Dominique Sicard has watched four older sisters and one brother go off to college, and now that it is her turn, she cannot wait.
ââ?¬Å?Iââ?¬â?¢m not really nervous,ââ?¬Â said the 18-year-old Neenah High School graduate who will study ââ?¬Å?something probably math-relatedââ?¬Â at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
Proponents of social-norms strategies to reduce high-risk drinking have new data to support their approach
Despite two new dorms opening by 2007, the net gain of rooms will only be about 50. That’s because Ogg Hall will be demolis
Like cockroaches, spam may be impossible to defeat completely. But colleges on Tuesday won an important tool in their quest to limit spam�s intrusions into campus e-mail boxes. A federal appeals court ruled that the First Amendment and a federal law do not limit the ability of a public college to block spam from reaching users� e-mail accounts.
AT a June orientation briefing for parents at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, talk turned quickly to technology. Five students had given up their Sunday afternoon to address issues that the fretful parents might have had about sending their children to college – finding a balance between study and fun, Greek life, campus safety, binge drinking. But many parents had other questions: which operating system is best; is a laptop or desktop preferable; how good is the wireless access; and is it necessary to bring a printer?
LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J. – Class clowns moved into their dormitory rooms determined to reinvent themselves as deep souls. The socially awkward looked ahead to college life as a social butterfly. Everyone sized up one another for potential friendships.
For nearly 200 Rider University freshmen, a day last month brought the usual jitters, along with several wrinkles. Classes did not begin for two months, mom and dad were moving into a neighboring dorm and everyone would be heading home the next day.
DELAFIELD — Anybody who knows Trevon Hughes rarely calls him by his first name. He’s referred to as Cadet Hughes most of the time by the teachers at St. John’s Northwestern Military Academy here. His family and friends have been calling him “Poppy” since he was a baby in Queens.
Abortion rights activists have long accused abortion foes of waging a covert war against contraceptives.
Often they were accused of being paranoid.
Now at least one powerful anti-abortion lobby in the state is copping to the charge.
A VIRTUAL LOCKER? Higher ed IT pioneer and University of Wisconsin-Madison CIO Annie Stunden is seeing her visions become realities at UW-M: Everyone should have a Web space for file storage, sharing, and collaboration. This fall, as a new crop of freshmen enter the university, along with their My UW-Madison Web portal they’ll have better- than-ever access and storage for digital files. My WebSpace, a system for Web-accessible file storage, retrieval, and sharing, debuted last
Lilangi Ediriwickrema, 21, peruses summaries of the latest articles about stem cell research. She quickly dismisses the first three articles but pauses on the fourth before clicking to read the entire story.
Right now, Wisconsin students pay up to $2,400 less than Minnesota students to attend state universities in the Gopher State. Some Minnesotans think this is unfair and are asking officials to review the current tuition reciprocity agreement between the states and make changes. (Sixth item.)
….University of Wisconsin bioethicist Alta Charo says a number of factors have come together to embolden the Republican majority in the state legislature to push efforts to restrict birth control.
The three most popular fleets rented at UW-Madison’s Hoofers Sailing Club, a local boating hub next to the Union Terrace, are tech dinghies, windsurfers and keelboats.
MADISON ââ?¬â? When Rep. Marlin Schneider, D-Wisconsin Rapids, got a $20 parking ticket while helping his daughter pack up at the end of a semester at University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Schneider did what any good parent would do: He introduced legislation that would suspend all campus parking rules for the week preceding or following a semester.
Raymond McCurty-Smith was a high school freshman in Milwaukee when he first heard about UW-Madison’s PEOPLE program from a teacher in his honors English class.
He said he understood immediately what it could mean to him and his family – what a great deal he could get with a full-tuition scholarship if he finished the program and kept up his grades. The program helps disadvantaged and minority youth prepare for college and, preferably, enroll at UW-Madison as freshmen.
MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin-Madison administrators consider the school’s college prep program a success.
The university started the “People Program” as part of a larger plan to improve diversity on campus by helping disadvantaged and minority students prepare for college and, preferably, enroll at UW-Madison.
If the announcement had been a blitzing linebacker from the weakside of the formation, University of Wisconsin quarterback John Stocco would have been sacked.
“I didn’t see it coming at all, to tell you the truth,” said Stocco after learning that his head coach, Barry Alvarez, would be stepping aside at the end of the 2005 season.
“He’s turned this program around and had so much success here that if he feels it’s time for him to go, then it’s time. We have nothing but respect for the coach, and we’ve got to respect his decision.”
The iPod generation will soon be getting some help in selecting which college is the right fit for their music-obsessed lifestyles. Schools that Rock: The Rolling Stone College Guide, which arrived Wednesday, adds a new dimension to selecting a college. The book details music programs, courses and local music scenes at colleges and college towns across the nation.
Associated Bank is closing its branch in University Square on Friday and will open a new office nearby at at 640 University Ave. on Monday. The new branch formerly was a Burger King restaurant, and is more than twice as large at 3,000 square feet.
Metro Transit, which tonight is holding a public hearing on fare increases, may be the first Madison department to be reshaped under the local property tax limits now signed into law by Gov. Jim Doyle.
….The per-ride price under contracts held by employers such as the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Metro’s largest single customer, would rise from 82.5 cents to 88 cents.
Because city officials want these fare increases to take effect in August before students return and contracts for unlimited ride cards are renegotiated, Metro’s budget looks as though it will take shape before those of other city departments.
UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS – Experts say the best way to learn a language is to immerse yourself in it. Just jump in and force your ears to listen.
But jetting off to Paris for a French lesson can be impractical. Fluency, after all, doesn’t happen in a week.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison opened one of the oldest ones, its French House, in 1918,
A combination of law enforcement and peer education has reduced alcohol abuse throughout the California State University System, according to a report prepared for the Board of Trustees.
The exact steps taken vary from campus to campus, but all involve increased enforcement by police and campus security, and ââ?¬Å?social normsââ?¬Â marketing, which teaches students that not everyone drinks to fit in.
The Republican majorities in the state Assembly and Senate cobbled together a budget that was so woefully irresponsible when it came to the setting of priorities and the allocation of funds for basic services that the easiest – and, we would still argue, wisest – response to the document was a full veto by Gov. Jim Doyle.
….But we recognize and respect the governor’s fear that key legislative players such as Assembly Speaker John Gard, R-Peshtigo, are so out of touch with Wisconsin values and needs that they might not be capable of coming up with a better budget – even with a do-over.
Quoted: Sam Batzli, an assistant scientist with the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Environmental Remote Sensing Center.
Quoted: Raymond Fonck of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, a member of the ITER design team
Quoted: Joe Lauer, a UW-Madison agronomy professor.
If you find yourself trying a new frozen breakfast/snack product someday – cute little mini-granola shells filled with yogurt and topped with fresh fruit – you’ll have Rachel Prososki and her trusty team of food science students to thank.
Last weekend, for the sixth time in eight years, the team representing the University of Wisconsin-Madison competed in the finals of the Student Product Development Competition sponsored by the Institute of Food Technologists.
Federal funds for academic research rose by 13.1 percent in 2003, the second straight year of double-digit increases, the National Science Foundation reported on Wednesday. The growth, coupled with a continuing drop in funds from industry, fueled an increase in the federal share of academic-research money to nearly 62 percent, its highest level since 1985.
University of Wisconsin System faculty will get a 5 percent raise over the next two years – along with many other state employees – but administrators won’t get a penny more until System officials “get their act together” regarding questionable compensation and leave policies, lawmakers said Tuesday.
“I think the university doesn’t quite get how ticked off elected officials are in this state about what we’ve been reading in the last month,” Assembly Speaker John Gard, R-Peshtigo, said before a legislative committee that sets pay levels for state employees. The committee later voted to deny the raises to administrators until the university completes an internal investigation.
UW-Madison officials refused to release records to 27 News on a student’s claims about the actions of former Vice Chancellor Paul Barrows.
Last month, UW-Madison officials said Barrows’ failed relationship with the student was part of the reason for his seven months of paid leave.
Quoted: James A. Stewart, an oncologist and professor of medicine at the Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
As a boy, Kurt Squires admits, he spent “way too much time” playing the video game Pirates!
But when a high-school history teacher asked him about European colonization of the Caribbean, Squires found himself spouting off facts – about Spanish galleons, which countries controlled which islands and the fortifications at Havana and Port Royale.
Where did this information come from? Pirates!
That’s when it dawned on Squires that video games can be teaching tools.
Now 33, Squires is an education professor at the University of Wisconsin, and part of a group of educators at Wisconsin, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Southern California trying to develop video games to teach science, history, and mathematics in middle and high schools.
MADISON, Wis. ââ?¬â? As with campuses across the country, the most controversial prescription medication available to students at the University of Wisconsin is the morning-after pill. (Video.)
A sweeping public records request made by state Rep. Steve Nass has campus staffers throughout the state scrambling to retrieve old e-mails and letters as part of Nass’ probe to determine how honest the University of Wisconsin System has been about its money problems lately.
Nass, R-Whitewater, said he personally had his doubts.
“University officials have never wanted to come clean with pretty much anything,” said Nass. “They think they know better than legislators and taxpayers.”
Quoted: UW-Madison historian Stephen Kantrowitz.
Madison’s LGBT community says its members deserve equal rights.
Sunday marked the end of Pride Weekend for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered community. The event culminated in a rally for equal rights at the State Capitol, along with a parade down State Street.
The rally highlighted a recent decision by the state’s Republican-controlled legislature, which denies health insurance benefits to same sex partners of employees at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Veterinary epidemiologist Ron Schultz of the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Founded by University of Wisconsin at Madison student Ben Schumaker last October, the Memory Project ââ?¬â? which gives orphans with little or no possessions a lasting memento ââ?¬â? has spread to nearly 150 high schools nationwide.
Madison – Reggie Cribbs is no longer a member of the University of Wisconsin football team.
“Due to academic reasons, he is no longer with us at Wisconsin,” UW defensive coordinator Bret Bielema said Friday.
Drinking gallons of orange juice and popping vitamin pills may not make you live longer, say US researchers, contrary to previous reports.
In the past, scientists have suggested that taking antioxidants to combat free radical cell damage might delay ageing.
But a University of Wisconsin-Madison team has found no proof that highly reactive oxygen molecules are involved.
A man found guilty almost 25 years ago in the brutal rape and murder of a University of Wisconsin student will get a new trial after the Supreme Court Tuesday reversed his conviction.
Quoted: Debbie McKenzie, a senior scientist at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine. (Second item.)
Madison, Wis. – University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers announced Wednesday they have received a $20 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue research on protein structure.
….Public employee fringe benefits, often a complicated topic, are in the summer spotlight. The developments include:
ââ?¬Â¢ Regent President David Walsh calling for an in-depth study of how the University of Wisconsin’s fringe benefits compare to those at peer universities.
� The Republican-controlled Legislature adding budget bill language requiring all non-union state workers who are covered by the retirement system to pay 1.5 percent of their salaries toward the pension program.
Quoted: Tom Stafford, a geochemist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison
Concerns over poor morale and leadership at University Health Services that surfaced during a recent investigation of sexual harassment charges against a top clinic director have prompted UW-Madison officials to hire an outside consultant to begin a broader investigation next week.
UHS is the campus health clinic that serves UW-Madison students. It has four directors who report to UHS Executive Director Kathleen Poi, including clinical services director Dr. Scott Spear, who was investigated and cleared of charges that he harassed medical students who worked at the clinic as part of their training.
It is extremely troublesome that the state Legislature has acted so recklessly with the University of Wisconsin budget. Even more troublesome is the motivation.
Before the state Senate approved the budget with an additional one million dollar in cuts to the UW budget, the office of Republican Senate Majority leader Dale Schultz said the new cut was “intended to send a message.” The message was unhappiness with the Paul Barrows issue.
(UNDATED) A University of Wisconsin-Madison student working as an intern in the British Parliament was one of thousands of people forced to evacuate the London subway after yesterday�s bombings. Twenty year-old Barry Landy was unharmed on his commute. (First item.)
Quoted: UW-Madison economics professor Steven Durlauf (Second item.)
Terrorist attacks in London on Thursday sparked anxiety in study-abroad offices across Britain and the United States, with staff members spending the day scrambling to confirm the safety of their students and, in one case, canceling a summer program altogether.
For colleges with programs in London, Thursday was a day of urgent calls and e-mail messages, locating students and notifying parents that everyone was physically OK, if obviously shook up by the terrorist bombings.
Quoted: Dr. Scott Spear, associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
Quoted: Hardin Coleman, a UW-Madison associate dean of education.
Quoted: Mason Carpenter, professor of strategic management at the UW- Madison School of Business.
MADISON, Wis. – A few years ago, California surpassed Wisconsin in milk production. University of Wisconsin researcher James Thomson now fears the same is going to happen with embryonic stem cells, a technology he pioneered.
Angela Rose doesn’t see herself as a victim or even a survivor. Rather, she calls herself a “thriver.”
It would be hard to argue with that assessment. Yes, she was sexually assaulted by repeat offender Robert Koppa nearly a decade ago.
Patricia Matt, in her June 22 letter to the editor, was “fuming over the state Assembly’s passing” of a bill that would ban University of Wisconsin Health Services from dispensing emergency birth control (“Don’t deny women access to birth control”)
WAUKESHA – Antonio Jimenez is working toward establishing residency in this country but is still considered an illegal immigrant.
The Mexico City native, 30, takes state-funded general equivalency diploma classes and hopes to work in computer graphics someday.
Unbelievably, the right-wing Republican majority of the Wisconsin State Assembly just passed a bill to encourage student abortions.
Republicans weren’t honest enough to call it the “Let’s Have Abortions Galore” Act, but that would be the effect of prohibiting University of Wisconsin health clinics from advertising, prescribing or dispensing birth control to students.
University of Wisconsin wide receiver Marcus Randle El entered a guilty plea to disorderly conduct today but was sent to the first offender program and the charge against him could be dismissed if he successfully completes that program.
Randle El, 19, was charged with disorderly conduct last March after a shoving match with his girlfriend in Ogg Hall on the UW campus, and as a result was forced to sit out the first half of the Badger football team’s spring practice.
