Like Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, UW-Madison students Stacy Blackburn and Leslie Lamont have been decorating their new home at college. Both sets of roomies have top-floor digs in high-rises, the famous twins in New York because they’re going to NYU.
Yet while the twins have more than 5,000 square feet, no one would call the Madison students’ Ogg Hall room a penthouse.
As many students have read, been told and repeatedly reminded, the use of empty alcohol containers as room decoration by underage residents of UW-Madison Housing is no longer permitted. Although the campus staff may have had the best intentions in mind while devising this new policy, the only noticeable changes will be superficial at best.
State Street business owners are taking action in order to deter violence and riots this Halloween. In addition to the larger police force, business owners will be doing everything from staying the night in their stores to hiring private security.
Fans must now rely a little more on their love for Bucky to keep warm while sitting out for sports tickets after the induction of a new campus police initiative.
Aiming to halt students from “camping out” at the Kohl Center, the UW-Madison Campus Police will now be reprimanding individuals possessing tents, sleeping bags, pillows and other paraphernalia related to camping out. Folding chairs and television sets are still allowed.
When a guy calls at the last minute asking for a date, then orders out for pizza and soda, what kind of love connection should he expect
The city of Madison, University of Wisconsin and Dane County provided an outreach program Thursday morning on Library Mall to provide information on preventing student assaults.
John D. Wiley, Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Madison since early 2001, says the level of political awareness is greater than at� anytime in the thirty years heâ��s been on campus and unseen since the Vietnam era.
The University of Wisconsin fifth annual Plan 2008 forum will be held Monday at Memorial Union, offering lectures and discussions about creating a more diverse campus environment.
All students, faculty, staff and community members are invited and encouraged to attend the free sessions to gather information, discuss what UW is doing and find out how they might improve their efforts to diversify all aspects of campus life.
Badger football fans will have no reason to hide their double-funnel, two-story beer bongs before the Penn State game this Saturday.
University of Wisconsin police say they will not be increasing security forces, even though Saturday is the only night game of the season.
According to local public health officials, a large outbreak of whooping cough has emerged in southeastern Wisconsin.
In a continued effort to prepare for Madison�s Halloween celebration, the Associated Students of Madison and the Madison Police Department discussed crowd-control activities and proposed safety measures at a Downtown Coordinating Committee meeting Thursday night
If you’ve been to a University of Wisconsin men’s hockey game or watched one on TV in the last three years, you’ve undoubtedly seen Jeff Haima.
Students interested in occupational therapy can look forward to a new program in 2005. For the first time, The University of Wisconsin will offer an occupational therapy master�s-level program under the Department of Kinesiology in the School of Education.
Students have known for a long time that some professors grade differently than others, said Bruce Beck, a Senior Policy and Planning Analyst.
In 1999, the University Academic Planning Council initiated a study through the University of Wisconsin�s Provost�s Office to find out how grade distribution varied from lecture to lecture within a specific class.
With criminal activity looming over the opening weeks of the school year, blue light emergency poles on campus could become life-saving resources.
Sports Illustrated has decided to stop by Madison for Halloween this year, much to the horror of some local business owners and city officials.
In light of recent attacks on campus and sexual assaults over the summer, various organizations are putting on a sexual assault awareness campaign, ââ?¬Å?Locks and Bagels,ââ?¬Â today in Library Mall.
University Health Services, the Tenant Resource Center, University of Wisconsin SAFE Nighttime services, the Apartment Association of South Central Wisconsin and Dane County Government are involved in the projec
It’s OK to make college students do more homework, write longer papers or even pay higher tuition.
But mess with their Internet access and you’ll get some high-tech turmoil.
Through the power of blogs, or online journals, news that officials at the University of Texas at Dallas were trying to restrict students from using personal wireless networks grew from a local dispute to a national online debate on student rights.
We called the student newspaper at the University of Wisconsin, The Daily Cardinal, and asked around the news room for someone to review their college town. Amos Posner, an opinion editor, was happy to oblige. Here are his picks for what to do in Madison. Rip out the page and shove it in your bag if you plan to attend Saturday’s game.
Wednesday morning, University of Wisconsin football coach and Athletic Director Barry Alvarez did something out of the ordinary. He sent a mass e-mail to 40,882 students, inviting them to watch the Badgers practice today at Camp Randall Stadium.
With fewer than six weeks until Madison’s annual State Street Halloween event takes place, business owners and city officials may already be spooked. An article in a recent issue of Sports Illustrated magazine campus insert is touting the event as a stop on their upcoming Road Trip report and area businesses and city officials say the stop is more trick than treat.
For the second consecutive year, the University of Wisconsin is picking up the tab for the federally-mandated Student and Exchange Visitor Information System. SEVIS, an electronic database designed to track and monitor international students, was implemented in 2003 as part of the USA Patriot Act and is meant to prevent terrorists from entering the United States on student visas.
Due to five incidents of downtown criminal activity last weekend, Madison police are urging students and citizens to play it safe.
Between midnight Sept. 17 and close to 3:30 a.m. Sept. 18, three batteries, a strong-arm robbery and an assault and robbery occurred within the State Street area.
Of course Sports Illustrated On Campus picked Madison as its only Midwestern stop on its annual Road Trip.
They loved Wisconsin’s traditional tailgate parties, Bucky Badger and our beautiful campus, right?
Wrong.
They’re visiting Wisconsin because we have really great riots.
Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton spoke Tuesday night at the UW-Madison College Democrats meeting in Ingraham Hall, touting the importance of the youth vote at UW-Madison.
“We are the old people and we know that this is the most important election of our lifetime,” Lawton said.
After completing her undergraduate degree at Lawrence University in Wisconsin, Wenjie Chen, an international student from Germany, decided she wanted to come to Ann Arbor to get her doctorate in economics.
Even though she had spent four years studying in the United States, she still had to go through the new procedures of applying for a visa. ââ?¬Å?Itââ?¬â?¢s a long process, and definitely a frustrating one,ââ?¬Â Chen said.
Gordie Bailey’s University of Colorado fraternity brothers were worried about him the night the 18-year-old pledge died and in the weeks before that because of his drinking habits, a Chi Psi member said Tuesday.
Upgrades, privacy, high-tech amenities are what it takes to attract, retain the kids of baby boomers. Heather McIntosh is an only child. She always had privacy ââ?¬â? her own bedroom and bathroom. Until she went to college.
Sports Illustrated on Campus is bragging that its annual fall Road Trip will make a stop in Madison for the Halloween party on State Street. And, the magazine is telling readers to “mark Ocotber 31st on your calendar with an anar
“There’s no reason why you shouldn’t be able to feel safe walking downtown, and that makes me mad.” He may be angry today, but early Saturday morning fear was the emotion firmly gripping State Street resident Travis Knapp.
At last year’s State Street Halloween riot theÃ? fine forÃ? throwing a rock or beerÃ? bottleÃ? was $71.Ã? This year it might cost $288. That’s because the Common Council is looking into dramatically increasing the fines for many alcohol related offenses.Ã?Â
Flipping through the pages of The Pitt News last year, University of Pittsburgh students could read a feature called ââ?¬Å?Drink Specialsââ?¬Â where prices of drinks at local bars were published by the newspaper, free of charge
The University of Wisconsin offers approximately 4,500 courses. Each semester UW students battle the Internet registration system for access to their desired classes.
The crew of Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit and Chris Fowler will return to Madison this weekend as ESPN’s pregame show College GameDay will broadcast live outside Camp Randall prior to the Badgers (3-0 overall) game against Penn State (2-1). This marks the second straight year, and the third time in the last five years, GameDay has traveled to Madison as the trio visited UW for its game against Purdue in 2003.
Growing education requirements in medical fields have pushed UW-Madison to form a new master’s degree program in occupational therapy.
After two years of planning and the development of a new curriculum and course sequence, the university will enroll a maximum of 25 students into the program which begins next summer.
The ESPN College GameDay crew will return to Madison for the second year in a row and the third time overall when they set up in the practice field north of Camp Randall Saturday morning.
The show will broadcast live starting at 9:30 a.m. The weekly ESPN Radio GameDay show will also air from the same location
Associated Students of Madison has a pretty serious public relations problem. The student government association at UW-Madison is wasting at least some its considerable power because too many of the people it’s designed to help namely, all 41,500 students on campus don’t know what it is or what it does, group leaders say.
U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., made his case for re-election to UW-Madison students Friday afternoon with a rally at Library Mall. Speaking to hundreds of student supporters, Feingold emphasized the right choices he made during his career and his efforts to combat the wrong choices.
U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold pulled double duty Friday, promoting both the Kerry-Edwards campaign and touting his own resume for his senatorial battle with Tim Michels during a rally on Library Mall.
Future doctors now are being invited to nursing students’ parties, partly because they all study under one roof at UW-Madison’s new Health Sciences Learning Center.
RACINE – Carmen De LaCruz, an 18-year-old freshman at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was named Miss Latina Racine Friday night during a scholarship banquet at Festival Hall.
Encouraging students to think more carefully about their drinking habits, the University will begin a program this month to train residence hall directors and University Health Service staffers to help students determine whether they are drinking too much.
(Madison)Ã? Fines for alcoholââ?¬â??related violations in Madison may soon go upââ?¬Â¦ if a local alderman has his way.
Alderman Mike Verveer wants to see fines for alcoholââ?¬â??related offenses more than double. It would be the first significant increase in such fines in more than a decade.
FORT COLLINS, Colo. – A 19-year-old Colorado State University student found dead in a fraternity house died of accidental alcohol poisoning, the county coroner said Friday.
Telisha Phillips, 22, could for many reasons be considered one of Mississippi Valley State University’s stars. A senior education major, she is student government president and a residence hall assistant, she leads campus tours and works part time ââ?¬â? all while maintaining a grade point average between 3.5 and 3.6.
Thomas Jefferson believed that democracy wouldn’t work unless poor but worthy students had access to a quality education. So what would he think today about all those SUVs or that shiny black Saab turbo convertible parked near student hangouts at the campus he founded 185 years ago?
UW-Madison freshman Andy Gordon is no stranger to political rallies. His mother dragged him to a Clinton rally in Green Bay when he was eight years old.
“I was whining the whole time. I didn’t understand what it was all about,” he said, waiting to board a shuttle bus to the rally John Kerry held Wednesday. “But it was still really cool.”
The segregated-fee-funded University Health Services sees more visits from females than from males, and most of those appointments relate to general women�s health issues, according to the director of University Health.
The Multicultural Student Coalition is sponsoring its fifth-annual Multicultural Orientation Networking Empowerment (M-ONE) program in hopes of exposing University of Wisconsin students to the many different cultural backgrounds on campus.
M-ONE offers new students the
The University of Wisconsin is again covering the costs of the federally mandated Student and Exchange Visitor Information System this year rather than pushing the fee solely onto international students.
Phillip Certain left a giant void when he stepped down in August after serving 11 years as dean of the College of Letters and Science. As the University of Wisconsin�s longest-serving dean, Certain oversaw a college composed of more students than many universities.
Gary Sandefur replaces Certain as the new dean of the largest college at UW, but he is hardly new to the university.
Wisconsin running back Jamil Walker and student assistant coach Dwayne Smith have forged a bond during their brief time together on campus.
Walker, a freshman, praised Smith for his guidance after he ran for 88 yards on 16 carries against UNLV last Saturda
Sophomores are in many way the most ignored of college undergraduates. Not yet upperclassmen and no longer wide-eyed freshmen privy to a slew of new-student programs, students in their second year find themselves unattended to at a time some say they need attention most.
An enthusiastic crowd of students and other Madison residents filled the Wisconsin Union Theater to near capacity Wednesday evening to hear independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader address the university community.
University of Wisconsin students, excited to hear presidential hopeful John Kerry speak in their own backyard on Capitol Square, instead had to make due with late buses hauling them to a changed venue miles away. If ââ?¬â? that is ââ?¬â? they decided to make the trip at all.
Forced inside by inclement weather, Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry unleashed a storm of his own Wednesday, directing a torrent of criticism at President George W. Bush during a rally at the Alliant Energy Center.
In the 6 a.m. hour, Joy Cardin and Aaron Brower, principal investigator of the PACE Project, UW-Madison, explore how communities and campuses can come together to reduce student drinking. (Audio. First item.)
The vast number of foreign languages available for study at UW-Madison can be daunting for some students, which is why the Division of International Studies recently formed the Language Institute.
A new study released by the Harvard School of Public Health on Friday found a strong link between city and campus regulations regarding alcohol could result in lower cases of binge drinking.
Members of the Madison Police Department, city officials and various university departments met Tuesday to discuss the current handling of alcohol-related problems on and around campus. They also discussed changes in policy to be implemented before this Halloween.
