our people have been charged in connection with a series of graffiti incidents that caused more than $10,000 in damage across the UW-Madison campus, university police said.
Four people are charged in connection with a series of graffiti incidents that caused thousands of dollars in damage across the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus over the past 18 months.
Four people have been charged in connection with a series of graffiti incidents that have happened across the UW-Madison campus over the past year and a half, the university’s police department reported Thursday.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison cancelled Friday classes due to freezing weather conditions for the first time since 2019, according to a news release.
The cancellation of all lectures, labs and discussion sections comes after the National Weather Service placed Dane County under an Extreme Cold Warning from midnight to 1 p.m. Friday, with wind chills projected to range from 30 to 40 degrees below zero.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison reported nine hazing violations connected to Greek life between 2021 to 2025 after a new federal law required universities and colleges to publicly report hazing incidents.
Under the Stop Campus Hazing Act, universities and colleges were required to begin documenting hazing violations starting July 1, 2025, implement anti-hazing policies and publish their first Campus Hazing Transparency Report by Dec. 23, 2025. UW-Madison went beyond the July requirement by including hazing reports from years prior.
Dane County’s drug task force seized a sedan as part of a narcotics investigation, while Madison police seized $7,700 in cash in another case.
The task force is a collaboration of the Madison Police Department, the Dane County Sheriff’s Office and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department with a focus on dismantling and disrupting drug trafficking.
One of the first signs of trouble came last spring, when the Trump administration abruptly moved to deport scores of international students, including a handful at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
University officials were alarmed, well aware that around 8,000 students, 15 percent of its enrollment, were from abroad. And they worried that the looming deportations might spook prospective international students, said Frances Vavrus, the dean of the international division at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department (UWPD) is investigating a three-month string of four burglaries at the UW-Madison Law Building, according to a Wednesday crime alert.
The first burglary took place in late October, UWPD Executive Director of Communications Marc Lovicott told The Daily Cardinal in a statement. The most recent incident occurred Sunday. All four burglaries happened after hours, when the building was closed.
The UW-Madison Police Department (UWPD) released images Wednesday of people it has identified as persons of interest in a series of e-bike and e-scooter thefts.
Despite restrictions on the city government, there are a handful of Flock cameras set up within Madison, four around Capitol Square maintained by Capitol Police, and eight arrayed across the UW-Madison campus, according to UW-Madison Police spokesperson Marc Lovicott.
Aaron Seligman, a Madison native who previously worked for the Universities of Wisconsin, joined the cohort in February when taking on the new title of director of community relations at Madison Hillel.
The 13 professionals “take on the work of being that adult in the room that models and leads in relationship building with administrators, faculty and other Jewish communal professionals,” Simon said.
Seligman is focusing on areas the University of Wisconsin-Madison found specific needs for in the more than two years since Oct. 7. So far, Seligman has been “collaborating with the university administration on campus policies” and “engaging in media around campus climate and antisemitism,” Seligman said.
Left to expand without any check, our robust deer populations would overrun our natural environment (Wisconsin’s is 1.8 million, up two-thirds from just 10 years ago). As the Journal Sentinel reported, one UW-Madison study found 40 percent of species changes in northern Wisconsin and Michigan forests were tied to over-eating of plant life by deer, from stunting native tree regeneration to wiping out some plants altogether.
A 40-year-old Madison man wearing a Palestinian flag and holding his hand in his pocket as if he had a gun walked into a Jewish student organization on State Street on Monday asking for food, police said Tuesday.
Madison police arrested a man who they said entered a Jewish student organization’s building on the UW-Madison campus Monday evening and gestured as if he had a gun.
The Madison Police Department arrested a Madison man after he allegedly made gestures to make it seem like he had a gun at an event for Jewish UW-Madison students, officials reported on Tuesday.
Najib Azad, a lawyer, author and faculty staff at University of Wisconsin-Madison, also came to America in 2021 and now lives in Stevens Point. He previously served as press secretary for the former Afghan president.
“The entire Afghan community was profiled, they were judged, and then in the hour after that, in the second or third hour, almost every immigrant in this country was judged,” Azad told News 3 Now.
A man was arrested after causing a disturbance at a nonprofit organization serving Jewish students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Officers responded to the 500 block of State Street around 6:15 p.m. on Monday after reports of a man, wearing a ballistic vest and Palestinian flag, entering the building asking for food, according to Madison Police Department spokesperson Stephanie Fryer.
“Between our child life specialists talking with siblings with our social workers’ help with identification, that was absolutely critical,” said Dr. Nicholas Kuehnel, vice chair of clinical operations for UW Health’s Dept. of Emergency Medicine. “Even our environmental services teammates that worked to help us turn the room over, get beds into place, get the linens on. None of this would be able to happen as smooth as it does without these individuals really helping each step along the way.”
Academic research has found that incarcerated immigrants face tougher punishment on average, with sentences that are longer by months or years than nonimmigrants. Michael Light, a sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, looked at the role of citizenship in both federal and state courts in California and Texas, which, unlike Alabama, keep detailed information about defendants’ citizenship status.
He found the starkest differences in Texas, where noncitizens received sentences 62% longer than citizens, even with the same charges and criminal backgrounds. The disparities exceed those between white and nonwhite citizens. Another researcher, University of California, Los Angeles law professor Ingrid Eagly, found similar results in her study of Harris County cases in Houston.
Child survivors of gun violence, and their parents, require special attention in the aftermath of a school shooting, said Janet Hyde, professor emeritus of psychology and gender and women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Under the right circumstances, returning to school can be a form of exposure therapy, especially if schools can emphasize learning, social activities and have an open channel for students to express their feelings, Hyde said, who authored the book, “The Psychology of Gun Violence.” It can also build resilience, which helps kids cope and manage stress.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) is proposing increased law enforcement presence, adjustments to fencing layout and stricter attendance policies this spring to Lily’s Classic, their annual hockey tournament and fundraiser, amid safety concerns. The changes currently await university approval.
In August, a group of former University of Wisconsin women’s basketball players sued former head coach Marisa Moseley, alleging psychological abuse.
The civil case, which also lists the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents and former UW senior associate athletic director Justin Doherty as defendants, seeks compensatory and punitive damages.
Some say they fear being scapegoated for the actions of one man — an Afghan national who has been charged in the ambush-style shooting of two National Guard members last week.
“No community is responsible for an individual’s act,” said Najib Azad, a lawyer and lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who was resettled along with his wife and children in Stevens Point almost four years ago.
The Badger Herald requested text messages and emails from university officials involved in the visa terminations issue in order to look at the inner workings of the university and, in particular, the communications department.
University of Wisconsin-Madison’s chapter of Voices of Courage for Equity and Social Justice (VOCES) hosted a panel discussion with immigration attorneys to teach attendees about immigration rights and how students can support immigrants on campus.
Chicago schools blow millions on travel while students can’t read, more violent threats appear on midwestern campus.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department is offering tips to help protect property while residents are away for the holiday season.
They emphasize the importance of creating an inventory of important documents and expensive items before departure. You can take photos or record videos showing your valuable items, including your electronics. This documentation can be crucial in the event of theft or damage.
The UW-Madison Police Department announced that K9 Ritter is retiring.
In a Facebook post, UWPD said Ritter hasn’t missed a single Badger football game in eight years and officially worked his final game on Nov. 22.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA) petitioned the university to become a “sanctuary campus” to protect international students at a Nov. 14 rally on Library Mall.
More violent imagery appeared near the University of Wisconsin-Madison late last week, mirroring similar imagery found on the public school’s campus over a span of weeks, according to two students at the school.
UW-Madison police issued 20 citations at Saturday’s game against Illinois.
Citations included six for underage alcohol, four for throwing hard objects and two for trespassing. UW students accounted for nine of the 20 citations.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police are investigating stickers that appeared on campus encouraging violence against federal immigration agents.
Republicans are pointing to the imagery as another example of the hostile climate conservatives face on college campuses.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police are investigating stickers that appeared on campus encouraging violence against federal immigration agents.
Republicans are pointing to the imagery as another example of the hostile climate conservatives face on college campuses.
University of Wisconsin students were notified via email Tuesday that UW Police Department has received four reports of electric scooter theft since Oct. 17.
Two scooters were stolen outside the Nicholas Recreation Center, one was stolen outside Sellery Hall and the other was stolen outside the Computer Sciences and Statistics building, according to the email.
Thinking about joining the growing number of people zipping around Madison on electric scooters? Know this: They are generally allowed anywhere you can ride a bicycle, though there are exceptions. Madison and UW-Madison police say there’s been a noticeable uptick in e-scooter use over the last one to two years, even as no business renting out commuter scooters has yet opened in the city.
Madison Fire Department responded to a second call in as many weeks from the UW-Madison campus after a dryer caught fire in the Gordon Commons at 770 West Dayton Street on Tuesday morning. The building’s automatic sprinkler system kept the fire from spreading until firefighters arrived around 4:50 a.m. to extinguish the remaining flames still burning inside the dryer.
Madison Fire Department credited a fire sprinkler head for putting out most of a fire at the UW-Madison Discovery Building Thursday night.
At 11:15 p.m. firefighters arrived at the building on the 300 block of N. Orchard Street for a fire alarm going off.
MFD said an automatic fire sprinkler head detected the fire and turned on. The sprinkler head also triggered the building’s fire alarm.
Firefighters put out the rest of the fire with a two-and-a-half-gallon water can extinguisher.
A hamper full of kitchen rags and towels caught fire in the UW-Madison’s Discovery Building Thursday night, according to the Madison Fire Department
Firefighters were dispatched to the research center on campus around 11 p.m. Thursday after the building’s fire sprinkler system detected the burning laundry bin triggering the alarms.
The sprinkler system limited damage to a few items in and around the hamper and a nearby wall, before firefighters extinguished the remaining flames.
The suspect in an unprovoked, deadly attack near Camp Randall will go to trial.
Keith Jones stood mute as he appeared in Dane County court Tuesday. The court entered a plea of not guilty on his behalf, online court records stated.
Jones is accused of first-degree intentional homicide.
UW-Madison police reported that 28 people were ejected from Camp Randall Stadium and 16 were arrested during Saturday’s Badgers game against Iowa.
A sellout crowd quietly watched as Iowa routed Wisconsin 37-0.
“We love a good trend, but this one’s got your parents calling us in panic mode,” UW-Madison Police said in the post. “Yep, it’s super funny and harmless — but don’t let your parents sit and stew on it. Quickly tell them it’s a prank so they don’t call the police.”
he man charged with violently attacking his former coworker near Camp Randall allegedly used a hammer and kicked the 62-year-old victim numerous times to death, a criminal complaint alleges.
Keith Jones, 58, is accused of murdering 62-year-old Mark A. Tiggelaar of Fitchburg at the UW Athletics Operations parking lot.
Madison police responded to reports of a fight with a shot fired on Friday in the 200 block of Langdon Street outside Pi Kappa Alpha on UW-Madison’s fraternity row. Authorities took an 18-year-old into custody nearby and recovered physical evidence at the scene.
“We live right over here, and like, past three, four years, we spend so much time on this street. And just to like, the fact that it happened is super scary,” said Jimmy Lynch, a UW-Madison student.
Arecently fired co-worker of a man severely beaten last month outside Camp Randall in Madison has been charged with first-degree intentional homicide in the man’s death.
Keith A. Jones, 58, of Madison, attacked Mark A. Tiggelaar, 62, of Fitchburg, in a University of Wisconsin Athletics parking lot in the early morning hours of Sept. 20, according to a criminal complaint filed Friday.
The man injured in an attack on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus earlier this month has died, and campus police want prosecutors to pursue homicide charges for the suspect.
The victim of an unprovoked and targeted attack outside of camp Randall stadium on September 20 died in the hospital late last week.
As the fall semester begins, UW–Madison remains committed to maintaining a safe, inclusive and welcoming environment for all members of the campus community, according to UWPD Chief of Police Brent Plisch.
The UW-Madison Police Department on Wednesday cleared the scene after asking the public to avoid the area of Johnson Street and Wisconsin Avenue due to reports of a man with a knife in the vicinity.
The UW-Madison Police Department on Wednesday cleared the scene after asking the public to avoid the area of Johnson Street and Wisconsin Avenue due to reports of a man with a knife in the vicinity.
UW-Madison Police Department gave an all clear after sending an alert out for the report of a man with a knife Wednesday morning off campus.
“What happened to Charlie Kirk was a tragedy, it was wrong,” Jennifer Mnookin, the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said last week.
“The fact that it happened on a college campus is even a step worse,” Mnookin said during a panel discussion at the Reagan Institute Summit on Education. “Because college campuses should be part of the places within society where ideas are explored and bump up against each other, and the ways that we should be disagreeing with each other should never include what happened there.”
UW-Madison police reported that 30 people were ejected from Camp Randall Stadium and 18 were arrested during Saturday’s game between the Badgers and Maryland.
Of those arrested, 10 were UW students. Of the ejections, 18 were UW students.
University of Wisconsin-Madison police have taken a suspect in custody in connection with an alleged aggravated assault that took place on campus in the early hours of Sept. 20.
UW-Madison police said this week that they are investigating a string of e-bike and e-scooter thefts.
From Aug. 28 through Sept. 13, UW police received five reports of stolen bikes and scooters, with the sites including Union South, Lowell Center, Nicholas Recreation Center, and Ogg Residence Hall.
Charlie Kirk’s death is resonating across college campuses. In Madison, College Republicans are thinking about where their own movement goes next.
“I didn’t even believe it when I first saw the news that he got shot. It really took me hours for it to even register that he was really gone,” said Courtney Graves, president of the UW-Madison chapter of College Republicans.
Kirk visited UW-Madison last fall as a part of his ‘You’re Being Brainwashed Tour,’ leaving an impression on young conservatives there.
People attending the UW Board of Regents’ meeting last week will go through a security screening to enter the venue.
Under the new measures, attendees will be required to walk through metal detectors, and anyone who refuses a screening or has a prohibited item will be denied entry to the venue, according to Regents meeting materials released ahead of the meeting.
While officially adopted by the IHRA in 2016, the definition has been in use for about 20 years, according to Chad Alan Goldberg, a sociologist and professor of Jewish studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He said it’s a response to rising antisemitism in recent decades, with an additional increase since the war between Israel and Hamas after Hamas’ attacks on Oct. 7, 2023.
“It’s coming in a context of heightened concerns about antisemitism,” he said. “Proponents … think it would be a good idea because they think it would make it easier to identify and combat anti-Jewish hate speech and hate crimes, anti-Jewish harassment, vandalism and assault.”
Security for college officials is being scrutinized in the wake of Kirk’s murder, too. University of Wisconsin Board of Regents is beefing up security protocols ahead of its meeting on the UW-Madison campus this week. Walkthrough metal detectors and bag searches are required for all meeting attendees. It was unclear if the measures were temporary or permanent, and how much it would cost. Universities of Wisconsin spokesperson Mark Pitsch would not answer questions seeking details.”The safety and security of the meeting is paramount, and as a result we are implementing enhanced security measures,” Pitsch said in a statement instead.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department reported an increase in electric bicycle and scooter thefts across campus, with five thefts since Aug. 13.
University of Wisconsin-Madison police are investigating “significant” vandalism around Library Mall, according to a university news release Friday.
