Category: Campus life

…He leaves with one regret: the unresolved problem of alcohol-related violence Downtown. He said it will only change if city leaders are willing to make some “brave decisions” about changing the drinking culture near campus.

Dear parents,

In August, I wrote some advice about sending your children off to college. Now, I’d like to offer my thoughts about welcoming them home for the holidays. First, I offer my apologies. They’re not quite in the same condition as when you sent them to us.

If the students in my feature writing class at UW-Madison are the norm, your student is tired. Very, very tired.

And possibly a little sick, too.

A new electronic grading system at UW-Madison means most students will get their final grades within a few days of the end of the semester today, rather than a few weeks, officials said.

“It’s a huge efficiency improvement,” said Registrar Joanne Berg, who developed the Web-based system in the past year with campus computing experts in the Department of Information Technology and a committee of faculty and staff.

Wall off the city! Barbarians at the gates!

Next Halloween, the elected guardians of Madison might try to eliminate rowdy crowds by closing off interstate access to the city or putting up gates on State Street.

These measures seem a little extreme, and ultimately, running a blockade would prove pointless. Imagine the ruffians swimming across Lake Mendota, emerging from the surf at the north end of Lake Street wearing dripping t-shirts emblazoned: “I infiltrated Madison on Halloween!” Curses, foiled again.

Madison police have arrested a suspect in at least one of three sexual assaults by a stranger that took place Downtown over the Dec. 3 weekend.

After her divorce in August 2002, Diana Schramer decided it was time to fulfill a lifelong dream. In the spring semester of 2003, the stay-at-home mom enrolled at UW-Madison in the legal studies program.

Now Schramer, 43, has what she’s always dreamed of: a college diploma.

MADISON (NBC15)Ã?  Madison police say they have a suspect in custody in connection with at least one sexual assault that’s taken place downtown recently.

MADISON, Wis. — Edgewood College will review policies after fallout from two campus sexual assaults, although the college maintains it didn’t mishandle anything

MADISON, Wis. — Besides minor traffic tickets, Nick Limbeck, 19, says he hasn’t had many run-ins with the law.

But last month he skipped his philosophy class at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to intentionally get arrested with three other students during a sit-in at a military recruiter’s office near campus. (login required.)

Jeff Erlanger writes, “Dear Editor: Recently I attended a forum where police and students discussed what might have gone wrong on State Street this past Halloween. I chose to attend because as president of the State-Langdon Neighborhood Association I am committed to helping find the right prescription for Halloween. While the forum was interesting, its focus wasn’t on what I thought it should be….”

Edgewood College officials promised Wednesday to better warn the public about crimes on campus and change other safety procedures after student complaints about the handling of two reports on forcible sexual offenses in a dorm earlier this year.

For most University of Wisconsin students, school studies have moved to the forefront of priorities with final exams beginning Thursday. Although some upperclassman students said their study habits are better than freshman year, College Library was more crowded than usual Tuesday night, packed with a wide range of students cramming and stressing about papers and rapidly approaching exams. Many students said they do not think final exams at UW are the best procedure teachers could use for them to learn the course material. But as time passes, they said they gain an understanding of how to improve study methods and techniques necessary to get those highly coveted A�s.

It�s the week before finals, and all through the town, students are suffering from severe sleep deprivation as they struggle to cram a semester�s worth of knowledge into their short-term memory.

Being accessible 24/7 can be too much for some people, so they set limits or take breaks.

Katie Achille grew up with the Internet. She was 9 when she first tapped into it — and quickly became an avid e-mailer, Web surfer and sender of instant messages. But when recent computer troubles left her without regular Web access, something unexpected happened: To her surprise, she suddenly felt free.

The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approved Friday $56.85 million in funding to unify student services and activities in the re-development of the University Square project.

Colorado State University officials said a 20-year-old student whose body was found over the weekend appears to be the latest in a string of alcohol-related deaths involving Colorado students this fall.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is scaling back its involvement in a development near its campus, dropping plans to own residence halls on the site. [Third item in Regional Briefs]

It was hard to open a mailbox, change the channel or ride down a street in Madison this year and not be confronted by politics.

The Committee on Baccalaureate Expansion will present plans to the UW System Board of Regents today to increase the number of bachelor degree holders in Wisconsin.

A group of professionals involved in the construction of the proposed Dayton Street Hall met with University of Wisconsin students Thursday night to discuss their plans for the property and the construction of their Environmental Impact Statement.

The Board of Regents met Thursday with a panel of members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) community to discuss the often difficult and challenging environments college campuses can create.

University of Wisconsin students and Madison residents gathered on Library Mall Thursday afternoon to rally in support of building an emergency shelter for Madison�s homeless community.

UW-Madison officials are abandoning a plan to put up to 800 student beds in the proposed University Square development, saying Thursday that complaints from private landlords Downtown swayed their decision.

“We wanted to save the most important parts of this project,” said Al Fish, UW- Madison’s associate vice chancellor of facilities planning/ management. “(The proposed student beds) threatened the entire project.”

The Associated Students of Madison will select two University of Wisconsin students for representation on the Dean of Education Search and Screen committee, even though university officials already selected two undergraduates to do the job.

With the Park Street residence hall construction already underway, the University of Wisconsin is at the drawing board again. UW is pushing forward with the most ambitious dorm construction plan since the 1980s.

Boy and girl meet, drink lots of booze, flirt a bit and then get right down to business: your place or mine?

The Associated Students of Madison announced goals accomplished during the fall semester and anticipated plans for spring semester in a press conference Wednesday afternoon

University of Wisconsin System officials are working to improve transfer students� transition onto the Madison campus after receiving an extensive review detailing areas of challenge these students experience.

The demolition of University Square, a campaign against the Defense of Marriage Act and an initiative to limit next year’s tuition hike to 4.3 percent are just a few of the efforts Associated Students of Madison hopes to bring to fruition next semester, according to ASM officials.

A Madison Police Department drawing depicts the alleged offender in a rash of recent sexual assaults in Madison.

Initial appearances for defendants charged with minor offenses over Halloween concluded today. Dozens of people from various locations in the Midwest appeared in Madison Municipal Court Tuesday and Wednesday to enter a plea, Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said.

On what is widely viewed to be a predominantly liberal campus, the UW-Madison College Republicans consider their views to be underrepresented. As a result, members of the group will be putting their own newspaper into publication.

If a community wants to reduce the problems associated with binge drinking, its city leaders, campus officials and tavern owners have to stop finger-pointing and come to a consensus on what the problem is, an expert on college alcohol abuse prevention said Wednesday.

Susan Crowley, director of an alcohol abuse prevention program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said even though the Madison campus has not solved all its alcohol-related problems, it has reduced the rate of binge drinking on campus from 67 percent in 1999 to 59 percent this year.

(MADISON)Ã? — University of Wisconsin students are just a little more than a week away from their final exams. And some students are using drugs to help them study for the big test.