More than a dozen bar owners in Madison are questioning the need for a city-wide ban on late night drink specials. That’s how many spoke at a roundtable discussion on the idea….and other alcohol related issues last night.
(Madison)� Madison tavern owners are vocal about their opposition to banning drink specials.
During a recent University of Wisconsin football practice, Dwayne Smith approached Jamil Walker on the sidelines and counseled the freshman running back on the proper use of technique. The instruction lasted a few minutes.
LAST spring, when Marisa L. Dudiak’s second-grade class in Frederick County, Md., returned from a field trip to a Native American farm, all the students wanted to do was talk about what they saw. But instead of leading a discussion about the trip, Mrs. Dudiak had the students sign on to their classroom Web log.
“Audrey Seiler, Where Are You?” thrives when Audrey – played by Jaime Marie Waelchli, who is slighter than Seiler but presents a believable innocence – is on stage.
Your toddler has somehow made it through diapers, puberty and fumbled first dates and morphed into an intelligent young adult who’s headed straight for college, late-night cram sessions and new friends.
Do you think your child will go to the party? Will your child drink? How much will your child drink?
If you don’t know the answers, you probably need to talk to your child about the consequences of college drinking and the dangers of binge drinking, experts say.
Quoted: Aaron Brower, a professor of social work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is an expert on binge drinking
Like many others, my experience with alcohol started when I left for school to attend the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. I never drank in high school and have never felt that it belongs there. I did drink freshman year; alcohol, for me, was just part of the college experience.
Some of the nation’s top schools have aligned themselves with fee-based digital music services for students.
LOS ANGELES ââ?¬â? When Lisa Staib was choosing colleges this spring, her cousin, a Penn State student, helped sway her decision by describing an unusual campus perk: free Napster. A onetime Internet music outlaw, Napster’s gone legit.
MADISON, Wis. — Madison police now openly acknowledge they made mistakes at last year’s Killer Halloween Party 2003 on State Street
Carrying a Walkman was hip in 1985. Ten years later, so was toting a portable CD player. This year, teenagers and 20-somethings are putting MP3 players alongside pens and pencils on their back-to-school must-have lists.
It was embarrassing enough when an Eckerd College trip overseas celebrating the glory of Europe last winter culminated in a group of students’ sampling too much of the local vintage, insulting the residents and keeping guests at their hotel awake with their drunken revelry.
But after another student on one of Eckerd’s overseas excursions studying human rights and diplomacy decided to settle a political disagreement with his fists less than six months later, the college had had enough.
NEW YORKÃ? ââ?¬â?Ã? This month marks the first anniversary of a student tracking system that has nabbed 155 individuals in its first year for various suspicious activities, including using forged documents.
The Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) (search) is a nationwide electronic system launched last August that houses information on foreign students and exchange visitors to the United States.
At Barnard College in New York, administrators read over lifestyle surveys and even a student essay in their efforts to make a successful freshman roommate match. At Michigan, they separate the smokers but leave the rest to chance. The University of Utah lets freshmen find their own roommates from anonymous profiles online.
Apple’s trendy iPod digital music player, which has revitalized the company, is giving laptop sales a boost during back-to-school season. Many students, after falling in love with the iPod, are packing for college with new Apple Macintosh computers.
MADISON, Wis.ââ?¬â? My UW Madisonââ?¬â?the portal used by University of Wisconsin-Madison students, staff and faculty for online organizational and scheduling tasksââ?¬â?is migrating to uPortal, the university announced Wednesday. The vendor for the project, Arizona-based Unicon, was also announced.
In 1992, the fledgling non-profit group Rock the Vote seemed to have reached its goal ââ?¬â? to make it cool to vote. ââ?¬Å?With MTV having the ââ?¬Ë?Rock the Vote’ thing, I think it made it trendy,ââ?¬Â a Cal State-Fullerton student told the Orange County Register. That November, youth turnout shot up for the first time in two decades.
NEW YORK ââ?¬â? The youth vote, perhaps the most elusive quarry in U.S. politics, is being Rocked, Smacked Down, Rapped and otherwise goosed by everyone from blinged-out rappers to Harvard professors to the League of Women Voters.
Valentin Jimenez, 18 and fresh out of high school, has never lived away from home. He has rarely set foot outside East Los Angeles.
Now, with a few sweaters in his suitcase and $500 in his pocket, he has left his Mexican-born parents to attend Grinnell College in Iowa.
He’s on his own for the first time. But he isn’t alone.
Jimenez is settling in the heartland with his “posse” ââ?¬â? nine other Los Angeles-area high school graduates who are venturing as a group to the leafy, elite liberal arts college nearly 2,000 miles from home. (Login required.)
The attorney representing U-W Running Back Dwayne Smith has filed motions in Dane County Court to have rape charges against his client dismissed. The motions claim prosecution witheld important information from the criminal complaint…and suggests the accuser lied during the preliminary hearing when she testified she didn’t have consensual sex with anyone during the weekend of the alleged assault. The motions say DNA proves she had sex with four men the weekend of February 22nd. Smith was scheduled to go on trial on September First, but that’s been delayed while a judge reviews the motions.
The SAT and ACT will introduce essay tests next year as part of their college entrance exams. Both tests will ask students to respond in longhand to a question, or ââ?¬Å?prompt,ââ?¬Â under a tight deadline. But the tests will differ in some significant ways, too.
The national average composite score for the ACT college entrance exam increased this year for the first time in seven years, a report released Tuesday says. But it adds that an ââ?¬Å?alarming numberââ?¬Â of 2004 graduates who took the test are unprepared for college science and math course
To date, nearly 350 colleges have told the College Board that they plan to require students to take a writing test as part of their college entrance exam.
Educators agree that a writing test is good, but what makes a good test?
The family of Jared Dion, a University of Wisconsin-La Crosse student who drowned in the Mississippi River in April, said in a legal notice that the school and the City of La Crosse contributed to his death by operating a “drunk bus” and printing tavern advertisements in the student newspaper.
MADISON, Wis. — There’s a new effort under way to regulate drink specials across Madison. The head of the city’s powerful Alcohol License Review Committee told News 3 that bar owners, city and University of Wisconsin officials will brain storm at an alcohol summit next week.
The Princeton Review’s annual survey of American college life ranks UW-Madison No. 3 among “party schools,” down one notch from last year. The leader of a campus project aimed at stopping binge drinking at UW criticized the rankings, saying they trivialize the problem.
This chart compares numbers of high school graduates from the classes of 1998 and 2003 who took the SAT and the ACT.
The State University of New York at Albany is the number one “party school” in the nation, according to an annual survey by Princeton Review Inc., which used statistics from student questionnaires gathered from 357 institutions to rank colleges in a number of categories. (Subscription required.)
Like many people, Nancy Heiss had a romanticized view of love: the Hollywood-fed view in which people fall in love at first sight, experience unwavering passion and live happily ever after. But after taking a class on divorce culture at New York’s Binghamton University, Heiss, a recent graduate who is in a relationship, says she has more realistic expectations: ââ?¬Å?I look at relationships more critically.ââ?¬Â
Most admissions experts say the SAT and ACT are equally helpful (or harmful, in the case of some testing critics) in predicting an applicant’s success as a first-year college student. But the tests aren’t the same. Here’s a look at how the two compare. The new SAT makes its debut in March; the ACT optional writing section will first be offered in February
UW officials are downplaying a new list that claims that the university is the third-best party school in the nation.
Like any bright teenager in suburban Washington, D.C., Michelle Morris took the SAT. Her 1400 score would impress many of the nation’s most elite universities. So instead of retaking the test to try to boost her score, as about half of all SAT takers do, she tried the other college entrance exam: the ACT.
Students in the University of Wisconsin System could see a break from double-digit tuition increases under a two-year plan the UW Board of Regents will consider Thursday.
RACINE – Brent Moss disputed the police version of his Wednesday night arrest for possession of cocaine, saying he didn’t have any cocaine and he didn’t resist arrest. The former University of Wisconsin Badger football star also said police never read him his rights, beat him unnecessarily, talked of shooting him, spat on him and called him names.
MADISON, Wis. – Junior University of Wisconsin cornerback Brett Bell spent a night in jail for violating his probation.
Erin Hetzel bleeds the University of Wisconsin’s red and white.
The Avon High School co-valedictorian, born in Milwaukee, dreamed of being a Badger.
Then she did the math: Wisconsin offered no scholarships and cost $13,000 more a year in tuition and fees than Indiana University, her second choice.
The underdog school won out. Hetzel, 18, will remain a Hoosier.
Black and Hispanic students are more likely to finish college if they attend a relatively selective institution — even if that means they are surrounded by better-prepared students — than if they attend a nonselective college, according to results of a study presented here Saturday at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association. (Subscription required.)
Madison – The lawyer representing University of Wisconsin junior tailback Dwayne Smith has filed two motions seeking the dismissal of a second-degree sexual assault charge against his client.
UW-Madison’s PEOPLE program is $250,000 richer after a gift from the SBC Foundation this week.
One of the biggest trash days of the year in Madison falls on a Sunday this year, but city garbage haulers probably will keep it a day of rest.
Madison police knew Audrey Seiler had lied to them and that she bought her “abduction kit” from Target before she was reported missing but still released a sketch of her supposed abductor on April 1, the day after she was found in a South Side marsh.
Andrea LeClair and other UW-Madison students can tell stories of vagrants, drunks and predators invading unsecured entries and basements of their campus-area apartments.
Police released a sketch of Audrey Seiler’s supposed abductor despite having strong reservations about her story.
BEIJING – Fluent in English and armed with an MBA from the University of Wisconsin, Mr Kevin Wang returned here after four years abroad, confident that his foreign degree would pay instant dividends in China’s booming economy.
MADISON, WIS. — Even offstage, Jamie Marie Waelchli is Audrey Seiler: shy, vulnerable, unsure of either today or tomorrow.
Tech firms might be rebounding from the dot-com bust, but enrollment in college computer programs keeps falling.
TEMPE, Ariz. — Come fall, tour guides here will have software for brains. It’s not quite a scene from I, Robot, but Arizona State University is providing an alternative to standard tour guides on its 700-acre desert campus: handheld GPS-assisted tours that use satellite-guided technology to help prospective students and their families find their way around.
A mock trial was the highlight of a seven-week law internship for 11 black and Hispanic high school seniors from Milwaukee in the PEOPLE program, which they began the summer after their freshman year.
Like many seniors, Jonathan Jacobson said the pressure to blow off his final year was strong. He had worked his tail off at Deerfield High School and was accepted early to attend the University of Illinois.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Pennsylvania law banning paid advertisements for alcohol in college newspapers is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.
With many other polls showing Bush and Kerry neck and neck in the overall race, factors such as youth turnout could play a critical factor in the outcome of the election
(MADISON) Tonight is opening night for ââ?¬Å?Audrey Seiler, Where Are You,ââ?¬Â a play dramatizing the story of a UW-Madison student who faked her own abduction. (Second item.)
(MADISON) — 18ââ?¬â??yearââ?¬â??old Kalin Bornemann of Antigo is still in the hospital Friday after a moped accident with a car on Wednesday. But the fact that he’s alive is worth celebrating.
A group of UW-Madison students plans to travel to New York to protest at the Republican National Convention. The trip is being organized by the Student Labor Action Coalition, which has reserved three buses with a capacity of 165 for the trip.
Today’s college students rely on laptop computers and other gadgets as much as their trusty No. 2 pencils. But smart shopping can keep high tech from being high cost.
Clarissa Chin, the youngest of three sisters from Queens, N.Y., and the last to enter college, says she feels guilty that her parents have to ”shell out all this dough.”
Years ago, college students could stuff all their worldly possessions in a duffle bag. Today, many arrive on campus with laptops, stereo equipment and televisions worth thousands of dollars.
Credit cards are a fact of life for college students. More than half of college freshmen, 54%, carried a credit card in 2001, according to the most recent Nellie Mae study of undergraduate card usage.
