Over the long winter, the always-bustling UW-Madison Humanitites building has seen dust balls collect in corners, grime splatter on the windows and graffiti multiply in the bathrooms.
Today a group of UW-Madison music students calling themselves Habitat for Humanities plans to take a stand against this invasion of filthe with a thorough spring cleaning.
UW-Madison officials will survey student season ticket-holders this week to determine the future of season ticket distribution for football and men’s basketball, the Athletic Department announced Friday.
University of Wisconsin Dean of Students Luoluo Hong carries out a multitude of duties, but she said one of the greatest responsibilities of her office is the need to ââ?¬Å?put out fires.ââ?¬Â
In order to eliminate lengthy weekday lines, the University of Wisconsin Athletics Department announced Friday it is drastically changing traditional football ticket protocol and allowing students to vote how they want tickets to be distributed.
More than 100 UW-Madison students will join 8,000 students nationwide today in the 21st annual Hunger Cleanup.
The one-day community service fundraiser is an opportunity for students to support local and international hunger relief through hourly sponsorships while volunteering at local shelters, soup kitchens or various service projects.
A groundbreaker The earliest feminist bookstores opened in 1969, and though A Room of One’s Own, named for the book by Virginia Woolf, began a little later than that, it was a groundbreaker, said Anne Enke, a UW- Madison women’s studies professor.
The 1970s saw a boom in feminist bookstores, but many have folded due to competition from large booksellers like Borders, Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com, Enke said.
Madison’s Mayor says it’s too late to change the date of the annual Mifflin Street block party.
Mayor Cieslewicz met with student leaders and a downtown alderman late Friday afternoon to discuss the situation.
The students want the annual party moved from May 7 to April 30 because finals start on May 8.
College education costs are rising at a faster rate than household income, creating funding challenges for students but opportunities for investors.
State Rep. Joe Parisi is proposing a law that would declare Election Day a state holiday during general elections for president and governor. The Madison Democrat, who formerly oversaw local elections as the Dane County clerk, said his proposal would help achieve election reform by improving election administration.
He says one of the benefits of the Election Day holiday would be a dramatic increase in the number of potential poll workers, including thousands of college students.
Bars in Madison did not illegally conspire to raise prices when they voluntarily agreed to ban drink specials on weekend nights, a judge ruled Thursday.
Instead, the 24 bars that announced they would not offer the deals on Friday and Saturday nights in 2002 were reaching a political compromise to satisfy city officials who had threatened more stringent regulations, Circuit Judge Angela B. Bartell ruled.
Controversial plans to test tasers on drugged pigs have been blocked, for now.
Executive Management Inc., the private owner of University Square, and UW-Madison will turn a 30-year-old, low-density retail complex into a modernized nexus for student service and resources.
Undergraduate researchers and faculty from UW schools gathered at the Capitol Tuesday to present their research efforts at the annual event, Posters in the Rotunda. The event is organized for student researchers to present their work on posters to legislators, UW Regents and other members of the public.
In a definitive ruling, a Dane County Circuit Court deemed drink specials ban illegal Thursday. Because they engaged in the ban with the city’s approval, taverns that participated in the bans in the past are legally immune from punishment, according to the court’s ruling.
In the midst of the controversy surrounding the date of the Mifflin Street Block Party will take place, Chancellor John Wiley announced Thursday he supports the decision of the city to hold the event May 7.
Gov. Jim Doyle unveiled a $1.1 million initiative Wednesday to pull more college graduates to Wisconsin since the state has encountered hurdles in attracting students to its higher-education facilities.
BERKELEY, Calif. – The chancellor at the University of California, Berkeley, says black and Hispanic enrollment on campus is shockingly low and he doesn’t think that’s what voters intended when they banned affirmative action.
Associated Students of Madison Chair Emily McWilliams met with Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz Thursday to request changing the date of the Mifflin Street Block Party.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents convened Thursday for its monthly two-day meeting session, but, unlike most meetings, they did not meet at the boardroom on the 18th floor of Van Hise Hall.
University of Wisconsin Chancellor John Wiley discussed issues surrounding the Labor Licensing Policy Committee, anti-war activity, diversity, animal research and his support of the Mifflin Street Block Party to take place May 7 at a press conference Thursday morning at Bascom Hall.
A judge found that the 24 Madison-Dane County Tavern League bars sued in a class-action lawsuit were not illegally price fixing and conspiring, following a Wisconsin Circuit Court ruling Thursday.
MADISON, Wis. — A Dane County judge ruled Thursday that bars in downtown Madison did not illegally conspire to raise prices when they voluntarily agreed to ban drink specials on weekend nights.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is inviting the city, neighborhood activists and property owners to map a strategy to upgrade the housing stock in four neighborhoods bordering the campus.
Associate Vice Chancellor Alan Fish told the city Housing Committee Wednesday night that conditions are ripe for the conversion of rundown apartment houses in the Bassett, Mifflin, Greenbush and Vilas neighborhoods to owner-occupied homes.
Students at UW-Madison living in the Mifflin, Basset, Vilas or Greenbush neighborhoods may face increasing pressure in the coming years to cede their residences to private owners, according to a City of Madison Housing Committee meeting Wednesday. The committee gave a presentation on the university’s assessment of neighborhood planning issues and trends in student housing.
A Republican lawmaker is continuing his push to stop University Health Services from giving emergency contraception to female UW-Madison students despite a warning from the state’s attorney general Tuesday that his legislation is unconstitutional.
As Mary Schauf embarks on her new position as captain of the central district at the Madison Police Department, she says University of Wisconsin students are pertinent to her job. Schauf said she has a unique relationship with the campus community, and for this reason she seeks the student voice in the decisions she makes.
State Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager issued an advisory opinion Tuesday proclaiming new legislation aimed at banning University of Wisconsin System health services from advertising and dispensing emergency contraception is unconstitutional.
University of Wisconsin Associate Vice Chancellor Alan Fish discussed potential changes for student housing on the fringes of the UW campus at a City of Madison Housing Committee meeting Wednesday night.
Associated Students of Madison is set to meet with Mayor Dave Cieslewicz Thursday afternoon to discuss a Mifflin Street Block Party date change.
Today, it seems, college is not just for college students anymore, according to two studies released Wednesday by the National Center for Education Statistics, a federal agency.
Many teens today are working harder than ever ââ?¬â? just not for a paycheck. Teens are studying more, are taking heavier course loads and are involved in more extracurricular activities than ever before.
Dude, not everybody’s getting a free iPod next year. Duke University, which handed out Apple iPod digital music players to all incoming freshmen last fall, has altered its program, saying it will dole out iPods across the undergraduate student body, but only for classes in which the teacher has requested it.
The Madison Police department will take action on illegal activity consisting of providing alcohol to underage drinkers and selling cups at house parties on both April 30 and May 7.
The University of Wisconsin Offices of the Dean of Students proposed a plan to reorganize and promote student services by the end of the spring semester in hopes of creating better assistance.
Several University of Wisconsin student organizations submitted a proposal to the Student Orientation, Advising and Registration Board of Directors Tuesday that, if passed, would require all incoming students to attend an educational meeting about diversity on campus.
The Policy, Alternatives, Community and Education Project discussed keg registration and the Mifflin Street Block Party at a Partnership Council Meeting Tuesday afternoon at the University of Wisconsin Foundation Building.
Try a quick brainteaser: how many ways can you express 4 as a sum of whole numbers? There are 1+1+1+1, 2+1+1, 2+2, 3+1 and 4 itself, making five ways. Simple, right?
Now try it for 100.
Despite a number of City Council seats up for grabs, as well as a host of other contested positions, today’s election turnout is predicted to be low as usual. Local politicians, however, met at Memorial Union Monday to urge students and community members to get out and vote.
UW-Madison Provost and Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs Peter Spear announced Monday that he will be the latest high-ranking UW-Madison official to call it a career.
Student voting begins today on whether to approve an increase in segregated fees for renovations on Memorial Union and Union South.
Mark Guthier, director of the Wisconsin Union, said the renovations would include basic building improvements, as well as new program spaces for student organizations.
After a lengthy semi-nomadic existence, the University of Wisconsin men�s and women�s crew teams have finally found a home.
Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk and Ald. Austin King, District 8, spoke at the Memorial Union Monday encouraging students to vote in Madison�s spring elections today. Only two City Council districts within the University of Wisconsin campus are contested.
University of Wisconsin Provost Peter Spear announced plans Monday to retire at the end of the 2005 fall semester.
About 20 years ago, the leaders of Alcorn State University, a rural Mississippi college 10 miles from the nearest stoplight, took a look at their student retention rates. They didn’t like what they saw. Only half the freshman class showed up for sophomore year, and the percentage of students sticking around to pick up degrees was even lower.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – A year after Audrey Seiler faked her own kidnapping while a student at UW-Madison, her lawyer says she’s getting help, paying restitution and focusing on the future.
Since admitting she fabricated her abduction, Audrey Seiler has been mocked on morning radio, parodied in a play and featured in an Oprah Winfrey show on pathological liars.
University of Wisconsin merchandise is made in sweatshops. What does this mean?
Workers in the factories that make UW caps, hats and sweatshirts are routinely denied their basic human rights. They are forced to work 60- to 70-hour weeks, sometimes 24-hour shifts. They are physically and verbally abused. They are groped and sexually harassed by their supervisors. They are paid poverty wages.
MADISON, Wisconsin (AP) — The young medical student was nervous as he slid the soft, thin tube down into the patient’s windpipe. It was a delicate maneuver — and he knew he had to get it right.
Questions are being raised as to how a 2003 Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action, which stated race was one of many factors that could not be considered when deciding admission to a university or other programs, applies to financial-aid policies. The College Board hopes to answer these questions by releasing a manual meant to help colleges evaluate their diversity-related programs.
University of Wisconsin�s Labor Licensing Policy Committee set up mock sweatshops in front of Chancellor John Wiley�s office Friday in an attempt to protest what the group calls Wiley�s refusal to do everything in his power to end sweatshop practice in UW licensee factories.
AKRON, Ohio – Dominic Mann had been considering attending the University of Akron when he saw the school’s new $40 million recreation center. The expansive center, with its basketball gym and weight equipment ââ?¬â? even a rock-climbing wall ââ?¬â? helped Mann decide to attend Akron.
Bobby Seale, co-founder and leader of the Black Panther Party and an icon of the 1960s, gave a live history lesson on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus Thursday night and promises to do more of the same at 7 p.m. tonight� in 165 Bascom Hall.
About 100 students and community members gathered at Chadbourne Hall to hear Seale tell stories of his legendary revolutionary past. Seale talked about the protests and violent clashes that led to the indictments of the Chicago 7 in 1968.
The Wisconsin Women Equal Prosperity Project discussed gender inequalities within the university on Thursday at the Pyle Center.
In its 75th year standing, the Memorial Union has given students, staff and alumni a place to congregate. This April, students will vote on a $120 million referendum to upgrade it.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is an aggressive, self-interested participant in the business of cruel animal testing, according to the Alliance for Animals. The organization hosted a lecture titled “Behind Closed Doors” Thursday to discuss the issue of animal testing done at UW-Madison, specifically at the Primate Research Center.
Forcible rape in Madison increased by 52 percent in 2004, with a trend toward incidents occurring in the central area of the city, according to a report released by the Madison Police Department Thursday.
Madison’s rape rate rose 58 percent last year, according to a Madison Police Department report Thursday. In 2003, 62 cases were reported and 94 incidents were reported in 2004.
Since 21-year-old Jukenda Thomas was charged with hitting three University of Wisconsin students while drunk driving early March 12, one freshman remains in stable condition while two sophomores have been released from the hospital with broken bones.
I am a senior, and I guess the next step is college, or at least thatââ?¬â?¢s what Iââ?¬â?¢ve been told. So I decided to give University of Wisconsin at Madison a try. I heard it is big, diverse and busy – kind of what I wanted after growing up in a small town where crop insurance is more important than dental insurance.
Animal-rights representatives from Alliance for Animals spoke to University of Wisconsin students against the use of primates and other animals in scientific studies Wednesday night.
