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.
An assistant Dane County district attorney says a 20-year old UW-Madison student used journals to potentially document his sexual assault of women.
University of Wisconsin police referred 15 counts of fourth-degree sexual assault to the Dane County district attorney for 20-year-old Alec R. Cook, according to a release.
On Friday, a third woman reported that she, too, had been sexually assaulted by Alec R. Cook, 20, in 2015, police said.
Months after United Way of Dane County issued a call to action for law enforcement agencies to review their use of force procedures, 17 law enforcement agencies from around the county have reported some form of implementation of the recommended policies.
The University of Wisconsin Police Department at a ceremony Wednesday broke ground on a $4.8 million expansion of its headquarters.
A second victim has come forward claiming to have been sexually assaulted by University of Wisconsin senior Alec Cook.
A UW-Madison student was seriously injured after losing control of their skateboard and hitting a light pole on Observatory Drive.
Alec Cook, 20, who was arrested for alleged sexual assault earlier this week, turned himself into Madison Police officers Thursday night and has been tentatively charged with the sexual assault of a second victim.
A project to more than double the size of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department’s headquarters has officially broken ground, according to a news release.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison student suffered a serious injury skateboarding on campus Thursday afternoon, an official said.
A 20-year-old woman told police she was also a sexual assault victim after the arrest of a Madison man on sexual assault charges.
A $4.8 million project more than doubling the size of the UW-Madison Police Department’s headquarters will improve officer training and make the booking process safer, officials say.
A 20-year-old UW-Madison student was arrested Monday in connection with a sexual assault that occurred Downtown last week, according to Madison police.
A UW-Madison student was charged Wednesday with four counts of second-degree sexual assault arising from an incident last week in which another student told police she was raped.
A UW-Madison student charged this week with the sexual assault of a student turned himself in Thursday night for allegedly sexually assaulting another student, after the woman saw news accounts of his initial arrest and came forward with her story.
The University of Wisconsin Bias Response Team released a report Wednesday that found students reported nearly three times more campus bias incidents in the first half of 2016 than in the last half of 2015.
The University of Wisconsin Police Department will institute some added restrictions surrounding Bascom Hill in preparation for ESPN’s College GameDay on Saturday.
The number of hate and bias incidents reported on campus has increased from 18 in Fall 2015 to 66 in the spring, according to university officials.
UW-Madison students reported more than three times as many instances of discrimination to campus officials through the first half of 2016 than they had during the prior six months, according to a report released Wednesday.
Shortly after Lori Berquam became dean of students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison some 20 years ago, she encountered a female student on a moped covered with stickers.
University of Wisconsin sophomore and First Wave scholar Eneale Pickett is no longer saying, whispering or asking “Can I please be given access to this space?”
The headline of the email reads “UW-Madison Crime Warning,” but it is the subhead that details the crime itself — sexual assault.
A Madison woman was arrested on Sunday for attacking a 26-year old victim near the UW- Madison campus.
The symposium, titled “Relations between Community and Police,” was sponsored by the Wisconsin University Union, an independent organization composed of staff and faculty at UW-Madison.
The University of Wisconsin’s Committee on Student Organizations has terminated Sigma Phi Epsilon after receiving evidence the fraternity had violated its suspension.
Associated Students of Madison listened to a presentation on the impact the University of Wisconsin’s drinking culture on students of color Wednesday.
The UW-Madison chapter of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity has been terminated due to violations of Student Organization Code of Conduct policies.
The University of Wisconsin’s Committee on Student Organizations has terminated Sigma Phi Epsilon after receiving evidence the fraternity had violated its suspension.
A fraternity chapter at UW-Madison has been terminated for violating the university’s code of conduct policies.
The Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity chapter at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been terminated as a student organization for violating student organization code of conduct policies, according to a release.
On Sunday morning, Police responded to a loud argument outside the State Street campus parking ramp on Lake Street, where someone pulled a knife. Minutes later, a security guard found a woman crying and couched between two parked cars.
University of Wisconsin officials soon will begin using metal detectors for all events at the Kohl Center and plan to expand their use to other campus venues.
The University of Wisconsin will start using metal detectors for all events held at the Kohl Center this season and hope to expand their use into additional athletic events on campus in the future, the university announced on Monday.
The UW-Madison Department of Athletics will begin using metal detectors at all Kohl Center events.
UW-Madison Police Department held its first Active Shooter Response training session Wednesday that taught students, faculty and staff what to do if a mass shooting were to occur on campus.
In their continued efforts to foster transparency with the community, the University of Wisconsin Police Department has published a list of all the current equipment the department owns and intends to acquire.
Campus police at the University of Wisconsin-Madison don’t own .50-caliber firearms, bayonets or tracked armored vehicles. They don’t have grenade launchers, but equipment they use to disperse crowd control chemicals could be used to launch grenades (if they had them).
The Madison Police Department will start a three-year pilot program called the “Madison Addiction Recovery Initiative” after recently securing a $700,000 Smart Policing grant from the U.S. Department of Justice.
A continuing program at University of Wisconsin-Madison is looking to keep alcohol-related ejections at their football games.
Police arrested an 18-year-old early Sunday morning after authorities say she robbed a college student on Park St.
