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February 9, 2022

Campus life

Wisconsin, Iowa Release Statement After Wrestler Says Fan Called Him a Racial Slur at Match

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Sports Illustrated

“The Iowa Athletics Department was made aware of a situation that occurred on Saturday during our wrestling match at Carver-Hawkeye Arena against the University of Wisconsin,” the release read. “One of Wisconsin’s student-athletes reported a fan in the stands yelling racially insensitive remarks directed at he and his family. The University of Iowa denounces any act of hatred and is committed to providing a safe and equitable environment. Iowa’s Athletic Administration has reached out to Wisconsin, and the student-athlete, to apologize for the incident and to let them know we are following up on this matter. Any individual found in violation of our fan behavior policy is subject to being banned from attending future Hawkeye athletic events.”

Athletics

Wisconsin football posts job opening for defensive assistant coach

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Wisconsin State Journal

The posting only designates that the position is for a defensive coach and does not list a position applicants would be coaching. The State Journal has reported that Bob Bostad — UW’s inside linebackers coach for the past five seasons — will be moving over to the offensive line to fill the void at that position left by Joe Rudolph’s departure.

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Texas-style GOP abortion ban gets hearing in Wisconsin

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Associated Press

The Wisconsin bill also mimics what University of Wisconsin Law School professor David Schwartz deemed most “sly” about Texas’ law. Because private citizens rather than state officials would enforce the ban, “it would be challenging for courts to block the law before a bounty-hunter brings a case under it, yet the law would deter access to abortion even without a bounty-hunting case being brought,” he said in a statement.

Opinion | A judge should not have rejected Ahmaud Arbery’s killers’ plea deal

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The Washington Post

Steven Wright, a clinical associate professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, teaches criminal appellate law and creative writing.The fate of Ahmaud Arbery’s murderers, whose federal hate-crimes trial began on Monday, took an unexpectedly dark turn last week when a federal judge rejected a plea deal reached with prosecutors. Under the deal, two of Arbery’s three killers were to accept responsibility for federal hate crimes; at least one had confirmed he would publicly admit race had motivated the murder. In exchange, the two men would serve the next 30 years in federal custody. The plea deal fell apart largely because the Arbery family objected.