MADISON, Wis. — Several University of Wisconsin athletes used their Twitter accounts Monday night to post a statement demanding change in racial inequalities on campus. The message came in the wake of an incident at an Oct. 29 home football game in which two people were involved with a Halloween costume depicting President Barack Obama in a noose.
Associated Students of Madison leaders condemned the university’s response to the costume of Obama and a noose that appeared at Camp Randall on Halloween and has angered many in the community.
Comedy Central’s Anders Holm visited his alma mater Saturday to answer questions for students about his time at UW-Madison and the success he has had since graduating in 2003.
In light of recent racially charged hate and bias incidents at UW-Madison, the ethnic studies requirement has come under review this semester to ensure all of its courses are aligned with the learning outcomes of the university.
Sore arms and talks of a deadly infection flooded the campus last week, a result of students swarming the Southeast Recreational Facility to receive the first of two free meningococcal B vaccines offered by the university’s health services after three UW-Madison students fell ill this past month.
The National Lawyers Guild and the Black Law Student Association chose the theme of mass incarceration for their “Take Action” panel because it is a permanent issue in the state of Wisconsin and permeates many different types of law, according to a BLSA representative.
The number of University of Wisconsin-Madison students who registered to vote this election cycle is higher than the last.
Muslim students at UW-Madison say they hope the murder of a UW-Stout Muslim student sparks conversations about acceptance on campus.
Before he enrolled at UW-Madison, student Devon Hamilton had never heard of the fraternity members at the university who dressed in blackface and held a mock slave auction in the 1980s.
Can you look poverty in the eyes? Matthew Desmond, author of The New York Times bestselling book Evicted, wants to know. His book was this year’s Go Big Read selection.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin at Madison, for instance, used to offer screenings free of charge to students and nonstudents in the local area. But although it still serves students, the university stopped community screenings after state funding was cut. Still, though, the free screenings for students are a vital resource. In addition, after the CDC data were released, administrators at University Health Services have been discussing how to reach out to high-risk patients and close the gap in the university’s educational outreach and screenings, according to William Kinsey, director of medical services at Madison.
The UW community responded to the death of Hussain Saeed Alnahdi, a UW-Stout international student from Saudi Arabia, Monday by offering condolences and holding a memorial service.
With recent incidents of hate and bias making news locally and nationally, the annual UW-Madison Diversity Forum provided an opportunity for administrators and the campus community to discuss inclusivity on campus.
The Wisconsin Idea is based on the belief that UW-Madison students will take the knowledge they gain on campus and apply them to issues throughout the state. With his best-selling book “Eviction: Poverty and Profit in the American City,” alumnus Matthew Desmond took that idea to full effect.
The UW-Madison student organization Promoting Awareness and Victim Empowerment, or PAVE, presented their budget proposal last Thursday in front of the Student Services Finance Committee.
I find it difficult to express the depth of my disappointment with the University of Wisconsin-Madison. If this is not hate speech … a costume of a black president in a noose, then what is?!
UW-Madison’s latest race-related incident at a football game on Saturday where a man could be seen wearing an offensive costume was a topic of discussion at the university’s diversity forum.
“It’s really disheartening and sickening,” said Ashley Duffy as she explained the situation. Duffy is a second year law student at UW-Madison whose studies are focused on federal Indian and environmental laws. “And I think this really hits home,” she added. She’s also part of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa tribe.
Reaction to the picture shared at Saturday’s Badgers football game on social media of a man wearing a costume of President Barack Obama hanging by a noose is spreading nationwide.
With thousands of students and faculty working to bring change through various academic projects at UW schools, it can be easy to feel as if one’s work isn’t appreciated. This was not the case for a few students and faculty Friday, however, as the Alliant Energy Foundation and the UW System awarded them for their exceptional achievements.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison continues to face criticism this week after two fans at Saturday’s football game wore costumes and a noose to depict Donald Trump lynching President Obama.
It’s Halloween, so put on your seat belts, brothers and sisters, and get ready for an onslaught of racist Halloween costumes coming from white college students who think your humanity is fair game for chuckles. The blackface paint will flow as white students think that smearing it on, along with a sign that says, “Black Lives Matter,” is the most hilarious thing they can do. And when they get caught, and suspended by their universities, they’ll all proclaim, “I had no idea it was racist!” Don’t be bamboozled, my friends.
A Halloween costume involving President Obama, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and a noose worn by two attendees at a University of Wisconsin football game has reignited the debate on the role universities play in protecting free speech and curbing hateful words.
Three new bias incident reports have been filed since an individual wore a Barack Obama mask and noose costume to a University of Wisconsin-Madison’s football game Saturday.
With about 30,000 people partaking in the 11th annual Halloween celebration on State Street Saturday evening, no serious incidents were reported.
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University of Wisconsin-Madison police ejected a total of 69 people, including 11 UW students, from Saturday’s Badgers home football game against the Nebraska Cornhuskers, campus Interim Chief Brian Bridges said.
While UW-Madison is famous across the country for its annual Halloween celebration starting the weekend before Halloween, what gets most overlooked are the after-effects on the campus. When googling “who picks up trash on University of Wisconsin-Madison campus?” the results give links to the City of Madison Streets & Recycling Department. But these hardworking men and women can’t be solely counted upon to clean up after the students.
Lisa Hansen’s daughter, a 19-year-old freshman at UW-Madison, had a sore throat and was achy and tired when she went home to the Milwaukee area the first weekend in October.
The First Folio is coming to Madison, one of the last stops in a yearlong tour designed to exhibit a copy of the first printed collection of Shakespeare’s plays in every U.S. state, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. The precious and historic volume, laid open to the page bearing Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” speech, will be on display from Thursday to Dec.11 at the UW-Madison’s Chazen Museum of Art.
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine will hold an event on the UW-Madison campus at 5:15 p.m. on Tuesday at the Gordon Dining & Events Center, 770 W. Dayton St.
ESPN’s College GameDay was a big presence on UW-Madison’s Bascom Hill earlier this month, with semi-trailers lined up along Observatory Drive as early as Thursday to set up for the pre-game show on Saturday.
A third University of Wisconsin-Madison student has been hospitalized with meningococcal disease, the university reported Thursday.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison campus continued to reel Thursday under the national spotlight as new details emerged in the case of a senior facing felony charges of sexually preying on multiple students over the last 18 months.
Langdon Street on the UW-Madison campus will be closed from Monday through Sunday, Oct. 31 to Nov. 6, so paving work can be completed in the stretch of street fronting Memorial Union.
Halloween and State Street have had a long, often uneasy relationship.
With 10 years’ experience taming the Halloween beast on State Street — and each year since 2006 more peaceful than the last — the toughest task facing Madison police and city planners at Saturday’s Freakfest may be managing swarms of football fans, as nationally ranked and undefeated Nebraska takes on UW at Camp Randall Stadium.
UW officials said the student is currently being treated at a local hospital, and efforts are underway to contact individuals who may have been in close contact with them. A free vaccine is also available for undergraduate students.
MADISON, Wis. — One woman told investigators that the college senior invited her this month to his apartment, where he raped her and choked her until her vision blurred.
An Edina High School graduate and University of Wisconsin-Madison, student is charged with sexually assaulting five women in a criminal case that quickly expanded Thursday after a complaint was filed in one case last week.
A University of Wisconsin student has been charged with a string of sexual assaults involving four different women. Alec Cook, 20, has been the subject of reports from dozens of women, according to police, since the first woman raised the alarm bell.
UW-Madison’s student government is the only shared governance group that has not yet endorsed the campus’s upcoming institutional diversity statement, which seeks to affirm the university’s commitment to diversity efforts.
The Saturday night closest to Halloween brings Freakfest to the streets of Madison. This annual event is the heart of Madison’s Halloween celebration.
Stein was scheduled to address supporters Thursday afternoon at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Union theater.
Over 10,000 University of Wisconsin-Madison students have been vaccinated at a special campus clinic over the past week against a type of meningococcal disease that sent two students to the hospital earlier this month.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced Wednesday its December commencement speaker is one of only 24 people to have gone to the moon and back.
University of Wisconsin-Madison announced Wednesday that an astronaut who grew up in Milwaukee has been chosen as its December commencement speaker.
As the national news media descended Wednesday on the story of a now-suspended University of Wisconsin-Madison student accused of sexually assaulting multiple fellow students, the young man’s attorneys issued a statement arguing that “the rapid-fire news cycle, combined with the viral nature of social media,” had resulted in a “modern-day character assassination.”
On Oct. 12, a female student went to police in Madison, Wis., and filed a complaint against a 20-year-old student by the name of Alec Cook.
A University of Wisconsin student was arrested this month on charges that he sexually assaulted a female student, prompting dozens of women to contact the police about encounters they said they had had with the man, according to the police and several news reports.
Some polls suggest that Hillary Clinton’s support among millennials may be surging, but there is a lot of anger and disappointment from that huge bloc of voters. In the latest installment of our “Red, White and You” series, NBC’s Ronan Farrow investigates whether efforts to court millennials’ votes will pay off.
Candidates and surrogates from both the presidential and senate races came to Madison Tuesday in the hopes of inspiring students to get politically involved in the remaining two weeks before the November elections.
UW-Madison students and faculty are gradually transitioning to a single learning management system — a computer application that allows students and instructors to communicate about course materials, assignments and grades — from the three now used on campus.
UW-Madison’s University Relations announced its next director of state relations Tuesday.
An Edina High School graduate who attends the University of Wisconsin is expected to be charged this week with sexually assaulting four women while investigators look into additional cases.
On Oct. 12, in Madison, Wis., a female student went to police and filed a complaint against a 20-year-old student by the name of Alec Cook. She said she and Cook had originally contacted each other via Facebook and gotten together four or five times since then, always in public.
It will be a chance to meet amazing historical figures like Maya Angelou, Frida Kahlo, and Frederick Douglass while also supporting a great cause on Thursday at the University Club in downtown Madison as the Odyssey Project will host its 2nd annual “Night of the Living Humanities” fundraiser.
After singing the national anthem before a team scrimmage at the Kohl Center on Sunday, senior forward Vitto Brown of the UW men’s basketball team has lent his voice to another patriotic appeal.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison student already charged with four counts of sexual assault now faces 15 more counts after another student accused him of touching her inappropriately during class, according to police and court records.
Students began casting their first votes in the 2016 election Monday, as early voting began at two campus locations.
