An organization of parents against special needs vouchers expressed support for a bipartisan effort to remove the vouchers from the state budget in a press release Monday.
Two state representatives announced a bill Monday that would alleged perpetrators of child sexual assault released on bail from living near the victim.
Revelry Arts and Music Festival organizers announced Monday tickets for the event will remain $5 for University of Wisconsin-Madison students, after organizers originally stated ticket prices could increase.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison professor, recently successful in planting stem cells into monkeys’ brains, has now successfully created nerve cells that could transform into brain cells and repair learning and memory in damaged laboratory mice.
The environment takes center stage on Earth Day, but for many students and Madison community members, the Earth’s changing climate is a daily priority.
University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Jack Kloppenburg has had some of his most memorable experiences abroad, but he focuses on taking that worldview and applying it locally.
A local development group is hoping to turn multiple properties it owns on and around the 500 block of State Street into a multi-purpose high rise, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.
A Democratic state senator plans to introduce legislation that would change current state voter registration procedures, including making it legal to vote after living in the state for 10 days before the election instead of the previously required 28 days.
When the human survivors on campus made their last stand against an overwhelming zombie force Friday night, they were armed with socks rather than the standard Nerf guns, as part of a compromise with university officials after a week of heightened suspicions and unease regarding weapons following the April 15 Boston Marathon bombings.
After more than a month of drafting legislation and lobbying other representatives, the Associated Students of Madison Student Council approved the creation of a new grassroots Sustainability Committee in fall 2012, a project spearheaded by current committee chair Collin Higgins.
A Madison circuit court judge denied a request by the state asking him to delay proceedings on a lawsuit challenging Gov. Scott Walker’s controversial Act 10 legislation, which all but eliminated state workers’ collective bargaining rights.
The Student Services Finance Committee proposed changes to the committee’s standing rules Wednesday, which would include a $100,000 budget cap for all General Student Services Fund groups, excluding costs for professional staff and project assistantships.
The Joint Finance Committee held its final officially scheduled hearing sessions on Gov. Scott Walker’s biennial budget in Baldwin Thursday.
State politicians and government officials, including Madison Mayor Paul Soglin, have shown mixed reactions to the U.S. Senate’s Wednesday vote against a bipartisan proposal that would have mandated the expansion of background checks on gun sales nationwide.
Adult film star James Deen gave the keynote speech of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Sexual Health Fest at Sterling Hall Thursday night in an event sponsored by student organization Sex Out Loud.
The Student Labor Action Coalition hosted a protest and sit-in at Bascom Hall Thursday to demand Chancellor David Ward cut ties with Palermo’s Pizza Company, citing allegations of labor violations.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will begin its annual All Campus Party Saturday, an end of the school year event hosted by Wisconsin Alumni Student Board and the Wisconsin Alumni Association. The event will kickoff with a scavenger hunt called Bucky’s Urban Odyssey on Saturday. The Odyssey will start at 3 p.m. On Monday, there will be free breakfast for all students who present student IDs on East Campus Mall, Bascom Hill and Engineering Mall from 7:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Tuesday will feature All Campus Idol at 7 p.m. at the Sett in Union South. Students can vote for their favorite performer to win the title. Wear Red, Get Fed will run 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Engineering Mall. The event will feature a student organization fair and free food for any students wearing red. On Thursday, Club Bucky, one of the largest dance parties on campus, will begin at 9 p.m. and run until 12 a.m. in Union South Plaza. Bring your student ID to enter.
A group of University of Wisconsin-Madison undergraduate students won $5,000 Wednesday for developing a way to re-capture the heat generated from laptops to conduct electricity.
Madison police officers will be present on and around Langdon Street, in addition to the Mifflin Street area May 4 due to the overflow of students from the 2012 block party into the Greek community following last year’s stricter Mifflin patrols, according to Langdon neighborhood Police Officer Grant Humerickhouse.
Revelry Arts and Music Festival announced times and locations Thursday for musical performances during the event.
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