Category: Campus life

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.

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.)

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.)

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.

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.

(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.

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.