The Madison Police Department says, after a year of planning, they met two of their four goals to bring a safe end to the Halloween event on State Street. In a release sent five hours after the event ended in a cloud of pepper spray, the department and the city now believes there should be serious discussion as to the future of Halloween in Madison.
Many State Street bars will maintain close-to-normal bar times this Halloween with last call at 2 a.m. and doors closing at 2:30 a.m., despite city pressure to close early. Some will also open their back-door exits to help ease bar-time congestion.
Halloween is defined by children in the United States as the one day each year that they can dress up as something other than themselves, go door-to-door and receive candy for free, and then proceed to hoard and consume the candy that they have earned. If that same definition were applied to Madison, one would assume that every day is Halloween.
To reduce the number of visitors to Madison for Halloween, Interim Dean of Students Lori Berquam has made significant strides in contacting neighboring university officials about expectations regarding the celebration.
Whenever a student-athlete at the University of Wisconsin finds the kind of trouble that makes headlines, questions are invariably raised about their perceived lack of awareness.
Doesn’t he know better than to get into a bar fight, especially when he’s underage and everyone knows who he is?
Northwestern students celebrating Halloween at the University of Wisconsin will not be allowed to stay in university housing, Wisconsin administrators announced last week in a letter to Big Ten schools. Wisconsin administrators will also contact the universities of visiting students who are arrested at the Halloween hotspot.
Even though college studentsââ?¬â?¢ trick-or-treating days are long gone, the urge to dress up in ridiculous costumes is too great to just spend Halloween at home. This year, instead of bemoaning their ââ?¬Å?uninvitationââ?¬Â to Badgerland, University students should not hesitate to let loose. They donââ?¬â?¢t need to go far.
Whenever a student-athlete at the University of Wisconsin finds the kind of trouble that makes headlines, questions are invariably raised about their perceived lack of awareness.
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (AP) — Yale is banning drinking games from this year’s football game against Harvard and will shut down all tailgate parties after halftime — a move some alumni say could put a damper on one of college football’s oldest and most storied rivalries.
“A police officer came up, grabbed me and said that I’d thrown rocks at police officers.”
That was the beginning of a long night for then UW sophomore Afsheen Foroozan.
Foroozan says the officer who took him in was wrong … he was actually throwing tennis balls, that were part of his costume.
Dale Morris will be among the madness on Madison’s State Street Saturday night where he says he’ll drink some beer.
“Within reason, you know, cuz it gets pretty crazy around here you gotta keep on your toes,” he explains.
Halloween is just 2 nights away and businesses are bracing for another round of partying on Saturday night, a night that has typically erupted into riots, looting, and windows being smashed in years past.
(MADISON) The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents recently voted to allow a group of students to handle more than 30 million dollars of investments on behalf of the University. Itââ?¬â?¢s a hands-on experiment that they hope will be a good — and profitable — learning experience.
Most know of it as ââ?¬Å?The Red Gym.ââ?¬Â Others simply refer to it as ââ?¬Å?the castle on Langdon Street.ââ?¬Â There is even a group on facebook.com that is convinced the Red Gym is the home of Bowser, the famous archenemy of Nintendoââ?¬â?¢s classic videogame hero, Mario.
On the daily trudge up Bascom Hill, although students may not realize it, they are passing a National Historic Landmark. Tucked between Bascom Hall and the Education building sits the first building erected on the University of Wisconsin campus: North Hall.
Walking down Langdon Street toward Memorial Union, you cannot miss it. It is waiting for you at the end of the block, testing your audacity. The recently turned orange ivy creeps up the sides of its brown stone base. Overgrown bushes frame the uncomfortable shade of crimson red brick. Once you have finally digested the structure, your eyes dart to rusty green letters reading Science Hall directly centered over the entrance. ââ?¬Å?Proceed,ââ?¬Â it dares.
Madison starts its weekend-long Halloween revelry this Friday, with area officials urging participants to celebrate responsibly or face ââ?¬Å?strong actionââ?¬Â in the future. While this warning may seem standard, it is far from hollow. A similar celebration in Boulder, Colo., where reckless behavior drove the city to discontinue its Pearl Street Mall Crawl, could foreshadow the future of Halloween in Madison.
Police Chief Noble Wray and Mayor Dave Cieslewicz outlined Wednesday the City of Madison�s plan to keep Halloween safe and secure this weekend.
Madison�s Halloween celebrations have been marked by rioting and extreme disorderly conduct for the past three years. City officials said they intend to stop the trend. Security planning for this year�s event started immediately after last year�s Halloween.
The stereotype of college students as apathetic, uninvolved individuals is simply not accurate, Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., declared Wednesday at an event held by College Democrats of Madison in the Wisconsin Union Theater.
On a cold October evening in Madison some three years ago, a few ordinary people decided that a holiday normally reserved for elementary school children with candy pails should include excessive inebriation, pyromania and looting. These troublemakers were not a representative sample of the city�s population or even the University of Wisconsin student body; they were a group of bad apples with no caramel coating.
In the past decade, 1,500 college seniors with good academic standing dropped out of the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.
Madison city leaders urged University of Wisconsin students to be leaders in their efforts to make the State Street Halloween celebration safe and fun at a press conference Wednesday.
Former vice presidential hopeful and current U.S. Sen. John Edwards, D-North Carolina, called University of Wisconsin students to action in the fight against poverty at Union Theater Wednesday afternoon.
Josh Rupert is going to be Elmo for Halloween. And Elmo does not riot….He’ll hit the town on Friday night, but on Saturday, Rupert says he plans to “stay far away from State Street.”
“It’s not my type of environment. It’s just too packed,” said Rupert, a fifth-year senior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Last year, I got caught in the middle of what happened. I felt out of place. I got tear-gassed.”
Meanwhile, Ben Karp, a sophomore from Mankato, Minn., said he is looking forward to staying downtown “till the riots.”
….”It’s just fun. It’s a good time. Fires in the street. Tear gas and everything,” Karp said, adding he intended to watch, not participate.
UW-Madison officials are hoping more students fall into Elmo’s camp.
Poverty is the great moral issue facing America today, former U.S. senator and 2004 vice presidential candidate John Edwards told a crowd of UW-Madison students.
The country is hungry for a big issue – a cause, a calling – it can get involved in, Edwards told about 500 people Wednesday afternoon at the Wisconsin Union Theater.
….”Americans are looking for something moral and just. Something other than this mess in Iraq we are engaged in,” he said to overwhelming applause.
“They need a champion. That champion is you,” Edwards said, noting that college students have spurred major change in the past, from civil rights to the Vietnam anti-war movement to helping topple the apartheid system in South Africa.
Madison police officials think they may have the solution for the Halloween chaos that has plagued the city for the past three years: keep the crowd moving, right up to the end.
Police Chief Noble Wray said Wednesday that police plan to aggressively keep crowds from stagnating in the 500 and 600 blocks of State Street, where problems have resulted in a riotous end to the annual Halloween bash for the last three years, last year culminating in a small bonfire and a pepper spray assault.
MADISON, Wis. – They’re banning guests in the dormitories, restricting access to downtown, and staffing the most police officers for an event in Madison’s history.
Slamming the door in the face of eager trick-or-treaters, officials in Madison, Wis., have a message for would-be-revelers from Minnesota headed to this weekend’s giant Halloween bash: STAY AWAY!
In a chilly message sent to colleges and universities in surrounding states, the University of Wisconsin-Madison warns that “out-of-town guests are not welcome” this weekend and that they will be barred from the school’s residence halls.
UW-Madison has already said guests won’t be allowed in residences halls this weekend, and privately owned complexes are taking the University’s lead.
One company told 27 News, that it is actually requiring it’s residents wear wrist bands this weekend. Students in the privately owned residence halls are required to put those wrist bands on by noon Thursday.
This intersection, along with plenty others in this area, will be blocked to traffic, starting at about seven on Saturday night.
And if State Street gets too crowded … police will use those barricades to keep pedestrians out, too.
By mid-October, the leaves on campus are turning, homecoming games are being celebrated, and ââ?¬â? at any number of colleges ââ?¬â? bigotry in one form or another hurts some students deeply.
The recent spike in fuel costs has homeowners scrambling this winter to cover the expected rise in heating bills; but as to exactly how these high fuel costs will affect the UW-Madison campus, not much, if anything, is known.
The recent spike in fuel costs has homeowners scrambling this winter to cover the expected rise in heating bills; but as to exactly how these high fuel costs will affect the UW-Madison campus, not much, if anything, is known.
Halloween 2002 inaugurated a pattern of destruction on State Street that university and city officials are desperate to end. But for many new students at UW-Madison, the background to the preparations for this weekend may be unclear.
When Provost Peter Spear packed his bags and bid adieu to the University of Wisconsin earlier this week, this campus lost an accomplished administrator who helped guide the university to where it is today.
In Celtic Ireland, Halloween traditions began in the year 5 B.C.E. On State Street in Madison, the University of Wisconsin students� tradition began in the late 1970s.
A University of Wisconsin student suffered from heroin overdose early Sunday morning on North Frances Street, the Madison Police Department released Tuesday.
University of Wisconsin professor William Cronon spoke Tuesday about the importance of Wisconsin�s geography in shaping the state�s history and culture.
Dear Editor: As Halloween approaches, Madison is again likely to see another demonstration of what a bad idea it would be to lower the age for legal alcohol consumption to match the legal age for military service.
Military service involves training that aims at increasing a person’s degree of responsibility for their actions – whether with weapons or among comrades. This is the exact opposite of the effect alcohol has on human behavior.
Ray Maida and Chris Maida will speak in Madison Thursday at an event sponsored by Military Families for Peace.
Ray is the father and Chris is the brother of Mark Maida, an Army sergeant from Madison who was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq in May. Chris is an Iraq war veteran.
Since Mark’s death, the family has become increasingly critical and outspoken about the war in Iraq. The family’s story was featured on “Nightline” earlier this month.
Students making the trip north to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the Halloween weekend festivities might want to think twice about putting on that French maid or Mario costume.
A recent letter from the Dean of Students office at Wisconsin to all the Big Ten schools states the implementation of two policies that will be carried out this weekend in an effort to discourage out-of-town students from attending the annual bash.
While out-of-town guests are not welcome at the University of Wisconsin for Halloween events this coming weekend, Milwaukee is offering a 1930s- and �40s-themed party with drinks, music, celebrities and more.
MADISON, Wis. — Details about Madison’s police enforcement this Halloween weekend will be out Wednesday.
This year police haven’t tipped their hat as to exactly which type of enforcement will be used, only that it will be stepped up.
This summer the southeast campus will undergo a four-year redevelopment project at the University Square lot located north of Gordon Commons.
The strategy to prevent non-UW-Madison students from rioting on Halloween is a coordinated effort to standardize University-related penalties, according to UW System administrators.
The University of Wisconsin Public Affairs Writer in Residence program invited National Public Radio Senior Washington Editor Ron Elving to speak about a broad range of political and journalistic issues Monday.
The University Square redevelopment project, which should be completed by fall 2009, is making its way through Madison committees.
Two years ago, I wrote a satirical column about moving our University�s homecoming to Madison during Halloween weekend. I sarcastically suggested that we teach Wisconsin a thing or two about rioting, considering the crazy hockey riots Minnesota hosted at the time and the weak rioting Madison experienced the year before.
Jason Zogg has a nightmare scenario in his mind, and it makes him both angry and scared.
He has earned his degree from the state University at Albany. He is seeking a job. An employer has narrowed his choices to Zogg and another new college grad. Both job candidates have virtually the same qualifications, work experience and academic background.
MADISON, Wis. — Madison police are putting a new emphasis on fighting house parties in an effort to curb Halloween rioting and violence.
Patrols for parties have been substantially increased to nearly 400 officers. This includes doubling the number of teams looking for house parties.
Three Madison-based, Democratic state legislators held a hearing at the Oshkosh Public Library on a bill that would require hospitals to inform rape victims about the availability emergency contraception and provide victims with the drug at their request.
Madison: For three consecutive years the annual State Street Halloween party has ended when police used pepper spray to disperse an out of control mob.
MADISON, Wis. — The UW is doing what it can to crack down on security this Halloween weekend.
Many of the measures are unprecedented but warranted due to recent years of Halloween rioting and violence.
Twenty students at UW- Madison have more than $40 million in their hands.
It may sound like they won the lottery, but in truth, it’s just part of their education – to invest more money than most of us will ever see.
Souriya Vong Vang chose to attend the University of Wisconsin-Madison this fall because it was affordable. But now that he has about two months of his freshman year complete, Vang said UW’s diverseness makes the school a good fit.
“Every single day when you walk about, you seen new faces all of the time. Not just different races, but it’s just the sheer amount of people here that makes this place so great,” said Vang, 19, who is a graduate of Wausau East High School.
Eighteen-year-old Cindy Barton sat on a thin desk chair and guided her mouse across a flashing computer screen in her dorm room at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
Callie Larson was one of 80,000 people who celebrated Halloween in Madison last year just as she had done the previous two years. However, this year the UW-Eau Claire junior said she plans to stay put.
Halloween is only a week away, but before you throw your Superman, skanky nurse or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle costume into the back of your buddy�s car and drive to Madison, stop for a second. (Written by DC Editorial Board.)
Madison�s party-school reputation draws 80,000 people from across the country to State Street each October. This year, UW-Madison is attempting to impart a reality check by openly stating that out-of-town guests are unwelcome on campus during Halloween weekend.
University of Wisconsin students stuck with a tough question from class they just can�t answer need not worry. The Greater University Tutoring Service is available on the UW campus for all students� academic conundrums.
