Author: Kelly Tyrrell

After being sexually assaulted on campus by a summer acquaintance in the fall of 2008, a UW-Madison female student walked to her classes, feeling unsafe and consumed with anxious thoughts.

Despite recent bad luck the 2009 Mifflin Street Block Party has had acquiring sponsorship, the University of Wisconsinâ??s WSUM 91.7 confirmed Thursday the station is looking to potentially manage a soundstage at the event.

The Street Use Staff Team granted a permit on Tuesday to DCNY PRO to organize the 41st annual Mifflin Street Block Party, but because of deadline and funding issues, it is unlikely the event will be sponsored this year.

The Madison City Council unanimously voted to brighten up the city as plans to expand lighting in Districts 4, 5 and 8 were approved.

After weeks of uncertainty, officials announced Tuesday there will be no sponsorship or stage at this yearâ??s Mifflin Street Block Party, scheduled for May 2.

UW-Madison campus leaders reframed and broadened the image of diversity on campus through speech and performance Monday as part of the Multicultural Student Coalitionâ??s Hip Hop as a Movement Week.

If the University of Wisconsinâ??s approximately 40,000 students condensed into only 200, 11 of those students would be Asian, six would be black, six would be Latino, one would be Native American and the remaining 176 would be Caucasian.

UWPD officers trained members of SAFEwalk for Badger Watch, a UW-Madison crime prevention organization, at Memorial Union Sunday.

The annual Take Back the Night rally brought hundreds of students and community members into the streets of downtown Madison Saturday evening to raise awareness and initiate dialogue about sexual and domestic abuse.

UW-Madison students had mixed feelings about the MTV show â??College Lifeâ? following its premiere Monday night.

Campus experts on sexual assault urged students to look for the roots of abuse in unhealthy relationships at a forum hosted by the Campus Womenâ??s Center Tuesday.

A proposal to tame the Mifflin Street Block Party will be considered by the Street Use Staff Team today, as sponsors hope the addition of organized music will lower the amount of police regulation.

After months of tweaking plans, Union South Design Committee members discussed the most recent and nearly finalized sketches for the interior of the new Union South building during one of their final design meetings Monday.

The University of Wisconsin Committee on Student Organizations suspended the Sigma Chi fraternity Monday for the duration of an investigation of an alleged alcohol-related incident that occurred April 2.

With the commencement of Sexual Assault Awareness Month and the recent allegations of the crime on campus, students are engaging in a discussion about the issue of sexual consent.

With the MTV reality show â??College Lifeâ? set to premiere tonight, University of Wisconsin officials are concerned about the balance of aspects of campus life the show will depict.

Under a change made this month to the bylaws of the University of Wisconsin Greek Judicial Board, the board can now vote to send complaints they feel are especially egregious directly to the Committee on Student Organizations.

Tables and volunteers encircled Library Mall Wednesday for Promoting Awareness Victim Empowermentâ??s Sexual Assault Day of Action.

The University of Wisconsin group Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment set up shop on Library Mall Wednesday as part of the national Sexual Assault Awareness Month Day of Action.

It is a typical Friday night and you are walking home from your favorite bar with a friend you met in your chemistry class last week. He takes you to your door to say good night. For some young women, a â??good nightâ?? will not mark the end of the evening. For some young women, the night could spiral out of their control.

During her 21 years of life, Brittany Zimmermann loved many things. She loved spending time with her family and friends in her hometown of Marshfield, Wis. She loved her fiancé, Jordan Gonnering, whom she lived with as they both attended UW-Madison. And each spring, she loved returning home to spend Easter weekend with the people she cared about most.

Twenty-one bell chimes will ring out across the University of Wisconsin campus this afternoon to memorialize each year of UW junior Brittany Zimmermannâ??s life.

With the one-year anniversary of the homicide of University of Wisconsin senior Brittany Zimmermann on Thursday, the university and downtown police departments are continuing their safety practices as usual.

The Madison City Council unanimously voted Tuesday night to add a non-voting student member to the Alcohol License Review Committee.

When Jordan Gonnering returned to his off-campus home in the afternoon of April 2, 2008, he discovered that something had gone horribly wrong in the first-level apartment he shared with his fiancée, UW-Madison junior Brittany Zimmermann.

The Joint Southeast Campus Area Committee approved plans for the new Union South Monday night, expressing satisfaction with the projectâ??s green efforts and welcoming design.

With the one-year anniversary of the death of University of Wisconsin junior Brittany Zimmermann coming Thursday, the Madison Police Department wants to reassure the public the investigation of her death remains in full-swing.

The investigation of the murder of UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann is still active, according to the Madison Police Department.