UW-Madison housing officials are considering new security measures that Ogg Hall house fellows recommended in response to a report of a sexual assault Jan. 26 in the hall's west tower, according to the Capital Times.
They talked to campus housing director Paul Evans Feb. 19 about restricting each of the university's nine residence halls to a single entrance with full-time security, which would allow only residents and their guests to enter.
Students now use elevator keys to reach their floors, but no monitors keep track of who they bring along.
Evans said the proposed changes would require renovating dormitory buildings and would probably not be implemented this semester.
Police have not yet made an arrest in connection with the reported assault.
UW-Madison students from Dean of Students Luoluo Hong's group working to minimize fan behavior problems at UW-Madison athletic events determined Thursday they are ready to move on to budget planning for their ideas.
Though their possible solutions are still in preliminary phases, within the next month subcommittees will meet to determine what resources are necessary to implement their possible plans.
The entire group will meet March 25 to discuss which possibilities are fiscally feasible and will generate a narrower list of ways to curb fan violence. Hong said she thought the solutions students came up with are creative and seem like they will be effective for athletic events during the next academic year.
Madison Alderpersons Austin King, District 8 Mike Verveer, Distric 4, and Robbie Webber, District 5, gathered in an empty room in the Pyle Center Thursday to discuss city issues.
The event was part of a four-piece \Raise Your Voice"" speaker series sponsored by the Upper Midwest Campus Compact Consortium. It was held with only the event organizers in attendance.
""We decided to do a 'Meet Your Alderman' program in order to get the students to know who the people are that can help make the changes happen that they need,"" said Heather Killeen, a UW-Madison junior and Campus Liaison for the Morgridge Center.
""It's just kind of ironic because our whole point of the entire speaker series was to get people involved and then no one shows up.""
The alders spoke briefly about city housing and the lack of campus involvement in city council issues.
The Associated Students of Madison approved an amendment Thursday that brings UW-Madison students one step closer to having control over segregated fees that are not spent by campus student groups.
The amendment outlines the process by which the Student Services Finance Committee would be able to use excess segegated fees to offset the seg fee cost for the following year, which is part of UW-Madison students' tuition.
Students can vote on the amendment on the ASM Spring 2004 ballot.
ASM representatives also voted to request to Chancellor Wiley and the UW-System Board of Regents that the system's discrimination policy add a clause banning discrimination on the basis of gender identity, expression or characteristics.
Currently, sexual orientation is the closest quality to the request that the policy bans.
