomore Jinelle Zaugg�s two goals, and another insurance goal netted by senior Grace Hutchins, the Badgers (36-4-1) were able to defeat the two-time defending national champion Minnesota Gophers (29-11-1) 3-0.
On the 100th shot in the 111th minute of the Midwest Regional Final Sunday, freshman Jack Skille put home the game-winning goal to advance Wisconsin past Cornell to the Frozen Four for the first time since 1992.
The University of Wisconsin�s endorsement of a licensing proposal that could lower the amount of UW-licensed apparel produced in sweatshops was discussed Friday by the Labor and Licensing Policy Committee.
Throughout her professional career, Board of Regents member Eileen Connolly-Keesler has successfully worked to expand and improve several non-profit organizations and is now looking to do the same with the University of Wisconsin System.
Before this weekend, there had never been a shutout in women�s Frozen Four history. Now it�s happened twice.
The Wisconsin Union Facilities Improvement Plan would raise student segregated fees by a maximum of $96 per student per semester for a period of up to 30 years, if passed.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents passed a resolution Thursday strongly opposing the Taxpayer Protection Amendment, which could potentially result in increased tuition and decreased student enrollment.
Parking tickets are commonplace on the UW-Madison campus as students park in restricted lots, overstay their time limits or fail to plug their parking meters. But many students never pay their tickets.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison broke years of silence Thursday when a UW-Madison professor went head to head in a debate with an animal rights advocate over the University�s use of animals in scientific research.
UW-Madison students and Wisconsin Union employees rallied against a proposal to overhaul the unions and encouraged students to vote for the living wage referendum Thursday at Memorial Union.
