Category: Campus life

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.

Various University of Wisconsin student services once housed at the former bank and office building at Park and University Streets have re-located to make way for the future expansion of Grainger Hall.

The City of Madison Police Department aims to limit illegal drinking and drinking-related crime on the University of Wisconsin campus by using Community Police Teams and a hard-line approach to house parties.

To accommodate for the rising numbers of free-wheeling mopeds on campus, University of Wisconsin officials have begun implementing a more structured and stringent parking policy for the popular student vehicles.

Hurricane Katrina was quickly heading towards Tulane University as freshman Alison Skaise met her roommate while moving into her dormitory.

Student bus pass usage has jumped sharply at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, in the latest indication that sky-high gas prices could be pushing some commuters away from driving, transit and UWM officials said Wednesday.

The school year has just begun, but the Associated Students of Madison have already proposed to change the date of the Mifflin Street Block Party.

Again, the traditional block party falls on May 6-the official final exam study date-and ASM requests that it be changed to April 29.

In the early morning hours on Friday, Sept. 2, Madison police arrived at Bradley Hall to find a UW-Madison freshman had died in her dorm room.

Chancellor John Wiley announced last Wednesday that UW-Madison will assist students of universities closed by Hurricane Katrina by enrolling previously admitted students.

“We’d like to be able to help them and their families out by making it possible for them to continue their studies until their schools reopen,” UW-Madison Provost Peter Spear said.

Easy to overlook in the devastating wake of Hurricane Katrina are the thousands of college students who suddenly had their fall semesters cancelled as universities surveyed the damage to their campuses in the New Orleans and Gulf Coast areas.

Before attending her first day of class, University of Wisconsin freshman Hannah Means was found dead in her Bradley Learning Community residence hall early Friday morning, according to university officials.

Fraternities, sororities and private dormitories in the state may soon be forced to install fire sprinkler systems on every floor.

Six years ago the legislature put rules in place for UW System dorms.

(MADISON) Traffic police for the City of Madison are making their annual show of force on the University of Wisconsin campus. They�re cracking down on bad bike riders.

A friend told me that at a recent UW-Madison orientation, freshman students were advised not to use pepper spray because an attacker might take it and use it against them.

With Chancellor John Wiley, Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz and other local notables on the podium, the campus’ top student politician gave about 4,000 freshmen some provocative advice

Colleges across the country are bombarding incoming freshmen with more and more activities to address a serious problem. Stripped of hometown friends and parental supervision, students are more susceptible to high-risk drinking when they first arrive on campus than at any other point in college. But visit UW, recently ranked the top party school in the nation by The Princeton Review, and you’ll find that structured events can only do so much.

The University of Wisconsin is welcoming students displaced by Hurricane Katrina back to Madison.

The City of Madison and the University of Wisconsin plan significant changes in the handling of Halloween celebrations this year after holding a series of meetings throughout the summer that will continue on a bi-weekly basis until the event.

The University of Wisconsin ranked the eighth-best public college in America and the 34th-best overall in this year�s U.S. News & World Report. Despite the notable rankings, some UW administrators criticize the yearly report�s accuracy.

Just in time for the start of the fall semester, the City of Madison initiated its first alcohol-policy coordinator to deal with general alcohol issues throughout the city.

Maybe it’s just us, but we were not exactly surprised when a school whose main feature in the student union is a beer tap was named the nation’s No. 1 party school. Face it, it’s a tough choice: Leinenkugel’s or Kierkegaard? Amber Bock or analytical chemistry?

Sailing has not been smooth for the city-wide smoking ban as many Madison bar and restaurant owners have made waves complaining of a decrease in business due to the new environment, and a proposal to reverse the ban will be introduced to the City Council this fall.

When Mary Flynn joined the National Guard, the main reason was to get money for her college career. However, after she was called to serve in Iraq in November 2003, her experience in the military turned into much more.

More than two weeks after the disappearance of University of Wisconsin student Andrew Lathrop in Hokodate, Japan, police there have increased efforts to find him.

Due to low student-housing demands, the University of Wisconsin�s all-women lakefront dormitory, Elizabeth Waters, plans to become a co-ed facility in fall 2006.

Citing her position as ââ?¬Å?toxicââ?¬Â and being in a ââ?¬Å?dysfunctional environment,ââ?¬Â former Dean of Students LuoLuo Hong said she left her University of Wisconsin position for administration-related issues, including controversy over former Dean of Student Affairs Paul Barrowsââ?¬â?¢ paid leave.

Celebrated by students and dismissed by administrators, the Princeton Reviewââ?¬â?¢s 2006 ââ?¬Å?The Best 361 Collegesââ?¬Â rates the University of Wisconsin the No. 1 party school in the nation.

Susan Crowley directs the University of Wisconsin’s Pace Project, aimed at reducing high-risk drinking on campus. She describes the ranking as a wake-up call, in the sense that university officials know there’s still work to be done to curb student drinking. “We’re also pleased that we’ve seen some improvement in terms of our culture around excessive drinking that causes harm to students in the community,” Ms. Crowley says. (Audio.)

ON Halloween 2004, a block party on a street of houses rented to students at the University of Colorado ended with people in costumes running through the streets of the University Hill neighborhood, throwing bottles, setting fires and overturning cars.

In Madison, Wis., home to 41,000 University of Wisconsin students, David Worzala introduces himself each fall to the new students who move into the rental houses on his block, which includes five single-family homes and seven student rentals. His neighborhood association also sends representatives to the student houses each fall, accompanied by a police officer, to explain that they are living in a mixed community.

Even bathrooms are being designed for sociability, said Laurence Booth, a Chicago architect whose firm, Booth Hansen, is designing a new dorm at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Mr. Booth said his firm considered providing access from each of four double rooms on a hall directly into the shared bathroom, but university officials said no. Now, “in order to get to the bathroom you have to go through the hall,” Mr. Booth said. “They wanted that social interaction.”

Public officials and educators reached out yesterday to offer classroom space to students whose public schools and colleges and universities were shut down by Hurricane Katrina.

Gov. Rick Perry of Texas invited students from Louisiana and Mississippi left homeless by the hurricane to enroll in any of his state’s 7,000 public schools. Some Texas school districts reported that they were already receiving inquiries from storm refugees yesterday, state officials said.

What does a coffeehouse in Madison have to do in order to be considered new and fresh? At the corner of University Ave. and Charter Street, a new coffeehouse plans to use a mission of social justice in order to stand out in the coffeehouse crowd.

“We want this to be not just a place to eat or grab a cup of coffee. We want this place to be one with a mission,” says Phil Kollmeyer, project coordinator.

Officials of the U.S. Education Department promised that they would not let bureaucracy get in the way as students in the areas ravaged by Hurricane Katrina seek to continue their higher education and colleges in and around the area try to help students do so.

Congratulations, Badgers: We guzzled, gulped, groped and gagged our way to an honor never yet realized in the history of our beer-blooded student body. We received Princeton Review’s highest honor as the No. 1 party school in the nation. Like a fly preserved in a jello shot, frozen in time, our alma mater will go down in the history books as the school that always parties and never sleeps. Except during lecture.

In fall 2006 male UW-Madison students will go where no man has gone before – into Elizabeth Waters Hall, not as visitors, but as residents. The all-female dorm, termed The Virgin Vault by students, will go co-ed for the first time since it opened in 1940, according to a UW statement.