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.
Teaching Assistants Association members overwhelmingly approved the negotiated terms for their 2003-05 and 2005-06 contracts last Friday.
Teaching Assistants Association members overwhelmingly approved the negotiated terms for their 2003-05 and 2005-06 contracts last Friday.
Q. When and how did the “Jump Around” tradition start in the Camp Randall student section?
A. House of Pain’s “Jump Around” was first played on Sept. 10, 1998, when the Badgers defeated Drew Brees and Purdue 31-24. The easy-to-coordinate dance caught on among students, and was particularly helpful at warming students’ frozen legs later in the season. Why “Jump Around”? Well, why anything? Don’t expect the student section to make sense.
An anti-war group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison says it is the target of harassment by campus police and the Dean of Students Office.
But police say the group has consistently crossed the line between protest and intimidation; the Dean of Students Office says it needs to balance the right of free speech with the right of the university to go about its business.
The student group (Stop the War) planned to rally at 2 p.m. today on Library Mall, and march to Bascom Hall.
I don’t recall dorm life as being for the faint of heart.
Apart from hall surfing, contact highs and “the walk of shame” following an ill-advised romantic encounter, living in a dormitory requires young people to learn to put up with beliefs and behavior that may make them uncomfortable.
Forty-one percent of the college football teams headed to bowl games this year have failed to meet new academic standards set by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, according to an annual report released on Monday by the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida.
A dental student at Marquette University has been suspended for the rest of the academic year and ordered to repeat a semester after a committee of professors, administrators and students determined that he violated professional conduct codes when he posted negative comments about unnamed students and professors on a blog.
Kids are used to leaving cookies for Santa, but three UW-Madison bands are looking for earlier holiday help for the hungry. The roughly 320 students in the three University Bands, along with service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega, ask audience members to bring donations of non-perishable food to their Sunday concert for the Second Harvest food bank.
The Pre-college Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence, a program designed to help students of color prepare for college, expanded its scope to Madison elementary schools this fall.
A mechanical flaw caused a 30,000-gallon spill in the Engineering Centers Building Friday morning, causing water damage throughout the building, according to a University statement. Around 5 a.m., two chilled air coils that run through the air-handling systems froze, flooding the top floor.
Dane County Board Supervisor Echnaton Vedder will not run for a fifth two-year term in 2006 and he is backing a UW-Madison junior as his replacement.
Ashok Kumar, a representative on the UW Associated Students of Madison, has thrown his hat in the ring for Vedder’s seat, with Vedder serving as Kumar’s campaign treasurer.
“We need someone who’s really well-connected to the constituency,” Vedder said, referring to the bulk of the voters in District 5 being UW students, since the district encompasses most of the UW campus hugging the south shore of Lake Mendota.
University of Wisconsin student-mentors spent an afternoon with elementary-aged mentees as a part of the Pre-College Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence Prep program Sunday.
MADISON, Wis. — A member of the University of Wisconsin’s national champion cross-country team will be in court on Monday morning facing felony assault charges. Bobby Lockhart was arrested last month, WISC-TV reported.
When David Brailey was a freshman at UW- Madison, his friends found him passed out on the street after he had been out drinking.
Elizabeth Berwitt, a senior at the university, had to shell out $900 to buy another student a new computer after spilling a drink on the keyboard.
Student parents on the University of Wisconsin campus need look no further for affordable, flexible childcare. The UW Office of Child Care and Family Resources provides a variety of resources to help students with children focus on their family and career while pursuing an education at UW.
University of Wisconsin System lawyers may now have to defend the constitutionality of UW-Eau Claire�s Bible-study ban in court.
MADISON – The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire violated a student’s constitutional right to free speech and religious freedom in banning him from leading Bible studies in his dorm room, according to a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court.
MADISON, Wis. — A popular service that ensures University of Wisconsin-Madison students get home safe might not be around much longer.
The student government, the Associated Students of Madison (ASM), wants to scale back funding for SAFEwalk, which provides walking escorts for students on campus, and beef up support for the SAFEride Cab Service.
Plans are firming up for some welcome breathing room for student groups at UW-Madison, as student government leaders this week released blueprints for an activity center slated to be a major piece of the planned University Square redevelopment.
The Associated Students of Madison voted to approve next year�s student segregated fee budget, Wednesday, zero-funding two key features of the Safe Arrival For Everyone program: SAFEcab and SAFEwalk.
Since early November, the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and UW-Madison have been under the magnifying glass of legislators and other public officials for a student housing policy prohibiting resident assistants from holding Bible studies in their residence hall rooms.
Due to extenuating circumstances, final exams overlap with the designated study day on the University of Wisconsin academic calendar this semester.
University of Wisconsin Transportation Services officials said Wednesday it would pull its administrative support of the SAFEride cab program within the next year and a half.
The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire announced Wednesday it will suspend its controversial Bible-study ban, effective immediately.
A State senator wants to take away the right to collective bargaining, from UW System teaching assistants.
UW-Madison’s Teaching Assistants Association has reached a tentative deal with the state after nearly three years of negotiations which included a two day work stoppage. That action got the attention of West Allis Republican, Senator Tom Reynolds. “When the law is broken, is there particular consequences for that, and what should those consequences be?” Reynolds asked. “It’s a violation of state law to go on any kind of illegal work action.”
MADISON, Wis. ââ?¬â? The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire suspended a practice Wednesday of banning resident assistants from leading Bible studies in their dorm rooms after it was slammed by politicians and conservative groups as infringing on religious freedom.
The Recording Industry Association of America today filed a new round of lawsuits against 754 people, including at least one person in Madison, for illegal music sharing using the Internet.
….Despite a suit being filed in Madison, in its list of 12 colleges where network users are targeted, it did not include students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Thick, velvety caramel lines running through creamy cold chocolate ice cream amidst a sea of pecans sit next to raspberries, strawberries and blueberries scattered around a classic vanilla backdrop. Close by is the signature chocolate flavor with a twist of smooth peanut butter to keep your tongue alert. Take your pick; all are offered through Madison�s unique, homemade ice cream and dairy company, the Babcock Hall Dairy Store.
On Nov. 21, the Daily Cardinal Editorial Board declared, ââ?¬Å?TAA Surrenders.ââ?¬Â They made serious factual errors, and the TAA would like to set the record straight: In the 2003-2007 tentative agreement, TAA members have made real gains, despite a tough political and economic climate. The Editorial Boardââ?¬â?¢s opinion is out of touch with UW-Madisonââ?¬â?¢s workers and students and the economic realities of the state budget.
A bill that would take away collective bargaining rights for UW teaching assistants stalled in the state Senate yesterday.
The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire student government has voted in favor of charging students a fee to fund raises for professors and instructors, which are normally paid for with tax money and tuition.
Aaron Olson, the president of campus Student Senate, said the $20 annual fee is needed to draw attention to what he views as the Legislature’s underfunding of the UW System.
“Either we do the job of the Legislature or watch the quality of our education go down,” he told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
NEW YORK – As a student at Davidson College in North Carolina, art-lover Drew Crawford saw business potential in the small college town. The nearby suburbs of Charlotte, N.C., were growing, and the town saw a steady stream of students and their parents each year.
Teaching assistants from the University of Wisconsin System came to the State Capitol on Tuesday to tell legislators why they should reject a bill that would take away their collective bargaining rights.
Sen. Tom Reynolds, R-West Allis, said he proposed the bill because of an illegal strike by the UW-Madison Teaching Assistants Association last year.
….Reynolds said after the hearing that he is not sure when the committee might vote on the bill, but that even if the panel votes against it, he would try to bring it before the Senate by other means.
(MADISON) Sixty-four students displaced by Hurricane Katrina enrolled at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A dozen of them will stay to study next semester, but other students say they�re looking forward to going back to the Big Easy. (Second item.)
A council composed of University System outsiders will soon examine the system-wide diversity issues facing the University of Wisconsin.
Members of the student organization Stop the War said last week they are lobbying against what they believe are intimidation tactics against their movement and that the group may pursue a court injunction against the University of Wisconsin.
