Category: Campus life

Camp Randall provided some memorable moments for University of Wisconsin students last Saturday as the UW football team beat Penn State 16-3, but one badger missed out on part of the fun.

Madison has dealt with recent sexual assaults, physical attacks and robberies, but for the second time this month, hate crime has struck the city.

Last Halloween, like the one before it, there was a riot.

When bars let out, lots of drunken, rowdy, costumed people fled to the streets. They proceeded to cause a whole lot of damage. The Den had merchandise stolen. The University Inn found its rooms littered with glass. Tomboy Girl had to move off of State Street. Lots of bad things happened, many caused by people out of state – people with little vested interest in the happiness of Madison businesses.

Students with hopes of securing the seats at UW-Madison hockey and football games were given a rude awakening Tuesday morning. UW-Madison police officers gave out citations to 24 students who had violated university regulations regarding camping.

Despite changes and the influx of new faces each year at colleges nationwide, some traditions never fade.

Many Madisonians are familiar with two traditions native to the University of Wisconsin: the upcoming State Street Halloween celebration and the Mifflin Street block party.

Five years from now, a UW-Madison freshman who has never known the splendor of Ogg Hall could stand at the site of the demolished dorm and see Lake Mendota. His gaze will fall down a pedestrian corridor, a tree-lined and brick-paved promenade, perhaps filled with students milling around public art or rushing from two new residence halls on the southern end of campus.

Incoming freshmen in the year 2009 will walk onto an entirely different University of Wisconsin campus. The future remodeling of the East Campus Mall was the topic of Monday night�s Joint Southeast Campus Area Committee, trying to link up Lake Mendota to Regent Street with a pedestrian thoroughfare.

The 2004 Halloween Planning Group adopted a proposal Monday to have costume contests and chicken dances as part of this year�s Halloween festivities on State Street.

More than 400 students, faculty and community members attended the fifth annual Plan 2008 forum Monday at the Memorial Union. The meeting put focus on diversity throughout the University of Wisconsin system.

The nights are getting colder and longer, but many students are finding more time to spend outside. Ticket turmoil is in full swing for men�s basketball, football and hockey tickets as the lines grow outside of the Kohl Center box office

Wisconsin: Madison — City leaders hope to raise fines for disorderly conduct and alcohol-related crimes before this year’s Halloween celebrations. Crowds on State Street rioted for a second year last Halloween, and more than 300 were cited for underage drinking. The plan would hike the fine for illegally selling alcohol to $660. (USA Today, 9/27/04)

For some college student, it’s drinking as usual at this year’s Oktoberfest.

Just six months ago, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse student Jared Dion became the seventh young man to drown in area waters in as many years.

Alcohol played a part in all seven deaths.

Three teams of dairy cattle judges from the University of Wisconsin-Madison competed at last week’s Midwest Intercollegiate Dairy Cattle Judging Contest in Viroqua, held by Accelerated Genetics.

Lawyers for the UW-Madison are advising faculty members and other employees to put away their political buttons while at work

Rising levels of obesity among young people in Wisconsin may have their roots in common college behavior. If left unchecked, a “typical” college diet of daily gorging on frozen pizzas and binge drinking lays the groundwork for obesity later in life, according to Scott Spear, University Health Services director of clinical services.

One quarter of the women in Wisconsin colleges this fall will be raped or the victim of attempted rape, according to a release from the Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault, Inc.

The University of Wisconsin freshman that fell from a Mifflin Street balcony the weekend before classes began was upgraded to ââ?¬Å?fairââ?¬Â condition, according to UW Hospital source Trudy Brule.

Two men were charged with disorderly conduct as a hate crime and bail jumping on the night of Friday, Sept. 24 in the campus area.

Although the University of Wisconsin Police Department did not staff more officers at Saturday night�s victory against Pennsylvania State University, many students said they experienced a heightened police presence during the first and only night game of the season.

Two young Madison men were charged with misdemeanor hate crimes after allegedly making threatening comments and showing what looked like a human skull to passersby on UW-Madison’s campus.

MADISON, Wis. — Problem partygoers better bring extra cash if they come to Madison for Halloween.

When Alison Curtis arrived at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in August, she wasn’t sure how well she’d fit in. A Republican, the 18-year-old said she was warned by classmates at Brookfield East High School about the campus’ liberal reputation. Her friends shouldn’t worry. Curtis isn’t changing her political beliefs any time soon.

University Hospital has upgraded the condition of a University of Wisconsin-Madison freshman who fell from a West Mifflin St. balcony. Hospital officials said 18-year-old Jason Gratzl remains in serious condition after being listed for a month in critical condition. (Police Report, Capital Times print edition)

More bad news as Madison gets ready for Halloween 2004.

AÃ? second article has been published surrounding the infamous State Street Halloween bash. In the new October issue of Maxim magazine, the annual event is calledÃ? ââ?¬Å?just plain mad.ââ?¬Â The article describes the State Street scene of 2002, and advises attendees to dress as a riot cop to fit in.

A downtown business owner says the collective anxiety level along State Street about the annual Halloween bash just went up.

Eat, sleep, party … yes, that is all part of life in university housing, but academics are creeping out of classrooms into campus housing around the country, including UW-Madison.

There is no excuse to be late when the classroom is right in your residence hall, an arrangement for a third of all freshman composition classes at UW-Madison. Of course, students rolling out of bed into morning classes may not be at their peak.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.