Storyteller Series: The Magic of the Terrace
Sitting atop the iconic sunburst chairs, taking in the lake view with visitors chatting and snapping pictures nearby, former Union Director Ted Crabb and current Union Director Mark Guthier discussed the Memorial Union Terrace and its role as a beloved campus and community gathering place. “This is just something special, you sense it in the people that are here and the activity going on,” Crabb commented. While there is...
Student Leaders Plan and Promote Revelry Music Festival
Determined student leaders brought annual music festival Revelry to life at the Orpheum Saturday, April 30, despite budget cuts, bad weather and competition with nearby venues. Revelry attracted more than 600 students and community members. The Wisconsin Union Directorate Music Committee’s Revelry Music Festival is still in its formative years, having only begun in 2012. The mission of the festival is to bring an end-of-the-year music...
Graduating Seniors Celebrated their Success and the Future at Union South and Memorial Union
We invited graduating seniors to stop in for the graduation party of the year May 12-15. During the weekend celebration, Union South, Memorial Union and (drum roll, please) the Terrace offered music, photo opportunities, food, beverages and much more to graduating seniors and their families to commemorate their time at UW-Madison. The weekend celebration kicked off with graduating seniors returning nearly 700 iconic sunburst chairs to...
Storyteller Series: A Student-Led Union
“This is what makes a university unique, when the students and the faculty can get together and discuss issues outside of the classroom. That is where true learning takes place,” former Union Director Ted Crabb said, reiterating Charles Van Hise’s inaugural address upon becoming President of the University of Wisconsin in 1904, about the importance of a Union for the students. Since the very idea of bringing a “commons” or “Union”...
Storyteller Series: An Evolution of the Union’s Winter Carnival
“The Union is the place to be.” – Ted Crabb, Union Director 1968-2001. It is as simple as that. For more than 90 years, the Union has been a cornerstone of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. It has served as not only a living room but a rec room, a family room, a study hall, a café, and most of all, a way for students to connect and grow as a community. The Union’s winter activities, and recently the Winter Carnival, are the...