Category: Campus life

Classes at UW-Madison will start Wednesday, but some students think they’ll be sent home soon. “I’d give it a month, maximum,” sophomore Daniel Sendelbach said Tuesday afternoon.

There are a few rules that every student is expected to follow. Firstly, every resident will be tested every two weeks. UW-Madison Housing Dir. Of Communications Brendon Dybdahl said everyone living in a dormitory on campus was tested for COVID-19 on move-in day.

“I keep telling myself that even if she is there for a few weeks, she’ll meet a few people to be in touch with throughout the semester,” says Elizabeth Rozen Silver, an office manager from Connecticut, whose daughter is going to University of Wisconsin-Madison. “At least that way, she may have some sort of community. I’m trying hard to be optimistic, but everyday the news from other colleges is getting harder. I am not going to sleep well for however long it lasts.”

UW-Madison students are calling on the university for a “moral restart.”

Design studies professor Wei Dong turns home basement into a teaching studio.

The First Amendment retaliation suit by an outspoken University of Wisconsin-Madison student who was told he didn’t qualify for a position on a temporary student-government board was properly dismissed on qualified immunity grounds, the Seventh Circuit said.

Students who just moved in are watching as history plays out from their front porches.

It’s the first official day of fall move-ins at UW-Madison, and like everything amid the pandemic, that process is looking much different.

The university says costs to deliver instruction increased during the pandemic.

Additionally, LINK organizers demanded UW remove the Abraham Lincoln statue on Bascom Hill and Chamberlin Rock from campus, and that UW have a ‘moral restart’ instead of Smart Restart reopening plan for the semester.

Previously organized protest gained numbers after Kenosha man was shot seven times by police.

In anticipation of students returning to the classroom on Sept. 2, University of Wisconsin–Madison staff members are preparing campus with increased safety in mind.

It was 50 years ago, but Bob Shaffer hasn’t forgotten. It’s not something anyone who lived through could forget.

UW-Madison students are beginning to return to campus, and campus leaders are addressing how they are restarting the school year.

Protesters from the TAA gathered at Engineering Mall yesterday evening to protest the UW Smart Restart plan for the fall semester amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The crowd of around 30 people started the protest by stating their concerns about spreading the virus to the broader Madison community.

University of Wisconsin- Madison announced Thursday it will not require undergraduate applicants to send their standardized test scores as an admission requirement for the next two years.

Buried under rubble for three hours, he somehow survived.

Madison365 talked to some of the students who are returning to campus to learn their perspective on how they feel about the ‘Smart Restart’ plan. They were randomly chosen students and have suggested that UW-Madison should reconsider its reopening plan by either making the campus, dorms and classrooms safer for students and workers, or moving classes entirely online.

Starting Sunday, service will increase by about 300 bus hours a day, from 700 to approximately 1,000, not including UW-Madison campus circulators or service for the Madison School District, Metro spokesman Mick Rusch said. The pre-COVID-19 level was about 1,300 bus hours a day. The increased service levels are expected to match current staffing levels and minimize overtime.

Students say they’ve been seeing a lack of social distancing and a disregard of public health guidelines as many start to move back in to student housing.

Spurred on by widespread civil unrest in wake of George Floyd’s death, Madison activists organize to raise awareness, force changes to campus.

New policy follows guidelines set in place by Smart Restart, CDC, PHMDC.

Lauryn Azu is a WDET intern who’s headed back to University of Wisconsin-Madison. She echoes those thoughts and says she hopes the university will be able to provide free testing for students. “I’m just hoping for the best and hoping people have sense, and hoping that they’re going to ramp up the testing that they’ve already started to organize for students that is completely free. So hopefully people are going to take advantage of that so they at least know their status when they’re going out in the world and doing whatever.”

A group of UW-Madison staff members are demanding what they call “a moral restart” amid the pandemic.

Starting Saturday, students living in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Illinois can drop off their stuff in dorms ahead of move in, which is not until the end of August.

The Friday protest was organized by United Faculty and Academic Staff (UFAS), the Teaching Assistants Association (TAA), AFSCME Local 171, and AFSCME Local 2412.