Category: Campus life

Dear Editor: The Muslim Students Association is right to protest the Badger Herald’s publication of a cartoon of Muhammad. They should protest almost as loudly as they protested the murder of 3,000 innocent people by Muslims on 9/11….

….Acts of murder and terrorism degrade Islam far more than any cartoon, and Muslim silence convinces non-Muslims that most Muslims condone the slaughter of innocents. There’s a nasty joke going around that a moderate Muslim is one who’s out of ammunition. When Muslims display more outrage over cartoons than over murder, they give such slander of Islam credence.

They won’t be the first people to sell their foreheads to the highest bidder. But UW- Madison seniors Liah Hansen and Chloe Britzius are counting on the Internet and their winning personalities to help sell enough temporary noggin tattoo ads to pay for a yearlong trip around the world.

A Dodge County women has been selected as the 2006 American Honey Queen. Jolene Hoefs of Ashippun was crowned with the honor during the American Beekeeping Federation’s national convention in Kentucky last month.

Jolene is a senior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she is majoring in life science communications

FOR TWO UW-Madison students, a journey of a thousand miles will begin with a single tattoo.

But Liah Hansen, 23, and her friend Chloe Britzius, 22, hope there will eventually be many tattoos and that the journey will take them tens of thousands of miles – all the way around the world.

Hansen and Britzius have created a Web site in the hope of selling temporary tattoos on their foreheads as a way to fund a trip set for September that would take them to New York, California, South America, Africa, Asia and Europe.

An outbreak of an equine herpes virus has struck horses owned by the UW-Madison Hoofers riding club, imposing a quarantine on a barn owned by the organization, according to the Capital Times.

UW-Madison animal experts euthanized two Hoofers horses Feb. 7 and 10, after they supposedly contracted the virus.

The Langdon Street area was once the heart of UW-Madison student activity. While the construction of off-campus apartments and dormitories has shifted some of the focus away from Langdon Street fraternities and sororities, the neighborhood is still alive and well.

A Hoofers Riding Club horse and one horse which had been boarded at the organization�s barn were put to sleep after University of Wisconsin veterinarians believed the horses contracted a neurological virus.

University of Wisconsin Chancellor John Wiley gets high marks for defending the right of student journalists to publish one of the controversial cartoons that have sparked outrage and violence in much of the Islamic world.

At the same time that two student editors of the University of Illinois campus daily were suspended for publishing the cartoons, Wiley was quick to defend the right of Badger Herald editors to reprint a drawing that depicted the Prophet Muhammad wearing a turban shaped like a bomb with a lit fuse.

More than a century after Wisconsin created a public university to serve all its citizens regardless of income, evidence is mounting that some students can no longer afford the bill.

Financial aid has not kept pace with the rising cost of the University of Wisconsin System. By its own account, the system is serving a smaller percentage of poor students.

This comes as Wisconsin struggles to compete in a global economy and business leaders say they need more educational firepower than ever before.

By most measures, UW-Madison’s billion-dollar-plus private fundraising campaign couldn’t be going much better.
This month, the tally stands at $1.65 billion, well beyond the campaign’s $1.5 billion goal – which was achieved in May, 18 months ahead of schedule.

But Susan Fischer, UW-Madison’s director of student financial aid, has a concern. Even though one of the campaign’s main goals is increased student financial aid, her office isn’t being guaranteed anything from the proceeds, she said.

Over at Memorial Union on campus, the Hoofers’ Club winter carnival was also cancelled. But the cold didn’t force everyone in doors. An impromptu dance party broke out at a softball tournament on the frozen diamond of Lake Mendota.

MADISON, Wis. — The mayor’s newly appointed “bar czar” has been on the job for five months, and WISC-TV caught up with the man to see what it is he actually does.
Joel Plant is Madison’s new alcohol policy coordinator. He makes $52,000 per year, with half being paid for by the University of Wisconsin.

While cruising down the Mekong River in Laos in a rickety old motor boat six years ago, Greg Pepping had an epiphany.

“It doesn’t really happen to people very often,” notes Pepping, a 34-year-old UW-Madison grad student who serves as the school’s Peace Corps representative. “But everything sort of crystallized for me at that exact moment.”

A few months earlier, Pepping – who grew up in southern Iowa and attended Drake University – had quit a high-paying insurance job in Washington, D.C., because he felt empty and unfulfilled.

As the snow accumulation rose to over five inches Thursday, many had difficulty traveling across campus. Workers from the UW-Madison Physical Plant, who are responsible for campus snow removal, cleared roads and sidewalks in the early morning but fell behind when a second heavy fall hit at 8 a.m.

Physical Plant Director John Harrod said his department fell behind in their total grounds maintenance and focused on primary snow removal areas.

ââ?¬Å?You can anticipate it, you can get ready for it, but you can only do so much,ââ?¬Â Harrod said. ââ?¬Å?Weââ?¬â?¢ll do general maintenance all day, slow down as people leave campus, and hit it hard again around midnight. Thatââ?¬â?¢s our general procedure.ââ?¬Â

A day-long snowstorm resulted in the cancellation of all UW-Madison evening classes Thursday, as five to seven inches of snow buried the campus.

UW-Madison Interim Provost Virginia Sapiro cancelled classes after 4:30 p.m. because of unsafe travel conditions caused by high winds and low visibility accompanying the storm.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill., Feb. 16 � Since the morning the cartoons satirizing the Prophet Muhammad were republished in the student newspaper at the University of Illinois here, response has been swift and split.

Officials at the University of Wisconsin were organizing a forum in Madison for next week after The Badger Herald on Monday ran one of the cartoons, one that portrayed Muhammad with a turban in the shape of a bomb.

Students trekking to class through freezing winds and icy sidewalks Thursday evening may have been in for a surprise when they walked into an empty lecture hall.

With more than half a foot of snow on the ground and reports of continued snowfall, strong winds and ââ?¬Å?extremely hazardous travel conditionsââ?¬Â coming from the National Weather Service yesterday afternoon, the University of Wisconsin cancelled all classes scheduled to begin after 4:30 p.m. Thursday.

(MADISON) Muslim students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are demanding an apology from a campus newspaper for publishing one of the controversial Danish cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammed with a bomb in his turban. But the editor of the Badger Herald defends the paper�s action and welcomes the debate it�s sparked among students. (Fourth item.)

UW Madison takes action, to respond to its own cartoon controversy.

Muslims in many countries react angrily and sometimes violently to cartoons which appeared in a Danish newspaper, depicting the Prophet Muhammad. On Monday, UW’s Badger Herald newspaper printed one of the offending cartoons.

A thick file at The Badger Herald offices suggests history is repeating itself.

The file is labeled “cartoon controversy,” and it is full of articles from past run-ins with readers at the UW-Madison student newspaper. Such as the 1990 cartoon that portrayed Allah, the Islamic God, as the movie character Eraserhead, and the 1993 comic strip that included a drawing that supposedly looked like the racist Sambo character.

A thick file at The Badger Herald offices suggests history is repeating itself.
The file is labeled “cartoon controversy,” and it is full of articles from past run-ins with readers at the UW-Madison student newspaper. Such as the 1990 cartoon that portrayed Allah, the Islamic God, as the movie character Eraserhead, and the 1993 comic strip that included a drawing that supposedly looked like the racist Sambo character.

The file is about to grow.

The only thing certain about the four-man primary race for the 5th District supervisor seat on the Dane County Board is a UW-Madison student will win it, a UW-Madison student will finish second and two UW-Madison students will get bumped from the race.

The 5th District hugs the Lake Mendota shore and comprises the UW campus.

Snubbing police officers is not nice, and now hosts of a downtown house party may pay the price.

A Feb. 4 house party at 621 E. Johnson St. netted five people a total of $54,000 in fines after police arrived, but no one would answer the door.

….All those ticketed had not reached the legal drinking age. Citations were for noise, furnishing alcohol to minors, dispensing alcohol without a permit and underage drinking.

(Among those ticketed was UW-Madison student Kale Bodendein, 19, of Lone Rock.)

Muslim students are upset by the Badger Herald newspaper’s decision to reprint one of the notorious cartoons mocking the Prophet Muhammad.

Muslim students at UW-Madison have met with campus officials, are planning a campus forum on Tuesday, and are considering whether to stage protests.

Chancellor John Wiley issued a statement Tuesday chastising the Badger Herald for reprinting a cartoon Monday that has incited riots in the Middle East in past weeks.

After an investigation of sexual harassment accusations and subsequent professional analysis of University Health Services� management and staff morale, former UHS Director of Clinical Services Scott Spear stepped down from his position Monday to become a regular staff physician.

As the top party school in the United States, UW-Madison sees its fair share of house parties. But when these parties get out of control and the police arrive, the good times can be expensive.

An advocacy group started by college students hopes to protect young people from the dangers of illegal downloading and encourage legal practices.

Scott Spear, director of clinical services at University of Wisconsin Health Services, stepped down from his role Monday to become a UHS general practitioner.

How’s this for a bar tab: $54,000! Those are the total fines five underage students face for hosting what police say was an illegal alcohol party at 621 East Johnson Street in Madison.

MADISON, Wis. — An offensive cartoon that has ignited violence in the Muslim world was printed in the Badger Herald on Monday and is now causing outrage in the local Muslim community.

The campus newspaper chose to print the caricature, saying that it promotes free speech and will invite debate on what’s happening in the Muslim world.

Madison police arrested a man suspected of beating and robbing a UW-Madison student in January after a brief chase Friday night.

An official from the University of North Carolina was named dean of the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, according to a university statement.

This time next year, some Memorial Union limited-term employees may find themselves in full-time positions with benefits and higher pay.

If approved by Associated Students of Madison�s Student Services Finance Committee, Chancellor Wiley and a to-be-formed campus committee, nine limited-term Memorial Union employee positions will convert to full-time positions, according to a Union statement.

Two UW-Madison freshmen charged with a hate crime appeared in Dane County Court today, where their lawyers pushed back their felony status conference appearances until March 13.

Both the University of Wisconsin Recreational Sports Department and the university bus-pass program proposed increasing their campus services yesterday, but at an increased cost to students.

The University of Wisconsin named Robert Golden, the vice dean of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, as the new dean of the UW School of Medicine and Public Health Monday.

Wearing pressed shirts and ties and accompanied by their attorneys, the two University of Wisconsin students charged with felony hate crimes appeared in Dane County court Monday.

Apparently, University of Wisconsin Interim Provost Virginia Sapiro wants out.

Sapiro, the second highest-ranking administrator at UW, is interviewing today with University of Vermont officials about their vacant provost position in Burlington, Vt.

Police arrested a 26-year-old Madison man Monday in the brutal beating and robbery of a UW-Madison graduate student last month.

Jimmy Sanchez was jailed on tentative charges of substantial battery, robbery, unauthorized use of an ID, obstruction and a warrant from Jefferson County after he was apprehended following a foot chase on Madison’s south side.

University of Wisconsin students are paying millions of dollars more than they paid just last year to heat, cool and provide water for campus buildings, according to figures released by the UW System.

Much of that change is due to spiking energy prices, but it’s also because state government has shifted much of what was its own burden onto the students, say UW officials, adding that if the trend continues, classroom teaching could suffer.

MADISON, Wis. — Dozens of area residents packed a public meeting Monday night to discuss increased violence at a downtown Madison nightclub.

According to Madison police statistics, officers were called to Club Majestic 170 times in 2005.

Online gambling websites, especially those offering poker, are becoming more and more popular among UW-Madison students as an outlet for their time and money.