Category: Campus life

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.

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 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.

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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 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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This might sound like we’re straddling the fence here, but the facts are some things worked at Saturday’s Mifflin Street block party, and some didn’t. So while we’d like to claim the party a success or a disaster, and there is evidence for both, like so much of life the day was more complicated than that.

Dear Editor: Personally I’m fed up with Madison being a playground for out-of-towners (including many UW-Madison students) who want to party, vandalize and riot without a moment’s concern for the city of Madison residents who must bear the burden of police and cleanup costs. It’s time our city put a stop to this sort of thing.

As it is, why does the binge drinking capital of the United States need to perpetuate yet another event focused on drinking alcohol?

Matt Hoffman, Madison

Three Madison police officers were injured Saturday trying to break up a fight during the Mifflin Street block party. Otherwise, the legendary, 36-year-old festival was chilly and uneventful this year. In terms of crowd size and number of arrests, the event was comparable to last year’s, said Police Chief Noble Wray.

“There were some areas where we had dramatic improvement,” he said, noting that there was compliance on the one-day bottle ban.

This year marks the 100th anniversary of Norway’s peaceful separation from Sweden, and both countries’ ambassadors visited UW-Madison to share experiences of foreign affairs Friday.

UW-Madison Dean of International Studies Gilles Bousquet introduced Knut Vollebaek and Jan Kenneth Eliasson, Norway and Sweden’s ambassadors, to the United States.