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.
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.
