New student enrollment is booming at UW-Rock County and administrators expect those numbers to climb even higher.
Right now the school has more than 730 full time students. The previous record was set in 2001 with about 670. In the past, most students chose to attend part-time, but that’s starting to change.
After seven seasons as the outspoken and outrageous mom on the hit sitcom “Malcolm in the Middle,” UW-Madison graduate Jane Kaczmarek desperately needed a break from her TV family — and wanted time for her real one.
Brad Vogel departed his home in the Uptown neighborhood of New Orleans early Saturday morning, one among more than a million persons from the city and surrounding coastal regions of Louisiana that have evacuated their homes over the weekend in advance of Hurricane Gustav.
A native of Kiel, Wisconsin and 2006 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Vogel is a co-founder of Letters in Bottles, a blog covering politics and pop culture both in Madison and around the world, and an alumnus of the Badger Herald editorial board. He had just started his second year at Tulane University Law School last week before classes were suspended in anticipation of the storm, which is currently projected to hit Louisiana with considerable strength.
Writer opposes Governor Jim Doyle and hiring of Chancellor Biddy Martin.
Figuring out what to do with yourself in Madison isn’t a matter of finding stuff to do. It’s a matter of winnowing the many choices down to one. Here, we offer seven offbeat options for things to do in town that are unmistakably Madison:
(The Memorial Union and Cinematheque in Vilas Hall are included on the list)
It can be argued that those paid to protect and serve know more about how safe we are in Madison than anyone.
Tonight police chief Noble Wray is talking about some of our biggest problems and what’s being done about them.
The Chief spoke and answered questions with the common council for about 2 hours Wednesday night cutting through the rumors and perception and letting people know what’s really going on.
MADISON, Wis. — A third person has died after being injured in a single-car crash early Wednesday morning on Midvale Boulevard.
The Dane Counted coroner has identified the third victim as Daniel Myers, 22, of Madison. Myers was pronounced dead at UW Hospital late Wednesday morning.
The other victims were identified as Lindsey T. Plank, 23, of Madison, and Richard H. Putze, 22, of Madison, according to the Dane County coroner. Putze was pronounced dead at the scene while Plank was pronounced dead at UW Hospital.
The occupants of the car were all University of Wisconsin students.
Madison police would no longer be allowed to fine the homeless for public urination and sleeping in parks under ordinance changes to be introduced soon by Ald. Brenda Konkel.
With limited shelter space and no new city programs for the homeless population coming down the pipe in 2009, Konkel said the ordinance changes she will introduce at a City Council meeting in September are intended to spark a discussion about how the city treats the homeless.
Madison police Lt. Joe Balles has two Badgers’ home games circled in red on his calendar.
And it’s not because he’s a big college football fan. In fact, he could do with fewer fans in town on Oct. 4, when the Badgers play Ohio State and on Oct. 11, when their foe will be Penn State.
Balles supervises patrol officers in the city’s Central District, so it’s his job to keep the peace Downtown, which doesn’t get easier when 80,000 people descend on Camp Randall.
The UW Board of Regents is expected to approve a two-year budget today for the University of Wisconsin System that includes a request for $37.5 million in tax money and $13.4 million in student fees to support an agenda to recruit and retain more students.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Outgoing University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor John Wiley is receiving praise for starting a public debate about the future of higher education in Wisconsin.
Children can become rock stars without stepping on a stage.
They can hit a hole in one without holding a golf club.
They can fly missions in a helicopter without leaving the ground.
A growing number of video games let children simulate actions and tasks without any knowledge of their real-life counterparts. But how well or poorly do the games convey real-life skills to children?
It depends on who you ask.
Video games do not necessarily provide children with all the things they need to be an educated person or even master certain tasks, said David Williamson Shaffer, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. However, they can provide specific skills, motivation and an opportunity to solve problems as people do in the real world.
Don’t look now, but biotech might not be Madison’s only technological identity, and its emerging information technology image is being shaped in the heart of town.
As the city attempts to lure the so-called â??creative class,â? downtown Madison slowly is becoming a coveted destination for information technology companies.
MADISON (WKOW) — A man found dead near Camp Randall stadium was jailed last month for violating probation rules against drinking any alcohol.
Authorities identified the man found at a Breese Terrace building as Jonathan Krenzelok, 29, of Madison.
Dear Editor:
We in Madison are blessed with wonderful things to do, places to go and a rich history of enjoying the environment. One place that we are blessed to have is the Arboretum. The Arboretum is a place to walk, run, bike and cross country ski. It is also a place for study and research.
We must preserve this wonder for our generation and generations to come. We as citizens must not take for granted what the Arboretum is all about. It is for the family and it is for individuals as well.
The public is invited to take part in a multicultural arts event honoring outgoing University of Wisconsin Chancellor John Wiley at the Overture Center in downtown Madison.
The Sept. 15 event, “An Evening of Celebration,” will feature music, drama and dance performances from some of UW-Madison’s most accomplished artists.
California-born Shannon Payette Seip moved to Madison to attend the journalism graduate program at UW-Madison and formerly worked as a producer, reporter and news anchor for WKOW-TV (Ch. 27).
MADISON, Wis. — Increasing sales of trademarked University of Wisconsin merchandise means the school will have more financial aid money for its neediest students this school year.
The university earned a record $2.8 million in royalties from the sales of sweat shirts, hats, jerseys and other items in the budget year that ended June 30. That was up $700,000, or 33 percent, from the previous year.
Underground utility construction on Library Mall on the UW-Madison campus has begun and won’t be completed until June 2009.
The work is expected to increase utility capacity and improve reliability in the east campus area.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, often mentioned as a potential running mate for Sen. John McCain, promoted the presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s energy policy and critiqued his rival’s as he campaigned across Wisconsin — including at UW-Madison — on Monday.
Gov. Tim Pawlenty was on the road again Monday, campaigning for Republican John McCain in the critical swing state of Wisconsin. During a stop in Madison, Pawlenty touted Sen. John McCain’s energy plan, focusing on McCain’s call for more nuclear power.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty was in the state Monday to raise cash for state Republicans, but dropped no hints as to where he stands when it comes to joining the GOP ticket to be headed by John McCain. As part of his visit, Pawlenty visited UW-Madison’s teaching and research nuclear reactor.
Animal rights activists who want to build a museum highlighting what they say is cruelty at UW-Madison’s primate labs asked the state Supreme Court on Monday to review a lower court decision allowing a property owner to revoke his sale offer.
Possible Republican vice presidential pick Tim Pawlenty toured the UW-Madison nuclear reactor Monday and said the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Sen. Barack Obama, of Illinois, would “slam the door shut” on expanding nuclear power and off-shore oil drilling.
The Madison Fire Department’s Hazardous Incident Team contained a chemical spill inside a pharmaceutical company building Monday afternoon in University Research Park on the city’s West Side, but two people were injured and taken to UW Hospital.
An autopsy Sunday failed to provide a reason for the death of Jonathan J. Krenzelok, 29, of Madison, who died Saturday evening on a porch at 144 Breese Terrace.
Dane County Coroner John Stanley said preliminary findings from the autopsy “confirm that physical trauma was not the cause of death,” in the case. Further medical studies are pending, Stanley said.
Krenzelok helped a friend move into the house, part of the Triangle fraternity on Friday, and was drinking with friends Friday night. He was found dead on the porch of the house at about 5 p.m. Saturday.
The case remains under investigation by the Madison Police Department and the Dane County Coroner’s Office.
Materials which have the remarkable ability to assemble themselves spontaneously into microscopic structures are promising to make possible higher-capacity computer hard disc drives at lower cost. The new fabrication method comes as manufacturers reach the limits of hard disc miniaturisation using traditional manufacturing techniques and look to so-called “patterned media” – regular arrays of magnetic material on the disc surface – as the way ahead.
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Hitachi scientists have combined the conventional way of creating microelectronic devices – lithography – with these unusual materials, called block co-polymers.
MADISON, Wis. — Authorities are investigating after a man was found dead on a porch Saturday after a night of drinking.
The house is near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The man was discovered at a house attached to the Triangle Fraternity house, located across the street from Camp Randall Stadium.
A person who lives there called 911 about 5 p.m. Saturday after finding the man on the porch, not breathing.
Do you suppose that Rep. Steve Nass and the other university bashers in the Legislature were paying attention a few days ago when Jon Foley, one of the stars on the UW-Madison campus, announced he is leaving for Minnesota?
….The 40-year-old professor made it clear that it was an opportunity he couldn’t refuse. But he also made it clear that the constant stream of bickering and budget cuts aimed at the UW by some of our state legislators played a role in his decision.
La Crosse native Amy Bechtum will be the first director of the Office of the Wisconsin Covenant, Gov. Jim Doyle announced today.
Chess grandmaster Maurice Ashley will simultaneously play up to 25 other people Friday at the UW Memorial Union.
Up to a dozen playing places remain available for UW-Madison students, faculty and staff on a first-come, first-served basis. The event is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m.
Ashley is a world-renowned chess player and the only African-American international grandmaster of chess. The Asset Builders of America are sponsoring Ashley’s visit to Madison as part of a weekend-long conference about financial education.
UW-Madison’s new pedestrian-bicycle path parallel to Campus Drive is impressive for a variety of reasons, none more striking than the array of solar-powered light fixtures installed by Madison Gas & Electric.
Extending from University Bay Drive to a series of sidewalks near the barns on Linden Drive, the 10-foot-wide asphalt ribbon links the university’s agriculture campus to the southeast fringes of Shorewood Hills by way of the VA and UW hospitals. Along the way, peds and cyclists encounter an at-grade crossing of Highland Avenue, and traverses Walnut Street via a new bridge, with a staircase on one side of Walnut and a ramp on the other providing access between the street and the new path.
Trek Bicycles annual sales meeting at Monona Terrace could cause some traffic tieups Thursday and Saturday evenings downtown to accommodate two bike rides, but the Metro bus system doesn’t expect to have to detour buses because of heavy bicycle traffic.
Bicycle rides are planned from Monona Terrace to the UW Union Terrace at 6 p.m. Thursday and Saturday, but the bicyclists will most likely delay bus service rather than force Metro to detour buses away from the Capitol Loop/State Street routes, according to a Metro spokesman.
A 19-year-old Fitchburg man was pistol whipped and robbed early Saturday morning by a group of seven or eight men who attacked him on Regent Street.
Madison police said the victim reported the attack about 10 a.m. Saturday but it happened about 2 a.m., in the 100 block of Regent Street.
MADISON, Wis. — Madison prides itself on the miles of bike paths that wind through the city and now one section of path is even “greener” than the others.
A portion of a bike path on the University of Wisconsin campus is becoming easier and brighter to get around — while going green in the process.
MADISON, Wis. — A 359-unit apartment project in University Square officially celebrated its opening Wednesday with the installation of a 500-ton elephant from India named “Lucky.”
That’s the same name of the luxury apartment building owned by developer Steve Brown, who just struck a settlement agreement with the City of Madison over a dispute regarding access for disabled persons involving hundreds of regular use apartments.
A tipsy driver who told police “I must have taken a wrong turn” drove off the end of Lake Street and into Lake Mendota early Wednesday morning, but was able to swim to safety because his car window was rolled down, police said.
Jeremiah J. Hoefle, 20, Waunakee, was arrested and tentatively charged with operating while intoxicated, reckless driving and being an underaged person consuming alcohol, following the incident that happened about 1:47 a.m.
The city of Madison is a cultural hotbed. Housed in these â??77 square miles surrounded by realityâ? are more than 500 restaurants, a plethora of music venues, myriad street performers, a little more than a dozen active theaters and a handful of art galleries. With this vast array of destinations and eateries, itâ??s easy to feel overwhelmed. But fear not, weâ??ve compiled a list of must-do activities that will quickly acquaint you with the city. So tear this page out â?? keep it with you â?? and experience everything the city of Madison has to offer.
John Wiley’s fundraising acumen is legendary.
During one seven-month stretch of 2004, the UW-Madison chancellor logged 20,000 miles to secure gifts from a range of alumni and other donors for student financial aid, campus buildings, new programs and faculty recruiting. By May 2005, the university had reached its goal of raising $1.5 billion in private donations — 18 months ahead of schedule.
Yet every year, Tandem Press can count on Wiley to step away from his post atop Bascom Hill to make metal wine racks for the press’s annual wine auction fundraiser.
“I think from the first time I encountered John, it was very apparent that he was a Renaissance man,” said Paula Panczenko, executive director of Tandem Press, a self-supporting printmaking studio affiliated with UW-Madison’s Department of Art. “He is an amazing supporter of the arts on campus.”
UW-Madison is losing another of its bright lights.
Jon Foley, founder and director of the UW-Madison’s Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment, or SAGE, has accepted an offer from the University of Minnesota to become the director of a new system-wide environmental institute.
In what could be the start of rapid growth at the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha, officials Tuesday signed an agreement bringing a new UW-Oshkosh bachelor’s degree to the two-year campus.
UW-Madison researchers will try to better understand how human embryonic stem cells perform their scientific magic through an $8.9 million federal grant announced Monday.
According to a news release from the Madison Police Department:
Early Sunday morning Madison Police received reports that a man had been grabbing the buttocks of young women on State and Langdon Streets. One victim said she was actually “grabbed” twice by the suspect. The first assault happened as she and a group of friends were walking on State Street around 3:00 a.m.
The second assault occurred twenty minutes later as she and a female friend were walking on Langdon Street.
A faculty union is suing UW-Platteville over the way its chancellor wants to award merit pay increases.
The case could help decide how a new $10 million fund is awarded across the University of Wisconsin System. Lawmakers created the fund last year to help recruit and retain faculty members and researchers, whose salaries are lagging behind those at rival schools.
Gov. Jim Doyle said Friday that the state should stop using coal to fuel heating and cooling plants in Madison, following the release of a major study with the same recommendation.
When the feature film “Side Effects” debuted in 2005, writer-director Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau became a voice articulating problems in the pharmaceutical industry in this country. These days, her voice is being heard on a slew of other topics, too.
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MADISON, Wis. — A man was arrested and accused of robbing a Madison bank on Thursday morning in which police said he claimed that he had a bomb.
The incident occurred at the Badger Campus Credit Union on Spring Street when the man apparently entered the bank and demanded money, according to Madison police
Biddy Martin, the new chancellor for the University of Wisconsin, will have a refurbished, more energy-efficient place to call home.
A $2.4 million renovation of Olin House, the traditional residence of UW-Madison chancellors, was recently completed.
“The functionality of Olin House had badly deteriorated over time, and some of its infrastructure dated to 1911 and was failing,” said retiring UW Chancellor John D. Wiley in a University Communications news release.
In addition to being the primary residence for the chancellor, the home is also used for between 35 and 70 fundraising, community and alumni events each year.
Call it extreme home makeover, university edition.
For the past 10 months, the official residence of the UW-Madison chancellor has undergone a major renovation to rework the plumbing, heating and air conditioning, wiring and other interior updates.
To the Editor:
Is reading the nutrition information on a bag of potato chips â??readingâ?? What about the box score for a Yankees game or closed captions on a TV program?
People have always been able to read in different media and circumstances. Whatâ??s important is the personâ??s purpose in reading, not the medium itself.
Are you looking for specific information, following a historical narrative or savoring the language in a Jane Austen novel?
Thereâ??s very little reading that can be done in one medium (the Internet) but not in the other (traditional print). The rest is all convenience.
Itâ??s harder on the Internet to stumble on those small interesting stories in the back of a newspaper, but itâ??s easier to find specific facts. Thereâ??s no single answer to which is better, but itâ??s all good.
Mark Seidenberg
Madison, Wis., July 29, 2008
The writer is a professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin.
By most accounts, the economy’s immediate forecast is mostly cloudy — if not gloomy.
It wouldn’t be much of a stretch to assume that such a climate would cause many a sleepless night for Sandy Wilcox, president of the University of Wisconsin Foundation — a nonprofit, tax-exempt corporation that is the official fundraising organization for UW-Madison. After all, few envision a scenario in which the state is suddenly going to start funding a higher percentage of UW-Madison’s $2.3 billion budget — making the work of the UW Foundation increasingly more important to the university’s financial well-being.
Bill Barker’s sure-handed guidance of the panels plotting the future of the city’s east side Central Park site and the former Garver Feed Mill at Olbrich Botanical Gardens over the past couple of years won respect from both colleagues on the panels and advocates who came before them. A geology researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Barker, 52, is Georgia-born and reared, and said his experiences moving with his family from one Appalachian cotton mill town to another as his father climbed the corporate ladder taught him that “everybody’s got something to recommend them.”
By the very telling measure of TV advertising, four Great Lakes states – Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania – have emerged as the hottest regional battleground in the 2008 presidential campaign.
Despite the talk of an “expanded map” in ’08, those four states accounted for half the overall television spending – and two-thirds of the Republican TV spending – since early June, according to new data compiled by the Wisconsin Advertising Project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
WASHINGTON â?? Senator John McCain and Senator Barack Obama have run more than 100,000 advertisements so far in their general election advertising, a tally that is well beyond anything seen at this point in a presidential campaign, according to an analysis by the Advertising Project of the University of Wisconsin.
Following a call for impeachment at a congressional hearing Friday, two town meetings are set Monday and Tuesday night in Madison and Milwaukee to discuss the possibility of the removal of President Bush and Vice President Cheney from office.
The town meetings will feature Vietnam war veteran Robert Bowman, a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel who is on a national speaking tour advocating impeachment.
The Madison “Take Back America” town meeting will be at 7 p.m. Monday in Van Vleck Hall on Bascom Hill on the UW-Madison campus.
MADISON, Wis. — Charlene M. Aitkin of Chicago, Ill, was sentenced on Friday to five years in prison and 10 years probation for identity theft.
A joint investigation between the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Police Department found that between January 2006 and September 2007, Aitkin and at least three other individuals stole purses and wallets from buildings on the both campuses.
Madison is one of America’s healthiest hometowns for seniors, according to the nation’s largest circulation magazine.
AARP The Magazine has named Madison the third healthiest city in America for older Americans, right behind Ann Arbor, Michigan and Honolulu, Hawaii.
….The article, written by Sarah Mahoney and Brad Edmondson, praised the city for embracing retirement issues and gives a lot of credit to the University of Wisconsin as a major reason why people choose to retire to Madison.
Scanner Dan, the Piccolo Guy, the Circle of Death. Mention these terms around most Madisonians, and you’ll get a knowing look, maybe hear the story of that one time Scanner Dan accosted them on State Street or the time they nearly crashed their vehicle trying to change lanes on the Circle of Death.
But if you’re not from Madison, you’re probably wondering what the heck they’re talking about.
That’s where CityDictionary.com comes in.
A thin, troubled college dropout confessed to killing Joel Marino, 31, for “no reason” during a robbery, according to court testimony Friday.
Adam Peterson, 20, a Minnesota man who briefly attended UW-Madison, told both police and his parents that Marino was a stranger to him, police said.
During a court hearing Friday, a recording of Adam Peterson was played in which he confessed to his father he stabbed Madison’s Joel Marino in January.
“I just stabbed him out of nowhere,” Peterson told his father, Melvin Peterson in a phone conversation taped at a Minnesota jail.
