By RYAN J. FOLEY
Associated Press Writer
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — One of the nation’s most enduring and well-known college beer bashes will go on but against a darker backdrop this year.
Thousands of college students will gather Saturday for the annual Mifflin Street Block Party, where students party hop between houses stocked with kegs and beer bongs start flowing about 8 a.m.
But the spring celebration comes just one month after the slaying of University of Wisconsin-Madison junior Brittany Zimmermann in her apartment a few blocks away. The murder, and two others nearby that also remain unsolved, has police and university officials warning students to keep strangers out of their homes.