Members of the University of Wisconsin-Madison community are working to honor student and First Wave scholar John “Vietnam” Nguyen by continuing his activism efforts after his death.
Mayor Paul Soglin told a campus learning community at Gordon Commons Tuesday afternoon, among various social justice issues affecting Madison residents and University of Wisconsin-Madison students, lack of housing poses the biggest threat to the area.
A small group of University of Wisconsin-Madison student leaders gathered for a walking tour of the Langdon Street area Wednesday night to identify unsafe areas on campus to be addressed in the Associated Students of Madison’s fall Sexual Assault Awareness campaign.
UPDATE: The Dane County Medical Examiner's Office released the name of the student in a statement as John "Vietnam" Nguyen. Nguyen was 19 years-old from Chicago IL. The statement also confirms Nguyen's cause of death as an "accidental drowning."
Members of the University of Wisconsin-Madison community gathered in Library Mall for a candlelight vigil Wednesday to memorialize the victims of the recent Sikh temple shooting.
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Ongoing discussions between UW-Madison and adidas came to a halt Friday when the UW administration announced the university would let a court decide if adidas violated its contract with the school.
A UW-Madison delegation traveled to China Monday where it opened the UW-Madison Shanghai Innovation Office, which will function as an outpost for the university’s growing commitment to enhance educational opportunities in China.
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A group of Wisconsin students will attend Thursday’s University of Wisconsin Board of Regents meeting in Milwaukee following UW System President Kevin Reilly’s recommendation to push in-state tuition and fees at UW-Madison above $10,000 for the first time.
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Students from a UW-Madison program designed to kick-start higher education for economically disadvantaged adults gathered at the Memorial Union Wednesday to celebrate their graduation with a full room of family and friends.
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Although approximately 20,000 fewer people attended the Mifflin Street Block Party this year than last, arrests were over ten times as common, according to the Madison Police Department.
The outreach of Badgers Against Racism on campus Friday raised the profile of the group’s issue behind the Mifflin Street Block Party’s unofficial “Cinco de Mifflin” theme, but it did not stop a number of students from wearing costumes that played on Mexican stereotypes.
The Associated Students of Madison student council modified its bylaws and appointed new members to its grass-roots committees in a meeting Sunday.
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