Students who are about to graduate often hand down the tricks of stealing music and movies to the next senior class, in a digital rite of passage. At the College of New Jersey, that means surreptitiously finding a new home each year for a computer holding an enormous directory of illegal files on the campus.
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation narrowed the possible locations for a high-speed rail stop in Madison down to four Friday.
The University of Wisconsin System has spent roughly $2.7 million over a decade on lobbying in Washington. Marquette University has spent $1.2 million. Both educational institutions racked up six-figure federal lobbying tabs last year alone, records analyzed by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics show.
UW-Stout Chancellor Charles Sorensen is taking heat from students on his campus for announcing that he is working on measures to curb student drinking and the culture of alcohol consumption.
Most people view the iPad as a slick, multimedia entertainment platform, but Gregg Vanderheiden, a university professor, sees other potential uses for Appleâ??s new touch screen device.
“Say you have somebody whoâ??s had a stroke, for example, and they wake up and they canâ??t communicate,” said Vanderheiden, director of the Trace Research and Development Center at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
UW-Madison might cut its popular free bus pass program for employees because of a roughly $1 million deficit in the transportation budget. Thatâ??s one of the changes that Transportation Services Director Patrick Kass is considering to solve what he calls an “unsustainable” business model. Kass will hold a series of forums to discuss the possible changes to services. Last year, the free bus pass program cost the university about $1.3 million. The department distributed about 15,000 bus passes, allowing employees to take 1.6 million free rides.
UW-Madison might cut its popular free bus pass program for employees because of a roughly $1 million deficit in the transportation budget. That’s one of the changes that Transportation Services Director Patrick Kass is considering to solve what he calls an “unsustainable” business model. Kass will hold a series of forums to discuss the possible changes to services. Last year, the free bus pass program cost the university about $1.3 million. The department distributed about 15,000 bus passes, allowing employees to take 1.6 million free rides.
A Pulitizer Prize winner, a network TV news reporter and a judge are among the honorees to be awarded the 2010 Distinguished Alumni Award from the Wisconsin Alumni Association.
The awards ceremony will be on April 22 at 5 p.m. in the Wisconsin Union Theater at Memorial Union on the UW-Madison campus.
Add the state high school speech tournament to the perfect storm of traffic congestion in Madison this weekend. With 5,000 students descending on the UW-Madison campus on Friday, campus officials are advising motorists to avoid various streets as dozens of yellow school buses drop off students on Friday afternoon.
Faculty and academic staff of the University of Wisconsin System would be prohibited from using funds to discourage their employees from unionizing under a bill passed by the state Senate Tuesday.
Chancellor Biddy Martin highlighted systematic pay increases and other proposed solutions as methods to improve the University of Wisconsinâ??s retention of faculty at a UW System committeeâ??s meeting Monday.
Nothing represents Badger spirit more than the triumphant sounds of the University of Wisconsin Marching Band. Enjoy the sounds of the group off the field at the annual University of Wisconsin Varsity Band Concert Thursday through Saturday, April 15 through 17, at the Kohl Center, 601 W. Dayton St.
….Friends of UW-Madisonâ??s Lakeshore Nature Preserve along Lake Mendota are having a party â?? a garlic mustard control party.
What better place to hold a “green” running event than the UW-Madison Arboretum?
The first annual Spring Sprint for the Arb is set for this Saturday, April 17, with runners competing on a five-kilometer course that will wind through the Arboretum. Non-runners also are invited to the Spring Sprint to participate in a one-mile trail walk with Arboretum naturalists.
UW-Madisonâ??s recreational sports department spent about $31,000 to lobby for a $60 million state-of-the-art gym expansion, according to a student group opposing the project. If students vote for the Natatorium renovation and expansion this week, the plan is that they would pay $54 more per semester for the next 30 years, beginning in 2013. But UW-Madison officials said they spent the money to inform students about the campaign, not necessarily to advocate a “yes” vote for the project.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has spent thousands of dollars encouraging students to vote this week to raise their fees by $108 per year for a new fitness center. The $31,000 campaign by the Division of Recreational Sports has supported a student organization that is lobbying for the project.
UW-Madison students will vote beginning Monday on a $60 million addition to one of the main campus gyms, a project some students and officials say is needed to keep up with student demand and fitness trends. The expansion, which would nearly double the size of the Natatorium, would cost students $54.19 more per semester for the next 30 years, beginning in 2013. “Someone has to step up so that future generations can have access to the facilities that we never had,” said Mike Bernatz, a student who is leading the campaign for the project, called NatUp. A faction of students oppose raising student fees for the project, but the greatest foe for supporters could be low voter turnout over the three-day-long election.
Madisonâ??s Crestwood Elementary School is taking advantage of its setting adjacent to a wooded area by reviving a tradition of tapping the maple trees growing there. Kate Reilly, the wife of University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly, offered the opportunity to tap the trees around the Brittingham House.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students are voting this week on whether to raise student fees by $108 per year for a new state-of-the-art recreational center. At issue is whether the university moves forward with a $62 million renovation of the Natatorium, which includes pools, gymnasiums, racquetball courts, weight rooms and other fitness equipment.
First it was a pizza party, now Madison has a sweet idea to land Googleâ??s super fast fiber optic Internet. Google inspired ice cream. People got to sample whatâ??s called “Mad Fiber” at the city county building downtown.
As a cancer care researcher, I do not find Dr. Desiree Pardiâ??s choices ironic. I have witnessed many cancer deaths, in my personal life and professionally.
Rocco Landesman, the larger-than-life Broadway producer, was digging into a hefty cheese steak and fries in the Philadelphia train station one night last month, waiting to catch the Acela back to his new home in Georgetown.
University of Wisconsin campuses will be required to get student input before recommending special tuition increases but they wonâ??t need studentsâ?? permission under a policy adopted Friday.
During a meeting in Fond du Lac, the Board of Regents approved a policy spelling out the process campuses must follow before implementing extra tuition increases.
I scream …You scream …We all scream for …Mad Fiber ice cream?
Mayor Dave Cieslewicz, Madison Schools Superintendent Dan Nerad and Irwin Goldman, dean of UW-Madisonâ??s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, will be providing samples of Babcockâ??s newest flavor of ice cream Friday at noon as Madison ramps up its efforts to land a $97 million high-speed Google fiber-optic network.
Question: Records released last month show Roberta Lund was fired from her job at the state Department of Natural Resources in July after she charged a trip to Las Vegas and other personnel expenses to her state-issued credit card. Who gets the cards and what policies are in place regarding their use? Answer: As of March 31, state agencies and the University of Wisconsin System held 19,932 state credit cards â?? or “purchasing cards,” as they call them â?? according to Department of Administration spokeswoman Carla Vigue. The cards were used to make some $161.7 million in purchases in 2008, with 73.7 percent of those by UW institutions.
The owners of a popular bar said Tuesday they would accept a $2.1 million buyout from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and drop a lawsuit seeking to stop the school from seizing their property for a new music building. The university agreed to pay Marc and Eric Fortney, the owners of Brothers Bar & Grill, within 30 days to acquire the last property it needs to construct a privately funded $43 million School of Music building. The decision to drop the lawsuit came a day before the case was scheduled to go to trial in Dane County Circuit Court, and after a monthslong public relations battle between the bar owners and top university officials. Left unresolved are how much the bar will be paid to relocate and how soon that will happen.
Just one day before their case was scheduled to go to trial, the owners of Brothers Bar and Grill agreed to stop fighting the UW Board of Regentsâ?? attempt to condemn their bar. Owners Marc and Eric Fortney dropped their lawsuit Tuesday against the university and said they would accept the Regentsâ?? offer of $2.1 million, allowing UW-Madison to build its new School of Music facility on the property. The Fortneys, who are UW-Madison alumni, said they agreed to dismiss the case because it was â??the right thing for UW-Madison,â? according to their attorney, Mike Wittenwyler.
An open letter to University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez. On Oct. 14, I received a personal letter from you asking me to renew my commitment to the University of Wisconsin Athletic Departments Badger Fund.
The UW System spent nearly $3 million on lobbying efforts over the past 10 years according to data from a government watchdog group.
The University of Wisconsin System ranked nationally for money spent on lobbying last year, with UW-Madison accounting for a majority portion of the spending.
Letter about “The Choices We Make: Not So Surprising” written by David Henige, Africana Bibliographer, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.
The wedding invitation for Forest “Woody” Shomberg and April Anello reads, “Love: 1 Injustice: 0. “When the two are married on June 5, it will be the culmination of years of waiting for the Madison couple, who were separated for six of the eight years since they met by Shombergâ??s imprisonment for a sexual assault a judge determined he didnâ??t commit. Shomberg, 46, was released in November on the strength of DNA evidence indicating he had nothing to do with the incident on March 8, 2002, in which a UW-Madison student was pulled from State Street and violently groped. Shomberg, whose account that he was celebrating his birthday a few miles away at the time was corroborated by Anello and other friends, was the victim of mistaken identity, the judge found.
University of Wisconsin System leaders are crafting a plan to boost the number of degrees the schools award each year by 30% over the next 15 years, a move that would make the universities even more of an engine that makes the stateâ??s economy attractive for businesses.
UW-Madison-related projects, including the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery at Johnson Street and Randall Avenue; a new student union across from the WID; a new facilities building at 30 N. Mills St.; and the Chazen Museum of Art addition on the east side of campus.
GREEN BAY, Wis. — The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay has found a new way to cut costs with e-mail — by changing the font.
Mentions a study, released last year by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Program on Agricultural Technology Studies, that states that Wisconsinâ??s dairy industry is “undergoing notable structural changes” in that its farms are declining in number, yet getting larger and producing more
Greenbush Day had to have plenty of food: crisp sesame biscotti, savory hush puppies, spicy egg rolls – to represent the Italian, African-American and Asian communities who live there. There was music, too, at the celebration of the storied neighborhood hosted Tuesday by UW-Madison.
….A prominent presence, too, at the celebration was the university, whose expansion has been a second transformation of a neighborhood first remade by urban renewal projects of the 1960s.
Today UW is working partnerships with community organizations to make the â??Bush a learning laboratory that benefits both students and other residents.
A UW campus went “Gothic” during its spring break. Students and Staff returning to UW Green Bay this week were greeted by a different font in their e-mail system. Backers say the small change could save a lot of money and help the school meet one of its green goals.
The hubris in the U.S.-Israeli relationship is embarrassing, writes Will Taylor, UW-Madison.
The Wisconsin Technical College System Board approved a 4.5 percent tuition increase for academic year 2010-2011 at a meeting Tuesday. The change means a student taking 15 credits of liberal arts courses at a Wisconsin technical college will pay roughly the same tuition as a student attending one of the 13 UW Colleges, the University of Wisconsin Systemâ??s freshman and sophomore campuses. Each would pay about $4,270 per year.
A Wisconsin college has found a new way to cut costs with e-mail _ by changing the font. The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay has switched the default font on its e-mail system from Arial to Century Gothic. It says the change sounds minor, but it will save money on printer ink when students print out e-mails in the new font.
The Wisconsin Technical College System Board approved a 4.5 percent tuition hike for the next academic year at its meeting last night.
Danielle Trussoni and her novelâ??s main character, Evangeline, both had their lives changed by angels and convents.
In Trussoniâ??s case, she was doing research at a convent in her home state of Wisconsin when she stumbled on angel lore so compelling that the celestial beings became the centerpiece of Angelology, which was released earlier this month to glowing reviews. Trussoni is a UW-Madison graduate.
….The Madison Hmong community today is dividing along clan lines over control of United Asian Services, the local nonprofit organization that for 26 years has been the first stopping place for refugees seeking a foothold in a new world. A bitter dispute with allegations of misconduct, incompetence and unbridled ambition is pitting the Vang and Thao clans against each other in a clash one close observer likened to â??the Hatfields and McCoys,â? the bloody feud of American folklore.
….Marlys Macken is a UW-Madison professor of linguistics whose interest in the Hmong community led her to join a Dane County task force preparing for the new arrivals from Thailand in 2004. Macken, brainstorming with others, came up with the idea to use university language teaching capacity and a store of cast-off university furniture to develop a program to teach the refugees English while employing them in a furniture-refinishing enterprise. She secured $100,000 in private funding for the Hmong Literacy, Language and Jobs Program, which would be funneled through United Asian Services, where she served on the board of directors.
Mike Boettcher grew up on his familyâ??s 100-cow beef farm in Fairchild, so heâ??s used to working outdoors.
As a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Boettcher had intended on a career in animal science. But on a whim, he decided to take a class in horticulture. Today, he is the landscape manager for the Milwaukee Brewers under head groundskeeper Gary Vanden Berg.
The mayor of Duluth, Minn., threw himself into the ice-ringed waters of Lake Superior. The mayor of Sarasota, Fla., immersed himself in a tank filled with bonnethead sharks, simply to one-up him. The mayor of Wilmington, N.C., said that he would even jump out of an airplane â?? with a parachute, of course. Not to be outdone, a dairy in Madison, Wis., aided that cityâ??s efforts by creating a â??Google Fiberâ? ice cream flavor â?? vanilla ice cream with granola and M&Ms to match Googleâ??s multicolored logo.
The University of Wisconsin System has named the six finalists vying to become the next the chancellor at UW-Stevens Point.
The University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee is investigating an incident Thursday in which a studentâ??s disagreement with a faculty member led authorities to be called and to the studentâ??s arrest. Details about the situation are limited, but WISN 12, a local news station, broadcast a video of the arrest (with profanities edited out) filmed by a student who is a WISN employee.
State lawmakers received an update Wednesday on an IT project meant to improve the payroll process at all University of Wisconsin institutions.
All four of the current University of Wisconsin System IT projects are on schedule and on budget, according to a project update by the Legislatureâ??s IT committee leaders.
Dear Editor: Friday, March 19, will mark the seventh anniversary of the â??shock and aweâ? bombing campaign that began the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Each year since 2003, Americans have gathered to remember the terrible costs of war and to call for peace. Wisconsin has led states many times its size in the number of events held on the anniversary.
This year is no exception. Nineteen Wisconsin events are among more than 70 planned nationwide, and include roadside vigils, marches, public prayers and a teach-in at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
An administrator at a New York City college will likely be the next chancellor of UW-Platteville. Dennis Shields, acting vice president for student affairs at the City College of New York-City University of New York, was recommended by University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly and a special committee of the UW Board of Regents.
Michael Knetter has been named by University of Wisconsin – Madison chancellor Biddy Martin to be vice chancellor for advancement, the school said Wednesday in a news release.
Online voting is underway to win orchards for Madison and ripe fruit for the picking in a grass roots movement you can read all about here. Madison Fruit and Nuts worked with city officials to get the okay to plant fruit trees in Madison parks and other local supporters of edible landscapes have mobilized to enter five local sites in a national competition for free fruit orchards.
The man appointed to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents says he hopes to be a role model for Native American students. Eau Claire attorney Edmund Manydeeds is an enrolled member of South Dakotaâ??s Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. Heâ??s also a 1973 graduate of UW-Superior and the UW-Madison law school.
College applications for the fall are up dramatically nationwide, especially at public universities. But a drop in applications at the University of Wisconsin system has some admissions staff scratching their heads.
From the fight for civil rights to the frailty of his own health, Anthony Brown faced challenges with optimistic passion. A community activist and former director of Madisonâ??s Equal Opportunities Commission, Brown, 59, died Saturday of liver failure while receiving a liver transplant.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents is on the cusp of having its first American Indian board member. Gov. Jim Doyle has appointed Eau Claire attorney Ed Manydeeds as its newest regent, pending confirmation by the state Senate.
Diogenes can put down his lantern. A recent deposition secures former UW Chancellor John Wileyâ??s reputation as an honest man.The deposition was taken Feb. 16 as part of a lawsuit filed by the owners of Brothers Bar & Grill against the UW Board of Regents. The owners, Marc and Eric Fortney, are trying to block the regentsâ?? attempt to seize their property through condemnation; the UW wants to use the property for a future School of Music.
Documents from the UW System revealed that the highest paid UW-Madison official makes over three times as much as the governor.
Madison native Kaleem Caire has been appointed the new president and CEO of the Urban League of Greater Madison and will start the job March 29, the League announced Friday. After service in the U.S. Navy and earning an education degree from UW-Madison, Caire co-founded the Next Generation Education Foundation in 2006.
