Category: Campus life

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.

Former Democratic presidential candidate the Rev. Al Sharpton blasted the Bush administration and tried to instill hope and offer strategies to a crowd eager to hear his take on what went wrong for Democrats in the 2004 election, and what can be done to changes things in 2006.

Heaven only knows what Phil Hellmuth Jr. might have achieved had he not dropped out of the UW-Madison during his junior year.

The New Yorker College Tour will visit the University of Wisconsin March 8 through March 10 to present material from The New Yorker magazine to promote the publication by reaching a wider variety of people and places.

University of Wisconsin police responded to the discovery of an unconscious male in Van Vleck Hall Friday morning.

UW-Madison students interested in spending a semester in Washington, D.C., earning credits while gaining experience in political and commercial fields, will have an opportunity to do so thanks to a new pilot program.

Wisconsin is poised to become more environmentally friendly in the near future with some assistance from UW-Madison students.

While many University of Wisconsin students roll out of bed just in time to make it to their 9:55 a.m. class, student teachers in UW�s School of Education wake up at 6:30 a.m. five days a week.

The spring committees and campaigns of Associated Students of Madison detailed their semester goals to benefit students and the community at a press conference Thursday.

Students may no longer need to wait in the cold for campus buses that are already filled by the time they arrive according to plans for three different free bus routes circulating through campus.

Conflicting visions for the future of higher education in Wisconsin clashed at the Capitol Wednesday.

Before a joint meeting of the Senate’s Higher Education and Tourism Committee and the Assembly’s Committee on Colleges and Universities, UW System President Kevin Reilly and Rep. Rob Kreibich, R-Eau Claire, outlined their respective proposals for restructuring the relationships between the 13 two-year colleges and the 13 four-year universities. Wednesday’s meeting offered a chance for legislators to debate whether they should undertake the grueling task of overhauling the UW System in increasingly tight economic conditions.