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On Campus: UW-Madison plans to improve reporting and tracking of bias incidents

UW-Madison officials say they will try to make it easier for students to report incidents of bias ? conduct, speech or expression motivated by prejudice ? and they are working on a better system for tracking such reports. The university is currently investigating an allegation that members of the UW-Madison chapter of Delta Upsilon yelled racial slurs at two black women and threw a bottle at them.

Kevin Helmkamp, associate dean of students, said the current reporting mechanism is ?not the easiest.? A student needs to fill out a paper form and drop it off at the Dean of Students Office. He said the university is working on a system that will allow students to send complaints electronically, likely through a website.