University of Wisconsin chancellors are allowed to waive out-of-state tuition for certain categories of students, athletes among them. Graduate teaching assistants and research assistants are the main beneficiaries. But there�s another category of student just as deserving. That would be students who happen to be undocumented immigrants.
MADISON, Wis. — Bucky is running a campaign for president on the University of Wisconsin campus, but you won’t find him on your ballot
It’s about justice, Seema Kapani says of the SEED project. SEED — Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity — features seminars designed to breed diversity and inclusion in the university classroom and curriculum and beyond. (10/9/04 Capital Times)
Like any good island parents, Tony and Wendy Raiola occasionally travel to the mainland to see their two expatriate sons.
It makes sense, since their oldest, Dominic, and his wife have a 3-year-old, Taylor, and they dote on their granddaughter whenever they get out to the Detroit suburb of Northville.
MANITOWOC ââ?¬â? Travis Ouradnik elected to attend the University of Wisconsin-Manitowoc to save money on tuition and room and board
The campus University Bookstore will soon give up its second floor general books section.
A UW-Madison fraternity is hoping to raise $10,000 for UW Children’s Hospital this week with a 300-mile bike ride to West Lafayette, Ind.
The Offices of the Dean of Students controls the “Student Crisis Loan Fund,” an emergency assistance program for students with an unexpected financial crisis “whose academic continuation can be ensured by a small, short-term loan.”
Phoebe Allen joins a freshman class that is, mostly, financially illiterate. She joins a student body that may have trouble sleeping or concentrating because of money problems, and, it was announced last week, she and her classmates stand a good chance of graduating with five-digit debts.
SMITH: I ripped the sign right off the kiosk on the UW- Madison campus and brought it home to my teenager. The sign announced a campus poker tournament that begins Sunday.
Centers for Disease Control officials announced last week the supply of influenza vaccine will be cut in half this 2004-05 flu season due to contamination in a British plant, inducing a shortage of the medicine to many low-risk individuals.
The Daily Show executive producer, Ben Karlin, spoke at Helen C. White Library Monday morning about his experiences as a writer for Comedy Central�s mock newscast.
Karlin, a University of Wisconsin Communication Arts graduate, was head writer of the Daily Show from 1999 to 2002 before becoming executive producer.
A new study says hundreds of thousands of college students who may be eligible for federal financial aid don’t get it for a simple reason ââ?¬â? they don’t apply.
Midway through the month of October, Halloween hype is rearing up for students on the University of Wisconsin campus, and even those attending the University of Minnesota. And for many downtown establishments, the long-winded weekend and out-of-town crowds do not just make an impression on students, but also impact local business.
Bronwyn Stippa had all but made up her mind to attend new York University. A campus visit to the University of Vermont, where she’d been accepted to a new honors college, was just a favor to her parents. ” I came up and it was just mind-blowing,” she said. Vermont promised Stippa access to top professors and special courses, and a financial aid package that dwarfed NYU’s. In an effort to lure students like Stippa, public universities are developing honors colleges that advertise the cozt qualities of a liberal arts college within the walls of a university.
Students, teaching assistants and supporters gathered on Library Mall Friday and marched to the Capitol to rally for lower tuition.
Signs noting “October is too cold for hiking” and a steadily increasing number of students drew attention to the already energized crowd.
The state Capitol has had to walk a tight line in recent years, trying to cope with a massive budget deficit while keeping the University of Wisconsin System as affordable and accessible as possible.
The annual American Multicultural Student Leadership Conference brought several hundred University of Wisconsin System student diversity leaders to UW-Madison over the weekend. The conference provided student leaders a chance to share their academic experiences with students from other UW System schools.
A female University of Wisconsin student was the victim of criminal activity this past weekend, adding to the recent incidents of robbery littering the downtown Madison night scene.
University of Wisconsin System students rallied at the Capitol Friday afternoon in protest of tuition increases by Gov. Jim Doyle and the state legislature.
Jason Gratzl, the UW-Madison freshman who fell from a house balcony near campus in August, was moved to Milwaukee’s Sacred Heart Rehabilitation Center, which specializes in coma stimulation, his mother Angie Gratzl said Friday.
Ardent fan Art Luetke of McFarland has paid the $181 citation that UW-Madison Police gave to Gene Chyou, aka Bucky Badger, for body passing at the Sept. 25 football game.
For years, Jin’s Chicken & Fish has been a late-night staple for hungry UW-Madison students. But complaints about noise, litter and parking could boot Jin’s and other mobile food vendors from their Langdon Street location.
Ralph Nader’s running mate Peter Miguel Camejo will be on the University of Wisconsin campus today.
Camejo is expected to speak about about the war in Iraq and the exclusion of the Nader/Camejo ticket from the presidential debates.
ââ?¬Å?As more young people hear about our issues, we expect support for the Nader/Camejo ticket to grow,ââ?¬Â Camejo said. ââ?¬Å?That is why the major parties wonââ?¬â?¢t let us into the debates. The Democrats’ fear of Ralph Nader is rooted in the programmatic conflict between their Party’s stance on the issues and their supporterââ?¬â?¢s beliefs. This is never written about in the media – it is America’s dark secret.ââ?¬Â
Camejo will be at the Humanities building at at 2:30 p.m.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 8 /U.S. Newswire/ — The American Federation of Teachers today released a report, Recognition and Respect: Standards of Good Practice in the Employment of Graduate Employees, which outlines a coordinated program to improve the financial and professional circumstances of graduate employees. The report, available at http://www.aft.org/pubs- reports/higher_ed/grad_employee_standards.pdf , offers suggestions on issues such as setting standards for compensation, establishing fair employment practices, promoting standards of professional responsibility and ensuring full rights for graduate employees in their union.
“Universities treat graduate employees like teachers and researchers when there is work to be done and as second-class citizens when it comes to compensation and fair treatment,” said AFT’s director of Higher Education Lawrence Gold. The AFT represents more college and university faculty than any other union, and was the first to organize graduate employees.
by Elizabeth Wachowski
UW-Madison students Stefanie Resnick and Diane Ganev were already 12 hours into an all-night cram session at 3 a.m. Thursday.
Armed with laptop computers, a mass of papers and bags of snacks, they didn’t plan to leave College Library until morning classes.
Downtown Madison is once again the stomping ground of numerous bookworms, wannabe poets and published authors as the third annual Wisconsin Book Festival comes to town. The festival, which started Wednesday, continues with a weekend full of readings, lectures, discussions and book signings as well as storytelling, exhibits and children events, offering something for every reader.
As the number of women who voluntarily enlist in the armed services grows, so does the public debate about females and the draft.
As a result of student pressure, College Library, 600 N. Park St., became UW- Madison’s only 24-hour library last fall, staying open from 10 a.m. Sunday through 11:45 p.m. Friday. Three semesters later, the experiment is still going strong – especially this week as students take midterms.
Last month, Gov. Jim Doyle told a group of students who asked him to make the University of Wisconsin more affordable that they “must be living in a dream world.” In fact, we do have a dream-one where all people, regardless of their race, class or social circumstances have equal access to high-quality, low-cost higher education. Unfortunately, it seems that Doyle, along with the state Legislature and the Regents, do not share our vision.
Technophobes beware, UW-Madison students are now more computer and Internet-oriented than ever, according to a UW-Madison Division of Information Technology survey.
The survey, conducted between February and April 2004, revealed students polled averaged 26.5 hours per week on the Internet, an increase of almost 87 percent since 2000, according to a DoIT press release.
A flu vaccine shortage will likely affect University Health Services’ ability to give out free flu shots to UW-Madison students, according to UHS spokesperson Jonathan Zarov.
n its “Need to Know” press conference Wednesday, Associated Students of Madison announced goals for campus diversity, Halloween safety and shared governance.
Halloween safety was the most immediate of the aforementioned topics, as ASM touted several initiatives to curb the possibility of riots erupting this year.
Have you ever closed your eyes for a really long time and tried to imagine what it is like to be blind? You probably thought of a world without colors, where you recognize people only by their voice, not knowing what anyone looks like. Navigating around your room with your eyes shut, you would trip over a lot of stuff and be scared of not being in complete control. If you haven’t met Beth, an 18-year-old freshman, that might be how you imagine it.
According to a recent study, a majority of college students know how to play it safe while tailgating. The National Collegiate Athletic Association and brewing company Anheuser-Busch, released the 2004 Safe Celebration Study, showing 90 percent of students tailgate safely.
Al Franken brought his nationally syndicated radio talk show to Madison Wednesday, delivering his program live in front of listeners at the Memorial Union Great Hall.
For many students, the University of Wisconsinââ?¬â?¢s Policy, Alternatives, Community and Education program is a group attempting to control alcohol consumption in Madison. But the program does more than curb alcohol-related policies ââ?¬â? it also addresses health and safety concerns of high-risk binge-drinking.
The Associated Students of Madison unveiled its plans for the upcoming semester during a press conference on Library Mall Wednesday. The conference highlighted a long list of goals the group placed on an eight-foot tall checklist, covering topics ranging from Academic Affairs to Halloween.
More than a dozen ASM members lay out their goals for the fall semester and ask their classmates to hold them accountable. The students held a press conference Wednesday on Library Mall.
A proposal that would require landlords in Madison to install locks on common-entry entrances….could cost those property owners plenty of money….depending on what would be needed. That’s what Steve Beckmann from J&K Lock and Security told the city’s housing committee last night.Ã? He says the actual situation with the locking is not the huge deal it’s basically the electronics as the doorbells and the intercoms…andÃ? then it gets a little pricier for the landlords and he thinks that’s where the big issue is coming in.Ã? Ã? Beckmann addsÃ? it would cost on average…$500-dollars to make the security upgrades for a four-unit building. In addition Beckmann says a 60-day deadline for having the locks installed is impossible to meet and says it may take up to a year to have them in place at every building. The city’s housing committee is still considering the proposal.
The Votergasm campaign has people pledge to have election night sex with a voter, and to withhold sex from non- voters, as part of a nationwide effort to mobilize the youth vote. The goal is to sign up 100,000 first-time voters ages 18 to 25 on campuses in Wisconsin and seven other “swing states.”
This month has been deadly for binge-drinking college students. Five underclassmen in four states appear to have drunk themselves to death, police say, after friends sent their pals to bed assuming that they would ââ?¬Å?sleep it off.”
Violations will carry stiffer penalties this Halloween after the Madison City Council amended ordinances last night.
“We’re very pleased [the ordinances] were approved,” said Noble Wray, acting Madison police chief. “Now we need to spread the word so people will plan properly and voluntarily change their behavior.”
UW-Madison’s undergraduate class of 2003-’04 graduated with an average student loan debt of more than $17,000, according to the Wisconsin State Journal. The average debt for the 1993-’94 class was $10,800, said Susan Fischer, associate director of the Office of Student Financial Services.
UW-Madison administrators announced the university will not sponsor any Halloween-related events that occur on campus, rejecting Associated Students of Madison’s proposal to have a large national act perform in the campus area.
When Landon Lueck, a UW senior majoring in landscape architecture, cut ahead of people waiting in line for MTV�s Real World casting call at State Street Brats last year, he did not think he would actually make it on the show. Little did Lueck know he would spend his summer with seven strangers in Philadelphia and receive a glimpse into the life of a celebrity.
With the threat of increased bail-amount deposits for drinking-related citations looming on the Halloween horizon, City Council members decided to instead implement the increased fines recommended by the Madison Police Department, where most tickets will increase more than $100 from the old fines.
He may be gone…but not forgotten. One of the credits to Rodney Dangerfield…is putting UW-Madison on the big screen. In the movie Back to School…Dangerfield plays the character of the world’s oldest, and richest, living freshman to the hilt. In the 1986 movie…the Madison campus is highlighted scene after scene…despite the fact that Dangerfield is supposedly attending Grand Lakes University. Some call the film his biggest achievement on the movie screen.
Colleges have started the fall term amid widely shared concerns that more-restrictive visa policies, adopted in the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks, may be dissuading talented foreign students from applying to study in the United States. (Subscription required.)
When Elena Casacuberta returned to Spain last Christmas, she planned on staying for just a few weeks. A postdoctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she had renewed her work visa three times since coming to the United States in 2000, and assumed she would have no problems the fourth time around. (Subscription required.)
For most of those who rocked the Kohl Center on Tuesday night, the partisan concert by the Dave Matthews Band was the perfect blend of party politics and party music.
An annual survey of computer use at UW-Madison shows an eye-popping 87 percent increase in the time the average student spends online every week, from 14.2 hours four years ago to 26.5 hours now.
Mayor Dave Cieslewicz wants to hire a tavern coordinator to work with bar owners to help reduce campus area drinking problems. Funding for an “alcohol policy coordinator” is included in Cieslewicz’s 2005 executive operating budget, the mayor announced Monday.
University of Wisconsin-Madison administrators will not sponsor any Halloween events on campus, not even alternative programming designed to keep people away from State Street. That has upset some students who believe the university is trying to avoid responsibility for the annual Halloween weekend problems on State Street.
The average student-loan debt for students who took the loans out on their way to earning a bachelor’s degree from UW-Madison in 2003-04 was more than $17,000, up 6.9 percent from the year before.
Mayor Dave Cieslewicz revealed yesterday the creation of an alcohol policy coordinator, a new position created to connect the city administration, local police force and UW-Madison with area businesses that serve alcoholic beverages.
As the University of Wisconsin battles with college binge-drinking, police deem the fight to eliminate fake identification a major facet in the war against high-risk alcohol consumption.
Controversial filmmaker Michael Moore will visit the University of Wisconsin-Madison Oct. 16 as part of his nationwide tour of college campuses before the Nov. 2 presidential election.
It�s October, and for most University of Wisconsin students, that means the time for Halloween madness is quickly approaching.
During a press conference Monday, Madison and university officials announced the creation of a new position in city government to act as a liaison between alcohol-selling establishments and local government.
