Two decades later, in cases in 1991 and 1993, this precedent led lower courts to rule for students who had been disciplined by the University of Wisconsin and George Mason University for “hate speech.”
That same year, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Black students called for a campus-wide student strike until administrators agreed to 13 demands. Along with “thousands of white allies,” they held rallies, boycotted classes, marched to the state Capitol, took over lecture halls and blocked building entrances, leading the governor to activate the Wisconsin National Guard.
rofessor of Political Science, Director of the Elections Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Police use tear gas and night sticks to break up anti-war demonstrations at the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison, Oct. 18, 1967.
Hundreds gathered at Library Mall early Monday in support of the Palestinians in Gaza as Israel’s war against Hamas continues.
More than 200 people attended a protest Monday at University of Wisconsin-Madison in support of the Palestinian people. Demonstrators set up at least a dozen tents on the grass outside Memorial Library.
An encampment erected Monday in support of Palestinians and against the war in Gaza appeared dug in after a day-long demonstration on Library Mall that defied warnings and threats of consequences from UW-Madison leaders and the campus police department.
A group called “Students for Justice in Palestine – UW Madison” organized the event.It defined its protest against “ongoing genocide and Zionist war crimes in Gaza, and against the new wave of student repression across the country.”
According to a UW spokesperson, Reesor is meeting with protest organizers Monday night. The University asked students to comply with campus policy and state law by taking down their tents, but several tents remained in place.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students protesting for Pro-Palestine encamped overnight on Library Mall.Hundreds of students in support of Palestine started protesting at 9 a.m. on Monday.
The UW Odyssey Project Class of 2024 Graduation Ceremony will be held Wednesday, May 1, 6 p.m., at the Great Hall of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St.
An encampment was built on the University of Wisconsin campus around 9:40 a.m. Monday. The building of the encampment followed a protest on Library Mall during which hundreds of students and community members led chants denouncing the ongoing war in Gaza and calling for UW’s divestment from the state of Israel.
We, Muslim and Muslim-allied faculty and staff at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, affirm our solidarity with and support for UW-Madison students who — in light of Israel’s siege and attack on Gaza — are demanding that the University of Wisconsin does not show complicity with Israel’s current military actions that have killed over 34,000 Palestinians (70% of whom are women and children) and displaced a million people who are now facing famine. It is our understanding that these students are demanding that the university disclose its financial investments, divest from any American Friends Service Committee listed companies, cut ties with Israeli institutions and call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire.
Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) organized a protest on Monday to call for the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s “financial and social” divestment from Israel, mirroring similar pro-Palestine demonstrations on college campuses across the country.
She became a professor in the Department of Physical Therapy in 1968 after receiving her PhD in physical education and anatomy. During her 20-plus years in this Department she played an important leadership role, by helping to develop the graduate program in therapeutic science and by serving as coordinator of the Physical Therapy program.
Ahead of a planned protest next week over the war in Gaza, officials at UW-Madison sent a letter to students Friday reminding them of the consequences of breaking the law and university policies regarding protests, including a long-held policy that bans camping on university property.
As a Professor Emeritus of Astronomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, astrophysics was both his career and his passion.
The Badgers’ Dec. 10 game against Clark and Iowa had 12,142 tickets scanned, by far the highest since Wisconsin started using digital scanners at gates in 2006.
The city and national consultant HNTB have explored six corridors and recommend in January advancing three of them — Downtown/Isthmus, First Street near the Public Market, and around Oscar Mayer — for further evaluation. The study recommended dropping three other corridors — the UW-Madison campus, the East Side near Starkweather Creek and by Dane County Regional Airport.
That’s what led him to share the discovery on Reddit. From there, the poster was able to source the expertise of John Hawks, a professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He regularly writes about paleoanthropology, the study of human evolution through fossil and archaeological records.
After working 34 years at the UW-Madison, she retired in 1996.
About 10,000 students clogged an artery in the heart of Downtown on Saturday, marking 55 years of the Mifflin Street Block Party with the legally ambiguous nonsense for which the event has become infamous.
The phenomenon attracted the attention of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who shared thermal imagery of the ring on social media and then studied the warm water, revealing the cause in a blog on its website.
“It’s very kind of New Age with spiritual components,” said Bruce E. Wampold, a counseling psychology professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who has studied the effectiveness of psychotherapy in clinical trials. “It’s on the periphery of what I would say evidence-based treatments would be.”
For 56 seasons, the Wisconsin Singers have been performing for ages and groups of all sizes.
The statement comes after numerous colleges across the country have been showing support for Palestine during the current Israel/Hamas conflict. A pro-Palestine protest is planned for this upcoming Monday on UW-Madison campus.
In an email to all students, faculty and staff Friday, UW-Madison’s dean of students and the interim UW-Madison police chief warned not following campus protest policies “can and will have consequences, both within our code of student conduct and more broadly under Wisconsin law.”
‘College Presidents for Civic Preparedness’ work to uphold Institute for Citizens and Scholars’ three key principles on campuses across US.
Mnookin emphasized investments in SuccessWorks — the College of Letters and Sciences’ center for career and professional development — and the presence of job-focused opportunities within all of UW’s schools.
Turnout at 2024 event largest since pandemic.
Sex Out Loud started in 1995 as a University Health Services (UHS) proposal to provide students with peer resources for sexual health before becoming a registered student organization in 1998. Nearly three decades later, Sex Out Loud Chair Mia Warren told The Daily Cardinal she hopes to expand the organization to college campuses across the nation.
The Madison Police Department (MPD) is investigating a death after the Madison Fire Department’s lake rescue team responded to reports of a person yelling for help in the water of Lake Mendota around 4:30 a.m. Friday.
Dean of Students Christina Olstad sent an email to students Friday morning reminding them of their protesting rights and the university’s protest policy. The email also said the university will enforce the administrative code prohibiting camps on university grounds.
But “the 2023 numbers seem to indicate that bump is over and we’re back to the trends we were in before,” said Nicholas Mark, a University of Wisconsin researcher who studies how social policy and other factors influence health and fertility.
The University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team hosted an NCAA Tournament game for the first time in five years in 2024. As usual, it was among the most attended contests of the season at LaBahn Arena.
UW-Madison students will lose access to their wisc.edu email accounts nine months after graduation, according to the UW Division of Information Technology, the last step in a yearslong process of eliminating email accounts connecting alumni with the university.
Closures will begin at 9:45 a.m. for the race beginning at 9:50 a.m. on Library Mall at State and North Lake streets. Major streets affected will include West Gilman, Langdon and West Dayton streets, and Old University Avenue.
For each of the past 55 years, the 400 and 500 blocks of West Mifflin Street have undergone a one-day transformation. The usually quiet stretch of vintage student rentals becomes a seething mass of humanity, a jungle that officials have tried to weed and tame, often with little success. The will of a 19-year-old business major to get plastered continues to triumph over the best-laid plans of mayors and council members.
In H5N1-infected cows, the first thing that tends to happen is their appetite disappears and their activity goes down. Then their milk production dries up. In some animals, the milk they do produce turns yellow and thick. “It’s an odd thing that seems to be unique to this particular virus,” said Keith Poulsen, director of the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory.
Column by Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, assistant professor of Latin American and Caribbean History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His most recent book is Puerto Rico: A National History (Princeton University Press, 2024), also published in Spanish as Puerto Rico: Historia de una nación by Grupo Planeta USA.
These changes happen to about 1 in 5 of us as we age, according to Lisa Vinney, a speech-language pathologist and faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Age-related voice changes happen to everyone to some degree,” she said. “But those changes can occur more rapidly or be more pronounced thanks to genetic, lifestyle and health factors.”
In their paper, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Wehner and co-author James P. Kossin of the University of Wisconsin–Madison did not explicitly call for the adoption of a Category 6, primarily because the scale is quickly being supplanted by other measurement tools that more accurately gauge the hazard of a specific storm.
The event is one the Madison Police Department has said in the past it’s “very serious” about shutting down for good.
The U-W Madison Police Department is investigating a battery that happened Wednesday night outside of Grainger Hall.
Panelists discuss decreasing funding for flagship universities at event Wednesday.
Students show support for center in petition with over 300 signatures.
Students notified of incident, encouraged to take safety precautions.
According to Agricultural and Applied Economics professor Steve Deller, the funding from the state that goes to support public higher education has been declining for about 30 years and the Universities of Wisconsin have been needing to make up for those financial resources.
Scholarships aim to alleviate financial stress during college career, BPC officers say.
Police share enforcement plans as residents prepare for unsanctioned block party.
LZ Ventures, Porchlight, Inc. partner to create new development, improve community.
UWPD is actively investigating the incident.
Minority students will face severe consequences without DEI programming.
Several experts said the USDA’s plans to require testing in cows are a good start. “We need to be able to do greater surveillance so that we know what’s going on,” said Thomas Friedrich, a virology professor at the University of Wisconsin’s veterinary school.
Universities of Wisconsin officials announced Tuesday that UW-Platteville will vacate its Richland County campus on July 1, an unexpected move that local officials say creates a “potential economic crisis” for the county.
The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse’s top official has taken the first steps toward removing a faculty member who was earlier fired from his job as chancellor over his fledgling porn career.
Sales for the season totaled more than $1.3 million at Wisconsin basketball and hockey home games.
The Badgers’ success early in Hastings’ first season, however, apparently made a difference in bringing fans back to the Kohl Center. The average number of ticket scans ended at 7,444, the highest figure since 2014-15 and a 58% gain over the previous season.
The 42nd annual Crazylegs Classic, with a 5-mile run and 2-mile walk, is expected to draw more than 9,500 participants to Downtown Madison on Saturday.
James Steiner, a lecturer in UW-Madison’s Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture, collaborated with UW-Madison design students Keegan Ripley and Henry Hinchsliff to design the project, currently dubbed Bark Park. The effort was carried out through UniverCity Alliance, a campus organization that’s part of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and provides students with hands-on experience developing local projects.
