Category: Campus life

Representatives of the Teaching Assistants’ Association and the state returned to the bargaining table Wednesday to discuss contract terms, following nine months without talks.

Students at Yale University criticized the school�s financial-aid programs in a protest Feb. 24.

The UW Board of Regents conducted a survey last week to evaluate University of Wisconsin System students� drug and alcohol use to determine how to improve programs and services for students who abuse such substances.

An affordable housing project is being proposed for the 400 block of West Mifflin Street in the middle of “Miffland,” the hallowed staging grounds for the annual Mifflin Street block party.

The Madison Development Corp. is presenting preliminary design plans for a proposed four story, 23-unit apartment building to the Urban Design Commission tonight.

Associated Students of Madison held a town hall meeting Tuesday to allow student input on the currently developing Campus Master Plan.

UW-Madison graduate student Gwen Drury presented the tentative Master Plan to the students and emphasized looking comprehensively at the buildings, open space, transportation and utilities of the UW-Madison campus.

University of Wisconsin students raised questions and expressed their opinions about campus aesthetics and transportation at the Campus Master Plan Town Hall Meeting Tuesday night at the Memorial Union.

State Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Madison, spoke to University of Wisconsin students and faculty at a ââ?¬Å?teach-inââ?¬Â at the Memorial Union Tuesday in opposition to a proposed amendment to the Wisconsin State Constitution banning gay marriage and same-sex civil unions.

You are old and have no friends.

Of all the mean things my teenagers say to me, these are the most common jibes. Now I have proof that they’re right.

Any intentional act “to claim effort for the work or efforts of another without authorization or citation” is academic misconduct, according to UW-Madison academic misconduct policy. This includes signing friends’ names on attendance sheets for classes and “helping” students with online or take-home quizzes.

While typical college students work, sleep and engage in debauchery this summer, 90 of their peers from across the country, including UW-Madison sophomore April Williamson, will bike coast-to-coast to benefit Habitat for Humanity.

Approximately 45 UW-Madison students will travel Wednesday to Selma, Ala. to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Right to Vote and the Bridge Crossing Jubilee.

In response to the steady decline of enrollment among foreign students at the University of Wisconsin throughout the past decade, UW is offering several programs designed to aid international students in becoming immersed in college life and, in a broader scope, with life in America.

Causing scheduling controversies months before it arrives, the Mifflin Street Block Party, currently set to take place May 7, could be problematic not only for UW-Madison students, but also for their professors.

The Government Accountability Office announced last week the United States has proposed a deal with China that would make it easier for Chinese students to study in the United States.

Research from the Harvard School of Public Health released Tuesday suggests binge-drinking patterns among college students can be correlated with the number of adult binge-drinkers.

UW-Madison students raised about $1,500 for tsunami victims in Asia with a benefit concert last week on campus.

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.