Category: Campus life

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.

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.

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 � 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.

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

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 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.

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 � and that response is contributing to a shortage of the vaccine around the United States.

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.

Japanese police have launched an investigation into the disappearance of a 20-year-old Menasha man who had been teaching English in Japan before he went missing three days ago. Andrew Lathrop is a 20-year-old who moved to Japan after his freshman year at UW-Madison last August to teach English as a second language through the Labo International Exchange Foundation.

MADISON, Wis. — Mayor Dave Cieslewicz’s office is trying to get bars to voluntarily stagger closing times on Halloween weekend.

Bar owners and Cieslewicz’s staff will meet in the coming days. It’s just one of the suggestions Cieslewicz is pursuing to prevent another State Street riot.

At today’s Halloween planning meeting, city leaders are planning, and bracing for what they hope will be a successful and safer event. And it’s crunch time for this group — they met today, with just more than two months left until Halloween on State Street.

Two weeks before some 40,000 students begin fall classes at UW-Madison, advocates for cheaper college textbooks released a new federal study today that backs their complaints about escalating costs and questionable extras.
Among the findings of the report, compiled by the Government Accountability Office at the request of U.S. Rep. David Wu, D-Ore.:

Textbook prices have increased at twice the rate of inflation over the last 20 years.

Elizabeth Waters Hall, a longtime bastion of all-female living, will go co-ed in fall 2006, the university announced this morning.

A smaller building will take over as the sole all-women’s hall on the UW-Madison campus.

Paul Evans, director of University Housing, said demand for living in an all-female hall was markedly down.

The corrupted Latin on Michael Forster Rothbart’s shirt said it all.

Cogito ergo recyclo – “I think therefore I recycle.”

That was the mind-set of the roving group of garbage pickers Rothbart assembled Saturday.