It has been nearly four months since Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, and displaced students are eager to return to their southern schools. With the spring semester approaching, the students who found temporary refuge at UW-Madison must decide whether they will stay.
UW-Madison students are encouraged to participate in city government, but many choose not to, local representatives said.
The City of Madison allows unelected citizens to serve on city committees, but few students have taken the opportunity.
Non-resident students currently make up approximately 22 percent of the undergraduate student population at UW-Madison.
After Wisconsin, Minnesota and Illinois, New York and California are the two most represented states among the undergraduate student population and since the fall of 2003-�04, student representation from California has increased by 160 students, according to numbers provided by the Office of the Registrar.
Although both the undergraduate and graduate schools do not participate in international outreach recruitment programs, UW-Madison continues to attract thousands of international students every year.
For students looking to do a good deed while earning some extra spending money, donating plasma could be the answer.
Educational benefits from a GI bill passed over a year ago have been severely delayed, causing many to question the bill�s implementation and seek alternate methods of educational funding.
Chuck Goranson, a Vietnam veteran and veterans benefit specialist with the local organization Vets for Vets, said the bill, called Chapter 1607, gives extra benefits to members of the National Guard and military reservists who were called to active duty in Iraq, Afghanistan and other operations concerning the war on terrorism.
Contending that they are illegally charged higher tuition and fees than undocumented immigrants, a group of out-of-state students and parents filed a class-action lawsuit Wednesday against California’s public university and community college systems.
(MADISON) A University of Wisconsin-Madison peace group is one of more than forty nationwide that have had their activities monitored by the Pentagon. Peace activists in Madison say they�re angry that peaceful protests are being spied on. (Second item.)
A Madison anti-war protest was one of many such gatherings investigated by the Department of Defense as the military stepped up monitoring of civilian activities, according to a classified database obtained by NBC News.
“This is just a further example of how a war abroad creates paranoia at home,” said Ashok Kumar, a member of the Student Labor Action Coalition, which, along with Stop the War, a UW student group, coordinated the April 26 rally that came under Pentagon scrutiny.
….Participants in the rally numbered only about 20, but a planned Air Force recruiting drive was abandoned as a result.
Last night, NBC reported that the U.S. Defense Department is conducting ongoing surveillance of American peace activists. A 400 page department document acquired by the network lists more than 1,500 “suspicious incidents” by a variety of anti-war and counter-recruitment organizations over the last ten months, while an eight page document (available on MSNBC as a PDF file) lists 43 anti-war meetings across the nation.
This database lists the date of occurrence, date of report, threat status, and other information on each of the surveillance instances. While most of the listed events are in larger states such as California, New York, and Texas, one details a planned protest in Madison last spring.
It is interesting that just a few simple letters put together can mean so much. Take, for example, the letters LGBT. Most students on campus could tell you what the letters stand for (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender), but a surprisingly small amount of students could tell you what they all mean, especially the T.
UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley made a bold step toward guaranteeing worker rights to collectively bargain in the 3,300 factories around the world that produce UW apparel by announcing Tuesday the university�s plan to begin a pilot program endorsed by the United Students Against Sweatshops. The program will require companies producing officially licensed apparel products to purchase 25 percent of their goods from factories that allow a union.
Although keg registration has momentarily become a nonissue, one city alder said he hopes to pass a law limiting access to kegs of beer.
UW-Madison staff members responded to Wisconsin Student Interest Research Groupââ?¬â?¢s ââ?¬Å?Big Red Go Greenââ?¬Â campaign with a message of realism over idealism at a Tuesday night panel discussion. The panel, which was preceded by a video about the applications of solar power, set the tone for the discussion.
Students planning to apply to graduate school next year can expect to take a revised entrance exam.
Companies who manufacture officially licensed apparel products will be required to purchase at least 25 percent of their goods from factories that allow some form of unionization for workers, under UW-Madison�s pilot program, Chancellor John Wiley announced Tuesday.
When John Wiley ventured to South Africa earlier this semester, Interim Provost Virginia Sapiro essentially became the acting chancellor of the University of Wisconsin. With Peter Spear having just retired, Ms. Sapiro is so new to the position of provost that, at the time of this editorial�s writing, the chancellor�s official website still listed her predecessor as holding the job.
The Madison Common Council made decisions directly affecting the livelihood of University of Wisconsin students at a meeting Tuesday.
In his first public speaking appearance since catapulting the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire into a firestorm of controversy, resident assistant Lance Steiger received mostly words of encouragement at a legislative hearing Tuesday.
Chancellor John Wiley met with members of the Labor Licensing Policy Committee Tuesday to announce the University of Wisconsin will be taking the first step in conciliating student labor activists nationwide.
Sixteen students at the University of Minnesota have committed suicide in the past five years, and antidepressants are now the second-most-often prescribed medication at the student health center pharmacy.
As demand for mental health services increases and the problems that students bring to college grow more severe, the university’s Boynton Health Service is working to keep up.
MADISON, Wis. – Republican lawmakers praised a University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire resident assistant on Tuesday for speaking out against a school practice prohibiting him from holding Bible studies in his dorm building.
MADISON, Wis. — A new apparel policy on the UW campus may bring the school and Student Labor Action Coalition closer to a compromise.
For months, the Student Labor Action Coalition has requested that the university stop buying licensed collegiate apparel from companies that run sweatshops.
Madison: The University of Wisconsin System has suspended a policy that prevents certain students from holding bible studies in their dorm rooms.
UW Eau Claire senior Lance Steiger didn’t want to start a fight, he just wanted to hold a bible study every Tuesday night with some other students in the basement of his dorm. “It was people we had either met on campus or people that had listed on a survey that they were interested in bible study so we contacted them.”
An upgraded version of UW-Madison�s Integrated Student Information System resumed functioning on Monday after being offline since Dec. 2.
As the fall semester winds down, students are once again asked to fill out professor and teaching assistant evaluation forms and are often left wondering exactly what purpose these evaluations serve.
UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley will unveil a definitive policy Tuesday in a press conference regarding how the university�s logo apparel will be manufactured, according to LaMarr Billups, special assistant to the chancellor.
Beginning next year, professors at various United States universities, including the University of Wisconsin, will be able to give lectures in classrooms other than 400-plus-seat lecture halls as a result of the ââ?¬Å?Indo-U.S. Inter-University Collaborative Initiative in Higher Education and Research.ââ?¬Â
Both sides of the controversial University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Bible-study ban will meet face-to-face at the Capitol today.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents is right to look for ways to help low-income students attend college.
Tuition at UW campuses has gone up from an average $2,848 in 1997 to an average level of $5,037 today. Meanwhile, financial aid for low-income students has not kept pace ââ?¬â? rising from $843 to only $1,284 during the same time period.
A landmark downtown Madison tavern has closed its doors after nearly 30 years in business. Stillwaters, which has anchored the high profile intersection of State Street and East Johnson since the 1970s, has not renewed its lease at 250 State St. and will not reopen.
….(Marsh) Shapiro, who owns the two Nitty Gritty taverns in Madison, said he didn’t think the city smoking ban had anything to do with the closing.
“I’d like to say that’s the reason but I don’t think it had much to do with it,” Shapiro said.
But Shapiro said all downtown tavern owners are feeling the pressure over the class action lawsuit filed by UW-Madison students over the end of campus area drink specials. The case is still pending.
A recent U.S. Supreme Court case has propelled the issue of military recruitment on university campuses, an ongoing controversy at UW-Madison, onto a national stage.
With the stress of finals quickly approaching, University of Wisconsin students are hitting the books hard, but not without some partying to relieve the stress. The Madison Police Department, however, is hoping for more studying than partying.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents is considering new ways to make the UW System more affordable, including charging students different tuition rates based on their family’s income.
UW-Madison law student and long-time blogger Zachary Wyatt, 27, thinks the recent suspension of Marquette dental student Theodore Schrubbe for comments made on his personal blog is “tyrannical.”
Two UW-Madison students — Anne Reiland from Sparta and Ryan Huibregtse of Brookfield — have agreed to share their freshman-year experiences with us, with the help of freelance writer Scott Carney, a UW-Madison graduate student.
Three UW-Madison professors and one UW-Madison alumna spoke Thursday night at Birge Hall about the approach to understanding and treating the global HIV/AIDS epidemic in an event coordinated by the Student Global AIDS Campaign.
The UW System Board of Regents discussed several models to increase access for low-income students to system schools Thursday, including a plan that would require students to take a pledge of good behavior in high school and one that would repay loans, provided a graduate remain in Wisconsin.
The University of Wisconsin Student Global Aids Campaign gathered a panel of four experts on the HIV/AIDS virus to discuss the personal, political and scientific issues related to the virus Thursday.
While displaced Hurricane Katrina victims waited for the floodwaters to recede from their Louisiana coastal homes this fall, University of Wisconsin veterinarians rushed to the disaster area to help the discarded pets and animals.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents discussed strategies to increase enrollment opportunities for low-income students Thursday morning.
UW-Madison officials are proposing a project that would reclaim some of the big, older houses in the Vilas and Greenbush neighborhoods that, over the years, have turned into run- down student apartments.
Students have been moving out of the homes, which are privately owned, in the near West Side neighborhoods in recent years, choosing instead to live in newer apartment buildings and residence halls, said Gary Brown, UW director of planning and landscape architecture.
One of the unspoken divisions between Ivy League schools and public schools has officially broken. A recent article in the New York Times revealed the UW-Madison and Harvard are tied in the production of chief executive officers. Previously, Ivy League schools had always yielded the highest number of CEOs. The switch reflects the business world�s need for diverse leaders who communicate in an everyday manner that demonstrates real-world experience.
The Madison Urban Design Commission gave the final go-ahead to Madison Real Estate Properties� General Development Plan for the new University Square Wednesday night.
A model to increase higher-income students� tuition while lowering the tuition for lower-income families will be brought to the table tomorrow morning during the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents meeting.
Many University of Wisconsin studentsââ?¬â?¢ most exciting college memories involve cheering in the stands with thousands of other Badger fans during sporting events, from football to basketball to hockey. For athletes, memories consist of actually being on the field, or on the court or in the rink ââ?¬â? and going to class, studying for finals and having a social life.
The University Square development plan took a key step toward approval Wednesday when the City of Madison Urban Design Commission gave final endorsement to the General Development Plan, or GDP, for the space.
The University of Wisconsin will have to improve the academic standings of its student-athletes or it will face NCAA repercussions, according to a report released by the University of Central Florida earlier this week.
Madison police costs for the Halloween weekend on State Street this year increased by nearly $100,000 over 2004.
Madison police, with about 60 more officers staffing the event, spent a total of $349,000 on the weekend, according to a statement released by the department (yesterday), with about $126,500 going toward overtime and benefits.
The total cost for all law enforcement agencies was about $580,000. That breaks down to $76,600 for the Dane County Sheriff’s Office, $98,400 for UW Police, $45,000 for the town of Madison, $8,800 for the State Capitol Police and $42,000 for the State Patrol.
After a nearly three-year impasse with the state, teaching assistants at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have officially relented on the state’s demand that they pay for health insurance.
The Teaching Assistants Association ratified a contract with the state covering the 2003-05 and 2005-07 bienniums, the association reported Tuesday. The contract requires the teaching assistants to pay for health insurance for the first time in their history.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is spearheading a pilot project to convert rundown student rental housing in the Vilas and Greenbush neighborhoods to owner-occupied housing.
The project, unveiled at a meeting Wednesday night, would encourage more UW employees to live near work and to upgrade and stabilize the neighborhoods on the campus borders.
The project would encourage the employees to walk or bike to work, reducing the number of cars on campus.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that the government can seize a person’s Social Security benefits to pay old student loans.
Retiring Justice Sandra Day O’Connor wrote the decision that went against a disabled man, James Lockhart, who contends he needs all of his $874 monthly check to pay for food and medication.
His government benefits had been cut by 15 percent to cover debts he incurred for college in the 1980s.
The already-dim possibility that Madison may adopt some form of keg registration became even less likely after the Madison Police Department dropped its active support of the ordinance at a Public Safety Review Board meeting Tuesday.
The push to replace Echnaton Vedder on the Dane County Board of Supervisors has become a three-dog race.
Madison Police Department Chief Noble Wray has withdrawn support for the keg-registration ordinance.
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court appeared ready today to uphold a law that says colleges cannot turn away military recruiters in protest of the Pentagon’s policy on gays if the universities also want to receive federal money.
New Chief Justice John Roberts said schools unhappy with the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy have a simple solution: Turn down federal cash.
BOSTON ââ?¬â? Melissa Taylor said she had never heard the terms “last call” or “closing time” until she came to Boston from New Orleans, with its never-ending nightlife.
When Hurricane Katrina forced Tulane University to cancel its fall semester, Taylor found herself enrolled in what she and about 13,000 other Tulane students have come to think of as “our domestic semester abroad.”
UW-Madison senior Bobby Lockhart, a member of Wisconsin�s men�s cross country and track teams, will be in Dane County Circuit Court today facing charges of substantial battery with intended bodily harm, a felony, and disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor.
Living in a city like Madison, University of Wisconsin students are given a unique opportunity to get involved in politics thanks to the close proximity of the state capitol.
The state of Wisconsin charged University of Wisconsin senior Bobby Lockhart with one felony count of substantial battery with the intent to do bodily harm Monday.
