Wisconsin is not making a legislative effort to keep textbook costs down, but Madison student groups are getting feisty about the issue.
Wisconsin Public Interest Research Group, a student- directed, student-funded statewide advocacy group in Madison, is working on local and national campaigns to reduce the cost of textbooks. WISPIRG has joined 14 other state student associations on the campaign.
In July, UW-Madison student Tom Wangard led the charge in decrying Mayor Dave Cieslewicz’s plans to tame Halloween on State Street, rallying thousands of students to join a group called Move Halloween to Langdon.
Last week, The Badger Herald published two editorials attacking me. Allow me to play Jesse Ventura (a 9/11 Truth supporter, by the way) and fight off this tag-team of Jeff ââ?¬Å?Butcher of the English Languageââ?¬Â Carnes and Ryan ââ?¬Å?Mistaken and Delusionalââ?¬Â Masse.
It was a haunted house that couldn’t help but stir up a spooky reaction Sunday near UW-Madison.
More than 20 members of the University of Wisconsin Math Department praised the UW System Board of Regents last week for its opposition to the proposed amendment banning gay marriage in Wisconsin.
Google has added yet another university to its digital-library project. The new member is the University of Wisconsin at Madison, which will contribute historical documents for digitization.
A thistle to the University of Wisconsin for a ridiculous legal attack on Waukee High School for alleged trademark infringement. Wisconsin badgered Waukee into dropping the capital W from its team logo because it too closely resembles the university’s “motion W.” The demand is ridiculous not just because it’s picking on a small Iowa high school. There’s also nothing special about that particular W. Variations of that sort of type design can be found in any font case. In effect, Wisconsin is trying to put its trademark on the alphabet. What’s next, the New York Times demanding that no one else can use Old English lettering?
Madison, Wis. – An education research team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will receive $3 million from the MacArthur Foundation to study the impact of digital media on youth culture, learning, and literacy.
Madison, Wis. – The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s partnership with Google to digitize hundreds of thousands of volumes in campus libraries could make one of the best historical collections in the nation available to Internet users.
In the coming months, the popular search engine company, in collaboration with the university and the Wisconsin Historical Society, will make books and rare documents currently available only on shelves and in archives freely accessible through Google Book Search.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, with events planned through the spring to commemorate its half-century history.
Letter-writers vent on the UW Marching band issue.
Carlos Santiago, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, announced Thursday that he will undergo surgery for prostate cancer next week and will be limiting his public appearances for four to six weeks.
The City of Madison is often referred to as a ââ?¬Å?college town,ââ?¬Â where rowdy students crowd the downtown streets on the weekends, innocent residents cringe at the thought of Halloween and not wearing red on game day is a cardinal sin.
Wisconsin’s largest used book sale began Wednesday in UW-Madison’s Memorial Library. The semiannual event offers more than 15,000 books on almost any topic.
It’s been a little over a year since Madison hired an Alcohol policy coordinator. Joel Plant was hired to work with businesses that serve alcohol along with the local government.
BILL AYERS seemed flabbergasted to hear that Leo Burt is still on the run. And I have to admit, I was flabbergasted that Ayers was flabbergasted.
….Ayers and I were chatting in advance of his appearance tonight, with his wife Bernardine Dohrn, at the Wisconsin Book Festival. Currently college professors in Chicago, Ayers and Dohrn are famous – or infamous, depending on your take – for their association, three decades ago, with the Weather Underground, a Vietnam War-era radical group that advocated and practiced violence against establishment targets.
….Burt, of course, is the last fugitive from the Vietnam protest era, 36 years and counting since the August 1970 bombing of the Army Math Research Center in Sterling Hall, a blast that did $6 million damage and took the life of a young researcher, Robert Fassnacht, who was working late in the building when the bomb went off.
New Orleans is coming back, just as journalist Chris Rose will this weekend.
He’s back in the city where he began his journalistic career, but New Orleans is home for good, come hell or high water.
For a year, he wrote desperately to help a city that almost died.
Chris Rose believes “something very close to” a hurricane took him to New Orleans for the first time in 1980.
He and a friend, then students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, landed there when a storm foiled their Thanksgiving break and chased them out of Texas and Florida.
More than two decades later, Rose wrote about that trip in one of his many columns for the New Orleans Times-Picayune after Hurricane Katrina.
Two men were ordered to stand trial on numerous felony counts for an alleged gang rape in the campus area on Labor Day weekend. But charges against a third man, who admitted he was involved in the assaults, were reduced to misdemeanors following a preliminary hearing Monday.
MADISON, Wis. — The 23-year-old woman testified on Monday during a preliminary hearing for three men charged with raping and assaulting her near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus area last month.The suspects — Marcus Bonner, Mario Orlando-Amaya and Anthony Freda — are charged with raping the woman in an alley in the 500 block of University Avenue behind Ian’s Pizza early on Labor Day morning.
The University of Wisconsin System is going to get some skeptical looks when the next budget gets analyzed.
Over the past year or so, a variety of revelations concerning the governance of the system has hurt its reputation, at least among some state legislators. Backup jobs, criminal employees, pay for dismissed employees ââ?¬â? now, there’s one more thing.
MENASHA ââ?¬â? In keeping with an audit’s recommendations, University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly said Monday the system will take steps to better advise staff members about personnel policies by June.
Three University of Wisconsin professors who took paid sabbaticals did not return to their schools afterward for the year required under state law, according to a new audit.
The faculty members at UW-Madison, UW-Platteville and UW-Stout should be expected to repay the salary and benefits they received during the sabbaticals, according to the report by the nonpartisan Legislative Audit Bureau.
LA CROSSE, Wis. – Past midnight the downtown bars are humming with university students sucking down brews on five-buck unlimited beer night. One patron stumbles outside twirling around a lamppost. A few tanked-up guys howl and whistle at women
The University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Wisconsin Historical Society announced Thursday that they are making nearly 500,000 historical books and documents available for a new search engine that aims to do with books what Google has done for Web sites.
MADISON, Wis. — Organizers for Madison’s new city-sanctioned Halloween celebration unveiled on Thursday the list of bands set to perform.This year’s event, rechristened “Freakfest on State Street,” will require a ticket to enter and boasts a series of new security measures to stem some of the problems that have plagued the annual ritual. It will be held on Saturday, Oct. 28, WISC-TV reported.
At some point this isn’t headline news anymore: Google has added yet another university to its library project. The project’s new member is the University of Wisconsin at Madison, which will contribute historical documents for digitization.
The University library and historical societies are in the process of selecting materials to send to Google so they can be digitized and loaded onto the Internet.
The University had been trying to digitize it’s own materials since 2000, and says working with the Internet giant will save them millions of dollars.
The Madison Trust for Historic Preservation will offer a special walking tour of the UW-Madison campus on Nov. 4.
The University of Wisconsin has agreed to take part in Google Inc.’s bid to scan book collections of the world’s great libraries, joining a second wave of backers for the controversial project, the two organizations said late on Wednesday.
Quoted: Barton Miller, a professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Computer Science Department and chairman of the Industrial Affiliates Program.
A producer for Halloween on State Street says the event has once again secured sponsors.
John Kunz says “The Onion” newspaper and local news website, Madison.com have stepped forward as the primary sponsors. Kunz says he is in the process of securing other sponsors as well.
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater has ordered a former dean to pay the school back $113,000 for credit card expenses he has failed to justify, according to documents released Tuesday.
But Howard Ross, former dean of the College of Letters and Science, said he had discovered receipts that would prove the expenses were legitimate. He said he intended to pay back only the $269 for a subscription to an Internet dating service that he says he charged to his card by mistake.
Last week, Chancellor Wiley signed into effect the university�s new policy on Limited Term Employment. This issue has mainly been promoted on campus as a social justice imperative, and while it is tempting to believe that we need only adopt a new policy to put us one step closer to a just society, it is necessary to take a closer look at the policy to see if the changes will have their intended effects and to determine whether different policies could be more effective in achieving the stated social goals.
A demoted UW-Whitewater dean is being asked to reimburse the university $113,600 for questionable charges on his state procurement credit card, according to a letter released Tuesday.
It�s an easy walk through the isthmus from our state Capitol to Van Hise Hall, where University of Wisconsin System administrative offices are located at the UW-Madison.Unfortunately, the UW System and the Legislature are growing further apart by the day.
A 20-year-old man was injured Monday when he turned the moped he was driving into an oncoming car.
The crash happened shortly before 10 a.m. in the 200 block of North Park Street. Police said the moped driver was heading south when he attempted a left turn, failing to yield to an oncoming car. The moped slammed into the car, throwing the moped driver onto the car’s windshield.
We are living through an exciting period in women’s history, says Jan Gietzel, executive director of A Fund for Women, a nonprofit that is part of the Madison Community Foundation.
“The lives of women today are quite different from the experiences of their mothers and grandmothers,” Gietzel says, “and as the role of women in society has changed, women around the world, including Dane County, are accomplishing many ‘firsts’ in their careers and in their communities.”
Local trailblazers (including the entire Badger women’s hockey team and former UW System president Katharine Lyall) will be honored at the 2006 annual event and fundraiser of A Fund for Women, which will be Oct. 17 at the Monona Terrace Convention Center.
Dear Editor: In a recent article Professor Colleen Capper from UW’s department of educational leadership and policy analysis eloquently describes the harmful effects children and adolescents suffer from the terms “fag,” “faggot,” “that’s gay,” and “that’s so gay.” She lauds the Madison Metropolitan School District’s anti-bullying program supported by the Gay-Straight Alliance for Safe Schools.
As a school counselor I lament the fact that by giving such detailed attention exclusively to “gay language” harassment, Professor Capper implies that this harassment is more harmful than other types.
The UW Board of Regents voted Friday to oppose the Nov. 7 referendum banning gay marriage, saying it will hurt the University of Wisconsin System’s ability to recruit and retain gay and lesbian employees.
The Regents govern the System, which has 13 four-year universities and 13 two-year colleges. They said the amendment would threaten the state’s ability to provide domestic partner benefits.
The discovery this week of the body of Luke Homan in the Mississippi River in La Crosse was initially met with disbelief and even rumors of foul play. Given the deaths of seven other young men under similar circumstances in the past several years, that reaction is understandable.
A national legal group that seeks to defend religious freedom has filed a lawsuit challenging a decision by the University of Wisconsin at Superior to strip the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship of its status as a student group on the campus, according to an article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Roger Dobrick likes to play the recorder, a flute-like instrument, as part of a Renaissance music group. His daughter, a University of Wisconsin-Madison student, got him involved with the Society for Creative Anachronism.
UW-Madison unveiled a detailed policy Tuesday aimed at converting many of its limited-term employees to full-time workers with benefits.
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse student athlete Lucas ââ?¬Å?Lukeââ?¬Â Homan had an alcohol level four times the legal limit for driving when he drowned in the Mississippi River early Saturday, according to a preliminary autopsy.
Controversial Instructor Kevin Barrett believes the U.S. government was a conspirator in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
He lives for editorials like this one because he believes the ink and digital space will spotlight his name and the shock-and-awe of his contrary views on an American nightmare.
The Grand Reading Room was dedicated as the Habush Habush & Rottier Reading Room in a ceremony at the University of Wisconsin Law School Library.
….The renaming recognizes a major endowment and a contribution for renovations throughout the Law School, including a student commons area, a locker room and restrooms.
Joseph Kauffman, the dean of student affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison during the turbulent late 1960s and an architect of the Peace Corps, died on Friday, the university reported.
Kauffman went on to direct the university’s doctoral program in university administration. He was an emeritus professor of educational leadership and a UW System executive.
The cause of death was cancer, the university said in a written statement. He was 84.
Close to 170 people spent a summery afternoon in a UW-Madison lecture hall Sunday listening to the 9/11 conspiracy theories of UW-Madison instructor Kevin Barrett and a fellow member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth.
(MADISON) A professor at UW-Madison has introduced an online petition asking that democracy be restored in Thailand.
Thongchai Winichikul says he�s giving people a forum outside Thailand to discuss their ideas. He says the military takeover there has cut expressive freedoms in the country and he worries about the young people who have organized small gatherings in the Thai capital to protest the coup. He says the purpose of the effort is to call on the Thai authorities to not use any violence or harm or arrest the protestors. (Sixth item.)
Freakfest on State Street is creeping and crawling ever closer. This year, besides picking up a ghoulish costume, you’ll need to know where and how to scare up some tickets. Here are the gory details.
Police Chief Noble Wray has a vision for the future of downtown, and it includes cops on horses.
Wray, battling the perception that the downtown area has become unsafe, told Rotary Club members Wednesday that he hopes to permanently add foot, bike and horse patrols to the downtown police mix.
….The added officers are part of a vision Wray laid out for keeping the downtown safe, which included more neighborhood involvement, creating safe zones where pedestrians pass through areas of high visibility, increasing transportation options and, most of all, battling the drunken excess he sees as the root of downtown’s woes.
“We must move away from the entitlement culture of binge drinking,” he said.
MADISON, Wis. — Madison Police Chief Noble Wray said that he believes more police officers are necessary to curb the string of muggings and violence around bar-closing time in the city’s downtown.
MADISON, Wis. — Fleming Development presented plans Wednesday to develop a unique condominium project near the University of Wisconsin campus.
A plan that would promote hundreds of UW-Madison Limited Term Employees to full time positions over the next six years is heads to Chancellor Wiley�s desk in the next couple of weeks.
MADISON, Wis. — A man accused of a violent attack on Langdon Street in August will stand trial.Paul Aud is charged with kidnapping, attempted sexual assault and battery in connection with the beating of a woman in her downtown apartment.
Cora Marrett, the University of Wisconsin System’s chief academic officer, has been named to a post at the National Science Foundation.
Marrett will serve as assistant director of education and human resources at the foundation, UW System President Kevin Reilly has announced. Marrett, who is senior vice president for academic affairs, will lead the foundation’s efforts in science, technology, engineering and math education.
A Madison man was ordered to stand trial today in the vicious attack and attempted sexual assault of a woman at her Langdon Street apartment building.
Paul C. Aud, 33, was charged with kidnapping, attempted second-degree sexual assault and misdemeanor battery in the Aug. 23 attack.
Joseph Grande has a bachelor’s degree in biology from Oberlin College and master’s degrees in both water resources management and biological systems engineering from UW- Madison. He has worked as a high school science teacher and a research specialist.
MADISON, WIS. – When the University of Wisconsin-Madison created a master plan for its campus in 1995, the map outlining the changes didn’t even recognize the neighborhoods outside the university’s borders.
