The Student Services Finance Committee held its first budget hearings to determine funding levels for eligible student organizations Monday, beginning with presentations from Badger Catholic and Movimiento Estudiantil Chican@ de Aztlán de UW-Madison.
University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty, staff and students gathered Friday in Union South for the 2012 Diversity Forum to begin preliminary discussions of a new strategic diversity plan for the university.
A panel of scholars from across the country met Friday to discuss ways to educate the public about the Aug. 5 Oak Creek Sikh temple shooting by connecting it to greater issues involving racism and violence.
City officials and Madison police officers attended a different type of bar crawl Friday night, touring several downtown liquor establishments in order to have first-hand knowledge of local bars when granting alcohol licenses in the upcoming months.
As the University of Wisconsin-Madison continues the process of redesigning its human resources system, one breakout session at Friday’s Diversity Forum sparked criticism over the new plan and current employee conditions at the university.
A former University of Wisconsin-Madison veterinarian who resigned due to frustration with how the university handled his concerns about maltreatment of research animals has become another voice siding with an animal rights group that recently made similar allegations.
Vice President Joe Biden visited the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Friday one day after he faced off against his Republican opponent Paul Ryan Thursday in the only vice presidential debate of the 2012 election.
The Associated Students of Madison student government will hold its fall freshman elections this week from Oct. 15-17.
The Dane County Sheriff’s Office declared Saturday that an inmate was missing after he cut off his monitoring device and ran away from a rehab facility where he was residing.
This year's Columbus Day was met with the expected e-card Facebook postings and furloughs around Madison. But for many American Indians at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and around Wisconsin, the state’s recognition of Columbus Day is a symbol of the competing narratives surrounding America’s foundation.
In Kentucky to debate Vice President Joe Biden Thursday, vice presidential hopeful and U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., finds himself in the unique position this fall of convincing voters he is the right man for two jobs, even if he can’t have both of them.
After People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals protested on campus and filed allegations of animal cruelty during research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the United States Department of Agriculture cleared the university of all charges Oct. 5.
While the affirmative action case facing the U.S. Supreme Court only concerns the University of Texas directly, indirect effects of the ruling on university admissions could change policies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, depending on the court’s decision.
A group of approximately 25 homeless people and housing advocates gathered with signs and bull horns on the steps of city hall Thursday to protest city staff discarding homeless people’s personal belongings.
Wisconsin native and vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan will stop by Waukesha Monday, the latest in a slew of activity from the presidential campaigns in Wisconsin.
Representatives from University of Wisconsin-Madison’s student government will take a backseat approach to the 2013 Mifflin Street Block Party planning process after discussion at a Mifflin neighborhood meeting Thursday.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Search and Screen Committee will hold three forums over the next week to receive input from the campus community on what characteristics the new chancellor should have.
The Office of the Vice Provost and Chief Diversity Officer Damon Williams sponsored an evening dinner featuring a six-person panel of University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni Thursday, to kick off the 2012 Diversity Forum.
Madison police released photos Thursday of two additional suspects who were allegedly involved in the August attack against Badger running back Montee Ball.
ice President Joe Biden and U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Janesville, faced off in the first and only vice presidential debate of the 2012 election, engaging in several feisty exchanges over their plans for the country.
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