A 19-year-old UW-Madison student faces significant injuries after being hit by the car of an intoxicated driver while trying to cross an intersection near campus early Saturday morning, according to a Madison Police Department incident report.
With the Wisconsin cold settling in, many UW-Madison students are cozying up indoors. However, not all students have the luxury of a home on winter nights.
November’s election left not only both major political parties in a crisis of identity, but political journalism as well, a panel of journalists and experts said Thursday at the Overture Center. The event, organized by UW-Madison’s Center for Journalism Ethics, discussed the role of political journalism in presidential elections and the relationship between news media and the electorate. Following a general election where few pollsters, pundits or journalists accurately predicted the result, public distrust of the media is at an all time high, panelists said. Michael Wagner, an associate professor in the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication, said he thought this was relatively unfair. “I’m not sure we should have expected an easy Clinton victory in the first place,” Wagner said.
Republican congressman Sean Duffy is facing criticism for describing Madison as a “communist community” when he attacked the ongoing presidential recount in Wisconsin Wednesday.
The national entertainment group SMG will be working with Dane County to bring more concerts and shows to the Alliant Energy Center, Dane County Executive Joe Parisi announced Thursday.
The lawyers of Alec Cook, who is being charged with the alleged sexual assault of five women, are requesting he be released on signature bond rather than the the $200,000 bail on which he is currently in jail. He should be released because prosecutors haven't shown that bail is required to assure that Cook will appear in court, according to the Wisconsin State Journal. Cook’s attorneys, Chris Van Wagner and Jessa Nicholson, wrote in a bail motion that prosecutors are citing the seriousness of the charges for the bail being so high. Cook’s preliminary hearing was scheduled for Dec. 27, but prosecutors requested the date be moved back due to case detectives not being able to make the hearing. Cook’s lawyers agreed to the delay, Assistant District Attorney Colette Sampson said when she made the request.
John Francis “Jack” Fowler, professor emeritus of human oncology and medical physics at the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, died Dec. 1 at the age of 91.
The UW System Board of Regents voted Thursday to recommend an increase in UW System employee salary in the 2017-’19 biennial budget. If passed, some UW employees would see an annual 2 percent increase in their salary for the next two years.
Out-of-state students at UW-Madison will face a $4,000 jump in tuition over the next two years after the UW System Board of Regents approved the increase during its meeting Thursday.
South African scholar Mathodi Motsamayi arrived at UW-Madison in early November with hopes of networking with other scholars and raising awareness of his research during his one-month residency.
UW-Madison administrators detailed plans Wednesday for the Black Cultural Center, and how to best provide space for historically marginalized groups on campus to student leaders who critiqued only housing these groups in the Red Gym. Gabe Javier, assistant dean of students and director of the LGBT Campus Center, said that construction for the Black Cultural Center is moving quickly.
A new policy brief released Wednesday from a UW-Madison research center shows relatively high rates of students submitting the FAFSA to obtain federal student aid. Authored by UW–Madison associate professor Nicholas Hillman and two Ph.D.
Wisconsin ranks 31st in the country in job creation, according to a quarterly report from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics released Wednesday.
Suspended UW-Madison freshman Alec Shiva has been scheduled for a Dec. 27 preliminary hearing. Shiva was arrested by UW-Madison Police Department officers Nov.
Religion’s significant role on campus and across the state cannot be underestimated in order to gain a better appreciation for Wisconsin’s culture and climate, according to religious studies professors Corrie Norman, Susan Ridgely and Jordan Rosenblum. In their Tuesday lecture “Lived Religion in Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Idea,” Norman, Ridgely and Rosenbaum emphasized the ways religion and the search for meaning manifest themselves both directly and indirectly in all aspects of life, influencing the values and decisions of entire populations. “It’s here, it matters to people, it happens in multiple ways, and sometimes the best ways to see it is not to look for it in the grand ideas of the John Bascoms, but to look for it at the kitchen tables, in the gas station diners, in the cornfields, in the coffee shops of Madison,” Norman said.
Molly Ball spoke to UW-Madison journalism students about her path as a journalist, political journalism and her coverage of the presidential election, particularly the recent presidential election, as the Center for Journalism Ethics’ Writer-In-Residence for December.
Republican House leadership removed the Buy America amendment introduced by U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., Monday that was a part of a water infrastructure bill intended to protect domestic manufacturing jobs. The Made in America Water Infrastructure Act, also known as the Buy America legislation, required U.S.
Poor highway conditions are expected to deteriorate at double the current rate over the next decade, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation testified Tuesday, creating contention among GOP lawmakers over how to fund roads in the upcoming budget.
A man reportedly swindled a UW-Madison student out of two expensive pairs of pants during a transaction at Five Guys on State Street last week. After the student posted on Facebook’s Marketplace Community advertising designer jeans for sale, the suspect, who claimed to be from Baraboo, offered $100 for each pair.
Nonresident students at UW-Madison could see a $4,000 hike in tuition over the next two years if a proposed increase goes as planned during the UW System Board of Regents meeting Thursday.
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