Category: Campus life

University of Wisconsin professor William Cronon spoke Tuesday about the importance of Wisconsin�s geography in shaping the state�s history and culture.

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.

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.

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.

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.

As October ends, Ald. Austin King, District 8, is not only working hard on his Halloween costume, but is also helping to prepare a safe celebration and guarantee parties for years to come.

Following a week and a half of homecoming activities boosting Badger spirit, University of Wisconsin police arrested more than 20 students at Camp Randall Stadium during Saturday�s game against Purdue University.

With Madison�s Halloween celebration less than a week away, the reality is setting in for University of Wisconsin dormitory residents who cannot host visitors this year.

The Jane Bradley Pettit Foundation has given the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee a $2 million gift to help low-income students with children break the cycle of poverty through education.

University of Wisconsin Provost Peter Spear will leave the office today for the last time as he retires with his wife and mother in Tucson, Ariz.

Right now, Sarah Lundquist Nuutinen has a successful career working at the capitol.

To get there, Nuutinen says she needed help paying for her education … help, that came in the form of a “Bucky Grant.”

MADISON, Wis. — Halloween weekend is one week away and State Street business owners are preparing themselves.

They aren’t going to the length of covering their windows with plywood, but they say the thought has crossed their minds.

Some Badger fans took homecoming celebrations to a dangerous level. UW Police had to take several intoxicated students to get medical attention.

This just adds to UW’s already alarming detox record, which officials say is worse than any other school in the nation.

(MADISON) University of Wisconsin-Madison students appear to be drinking more, at a younger age. More UW-Madison students are going to detox after drinking too much.

Thursday�s article is no surprise to our department�our staff has been dealing with the drinking problem of dormitory students for years.

This letter is in response to the story ââ?¬Å?House fellows lax in enforcing no-alcohol policy, students sayââ?¬Â (News, Oct. 20). The photo and caption on the front page undermine the work of house fellows. The article was inaccurate and disrespectful to house fellows.

At a Downtown Coordinating Committee meeting Thursday, Captain Mary Schauf of the Madison Police Department announced the MPD�s final plans for Halloween weekend.

A Student Labor Action Coalition referendum, overwhelmingly approved during the Fall 2005 ASM election last week, is at the center of a growing debate over the right of UW-Madison students to participate in the university decision-making process, which could result in legal action.

Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz announced Thursday that a wireless Internet system will be available in the downtown area by March 2006.

The Madison Downtown Coordinating Committee heard the police department�s plans for Halloween 2005 at a meeting Thursday.

Students planning their latest trip to Madison this Halloween weekend should be aware of local law enforcement�s efforts to discourage the upcoming festivities. The Madison Police Department and UW-Madison officials will strictly enforce all city ordinances and university policies.

When the Princeton Review in August named the University of Wisconsin at Madison as its top ââ?¬Å?party schoolââ?¬Â for the year, Wisconsin officials objected and boasted about their progress in curbing excessive drinking.

The number of students sent to detoxification centers is on the rise, highlighting the drinking behavior of UW-Madison Housing residents. Lenient housefellows draw attention to an already growing problem: underage drinking in the dorms.

City officials and the Madison Police Department will use many of the same strategies as in past years to deal with Halloween crowds, but they will increase the number of mounted officers and additional neighborhood patrols to monitor house parties. Stadium-style lighting will be turned on at dusk, instead of at a designated ending time, as last year.

The weekend of Oct. 28 through Oct. 30 will prove to be an eventful one for the city of Madison. Between two hockey games, a Broadway show and Halloween, the isthmus will be overflowing with people and parking garages will be full.

In a moment of unexpected candor from the University of Wisconsin Police Department, Chief of Police Susan Riseling held a press conference Wednesday in which the department released detailed information and data pertaining to all 30 cases of UW students who have been committed to a detoxification center so far this semester.

Student government at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is preparing to defend a referendum that would require the university to pay some workers a living wage.

But members of the student government acknowledge the referendum has caused frustration, as students worry that it might knock students out of the decision-making process.