The conversation, led by Multicultural Student Center Social Justice Educator Khaled Ismail, provided attendees with an understanding of their privileges. He urged individuals to examine how racism occurs in day-to-day life and gave ideas of how to use their privilege to fix these issues.
Issa Rae kicked off the month’s events, which include a yoga session featuring trap music, several arts and craft sessions and a family reunion for black UW-Madison students.
While many UW-Madison students rang in the new year at midnight on Jan. 1, others had to wait to celebrate their new beginning with the Chinese New Year.
With help from designer Jenaé Hu, Pickett created a line of shirts called “Resistance: Gold Edition.” The new apparel feature phrases outlined in gold that say “Stay Woke or Get Killed in Your Sleep,” “Black Boy Brilliance” and “Fuck White Supremacy.”
A UW-Madison student who stirred up outrage on campus Tuesday by distributing flyers denouncing “anti-white racism” committed two racially motivated crimes.
A lecture slide that showed a black woman above the word “animals” in a UW-Madison lecture Monday sparked student outrage on social media. A student in the class tweeted a picture Tuesday of the PowerPoint slide, which appeared in a lecture of Botany 123.
UW-Madison announced Steven Levitan, a UW-Madison alumnus and the co-creator of ABC’s “Modern Family,” as the 2017 Spring Commencement speaker Wednesday.
Daniel Dropik, a UW-Madison student and the founder of the Madison American Freedom Party, caused a stir Tuesday. Flyers advertising the “alt-right” club urged students to “fight anti-white racism on campus.”
Local businesses and start-ups in the Madison area are turning toward a UW-Madison student organization for help with developing professional skills. Badger Consulting is a student consulting firm that currently has 40 members who work together in small groups to give consumer insights, as well as conduct industry and market research. Formally known as Badger Social Media, Badger Consulting was founded by UW-Madison graduate Matt Soderberg in 2012.
UW-Madison Police Department Chief Kristen Roman plans to bring her leadership and communication skills to the UW-Madison campus and use it to strengthen the relationship between her department and individuals on campus and throughout the city.
The King-Morgridge Scholars program, which is set to begin in the fall of 2017, will award four-year scholarships to six international students from Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, Southeast Asia and South Asia, according to university officials.
United States citizens and individuals from other countries, young children and elderly folks, various genders and all races were present at the Women’s March on Washington Saturday. Attendees showed support for women’s rights—which speakers said are merely human rights—and spoke out against controversial statements made by President Donald Trump.
Although Donald Trump’s tenure as President of the United States is just hours old, students at UW-Madison have already commenced an opposition movement, as some walked out of classes and have plans to join a protest in downtown Madison Friday afternoon.
Nour Saeed, a UW-Madison junior, posted an online petition Saturday that calls on UW-Madison to offer 10 scholarships to future Syrian students.
In an attempt to continue ongoing efforts to raise awareness of sexual assault, a student-activist group ran a second pilot Snapchat filter during the Michigan vs. Wisconsin men’s basketball game at the Kohl Center Tuesday night.
Inside Sigma Chi's house, roughly 50 members of the fraternity recited a sexually explicit chant Oct. 6.
The UW-Madison School of Human Ecology has created two workshop-oriented courses to help undergraduate students prepare to handle finances during and after college. Each course can be taken for one semester and students will receive one graduation credit upon completion.
Memorial Union fired up the grills at two new restaurants and familiar eatery, Der Rathskeller, Tuesday. Der Rathskeller will sell the familiar sandwiches, wraps and comfort food they sold before the construction, and have added breakfast items that will be served each morning.
The fraternity, who has a history of previous violations, is suspended from all university activities until March 1.
UW-Madison's Commodity Trading gropu used software from the company Trading Technologies called Algo Design Lab that was provided to them to create an algorithm that trades goods automatically and showcased their work at the company's Chicago headquarters.
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