Category: UW-Madison Related

MADISON, Wisc. — Chapel Hill isn’t the only community where tens of thousands of people — including some who actually wear costumes — descend on downtown for Halloween.

MADISON, Wisc. — It pays to talk to the neighbors early and often.
That’s one of the lessons university leaders in this city say has been driven home over the past decade, as they’ve undertaken a number of building projects on the University of Wisconsin campus. Steps such as working with the city and neighboring village of Shorewood Hills to create standing committees of residents and officials have gone a long way toward improving town-gown relations, members of a discussion panel said Monday.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison will not recognize and fund the oldest and largest religious group on campus, for now, in a move that is sparking a debate over the separation of church and state.

A UW-Madison official told the UW Roman Catholic Foundation in an e-mail Friday that it had rejected its application to be a registered student organization because only three of its 12 board members are students.

The e-mail came just as a staff member of the Catholic group filed a complaint with the civil rights division of the U.S. Department of Justice alleging UW-Madison had discriminated against the religious group in a number of ways. The timing of the rejection and the complaint was called coincidental.

Since April, Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Green has campaigned on the promise of freezing state revenues at current levels.

When asked what services he would cut to meet that pledge – something his critics say is inevitable given the growing cost of such things as health insurance, fuel and utilities – Green has stayed away from specifics, suggesting the state could find savings through “administrative efficiencies” and by reducing outside contracts.

Sandi was tending begonias in her dorm room while she attended UW-Madison to get her bachelor’s degree in wildlife ecology. But her hobby took off in earnest a decade ago when a friend gave her an Arabian jasmine plant.

Although the school year has just begun, candidates are already jockeying for position in next spring’s School Board race, as longtime board member Ruth Robarts confirmed that she will not seek re-election.

….”This will make 10 years for me. I’ve done my service,” said Robarts, who is dean of students for the University of Wisconsin Law School.

A popular diversity resource center and the gay and lesbian student center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are in danger of losing their student funding.

This spring, Chancellor John Wiley sent a memo to the panel that disperses student funding, stating that only registered student organizations can receive student fees. That panel, the Student Services Finance Committee, wrote those rules into its bylaws.

Several programs, including the Diversity Education Program and the LGBT Campus Center, have received student funds but are not registered student organizations. That’s because they are run by professionals who work for the university, not students.

SAN FRANCISCO � After nearly three months in limbo, stranded and waiting for a U.S. security clearance in Canada, San Francisco State Arabic professor Mohammad Ramadan Hassan Salama finally returned to his classroom Wednesday.

Salama, whose wife and two children are American citizens, has a doctorate in comparative literature from the University of Wisconsin.

Halloween celebrations on State Street are going on as planned, but with a few changes from year’s past.

Students have mixed feelings about the new guidelines, but business owners are breathing a sigh of relief.

MADISON, Wis. — Madison’s alcohol policy coordinator presented a proposal Wednesday night that would freeze new liquor licenses in downtown Madison.The targeted area extends from Blair Street, east of the Capitol and west to Lake Street, which is where one-third of all of the city’s alcohol licenses are concentrated.

It’s official, if you want to celebrate Halloween on Madison’s State Street this year, it’ll cost you.
The city council passed a new plan for managing the massive celebration Tuesday night.

The city of Madison will charge a five dollar admission fee for access to the Halloween party on State Street and fence off the area.�  The City Council also decided Tuesday that the money raised will be used to offset taxpayer costs.� 

MADISON, Wis. — The city of Madison’s Halloween plan has been finalized after a year of planning and many meetings in the past few months between city leaders, police and fire departments, business owners and students

A 23-year-old woman avoided sexual assault by screaming and kicking her attacker. The scuffle knocked off the assailant’s glasses and forced him to flee, leaving behind the glasses and a portion of his shirt, which the woman clutched in her hand.

The glasses and the shred of shirt, along with a cigarette discarded during a police interview, provided DNA evidence that linked 33-year-old Paul C. Aud to the Aug. 23 attack at the woman’s Langdon Street apartment building.

Aud was charged Monday with kidnapping, attempted second-degree sexual assault and misdemeanor battery.

The rock band Tool has cancelled its performance scheduled for tonight at the Kohl Center, due to one of the band members falling ill. The concert will not be rescheduled, promoters said.

The Madison City Council tonight should wholeheartedly adopt Mayor Dave Cieslewicz’s plan to produce a safer and less costly Halloween bash Downtown.

Three degrees from UW-Madison – bachelor’s in journalism, bachelor’s in Spanish education and English as a second language, master’s in curriculum and instruction. Purusing doctorate in educational policy studies beginning this fall.

A Madison man accused of beating up a woman on Langdon Street makes his first court appearance.
Paul Curtis Aud is accused of following a woman home, and then attacking the 20 year old as she entered her apartment last month.

The newly-merged University of Wisconsin Colleges and UW Extension are perfectly positioned to complement the seamless life-learning system this state needs to compete on the highest levels around the world.

Carol Wehrmann is part of a fourth generation of Wehrmanns and has been with the shop since she graduated in 1976 with an anthropology degree from UW-Madison.

LaMarr Billups, senior special assistant to UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley and a member of the ALRC, said the university is pleased with Plant’s work. In particular, Plant has brought a much more data-driven approach to the committee, Billups said.

MADISON, Wis. — Tuesday is the day community leaders will finalize Halloween plans for State Street.Here’s a look at some of the compromises made between the city and UW students.Despite protests from students, the city still plans to fence off the entire street and charge $5 for anyone wishing to enter.

CAMPUS NOTEBOOK: A plan that would convert hundreds of University of Wisconsin-Madison limited-term employees to permanent status is heading toward ratification.

Under the plan, workers in about 40 percent of UW-Madison’s approximately 1,300 limited-term positions would see their pay raised. Many make about $7.50 an hour, and the UW would raise their pay to the city’s living wage level, currently $10.23 per hour, by July 2007.

About 500 limited-term jobs would be converted to permanent status over six years, estimated Darrell Bazzell, vice chancellor for administration.

Cell phone drive: The University of Wisconsin-Madison is organizing a used cellular phone drive to benefit victims of dating and domestic violence….

MADISON, Wis. — Few University of Wisconsin-Madison students attended a campus safety forum on Thursday night being sponsored by University police.The forum was organized to spread the word about campus violence and to enlist feedback, WISC-TV reported.

We’re glad to see the rebound of manufacturing jobs in Wisconsin, but were troubled that many employers are still having difficulty filling these high-paying positions.

The Center on Wisconsin Strategy, a research and policy center based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, reports that Wisconsin’s economy, private-sector job growth, wages and personal income are all on the rise.

A small gathering of UW students met to discuss a big problem Thursday night.

“I’m living off campus, there’s been a lot of crime in the area,” said Allison Solso, UW senior, “so I just wanted to come see the response to those crimes.”

Downtown Madison alders Mike Verveer and Austin King held an open forum on the cityââ?¬â?¢s plans for Halloween on the evening of Wednesday, Sept. 13. Located in a lecture hall at Bascom Hall on the UW campus, some 60 persons attend the meeting. The majority of attendees are students — with about ten attending compulsorily for a class project — with most offering numerous criticisms about the plan.

As the director of Planning & Landscape Architecture on campus and the one responsible for developing and implementing the Campus Master Plan, I find it intriguing Mr. Hennick hasn�t checked more into the history of Madison and the details of the latest Master Plan.

UW-Madison students trooped up Bascom Hill Wednesday evening and into Bascom Hall to complain about Mayor Dave Cieslewicz’s plan for a tamer Halloween, only to find out they didn’t have much choice in the matter.

In 2001, then-ALRC Chairman and Ald. Tim Bruer, 14th District, proposed but failed to establish an entertainment district with rules to curb binge drinking and other problems near UW-Madison.

University of Wisconsin System admissions officers sounded a loud and unified message Tuesday about their shift to holistic admissions: It’s no big deal.

The Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts and Letters will kick off a series of lectures starting Wednesday night at the Overture Center’s Capitol Theater geared to “understanding the Middle East.”

The first lecture, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., features Joe Elder, UW-Madison professor of sociology, who will talk about the differences between the major ethnic and religious groups in the Mideast.

“The horrible tragedy of Sept. 11 will remain in my memory forever,” wrote Liz O’Herrin of Marshall. “However, it did not fully hit me until I heard a news commentator refer to the attack as the second Pearl Harbor. Those words made my stomach churn.”

O’Herrin was in a class of Marshall High School students who wrote letters to the editor in the aftermath of Sept. 11. She noted that more than a month before the attack, she had decided to enlist in the Air National Guard.

“Two days before I was to be sworn in, planes crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in a terrorist attack,” she wrote. “Suddenly, the possibility of war was in my face like never before. . . Some people go into the Guard never expecting to actually have to defend the freedom of America. Me? I would gladly die for my country.”

O’Herrin went on to serve in Kuwait, and she just returned from duty in Iraq. She is now a student at UW-Madison.

Five years ago, Al-Qaida hijackers destroyed the World Trade Center in a horrifying cloud of ash and smoke. The events of Sept. 11 galvanized Americans across all political and economic divides. “United We Stand” was emblazoned on gas station marquees, and flags flew in every neighborhood.

MADISON, Wis. — Madison’s annual Halloween party on State Street will now take on a new name, according to a new student group that is organizing the event.

There’s a break in one of the more disturbing downtown Madison crimes, a gang rape.Ã? Detectives are intensifying their seach for other suspects after arresting one man in the rape of a 23 year old woman.Ã? Authorities say the arrested man is Mario Amaya, 26, Ã? of Madison.Ã? 

Whoo-hoo!

One man has been arrested, but three other men are still on the loose, following the sexual assault of a 23-year-old woman early Monday morning downtown.

Mario Amaya, 26, of Madison, was taken into custody without incident early this morning on second-degree sexual assault charges and is at the Dane County Jail.

….The victim was not a University of Wisconsin-Madison student, Madison police spokesperson Mike Hanson said, but many students frequent the area where the assault took place, since it’s teeming with bars and restaurants on the eastern edge of campus.

Dear Editor: I compliment Rep. Gary Hebl for his recent letter to The Capital Times about UW political science professor Leon Epstein, and join in that tribute.

Professor Epstein also made a tremendous impact on my education and career. I was lucky enough to have him when I was a student at UW-Madison and to count him as a friend and mentor. Professor Epstein leaves behind a tremendous legacy at the University of Wisconsin, not just on the department, but also on the lives of his students who were fortunate enough to learn from him during his long and accomplished career.

Police say two men are on the loose after raping a woman in a secluded area downtown, and police are also seeking two men who tried to join the assault.

The attack happened Monday shortly after 3 a.m. behind several businesses in the 500 block of University Avenue. The 23-year-old woman told police the assailants approached and then raped her behind two dumpsters.

Letter writer says: After reading the Sept. 2 article “Researcher, grants leaving UW for lack of partner benefits,” I’m again left wondering when politicians are going to get out of our bedrooms. And, once again, I’m left wondering how gay marriage is a threat to these politicians, their marriages or their families.

Foundations and charities in Wisconsin have the potential to tap into unprecedented wealth – more than $687 billion – that will be passed from one generation to the next in this half-century, according to projections to be released today.

In this decade alone, foundations could build endowments worth $5.3 billion and generate $263 million in charitable donations by tapping into just 5% of the wealth expected to be transferred.

The University of Wisconsin at Madison, $1.777-billion as of August 4 (increase of $11.4-million in the last month); the goal was $1.5-billion by 2007.

After reading the Sept. 2 article “Researcher, grants leaving UW for lack of partner benefits,” I’m again left wondering when politicians are going to get out of our bedrooms. And, once again, I’m left wondering how gay marriage is a threat to these politicians, their marriages or their families.

MADISON, Wis. — Madison police are searching for several men after a woman was allegedly sexually assaulted on Monday.

MADISON, Wis. — Madison’s mayor decided to compromise with University of Wisconsin-Madison students Tuesday night on final details of the Halloween festivities on State Street.

A 19-year-old UW-Madison student was in intensive care with a brain injury Friday after a fall down a flight of porch stairs following a night of drinking and a fight of some kind.

Madison City Council members representing the campus area want to delay a vote on the most controversial pieces of the mayor’s proposed plan to manage Halloween.

Paul Barrows wasn�t kidding when he said he wasn�t going away.

Three months after a University of Wisconsin appeals committee cleared Barrows of sexual harassment allegations, the former vice chancellor of student affairs is asking the UW System�s Board of Regents to review the university�s actions.

Don�t you think parents of college-age children would want to know if they could get reduced tuition at six other Midwest states? They can.

University of Wisconsin System officials entered into a reciprocity agree ment called the Miwest Student Exchange Program that would allow discounts of thousands of dollars for Wisconsin students to go to schools in North Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, Kansas, Missouri and Michigan.

Wisconsin students don’t know it, but they have become eligible for thousands of dollars in tuition breaks at dozens of Midwestern colleges and universities.

Madison City Council members representing the campus area want to delay a vote on the most controversial pieces of the mayor’s proposed plan to manage Halloween.

MADISON, Wis. — Madison police are making public two pieces of evidence that they believe was involved in a violent attack on a woman in her Langdon Street apartment building last week.

The man who savagely attacked a UW-Madison student in her Langdon St. apartment building Aug. 23, left behind a trail.

Police say blue eyeglasses were worn by the man who slipped through a propped-open door and pummeled a 20 year old resident, as she returned home early in the morning.

At $10,000 per season, minimum, the 40 new courtside seats for University of Wisconsin men’s basketball games are out of the reach of the majority of fans.

But for those with sizable discretionary income and a burning desire to get closer to the action, the plan could turn out to be something akin to hopping into the carpool lane to avoid rush-hour traffic.

Police today released information in the hope that someone would be able to identify the man who followed a woman into her Langdon Street apartment last week and punched her repeatedly in the face.

The attack happened about 1:15 a.m. Aug. 23 when the man slipped into an apartment building in the 100 block of Langdon Street through a opened door.

Monsignor Paul Swain, vicar general of the Diocese of Madison, will become the bishop of Sioux Falls, S.D., the diocese announced today.

He received a law degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison after serving as an Air Force intelligence officer in Vietnam from 1967-1972. Swain served as legal counsel and director of policy for Gov. Lee Dreyfus from 1979-1983.

A propped-open door at a Langdon Street apartment last week helped a man reach a young woman and repeatedly punch her. The late-night attack once again illustrates an obvious point -Ã? locks don’t work if tenants don’t use them.

COLUMBUS, OhioÃ? – Snap, Crackle and Pop have some competition in Columbus. The Ohio State Buckeyes have their own cereal.

Buckeye HerOes, the newest university-licensed food, will be available in grocery stores before the No. 1-ranked Ohio State football team opens its season Saturday against Northern Illinois at Ohio Stadium.

The box of honey-nut-flavored toasted oats features three mascots – former Buckeyes linebackers and current NFL rookies Bobby Carpenter, A.J. Hawk and Anthony Schlegel.”We couldn’t make them ‘block Os,’ so we made them Os,” said Rick Van Brimmer, director of trademark and licensing services at Ohio State.

A Madison man who robbed and pistol-whipped a man was hospitalized after the victim chased him down and, with several bystanders, beat him.

William D. Healy, 23, was tentatively charged with armed robbery and substantial battery after the incident, which happened Monday about 2 a.m. at a downtown Gorham Street parking lot.