If you’ve been to the union and seen the posters, you knew that #SamHadMentosGum. But now that UW-Madison freshman Sam Jeschke successfully handed out 43,000 bottles of gum, here's what you didn't know about the Mentos Gum challenge:
If you were at the Badgers’ season opener against Utah State, or you’ve walked past the union, or you saw the truck parked on Library Mall—you’ve probably heard that #SamHasMentosGum.
An 18-year-old man was arrested by UW-Madison police late Wednesday morning after he allegedly snuck into a UW-Madison residence hall, entered the women’s restroom and took pictures of a female resident inside.
UW-Madison’s Badgerloop, a student organization made up of mostly undergraduate engineering students who aim to determine if hyperloop—a proposed form of transportation—could become a reality, placed high and won an innovation award Sunday at the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition II in Hawthorne, Calif.
With the start of the fall semester quickly approaching, numerous campus-area streets will close to accommodate the more than 7,500 UW-Madison students moving into university residence halls on Saturday, Aug. 26, Tuesday, Aug. 29 and Wednesday, Aug. 30.
The parents of the 19-year-old UW-Madison student who died in Rome last year filed a federal civil lawsuit Monday against the university where their son planned to take classes, claiming the university was negligent and failed to provide adequate safety warnings to its new students.
Starting in July, all UW-Madison employees will be required to take an online sexual violence prevention education course as part of the university’s efforts to crack down on sexual assault and harassment on campus.
A sexual assault was reported to the UW-Madison Police Department early Monday morning.
A well-known phone scam has re-emerged and is targeting UW-Madison students, particularly international students, according to a release issued Tuesday by the UW-Madison Police Department. UWPD received multiple reports from students over the past few days of a caller posing as a campus police officer.
A gas leak occurred at Sellery Residence Hall Monday, causing the building to be evacuated and the surrounding area to be closed off.
Many current UW-Madison students have never seen the Hagenah Fountain turned on, however, after a six-year dry spell, the fountain on Library Mall started to flow again Monday.
In a continuation of UW-Madison’s efforts to combat sexual violence after a year in which three students were expelled for sexual misconduct, first-year and transfer students will complete a new program to learn about dating violence, sexual assault and violence prevention beginning this fall.
The map displays student representation at UW-Madison compared to each county’s share of the state population. A value of one would mean a county is proportionally represented at UW-Madison.
Dean of Students Lori Berquam thanked the UW-Madison community for providing her with “energy and optimism” as she begins the second half of chemotherapy treatments in a statement this Friday.
Dozens of people crowded around a single refrigerator loaded with an assortment of vegetables on the third floor of the Student Activity Center Friday for the grand opening of the UW Food Shed.
Sarah Van Orman, director of University Health Services, will leave the university this week after 10 years of service, UW-Madison announced Tuesday.
After hours of waiting and technical difficulties, UW-Madison announced Monday that undergraduate student football tickets have sold out for the 25th consecutive season.
The letter encouraged taking the lives of “rioters,” urging citizens to put “holes in the bodies of such thugs.”
The inevitable closure of the Southeast Recreational Facility—commonly known as the SERF—is quickly approaching. The UW-Madison Division of Recreational Sports announced Friday that the popular facility will officially close Aug. 18.
An appeal against the expulsion of Alec Cook—a former UW-Madison student currently facing 21 criminal charges after 10 women came forward to report sexual assault or harassment—has been denied, and a second appeal is pending.
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