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.
University of Wisconsin teaching assistants are reacting with horror to a bill proposed by state Sen. Tom Reynolds that would eliminate the collective bargaining rights of student assistants employed by the UW System.
Current law expressly guarantees the right of self-organization and collective bargaining to program, project and teaching assistants employed by the UW System. There are separate bargaining units for UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee, as well as a separate unit that represents the other campuses.
This year, the Athletic Department has continued its depressing trend of finding new ways to regulate the handout of student hockey tickets. Over the past few years it has added group size restrictions, group registration, and last year, made the long wait for hockey tickets a test of stamina by eliminating the use of blankets, sleeping bags and other minor comforts.
It has been 18 months since the Teaching Assistants’ Association walked back into classrooms following an unsuccessful and unpopular strike. Still operating under a contract negotiated in 2001, teaching assistants are scheduled to enter mediated discussions with UW officials in upcoming weeks. Given that recent talks have proven unfruitful for the TAA, we anticipate that upcoming negotiations will be highly sensitive affairs, invoking passionate pleas from union members and student supporters. However, if one state lawmaker has his way, the TAA’s right to collective bargaining will soon disappear.
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.
In response to a 2004 strike by UW-Madison teaching assistants which he deemed illegal, Senator Tom Reynolds, R-West Allis, introduced a bill Wednesday to eliminate the ability of the Teaching Assistants’ Association to collectively bargain.
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.
The Teaching Assistants’ Association is set to renew negotiations with the state this fall in an effort to break a two-year stalemate over a contract for TAs and program assistants. But a proposed new bill could strip the TAA of its right to bargain, according to a TAA statement.
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.
The Teaching Assistants� Association denounced a prospective bill that would eliminate collective bargaining for graduate employees in the University of Wisconsin System Wednesday.
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.
In an effort to bring mainstream attention to the fledgling field of nanotechnology, University of Wisconsin scientists have created a rendition of Bucky Badger out of microscopic carbon fibers, dubbing it ââ?¬Å?Nanobucky.ââ?¬Â
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.
University Housing created more problems than solutions for Halloween festivities when it declared this past summer that no guests will be allowed to stay in the dorms from Friday, Oct. 28 through Tuesday, Nov. 1. The tactic is meant to prevent out of town students, who accounted for 391 of the 450 arrests during Halloween in 2004, from attending the festivities. The no-guest policy is a dangerous step because the hazards far outweigh the benefits of keeping a minute percentage of the 75,000 party-goers away from Halloween in Madison.
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.
Citing swiftly moving lines, a minimum of hassle and a more focused and responsive audience, the Athletic Department does not hesitate to label the new football ticket distribution process a success.
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.
In the wake of devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina, the University of Wisconsin System ââ?¬â? along with other colleges and universities around the nation ââ?¬â? has taken it upon itself to help students displaced by our nationââ?¬â?¢s latest tragedy.
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.
University of Wisconsin athletic officials are resting easy following last Saturday�s football-season opener and the implementation of a new student-ticket policy. The policy, which was widely accepted but not necessarily approved by the student fan base, came off with no major altercations or debauchery.
