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.
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.
PHILADELPHIA – The bar is packed, the floor is wet, and dozens of glassy-eyed young people are squeezed around tables trying to lob Ping-Pong balls into cups of beer.
It is the final round of a beer pong championship, sponsored by a maker of portable beer pong tables, and all across the bar, as one team scores points, the other happily guzzles beer.
GRAYSLAKE, Ill. ââ?¬â? As College of Lake County biology professor Mark Coykendall described the importance of metabolism and cellular energy, he noticed the class was growing restless and bored.
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.
The demand for University of Wisconsin men’s basketball student season tickets may have trickled down to help raise season ticket sales for the Badgers’ men’s hockey team this year.
Corbin Hunt, the UW assistant athletic director for ticket operations, ventures that some of the roughly 2,600 students who weren’t successful in their bid for men’s basketball tickets turned to men’s hockey, which has come close to selling out its student allotment.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students overwhelmingly approved a referendum this week that requires workers at the Memorial Union and other organizations that receive student funds to receive a “living wage.”
The referendum was placed on the ballot by the Student Labor Action Coalition, whose members believed limited-term employees were paid too little.
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.
I understand the logic behind banning smoking in Madison bars. I almost understand the threats to stop Halloween. Taking away SAFEwalk, though, is something that boggles my mind.
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.
There are few people who can silence a crowd by the mere anticipation of their entrance.
The world’s richest man is one such person.
As 4 p.m. arrived Wednesday and his handlers’ actions made it clear that Bill Gates was about to enter Auditorium AB20 at UW-Madison’s Weeks Hall, a buzzing crowd of about 200 computer and biological sciences students and a dozen or so media types almost instantly went silent.
World renowned hip-hop violinist Miri Ben-Ari and skateboarding sensation Stevie Williams are scheduled to appear here at tonight’s celebration of the opening of the first-ever Rbk concept store on a college campus.
Williams will kick off the party at 6 p.m. at Peace Park with a skateboard exhibition and Ben-Ari, the newest face of Reebok’s “I Am What I Am” campaign, will perform songs from her newly released debut album. Following the performances, students can check out more than 200 styles of footwear, Reebok performance gear and exclusive UW vintage inspired lifestyle apparel.
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.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students are voting on a referendum that would purportedly withhold student fees from the Memorial Union and other organizations unless they pay limited term workers a living wage.
Top UW administrators, however, are not so sure the referendum could be enforced.
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.
Kim Wilson calls herself a self-starter. But she can still use a little help now and then, especially when it comes to the sometimes daunting challenge of being a college student. So she considers herself lucky to have been part of a pilot project at Chapman University in Orange, Calif., last year in which she and other randomly selected freshmen worked with executive-style coaches, who helped them set goals, plan their time and otherwise manage school affairs.
Quoted: Craig Roberts, UHS epidemiologist
In just 16 days, the first unofficial day of Halloween weekend ââ?¬â? Thursday, October 27 ââ?¬â? 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 Americaââ?¬â?¢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 morningââ?¬â?¢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 ââ?¬â? including school dorm restrictions ââ?¬â? have already been announced.
Twenty-five City of Madison bars have not yet responded to a federal antitrust lawsuit filed by two University of Wisconsin students, but they still have several weeks to formally reply.
Marsh Shapiro, owner of the Nitty Gritty and a Dane County Tavern League member, said the federal lawsuit differs from a previous state lawsuit, which is currently in the appeal process, by including more defendants, including UW Chancellor John Wiley. It extends the length of the antitrust violation back to 1990, rather than 2002 like the original. Shapiro said the lawsuit is taxing, both financially and emotionally.
ââ?¬Å?All theyââ?¬â?¢ve tried to do by filing a federal lawsuit is try to muddy the water,ââ?¬Â Shapiro said. ââ?¬Å?This is just another classic example of the legal system running amok. Theyââ?¬â?¢re bloodsuckers. [The plaintiffsââ?¬â?¢ law firmââ?¬â?¢s] only motive is money.ââ?¬Â
“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. – The Wisconsin Women’s golf team had a team of 24 walkers participate in the “Light the Night” walk on Thursday, Sept. 29 at Olin Park in Madison. The team raised over $2,200 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
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.
Like many female UW- Madison students, Dite Bray and her friends walk past the fraternity houses on Langdon Street wondering if the men inside will notice them.
Unlike most of the other students, it’s not because they’re looking for dates.
The first pumpkin race had just ended Sunday afternoon when a dozen or so onlookers were tipped into Lake Mendota.
The whimsical regatta, which drew hundreds of onlookers to the Memorial Union terrace, was marred briefly when a section of the pier in front of the Hoofers Sailing Club boathouse fell into the water.
UW-Madison’s new policy of contacting parents of students intoxicated in life-threatening drinking situations has already resulted in 22 phone calls home this semester.
According to UW-Madison Dean of Students Lori Berquam, all but one of these incidents involved students who had been sent to detoxification for binge drinking.
If a student organization is looking for an exciting opportunity to strengthen communication skills as well as problem-solving and decision-making abilities, the Adventure Learning Programs (ALPs) may be something to look into.
Serving the multitude of student organizations on campus, ALPs conducts team building workshops to challenge all groups to think and take risks while getting to know and support one another, creating an environment of cooperation and understanding.
Nearly 20 spectators were given a little more trick than treat after a section of a Memorial Union pier collapsed into the water during the ââ?¬Å?Giant Pumpkin Regattaââ?¬Â Sunday afternoon.
While watching the regatta ââ?¬â? where students and community members ply the waters of Lake Mendota seated atop carved-out pumpkins attached to inner-tubes ââ?¬â? numerous attendees congregated on a section of pier adjacent to the race that subsequently buckled under their weight, leaving them chest-deep in cold water.
It’s one of those lawsuits that produces guffaws from those who read or hear about it, but it is anything but funny to the people who must bear its brunt.
….It’s the suit that claims the bars near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus conspired to fix drink prices, thereby overcharging money-strapped college kids who wanted to relax with a few drinks now and then.
….The pity is that all the owners did was try to cooperate with the UW and Chancellor John Wiley’s campaign against binge drinking.
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.
Like many female UW- Madison students, Dite Bray and her friends walk past the fraternity houses on Langdon Street wondering if the men inside will notice them.
Unlike most of the other students, it’s not because they’re looking for dates.
City officials and legal experts gave mixed interpretations of the federal compaint filed Tuesday against 25 Madison bars on allegations of a 15-year conspiracy to inflate drink prices.
Minneapolis law firm Lommen, Nelson, Cole & Stageberg filed the suit on behalf of former UW-Madison students Brian Dougherty and Eric Stener charging bars, city alders and UW-Madison officials with illegal price-fixing.
