Category: Campus life

The City of Madison Downtown Coordinating Committee discussed the future of University of Wisconsin campus visitor information as well as transportation Thursday night.

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.

The Sweet 16 birthday is usually trademarked by everything motorized. Rarely does turning 16 also include cancer.

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.

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).

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.

More than 300 University of Wisconsin students and Madison residents marched down State and Langdon Streets Saturday evening during the 21st annual ââ?¬Å?Take back the nightââ?¬Â protest against sexual assault and violence.

The students were half the teacher�s age. And he stood close. So close.

….As a spiritual journeyer on an American college campus, (Amanda) Zimmerman has plenty of company. Two studies released this week document the extent to which teens and young adults are teeming with spiritual curiosity, tolerance for religious differences and willingness to tap multiple sources for wisdom and guidance.

Madison: The site of a tragic fall last August has been made a little safer in preparation for the Mifflin Street block party.

A pile of wood on the sidewalk is what remains of the old second floor railing at 453 West Mifflin St. The new railing is now the required 42 inches high.

There are nearly 800 student athletes here at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Eight hundred. That leaves 40,788 students who do not have the type of everyday access to competitive sports that they may have had in high school. So, like the other 40,787 of my fellow students, I too must turn elsewhere for my fix.

MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin campus police spent the day Thursday dealing with some students who walked out of classes to protest the Iraq war, military recruiters on campus and the ROTC program.

Approximately 200 students walked out of class Thursday morning to protest military recruiters on campus.

The late-morning protest began as a rally on Bascom Hill, turned into a march around campus with a standoff between pro- and anti-war demonstrators and finally culminated with a sit-in outside UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley’s office.

In a new wave of lawsuits launched Wednesday by the Recording Industry Association of America, 405 students at 18 universities across the country were targeted for illegal file sharing through the new high-speed infrastructure, Internet2.

More than 100 University of Wisconsin students participated in a walkout Thursday, leaving their classes behind to protest the war in Iraq and on-campus recruitment.

An otherwise peaceful student protest against the war in Iraq and military recruiting on campus briefly turned threatening at UW-Madison Thursday when police disconnected the groups’ speaker system.

Flipping the switch effectively silenced remarks by Jane Jensen, leader of Military Families for Peace and the mother of a Blackhawk helicopter pilot who served in Iraq.