Alpha Sigma Phi suspended following hazing allegations
By Robyn Cawley | Feb. 22, 2019Alpha Sigma Phi received their suspension for hazing allegations by UW-Madison Friday.
Alpha Sigma Phi received their suspension for hazing allegations by UW-Madison Friday.
UW-Madison students and community members gathered at Union South Wednesday evening to hear Angela Rye talk about taking responsibility of next generation activism. Rye is a Haitian-American attorney, a liberal political commentator on CNN and an NPR political analyst. She is the CEO of IMPACT Strategies, which is a political advocacy firm in Washington, DC.
Few college students can boast publishing world-renowned poetry. UW-Madison junior Hajjar Baban, though, recently won yet another international award. Baban submitted her work entitled What I Know of the Mountains, a manuscript of her poems, to win the 2018 Rick Campbell Chapbook Award last week. The piece highlights themes of belonging, her father and nationalism.
Musician Steve Miller and former UW-Madison faculty member Thomas Brock received this year’s honorary degrees for excellence in their careers. Recipients of the honorary degrees award are often known for a single achievement in their career. However, the award is not meant to celebrate one achievement but rather a career-long dedication to values that coincide with the university’s beliefs. Recipients are often affiliated with the university as well.
Students last semester spent approximately half a million dollars more in dining halls than they did in Fall 2017 as a result of the new mandatory meal plan for incoming students, according to UW-Madison officials. University Housing Director Jeff Novak said the meal plan, which requires first-year students living in residence halls to make a $1,400 minimum deposit onto their Wiscards for on-campus dining, “rebounded” the dining program from where it was “a few years ago.”
After decades of providing affordable housing to women at UW-Madison, the Zoe Bayliss Women’s Cooperative could lose control of their organization as the university proposes a merger that could place all control of finances and hired personnel in the hands of University Housing. Zoe Bayliss has been home to women on the UW-Madison campus since 1955. The co-op is made up of an elected board of officers and resident members. The board oversees the function of the house and ensures that each member helps maintain the living space through cleaning and administration.
50 years after black UW-Madison students demanded several changes to campus during a strike, the Wisconsin Black Student Union recreated the movement. In 1969, BSU President Rashid Rashad led the strike aimed at calling on the university to make 13 changes to be made to the campus. Some of their most notable demands were the creation of a Black Student Center and an African American Studies Department. The strike lasted for two weeks as over 10,000 students protested in support of their Black peers.
Students got the chance to ask the former senate candidate about a variety of policy issues.
UW-Madison produced a high number of Fulbright students in the 2018-’19 academic year, being ranked highly compared to other research universities. The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs recognizes the top-producing institutions of Fulbright Students each year. This year, 18 UW-Madison students accepted Fulbright scholarships, landing the university the 15th spot.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department promoted a free safety app on their website Wednesday in response to an increase in concern from students about safety both on and off campus. The app, called WiscGuardian, was originally launched by UWPD in August of 2017. The article on the UWPD website describes that the app has a feature which lets the user build up a system of “guardians” consisting of friends and family who are automatically sent information about the user’s location in an emergency.
Less than a minute after student protesters draped their hand-painted banners over the second floor railing at Union South, campus security forced the small group to roll up their flags and issued some of them warnings.
A petition gathered over 1,000 signatures after it was created by a student late Monday night to advocate for blue light emergency phones on UW-Madison’s campus. “Blue lights” are a system of emergency stations that feature alarm buttons which connect the user directly to authorities or campus safety personnel. The petition calls for a “network of buttons on campus, with no more than a 30-second walk between each, that calls the police when pressed,” and points out that many universities use this system to improve campus safety.
Four panelists recounted their lived experiences from the Black Student Strike in 1969 with a crowd of students and community members on Monday evening, making their story a reality for all who attended the Black History Month event at Memorial Union. Over 60 people walked into the Play Circle Theater and were welcomed by dancing and lively students from the Black History Month Planning Committee.
The French House welcomed a spokesperson to discuss the dynamic shifts in French Bioethics Laws and current francophone events regarding bioethics at an event hosted Monday by professor Alta Charo from the UW Law School. Dr. Jennifer Merchant is a professor of legal English and English applied to political and administrative sciences. Her research interests include comparative public policies, procreation, civil society and science and state relations.
The Wisconsin Experience Summer Launch adds to UW’s Early Start initiative.
UW-Madison will conduct an external review of fraternity and sorority life on campus in order to increase safety and better the overall student experience of these organizations. The university will work with students, alumni, stakeholders and national experts to review the overall quality of greek life on campus this spring. The team will work to assess different aspects of the fraternity and sorority community, including diversity and inclusion, membership experience and student safety, along with others.
Students are swiping right to take chances on dates around this Valentine’s Day, but a new UW-Madison student organization uses data to pair Badgers together. Datamatch is a matchmaking service that originally started at Harvard University in 1994. Since then, the service has expanded to multiple universities including Brown, Columbia, Wellesley College and, starting this season of love, UW-Madison.
UW Credit Union has contributed a total of $200,000 to the Chancellor’s Scholarship Endowment Fund,which aims to support students from minority or culturally disadvantaged backgrounds. Contributions from UW Credit Union of this level ensure generations of students receive needed financial support to continue their education and attain their academic goals.
Days after a pipe burst inside the Chemistry Daniels Building, standing water and broken ceiling tiles littered the floors of Vilas Communication Hall Sunday.
40 years after its inception, the statue returned this weekend.