UW-Madison junior Jake Becker gave what he called a “six degrees of separation” explanation for his presence Wednesday at a mass casting call at Memorial Union for extras in an upcoming movie.
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.
For most high school seniors, going to a college that bans alcohol and premarital sex, and requires chapel once a week, seems like a raw deal. But the skills students absorb at religious colleges might be giving them an edge in the job market.
MADISON, Wis. – University of Wisconsin student-athletes Carla MacLeod of womenââ?¬â?¢s hockey and Jim Leonhard of football have been awarded the Medal of Honor by the Big Ten, the Conference announced recently. (Athletic Communications.)
Dear Editor: I do not believe our elected officials understand the importance of the availability of emergency contraception to University of Wisconsin students.
If women become pregnant because they were unable to use the morning-after pill, they will most likely seek surgical abortions. Those few who don’t have abortions might leave college, and possibly the state.
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.
Alcohol arrests at the nation’s colleges increased for the 12th consecutive year in 2003, rising slightly by 1.1 percent. The number of drug arrests increased by 2.6 percent.
Some college police officials say more-aggressive enforcement and better off-campus policing explain why alcohol and drug arrests have risen steadily in recent years.
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.
This should stop them from having sex.
The Wisconsin Assembly approved a bill last week that would bar student health centers on all University of Wisconsin campuses from advertising, prescribing or dispensing an emergency contraception pill.
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.
Wisconsin university students convicted of selling or possessing drugs would be barred from receiving state financial aid and academic scholarships under a bill introduced in a state Senate committee on Wednesday.
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.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Dean of Students Luoluo Hong is leaving for Arizona State University, the UW announced today. In leaving, Hong bashed the state for its budget cuts to higher education.
University of Wisconsin running back Booker Stanley will miss the first two practices of football training camp for his involvement in a fistfight at the Mifflin Street Block Party.
An anonymous university appeals committee ruled Friday that Stanley must sit out the Aug. 10-11 practice sessions. The group may alter Stanley’s suspension if additional information comes to light.
Quoted: Tom Reason, associate director of admissions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Gov. Jim Doyle appointed a University of Wisconsin-Parkside English major as the newest student representative on the UW System Board of Regents Wednesday.
Christopher Semenas will replace Beth Richlen, a UW-Madison law student, according to Doyle’s office. Her term expired in May.
Semenas, of Rosendale, is the first student regent appointed from UW-Parkside, Doyle said. He’s a fourth-year student, majoring in English and history.
College kids may often be strapped for cash, but not all 18- to 25-year-olds are struggling to make ends meet. About 17 million ââ?¬â? or 53% ââ?¬â? are working-class, with regular paychecks giving them a powerful economic punch.
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.
African-American enrollment at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign appears to be bouncing back after a sharp decline last fall, according to preliminary admissions figures
What in the world are Republicans in the Legislature trying to do with the University of Wisconsin System?
After four years of some $300 million in budget cuts, forced by state deficits, university officials thought they would have something of a respite for the next two years because Doyle had recommended only $65 million in cuts.
If you’ve been around Madison as long as I have, the biennial budget fight between the legislature and the university can sound like a broken record.
As a cynical news hound, I kind of enjoy it. The university does unbelievably dumb things like secretly giving chancellors $700 month car fare after the governor took away their cars and trying to cancel the ROTC program at UW-Stout.
I’m a full-time student at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and am disgusted with both political parties, which are making it harder for individuals like me to obtain a college degree.
I consider myself blessed to have parents who help me with the large expenses of college, but what about the individuals who are not as blessed?
The last time I wrote about Erik Adams, I might have left you with the impression that he was, in Erik’s words, “a dumb kid that didn’t know what he was doing.”
It was October 2003 and he had just been arrested for streaking across the Camp Randall gridiron during a Badgers football game.
Like many baby boomers, Sally and Peter Lautmann held their breath and hoped for the best when their daughter, Jessie, started high school four years ago.
Gov. Jim Doyle has not exactly been generous with the University of Wisconsin System. His first budget cut$250 million from the UW System’s allowance in just two years, Now, with his current budget, Doyle has sought an additional $65 million in cuts over the next two years.
The cuts hurt: Students have already been forced to pay out $100 million in tuition increases, and they face the prospect of being tapped again.
But, with his current budget, Doyle sought to limit the harm.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention took a more proactive stance to prevent the spread of meningococcal meningitis by issuing a recommendation in May that all children over the age of 11 be immunized against the potentially fatal disease with a newly licensed vaccine.
The same high-school students who think nothing of going to J. Crew’s Web site to order the right pair of jeans — sifting through the plethora of styles that seem to change by the week — are turning out to be equally sophisticated online consumers of college information.
Frustration, anger, and disappointment ââ?¬â? itââ?¬â?¢s been a gamut of emotions for University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Chancellor Richard H. Wells when Madison legislators announced a new two-year budget plan for the UW system on Thursday.
While it calls for an additional $9 million in state aid during the next two years, Wells said his school�s share won�t even be enough to cover increased costs in basic utility bills.
Four Green Bay students attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School with dreams of having the title of ââ?¬Å?Dr.ââ?¬Â in front of their names took one step closer to their goals today by graduating this spring.
State lawmakers are wrong to try to “dictate morality” to college students. That’s the feeling of state Representative Terese Berceau, who opposes efforts by Republicans to ban morning after birth control pills at UW health centers.
With the summer camp season fast approaching, kids across the country will be stocking up on hiking shoes, bug spray and other necessities for adventures in the great outdoors. Thousands of others, however, will be enjoying adventures of the indoor variety: creating video games, building robots and designing Web pages.
Computer camp, as it was known to an earlier generation, just isn’t what it used to be. With the booming growth of video games, the Internet and digital media, technology-minded kids have an enormous variety of things to learn at technology camps, which are often taught on the campuses of major universities.
MADISON, Wis. – Ninety-seven University of Wisconsin student-athletes were named Academic All-Big Ten for the spring season, the Big Ten Conference announced today.
STEVENS POINT – University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point officials fear instruction might be in jeopardy after the state’s Joint Finance Committee on Wednesday proposed an additional $1 million-plus in budget cuts for UWSP as part of more than $40 million in cuts proposed for the UW System as a whole.
Madison: Very few students can afford to attend college without some form of financial aid. And for students without a lot of family support, financial aid is a must.
Higher Education Aid Board Executive Secretary Connie Hutchison says the Wisconsin Higher Education Grants are big part of that aid. “We know there are a lot of needy students out there who are depending on this to get to college.
For the past 15 years, Intel executive Craig Barrett has played the national education scold, warning anyone willing to listen that the United States would pay a price for poorly educating its students in math and science. It’s too bad so few listened.
University of Wisconsin students will most likely have to pick up the tab for an extra $40.3 million in state funding cuts approved Wednesday by Republican lawmakers.
No matter how long a person has lived in Madison, it is common for UW-Madison students to see the same nameless faces passing by them almost daily. They become a part of a routine, and seeing familiar faces can be comforting to students-but faces don’t explain a person’s life story.
UW-Madison students do not have to travel to the nation’s capitol to get a glimpse of a memorial to see one of America’s greatest leaders.
A statue of Abraham Lincoln has watched over UW-Madison students since 1909.
A $40 million initiative to add a new wing to Grainger Hall can begin this summer, following the demolition of 905 University Ave, a building commonly identified by the “Bucky Badger” clocks on its exterior.
“The Santa Fe Trail,” a UW-Madison traveling classroom summer course, embarked June 2 for a two-week exploration of racial issues and history found within the U.S. West.
The course aims to broaden student perceptions of the West by visiting a range of famous and not so famous western locations on their bus tour.
The Republican-controlled Joint Finance Committee today moved to trim Gov. Jim Doyle’s proposed budget for the University of Wisconsin System and student aids.
In a May 7 cycling race, Matthew Wittig-a dearly-loved member of the UW-Madison cycling teams-crashed and sustained the injuries that would lead to his death on May 12.
A class of University of Wisconsin-Madison students has been designing ties for a world-class neckwear company as part of an annual competition.
The class, Printing and Dying II, is in its fifth year of designing ties for the company XMI, which is based in Chippewa Falls. The company also has a marketing office in Greenwich, Conn., and a showroom in New York. The class, led by Professor Jennifer Angus, is in the Department of Environment, Textiles and Design.
Almost 600 incoming UW-Madison freshmen found themselves on the University Housing waiting list in late May, seeking spaces in the dorms that many will never receive.
MADISON ââ?¬â? The Legislatureââ?¬â?¢s budget committee voted Wednesday to deny state funding to University of Wisconsin campuses that turn away ROTC programs.
The 15-1 vote was a symbolic slap at UW-Stout Chancellor Charles Sorensen, who last month rejected a proposed Army ROTC chapter over the military�s stance on gay soldiers.
Madison Democrat, Representative Mark Pocan, said legislators have voiced more concerns over an increase in the cost of a deer hunting license, than in increases in tuition on UW campuses. “A lot of us are here because of that education,” said Pocan. “We’re making it harder and harder for people to get the same opportunity we had. And I think that’s unfortunate.” (Audio.)
MADISON, Wis. — State legislators have voted to slash $45 million from the governor’s budget that would have gone to the University of Wisconsin System.
The Joint Finance Committee’s vote means less financial aid and less money to hire professors at UW schools.
So it’s one thing to eat bugs for $50,000 or humble yourself before Donald Trump. But can anyone imagine a reality show with 10 gifted, teenage brainiacs competing head-to-head for a four-year college scholarship? Well, yeah.
As this year’s college seniors pick up their diplomas, many of them may think that their future relationship with their alma mater will be limited to periodic class reunions and solicitations for funds. That may have been true in the past, but no longer. Colleges and universities have come to realize that their relationship with their alumni is a two-way street. If they want support from their graduates, they must give them something back in return.
MENASHA ââ?¬â? A bill that would ban the University of Wisconsin System from advertising and prescribing emergency contraceptives has been generating debate and receiving mixed reaction, especially among students.
MINNEAPOLIS – What started out as a little-noticed ban on the military at a small University of Wisconsin campus in Menomonie has erupted into a statewide controversy ââ?¬â? which may be on its way to being defused.
At first pass, Jessica Zigman seems to be a fairly typical young woman from a nice middle class family. Sheââ?¬â?¢s attractive, outgoing and smart. As a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Zigman is majoring in medicine. There is one other thing ââ?¬â? she is a highly skilled competitive boxer with the tools to flatten most of her male classmates.
A state lawmaker said Thursday the Legislature needs to send a message of disapproval to the University of Wisconsin System after a school clinic urged students to get advance prescriptions for emergency contraception before leaving on spring break.
Vincent Patoka, an information guide at the Campus Information and Visitor’s Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the university department that handles off-campus housing, said almost everyone who lives off campus has to sign a yearlong lease.
“Certain apartment complexes will offer an academic-year lease, but the student will have to pay up to several hundred extra dollars a month for nine months, instead of a smaller rent for 12 months,” Patoka said.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention took a more proactive stance to prevent the spread of meningococcal meningitis last week by issuing a recommendation that all children over the age of 11 be immunized against the potentially fatal disease with a newly licensed vaccine.
College athletes have been noticeably absent from Congressional debates over performance-enhancing drugs. New legislation pending in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, however, could trigger government oversight of drug testing in college sports.
On the 16th floor of the Boston University School of Law building one recent afternoon, three law students took a break from their studies to eat lunch and reflect. They discussed classes that could have been better, the impending bar exam, and the foremost question in their minds: how to pay off their student loans.
Each was looking at the attractive option of consolidating her debt by locking in the current low interest rate for up to 30 years, either with the U.S. Education Department or a private lender that provides government-backed loans. But the students had plenty of questions and concerns.
