For many students, being met by the statue of Abraham Lincoln after a trek up Bascom Hill is part of a normal day at UW-Madison.
A 26-year-old Madison woman was assaulted on Langdon Street Oct. 9 at 1:20 a.m. by four to five suspects. The victim had been walking with her friend on the 200 block of Langdon Street when she was attacked from behind by a small group of women. “She was pulled to the ground where she curled up in a fetal position while being kicked and stomped,” Madison Police Department Public Information Officer Joel DeSpain wrote in an incident report. “The woman suffered bruises to her head and was checked out by [Madison Fire Department] paramedics.” A private security guard who witnessed the attack was able to alert nearby Guardian Angels, a group of unarmed citizen patrols who, according to their Facebook page, work “hand in hand with the government and law enforcement to restore and maintain safety.” The security guard and Guardian Angels chased the attackers away from the victim, and caught three of the five suspects, according to the incident report.
Around 35 participants donated money and ran or walked down Lakeshore Path from the Natatorium to support refugees Sunday.
Taking the stage without shaking hands, the candidates in the second presidential debate started off red-hot as Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump made their case for why the other is unfit for the presidency.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., visited Madison Friday in an effort to rally younger voters around Democratic Senate candidate Russ Feingold. Feingold, who is locked in a tight race with incumbent Republican Ron Johnson, appeared hand-in-hand with Warren in front of a packed crowd at the Overture Center. “I’m here because Russ ... is a champion of justice,” Warren told the assembled crowd of roughly 1,000. While the event was intended to promote early voting, the two also took aim at Johnson and Republican nominee Donald Trump. “The Ronald and the Donald show—don’t let it happen,” Feingold implored, with Warren calling the business mogul a “sleazeball.” “This is now Donald Trump's party, and the party now reflects Donald Trump," Warren said. Little has changed in the Senate race since the last time Warren visited campus a year ago.
Hillary Clinton is leading Donald Trump by four points in Wisconsin, 43 percent to 39 percent, according to a recent CBS News poll. Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson is also polling at 4 percent of eligible voters in Wisconsin, and 11 percent are still undecided.
A sexual assault was reported to the UW-Madison Police Department Saturday. According to the report, the assault occurred in a UW-Madison residence hall between 2 a.m. and 5 a.m.
Two students were hospitalized this week with meningococcal disease, according to a University Health Services release.
ELKHORN, Wis.—Fallout from a lewd tape showing comments made by Republican nominee Donald Trump continued Saturday morning, with many Republican lawmakers reneging on their endorsement of the business mogul.
Republican nominee Donald Trump will not attend an event in Elkhorn Saturday after a 2005 video showing the business mogul making derogatory comments about women was released by the Washington Post. In a conversation with entertainment reporter Billy Bush, Trump bragged about kissing and groping women, saying, “When you’re a star they let you do it,” in justifying his actions.
The UW System Board of Regents voted Friday to approve a resolution calling for an end to the tuition freeze in the 2018-’19 school year, a move that was for many their first time voting on a tuition matter as regents.
The Associated Students of Madison Student Council passed legislation Wednesday to recognize the second Monday of October as Indigenous Peoples Day throughout campus. Although UW-Madison does not formally recognize Columbus Day as a holiday, the resolution called on the Faculty Senate and Chancellor Rebecca Blank to officially name the date Indigenous Peoples Day to acknowledge the Native American community on campus and throughout Dane County.
Dane County will spend around $4.1 million to make the City-County Building Jail safe enough to house inmates in the short term, while the county works to discontinue housing inmates in the building in the long term.
Though simply tweeting #BlackLivesMatter after a police shooting might be easy, professor Jamein Cunningham explained that immersing yourself in research and data on legal and racial relations of the 1960s and ’70s is a substantially more effective response. Cunningham, an economics professor at Portland State University, presented findings from his extensive study on this topic at a seminar Thursday at Memorial Union, hosted by the Institute for Research on Poverty.
Wunk Sheek, UW-Madison’s “only organization that can speak for the indigenous voices on campus,” received eligibility for funding from the Associated Students of Madison Student Services Finance Committee Thursday to finance enduring cultural traditions and the development of new programming.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will be back in Wisconsin Saturday, this time appearing at a fall festival in Walworth County. The annual event, hosted by the 1st District Republican party in Elkhorn, will feature other notable Wisconsin Republicans, including Gov. Scott Walker, House Speaker Paul Ryan and U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis.
In an effort to create a safe space for students suffering from substance misuse disorders and addictive behaviors, the Live Free student organization hosted a yoga workshop Wednesday evening. The workshop, held in the Student Activity Center, was the first of the organization’s October Wellness Initiative Series.
The campus drinking culture continues to isolate non-drinking students of color, according to a recent University Health Services survey that assessed those students’ experiences with alcohol during college.
Two Dane County residents have tested positive for the West Nile Virus, the first two of the season in the county and the third and fourth in Wisconsin. The disease, which is not spread from person to person, is contracted when an infected mosquito bites an individual.
Assembly Republicans are currently considering allocating part of the 2017 budget to a new voucher school expansion in an attempt to increase school choice options, the Wisconsin State Journal reported Thursday. The Educational Savings Account would allow for more flexibility for low-income parents, and would be designed to cover the costs of not only tuition at private schools, but textbooks, tutors and extracurricular activities. The ESA is backed by many Republicans, among them state Rep. Dale Kooyenga, R-Brookfield.
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