So, you and your best friends have decided that this next school year is the year you’re going to live across the street from Cap Centre Market.
After months of outrage over abuse allegations, lawmakers may finally close the controversial Lincoln Hills juvenile detention center, should a new bill pass.
At least 16 complaints have been taken up with ASM Student Judiciary this academic year — a 220 percent increase from the previous year.
A bipartisan bill named in honor of a late UW-Madison professor, which would reform the university’s research contract practices, unanimously passed the Assembly this week.
Lena Waithe, an Emmy award winning screenwriter, producer and actress, spoke as the Black History Month keynote speaker, fielding questions on her experience in the entertainment industry and identity as a queer woman of color. Though Waithe is part of a community that is often seen as underrepresented in the entertainment industry, she told the audience at Union South that she uses her race and sexual orientation to her advantage.
Approximately 100 UW-Madison students and community members gathered in Gordon Dining Hall Tuesday evening to share their outrage over the university’s meal plan for incoming freshmen.
A new bill would provide grant money to out-of-staters who settle down in Wisconsin after graduation in an attempt to address the state’s hemorrhaging labor force.
Foster children throughout the state would go to UW schools for free under a newly passed Assembly bill.
Once the Nicholas Recreational Center is completed, the Division of Recreational Sports will change to University Recreation and Wellness, John Horn, director of the Division of Recreational Sports said at a student finance committee Monday.
The City of Madison announced Tuesday that illegal sales of tobacco products to minors had dropped between 2016 and 2017.
A swastika and the homosexual slur “FAG” were discovered written in the snow between Botany Gardens and Chamberlin Hall early Tuesday morning.
As addiction struggles sweep the region, lawmakers consider expanding veteran mental health services statewide in light of controversies surrounding opioid prescription practices.
Individuals supporting the Derail the Jail movement banded together for a teach-in Monday night to discuss proposed renovations to the Dane County Jail, which will cost nearly $108 million to restore.
Instead of offering copper IUDs to sexual assault survivors, Reps. Sophia Alzaidi and Jordan Madden introduced a proposal Monday that looks to provide oral emergency contraception so more students would have access.
Graduation rates at UW-Madison have been steadily increasing over the past few years — and university officials attribute this to advising. Data from the Academic Planning and Institutional Research Department show an increase in the four-year graduation rate, from 55.5 percent in the 2011-’12 academic year to 60.7 percent in 2016-’17. The six-year graduation rate increased 1.3 percent — to 85.2 percent — over the same time period.
The Madison Police Department Central district commissioned a survey on how citizens felt about the departments’ service in September of 2017, with the overall response being favorable to the department. Ninety-two percent of responders in the central district, which includes most of the UW-Madison campus, identified as caucasian or white.
Former UW-Madison student, Alec Cook will face the first of seven trials this month in Jefferson County Court. Cook, who was expelled from UW-Madison last year is accused of 21 counts, including stalking strangulation, second-degree sexual assault and false imprisonment.
A burglary reportedly occurred inside a resident’s room in Sellery Hall Sunday, according to a UW-Madison Crime Warning. As many as four suspects — who are not believed to be UW-Madison students — gained access to the residential floors of Sellery by “piggybacking” from other residents, according to the warning. UWPD has reason to believe there may be more than one victim.
For Halloween of 2016, a group of UW-Madison students launched Consent Snaps, a Snapchat geofilter encouraging sexual consent.
Tim Burns, Rebecca Dallet, and Michael Screnock trade criticisms of their rivals’ political and judicial philosophies leading up to next Tuesday’s nonpartisan primary.
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