Category: Campus life

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalism professor Deborah Blum has lived at that intersection for much of her career. She earned a master’s degree at University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1982, and later taught journalism at UW-Madison as well. On Friday, Blum will be the keynote speaker for the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication Graduation Celebration.

Student protests on campuses around the nation have led to violently police crack-downs, so when pro palestine encampments sprung up- to milwaukee and madison campuses, organizers and officials weren’t sure what to expect. Students and community members on both sides of the issue and has this report.

As a pro-Palestine encampment continues into the sixth day on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, college Republicans took a stand on Friday with their own counter-protest, urging university officials and law enforcement to intervene.

Talks between pro-Palestinian protesters camped on the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Library Mall and administrators are continuing, but neither side has moved much as of Friday afternoon, the fifth day of the protest.

“I’m glad the university is actually talking about these things openly and willing to listen to what the students have to say, but I think what we have seen from this university before and from other universities across the country is that they are willing to speak to students just to pacify them and we want to see the actions behind the words,” said Dahila Saba, a UW-Madison Graduate student and member of the student group, Students for Justice in Palestine.

They plan to rally on Library Mall at 2:15 p.m. Monday. Faculty members said it’s an opportunity to explore the encampment and have important conversations with students and other organizers.

Chairman of Young Americans for Freedom Harrison Wells says they are hoping to send a message to student protestors at Library Mall. “We just want to show the school and all of the protestors that are here doing it illegally, that there is a way to voice your opinion, there is a way to exercise your First Amendment, but within the laws.”

“All 30 of our students made it to the end, despite incredible challenges, and I’ve seen a transformation in each one,” said Emily Auerbach, executive director of the Odyssey Project. “They’re cheering each other on. They have this newfound community within Odyssey.”

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Negotiations continue between UW administrators, protest organizers.

The pro-Palestine protest and encampment organized by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Young Democratic Socialists of America continued through Friday night.

Dozens of tents were on the green of Library Mall as UW-Madison’s solidarity encampment entered its fourth day. Around 7:30 this morning students were groggily waking to breakfast and cheering when more coffee arrived.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison campus was much quieter Thursday, May 2. just a day after pro-Palestinian protesters clashed with police, leading to a series of arrests and injured officers.

Despite a violent clash with police in Madison on Wednesday, pro-Palestinian encampments continued Friday at both the University of Wisconsin-Madison and at UW-Milwaukee.

Encampment demonstration on Library Mall enters fifth day.

Photojournalists for the Cap Times were on the scene as police officers descended on the University of Wisconsin-Madison Library Mall early Wednesday to remove a protest encampment, which campus leaders said violated state administrative code.

As University of Wisconsin-Madison leaders continued discussions with student organizers of a pro-Palestinian protest Thursday, campus police released more details about the people who were arrested the day before. Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin met with student and faculty negotiators as both sides remained in a stalemate over an encampment on Library Mall.

More than 20 tents remained up on Library Mall through the night despite UWPD’s removal of all but two tents Wednesday morning.

UW-Madison graduate student and Students for Justice in Palestine spokesperson Dahlia Saba discusses why protestors continued to assemble on campus after police officers moved to end an encampment.

Tensions grew between police and pro-Palestine protesters Wednesday morning as officers tore down tents and arrested some protesters on UW-Madison’s campus.

Student Salomon Delarosa said he and other Jewish students on campus felt the need to show their support to one another by gathering at the steps of the Wisconsin State Historical Building, directly across from Memorial Library. Pro-Palestine protestors have been holding a peaceful protest outside of Memorial Library since Monday morning.

Early on Wednesday morning, on the third day of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s pro-Palestininan encampment in front of Library Mall, police from multiple agencies arrived to remove students camping in protest of Israel’s genocide on Gaza and demanding UW-Madison’s disclosure and divestments from Israel.

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Demonstrators stay in encampment for third night in a row.

More than 20 tents remained up on Library Mall through the night despite UWPD’s removal of all but two tents Wednesday morning.

Pro-Palestine protesters called for divestment from a $249 million fund that includes weapons manufacturers and other war related companies.

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Throughout the years, there have been thousands of demonstrations at UW Madison. Whether it was five people or hundreds at a time, protesters found a way for their voices to be heard. “We want to foster the ability for students to learn something, to be passionate about it and to make their voice heard,” Kacie Lucchini Butcher, director the Center of Campus History.

On April 29, starting in the morning, alumni, students and supporters came out to UW-Madison to set up an encampment, a budding national trend across universities around the country, in a continued effort to call for a ceasefire in the ongoing war in Gaza. In addition, protestors are demanding UW-Madison disclose and divest from any investments in Israeli companies.

Students, community members continue to demand university’s divestment from Israel.

Pro-Palestine demonstrators who organized an encampment Monday at the University of Wisconsin-Madison remained on Library Mall despite warnings from university officials that the event violated state law.

State and local police broke a two-day standoff with anti-Gaza war protesters Wednesday morning as they began removing an encampment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and arresting people in the crowd.