“I’m here to come back to school and go to practice,” Cephus said. “I’m ready to win football games and start back in my education. I expect to do both at a high level. Hopefully I have a clear enough mind to get back to being on the academic Big Ten team.”
The Badgers, who open their season Thursday at Central Florida, are ranked No. 16 in the preseason United Soccer Coaches Top 25 poll.
“I understand why the decision was made,” said Erin Thornley Parisi, executive director of the Rape Crisis Center, noting that Cephus was acquitted in criminal court. “But that doesn’t change the impact that it might have on the survivors of the alleged crimes as well as other survivors on campus. It is painful for those who still believe that these women were sexually assaulted by him.”
The Marquette University Police Department will issue citations, with a fine of $86.20, for riding scooters on public sidewalks — enforcing an existing Milwaukee municipal ordinance.
Cephus was expelled after the 2018 fall semester after an investigation determined he had violated the school’s non-academic misconduct code. He was found not guilty earlier this month of one count of second-degree sexual assault of an intoxicated victim and one count of third-degree sexual assault.
“The water table isn’t very deep to begin with,” said Jean Bahr, a professor of geology and geophysics at UW-Madison. “It doesn’t have to go up very much before you start having trouble.”
UW-Madison announced its intention in June to remove the statue as part of its plan to redesign the Field House South Plaza.
UW-Madison announced Monday it has reinstated former Wisconsin Badgers wide receiver Quintez Cephus to the university — a year to the day after he told his team he had to step down and face criminal charges.
Campus Free Speech Bill supports those who espouse hate speech more than those who disrupt it.
According to the statement, UW applied its code of conduct impartially, regardless of who is involved.
Chancellor Rebbecca Blank noted in the statement the university recently received new information regarding the case that helped inform their decision.
“We are cognizant of how difficult this decision must have been given the competing perspectives on what constitutes fairness and justice in this case.”
“It’s important to recognize there’s a pattern here,” said UW-Madison journalism professor Dhavan Shah. “We see this with (U.S. Senate Majority Leader) Mitch McConnell right now. He’ll probably slow walk any legislation regarding gun control for it to end and the calls to fade, and it’ll have a vote in the Senate and it’ll fail.”
In a game of personnel change, the element of consistency that the University of Wisconsin football team features on the sideline in 2019 is noteworthy.
Wisconsinites understand the issues associated with the case of Quintez Cephus, and the dilemma facing UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank. She’ll be damned if she decides to reinstate the former Badger wide receiver and to allow him to attend the university this fall, and she’ll be damned if she doesn’t.
Letter to the editor: A commonsense solution that may honor the intent of the authors of this legislation, while simultaneously guaranteeing complete participation by all students in campus referendums, would be to include a campus-wide balloting initiative as part of the required enrollment process for classes each semester.
He was known fondly as Dr. Dirt. He used his extensive knowledge of Wisconsin’s soils and his warm personality to help farmers and protect the state’s environment. Dr. Dirt, University of Wisconsin–Madison emeritus professor Fred Madison, died June 3 at the age of 82.
Bridget Ravis grew up in Richland Center, where she spent her summers performing musical theater with the Community Players of Southwest Wisconsin. Now the 26-year-old UW Hospital nurse finds herself singing to patients if she discovers they share her passion for show tunes, and if she feels it might brighten their day.
No matter what UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank decides, she will be criticized.
After the service, Jelly went to work at UW Provisions as a meat cutter. He retired from UW Provisions after 34 years of dedication.
The proposed actions should alleviate much of the long-term risk of lake flooding, said Ken Potter, a retired UW-Madison professor of civil and environmental engineering who has studied the impact of extreme rains on the Yahara lakes and helped draft a list of recommendations for the county.
Last year, Wisconsin’s flagship school, UW-Madison, announced the creation of Bucky’s Promise. The program guarantees free tuition to lower-income students. But one WUWM Beats Me listener wonders why Madison, and not other Wisconsin schools?
Quoted: The changes will have no effect on animals currently on the federal list of endangered or threatened species, but species added in the future — including at-risk animals in Wisconsin that could get added — may have less stringent protections, said Adena Rissman, associate professor in the Forest and Wildlife Ecology Department at UW-Madison.
During the investigation, UWPD identified one of the suspects as Travon M. Pearson, 20, of Madison. On Thursday, Pearson was taken into custody on the 500 block of East Washington Avenue.
Quoted: “A child, even an adolescence, doesn’t just need 8 hours of sleep… A developing children needs anywhere form 12 to 9. So the recommendations for adolescence are still higher than they are for adults,” Dr. Stephanie Jones, UW Health Sleep Clinic expert, said.
The UW Polo Club team hosted their annual Badger State Polo Cup on Saturday at the Alliant Energy Center to help fundraise for their club and the Wisconsin Large Animal Emergency Response (WLAER).
Med Flight officials say the new base gives them a big advantage to get to people north of Madison.
Campus police detectives and officers said they identified one of the suspects as Travon M. Pearson, 20, of Madison. Officials said they found Pearson on the 500 block of East Washington Avenue and took him into custody.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced Friday an internship program created for Madison College students that can help them transfer to a four-year college.
Officials said there were no signs of a fire when they arrived.
The University of Wisconsin, Madison, Memorial Union Terrace celebrated LGBTQ Pride for the first time with flags, unicorns and the signature Terrace chairs in every color of the rainbow.
UW system student groups say bill is not necessary given pre-existing UW policy.
Quoted: The reason is obvious, said Kenneth Mayer, a University of Wisconsin political scientist and an expert on gerrymandered maps: Nonbinding referendums and resolutions — even those with overwhelming public support — are the equivalent of Nerf guns in a political battle that demands heavy artillery.
Foxconn announced a partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison last year, pledging to provide a matching gift of up to a $100 million to help fund a new building for the College of Engineering. It’s unclear if any progress has been made on that deal.
Student groups at University of Wisconsin schools say legislation protecting free speech isn’t needed because a 2017 Board of Regents policy already does that.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Family Medicine also oversees a statewide network where peer counselors in emergency rooms around the state urge overdose patients to consider treatment. Since 2017, the ED2 Recovery program has discussed treatment with 559 individuals; most were willing to try efforts to break their addiction; 4 percent were not.
Additional coauthors are from Penn State and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Funding came from the US National Institutes of Health and the US National Science Foundation.
Wisconsin’s agricultural economy has been growing even with a steep decline in the number of dairy farms, a new report from University of Wisconsin-Madison shows.
He then moved to the University of Wisconsin, where he served in Employee Assistance and later consulted business and industry. He retired Emeritus from the University after 32 years as a senior lecturer in the Department of Professional Development and Applied Studies, specializing in supervisory strategies and employee retention.
The zoo also has made strides in several other important areas, Schwetz said, including launching a new website, adding new bathrooms and opening a walk-up window for Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream and having increased access to veterinarians from UW-Madison’s School Of Veterinary Medicine.
Cephus’ attorneys: Unless UW’s better angels prevail, Cephus will lose another year of his academic and athletic career based on allegations that jurors overwhelmingly and immediately rejected.
In college, he was the managing editor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Journalism’s Curb Magazine, where he created two projects related to Wisconsin breweries.
She believes many pieces of evidence added up to form the jury’s not guilty conclusion, but surveillance video of the night shown by the defense stands out as the most persuasive.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is ranked high in a list compiled by the Academic Ranking of World Universities.
The most popular hashtag used for UW was #uwmadison, which featured in 140,767 Instagram posts. That made UW-Madison the most instagrammed school in Wisconsin.
The letter addressed racial asymmetry on the UW-Madison campus, a previous racially-charged incident and critiques of race-related disciplinary actions.
UW-Madison officials dispute that characterization of how Title IX investigations are run, saying in a statement to News 3 Now that “if a complainant provides any information during the hearing, they are subject to cross-examination.” They also note that in 2017, “11 complaints of sexual assault against students were investigated and the university found students responsible in 4.”
Some of Madison’s most prominent Black leaders urged University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank to readmit Quintez Cephus to the university after the former football player was acquitted of sexual assault charges.
If the matter isn’t resolved quickly, UW’s players and coaches could enter the 2019 season worrying about Cephus and his fate once more.
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Chancellor Gary Miller is leaving to take over as president at the University of Akron.
Foxconn issued a statement saying only that Liu was meeting with Evers, state and local officials, and members of Wisconsin’s higher education community. UW-Madison spokesman John Lucas said Liu participated in an “introductory meeting” with university officials about “future partnership opportunities” Wednesday. Lucas declined to elaborate.
Paul Mitchell, director of the Renk Agribusiness Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the numbers make up a significant amount of the state’s typical corn and soybean production.
The special alternate uniforms will be worn against Northwestern on September 28.
A few dozen people attended a hearing Tuesday afternoon on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus that was intended as a place for people to share their thoughts on a proposed policy that would impose strict punishments, including expulsion and suspension, on people who disrupt others’ free speech.
This is the fourth column in a series about UpStart, a free entrepreneurship program for women and people of color supported by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, or WARF.
The measure died in the Senate but UW regents adopted the sanctions as policy in October. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, Sen. Chris Kapenga and Reps. Cody Horlacher and Dave Murphy re-introduced the bill Tuesday. Passage would cement the sanctions in statute.
Flanagan, 49, will remain president until the end of August, and will advise Edgewood College through the end of 2019 to help ensure a smooth transition. Mary Ellen Gevelinger, a tenured faculty member at Edgewood, will serve as interim president.
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team is ranked No. 5 in the American Volleyball Coaches Association preseason poll released Tuesday.
It’s hard for us to see a just conclusion that doesn’t include Cephus’ reinstatement as a student in good standing at the university.
Interviewed: UW Health psychologist Shilah Mirgain talks about strategies for new school year success.
