Category: Campus life

UW instituted a pass/fail option in the Spring 2020 semester, but has not done so this semester.

Greek life organizations come together to aid Koats for Kids drive, bolster student volunteer efforts.

’I hope that [DREAMers of UW-Madison] is not at all discouraged from applying in the future,’ SSFC Rep says.

Alex Plum, a University of Wisconsin-Madison senior, was among the finalists for the prestigious 2021 Rhodes Scholarship.

Black students believe rock is symbol of injustice students of color face on campus daily, Wisconsin Black Student Union says.

“This is a huge accomplishment for us,” McWhorter told the State Journal on Wednesday. “We won’t have that constant reminder, that symbol that we don’t belong here.”

Second testing site provides more testing opportunities for students before traveling over the holidays.

In the video posted on Facebook, the nuns stand in front of the group of University of Wisconsin students and dance while holding up the “W” symbol.

The testing site will open on Wednesday, Nov. 18 and provide testing until Dec. 23, according to a press release from the university sent Tuesday. The sites offer Abbott BinaxNOW antigen tests that provide results in as little as 15 minutes.

This will be the second rapid antigen test site on the UW Madison campus.

The new site, which is exclusively open to UW-Madison students and employees, will run from Nov. 18 to Dec. 23. The announcement comes a week after university officials opened a rapid testing site at Nielsen Tennis Stadium. Testing at the Nielsen testing site is open to the public.

“If there is diversity training, I would like to see who offers that diversity training and whether they have evaluated the kind of training they offer and whether that meets the desired outcome,” Brauer said. “Some kinds of diversity training make things worse, and actually deteriorates relationships between groups, so the blanket statement that UW needs more diversity training is one that I would not support or subscribe to.”

ASM also endorses letter from students to Big Ten administration asking UW schools to be more cooperative amidst pandemic.

Bell Magazine editor-in-chief Kehoe said she and her co-authors left their sororities, but believed they needed take further action to make others aware of perceived injustices within predominately white Greek life.

“If you want to create change, do you work within the system and acquiesce to what they want … or do you just say ‘you know screw it, this whole system is corrupt as hell, let’s just create a new one?’” Mitnick said.

These rapid antigen tests, created by Abbott BinaxNOW, process results in as short as 15 minutes after collection.

Despite the county-wide health order, Public Health does not have the authority to shut down university activities. UW-Madison will continue with in-person classes until Thanksgiving break, after which all instruction will switch to virtual-only.

A lot has changed on campus this year due to the ongoing pandemic. The vast majority of classes are held virtually, residence halls have serious restrictions and there are little-to-no activities going on across campus. Student employment, though, is something that has remained a relative constant despite changes in specifics due to the nature of the pandemic.

Over the course of two weeks, the university’s seven-day average positivity rate has more than doubled, including 100 students currently in quarantine or isolation, according to UHS Executive Director Jake Baggott. While UW increased its testing efforts, particularly in residence halls, Baggot called on students to help the university control the spread of the virus by adhering to social distancing protocols and restricting their activities.

Thanksgiving break has traditionally been a time to spend with family and friends, to prepare for finals and the end of the fall semester. This year will be different due to Covid-19.

In a message sent to all UW-Madison students Wednesday, the Executive Director of University Health Services, Jake Baggott, says the campus community’s positivity rate has stayed below the county and state level for weeks, after experiencing a spike when students started the fall semester.

The university strongly urged students to consider whether they actually need to be in Madison after Thanksgiving Break.

’Where there isn’t aggressive testing at the University, then things could get out of control,’ Alagoz says

Lecturer employed only through fixed-term terminal appointments, renewed on semester or yearly basis.

Badger Catholic requested an increased budget for several of their core programs amid other cuts.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison released a guideline Thursday morning to students on how to plan for Thanksgiving and beyond. The university says beginning November 30th in-person group instruction, including finals, will be fully remote. For students who wish to travel outside of the state, the university recommends that students stay home to complete the rest of the semester online.

The colors were to honor and recognize the men and women who have fought for our country on Veterans Day.

“We’ve been expressing concern for several weeks now, along with local and state leaders, about the continuing spike in COVID-19 cases in Dane County and throughout Wisconsin,” Director of News and Media Relations Meredith McGlone said of the ongoing spike in campus cases. “It is unfortunately not surprising that we are also seeing an increase in positivity rates on campus, although our rates continue to be below the surrounding community.”

Three UW–Madison student National Guard members are featured in this Veterans Day story

The Black Voice’s budget was approved after the commitee made amendements to reduce the budget to 2%.

UW-Madison mandated testing for all residents of Witte and Sellery Halls on Monday, Nov. 9 amid rising positivity rates across campus.

Despite expanded testing efforts and increased enforcement of local public health guidelines, for weeks the UW-Madison campus has seen a steady increase in the number of reported positive COVID-19 cases.

University of Wisconsin-Madison officials plan to expand COVID-19 testing for students and staff in the spring semester as they prepare for another semester of hybrid instruction amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

UW will partner with Shield T3, a subsidiary of the University of Illinois System, to provide more frequent and regular testing for all students and employees on campus.

In a long-awaited and altogether tense meeting Wednesday night, the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) Coalition has reached an agreement to meet with Chancellor Rebecca Blank at least twice a semester, with expectations to consult with other university administrators in between these meetings, in order to make progress on their demands.

’We would like for our executive board members to be paid for their work and time,’ The Black Voice representative says.

The UW has partnered with Shield T3, a research initiative at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, aimed to advance COVID-19 testing efforts by developing a saliva-based PCR diagnostic test. This saliva-based test is estimated to provide an additional 10,000 tests per day as needed.

At least 13 residences near the UW-Madison campus are under investigation for violating public health guidelines over Halloween weekend as the number of COVID-19 cases continues to rise in Wisconsin.

’There has never been a more important time to support UW–Madison,’ Chancellor Blank says.

The UW-Madison Morgridge Center for Public Service’s BadgersVote initiative aims to educate and assist students in preparation for elections. Recent campaigns and events — such as Zoom the Vote sessions and Virtual Voting Office Hours — uphold the BadgersVote mission “to drive student civic and voter engagement.”

Madison residents living in 13 wards with high concentrations of UW-Madison students cast 13,759 ballots at their local polling places, a 31 percent decrease in votes cast in those same districts during the 2016 presidential election. Votes from the five wards that encompass the university’s residence halls and Eagle Heights graduate student neighborhood totaled 2,526 — less than half of the 5,692 from four years ago.

A day after lines at the Madison COVID-19 testing center stretched more than two hours long, the city’s health department is investigating several large gatherings over the Halloween weekend.