The Dane County sheriff and the Young, Gifted and Black Coalition debated the ethics behind the renovations to the Dane County Jail Thursday on UW-Madison’s campus.
Young, Gifted and Black Coalition debates sheriff on jail renovations
Daily Cardinal
Category: Campus life
State representatives engage campus in budget forum
Daily Cardinal
The campus community explained their concerns about Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed budget cuts to the UW System at a forum Thursday at Van Vleck Hall.
Dane County Sheriff Dave Mahoney defends need for jail renovations in debate
Madison.com
Sheriff Dave Mahoney defended the need for renovations to the Dane County Jail, calling the current facilities “dangerous,” in a debate that about 330 community members attended Thursday on UW-Madison’s campus.
A worldwide reputation: UW 38th in world university reputation rankings
Madison.com
The university is ranked 38th in the world when it comes to reputation, according to British website Times Higher Education.
Kids, weirdos and supper clubs: What’s coming to the 2015 Wisconsin Film Festival
Wisconsin State Journal
The festival takes place from April 9 through April 16 at several UW-Madison locations, including Union South and the UW-Cinematheque, as well as the Capitol Theater and Madison Museum of Contemporary Art.
Nine UW-Madison professors win award to celebrate accomplished research
Daily Cardinal
Nine UW-Madison professors recently won an award for faculty at a critical stage in their careers through nomination by departments, Ph.D. major programs and interdepartmental groups, according to a university press release.
Faculty proposes changes to student code of conduct
Daily Cardinal
Faculty from the Division of Student Life proposed changes to how UW-Madison addresses sexual assault to Associated Students of Madison members Wednesday.
INSITE center helps students maximize their chances of starting business
Badger Herald
University of Wisconsin students hoping to develop entrepreneurial skills can look to a center on campus that seeks to boost innovations from students.
Deans office calls for student voice in revisions to sexual assault conduct code
Badger Herald
With University of Wisconsin’s student conduct code regarding sexual assault undergoing major revisions, the dean’s office looked to student government’s largest governing body for support Wednesday.
UW police remind all to take precaution after mass bike theft
Badger Herald
The University of Wisconsin Police Department is warning students to take precautions against bike thefts — a week after recovering 600 likely stolen bikes.
UW cultivates nations future farmers
Badger Herald
Amid a statewide decline of dairy farms, the University of Wisconsin is aiming to provide programs to assist young and aspiring farmers.
Line Breaks Festival to feature ‘artistic response’ to Tony Robinson shooting
Capital Times
There have been rallies, vigils and community meetings in the wake of last week’s shooting death of Tony Robinson in Madison. Now, there will be an organized space for response through song, dance and poetry.
UW-Madison police seize 600 possibly stolen bicycles
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
About 600 bicycles, most of which are believed to have been stolen, were seized by University of Wisconsin-Madison police who executed search warrants at four locations, police officials said Tuesday.
UW-Madison’s No. 5 vet school ranking could provide fuel for tuition hike
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
It’s cheaper for an Illinois student to earn a veterinary medicine degree in Wisconsin than in Illinois, and the Illinois student is getting a bargain for a higher-ranked program, according to U.S. News and World Reports 2016 “Best Graduate School” rankings released Tuesday.
Black Lives Matter lecturer uses pop culture, current events to illustrate challenges black people face
Badger Herald
Addressing “ratchetness” and respectability, Dr. Brittney Cooper spoke on racial justice and self-expression to illustrate the challenges black people face as part of the Black Lives Matter lecture series Tuesday.
UW Madison Police seeks help finding bike owners
WMTV NBC-15
Police discovered over a thousand bicycles, and confiscated 600 of them with identifiable serial numbers. The bikes are now sitting in a storage unit, owned by UW Police.
UW Police suspect 600 stolen bikes; probe target denies wrongdoing
WKOW-TV 27
The searches took place across two counties and include a Muscoda bike shop, an apartment in the Town of Madison, a storage unit in the City of Madison, and a farm in the Town of Windsor.
UW police have about 600 bikes, now seeking their owners
Wisconsin State Journal
With nearly 600 bicycles sitting in storage, UW-Madison police are hoping that people who have had bikes stolen from them anywhere in Dane County will come forward and reclaim them.
Black feminist scholar explores respectability, ‘ratchetness’
Daily Cardinal
In Tuesday’s installment of the spring Black Lives Matter Speaker Series, black feminist scholar Brittney Cooper challenged the idea of respectability in a talk to UW-Madison students and community members.
Line Breaks to feature variety of media
Daily Cardinal
Q&A promoting First Wave Hip Hop and Urban Arts Learning Community
upcoming performance at the Line Breaks Festival.
UWPD recovers hundreds of stolen bicycles
Daily Cardinal
After a 10-month-long investigation, the UW-Madison Police Department is seeking charges against two men for stealing hundreds of bicycles around the Madison area, Chief Susan Riseling said at a news conference Tuesday.
Protesters march on downtown Madison
WISC-TV 3
Whether they knew him personally, or not, hundreds of students walk out of class Monday morning to show how they felt about how Tony Robinson died Friday night.
Students march to the capitol to protest Tony Robinson’s death
NBC-15
“Hands up! Dont shoot!” was among many things students shouted at the Capitol. Hundreds of students spent the day marching for Tony Robinson. They say it is their duty to have their voices heard, to bring change.
Vox editor-in-chief Ezra Klein on American politics: hate the game, not the players
Badger Herald
Offering a frank assessment of American politics, editor-in-chief of Vox.com Ezra Klein said the entire game needs to be changed if any progress is to be made in a system mired in partisan gridlock.
Community, family members channel all power to the people in memory of Tony Robinson
Badger Herald
Shouts of “all power to the people” and “no justice, no peace” could be heard echoing from Bascom Hill to Madison East High School to Williamson Street Monday afternoon as community members continued to take to the streets in protest of the death of 19-year-old Tony Robinson.
Voxs Ezra Klein defines core problems in American political media
Daily Cardinal
A filled-to-the-brim Shannon Hall in Memorial Union bustled with UW-Madison students and community members waiting to see the blogger, columnist and accidental entrepreneur who journalism professor Michael Wagner described as “nerd-chic.”
Protesters challenge university, state, city leaders
Daily Cardinal
Friday’s officer-involved shooting of 19-year-old Tony Robinson brought out community members of all ages, who converged in a protest Monday to address officials from university, state and city levels.
Students stage walkout, rally at Capitol over police shooting
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Students from University of Wisconsin-Madison and local high and middle schools staged a walkout Monday and marched to the state Capitol, where about 1,500 protested the fatal police shooting of Tony Robinson.
Tony Robinson shooting protest at Capitol draws 1,500, many of them students
Madison.com
Students from throughout Madison left school and took their rage, sorrow and demands to the city’s power centers on Monday, rocking the state Capitol rotunda with chants of “Justice for Tony” then demanding a meeting with Mayor Paul Soglin and Police Chief Mike Koval while massed outside the City-County Building.
UW, high school students fill Capitol rotunda to protest Tony Robinson shooting
Capital Times
Some 1,500 protesters, many of them students from Madison high schools and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, filled the Capitol rotunda Monday to protest the killing of an unarmed black man by a white police officer, sending the iconic chant “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” echoing through the statehouse.
UW, high school students plan walk-outs in wake of teens shooting
WKOW-TV 27
More than 100 UW students have signed up to stage a walk-out this morning from classes after an unarmed teenager was shot by a police officer Friday.
UW-Madison students, ‘Amazing Race’ winners turn competition into sugar rush : Daily-cardinal
Daily Cardinal
Life became a whole lot sweeter for UW-Madison food science doctorate candidates Amy DeJong and Maya Warren when they crossed the finish line to win the 25th season of CBS’s reality television show “The Amazing Race.”
Students, faculty gather to process Tony Robinson shooting
Daily Cardinal
At a gathering hosted by the Multicultural Student Center Saturday, more than 50 UW-Madison community members sat in a circle with bowed heads, sharing a moment of silence for Tony Robinson.
Budget cuts could derail improvements in graduation rates
Badger Herald
While University of Wisconsin’s graduation rates have steadily improved in past years, this trend could be reversed under proposed budget cuts if class offerings are reduced
Professor captures Madison through reading preferences
Badger Herald
With his new project, a University of Wisconsin professor aims to capture the essence of the community through photographing the books it reads.
Local students planning to walk out of class for Monday rally to protest Tony Robinson shooting
Madison.com
Brandi Grayson, a leader of the Young, Gifted and Black Coalition, told Madison.com about 300 to 400 UW-Madison students are planning to march from campus to the Capitol, and students from all of Madison’s public high schools and Sun Prairie High School are also invited to come down to the Capitol to join in the protest.
Student magazine hosts UW Fashion Week
Wisconsin State Journal
Just page through Moda magazine, a rapidly growing student publication that showcases fashion, trends and the arts. This week Moda is going beyond its print and online editions to host “UW Fashion Week” — a series of events meant to get Madison thinking about peeling off the parkas and looking good for spring.
UW-Madison Police seize hundreds of bikes in theft investigation
Madison.com
UW-Madison police this week seized nearly 600 bicycles — many believed to have been stolen — from four locations around Madison and in Muscoda, the culmination of an investigation that started in May with a letter from a prison inmate, according to search warrants filed in Dane County Circuit Court.
Third time’s a charm for Miss Oshkosh 2015 MeKenzie Lund
Oshkosh Northwestern
One could say Miss Oshkosh 2015 MeKenzie Lund knows more than just a little about pageants.In fact, pageants have been a part of her entire adult life. The 21-year-old, who graduated from Oshkosh West High School in 2012 and now attends the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has competed in seven pageants during the past four years, and that experience finally paid off as she took home her first crown.
U.S. Department of Education investigates UW-Madison Title IX compliance
Daily Cardinal
The U.S. Department of Education added UW-Madison to a list of more than 100 schools under investigation for potential Title IX violations regarding the handling of sexual assault on campus, according to a Wednesday Washington Post article.
Proposed state budget could decrease student financial aid opportunities
Daily Cardinal
UW-Madison’s director of financial aid said Wednesday need-based aid could be in trouble if the biennial budget passes. Susan Fischer, the Office of Student Financial Aid director, thanked the council for its advocacy on behalf of student aid with the recent announcement of the proposed budget cuts.
Simon Balto provides glimpse of history, stresses change still to be made during Black Lives Matter talk
Daily Cardinal
The last year’s outrage over police brutality and racism that has led to the national Black Lives Matter Movement is not a recent development, but part of a long history of inequality in the justice system, according to Madison musician and historian Simon Balto.
UW-Madison hands over sexual assault files from last three years as part of federal investigation
WKOW TV
The investigations are being handled by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights. Federal investigators have asked UW-Madison for all of their files regarding sexual assault cases and policies from 2012 to 2014. Investigators are trying to get a better sense of how the university handles sexual violence cases on campus.
New Faces, New Places for March 6
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madisons College of Agricultural and Life Sciences promoted Nicole Miller to news manager and hired Caroline Schneider as science writer.
UW-Madison added to federal inquiry of campus sexual violence complaints
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is now under investigation as part of a growing federal probe into the handling of sexual violence complaints.
Hugh Masekela: Musician by intent, activist by default
Wisconsin State Journal
This regular guy plays a show tonight in Shannon Hall at UW-Madison’s Memorial Union with countryman Vusi Mahlasela. It’s part of a major U.S. tour called “20 Years of Freedom,” referring to the end of apartheid and the establishment of multi-racial democracy in South Africa in 1994.
Sexual assault complaint sparks federal investigation into UW-Madison
Channel3000.com
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is under investigation by a government agency for possibly mishandling a sexual assault complaint last year. News 3 Investigates has learned the complaint is in connection with an alleged incident that took place last May during the Mifflin Street Block Party.
UW-Madison under investigation for handling of sexual assault complaints
WKOW TV
According to University Communications, the school was recently notified by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights that it had received complaints related to sexual violence. UW officials say the university is working closely with the Office for Civil Rights.
UW fraternity raises money for childhood cancer research
WKOW TV
The Theta Chi Fraternity at UW-Madison is once again raising money for childhood cancer research. “Ski For Cancer” has been running annually since 1969, raising money for childhood cancer research. This year the event will be held on Saturday, March 7.
UW Police seize hundreds of suspected, stolen bicycles
WKOW TV
UW Police spokesperson Marc Lovicott says the execution of search warrants Tuesday is part of a months-long investigation into bicycle thefts.
Addressing racial disparity in schools
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: As reported by the Wisconsin State Journal, during the 2013-14 school year, just three of 131 students who received a degree in elementary education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison were black. The year before, just one black student received an elementary education degree. Consequently, according to 2014 data, less than 5% of Wisconsins teachers are non-white.
UW-Madison under federal investigation for handling of sexual violence complaints
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison is now the second university in the state to be included in a growing probe of possible violations of federal law over the handling of sexual violence and harassment complaints, according to the U.S. Department of Education.
Fashion forward
Isthmus
Madison fashion has been heavy on accessories lately: scarves, mittens and balaclavas. Earmuffs are the new black. Meanwhile, students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have been thinking warmer thoughts as they prepare for UW Fashion Week. It kicks off Monday, March 9, and is organized by MODA magazine.
Schools facing investigations on sexual violence: Now more than 100
The Washington Post
Four more schools have joined the ranks of colleges and universities under federal investigation for their handling of sexual violence reports, the government said Wednesday, pushing the total for the first time past 100.
Faculty Senate passes resolutions for shared governance, public authority
Badger Herald
The University of Wisconsin’s Faculty Senate passed resolutions Monday for shared governance and public authority, and members said they were unable to support a public authority until a commission has had time to evaluate its implications.
SSFC approves Wisconsin Union budget of more than $10,000,000
Badger Herald
With little debate, the Student Services Finance Committee approved the Wisconsin Union 2015-16 budget of $10,586,316 with a vote of 11-0-1. The budget includes a 2 percent increase in segregated fees for the organization which provides recreational, cultural and educational opportunities through offering events and services around campus.
Proposed budget cuts present issues for diversity programs, international students
Daily Cardinal
If UW-Madison falls under Public Authority status as a part of the budget, certain provisions would be under control by the Board of Regents and no longer backed by state law, Associated Students of Madison Diversity Committee Chair Dolly Wang said during a meeting Tuesday.
College Republicans: Campus should address budget with healthy debate
Badger Herald
It is time we check our preconceptions about Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed budget cuts at the door and actively try to understand both sides.
SLAC continues to pressure chancellor to end relations with JanSport
Daily Cardinal
The Student Labor Action Coalition held a rally Friday pressuring Chancellor Rebecca Blank to cut licensing ties with VF Corporation, the parent company of JanSport.
UW student sexually assaulted in Southeast dorm
Badger Herald
The University of Wisconsin Police Department issued a crime warning Monday morning after a student was sexually assaulted while sleeping early Sunday morning.