Category: Campus life

Brian Lomas and four other UW students beat nine-time World Series of Poker champion Phil Hellmuth Jr. at his own game Thursday night in a campus tournament.

The University of Wisconsin administration will undergo significant changes after the Wednesday announcement Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Paul Barrows is to step down effective immediately.

With the price of crude oil hovering around $50 a barrel, the energy pinch in the United States is being felt, especially within the University of Wisconsin System. According to Darrell Bazzell, the vice chancellor for administration at the Madison campus, the UW System has accumulated a shocking $30 million utilities deficit in the past year.

With the wave of voting madness hitting the University of Wisconsin student body over the past few months, many UW students may believe young voter turnout was equally strong nationwide.

MADISON, Wis. — A University of Wisconsin-Madison student says police may have used too much force to calm the rowdy crowds over Halloween weekend. He says his videotape proves it.

Using two video cameras, UW senior Greg Knowles recorded people gathering around the University Inn on State Street as police suited up in riot gear. Knowles said the officers might have been out of line when they tried to control the crow

Most students would agree that it seems as though daylightsaving did not take place this past weekend.

Instead of looking at the “spring ahead, fall back” quote as an opportunity to catch up on some much-desired sleep, some of us chose to think of it as an extra hour of drinking.

But is it actually possible for us to really “catch up” on sleep?

UW-Madison’s student government is crying foul over the membership of a search committee to replace Charles Read, the outgoing dean of the School of Education.

The 17-member committee, which has met once, includes two students – an undergraduate and a graduate who both are enrolled in the school. Eyal Halamish of Associated Students of Madison says their appointments aren’t legitimate because his group didn’t choose them.

They said they felt crushed.

And terrified.

And embarrassed for their country in the eyes of the world.

Madison’s Fire Chief gives her team high marks for its responses during the Halloween weekend. In an after action report, Chief Debra Amesqua tells WIBA News firefighters and paramedics responded to 138 calls.

“Discouraging”? That’s the word to describe Halloween on State Street both past and future. It was very discouraging to have all the planning and preparation that went into last weekend’s event fail to prevent the unruliness that eventually again ruined the weekend. And it is in the best interests of this city to discourage future Halloween celebrations downtown.

Capital Times reporter Bill Novak writes: “Instead of working at my home polling place on the city’s southwest side, I wanted to be in the ‘belly of the beast,’ right in the heart of the UW campus, to see if students followed through on their promises to actually vote after they registered during summer and fall. The students promised and the students delivered.” (11/3/04 Capital Times print edition)

It may have taken possibly the closest and most pivotal presidential race of our time, but Election Day 2004 elicited the kind of response this campus usually reserves for home football games.

In response to Chancellor Wileyââ?¬â?¢s ââ?¬Å?wake-up callââ?¬Â reported in the Oct. 21 Herald that he stands with students against rising tuition, I want to remind people of the title of another article from two years ago (12/3/02): ââ?¬Å?In financial crunch, Wiley supports in-state tuition increases.ââ?¬Â The situation was the same then as it is now, with Gov. Doyle, state legislators and the Board of Regents saying that due to the state budget crisis, students need to brace for tuition hikes because of reduced state spending for the UW.

Since 1998, the government has denied more than 157,000 people federal financial aid because of an amendment in the Higher Education Act barring assistance to all students with drug convictions, according to Students for Sensible Drug Policy.

University of Wisconsin officials and student leaders are disappointed a disturbance erupted during the State Street Halloween party, but they still feel some parts of the weekend were a success.

During Halloween-weekend havoc, the Madison Police Department�s self-reporting line went unanswered due to a system overload.

The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents will vote Thursday whether to seek state funds for faculty, staff and executive pay increases of 5 percent over each of the next two years.

The characteristically liberal-leaning University of Wisconsin campus did not surprise many with its presidential election results: a whopping 25,692 votes for Sen. Kerry and 7,049 for President Bush, according to the Dane County website of wards in neighborhoods highly populated by students. Kerry won Dane County with more than 66 percent of the vote, with only a handful of polling places not reporting by press time. Bush received nearly 33 percent of the vote in ââ?¬Å?progressiveââ?¬Â Dane County and Libertarian candidate Michael Badnarik and Independent Ralph Nader received less than 1 percent of the vote combined.

Massive get-out-the-vote campaigns by both Democrats and Republicans seem to have paid off in this closely contested presidential race. Late afternoon exit polls in Wisconsin indicated that 9% of those at the polls said they were voting for the first time. Nearly all the rookie voters interviewed shared this sentiment: Every vote counts.

Two days removed from the violent State Street Halloween celebration, area business owners gather to vent.

Although Police Chief Noble Wray praised his officers for using “great restraint” on State Street, none of the people interviewed there used that term to describe their encounters.

A still-angry Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz will likely name a task force to explore how to greatly reduce or stop massive Halloween celebrations Downtown.

But others aren’t sure the city needs to shut down the party.

Mayor Cieslewicz’s fatigue and frustration showed Sunday. Monday, students and area business owners react to his response.

The Madison Police Department announced Monday they issued approximately $125,000 in fines relating to Halloween weekend, and preliminary police reports show most arrests came from out-of-state revelers and not UW-Madison students.

An editorial says what’s been happening in Madison the past three Halloweens is unacceptable. It canââ?¬â?¢t happen again.

Following a night in which thousands of people lighted fires in the street and threw glass bottles at police officers during the Halloween bash on State St., city officials said Sunday they are considering abolishing the tradition altogether.

A flyer sponsored by the Dave Magnum for Congress campaign incorrectly urged UW-Madison students to “Vote at the Polling Place of Your Choice,” prompting challenger U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin, D-Madison, to decry the Republican Party for giving out false information.

For a third consecutive year, the annual Halloween celebration ended in less-than-stellar form. And despite the fact this year’s “disturbances” resulted in considerably less damage than those of years past, both the city and university are reviewing their plans for this event in an effort to prevent further incidents which, by all accounts, put a damper on the celebration’s intended spirit.

Like the movie “Halloween” with its numerous sequels, Madison’s yearly Halloween celebration has become a horror story for the city three years in a row.

An angry and concerned Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz announced Sunday that the future of Madison’s annual Halloween celebration is “in peril” after an unruly crowd forced police to suit up in riot gear and deploy pepper spray for the third year in a row.

A day after Madison, Wis., police used pepper spray and riot gear to break up rowdy Halloween revelers along State Street and logged more than 400 arrests over the weekend for everything from underage drinking to urinating on the street, the city’s mayor warned that the party may be over.

Many University students were among those participating in Halloween festivities this weekend at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Many say the emphasis on early voting has made the process of casting a ballot easier this year, a belief reflected in large numbers of votes already cast at City Hall.

Following the death of a University of Wisconsin student, the Madison Police Department has submitted preliminary investigation findings to the Dane County district attorney�s office. The police file was submitted with no recommendations to charge the driver who hit the student with a pickup truck Tuesday night, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.

Despite intense yearlong planning, increased police staffing and extensive community involvement, the State Street Halloween party turned ugly early Sunday morning.

UW-Madison students in six residence halls received misleading information this week about how to vote, triggering allegations of dirty tricks.

The streets were wet but the spirits weren’t dampened during Friday’s kickoff to Madison’s downtown Halloween celebration.

The father of a UW-Madison student killed in a pedestrian accident as she walked home Tuesday night said Friday he believes she was walking along the side of Milwaukee Street, not crossing the street as was first reported.

Rain and wind tried to ruin the first night of the Halloween weekend, and it worked to some degree — driving some of the several thousand on State Street inside Friday.