Mayor pushes for early Halloween bar times
Mayor Dave Cieslewicz plans to outline a general strategy today for managing Halloween crowds, citing bar closing times as a lingering sticking point in the plan.
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Mayor Dave Cieslewicz plans to outline a general strategy today for managing Halloween crowds, citing bar closing times as a lingering sticking point in the plan.
After a quite enjoyable summer, I noticed the most peculiar phenomenon. While people I knew returned as expected, a group of unknown entities began appearing also. They appeared similar to my friends, yet different, younger, smaller. With my curiosity piqued, I did what any good engineer does; I forsook my social life and spent countless hours in the first floor of Wendt constructing a sturdy fort out of books.
What the Croc?
As the city of New Orleans attempts to recover in the wake of hurricane Katrina, some students enrolled at the now-closed Tulane University found themselves thrust into the arms of UW-Madison.
While housing officials at UW-Madison try to find space in overcrowded facilities for students displaced by Hurricane Katrina, UW-Milwaukee, is experiencing a public housing crunch as well, due in part to an exceptionally large freshman class.
So you've just completed your orientation here at the great state University of Wisconsin. You're sifting and winnowing in your dorm room. You may ask yourself, \Self, I wonder how much of what I was told about binge drinking and State Street prostitution by those wily upperclassmen was legit?""
The first football game has come and gone, with the Badgers learning their strengths and weaknesses for future performances. Now it is time to do the same for campus tailgating practices and hone the skills necessary for the perfect pre-game feast, no matter where it takes place.
It was Saturday morning, Aug. 27, and move-in day at the Tulane University dormitories. Tulane junior and resident assistant Kevin Lander was busy helping freshmen move into their new homes.
University Housing created more problems than solutions for Halloween festivities when it declared this past summer that no guests will be allowed to stay in the dorms from Friday, Oct. 28 through Tuesday, Nov. 1. The tactic is meant to prevent out of town students, who accounted for 391 of the 450 arrests during Halloween in 2004, from attending the festivities. The no-guest policy is a dangerous step because the hazards far outweigh the benefits of keeping a minute percentage of the 75,000 party-goers away from Halloween in Madison.
In the early morning hours on Friday, Sept. 2, Madison police arrived at Bradley Hall to find a UW-Madison freshman had died in her dorm room.
The university has played a cruel trick on the unfortunate souls who leave Madison for the summer months after classes have ended. This trick, of course, is having built the Wisconsin Union Terrace on campus.
In fall 2006 male UW-Madison students will go where no man has gone before - into Elizabeth Waters Hall, not as visitors, but as residents. The all-female dorm, termed The Virgin Vault by students, will go co-ed for the first time since it opened in 1940, according to a UW statement.
In an effort to downsize Madison's annual, and historically violent, Halloween celebration, UW Housing will not allow any guests to stay in the dorms from Friday, Oct. 28 through Tuesday, Nov. 1.
Almost 600 incoming UW-Madison freshmen found themselves on the University Housing waiting list in late May, seeking spaces in the dorms that many will never receive.
This will be my final weekly column for The Daily Cardinal. I will be studying abroad next academic year in the former Yugoslavia, spending one semester in Croatia and the other in Serbia-Montenegro.
UW-Madison facilities planners recently began formulating design guidelines to chart the development of new buildings and guide the appearance of future campus architecture.
Last semester, I had a favorite person in Madison. Working out at the SERF, I used to see the same guy many afternoons. He was pretty hard to miss.