After two weeks, and just ahead of commencement, protesters agreed to remove an encampment on Library Mall in exchange for commitments from the administration. Here’s a recap of events.
Pro-Palestinian student protesters at UW-Madison agreed Friday to dismantle their illegal encampment on Library Mall and refrain from disrupting this weekend’s commencement after campus officials agreed to several of their demands, including helping students present their concerns to decision-makers about how the university’s endowment is invested.
Over the past two weeks, students within the University of Wisconsin System joined a national wave of student demonstrations in support of Palestine. At UW–Madison and UW–Milwaukee, encampments were built April 29, and students at UW–Eau Claire held a pro-Palestine protest May 3.
Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin released a statement shortly after the resolution was reached. She said, “one of the most fundamental missions of a university is and must be to foster engagement and dialogue across intractable differences.”
A Madison man was arrested Friday night after allegedly threatening to kill a student earlier in the week, UW-Madison police said Saturday.
Nearly 50,000 people packed Camp Randall stadium to witness the confirmation of 8,586 degrees at UW-Madison 171th commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 11, 2024.
The local Madison economy is reaping the benefits from UW-Madison’s 2024 graduations. Restaurants and bars in the vicinity are experiencing a significant surge in customers and sales, and they were well-prepared for the influx of guests.
At about 7:30 p.m. Friday, UWPD contacted a 38-year-old man for an alleged death threat he made on May 7. A student had claimed a man came up to him and threatened to kill him if he did not put his phone away.
This graduation ceremony is a first for many 2024 graduates. The COVID-19 pandemic cancelled high school graduations around the country in 2020, when most of this year’s college graduates were seniors in high school.
The UW-Madison Class of 2024 includes thousands of students who graduated high school in 2020 and have not experienced a normal ceremony due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, until Saturday’s commencement.
On Saturday, Benjamin Torine graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a Bachelor’s degree in sociology. But before he could toss his cap at Camp Randall, there was another milestone he had to pass.
Experts at UW-Madison explain the mental load that moms or mother figures tend to take on in the household and how taxing it can be on their mental health. Assistant Professor of Sociology at UW-Madison Allison Daminger studies cognitive labor in households and how couples divide up the work.
A Madison nurse who was diagnosed with cancer while 16 weeks pregnant is sharing her story in hopes of reaching other women. Nurse with UW Health Andrea Moskal was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2021. She was 16 weeks pregnant.
“Even if only 85% of Black voters instead of 90% vote for Biden, additional turnout helps Democrats,” said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Concern No. 1 is just whether he will get a smaller share of the Black vote than he did last time around.”
As young Chinese-Americans raised (and, in Stephen’s case, born) in the United States, Helen and Stephen were in a rare position to guide Americans through this once-forbidden land. “We saw China through their eyes as Americans that could broker more easily into Chinese culture,” says Cindy I-Fen Cheng, author of Citizens of Asian America and professor of American history and Asian-American studies at University of Wisconsin, Madison. “We saw it with fresh eyes. We’re like, ‘Look at the wonders!’”
Outside the chancellor’s office at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, more than 100 protesters laid down side by side. Many had their palms up, painted red. Some wore graduation robes. Two of them, perched on a statue of Abraham Lincoln, held a banner listing Palestinian children who have died during the Israel-Hamas war.
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Two thousand miles away, a handful of students held a largely silent protest at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Camp Randall Stadium. No arrests were made, the Associated Press reported.
After nearly two weeks of rallies and negotiations, protest organizers reached an agreement Friday with leaders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to end a pro-Palestinian encampment on Library Mall.
That approach differed from one at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where administrators in early May called in the police to break down the tents after negotiations failed. After the initial crackdown failed to end the encampment, Wisconsin-Madison later came to an agreement with protesters to break down the camp voluntarily before commencement ceremonies over the weekend.
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A small group of UW-Madison students in their caps and gowns stood up, walked out of the ceremony and were escorted by UW Police from Saturday’s commencement.
The demands of the anti-Israel protests on campus include “cutting all ties with Israeli institutions, including the… Mosse Graduate Exchange Fellowship.” As a member of the Faculty Committee for the George L. Mosse Program in History, which administers the exchange fellowship, I strongly oppose this demand as a threat to academic freedom. The free exchange of ideas, scholars, and students is essential for the advancement of knowledge and the fearless sifting and winnowing long championed by the University of Wisconsin.
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With recent protests on campus, the University sent out a list of planned security protocols. “These security measures follow typical University of Wisconsin gameday protocols and will be in place for both commencement ceremonies,” said a release from UW-Madison officials.
UWPD says any disruption of campus events, which includes graduation, is against state law and will not be tolerated. Any students who do will face a suspension and have their degree put on hold.
Madison police officers arrested a 20-year-old man who they said tried to fight people near the Library Mall encampment Wednesday night.
This month, roughly 23,000 students across the UW system will receive their diplomas as the graduating class of 2024. Those at River Falls and Stout have already walked across the stage, while the rest will follow in the coming days and weeks.
“It is the most diverse, equitable, and inclusive folksong field collection ever made for the Library of Congress,” said James P. Leary, professor emeritus of Folklore and Scandinavian Studies at UW-Madison. It reminds “us that we cannot fully grasp the richness of American roots music without recognizing the many peoples, tongues, and sounds that – whether past or present, from mainstream or margins, deservedly acknowledged or unjustly ignored – have always made America great.”
For Victoria Heiligenthal, Madison Mooney and Alexa Westley — not to mention the teammates who’ve already reached this point and for those teammates whose time with the Badgers isn’t quite done — there’s a bond that can never be broken.
Dr. Nick Hillman, a professor in the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, referenced a 2020 article written by Dr. Denisa Gándara and Dr. Sosanya Jones titled Who Deserves benefits in higher Education? A Policy Discourse Analysis of a Process Surrounding Reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, telling Newsweek via email on Thursday that “they have found policymakers favor certain groups over others based on notions of deservingness.
“By having this medication immediately available, we can save a life,” Kari Stampfli, the district’s health services coach and lead nurse, said in a statement by UW Health, which is supplying the Narcan through grant funds from Dane County.
I have been a passionate supporter of my university, but I am now going to withdraw my support. I cannot support an administration that allows uneducated, ill-informed students to make irrational and illogical demands of said administration. Demanding that UW cut all ties with Israel is beyond antisemitic.
The UW-Extension office said it depends on the lawn. Lawns that are solely turfgrass will provide few resources for pollinators. But lawns that have low-growing plants like dandelions will provide nectar and pollen.
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A paper on the research – which also involved scientists from Case Western University, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and the Rhode Island School of Design – was recently published in the journal Advanced Materials.
The Cardinal-Hickory Creek fight is as much about legal principles as it is about the fate of the mile-wide section of the wildlife refuge the developers want to traverse. The actual environmental impacts of the current deal on the table are arguably not the worst outcome, explains David Drake, a wildlife specialist at the University of Wisconsin. With proper mitigation, he argues, the ecosystem could respond well to the proposed land swap. “After the transmission towers are constructed, there is a minimal impact at that point,” he explains, though he warns that construction would still pose dangers like habitat disturbance and invasive species.
Nearly half of the 3% of campus protests that Acled categorized as violent became so because of demonstrators fighting with the police sent in to clear protest encampments. That included incidents at the University of Texas, Austin, on 24 April; at Emerson College in Boston on 25 April; at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, on 26 April; at Washington University in St Louis on 27 April, when campus officials said that three police officers were injured, including one who had a “severe concussion” and another who broke a finger; and at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, on 1 May, when a state trooper was reportedly injured after being hit on the head with a skateboard.
Tensions persist between students and administration at the University of Wisconsin-Madison over an encampment at Library Mall, now in its tenth day of protest. Demonstrators are calling for the university to sever all ties with Israeli institutions.
UW-Madison officials and pro-Palestinian protesters said they’re willing to meet again Thursday, a day after protest leaders walked out of discussions.
Amy Boyle Johnston, author of the 2015 book “Unknown Serling,” found the story while looking through Serling’s papers at the University of Wisconsin. Serling, who died in 1975, had yet to start a family when he wrote “First Squad, First Platoon.” But he was already thinking about the next generation, including a dedication to his yet-unborn children urging them to remember “a semblance of the feeling of a torn limb, a burnt patch of flesh” and “the hopeless emptiness of fatigue” were as much part of war as “uniforms and flags, honor and patriotism.
“I was writing a memoir, called As I Knew Him, My Dad, Rod Serling,” Anne Serling, one of two daughters, told the Guardian. “And another writer, Amy Boyle Johnston, who had been doing a lot of researching of my dad’s early work and wrote a book called Unknown Serling, sent me the story. She’d found it in the archives in Wisconsin,” at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“Small, transient episodes of loneliness really motivate people to then seek out social connection,” said Anna Finley, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute on Aging at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “But in chronic episodes of loneliness, that seems to kind of backfire” because people become especially attuned to social threats or signals of exclusion, which can then make it scary or unpleasant for them to interact with others.
“Lawns seem to draw as much irrational hate as they do love these days,” said Paul Robbins, dean of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of “Lawn People: How Grasses, Weeds, and Chemicals Make Us Who We Are.”
“First Squad, First Platoon” was discovered in a collection of Serling’s writings at the University of Wisconsin by Amy Boyle Johnston, author of a book about his career called Unknown Serling. She gave the story to Anne, who included excerpts of it in her memoir As I Knew Him.
In fact, there’s a famous case, University of Wisconsin, when they were protesting against Dow Chemical, which was recruiting on campus, and they manufactured napalm, which was a chemical weapon used in Vietnam, which killed a lot of civilians and there was basically a police riot.
In fact, there’s a famous case, University of Wisconsin, when they were protesting against Dow Chemical, which was recruiting on campus, and they manufactured napalm, which was a chemical weapon used in Vietnam, which killed a lot of civilians and there was basically a police riot.
“The dairy industry has never had to deal with something like this before,” says Keith Poulsen, director of the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory and a former dairy veterinarian. “This is probably going to be the most important outbreak in my professional career.”
Cicadas are very loud indeed. Extension entomologist P.J. Liesch of the University of Wisconsin-Madison told CBS 58 in Milwaukee that a grove of trees with a bunch of singing and screeching cicadas could reach 70 to 80 decibels – a similar volume to a vacuum cleaner.
In light of recent protests on campus related to the war in Gaza, UW-Madison is adding special security measures for spring commencement ceremonies Friday and Saturday.
UW-Madison officials and pro-Palestinian protesters said they’re willing to meet again Thursday, a day after protest leaders walked out of discussions.
The statement restated administrators’ goal to end the encampment demonstration, but said “no such police action will occur at 4 p.m. today.”“It remains an urgent campus priority to end the encampment, which is illegal, a violation of student and registered student organization conduct rules, and an increasing safety concern,” the statement said.
All incidents have occurred during encampment demonstration.
Students, protestors and community members gathered at the Common Council meeting to voice their support and concerns about the resolution.
Protest organizer Dahlia Saba said they brought a proposal to Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin and other UW leaders that outlined “several principles of ethical investment.””Specifically, no investing in weapons manufacturing, no investing in companies that profit off of the occupied territories and no investing in companies that profit off of private prisons,” Saba said.
The UW-Madison Police Department said Wednesday that it is investigating three incidents that reportedly occurred on Library Mall over the past week.
Those surveyed were also asked about the recent campus protests, some of which were underway on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison at the time of the survey.Voters 50% to 38% opposed the student protests being held on college and university campuses responding to Israel’s actions in Gaza.
In a statement Wednesday afternoon, university officials said that students and faculty liaisons walked out of a meeting on Wednesday. Student protesters are calling on the university to divest from groups that they said are supplying arms used by the Israeli government against Palestinians.
Nurse Nichole Warner worked in the Infectious Disease Clinic. She passed away in a car accident in December of 2022.
