“It’s a very real problem,” says Tonya Schmidt, an assistant dean and the director of the Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards at UW–Madison—not just on her campus of 29,930 undergraduates, but at schools nationwide.
Chief Information Security Officer and Director at the UW Office of Cybersecurity Bob Turner said phishing scams are on the rise.
A University of Wisconsin wide receiver slated to come back Saturday from a two-game suspension for his alleged actions related to a teammate’s sexual assault case will not face criminal charges, Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne said Thursday.
The Dane County District Attorney’s Office will not be pursuing criminal charges against Badgers wide receiver Danny Davis.
Suspended Badgers wide receiver Quintez Cephus will stand trial for two sexual assault felonies after a Dane County judge denied a motion by his lawyers to drop one of the charges.
A Dane County judge on Tuesday ordered Wisconsin wide receiver Quintez Cephus to stand trial on two counts of sexual assault.
University of Wisconsin wide receiver Quintez Cephus was ordered to stand trial Tuesday on charges that he sexually assaulted two women in his apartment in April, following a brief preliminary hearing in Dane County Circuit Court.
MADISON, Wis. – A Dane County judge decided Tuesday that Wisconsin wide receiver Quintez Cephus will face trial in a sexual assault case.
A judge ordered Wisconsin receiver Quintez Cephus to stand trial Tuesday on charges that he sexually assaulted two drunken women this spring, rejecting a motion from his attorneys to dismiss one of the counts alleging that the women weren’t as impaired as investigators say.
Over past summer, MPD has seen spike in the number of fights near campus, leading to higher police presence
From limited institutional response to rapid defenses, cases of sexual assault involving athletes leave much to be desired.
UW Police issued 24 citations and arrested 22 people at Saturday’s Badgers football game, according to the police department.
The man accused of assaults of two women and a teen in the downtown Madison campus area last year has changed his plea to not guilty by reason of mental defect Tuesday.
MPD, UWPD and the Sheriff’s Deptartment are all intimately involved in building relationships with the LGBTQ+ community and communities of color, Dane County Sheriff David Mahoney said.
Officials said on Twitter that the owl was turned over to a Department of Natural Resources conservation warden and is on its way to a wildlife rehab center.
Callers told her to comply by buying them gift cards or a federal investigation could be opened which would lead to her assets being frozen and her deportation.
A UW-Madison graduate student was scammed out of $15,000 Thursday by scammers who kept her on the phone for five hours while she bought gift cards to take care of her “problem.”
University Police stress they’re not walking around randomly testing people with breathalyzers. But if they find students causing problems for others, they will check to see if they’ve been drinking.
A Madison man who allegedly goes online to rent out a UW-Madison campus-area parking space that he doesn’t control has been arrested for theft.
Officers warned downtown residents last week of 23-year-old Tony Fountain, who they said was scamming University of Wisconsin students.
Sexual assault charges filed this week against Wisconsin wide receiver Quintez Cephus — along with several other university athletic departments under scrutiny — prompted a member of the UW Board of Regents to question university leaders about the extent of their awareness regarding financial and behavior practices within UW-Madison athletics.
The suspect, using name “Bama Flow” online, was arrested earlier this summer for collecting rent on parking spot he does not own.
They claimed to have proof showing the two accusers were not impaired by alcohol on the night in question.
UW Badgers wide receiver Quintez Cephus was given a $5,000 signature bond in court Thursday morning.
On Wednesday, police said they were working to arrest 23-year-old Tony Fountain, of Madison, for scamming University of Wisconsin students.
University of Wisconsin officials are attempting to gather more information regarding the alleged actions of wide receivers Quintez Cephus and Danny Davis.
University of Wisconsin wide receiver Quintez Cephus was charged with two counts of sexual assault Monday. Per reports, police claim the 20-year-old junior, who was set to be the Badgers’ top receiver this season, assaulted two women on the same night at his apartment.
A battery, which occurred on the Lakeshore Path at UW-Madison, was reported to the UW-Madison Police Department on Saturday.
A pair of University of Wisconsin-Madison police officers took the time to help a woman with a broken walker Tuesday morning, an official said.
A 30-year-old man was arrested early Friday morning after Madison police officers heard a gunshot Downtown near the UW-Madison campus.
MADISON, Wis. – One man was arrested after gunshots were fired in a parking garage near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus early Friday morning.
A former UW-Madison employee pleaded guilty Friday to several felony charges after stealing more than $100,000 from the university’s housing division.
Two suspects led a University of Wisconsin Police Department officer on a brief chase Wednesday evening, leading to a crash with another vehicle and ending in arrest.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison police said an officer was on patrol on Park Street at about 6 p.m. when the officer spotted a stolen vehicle traveling near Dayton Street.
A Brookfield father, whose daughter is enrolled in the UW System, told Ehlke that he was out of touch and a threat to society. “The common consensus around here is that you don’t understand justice,” he wrote in a letter filed with the court.
An attempted strong-arm robbery occurred on North Lake Street between University Avenue and West Johnson Street early Sunday morning, according to a UW-Madison Crime Warning issued the same morning.
Former UW-Madison student Alec Cook paid two victims a total of just over $25,000 in restitution in connection to his convictions for campus sexual assault and stalking.
“Scams are becoming creative,” wrote Roopa Rawjee, assistant dean of students and director of international student services at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, in an email. “Scammers are coming up with new ideas and quickly moving on.” An international student at UW—Madison almost lost around $5,000 to scammers in an incident that occurred earlier this month, says Marc Lovicott, director of communications for the UW—Madison Police Department.
Officers drove from all over Wisconsin and as far as Michigan and Iowa to help create a new active threat training video that will keep more students safe on campus. The video was filmed at UW-Madison’s Law School.
Joel DeSpain, a spokesperson with the Madison Department, said the student was scammed out of $27,000 to “prove her innocence” after being talked into believing she was a suspect in a money-laundering crime.
Two Houston men have been indicted on allegations that they stole textbooks from professors’ offices at several University of Wisconsin schools, then sold them to a business in Texas that sells college books.
The national Kappa Sigma fraternity has terminated its University of Wisconsin-Madison chapter after people pushed a television off the chapter’s balcony and nearly hit a woman.
The Kappa Sigma national organization has terminated the charter of its UW-Madison chapter, and the university has placed the fraternity on interim suspension while it investigates videos showing a television dropped from the fraternity’s house this weekend narrowly missing a woman who was walking by below.
The fraternity chapter at 124 Langdon St. was placed on interim suspension “for a safety-related incident during the weekend of June 30-July 1,” according to a news release Thursday from UW-Madison.
The incident happened on Langdon Street over the weekend of June 30, officials said.
The University of Wisconsin suspended Kappa Sigma fraternity Thursday following a viral video which showed a woman narrowly avoiding being crushed by a falling television at a party.
Videos reportedly taken outside a UW-Madison fraternity showing a falling television narrowly missing a woman have prompted police to investigate the incident.
UW-Madison’s Kappa Sigma Fraternity had its charter withdrawn from the national branch of the organization Tuesday for an incident at a party this past weekend, according to a screenshot of an email from the Supreme Executive Committee of Kappa Sigma Fraternity.
Give Sexual Assault Sentence For Former UW Student Prompts Outrage From Lawmakers 1/5Give Sexual Assault Sentence For Former UW Student Prompts Outrage From Lawmakers 2/5Give Sexual Assault Sentence For Former UW Student Prompts Outrage From Lawmakers 3/5Give Sexual Assault Sentence For Former UW Student Prompts Outrage From Lawmakers 4/5Give Sexual Assault Sentence For Former UW Student Prompts Outrage From Lawmakers 5/50No votes yetLast month’s sentencing of Alec Cook to three years in prison followed by eight years of supervision for a number of sexual assaults on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus has prompted stiff pushback from state and local elected officials, saying the sentence didn’t match the gravity of the crimes.
UW-Madison Police Chief Kristen Roman expressed disappointment at the three-year prison sentence given to expelled student Alec Cook for sexual assault and other convictions, saying that “justice was not best served here.”
A Wisconsin state senator had harsh words for a judge who sentenced a former University of Wisconsin-Madison student to three years in prison as punishment for sexually assaulting not one, but three female students.
Alec Cook, a 22-year-old former University of Wisconsin-Madison student was handed a light-weight three year prison sentence by Judge Stephen Ehlke for raping three female students.
In an open letter to sexual assault survivors, University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Chief Kristen Roman expressed her “deep disappointment” with the recent Alec Cook sentencing even as she encouraged sexual assault victims to keep hope.
Alec Cook had initially been charged with 23 different crimes involving 11 female accusers, all them fellow students at University of Wisconsin-Madison. As part of a plea deal with prosecutors, the 22-year-old in February pleaded guilty to five of those charges — three counts of third-degree sexual assault, one count of strangulation and one count of stalking.
Chief Roman said she is angered, disheartened and dismayed by how many women are sexually assaulted while in college.
University of Wisconsin Police Chief Kristen Roman on Thursday published An Open Letter to Sexual Assault Survivors, expressing her disappointment with the sentence given to Alec Cook last week.
Six Wisconsin lawmakers this week condemned what they said was a lenient three-year prison sentence given to a former University of Wisconsin student who admitted to sexually assaulting three women and choking or stalking two others.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” local radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on the three-year sentence given to former UW-Madison student Alec Cook on sexual assault charges.
Cook is a former University of Wisconsin-Madison student who pleaded guilty to three counts of third-degree sexual assault, and one count each of strangulation and stalking. The case drew regional and national media coverage.
A group of state and local elected officials on Tuesday joined a chorus of criticism of Dane County Circuit Judge Stephen Ehlke’s three-year prison sentence for expelled University of Wisconsin-Madison student Alec Cook, a punishment they say was too light for a “serial sexual assault perpetrator.”
