Tuesday the city carved out its final plan to address problems that could arise during this year’s Halloween celebration.
There are no easy ways to directly deal with concerns because the event isn’t sponsored. But city officials say they are hopeful this year’s celebration won’t end with mass chaos.
Riot gear and pepper spray have defined Madison’s annual Halloween party for the last three years, staining the image of Madison and the university. In our view, there are two major problems that must be dealt with if the city is to enjoy a safe and uneventful weekend this year. The influx of people from closing bars creates a chaotic, congested State Street and, second, most rioters are intoxicated outsiders with no stake in the Madison community.
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It is a common sight to see students walking to class with iPod ear buds jammed into their ears and possibly damaging their hearing with each step they take.
Mayor Dave Cieslewicz plans to outline a general strategy today for managing Halloween crowds, citing bar closing times as a lingering sticking point in the plan.
This year, the University of Wisconsin�s biggest changes featured more than a talented running back and large construction projects.
LA CROSSE (AP) – An ordinance prohibiting bartenders here from drinking on the job went into effect over the weekend to help change a binge-drinking culture that police say has led to several drowning deaths.
The ordinance allows bartenders to drink on a break, but their blood-alcohol level cannot exceed 0.08 percent, the legal limit for driving under the influence of alcohol. The fine for bartenders and tavern owners for breaking the rule is $75.
The city has moved to clamp down on excessive drinking after University of Wisconsin-La Crosse student Jared Dion drowned in the Mississippi River in 2004. He was the seventh college student to drown in La Crosse area rivers since 1997. Police have said the drownings were alcohol-related.
Kate VanCleave was still months from the start of her freshman year at Marquette when a senior at the college called with some urgent advice.
“You’ve got to sign up,” VanCleave recalled her friend saying last spring. “Everyone is doing it.”
The friend wasn’t recommending a specific class or nudging VanCleave toward an extracurricular activity. He was cluing her into Facebook.com, an online networking directory that is transforming campus life.
Paris Echoles, a UW-Madison freshman majoring in education, is currently vying for the title of Youth of the Year in Washington, D.C. in a competition affiliated with the Boys and Girls Club, a national community mentoring program.
The Madison Police Department is considering an option that would keep bars on State Street open past the standard 2 a.m. closing time Halloween weekend.
Hurricane Katrina victims who have transferred to a UW System school this fall will attend classes for free, with the stipulation that if students decide to remain in the UW System for more than one semester, they must then pay for the free credits.
In years past, lines for season tickets formed at the Kohl Center twice during the fall: once for hockey tickets and again for basketball. But this year, an e-mail notification gave students two days’ notice and scheduled both distribution times this past weekend.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Letters and Science now boasts over half a century of instructional technology support.
The University of Wisconsin System announced Friday it will go forward with a plan to waive fall-semester tuition for any student displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
For openers, everything was nearly perfect for the Wisconsin volleyball team.
It started with arguably the largest student section to ever watch the Badgers play volleyball at the UW Field House.
Tulane University freshman Ileana Caceres was just settling into her dorm room on Aug. 26 when her world was turned upside down, and move-in day became move-out day.
How quickly can young adults recover when their lives are thrown off course? For the estimated 100,000 students who were supposed to be at a college in New Orleans this fall, that question cannot yet be answered.
Racism, sexism and homophobia are likely prejudices held by even the most open-minded of us, a distinguished Harvard Professor said Thursday.
The University of Wisconsin will host the social psychology conference ââ?¬Å?Looking Toward the Future: Discrimination and Prejudice in the 21st Centuryââ?¬Â this weekend. The event kicked off at the Memorial Union Thursday.
As Halloween approaches, State Street taverns are responding to the City of Madison in preparation for a busy and potentially destructive night.
MADISON, Wis. — Police and fire officials plan to unleash new tactics on State Street this Halloween to handle any chaos.
Some ideas are still being studied, such as placing plain-clothed police officers in the midst of the revelry so that troublemakers might be quickly removed from the crowd, but command staff told News 3 other crowd-management tactics are definitely going to be ready.
He may not have as many tattoos as Tommy Lee, but like the aging rocker, former Time magazine correspondent Barrett Seaman also decided to go back to school recently, almost 40 years after graduating from Hamilton College. (Three pages.)
For UW Madison’s football team, the word “drive” is usually preceded with the word “touchdown.” However, for the next month, the Badgers will also attach a prefix-food.
Teaming up with the Community Action Coalition For South Central Wisconsin, the Badgers are leading a city-wide food drive. Beginning Sept. 15 and continuing for the next month, the “Yes, We Can!” campaign will encourage Madison elementary school students to donate canned goods and other non-perishable food items to help stock area food banks.
In an effort to provide financial equality for UW-Madison students from low to moderate income homes, state Reps. Joe Parisi, D-Madison, and Spencer Black, D-Madison, met with students on Library Mall Wednesday about their new legislative bill requiring the state to match financial aid to tuition increases.
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Ophelia swept the U.S. coastline and sparked questions about whether a new natural disaster loomed.
Fortunately, UW-Madison is home to a graduate school research center aimed at helping answer these questions.
A few doors may have opened for Wisconsin students looking to attend college in other Midwest states after the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents passed a resolution authorizing UW schools to participate in the Midwestern Higher Education Compact�s reciprocity program.
State Reps. Spencer Black and Joe Parisi, both D-Madison, announced legislation Wednesday that would provide more financial aid funding for students.
The Associated Students of Madison passed a motion to lobby against Wisconsin Senate Bill 317 during a meeting Wednesday night.
Organizers of Sunday’s appearance of British Member of Parliament George Galloway at the Wisconsin Union Theater will use the occasion to collect food, money and clothing for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Contributions will be delivered to Louisiana next Wednesday by UW students who will later be traveling to Washington, D.C., for the Sept. 24 rally against the war in Iraq, according to Chris Dols, a student organizer.
Madison: Mayor Dave Cieslewicz does not want another Halloween celebration on State Street to end with bonfires and pepper spray.
A special task force has been working on a plan for 2005 since last year. “We’re very close. We’ll be able to finalize it by next week,” says Cieslewicz.
A bill Gov. Jim Doyle plans to veto if it reaches his desk still has many on UW campuses concerned.
The bill, authored by Rep. Daniel LeMahieu, R-Oostburg, would prohibit advertising, prescribing or dispensing emergency contraception on UW campuses. The state Assembly passed it 49-41 on June 16, and it will now move to the Senate Committee on Health, Children, Families, Aging and Long-Term Care.
The UW-Madison campus and the surrounding area recently experienced a rash of alleged armed robberies, leaving some concerned.
Five incidents have been reported in the last two weeks, four of which occurred in very close proximity to the campus area.
Barricades, intense lighting and many additional police officers will be prominent features on State Street on the Friday and Saturday nights preceeding Halloween this year.
After two years of talks, allegations of negotiating in bad faith and a disastrous and illegal two-day strike in April 2004, the Teaching Assistants Association and Wisconsin�s Office of State Employment Relations are still no closer to an agreement for the 2003-05 contract period.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents approved a resolution Friday granting authority to increase the scope and budget of the University Ridge Golf Course Phase III Project to more than $1.19 million in Program Revenue Supported Borrowing.
The City of Madison Public Safety Board rejected the current keg-registration proposal by a vote of five to two at a meeting Tuesday night.
The Alliance for Animals� Primate Freedom Project held a presentation to protest the University of Wisconsin�s use of primates for medical research Tuesday night.
The City of Madison Police Department articulated strategic plans for this year�s Halloween festivities in order to control crowding, crack down on illegal and aggressive behavior and signal the end of festivities during a meeting Tuesday.
The Halloween Party on State Street this year combines daylight-saving time, a request from city and university leaders that bars close before the clocks turn back and an angry Tavern League.
A letter Tuesday signed by Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz and UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley asks bar owners to voluntarily stop serving alcohol at 2 a.m. Oct. 30 so that the Saturday night crowd stops drinking a bit earlier that Sunday.
A proposal to limit the number of kegs that a person could buy in Madison…..doesn’t have the support of a city panel. The public safety review board last night voted down the idea….which is aimed to cut down on house parties and underage drinking. Alderman Austin King says there are better pro-active ways to deal with the issue.
MADISON, Wis. — Fed up with violence by Halloween partiers, Madison’s mayor has threatened to use a special authority to close down all businesses
Jammar Crane, a linebacker on the University of Wisconsin football team, was charged with misdemeanor fraud Monday for allegedly making $900 in purchases with a credit card he found.
Crane, a sophomore from Garland, Texas, faces up to nine months in jail and a $10,000 fine if convicted. He was released Monday on a signature bond.
UW-Madison freshman Sam Melameb, who intended to study at Tulane University this year, arrived on campus from New Orleans last week with “eight articles of clothing and a pair of sandals.” Despite the traumatic circumstances that brought him to Madison, Melameb is responsible to pay tuition to both institutions. According to Tulane University, students who are enrolled for the current semester and are studying elsewhere will not be immediately refunded, despite the school’s temporary closing.
While walking through a university parking lot, two UW-Madison students were robbed around 10 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 8, according to UW-Madison Police. The students were walking through Parking Lot 91, 115 N. Frances St., when two suspects approached.
Whether students wish to continue with the sports they played in high school or become involved with new ones, the intramural and club sports offered through UW-Madison present great options for those who lack Division I skills.
After students voted down last semester’s expensive Union Master Plan for the expansion of the university’s unions, a new round of union planning meetings starts today on renovations to both Union South and Memorial Union.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents is considering adding Wisconsin to a list of states including Minnesota and North Carolina, whose public university systems would waive tuition outright for Hurricane Katrina victims, but they must await dialogue with the state Legislature.
An unidentified chemical agent sweeping through the 5400 block of Elizabeth Waters inflicted uncontrollable coughs and distress for residents there Monday night, prompting hall directors to temporarily evacuate the building at approximately 7:30 p.m.
Seeking to escape from University of Wisconsin oversight, the Associated Students of Madison is incorporating a faction of their organization as a non-profit company, according to student governance officials.
MADISON, Wis. — The University of Wisconsin’s board of regents is looking to provide students displaced by Katrina with a semester’s worth of free tuition.
What the regents seek to do is establish a new class of students called Hurricane Katrina victims.
As the city of New Orleans attempts to recover in the wake of hurricane Katrina, some students enrolled at the now-closed Tulane University found themselves thrust into the arms of UW-Madison.
Wisconsin students who want to leave the Dairy State but still attend college in the Midwest may soon be able to pay discounted tuition at over 125 schools in six states starting this fall.
The Board of Regents passed a preliminary resolution Friday recommending that the UW-System waive tuition for students displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
WEST BEND – The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents said Friday it will waive fall tuition for students affected by Hurricane Katrina as long as legislative leaders approve.
Board President David Walsh said the waiver could be made official as early as next week for students who transferred to the University of Wisconsin after the storm closed their Gulf Coast schools.
In the meantime, the board agreed Friday not to bill the affected students for the fall term.
The University of Wisconsin earned the No. 9 overall ranking for fittest college in Menââ?¬â?¢s Fitness magazineââ?¬â?¢s ââ?¬Ë?First Annual Fittest and Fattest Colleges in America,ââ?¬â?¢ a special report fielded by the Princeton Review.
Concerned over a proposed bill banning emergency contraception, and possibly all forms of oral contraception from University of Wisconsin Health Services, students and members of the grassroots organization Our Bodies, Our Rights! rallied at Library Mall Friday in opposition to the bill�s potential passage.
After a multitude of Gulf Coast area colleges were forced to shut down for the fall semester after widespread damage from Hurricane Katrina, many universities nationwide have offered displaced students enrollment at their institutions, sometimes at no cost, for the fall semester.
#2: The original home of The Onion (America�s finest news source), UW boasts a history of antiestablishment ideals and lenient local laws when it comes to marijuana. Also, hate to Badger you, but it�s a damn good school.
WEST BEND ââ?¬â? The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents said Friday it will waive fall tuition for students impacted by Hurricane Katrina as long as legislative leaders approve.
Some UW students wanted anyone heading through campus Sunday to pause and remember the victims of the 9/11 attacks.
About 15 students woke up early this morning and laid out 3,000 flags on the lower quad of Bascom Hill. The flags represent those who were killed that day in the attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania.
