UW-Madison’s LGBT Campus Center and a campus ministry, The Crossing, held a vigil Monday on Bascom Hill to remember the massacre at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., on the event’s three-month anniversary. LGBTCC members and allies formed a circle at the base of Bascom Hill and listened to four speakers discuss their thoughts regarding the tragedy.
The School of Human Ecology held the opening reception for the Ruth Davis Design Gallery’s featured exhibit, “Stitching History from the Holocaust,” a travelling display from the Jewish Museum Milwaukee in Nancy Nicholas Hall Sunday.
The Wisconsin Union hosted a campus farmers’ market outside the main entrance of Union South Thursday.
2,996 American flags filled the lower part of Bascom Hill Friday to symbolize and commemorate the number of lives lost on 9/11.
A sexual assault was reported to a UW-Madison Campus Security Authority Thursday morning, according to a UW-Madison Police Department incident report.
SexWIse Workshop kicked off its opening event at Sellery Hall Wednesday night. During the 90-minute workshop, the first of three workshops in the GetWIse series, students held group conversations about sex, relationships and sexual assault prevention on the UW-Madison campus. Sam Johnson, violence prevention specialist at University Health Services and program manager for End Violence on Campus, led the soft opening of SexWIse.
The American Red Cross celebrated the first day of classes with the UW Kick-Off Week blood drive at Ogg Residence Hall.
The UW-Madison Police Department bid farewell to their chief of 25 years, Sue Riseling, at the end of this past spring semester.
Additions to the UW-Madison Police Department building begin this fall. The renovations will more than double the current space the department has, an expansion UWPD spokesman Marc Lovicott said they have wanted for nearly five years.
UW-Madison Police Department responded to a phone call reporting an aggravated assault at the lakeshore of Memorial Union around 1 a.m.
During the student lease turn-over process, residents on the UW-Madison campus may find themselves left with unwanted items as they move from one location to the next. An estimated 20,000 students will participate in the moving process over the next two weeks.
UW-Madison students may need to re-register to vote in the Aug. 9 primary election, according to a UW-Madison news release. Students who were registered previously but have moved more than 28 days before Aug. 9 must re-register at their current address. Students who moved less than 28 days prior to Election Day may use their previous address.
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has begun a fourth investigation to analyze UW-Madison’s handling of sexual assault cases.
A Bassett Street resident called Madison police to report an intruder in their house early Monday morning—just blocks away from the Southeast part of UW-Madison’s campus.
A person of interest from a Tuesday morning shooting was taken into custody by law enforcement outside of UW Hospital around 9 a.m.
UW-Madison’s Multicultural Student Center received criticism for offering separate discussion groups for white and minority students and staff in the Red Gym Monday evening. The MSC offered four meetings: two for white students and staff, and two for students and staff of color.
UW-Madison campus broke ground on its remodel in the summer of 2012 with the first phases of the Memorial Union Reinvestment project.
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.
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