Category: Campus life

MADISON, Wis. — Recent stranger attacks on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus have safety services urging students to give them

Results of a five-year, $5 million study of AmeriCorps, a 10-year-old national program that provides scholarship money to young people in return for their volunteer work, show positive effects for volunteers and the nature of volunteerism.

Ask 19-year-old Lana Little why she spends eight hours a day hammering, drilling and otherwise helping to build an energy-efficient house for a low-income stranger and she grins with pride. ââ?¬Å?What we’re doing here ââ?¬â? people who never owned a house before ââ?¬â? they’re gonna have a house,ââ?¬Â she says.

Zachary Wyatt can remember the exact moment his virtual world and actual world collided, creating a new, interconnected universe that temporarily unnerved him.

The UW-Madison Law School student was making his way to class one day last semester, secure in the anonymity of a campus crowd, when suddenly a stranger, then another, then another, rushed up to talk to him.

Despite efforts to explain why Madison police officers used pepper spray on crowds during Halloween weekend, students failed to hide their rancor toward police during an open forum hosted by the ASM Halloween committee and the police department Tuesday night.

We are writing to blow the whistle and sound the alarm. The UW System administration is not showing the initiative needed to complete the goals of Plan 2008, the University of Wisconsin plan for diversity.

Students are finding it harder to keep up with rising tuition costs despite low interest rates throughout the nation.

The Teaching Assistants Association has not held any bargaining meetings this semester to discuss their current contracts. Negotiations between the TAA and the Wisconsin Office of State Employee Relations ended after the TAA presented a new contract proposal early last May and it remains unclear where the negotiations will lead in the coming months.

In response to student concerns regarding the outcome of the Halloween weekend, members of the Madison Police Department and City Council and Associated Students of Madison

Police and city officials want to meet with concerned citizens tonight to discuss exactly what went wrong during this year’s Halloween celebration….Police have since received at least a dozen formal complaints about their reaction.

The Madison Police Department’s decision to deploy pepper spray to quell unruly crowds on State Street during the early morning hours of Oct. 31, 2004, has drawn pointed criticism from students.

An 18-year-old female from Madison was sexually assaulted on the 100 block of North Park Street at shortly before 4 a.m. Sunday morning.

Madison police hope for a dialogue tonight with UW- Madison students and State Street businesses about Halloween.

The police intend to explain their actions and show videotape of the recent Halloween celebrations that attracted 75,000 people to State Street on Oct. 30 and in ended in violence.

A joint committee of the Wisconsin Technical College System and the University of Wisconsin System issued a draft report Friday outlining plans to increase the number of bachelor’s degree holders emerging from the two systems.

The federal government is proposing a new means of tracking secondary education achievements ââ?¬â?? or the lack thereof ââ?¬â?? by following high school graduates as they work their way through the collegiate system. Studentsââ?¬â?¢ personal information, including Social Security numbers, would be collected by higher education institutions in compilation with marks of academic achievements (namely grades) and reported to Washington so that high schools may be better assessed for the quality of students they are able to place in the collegiate field.

While the advent of the information age and the Internet has given people greater access to information, it has not helped in deterring plagiarism.

Saturday afternoon finds Edward Erwin studying at a community coffee shop. The 45-year-old takes a break from his work to discuss his involvement with Madisonians struggling with mental sickness.

Following the restructuring of a large division of administration when the Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs (VCSA) stepped down from his position Nov. 4, University of Wisconsin announced a new position in the Offices of the Dean of Students.

A group of University of Wisconsin students gathered to protest allegedly racist dress codes at two Madison bars � Johnny O�s and Brothers � Friday night.

Students at the University of Wisconsin’s biomedical engineering department will have a chance to bring a semesterââ?¬â?¢s worth of work into the spotlight on Friday at the Biomedical Engineering Design Expo.

The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater is developing a new forensic science program, and according to Peter Killoran, a sociology professor and the first faculty member hired for the program at the college, the program is growing quickly.

Wrongfully incarcerated for 18 years, Steven Avery received $25,000 in compensation from the Wisconsin Claims Board Thursday.

A man who spent 18 years in prison for a rape he didn’t commit will get a damage award of $25,000 plus attorneys fees from the state.

He was released last year after the Wisconsin Innocence Project, a group of UW-Madison law students headed by Findley.

The Board of Regents has repeatedly voted to increase salaries of UW senior administrators. These increases occur while students are faced with tuition hikes and fewer enrollment options.

Kassie Hauser is fully clothed in winter gear, from warm boots to a scarf wound tightly around her neck. She is practically breaking a sweat, bundled up, while standing inside of the Social Science building.
Yet, the UW-Madison freshman feels naked… and uncomfortable.
“I don’t have my laptop with me,” Hauser says, clearly frustrated. “I just got out of work and I didn’t have the time to go back to my dorm room to get it. It just doesn’t feel right.”

Recent improvements on Lakeshore Path were completed in an attempt to make it safer for students while preserving its natural ambiance.

According to UW-Madison Facilities Planning and Management director Al Fish, such improvements include raising the path to prevent flooding, adding mulch for erosion control and adding black top in certain areas.

Students attending the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee may soon have to watch how they behave off-campus or risk getting punished by the folks on campus.

Ongoing complaints from neighbors living near the campus have prompted UWM officials to consider expanding conduct codes to cover student activities in surrounding neighborhoods. The neighbors’ frustrations hit a high note this fall.

In an effort to raise accountability standards among the country�s institutions of higher education, the U.S. Department of Education is considering a proposal to dramatically change the way it collects data on college students.

They’re not your father’s dorms.
UW-Madison is moving ahead with an ambitious plan to build student housing, digs that will have more bathrooms, larger common areas, classrooms, kitchenettes, high-speed internet and even a little deli.

UW System President Kevin Reilly emphasized student access to the UW System and outlined UW System initiatives, including a budget exercise that proposes UW institutions cut 10 percent of spending, in a teleconference Tuesday.

University of Wisconsin students often face the problem of paying the high prices for textbooks and finding tickets for sold out sports events.

In a teleconference with student journalists across the University of Wisconsin System Tuesday, President Kevin Reilly outlined his recent activities and initiatives for the future, including a new center focusing on entrepreneurial growth.

I’m a marching band wannabe. I bet you are too, if you’ve ever been to a Badger game.

Fortunately, Wisconsin Public Television’s “Spring Fever: 30 Years With the UW Varsity Band” finally lets me feel like I’m a part of it, from rehearsal to performance. The documentary airs tonight at 7 on WHA (Ch. 21).