More than 60 people packed a meeting room in Memorial Union on Tuesday to discuss police handling of Halloween festivities on State Street this year, many to criticize police use of pepper spray.
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The 23 American universities that are seeking to raise at least $1-billion collected a total of $246.5-million in gifts and pledges during the last month for which they had data available.
Robert Novak’s outing of a CIA operative married to a presidential critic barely came up and a promised student protest never materialized when the conservative commentator appeared here Wednesday night. Instead, the right-wing “Crossfire” panelist offered post-election analysis.
The Joint West Campus Area Committee met Tuesday night to discuss the renovation of the 1300 block of University Avenue.
Backed by 20 leaders of Wisconsin’s Asian communities, Heidi Pascual plans to launch the state’s first Asian magazine in January.
� Shree Shridharan, India, a retired UW-Madison educator.
Academic medical centers represent the top rung of medical research in this country and are widely thought to be impartial and independent. So it is disheartening to find them signing restrictive contracts with pharmaceutical companies that allow the companies to dictate what drug testing data can be openly discussed and published. The manufacturers of drugs and medical devices are already under increasing pressure to list all of their clinical trials and results in public databases. Now academic medical centers will need to clean up their own practices to help prevent suppression of information about the safety and efficacy of drugs.
Daunted by soaring costs, as many as a quarter of low-income students with grades and test scores that make them prime college material no longer even apply to college. This is bad news at a time when skilled jobs are moving abroad and a college diploma has become the minimum price of admission to the new economy. The Bush administration, however, could actually make this problem worse by cutting the federal Pell grant program, which was developed to encourage poor and working-class students to pursue higher education.
Two men accused of causing nearly $20,000 damage to 43 vehicles in a single night were charged Wednesday.
As Madison Police captain Luis Yudice’s retirement nears, he looks back on his 30-year law enforcement career, including his leadership role in planning for and dealing with this year’s Halloween bash on State Street.
‘This isn’t a war on drugs. This is a war on certain people who use certain drugs. I wonder if anyone’s going to go to prison for life for Vioxx?’
In a city that is devoting years of construction and redesign to the campus and downtown area, graffiti continues to be an ongoing problem.
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Five UW-Madison students were among eight men charged Wednesday with beating another student so badly last summer that he required plastic surgery to rebuild his nose.
A group of about 60 anti-war protesters created confusion Thursday when they held up rush hour traffic on University Avenue for over an hour. The group, protesting the escalation of fighting in Fallujah in Iraq, clogged the thoroughfare at about 4 p.m., after marching from Library Mall with a long, white, wordless banner.
The Madison Police Department will receive $117,000 from the federal government to help combat gun-related violence in the city.
The MadHatters, a University of Wisconsin men�s a cappella group, turned a dream into a reality Wednesday night, singing for a sold-out audience at the Overture Center�s Grand Overture Hall.
The state appeals court upheld a decision Thursday that the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse did not violate state open meetings law in naming Veterans Memorial Stadium and its field after a former coach.
Veterans of the Iraq war on the UW campus are not worried about being harassed like vets of the Vietnam era. But they acknowledge they can still spark politically heated conversations.
Almost five years to the day after University of Wisconsin biologist James Thompson reported the first-ever isolation and culturing of human embryonic stem cells, the state of California passed Proposition 71.
(November 11, 2004) ââ?¬â? ORCHARD PARK ââ?¬â? When Lee Evans walked into the locker room at the Buffalo Bills’ training facility Wednesday morning, he found a picture on his stool, one suitable for framing.
It captured the rookie wide receiver making his dazzling fingertip catch in the end zone Sunday against the Jets, the second touchdown reception of his burgeoning career.
Their readers may still value the “class notes” most (the Wellesley Magazine section fostered a kidney transplant between graduates), but alumni magazines these days are revamped, glossy and offering an impressive array of more worldly topics. (Login required.)
Elton Aberle, dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will retire next September. Aberle made the announcement in a written statement on Monday. The college is home to 2,200 undergraduates and about 1,000 graduate students. It has an annual budget of more than $150 million.
Paul Barrows, University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor for student affairs, is taking an unspecified period of paid leave from the university. Barrows is well known for his leadership of campus diversity efforts. (11/5/04 Capital Times print edition)
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents was criticized Thursday for its plans to raise executive salary ranges. The regents’ Business and Finance Committee endorsed the raises; the full board was expected to approve the raises today.
The regents hedged on a plan released by the committee’s chairman earlier this week to seek a 5.5 percent tuition increase for each of the next two years to pay for an increase in faculty and staff salaries.
When California voters enacted a lavishly financed stem cell program on Tuesday, they performed a valuable service that should help keep this nation in the forefront of one of the most promising areas of biomedical research.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison, $1.286-billion as of October 15 (increase of $42.4-million in the last month); the goal is $1.5-billion by 2007.
Averting discussion of tuition estimates for the 2004-05 school year, the Business and Finance Committee of the UW Board of Regents focused Thursday on maintaining competitive salaries for UW System personnel.
As anyone who’s ever earned a college degree knows, it’s not unusual for universities to ask their students for money long after the last tuition payment has been made.
They call them “gifts,” rather than bills, after you graduate.
Whitewater, Wis. ââ?¬â? Despite all the financial and mental effort put into creating a product, without the right marketing it will never get past a limited release or even a prototype. A source of guidance and research moving further into the spotlight is the Wisconsin Innovation Service Center.
Much as he tries to disguise it, Jonathan Barry is frustrated. And he suspects others are, too. It’s been eight years since the former Dane County executive co-chaired a county committee that evaluated the feasibility of a commuter rail system. And he not only concluded it was worth pursuing, but predicted in a 1997 interview with this reporter that we’d have a such a system up and running no later than 2003.
More than 850 experts in international security have signed an open letter to the American people assessing the Bush administration’s foreign policy as a “misguided” one with “overwhelmingly negative” results for American national security.”
MADISON, Wis. ââ?¬â? The residents of 508 W. Washington Ave. were already pretty psyched when they realized that a massive rally with Sen. John F. Kerry and Bruce Springsteen would take place on their street Thursday afternoon.
When the rock star’s trailer parked in front of their house, 21-year-old Danya Bader-Natal ââ?¬â? one of the seven University of Wisconsin seniors who live in the gray wooden house ââ?¬â? scrawled a message in green marker on a flattened box and hung it from their second-story balcony: “Bruce come up for a beer.” (Login required.)
Construction throughout the city of Madison is evident around the campus and downtown area. No end is in sight of the current renovations, and benefits of new and updated facilities are continuing to be discussed.
MINNEAPOLIS – The man accused in a Midwestern mailbox bombing spree is mentally ill and should be committed, a federal magistrate judge ruled on Thursday.
Every fundamentalist movement she has studied has been rooted in profound fear, convinced that modern secular society wants to wipe out religion, British theologian Karen Armstrong told an attentive crowd at the Memorial Union Theater Wednesday night.
MADISON, Wis. — The largest political gathering in Madison history could take place today.
The Wisconsin Union no longer will offer Thanksgiving buffets because student participation dwindled in recent years. Instead, the union will offer Thanksgiving dinners to go.
A 21-year-old woman crossing the street and a 53-year-old bicyclist died within a half-hour of each other Tuesday night in east side traffic accidents. Both accidents happened as a light rain fell, possibly limiting visibility. (The woman was identified as UW-Madison senior Jai Plia Thao, an English and biology major.)
(MADISON)Ã? Today it was Caroline Kennedy stumping for Senator John Kerry, and come Thursday expect two more big name acts. Both Bruce Springsteen and the Foo Fighters will accompany Kerry on stage near Capitol Square. Campaign organizers expect Thursday’s rally to draw as many as 60,000 people.
MADISON, Wis. — Residents along West Washington are preparing for a rock concert and political rally in their front yards tomorrow.
The No Child Left Behind Act is intended to help K-12 schools meet educational standards and grow academically.
However, according to Charles Read, dean of the UW-Madison School of Education, who spoke to UW-Madison students and Madison-area residents Monday night, the act is not up to standards and has experienced growing pains.
Rising costs of building materials, including steel, concrete and lumber, have left University of Wisconsin campuses millions of dollars over budget on construction projects.
A memo to University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point faculty and staff outlining restrictions to political activity on campus riled some faculty members concerned over the tone of the letter.
FYI: We were at the recent Michael Moore speech at the Memorial Union Terrace. A group of what looked like college Republicans interrupted a lot of it by endless chanting inane slogans like “No Moore lies” and “Daddies love Bush.” Why didn’t the police stop them from disrupting a public event?
When the Audrey Seiler disappearance case became national news earlier this year, the rest of the country became aware of something a lot of Madisonians have known for years: Noble Wray has the experience, the intelligence and the demeanor to lead an urban police force even in the most difficult circumstances.
It’s now Madison Police Chief Noble Wray. There was a sense of jubilation and relief Thursday as the “acting” part of Noble Wray’s title was dropped and he became police chief….”My first week as acting chief was Audrey Seiler. My first week as chief will be Halloween,” Wray quipped.
Stretching limited resources in an expanding city and building public trust for the department are among the top tasks newly chosen Madison Police Chief Noble Wray says he is eager to tackle
Six alleged cocaine dealers, including former Badger running back Marvin Artley, were arrested and about 13 pounds of th
This year, after careful consideration, the benefit committee has elected to change the benefactor to the Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin Madison.
Three recent news stories were linked by a thread that stands out as if spun from lightning. It’s about time we were shocked into action.
The most recent article, under the headline “Lack of financial savvy can be the road to misery,” the State Journal’s George Hesselberg detailed how a variety of factors, including rising tuition and a tough job market, make it more important for UW-Madison students to know how to manage their personal finances – and how, if managing their finances were a course, lots of students would flunk.
Federal immigration officials arbitrarily cut off the supply of much-needed foreign technology workers and students on day one of the annual visa-granting cycle this month, with troubling implications for American businesses and universities including UW-Madis
Filmmaker Michael Moore is a controversial figure. The left loves him for having the courage to shine the light of truth on the abuses of power and privilege that have defined the past 3 years of American history. For exactly the same reason, the right hates him.
Construction crews are shoring up security features at the Kohl Center and Camp Randall Stadium.
The University of Wisconsin will begin construction on a new residence hall today, part of a major project that will change the entire look of the downtown campus over the course of the next 16 years.
MADISON, Wis. )� About five thousand students and community members turned out to see controversial filmmaker Michael Moore in Madison.
Harvard scientists are seeking permission to conduct therapeutic cloning that would involve the creation and destruction of early stage human embryos to get their stem cells for research. Although this kind of research is anathema to the Bush administration and has been opposed in unusually strong language by the president, it is vitally needed to improve scientific understanding of some of the most daunting diseases that plague human beings.
Finding a new president for the University of Wisconsin System cost state taxpayers more than $115,000, according to information provided by system officials. (Second item in Regional Briefs).
MADISON, Wis. — “Fahrenheit 9/11” director Michael Moore will be on the University of Wisconsin campus Saturday night.
…[includes:] intiative to transform East Washington Avenue into a ”Solar Mile” that would teach the community about energy from the sun. That would include installing solar panels along the street just east of the Capitol.
Madison:Ã? More conservation and more renewable energy- that’s the edict from Madison ‘s Energy Task Force.
