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.
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.
A triumvirate of Democratic Madison state legislators introduced a plan to increase student financial aid and freeze tuition for lower-income in-state students throughout the University of Wisconsin System Monday at the Red Gym.
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
University of Wisconsin running back Booker Stanley was arrested and charged with four misdemeanors stemming from a disturbance Saturday night during the Mifflin Street block party.
Stanley, 22, was charged with two counts of battery, and one count each of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest during a party at 522 W. Mifflin St. He posted $950 bail and was released.
It began as an initiative to save tax dollars for prisons has become a potentially major headache for UW students. Due to the success of prisons that do not purchase foods together in bulk, Gov. Doyle felt that implementing a similar plan in the UW System would allow for the same control and a decreased budget
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.
Hey guys, how hearty did you party at the Mifflin Street Block Party this weekend? No more than a 12-pack?
Bad idea. Drinking even that much can hurt you.
onsidering that amid much controversy, students were left guessing when the official Mifflin Street Block Party would be until April 22, the end result was a testament to the understanding developed between the city, police and partygoers.
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.
Contract negotiations between the UW-Madison Teaching Assistants’ Association and the Wisconsin Office of State Employee Relations were stymied again Friday when state representatives rejected the TAA’s request for an independent mediator.
Even a late date change and months concern over the level of police enforcement could not taint the Mifflin Street Block Party, as 20,000 people packed into the 400 and 500 blocks of Mifflin Street Saturday to celebrate the annual spring bash.
The University of Wisconsin�s journalism program has much to celebrate as it concludes this academic year. This year, 2005, marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the journalism program at UW, which was one of the first institutions to recognize students should be equipped with special reporting training before graduation.
The University of Wisconsin�s Morgridge Center for Public Service announced a new chief Friday, one who will take over current Director Mary Rouse�s position after she retires this June.
After last Wednesday�s request by the Teaching Assistants� Association to hire a mediator to help resolve the long-running dispute of their 2003-05 contract, state of Wisconsin negotiators rejected the labor union�s request Friday.
JUNEAU ââ?¬â? Chalk up another victory for the Wisconsin Innocence Project.
The project, an initiative of the University of Wisconsin Law School, helped win the freedom of its third client Friday: former La Crosse resident and former Augusta police officer Evan Zimmerman, whose murder charge was dropped by prosecutor Richard White in Dodge County Court.
Between the Crazylegs Classic and the Dane County Farmer�s Market, the city of Madison was bustling this weekend while more than 15,000 people celebrated the annual Mifflin Street Block Party.
The smell of beer lingered along the 500 block of West Mifflin Street Sunday, and stacks of trash bags filled with empty bottles and cans lined the curb.
But little other evidence remained of the 20,000 people who packed the 400 and 500 blocks on Saturday for music, drink and revelry at the annual Mifflin Street block party.
Sunday, many Madison residents joined police and city officials in breathing a collective sigh of relief following another installment of the traditional celebration. Now, concerns turn toward next weekend’s traditional celebration schedule. (Video.)
Thanks in part to the efforts of UW-Madison professors and students, a group of citizens held a press conference at the capitol Thursday to present recommendations on the development of nanotechnology after spending a month learning about the rapidly advancing field and discussing it among themselves and with experts.
UW-Madison students are beginning to organize against proposed legislation that would ban University Health Services from distributing the morning-after pill.
Mayor Dave Cieslewicz delivered an emphatic announcement promising to restrain and subdue revelry on the upcoming 2005 Halloween weekend.
Sunday will find Mifflin Street disheveled and coated with countless beer cups and waste from Saturday’s annual bash, but the Mifflin Street Co-Op, 32 N. Bassett St., is ready to act.
This is the 10th year the co-op will aid with the block party, providing trash and recycling bags as well as free coffee donated by Just Coffee, 100 S. Baldwin St.
UW-Madison students critiqued the implementation of Plan 2008 in a question-and-answer session with Chancellor John Wiley and Provost Peter Spear as part of the Plan 2008 Diversity Forum Thursday in Bascom Hall.
We appreciate very much the sentiment of your Wednesday editorial (ââ?¬Å?Failing Laundry 101ââ?¬Â), which calls out some of our colleagues for pulling a cheap political stunt at the expense of students by asking that the Associated Students of Madison be sent the bill for policing the Mifflin Street block party this weekend.
