Category: Campus life

Mayor Dave Cieslewicz, Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, and Ald. Austin King, District 8, met with students to explain key issues and answer questions at the State of the City arranged by Associated Students of Madison Wednesday evening.

Although strained state funding drives tuition higher every year and slowly dwindles the university’s selection of classes and programs, leading a student organization remains a profitable venture.

Members of the Associated Students of Madison met with University of Wisconsin chancellor John Wiley Wednesday, to request assistance in sending out a letter to students� parents regarding recently proposed tuition increases.

Mayor Dave Cieslewicz spoke to University of Wisconsin students about age segregation at bars with live music, Halloween and the Mifflin Street Block Party at ââ?¬Å?The Studentsââ?¬â?¢ State of the Cityââ?¬Â meeting Wednesday night at Science Hall.

A national study released Tuesday gives weight to what Wisconsin universities have long suspected: The state’s adult binge-drinking rate – the highest in the country – is a major reason why

In an effort to determine the extent of drug and alcohol use among UW System students, System officials, in conjunction with the UW-Madison Division of Information Technology and the now-defunct System Administration Market Research office, is conducting a System-wide student survey this week.

UW-Madison Policy Alternatives Community Education discussed updated strategies for curtailing house parties at UW-Madison, including issuing notices to the university after parties get busted.

It is no secret that those in college drink in excess and now a study conducted by the National Survey on Drug Use and Health corroborates the claims that students drink more than the general population.

In a collaborative effort to reduce high-risk drinking in the downtown Madison area, several city and University of Wisconsin organizations met Tuesday to collectively discuss solutions to disorderly house parties in the area.

A nearly two-hour brainstorming session Tuesday at UW-Madison on the problem of dangerous house parties yielded plenty of beery anecdotes but no firm solutions.

UW-Madison recreational facilities like the Natatorium and the SERF will become more open to students, thanks to ample funding approved at the Student Services Finance Committee’s meeting Monday in Memorial Union.

In an effort to protect the rights of workers who make UW apparel, a group of UW-Madison students and administrators requested Monday that Chancellor John Wiley put pressure on UW licensees that outsource labor.

While Monday meant it was time to get back to the grind for most Madison residents, thousands of UW-Madison students and staff on the east side of campus saw their day suddenly grind to a halt after an electrical fire sparked a two-hour power outage.

State Street lacked its familiar glow Monday evening after two underground electrical fires knocked out power on much of the east side of campus and throughout the downtown business district.

Nearly every student on campus walks up Bascom Hill daily, yet most are unaware of the importance of the building at the top of the hill and the history behind the hill itself.

Chancellor John Wiley�s Special Committee on Labor and Licensing made two recommendations to Wiley at a press conference Monday regarding their ongoing effort to end sweatshop production of University of Wisconsin merchandise.

The downtown Madison area, including parts of the University of Wisconsin campus, became a bit darker Monday as a pair of power outages discharged the State Street neighborhood due to underground electrical fires.

MADISON, Wis. — Three weeks ago, University of Wisconsin sophomore Tom Savage was getting ready for his house party. Now he’s worried about having enough money to pay his share of a $70,000 fine.

“I have loans out right now to pay for tuition and throwing $10,000 on top of that for throwing a party, we can’t handle that,” Savage told News 3.

Hoping to combat what is perceived as an epidemic of alcoholism on the UW-Madison campus, a determined group of students decided to take matters into its own hands. Sharing only a mutual desire for chemical abstinence, Sober Students on Campus held their inaugural meeting Friday, playing games and sculpting instead of hitting the bottle.

As pressure increases to become the perfect students and get into their schools of choice, UW-Madison students are spending more and more time making sure their applications will catch the eyes of admission review boards.

With nearly 37 percent of students enrolled at the University of Wisconsin hailing from zip codes outside of the state, UW is widely recognized throughout the country and distant parts of the world as an academic and research institution because of the ability to attract people not from the dairy state.

In a joint statement from Secretary for Consular Affairs Maura Harty and Under Secretary for Border and Transportation Security Asa Hutchinson Feb. 19, the U.S. Departments of State and Homeland Security announced improved visa processing for international students, businesspeople and other visitors.

What’s subversive about playing Scrabble, sculpting clay, and watching movies? Plenty, when it’s UW-Madison students recreating without alcohol, despite attending a university ranked in national surveys as one of the country’s top “party schools” year after year.

(AP) — The State and Homeland Security departments have reduced from months to weeks the time it takes foreign students and scholars trying to travel to the United States to clear a key visa review, according to a new government report.

During the past few years, terrorist concerns have prompted enhanced student visa restrictions, which�in turn�have led to sharp declines in international student enrollment.

Chris Clausen ran his first marathon in June, then followed it three months later with his first Ironman Triathlon.

“My friends said I was crazy to run a marathon and crazy to do an Ironman. It strengthened my resolve to find something even crazier,” said Clausen, 20, a UW-Madison junior from DeForest.

An Orthodox synagogue near the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has offered money to young Jewish adults willing to take time to learn about the Jewish faith.

This year’s lecture series at Chadbourne Residential College at UW-Madison grows from several years of developing relationships in south Madison.

“It’s a way of making connections with the community,” said student Meena Pandian. The series, at Chadbourne Hall, 420 N. Park St., includes local and visiting scholars and community residents who share their experiences.

UW-Madison freshman Megan Beckner was sound asleep at 3 a.m. in Witte Hall when the fire alarm began to ring. Because of past false alarms, Beckner tried to sleep through the ear-splitting sound, but after 15 minutes she was forced out into the cold.

The University of Wisconsin Student Services Finance Committee passed the 2005-06 budgets for the Associated Students of Madison�s bus-pass program and University Health Services in a meeting Thursday night.

UW-Madison students may find themselves wandering over to the Mifflin Street Block Party earlier than usual this year.

The event traditionally happens the first Saturday in May, and if the tradition continues this year, the party would be held on May 7, the day before finals begin.

This evening, Mills Music Hall in the Humanities Building will be filled with excitement as campus groups including Madhatters, Tangled up in Blue, the UW Percussion Ensemble, Dance Elite and the Wisconsin Improv Troupe perform to raise money for victims of the Dec. 26 tsunami in Southeast Asia.

Wisconsin Union officials and students discussed plans Wednesday for upcoming major renovations, which could include the addition of a 300-seat film theater at Memorial Union and the demolition of Union South.

As a new year presents students with another semester of classes and a wide array of opportunities to create new friends and experiences, it offers others the opportunity to take the English as a Second Language Program, an advantageous program to both the student teachers and the students involved.

Two months after the tsunami disaster, University of Wisconsin students and faculty will gather tonight to continue their efforts to aid tsunami victims.

The University of Wisconsin this week became the first major public university to reinstate its study abroad program to Israel.

It had been among the scores of American universities that had suspended or revoked their Israel-based programs in 2001 and 2002 after a spate of suicide bombings and travel warnings.

Proposals to renovate the University of Wisconsin Memorial Union and Union South were presented in an open forum Wednesday night for students and faculty to give their input regarding the proposed changes.

A series of Campus Master Plan meetings finished Wednesday night with a town hall meeting at the Health Science Learning Center outlining plans for the west side of campus.

Students collected at the Memorial Union�s Great Hall during the Multicultural Career Fair Wednesday afternoon to protest Army recruiting on college campuses.

City officials are following tradition by planning to celebrate the Mifflin Street Block Party the first Saturday of May. However, Saturday, May 7, falls on the University of Wisconsin�s official final exams study day this year, with the testing starting the following day.

University of Wisconsin�s International Academic Program announced Monday the reinstatement of a study-abroad program to the Hebrew University in Israel.