University of Wisconsin freshman Sarah Whiteaker has been selected as one of six college students nationwide to appear in America Onlineââ?¬â?¢s new documentary series ââ?¬Å?Project Freshman.ââ?¬Â
Halloween weekend in Madison continues to bring thousands of visitors and partygoers to the downtown area each year and impacts the livelihood of a number of State Street eateries and businesses.
At first, they came in multiples of ten. Now they come in multiples of one hundred. During the summer of 2005, approximately 800 middle and high school students of color studied on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus in hope of fulfilling their dream to enter higher education through the Pre-collegiate Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence. (Centerspread.)
It appears as though a University of Wisconsin initiative is paying off as the Badgers roll out the red carpet.
Following years of complaints regarding inhospitable behavior by Badger fans, the university began its Roll Out the Red Carpet initiative during the 2004 football season. The program’s goal involves helping provide a more welcoming atmosphere for fans of visiting athletic teams.
A mass e-mail will be sent to UW-Madison students today, encouraging them to participate in an online survey related to the Union Facilities Involvement Plan.
The purpose of the survey is to get feedback on what types of renovations students would like in both Union South and the Memorial Union.
At a panel Thursday night at the Memorial Union entitled Meet Your Representatives, local legislative members had the opportunity to field questions regarding issues important to UW-Madison students. Halloween and student involvement came to the forefront at the discussion.
In the coming weeks, this year�s Halloween celebration in Madison will continue to be a hot-button issue. Unfortunately for students, while the majority of the attention has been paid to decisions and discussions of the City�s Halloween Planning Committee, several extremely suspect decisions made at the University level regarding Halloween have gone unnoticed by most of the student body.
Sometimes it really is about the writing. Just ask UW-Madison graduate Kevin A. Gonzalez, who won Playboy magazine’s annual College Fiction Contest this year.
His story, “Statehood,” about a 12- year-old Puerto Rican boy and his dad, is printed in the October issue and he won $3,000. Gonzalez was raised in Puerto Rico, got his MFA in poetry from UW-Madison and is now a graduate student at the University of Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop.
U-W Chancellor John Wiley inappropriately put an embattled administrator on sick leave….after Paul Barrows had an affair with a graduate student…and other allegations were raised by a top university official. That’s the finding of an independent investigation of the Paul Barrows case….done by Susan Steingass.
MADISON, Wis. — An investigation ordered by the University of Wisconsin System president says Madison’s chancellor allowed a top administrator to take sick leave for more than three months, even though he wasn’t sick.
UW-System President Kevin Reilly has reprimanded UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley for approving months of paid, sick leave for administrator Paul Barrows, even though Barrows was not sick.
“You and your administrative team should have been aware of the requirement that an employee must be ill in order to charge an absence to sick leave, and should have acted promptly either to obtain the appropriate documentation on Dr. Barrows’ situation, or to require his return to work,” Reilly wrote to Chancellor Wiley. “The failure to do so has hurt the University’s reputation.”
The University is going to start telling on students who get so intoxicated they end up in the hospital.
The University has already started calling the parents of students under the age of 21 who end up in detox or attempt to commit suicide. The new policy is designed to get the parents involved instead of leaving them in the dark on what’s happening to their child.
Former Vice Chancellor Paul Barrows received a reprimand today in connection with a sex-and-sick-leave scandal that embroiled the university all summer long.
UW Chancellor John Wiley received a letter criticizing his application of leave policy from UW System President Kevin Reilly.
UW Provost Peter Spear issued the reprimand to Barrows and informed him he would remain in his demoted position, making $72,881, after a report from investigator Susan Steingass concluded he behaved inappropriately toward two women.
There are always those people who never win anything. They consistently enter contests to win a new car or the opportunity of a lifetime, thoroughly convinced that they will not come out the winner. Why would one continue to enter these contests? Maybe they’re holding onto the hope that it may just be their day to win that chance to have their 15 minutes of fame.
very year, approximately 100 UW-Madison students are admitted to emergency detoxification. So far this semester, 14 students have been so admitted to university hospitals-most of them 18- or 19-years old. Beginning this week, university policy will direct the Office of the Chancellor to formally notify parents and guardians when “their son or daughter has been involved in a gravely serious situation,” including detox. This action is both inconsistent and dangerous for underage students.
UW-Madison campus police and transportation services have been vigorously ticketing moped violations on both new and existing laws during an “enforcement phase,” which began Monday and lasts until Sept 30.
Parents will now be notified if their underage student at UW-Madison is involved in extremely serious alcohol or drug incidents due to a policy Chancellor John Wiley announced Wednesday.
On Badger game days, standards of appropriate behavior in Madison change as fans yell ââ?¬Å?a*sholeââ?¬Â to out-of-state strangers, chant ââ?¬Å?f*ck you, eat sh*tââ?¬Â to their fellow students and paint their bodies red and white.
A University of Wisconsin alumni group, Hollywood Badgers, is helping students and graduates break into the entertainment industry.
In the past, University of Wisconsin underclassmen could rest easy knowing their parents would be unaware of their college antics.
Sarah Whiteaker sees herself as someone who never wins anything.
So she filled out an application this summer on America Online to participate in a Web-based reality series without thinking much would come of it.
This fall, the 18-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison freshman is one of six students documenting their first semester at college for AOL’s new documentary series, Project Freshman.
UW-Madison students under 21 who end up in a detox center or hospital for an alcohol or drug overdose won’t be able to keep their parents from knowing. University officials announced Wednesday a new policy for a variety of behavioral incidents that will result in parental notification.
….Madison’s approach to the challenge that Halloween has become remains a work in progress, despite the city’s press release describing the “final plans” for dealing with this year’s revelry. Reasonable observers might fear that city officials are setting themselves up for another Halloween that is more a trick than a treat.
For a few days in the past month, students in the Gulf Coast region were all in a similar situation. None were thinking about registering for classes or buying books. Most concentrated on evacuating the area, staying safe, and taking care of their basic needs for food, water, and shelter.
But after the initial shock of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath wore off, the differences between richer and poorer students began to re-emerge. Despite many generous offers of free tuition and other donations from colleges around the country and the world, students displaced by the hurricane who came from affluent backgrounds had much more flexibility in continuing their educations than those with fewer financial resources.
UW leaders now have a formal policy on the books….on how to deal with the fine line between the independance of students under the age of 21….and the need to contact someone’s parents. Chancellor John Wiley released the standards yesterday….and interim dean of students Lori Berquam says extreme drinking is one of them.
Underage students at UW- Madison who find themselves in detox be warned: Someone from the university will be calling mom and dad.
UW-Madison announced Wednesday that officials will involve parents or guardians if their underage students are involved in “extreme alcohol or drug incidents.”
Wisconsin is the worst place to be black according to four panelists who referred to a report in Black Commentator magazine at the “Education Not Incarceration” forum in the Red Gym Tuesday.
The Teaching Assistants Association held its first meeting of the year Tuesday night to discuss several issues including its battle with the state Legislature over a contract negotiation that has been locked in a stalemate for three years.
State Street business representatives expressed frustration Tuesday after Mayor Dave Cieslewicz requested that bars close early Halloween weekend.
To honor a late housing-department figurehead, a new University of Wisconsin dormitory under construction on North Park Street will be named Newell J. Smith Hall.
The Nature Preserve Committee held its first public meeting Tuesday in the main lounge of Chadbourne Residential College to present information and gather input on how the preserve should be conserved, restored and used at the University of Wisconsin over the next quarter century.
Racism in Wisconsin�s education and judicial systems was the topic of panel discussion at the Multicultural Student Center Tuesday evening.
At a meeting Tuesday, Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz re-emphasized his desire to have State Street taverns voluntarily close an hour-and-a-half early during Halloween festivities Saturday, Oct. 29, due to daylight saving time.
MADISON, Wis. — Madison leaders say they have a plan in place for Halloween weekend on State Street, but they still don’t know what time bars will close
Whether or not the mayor’s hope to have an early close to this Halloween celebration is a viable plan or a Quixotic quest remains to be seen.
At a press conference before the final meeting of the Halloween Planning Group, made up of city, community, business, university and student representatives, Mayor Dave Cieslewicz said no bar owners have signed on to his plea to close their doors 90 minutes early.
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.
