UW-Madison Marching Band Director Michael Leckrone said he felt he received a vote of confidence for his decision to fine band members for profanity when a Dane County Court dismissed a lawsuit pending against him Friday.
A University of Wisconsin Varsity Band member fined $41.38 after a rowdy road trip doesn’t have a federal case against band director Michael Leckrone, District Judge Barbara Crabb has ruled.
Crabb dismissed on Thursday a lawsuit brought by business school graduate David B. Gauder. He and 28 other band members were collectively fined $1,200 by Leckrone after he learned they had used the “f-word” six times during a return bus trip from the 2004 Big Ten women’s basketball tournament in Indianapolis.
A 21-year-old University of Wisconsin senior was held at knifepoint in the stairwell of a North Carroll Street apartment building early Saturday morning when a man demanded her purse.
LIKE most large universities, the University of Arizona is a virtual city: 37,000 students and nearly 14,000 employees on a sprawling campus in Tucson of 174 buildings and 11,000 parking spots. Also like most of the country’s colleges and universities, it is not particularly selective.
A district judge ruled to dismiss a lawsuit last week filed by a former University of Wisconsin student and varsity band member who had been fined $41.38 for swearing on a returning bus trip from the 2004 Big Ten women�s basketball tournament.
University of Wisconsin Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Peter Spear, who has announced he will retire in December, said he has witnessed many changes at UW since joining the faculty nearly three decades ago. Among them, he says, is the changing diversity and climate.
The Wisconsin Alumni Student Board will kick off its fifth annual University of Wisconsin All-Campus Party Monday.
ime is ticking for Madison landlords to get locks on all doors at city apartment complexes.
The new ordinance — which starts in about two months — came about after a UW student was sexually assaulted in her downtown apartment building last summer. (Video.)
CORAL GABLES, FLA. ââ?¬â?? Plenty of college students load up their undergraduate years with episodes of self-discovery, tweaking life goals in response.
Mary Carriere’s experience might be considered Exhibit A.
College seniors are experiencing the best job market in four years, but hiring for soon-to-be graduates is still nowhere near the dot-com boom of the late 1990s.
Finally bowing to pressure from University of Wisconsin-Madison students who want to party hearty a good week before final exams begin, Mayor Dave Cieslewicz has agreed to an April 30 date for the official Mifflin Street block party.
UW-Madison representatives revealed another phase of the Campus Master Plan Thursday, unveiling basic plans for the tentatively named “University of Wisconsin-Madison Welcome Center.”
UW-Madison students and state-worker unions combined efforts Thursday as they rallied and marched from Bascom Hill to the Capitol demanding a state budget that will help UW-Madison students and state workers.
The Mifflin Street Block Party is officially slated for April 30 following a closed meeting Thursday morning among Mayor Dave Cieslewicz, the Madison Police Department and Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4.
The Office of the Dean of Students announced it will delay office reorganization until next fall to give University of Wisconsin students a chance to provide input.
The City of Madison Downtown Coordinating Committee discussed the future of University of Wisconsin campus visitor information as well as transportation Thursday night.
Although she considers herself shy, UW-Madison freshman Danielle Berkovitz volunteered to share her story first at the American Cancer Society’s Survivor Dinner last Saturday.
“Something as terrible as cancer has really made a positive effect on my life,” she said. “It has allowed me to do things like this and connect with people like you.”
One of those connections, her friend Kari Liotta, also a UW-Madison freshman, gave her an encouraging smile.
After weeks of uncertainty and debate among University of Wisconsin students, Mifflin Street residents, the Madison Police Department and Madison community members, Mayor Dave Cieslewicz announced Thursday the Mifflin Street Block party will be officially celebrated Saturday, April 30.
The dispute between U-W students and city hall over the Mifflin Street Block Party….is over. Mayor Dave Cieslewicz announced yesterday that the city will go along with the April 30th day for the party.
This month, more than a million young people will receive letters that will let them know whether they’ve been accepted to the college of their choice. If those acceptance letters are not accompanied by the right financial aid package, some young people will find themselves altering or deferring their dreams. Too many will be low-income students who find the financial aid picture more daunting than in the past.
Commentary By Julianne Malveaux
I have two good friends who are transferring out of UW-Madison after this semester because they can no longer afford to attend school here.
I have three friends who are currently over in Iraq in a war they never wanted to be in because they thought joining the Army was the only way they could pay their tuition bill. And I have many more friends in my hometown of Washington, D.C., who constantly faced the barriers of poverty, isolation and violence and were lucky to graduate from high school, let alone think about college.
It was with those friends in mind that I joined with other UW-Madison students in crashing a luncheon talk by UW System President Kevin Reilly entitled “Keeping the public in the public university.”
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor John Wiley spent an uncomfortable hour fending off angry questions from students who want the ROTC and military recruiters off campus.
Many of the students cited the military’s ban on openly gay and lesbian soldiers as a violation of the university’s anti-discrimination rules. Wiley said that was true, but that the UW’s hands were tied.
This morning at 11:00 a.m. UW-Madison students will join state employees in marching to the Capitol to demand the state of Wisconsin straighten out its budget priorities. Sponsored by the Student Labor Action Coalition, Associated Students of Madison, Multi-Cultural Student Coalition, Green Progressive Alliance and MEChA, the purpose of the rally is to roll back tuition to 2003 levels, provide good contracts for state and campus workers and ensure affordable healthcare and education for all.
The Sweet 16 birthday is usually trademarked by everything motorized. Rarely does turning 16 also include cancer.
If you were to ask UW-Madison’s football season-ticket-holders what effect next year’s switch to a game-day voucher exchange will have, their answers would run the gammut.
In a heated open forum with Chancellor John Wiley Wednesday afternoon, students who demanded the removal of military recruitment on campus faced off with ROTC members and supporters.
The reauthorization of the Higher Education Act in the U.S. Senate may still have a long way to go after concerns were raised Tuesday that increased government spending on higher education actually has an adverse effect on helping low-income and middle-class students afford college.
It�s hard to find a difference between Kari Liotta and Danielle Berkovitz.
Both are University of Wisconsin freshmen. Both live in the same residence hall. Both hold the same leadership position in the same student organization.
University of Wisconsin students continue to demonstrate a devotion to fighting the battle against cancer as more than 1,000 students plan to participate in Friday�s Relay for Life event at the Camp Randall Sports Center, the Shell.
The Harvard Institute of Politics introduced a comprehensive study detailing the political concerns of college students Tuesday. Students ranked U.S. foreign policy and Social Security as the two issues of greatest concern.
University of Wisconsin Chancellor John Wiley spoke in a heated open forum with members from student organization Stop The War and other concerned students about military recruitment on campus Wednesday afternoon.
Students at campus forum ask for explanations of the contradiction between UW’s anti-discrimination policy and military’s exclusion of gays
Jewish students and their parents said they are hurt and angry that they must choose between celebrating Passover or attending an initiation ceremony and dinner for a prestigious national honor society at UW-Madison on Saturday.
“It’s just very inconsiderate and disrespectful of the university to schedule an event on Passover,” said Fred Tabak of Milwaukee, questioning whether the same decision would have been made if the holiday was Good Friday or Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
The fate of a University of Wisconsin-Madison landmark is sealed.
The City Council Tuesday night approved a demolition permit for Ogg Hall, the two towers of concrete on West Dayton Street that have served as a student dormitory for four decades. Demolition is expected to begin in the summer of 2007.
The City Council voted Tuesday to approve the replacement of Ogg Hall with a 600-bed dormitory and expanded recreational open space
UW-Madison students met at Bradley Learning Community Thursday to explore the elements of college life that lead to culture shock when entering the campus as new or international students
The Mifflin Street Block Party is one step closer to officially taking place April 30 due to three Mifflin Street residents who took the initiative to organize their neighbors.
The Mifflin Street Block Party is one step closer to officially taking place April 30 due to three Mifflin Street residents who took the initiative to organize their neighbors.
The University of Wisconsin�s Department of University Housing came to a settlement regarding an allegedly racist incident at Ed�s Express last month that resulted in several nights of protests held by student organizations.
Catherine Quinn, 21, a University of Wisconsin-Madison student from Wisconsin Rapids who is studying in France, had gone to a 5 p.m. Mass in the basilica with a friend Tuesday. She was lingering there, not expecting smoke from voting until at least 7 p.m., when she saw people running to the doors.
“We started seeing people scurrying and start to run, and I thought, ‘What’s going on? It’s only 6 o’clock.’ Then we started running, and everyone was running. We were standing right under the balcony. Since we couldn’t see anything, we ran to a side.
As more than a dozen college presidents gathered here on Tuesday to discuss how to make their institutions more racially and ethnically diverse, they quickly seemed to reach consensus on two points: Their institutions still had plenty of work to do, and making some major changes in undergraduate education might be a good start.
University of Wisconsin student season men’s basketball ticketholders voted down an option to offer split-season plans to accommodate demand in a poll conducted by the university. Also, student football ticketholders voted to exchange their vouchers on game day rather than at midweek prior to a game.
The basketball vote closes the chapter of a contentious debate that emerged last fall after flaws in the lottery system used to award the 2,100 tickets eliminated several hundred students from consideration.
Their business might be worth millions in five years, but the business plan alone was worth a cool $10,000 for the two UW-Madison entrepreneurs who crafted it.
Tony Escarcega, 31, and John Puccinelli, 25, beat out 13 other teams of UW-Madison hopefuls last week to capture the top prize in the eighth annual G. Steven Burrill Technology Business Plan Competition at Grainger Hall, the university’s business school.
Elected in 2002, Gov. Jim Doyle’s tenure at the helm of the Badger State has just passed the halfway point. This fact, if converted to the semester time zone in which students reside, would mean that Gov. Jim Doyle has just finished his midterm and is focusing on his final in 2006.
Facing an inevitable change in the current football voucher exchange program, UW-Madison students voted to trade in their vouchers on game day, the UW-Madison Athletic Department said Monday.
The North Dakota state Legislature passed a bill last month requiring public universities in the state to address complaints about international instructors and students� ability to understand foreign accents.
A speaker accused the Bush Administration of orchestrating the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in front of C-SPAN cameras, University of Wisconsin students and Madison community members at Bascom Hall Monday night.
For the first time in more than 10 years, University of Wisconsin student football tickets will be exclusively distributed on game-day using a first-come-first-served basis during the 2005 season.
Senioritis ââ?¬â? that ââ?¬Å?been there, done thatââ?¬Â feeling that hits seniors during their final semester of high school ââ?¬â? is a cultural rite of passage for those at the college threshold. Despite debate and research aimed at improving the experience, a 2001 report issued by the National Commission on the High School Senior Year suggested that many students believe the senior year is a waste.
Governors in at least nine states are pushing broad-based initiatives to overhaul the senior year of high school. They say the second half of the year in particular wastes students’ time and taxpayers’ money.
Many congratulations are owed poet and fiction writer Rita Mae Reese, an MFA student in poetry in the University of Wisconsin-Madison English department. She recently received two excellent pieces of news, starting with a call from Stanford University letting her know she had won a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in fiction.
By Stacy A. Teicher, The Christian Science Monitor
College life requires just the right balance between study, work, and play. And for many, there’s a fourth essential: prayer. Nearly two-thirds of American college freshmen pray at least weekly, according to the first comprehensive nationwide survey about their spiritual and religious views.
On public and private campuses alike, spirituality has moved beyond the chapel. Whether students prefer meditation, sacred music, or grappling with meaning-of-life questions around the dinner table, many schools are responding by making more space for spiritual exploration.
An intimate conference room in the secluded English department floors of Helen C. White was the site of an unusual course Friday afternoon. The class, composed of 30 creative writing students and a handful of faculty, was led by Sting. The same guy who told Roxanne she didn’t have to put on the red light temporarily assumed the role of professor (his tenure status is unknown).
The Strings of Hope Foundation is kicking off its fund-raiser this month taking donations to string tennis, squash and racquetball rackets for pediatric burn care.
Instead of going to class last Thursday and Friday, engineering students joined community-members and businesses in the biennial Engineering Expo.
Although student groups like Wisconsin Public Interest Group fight to keep textbooks affordable and ensure students can sell their books back, thrifty students may be curious to know which classes are more expensive than others in terms of textbook costs.
Through the Saturday evening rain, women and men met at the steps of the Capitol for Take Back the Night, a rally to end sexual violence.
Associated Students of Madison representatives, Mifflin Street residents and other University of Wisconsin students met with Mayor Dave Cieslewicz Friday to further discuss the controversy surrounding the date of the Mifflin Street Block Party.
Can something relying heavily on the course of the past have no future? Beginning last week and continuing through April 23, scholars and inquisitors conjoin on campus to tackle such issues in the hopes of understanding the future of folk. With only a week left of discussions and lectures, the role of folk culture in the future may not be resolved. Awareness of its endangerment will be.
The event was billed as top-secret. We were to tell no one about it. A capital R, capital S rock star was coming to talk to us about writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison English department.
Before we knew who it would be, there was speculation among my colleagues in the master’s of fine arts program in creative writing. We studied concert lists. We made up elaborate fantasies about who our guest speaker might be.
Finally, copies of Sting’s “Broken Music” were handed out, and we were sworn to triple secrecy. Our guest was the King of Pain himself.
