This year’s freshman class at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is the largest and most diverse in school history, university officials say.
The class also scored high in its test scores and class rankings, the university said.
The school reported 6,142 freshmen, up nearly 9 percent from last year. The freshman class includes 778 minority students, up 8 percent from last fall and 24 percent from 2003.
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.
As Joel Plant knows all too well, rugby and drinking go hand in hand.
Now, two months into his new job as Madison’s first alcohol policy coordinator, Plant says he no longer overindulges. But he says his party days on the rugby team at Marquette University will serve him well in his new post.
“I’ve been there,” says Plant, who just turned 28.
Plant said he will work with bar owners, the city and students and officials at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to reduce the problems that lead to or result from binge drinking. This includes, but is not limited to, over-capacity taverns, fake IDs, property damage, fights and police calls. The city and UW-Madison are sharing Plant’s salary.
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.
UW leaders say this football season, they’re receiving more complaints about Badger fans harassing, intimidating and bullying visiting fans, both in and near Camp Randall, particularly at the Michigan game.
“It’s just the nature of the game, people are going to be more excited and we have many more Michigan fans here,” says John Finkler, Guest Services Manager for the UW Athletic Departm
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.
Thursdayââ?¬â?¢s article is no surprise to our departmentââ?¬â?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.
In regard to your article ââ?¬Å?Michigan fans claim UW students grossly inappropriate at game,ââ?¬Â I must say that I am dismayed by the bellyaching of Michigan fans about their alleged mistreatment at the hands of zealous Badger fans. I am a Michigan alumnus and a current UW graduate student, and I had ten friends from my undergraduate days up to Madison for the game. They all enjoyed themselves immensely.
University of Wisconsin political science professor Donald Downs spoke at the Memorial Union Thursday to explain the message behind his recently published book, ââ?¬Å?Restoring Free Speech and Liberty to Campus.ââ?¬Â
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.
Activists are gathering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to plan how to fight for affordable higher education.
The Democratizing Education Convention starts today and continues through Sunday. The idea is to bring together the various interest groups and figure out how to all work together, said Ben Manski, one of the organizers.
“The vast majority of those affected by the austerity measures imposed on higher education and by corporatization have not been included in the discussions about solutions. We’re working to build a democracy movement in higher education for the rest of us,” Manski said.
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.
UW Police say an alarming number of students are drinking themselves to near-death.
Records show more students at UW went to detox in the last 6 weeks than in previous years at the school.
UW leaders say Badger games play a part.
After ranking No. 1 in her high school class and scoring a perfect 36 on her ACT, 18-year- old Suchita Shah had her pick of the college litter.
The Holmen resident narrowed it down to Harvard University and UW-Madison, before deciding that Harvard wasn’t for her.
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.
As of Oct. 17, the UW-Madison Police Department has had the most detox commitments in the past three years, according to Chief of Police Susan Riseling, who held a press conference yesterday, at the University of Wisconsin Police Department.
Last week, the Student Services Finance Committee faced a difficult decision regarding whether the SAFEwalk service was beneficial overall to the campus given its steep costs per walker. SAFEwalk is based on two central tenets: transportation and safety.
A solitary cup defiantly remains across the table, half-filled with warm beer and taunting the player on the opposite side to sink the ball and finish the game. Staring at the hazy cup with glazed-over eyes, the player leans precipitously over the table to steady himself, at the same time releasing the ball in a hurried, erratic motion. The ball sails across the table in a wobbly arc, landing nowhere near its intended target. The ball is picked up and the game continues.
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.
The Alcohol License Review Committee reviewed updates from the Policy Alternatives Community Education (PACE) project�s efforts to limit drink specials at Madison bars during a meeting Wednesday. The committee also gave a liquor license to the Ale Asylum, the east-side microbrewery set to open in February.
Thousands of University of Michigan fans traveled to Camp Randall Stadium Sept. 24 only to watch their beloved Wolverines succumb to the Badgers in a thrilling fourth-quarter comeback.
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.
“Lucky” and “blessed” are the curious words University of Wisconsin police chief Susan Riseling used to describe the fact that no UW student has died this semester as the result of excessive alcohol consumption.
A report detailing the worst cases – students so trashed that they couldn’t stand, sit up, extricate themselves from their own bodily discharges, identify their surroundings and/or blow into a Breathalyzer – was open on the conference table in front of her. Riseling searched for the proper verbiage to express her relief that no autopsies have been needed.
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.
UW officials say student drinking is reaching an alarming rate, with the conveyances to detox centers double what they were a year ago.
“The bottom line is this is to the point where we’re seeing students physically endanger their lives,” interim Dean of Students Lori Berquam said.
In the first six weeks of this semester, police took 30 students to detox because of dangerously high levels of intoxication. In the same period last year they conveyed 17, although that number was down from 27 in 2003.
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
As tuition across the United States continues to outpace gains in financial aid, students’ chances of attending college and finishing with a degree increasingly have become liked to their families’ income, the College Board reported Tuesday.
….Sandy Baum, a College Board analyst, said the data shows that college completion increasingly is “not about academic preparation, it’s about money.”
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?
Though the University of Wisconsin-Madison consistently ranks as one of the nation�s finest state universities, this mark of distinction could very well lose all validity in the near future. As the university continues to receive less and less money from the state, it faces the serious possibility of becoming a de facto private institution. Indeed, statistics suggest that the status of many of the nation�s state-financed institutions may be in peril.
The first few days of class are always the same. The professor introduces him or herself, reads through the syllabus (although most students are capable of reading on their own), and discusses the rules of cheating. An especially salient topic that arises in the cheating segment is that of plagiarism.
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.
Ten years after Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky’s relationship made oral sex a mainstream topic, there’s still plenty of debate over whether oral sex is really sex.
Quoted: John DeLamater, a sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin and editor of the Journal of Sex Research, a scholarly journal published by the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality.
Sticker prices for full-time undergraduates at the nation’s colleges and universities rose more moderately this year than in recent years, although financial aid increases have not kept pace, new data show.
As we, the university community, come together to celebrate Bucky’s pirate homecoming, let us take a minute to think about where the Bucky Badger T-shirts that are so ubiquitous this week came from. All UW-Madison clothing is made in sweatshops by individuals who in many respects are just like ourselves. Although it is impossible to fully understand the struggles of workers far away, there are parallels between their experiences on the factory floor and ours at the university.
In order to make Halloween a safe, peaceful and enjoyable weekend, the following question must be answered: Who is responsible for the events of Halloween?
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.
A problem that plagues the University of Wisconsin is diversity, or lack thereof.
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.
Dear Editor: The budget is up for approval in Congress right now, and whether or not students know it, if approved, the budget will impact the amount of student aid received drastically.
The budget, as it is currently written, allows for $9 billion worth of cuts to student loan programs.
To protest this, a national call-in day will be held Wednesday at the University of Wisconsin.
Dear Editor: As a student at UW-Madison, one of the foremost public institutions of higher education in the country, I feel it is my responsibility to call attention to the potentially disastrous proposition currently before Congress. If the Higher Education Act is reauthorized with the current language intact, it will severely cut resources to higher education and therefore make college more expensive for millions of students.
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.
Gov. Jim Doyle vetoed Assembly Bill 207 Friday, rejecting legislation that would allow medical professionals to refuse to perform procedures conflicting with their personal beliefs.
Working people on campus would like to thank students for passing the Living Wage Referendum during the ASM elections held Oct. 11-13. Those who worked on and voted for the referendum have struck a blow for human dignity.
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.
