State residents have an opportunity to help shape the future of the UW. You’re invited to participate in the UW System’s statewide discussion about how to strengthen the state’s communities and economy, as part of the university’s Advantage Wisconsin strategic initiative.
One of the oldest homes in the wooded Highlands neighborhood on Madison’s west side — a Swiss-style chalet built for a UW English literature professor — is slated for the wrecking ball unless a buyer can surface.
The Madison Plan Commission Monday night approved demolition of the “Pyre House” at 1015 Hillside Ave., pending a one-year waiting period.
Frances L. Murphy II, 85, publisher emeritus of the longest-running African American family-owned newspaper in the United States, died yesterday of cancer-related illnesses at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore.
Frances Louise Murphy II was raised in the newspaper business. The granddaughter of the founder of The Afro-American Newspapers chain, she learned the trade in classrooms and newsrooms, working as a reporter, editor and eventually publisher as she pushed to improve quality.
When blacks could not be admitted to the University of Maryland, the state paid for her to attend the University of Wisconsin, where she earned a journalism degree in 1944.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will start late-night walking patrols in the neighborhoods surrounding the school, hire more officers and seek a security review from an independent task force as part of a $500,000 campus safety initiative unveiled Tuesday
TONI SAMEK is not your mother’s librarian, but all things being equal, she wouldn’t mind being your daughter’s. That would indicate a future for librarians, an esteemed calling that inexplicably finds itself under fire from bean counters.
The Madison Police Department responded to a report of an armed robbery Monday morning from the Badger Campus Credit Union, formerly the UW Employeeâ??s Credit Union, after several separate robberies had been reported the previous week.
At least one smoke detector was removed from its ceiling mount and others were not working at the site of a fatal house fire early Sunday near the UW-Madison campus.
As a University of Wisconsin-Madison student who resided at Ogg Hall during its farewell year, I think the construction of a $28 million state-of-the-art residence seems unjustified in a time when the university struggles to fund desperately needed diversity initiatives (“Raucous UW dorm goes upscale,” Nov. 12).
The intimate rooms and dated decor of “Odd Ogg” would have been small inconveniences to endure for attending a university that achieves a diverse student body by allocating ample financial aid to under-represented groups. At the present tuition rate, the $28 million spent on Ogg could have provided complete four-year scholarships to about 1,000 students who might otherwise be financially unable to attend UW-Madison.
n a setback for Gov. Jim Doyle, a proposed constitutional amendment to kill the so-called “Frankenstein veto” cleared a major hurdle today.
On a bipartisan 4-0 vote, the Senate Ethics Reform and Government Operations Committee approved the proposed constitutional amendment, clearing the way for Senate approval of the measure. If the full Senate approves it, the proposal would go to voters for final approval next year.
The old Ogg Hallâ??s era has come to an end but thanks to â??The One and Only Ogg Blog,â? hundreds of former residents have shared their memories and even requested pieces of the building.
Computer-security analysts have long since learned to hate â??botnetsâ?: clusters of computers, infected with worms or Trojan-horse programs, that are taken over by outside users. After all, botnets can do plenty of awful things: They trawl for passwords and credit-card numbers, fire off spam, and propagate automatically.
But now Paul Barford, a computer scientist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, says he may soon be able to stop botnets in their tracks. Mr. Barfordâ??s company, Nemean Networks, is developing software that can identify 99.9 percent of â??malicious signaturesâ? associated with botnet attacks, according to Roland Piquepaille of ZDNet.
Representative Mary Hubler has sent a letter to the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board (ECB) urging that the board study the possibility of televising all Big Ten sports events on Wisconsin Public Television.
Hubler noted that Wisconsin Public Television (WPT) has offered Badger sporting events on delayed broadcast for 35 years. Now, however, the University of Wisconsin, the Big Ten and the giant cable sports network ESPN have signed contracts that reserve these sports events for subscribers of certain cable or satellite providers
University of Wisconsin-Madison business alums are taking their famous Badger pride to new heights, issuing an unusualâ??and lucrativeâ??mandate to the school: “Keep That Name.”
In an unusual twist in the business school naming gameâ??generally, a wealthy donor gives a multimillion-dollar gift to get his name on the schoolâ??the school formally known as Wisconsin School of Business has received an $85 million group donation from alumni that will allow the school to keep its current name for the next 20 years.
Dane County Circuit Court Judge Angela Bartell, the longest tenured judge currently serving in Dane County, will end her career in February after 30 years on the bench, she said in a letter to Gov. James E. Doyle Monday.
Bartell became the second woman judge in Dane County on Jan. 3, 1978, when she was appointed as a county judge under the old judicial system, replacing Judge William Eich, who was in turn replacing the retiring William Sachtjen as a circuit court judge. The next year Wisconsin adopted a restructured court system and all county judges were made circuit judges.
Quoted: Andy Carlin, Gander Mountain’s senior vice president for store operations and a UW-Madison graduate.
They look like poorly erected circus tents, or maybe miniature mountain landscapes, elevated three or four feet off the ground by wire stakes. Officials from the city, Dane County and the UW-Madison art department all say the objects don ‘t belong to them.
A group of University of Wisconsin at Madison alumni have given $85-million to the School of Business so that it can retain its traditional name, officials announced last month.
The members of the group made 13 donations through the “Wisconsin Naming Partnership” to preserve the name for at least 20 years.
For that time, the business school will not be named for a single donor, but after that time, all bets are off if the right donation to the school comes through. However, the members of the partnership will offer advice on potential names.
When he became dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business in 2002, Michael Knetter went looking for a big donor, someone who would give $50 million in exchange for putting their name on the school.
No one was interested.
So, Knetter decided to do something radical: find contributors willing to pay to keep the school’s name off the market.
In his story (â??Law School warns students of strange man,â? Oct. 18), Pedro Oliveira condones how some persons from the Law School have damaged the reputations of Alfred Fares and myself.
Thirteen University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business alumni have anted up a combined $85 million for “unnaming” rights to the school.
More than 20 years ago, a combination of people (UW-Madison students) and an idea (a satirical newspaper) came together in Madison to create the hugely successful national publication, The Onion. In 2007, another convergence of people and ideas in Madison created Our Lives, a new bi-monthly magazine for Madison’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) population.
Chancellor Joe Gow unveiled more details of the modified version of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosseâ??s Growth and Access Agenda to the campus community Thursday.
The new Growth, Quality and Access plan seeks to grow total enrollment by at least 500 additional students in the next three to five years, hire at least 75 more faculty and 20 more staff members in the next five years and provide increased financial aid for students from low- and middle-income families.
Madison Police Chief Noble Wray predicted the costs of policing this past weekend’s Freakfest State Street event would be on a par with last year police costs: $763,000.
Wray said Freakfest police costs have been increasing every year until now. “We did not add police staff to the event in a significant way.”
The Halloween weekend has for many years thrown a scare into Madison. It is not that this city is frightened by the prospect of a big party. Quite the opposite. The problem was that the fun nature of the festivities on State Street was warped by a handful of rowdies who did not know how to have a good time.
The University of Wisconsin-Madisons School of Business has received an $85 million gift from a group of 13 alumni – the biggest single gift in UW-Madisons history – to add faculty, boost the schools reputation and improve teaching and research, but not to change its name anytime soon.
It worked again.
For the second year in a row, police needed little more than plastic fencing and some strategically placed horses to peacefully clear the crowd on State Street after Madison’s annual Halloween celebration.
Madison may have lost one of its “best place ” titles Saturday night: It has evidently lost the distinction of being the to best place in the U.S. to riot on Halloween.
Forget a car, the bus or the train. A few of the alumni in town for homecoming, flew into Madison Friday, on fighter jets. When the signup sheet came around to be part of a flyover preceding Saturday’s game at Camp Randall, Marine Major Smith said he jumped on the chance.
Smith landed at Wisconsin Aviation facility around noon from a Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He flew in an FA 18 hornet fighter jet, which he’s flown for about eight years.
UW-Madison ranks among the top-10 public and private universities for maintaining green practices, earning a â??B+â? grade from the Sustainable Endowments Instituteâ??s 2008 College Sustainability Report Card, released Wednesday.
Students at UW-Madison received nearly $569,000 in scholarships this year courtesy of local chapters and affiliates of the Wisconsin Alumni Association.
For the 2007-08 academic year, 352 students from 77 cities in Wisconsin and 25 other states received WAA scholarships, ranging from $200 to $8,000 for a school year.
Bring on the zany costumes and good natured fun.
Just don ‘t freak out with violence or damage to property at this year ‘s Freakfest on State Street.
UW-Madison’s new Microbial Sciences Building, which will be formally dedicated this afternoon, is now the largest academic building on campus.
In a longstanding tradition of debauchery, drunks, scanty costumes and excrement, the University of Wisconsin and the city of Madison, Wis., brace themselves for yet another Halloween on State Street. Just as moths to the flame are University underclassmen flocking to Madison to experience firsthand the heralded night of escape. This year, however, might bring obstacles to those underage drinkers looking for a riot or the perpetual nip-slip.
As a proud alumnus of the University of Wisconsin, I bleed cardinal and white. I love our university and have worked tirelessly to make it even better, both financially and through my time and talent.
As much as I love this place, on football Saturdays, in and outside of Camp Randall Stadium, there is a part of life here that needs to change.
It is a police officerâ??s worst nightmareâ??a riot fueled by alcohol and anger with the only line of defense being an undermanned and overwhelmed staff resorting to tear gas in fear for their own safety.
The University of Wisconsin received nearly $100,000 in grant money from the Royal Thai Embassy, the UW Center for Southeast Asian Studies announced Tuesday.
With the Wisconsin state budget passing last night in both the House and the Assembly, renovations of both Memorial Union and Union South were approved, as well as a major University of Wisconsin Housing project. However, a planned addition of two residence halls in the Lakeshore area was nixed in the Assembly.
The Legislature passed a long-overdue budget late Tuesday, even as lawmakers discovered new provisions – including one allowing grocery stores to serve customers free samples of hard liquor.
The little-noticed tidbit in the budget would allow grocers and liquor stores to serve up to 1 1/2 ounces of whiskey, gin and other liquors to customers each visit. The budget, 115 days overdue, was the second-latest spending plan the Legislature ever adopted.
The state budget came one step closer to being finalized Monday, passing out of the Conference Committee of legislative leaders and gaining support by UW System leaders.
After all this time, it looks as if the Legislature will vote on a budget today that Gov. Doyle will sign.
That ‘s such a relief we might be forgiven if we were to ignore the pesky little fact that the budget rests on a bed of funds that are extorted from one segment of the state ‘s residents and stolen from another.
Property taxes would rise $80 – or by 2.9% – on the typical home in December under the state budget lawmakers are expected to adopt today, documents released Monday show. Here is a summary of budget provisions, prepared by the Legislative Fiscal Bureau.
Gov. Jim Doyle and legislative leaders announced Friday that an agreement on the overdue state budget had been reached, with a full vote possible as soon as Tuesday.
Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle reached a budget agreement with bipartisan legislative leaders late Friday night, but some legislators are still uncertain of its future.
If budgets are roadmaps that lay out a course for a state’s future, then the compromise spending plan reached late Friday by Gov. Jim Doyle and legislative leaders takes Wisconsin mostly in the right direction
The week that resolved the three-month budget impasse started with a Monday showdown that taught Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle he couldn’t club Assembly Republicans into a deal; moved to rallies at which public workers denounced those same Republicans; and ended with handshakes Friday.
Legislative leaders and Gov. Jim Doyle met behind closed doors Friday afternoon to discuss resolving the nation’s longest budget impasse.
This week, when a retired schoolteacher from New Jersey became the first baby boomer to apply online for early retirement benefits from Social Security, it was the stuff of national news.
After all, nearly 80 million Americans were born from 1946 to 1964, and they are expected to flood the Social Security system in the coming decades.
Among those who took notice of this week’s milestone was a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor named John Witte.
MADISON â?? A Wisconsin lawmaker said today he will sit at his desk in the Assembly chamber until his colleagues approve a long overdue state budget.
Rep. Tom Nelson, D-Kaukauna, started the sit-in Thursday morning and said he was willing to stay there 24 hours a day, seven days a week until lawmakers approve a new two-year budget.
Debate over the stalled state budget erupted into two competing rallies at the state Capitol Wednesday, with one group demanding no new taxes and another group urging legislators to pass the budget now.
In the midst of the continuing budget chaos, a new bill to divide the state budget and pass each aspect separately through bipartisan committees is being drafted by Sen. Alberta Darling, R-River Hills.
Capitol Square was flooded Wednesday afternoon with the loud protests of angry public workers, sympathetic honking car horns and music from a taxpayers group, which looped between politiciansâ?? calls for decreased spending and U2â??s â??Beautiful Day.â?
Madison, Wis. – Business school students routinely learn the basic tenets of supply and demand, but these days the campus CIO had better be well versed in it, too.
Nobody knows that better than Ron Kraemer, chief information officer and vice provost for information technology for the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The expectations (and appetite) of students and to a lesser degree faculty for advanced technology create the consumer demand, and Kraemer realizes he had better be a steady supplier.
Madison, Wis. – Business school students routinely learn the basic tenets of supply and demand, but these days the campus CIO had better be well versed in it, too.
Nobody knows that better than Ron Kraemer, chief information officer and vice provost for information technology for the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The expectations (and appetite) of students and to a lesser degree faculty for advanced technology create the consumer demand, and Kraemer realizes he had better be a steady supplier.
The Havens Center is commemorating the 40th anniversary of â??Dow Dayâ? in Madison with three days of lectures and a forum. The series entitled â??The Day that Changed Madison: The â??Dow Riotâ?? forty years on,â? began Tuesday night with a lecture by Paul Buhle, a lecturer at Brown University, focusing on Madisonâ??s history of liberal activism, how it was reinvigorated in the 1960s, and its continuing effects on the university.
The man who allegedly robbed Fraboniâ??s Deli, 822 Regent St., and put southern parts of UW-Madisonâ??s campus on lockdown Sept. 28 was charged Friday with armed robbery.
A man accused of robbing a Regent Street store and causing several University of Wisconsin buildings to lock down late in September was charged with armed robbery Friday.
In the last few years, UW-Madison has spent more than $300,000 to prevent and resolve allegations of illegal downloading and sharing of music by users of the university ‘s computer network, the UW ‘s Division of Information Technology (DoIT) estimates.
Safety must be the top priority as Madison prepares for its annual Halloween party on State Street later this month.
But Mayor Dave Cieslewicz and Police Chief Noble Wray also need to get a handle on escalating costs.
UW-Madisonâ??s participation in gaining state funding for itself and the UW System was debated Wednesday at a higher education forum at Grainger Hall.
