Evidence of hazing — including food deprivation and stints of hooded isolation — prompted the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Wednesday to terminate the Chi Phi fraternity chapter as a student organization.
The Chi Phi fraternity chapter at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been terminated as a student organization after a university investigation found the organization hazed members.
UW-Madison said Wednesday that it shut down a fraternity for the first time since 2006 after learning of a hazing weekend in December that included a freshman pledge suffering a concussion when an older member hit his head accidentally as the freshman lay in a closed crate meant to simulate a grave, a university official said.
After investigating an initial report in January, the dean of students found the chapter had “engaged in food deprivation and stints of hooded isolation,” along with other instances that endangered or put new members’ health at risk during initiation practices in December, according to the statement.
University of Wisconsin basketball fans on Monday quickly bought up the school’s modest allotment of tickets for the Badgers’ NCAA tournament game Friday in Nebraska, sending many fans scurrying to the pricey secondary market.
UW students have lofty ambitions for the Badger Men’s Basketball team after Wisconsin defeated Michigan State in the Big Ten Tournament title game Sunday afternoon.
Police have issued a warrant for Feng, who was also a UW-Madison student at the time.
Madison police are investigating reported shots fired outside of JD’s Restaurant near the UW-Madison campus early Sunday morning.
Jim Dast’s life has been books, but the other day, he found himself talking numbers. It couldn’t be helped. Dast was trying to quantify his work over the past decade managing the biannual book sale of the Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries, the largest used-book sale in Wisconsin.
For many students of color on campus in particular, the shooting feels close to home. At the same time, the event has sparked many to recommit to work for racial justice in the community.
Video segment about Wheelhouse Studios on the UW campus letting people use art to react to the police shooting of Tony Robinson.
The Dean of Students Office invited UW-Madison students to give feedback on proposed changes to the UW System’s policy on sexual assault and other misconduct Thursday.
UW professor David Bordwell and the UW Cinematheque invited Pewaukee native and UW alum David Koepp to Madison to screen three of his films, during which he discussed his inspiration and challenges throughout his career.
Column about the community center by Megan Stefkovich, a freshman majoring in biology.
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.
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.
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.
The university is ranked 38th in the world when it comes to reputation, according to British website Times Higher Education.
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 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 from the Division of Student Life proposed changes to how UW-Madison addresses sexual assault to Associated Students of Madison members Wednesday.
University of Wisconsin students hoping to develop entrepreneurial skills can look to a center on campus that seeks to boost innovations from students.
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.
The University of Wisconsin Police Department is warning students to take precautions against bike thefts — a week after recovering 600 likely stolen bikes.
Amid a statewide decline of dairy farms, the University of Wisconsin is aiming to provide programs to assist young and aspiring farmers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Q&A promoting First Wave Hip Hop and Urban Arts Learning Community
upcoming performance at the Line Breaks Festival.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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.”
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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
With his new project, a University of Wisconsin professor aims to capture the essence of the community through photographing the books it reads.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madisons College of Agricultural and Life Sciences promoted Nicole Miller to news manager and hired Caroline Schneider as science writer.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is now under investigation as part of a growing federal probe into the handling of sexual violence complaints.
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.
