Do you ever wonder what it would take to earn a college degree online? The University of Wisconsin System?s eCampus is hosting a college fair via Twitter on Thursday to offer expert advice and information on this topic. Panelists will tweet information about how to choose an online degree, what programs are available and where to start the financial aid process.
We all juggle schedules, meal times, bills, etc. On top of that, try juggling long-handled clubs, small hoops or as many balls you can fit in your hand….The highlight of the MadFest Juggling Festival was the extravaganza Saturday night at the Wisconsin Union Theater in the UW-Madison Memorial Union. Juggling was just part of the show that also included music and comedy, two very important pieces in a juggler?s repertoire. What does the future hold for jugglers young and old? It?s all up in the air.
The photograph on the front page of Friday?s paper was apparently intended to justify UW-Madison?s announcement that it intends to spend $3 million to remodel its Dairy Cattle Center.
The photograph on the front page of Friday?s paper was apparently intended to justify UW-Madison?s announcement that it intends to spend $3 million to remodel its Dairy Cattle Center. The photo ought to have prompted the editors to ask why the university has been keeping cows in such deplorable conditions. Where is the oversight?
The area around Orchard Street and Capitol Court in downtown Madison was closed to the public Tuesday as authorities investigated a suspicious package. A University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department security officer found the suspicious package at about 11:45 a.m. between the Islamic Center of Madison and the Wisconsin Primate Center at 1223 Capitol Court. Additional resources we called in to check the item, including the UWPD explosive detection K-9s.
A suspicious item found Tuesday between the Wisconsin Primate Center and the Islamic Center of Madison caused authorities to evacuate both buildings and close campus streets for about 2½ hours while the Dane County bomb squad dealt with the item, UW-Madison police said. UW-Madison Police Sgt. Aaron Chapin said the bomb squad “disrupted the package,” but it was still not clear whether it had posed a threat. Chapin declined to describe the package and said officials were continuing to investigate what it was and where it came from.
The life and legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King will be front and center this weekend and on his official holiday on Monday as a variety of events are scheduled throughout Madison. The events kick off Friday with a free community dinner at UW-Madison and culminate Monday night with the annual King observance at the Overture Center.
WASHINGTON (WKOW) — The FBI is changing its definition of the crime of rape, which for the first time will include sexual assaults on males.
UW-Madison, not surprisingly, tops the list of most selective campuses in the University of Wisconsin System. But what are the next most competitive of the UW System?s 13 four-year campuses? According to a new report from the nonpartisan Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance, it?s UW-La Crosse and UW-Eau Claire.
A driver who faced little more than misdemeanors for an alleged second drunken driving offense and for driving after his license was revoked found himself charged with felonies Friday for allegedly fighting with the police officers who arrested him. Jason E. Brown, 37, of Madison led UW-Madison police on a short pursuit about 1:40 a.m. on Dec. 23 before parking at the Shorewood Hills Police Department and shutting off his lights, according to a criminal complaint filed in Dane County Circuit Court.
The outcome of the Rose Bowl may not have been what Badger fans in Pasadena had been hoping for, but they still managed to have a good time.
Driving without headlights early on New Year?s Day led to a traffic stop and multiple arrests, UW-Madison police reported. The arrests came about when a police dog brought to the scene sniffed out marijuana in the vehicle, while police found a loaded .38 caliber handgun and a large amount of cash in a purse left outside the vehicle, according to a police news release.
PASADENA, Calif. (WKOW) — Security will be tight at the Rose Parade before Monday?s Rose Bowl game. The University of Wisconsin-Madison marching band and the floats won?t be the only displays along the parade route. Occupy LA protesters are expected to bring their own float. Pasadena police say they will not be part of the official parade.
Dear Editor: I get why Gov. Scott Walker is trying to make the UW System a second-tier educational institution. He first cut $170 million from the UW budget, is now cutting over $46 million, and will cut $19.7 million more from the UW budget in 2012-13. He couldn?t successfully complete his own bachelor?s degree, and he doesn?t want others better educated than he is.
Local leaders are betting on the Badgers to win the Rose Bowl.
Mayor Paul Soglin and the mayor of Eugene, Oregon, Kitty Piercy, have a wager on the outcome. The two agreed to provide $500 to be used for tools for Habitat for Humanity organizations in either Madison or Eugene.
Mentions that Judith Kimble, UW-Madison biochemistry professor has been named to the President?s Committee on the National Medal of Science.
Sunday?s column by Chris Rickert questioned where Madison Prep Academy might have been had the UW-Madison put some of its “considerable political weight” behind the proposal. Likewise, I have been wondering for the past 11 months where UW-Madison and other UW System universities stand with respect to Wisconsin public education issues.
Where are you watching ?Bucky vs Ducky? when the Badgers play Oregon in the 2012 Rose Bowl on Monday, January 2? True fans can watch on the 18-foot HDTV at the official campus game watch location in The Sett at Union South, featuring Bucky, great food specials and other activities to celebrate UW?s return to Pasadena.
Jake Wood is fairly young to give the commencement speech at his alma mater.
It was just six years ago that Wood walked across the stage to receive his University of Wisconsin-Madison diploma. But he has packed in a lot in those few years – he joined the Marines, served tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, traveled to Haiti as a civilian to help earthquake victims and helped start a disaster response organization composed mostly of military veteran volunteers.
According to UW-Madison, the best way (not) to beat it is to block it, as the university took preventative measures to protect the exploitation of its name by pornographic websites.
No purveyor of pornography will be able to use the web address WisconsinBadgers.xxx. UW-Madison has seen to that. University officials filed to block anyone else from using five web addresses that involve UW-Madison federal trademarks, said Tricia Dickinson, marketing director at University Communications. Like many other universities doing the same thing, the idea is to prevent the porn industry from sullying the university?s good name.
he Dane County Regional Airport is pleased to announce that Delta Air Lines will add additional non-stop flights to the Los Angeles International Airport for Rose Bowl travelers. ?These additional non-stop flights to Los Angeles offer additional options for Badger fans,? said Dane County Regional Airport Director Bradley Livingston, AAE.
A UW Board of Regents committee on Thursday voted to demolish the Brothers Bar & Grill building as soon as this summer, sounding a final death knell for the University Avenue location of the popular campus area bar.
After a battle almost two years in the making, the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents made the final call to demolish the block of buildings on University Avenue, which includes Brothers? Bar, to make room for a new UW School of Music performance facility.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UMW) will enroll hundreds of Chinese students in the next few years through a recruiting agreement UWM Chancellor Michael Lovell signed with CERNET Education Group (CERNET Education), a subsidiary of the China Education and Research Network in Beijing on December 6.
Gov. Scott Walker?s first three citizen appointees to the University of Wisconsin System?s Board of Regents sat in on their inaugural meeting Thursday.After the morning session of meetings held at UW-Madison?s new Union South, each took time to chat before heading off to the Capitol for early afternoon confirmation hearings.
A UW Board of Regents committee on Thursday voted to demolish the Brothers Bar & Grill building as soon as this summer, sounding a final death knell for the University Avenue location of the popular campus area bar.
In the wake of high-profile child sexual abuse allegations at Penn State and Syracuse universities, members of the Board of Regents on Thursday said an audit is in order to evaluate whether the proper policies are in place across the University of Wisconsin System related to the reporting of crimes against minors.
A task force focused on the University of Wisconsin System convened for the first time Wednesday to consider changes that could be made to the system in order to increase its flexibility.
Two young men were taken to a local hospital early Thursday morning after being beaten by another man while leaving a State Street bar, Madison police reported. Police said the 21-year-old and 23-year-old victims from Madison were knocked unconscious and suffered head injuries.
The current and former Editors in Chief of The Onion, Joe Garden and Carol Kolb respectively, spoke of the ins and outs of their satire news organization at the Wisconsin Union Theater on Monday evening. A part of the Distinguished Lecture Series, Garden and Kolb gave students not only the chance to learn of The Onion?s print and multimedia workings, but, of course, a few laughs.
Two brothers in town for some laughs at a comedy club weren?t laughing early Wednesday morning after being pulled over for drunken driving with two parking meters discovered inside their car, police reported.
The problem with mottos and slogans is that after seeing one many times, it begins to lose its real meaning. As crucial as the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents? 1894 ?sifting and winnowing? statement has been to the development of the university, the three-word phrase probably seems trite to many current students. It is detached from the bold and rebellious devotion to the search for truth that drips from the quote when read as a whole.
A Madison man suffered a broken nose and other head injuries early Saturday morning after a stranger followed him home and punched him in the face three times.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee hopes to raise its international profile by entering into a recruiting agreement with a Chinese education network.
Former Badger football lineman Jake Wood, the co-founder and president of a nonprofit organization that deploys military veterans to aid in disaster relief internationally, will be this year?s mid-year commencement speaker at the ceremonies taking place on Dec. 18 at the Kohl Center.
Jake Wood, a 2005 UW-Madison graduate and president of a veterans? service organization, will speak at UW-Madison?s winter commencement ceremony on Dec. 18. Wood played on the Badgers offensive line from 2001 to 2004. He served four years in the U.S. Marine Corps and was deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan. He co-founded Team Rubicon following the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti to provide military veterans with an opportunity to use their skills in disaster zones.
World champion poker player and Madison native Phil “The Poker Brat” Hellmuth is coming home to host his second annual tournament to raise funds for a local hospice care. The marathon “Phil Hellmuth?s Hold?em with HospiceCare” Texas Hold?em tournament will be on Dec. 17 from 2 p.m. to midnight at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery Town Center, 330 N. Orchard St. on the UW-Madison campus.
The race for Democratic U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin?s seat has another contender, this time a political newcomer with military experience. Matt Silverman, 29, of Madison, has decided to run for Congress. The UW-Madison graduate joins a field of Democratic candidates who include state Reps. Mark Pocan and Kelda Helen Roys, both of Madison, and Dane County Treasurer Dave Worzala. No Republicans have entered the race yet.
Ann Hauck, a conservationist who calls Madison home for most of the year, is no fan of the speech Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson gave earlier this month on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. And Hauck let Jackson know as much in a scathing letter she sent to the head of the EPA and shared with the Cap Times.
Additional 2011 grants totaling $185,800 to 25 area nonprofit organizations have been announced by The Evjue Foundation, the charitable arm of The Capital Times. The new grants bring total giving to just under $1.3 million for the year, according to John H. Lussier, longtime president of the foundation. Among the grant recipients is the UW School of Journalism: $10,000 in general support of the school’s new ethics center.
As a frequent visitor to your city, I have a message for Madison and UW-Madison leaders: The Memorial Union was never intended to be a bus terminal. The Tuesday before Thanksgiving there were eight buses in front of the Union at 1 p.m., clogging the street in addition to the city bus traffic that came by.
A 29-year-old Madison man was arrested on Saturday after he allegedly tried to take a video projector from a UW-Madison classroom. Asanta Platt was booked into the Dane County Jail on two counts of burglary, according to a press release from the UW-Madison Police Department. Officers responded to Noland Hall on Saturday after getting a report that someone was trying to steal a video projector.
The Student Services Finance Committee approved a bylaw that would change how student services are funded Monday. The Campus Services Process, formerly the Campus Services Fund, would distribute contracts to student groups that would allow them to provide student services. The bylaw would allow student groups to “bid on” services to provide to students. Some SSFC members were concerned the bylaw would not allow groups receiving contracts to continue to be supported by the General Student Services Fund.
A 29-year-old Madison man was arrested on suspicion of trying to steal a video projector from a classroom on the University of Wisconsin building.
A proposed plan for Downtown Madison proposes dramatic lakefront improvements, new parks and more, but Mayor Paul Soglin says tight finances will prevent the city from doing big public projects any time soon. The plan calls for a bicycle-pedestrian path along the Lake Mendota shore connecting James Madison Park and UW-Madison’s Memorial Union. Fourteen city committees will review the plan. The City Council will consider it as soon as this spring.
Story on Tom Skilling, well-known Chicago television meteorologist notes that he worked at a Madison, Wis., TV station to help pay his way through the University of Wisconsin where he studied journalism and meteorology, using university-provided maps while filling in for the rip-and-read regular weatherman.
Green gifts: Celebrate locally produced goods and businesses a few days after the Black Friday shopping rush with the UW-Madison Arboretum?s Close to Home: Arboretum Local Products Expo on Sunday, Nov. 27, at the Arboretum Visitor Center.
The first employee pay plan created since the restriction of collective bargaining rights in Wisconsin passed Thursday, freezing state worker pay for two years and restricting overtime pay.
The first pay plan created since Governor Scott Walkers collective bargaining law took effect was passed Thursday by a Republican controlled legislative committee.
The University of Wisconsin will attempt to streamline the Human Resources department on campus ? a move that not only uses recently granted flexibilities, but also may cut unnecessary spending.
Known in academia for his controversial work on Israel and Palestine, historian Ilan Pappé lectured on his perceived failures of the Middle East Peace Process Wednesday. Prefacing his perspective by affirming it to be strictly his own, Pappé focused on how the process is understood. To him, the lack of progress in negotiations stems from the continual portrayal of Palestine as an equal partner in peace.
UW-Madison police arrested a man on charges of battery and disorderly conduct outside a North Frances Street bar Saturday.
A lawsuit against the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, Wiscnet and others over a broadband Internet project in four locations around the state was dismissed in Dane County court Friday.
It?s Richard Nixon unplugged. Newly-released documents and recordings of the former president are the result of years of work by University of Wisconsin-Madison emeritus professor Stanley Kutler.
Thursday?s 37-degree high was only half the temperature American alligators generally require. So John Boyko?s reptile friends arrived in Madison prepared. Boyko got donations from Petco Foundation to fly the alligators to see McFarland veterinarian Dr. Michael Wenninger. Wenninger, a 2004 graduate of the UW-Madison veterinary school, now practices at Spartan Animal Hospital in McFarland and has surgical expertise in reptiles.
Stanley Kutler knew there would be no great surprises when Richard Nixon?s long-secret 1975 grand jury testimony was finally released, but the transcripts do reveal a feisty and cagey disgraced president.
Without the University of Wisconsin-Madison emeritus professor?s lawsuit, the transcript that shows Nixon defending his shredded legacy and shady Watergate-era actions might never have been released. Nixon never thought his grand jury testimony would come out.
Noted: Stanley J. Kutler, a historian whose years of litigation helped lead to the release of the material, said he expected no shocking revelations from Nixon?s testimony. But the hours of Nixon talking and sparring are a window on the personality of the 37th president.
n 2010, the number of laptops stolen jumped 20%. In the first 6 months of this year there were 30 reported thefts. Now police have a new high tech tool to battle the problem.
The price of laptops continues to fall. But for owners it?s not the plastic and metal that make these portable computers valuable; it?s the data they contain. Until recently, if your laptop was stolen the odds of you getting it back were slim. Detective Shane Driscoll with the UW Police Department says some crooks may be specifically targeting laptops. But most thefts are crimes of opportunity. To help curb the problem, the UW Police Department teamed up with the Computer Sciences Department. That partnership lead to the creation of Themis and the Bait Lap Top program. Themis is an asset location program that relies on a computer?s GPS and other sensors to track the machine.
