The former head of General Electric Capital and Conseco Inc. has given $2 million to increase access for students across the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus who are interested in business.
Despite a tragedy in which a Metro Transit bus struck and killed a pedestrian on June 22, Madison?s bus system has an improving safety record amid rising ridership, city records show. Metro had 72 crashes in which the bus driver was at least partially at fault in 2010, the lowest sum in at least seven years.
….In the first five months of 2011, Metro has had 36 crashes. The sum doesn’t include the June 22 accident when Maureen E. Grant, 58, of New Glarus, was struck by a bus on University Avenue near UW-Madison.
A federal grand jury has indicted a former University of Wisconsin-Madison student on one count of sharing child pornography computer files. According to court documents, an FBI agent in Los Angeles logged onto a file-sharing site in August 2010 and downloaded nearly 160 images linked to a computer in 23-year-old Matthew Hendrickson?s UW-Madison dorm room.
Madison police said they are investigating a rash of muggings across the city.
Got a cause to promote? A political axe to grind? It soon may be easier to have your say if the city of Madison changes its ordinances to facilitate, rather than restrict, the distribution of literature on city streets.
When Dennis Shields arrived on the UW-Platteville campus as the new chancellor last year, he immediately recognized a need for more student housing. But he knew that if he went through the normal channels to build a dorm ? which involves a gauntlet of state and university approvals ? the project could be delayed for several years. So instead, he looked for alternatives, eventually settling on a partnership with the UW-Platteville Foundation that put the project in private hands. Partnering with a private organization is a method University of Wisconsin System chancellors may look to more as a way to build campus housing quickly without having to tiptoe through the state approval process, which can take a year or more.
The Metro Transit driver who was driving the bus that struck and killed a pedestrian last week has been cited by Madison Police for failure to yield to a pedestrian. District Attorney Ismael Ozanne said the citation given to Debra Foster, 52, of Madison, was made by the police department, which has given his office the reports and video used in the investigation.
It sure is nice to have a bench of former chancellors so deep that we can just pluck one from the list of globally respected education leaders to fill the temporary void on the Madison campus.
Following a string of burglaries Saturday morning at downtown apartments, Madison police are urging residents to make sure their doors and windows are secure to prevent becoming the next victim. The close to half-dozen burglaries had common threads: unlocked doors for entry, and laptop computers the target items.
Braveheart, the emaciated mutt found in a commercial trash bin in Kentucky with mange and worms and covered with sores, is now strong and healthy and virtually unrecognizable after being treated at the UW Veterinary Care Small Animal Hospital and finding a loving home.
UW System will no longer deduct membership fees from the paychecks of employees who are part of membership organizations such as the UW-Madison faculty group PROFS, or the academic staff group ASPRO. Some UW-Madison faculty said they were surprised by UW System?s decision to end the longtime practice.
MADISON, Wis. — The Madison Metro bus driver who was involved in a fatal crash that killed a pedestrian on Wednesday had received an award for safe driving in 2010.
The Wisconsin Alumni Association unveiled the secret ingredients of Babcock Hall Dairy?s new flavor, Mad Grad Medley, at a birthday party to commemorate its 150th anniversary. Bucky Badger and football great Ron Dayne delivered the first tastes of Mad Grad Medley — a Door County cherry-infused vanilla ice cream whipped with chocolate chips and topped with chocolate flakes — to the June 23 party on Alumni Pier, just east of the Memorial Union Terrace.
Longtime UW-Madison library employee Maureen E. Grant, 58, of New Glarus, was identified Thursday as the pedestrian killed when struck by a Metro Transit bus on campus Wednesday morning. Grant was on her way to work at Memorial Library, walking across busy University Avenue in a crosswalk at around 9 a.m. A makeshift memorial of flowers now marks the corner where police say the bus hit her as the driver tried to make a left turn from North Lake Street onto University Avenue. The bus was driven by Debra Foster, a two-year employee of Metro Transit, according to information released by the city of Madison on Thursday afternoon. Metro Transit said it will not release more information about Foster due to its ongoing investigation.
The woman struck and killed by a Metro Transit bus on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus was a longtime university library employee. The Dane County medical examiner?s office identifies the victim as 58-year-old Maureen Grant of New Glarus. The Wisconsin State Journal reports Grant was walking to work at Memorial Library on Wednesday morning when police say she was struck by the bus turning left. Grant was in the crosswalk and had a walk signal.
A long-time UW-Madison library system employee, Maureen E. Grant, 58, of New Glarus, was identified Thursday as the pedestrian killed when struck by a bus on campus Wednesday morning. An email sent to employees of the library system Wednesday alerted co-workers of the death. Grant is listed as an employee of the Central Technical Services department in the general library division of the university, working at Memorial Library.
A woman struck by a Metro Transit bus Wednesday morning on the UW-Madison campus has died, according to the Dane County Medical Examiner?s Office. The woman was walking north across University Avenue in a crosswalk shortly before 9 a.m. and had a walk signal when she was hit by the bus turning left from Lake Street, the Madison Police Department said. The woman, whose name is not being released pending notification of relatives, was taken to UW Hospital.
A woman has died after being struck by a Madison Metro bus on Wednesday morning in downtown Madison.
MADISON, Wis. — A woman has died after being struck by a Madison Metro bus on Wednesday morning in downtown Madison. The incident apparently occurred at about 8:54 a.m. when a woman was walking in a cross walk northbound on University Avenue. She was in the crosswalk and had a walk light when she was hit by the bus, which was turning left onto University Avenue from Lake Street, according to Madison police.
Authorities with the aid of hydraulic emergency equipment removed an injured female pedestrian from beneath a Madison Metro Transit bus at University Avenue and Lake Street at about 9 a.m., Madison Fire Department officials confirmed. The injured woman was taken to the UW Hospital and traffic was snarled Downtown while the rescue operation was underway.
Investigative journalist Scott Carney doesn?t sugarcoat his findings. When asked if anything surprised him while researching his book, ?The Red Market,? he replied, ?The depth of human depravity knows no bounds.? In a book that explores the global trade and sale of human body parts, that sort of attitude shouldn?t raise any eyebrows. Carney, who completed his master?s in anthropology from UW-Madison in 2004, worked as a journalist in Madison (including a stint writing for the Wisconsin State Journal) until 2006, when he moved to India.
Lost in all of the budget rhetoric this week was a bit of good news for public employees. Tucked away in the final version of the state?s 2011-2013 spending plan is a provision that will allow state and local employees to save hundreds of dollars a year by making “pre-tax” contributions to their retirement funds.
The Senate debate over Gov. Scott Walker?s budget Thursday was delayed for about 90 minutes after two protesters locked themselves to railings in the Senate gallery with U-shaped bicycle locks. Officials had to call in police from UW-Madison to get a special tool to cut the locks, which French and O?Brien locked around their necks.
Robert Alvarez selectively picks his facts to present a very distorted view of both nuclear power and the accident at Fukushima (“Guest view: Time to rethink nuclear power, disposal of fuel,” June 11).
The Legislature will write Gov. Scott Walker?s frozen limits on collective bargaining into the state budget Tuesday if the state Supreme Court hasn?t restored them by then, the leader of the state Assembly said Monday.
Eight local organizations are joining forces to make summer more fun and educational for kids and more organized for their adults. And they have an agenda. Dubbed ?the FUN Agenda,? the organizations ? which include the Madison Children?s Museum, Monona Terrace, and the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art ? are issuing a summer activity calendar for local kids. The calendar features entertainment, hands-on activities and learning opportunities for kids and their families. Programming includes concerts, movies and presentations, workshops and interactive exhibits. The other participating organizations include the UW-Madison Geology Museum, the Wisconsin Historical Museum, the Madison Public Library-Central Library, UW-Madison Space Place and the Wisconsin Veteran?s Museum.
For the first time, graduation ceremonies from Madison high schools this year will be shown live online via the school district?s media portal, www.mmsd.tv….Close to 1,600 students will graduate from Madison high schools this week. Ceremonies take place at the Kohl Center.
An Australian Rules football club from Milwaukee will host a tournament Saturday at the UW-Madison fields on University Bay Drive, according to the Greater Madison Convention and Visitors Bureau.
People around the globe took notice of the Egyptian revolution earlier this year. Anna Therese Day was on the ground in Cairo following it all. A 2010 graduate of UW-Madison, Day covered the uprising ? which led to the resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Feb. 11 following more than two weeks of protests and public pressure ?as a freelance journalist for a number of media outlets.
Homeowners facing a foreclosure suit can get free help tomorrow at a walk-in legal clinic offered by sponsors including the Dane County Foreclosure Prevention Taskforce. Staffed by volunteer lawyers and UW-Madison law students, the clinics provide homeowners in foreclosure with basic legal information.
The new book “Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN” contains a fair number of references to people and events with connections to Wisconsin sports. The former chairman of ESPN, Steve Bornstein (left), is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin.
Madison police have identified the man taken into custody after he reportedly fired a gun on the porch of a Williamson Street residence Monday as Forest Shomberg, who spent six years in prison for a sexual assault a judge determined he didn?t commit. Shomberg was released from prison in November 2009 after the Wisconsin Innocence Project presented DNA and other evidence that raised doubt about his conviction for a March 8, 2002, incident in which a UW-Madison student was pulled from State Street and violently groped.
Bicyclists will be banned from riding along the dirt path that leads to Picnic Point, starting May 28. UW-Madison officials said they made the decision because people complained about reckless bikers riding too fast among pedestrians and off the designated trail.
Several European cities are making money by offering tours of their sewer systems, according to the Wall Street Journal. Because we are always looking for city-university partnerships, we could package the city sewer tour with a tour of UW-Madison?s underground steam tunnels. The labyrinth of campus tunnels was first constructed in the late 1800s. They are not open to the general public, but people have been known to explore them anyway, most famously a guy nicknamed “Tunnel Bob,” who startled students across several decades when he stuck his head – adorned with a Packers cap – out of various tunnel entrances.
SUPERIOR-A historic vote Monday at the University of Wisconsin-Superior poises the campus to be the first in the UW-Superior with a unionized academic staff.
The (Sunday May 15) paper has a full page ad by the Wisconsin Alumni Association pushing the New Badger Partnership. As a life member of the Association I am more than angry about this ad and other activities by the Association promoting this initiative.
The reconstruction of Lake Street from University Avenue north to Lake Mendota on the UW-Madison campus could cause traffic delays during peak commuter times, city officials said. The Madison Traffic Engineering Division said work is scheduled to begin Monday, May 16 on the project, with construction expected to continue until the end of August.
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay faculty members have voted overwhelmingly to form a union through the American Federation of Teachers-Wisconsin.
Elizabeth Warren, the creator and presumptive head of President Barack Obama?s controversial new consumer finance protection agency, has been invited to headline UW-Madison?s annual spring conference on housing and the economy.
A man who told police he was “just trying to impress some girls” was arrested after dumping a non-swimming canoeist into Lake Mendota off the UW-Madison Memorial Union Terrace on Tuesday afternoon, Madison police reported. Barry Richardson, 24, of Madison, was arrested for disorderly conduct, police said in a news release.
If being stuck in traffic is your idea of a good time, head down to Dayton Street this weekend. The annual UW-Madison graduation weekend, coupled with thousands of students moving out from dormitories, will cause traffic woes on Dayton Street and the surrounding area.
Tom Loftus turned to international affairs in a commencement speech Friday. Loftus, a member of the UW Board of Regents, suggested that UW institutions reconsider their increasing involvement with China because of that country?s human rights record. Loftus, a former ambassador to Norway and former speaker of the state Assembly, made the comments to graduates at UW-Richland.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has a new chancellor – and he?s a good one. The UW Board of Regents confirmed this week the appointment of Michael Lovell, who had been the interim chancellor, to the permanent post. Lovell, who came to UWM as dean of the campus? engineering school in 2008, has a deep background in university research.
When Michael Lovell was named chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee April 14, the loudest cheers came from the business community.
The University of Wisconsin Madison Cycling Club has volunteer slots left to fill for the USA Cycling Collegiate National Championships Friday through Sunday.
Michael Lovell will earn an annual salary of $330,203 as the next chancellor of UW-Milwaukee. The UW Board of Regents confirmed his appointment at a special meeting Tuesday and set his salary. Lovell, former dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science, has been serving as interim chancellor since October 2010.
Michael Lovell will earn an annual salary of $330,203 as the next chancellor of UW-Milwaukee.The UW Board of Regents confirmed his appointment at a special meeting Tuesday and set his salary.
In what began with quiet disagreement and evolved into polarized debate, the Faculty Senate voted to support public authority status for the University of Wisconsin Monday after representatives emphasized the necessity for the body to take a definitive stance on the proposal.
Peace never comes entirely for parents who have lost kids to drunk drivers. But it has been particularly elusive for Dan and Pam James in recent days. Lori Kasten, the woman who took Katie James’ life and severely injured two of her cousins in a head-on crash in 1996 not long after that poem was written, initially received nine years for drinking at least three times as much as she should have and then getting behind the wheel. Kasten was arrested last week on allegations of driving drunk yet again. UW-Madison police say she got her vehicle stuck on a curb in a UW parking lot, and they?ve asked the district attorney to charge her, at a minimum, with third-offense drunk driving.
Rajib Mitra?s lawyer said Monday that if Mitra had intended to kill himself in the Dane County Jail, he showed no signs of it during a meeting to talk about Mitra?s appeal just hours before Mitra committed suicide on Friday.
….Mitra was a 24-year-old UW-Madison graduate student in 2003 when he was charged in U.S. District Court in Madison with jamming Madison police radios. At the same time, he was dating a 16-year-old girl whom he had met in an Internet chat room.
When Mitra’s computer and radios were seized as part of the radio jamming investigation, police found that portions of the computer’s hard drive had been heavily encrypted, keeping police from discovering their contents until 2009.
John and Tashia Morgridge similarly were big into philanthropy long before the Giving Pledge. John Morgridge, a billionaire, became chief executive of Cisco Systems in 1988, took it public in 1990, and later served as the company?s chairman. He and his wife Tashia have been giving away bits of their wealth for 25 years, as this Cap Times article points out. During a panel discussion about the Giving Pledge at the Global Philanthropy Forum on April 14, Tashia Morgridge explained, ?We?d already been giving away a lot of our wealth and intended to give away a lot of it.? Much of the Morgridges? giving has gone to educational institutions in Wisconsin and to environmental conservation.
Please forgive me if this seems hurried. I?m writing it at my publicly funded place of employment, during work hours, and I?m worried that I might be accused of malfeasance, since it?s my fiduciary responsibility to keep such communications of a nonpersonal nature. But both Peter Wood and Peter Lake miss the point in “Whose E-Mail Is It, Anyway?” (The Chronicle, April 3).
Welcome to the autonomy discussion Madison College. Thanks for advancing the conversation President Bettsey Barhorst. And welcome to the new world of higher education Wisconsin.
Our state?s drunken driving scourge continues to rumble and veer at alarming speed across Wisconsin, destroying innocent lives. Consider the latest harrowing headlines, including news that Lori Kasten, 45, of Madison, faces her third DUI offense after UW-Madison Police reported Saturday they found her revving her vehicle?s engine to try to free it from a curb it was stuck on in a campus parking lot. In 1996, Kasten crashed into a car and killed one of its passengers, 11-year-old Katie James of Madison.
UW-Madison police arrested 45-year-old Lori Kasten of Madison, for a third offense OWI early Saturday morning.
A Madison woman who was previously convicted of killing a girl in a drunken-driving crash has been arrested on new allegations of driving while intoxicated. The police department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison says 45-year-old Lori J. Kasten was arrested Saturday.
A drunken driver who killed a girl in a crash in 1996, then had her probation revoked for driving drunk again in 2006 after she was released from prison, has been arrested for allegedly driving drunk yet again, authorities reported. Lori Kasten, 45, of Madison, was arrested early Saturday morning after UW police received a report of a vehicle stuck on a curb in a UW parking lot with the driver revving the engine in an attempt to free the vehicle, according to a news release from UW police.
Lori Kasten, 45, of Madison, was arrested early Saturday morning on suspicion of third-offense OWI, according to the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department.
You can?t see the Shack from the road. It sits hidden amid pine and hardwood on a winding path that leads to the sandy shore of the Wisconsin River. You may be disappointed when you do see it.
The Shack isn?t much to look at – just an old reformed chicken coop that a University of Wisconsin professor and his brood cleaned up years ago and made into a weekend haunt. But, of course, the Shack has a deeper meaning for those of us concerned about the land. It?s a metaphor for the simple yet powerful ethic that conservationist Aldo Leopold came to understand and then express so clearly.
Three days. One open-source game engine, teed up for mobile devices.
