Binge drinking on Wisconsin�s college campuses is directly related to the high levels of drinking among the general adult population, says a national study released Tuesday.
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.
The University of Wisconsin Athletic Board Finance Committee passed proposed ticket-price increases this week to student and non-student tickets for several UW sports.
In a few weeks, high school students face the prospect of taking the much-publicized new SAT Reasoning Test, which for the first time will require them to write a timed essay. Yet colleges continue to send confusing signals about whether students applying in the fall to attend college must take the new exam.
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.
A condom for fire hoses. A grenade that eats oxygen. A transmitter to help firefighters navigate a smoke-filled room. Only the last one won $10,000.
Three College of Engineering students created FireSite, a radio-like guide that lets firefighters “see” through smoke. The students, who won the 2005 Schoof’s Prize for Creativity this February, say any of us can come up with creative a ideas that can make a difference.
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.
UW-Madison freshman Lesha Jones made her initial appearance in Dane County court Monday morning, facing charges of burglary to a building or dwelling, a felony punishable with up to 12.5 years in prison and a $25,000 fine.
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.
Suspended University of Wisconsin freshman women’s basketball player Lesha Jones was charged with one count of burglary today for allegedly going into the dormitory room of another student and taking her purse.
Jones, 18, who was reshirting this season to rehabilitate an injured knee, was suspended from the team after her arrest on Feb. 14. (2/21/05 Capital Times print edition)
Saturday, Sept. 28, 1957, was not a normal day for Sidney Williams.
Williams, Wisconsin’s starting quarterback-as well as the Big Ten’s first starting black quarterback-should have been preparing for the Badgers’ Oct. 1 match-up with Marquette. Instead, his thoughts were partly focused 766 miles away on his hometown of Little Rock, Ark.
A year and a half ago, UW-Madison student Greta Hafeman spent 17 hours unconscious, the victim of a “date rape” drug. Although she was not sexually assaulted, she nonetheless felt violated. She has focused much of her free time and energy since trying to draw attention to “drug-facilitated sexual assaults.”
The 20-year-old Hafeman, who was crowned Miss Madison Saturday night, will use her new title to shine more light on the subject. She beat out four other contestants due in part to the platform she titled “Silent Crimes: Advocating Awareness for Positive Change.”
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.
When judges returned to the Memorial Union Theater Stage Saturday night and announced Madisonââ?¬â?¢s Tangled Up in Blue had taken 3rd place in the Midwest Regional finals of the 2005 International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA), members of the female vocal ensemble went wild. It wasnââ?¬â?¢t first place, which would have taken them to the National competition at New Yorkââ?¬â?¢s Lincoln Center. That honor went to the tuxedoed dons of Straight No Chaser from Indiana University. ââ?¬Å?But itââ?¬â?¢s way better than we expected,ââ?¬Â Tangled Up in Blue ensemble member Nicki BelSante said.
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, whichââ?¬â?in turnââ?¬â?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.
When Irene Hofstein decided to spend her twilight years here beside the campus of Lasell College, she expected to be a student again, auditing courses and learning at the feet of professional educators. Over time, however, professors and students have increasingly been learning from her ââ?¬â? and from thousands of other retirees who have settled near college campuses in the past 15 years.
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.
The average wait for security clearances for foreign scholars studying sensitive topics has fallen from 67 days to 15 days over the past year, according to a report scheduled to be released today by the Government Accountability Office.
WASHINGTON – If you’re a college student looking for tuition help, beware the fine print. Despite proposed increases to the Pell Grant program, President Bush’s budget plan might still leave students to foot large tuition bills because of additional cuts to campus-based financial aid and the rising cost of education.
“His budget proposal will end up with a reduction in financial aid in general,” said Steve Van Ess, director of student financial services at UW-Madison.
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.
University of Wisconsin law student Christopher Ochoa, who was wrongfully imprisoned for murder, spoke of the necessity to reform the criminal justice system in front of a small group in the Memorial Union Wednesday night as a part of the Capital Punishment portion of the Distinguished Lecture Series.
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.
UW women’s basketball player Lesha Jones has been suspended from the team after an arrest Monday on a tentative burglary charge.
…University police would provide no details today about the arrest. Jones has not been formally charged. (2/16/05 Capital Times)
The wheels are literally turning toward the creation of a better-but not bigger-campus at UW-Madison.
Gary Brown, director of the Office of Planning and Management for the Campus Master Plan, spoke at Memorial Union Tuesday night about plans to renovate the campus on many levels. The presentation focused on the central region of campus.
A recent study published by a Hillsdale College professor is challenging financial aid programs in higher education.
The 15-member La Crosse Alcohol Task Force made proposals to La Crosse City Council officials Feb. 10 intending to make the city safer from alcohol-related deaths and health issues.
University of Wisconsin students stopped on their way to class Tuesday to sign doors in protest of tuition increases as part of a rally organized by the United Council of UW Students.
The director of planning and landscape architecture for the campus master plan, Gary Brown, presented specifics about the University of Wisconsin�s plans for improvement in the central part of campus Tuesday night at Memorial Union.
Overpraised ’80s kids, stunned by criticism in college and at work, are ill-equipped to cope. Andrea Sobel shudders at those oh-so-positive messages aimed at boosting kids’ self-esteem. She has heard her fill of ââ?¬Å?good jobââ?¬Â or ââ?¬Å?great pictureââ?¬Â or any of the highly exaggerated claims that parenting experts and educators spouted as the way to bring up well-adjusted children.
(MADISON) New federal rules are making things easier for international students wishing to study in the U.S. Many won�t have to wait as long for visa clearance, and once they�re here, they�ll be able to stay a little longer without going through another background check. (Second item.)
….On Friday, a 27-year-old UW-Madison student named Maia Patrick Donohue is hosting an exhibit and sale of some 150 paintings, done by orphaned children in Guatemala who were taught by Donohue’s mother, Nancy Donohue, an artist who lives in Fond du Lac.
The show, from 3 to 7 p.m. Friday at the Catacombs Coffee House, 731 State St., is a fund-raiser, the second one Donohue has hosted.
Milwaukee police busted two parties near Marquette University over the weekend, handing out tickets for more than $17,000 each to two men accused of running illegal taverns out of houses. One of the men, a business student, had drink menus and kept a record book listing profits, police said.
