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The University of Wisconsin – Madison has relieved a teaching assistant after a blog post with controversial statements went viral.

The contentious speaker was met with students wielding dildos, shouting ’cocks not glocks.’

If the Associated Students of Madison’s internal budget proposal gets passed in its current form, more student leaders will receive wages and the outreach committee will receive more money than in the past.

According to Memorial Union Communications Director Shauna Breneman, the clogged pipe was caused by visitors flushing baby wipes and menstrual pads down toilets.

Gun-rights advocate and conservative pundit Katie Pavlich visited campus to educate students on the second amendment and gun use for self-defense without any disruption from protesters.

University of Wisconsin-Madison administrators are defending their decision Monday to keep a teaching assistant out of the classroom after racist social media and blog posts surfaced.

DeJope Residence Hall on the University of Wisconsin campus was targeted with anti-native graffiti on Monday, which the City of Madison declared Indigenous Peoples’ Day, according to campus administration.

Columbus Day would be replaced by Indigenous Peoples Day under new legislation.

UW political science professor said the book provides insight into rural motivations for voting for President Donald Trump.

UW officials condemn graffiti, say native heritage revitalization, recognition of tribal sovereignty is priority to university.

Graffiti reading “Columbus Rules 1492” was found on a sacred fire circle at Dejope Residence Hall Monday morning, according to a letter from Vice Provost for Student Life Lori Berquam sent to members of Wunk Sheek, an indigenous student group on campus.

Amid backlash against this year’s Go Big Read book, students, staff and community members packed into Shannon Hall Monday night to hear three Madison experts discuss J.D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy.”

UW-Madison has relieved a graduate student from his teaching duties after a blog post, which claimed he was expelled from Oberlin College for racist messaging and currently belongs to a white supremacist group, went viral. The student, Dylan Bleier, denied the allegations.

A national group that bankrolls conservative speakers on college campuses is stirring up controversy ahead of the scheduled appearance of commentator Katie Pavlich Tuesday at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Alumni Park is opening just as the University’s chief alumni officer is getting ready to call it a carreer. Paula Bonner, the president of the Wisconsin Alumni Association, is retiring at the end of the month.

Kathy Cramer, director of the Morgridge Institute for Public Service, is one expert on a panel that will discuss “Elegy,” UW-Madison’s Go Big Read at a keynote event at 7 p.m. Monday at Memorial Union’s Shannon Hall. The event is free and no ticket is required.

In the midst of constant rainfall and the threat of thunderstorms, hundreds of UW-Madison alumni, students and community members crowded Library Mall Friday to celebrate the opening of a new park honoring alumni and their achievements.

Chancellor Rebecca Blank said she has no plans to answer the Associated Students of Madison’s call to put a plaque on Bascom’s statue of Abraham Lincoln recognizing the president’s role in the deaths of natives.

Fifty years ago next week, thousands of students on the UW-Madison campus — and the rest of the country via news photos and film clips — witnessed a protest-turned-riot that put the anti-war spotlight on the city, shattered the trust between the university and many of its students, sent nearly 70 people to the hospital and forever became known as the “Dow riot.”

WPR recently remodeled its newsroom in Vilas Hall on the UW-Madison campus and is now renovating Radio Hall for more office space.

Alumni and community members will celebrate the grand opening of a new park on the UW-Madison campus on Friday night.

Students, faculty, alumni alike note influence of internet jokes across campus.