107-658: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is a daily morning broadsheet printed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin , where it is the primary newspaper and also the largest newspaper in the state of Wisconsin , where it is widely read. It was purchased by the Gannett Company in 2016. In early 2003, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel began printing at a new facility in West Milwaukee . In September 2006,
214-585: A Gothic Revival style. Van Hise Hall is home to most of the languages departments of the university and the upper floors house the offices of the University of Wisconsin System's president and its Board of Regents. At 241 feet and 19 stories, Van Hise is the second-tallest building in Madison and one of the tallest educational buildings in the world. Because of its placement atop Bascom Hill it towers over
321-489: A 35-year contract with the city. On December 29 Pfister and Payne sued the Sentinel for libel, to which the paper replied that it had fallen prey to "probably the most formidable and influential combination of selfish interests ever found in the city of Milwaukee." Rather than going to trial and having his business practices revealed, Pfister bought the Sentinel outright on February 18, 1901, paying an immense sum to buy up
428-548: A 4-year-old boy imperiled by a mysterious disease, told with words, graphics, videos and other images." In 1965 the paper's women's section won the Penney-Missouri Award for General Excellence. In 2008, Google published the newspaper's archives as part of an initiative to digitize historical newspapers. Though the initiative ended in 2011, the archives remain accessible. The Milwaukee digitization used microfilm that had been scanned for ProQuest 's database. At
535-730: A Subject ranking in 227 subject categories. The University of Wisconsin–Madison has the 12th largest research library collection in North America. More than 30 professional and special-purpose libraries serve the campus. The campus library collections include more than 11 million volumes representing human inquiry through all of history. In addition, the collections comprised more than 103,844 serial titles, 6.4 million microform items, and over 8.2 million items in other formats, such as government documents, maps, musical scores, and audiovisual materials. Over 1 million volumes are circulated to library users every year. Memorial Library serves as
642-589: A beer on the terrace are common among students. The Rathskeller serves "Rathskeller Ale", a beer brewed expressly for the Terrace. Memorial Union was the first union at a public university to serve beer. Memorial Union is home to many arts venues, including several art galleries, the Wisconsin Union Theater, and a craft shop that provides courses and facilities for arts and crafts activities. Students and Madison community members alike congregate at
749-734: A collection of approximately 500,000 zoological specimens, which can be used for research and instruction. A special collection contains skeletons, artifacts, and research papers associated with the Galápagos Islands . Since 1978, the UW–Madison Zoological Museum has been one of only three museums granted permission by the Ecuadoran Government to collect anatomical specimens from the Galápagos Islands. The L. R. Ingersoll Physics Museum contains
856-489: A delegate to the national Republican convention in 1876, the paper began running fierce editorials denouncing Keyes. The Sentinel later endorsed Carpenter over Keyes as senator in the 1878 election. Disappointed in the paper's weak defense of unregulated corporations , a new group of stalwart Republicans purchased the old Democratic Milwaukee News in 1880 and resurrected it as the Republican and News . Horace Rublee ,
963-510: A firetrap, but the Sentinel defended the hotel's management, which included a Sentinel stockholder. Historian Frederick Jackson Turner was the Sentinel 's Madison correspondent for a year, beginning in April 1884, while he finished his senior year at the University of Wisconsin . He covered various aspects of life in Madison, from campus news to the state legislature. He delivered
1070-591: A floating colony of sea lilies ( Uintacrinus ), both from the Cretaceous chalk of Kansas , and the Boaz Mastodon , a found on a farm in southwestern Wisconsin in 1897. The Chazen Museum of Art , formerly the Elvehjem Museum of Art, maintains a collection of paintings, drawings, sculpture, prints and photographs spanning over 700 years of art. The university's Zoological Museum maintains
1177-414: A folded page. Many rate cards and specification cards refer to the "broadsheet size" with dimensions representing the front page "half of a broadsheet" size, rather than the full, unfolded broadsheet spread. Some quote actual page size and others quote the "printed area" size. The two versions of the broadsheet are: The broadsheet, broadside , was used as a format for musical and popular prints in
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#17327829232671284-663: A former editor of the Wisconsin State Journal and who had been the chairman of the state Republican party , was hired as editor-in-chief. Failing to put the Sentinel out of business, the Republicans bought the paper outright and issued it as the Republican-Sentinel . The next year the word Republican was dropped, but the paper remained a major force in the state's Republican party. This troubled managing editor Lucius W. Nieman , who had covered
1391-472: A high graduate coexistence. The largest university college, the College of Letters and Science , enrolls approximately half of the undergraduate student body and is made up of 38 departments and five professional schools that instruct students and carry out research in a wide variety of fields, such as astronomy , economics, geography , history, linguistics , and zoology . The graduate instructional program
1498-634: A lease arrangement with the School of Engineering for radio station WSOE on November 15, 1927. The lease was for a minimum of three years. To reflect the new arrangement, the Wisconsin News changed the call letters of WSOE to WISN on January 23, 1928. The station was sold to the Wisconsin News in November 1930. Hearst's associate Paul Block acquired Pfister's remaining stake of the Sentinel in 1929. The News closed in 1939, being consolidated with
1605-560: A majority of its stock. After the death of his publisher, Lansing Warren, that summer Pfister assumed publishing duties, immersing himself in the paper's operations and directing political coverage. Owning the Sentinel expanded his conservative influence from the convention backrooms to the pages of the largest daily paper in Wisconsin. The Sentinel immediately opposed the newly elected Governor La Follette. During La Follete's successful re-election campaign in 1902, Pfister's political power
1712-443: A mile from the state capitol , the main campus of the university is situated partially on the isthmus between Lake Mendota and Lake Monona . The main campus comprises 933 acres (378 ha) of land, while the entire campus, including research stations throughout the state, is over 10,600 acres (4,290 ha) in area. The central campus is on an urban layout mostly coinciding with the city of Madison's street grid, exceptions being
1819-688: A movie theater, a climbing wall, a bowling alley, event spaces, and a hotel. The Wisconsin Union also provides a home for the Wisconsin Union Directorate Student Programming Board, which provides regular programs for both students and community members. One of the most well-known members is the Wisconsin Hoofers , a club that organizes outdoor recreational activities. Henry Mall is a 50-foot wide and 575-foot long landscaped quadrangle that
1926-671: A paper size of A1 per spread (841 by 594 mm or 33.1 by 23.4 in). South African broadsheet newspapers have a double-page spread sheet size of 820 by 578 mm (32.3 by 22.8 in) (single-page live print area of 380 x 545 mm). Others measure 22 in (560 mm) vertically. In the United States , the traditional dimensions for the front page half of a broadsheet are 12 in (305 mm) wide by 22.75 in (578 mm) long. However, in efforts to save newsprint costs, many U.S. newspapers have downsized to 11 in (279 mm) wide by 21 in (533 mm) long for
2033-616: A public reading room of the nation's newspapers, the origin of Milwaukee's public library system. Fillmore employed a succession of editors, including Jason Downer , later a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice, and Increase A. Lapham , a Midwestern naturalist who later helped establish the National Weather Service . After running through six editors in eight years, Fillmore sought a more stable editorial foundation and went east to confer with Thurlow Weed , editor of
2140-401: A range of exhibits demonstrating classical and modern physics . Many of the exhibits allow for hands-on interaction by visitors. The museum also has a number of historical instruments and pictures on display. The University of Wisconsin–Madison is divided into eight main undergraduate schools and colleges and four main professional schools, some of which have further divisions: UW–Madison
2247-563: A series of investigative articles stating that AMRC was pursuing research directly pursuant to US Department of Defense requests, and supportive of military operations in Vietnam. AMRC became a magnet for demonstrations, in which protesters chanted "U.S. out of Vietnam! Smash Army Math!" On August 24, 1970, near 3:40 am, a bomb exploded next to Sterling Hall, aimed at destroying the Army Math Research Center. Despite
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#17327829232672354-525: A shortage of skilled printers, so in 1863 the Sentinel began hiring and training "female compositors" to typeset the paper, albeit in another building away from the men. This resulted in members of the Milwaukee Typographical Union leaving their jobs, but the war had already depleted their ranks to such a degree that the union later temporarily disbanded. Frustrated by the lack of skilled help, editor C. Latham Sholes tried building
2461-416: A state university, at or near the seat of state government..." and directed by the state legislature to be governed by a board of regents and administered by a Chancellor . On July 26, 1848, Nelson Dewey , Wisconsin's first governor , signed the act that formally created the University of Wisconsin. John H. Lathrop became the university's first chancellor, in the fall of 1849. With John W. Sterling as
2568-489: A total yield rate (the percentage of accepted students who choose to attend the university) of 28.9%. On average, UW–Madison accepts about two-thirds of in-state applicants, while its out-of-state acceptance rate is approximately 18%. UW–Madison's freshman retention rate is 94.2%, with 89.2% going on to graduate within six years. The university started test-optional admissions with the Fall 2021 incoming class in response to
2675-576: A tradition known as "the Wisconsin Idea ", first articulated by UW–Madison President Charles Van Hise in 1904, when he declared "I shall never be content until the beneficent influence of the University reaches every home in the state." The Wisconsin Idea holds that the boundaries of the university should be the boundaries of the state, and that the research conducted at UW–Madison should be applied to solve problems and improve health, quality of life,
2782-462: A traditional tabloid) on 12 September 2005. In June 2017, the Guardian announced it would again change the format to tabloid size – the first tabloid edition was published on 15 January 2018. The main motivation cited for this shift was that commuters prefer papers that they can hold easily on public transport and that other readers also might find the smaller formats more convenient. In
2889-471: A typesetting machine, but failed. After becoming comptroller for the city a few years later, he invented the modern typewriter. After the war ended circulation fell off and the number of editions was kept to a minimum. A supporter of the Liberal Republicans , who opposed President Ulysses S. Grant , Thomson was ousted from the paper after Carpenter's former law partner Newton S. Murphey bought
2996-546: Is a public land-grant research university in Madison, Wisconsin , United States. It was founded in 1848 when Wisconsin achieved statehood and is the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System . The 933-acre (378 ha) main campus is located on the shores of Lake Mendota and includes four National Historic Landmarks . The university also owns and operates the 1,200-acre (486 ha) University of Wisconsin–Madison Arboretum 4 miles (6.4 km) south of
3103-495: Is a college-sponsor of the National Merit Scholarship Program and sponsored 10 Merit Scholarship awards in 2020. In the 2020–2021 academic year, 30 freshman students were National Merit Scholars . UW–Madison's undergraduate program was ranked tied for 39th among national universities by U.S. News & World Report for 2025 and tied for 13th among public universities. Poets&Quants ranked
3210-619: Is also a leading producer of Fulbright Scholars and MacArthur Fellows . As of November 2018 , 14 CEOs of Fortune 500 companies attended UW–Madison, the most of any university in the nation. The Wisconsin Badgers compete in 25 intercollegiate sports in the NCAA Division ;I Big Ten Conference and have won 31 national championships . Wisconsin students and alumni have won 50 Olympic medals (including 13 gold medals). The university had its official beginnings when
3317-574: Is classified by Carnegie as "comprehensive with medical/veterinary." In 2008, it granted the third largest number of doctorates in the nation. The Princeton Review ranked the University of Wisconsin–Madison's undergraduate admissions selectivity a 92/99. The 2022 annual ranking of U.S. News & World Report categorizes UW–Madison as "more selective." For the Class of 2027 (enrolled Fall 2023), UW–Madison received 63,537 applications and accepted 27,527 (43.3%). Of those accepted, 7,966 enrolled, for
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3424-605: Is considered a Public Ivy , and is classified as an R1 University . UW–Madison was also the home of both the prominent "Wisconsin School" of economics and diplomatic history . In 2023, UW–Madison ranked sixth among U.S. universities in research expenditures , according to the National Science Foundation . As of March 2023 , 20 Nobel laureates , 41 Pulitzer Prize winners, 2 Fields medalists , and 1 Turing Award recipient have been affiliated with UW–Madison as alumni, faculty, or researchers . It
3531-463: Is governed by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System , which governs each of the state's 13 comprehensive public universities. The board has 18 members; 16 are appointed by the governor of Wisconsin, while two are students of the system. Furthermore, the elected superintendent of public instruction serves as an ex-officio member. The board establishes the regulations and budgets for
3638-612: Is most obvious on the front page since tabloids tend to have a single story dominated by a headline, and broadsheets allow two or more stories to be displayed of which the most important sit at the top of the page " above the fold ." A few newspapers, though, such as the German Bild-Zeitung and others throughout Central Europe are tabloids in terms of content but use the physical broadsheet format. In 2003, The Independent started concurrent production of both broadsheet and tabloid (" compact ") editions, carrying exactly
3745-600: Is the Memorial Union . UW–Madison's campus has been ranked as one of the most beautiful college campuses in the United States by Travel + Leisure and Condé Nast Traveler . One unusual feature of the campus is the Babcock Hall dairy plant and store, a fully functional dairy well known for its ice cream. As one of the icons on campus, Bascom Hall, at the top of Bascom Hill, is often considered
3852-431: Is the largest newspaper format and is characterized by long vertical pages, typically of 22.5 inches (57 cm). Other common newspaper formats include the smaller Berliner and tabloid – compact formats. Many broadsheets measure roughly 28 by 22 + 3 ⁄ 4 in (711 by 578 mm) per full broadsheet spread, twice the size of a standard tabloid. Australian and New Zealand broadsheets always have
3959-409: Is then cut in half during the process. Thus, the newsprint rolls used are defined by the width necessary to print four front pages. The width of a newsprint roll is called its web. The now-common 11-inch-wide front page broadsheet newspapers in the United States use a 44-inch web newsprint roll. With profit margins narrowing for newspapers in the wake of competition from broadcast, cable television, and
4066-614: The Albany Evening Journal and powerful Whig political boss of New York. Weed recommended his associate editor and protégé, Rufus King. King was a native of New York City, a graduate of West Point , a brevet lieutenant, the son of the president of Columbia College and the grandson of U.S. Constitution signer Rufus King . In June 1845 King came to Milwaukee and became the Sentinel ' s editor three months later. The paper provided thorough coverage of Wisconsin's constitutional convention, held in Madison in 1846. When
4173-910: The Journal Sentinel 's request, the Milwaukee Public Library loaned decades of missing microfilm volumes to complete the digitization. When Google's project ended, the newspaper began the process of creating its own archive via its relationship with Newsbank . Newsbank unsuccessfully attempted to sell Journal Sentinel digital archive access to the Milwaukee Public Library, which could not afford their asking price. The Library already subscribed to Newsbank's obituary and recent Journal Sentinel articles, as well as other proprietary databases with annual subscriptions costing less than $ 100,000. In May 2014, Newsbank suggested several purchase options, one of which
4280-501: The Journal Sentinel announced it had "signed a five-year agreement to print the national edition of USA Today for distribution in the northern and western suburbs of Chicago and the eastern half of Wisconsin". The Milwaukee Sentinel was founded on June 27, 1837, in response to disparaging statements made about the east side of town by Byron Kilbourn 's westside partisan newspaper, the Milwaukee Advertiser , during
4387-602: The Mexican–American War , commenting: "Peace upon almost any terms will be joyfully welcomed by the American People. They have long since tired of the war." The Sentinel prospered during the Civil War, sometimes printing five editions of the paper in a day. Though much of the war news was copied from Chicago papers, the Sentinel did dispatch a war correspondent for over half a year. The war also resulted in
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4494-571: The Milwaukee County pension system. In 2010, reporter Raquel Rutledge was awarded the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting for her investigations and stories on abuses in a state-run child care system. In 2011, Mark Johnson, Kathleen Gallagher, Gary Porter, Lou Saldivar, and Alison Sherwood were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for their "lucid examination of an epic effort to use genetic technology to save
4601-506: The Panic of 1893 a private utility monopoly run by stalwart Republican party bosses Charles F. Pfister and Henry C. Payne , The Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company (TMER&L), revoked commuter passes and raised utility rates during the depression. The Sentinel joined in the chorus of indignation that resounded from Milwaukee and beyond, particularly during 1899 when Pfister and Payne succeeded, by means of bribery, to push through
4708-571: The Sentinel as a single morning paper. In 1955 Hearst purchased television station WTVW and changed the call letters to WISN-TV . The Milwaukee Journal began as The Daily Journal in 1882. Edna Ferber , later a famed writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, was a Milwaukee Journal reporter for nearly four years, from approximately 1903 to 1907. The Journal followed the Sentinel into broadcasting. The Journal purchased radio station WKAF in 1927, changing its call letters to WTMJ . It launched an experimental FM station, W9XAO, in 1940, which
4815-469: The Sentinel endorsed Harrison for president in the 1840 election . Starr guarded the Sentinel 's position as the sole Whig organ in Milwaukee. Heavily in debt, he secured the partnership of David M. Keeler, who paid off the paper's creditors. Keeler took on partner John S. Fillmore (nephew of U.S. president Millard Fillmore ) and succeeded in ousting Starr, who kept publishing his own version of
4922-550: The Sentinel in 1874 with other pro-Grant Republicans, including Carpenter, who had failed to be re-elected. After Murphey loaned Carpenter $ 20,000 to also become a stakeholder in the paper, Carpenter hired A. C. Botkin as editor, formerly of the Chicago Times , to replace Thomson. The Sentinel was soon perceived as Carpenter's "personal mouthpiece" and an organ of the state Republican central committee. After committee chairman Elisha W. Keyes blocked Carpenter from becoming
5029-417: The Sentinel . Keeler and Fillmore trumped his efforts by turning their Sentinel into a daily on December 9, 1844, while still publishing a weekly edition. The paper finally began to prosper and establish itself as a major political force in the nascent state of Wisconsin. Having accomplished his goal of establishing the first daily paper in the territory, Keeler retired two months later, but not before opening
5136-513: The University of Wisconsin Law School tied for 29th, and the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs tied for 25th. The Wall Street Journal / Times Higher Education College Rankings 2022 ranked UW–Madison 58th among 801 U.S. colleges and universities based upon 15 individual performance indicators. UW–Madison was ranked eleventh in the nation and second among public universities by
5243-777: The University of Wisconsin–Madison Arboretum opened in 1934. The University of Wisconsin Experimental College was a two-year college designed and led by Alexander Meiklejohn in 1927 with a great books , liberal arts curriculum. Students followed a uniform curriculum that sought to teach democracy and foster an intrinsic love of learning, but the college developed a reputation for radicalism and wanton anarchy in which students lived and worked with their teachers, had no fixed schedule, no compulsory lessons, and no semesterly grades. The advisers taught primarily through tutorial instead of lectures. The Great Depression and lack of outreach to Wisconsinites and UW faculty led to
5350-498: The V-12 Navy College Training Program which offered students a path to a Navy commission. Over time, additional campuses were added to the university. The University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee was created in 1956, and UW–Green Bay and UW–Parkside in 1968. Ten freshman-sophomore centers were also added to this system. In 1971, Wisconsin legislators passed a law merging the University of Wisconsin with
5457-631: The Washington Monthly 2023 National University Rankings. In 2023, Money.com gave the University of Wisconsin–Madison 5 out of 5 stars among four-year colleges and universities in their Best Colleges in America list. UW–Madison was ranked 35th among world universities in 2022 by the Academic Ranking of World Universities , which assesses academic and research performance. In the 2024 QS World University Rankings , UW–Madison
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#17327829232675564-566: The Wisconsin School of Business undergraduate program 22nd in the nation, up 10 positions from 2022, and top 10 among public universities. Other graduate schools ranked by USNWR for 2022 include the School of Medicine and Public Health , which was 33rd in research and 12th in primary care, the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education tied for fourth, the University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Engineering tied for 26th,
5671-668: The Wisconsin Territorial Legislature in its 1838 session passed a law incorporating a " University of the Territory of Wisconsin ", and a high-ranking board of visitors was appointed. However, this body (the predecessor of the UW board of regents ) never actually accomplished anything before Wisconsin was incorporated as a state in 1848. The Wisconsin Constitution provided for "the establishment of
5778-609: The environment , and agriculture for all citizens of the state. The Wisconsin Idea permeates the university's work and helps forge close working relationships among university faculty and students, and the state's industries and government. Based in Wisconsin's populist history, the Wisconsin Idea continues to inspire the work of the faculty, staff, and students who aim to solve real-world problems by working together across disciplines and demographics. During this period, numerous significant research milestones were met, including
5885-598: The "heart of the campus." Built in 1857, a decorative dome that once sat atop the structure was destroyed by fire in 1916. The structure has been added to several times over the years. The building currently houses the office of the chancellor and vice chancellors. Bascom Hall is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing building within the Bascom Hill Historic District. Flanking both sides of Bascom Hall are
5992-472: The 17th century. Eventually, people began using the broadsheet as a source for political activism by reprinting speeches. Broadsheet newspapers developed in Britain after a 1712 tax was imposed on newspapers based on their page counts. However, larger formats had long been signs of status in printed objects and still are in many places. Outside of Britain the broadsheet developed for other reasons unrelated to
6099-528: The British tax structure including style and authority. With the early mechanization of the 19th century came an increased production of printed materials including the broadside, as well as the competing penny dreadful . Newspapers all over Europe were then starting to print their issues on broadsheets. However, in the United Kingdom, the main competition for the broadside was the gradual reduction of
6206-526: The COVID-19 pandemic and has extended this through Fall 2024. Of the 38% of enrolled freshmen in 2022 who submitted ACT scores; the middle 50 percent Composite score was between 28 and 33. Of the 18% of the incoming freshman class who submitted SAT scores; the middle 50 percent Composite scores were 1370–1500. The average unweighted GPA among enrolled freshman was 3.88. Admission is need-blind for domestic applicants. The University of Wisconsin–Madison
6313-797: The Henry Mall area were conceived to be "technical" and geographically close to the science departments and the university farm. The Mall features several notable buildings, including Agriculture Hall , the Agronomy Building, the Agricultural Engineering Building , and the Agricultural Chemistry Building . The Mall is also home to several artworks, including the Hoard statue by Gutzon Borglum , which honors William Dempster Hoard ,
6420-546: The Memorial Union for the films and concerts each week. An advisory referendum to renovate and expand Memorial Union was approved by the student body in 2006, and the university completed the renovation in 2017. Union South was first built in 1971 to better accommodate a growing student enrollment. The original structure was demolished in 2008 and replaced with a LEED -certified building which opened in 2011. The building contains several dining options, an art gallery,
6527-470: The Milwaukee militia and sat on the University of Wisconsin 's board of regents, as well as being the first superintendent of Milwaukee public schools . In the wake of the Panic of 1857 King sold the paper to T.D. Jermain and H.H. Brightman, but remained editor, covering the state legislative sessions of 1859–1861 himself. In 1848, the Sentinel praised the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo , a treaty that ended
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#17327829232676634-405: The School of Economics, Political Science, and History at Wisconsin for purportedly teaching socialistic doctrines. This effort failed, with the Wisconsin state Board of Regents issuing a ringing proclamation in favor of academic freedom , acknowledging the necessity for freely " sifting and winnowing " among competing claims of truth. Research, teaching, and service at the UW is influenced by
6741-604: The State Capitol as the building with the highest elevation in the city. Van Hise Hall was constructed in 1967 and its destruction is slated for sometime around 2025 as part of the university's campus master plan. The George L. Mosse Humanities Building, located on Library Mall, was built in the late 1960s in the Brutalist style. Although debunked, the campus myth is that the building (with its poor ventilation, narrow windows, inclined base, and cantilevered upper floors)
6848-491: The Union or the Terrace, it has gained a reputation as one of the most beautiful student centers on a university campus. Located on the shore of Lake Mendota , it is a popular spot for socializing among both students and the public, who enjoy gazing at the lake and its sailboats. The union is known for the Rathskeller , a German pub adjacent to the lake terrace. Political debates and backgammon and sheepshead games over
6955-687: The United States, The Wall Street Journal made headlines when it announced its overseas version would convert to a tabloid on 17 October 2005. Strong debate occurred in the US on whether or not the rest of the national papers will or even should follow the trend of the European papers and The Wall Street Journal . The Wall Street Journal overseas edition switched back to a broadsheet format in 2015. University of Wisconsin%E2%80%93Madison The University of Wisconsin–Madison ( University of Wisconsin , Wisconsin , UW , UW–Madison , or simply Madison )
7062-519: The Wisconsin land-grant institution in 1866. In 1875, William Smith Noland became the first known African-American to graduate from the university. Science Hall was constructed in 1888 as one of the world's first buildings to use I-beams . On April 4, 1892, the first edition of the student-run The Daily Cardinal was published. In 1894 an unsuccessful attempt was made by Oliver Elwin Wells , Superintendent of Public Instruction of Wisconsin to expel Richard T. Ely from his chair of director of
7169-415: The adopted constitution fell short of Whig expectations, the Sentinel was instrumental in encouraging its rejection by territorial voters on April 6, 1847. The Sentinel launched a German-language paper, Der Volksfreund , to bring the city's large population of German immigrants to the Whig cause. Gen. King himself was a delegate to Wisconsin's second constitutional convention. He was also appointed head of
7276-441: The area, have survived to a greater or lesser degree on campus, depending on location and past building activities. Surviving sites are marked and fenced on the campus, ensuring that they are not disturbed. Wisconsin statutes protect effigy mounds by giving them a five-foot buffer zone. The Lakeshore Nature Preserve Committee is endeavoring to "...safeguard beloved cultural landscapes," through aggressive enforcement of measures for
7383-446: The city's " bridge wars ", a period when the two sides of town fought for dominance. A co-founder of Milwaukee, Solomon Juneau , provided the starting funds for editor John O'Rourke, a former office assistant at the Advertiser , to start the paper. On Juneau's request, O'Rourke's associate, Harrison Reed , remained to take over the Sentinel ' s operations on behalf of Democratic Party politician James Duane Doty . Reed continued
7490-424: The college's closure in 1932. In 1936, UW–Madison began an artist-in-residence program with John Steuart Curry , the first ever at a university. In the 1940s, Warfarin (Coumadin) was developed at UW by the laboratory of Karl Paul Link and named after the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. During World War II, the University of Wisconsin was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that took part in
7597-409: The company's " USA Today Network Wisconsin". The Journal Sentinel also collaborates with the Press-Gazette for Packers coverage, and adapted to Gannett standards, including newspaper layout, website and apps, in August 2016. In the spring of 2018, the Journal Sentinel press facility began to print all of Gannett's state papers (it already printed The Sheboygan Press and USA Today ) replacing
7704-507: The company's Appleton facility. By 2021, it was reported that about 90% of Journal Sentinel subscriptions were for its print edition despite a years-long push to increase the number of digital subscribers. In April 2024, the newspaper launched a redesigned Sunday edition. The Milwaukee Journal and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel have received Pulitzer Prizes : In 1934, cartoonist Ross A. Lewis won for his cartoon on labor-industry violence, " Sure, I'll Work for Both Sides ". In 1966,
7811-639: The daily edition and just under 338,000 for the Sunday edition. On April 8, 2016, decades of local ownership for both papers ended when Journal Media Group was acquired by the Gannett Company for $ 280 million. Gannett owns most of the daily newspapers in the central and eastern parts of Wisconsin (eleven in all), including the Green Bay Press-Gazette and Appleton's The Post-Crescent . The Journal Sentinel has been integrated into
7918-521: The discoveries of Vitamin A and Vitamin B in 1913 and 1916, respectively, by Elmer V. McCollum and Marguerite Davis , as well as the " Single-grain experiment " conducted by Stephen Moulton Babcock and Edwin B. Hart from 1907 to 1911, paving the way for modern nutrition as a science. In 1923, Harry Steenbock invented process for adding vitamin D to milk and in 1925, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
8025-682: The disturbance. The struggle was documented in the book, They Marched into Sunlight , as well as the PBS documentary Two Days in October . Among the students injured in the protest was former Madison mayor Paul Soglin . Another target of protest was the Army Mathematics Research Center (AMRC) in Sterling Hall, which was also home of the physics department. The student newspaper, The Daily Cardinal , published
8132-702: The downsizing until July 2006, saying it would stick to its 54-inch web ( 13 + 1 ⁄ 2 -inch front page). However, the paper adopted the narrower format beginning Monday, 6 August 2007. The smaller newspapers also have the advantage of being easier to handle, particularly among commuters. In some countries, especially Australia , Canada , the UK, and the US, broadsheet newspapers are commonly perceived to be more intellectual in content than their tabloid counterparts. They tend to use their greater size to publish stories exploring topics in-depth and carry less sensationalist and celebrity -oriented material. The distinction
8239-585: The establishment of the Female College Building in 1871 (today the location of Chadbourne Hall). The administrative offices of the College of Letters and Science now occupy the building. The Carillon Tower, erected in 1936, was designed by Warren Powers Laird and Paul Philippe Cret so that the balustrade echoes that on Bascom Hall. The carillon has 56 bronze bells, with the largest weighing 6,800 pounds. An automated system rings bells on
8346-547: The first building on campus. In 1854, Levi Booth and Charles T. Wakeley became the first graduates of the university, and in 1892 the university awarded its first PhD to future university president Charles R. Van Hise . Female students were first admitted to the University of Wisconsin during the American Civil War in 1863. The Wisconsin State Legislature formally designated the university as
8453-545: The hour, playing songs such as " Varsity " and " On, Wisconsin! ". East of the tower, lies a monument to the Sauk leader Black Hawk , whose flight through the Madison area represented the last armed conflict between the United States Army and native peoples in southern Wisconsin. Several other notable architectural styles are represented in the historic core of the university. Following the 1884 fire that destroyed
8560-410: The internet, newspapers are looking to standardize the size of the newsprint roll. The Wall Street Journal with its 12-inch-wide front page was printed on 48-inch web newsprint. Early adopters in the downsizing of broadsheets used a 50-inch web ( 12 + 1 ⁄ 2 -inch front pages). However, the 48-inch web is now rapidly becoming the definitive standard in the U.S. The New York Times held out on
8667-456: The lake." The regents' building plans called for a "main edifice fronting towards the Capitol, three stories high, surmounted by an observatory for astronomical observations." This building, University Hall, now known as Bascom Hall , was finally completed in 1859. On October 10, 1916, a fire destroyed the building's dome, which was never replaced. North Hall , constructed in 1851, was actually
8774-579: The late hour, a post doctoral physics researcher , Robert Fassnacht , was in the lab and was killed in the explosion. The physics department was severely damaged, while the intended target, the AMRC, was scarcely affected. Karleton Armstrong , Dwight Armstrong , and David Fine were found responsible for the blast. Leo Burt was identified as a suspect, but was never apprehended or tried. In 1998, UW–Madison's James Thomson first isolated and cultured human embryonic stem cells . Located in Madison , about
8881-406: The main campus. UW–Madison is organized into 13 schools and colleges, which enrolled approximately 34,200 undergraduate and 14,300 graduate and professional students in 2024. Its academic programs include 136 undergraduate majors, 148 master's degree programs, and 120 doctoral programs. Wisconsin is one of the twelve founding members of the selective Association of American Universities . It
8988-442: The newspaper tax, beginning in the 1830s until its eventual dismissal in 1855. With the increased production of newspapers and literacy, the demand for visual reporting and journalists led to the blending of broadsides and newspapers, creating the modern broadsheet newspaper . Modern printing facilities most efficiently print broadsheet sections in multiples of eight pages (with four front pages and four back pages). The broadsheet
9095-499: The nine universities and four freshman-sophomore branch campuses of the Wisconsin State Universities System , creating the University of Wisconsin System and bringing the two higher education systems under a single board of regents. UW–Madison's Howard Temin , a virologist, co-discovered the enzyme reverse transcriptase in 1969, and The Badger Herald was founded as a conservative student paper
9202-537: The original, Milwaukee architect Henry C. Koch designed the new Science Hall (built in 1888) in a Romanesque Revival style . The Education Building, originally designed to house the College of Engineering, features a Beaux-Arts style . Structures built in a Neoclassical style include Birge Hall and the Wisconsin Historical Society . Located at the foot of the hill, Music Hall was designed in 1878 by Madison architect David R. Jones in
9309-542: The paper after Republicans appointed him as the transcribing clerk to Wisconsin's state senate before later going on to teach history. In 1892–1893 the Sentinel moved temporarily from its home on Mason Street so that the old building could be torn down and a new, state-of-the-art structure could be erected in its place. With the dawning of the Progressive Era during the 1890s the Sentinel began to moderate its views, often echoing calls for political reform. After
9416-465: The preservation of such zones and advocating for broader buffers where possible. The Geology Museum features rocks, minerals, and fossils from around the world. Highlights include a blacklight room, a walk-through cave, and a fragment of the Barringer meteorite . Some noteworthy fossils include the first dinosaur skeleton assembled in Wisconsin (an Edmontosaurus ), a shark ( Squalicorax ) and
9523-897: The publisher of Hoard's Dairyman magazine. The Henry Boulder, a chunk of gneiss on the mall with a plaque, is dedicated to Dean William Arnon Henry , the mall's namesake, who helped establish the College of Agriculture. Other buildings in the area include the Stovall Lab of Hygiene and the Genetics Building. The Henry Mall Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. UW–Madison claims more distinct archaeological sites than on any other university campus. The campus contains four clusters of effigy mounds located at Observatory Hill, Willow Drive, Picnic Point, and Eagle Heights. These sites, reflecting thousands of years of human habitation in
9630-476: The same content. The Times did likewise, but with less apparent success, with readers vocally opposing the change. The Independent ceased to be available in broadsheet format in May 2004, and The Times followed suit from November 2004; The Scotsman is also now published only in tabloid format. The Guardian switched to the "Berliner" or "midi" format found in some other European countries (slightly larger than
9737-547: The same year. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, UW–Madison was shaken by a series of student protests, and by the use of force by authorities in response, comprehensively documented in the film The War at Home . The first major demonstrations protested the presence on campus of recruiters for the Dow Chemical Company, which supplied the napalm used in the Vietnam War . Authorities used force to quell
9844-406: The scoop that university regent and state political boss Elisha W. Keyes wished to remove university president John Bascom for political reasons and it was Turner's reports that resulted in a backlash of support for the president. Bascom had earlier offered Turner a position teaching elocution at the university that he turned down in favor of working for the Sentinel for nine more months. He left
9951-461: The series "Pollution: The Spreading Menace" garnered the award for public service. In 1977, Margo Huston became the first female staff member of The Milwaukee Journal to win a Pulitzer Prize. She won the award in the category of best general reporting for a series of articles on the elderly and the process of aging. In 2008, local government reporter David Umhoefer was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting for his investigation of
10058-421: The state capitol for the Sentinel and had seen the control the powerful monied interests had over state government. When a Democrat was elected to Congress from a die-hard Republican county, the Sentinel ' s editor refused to print the fact. This led Nieman to resign and join the fledgling Milwaukee Journal . The Journal first received acclaim when Nieman's coverage of a deadly hotel fire revealed it to be
10165-469: The struggle to keep the paper ahead of its debts, often printing pleas to his advertisers and subscribers to pay their bills any way they could. Meanwhile, the establishment of the Whig party in the territory thrust the Sentinel into partisan politics. In 1840 Reed was assaulted by individuals whom the Sentinel charged were hired by Democratic Governor Henry Dodge . When Doty backed William Henry Harrison ,
10272-584: The suburban University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics , and the Department of Psychiatry & Clinics in the West Side research park. The University of Wisconsin–Madison Arboretum , a demonstration area for native ecosystems, is located on the west side of Madison. The main campus includes many buildings designed or supervised by architects J.T.W. Jennings and Arthur Peabody . The hub of campus life
10379-414: The two oldest surviving buildings on campus. Designed by John F. Rague in a Federal style , the oldest structure in the university, North Hall (built in 1851), was planned to be similar to the dormitories at the University of Michigan . It is still in use as the home of the Department of Political Science. Its opposite twin, South Hall (built in 1855), originally served as the women's dormitory prior to
10486-561: The university also maintains graduate and professional schools in environmental studies , law, library and information studies , medicine and public health (School of Medicine and Public Health) , public affairs , and veterinary medicine . The four year, full-time undergraduate instructional program is classified by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as "arts and science plus professions" with
10593-664: The university and appoints the chancellor . Jennifer Mnookin , former dean of the UCLA School of Law , has served as the chancellor of UW–Madison since 2022. The University of Wisconsin–Madison, the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System , is a large, four-year research university comprising twenty associated colleges and schools. In addition to undergraduate and graduate divisions in agriculture and life sciences, business, education, engineering, human ecology , journalism and mass communication , letters and science, music, nursing , pharmacy , and social welfare ,
10700-423: The university's first professor (mathematics), the first class of 17 students met at Madison Female Academy on February 5, 1849. A permanent campus site was soon selected: an area of 50 acres (20.2 ha) "bounded north by Fourth lake, east by a street to be opened at right angles with King street", [later State Street] "south by Mineral Point Road (University Avenue), and west by a carriage-way from said road to
10807-486: Was $ 1.5 million, which would have consumed nearly all of the library's $ 1.7 million materials budget. The newspaper changed ownership to Gannett in April and by August had requested that Google remove free public access to the archives, leaving a gap in coverage. Google Newspapers access was restored in December 2017, but digital access continued to be sporadic over the next several years. Broadsheet A broadsheet
10914-474: Was chartered to control patenting and patent income on UW–Madison inventions. The UW Graduate School had been separated in 1904-1905. In 1909, William Purdy and Paul Beck wrote On, Wisconsin , the UW–Madison athletic fight song. Radio station 9XM, the oldest continually operating radio station in the United States, was founded on campus in 1919 (now WHA (970 AM). The Memorial Union opened in 1928, and
11021-427: Was designed by architects Warren Laird and Paul Cret and constructed between 1903 and 1961. The mall contains buildings that represent Neoclassical, Beaux-Arts, Italian Renaissance Revival , and Modern Movement styles of architecture. Laird and Cret were hired to draw up a master plan for future construction at the campus, with the idea of creating a more unified and aesthetically pleasing area. The departments around
11128-405: Was designed to be "riot-proof". Its seven floors house the history, art, and music departments. The most recent campus master plan calls for it to be demolished and replaced with two other buildings, in part because of water damage. The University of Wisconsin–Madison has two student unions . The older, Memorial Union , was built in 1928 to honor American World War I veterans . Also known as
11235-640: Was diminished after it had been revealed that he had secretly purchased the editorial pages of some 300 of the state's newspapers. A majority stake was purchased by the Hearst Corporation in 1924. Operations of the Sentinel were joined to Hearst's papers, the afternoon Wisconsin News and the morning Milwaukee Telegram ; the latter being merged with the Sentinel as the Milwaukee Sentinel & Telegram . The Wisconsin News entered into
11342-438: Was licensed as a commercial station in 1941, originally as W55M, and later becoming WMFM and WTMJ-FM . This station was shut down in 1950. In 1959 a new WTMJ-FM was licensed, which later became WKTI-FM, WLWK-FM, and WKTI . WTMJ-TV , Wisconsin's first television station, went on the air in 1947. As of mid-2012, the Journal Sentinel had the 31st-largest circulation among all major U.S. newspapers, with circulation of 207,000 for
11449-507: Was ranked 102nd in the world. The 2024 Times Higher Education World University Rankings placed UW–Madison 63rd worldwide, based primarily on surveys administered to students, faculty, and recruiters. For 2023, UW–Madison was ranked 63rd by U.S. News & World Report among global universities. In 2023, UW–Madison was ranked 28th globally by the Center for World University Rankings , which relies on outcome-based samplings, coupled with
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