Category: Campus life

Whether Flip Night will continue as a staple of the Madison social scene is up in the air. And the days of cheap Jack and Cokes might be limited.

Although months away, Halloween is already a hot topic.

The Associated Students of Madison led a proposal to allow a live band to perform longer and to keep bars and restaurants open later during this year�s Halloween party.

It�s 10:42 p.m. on a Wednesday evening, one week before classes begin at the University of Wisconsin.

Tim Kong, a UW junior, is headed out with friends to the Madison bars for a night of drinking and partying.

Student falls from 2nd story balcony
For one University of Wisconsin freshman, the excitement of his first weekend living away from home ended in disaster.

As of Tuesday afternoon, 18-year-old Witte resident Jason Gratzl was listed in critical condition at UW Hospital after falling from a second-floor balcony late Saturday night. He was attending a party at 453 W. Mifflin St.

In light of recent summer assaults, two city officials are pushing a proposal that would require landlords to have exterior locks on all buildings with more than two apartments

The former president of the University of Wisconsin chapter of the Black Student Union was charged with theft of approximately $1,400 of the student group�s funds.

UW-Madison freshman Alaina Werkhoven got off to a shaky start Tuesday, getting lost on campus on her way to the Pyle Center for the last day of fall registration.

MADISON, Wis. — An incoming University of Wisconsin freshman remains hospitalized after falling from a second-story balcony Saturday night.

Jason Gratzl, 18, of Burlington, is listed in critical condition.

That’s why Monday morning’s headline about the UW-Madison freshman badly hurt in a fall from a Mifflin Street balcony hit us so hard.

Eighteen-year-old Jason Gratzl had just finished a summer job on a Lake Geneva cruise boat and was excited about joining his older brother at UW-Madison.

Burlington – As a student at Burlington High School, Jason Gratzl, a tall boy with spiked red hair, cultivated a reputation for being a smart but zany free spirit, someone who turned public speaking engagements into magic shows and commanded attention at parties.

With the UW students back in town for their first weekend….Madison police say they had to deal with plenty of alcohol-related problems….and the director of a university project says those problems were “totally preventable.” Susan Crowley of PACE tells WIBA News her group even took extra steps to make sure students and their parents knew about the dangers of irresponsible drinking.Ã?  Crowley says the first six weeks at school are the most dangerous times for students…because for many…it is their first time away from home and being on their own.Ã?  She adds that this points out that some students aren’t making that transition in a very healthy way.Ã?  She says it’s alarming to see how students are hurting themselves and others by drinking too much.

Police say the first full weekend back for University of Wisconsin students wasn’t a pretty one.

MPD says its officers were busy responding to a slew of calls around campus, many of which they blame on excessive drinking.

A 19-year-old man is hospitalized in critical condition today after falling from a second-floor balcony during a house party Saturday night.

The signs of fall are here.

The trees are beginning to shine with the brilliant colors that help make this area a tourist destination.

Residents more frequently must shut their bedroom windows at night if they want to stay warm.

And the college students have started to arrive.

They complain about the small rooms. And how it stinks. Oh yeah, and then there are the cockroaches.
But all this week — just as they have for the past 39 years — people have been standing in line to get IN the place.

MADISON, Wis. — Police are looking for two men who allegedly attacked a woman in downtown Madison early Sunday.

An incoming UW-Madison freshman about to begin fall semester classes was critically injured in a fall from a balcony Saturday night.

Madison – A 19-year-old University of Wisconsin student who fell from a second-floor balcony this weekend remained in a hospital Sunday evening with serious injuries, police said.

Nicole Spranger of Greenville says she’s excited to start her college education, even as she says goodbye to her parents, who have returned to their northern Wisconsin home. (8/27/04 Capital Times)

MADISON, Wis. — A recommendation to consider banning late night drink specials in Madison bars is now on hold.

The Alcohol License and Review Committee listened to hours of testimony from bar owners who oppose any type of restriction. The ban is being discussed because the University of Wisconsin’s P.A.C.E. program, which stands for Policy Alternative Community Education, said it would help curb high-risk drinking downtown near campus. owners d

The mother of Emily Egen Smith, a 22-year-old UW-Madison senior who was enjured in China when a car crashed through a cafe, will be joining her daughter during her recovery. They hope to come home by Aug. 30.

Chris Heinz, stepson of John Kerry, was on the UW-Madison campus Monday seeking student support for Kerry.

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.

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.

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.

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.� My UW Madison�the portal used by University of Wisconsin-Madison students, staff and faculty for online organizational and scheduling tasks�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 � 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.)