Category: Campus life

igma Alpha Epsilon hosted its fifth annual boot hockey tournament and raised $15,000 for a local non-profit, Lily’s Fund.

Students from the Lakeshore and Southeast sides of campus played against each other for the chance to win over Bascom hill.

With Bascom Hall as their backdrop and braving cold weather conditions, UW-Madison students held a peaceful protest Thursday calling for the university to divest from fossil fuels.

Organizations like CLEAN, WSCAC said they will continue to protest until UW divests from fossil fuel industry.

The student organization was started ub 2017 by Hayden DePorter, with goals of addressing food insecurity and waste.

Get pumped because Bill Nye, who you should all know as the Science Guy, is coming to UW-Madison April 21.

The science educator, mechanical engineer and author will lead a conversation about one of the most pressing issues of our time: climate change.

Program consists of three semesters, with last semester internship during summer.

According to the UW-Madison’s website, Nye will lead a discussion with students and the public, called “LET’S TALK CLIMATE CHANGE: A CONVERSATION WITH BILL NYE.”

The program, “Let’s talk climate change, A conversation with Bill Nye,” is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. April 21 at the Shannon Hall in University of Wisconsin Memorial Union.

SSFC then heard from UW’s UHS Executive Director Jake Baggott, who proposed a series of expansions to the organization, including efforts to improve the physical structure of its current location.

The Statue of Liberty is up to her head in frozen water in Wisconsin. Or so it appears on Lake Mendota.

A group of University of Wisconsin faculty and community members created “Our Shared Future,” a heritage marker, to educate UW and its surrounding community about the Ho-Chunk people and their history with the university.

Master of Public Affairs student Jessica Rutstein completed a report analyzing student food insecurity and current efforts to remedy it.

Megan Phelps-Roper found kindness and acceptance on Twitter despite Westboro’s radical views.

Fraught relations between administration, campus, Greek life has storied history.

More than 3,500 students from China are enrolled at UW Madison this semester. For them, the health of their friends and family back home is top of mind.

RecWell Interim Director Mick Miyamoto and Associate Director of Member Experience Sadat Khan discussed several upcoming RecWell projects and their fiscal goals.

On Feb. 10, the absentee voting locations will expand to include Edgewood College, Madison Area Technical College’s Truax and South Goodman campuses, Union South, UW Memorial Union, the UW-Madison Student Activity Center, and the UW-Madison Health Services Learning Center.

Spore, the only woman to try out for the role last year, follows in high-stepping footsteps: The band added its first female members in 1974 and its first female drum major in 1989.

Each year, UW-Madison students who lived in the dorms at the university forget to update their mailing addresses or forward their mail when they move out.

The window for eighth-grade students to apply for the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Precollege Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence, known as PEOPLE, a high school precollege preparation and scholarship program is now open.

“2020 feels worse, as far as regards to the safety of Jewish people, than it did in 2010,” Head of Chabad House Rabbi Mendel said.

Change welcome for Teaching Assistant’s union, further changes still desired.

Sustainability Chair Sanauz Alaei discussed the sustainability topics brought up at the conference. “We want to have a network between our schools and to encourage Big 10 universities to freeze investments in fossil fuels to promote sustainability,” Alaei said.

Camp Kesem is a student organization on campus that provides children, ages six through 18, whose parents have or had cancer with resources and support; their flagship program sends those children to a week of free summer camp where they make connections with other campers in similar situations.

The Office of Child Care and Family Resources presented their budget proposal for their Child Care Tuition Assistance Program to the Student Services Finance Committee on Monday night.

From January 13th until 31st, students picking up their spring semester bus passes from the Student Activities Center or Union South will also have the opportunity to register to vote at the same location.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison hired more new faculty this year than it has in the last 15 years, and has seen a decrease in the number of faculty leaving for other universities, according to a blog post by UW Chancellor Rebecca Blank.

In addition, the delivery service will now accept Wiscard as a payment method, which allows students to get discounted residence pricing on their deliveries and pay using their university meal plans.

Thursday, the Student Services Finance Committee heard a budget proposal for the UW student led radio station, WSUM.

Hosted by UW-Student Affairs, the Division of Diversity, Equity and Educational Achievement and the Morgridge Center for Public Service, Jemison’s lecture filled Union South’s Varsity Hall to the brim.

With less than a month to go before the Feb. 18 Wisconsin Supreme Court primary and three months before the April 7 presidential primary, students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are preparing to cast their ballots, a process that has become more confusing in recent years.

“When I was a little kid, this all started with looking up. I remember looking up at the sky and wondering what children on the other side of the world saw,” Jemison said. “It was something that connected me. And “look up” is one of those words that always brings us hope. I think very much that connects us with Dr. King.”

Noted: Madison officials also work with the University of Wisconsin-Madison to recruit college students — in friendly competition with the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, which had the highest voter turnout in the midterms of the largest public universities in the nation.

When she was 8 years old, Mae Jemison looked to the world’s first astronauts venturing into space and asked: “What happens if the aliens only see these guys and they think that everybody on Earth is a buzz-cut-haired white male?”

Decades later, Jemison would remedy that quandary on her own by becoming the first woman of color to go to space.

Greeted by a standing ovation, Jemison may be considered a living legend. Not only a former NASA astronaut, Jemison is also a physician, engineer and doctor.