Roughly 200 demonstrators marched throughout Madison Sunday to protest police officers killing Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, which occurred last week in Baton Rouge, La.
A Republican legislator said Thursday that the entire UW System could face consequences for an article on gay men’s sexual preferences assigned to a class of UW-Madison sociology students this week.
Italian authorities detained a man Tuesday suspected of murdering 19-year-old UW-Madison student Beau Solomon.
Family members confirmed Monday the body recently found in the Tibet river is missing 19-year-old UW-Madison sophomore Beau Solomon, according to Channel 3000.
UW-Madison sophomore Beau Solomon went missing late Thursday night while studying abroad in Rome, Italy at John Cabot University.
University Housing was alerted in April by Dane County Health that a child residing in the complex had elevated lead levels in their blood.
Genele Laird, an 18-year-old black woman whose forcible arrest by Madison Police Department officers Tuesday was captured on a video that quickly went viral, will enter into a restorative justice program, Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne said during a press conference Friday.
UW-Madison Police Chief Sue Riseling announced her retirement Wednesday.
The Madison Police Department arrested an 18-year-old black woman Tuesday afternoon at East Towne Mall. The arrest, which family and friends of the woman labeled “unfair” and violent, later led to a protest organized by members of Freedom Inc. inside the Dane County Public Safety Building.
Advocates of LGBT equality and secular politics gathered at the state Capitol Wednesday to protest a prayer rally hosted by famed evangelical Reverend Franklin Graham.
Laurent Heller was announced as UW-Madison’s vice chancellor for finance and administration Tuesday, according to a campus press release.
President Barack Obama endorsed Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton Thursday, coming days after the former Secretary of State recorded a decisive victory in the California primary. In addition, Clinton’s campaign announced that the President will join her next Wednesday for a rally in Green Bay.
Stories of social injustice filled student newspapers’ pages throughout the previous academic term.
After a year that saw drastic changes for Wisconsin public higher education, faculty governance bodies from more than half of UW System schools have cast no confidence votes to express their disappointment in system President Ray Cross and the Board of Regents.
Segregated fees for students across the UW System will increase $59 on average during the upcoming fiscal year as a part of the System’s 2016-’17 operating budget, which was approved by the Board of Regents Thursday.
Garret Payne was having a bad day. A junior at UW-Madison, Payne dutifully went to the polls on Wisconsin’s April 5 primary only to be told that his Illinois driver’s license was not enough for him to vote. An annoyed Payne was forced to trek to Union South to get a voting ID but he said he would not be deterred by the state’s voter ID law, signed into law in 2011 and put into place in 2016 after various legal challenges.
Madison Police Department arrested UW-Madison student Nathan J. Friar June 8 for second-degree sexual assault and strangulation of a 21-year-old female.
The UW System Board of Regents will consider an initiative from UW-Madison to raise the school’s undergraduate application fee during its meeting Thursday.
Wisconsin Democrats voted to adopt resolutions calling for change to the party’s superdelegate system at the state convention Saturday. One passed resolution requests that the Democratic party abolish superdelegates in the 2020 presidential nomination.
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