Madison Police Department arrested a man Saturday for allegedly taking “upskirt” photos or videos of three women at a house party near campus. Bernard C.
For Sunny Singh, a senior at UW-Madison, the school’s party culture is hard to avoid. The social life on UW-Madison’s campus is synonymous with drug and alcohol use, to Singh.
Carter Kofman was 20 years old when he had to put his education at UW-Madison on hold to get sober.
In addressing the county’s swelling heroin epidemic, Madison police are looking to economics. Despite training and deploying a narcotics task force specifically designed to curb the number of drugs available in the city, Madison Police Department saw a 77 percent increase in overdose rates in 2016 from the previous year. One MPD officer has an idea behind why—local law enforcement has focused on just one side of the issue. “Our narcotics task force targets people supplying drugs into the city,” MPD Capt.
Matthew Klimesh—a registered nurse who has worked in the trauma unit of UW-Hospital since 2013—said during his short time in acute care, so far, he has already seen several lives put on the line because underagers who have had too much to drink are afraid to get medical treatment. “I’ve seen a lot of young people end up in liver failure, with permanent brain damage or even dead,” Klimesh said.
Instead of using information campaigns deemed fruitless, the Wisconsin Alcohol Policy Project uses quantitative data to implement evidence-based policies aimed at curbing excessive alcohol use. The program coordinates with municipalities, law enforcement, public health agencies and community leaders across Wisconsin.
But, according to Carter Kofman, chair of recovery group Live Free, substances still find their way into classroom discussions where, for sober students like him, it is both uncomfortable and unavoidable.
“We went to bars a lot, I’ll admit,” Jackie Zondag a 1983 graduate, said . “I believe as a freshman we could have beer in our dorm rooms, there wasn't any restrictions. I was just in Madison and talking to one of my old roommates and she thought you could even have kegs, believe it or not.”
However, students who have participated in Choices have claimed it has no effect on their drinking habits. UW-Madison junior Jake Prine participated in the program his freshman year after he got caught drinking in his residence hall. He said Choices is not educational, but simply a way to scare students from drinking.
There’s no shortage of alcohol-soaked traditions at college campuses across the country, even within the UW System—whether that’s Oktoberfest at UW-La Crosse, UW-Whitewater’s Spring Splash or the biannual pub crawl in Oshkosh.
Late last month, a child was found unconscious in his Milwaukee-area home. The boy had accidentally swallowed an oxycodone pill from his mother’s purse while she slept.
UWPD officers responded to a call for help around 5:45 p.m. and located the man near Slichter Residence Hall. The alleged attacker, identified as Isaac M. Ziegler, has no affiliation with UW-Madison, according to UWPD Director of Communications Marc Lovicott.
Interim Director of the Multicultural Student Center Gabe Javier said room 106 in the Red Gym, the future home of the BCC, will take more time to complete in order to match the image for the center.
For the first time, all UW System students may be allowed to opt-out of allocable segregated fees, due to a budget proposal from Gov. Scott Walker. Touted as increased freedom of choice, students from multiple system campuses are concerned about the outcome for student organizations.
For the very first time, Madison constituents are able to cast ballots early at locations all over the city—including on UW-Madison’s campus—for the spring municipal primary election taking place in under two weeks. Municipal elections allow voters to select judicial, educational and municipal officers, as well as non-partisan county officers. The Feb.
State Republican lawmakers reintroduced a bill this week that would ban the sale, circulation and research of fetal tissue, which could affect ongoing research at UW-Madison starting in 2018. The bill would allow the attorney general to prosecute the sale of fetal tissues in Wisconsin, which is currently not allowed, forbid fetal tissue research from a for-profit entity, abortion clinic or entity that exists to collect fetal tissue to sell. If signed into law, those who violate the ban would face a $50,000 fine and potentially nine months in prison.
As state legislators sat down Wednesday in the Capitol to hear Gov. Scott Walker’s biennial budget address, “my body, my choice” and “fight back, stand up” chants broke out among roughly 300 people in pink shirts gathered under the rotunda to lobby for Planned Parenthood funding. Nicole Safar, a director at the rally’s organizing group—Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin—said the rally served as a joint message to both Wisconsin and Washington, D.C.
After weeks of releasing bits and piece of his executive budget while traveling throughout Wisconsin, Gov.
A Dane County sheriff met with President Donald Trump Tuesday to advocate for funding for programs to counter the county’s drug epidemic and for cooperation between the federal and local governments on immigration. “I have a jail [with] over 1,000 beds.
Ti Banks—a UW-Madison graduate and poet—returned to campus Wednesday to deliver a talk explaining gender, race, and gender-biased violence in Wisconsin, which was largely focused on his personal experiences.
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