University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank said Tuesday that she opposes any form of legislation that would allow the possession of concealed guns in university buildings.
A group of students on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus are organizing opposition to a concealed campus carry bill being proposed by state Rep. Jesse Kremer, R-Kewaskum.
A 19-year-old UW-Madison student faces significant injuries after being hit by the car of an intoxicated driver while trying to cross an intersection near campus early Saturday morning, according to a Madison Police Department incident report.
Lawyers for a suspended UW-Madison student accused of sexual assaults of five women are asking a judge to release him from jail on a signature bond, arguing that the $200,000 bail keeping him in jail is not necessary.
In an effort to address alarming statistics both nationwide and across state campuses, the University of Wisconsin System will soon offer sexual violence training for all employees and students.
Months of a UW-Madison student’s Facebook messages were seized by police, who continue to investigate what authorities say were the student’s nearly half dozen sex assaults of campus women.
The attorneys of a former University of Wisconsin-Madison student who is facing multiple sexual assault charges are asking the court to remove his $200,000 cash bail.
Every student and employee in the University of Wisconsin System would have to undergo online training on sexual violence and harassment issues under a plan that regents are expected to approve Thursday.
Suspended UW-Madison freshman Alec Shiva has been scheduled for a Dec. 27 preliminary hearing.
Employees and new students throughout the University of Wisconsin System will soon have to take part in mandatory training on preventing sexual assault and harassment.
Madison police are investigating a situation Sunday night where an individual was beaten and kicked out of a car near Camp Randall Stadium.
Within the past semester, UW-Madison has had two high-profile sexual assault cases emerge on campus. In response to recent events and concerns from students, the UW Homecoming Committee hosted an educational panel Tuesday regarding sexual assault.
UWPD spokesperson Marc Lovicott said the police department will push information that will refresh the campus community on safety and handling of attack situations later this week once the events that took place at OSU have been processed. He said UWPD has been trained and has worked on campus to take precautions against occurrences such as knife attacks and active shooters.
Many are praising Ohio State University for its quick response and one specific tweet to students that told them what to do. It’s the same protocol taught to students at UW-Madison.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison student accused of sexual assault, strangulation and false imprisonment involving five women, including some he met in classes, will be back in court next month.
Forty-nine people, including eight students, were ejected from Camp Randall Stadium on Saturday, during the football game between Wisconsin and Minnesota.
The man behind the President Obama mask at Camp Randall stadium last month, with a noose around his neck, is a 40-year old Elkhart Lake resident.
The four candidates for UW-Madison police chief will be on campus next week to meet the public as well as student, faculty and staff groups and university leaders.
It’s Friday night on State Street, and a college guy is guiding a drunk woman down the sidewalk past a group of other students. “Hey, do you know him?” someone from the group asks, stepping toward the young woman who stumbles and slurs her words.
While undocumented students proactively fight to secure university protection from deportation as the president-elect’s inauguration approaches, state legislators are divided on how to move forward.
UW System President Ray Cross asked several leaders of UW-Madison’s student government Wednesday to “influence the decision-makers” who will decide the fate of Wisconsin’s public universities in the state’s upcoming biennial budget.
Graffiti that said “All white people are racist” appeared on the base of the Abraham Lincoln statue atop Bascom Hill following the election last week.
Over the past week, the University of Wisconsin has received 16 bias incident reports.In comparison, there were 66 incidents reported in the entire first half of 2016.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross discussed the future of Wisconsin’s educational system and heard concerns from representatives about diversity and safety during the Associated Students of Madison Coordinating Council meeting Wednesday.
Conservative public speaker Ben Shapiro, editor-in-chief for DailyWire.com and host of The Ben Shapiro Show, spoke at the University of Wisconsin to make his case against safe spaces and other recent movements on college campuses he sees as inhibiting free speech Wednesday.
Shouting broke out on both sides during a conservative writer’s presentation at UW-Madison. At one point protesters even gave the middle finger to Ben Shapiro, who fired two of them back.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison student accused of assaulting another student was high on drugs, according to a court document.
State politicians and community members met Monday to discuss concealed carry on UW System schools’ campuses, with a bill allowing for so-called campus carry potentially looming next year.
In many states across the country, legislation that allows concealed carry, a license which grants an individual the ability to covertly carry a gun on them, has already been passed. The addition of guns on campuses has caused students, staff, faculty and parents to worry, especially after mass school shootings such as Virginia Tech and Sandy Hook.
A UW-Madison student arrested last week after police said he choked and sexually assaulted a woman in his dorm room was high on LSD during the alleged attack, according to a criminal complaint filed Monday.
The four finalists are Gregory Habeck, assistant chief of the UW-Milwaukee Police Department; Thomas Phillips, chief of police for Northern Illinois University; Kristen Roman, a captain in the Madison Police Department; and John Vinson, chief of the University of Washington Police Department.
A man authorities say was a Resident Assistant in a private dormitory near the UW campus when he victimized a woman was charged with felony sexual assault.
One of the five women accusing suspended University of Wisconsin-Madison student Alec Cook of sexual assault is speaking out in an effort to help other women.
A woman was sexually assaulted early Saturday at the apartment of a man she had just met after leaving a bar near UW-Madison’s campus, police said.
Intimate partner violence will affect one in five undergraduate relationships at the University of Wisconsin.
Muslim students at UW-Madison say they hope the murder of a UW-Stout Muslim student sparks conversations about acceptance on campus.
Court documents show the UW-Madison student charged with the sexual assault of several women is accused of moving into a woman’s campus apartment complex in order to stalk her.
A UW-Madison student was ticketed for allegedly pulling a fire alarm in Witte Hall on the UW-Madison campus, forcing the dormitory to evacuate in the early Friday morning hours.
Students were evacuating Witte as the Madison Fire Department arrived to an alarm activation around 2 a.m. Friday, according to a daily report.
A University of Wisconsin- Madison junior says she was harassed by Alec Cook for a year after they met in class last fall. Cook was arrested on October 24 on charges of sexual assault.
University of Wisconsin-Madison police ejected a total of 69 people, including 11 UW students, from Saturday’s Badgers home football game against the Nebraska Cornhuskers, campus Interim Chief Brian Bridges said.
Last fall, UW-Madison officials released the results of a survey that found more than 1 in 4 responding women said they experienced unwanted sexual contact during their time at the university.
A group of UW Madison students are spreading their message of sexual assault prevention through the popular app Snapchat.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison student was cited after a fire in a residence hall early Friday morning, according to a news release from the Madison fire department.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison campus continued to reel Thursday under the national spotlight as new details emerged in the case of a senior facing felony charges of sexually preying on multiple students over the last 18 months.
Campus groups focused on helping victims of sexual assault are looking at the attention from the Alec Cook case as a way to start conversations about assault on campus.
A Dane County Judge set a $200,000 cash bail for Alec Cook on Thursday afternoon in a Dane County courtroom. According to the updated criminal complaint, Cook faces 15 counts including second, third and fourth degree sexual assault, strangulation and suffocation, and false imprisonment.
MADISON, Wis. — One woman told investigators that the college senior invited her this month to his apartment, where he raped her and choked her until her vision blurred.
An Edina High School graduate and University of Wisconsin-Madison, student is charged with sexually assaulting five women in a criminal case that quickly expanded Thursday after a complaint was filed in one case last week.
A University of Wisconsin student has been charged with a string of sexual assaults involving four different women. Alec Cook, 20, has been the subject of reports from dozens of women, according to police, since the first woman raised the alarm bell.
As the national news media descended Wednesday on the story of a now-suspended University of Wisconsin-Madison student accused of sexually assaulting multiple fellow students, the young man’s attorneys issued a statement arguing that “the rapid-fire news cycle, combined with the viral nature of social media,” had resulted in a “modern-day character assassination.”
On Oct. 12, a female student went to police in Madison, Wis., and filed a complaint against a 20-year-old student by the name of Alec Cook.
A University of Wisconsin student was arrested this month on charges that he sexually assaulted a female student, prompting dozens of women to contact the police about encounters they said they had had with the man, according to the police and several news reports.
An anticipated court appearance Tuesday for Alec Cook, who was expected to be charged with 30 criminal counts related to the alleged sexual assaults of four women, was postponed so that the Dane County District Attorney’s office could complete a criminal complaint.
In 2015, campus officials conducted a survey of students that showed of the sexual assault victims on campus, only 26.1% of women and 5% of men, reported their crimes to police or a campus official. “They’re scared nothing will happen if they do,” University Health Services manager Carmen Juniper Neimeko explains.This number comes as no surprise to advocates, who say a majority of victims end up telling a close friend of family member. Survey results show that’s the case on UW-Madison campus around 83% of the time. “We’re really empowering friends and family to take a significant role in using non-judgmental language and guidance for the victims in their life,” Juniper Neimeko says.
Court records show dozens of women have come forward with information on suspended UW-Madison student Alec Cook, since Cook was charged last week in connection with what authorities say was the Oct. 12 sexual assault of a fellow student.
An Edina High School graduate who attends the University of Wisconsin is expected to be charged this week with sexually assaulting four women while investigators look into additional cases.
On Oct. 12, in Madison, Wis., a female student went to police and filed a complaint against a 20-year-old student by the name of Alec Cook. She said she and Cook had originally contacted each other via Facebook and gotten together four or five times since then, always in public.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison student already charged with four counts of sexual assault now faces 15 more counts after another student accused him of touching her inappropriately during class, according to police and court records.
Alec Cook, who was charged last week with sexually assaulting an acquaintance and then was re-arrested late last week after other women claimed he had also sexually assaulted them, will be charged Tuesday in a 30-count criminal complaint that alleges he sexually assaulted four women over the past several months, a Dane County prosecutor said in court Monday.
