The pit bull that attacked the puppy is in quarantine tonight. Dogs are only put into quarantine if a person is injured. According to police the woman watching the dog and the puppy’s owner suffered minor injuries. So, it’s quarantined to make sure it doesn’t have rabies. Monday the owner of the pit bull that is trying to save his dog from being put to sl
(EAU CLAIRE) A survey on college campuses is underway around the country to find out if students are cheating or plagiarizing. UW-Eau Claire started its survey this week. (Fourth item.)
College students are likely to pack on 15 pounds during their freshman year, right? Not quite, say Rutgers University researchers who find that the ââ?¬Å?Freshman Fifteenââ?¬Â phenomenon is exaggerated. In their sample of 67 students who were weighed in the fall and again in the spring of their freshman years, the average weight gain was only 7 pounds, the result of consuming about 112 excess calories a day. Researchers note, however, that three-quarters of the students in the study did gain weight, which could spell trouble if weight gain continues through graduation. The results of the study will be published in the Journal of American College Health this spring.
Some college students or would-be students who were denied federal financial aid for past drug convictions will regain eligibility under a measure passed last week by Congress and expected to be signed soon by President Bush. But students convicted of a drug felony or misdemeanor in college will still be disqualified from receiving federal aid for at least one year.
Students who eat in University Housing Food Service are aware of the themed meals and made-to-order foods that are offered, but they may not know these features are specifically designed to keep them coming back for more.
With the University of Wisconsin still dealing with the aftermath of the alleged hate crimes that occurred in Ogg Hall last December, one aspect of the incident has not gone unnoticed in the UW community: alcohol.
After the Dane County Sheriff�s Office and the Madison Fire Department conducted a day-long search for University of Wisconsin student Justin Myers on Lake Monona, he turned himself in to Madison police Friday.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. ââ?¬â? Everything seemed to be going Tiffany Clay’s way. She was 18, bright, attractive and heading off to the University of Tennessee with a scholarship as a highly recruited swimmer.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students and employees can learn to fix their bicycles and gain free access to tools under a newly expanded program.
In conjunction with the UW Madison student ââ?¬Å?Village Health Project,ââ?¬Â the Invisible Children National Tour is coming to Madison next week.
People consider UW Madison number one in any number of things — sports, research … or volunteerism. A campus recruiter for the Peace Corps says a record number of Madison alumni understand the value in serving their country by serving others abroad.
“I was in Uganda doing water and sanitation work from 2002 to 2004,” Greg Pepping says.
The debate about whether graffiti is art has gone a step further in the Art Department’s sixth- and seventh-floor landings at UW-Madison’s Mosse Humanities Building.
Students seeking an eclectic array of music and talk may find 91.7 FM-WSUM, the student-run radio station ââ?¬Å?in tuneââ?¬Â with their interests. Besides unique content, equally distinctive to the station is the devotion and passion of the student staff, consisting of hundreds of volunteers dedicated to free speech and non-commercial networking.
About a week and a half ago, I received a call from Mr. Andriy Pazuniak in order to have a phone interview about the People and Posse programs on campus. Being a Posse scholar, I agreed to the interview.
The Madison Police Department has dealt with a drug bust, strong-armed robberies, battery incidents and downtown pipe-bomb threats ââ?¬â? and those incidents only occurred in the past month.
By early spring, laptop-computer users may have the ability to connect wirelessly in the downtown Madison area, as network-provider company Cellnet works to link the city.
Having announced an approximately $153 million plan to rebuild Union South and renovate Memorial Union, Wisconsin Union Directorate representatives now wait to see whether students want to foot part of the bill.
While their teams may have lost, the University of Wisconsin student sections won the favor of UW administrators and police for their behavior during recent home games.
The Senate Judiciary Committee held a public hearing Wednesday and reviewed citizen testimonies seeking to change Wisconsin�s sexual assault laws by making alcohol an intoxicant in rape cases.
The Wisconsin Union Directorate announced the kickoff of a signature drive to garner support for a plan to renovate the student unions Wednesday.
Police have pictures of a man they believe helped attack and rob a UW graduate student last month.
The victim told police he was attacked from behind. He was hit on the head, and pushed to the ground before the robber got away with his wallet.
The wardrobe of a typical UW-Madison student on game day does not usually include the maroon and gold of the Minnesota Gophers. Unless of course the student happens to be one of the nearly 3,000 Minnesotans attending UW-Madison thanks to the tuition reciprocity agreement between Wisconsin and Minnesota.
After accusing UW-Madison administration and the federal government of improper surveillance of its Madison chapter, Stop the War members gathered Tuesday to protest the presence of military recruiters on campus.
After accusing UW-Madison administration and the federal government of improper surveillance of its Madison chapter, Stop the War members gathered Tuesday to protest the presence of military recruiters on campus.
Police have been on high alert over the past week after seven burglaries in the Breese Terrace and Lathrop Street area.
The burglaries are unusual, according to Ald. Robbie Webber, District 5, and Public Information Officer Mike Hanson, because the area is generally seen as safe.
College students are now no longer the only people accessing Facebook. Employers are logging on to check up on both current and prospective employees.
Stop The War! staged a protest in Memorial Union Tuesday criticizing the U.S. government for allegedly monitoring anti-war organizations and University of Wisconsin Chancellor John Wiley for sitting on an FBI counterintelligence panel.
For the 20th year in a row, the University of Wisconsin at Madison produced the most Peace Corps volunteers in 2005, according to a list issued this week by the international-service agency.
A UW-Madison post-secondary education student was killed in a hit-and-run accident Sunday night on Verona Road. The victim was a transfer student from Madison Area Technical College.
Some UW-Madison online courses funded through the Division of Continuing Studies may be eliminated next semester due to budget cuts, according to Howard Martin of DCS.
ââ?¬Å?The courses are offered through the schools and colleges, and the funding mechanism for providing the money to the schools and colleges has been reduced because of the budget cuts from the last couple years,ââ?¬Â Martin said.
The graduation rates of UW-Madison athletes are constantly fluctuating due to student health issues, academic struggle, transfers and turning professional, as in the recent case of former UW-Madison running back Brian Calhoun, say UW-Madison officials.
A University of Wisconsin student died in a car crash on a Beltline exit ramp Sunday night, according to a Channel 3000 news report.
….If there’s one thing I’ve learned in 44 years in this business, the quickest way to spread disinformation, gossip and rumors is for public institutions to hold secrets, a fact too often ignored by the otherwise publicity-seeking UW Athletic Department.
AMHERST, Mass. – No more drinking games at the University of Massachusetts. The school is cracking down on alcohol abuse on the Amherst campus with a list of new rules that go into effect this semester.
Along with banning games meant to get players drunk as quickly as possible, the rules include prohibitions on taps and funnels and large gatherings where more than 10 people are in a dormitory room with alcohol.
MADISON,Wis. — While student-athletes have one central resource for help, other students who feel the pressures of college need a place to go, too.
That’s why the dean of students office has four “on call” deans for students to go to five days a week, News 3 reported.
MADISON, Wis. — The UW Athletic Department is warning students to tone down bad behavior at sporting events.
The UW is making its latest request through E-mail, asking students to be loud and proud, but not so negative.
A series of academic cases involving the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team put UW athletic director Barry Alvarez on the offensive Friday.
Alvarez told members of the UW Athletic Board in open session that action has been taken in the aftermath of announcements earlier this week that sophomore center Greg Stiemsma and freshman forward Marcus Landry are ineligible for the second semester.
Well, at least we’ve got that cleared up.
It was the athletes’ fault.
At least that was the message sent down from the University of Wisconsin athletic department after two men’s basketball players were declared academically ineligible for the second semester and a third left school in part because he wouldn’t have been eligible.
Instead of a carefree jaunt in the Mexican sun, participants in a university-organized program have an opportunity to partake in a more wholesome, service-oriented trip to an equally exotic locale.
The Wisconsin Union Travel Center, which offers several pre-packaged spring break trips to students, is offering a volunteer trip to Petersfield, Jamaica, for the first time, according to Katie Kincaid Wisconsin Union Travel Center spring break coordinator.
UW System plansââ?¬â?two years in the makingââ?¬â?to attract students from the lowest two economic qualities are coming to fruition, according to UW System Communications Director Doug Bradley.
Gov. Doyle�s Wisconsin Covenant, announced during the 2006 State of the State Address, represents a joint effort of the state and UW System to provide students from poorer economic backgrounds with college educations.
The state Senate and Assembly both approved a bill last Thursday that would increase the maximum grant amount awarded to needy University of Wisconsin System students.
Apple Computer is offering a new tool for college students across the country, and the University of Wisconsin is one of the first to pioneer the new technology.
Images of the war in Iraq, of deserts, army firefights and roadside bombings, stream through American TV sets and Internet websites every day.
United Way is providing funding for some UW-Madison students to serve as tutors, Atkinson said. But there are only about 60 math tutors to work with middle school students – a number Atkinson would like to see restored to last year’s level with volunteers, for whom United Way provides training.
When it comes to credit card marketing, companies are dangling everything from free T-shirts to video rental discounts to nab new young consumers.
College students and recent graduates are often the targets of such offers, receiving pre-approved card offers in the mail, on the Internet and at booths on campus.
Most people who participate in the Wisconsin state pension system probably do not know how their money is invested, and this lack of knowledge has devastating consequences, according to Amanda Leipold, a leader of the UW-Madison group Action in Sudan.
I recently dropped off my son at a college four states away, and I thought about my own early drinking experiences (ââ?¬Å?First year in college is the riskiest,ââ?¬Â Special report, Cover story, News, Wednesday).
The recent unruly behavior of UW-Madison hockey fans prompted the UW Athletic Department to send an e-mail to all season-ticket holders Thursday night, requesting sportsmanlike behavior beginning with the two-game home series vs. Minnesota this weekend.
With rival Minnesota visiting the Kohl Center this weekend for a highly anticipated hockey match-up, the University of Wisconsin athletic department wants to remind all students to be good sports.
A new study by the American Institutes for Research revealed graduating college seniors lack proficient literacy skills required to perform relatively basic quantitative tasks.
A three-person panel of city and University of Wisconsin officials spoke to Capitol neighborhood residents and members of the Madison community about alcohol prevention Thursday.
Susan Crowley, project director of PACE (Policy, Alternatives, Community and Education) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, identified some overall drinking trends among students.
An annual UW alcohol survey found the binge drinking rate to be 66 percent. The national average is 44 percent. Binge drinking is defined as four drinks in one sitting for a female and five for a male.
Meanwhile, admissions to detox so far this year have been twice as high as for the same period last year, 30 compared to 14. The good news was that students who reported five or more problems as a result of drinking fell from 30 percent in 1999 to 25 percent in 2005.
University of Wisconsin officials met with The Mendota Beacon Thursday, expressing concern over the student newspaper�s recent coverage of an alleged hate crime in Ogg Hall last month.
Madison has a drinking problem. There’s no doubt about that.
And much like a loved one with an addiction, everyone sort of tiptoes around it, not quite sure what to do.
Well, Thursday night a group of downtown residents met with Madison police and city and UW-Madison representatives and discussed whether an intervention is necessary.
Although three players who started the season on the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team have been declared academically ineligible to play this semester, the director of the athletic department’s academic services does not believe that points to any breakdowns within his group.
Coach Bo Ryan is equally confident in how he and his staff handle academic issues even though sophomore Greg Stiemsma, redshirt freshman DeAaron Williams and freshman Marcus Landry became the program’s first academic casualties in 11 seasons.
Depression on campus. Like anyone else, UW-Madison students are vulnerable to becoming depressed, and that certainly includes student-athletes.
Badger Basketball Sophomore Greg Stiemsma says depression contributed to his being declared academically ineligible this past week.
From vandalism to fights, residents near the Capitol say they’re seeing more alcohol-related crime downtown.
Thursday night, the Capitol Neighborhood, Inc., which represents residents living near the capitol, held a meeting with police, city leaders, and UW to talk about a solution.
Members of CNI say they don’t feel safe.
“A number of our neighbors have been chased off of the street because of the violence that they’ve seen,” says Jamie McCarville, a member of CNI
Gov. Jim Doyle delivered a guest speech at the 85th Annual State Education Convention Jan. 20, outlining his Wisconsin Covenant program and garnering support from statewide school officials.
Greg Stiemsma put an end to speculation about his possible return to the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team this season when he issued a statement Wednesday saying he was academically ineligible to compete with the team this semester.
Stiemsma, a 6-foot-11 sophomore center, said in the statement that he was dealing with depression. He said that affected his grades and caused him to take a leave of absence from the team starting last Wednesday.
Malee Lee stressed out last fall about which colleges to consider, and how to weigh their pluses and minuses.
Now, the Menasha High School senior is in a panic, thinking maybe that was the easy part of her college search.
“What if I can’t afford the one I want? What if I have to get a college loan? I haven’t thought that far ahead,” she said.
