As final exams wrap up on college campuses across the country, the pills used to keep hyperactive or distracted children on task are being used by college students to boost their performance on tests.
MADISON, Wis. — Some students expressed concern on the Edgewood College campus Tuesday after news came to light about two sexual assaults in a dorm last spring.
Campus administrators found and punished the two alleged student perpetrators — one of them a campus security employee at the time — but kept their names private and allowed them to stay on campus, News 3 reported.
Weary of what they describe as liberalism in the Madison media, conservative students at UW-Madison will roll out their own newspaper next semester.
A Dane County judge has accepted a prosecutor’s decision to drop a rape charge against Badger football team member, Dwayne Smith.
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.
MADISON, Wis. — Gone are the days where students would drink a lot of soda and coffee to stay focused.
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.
More college campuses are adopting deeply discounted ââ?¬â? and legal ââ?¬â? digital music as the latest amenity for students. Several top schools began offering these services in September, either free or highly subsidized. Now, student demand is spurring more university administrators to institute programs in January instead of waiting for 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]
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has canceled its plans to put a 700-800 bed residence hall into the University Square development, said Alan Fish, associate vice chancellor for facilities, planning and management. Instead, the project will go forward with private apartments, said Susan Springman, spokeswoman for the developer, Executive Management Inc.
Athletes are often identified by a distinguishing skill. Such as Sharif Chambliss, a cheery 22-year-old senior on the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team. When you think Chambliss, you visualize his jump shot; personalized by a feathery touch. And while his range appears limitless on the court, the depth of his jumper may be no match for the depth of his character, which, like his game, is slowly emerging for all to see.
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.
Wisconsin officials and the U.S. Department of Civil Rights recently decided to open the Minority Precollege Scholarship Program, which began in 1985, after accusations of discrimination, as the program was formerly open only to minority students.
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.
I’ve been hanging around Madison for more than four years now and writing for The Daily Cardinal for several of them. In my last column for the Cardinal and I just wanted to make an observation and talk about a few of the issues I am passionate about.
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.
MADISON, Wis. – Nearly 30 members from the womenââ?¬â?¢s openweight and lightweight rowing teams volunteered their time in Shorewood Hills, Saturday, Dec. 4, to raise money for the UW chapter of Habitat for Humanity in its annual ââ?¬Å?Rake-a-thonââ?¬Â fundraiser. (Athletic Communications)
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, Wis. – The Big Ten Conference recognized 38 University of Wisconsin student-athletes for outstanding performances in the classroom with places on the conferenceââ?¬â?¢s fall all-academic team announced Wednesday.
(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.
NEW YORK – Go to Google, search and scroll results, click and copy. When students do research online these days, many educators worry, those are often about the only steps they take. If they can avoid a trip to the library at all, many students gladly will.
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.
As the end of the semester is approaching and finals are looming in the not-too-distant future, I can’t help but feel a little nervous. Last semester after finals were over and I was eagerly checking my grades, I was horrified to discover I had received a D in one of my classes. Having had an AB in the class going into the final I was in total shock.
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.
The Wisconsin athletic ticket office will determine student seating at the Jan. 1 Outback Bowl using class standing as who receives tickets first.
According to UW-Madison Associate Athletic Director Steve Malchow, the bowl game has allotted approximately 11,000 tickets in Raymond James Stadium to UW-Madison.
With finals, papers and the distraction of semester break approaching, UW-Madison students often look for ways to intensify their study habits. While many choose the conventional caffeinated methods of coffee or soda, some students turn to prescription drugs like Adderall and Ritalin.
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.
University of Wisconsin Sytem officials are working to improve transfer students� transition into UW after receiving an extensive review detailing areas of challenge these students experience.
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.
On Dec. 3, more than 100 nervous biomedical engineering students gathered in the Engineering Centers Building for a student design exposition. At noon, what had begun as mere ideas culminated in the presentation of 20 prototypes, potential solutions ranging from artificial limbs to X-rays.
As finals loom, students who procrastinated during the semester will be paying the price, burning the midnight oil into the wee hours of the morn. Many of them will stave off sleep with a caffeine source of choice: coffee, tea, soft drinks or caffeine pills. But while caffeine can keep sleep at bay, it can leave you too wired and jittery to study effectively.
Most graduate students are happy just to earn their degrees. But Jeff Sledge, a Ph.D. student in land resources at UW-Madison, has already found real-world applications for his research.
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.
By Janet Kidd Stewart
Oh, to be young again and in … hock. A stunning 111,000 adults age 25 and under will file for bankruptcy this year, according to a projection by Harvard University bankruptcy expert Elizabeth Warren.
By Tim Cigelske Wisconsin State Journal
On Saturday, dozens came to watch senior Grant Zukowski and his fellow UW-Madison students demonstrate their art glass skills as they held an open house for their new cutting-edge studio.
The new studio restores UW-Madison as one of the leading universities for art glass instruction, said art professor Steve Feren. Feren has been with UW-Madison’s glass program for 23 years.
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.
All seems idyllic under the windswept trees of college campuses nationwide. But behind the scenes, therapists are scrambling to treat a rising tide of mental and emotional problems among students. Independent research portrays a student body struggling to cope with normal college stressors and chronic conditions alike.
…It has been some journey. (Hannah) Nyala today is an author – and Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison – who in 1998 had her life turned into a CBS-TV movie titled “Point Last Seen.” She lives in what she calls “a little village” outside Madison, and on Friday this week Nyala will read and discuss her latest novel, “Cry Last Heard.”
