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.
Three universities: the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), the University of Oregon-Eugene (UO-E), and CU-Boulder will compete to see who registers more students to vote in the November elections,
Days after a student was found dead in a fraternity house at Colorado State University this month, the institution revoked its recognition of the fraternity’s local chapter, and Greek organizations on the Fort Collins campus voluntarily adopted a ban on alcohol in all fraternity houses. (Subscription required.)
City citations and fines for disorderly behavior due to alcohol are set to increase in Madison after recommendations by the Police Alternatives Community and Education project in accordance with the Madison Police Department and city officials.
The University of Wisconsin ranked sixth in the country for percentage of its student body studying abroad, according to the latest Public Research Universities study.
The Alcohol License Review Committee removed drink-special bans from Crave Restaurant and Lounge, Buck�s Madison Square Garden and Madison�s Dining and Diversions Tuesday, a week after bans were lifted on three other area bars.
Beaufort, S.C. ââ?¬â? Much has been made in recent years of the unwillingness among college and university presidents to venture above the parapet and challenge some of the shibboleths of higher education. By this I do not mean advocacy of political positions. Presidents who would keep their campuses places where ideas are in fact freely exchanged ought to avoid signing public letters or endorsing candidates, tempting as it may be. (Login required.)
High school students are becoming better prepared to enter college, but many states are still doing a poor job of getting them to enroll and retaining them until they graduate, a report says today.
A Madison fraternity member faces a misdemeanor charge after allegedly reaping hundreds of dollars by posting phony parking tickets on cars. (9/14004 Capital Times print edition)
Three out of state investors have acquired 80 percent of Luther’s Blues, with Steve Murphy retaining 20 percent ownership, and John Prigge taking over as general manager. Icon Entertainment president Rich Peterson said in a release that Luther’s would “gear more toward the student crowd, as well as bringing bigger and better names in the industry.”
Saturday marked the third anniversary of the terrorist attacks that transformed security policies in America, and many universities nationwide have begun to reassess what role security should play on campuses today.
Dean of International Studies Gilles Bousquet and a panel of professors met Monday at the Memorial Union to speak to students and the general public about this new responsibility: To redefine security and heighten awareness of the American university’s role in a broad global community.
UW-Madison student Anthony Gallagher was charged in Dane County Circuit Court Monday with obstructing an officer following a police investigation since April 2003. Police found he and an individual identified as Nate Grede had been placing fake parking tickets on windshields and collecting payments for approximately six weeks.
UW-Madison’s School of Nursing enrolled its highest percentage of men this fall, but these 19 new students are still dramatically outnumbered by women.
Riot gear and resting officers will replace drunken revelers in the rooms of University Inn, 441 N. Frances St., this Halloween as the building will be the center of Madison Police Department’s effort to prevent a third straight riot at the annual bash.
The downtown police headquarters is one of a host of changes discussed Monday at a meeting of the Halloween Task Force.
In his one month on the UW-Madison campus, Joe Strand said he’s collected names of some 600 students ready to stump for Democratic candidates. Strand’s Republican counterpart said her group also has signed up more than 600 new members since students began returning to classes last week.
UW-Madison Police reported that 39 citations were issued at Saturday’s Wisconsin vs. UNLV game, which the Badgers won 18-3.
It was the class from hell.
Some students slept, others chatted. They showed up late and left early. The few who tried to pay attention were distracted by the majority who didn’t. All of which made Delaney J. Kirk, a professor of management at Drake University, feel frustrated and depressed. “I got to the point where I hated going to the classroom,” she says. (Subscription required.)
A committee of city and campus officials met Monday to determine ways to control the crowd at this year�s Halloween festivities, following last year�s devolution into vandalism, and the necessity for police intervention.
Attorney Gerald Mowris represented University of Wisconsin student Anthony Gallagher, 23, Monday on charges with Resisting or Obstructing an Officer.
BERKELEY, California — Alyn Libman won a $15,000-a-year scholarship to the University of California at Berkeley with a resume that showed more than just Libman’s athletic achievement and academic potential.
The academic skills of the typical U.S. 15-year-old are average compared with most of the industrialized world, but a larger proportion of American teens see themselves holding top-paying jobs in the future, a report out today shows.
While students face an increase in tuition, state budget cuts continue to force the university to eliminate course offerings and increase section size.
According to a recent analysis, the number of sections offered in fall 2003 dropped 3.1 percent from fall 2002, producing an average increase in size of 2.6 percent, the Wisconsin State Journal reported.
JOE LOUIS, the great heavyweight champion,is purported to have said about a light but fast boxing opponent: “He can run, but he can’t hide.”
College dorm rooms used to be places for hanging out. But in a world of laptops and other pricey digital doodads, they’re becoming places to loot. The result: the emergence of a multimillion-dollar industry for dorm room security
Students pushed the books aside and joined the ranks of athletes as they hit the streets of Madison Sunday for the 2004 Ironman Wisconsin.
