Hillary Clinton seized on the struggle over the Supreme Court vacancy on Monday, issuing a scathing indictment of congressional Republicans and blaming their “extremist tactics” in opposing President Obama for Donald J. Trump’s rise as the leading Republican candidate.
Democratic candidate for President Hillary Clinton will make a stop at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Monday, according to her campaign.
Clinton will make remarks at Gordon Commons around 3:45 p.m. Monday, March 28. Doors open an hour before that
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will be campaigning in Madison Monday. Clinton will be at Gordon Commons on the University of Wisconsin-Madison Monday afternoon.
Clinton will make remarks to invited guests at UW-Madison’s Gordon Commons, 770 W. Dayton Street, at 3:45 p.m. Doors open at 2:45 p.m. A UW-Madison news release says the event is not open to the campus community or the public.
Investigators reviewing the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s compliance with federal anti-sex discrimination laws will be on campus next month to talk with students about the climate around sexual assault and harassment.
MADISON — Gov. Scott Walker signed a bill Thursday ensuring that sexual assault victims and people who report sexual assaults can’t be cited or disciplined for underage drinking.
He knew it was good as soon as it left his hand.
That’s what Bronson Koenig said after the game, anyway, of the fade-away 3-point buzzer-beater that gave the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team an unlikely 69-66 victory over second-seeded Xavier University, sending the Badgers to the Sweet 16 for the fifth time in six years.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison said former Attorney General Eric Holder will speak at a May ceremony for graduating law school students.
After University of Wisconsin-Madison students return from spring break, a university-wide town hall will be held to address issues regarding the number of reported incidents of race and bias on campus. Joy Cardin’s guest reporter discusses the recent string of cases and how UW officials and students are reacting, including the use of the social media hastag #TheRealUW. Then, she talks with UW-Madison’s chief diversity officer about the concerns and additional steps the university is taking to address the campus’ cultural climate. She also hears from a UW-Madison student about her on-campus experiences with racism as a Latina.
Student outrage expressed on social media over a series of reported hate incidents on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus is demanding a new level of response from university officials, said Patrick Sims, vice provost and chief diversity officer. “It is forcing administrators to respond in ways we haven’t in the past to the kind of challenges students have experienced for some time,” Sims said Tuesday morning in an interview on Wisconsin Public Radio. “I’ve been hearing about these kinds of things for over a decade.”
Former attorney general Eric Holder will be the featured speaker at a ceremony for UW-Madison law school graduates during this spring’s commencement weekend.
The hit Disney animated movie Zootopia has shattered box office records, and the movie’s writer grew up in our own backyard. “Neenah, Wisconsin – I haven’t lived there in over 20 years but I still think of myself from being from Neenah when I close my eyes, it’s still what I picture as home,” said Phil Johnston.
UW-Madison police say Olive has been found and is safe.
Authorities believe one person is responsible for vandalizing campus buildings with graffiti over six months, with the latest incidents making reference to racial intolerance.
It is called Match Day and on the same day, at the same time medical students in the United States open envelopes to find out where they will do their residency. Some will stay in the communities where they went to medical school while others travel far. It is likely that few traveled further in life to get to this day than Xia Vang.
“I grew up in Milwaukee, but I was born in Thailand in a refugee camp,” says Vang.
UW-Madison police said early Sunday morning that Olive Martin has been found.
Sophomore Marquise Mays, president of UW-Madison’s Black Student Union, was a prominent participant in the discussion. A journalism and communication arts major, Mays came to Madison from Milwaukee Riverside High School as part of the PEOPLE program.
First things first: Hoverboards don’t actually hover. They are two-wheeled, battery-powered, skateboard-like scooters that can reach speeds of up to 13 miles per hour.
WAUSAU – Madison. Minneapolis. Boston. Phoenix. Will Hsu has lived, worked, and studied in many cities across the country. But for Hsu, there’s no place like home: Wausau.
A group of 17 minority student activists running for the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s student government secured a majority of the available positions on the Associated Students of Madison (ASM) Student Council.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials are responding to a racially charged incident last week in which a male student verbally assaulted and spat on a black female student.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has long had a reputation for being inhospitable to students of color who for years have quietly endured underlying racism and discrimination.
University of Wisconsin Police Department met with UW National Alliance of Mental Illness members to discuss how UWPD addresses mental health issues and what students can do to reform the stigma surrounding mental health issues.
UW-Madison Police are investigating another racist incident on the UW-Madison campus.
Racist graffiti was reportedly found in a bathroom at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery Monday.
Police said it was reported just after 7 p.m They believe the vandalism happened sometime between 3:30 p.m – 7 p.m. that day.
A student will not face charges in a reported racial incident on campus
UW-Madison Police were called to Sellery Hall Saturday just after 2 a.m. for an incident between four students.
Police said 19-year-old Matthew Hsieh got into an argument with three female students who were reportedly playing loud music and talking loudly.
A group of students at U-W Madison proved that college students can do a lot more than drink beer, they’re pretty good at brewing it, too! 18 students in the food science program faced off today at U-W’s Babcock Hall as part of their fermentation studies class.
The UW Police Department is investigating after someone sprayed graffiti on the outside of Memorial Library Wednesday evening.
The words “White Supremacy is a Disease. – God” can be clearly seen still Thursday morning as students head to class Thursday morning.
University of Wisconsin police are investigating vandalized property at the Wisconsin Institute of Discovery that was reported Monday night. Graffiti of a stick figure hanging from a tree by a noose was found in a men’s bathroom. The N-word was written out next to the image, officials said.
Graffiti declaring that “White supremacy is a disease” was left on Memorial Library at the University of Wisconsin Wednesday night, according to University of Wisconsin police.
Citing “a troubling string” of hate and bias incidents, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank announced she would accelerate the hiring of two mental health professionals dedicated to diversity and climate, roll out a program to teach students cultural competency and step up efforts to encourage students to report such incidents.
A UW-Madison student who shoved and spit on other students during a dispute in a dorm over the weekend will not face criminal charges for the incident, which helped energize conversations about the campus’ racial climate.
UW-Madison police are investigating an act of racist vandalism that was committed earlier this week on campus, officials confirmed Wednesday.
The peaceful atmosphere of the UW–Madison Arboretum seems an unlikely site for a city rocked by scandal, war and nature’s cruel grip. Yet tucked within the Arboretum is Madison’s own Atlantis, its lost city.
With many students using #TheRealUW to voice their experiences with racial prejudice on campus, a discrimination expert said there are caveats that come with greater media attention.
University of Wisconsin psychology professor Markus Brauer, an expert on discrimination, said greater visibility means students’ perceptions of racial prejudice on campus will have a concrete impact on the racial climate.
A team of students in the College of Engineering at University of Wisconsin took first place and won $2,000 at a regional competition to develop clean energy snowmobiles last week.
The challenge asked students to redesign the powertrain of a conventional snowmobile to be as clean and quiet as possible, while maintaining power and affordability.
UW-Madison freshman Synovia Knox was in a Sellery hallway with several friends from the 9th Cohort of First Wave the night before their Line Breaks performance that covered issues of racism, classism and sexism—when a male resident shoved her and spat in her face.
During the assault, the aggressor, who was intoxicated, hurled hateful language about race and socioeconomic status at Knox and three other First Wave scholars: Maryam Muhammad, Nora Laine Herzog and Francisco Velazquez.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank says she is taking action after several recent cases of discrimination on campus.
In an open letter to the UW-Madison community, Blank announced several expanded or accelerated initiatives to which she intends to devote time and resources.
A trending hashtag has popped up on Twitter following University of Wisconsin-Madison’s third incident of discrimination in the last month. Students are using #TheRealUW to share their own experiences of discrimination on campus, saying they would otherwise go overlooked by the university.
The finalists, selected by a search committee, are Linda Scott, associate dean for academic affairs at the School of Nursing at the University of Illinois-Chicago, and Linda Lewandowski, associate dean for academic affairs at the School of Nursing at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
#TheRealUW hashtag, previously a moribund catchall for sports, was reignited after an incident at Sellery Hall over the weekend, when a resident allegedly spit in the face of an African-American woman who also lived there and derided her for her race, gender and scholarship status.
Following a string of racially related incidents at UW-Madison this year, Chancellor Rebecca Blank announced a set of new initiatives Tuesday to encourage cultural awareness and improve mental health resources on campus.
After three hate incidents occurred within one week, University of Wisconsin students created a platform to share stories about the importance of including students of color.
#TheRealUW began trending on Twitter shortly after a hate incident occurred Sunday. According to a Facebook post by Karie Le, the Vietnamese victim, a middle-aged white man spat on her and told her to “go back to China” outside the Student Activity Center.
Donald Trump’s rhetoric throughout the 2016 presidential campaign has sparked outrage from members of the American Muslim community, and for Muslim UW student Alaa Fleifel, it has sparked fear.
“When people get riled up about hating Muslims, eventually Muslims are not seen as human, [and] they become easy targets,” Fleifel said. “I honestly have felt somewhat unsafe.”
Amid a presidential campaign that has centered on issues relating to Islamic extremism, Fleifel’s comments echo the sentiments of many in the UW Muslim community.
UW-Madison freshman Synovia Knox still can’t believe what happened early Saturday morning at Sellery Hall. She and a group of friends had returned after grabbing some late night food and were met by her frustrated neighbor who started shouting profanities and racially charged comments.
UW-Madison officials are investigating another instance of insensitivity at a campus dorm.
Three students say they were pushed and spit on at Sellery Hall over the weekend. Campus police say they do not consider it a hate crime right now, but they did give out a ticket for disorderly conduct.
Faculty and University of Wisconsin police are looking into their third incident of discrimination on campus in the past month after a group of students were pushed and spit on in Sellery Hall. Synovia Knox and Francisco Velazquez were walking to their dorm room in Sellery Hall with two other women when they were confronted by another resident, who they say began yelling at them and said they didn’t belong because of economic status.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials are beefing up programs to prevent and respond to hate and bias incidents as reports of an incident involving name-calling and spitting on a student went public over the weekend.
Perennial frontrunner University of Wisconsin-Madison took home the MacLean-Fogg Cup Saturday as winners of the ASE Clean Snowmobile Challenge 2016 Internal Combustion-class competition. UW-Madison topped a dozen other teams in the challenge’s most competitive class.
UW-Madison officials are considering increasing the training students and staff members get on race and cultural competency, administrators said Monday, as the university investigates two racially charged incidents on campus in the past week.
UW-Madison freshman Karie Le reported to university officials and took to social media Sunday to detail a Saturday night incident of discrimination, which is now the third incident of bias to be reported in the last week.
Le, who is Vietnamese, said she was spat on by a middle-aged white man outside of the Student Activity Center at around 7 p.m. Saturday night. The man then told her to return to China, and the roughly five other men he was with laughed at Le.
University Housing is leading an investigation into an incident of discrimination that occurred early Saturday morning in Sellery residence hall, according to an email sent to First Wave Scholars from Vice Provost and Chief Diversity Officer Patrick Sims.
A student reportedly pushed three residents of Sellery Hall at roughly 2 a.m. The aggressor also spat on one of the students, according to an email sent to Sellery Hall residents later Saturday morning.
Less than three weeks after a town hall meeting to address a racially charged incident, UW officials are now investigating a second one. This instance occurred at a Native American ceremony on the UW campus earlier this week.
UW-Madison officials are investigating the disruption of a campus, Native American ceremony, with unidentified hecklers using mock war cries to drown out a tribal elder’s solemn singing.
Officials say the interruption of a community healing circle at a fire pit outside DeJope residence hall with approximately fifty people participating happened Wednesday.
A little over a month after UW students posted pictures of Hitler to a Jewish student’s dorm, the University of Wisconsin-Madison is investigating another act of intolerance. At Dejope Hall on campus, an important Native American ceremony was cut short, Wednesday night.
Students from inside the dorm started shouting mocking war cry sounds, upsetting everyone at the event.
For nearly 40 years, Darrell Bazzell has called Madison, Wis., home. That connection weighed heavily on his mind this fall as he contemplated whether to accept a new position as chief financial officer at the University of Texas in Austin.
Under Riseling, UWPD also has been on the forefront of some changes or advances in police practices, becoming the first agency in the state to put computers linked to dispatch in police cars in 1992, and last year being one of the first locally to add body-worn cameras for officers.
A young rapper who drowned two years ago will become the first Vietnamese American to have a street named in his honor in Chicago.
Officials at UW Madison have another racially-based investigation on their hands. They say a Native American elder was heckled while a group was on campus for a healing ceremony.
A group of about two dozen students has interrupted a University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents meeting to demand the panel improve how minority students are treated.
A Ho-Chunk elder was heckled with stereotypical “war cry sounds” by a group of people in a UW-Madison dorm room while performing a healing ceremony Wednesday night, according to campus officials.
