Halloween revelers will not go hungry if the university has its say.
In a meeting with Associated Students of Madison’s Halloween Planning Committee Monday, university officials offered $16,000 of additional funding for Halloween.
Nearly $15,000 of the projected funding will pay for food to be distributed on Library Mall from midnight to 3 a.m. the Sunday of Halloween weekend.
In light of the weakening of the U.S. job market in recent years, the creation of new jobs is a crucial issue for many Americans.
The University of Wisconsin�s Homecoming 2004 extends from the typical yearly celebration to the realm of politics with a theme that reflects a presidential election year.
The presidential election is still two weeks away, but for University of Wisconsin senior Casey Welch it is all over, save for the shouting and campaigning.
Major Madison property owner Steve Brown reportedly agreed to sell his five private residence halls to a multi-billion-dollar Texas-based real-estate company for an estimated 60 to 65 million dollars.
Don’t mind the three-eared guy with the robot arm.
He’s Stelarc, an Australian performance artist, who will give a guest lecture Nov. 4 for one of the hottest new classes on the UW-Madison campus.
As parents and a former member of Congress and a former college president, we are saddened by the tragic binge-drinking deaths cited in USA TODAY’s article (ââ?¬Å?Five binge-drinking deaths ââ?¬Ë?just the tip of the iceberg’,ââ?¬Â Life, Oct. 7).
Despite continued resistance from University of Wisconsin officials, it looks like students planning to pipe in music and stage Halloween costume contests on the Library Mall will get the street permit they need.
….University of Wisconsin students, bombarded by political signs and television ads, got to party like rock stars Friday afternoon. Some students said it was all beginning to feel like swing-state sensory overload.
Jennifer Gile is sick of the “two-party monopoly.” She’s prepared to vote for Ralph Nader for president, despite overwhelming pressure on a left-leaning campus to conform and get behind Democrat John Kerry.
n an attempt to secure campus facilities, the Kohl Center and Camp Randall Stadium will soon see new additions including concrete walls, boulders and large planters.
Officials said security precautions are necessary at the two campus facilities in order to prevent the possibility of terrorist attacks.
Donning a Badger hat, a scruffy beard and the uncanny ability to rouse emotion in a crowd, filmmaker Michael Moore worked Madison students into a political fervor Saturday night.
Best known for his collection of liberal books and movies that attack right-wing politicians and the state of the American political scene, Moore spoke on the Union Terrace amidst protesting Republicans who obviously did not agree with his anti-Bush rhetoric.
In a conference room in the District’s Columbia Heights neighborhood, 44 high school seniors eager for a tuition-free college education were asked a question: “What strategies would you use to start a discussion and keep a discussion going?” (Login required.)
MTV�s Rock the Vote tour made its final stop of the year at University of Wisconsin�s Library Mall on Friday to register student voters and motivate them to get to the polls on Election Day.
The University of Wisconsin, apparently, is full of slackers.
Braving the cold, students came out in droves Saturday night to hear filmmaker and liberal provocateur Michael Moore, who spoke at the Memorial Union terrace as part of his nationwide ââ?¬Å?Slacker Uprising Tour.ââ?¬Â
Thirty-seven years ago today ââ?¬â? Oct. 17, 1967 ââ?¬â? I was an 18-year-old freshman on the University of Wisconsin campus in the city where I was born.
UW’s Homecoming kicked off this weekend. Committee members hope the theme, Bucky for President, will get the huge student body fired up to vote.
Madison)Ã? On TV, onââ?¬â??line Ã? and on the ground ââ?¬â?? ‘Rock the Vote’ is a nonââ?¬â??partisan, nonââ?¬â??profit organization that is making sure young people are registered and ready to hit the polls come November 2nd.
Long lines and short tempers, that is the scene at flu clinics nationwide, but here in Madison people are minding their manners.
Should we pay for songs or just steal them? That’s a hot topic of discussion for students at the Rochester Institute of Technology –Ã? particularly at Java Wally’s, a campus coffeehouse decorated with disco balls and vintage records. (Subscription required.)
Dani Kochavi knew George Washington University was her top college choice, and she wanted GW to know it.
A State Street businessman who’s been upset with a slow police response to window breaking and looting during the last two Halloweens…is more optimistic this year. Dan Waisman owns the Poster Master at 506 State and says we expect them and based on what Madison Police Central District Captain Luis Yudice says…they will move in quicker to pacify violence
Muslims around campus will begin eating “fast” food today, with the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Forbidden to eat between sunrise and sunset, it serves as an exercise in self-discipline and a reminder that others are less fortunate.
In the last 50 years, airplanes, internet, telephones and global markets have all shortened the divides between countries to make the world a truly porous place. Front and center in this globalization project has been the United States.
Police at UW-Madison are ready to bring the hammer down on student moped owners who still haven’t learned to drive properly on campus. “Violations are still happening all over campus,” said Officer Kristin Radtke. “It’s very frustrating.”
University of Wisconsin students, faculty and members of the Madison law community will run and walk this weekend to raise money for summer grants to benefit UW law students performing unpaid work for underrepresented clients.
UW-Madison soon will provide students who earn it with a great icebreaker for those awkward first-job interviews. Starting this spring, besides their academic transcript, graduating seniors will be able to offer prospective employers a new document known as a “leadership and involvement record,” or a leadership transcript, for short.
Although Pell grants, college tax credits and student loans may not register as major election issues for either Kerry or Bush this campaign season, for many people around the UW, both candidates� stances on higher education could be deciding factors in determining their vote come November.
Millions of students eligible to receive financial aid do not because they simply forgo applying.
With Halloween only two weeks away, city officials and student groups are working to finalize plans for the annual celebration.
The Street Use Staff Team gave ââ?¬Å?conceptualââ?¬Â clearance Wednesday to the University of Wisconsinââ?¬â?¢s Associated Students of Madison for street-permit usage during Halloween weekend.
If Melissa Zamora were an average 20-year-old political science student, she would be spending 14 hours a week in lecture halls listening to professors. Instead, she puts in 12-hour days, seven days a week, to help Sen. John Kerry’s bid for president.
It�s been said that no University of Wisconsin student lets his or her schoolwork interfere with the college experience. For one UW student, balancing work and school has been a way of life.
UW sophomore Kate Holoyda would bashfully call herself a busy little bee, but she said her busy schedule isn�t something to complain abou
While dealing with after-bar customers can be a trying ordeal for workers at local eateries, the amount of business generated from late-night feasters can be worthwhile.
A cappella music will fill the halls of the Overture Center November 10th when the red-jacketed MadHatters set foot inside for their fall concert.
Faculty, staff and students convened Tuesday in one of many planned forums to discuss the new Campus Master Plan for the University of Wisconsin campus.
Professors, architects and design specialists gathered Monday at an informative and audience-interactive session at the Red Gym regarding the UW-Madison Campus Master Plan. According to a University Communications statement, the plan will be “a document that will guide campus renewal well into the next decade.”
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.
