Category: 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.

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.

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? 

The University of Wisconsin offers approximately 4,500 courses. Each semester UW students battle the Internet registration system for access to their desired classes.

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.

(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.

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.

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 � that is � 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.

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.

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,

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.

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)