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.
Some University of Wisconsin campuses routinely violate a federal privacy law in asking students to disclose Social Security numbers without explaining how they will be used, according to an audit.
Some students at UW-Milwaukee and UW-Madison also continue to use student ID cards that contain their Social Security numbers despite a state law requiring campuses to have randomly generated student ID numbers instead, the audit by the UW System found.
And some class rosters and grade reports that contain Social Security numbers are publicly posted, which may be a violation of a separate federal privacy law, the audit found.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison makes the top 10 on many lists, but one list officials don’t brag about: the ranking of party schools. [Third item]
University of Wisconsin-Madison freshmen will have a new opportunity to perform community service projects before they begin classes.
Student move-in began Thursday, and student orientation begins on Tuesday. On Wednesday, up to 79 students will have the opportunity to participate in the UW-Madison’s Day of Caring.
The event will be held in conjunction with the United Way, which is holding community Days of Caring this week. This is the first year the Days of Caring will be a part of freshman orientation, although the event has long involved volunteers helping out in the community.
The family of a UW-Madison student missing in Japan is heading home, after searching for him there for five days.
20-year-old Andy Lathrop had spent the last year teaching English through an exchange program. He was last seen in northern port city of Hakodate on August 15th.
MADISON ââ?¬â? Some University of Wisconsin campuses routinely violate a federal privacy law in asking students to disclose Social Security numbers without explaining how they will be used, an audit said Thursday.
Some students at UW-Milwaukee and UW-Madison also continue to use student ID cards that contain their Social Security numbers despite a state law requiring campuses to have randomly generated student ID numbers instead, the audit by the UW System found.
While some students moved into residence halls Thursday, most of the 6700 students are moving in this Sunday and Monday.
With all kinds of road construction going on downtown as well, traffic could be crazy.
MADISON, Wis. — Dane County narcotics agents tell WISC News 3 they are seeing an increasing number of heroin overdoses this year.
Many of those overdosing are teens or college students.
Michael Waupoose is the program director at the University of Wisconsin’s Health’s Gateway Recovery program. There, counselors deal with many caught up in a risk taking culture.
MADISON, Wis. – The University of Wisconsin volleyball team spent Wednesday morning assisting with the clean up of the tornado that struck the Stoughton area last Thursday. The Badgers assisted with clearing fields and pastures of debris from the storm as well as assisting with the cleanup of felled trees.
“It was a great experience for everyone,ââ?¬Â said UW coach Pete Waite. ââ?¬Å?We canceled practice that morning and spent over three hours out there.
It’s not just about getting more kids to graduate from high school. It’s also about the caliber of the work they can do when they graduate. That’s true for most students. It’s especially true when it comes to closing the achievement gap between white students and minority students.
Of specific urgency in a city such as Milwaukee, with large numbers of minority students, were strong indications that even when minority students are very successful in high school, they are not graduating ready to do the same kind of rigorous college work that white students are.
A Selma High School junior with dreams of one day becoming a surgeon received an opportunity of a lifetime this summer to work alongside and learn from some of the country’s top physicians and researchers.
Gregory Ware, 17, participated in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Summer High School Apprenticeship Research Program (NASA SHARP) at the University of Wisconsin.
Enough, already! Princeton Reviewââ?¬â?¢s ranking of the University of Wisconsin-Madison as the top party school in the country is the type of thing that belongs in Mad Magazine or one of the sensationalizing tabloids in the supermarket checkout lines. We agree with UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley who tossed the ranking aside and called it ââ?¬Å?junk science that results in a day of national media coverage.ââ?¬Â
A recent survey named the University of Wisconsinââ?¬â??Madison the top school in the nation… for partying. After six Joy Cardin and her guest look at how student drinking has contributed to that ranking.
Guest: Susan Crowley, project director of the PACE Project, and director of prevention services and community relations at University Health Services at the UW-Madison. (Audio.)
University Health Services is hoping most of the 5,900 UW- Madison freshmen expected here in a couple of weeks will already be immunized against meningococcal disease, a hope that springs from reports of a national and state shortage in a new vaccine for the disease.
“They are rationing it; the demand is outstripping the supply,” said Dr. Scott Spear, director of clinical services, of the new vaccine.
If I want to know what’s going on at UW-Madison, I can consult The Princeton Review, which just came out with its annual highly unscientific survey naming Madison as the top party school.
Or I can just ask my daughter, Carly, who is about to start her second year there. We had this conversation on Tuesday.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is the top party school in the nation, according to new Princeton Review rankings. The publication also ranked UW-Madison as third in “lots of beer” and “lots of hard liquor,” seventh in “reefer madness,” and 20th in “best college newspaper.”
In a statement, UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley said efforts to curb high-risk drinking will continue.
“Junk science that results in a day of national media coverage does not do this issue justice,” he said.
On the same day that Princeton Review Inc. named the University of Wisconsin at Madison the top “party school” in the nation, officials at the university announced on its Web site that “UW-Madison shows progress on student drinking.”
MADISON, Wisconsin (AP) — The University of Wisconsin-Madison topped a list of the nation’s best party schools released Monday, despite a decade-long effort by the school to reduce its reputation for heavy drinking.
It’s always been considered one of the top party schools in the country…but now the UW Madison is number one according to the Princeton Review. Susan Crowley who heads the UW’s initiative to curb binge drinking says fewer students are identifying themselves as binge drinkers…while more and more students say they don’t touch the stuff at all. Crowley tells WIBA News there’s more to the UW-Madison than keggers.
UW Madison ranks on top of a nationwide list for party schools but the Chancellor is dismissing the findings as “junk science.”
Monday, the Princeton Review released its latest tally of the nation’s top party schools. UW Madison ranks first.
University administrators have a love-hate relationship with the annual rankings released this time of year by U.S. News & World Report, Peterson�s, Newsweek and others.
For parents panicked by the sex- and alcohol-obsessed students in Tom Wolfe’s “I Am Charlotte Simmons,” the non-fiction “My Freshman Year” offers some reassurances. Wolfe’s novel ââ?¬Å?is dramatizing a particular truth,ââ?¬Â says Cathy Small, who wrote Freshman under a pseudonym, Rebekah Nathan. ââ?¬Å?I certainly saw ââ?¬Â¦ kids who were quite surprised at some of the freedom they had.ââ?¬Â But for the most part, day-to-day life was not quite so dramatic, she says.
If you’re an anthropologist and you want to understand an alien culture, the place to be is in ââ?¬Å?the field,ââ?¬Â as they say. Which is how Cathy Small, a fiftysomething professor at a large public university, found herself three years ago this month hauling a laptop, a TV and other must-haves to the dorm, standing alongside hall-mates in a shower line and scrambling to find classrooms on the campus where she has taught for more than 15 years.
The annual ranking guaranteed to give college presidents a headache was released Monday: The Princeton Review’s list of the top party schools. This year’s No. 1 ââ?¬â? and we can shortly expect a rebuttal from its chancellor ââ?¬â? is the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison topped a list of the nation’s best ââ?¬Å?party schools,ââ?¬Â despite a decade-long effort to reduce its reputation for heavy drinking. UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley dismissed the report from Princeton Review as ââ?¬Å?junk science.ââ?¬Â
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has been crowned the top party school in the country, according to an annual survey by The Princeton Review – a title drawing cheers from some students and scorn from the university’s administration.
In La Crosse, where the world’s largest six-pack dots the skyline, police may soon demand registration to own a keg of beer.
The proposed ordinance, which would require that liquor store owners take a name, address, driver’s license number and a $100 deposit from anyone renting kegs in the city, is the result of more than a year of municipal self-examination that followed the Mississippi River drowning death of a college student.
Three months after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention formally recommended that all freshmen living in dormitories be vaccinated for meningitis, college officials seem to be taking the recommendations to heart ââ?¬â? and that response is contributing to a shortage of the vaccine around the United States.
Nine universities have made the ââ?¬Å?Top 10 Party Schoolsââ?¬Â list compiled by The Princeton Review at least three times since 2000. All are listed in the Review’s Best 361 Colleges guide for strength of academics and student life.
Weekends at the University of Florida unofficially begin on Wednesdays. Thirsty students with only a few bucks to spend have no trouble finding places to party. Free campus newspapers burst with calendars listing each day’s drink specials at three dozen bars and clubs.
Several universities regularly listed among the nation’s top ââ?¬Å?party schoolsââ?¬Â are joining city officials and bar owners to try to curb the supply of the biggest contributor to binge drinking on and off campus: abundant, cheap beer.
College instructors should prepare themselves in advance to respond to any severe mental-health problems that their students might experience, three scholars said here on Thursday at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association. The comments came during an informal symposium on students’ psychological problems.
(EAU CLAIRE) A concerted effort to reduce high risk drinking on the UW-Eau Claire campus will be funded by a new federal grant.
A survey of drinking by students at UW-Eau Claire last year found 91 percent drink, and 57 percent report binge drinking. Lowering that rate will be difficult because Wisconsin has the highest binge drinking level of 40 states studied by Harvard University. (Third item)
Three months after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention formally recommended that all freshmen living in dormitories be vaccinated for meningitis, college officials seem to be taking the recommendations to heart ââ?¬â? and that response is contributing to a shortage of the vaccine around the United States.
When a student newspaper published a review in 2001 that said Jewish producers had caused a “Blitzkrieg” of one-sided movies about the Holocaust as a form of revenge, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee administrators denounced it as repugnant but defended the paper’s right to express such views. The Leader may not enjoy such a defense should it print a similar article this year.
In June, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago ruled that college newspapers can be subject to the same type of censorship as high school newspapers. The decision, which applies in Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin, came in a case out of Governors State University in Illinois. It could affect more than newspapers. Mark Goodman, executive director of the Student Press Law Center, said all subsidized college activities involving student speech, such as groups that bring speakers to campus, are subject to censorship unless they can prove they are a public forum, a place or publication for free expression.
MENASHA ââ?¬â? Half a world away and relying on strangers to search for her missing 20-year-old son, Lesley Lathrop is ââ?¬Å?beyond worriedââ?¬Â and scared.
An international search is underway in Japan for a missing exchange student from UWââ?¬â??Madison.
20-year-old Andy Lathrop of Menasha is teaching English in Japan.
