Judge denies extension of Occupy Madison camp permit
By Jeffrey More | May. 1, 2012Occupy Madison will have to find a new home after a city court denied an attempt to allow residents to remain at the encampment on East Washington Avenue.
Occupy Madison will have to find a new home after a city court denied an attempt to allow residents to remain at the encampment on East Washington Avenue.
Members of a faculty committee are recommending UW-Madison eliminate the Division of International Studies and make significant changes to the structure of international programs at the university as a cost-cutting and organizational measure.
Acclaimed orator and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson will visit UW-Madison as keynote speaker for the university’s first Senior Day May 10.
Chancellor David Ward will set the budget for the Multicultural Student Coalition, after an Associated Students of Madison Conference Committee voted Monday against taking up the budget.
A new city committee made up of city officials, students and community members met for the first time Monday to begin creating an effective system to regulate moped parking in Madison.
Gov. Scott Walker announced a $100 million economic initiative Monday designed to create jobs and improve industry in inner-city Milwaukee.
One hundred-twenty years of printing a daily newspaper has generated thousands of loyal writers, contributors and editors for The Daily Cardinal. That loyalty showed strong last weekend as nearly 250 alumni returned to their journalistic roots in Madison for the newspaper’s 120th anniversary celebration.
In the sea of Daily Cardinal alumni who gathered in Madison for the newspaper’s 120th anniversary last weekend, a small group of two dozen, reconnected by hope, comforted each other in a time of tragedy.
While terrace chairs in their usual colors are a sign of spring, the blue chairs that appeared at Memorial Union yesterday are a sign of ongoing fundraising for renovations to the building.
Members of the Multicultural Student Coalition sent a letter to the Associated Students of Madison, apologizing for profane remarks one member of the group made toward a student council representative at Wednesday’s meeting.
As the Occupy Madison eviction date approaches for its East Washington Avenue encampment, tension between the group and the city of Madison rose Friday as lawyers filed a lawsuit asking the city to allow Occupy to stay.
After months of debate, student council made the final ruling to fund the Multicultural Student Coalition. But now, members of the Student Services Finance Committee are asking the Student Judiciary to deem the decision invalid.
With only nine days until the Democratic primary for the recall election of Gov. Scott Walker, leading candidates Tom Barrett and Kathleen Falk released their campaign finance figures Friday, showing Falk has raised $250,000 more since announcing her candidacy.
The state’s largest business lobby will spend $2 million on advertising to support embattled Gov. Scott Walker in the June 5 recall election.
A Madison man admitted Wednesday morning to defacing four buildings with obscenities in orange and hot pink spray paint near Mifflin and East Dayton streets.
A Waukesha County Clerk who faced criticism last year when more than 14,000 votes were not counted in a close state Supreme Court race, will not seek reelection this year.
At its last meeting of the session, members of the Student Services Finance Committee reflected on student council’s decision to fund the Multicultural Student Coalition and criticized behavior at the council meetings that led to the ruling.
University transportation officials are looking for input from students on changes to campus bus routes that could double the wait time on two major routes.
For the second time in two days, a state appeals court said Thursday it will not hear an appeal to an earlier decision that permanently froze parts of the voter ID law. This means voters will not have to show an ID at polling places for the coming recall elections.
Contrary to his website name, AngryAsianMan.com blogger Phil Yu laughed with the crowd of nearly 75 people as he blended humor with video clips to discuss the representation of Asian Pacific Americans in media.