Category: Campus life

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 � 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.

In stark contrast to another, less-prestigious, high rank study this fall, UW-Madison placed ninth this September in Men’s Fitness Magazine’s list of the 20 fittest colleges in America.

While housing officials at UW-Madison try to find space in overcrowded facilities for students displaced by Hurricane Katrina, UW-Milwaukee, is experiencing a public housing crunch as well, due in part to an exceptionally large freshman class.

Moped owners will have to start following the rules of the road this week as the UW-Madison Police Department began the process of educating moped owners about new moped regulations Sept. 6.

The Urban Design Commission passed initial approval Wednesday night for a six-story university housing and office structure at 731 State St.