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.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Young teens who begin a habit of binge drinking face an increased risk of poor health as young adults, study findings suggest.
Briel Moore started writing in elementary school, scribbling fantasy stories in her notebooks. This weekend she has come to Carleton College to prepare for a world that once seemed like a fiction to her. (Subscription required.)
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.
Last winter, when some graduate business students at the University of Maryland at College Park accused classmates of cheating on a midterm exam, a group of professors decided to take matters into their own hands. (Subscription required.)
The 20-year-old rising senior at the University of Wisconsin is on her way to Athens.
The maximum Pell Grant award would remain level, and the budget of the National Institutes of Health would rise slightly, under a spending proposal for the 2005 fiscal year approved on Thursday by an appropriations subcommittee of the House of Representatives. (Subscription required.)
MADISON, Wis. — Madison police said they’ve found a similarity in a recent string of stranger sexual assaults
The Wisconsin Aquatics swim club has sent 11 members to the trials, including seven current University of Wisconsin swimmers, three recent UW graduates and one Madison native.
The University of Wisconsin-Superior will launch its first comprehensive fund-raising campaign this month
Over the objections of downtown landlord Steve Brown and the Apartment Association of South Central Wisconsin, the City Council approved rezoning property in the 100 block of North Park Street for a large-scale UW-Madison dormitory.
Madison police believe they have found two rapists who struck fear in the city with a series of random and brutal assaults.
A 22-year-old man was staggering while walking north on Copeland Avenue at 1:30 a.m. April 27.
A La Crosse police officer stopped the man, who said he was on his way home to Angell Hall on the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse campus.
He was obviously walking in the wrong direction.
Jordan Wood, a fifth-year senior at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, tells incoming freshmen he drank in high school and came to UW-L with every intention to drink.
Two things stood out in Tribune reporter Terry Rindfleisch’s story Sunday about binge drinking.
First were the anecdotes from very drunk students trying to get home but going in wrong directions.
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.)
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security released final regulations on Thursday covering a $100 fee it will levy on most foreign students and scholars tracked by the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System. (Subscription 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
About 900 middle- and high-school students are not only taking band, orchestra, jazz ensemble and choir at the UW-Madison Summer Music Clinic, they’re taking special classes on dance, John Philip Sousa, famous jazz musicians and humor in music
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
The UW-Madison Office of Corporate Relations has created a new Web site that aims to help companies identify potential interns and employees at Wisconsin’s universities and colleges.
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
These days, students want their MTV on their PC’s. Many students living in dormitories at Northwestern University, for instance, do not have a television set, opting instead to use their desktop or laptop computers to see their favorite shows. (Subscription required.)
At Greenwich Country Day, a prestigious Connecticut private school, computers have all but replaced pencil and paper. Typing instruction starts in second grade, and laptops are mandatory by seventh. Essays are typed, and often class notes are, too.
Accounting students know the ramifications of taking on debt. But they also know that without debt, an eventual gain in overall earnings might be impossible.
High-school seniors waiting for acceptance letters from colleges may think that admissions officials have all the power in the world. Yet those gatekeepers have never felt less in control of the final outcome of the admissions process than they do now. (Subscription required.)
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.
Higher-education lobbyists have decided not to ask the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to let colleges collect a $100 fee from foreign students to finance a federal database that tracks them. (Subscription required.)
(AP) — One year ago this week, supporters of affirmative action cheered as the U.S. Supreme Court upheld factoring race into college admissions.
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.
