Category: Campus life

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.

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.

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 � where students and community members ply the waters of Lake Mendota seated atop carved-out pumpkins attached to inner-tubes � 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.

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.

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.

The second of three finalists vying for the vacant position of Student Financial Services Director at the University of Wisconsin, Al Hermsen, spoke to a handful of students and faculty members Thursday.

The University of Wisconsin Police Department�s increased enforcement of moped parking and traffic violations has left many students frustrated.

The Associated Students of Madison held a student forum Thursday, where University of Wisconsin and City of Madison representatives urged students to behave responsibly during the Halloween celebration.

UW-Madison students say the university should have done a better job of including them in the process as they planned for a less destructive Halloween celebration this year.

Attracting a well-rounded, intelligent, talented and diverse student body is essential in maintaining the viability of any university and something to which UW-Madison is strongly committed.

Halloween adheres to no easy solution, and the beginning of solving any problem with no easy solution is extensive discussion among those involved. In this endeavor, both Associated Students of Madison and UW-Madison administrators fell short.

The UW System Board of Regents will meet today and Friday to discuss myriad important issues, including the renaming of the UW-Madison medical school, new sick-leave policies and an evaluation of the use of student social security numbers.

The UW-Madison campus is having some growing pains. It is becoming awkward for students to traverse, and in many places new pipes are emerging. These changes are being caused by two large construction projects occurring around campus, the construction of the new Southeast dorm and the Campus Utility project.

Associated Students of Madison bemoaned the lack of student input in the Halloween decision-making process in a press conference held Wednesday in the Union.

The wide, gaping hole on Observatory Drive may make students stop in wonder at the area, which stretches approximately one city block.

The Madison Police Department has responded swiftly to a recent increase in robberies and muggings in downtown Madison by devoting additional officers to patrol the area.