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Category: Crime and safety

‘Pokemon Go’ craze presents real life dangers, police say

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Noted: On the UW-Madison campus, players have had at least three close calls this past weekend.”We want people to have a fun time but just don’t walk in the middle of the street. We have had people biking in the street and using it who are weaving in and out of traffic; it’s just not safe. We just don’t want someone to get seriously hurt or even killed,” UW-Madison Public Information Officer Marc Lovicott said.

Students, schools share study abroad preparations

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For many students studying abroad is the experience of a lifetime. But being out of the states in a new country with different cultures and language barriers can also present its challenges. The University of Wisconsin-Madison has around 24 students currently studying abroad at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy, this summer. UW-Madison started sending students to JCU in 2012.

Police ready for Mifflin Street Block Party

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(Video) The Mifflin Street Block Party is known for chaotic house parties, binge drinking and drawing large crowds of college students ready to celebrate the end of the school year. Madison police are preparing for the weekend event and offered safety reminders to revelers. Eden Checkol reports.

Madison man charged with trying to kill acquaintance through arson

WKOW TV

Noted: Riendeau previously worked at UW-Madison, but was fired, and is currently banned from campus.

Records in connection to the revocation of Riendeau’s probation from a past, criminal case, show he sent emails to a state worker evaluating his bid to try to regain his job, that included threats against the university. “I can assure the Commission that as soon as my unemployment runs out, I will be running amok on campus,” Riendeau wrote in July 2013.

Several more instances of anti-Semitic graffiti reported

Daily Cardinal

Late Monday night at approximately 10:38 p.m., three men vandalized two parking signs at a sorority house on Langdon Street with anti-Semitic symbols, according to an email sent to members of the UW-Madison chapter Kappa Alpha Theta.

This instance comes only a few days after two other cases of anti-Semitic graffiti appeared on university buildings, including the west-end wall of the University Bookstore and Engineering Mall.