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UW-Madison reinstates Quintez Cephus
By Will Husted | Aug. 19, 2019After being acquitted, former Badger football player Quintez Cephus is eligible to attend classes this fall.
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Voluntary airport pickup program helps first-year international students navigate to their new home
By Defang Zhang | Jun. 11, 2019American universities, which for half a century have attracted the world's best and brightest students, are flushed with international students who made their journeys from all over the globe.
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Multicultural Student Center leadership change hopes to build inclusivity on campus
By Dana Brandt | Jun. 4, 2019Ida Balderrama-Trudell will take over from Gabe Javier as the new interim assistant dean and director of the Multicultural Student Center while Javier continues his work as the new interim associate vice chancellor of student affairs.
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UW-Madison student charged with beating mother to death
By Defang Zhang | May. 14, 2019A suburban Chicago man mistook his mother for an intruder when he repeatedly struck her with a baseball bat, according to his attorney.
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A year in the making: Campus news from convocation to commencement
By Jenna Walters | Apr. 27, 2019A look back at the UW-Madison 2018-'19 academic year.
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Police escort graduate students from Bascom Hall following meeting protest
By Dana Brandt | Apr. 26, 2019A meeting with administration ended with UW-Madison police officers removing 16 graduate students from Bascom Hall after the building closed.
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UW-Madison professor invites convicted criminal without notifying students
By Defang Zhang | Apr. 26, 2019A convicted felon was invited to give a speech in class, yet students received no prior alerts of his misconduct.
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Professor acknowledges, apologizes for wearing blackface in past
By Jenna Walters | Apr. 24, 2019UW-Madison counseling psychology professor William Hoyt apologized to colleagues and students after disclosing that he donned blackface during a performance at the Overture Center in the early 2000s. Hoyt sent other department faculty members an email Monday apologizing for causing discomfort when he admitted during a game of “two truths and a lie” at the department awards ceremony to participating in “blackface or really brown face.”
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Tweet shows second sticker with racist messaging on campus
By Molly Davis | Apr. 23, 2019A UW-Madison student brought attention via Twitter to a second sticker from the white nationalist group Hundred-Handers, garnering a response from students and faculty Tuesday. UW-Madison freshman Dianna Murray tweeted a photo of the sticker which read “Mass immigration is white genocide,” along with a photo of a Daily Cardinal article reporting on the first sticker that was found.
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UW-Madison researchers begin creating refrigeration-free milk, lead dairy industry with new technology
By Morgan Lock | Apr. 23, 2019Director of the Center for Dairy Research John Lucey announced that due to a recent decline in consumption of fluid dairy products, including milk the CDR will begin creating a refrigeration-free fluid dairy beverage with new grant money.
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UW-Madison announces new band director
By Jenna Walters | Apr. 23, 2019After 50 years of marching to the same beat, UW-Madison announced they have selected a new band director to replace Wisconsin legend Mike Leckrone.
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UW-Madison community mourns loss of alumnus killed in Sri Lanka attacks
By Jenna Walters | Apr. 22, 2019A UW-Madison graduate was killed Sunday during the bombings in Sri Lanka. Dieter Kowalski, 40, was a Milwaukee native who graduated from UW-Madison in 2001. He was on a business trip, staying at the Cinnamon Grand Hotel in Colombo Sri Lanka, when the attacks occurred.
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UW-Madison plans to upgrade Bascom Hill infrastructure
By Defang Zhang | Apr. 22, 2019UW-Madison plans to upgrade Bascom Hill’s underground infrastructure as a part of the Campus Master Plan. With a budget of $43,000,000, UW-Madison will start a project in late April that aims to replace the steam, chilled water and electrical power infrastructure beneath Bascom Hill. According to university officials, the project will reconstruct thermal utilities (steam, condensate and chilled water), electrical utilities (primary electric and signal communications) and civil utilities (domestic water, sanitary sewer and storm sewer) underneath Bascom Hill.
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New student-lead program aims to increase equitable access to the outdoors
By Michael Makowski | Apr. 22, 2019With students at the lead, Hoofer Ambassadors places equity and inclusivity at the center of the conversation about accessing the outdoors. The newly-formed, student-led program, Hoofer Ambassadors, places equity and inclusivity at the center of the conversation about accessing the outdoors. The program took shape over the spring semester, and is a product of efforts to bring more inclusion to Hoofers, UW-Madison’s outdoors club.
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Search for Vice Chancellor put on hold
By Will Husted | Apr. 21, 2019Campus officials announced Thursday the search for a new vice chancellor will continue into the fall semester.
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Man sentenced to prison for assault of two local women, UW-Madison student
By Jenna Walters | Apr. 19, 2019Monona resident Coleman Chung was sentenced to over 20 years in federal prison Thursday for the attempted abduction of a woman and the assault of two others.
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Sunburst union chairs return to the terrace, embodying a long, local history
By Mitch Osterhaus | Apr. 18, 2019“Meet me at the Union.” It’s a message that has been sent from Badger to fellow Badger countless times over the years — as of 2019, 90 years, to be exact.
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Angela Davis visits UW-Madison, inspires community, youth
By Alyssa Hui | Apr. 17, 2019Political activist and author Angela Davis visited UW-Madison students and community members Tuesday evening, inspiring hope and instilling a sense of unity despite what she calls a “hostile national political climate.” Davis, an Alabama native, has conducted research on issues related to race, imprisonment and gender. She is also a founding member of Critical Resistance, a national organization devoted to the deconstruction of the prison industrial complex.
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Discussion of campus sustainability practices kicks off UW Earth Week
By Morgan Lock | Apr. 16, 2019In light of earth week, the WUD Society and Politics Committee hosted a discussion centered around sustainable energy and energy policy as it relates to UW-Madison Monday. Led by Jacob McInnis, Associate Director of Events for the Wisconsin Union Directorate Society & Politics Committee, the discussion focused primarily on sustainable energy and what political action needs to be taken in order to institute change.
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Racist sticker exposes campus presence of national extremist group
By Jenna Walters and Defang Zhang | Apr. 16, 2019A sticker labeled with white-nationalist messaging created by extremist group Hundred-handers was found on campus today. The sticker read “Make America White Again," and included the group’s Twitter handle, official website and email address, listed from a secure email service.
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