A student who supervises student housing in the University of Wisconsin System has the same rights as the students being supervised.
That simple statement reached biblical proportions Thursday when System officials recommended a policy designed to resolve an issue that erupted at UW-Eau Claire last fall. A resident assistant there was told to stop leading Bible study groups in his dormitory room.
By expanding its stellar PEOPLE program to grade-schoolers, UW-Madison is giving poor and minority children an even better shot at a college education.
And for many of these youngsters, college will be a way out of poverty and a path to becoming productive citizens.
Praying, shouting and waving signs, about 200 Muslims and their supporters converged on the UC Irvine campus Tuesday evening to protest a forum on Islamic extremism that included the unveiling of cartoons lampooning Muhammad.
The caricatures, first printed in European newspapers, incited riots worldwide that led to dozens of deaths last month.
MADISON, Wis. — A national group is voicing concerns about University of Wisconsin student tuition fee money slated to fund a Catholic student organization.
The controversy centers on booklets that would be handed out on campus next year at the start of Lent, WISC-TV reported.
The University of Wisconsin announced a plan Wednesday that would allow resident assistants to hold Bible study meetings in their dormitory rooms.
A bill categorizing sexual assault against victims under the influence of alcohol as second-degree sexual assault was passed by the state Senate Tuesday. Senate Bill 526 will now be sent to the state Assembly for consideration.
This is a student�s brain. This is a student�s brain on wireless.
UW-Madison has 49 separate wireless Internet access points: an abundance of networking that is an oft-lauded aspect of campus, touted for its convenience and user-friendliness. However, some worry about potential health risks of the system.
After investigating all UW System employee files in the State Audit Bureau, a recent audit showed the UW System currently employs 40 convicted felons. According to Doug Bradley, UW System spokesperson, 27 are employed UW-Madison�s campus.
The state Senate unanimously passed a bill Tuesday that would reform Wisconsin�s sexual assault laws by defining alcohol as an intoxicant in rape cases.
Peruvian dancers, donning colorfully knit hats and ponchos, spun their partners across the floor. Latino music pumped through the room�s speakers continuously. And melted chocolate poured from a fountain in the middle of the room.
However, the party atmosphere did not distract University of Wisconsin officials from the more serious issues at hand Tuesday.
MADISON, Wis. ââ?¬â? Just next to the University of Wisconsin-Madisonââ?¬â?¢s student union towers a castle-like red building ââ?¬â?? a foreboding presence in the center of campus.
But thereââ?¬â?¢s a place in this building that, for many UW-Madison students, makes the 933-acre, 43,000-student university feel smaller and more approachable ââ?¬â?? like a home away from home.
An ACT report released Tuesday found that 51% of the nearly 1.2 million high school graduates last year who took the ACT college entrance exam demonstrated the reading skills needed to succeed either in college or in job training programs. That’s the lowest in a decade, down from a high of 55% in 1999.
An effort to renovate Memorial Union and construct a new south campus union building will likely earn a spot on the Associated Students of Madison�s March 28 ballot if a petition introducing the initiative earns the required amount of student signatures.
The Wisconsin Union and UW-Madison Police defended the security of Bernie�s Place daycare center, 206 Bernard Ct., detailing some of their precautionary measures Monday.
A national watchdog group urged Chancellor John Wiley Monday to veto a funding decision made Feb. 15 for the University of Wisconsin Roman Catholic Foundation.
Imagine a night of partying ending with a wake up call in an unrecognizable cell block of a room. If it’s not jail, it’s detox.
This school year began with the number of UW Madison students admitted to Dane County’s Detox Center double the previous year.
But is that kind of experience enough of a wake up call to change a young person’s behavior?
Spring breakers heading out of the country are getting a harsh reminder – get your shots or possibly get really sick. Along with the fun and sun in places like Mexico and Central America… comes hepatitis… typhoid… and yellow fever.
A group of UW pharmacy students are hoping to get the word out. For some of these vaccines, it’s too late to get one in time for spring break. Some need four to six weeks to take effect and for students at UW, spring break is only 11 days away.
Madison-based Freedom From Religion Foundation wants to take on the University of Wisconsin. The organization works to keep church and state separate and it says the university should stop giving student fee money to the UW Roman Catholic Foundation.
Beer garden operators near Camp Randall and elsewhere might soon face caps on the number of people allowed to congregate in their outdoor drinking areas.
Madison Fire Department marshal Ed Ruckriegel said the city received significantly more complaints last year about overcrowded outdoor drinking areas on football game days.
He said he has met with city staff and a subcommittee of the Alcohol License Review Committee to review these concerns and complaints, but has not yet discussed the issue with bar owners.
Just because Local 171 Steward Mark Thomas claims something does not mean it is true. In his letter to the editor, Thomas once again is disingenuously claiming limited-term employee abuse at the Wisconsin Union and is using this as leverage to oppose the student-led effort to pass Wisconsin Union Facilities Improvement Plan this Spring. The plan aims to renovate and preserve the historic ambience of Memorial Union, and build a new more functional, appealing and energy-efficient green south campus union.
Within the next year, all Wiscmail users must change their passwords to comply with new minimum-security standards to prevent hacking of e-mail accounts and loss of personal information, the UW-Madison Division of Information Technology said at its Feb. 17 meeting.
Three Latin American garment workers touring universities in the United States exposed their continuous struggles to unionize the Third World in an event put on by the UW-Madison Student Labor Action Coalition Saturday.
A Wisconsin Union-sponsored daycare may have known child sex offenders living less than two blocks away from the center and failed to tell parents.
Imagine living 12 years of your life behind bars for a crime you did not commit.
Such was the unfortunate reality for Chris Ochoa, a third-year law student at the University of Wisconsin, who served 12 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of murder.
Madison’s Red Shed and State Street Bar and Grill were two of the taverns targeted by Madison police Thursday night in an effort to catch underage drinkers
Every year, a team of UW students builds a race car from the groupd up. The Badger Racing Team brings together a wide range of students…from engineering majors, to business and journalism majors.
The students are responsible for the entire process; the design, the building, the marketing, and the racing.
A recent poll of Wisconsin residents has shown sentiment toward the University of Wisconsin System to be unenthusiastic and even disapproving.
These children don’t look like college students – yet.
They’re busy finishing homework, listening to a story, playing games and talking to tutors in their after-school program at the Packer Community Learning Center.
By the time these grade-schoolers finish high school, their tutors hope, they’ll be ready for college – academically and personally.
They represent the expansion of UW-Madison’s PEOPLE program to younger children as part of its effort to get more minority and poor children in the pipeline for college.
Students at Ball State University who choose to download music and movies will no longer have to worry about the legal consequences.
Though hundreds of University of Wisconsin students may mourn the destruction of landmark Ogg Hall next year, two new residence halls are in the works to serve as adequate replacements.
The “Moovada” has everything that most sport utility vehicles owners would want – good gas mileage, low pollution and decent performance.
You won’t find the vehicle on car lots yet. Rather, it’s the name given to a souped-up Chevrolet Equinox by a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering students – their entry in a nationwide contest to build a more fuel- efficient car.
On Thursday, the students received a boost when automotive parts supplier Johnson Controls Inc. presented them with a turbocharged hybrid battery system to use in the crossover SUV.
Getting a new job usually calls for a celebration — a night out with the friends, a fancy dinner with the family or even a small get-together with a few bottles of cheap champagne.
So what was Madison Area Technical College’s newly hired softball coach Boo Gillette, a former University of Wisconsin catcher, doing the day it was announced she would be leading the reborn program in 2007? Why, getting ready to write a 10-page paper that was due the next day, of course.
While some students may still be going through the difficult process of selecting a new roommate for next year, some have chosen to avoid this ordeal by choosing to live with a non-human roommate instead. There are many UW-Madison students who share their homes with pets, but doing so can come at a hefty price that might catch some students off guard.
With media perceptions of Islam ranging from incendiary to offensive, many UW-Madison Muslim students said they are concerned with the assumptions made about them.
Idealism v. realism; free speech v. freedom from offense; duty v. discretion. In recent weeks, these issues were catapulted from the international level and national to the campus stage when several student newspapers across the country reprinted cartoons depicting the Islamic Prophet Muhammad.
Students preparing for Spring Break often overlook staying healthy during their vacations. However, there are a number of organizations at the University of Wisconsin to help students plan to be healthy no matter where they will be over break.
The starter yelled, ââ?¬Å?Go!ââ?¬Â and nine 96 oz. glass boots filled to the brim with beer were lifted from the bar and pressed against the lips of nine patrons.
The University of Wisconsin-affiliated WiCell Research Institute, the nation�s first stem cell bank and leading stem cell research institution, will soon lose one of its top researchers.
MADISON, Wis. — A drinking contest set for Wednesday night in a downtown Madison restaurant and bar located near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus is set to go on despite criticism from anti-binge drinking forces.
With college costs continuing to rise, many students can’t avoid loans. But there are steps you can take to reduce the size of your debt.
Tom Dillon, 19, a pre-pharmacy major at the University of Connecticut, is carrying $52,000 in student loans. And he’s just getting started. When he gets his pharmacy doctorate in four years, he expects his debt to exceed $150,000.
Students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are trying again to pass a requirement that workers paid with student fees earn a living wage.
Students overwhelmingly passed a referendum last spring that required workers at the Wisconsin Union, University Health Services and the Division of Recreational Sports to be paid a living wage, as defined by the city. That now comes out to $10.23 per hour.
But the Student Judiciary overturned the referendum on a technicality, said Josh Healey of the Student Labor Action Coalition. So now, the group is trying a different tactic to enact the change.
Mac VerStandig met his critics head-on and both sides refused to budge.
VerStandig, the editor-in-chief of The Badger Herald, was part of a panel discussion Tuesday sponsored by the Dean of Students’ office to discuss the Badger Herald’s decision to reprint a Danish cartoon depicting the prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his turban. Publication of the cartoon and others like it in a Danish newspaper last year has led to international furor and deadly riots in several countries.
Multiple experts and student representatives weighed in on the issue at Bascom Hall, but the central focus of the night belonged to the heated and often contentious debate between VerStandig and those at the panel discussion and in the audience.
Offended and enraged readers voiced their opinions surrounding The Badger Herald�s controversial Feb. 13 republication of the recent Danish Muslim cartoons during a expert opinion panel discussion sponsored by the Dean of Students office Tuesday night.
Along with an overview of the drinking scene at UW-Madison, the Policy Alternatives Community Education meeting Tuesday saw the resurfacing of a controversial keg registration ordinance.
As part of their continued efforts to draft a citywide alcohol policy, university and city representatives heard keg registration and downtown liquor licensing presentations Tuesday from top city officials.
As part of their continued efforts to draft a citywide alcohol policy, university and city representatives heard keg registration and downtown liquor licensing presentations Tuesday from top city officials.
A wide range of panelists assembled Tuesday to discuss the wisdom and ethics of the decision to reprint a controversial cartoon in The Badger Herald last week.
University of Wisconsin System officials addressed an Assembly committee Tuesday, as state lawmakers grilled them about the Board of Regents� recent decision regarding nonresident tuition.
The source of widespread debate, the controversial plan calls to cut the out-of-state tuition of all UW System schools ââ?¬â? excluding UW-Madison ââ?¬â? by more than $2,000.
Dear Editor: Embassies burn, publishers of newspapers abroad are imprisoned, student editors are suspended for printing the Danish cartoons and The Capital Times says that it believes in free speech under certain conditions. In the shriveled world of newspapers, this substitutes for courage.
Nita Larson
Belleville
….I would suggest to Mr. Basir and others who hold his opinion that these cartoons should never have seen the light of day, that they consider why the right to free speech was in the First Amendment of our Constitution, rather than, say, the Eighth, or not at all. It is because that right, like the freedom to assemble or the freedom of religion, was considered of paramount importance by the framers.
Sometimes, it requires that we develop a somewhat thicker skin, since free speech is and ought to be granted to people whose opinions of us are less than we’d like. But that is also a lesson worth learning.
University of Wisconsin System officials defended their plan to reduce tuition for students from other states on Tuesday in front of lawmakers worried over the impact to Wisconsin residents.
UW System Board of Regents President David Walsh told an Assembly committee the plan would bring in more nonresident students. The higher tuition they pay will help improve quality and enroll more in-state students, he said.
The University of Wisconsin System’s plan to cut tuition for out-of-state students received a mixed reception at a legislative hearing Monday.
Several members of the state Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities offered support for the cut, saying they believed it was intended to boost the enrollment of all students, including Wisconsin residents, as argued by university officials.
Pity the poor high schooler shopping for colleges. Even the U.S. secretary of Education had trouble making a smart choice. Margaret Spellings went college shopping last year with her daughter. She discovered what parents have despaired over for years: Information on dining plans and intramural sports is everywhere, but data about graduation rates or instructional quality are hard to come by.
Frigid winter weather froze the remnants of the Feb. 16 snowfall, much to the chagrin of students walking to class Monday.
Last weekend�s sub-zero temperatures caused flooding and minor property damage in several University of Wisconsin buildings after pipes froze over and burst.
Police are searching for a man who allegedly exposed himself to a female University of Wisconsin student at a Madison Metro bus stop Feb. 16.
….The recent decision of UW-Madison student journalists to reprint a cartoon that depicted the Prophet Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban with a lit fuse pitted the right of free speech against reasonable restraint. When Muslim students on the UW campus expressed outrage, calling it a racist act, The Capital Times sided with the Badger Herald’s editors.
Like The Capital Times, I, too, do not believe the publication of the controversial cartoon was necessarily a racist act, but I also do not believe printing it served the common good.
Controversy has beset the Badger Herald campus newspaper for publishing an editorial accompanied by a cartoon of Muhammad wearing a turban shaped as a bomb. Critics have hurled several accusations at the Herald, including questions about the timing of the free speech act, the motivations of the editorial board, and the claim that the board could have achieved its purpose by describing the image rather than publishing it.
….We must resist the idea that the expression of a political idea, or a statement of criticism, or satire, should be subject to sanction or prohibited simply because one group or another finds that idea, criticism or satire offensive.
The Muslim Students’ Association at UW-Madison worries that recent publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad are “alarming signs of rising Islamophobia in our community.” Several events are planned to discuss the issue and bring more understanding of Islam.
