For National Condom Week, Sex Out Loud combined an unlikely pair of precautions into one ââ?¬Å?Wear One When You Rideââ?¬Â parade: helmets and condoms.
Sex Out Loud has been strategically placing posters around the campus advocating safer sex.
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.
Every college admissions cycle has its own set of dynamics, and this year is no exception. Many selective private colleges are reporting a boom in applications and, as a result, expect to admit a lower proportion of high school seniors than last year.
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.
Fifty-two undergraduate engineers took part in this year�s Innovation Days, where they vied for prizes that judged their creativity, prototype design, presentation and design notebooks. The diverse array of inventions included an Antarctic ice drill, a mobile microcrane to aid in building log cabins and a remote-controlled window washer.
UW System out-of-state tuition rates will reduce for the 2006-2007 academic school year, according to a UW System statement.
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.
The University of Wisconsin System hopes to see an influx of out-of-state students after the Board of Regents authorized a $2,000 reduction in nonresident undergraduate tuition at most UW campuses Friday.
When someone lashes out in a fit of irrational anger, chances are they have just endured multiple indignities.
A perfect example of this behavior can be seen from those who follow University of Wisconsin athletics.
Two decades before flower power bloomed at American colleges, student leaders seeded higher education with big ideas. One of them was that students should have a louder voice in campus, national, and global affairs.
So, in 1947, a group of young activists founded the National Student Association, which would quickly help transform campus culture, from Cambridge, Mass., to Berkeley, Calif. Their story appears in a new book, American Students Organize: Founding the National Student Association After World War II (American Council on Education/Praeger, 2006).
Even as the price of college rises, more low-income students who would likely get federal financial aid aren’t even bothering to apply.
A new report by the American Council on Education estimates 1.5 million students who would probably have been awarded Pell Grants in 2003-2004 did not apply for them. That’s up from ACE’s estimate in a previous survey of 850,000 who missed out on aid in 1999-2000.
A UW-Madison MBA student won an award for ââ?¬Å?Best Tropical Latin Albumââ?¬Â at Wednesday nightââ?¬â?¢s 48th Annual Grammy Awards, according to a university statement.
Derek Kwan, a UW-Madison business student in the Bolz Center for Arts Administration, was associate producer for the winning album, ââ?¬Å?Bebo De Cuba,ââ?¬Â featuring artist Bebo Valdez.
Members of the Student Labor Action Coalition claim the University of Wisconsin administration invaded their privacy by obtaining their organizational e-mail, a charge the university has deemed false.
Non-Wisconsin residents could pay less tuition to attend all UW System campuses except UW-Madison for the 2006-�07 academic year after the UW System Board of Regents passed a resolution Thursday.
Though Student Labor Action Coalition members have cried foul, a University of Wisconsin administrator said the university did nothing illegal in obtaining the minutes of a recent SLAC meeting.
Derek Kwan, a University of Wisconsin Master�s of Business Administration student, can now say he has something in common with Bono, Kanye West and Kelly Clarkson.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents� Business, Finance and Audit Committee reconvened Thursday to discuss resolutions to lower nonresident student tuition and to adjust UW executive salaries.
From an efficient solar collector to a high-tech security system to a pressurized water pack for bicyclists the competition at Innovation Days, an annual contest among UW- Madison student inventors, is tough. And the stakes are high. The judges, some of whom are alumni and are now business leaders and inventors themselves, will award students more than $26,000 in prizes
Gov. Jim Doyle’s proposal to guarantee college financial aid to low-income eighth-graders would cost $63 million over the next decade, a University of Wisconsin System official estimated Thursday.
The Wisconsin Covenant would require $7 million in new funding every year between 2007 and 2015, according to an estimate by Freda Harris, UW System’s associate vice president for budget and planning. The state and private sources are expected to pick up the tab, she said.
College students have long been able to download course information from Web sites such Desire2Learn and blackboard.com, but Apple has decided to take that service one step further.
Apple’s new iTunes U program is the company’s latest development from pilot programs that started about a year ago. It has taken hold at seven universities across the nation, allows professors to post course information online in MP3 files, the same type of file that iTunes songs come in. Students are then able to take these files and download them directly onto their iPods. There is no fee for the program.
Derek Kwan, a first-year MBA student at the UW-Madison School of Business in arts administration, can now count a Grammy Award among his accomplishments.
Kwan, who works for UW-Madison’s Union Theater, was the associate producer for “Bebo De Cuba” featuring Bebo Valdes, which won Best Traditional Tropical Latin Album Wednesday night. He also co-produced an album by the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra with Arturo O’Farrill, which was nominated in the same category
Engineering students at UW Madison are making some of their best ideas come to life.
On Thursday, they presented their inventions to the public with the hope that their big ideas will help them win prizes and recognition. (Video.)
While many people watching the Grammy’s were rooting for Mariah, Kayne, or Bono.
A UW-Madison student was pulling for Bebo.
Derek Kwan was an associate producer on the album “Bebo De Cuba,”which won the Grammy Wednesday night for “Best Traditional Tropical Latin Album.”
Bikinis, flip-flops and wet T-shirts remain the attire of choice for tens of thousands of college spring breakers, whose annual migrations to such hot spots as Panama City, Fla., South Padre Island, Texas, and Acapulco, Mexico, kick off later this month and run through early April. But many of this year’s rites of spring will feature another wardrobe component: hard hats.
Prior to the advent of the cell phone, or any other phone for that matter, people still made calls to others who interested them. They just did it on those people�s front porches.
Just as the surface of the Kohl Center transforms and adapts to the sports it hosts, student fans of basketball and hockey games have adopted similar, yet diverse traditions for different sports.
At the Madison Greyhound station, riders frequently play checkers as they wait in the depot. In lieu of checkers pieces, white riders square themselves on the west side of the station, while metaphorical black checkers follow suit, taking seats on the east side.
A review performed by the Office of Student Financial Services has found that UW-Madison students are diligent about repaying student loans, according to a university statement.
The office found UW-Madison showed low default rates for two prominent federal loan programs.
State Rep. Rob Kreibich, R-Eau Claire, unveiled plans for an education initiative in a statement Wednesday that would guarantee Wisconsin students admission into a UW System school.
ââ?¬Å?Wisconsin students deserve access to the state institutions that their parents and grandparents helped create and maintain with their hard-earned tax dollars,ââ?¬Â Kreibich said in a statement. ââ?¬Å?Admission should be automatic for Wisconsin students who perform well in high school.ââ?¬Â
ââ?¬Å?I love this old man! He is hilarious!!ââ?¬Â a UW-Madison student writes of a sociology professor on RateMyProfessors.com.
ââ?¬Å?A bit overweight. His assignment instructions are awful, and apparently he hasnââ?¬â?¢t heard of proofreading,ââ?¬Â writes another of an engineering professor.
Every day students make a difference at the University of Wisconsin by participating in campus life, studying hard and working to change the way we view the world.
For the 20th consecutive year, the University of Wisconsin has produced the most Peace Corps volunteers in the nation, with 104 undergraduate and 22 graduate student-volunteers.
Amid the tranquility of white marble and potted plants in Birge Hall lobby Wednesday, University of Wisconsin officials held a reception for UW provost candidate Patrick Farrell.
Rep. Robin Kreibich, R-Eau Claire, announced a plan Wednesday to change the University of Wisconsin System, proposing measures to alter the admissions process and implement other funding reforms.
It looks as if UW Madison students are taking their financial obligations seriously. (Audio.)
If the Christian rock concert stage doesn’t draw students away from boozy State Street, perhaps the laundry machines, fireplace study rooms or game room might.
Pastor Thomas Trapp says the palatial Wisconsin Lutheran Chapel and Student Center, scheduled to open later this month, has everything students need to serve as a home away from home.
“It’s just where we want to be,” said Trapp, noting its location at 220 W. Gilman St., just steps away from State Street. “To be where the action is, where the students are, to give them an alternative.” The $5.1 million center is the first of four new private religious facilities planned for University of Wisconsin-Madison students.
There has been much talk recently about giving Waukesha County residents the opportunity to earn four-year degrees at the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha.
But on Tuesday night, at a UW-Waukesha event scheduled to talk about different pathways to UW-Madison, many said they found the idea of earning a four-year degree without ever leaving home unappealing.
At the event, UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley spoke about the UW-Madison Connections program.
Gambling experts say poker for entertainment is fine, but when money gets involved or the gambling moves online, that’s when problems can occur.
Andrew Jensen got into the poker craze four years ago in high school.
“It started four years ago getting more into it with friends, then we started weekend games on Friday and Saturday nights,” said Jensen. Jensen is now a UW sophomore.
A couple dozen medical students lobby lawmakers at the capitol to make healthcare a priority in Wisconsin. Diane Reis (Rice), first year medical student at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, says healthcare reform is important for the health of the uninsured and for the state as a whole. (Audio.)
Various students, faculty and community members met in the lounge of the Red Gymââ?¬â?¢s Multi Cultural Student Center on Tuesday to discuss sexism on campus. The meeting was part of ââ?¬Å?Terrific Tuesdays,ââ?¬Â a series of discussions on current diversity issues held by the College of Letters and Sciencesââ?¬â?¢ ââ?¬Å?Pathways to Excellenceââ?¬Â program.
Associated Students of Madison representatives believe they may have finally found a way to lower the cost of textbooks for University of Wisconsin students.
Next semester, ASM plans to launch a pilot textbook-rental program in two or three classes on the UW campus, which could potentially save many students hundreds of dollars.
Tests show a college student who claimed he escaped a freezing Mississippi River on Jan. 8 had only alcohol in his system that night, a family spokesman said.
Cullen Fortney, 21, a University of Wisconsin-Madison student from Viroqua, Wis., who was in La Crosse with friends that night, told police he could not remember what happened after he left a downtown bar about 1:45 a.m.
New York, with nearly 23%, leads the nation in percentage of 2005 high school seniors passing an AP exam. Maryland, North Carolina, Washington, Connecticut, Delaware and Florida showed the most improvement since 2000.
In Madison, a pit bull owned by former UW linebacker Dontez Sanders is quarantined at his apartment, after the dog attacked and killed a dachshund puppy.
In Scottsville, Ohio, two pit bulls owned by Sanders’ brother, former Ohio State tight end Darnell Sanders, are housed at a private kennel as a judge decides whether the animals should be destroyed after being involved in a fatal attack on an 82 year old man.
The percentage of students who took and passed Advanced Placement courses, which are widely regarded as a gold standard for high school rigor, has increased in every state and the District of Columbia since 2000, a report says. Even so, racial gaps remained.
