Category: Campus life

With an eager audience of students and adults in attendance Friday, the UW-Madison Law School hosted a conversation regarding the role of constitutions in democracy.

UW junior Brittany Lindemann rushed out of her class, hoping to beat UW campus police to her car parked near by.

She quickly realized that would not be the case as she spied the dreaded paper on her windshield flapping in the breeze. For many drivers on UW campus, the limited parking remains an irritating problem.

UW-Madison’s cultural sensitivity was brought into question Friday night when a group of students staged a sit-in at Ed’s Express over an alleged instance of racial harassment by an employee that occurred at the restaurant on March 1.

Six University of Wisconsin student organizations are holding a five-day demonstration at Ed�s Express in Gordon Commons to oppose what they are calling prejudice attitudes of an Ed�s manager who allegedly harassed two black UW students.

This fall, about 2.5 million freshmen will enter colleges and universities nationwide, most of them with plenty of cash in their pockets.

The La Crosse Common Council on Thursday unanimously accepted a report and recommendations designed to deal with binge drinking in the city.

The gap between UW-Madison’s tuition and the tuition of its Big Ten peers has widened in the past two years, according to the UW System Board of Regents.

UW-Madison presently ranks eighth out of nine peer institutions when comparing resident undergraduate tuition a

Nearly 50 incensed Mifflin Street residents sent a clear message to the Madison Police Department Thursday: they want the Mifflin Street Block Party on April 30.

The debate over this year�s Mifflin Street Block Party date continued as students voiced their concerns at a meeting in the Madison Senior Center Thursday night.

By simply glancing at the long lines outside of some of Madison’s popular bars each Friday afternoon, it would be difficult to believe “Friday After Class” was almost never implemented at all

February 7, 2004 was much different than May 6, 2003.

On May 6, the Madison City Council voted 11-2 to pass a resolution denouncing UW-Madison for the “unconscionable” tracking fee it was set to force upon its international students and Chancellor John Wiley, the man at the center of the firestorm.

Seven University of Wisconsin College Republicans held an eat-in 12:30 Wednesday afternoon at the Capitol Rotunda next to students convening a hunger strike to protest what they call the ââ?¬Å?hypocrisyââ?¬Â of the Associated Students of Madison.

Soon the last final exam will end, the caps and gowns will adorn graduates and the time spent as college students will come to a close. For most college students, graduation becomes the time to move into the real world, find a job and start the careers they have learned about for four years.

U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., is helping to spearhead a bipartisan effort to raise the amount of the maximum Pell Grant award from $4,050 to $4,500.

Feingold, along with a bipartisan group of Senate colleagues, sent a letter to the chair and ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee strongly urging them to increase the maximum award to help lower income students receive a college education, reported WisPolitics.com.

The date of the Mifflin Street Block Party is still in contention as the Madison Police schedule a meeting open to all students who want to attend.

The meeting will be held Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the Madison Senior Center, 330 W. Mifflin St.

Family and friends of Paul Reisinger gathered Tuesday evening at Gunderson Funeral Home, 7435 University Ave., to lay the 65-year-old UW-Madison student to rest. Reisinger, who was discovered dead in Van Vleck Hall Friday, was a Division of Continuing Studies student participating in the senior guest auditors program.

Associated Students of Madison decided Tuesday to use the $1.2 million segregated-fee surplus to, among other things, offset next year’s fees and fund the bus program. ASM’s reserve board struck down two other proposals that would have utilized a portion of the surplus.

The Associated Students of Madison�s reserve board decided it will give nearly $757,000 in segregated reserve fees back to University of Wisconsin students after denying two student organizations� applications for a portion of the reserve funding Tuesday night.

ASM subtracted the proposed

Eight students at California State University at Chico were charged March 3 with various crimes after a student was killed during a fraternityââ?¬â?¢s ââ?¬Å?Hell Week.ââ?¬Â

While they waited for stragglers to show up, New Yorker magazine writer David Denby and the students of Professor Deborah Blum’s journalism class made the kind of small talk you do when yout-of-towners are about.

An excess of $1.2 million in segregated fees paid by students has allowed room for additional student groups to submit proposals for funding. Associated Students of Madison’s Reserve Board met Monday night to hear their proposals in order to release its decisions Tuesday night.

The New Yorker is finding its way out of its home metropolis with a visit to UW-Madison. The magazine is stepping out as part of its college tour for three days of conversation, panels and entertainment.

Sometimes humorous, sometimes serious, but always impassioned, the Rev. Al Sharpton ignited a capacity crowd yesterday in the Memorial Union Theater as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series. Discussing issues from the 2004 presidential election to gay marriage, Sharpton encouraged students to never succumb to apathy.