Category: Campus life

Resident assistants at the University of Wisconsin have the right to free speech, but should not use their position to pressure their student residents, a panel has concluded.

The 18-member Resident Assistant Working Group submitted its final report to UW System President Kevin Reilly on Wednesday. The group recommended principles for new rules governing university employees who live and work in the dormitories.

Some college educators, however, have coined the term “helicopter parenting” to describe parents who “hover” in their adult child’s lives or rescue them when problems arise, and see these relationships in a different light. They say the phenomenon has blossomed in the last five years and is giving university administrators a run for their money as they work to foster independence in students who may be away from home for the very first time.

Madison police have already started planning for this year’s State Street Halloween….and the department’s central district captain says there are a number of elements officials want to continue this year….including the temporary fencing for crowd control….

(MADISON) Gay rights groups across the country are worried about reports that the Pentagon is spying on groups that oppose the militaryââ?¬â?¢s ââ?¬Å?Donââ?¬â?¢t Ask-Donââ?¬â?¢t Tellââ?¬Â policy. A group of University of Wisconsin Law School students have joined more than a dozen gay rights groups across the county in filing a Freedom of Information request to find out which organizations are being watched, and whether the secret surveillance is legal. (4th item.)

MADISON, Wis. — A new report shows Halloween 2005 cost the city of Madison $80,000 more than Halloween 2004.

The report indicates that over the past two years the city has spent nearly $1.3 million policing the event. The report also had some surprises.

Wisconsin is a very important contributor to the Peace Corps volunteers accoring to Gary Lore, public affairs specialist with the Minneapolis regional office of the Peace Corps.

“For over a decade, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been the No. 1 contributor of Peace Corps volunteers. ââ?¬Â¦ In the whole scheme of things, in the last 45 years, (Madison) is No. 2 and rapidly catching up with No. 1, which is the University of Southern California.”

MADISON, Wis. — A University of Wisconsin System committee is meeting in Madison on Thursday to develop new guidelines for student dorm workers.

The committee is expected to more clearly define the roles and responsibilities of resident assistants — students who are paid to supervise dorm residents.

The University of Wisconsin at Madison plans to require the companies licensed to make apparel bearing its name or logo to have at least 25 percent of the goods produced at factories where workers are allowed to form unions.

The “designated suppliers” program will begin this fall for all 150 licensees who produce Madison apparel.

Firefighters credit a few UW students with helping two people escape a house fire late Wednesday afternoon.

An unexpected late entrant who filed candidacy papers for the Madison School Board will force a primary in one of the two contested races this spring.

The three-way race for the seat being vacated by retiring board member Bill Keys includes Arlene Silveira, Maya Cole and now Michael Kelly, a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student in medieval studies who filed his papers near the deadline Tuesday afternoon.

….In the other districtwide school board race, Lucy Mathiak, a UW communications director and the founder of a community support organization for East High School, is trying to unseat Juan Jose Lopez, one of the board’s longest serving members.

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is launching a task force on violence against women after a student newspaper ran a photo essay depicting an editor’s sexual fantasy of being raped, sparking outrage across campus.

While many people welcomed in the new year with a drink, far too many people in Wisconsin figure the welcome wagon should be put to use year-round. Heavy use.

One of the worst examples of that abuse of alcohol continues to occur, sadly, at institutions of higher learning in this state.

The Madison Fire Department is taking residents of a campus area apartment building (on Iota Court) to task for failing to leave after their fire alarm sounded.

….Halloween horrors: Separated now by several weeks from an event that kept him sleepless for about a weekend, Cieslewicz said that his perspective on the annual party has changed.

“We do have to recognize that the event has improved somewhat in each of the last four years,” he said. “But still, any time you end the event with pepper spray, it’s not a good thing and there were an awful lot of kids just sick on alcohol.”

The mayor said there are two main points to address next year: Finding ways to make the crowd, particularly the underaged, less inebriated and taking the cost of the party off of property taxpayers.

MADISON, Wis. – A national fraternity has suspended its University of Wisconsin-Madison chapter, saying members broke several rules in hosting a Halloween party that police described as dangerous.

In the 20 years I’ve been doing this column, I’ve never met so many college-age individuals who are committed to making the world a better place. These are, I think most would agree, difficult times to be an optimist.

And yet, for the first time in eons – well, since Election Day, Nov. 7, 2000, actually – I’ll be celebrating Christmas filled with hope.

MADISON, Wis. � A national fraternity has suspended its University of Wisconsin-Madison chapter, saying members broke several rules in hosting a Halloween party that police described as dangerous.

A national fraternity has suspended its University of Wisconsin-Madison chapter, saying members broke several rules in hosting a Halloween party that police described as dangerous.

The Wisconsin Union is pushing to rebuild Union South on its current site rather than renovate it, its director said.

The project, which would also include renovations to the Wisconsin Union Theater, would require funds from a student referendum. Students voted down a similar measure last spring on a 2,385-2,200 vote; union officials are gearing up for a new referendum in spring 2006, although the details of how much students would pay are unclear.

Numerous of pieces of evidence that helped send Ralph Armstrong to prison for the 1980 murder of Charise Kamps, a 19-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison student, are being sent to the State Crime Laboratory for re-analysis and will help prosecutors decide whether to pursue a second conviction against Armstrong.

UW-Madison housing director Paul Evans remembers the gift he said he was “thrilled” to get starting his freshman year at UW-Eau Claire a manual typewriter.

MADISON, Wis. – Members of a University of Wisconsin fraternity face more than $94,000 in fines after police busted a Halloween party at their house.

After 10 years of alcohol education programming, the project known as PACE: Reducing the Consequences of High-Risk Drinking, will no longer have funding from university grants. Over the past decade, PACE has worked together with university officials, UW-Madison and City of Madison Police, the City Council and many other organizations and committees to offer alcohol-free opportunities for university students.