Reince Priebus will serve as President-elect Donald Trump’s chief of staff, according to a statement from Trump Sunday. Priebus, the Republican National Committee Chairman, will provide Trump with the experience and political connections the billionaire outsider lacks.
Following President-elect Donald Trump’s Tuesday victory, a letter has begun circulating online calling on UW-Madison administrators to protect students, staff and their family members “who face imminent deportation” because of their undocumented status. Trump promised to deport anyone living in the country illegally during his campaign, and his election has already inspired fear among Latino students in Madison, according to the Wisconsin State Journal. The letter calls on Chancellor Rebecca Blank as well as other senior administrators to declare the UW-Madison campus as a sanctuary for community members who are undocumented or those who have Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which is a program that allows certain immigrants to receive renewable two-year work permits. UW-Madison students Sergio M.
Members of the UW System Board of Regents’ task force on campus climate expressed concerns about instances of racism and homophobia on UW System campuses during a meeting Friday.
Demonstrations on campus continued Friday as around 200 students and community members alike gathered at Library Mall to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline. According to Katya Com, Socialist Alternative member, the DAPL, a pipeline intended to transport crude oil from North Dakota to Illinois, was recently rerouted through sacred Sioux lands.
Members of the Black Liberation Action Coalition and supporters interrupted traffic and the UW-Madison Homecoming Parade Friday to demand community control of the police.
UW-Madison student Alec Shiva was arrested by UW-Madison Police Department 0fficers Thursday for second-degree sexual assault. UWPD responded to a UW-Madison residence hall where the incident was reported around 8 p.m.
Student voter turnout for the 2016 presidential elections is up seven percent campus wide since the 2012 elections, with the overwhelming majority of those votes going to Democrat Hillary Clinton. Student wards themselves counted nearly 30,000 undergraduate votes, and there was a two to five percent increase of voters in dorms. Ward 55, which includes the Spring Street area of campus, saw 3,177 voters, an increase from 2012 when 2,694 votes were tabulated.
UW-Madison community members showed support for individuals that have been negatively impacted by President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign by marching from the top of Bascom Hill to the Capitol. Following Trump’s win Wednesday, students from historically marginalized groups expressed concerns with his rhetoric and plans for action in his presidency. The event was organized by UW-Madison students Katrina Morrison, Brooke Evans, Sally Rohrer, Kat Kerwin, Jonny Vannucci, Ali Khan, Billy Welsh and Christian Bradley.
The City of Madison will start enforcing alternate side parking rules Tuesday at 1 a.m., and the rules will stay in effect through March 17, 2017. The alternate side parking rules mean that Madison residents must park their cars on the odd-numbered side of the street between 1 a.m. and 7 a.m. on odd dates, and park on the even-numbered side of the street on even date mornings, according to a city press release.
Madison Police Department officers arrested Jason Buttchen, 29, for alleged second-degree reckless endangerment Wednesday night after he beat another man on the 500 block of State Street.
The UW System Board of Regents began its meeting Thursday with a moment of silence for Hussain Saeed Alnahdi, a Saudi Arabian international student from UW-Stout who was killed in a violent attack Oct. 31.
Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald was re-elected to a record fifth term Thursday, after helping to lead legislative Republicans to their biggest majorities in several decades. No member opposed Fitzgerald, who was confirmed on a voice vote.
For out-of-state students at UW-Madison, traveling home for the holidays can be stressful. Associated Students of Madison Representative Katherine Kerwin proposed new legislation at Wednesday’s Student Council meeting that would ease this stress.
Two prominent Wisconsin Republicans—House Speaker Paul Ryan and Gov. Scott Walker—touted Donald Trump’s presidential victory as a triumph for conservatism Wednesday. Both had been critical of Trump before, but campaigned with him in the last days of the election and appear ready to fall in line behind the president-elect. Ryan held a press conference in Janesville and congratulated Trump, as well as fellow Wisconsinites Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, and U.S.
Students and activists marched in protest Wednesday against what they called a perpetuated rape culture at UW-Madison.
Nearly a month ago, Dane County Board Supervisor Hayley Young,, District 5, introduced a resolution asserting the county’s official condemnation of hateful rhetoric toward Muslim Americans.
Members of a UW-Madison student organization will travel to North Dakota to assist protesters of the Dakota Access Pipeline at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation.
When walking to class the morning after Election Day, UW-Madison sophomore Ali Khan said he felt like someone close to him passed away. In his classes Wednesday, classmates of Khan were laughing about the election results— a perspective wildly different than his own, as he has friends who “are fearing for what is going to happen to them.” “It felt like it only affected you, and I feel like today, these students are not just historically marginalized, but feel marginalized today," Khan said. Many students from groups that Donald Trump regularly targeted during his campaign echoed Khan’s feelings.
New policies will be put in place for attendees of home athletic events, the University of Wisconsin Department of Athletics said Wednesday. The changes come following an incident involving a fan wearing a costume depicting President Barack Obama with a noose around his neck, and the university’s response calling the costume free speech.
Madison Police Department officers arrested John Kuznezow, 54, for invasion of privacy Monday night after there were reports of a man sitting in a tree looking through windows on Langdon Street. “Upon arrival officers discovered Kuznezow still in the tree and he appeared to be looking in a second floor window to an apartment,” MPD Lieutenant Anthony Fiore wrote in an incident report. “When officers ordered Kuznezow out of the tree they noted his pants were undone and Kuznezow had no reasonable explanation for his presence in said tree.” MPD investigated the incident and found there was a female resident inside her apartment and that she was unaware the suspect had been watching her.
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