Category: Campus life

In an effort to better showcase the artistic and literary talents of UW-Madison undergraduates, a group of students is compiling pieces that will eventually form “The Symposium-The Undergraduate Journal of the Humanities.”

“The Symposium,” which will be published once every semester, is the brainchild of UW-Madison senior Adam Blackbourn, who is the editor-in-chief of the journal

Recruiting of UW-Madison engineering students is up 25 percent from last fall and looks to increase even more this spring.

Engineering Career Services Associate Director Susan Piacenza said its spring career fair, which started yesterday, is the biggest in UW-Madison engineering history.

MADISON, Wis. – The University of Wisconsin-Madison produced the most volunteers in the nation serving for the Peace Corps this year, something it has done for more than a decade.

The number of recruiters seeking University of Wisconsin student engineers has doubled since the spring semester of 2004, leading to multiple job offers for UW engineering majors.

The high price of textbooks still has University of Wisconsin students squirming despite lower costs than other colleges.

Professors at the University of Wisconsin are increasingly utilizing weblogs, or blogs, as a communication tool for their students, with many students agreeing it has helped them to better understand the course topics.

Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers were right: learning can be fun. With Wisconsin Union Mini Courses, students can attend a wide variety of grade and stress-free classes in cooking, food and wine appreciation, dance, fitness, languages, arts and crafts and self-help.

When UW-Madison alumni get a call from the University of Wisconsin Foundation’s Telefund, they receive a call with a purpose.

Telefund raised just over $4.15 million last year in alumni donations and aims to raise $4.3 million in 2005, said Telefund Assistant Director Michael Holland.

The new dormitory proposed for Dayton Street came one step closer to realization Monday as the Joint Southeast Campus Area Committee voted unanimously to recommend approval of the project.

UW-Madison’s chapter of International Student Volunteers now makes it easier to volunteer abroad by offering a scholarship to students living on a limited budget. ISV, a non-profit organization based in California, allows college students to travel to Costa Rica, Australia, New Zealand, the Dominican Republic, and British Columbia. UW-Madison seniors Nicole Granacki and Brynna Larsen have made UW-Madison the first of five ISV branches to develop a scholarship program.

Ten years after civil wars and genocides tore Rwanda apart, the country continues to face serious issues with unclean water. Through a service project in Rwanda, the UW-Madison chapter of Engineers Without Borders helps to improve the situation by creating a sustainable clean-water supply for the village of Muramba.

As a high school senior four years ago, Rebecca Wolf took a traditional spring break fun-in-the-sun trip to the Dominican Republic.

But this year, the UW-Madison senior is opting for a climbing excursion to Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area in Nevada with the campus Hoofer Mountaineering Club.

Guillaume Porche has been making a photo album since he arrived from Paris at the start of the fall semester at UW-Madison.

The Joint Southeast Campus Area Committee approved plans for the Dayton Street and Park Street Dormitory Project, the replacement for Ogg Hall, Monday night.

In the fall of 2003, two law students at Ohio State University’s main campus complained to the administration that the campus chapter of the Christian Legal Society, a student group, was violating the institution’s nondiscrimination rules.

B. J. Elsner, a 23-year-old senior at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, can�t picture what his college experience would be like if he didn�t live on campus.

It would mean that Elsner wouldn�t enjoy the convenience of having nearly everything he needs at his fingertips or made as many lasting friendships.

Stirring a longstanding local and national controversy, a series of UW System race-based grants has recently provoked both criticism and adulation.

“We believe the law is clear: that it is illegal to have programs for which skin color is an absolute [qualification]; that is, programs where you are not even considered if you have the wrong ethnicity,” said Roger Clegg, general counsel for the Center for Equal Opportunity, a conservative Virginia-based group that monitors state and federal race-exclusive programs.

A task force assembled by the Wisconsin Innocence Project, a program run through the University of Wisconsin Law School, approved measures this month to introduce legislation addressing possible reforms in the criminal justice system.

Eighteen-year-old University of Wisconsin freshman Sean Weas fell from a balcony during a house party at a College Court apartment Friday night, and after two nights in the hospital he has been released with extensive injuries.

Mary Rouse, former University of Wisconsin Dean of Students and current director of the Morgridge Center for Public Service, announced her retirement this month from the university after working at UW for 38 years.

U.S. Rep. Tom Petri, R-Wisconsin, with the support of Rep. George Miller, D-California, is planning to re-introduce a bill that would potentially allow students who already receive Pell Grants to be eligible for more money.

Hats, gloves, and pocketfuls of PowerBars kept college students from across the country warm and sustained along the route of the presidential inaugural parade on Thursday, as they waited for up to five hours to either cheer or heckle President Bush’s motorcade.

University of Wisconsin International Student Services held a meeting with representatives from all international-student organizations Wednesday evening to brainstorm ideas to provide relief for victims of the Dec. 23 Asian tsunami disaster.

Three buses are scheduled to leave Wisconsin for Washington, D.C., Wednesday to take people to the “Turn Your Back on Bush” protest at President Bush’s inauguration.

Meng-Ju “Mark” Wu, a former UW-Madison student facing three counts of first-degree intentional homicide, committed suicide in his cell early Monday morning at the Dane County Jail.

A University of Wisconsin pharmacy student was charged this month for three accounts of fires she allegedly started in the Elizabeth Waters residence hall two years ago, in addition to a charge of allegedly stalking a UW Pharmacy School official.

More than 40 years after the �60s civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at the Wisconsin Union Theater, people gathered at the auditorium to honor his memory Monday evening.

Meng-Ju ââ?¬Å?Markââ?¬Â Wu, a 20-year-old former University of Wisconsin student who was charged with a triple homicide in 2003, committed suicide Monday in the Dane County Jail.

Angela Alfano has taken the PSAT three times and will take the old SAT on Saturday, but to her that is almost ancient history.

Her real concern is the new SAT. Like many of the nation’s 3 million high school juniors, the Fairfax County teenager is immersed in a great debate over exactly when to take the test.

A cluster of sudden deaths over a few months last winter and spring, including two suicides, prompted a George Washington University commission to ask some tough questions in an internal report that has already changed life on campu

First, there was the “Daily Cardinal,” then the “Badger Herald,” now the “Mendota Beacon” is trying to make it’s mark on UW’s campus.

The founders of this paper say they’re looking for more balanced coverage of campus events – they say the other two papers are slanted towards the left

Angie Gratzl was gripped by fear as she dropped her son Jason off at his freshman dorm in Madison last summer.

“He kept saying, ‘Don’t worry Mom, I’ll be fine,’ ” Angie Gratzl said in an interview. “But when I drove away sobbing, I knew in the back of mind, something was wrong.”