A 29-year-old Madison man was arrested on Saturday after he allegedly tried to take a video projector from a UW-Madison classroom. Asanta Platt was booked into the Dane County Jail on two counts of burglary, according to a press release from the UW-Madison Police Department. Officers responded to Noland Hall on Saturday after getting a report that someone was trying to steal a video projector.
The Student Services Finance Committee approved a bylaw that would change how student services are funded Monday. The Campus Services Process, formerly the Campus Services Fund, would distribute contracts to student groups that would allow them to provide student services. The bylaw would allow student groups to “bid on” services to provide to students. Some SSFC members were concerned the bylaw would not allow groups receiving contracts to continue to be supported by the General Student Services Fund.
A 29-year-old Madison man was arrested on suspicion of trying to steal a video projector from a classroom on the University of Wisconsin building.
A proposed plan for Downtown Madison proposes dramatic lakefront improvements, new parks and more, but Mayor Paul Soglin says tight finances will prevent the city from doing big public projects any time soon. The plan calls for a bicycle-pedestrian path along the Lake Mendota shore connecting James Madison Park and UW-Madison’s Memorial Union. Fourteen city committees will review the plan. The City Council will consider it as soon as this spring.
Story on Tom Skilling, well-known Chicago television meteorologist notes that he worked at a Madison, Wis., TV station to help pay his way through the University of Wisconsin where he studied journalism and meteorology, using university-provided maps while filling in for the rip-and-read regular weatherman.
Green gifts: Celebrate locally produced goods and businesses a few days after the Black Friday shopping rush with the UW-Madison Arboretum?s Close to Home: Arboretum Local Products Expo on Sunday, Nov. 27, at the Arboretum Visitor Center.
The first employee pay plan created since the restriction of collective bargaining rights in Wisconsin passed Thursday, freezing state worker pay for two years and restricting overtime pay.
The first pay plan created since Governor Scott Walkers collective bargaining law took effect was passed Thursday by a Republican controlled legislative committee.
The University of Wisconsin will attempt to streamline the Human Resources department on campus ? a move that not only uses recently granted flexibilities, but also may cut unnecessary spending.
Known in academia for his controversial work on Israel and Palestine, historian Ilan Pappé lectured on his perceived failures of the Middle East Peace Process Wednesday. Prefacing his perspective by affirming it to be strictly his own, Pappé focused on how the process is understood. To him, the lack of progress in negotiations stems from the continual portrayal of Palestine as an equal partner in peace.
UW-Madison police arrested a man on charges of battery and disorderly conduct outside a North Frances Street bar Saturday.
A lawsuit against the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, Wiscnet and others over a broadband Internet project in four locations around the state was dismissed in Dane County court Friday.
It?s Richard Nixon unplugged. Newly-released documents and recordings of the former president are the result of years of work by University of Wisconsin-Madison emeritus professor Stanley Kutler.
Thursday?s 37-degree high was only half the temperature American alligators generally require. So John Boyko?s reptile friends arrived in Madison prepared. Boyko got donations from Petco Foundation to fly the alligators to see McFarland veterinarian Dr. Michael Wenninger. Wenninger, a 2004 graduate of the UW-Madison veterinary school, now practices at Spartan Animal Hospital in McFarland and has surgical expertise in reptiles.
Stanley Kutler knew there would be no great surprises when Richard Nixon?s long-secret 1975 grand jury testimony was finally released, but the transcripts do reveal a feisty and cagey disgraced president.
Without the University of Wisconsin-Madison emeritus professor?s lawsuit, the transcript that shows Nixon defending his shredded legacy and shady Watergate-era actions might never have been released. Nixon never thought his grand jury testimony would come out.
Noted: Stanley J. Kutler, a historian whose years of litigation helped lead to the release of the material, said he expected no shocking revelations from Nixon?s testimony. But the hours of Nixon talking and sparring are a window on the personality of the 37th president.
n 2010, the number of laptops stolen jumped 20%. In the first 6 months of this year there were 30 reported thefts. Now police have a new high tech tool to battle the problem.
The price of laptops continues to fall. But for owners it?s not the plastic and metal that make these portable computers valuable; it?s the data they contain. Until recently, if your laptop was stolen the odds of you getting it back were slim. Detective Shane Driscoll with the UW Police Department says some crooks may be specifically targeting laptops. But most thefts are crimes of opportunity. To help curb the problem, the UW Police Department teamed up with the Computer Sciences Department. That partnership lead to the creation of Themis and the Bait Lap Top program. Themis is an asset location program that relies on a computer?s GPS and other sensors to track the machine.
A block-long stretch of North Mills Street will be shut down Saturday and Sunday so crews can complete installing utilities in the street. The block is between Spring Street and Dayton Street, next to the UW-Madison Charter Street Heating Plant. The plant has been undergoing a retrofit, with coal-fired boilers changed out to natural gas-fired boilers.
A former University of Wisconsin student pleaded guilty to possession and distribution of child pornography Monday, an activity that he performed on the UW server.
In the year since his death in a Sun Prairie home explosion, family and friends of Andy Manley have turned their grief to good works with a training academy in rural Uganda and a scholarship honoring him and his late nephew. The School for Andy in Buyaya, Uganda, was made possible in part by donations made to memorialize Manley, a 26-year-old aspiring teacher who died a year ago Wednesday when the home he shared with two friends exploded as a result of an apparently faulty furnace installation.
I hadn?t heard of Mildred Fish-Harnack until I was reviewing a biography of the Milwaukee woman a few years ago.
On the third anniversary of their son?s death, the parents of a man who was beaten to death in an East Side park filed a wrongful death lawsuit Thursday against Dane County and the Dane County 911 center, alleging that their son might have been saved if dispatchers had sent police to the park in response to earlier calls from a neighbor.
….This is the second lawsuit against the 911 center in about three years. The parents of slain UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann sued the center and the county for allegedly mishandling a 911 call from Zimmermann’s phone shortly before she died in April 2008. The lawsuit was settled for a $5,000 contribution to a fund to help find Zimmermann’s killer and $2,500 to cover some lawyer fees.
Regarding several recent columns, in addition to transferring technologies to create jobs, Wisconsin institutions also need to work together to ensure that our sons and daughters are ready to take advantage of career opportunities in the new economy. [A letter to the editor from Gilles Bousquet, dean of international studies and vice provosts for internationalization.]
After hiring a group which would streamline university practices last semester, the University of Wisconsin has recently received the results of a study detailing ways to combat decreasing funding from the government.
A former UW-Richland student who had been imprisoned in Bahrain since Sept. 8 has apparently been set free. The Cap Times reported on the plight of Ali Almajed earlier this month. On Tuesday, former UW-Richland international student adviser Kathy Neckar, who has stayed in close contact with Almajed?s wife, sent an email stating she had just gotten word that Almajed is out of jail.
UW-Madison uses more than 72 e-mail systems and buys more than 250 types of black pens. A new report found that the university could save money – up to $8.5 million – by centralizing and standardizing some of these administrative functions. (And yes, the report found that UW-Madison could be more fiscally responsible with black pens.) The suggestions are the initial results of an external review by Huron Consulting Group, hired by the university to look for areas of efficiency.
Madison police are expecting a much tamer Freakfest on Saturday than the violence-riddled Halloween celebrations of years past, but they are still having a COW. The Cell on Wheels ? a mobile tower and electronic radio transceiver on a truck about the size of a semi that will be parked in the Buckeye Lot at 214 W. Gorham St. ? will enhance cellphone coverage for social and public safety purposes as thousands of costumed revelers descend on the State Street area, said Central District Capt. Carl Gloede.
Madison Metro buses will pull a vanishing act on normal routes downtown this weekend, courtesy of the Halloween partiers at both the family fun festivities on Friday on Capitol Square, and Freakfest on Saturday on State Street. The bus system announced it will use the Capitol Loop route instead of the Capitol Square route all weekend beginning at 6 p.m. Friday and continuing to Monday morning.
Gov. Scott Walker?s administration has informed the UW System it will need to endure more substantial cuts to its operating budget, deeper than originally thought due to a budget lapse.
If you think your institution is immune to a security breach, perhaps you should have a chat with Brian Rust at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. When asked about data breaches on his campus, the communications director in the Office of the Chief Information Officer answers with the hint of a sigh: “Let me tell you about the most recent one.”
What a great idea ? if only I had thought of it: take a trip to Madison, Wis.; stay in a cozy bed- and-breakfast; get around by bike; test out burgers, brats, cheese curds and microbrews; and look for some booze to bring back home.
A man claiming to have a gun held up about 15 people on State Street on Saturday night before being arrested by Madison police. Brandon Stull, 19, of Madison, was arrested for armed robbery at about 10:40 p.m. Saturday in the 700 block of State Street. Before his arrest, Stull allegedly terrified pedestrians by being very loud, boisterous and belligerent, claiming to have a gun while demanding money from the victims.
As one of the 447 rehired university employees, I?d like to share my story. Months after I retired from my position as a professor, I was rehired to teach the same number of sections as when I was a professor, but at a pay rate of about 29 percent of what it was as a professor. The money the university has saved in my salary has no doubt helped in meeting student needs in the face of dwindling state support.
While many alumni from the University of Wisconsin engineering program have received a number of accolades in their field, recognition from their alma mater for distinguished achievements carries a special meaning.
Michael Lovell was inaugurated as the new chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Friday.
This weekend, the Wisconsin Alumni Association is throwing a little party to celebrate its 150th anniversary. My hunch is if you wanted a ticket to the bash you could still get one, but don?t quote me — call the WAA. But some 700 or so alumni are planning to don their red party duds at a celebration at the Institutes for Discovery that will among other things raise up to 150-thousand dollars for scholarships. But what this is really about is school pride. It?s about being one of an estimated 380,000 UW alumni around the world who support the UW and its mission, promote the contributions of fellow alumni and work together to do some good in this world.
The UW-Madison Homecoming parade Friday will push Madison Metro buses off of several streets downtown and on campus.
Members of the UW-Richland campus community are holding a rally Friday to show support for Ali Almajed, a graduate of the school who is reportedly imprisoned in Bahrain.
…to date, it appears no one has been able to help Almajed, who is from Bahrain and attended UW-Richland as an international student from 1999 to 2002. He then transferred from the two-year UW System campus in Richland Center to UW-Platteville, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in 2005.
The running boards were bent and twisted, the transmission was cracked, the engine needed to be rebuilt and the body resembled Swiss cheese. The Bucky Wagon was in bad shape, hadn?t been driven through the tunnel onto the field at Camp Randall Stadium since 2001 and, for about two years, was being stored under a tarp near the Goodman Softball Complex. But since 2010, the 9,000-pound antique but badly worn 1932 LaFrance fire engine has undergone a $750,000 transformation, the vast majority donated.
An early morning tackle on State Street on Saturday resulted in an Iowa man going to the hospital with a broken arm, Madison police reported.According to the report, the 24-year-old Iowa man was trailing behind two friends while walking up State Street toward the Capitol about 3:30 a.m., when he was suddenly tackled from behind.
Wisconsin has two related problems when it comes to four-year college degrees. It doesn?t have enough people with such degrees. And it takes too long in many instances to get a four-year degree – while students and their families spend too much money.
Judith Siers-Poisson is a producer for “The Larry Meiller Show” on the Ideas Network of Wisconsin Public Radio. Working at WPR’s studios in Madison, she does a lot of the background work for the talk show, including choosing topics, lining up guests and screening callers.
MILWAUKEE — The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is getting a new chancellor. Michael Lovell became interim chancellor when Chancellor Carlos Santiago took over as chief executive officer of the Hispanic College Fund last October. He was previously the dean of the university?s College of Engineering and Applied Science.
Wisconsin has two related problems when it comes to four-year college degrees. It doesn?t have enough people with such degrees. And it takes too long in many instances to get a four-year degree – while students and their families spend too much money.
The University of Wisconsin System wants to change that and is developing tools to make it easier and cheaper for transfer students to finish school. If they help more UW students graduate earlier, that will be a good thing. Even better: Expand the tools to include schools outside the system.
Two top Federal Reserve officials known for their hawkish views on inflation reiterated on Monday their opposition to further Fed monetary policy easing, saying it would do more harm than good.
A greater percentage of Madisonians bike to work — 6 percent — than in any of the largest U.S. cities except Portland, Ore., which has the same percentage, according to the State Smart Transportation Initiative. Next on the list released Monday by the UW-Madison-housed initiative was Seattle, which had 3.6 percent of its commuters using a bicycle to go to work in 2010, followed by San Francisco and Minneapolis, which both had 3.5 percent.
Adam Brown, an assistant professor of political science at Brigham Young University, and David Lassen, a doctoral student in political science at the University of Wisconsin, made that discovery in trying to answer this question: Are members of Congress more likely to use Twitter if they?re vulnerable to losing their seats in the next election? Their answer: No.
After high school, Nick Blankenheim entered the Army National Guard and, later, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he earned a bachelor?s degree in wildlife ecology.
Due to the enormous influence of social media, many schools are finding unique ways to attract more students to their Twitter pages. For example, a University of Wisconsin-Madison alumnus has promised to donate $1 to the school for each additional person who follows the institution on Twitter, or for each new “like” on Facebook, The Chronicle of Higher Education reports.
Researchers say wireless access points could double as analysis tools that detect radio-frequency interference and automatically adjust to preserve the quality of Wi-Fi connections. Such upgraded devices could eliminate the need for separate, costly spectrum analyzers that discover interfering devices but do nothing to counter interference, say researchers at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Madison is mentioned atop the front page of Thursday?s Wall Street Journal in a map showing “brain gainers,” metro areas that have shown the biggest 10-year growth in percent of population with college educations. According to the map, Madison is second among the nation?s 100 largest metro areas, up 6.4 percent to 43.3 percent.
Prohibition brought bad times to Madison: the first, and still worst, sustained violence the city?s ever known, cops in the Ku Klux Klan, even a dirty judge in hock to bootleggers. For more than a decade in the 1920s and ?30s, the criminalization of alcohol took a terrible toll.
A former UW-Madison finance major has come up with a way to help others afford college. He?s using social networks to fund a need-based scholarship.
The value of a follower on Twitter or Facebook can be nebulous ? unless you?re the University of Wisconsin, Madison, this month.
Donors who believe in social media have pledged $1 for each person (up to $50,000) who either friends the University of Wisconsin at Madison or its alumni association on Facebook, or who becomes a Twitter follower. Will Hsu, who graduated from UW-Madison in 2000 and is one of the donors, said that he views social media as “a powerful way for younger alums and current students to get connected and stay connected with the university.?
MADISON (WKOW) — The Dane County District Attorney?s Office says it will not file criminal charges against the Metro driver who was behind the wheel in a deadly crash in June.
Prosecutors in Dane County say no charges will be filed in a deadly bus crash in Madison. A 58-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison librarian was killed June 22 when she was hit by the Metro bus turning a corner. The district attorney?s office reviewed reports from police, reconstruction investigators and the state lab in making the determination. Prosecutors say the bus had a significant blind spot that prevented the driver from seeing Maureen Grant in the pedestrian crosswalk.
Colleges have done some strange things to get Twitter followers. To name a few: offering a free iPod, creating Twitter accounts for mascots, and promising a full scholarship to the applicant with the best 140-character essay.
MADISON (WKOW) — The Dane County District Attorney?s Office says it will not file criminal charges against the Metro driver who was behind the wheel in a deadly crash in June. Maureen Grant, a 58-year-old UW-Madison librarian, died June 22, 2011. Authorities say Debra Foster hit her while turning the corner from North Lake Street onto University Avenue in Madison. The D.A.?s office determined that the bus itself had a significant blind spot that prevented Foster from seeing Grant until Grant was directly next to the bus.
