Category: Campus life

Noted: The incidents have police departments across the country warning gamers not to bury their heads in their phones. “You need to be aware of your surroundings and be careful,” said Marc Lovicott, communications director for campus police at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Quoted: “Thankfully we haven’t seen any serious accidents here, but we have heard some complaints,” UW-Madison Police Spokesman Marc Lovicott says.

Noted: On the UW-Madison campus, players have had at least three close calls this past weekend.”We want people to have a fun time but just don’t walk in the middle of the street. We have had people biking in the street and using it who are weaving in and out of traffic; it’s just not safe. We just don’t want someone to get seriously hurt or even killed,” UW-Madison Public Information Officer Marc Lovicott said.

Noted: Marc Lovicott, from the UW-Madison Police Department, says thankfully, PokemonGo hasn’t been blamed for any recent incidents in Madison.

“Thankfully we haven’t seen any serious accidents here, but we have heard some complaints,” UW-Madison Police Spokesman Marc Lovicott says.

On the UW-Madison campus, players have had at least three close calls this past weekend.

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The death of a UW-Madison student who was studying abroad in Italy has been especially hard to take in the communities the young man called home.

ROME — Pope Francis met on Wednesday with the parents of an American college student whose body was found in the Tiber River this week, a victim of what the police are calling robbery and murder.

Beau Solomon, the American student whose body was recovered from a river in Rome days ago, is one of several American students who died while studying abroad in Italy in recent years. But research shows that students are actually safer while on international exchanges than on American college campuses.

UW-Madison has been working to ensure the safety of the thousands of students who study abroad each year, campus officials said following the death of sophomore Beau Solomon in Rome last week.

Study abroad programs such as the one UW-Madison student Beau Solomon had arrived in Rome to attend before he was killed over the weekend don’t disclose to parents or prospective students how often their participants are injured or die, according to an advocate for greater oversight of the programs.

Mike Honer was about to drive to work at Culver’s here Monday when his parents stopped him to tell him that a body found in a Rome river was presumed to be his good friend and former River Valley High School classmate Beau Solomon.

The suspected murder of UW-Madison study abroad student Beau Solomon in Rome follows the suspicious death of a University of Iowa student a year ago.

For many students studying abroad is the experience of a lifetime. But being out of the states in a new country with different cultures and language barriers can also present its challenges. The University of Wisconsin-Madison has around 24 students currently studying abroad at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy, this summer. UW-Madison started sending students to JCU in 2012.

He was the luckiest kid in the world.That’s how the family of Beau Solomon felt just over a decade ago, when the young boy from Spring Green got to meet legendary Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre through the Make-A-Wish program.

About 200 people gathered at the football stadium at River Valley High School in Spring Green for a candlelight vigil to remember Beau Solomon.

The body of an American teenager was found in Rome on Monday, after a four-day search for the student who went missing hours after arriving in Italy to attend a summer school program.

The International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA) announces it has hired Susan Riseling as its new executive director. She will assume the position effective, Aug. 8.