Category: Campus life

According to Broom Street director Dana Pellebon, John Sable watched the Seiler story unfold in the news and recognized the makings of good theater.

Steven Singh, a first-year medical student at the UW-Madison and former chairman of the College Democrats of Wisconsin, has been politically active on the local and state level of Wisconsin government for several years, which led to his chance to become a delegate.

There’s new information from a weekend sexual assault in downtown Madison. Police say the victim, a 21-year-old white woman, recieved three cuts on her arm, leading them to believe that the rapist may have had a weapon. The man remains at large.

MADISON, Wis. — Owners of the Regent Street Retreat wanted the Alcohol License Review Committee to relax the restrictions on its liquor license. However, in light of the shooting this weekend at the bar, the committee said it needs more time.

A play called, “Audrey Seiler, Where Are You?” opens on July 30 at the Broom Street Theater.

MADSION, Wis. — The city of Madison is examining whether landlords ought to be required to install locks on the main doors of their properties, following an alleged attack and sexual assaul

The murders of two University of North Carolina-Wilmington students, allegedly by two other students with criminal records, have universities all over the nation debating campus safety and the possibility of instituting criminal background checks for their students.

MADISON, Wis. — Madison police said they’ve found a similarity in a recent string of stranger sexual assaults

The University of Wisconsin-Superior will launch its first comprehensive fund-raising campaign this month

Madison police believe they have found two rapists who struck fear in the city with a series of random and brutal assaults.

Amid controversy and criticism of the UW-Madison’s ability to foster diversity on campus, seven new freshmen will quietly enroll this fall. All of them have just finished four years of intensive computer and academic training and they are all either minority or low-income students.

The judge and prosecutors must have viewed Audrey Seiler’s lies to police as a desperate tale from a troubled young woman, not a premeditated, deliberate criminal act, legal experts concluded Thursday. (Reg. required.)

By Ed Treleven

Audrey Seiler was battling depression long before she arrived as a student at UW-Madison, and she continues to battle it to this day.

That depression, brought on by the death of a favorite aunt, caused the 20-year-old sophomore to lose touch with reality and, with time, prompted her to slip away from her apartment early March 27 to think things through, her attorney said.

Madison – The college student whose faked abduction led to a massive manhunt shown live around the nation avoided jail Thursday by pleading guilty to two misdemeanors and accepting a sentence of three years’ probation.

Madison residents have mixed reactions about Audrey Seiler’s sentence

Audrey Seiler, the UW sophomore who faked her own abduction, will serve no jail time for her hoax.

MADISON, Wis. — The UW student who faked her abduction and disappearance has been sentenced to three years probation and restitution to the Madison Police Department. She must also continue to seek mental health help

MADISON, Wis. — Madison is preparing for a media circus downtown at the courthouse Thursday when the University of Wisconsin student who is accused of faking her abduction and disappearance is expected in court

George Mason University here used to be a “safety school” for Northern Virginia’s high-school students, an institution they felt they could count on to offer them a spot if they failed to make the cut for admission to the University of Virginia or other prestigious state colleges. (Subscription required.)

COLUMBIA, Missouri (CNN) — The Iraq war, jobs and the economy have overshadowed the contentious issue of the Patriot Act during this year’s presidential election, but it has not been completely overlooked by activists on the University of Missouri campus.

Binge drinking in La Crosse is rooted in Wisconsin’s culture of alcohol, several members of a new city advisory task force.

OSHKOSH, Wis. – Physician Tina Sauerhammer’s reign as Miss Wisconsin ends Saturday night, but not her dedication to a medical issue close to her heart.

With only some minor concerns about parking for mopeds, the Plan Commission has given the thumbs up to the largest student housing project in 40 years on the UW-Madison campus.