Three friends at a house party near the UW-Madison campus were beaten up by others from the party in a parking lot on Mound Street, police said. One of the friends ended up in the hospital, the other two bloodied and battered.
Madison police said the incident happened about 11:40 p.m. Friday in the 1100 block of Mound Street.
A new report says the aging of the University of Wisconsin System work force will present a major challenge for the state in the next several years.
The report says one out of three UW System faculty and academic staff members is 55 or older, compared with one out of five 10 years ago.
The Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, currently a yawning hole between Campus Drive and University Avenue, is a $150 million research complex of unprecedented scope in Wisconsin. The building, set to open in 2010, consists of twin institutes: the publicly funded Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and the private Morgridge Institute for Research.
Deeply touched by the third-graders she taught in Brooklyn as a 20-year-old with a psychology degree from UW-Madison, Judith Laitman, who grew up in New York, says her motivation is simple: to help youngsters learn how to think.
A wind plant only gets energy when the wind blows. A solar panel only absorbs energy when the sun shines.
A nuclear power plant, though, runs nearly all the time.
That gives nuclear power the highest operating rate and is one of the reasons it’s undergoing a renaissance.
In a world concerned about global warming, nuclear power is cleaner than gas or coal, and much safer than it was in 1979 at the time of the Three Mile Island accident, said John J. Hirt, who is seeking an MBA in finance and is participating in the University of Wisconsin-Madison business school’s Applied Security Analysis Program.
As a UW-Madison alum, I was disappointed and ashamed to learn that UW educators participated in supporting domestic terrorist Bill Ayers by signing an on-line petition.
No thinking person can condone his and his wife’s terrorism, regardless of whether it occurred 40 years ago. Following the signers’ logic, will the next petition be to rename Sterling Hall the “Armstrong Building?”
Madison has a great chance to finally and emphatically declare the annual State Street Halloween party a success this weekend.
Eric Sandgren is wearing a Band-Aid two inches above his left eyebrow. The associate professor at the UW School of Veterinary Medicine notes that he’s been banging his head on things since he was 3 years old. This time, it was a dresser.
Madison’s mayor and city officials on Thursday announced the launch of Alert Madison, a text messaging system to help alert citizens to snow emergencies.
Mayor Dave Cieslewicz called Alert Madison part of a comprehensive strategy to respond to snow events
Quoted: Marcos Hernandez, 39, a research specialist in fetal alcohol syndrome at UW-Madison, who volunteered as a drinker.
Madison police say their plan for handling Saturday’s Freakfest on State Street is adequate even if a free, illegal Mifflin Street block party springs up to compete with it, but city officials are trying to avoid testing the premise.
Despite a struggling national economy, the Wisconsin Badgers Athletic Department plans to go forward with two major capital projects.
But not only have the projects been scaled back in terms of scope and cost, UW athletic director Barry Alvarez said he wouldn’t hesitate to pull back completely rather than jeopardize the financial future of his department.
Alvarez said this week that a practice facility for men’s and women’s hockey and an athletic performance center remain on the same priority course to be built starting in 2009. The projected cost of the two initiatives has been trimmed from approximately $100 million to $70 million.
MADISON, Wis. — Madison’s mayor and city officials said Wednesday that the city is launching a text messaging system to send alerts to residents.
Mayor Dave Cieslewicz said the Alert Madison text messaging system will launch on Thursday.
More than $250,000 has been donated to the University of Wisconsin as part of an ongoing fundraising effort for need-based scholarships through a partnership between UW Credit Union and the UW Foundation.
A proposed settlement between Google and national author and publisher organizations could bring important enhancements to the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s digitization partnership with the information technology giant.
Last week, over 40 UW-Madison affiliated employees have signed an online petition to â??Support Bill Ayersâ? and his academic achievements.
Bill Ayers, a 20-year professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has come under fire for his involvement with the terrorist organization, the Weather Underground. The Obama campaign has taken steps to distance themselves from Ayers and his alleged acts of terrorism during the Vietnam War.
The petition calls for all citizens, in particular scholars and teachers, to support Ayers for his exemplary scholarship, teaching and service. As of Oct. 28, the petition has received 4,090 signatures online, a majority of which affiliate with a university or college. Over 40 names on the petition listed an alignment to the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Tonight in Jefferson hundreds of people showed up at the court house for a public hearing about 2009’s budget.
The majority were there to talk about a $182,000 cut to the UW-Extension.
According to officials that’s about 40-percent of their annual budget.
The cuts would cost four people their jobs and according to some, would hurt services that are vital to the community.
Psst. Halloween is kind of a big deal in Madison. But that’s just between you, me and the tens of thousands of people who will be turning out downtown this weekend as Sarah Palins and sexy devils.
After years of putting up with a boozy, tear gas-laced freak-out every Halloween on State Street, city officials finally put the clamp down in 2006. They fenced it off, gave the event the cute name Freakfest, booked musical acts and started charging admission. Now it’s a well-organized freak-out, brought to you by Mountain Dew.
The annual Halloween celebration that draws thousands to State Street for music and merrymaking, could be settling into a pleasant adulthood after a long, turbulent youth.
Fires, broken windows and fighting were the hallmarks of the old Halloween on State Street, with crowds coming from around the Midwest to be part of the excitement, including the inevitable street-clearing tear gas and riot-equipped police to top off the evening.
Popping up in my inbox lately, and on some conservative blogs, is the allegation that Barack Obama was once a member of the Communist/Socialist/secretive/evil New Party, which is based (reasonably) on a New Party publication describing him in passing as a member.
When this first emerged, I called up the founder of the New Party, a University of Wisconsin professor named Joel Rogers, who objected both to the characterization of the party and Obama’s relationship to it.
MADISON, Wis. — This weekend’s homecoming is a long-standing tradition that brings back University of Wisconsin alumni from around the country to join current students to celebrate the school.
Those alumni bring back fond memories of campus and some of them are bringing cash to donate to their alma mater. However, some officials are concerned that the nation’s economic tumult will impact the economics of giving.
The UW officials said that they’re game plan doesn’t change, saying the most important aspect of fundraising is “building relationships” with its graduates.
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama leads his Republican opponent, John McCain, in all Big Ten states, according to results from the second Big Ten Battleground Poll released Thursday.
Lively drumbeats and performances by the University of Wisconsin Wind Ensemble began ceremonies to give a warm welcome to new Chancellor Biddy Martin.
Both referred to their respective threat-of-choice as “existential” in nature, and throughout the foreign policy-themed debate at UW-Madison repeated established arguments from the Right and the Left on things like U.S. relations with Iran and Cuba, the status of Guantanamo Bay, support for “family planning” efforts overseas and whether or not President Bush and Vice President Cheney are worthy of impeachment.
Downtown workers might want to leave work a little early Friday for one of two reasons, either to avoid the congestion caused by the UW-Madison homecoming parade or to find a good viewing spot for the parade that begins at 5 p.m.
The University of Wisconsin Foundation’s endowment for UW-Madison is down about 18 percent, or about $300 million, since the stock market began dropping precipitously this fall, said Sandy Wilcox, foundation president. That means the foundation, which is the official fundraising arm of UW-Madison, will be able to give less money to facilities, student financial aid, and faculty and research support, Wilcox said. Continue reading
A federal grand jury issued an indictment on Wednesday alleging that a former dean of education at the University of Louisville and an associate diverted more than $2-million into their personal bank accounts from a federal research grant and from contracts with municipal school districts.
If convicted on all 10 countsâ??which include charges of mail fraud, money laundering, and tax evasionâ??the former dean, Robert D. Felner, could face at least 20 years in prison.
John Fry is skipping over some of the biggest names in his Rolodex these days. With the economy in a downward spiral, the Franklin & Marshall College president says heâ??s not calling on donors who have fallen on hard times.
â??I think in this kind of environment you have to be very sensitive to peopleâ??s situations,â? Fry said Tuesday. â??Itâ??s been a very interesting two weeks, because on one hand Iâ??ve purposely avoided visiting or soliciting [certain] people.â?¦ On the other hand, I know a significant number of other people who are in better [economic] situations, and Iâ??ve been actively soliciting them.
When the University of Wisconsin athletic department started to set its 2008-09 budget about this time a year ago, officials knew they would have to adjust for the normal inflationary increases.
But they didn’t know the price of oil would skyrocket, sending travel costs upward with it.
That means UW teams are operating under budgets that didn’t take into account higher airline prices, including eye-opening cost increases for charter flights. But the message has been clear: Squeeze existing resources as best you can, because the budget is firm.
While the Nazis slaughtered 6 million Jews in Europe, they also tried to “re-educate” homosexuals and stop the spread of homosexuality among German men. That campaign is the subject of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s “Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933-1945” traveling exhibit now at UW-Madison’s Memorial Library and an online exhibit viewed by 374,000 people since 2002.
Shaky economic conditions have had their effect even on the University of Wisconsinâ??s new Union South building, with construction scheduled to begin in the next year.
Good news for Metro bus riders downtown: Buses will be returning to Capitol Square on Sunday, Nov. 9.
Buses have been using the “loop route” a block off the square since early summer because of ongoing bus shelter construction on the four streets around the Capitol: Mifflin, Pinckney, Main and Carroll. The loop route uses Dayton, Webster, Doty and Fairchild streets.
UW-Madison homecoming events on Friday will force four Metro routes commonly using the loop route to take alternate streets away from State and Lake streets.
When Gov. Jim Doyle announced Wednesday that the state has a $3 billion deficit for the 2009-2011 budget, many are questioning what implications the stateâ??s recently projected deficit may have for the University of Wisconsin System and its students, faculty and staff.
The lawsuit cites a November 1991 incident in which D’Angelo was reprimanded for forcibly kissing and making unwanted sexual advances toward a 19-year-old UW-Madison student who had met him at the Civic Center to inquire about an internship. D’Angelo was warned that any further conduct of that type could result in his firing.
Nothing, including cutting state government jobs and spending on education, will be off the table as Wisconsin deals with the national economic downturn that could put the state $3 billion in the red, Gov. Jim Doyle warned Wednesday.
….Despite the current economic turmoil, Doyle said he was optimistic the state could make it through the rest of this year without emergency action.
However, Doyle said he ordered state agencies to cut 10 percent from their proposals for the budget that will take effect July 1. That’s after he already told them to cut millions of dollars in agency spending and not expect any increases over the next two years.
Wisconsin may experience a $3 billion budget deficit over the next few years due to the present economic situation, Gov. Jim Doyle announced at a press conference Wednesday.
Wisconsinâ??s upcoming biennial budget could be $3 billion or more in the red due to the downward spiral of the national economy, Gov. Jim Doyle said Wednesday.
Bibliophiles will be lining up for bargains starting Wednesday night during the UW-Madison fall used book sale, the largest used book sale in Wisconsin.
The sale is in Room 116 at Memorial Library, 728 State St., held in conjunction with the Wisconsin Book Festival.
For the state of Wisconsin the outlook is now pretty bleak as well.
Today Governor Jim Doyle said the state is likely facing at least a 3-billion dollar budget deficit and to climb out of that hole cuts will be made that will affect everyone.
After holding strong for several months, Wisconsin is now too falling victim to economic struggles.
Doyle says, “There is no doubt it is going to be very, very severe here in the state.”
State sales tax collections in Wisconsin were down ten percent in the month of September, and income and corporate tax collections are down for the year. Governor Jim Doyle said that means the state could be facing a three billion dollar deficit in the next two year budget cycle.
“Since September collections reflect August economic activity, we are I think justifiably concerned, that the full impact of the credit and stock market crisis is yet to be felt in tax collections,” Doyle said during a press conference Wednesday in his state Capitol office. “We are certainly looking at more than three billion dollars in deficit, and it could grow well beyond that, if the nation’s economy continues to spiral downward.”
Local economies, those dominated by stable industries, could be relatively well-cushioned. BusinessWeek.com worked with data from PolicyMap.com, a demographics and data site run by Philadelphia’s Reinvestment Fund, to identify the best places to live during a recession. We looked at places where large portions of the population worked in anticyclical industries such as government, health care, education, agriculture, and legal services.
Madison has a second recession buffer: the University of Wisconsin. More than 17% of the working-age population works in education, according to PolicyMap. Colleges don’t necessarily flourish in bad times, but they don’t go out of business either.
Don’t slap a horse on the rump, especially if a cop is sitting on it.
A Janesville man was arrested and tentatively charged with battery to a police animal after allegedly whacking a police horse very hard on the rump shortly after midnight early Sunday morning in the 600 block of State Street.
A man who fondled himself while following women walking down the street after the Badger football game Saturday night was arrested and tentatively charged with lewd and lascivious behavior, police said.
A 20-year-old Madison woman was able to break away from a sexual assault attempt Saturday night in the East Johnson Street/Pinckney Street area.
With the economy on everyone’s mind, two economic heavyweights squared off at the UW.
Dr. Ike Brannon and Dr. Austan Goolsbee met at Grainger Hall to fight for their candidates.
“In the next two hours we hope to learn how a McCain or Obama administration would shape the economic agenda from two people who would play a large roll is setting those agendas,” said debate moderator and business school Dean Michael Knetter.
An adviser to John McCain said Friday his plan to buy bad mortgages with tax money is the best way to address the nation’s economic crisis, but an aide to Barack Obama argued that would reward greedy lenders.
The comments came during a two-hour debate between Obama’s senior economic adviser Austan Goolsbee and senior McCain policy adviser Ike Brannon at the University of Wisconsin-Madison business school.
Economic advisers to presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama agree: The $700 billion financial bailout package isn’t enough to save the flagging economy.
But their disagreements on what to do were in high relief at a UW-Madison School of Business forum Friday that came amid the unpredictable global financial crisis that has become the dominant theme of a campaign with less than four weeks before election day.
The Union Design Committee focused their meeting Thursday night on sustainability, particularly water usage, as they forged ahead with plans for the new south campus union.
Momentum behind efforts to build a cleaner future for Dane County lakes has run headlong into a shaky economy.
The collision will provide plenty of excuses to say we cannot afford new spending on the lakes.
Nearly every TV ad Republican John McCain ran last week was negative, compared to just 34 percent of those by Democrat Barack Obama, according to an analysis released Wednesday.
The harsher tone in McCain’s ads mirrors the sharper attacks he and his running mate Sarah Palin have been making on the campaign trail as polls show Obama opening up a lead.
Obama also has a lead in fundraising, which is letting him do more advertising than McCain, the Wisconsin Advertising Project report said.
Two people walking on the bicycle path near North Charter and Spring Streets on the UW-Madison campus were robbed at gunpoint early Wednesday morning. Neither of the victims were injured.
If all goes well soon people in the area won’t even have to open their mouths to tip off authorities to crime in the area.
They’ll be able to let their thumbs do the talking.
It seems like it’s everywhere now a days.
Kelsey Dalnymple a Senior at the UW says, ” It’s becoming more difficult not to text.”
Nearly a decade after the city enacted a plan to revamp State Street, residents and officials gathered Monday to celebrate the grand reopening of Madisonâ??s signature downtown drag.
The University of Wisconsin Faculty Senate voted Monday to support changing the name of Campus Drive to honor a former UW professor who created a popular blood thinner.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents did a fine job of hiring a new chancellor for the system’s flagship campus at Madison — respected scholar and administrator Biddy Martin — but the board’s chancellor searches do not always turn out well.
Ellen Foley is stepping down as the top editor of the Wisconsin State Journal, ending a four-year tenure in which the newspaper strengthened its Internet journalism and refocused its coverage of Madison in the face of industry challenges.
James L. Baughman, director of the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication, noted that Foley led the State Journal during a time in which newspapers around the country faced financial pressures and staff cuts as they struggled to hold onto their readers.
“She’s had to take chances that an editor 30 or 40 years ago wouldn’t have had to take,” he said.
The deaths of the patriarch of a prominent local family and his young wife in an apparent murder-suicide has left members of the local Latino community shocked and saddened.
“This is truly an incredible tragedy,” Peter Munoz, executive director of Centro Hispano, said Monday.
The UW Credit Union is providing scholarship money for students. UW Credit Union president and CEO, Paul Kundert, says the credit union is giving some $600,000, including $215,000 for UW Madison, to provide need-based scholarships for low and moderate income students.
(UNDATED) A new website directed at universities lets users view detailed maps of crimes on or around their campus. But some security officials question just how well they work.
UCrime.com launched in August, and features about 200 colleges and universities in North America and England so far. The U-W Madison is the only Wisconsin school currently on the site. Its map shows various icons: a gun signifies a shooting; fists indicate assault; and cartoon figures with black masks represent robberies.
Accuracy and timeliness are two concerns some officials have about UCrime.com, including Dale Burke, assistant chief of the U-W Madison police. (5th item.)
STEVENS POINT, Wis. (AP) — University of Wisconsin System leaders say they’ve expanded a program that allows students to earn UW-Madison degrees after spending their first two years at other campuses.
