Three UW-Madison news stories to watch this fall
By Tyler Katzenberger | Sep. 7Budget cuts, skyrocketing rents and fights over free speech and belonging loom as fall classes begin.
Budget cuts, skyrocketing rents and fights over free speech and belonging loom as fall classes begin.
Content warning: This story contains information about sexual assault.
Soaring temperatures during the Wisconsin Badgers’ 38-17 victory over the Buffalo Bulls at Camp Randall Stadium caused hundreds of fans to be put under medical observation Saturday.
Multiple witnesses told The Daily Cardinal the pier was overcrowded prior to collapsing Monday afternoon.
UWPD launched the safety resource app in August before campus welcomed back new and returning Badgers for the fall semester.
Teaching assistants at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are demanding higher wages and better working conditions.
The plan will serve as a framework for an estimated 30 years of initiatives and construction projects for the research and work-focused zone of UW-Madison.
Chancellor Andrew Leavitt announced the cuts, which will include around 200 layoffs, in a statement Thursday morning.
The landmark decisions in two cases involving Harvard College and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill will likely affect admissions processes at UW-Madison, Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin said Thursday.
The Language Sciences department will offer ASL courses for the first time in university history.
The Division for Teaching and Learning will house the Rebecca M. Blank Center for Campus History, which will implement university history into UW-Madison courses and curriculum.
Audrey Godlewski, the UW-Madison student seen in a video released on May 1 saying racial slurs and violent remarks directed toward Black people, apologized to the campus community Monday night in a statement to The Daily Cardinal.
A total of 8,625 individuals received their degrees, according to the university.
Students marched throughout the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus Thursday afternoon after Chancellor Mnookin responded to protesters' demands.
UW-Madison’s student government and university leaders received strong criticism during an open forum Wednesday for their response to a racist video that drew immediate condemnation from students and community members.
Students and campus organizations want a UW-Madison student expelled after she said racial slurs and other violent remarks directed toward Black people. But university officials say the legality of disciplinary action is complicated.
Hundreds of students met at the Red Gym at 9 a.m. Wednesday and marched to Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin’s office at Bascom Hall, where they met with university officials and delivered demands to Mnookin.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student wrote chalk messages Thursday on Library Mall in what they described as an effort to raise awareness about the university's responsibility to safeguard its students.
James Kreuser and Evan Brenkus will fill in seats formerly held by Regents Scott Beightol and Brianna Tucker while Regent Joan Prince was reappointed.
The video depicts a UW-Madison student issuing racist and hateful remarks toward the Black community.