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
As the stress levels of UW-Madison students build up before final exams, the Campus Information and Visitor Center is hosting the Wisconsin Wellness Weekend to provide some much-needed relief.
UW-Madison does not offer minors, but because it is more flexible for students and easier on faculty, this is not a major problem.
According to Jocelyn Milner, UW-Madison director of academic staff, considerable discussion surrounded the debate between minors and certificates in the 1980s, but the University Academic Planning Council officially decided to formalize requirements for undergraduate certificates instead of minors in 1997.
UW-Madison facilities planners recently began formulating design guidelines to chart the development of new buildings and guide the appearance of future campus architecture.
The Wisconsin state legislature aims to change UW-Madison’s current process of purchasing campus food. The new prime vendor system would involve working with only one distributor.
From the national election to State Street’s 12-hour shutdown, these are the top stories of 2004-’05
In an effort to bring an end to the nearly two years of bargaining, the UW-Madison Teaching Assistants’ Association will file a formal complaint with the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission Monday against the State of Wisconsin.
The boring days of sitting in lecture day-dreaming of the weekend may be coming to an end as colleges across the country, including the University of Wisconsin, are changing the way students learn with a new personal response system known as a ââ?¬Å?clicker.ââ?¬Â
The Madison Police Department will be prepared Saturday, May 7th for a potential second block party on Mifflin Street and will have officers on call during the day to potentially handle the event.
With May in full swing, many college seniors are ready to leave their lives of academic absorption for the working world. Fortunately, statistics from the National Association of Colleges and Employers show the transition could be fruitful for most.
Nearly 5,000 University of Wisconsin undergraduates will achieve alumni status this spring to either enter the work force or attend grad school, which some students say they will do to dodge the ââ?¬Å?real world.ââ?¬Â
The Teaching Assistants� Association, which represents University of Wisconsin teaching assistants and project assistants, announced Wednesday it will file a formal complaint against the state of Wisconsin for regressive bargaining.
A group representing English teachers nationwide says the new SAT timed writing test ââ?¬Å?sends troubling messages about writingââ?¬Â and might actually undermine high schools’ efforts to improve skills.
MADISON – University of Wisconsin System regents are considering joining a coalition of Midwestern states in offering discount tuition to out-of-state residents who enroll at participating public universities.
MADISON, Wis. — Some Mifflin Street residents are in for a rude awakening in the next few days.
Police will be calling, armed with thousands of dollars’ worth of fines for more than a dozen homes. And the crackdown is far from over, News 3 reported.
A proposed ban on birth control given out by clinics in the UW System is creating a statewide student protest.
But the author of the proposal says it’s a misunderstanding, since his plan would only cover emergency contraception.
Proposed legislation that would establish a 3 percent tuition cap remained stuck in a state committee Tuesday after university officials argued it would cripple the quality of education in the UW System.
One day after local lawmakers suggested the state should use $17 million of its general purpose revenue to offset tuition increases for low-income students, Rep. Rob Kreibich, R-Eau Claire, offered his own solution to help cash-strapped students in a meeting of the Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities-a cap on tuition increases for the next two years at 3 percent. The proposal earned the bipartisan support of several Democrats, including Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Madison.
In the early morning hours of April 10, three students at Miami University-Oxford were killed when a fire broke out in an off-campus rental home. One of the three was said to have been killed by the blaze itself and the two remaining victims were pronounced dead from carbon-monoxide poisoning. Although details of the cause of the fire are still under investigation, it was certainly accidental, meaning it could have been anything as innocent as a dropped cigarette to a stove being left on.
A tragedy like this one cannot be ignored and must call our attention to our own safety right here at the University of Wisconsin. With many students renting housing after their freshman years, it is important to assure these students will be safe in the chance of a fire like the one that occurred at Miami University.
Money is tight for your typical college student. Tuition is high, rent is expensive and credit card debt threatens to affect us for years. The blame for tuition increases can be pinned on state government and their haphazard raids into University of Wisconsin system coffers, but students on campus like to find their own local scapegoat.
A popular target at Madison is the Student Services Finance Committee, which makes decisions on how segregated fees are spent to fund student organizations. It is the easiest way for a concerned student to directly affect their tuition. However, many students decide that rather than providing their input to committee members or taking the unthinkable step of actually getting involved in student government, they would rather place the blame on Associated Students of Madison without examining the realities of segregated fee allocation.
In an effort to promote an international exchange of students and a positive impact on society, the UW Association Internationale des Etudiants en Sciences Economiques et Commerciales helps students find internships in other countries.
The UW branch is part of the international AIESEC, which operates at 800 universities and in 89 countries and territories, making it the largest student organization in the world.
MADISON, Wis. — Police are calling Saturday’s Mifflin Street block party a success, while they tally up costs. City alders are calling the event the safest in years.
Meanwhile hundreds of partiers are left with thousands of dollars of fines. Two hundred twenty-five people received about 317 tickets for ordinance violations, mainly alcohol offenses, News 3 reported. However, fines for many of the offenses have doubled, leading to greater fines and more revenue for the city.
It took more than four hours of heated debate and arguments, but the Associated Students of Madison eventually elected Eric Varney as the 2005-06 chair Monday night. Less than 10 minutes later, ASM members elected Dylan Rath as vice chair.
MADISON, Wis. ââ?¬â? The young medical student was nervous as he slid the soft, thin tube down into the patient’s windpipe. It was a delicate maneuver ââ?¬â? and he knew he had to get it right.
Tim Cordes leaned over the patient as his professor and a team of others closely monitored his every step. Carefully, he positioned the tube, waiting for the special signal that oxygen was flowing.
THERE IS news from John Stolzmann, the 23-year-old UW-Madison senior who in January won close to $1.5 million playing poker, and the news is not just that the World Poker Tour event that Stolzmann won is being televised Wednesday on the Travel Channel at 8 p.m.
….The real news from Stolzmann is that he is no longer a UW-Madison student. In the aftermath of his victory, Stolzmann had said he intended to graduate on schedule this spring, but he told me Monday that so many poker opportunities came with the victory that he changed his plans.
One year after a college student’s drowning death sparked fears that a serial killer was roaming the La Crosse riverfront, the city and university officials have enacted changes designed to help curb what officials said really led to the tragedy: a dangerous binge-drinking culture.
Access to emergency contraception must be protected as a vital health care service to women, said legislators and other women’s advocates on Monday in Milwaukee.
Members of Associated Students of Madison and other campus groups are getting behind a proposed state budget amendment that would increase funding to the Higher Education Grant program. Ashok Kamar chairs the academic affairs committee for ASM.
University of Wisconsin running back Booker Stanley was indefinitely suspended from the football team Monday following his arrest on tentative charges of battery, disorderly conduct and resisting or obstructing police Saturday at the Mifflin Street block party.
Arguing that the University of Wisconsin System has become too expensive, three Democratic lawmakers on Monday proposed a plan to effectively freeze tuition for families earning about $46,000 a year or less by providing an extra $17 million in financial aid over the next two years.
“It’s something we’re going to fight for,” said Rep. Spencer Black, D-Madison.
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court said Monday it would settle a pivotal battle over whether colleges can ban Pentagon recruiters from campuses without losing federal funds. The case pits free speech and academic freedom against the power of the purse and the need for a strong national defense.
Each year UW-Madison applicants submit transcripts and ACT scores to the university in hopes of proving they are up to UW-Madison criteria. However, while admissions officials make sure each UW-Madison student meets a certain set of requirements, the process for becoming an instructor at the university is much less standardized.
Students from low-income families might see some tuition relief if the state adopts an amendment proposed by local lawmakers at the Red Gym Monday.
As many of you know, I, along with 10 other alders, gave a letter to Mayor Dave Cieslewicz last week asking him to submit a bill to the Associated Students of Madison. This bill would have been for the cost difference between the Miffin party originally planned for May 7 and the one negotiated by ASM for April 30.
A six-story student apartment building was proposed for construction behind the Presbyterian Church�s Pres House, on Library Mall and the Murray Street Mall, Monday. The project could break ground as early as next spring and open in 2007.
The United States Supreme Court announced Monday they will hear a case concerning a controversial amendment Congress passed in 1994 allowing the government to withdraw funding from universities that do not allow the presence of military recruiters.
An 18-year old man told Madison Police he fell from a balcony during the Mifflin Street Block Party.
27 News has learned a Madison Police investigation is underway after a teenager says he was injured at the Mifflin Street Block Party.
University of Wisconsin football player Booker Stanley was suspended from the team Monday for violating the athletic discipline policy after alleged incidents of violence during the Mifflin Street Block Party.
