Badger fans rushed to help raise nearly $60,000 in relief for victims of Hurricane Katrina on opening day of the University of Wisconsin football season, supporting efforts to aid those deluged by the disaster.
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.
Twelve students from colleges in the hurricane-stricken New Orleans area have enrolled at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as full-time undergraduate students, and another 64 have enrolled in a continuing education program as visiting students.
The 12 full-timers were previously accepted as freshmen at UW-Madison but chose another college instead. Most had enrolled at Tulane University, which has been closed and will require rebuilding.
UW-Madison students are more wedded than ever to their computers, but it’s an increasingly mobile relationship, a new computing survey shows.
When asked where they’d like to see more money for campus computing spent, most students said the dollars should go toward increased wireless access. That way, they can take their laptop computers – now owned by more than half of all students – and use them in more places on campus.
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.
Nobody has to tell Kathy Poi how much the parents of many college-age students care about getting quality health care for their children on campus.
She’s heard all the questions, many times over, in her six years leading University Health Services, the primary-care clinic that serves about 20,000 UW-Madison students per year – most of them women. Only about 33 percent of campus men ever visit the clinic, which is based at 1552 University Ave. and has a separate mental health counseling office at 905 University Ave.
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.
For the third consecutive year, the University of Wisconsin System has taken another slew of budget cuts, but officials say there were fewer cuts than in the past.
A bill that would halt the advertising, prescribing and dispensing of emergency contraceptives on University of Wisconsin campuses passed the Wisconsin State Assembly in mid-June and has been sent to the state Senate, where it could be considered as soon as this fall. The contraceptive, also known as EC or the morning-after pill, has been available in the UW System without a doctor�s appointment.
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.
University of Wisconsin students can now disregard football-ticket lines at the Kohl Center in favor of a ââ?¬Å?first-come, first-servedââ?¬Â ticket policy.
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?
While much of the focus will be on the field Saturday at Camp Randall Stadium when the Badgers kick off their 2005 campaign, University of Wisconsin student-ticket holders will, for the first time in years, arrive at the stadium with their seating locations yet to be determined.
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.
For the first time in a decade, the state of Wisconsin cannot boast the highest average composite ACT score among the 25 states where the ACT is the dominant college-entry exam. The state of Minnesota, which shared the top honor with Wisconsin last year, now sits alone in first place.
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.
Smoking ban needs time, exceptions
Friday classes ridiculous
Students and other fans alike will encounter some new game experiences at Camp Randall Stadium this season.
In addition to the well-documented move of the student voucher exchange to right outside Camp Randall, once students are inside the 88-year-old stadium they will discover changes to the friendly confines of the student sections themselves.
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.
On the morning of Aug. 24, 1970, a van loaded with explosives detonated next to Sterling Hall, killing a graduate student inside and ending the most turbulent social and political period the UW-Madison campus has ever seen.
The 35th anniversary of the bombing shed light on the historical significance of what happened at Sterling Hall and raised questions about how the bombing affected the tradition of protest at the university.
Two weeks ago, Andy Lathrop, a UW-Madison sophomore from Menasha, Wis., went missing in Hakodate, Japan. Lathrop was last heard from Aug. 15 before he failed to meet his friend, Ariel Smoke, at the train station where the two were to catch a train to Tokyo so they could fly home to the states.
Before signing the state budget July 25, Gov. Jim Doyle used his powers of veto to restore $43 million to the UW System. But a $1 million cut the legislature passed specifically for UW-Madison stood and UW officials stressed that the small increase in funding the system received is not near enough to counter rising costs.
Months after the Madison City Council launched the controversial tobacco ban this summer, some bar owners say their business has been plummeting. The ban outlaws all forms of tobacco in public establishments, including chewing tobacco.
UW-Madison revelers sipped and smoked their way to the top, claiming the title of number No. 1 party school in a survey conducted by The Princeton Review.
In an effort to downsize Madison’s annual, and historically violent, Halloween celebration, UW Housing will not allow any guests to stay in the dorms from Friday, Oct. 28 through Tuesday, Nov. 1.
Students started moving in this weekend. That’s also when UW Police noticed a rise in the crime calls. From now until when school starts, UW Police will be busy responding to calls of thefts and accidents. UW Police believe it’s because students have a lot of time on their hands.
(MADISON) The popularity of mopeds is zipping along nicely, but traffic officials at the University of Wisconsin-Madison say it�s time to rein in the extra traffic and parking problems they�re causing.
Many students like the motorized, two-wheeled scooters because of their affordability and fuel-efficiency.
The scores of Wisconsin students who took the SAT college entrance exam continued to inch up during the last testing period, the College Board reported Tuesday.
But even as scores were rising overall, a large achievement gap remained between Wisconsin’s white and minority students. Even though the state’s minority students averaged scores that were 74 points higher than their peers across the country, the gap between whites and minorities has grown broader for blacks, Puerto Ricans and other Hispanic students.
When the College Board announces SAT scores for college-bound seniors next August, it will be reporting the results of the new SAT test.
Average math scores for the SAT college entrance exam hit a record high this year, but verbal scores remained flat, according to a report released Tuesday.
WASHINGTON – Confused by multiple deductions, credits and savings accounts that help pay for college, students and their families miss out on hundreds of dollars in tax benefits, a government report said Monday.
The Government Accountability Office, an independent arm of Congress that studies government programs and spending, analyzed the problem by examining about 1.8 million tax returns.
About one in four taxpayers eligible for an education tax break failed to claim one of the available credits or the tuition deduction, the analysis found.
PHOENIX — As a professor at Northern Arizona University, Cathy Small was baffled by undergraduates. They seemed less engaged, less likely to do assigned reading and more likely to ask questions such as “Do you want it double-spaced?”
So she decided to study them as anthropologists research any foreign culture — she lived among them. After moving into a dorm, eating cafeteria food and struggling with a five-course schedule, the 50-something Small said she empathized with students who struggle to balance chaotic class and work schedules.
Not one clue! Andy Lathrop’s parents say they have no new information about his disappearance in Japan.
But the Menasha couple whose son has been missing for two weeks is not giving up hope Andy will be found alive
International police have zeroed in on the area where they believe a UW-Madison student went missing in Japan.
Twenty-year-old Andy Lathrop was last seen August 15th in Hokodate, Japan.
Home video captured from a sailboat has narrowed the search for Lathrop to a specific beach. The people who shot it say they spoke with Lathrop.
UW Freshman Nicole Laufer is entering a whole new stage in her life. The incoming freshman says her parents have been providing her with all the basics for college life. “Microwave, TV, all the necessities.”
But some of the best advice may not be about studying. It may be about plastic.
If you were on the UW campus Sunday, you may have noticed an abundance of vehicles loaded down with suitcases and futons.
Yes, it’s move-in day for first-year UW students, complete with the usual traffic tie-ups on streets near the dorms.
MADISON, Wis. – All 23 University of Wisconsin varsity teams will compete in the inaugural UW CHAMPS Cup beginning this season, CHAMPS/Life Skills Coordinator Kelli Richards announced.
Teams will compete against each another in six categoriesââ?¬â?academic achievement, athletic achievement, personal enhancement, community outreach, Badger pride and Student-Athlete Advisory Council (SAAC) participation.
HAMILTON, N.Y. – They’re called “helicopter parents,” for their habit of hovering ââ?¬â? hyper-involved ââ?¬â? over their children’s lives. Here at Colgate University, as elsewhere, they have become increasingly bold in recent years, telephoning administrators to complain about their children’s housing assignments, roommates and grades.
When college student Valerie Wang meets a cute guy, she goes right to her dorm and calls up a Web site called Facebook.
She looks at what fraternity he’s part of. She finds out if he plays sports, if he’s in a relationship and, if so, if his girlfriend is pretty.
Kalyn Selissen stepped into the room that would be her home for nine months and gasped. “Oh my God!” she shrieked. “Look at how small it is!” The room in Sandburg Hall, the only dormitory at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, typically fits three students. But this year, a host of factors has caused a housing crunch on campus. As a result, some singles have become doubles, some doubles have become triples and some triples have become quadruples.
It’s way too early to sing a swan song for those extra-long, extra-skinny college dorm beds that today’s boomer parents might remember. But as campus housing goes more upscale, more students are sleeping on bigger beds.
When engineering student Jeff Bowman needed help in calculus last year, a professor at the University of North Dakota suggested he get tutoring. Bowman, who lives in the Caribbean and takes courses online, found a tutor ââ?¬â? in India.
Most freshman college students have credit cards, and many parents worry they’ll use them to buy eyebrow rings and scandalous jeans. But the truth about college students and credit cards is even more disturbing.
A new survey by the Smith College Women and Financial Independence program found that 23% of students are using credit cards to pay for tuition and fees. More than half said they used credit cards to buy textbooks and school supplies.
