(MADISON) Critics say there will be more unplanned pregnancies if campus health services in the University of Wisconsin System are prevented from advertising or dispensing emergency contraception. But supporters of such a law say the UW should be focusing on education, not family planning.
On April 28, 27 students from the University of Wisconsin-Madisonââ?¬â?¢s Posse Program and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., entered the hallways of Falk Elementary eager to meet with their second and third grade pen pals for the last time as the culmination of their yearlong writing experience. As a teacher of second and third grade at Falk Elementary and a mentor of college students in the University of Wisconsin-Madisonââ?¬â?¢s Posse Program, I decided to bring both of my dynamic groups of students together through a yearlong writing experience. Aware that meaningful learning takes place through culturally relevant experiences and projects, last October I designed the Pen Pal Project as a unique opportunity to encourage and motivate students to write and to connect them with an outstanding group of college students of color to serve as role models. After initially only involving my students I was approached by another teacher of second and third grade who hoped to get her students involved. Mrs. Carolyn Bakula stated that she wanted to become involved because it would allow her students to ââ?¬Å?communicate biweekly on a meaningful and authentic level as well as gave them a purpose for writing beyond the classroom.ââ?¬Â I eagerly expanded the project to involve their peers, and involved more UW Posse scholars including freshmen, sophomores, and juniors from Chicago and Los Angeles and a group of students from the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.
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. (Fourth item)
Turnout among young Wisconsin voters in last fall’s presidential election was second highest in the nation, with nearly two-thirds casting ballots, a census report released Thursday says. Quotes Jennifer Knox, a UW-Maadison junior who led Vote 2004.
We are getting close to the end of our Foreign Student Series on American higher education. This week, we report comments from foreign students in the United States who have experienced the process we have been describing.
We talked to four students attending the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Two are undergraduates — Ometere Omoluabi from Nigeria and Chilwin Tanamal from Indonesia. The others are graduate students — Rogerio Mazali from Brazil and a young woman from China who does not want her name broadcast. (Audio.)
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents will apparently review UW-Stout Chancellor Charles Sorensen’s decision not to permit a Reserve Office Training Corps (ROTC) program on campus for a four-year period.
A majority of college students frequently use plastic for purchases, but they are carrying slightly lower credit-card balances than they did four years ago, according to a study released on Tuesday by Nellie Mae, a major provider of student loans.
When she applied to 13 colleges last year, Carly Chase thought she was wise to all the possible responses she would get: deferment, early acceptance, regular acceptance, or rejection.
But when she opened up the envelope from Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., – her top choice – she thought, “Oh, that’s a new one.”
With a backdrop of poster-sized front pages blaring headlines like ââ?¬Å?House fire kills 3 studentsââ?¬Â and ââ?¬Å?Penn State student fies in house fire,ââ?¬Â several members of Congress gathered Wednesday to say that they were teaming up to push a package of legislation aimed at improving fire safety on college campuses.
MADISON, Wis. – Four University of Wisconsin-Madison students were detained briefly by Capitol police Tuesday after they disrupted the Legislature’s budget committee, demanding that lawmakers protect state funding for higher education.
Four UW-Madison students interrupted yesterday meeting of the legislature’s budget committee…demanding lawmakers act to protect state funding for higher education. The students were detained briefly by Capitol police after they stepped in front of the podium and unfurled a banner reading…”cut tuition…not the budget.” Several members of the committee responded to the protesters with their microphones off.
College students who get drunk regularly are likelier than other students ââ?¬â? even those who drink alcohol ââ?¬â? to physically injure themselves, or to be hurt by other drinkers, according to researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.
SHAWANO ââ?¬â? Nicole Bowman-Farrell, 34, sees herself as a competitive athlete, whether training to win a spot on the Olympic bodybuilding team or growing her Shawano-based business, Bowman Performance Consulting.
When she completes her doctrinal thesis this year, she will be the first state American Indian to receive a doctorate in leadership and policy analysis and only the sixth in the 150-year history of the University of Wisconsin�s Department of Education
MADISON, Wis. – The chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Stout says the military, which does not accept openly gay recruits, is not acceptable on his campus. (First item.)
A recent survey found that college seniors are more worried about debt than terrorism, a finding that probably says more about the size of student loans than the state of homeland security. The numbers tell the story: 45% of the seniors said they expect to graduate with $10,000 or more in student loans. Nearly 21% said they expect to graduate with more than $20,000, according to the Partnership for Public Service.
For Jen Kraus, joining thousands of other Jews to usher in the Sabbath as the sun set over Jerusalem’s Western Wall was the pinnacle of her four-year college career and a spiritual affirmation that no other semester abroad could offer.
Seven universities–including the University of Wisconsin, Michigan State and Ohio State University–recently have reinstated their programs with the caveat that students must sign a waiver clearing their schools of any liability in case of violent unrest.
Students once saw computer-science classes as their ticket to wealth. Now, as more technology jobs are outsourced to other countries, such classes are seen as a path to unemployment.
MEQUON – Matt Wittig was perseverance personified.
Just 11 months after a bicycle accident had him near death last spring, he was back on his bike enjoying the sport, the team camaraderie and the competition. But on May 7 at a Wisconsin Cup bicycle race in Muskego, he suffered another crash and sustained head injuries. He was only 20 years old when he died May 12.
University of Wisconsin President Kevin Reilly has asked the Board of Regents to re-examine a decision made by UW-Stout Chancellor Charles Sorensen to reject bringing ROTC to campus.
It’s closer to Independence Day than All Hallows Eve, but Madison is considering some strong measures to prevent another Halloween melee this fall.
The unofficial Halloween celebration on State Street has become violent and been broken up by police in the early morning for three straight years.
The president of the University of Wisconsin System on Thursday resurrected a proposed Army ROTC program at UW-Stout that had been rejected by the Menomonie school’s chancellor.
The decision by President Kevin P. Reilly to resume discussion of the program was welcomed by three Republican lawmakers from western Wisconsin who had complained about the decision not to offer ROTC.
The Precollege Scholarship Program will be expanded to serve more students from disadvantaged backgrounds, such as Iris, but race will no longer be a criterion. The decision to change the program came last year as the result of a reverse-discrimination complaint that will affect students coming into the program as of July 1. The program’s shift has met differing views. Some believe the change will reduce the number of minority students who get a chance at a college education, while others say the fight for equal rights is no longer based on race, but class.
(MADISON) A national program on southeast Asian cultures says its Hmong language courses are growing in popularity. While the upper Midwest has seen thousands of new immigrants from Laos and Thailand pour in during the last year, a program coordinator says most participants are actually first-generation Hmong-Americans.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has regularly hosted the Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute since 2000.
Concern over recurring Halloween violence has led to a proposal to give Mayor Dave Cieslewicz greater power to shut down downtown businesses during “a state of emergency.”
In the next few weeks, the Madison City Attorney’s Office plans to send out letters to more than 50 downtown bar and restaurant owners informing them that in the event of such an emergency, the city will have authority to evacuate customers.
A large group of academic associations is urging the federal government to take more action to welcome international students, researchers, and scholars to the United States by overhauling the visa process and taking other steps to remove hurdles to foreigners.
The job outlook for college graduates is much better now than it was a few years ago. But Wisconsin businesses still face challenges in getting those graduates to work in our state.
Even though many Wisconsin students in UW schools will stay in state for their first jobs…many others will leave the state to begin their careers.
Many Wisconsin cities hope college graduates will stay in the state to start their careers, but that’s not always a guarantee, as many will hit the road, and it’s causing cities, businesses, and colleges to take a closer look at this phenomenon known as the “brain drain”.
“Being a business major is so broad, you can pretty much do a ton of different things,” says UWSP senior David Savides. That’s also how his job search has been over the last few months: broad.
The generation that came of age after Sept. 11, 2001, fears college debt and joblessness more than another terrorist attack. That’s according to a new survey of college seniors and graduates of the class of 2005, most of whom were just weeks into their college careers that fateful Tuesday.
MADISON, Wis. — City officials want to gate off State Street for this year’s annual Halloween bash, and so far the controversial proposal is getting support.
Representatives from the university, the business community and police met Tuesday to discuss plans to prevent more riots this year. Police said they want to keep out-of-towners out of the party this year.
A UW-Madison student was charged Monday with breaking into a physics professor’s office on three occasions to steal exams.
Nicholas Z. Hanson, 22, faces three counts of burglary in the failed Dec. 17 theft from a Sterling Hall office, as well as two earlier burglaries during which he allegedly took exams from the same office.
BEN SCHUMAKER was helping out in an orphanage in Guatemala when he had the conversation that changed his life.
This was 18 months or so ago, and Schumaker, 23, had just graduated from UW-Madison with a psychology degree. He found out that a month in a Central American orphanage can affect your psyche every bit as much as four years on a college campus.
Dear Editor: I respect the grief Sarah Stellner’s parents are going through (Rob Zaleski’s column) but I need to address some of the things mentioned in the article.
Sarah’s mother, Cindy, says: “We knew she was partying, of course, because 95 percent of the college kids in Madison do that.” The false perception that everyone is doing it has been found to actually promote heavy and binge drinking among college students, and campaigns to correct this misperception have actually led to reduced drinking, as noted in your newspaper in a 2003 article. The truth is that most people and students vastly overestimate the amount of risky drinking going on and so promote more risky drinking.
Jian Yang stood with his wife and their friends early Friday evening in front of the Kohl Center, proudly wearing the cap and gown of a University of Wisconsin-Madison Ph.D. candidate, about to get his doctorate in civil and environmental engineering.
“This is one very important day,” the 28-year-old from China said, ready to join hundreds of other graduate students inside the Kohl Center for the 152nd commencement of the state’s largest university Friday night.
Four years ago, the class of 2005 arrived on campus like any other group of freshmen – eager and a little nervous.
Then, just a few days into their college careers, came the terrible jolt of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Some were shuffling in and out of morning classes when the news hit, followed by the realization they would have to confront a suddenly scarier world away from home, in the company of unfamiliar faces.
Matt Wittig didn’t know four years ago that his signature on his driver’s license would result in five strangers getting a chance to live longer. He couldn’t have known then, at the age of 16, that his death four years later would elevate him to hero status in the eyes of his family and of those strangers who needed organ transplants to have a chance at survival. The 5 strangers – 4 of them from southeast Wisconsin – received one or more of Wittig’s organs in transplant surgeries that occurred Friday, hours after his death Thursday.
At this time of year, the hill nestled between Frautschi Point, on Lake Mendota, and the Eagle Heights Apartments looks more like foreign lands than an area of Madison.
In May, before the hill is blanketed with sunflowers and greenery, evidence of the work to make it bloom and grow is in place. Women in burkas work beside people dressed for a day in the rice paddies of Asia. People in African djellabas crouch besides those in Bucky Badger T-shirts.
Madison police say a UW student was walking home at about 3:30 this morning when she was attacked. The suspect had a handgun, and allegedly forced the victim in his car and sexually assaulted her near a parking lot off
Three years after the College Board increased students’ anxieties with its decision to add a handwritten essay to the SAT, and three months after the test made its debut, many universities are still grappling with how, when and even if they will use the new scores.
Civil engineering major Nate Haugen was juggling four attractive job offers as classes at UW-Madison finished up this spring, but in the end he chose the company that would let him start late.
About two years late.
Haugen, 23, of Aurora, Ill., will join the Peace Corps first, building water systems and sanitation improvements in Central or South America. He does have to work six months for his new employer, M.A. Mortensen Co. in Minneapolis, before leaving – but even that commitment, to start in July, will come after a monthlong trip to Europe he begins Wednesday.
“I HAVE an idea for next year’s Mifflin Street block party that may help end the ceaseless cycle of drinking and fines, and news stories about drinking and fines, that drives everyone around here batty this time of year.
What the Mifflin Street party needs is something for the residents and visitors to focus on besides getting drunk.”
It has taken all of two weeks, but Cindy and Duane Stellner have finally accepted that their 20-year-old daughter, Sarah, is dead. What they haven’t come to terms with is the probable cause of death: a heroin overdose.
“We knew she was partying, of course, because 95 percent of the college kids in Madison do that,” Cindy Stellner said in a phone interview from the family’s home in Gays Mills, a small farm community about 15 miles east of the Mississippi River in southwestern Wisconsin.
But heroin?
FOUR hundred miles deep into the North African desert, Jim Doyle gathered the bundle of aerograms and month-old magazines that were his link to a former world, the one he had left behind to join the Peace Corps. This particular day in November 1967, the mail carried news about his college campus and hometown, the University of Wisconsin in Madison. There had been a protest against the Vietnam War, specifically a blockade against recruiters for the company that made napalm, and it had ended with tear gas, billy clubs, arrests and demonstrators taunting cops with cries of “Sieg heil!”
The University of California at Berkeley has banned alcohol consumption at all events held by campus fraternities and sororities.
The ban, announced on Monday followed numerous alcohol-related violations at Greek events over the past few months.
Police today said the cost of staffing the April 30 Mifflin Street block party exceeded $99,000. Police Chief Noble Wray said the cost was in line with expectations.
The tally, however, “does not reflect the numerous hours spent planning by our command staff,” he said. “For an event like this to occur and to ensure the safety of all involved, it takes a copious amount of resources to plan, manage and execute.”
….According to news reports, there were more than 300 citations issued during that weekend, with more being planned. Also, anyone observing video coverage could see that whites greatly outnumbered blacks and other people of color during the party. Then why is it that the face of “misbehavior” at the block party is black and that of a UW athlete? Is there some other agenda at work here? I ask the question for rhetorical purposes only, because I strongly believe the answer is yes.
MUSKEGO, Wis. (AP) – A University of Wisconsin-Madison sophomore was critically injured after crashing during a bicycle race in an accident similar to one in which he was badly hurt a year ago.
Matt Wittig, 20, of Mequon, was breaking away from the pack in a Wisconsin Cup race in Muskego County Park when his right foot slipped out of the pedal, his right knee hit the handle bars and he was flung over the bars onto the pavement, said Hans Higdon, the event’s organizer.
Quoted: Steve Van Ess, director of the Office of Student Financial Services at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Muskego – After surviving a similar accident last spring, avid cyclist Matt Wittig was in critical condition Monday after a weekend accident during a Wisconsin Cup race in Muskego County Park, a hospital spokesman said.
It’s a battle of the senses for many students at the UW during finals – the mind wants to study but the body wants to sleep.
MADISON, Wis. — Police have distributed fines for the Mifflin Street block party, and one house alone racked up $19,000 in tickets, News 3 reported.
The city of Madison is waiting to collect on more than $80,000 in fines from Mifflin Street partiers. More than a week ago, 20,000 people packed the two blocks for the annual bash. Now, a handful of students might have to pay the price.
Job creation numbers were unexpectedly high in a new report released by the government Sunday. Experts take a look at the employment picture facing new college graduates and young adults.
How about this for a graduation present: cheap money. Those getting college diplomas in coming weeks can take advantage of a rare convergence of factors that will allow them to consolidate loans on extraordinarily favorable terms if they act by July 1. The floating-rate loans they took out while in college can be changed to fixed-rate debts for up to 30 years, at low rates set a year ago. This may be the last time that new grads get a chance like this, if proposed changes in federal law go through. Quotes Steve Van Ess, UW-Madison financial aid director.
An early morning two-alarm fire caused extensive damage this morning to a student apartment building at 515 W. Mifflin St., but no one was injured in the blaze.
Madison Fire Department spokeswoman Lori Wirth said an estimated $70,000 damage was caused to the building in a fire which was reported at 2:30 a.m.
Also in this article — Tickets that could carry stiff fines were handed out by Madison police Thursday night at five houses along West Mifflin Street for a variety of offenses, mostly drinking-related, at last weekend’s annual block party.
The federal government should encourage states and colleges to improve their policies for granting credit to transfer students instead of requiring countrywide changes, several state and national higher-education leaders said at a Congressional hearing on Thursday.
(MADISON) University of Wisconsin students around the state are fighting efforts to restrict campus health services from promoting — or providing — emergency contraception. On the Madison campus Wednesday, students were trying to mobilize opposition to a proposed bill which Wisconsinââ?¬â?¢s Attorney General says is probably unconstitutional. (First item.)
The annual Mifflin Street block party did not exactly go off without a hitch. There were 225 arrests, a couple of fires and various other problems Saturday, and police have been busy writing up additional citations for folks who sold beer illegally.
Suspended University of Wisconsin running back Booker Stanley, 22, attacked both a man and a woman at the Mifflin Street block party last weekend and it took four officers to finally subdue him, according to a criminal complaint filed today in Dane County Circuit Court.
UW Republicans name Hong ‘Enemy of Freedom’
Madison Observer takes legal action against Mendota Beacon
UW Space Place to move to larger location
