MADISON, Wis. — Police said they have arrested a man who has been sought in connection with two sexual assaults in downtown Madison.
City and University of Wisconsin-Madison police said they jointly captured the 31-year-old Madison man at about 2 p.m. on Friday without incident.
Police said the man is believed to be connected to sexual assaults on Nov. 29 and Dec. 9.
Aaron Meyer was just 18 when he died. In the months before his death, Aaron had overcome a drug addiction. His parents say he envisioned his future supporting other college-aged recovering addicts.
His dream was cut short, but next month Aaronââ?¬â?¢s father, Tom Meyer, will close on “Aaron’s House,” a place where young men can live while transitioning from recovery to college.
Madison: One man is in custody for a pair sexual assaults, but another rapist may still be on the loose.
Authorities believe 31-year-old Antonio Pope may be responsible for two attacks downtown. One happened November 29th on Observatory Drive and the other happened December 9th along North Carroll Street.
“When you don’t have a car and you’re at the library until 2 in the morning, you can always call Saferide and you can always catch the bus,” says UW student Cari Schulman.
You can call SafeRide, but you might not get through.
“all of our lines are curently busy. please call back in a couple of minutes.”
We expect to learn more on Monday about a man police suspect is responsible for two recent sexual assaults in downtown Madison.
Police arrested 31-year-old Antonio Pope on Friday.
UW Police say people feel safer, but they remind students still to take precautions.
A commission originally launched to examine the future of Wisconsin�s two-year colleges will recommend the UW System consider granting students free tuition if they live and work in the state for 10 years following graduation.
As the end of the semester rolls around and classes meet for the last time, there is still something that must be done before University of Wisconsin students can breathe a collective sigh of relief: evaluations.
You don’t have to look far to see why the University of Wisconsin makes the Top 10 list of party schools year after year, CBS News correspondent Kelly Cobiella reports. A trip down popular State Street says it all.
But these days, another kind of bingeing is catching on, one that is less about beer and more about the Bible.
With the end of UW-Madison’s fall semester imminent, many students, and more specifically roommates, are settling into their ways.
Perhaps your roommate’s peanut butter-covered knives have been resting on the kitchen counter for weeks, your favorite pair of earrings are missing or the $60 you lent her at the beginning of September for textbooks has yet to be repaid.
With costly pranks in the dorms making headlines over the last few years, UW-Madison has increasingly invoked its non-academic behavior policy.
The next friend you make on Facebook could be a man of the law.
Madison police are using Facebook to crack down on campus parties, and may heavily incorporate the website to track gatherings during the Mifflin Street Block Party.
MADISON, Wis. — As police continue looking for a man they said abducted and sexually assaulted two women in the last two weeks on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, demand has spiked for the university’s SafeRide and Walk programs.
Programs aimed at keeping UW students safe are having a hard time keeping up with demand.
The recent attacks on or near campus are leading to an increase in calls for services like Safe Ride or Safe Walk and students who work for those programs have a message for those who might be abusing them.
After two random sexual assaults on campus, students are hoping the SAFE-walk and safe ride programs can expand.
The programs offer escorted walks home and rides for students after dark – students want the program to expand to later hours. But the safe program says increased demand already has them stretched to their limit and that change cannot come overnight.
A website launched by the governor�s office Tuesday seeks to educate Wisconsinites about the global threats stemming from a pandemic flu breakout.
Though many students scramble to bring home ââ?¬Ë?Aââ?¬â?¢s, they might not have to worry about their not-so-good grades spoiling the holidays. Under an act, parents are forbidden access to a studentââ?¬â?¢s grades unless the student authorizes it in writing.
In the wake of recent abductions and sexual assaults on campus, many students have developed concern about getting home safely from late exams and nights spent at the library. SAFEride services are one way to get home safely, but the limited hours and response time have students frustrated.
The Madison Police Department caught one of two suspects involved in a burglary on the 500 block of West Dayton Street Monday, continuing a recent trend of residential thefts in the campus area.
Underneath the sidewalks and buildings so familiar to University of Wisconsin students lies a maze of terrain even the most seasoned campus veteran might not know about.
The University of Wisconsin Associated Students of Madison initiated a campus safety campaign at the beginning of this semester and discussed the future of the campaign at a press conference Tuesday.
Less than a week after the University of Wisconsin announced three finalists for the permanent dean of students position, Chancellor John Wiley said Tuesday he ââ?¬Å?wishedââ?¬Â he had more candidates to choose from.
Stranger-danger is top of mind after the recent UW student attacks. But, statistics show the true threat lies elsewhere. One in four women will know what it’s like to be sexually assaulted–as many as 90-percent will know their attacker.
“The image we have in our heads is that stranger that grabs you off the streets or breaks into your home,” says Kelly Anderson
MADISON, Wis. — A University of Wisconsin-Madison student government group is pushing for changes to make students safer on campus.
After a year-long examination, Associated Students of Madison released a series of safety recommendations on Tuesday. The ASM report comes amid heightened safety awareness among students, staff and police because of two sexual assaults on UW students in the past month.
ASM campus safety intern Kelly Arendt said that students want a neighborhood watch program. UW fraternities and sororities have been conducting bar-time walks, which are popular among students. ASM leaders said that they want the program expanded campus wide, WISC-TV reported.
Police on Monday said they believe the abductions and sexual assaults of two UW-Madison students in the past two weeks were committed by the same person, raising the prospect of a serial rapist at work on and around campus.
The brain-drain in Wisconsin that was a heated topic of debate during the gubernatorial campaign has pressured state legislators to find ways to keep college educated workers in state. Many students leave the state after graduating from the UW System.
Policy passed by the UW System Board of Regents Friday will allow student organizations to deny membership to students who do not sign an affirmation confirming they subscribe to the basic beliefs of the organization.
Numerous Madison groups, including the Madison Police Department, assembled Monday night in an attempt to counter the problem of crime and violence in the downtown area.
Madison police announced Monday that two recent sexual assaults of UW-Madison students are linked to the same suspect and are warning students to take extra precautions in the coming days.
For Christina Hanna, it was a Toto moment.
Not long after starting a new semester of study last winter, the UW-Madison student looked outside and saw monkeys.
Free tuition in exchange for 10 years of living and working in Wisconsin ââ?¬â? sound like a fair deal? This is one of many ideas the state education reform commission is considering to improve Wisconsinââ?¬â?¢s schools and economy.
A state commission might recommend a huge incentive for University of Wisconsin students to stay in the state after they graduate: four years of free tuition at any UW System school.
Relations between the University of Wisconsin and the state Legislature may soon take a hit, as one of UW�s most outspoken critics was appointed chair of the Assembly Colleges and Universities Committee Monday.
City officials, Madison residents and members of the University of Wisconsin community met Monday to discuss how Mayor Dave Cieslewicz�s $100,000 safety initiative will be spent in the downtown area.
MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin-Madison officials said that the campus is on high alert on Monday and they are launching a public awareness campaign after a string of sexual assaults in recent weeks.
On Monday, Madison police said that they believe two of the attacks on young women who were walking alone are related. Both victims were UW students who were abducted and then assaulted.
They have the ideas …
“We had been looking at the neighborhood watch program,” said one student.
And now they have the money …
“At the beginning of rolling all this money out,” said another student.
… to make their ideas, realities.
This is a busy time of year for foot traffic at the UW. The fall semester is coming to a close with final exams starting this weekend, and for many students that means late-night walks home from the library. Police and UW leaders are working together to make sure there isn’t another sexual assault attack on campus
The latest happened early Saturday morning – the victim was forced into a car in the 500 block of North Carroll.
Less than two weeks ago, another student was abducted on Observatory Drive. Madison Police say there are too many similarities to ignore.
In both cases, the suspect description is similar, and in both cases, the victims were abducted… and then dropped off…
For months, dangers in downtown Madison have gotten to the point, the community was called together to find a solution.
Alex Sheridan is part of the Langdon Street Neighborhood Watch Program.
On Day 25 of a hunger strike at Purdue University, Mark Francioseââ?¬â?¢s fatigue registered even through the phone lines. His tired, quiet voice ââ?¬â? and the sustained pauses in conversation ââ?¬â? conveyed just how much he was struggling to fully wake up early Monday afternoon.
(SUPERIOR) The scrap between a Christian student group and the University of Wisconsin may be over, after a change of wording in a policy passed Friday by the Board of Regents. Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship was rejected as a campus organization by a student government committee at UW-Superior last semester. The committee contended that since the Fellowship required its leaders to be Christian, that it discriminated against non-Christians. Inter-Varsity sued, and the Board of Regents re-wrote the policy. It still bans discrimination on the basis of religion and other things, but adds wording that gives student groups flexibility.
Authorities Release Description Of Attacker
UPDATED: 1:43 pm CST December 11, 2006
MADISON, Wis. — Madison police are investigating three sexual assaults that have occurred near the University of Wisconsin campus in recent weeks, and investigators now believe two of them are related.
The latest incident occurred on Saturday morning when a female University of Wisconsin student was apparently abducted on the 500 block of North Carroll Street. She was taken to another location, where she was sexually assaulted and then released, WISC-TV reported.
Madison police said today they are working under the assumption that two recent abductions and rapes in the University of Wisconsin campus area were done by the same suspect, but are unsure whether a recent home invasion and rape on the far east side were also committed by the same man.
The Wisconsin Union Travel Center that has provided services to UW-Madison students for 32 years will close in 2007, a victim of the Internet age.
“The travel industry has changed in the last decade, and so has how students make their travel plans,” said Susan Dibbell, assistant director for social education for the Wisconsin Union. “Students started using the Internet for deciding where to go for spring break and summer.”
MILWAUKEE (AP) – A commission is considering recommending free tuition for all students in the University of Wisconsin System who agree to live and work in the state for 10 years after earning a bachelor’s degree.
The commission which was created to upgrade UW’s two-year college campuses is scheduled to meet Tuesday in Madison to discuss that idea along with other changes primarily geared toward improving the two-year campuses.
UW-Madison has appointed the director of the University of Chicago student health center to direct clinical services at University Health Services, the university announced Dec. 7.
Madison saw its second stranger kidnapping and sexual assault in less than two weeks early Saturday morning when a UW-Madison student was abducted, assaulted and then dropped off near campus at approximately 3 a.m.
The Student Rights Coalition published a column Tuesday expressing their distaste for a recent decision by University of Wisconsin Chancellor John Wiley. The group criticized Mr. Wiley for enforcing an order by the Board of Regents to disallow the use of student-segregated fees to fund off-campus facilities for student organizations.
Keeping up with the pace of technology is no easy task, as computers and other electronics become smaller and faster more quickly than ever.
Even though the 2007 spring election is scheduled to take place during the University of Wisconsin�s spring break next semester, university officials said Friday that there would be no changes to the academic calendar.
The third sexual assault of the semester by a stranger near the University of Wisconsin campus occurred early Saturday morning near the intersection of Langdon Street and North Carroll Street, and the suspect is still at large.
Would you agree to live and work in Wisconsin for 10 years after college if the state offered to pay your tuition costs for all four years?
That is the question being contemplated by a state commission that was assigned to upgrade Wisconsin’s two-year college campuses – but has hatched an idea to overhaul the entire University of Wisconsin System.
MADISON, Wis. — A public works project slated to begin on West Mifflin Street in Madison this spring prompted a stir on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus about the fate of the Mifflin Street Block Party.
Police were investigating three sexual assaults by strangers in less than two weeks.The first happened Nov. 29, the second last Tuesday and the most recent was at about 3 a.m. Saturday. No arrests have been made.
Police are investigating their third sexual assault case in less than two weeks.
No suspect is in custody for any of the assaults.
The latest involves a female UW student assaulted in the 500 block of North Carroll street early Saturday morning.
The Mifflin Street Block Party earned its raunchy reputation almost from the very beginning. Police and partiers clashed at its birth in 1969, when it was actually a protest, and not a drinking event. Riots in 1996 also put partiers against police.
More than 11 months have passed since Joe Thomas sat quietly inside a locker room at Florida Citrus Bowl Stadium in Orlando, worried about his future.
Acknowledging public confusion, University of Wisconsin System regents delayed action Thursday on a new admissions policy that would give greater weight to nonacademic factors, including race and income.
Despite a conflict between university spring break and Madison alder elections, the university has no plans to reschedule spring break.
ââ?¬Å?Although break cannot be changed, UW-Madison will work to publicize absentee options for students planning to travel,ââ?¬Â UW-Madison spokesperson John Lucas said in a statement.
The university announced plans to earmark an additional $500,000 annually for UW-Madison arts and humanities programs Thursday.
ââ?¬Å?The Arts and Humanities Initiative will strengthen our already rich menu of offerings and provide a foundation for future excellence,ââ?¬Â UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley said in a university statement. ââ?¬Å?Itââ?¬â?¢s a way to underscore our continuing commitment to arts and humanities education and to our students.ââ?¬Â
The Student Rights Coalition petitioned Thursday to protest UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley�s memo to the Student Services Finance Committee to disallow funding for student organizations� off-campus rents.
