Category: Campus life

The number of foreign students who enrolled at American colleges and universities fell for the second consecutive year in 2004, with much of the damage seen in the graduate schools, where international enrollments dropped for the first time in nearly 10 years.

These results appear in the latest edition of “Open Doors,” an annual report on international academic mobility that is published by the Institute of International Education and supported by the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

All University of Wisconsin students traveling to Spain next spring will soon be receiving their visas.

In a win for student representation on the UW System Board of Regents, the state Senate unanimously passed a measure to add another student regent to the board Thursday.

A married duo of Washington insiders, UW-Madison alumni Rita Braver and Robert Barnett, discussed insights on their careers and on the current state of Washington with UW-Madison students Thursday.

The Board of Regents raised several issues relevant to students during Thursday�s meeting, including the results of a UW System-wide drug and alcohol use survey and the proposed audit of student segregated fees.

University of Wisconsin students will have additional representation on the UW System Board of Regents if a bill passed in the State Assembly Thursday becomes law.

University of Wisconsin business students seeking to go to Spain next semester learned Thursday they will be able to receive their visas in time for the trip.

The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents Education Committee discussed several issues pertaining to the UW System Thursday, including a recent survey related to alcohol abuse throughout the system.

The auditor of the University of Wisconsin System agreed Thursday to launch a review of student fees at the request of a member of the UW Board of Regents.

The announcement by Ron Yates of the audit – the first one ever requested by a regent – came less than two weeks after the Journal Sentinel reported that annual student fees had more than doubled at most schools in the UW System, to as high as nearly $1,150 at UW-Green Bay.

MADISON, Wis. � University of Wisconsin officials moved ahead Thursday with a plan to audit how its schools are using student fees, which have skyrocketed along with tuition in recent years.

Most people know UW Madison students drink.

But the UW Board of Regents wants to know what to do about it in the wake of statistics some experts call alarming.

Students gave input on plans for creating a new Union South and renovating aspects of the Memorial Union during the Wisconsin Union Facilities Improvement Plan 2005 Student Open Forum Wednesday.

For more than 30 years, officials in higher education have made a mission of leveling the playing field for potential college applicants in a variety of ways.

Union officials held an open forum for students and faculty Wednesday, listening to feedback and providing reasons to address future reconstructive projects of Memorial Union and Union South as a part of the Campus Master Plan.

U.S. Rep. Mark Green, R-Wis., sent a letter to University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly Wednesday requesting the system rescind a controversial policy he views as ââ?¬Å?unconstitutional.ââ?¬Â

Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz addressed Halloween, students� impact on the city and his potential recall while drinking milk and eating cookies at a discussion with University of Wisconsin students Wednesday at Grainger Hall.

Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz addressed Halloween, students� impact on the city and his potential recall while drinking milk and eating cookies at a discussion with University of Wisconsin students Wednesday at Grainger Hall.

Playboy has been on campus since Monday, looking for girls to bare all, and show off their ranking of the u-w as a top party school. A ranking that has many at the university concerned about the consequences.

WHITEWATER, Wis. – Nearly every college has some screwball who never seems to graduate, lingering year after year as classmates move on. And then there is Johnny Lechner.

In his 12th year of college here, Mr. Lechner has parlayed life as perpetual student into a lucrative personal brand. His genius for self-promotion might have earned him Phi Beta Kappa – if only it had been applied to his studies.

Chancellor John Wiley refused to sign a proposal to curtail sweatshop labor in the production of UW-Madison merchandise. Now Associated Students of Madison is voicing its concerns with Wiley�s decision.

Molly Jahn, a professor of plant breeding and genetics and plant biology at Cornell University, will soon take over as dean of UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. As a college, CALS has a budget of over $150 million and is annually awarded over $100 million in research grants. It also contains 2,200 undergraduates, 1,000 graduate students and 270 faculty members.

Facing problems obtaining the necessary visas from the Spanish consulate in Chicago, UW-Madison students may have to cancel or postpone plans to study abroad in Spain during the upcoming spring semester.

The Associated Students of Madison received a letter from Chancellor John Wiley Tuesday in response to a proposal aimed at the university�s apparel-licensing policy.

University of Wisconsin students set to travel abroad to Spain this spring now face uncertain plans.

Dear Editor: I am an engineering graduate student at UW-Madison and have attended Halloween on State Street for each of the last seven years. I have become very frustrated by the attitude of the police and the mayor over the last few years. Every year they claim to spend so much time planning the event, but the planning always results in minimal communication and excessive force by the police.

It seems to me most of the crowd would leave State Street at the threat of being pepper-sprayed, so why don’t the police warn us (if they have, I have never heard it)….It seems a little communication could go a long way.

Mohammed Abed cannot visit his grandfather�s house.

His family was expelled from Palestine in 1949 after much of their homeland was designated to become the state of Israel in 1948. His family settled in a refugee camp in Lebanon. ââ?¬Å?For many years, Palestinians have cried out to the world that we were ethnically cleansed from our land,ââ?¬Â Abed said. ââ?¬Å?Nobody believed them.ââ?¬Â

Fifty UW-Madison students with a desire to travel and help the less fortunate can do so this winter through the Wisconsin Union�s Alternative Breaks program.

The external structure is nearly complete on Newell J. Smith Hall, and construction is on track for new students to move in for fall 2006. Smith Hall is part of a plan to expand UW-Madison�s campus housing, as the university�s goal is to eventually have enough housing available for an entire freshman class.

Ald. Paul Skidmore, District 9, amended his proposed keg-registration ordinance last week so that a person looking to secure more than two kegs for a party will no longer need to provide a reason to the city clerk during the application process.

While University of Wisconsin students and the Madison Police Department generally had the same goal of participating in a safe Halloween event, disagreement persists regarding the use of mounted patrol on State Street.

Dear Editor: As a 42-year-old law-abiding citizen, I feel compelled to express my outrage at the way people were pepper-sprayed Saturday night of Halloween weekend.

I can tell you that people were on their best behavior all night. Then without provocation the police appeared in riot gear and started pepper-spraying everyone for no reason. I was just standing there on the sidewalk minding my own business when I was pepper-sprayed. I was blinded for hours.

MADISON, Wis. — A new study shows students in the University of Wisconsin System binge drink more often than their peers across the country.
A survey of more than 12,000 UW students last spring found six out of 10 of them had gone on a drinking binge at least once in the last two weeks.

As soon as calculated Halloween arrest statistics are available, University of Wisconsin officials will discipline students as they see fit. But those numbers have yet to be released, according to Mike Hanson, public information officer for the Madison Police Department.