Category: Campus life

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.

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.

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.

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”)

Madison: There is music to suit nearly everyone’s tastes in Madison’s bars and venues. The problem is you have to be 21 to get in.

But the City Council passed an ordinance last night that will allow music venues to let in 18 and older crowds-without going nonââ?¬â??alcoholic.

Back in 2000, the University of Wisconsin at Madison ran into a thicket of criticism when it was discovered that the school had doctored a photo on the cover of its undergraduate application materials.

The original photo had been a sea of white faces and didn’t reflect the racial diversity that campus officials desired. Rather than shoot a new photo, however, they decided to superimpose the head of a black student onto the original photo.

Live music venues that serve alcohol may soon be able to open their doors to people who are 18 and older.

At first, the prospect of signing up for his fall classes at UW-Madison this week was a little daunting for 18-year-old Tyler Guetschow.
Barely out of high school, the incoming freshman from Sheboygan would have to tackle that advising room at Union South alone, his parents barred from entering as a matter of policy during UW-Madison’s two-day orientation session known as SOAR.

MADISON, Wis. — A proposal to add a provision to downtown liquor licenses hit a brick wall Wednesday.

The city’s Alcohol License Review Committee rejected the provision that would have put bar owners on notice that the mayor could shut their establishments down.

Black people have been a part of the Wisconsin story since the beginning, and groups gathered this week to celebrate that story in preparation for Madison’s annual Juneteenth celebration on Saturday.

….(Elizabeth Harris) Hodge grew up in the 1950s and 1960s in Madison, a time when African Americans faced little overt racism, she said. Friends have told her she grew up in a utopia, she said.

“But I did not have an African-American teacher until I went to the University of Wisconsin,” said Hodge, who became Madison’s first black TV news reporter in the early 1970s.

Ald. Paul Skidmore’s proposal to restrict the sale of beer kegs in Madison has gone flat.

After Ald. Mike Verveer suggested that the Alcohol License and Review Committee move on Wednesday night to “more important things,” the membership unanimously voted to defeat the proposal, which would limit people to buying two kegs and have them first sign an oath, among other restrictions.

Luther’s Blues, one of Madison’s most prominent live music venues, has given up the ghost.

For four and a half years, Luther’s has hosted a strong lineup of national and local acts. But in recent months the club, 1401 University Ave., has struggled. Employees walked out, creditors say they went unpaid and the phone lines were disconnected for a time.

Then, on Tuesday, Steven Murphy, who owns the building and used to be a partner in the business, closed the doors to the club and the two other businesses in the building.

Thirty-six University of Wisconsin-Madison students stepped off a bus in front of the Dr. Hector P. Garcia Post Office on Tuesday, ready for a history lesson, South Texas-style.