Category: Campus life

Downtown drink specials are the target of scrutiny.

Wednesday night the UW group PACE asked the Alcohol and License Review Committee to again address drink special advertisements, which they believe are unfairly targeting UW students.

MADISON, Wis. — UW-Madison and other Big Ten schools are preparing for a possible flu outbreak.
UW-Madison epidemiologist Craig Roberts said university officials will meet next week to talk about concerns over the avian flu

Halloween weekend is less than 10 days away, and the Madison Police Department’s Central District is setting their day to day work aside, to finalize plans for what has become a violent night.

In the two months leading up to Halloween weekend, officers in the Central District planned for it every single day — and they still are. And because of that, special project have been put on ho

In response to the Student Services Financial Committee’s Friday decision to cut more than half of SAFEwalk’s funding, UW Transportation has pledged to fund the service anyway, provoking complaints from SSFC members who claim the university is undermining student government authority.

For UW-Madison students, alcohol use is rampant, whether consumed at a frat party, house party or Badger game. But, in a top party school climate, what happens when underage students throw caution to the wind, drink and subsequently get caught?

Presented with the task of selecting a group of viable candidates to replace University of Wisconsin Medical School Dean Philip Farrell, a 22-member search-and-screen committee has decided on four potential successors. The successor would assume the deanship by fall semester next year.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Labor and Licensing Policy Committee met Monday afternoon to address what it considers to be a major problem in UW-Madison clothing: sweatshop labor. The LLC approved a proposal that seeks to eliminate sweat shops from the supply lines of brands that supply UW apparel.

One of the University of Wisconsin�s most notable faculty couples, Akua and Papa Sarr, will be leaving the university at the end of the semester to continue their careers at Boston College.

Dear Editor: With Madison’s annual Halloween Brawl bearing down on us like a Wisconsin and Southern freight train, I have a proposal that, while it would help eliminate some of the miscreants from State Street this year, would also prune down their numbers in future years.

To get to the point, I suggest that Madison use its shiny, new fleet of recyclable materials trucks to pluck troublemakers from the street.

In less than two weeks, Madison police and the city will be faced with another Halloween on State Street. For the last three years, the Saturday night of Halloween weekend has ended in rioting.

The University of New Mexico both confused and disappointed many of its 26,000 students last week with the decision to ban access to Facebook.com on its campus network. UNM officials said the ban may be revoked if some of their concerns are addressed, specifically questions about the website�s level of security.

While many University students are planning on going to Madison, Wis., for Halloween next weekend, this year they�re not welcome.
Even people from other schools in Wisconsin are being told to stay away.

Two UW-Madison students – Anne Reiland is from Sparta; Ryan Huibregtse from Brookfield – have agreed to share their freshman-year experiences with us, with the help of freelance writer Scott Carney, a UW-Madison graduate student.
As the school year goes on, Carney will meet with and help Anne and Ryan share their lives in the pages of the State Journal.

We’ll experience it all with them in a series of stories that continues today, and will appear monthly in the Sunday Daybreak section.

Web sites for college cheating aren’t known for their subtlety, but the ad that ran last week on Madison’s craigslist couldn’t have been more blatant if it was marked with a bull’s- eye.
“Let us do your Homework, College Assignments, Quizzes, Papers,” the banner headline read, and then below that in smaller type: “Pay Us To Do Your School Work.”

When contacted by the State Journal, Randy Clary of QualityTutor.com acknowledged that his ad was an invitation to plagiarism, an academic offense that can get students expelled from many colleges and universities, including UW-Madison. He promised to remove it the next day – and did – but insisted the service he offers is about helping students learn through things such as online discussions with qualified tutors and interactive problem solving, not letting them cheat.

University of Wisconsin Police want moped riders to know the rights and lefts of moped use. With high gas prices pushing up the popularity of mopeds and scooters, campus officers say riders can protect themselves by knowing the laws governing these vehicles.

After almost five hours of intense deliberation, the Student Services Finance Committee voted early Friday morning to cut over half of the funding for SAFEwalk, one of the three services provided by the Safe Arrival For Everyone program

A Student Labor Action Coalition referendum prohibiting the Student Services Finance Committee from allocating auxiliary funding to various services on campus, including the Memorial Union, passed by an overwhelming margin in the Associated Students of Madison�s fall elections Thursday.

The SAFEwalk budget was essentially cut in half following a compromise reached by the Student Services Finance Committee Thursday evening.

The University of Wisconsin Homecoming Committee will kick off a nine-day treasure trove of pirate-themed activities today.

UW’s Student Services Financial Committee debated Thursday night whether to eliminate the SafeWalk program. Tough budget times could spell its end.

“I believe it’s too expensive for this campus,” says Tim Schulz, a member of SSFC.

“For them to cut the funding completely is ridiculous. It’s a used service on campus,” says SafeWalker, Danielle Koal.

About 100 University of Wisconsin-Madison students are expected to travel to Washington, D.C., to take part in the 10-year commemoration of the Million Man March.

This week’s event, the Millions More Movement, will take place on Saturday on the National Mall. Unlike the event 10 years ago, which was aimed at African-American men, this one is reaching out to people of all races and genders to promote peace, education, religious unity and an end to domestic violence.

UW-Madison students serving among troops deployed for the Hurricane Katrina relief effort spent the first two weeks of their semester performing security operations in New Orleans rather than going to class.

Gov. Jim Doyle sent Wisconsin National Guard units to Louisiana Sept. 1, just three days after the hurricane struck, to transport supplies, rescue victims and pets and aid night search missions.

The City of Madison sent both ground and air units to Louisiana.

Quoted: Virginia Sapiro, professor of political science

An NBC 15 investigation uncovers possible problems with an attorney involved in the federal antitrust case brought against Madison area bars.

The City of Madison Common Council approved a project Tuesday to remodel the Presbyterian Student Center Foundation, or Pres House, on State Street and to build a six-story student center adjacent to the religious center.

According to Mark Elsdon, executive director of the Pres House, the student center would have offices for University of Wisconsin staff on the first floor and the five floors above it would consist of three and four-bedroom apartments. The location of the student center would be where the parking lot of the Pres House currently resides.

As rescue workers continue digging through the rubble in Pakistan, some in Madison are responding to the call for humanitarian aid.

Pakistani native and UW-Madison graduate student Waheed Bajwa is making a plea to the community to help earthquake victims, the same way they’ve helped victims of other disasters.

Bajwa is from an area near the quake’s epicenter, and says one of his friends lost more than a dozen family members. But the people who survived the earthquake now face an uncertain future.

There’s a battle brewing on the UW campus…and it’s pitting the safety conscious against the number crunchers.

As a federal antitrust lawsuit against Madison area bar owners moves forward, some defendants are pointing their fingers at a UW law professor.

While bar owners face allegations they overcharged patrons by fixing prices, they’re putting some of the blame back on what they’re calling the root of the problem: UW Law Professor Peter Carstensen.

In just 16 days, the first unofficial day of Halloween weekend � Thursday, October 27 � will be upon us. Starting that day, and extending for some 72 hours, Madison will be gripped by an influx of masked, oftentimes inebriated revelers in search of one of America�s foremost public parties. And, frankly, no one quite knows what to expect.

For the past three years, the event has come to a harsh ending in the morning�s pre-dawn hours as tear gas, drunken mobs and police donning riot gear have merged on State Street. The public is being assured that this year will be different. And the city as well as the University of Wisconsin has clearly gone out of its way to ensure that the public has a loud voice in determining just how that will be so. Committees have met, leaders have voiced their opinions and preliminary policies � including school dorm restrictions � have already been announced.

“I was 18 years old, I was a naÃ?¯ve freshman on the University of Wisconsin campus. I was on the edge of the crowd as these events unfolded.”

“These events” were the famous Dow Vietnam War protests on the UW campus in October of 1967, the first college protests to turn violent.

Madison – Thirty-eight years later, the memories are still vivid, still powerful, still raw in places.

Paul Soglin remembers marching on the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison.

Clark Welch remembers marching into a Viet Cong ambush.

The use of lights, blocked streets and increased arrests will characterize this year’s Halloween celebration, according to city officials who met Thursday at a Halloween forum sponsored by ASM.

What started as a quirky race on the lake turned into a 50-degree bath as a pier gave way without warning.

Everyone got out without injury. Sixteen people were drenched at least up to the waist. “People went in up to their heads, over their heads,” said Rick Green, one of the unlucky spectators who fell into Lake Mendota.

MADISON, Wis. — Binge drinkers will get a little extra help this year if they need a trip to detox — from their parents.

“For us it’s really interrupting some dangerous behavior,” said interim Dean of Students Lori Berquam.

In the past, the UW didn’t have a concrete policy about what to do if a student was caught drinking or with other drugs.

An innovative effort to prevent domestic violence is under way in Dane County with efforts to help young men examine media messages and their own thinking.
Called the Delta Project, the effort has established MENS clubs for teenagers from three Madison high schools and for fraternity members at UW- Madison. The name stands for Men Encouraging Nonviolent Strength.