News

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NEWS

Joint Finance Committee’s changes to UW System could limit United Council’s budget

By Jack Casey | May. 24, 2013

As the Joint Finance Committee debated and ultimately passed a budgetary motion to freeze tuition and reduce proposed funding for the University of Wisconsin System Thursday, it also passed a provision that could mean United Council, a representative body for students in the system’s universities, would have to operate under a much smaller budget.

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CITY NEWS

Downtown, campus-area streets to be closed over Memorial Day Weekend

By The Daily Cardinal | May. 24, 2013

Multiple streets that serve the downtown and campus area will be closed during the upcoming holiday weekend to accommodate runners participating in two races.

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CAMPUS NEWS

Joint Finance Committee approves UW tuition freeze, decreases in general funding

By Jack Casey | May. 23, 2013

The Joint Finance Committee approved a two-year tuition freeze and several other funding decreases to the University of Wisconsin System Thursday as part of a change to Gov. Scott Walker’s biennial budget.

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CAMPUS NEWS

Police arrest UW-Madison student for setting fire to bulletin board in Sellery Hall

By The Daily Cardinal | May. 20, 2013

University of Wisconsin-Madison Police arrested a 19-year-old UW-Madison student Saturday after the student set fire to a bulletin board in Sellery Hall, according to UWPD spokesperson Marc Lovicott.

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CAMPUS NEWS

"Workaholics" star Anders Holm shares his unique world perspective with 2013 graduates

By Melissa Howison and Kate Ray | May. 19, 2013

Star of the cult hit comedy “Workaholics” and 2003 University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate Anders Holm did not stray from his hallmark brand of getting-as-close-to-the-line-without-crossing-it humor as he delivered a pop culture-soaked and heartfelt commencement speech to UW-Madison’s class of 2013 at the Kohl Center Saturday.

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NEWS

Dalai Lama promotes individual well-being as a source of global health

By Meghan Chua | May. 16, 2013

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, spoke at the Overture Center for the Arts during part of his two-day visit to Madison. The Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center along with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Global Health Institute sponsored the Dalai Lama’s Overture panel as a part of the Change Your Mind, Change The World tour, focused on a message that people’s minds can be trained just like muscles.

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CAMPUS NEWS

Dalai Lama, renowned panelists explore how compassion, mindfulness create healthy communities

By Taylor Harvey | May. 15, 2013

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, spoke at the Overture Center for the Arts during part of his two-day visit to Madison. The Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center along with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Global Health Institute sponsored the Dalai Lama’s Overture panel as a part of the Change Your Mind, Change The World tour, focused on a message that people’s minds and brains can be trained just like muscles.

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NEWS

Scott Walker recommends two-year tuition freeze, funding reductions for UW System

By Jack Casey | May. 15, 2013

Gov. Scott Walker officially called for a tuition freeze and an overall decrease in funding for schools within the University of Wisconsin System Wednesday, after an April 19 audit memo reported the system holds approximately $1 billion in surplus revenue as of June 2012.

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NEWS

Dalai Lama highlights interpersonal equality, compassion in address to state legislature

By Jack Casey | May. 15, 2013

The Dalai Lama stopped into the Wisconsin state Assembly chambers Tuesday as part of his Change Your Mind Change The World tour to deliver an approximately 20-minute speech peppered with jokes and his distinctive chuckles, which hit on the need for unity and compassion among state legislators.

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CAMPUS NEWS

Students, faculty reflect on consequences of ending Minnesota-Wisconsin reciprocity

By Tamar Myers and Joe Patton | May. 14, 2013

Nev Singh grew up in Winona, Minnesota, but when it came time to choose a college she knew the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities was not for her.

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NEWS

$575 million in additional state revenue could help statewide education initiatives

By Jack Casey | May. 10, 2013

Wisconsin will likely have more spending money over the next three years, which could allow Gov. Scott Walker and state legislators to increase funding for education and other state initiatives, according to new estimates released from the Legislative Fiscal Bureau Thursday.

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CAMPUS NEWS

20th session of SSFC decides on leadership positions in first meeting

By Steven Wishau - The Daily Cardinal and Paige Villiard | May. 10, 2013

The Student Services Finance Committee elected representatives to three leadership positions, including Rep. David Vines as committee chair, in its first meeting of the twentieth session Thursday.

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CAMPUS NEWS

ASM chair asks state assembly to vote down landlord-tenant relations bill

By Tamar Myers | May. 9, 2013

Associated Students of Madison Chair David Gardner released a statement Wednesday urging state legislators to vote down a bill he and other ASM members say will hurt communication between landlords and tenants.

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CAMPUS NEWS

Next session of student government decides remaining leadership positions

By Tamar Myers | May. 7, 2013

The Associated Students of Madison Student Council appointed Rep. Mia Akers to the position of vice chair Monday, ending a deadlock with Rep. Sarah Neibart, which carried over from the first meeting of the 20th session held last Wednesday.

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CAMPUS NEWS

Final Faculty Senate meeting sparks multiple debates

By Cheyenne Langkamp | May. 7, 2013

The final Faculty Senate meeting of the academic year lasted over two hours Monday, resulting in discussions of the recent student sit-in in Chancellor David Ward’s office and increasing teaching assistant compensation, as well as extensive questioning of multiple annual committee reports, including transportation budgets and faculty compensation.

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CAMPUS NEWS

Ward comments on surplus, future of UW funding in state budget

By Cheyenne Langkamp | May. 6, 2013

Outgoing University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor David Ward provided clarification about the university’s recently discovered surplus funds in Monday’s Faculty Senate meeting, saying a majority of the balances will be used as financial aid resources.

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NEWS

Top 10 News Spring 2013

By The Daily Cardinal | May. 6, 2013

1.UW Regents appoint Rebecca Blank as next UW-Madison chancellor

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CAMPUS NEWS

The changing housing market

By Samy Moskol | May. 6, 2013

When Equinox first opened in August 2006, Madison Property Management rented out the entire building in one week. As of May 5, 2013, Equinox still has 28 units available for August 2013. Another MPM complex located at 420 West Gorham has 15 units remaining.

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CITY NEWS

Police look into decreasing presence at future Mifflin Block Parties

By Melissa Howison | May. 6, 2013

The low turnout and peaceful, law-abiding nature of 2013 Mifflin Street Block Party attendees allowed police to send officers home earlier than expected, lessening the cost to tax-payers and inspiring the city to look into decreasing patrol levels at future Mifflin Street Block Parties, according to Madison Police Department Lt. Dave McCaw.

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CAMPUS NEWS

UW-Madison junior to appear on Jeopardy!

By The Daily Cardinal and Erica Walkup | May. 5, 2013

University of Wisconsin-Madison junior Julia Sprangers is scheduled to appear on “Jeopardy!” Monday after she flew to the game show’s home in Los Angeles from Spain, where she is studying abroad for the semester, according to The Wisconsin State Journal.