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UW-Madison’s Patrick Sims: #TheRealUW is forcing administrators to respond

Student outrage expressed on social media over a series of reported hate incidents on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus is demanding a new level of response from university officials, said Patrick Sims, vice provost and chief diversity officer. “It is forcing administrators to respond in ways we haven’t in the past to the kind of challenges students have experienced for some time,” Sims said Tuesday morning in an interview on Wisconsin Public Radio. “I’ve been hearing about these kinds of things for over a decade.”