One college freshman’s photo shows her sitting beside an open toilet seat, looking hung over.
The profile she posted on an online college directory describes her as a “firewoman.” “And you slide down my pole,” she writes. “Does that make you hot?”
The long tale of the Teaching Assistants� Association�s battle for a wage increase without health care premiums is coming to a close. But the moral of this story is not a happy one for teaching assistants or their union. The product of this two-year battle and strike is a meager 8 percent wage increase and a total capitulation on health care payment.
The Facebook restricted a profile created by the Student Labor Action Coalition criticizing Chancellor John Wiley for his stance on an anti-sweatshop proposal, according to UW-Madison sophomore and SLAC member John Bruning. Bruning said that those from SLAC who were working on the profile were unable to edit it.
The Teaching Assistants� Association could end the nearly two-year process of contract negotiations by ratifying its contract with the state on Dec. 2. While the contract offers minor wage increases, it also dictates TAs will pay for health care, according to the TAA contract offer obtained by The Daily Cardinal. The health care payment was the main point of contention in the past two years, resulting in a strike and two-day walkout in April 2004.
When freshman students begin life on a new campus, safety is of the utmost importance. After a while, the feeling of safety becomes interminable and immunity to danger develops. Crime rates are as low as they have ever been, and the belief that ââ?¬Å?thereââ?¬â?¢s no way anything could happen to meââ?¬Â is overwhelming. Walking home at night alone? No problem. This feeling of safety is what every student deserves to feel while at home at his or her school. Unfortunately, this is not always the case, and the root of some problems may be the fault of the university.
Broadcaster Pat Robertson recently issued a fatwa over the citizens of Dover, Penn., who voted out of office school board members who supported intelligent design in the school curriculum. ââ?¬Å?Iââ?¬â?¢d like to say to the good citizens of Dover: if there is a disaster in your area, donââ?¬â?¢t turn to God. You just rejected Him from your city,ââ?¬Â Robertson said. Hmm ââ?¬Â¦ is this about science or religion?
It could be argued Regent Christopher Semenas has a more difficult and challenging role than any of his fellow board members.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation early Friday morning cutting $14.3 billion in federal student financial aid and $11.4 billion in Medicaid funds.
After nearly three years of on-and-off deliberations, the University of Wisconsin Teaching Assistants Association and the state reached an agreement last week to bring the two groups into compliance through 2007.
Considering headlines about UW students’ drinking, what are the stumbling blocks that contribute to problem drinking? They are poor role-modeling by parents, teachers and government leaders; greedy bartenders; churches hesitant to speak up lest they lose members; legislators unwilling to alienate the alcohol industry by taxation and restrictions on ads and the apathy of others who say it’s culture and unavoidable.
Abraham Lincoln said “A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started. He will assume control of your cities, states and nations . . . the fate of humanity is in his hands.”
The Roman Empire was not defeated from enemies without but by debauchery and corruption within. We cannot let this happen to our state and nation.
– Allegra Zick, president, Baraboo Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Next weekend marks the annual flight home of the college freshmen, the midterm migration in which recently fledged students return home to prove their parents are getting their money’s worth.
We have so many questions for these kids. How are they holding up against all those liberal professors we keep hearing about? Is it really possible to live on nothing but Chipotle burritos? And how could they have gone so many minutes over their monthly cell phone allotment without ever having called home?
Anti war activists hoping to shut down a UW-Madison campus area military recruiting office were surprised to find the office closed during regular business hours.
Now that we have a couple of weeks’ distance from this year’s Halloween “festivities” in Madison, during which the police decided to pepper-spray a crowd to pre-empt the drunken rampages of previous years, perhaps we can begin to think seriously about underage drinking.
The University of Wisconsin steals the national spotlight, but for reasons other than academics.
News 3�s Steve Van Dinter reported Thursday�s article in USA Today is being celebrated by some, but despised by others, because it focuses on the UW�s drinking reputation.
Before making an all-night journey to an infamous military training center in Georgia, Madison area peace activists urged Bishop Robert Morlino to work to bring about change there.
Morlino was appointed last month to the 13-member board of visitors of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, formerly known as the School of the Americas, at Fort Benning in Georgia.
…. The 42-member Madison delegation included 30 college age students, including six from Edgewood and 15 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Many UW-Madison students opened their e-mail Thursday morning to find a Facebook friend request from Chancellor John Wiley. The link led them to a mock profile engineered by the Student Labor Action Coalition as a statement against Wileyââ?¬â?¢s criticism of its anti-sweatshop proposal. At the bottom of the profile was a disclaimer announcing the profile, like Wileyââ?¬â?¢s stance on sweatshops, was ââ?¬Å?an offensive joke.ââ?¬Â
With tuition costs constantly on the rise, many students worry that there�s no end in sight. Various solutions to the ever-increasing cost of higher education have been proposed, but none seem viable.
City officials pondered the future of a keg-registration ordinance Thursday after the Madison Alcohol License Review Committee filed the proposal at a meeting Wednesday.
Every day at the Wisconsin Unions, dozens of events ranging from student organizational meetings to the Distinguished Lecture Series and live music performances take place.
Since retiring as vice president of Worldwide Marketing at the Parker Pen Company in Janesville 20 years ago, Regent Roger Axtell has spent much of his retirement speaking on international business and stressing the value of studying abroad.
Seeking stronger action to prevent University of Wisconsin apparel from being manufactured in sweatshops, the Student Labor Action Coalition invited students to join Chancellor John Wiley�s list of Facebook friends Wednesday.
Buying more than one keg of beer could become illegal in Madison if a proposed keg registration ordinance is passed.
With the holiday season fast approaching, students can ask for gift cards from Best Buy, The Gap and now the UW System under a bill that allows for tuition gift certificates.
Freshmen descended on the university in droves this year, putting pressure on admissions to tighten enrollment and raise standards for next year.
To keep students in class and out of the doctor�s office this winter, University Health Services announced Wednesday the department will again offer students free flu vaccinations throughout the semester.
Twenty-five Wisconsin legislators sent a letter to Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager Wednesday, asking her legal opinion on a University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire policy, which they feel may be unconstitutional.
The Alcohol License Review Committee approved the keg registration ordinance at a meeting Wednesday.
Western Collegiate Hockey Association commissioner Bruce McLeod said he’s disappointed in Adam Burish’s actions, but he won’t add any extra games to the University of Wisconsin hockey captain’s punishment.
Burish is out for Saturday’s WCHA game against Minnesota State because of a game disqualification he received for a hit on Colorado College’s Scott Thauwald at the end of last Saturday’s game. McLeod reviewed video of the incident but, after consulting with league supervisor of officials Greg Shepherd and taking into account past league suspensions, decided Tuesday it did not warrant more on-ice discipline.
College students who have already suffered negative consequences of drinking and driving are more likely to drink and drive again than are their peers who have not dealt with such consequences, a study has found.
According to the study, which was published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol, it’s hard to break the habit of drinking and driving, even though college students who have experienced a drunken-driving accident or arrest show a better understanding of the risks involved than those who have not.
If Angie Gratzl could make kids understand one thing about the dangers of underage drinking, it’s that bad things can happen to you. She knows, because they happened to her son. Some 15 months ago, during move-in time last year at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, her son Jason, then 18, drank too much at a house party and fell from a second-floor balcony, where a friend told police he had gone to vomit.
Research by Pennsylvania State University professor Rob Turrisi suggests that parents who talk with their child about alcohol can influence his or her drinking habits in college. And it can make a difference even if parents don’t start until the months before the start of the freshman year.
A proposal to regulate the number of kegs in houses and apartments in Madison to twoââ?¬Â¦suffered a defeat last night. Alderman Paul Skidmore’s measureââ?¬Â¦.which was designed to crack down on house partiesââ?¬Â¦was voted down by the city’s Alcohol License Review Committee.
Wren Singer, director of freshman orientation at the University of Wisconsin, calls them the ââ?¬Å?wink-wink, nudge-nudge parents,ââ?¬Â the ones who typically make themselves known during parent sessions at orientation. When the topic turns to how parents might talk with their child about drinking, ââ?¬Å?One parent in the back will say, ââ?¬Ë?Oh, but kids will be kids,’ and everyone will laugh. You see it in their faces ââ?¬â? relief: ââ?¬Ë?Oh, yeah, kids will be kids.’ ââ?¬Â
Growing criticism could cut off access to prime market. Every marketer has its sweet spot. That’s the age group where brand preferences begin forming for their product. For fast-food giants, it’s the Happy Meal set. For soft-drink makers, it’s preteens. For beer kingpins ââ?¬â? and, increasingly, wine and liquor producers ââ?¬â? it’s the college crowd.
Should you have to pay to attend next year’s Halloween festivities on State Street?
That’s one of the ideas being tossed around to help cover law enforcement costs for the event.
Would a beer keg registration law in Madison help cut down on binge drinking and underage drinking?
As Madison considers what to do about future Downtown Halloween parties, the city should recognize that the celebration is fun for some and good business for others. But it’s also a huge expense for our community.
NEW YORK (AP) — For decades, getting more students into college has been the top priority of America’s higher education leaders. But what’s the point, a growing number of experts are wondering, when so few who go to school finish a degree?
Following the release of a police DVD of last month�s Halloween festivities, representatives gathered together yesterday to scrutinize the aftermath of this year�s event.
Chancellor John Wiley has yet to sign a resolution improving the working conditions for sweatshop laborers manufacturing University of Wisconsin apparel.
Once again, state legislators and the national media have turned their attention to the UW System. This time, their fiery gaze has zeroed in on UW-Eau Claire.
Madison�s unofficial Halloween planning group maintained mostly positive opinions about the 2005 celebration at a Tuesday meeting.
University of Wisconsin System officials asked the attorney general Monday for her opinion on whether a practice at the Eau Claire campus of banning resident assistants from leading Bible studies in their dorm rooms is constitutional.
….UW-Eau Claire resident assistant Lance Steiger, who challenged the policy, said he was happy to see the UW System seek an outside opinion on the practice. But he said a lawsuit was possible if the school does not change its policy.
Proposed cuts to financial aid programs could harm the ability of some families to send their children to college, a state lawmaker says.
Republicans in Congress are trying to cut $50 billion in overall spending, and have targeted $14.5 billion in student financial aid cuts over the next five years. The House is expected vote on Wednesday.
….State Rep. Spencer Black, D-Madison, said Monday that the cuts would come on top of major tuition increases in the states. By next year, tuition at University of Wisconsin campuses will have increased more than 50 percent over four years.
It must have been a long time since state Rep. Marlin Schneider, D-Wisconsin Rapids, last stepped foot on a UW campus because his ââ?¬Å?student bill of rightsââ?¬Â is completely out of touch with the students and lacks all practicality. Its chief accomplishment is to be an absolute waste of time and money for students, professors, university administrators, legislators and taxpayers.
Former Senator George McGovern spoke to a crowd of UW-Madison students in the Wisconsin Union Theater as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series Monday.
In a situation that may strain the relationship between church and state in Wisconsin, UW System officials appealed to the state attorney general Monday for her input on a UW policy that forbids resident assistants from holding religious functions in dormitories.
Attention! This university is on high alert! According to some University of Wisconsin officials, we have a huge problem here on campus that is ruining this university�s reputation.
University of Wisconsin Regent Danae Davis has made a priority of creating a healthy campus climate for UW students.
Expressing various qualms with the country�s current political sphere, former United States Senator and former presidential candidate George McGovern spoke to a packed crowd at the Memorial Union Monday.
Madison – Emily Bach, a freshman at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, recognized her friends’ Halloween costumes immediately – jackets by The North Face, oversize sunglasses, sheepskin boots known as Uggs.
MADISON – University of Wisconsin System officials asked the attorney general Monday for her opinion on whether a practice at the Eau Claire campus of banning resident assistants from leading Bible studies in their dorm rooms is constitutional.
Some of the hardest-working, most engaged students at community colleges also are achieving the lowest academic results, a report out Monday says.
The Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) says students who are considered high-risk ââ?¬â? typically defined as being less academically prepared, minorities, the first in their families to go to college or older than their peers ââ?¬â? are generally more engaged in school than their colleagues.
SAN JOSE, Calif. – New federal proposals would significantly change how research is conducted at universities, placing tough restrictions on foreign-born scientists and tightening access to equipment and computers.
UW-Madison researchers said the proposed rules could create problems for them. Universities are exempt from most federal controls on their work because they conduct what the government calls “fundamental research” – work that is taught in open classrooms, published in journals and shared openly with the scientific community.
It is not true that officials at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire will be conducting room checks to make sure that students aren’t reading their Bibles or the Qur’an on state property; nor will those officials be conducting bed checks to make sure the kids aren’t praying before they close their eyes to sleep
University Partners is renovating the five private dorms serving UW-Madison students that it acquired from Steve Brown Apartments of Madison.
University Partners, a subsidiary of Dallas-based FirstWorthing, acquired the Highlander, Statesider, Langdon, The Towers and The Regent in 2004, and is taking over management of them on Jan. 1.
A bill proposed in the state Assembly would set specific standards for school policy and professor conduct to ensure the rights of students in the UW System, according to its author, Marlin Schneider, D-Wisconsin Rapids.
Some revelers attending last month�s Halloween festivities were captured not only by police officers, but also by police cameras.
Pending a signature from Governor Doyle upon his return from abroad, the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents will add a second student representative.
Camp Randall Stadium saw 66 ejections and 33 arrests from a record crowd of 83,184 for Barry Alvarez�s final home game as the University of Wisconsin�s head football coach Saturday.
