UW-Madison students on Wednesday called for the expulsion of a student who posted a video to social media in which they used racial slurs. Thousands of students have since taken to the streets in Madison, Wisconsin to voice their concerns over the video and the university’s handling of it.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison campus erupted in protests this week over a student’s racist video. Meanwhile, the UW System is getting even more serious pressure from the state Legislature for perceived liberal bias.
Marcus Randle El, a former University of Wisconsin football player who played for the Badgers from 2004 to 2007, was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences for the 2020 murders of two women.
A former University of Wisconsin football player was sentenced Wednesday to two consecutive life sentences for the 2020 killings of two women, although his sentence gives him a chance to eventually seek early release.
Written by Allie Boldt, Legal Research Director for the State Democracy Research Initiative at the University of Wisconsin Law School at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
A former Wisconsin football player will be sentenced Wednesday after being convicted in a double homicide earlier this year.
Madison Police Department Captain Michael Hanson held press conference on Monday to address concerns about the annual Mifflin Street Block Party and shared plans to potentially eliminate the event.
On the heels of last weekend’s celebration where dozens were arrested and a stolen gun was found, Madison Police say they’re looking at ways to end the Mifflin Street Block Party for good.
During a news conference Monday afternoon following this year’s block party, Madison Police Capt. Mike Hanson blasted the event, which has its origins in a protest against the Vietnam War, as “nothing but a drunk fest that is unsanctioned by the university and by the city.”
“The aftermath is the arrests, the assaults, the injuries, the property damage and it’s year after year,” said Michael Hanson, Captain of Madison’s Central District.
According to Hanson, MPD and the city are hoping to finally put an end to the event. Next year they are looking for new ways to partner and collaborate with UWPD, UW, landlords and city officials to try and end the event or at least make it less attractive.
On Monday, a Dane County Sheriff’s Office official told 27 News Allen is facing a tentative charge of intoxicated use of a firearm. Allen is no longer in police custody and has not yet officially been charged.
The sophomore from Dayton, Ohio, was arrested during the Mifflin Street Block Party and brought into custody at the Dane County jail at 4:48 p.m. Saturday and released on bail at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, according to a sheriff’s office spokesperson.
Madison Police have released a preliminary accounting of the Mifflin Street Block Party, an annual event of often-drunken revelry that college students hold to celebrate the end of the academic year.
“I don’t think I’m gonna be going on balconies just because I’m a little nervous about it,” said party-goer Ella Hersch. “I think last year really solidified that for me, and I’m just gonna stay off of them. But I can have fun elsewhere.”
Madison police said most arrests were for alcohol related offenses, and more arrests are possible. Three people were taken to the Dane County Jail, including one man who police said had a stolen gun in his backpack.
The University of Wisconsin Athletic Department says it is in the process of gathering information after authorities say Badgers wide receiver Markus Allen was arrested during the Mifflin Street Block Party over the weekend.
The Madison Police Department said this year’s celebration was busy, with over 10,000 attendees and 44 arrests made by 6 p.m. A stolen handgun was recovered during one of the arrests.
Wisconsin Badgers wide receiver Markus Allen was arrested Saturday, according to the Dane County Sheriff’s Office.
Wisconsin football player Markus Allen was detained during the annual block party in Madison, according to a report from the Dane County Sheriff’s Office.
Officers with the UW-Madison Police Department responded to the Charter Street academic building about 10:15 p.m. Tuesday for a report of smoke coming from two first-floor rooms, according to a police statement.
“We had noticed there were two rooms that had some burning materials in them that had caused some damage to both rooms,” UW-Madison police department spokesperson Marc Lovicott told 27 News. “And it was also very clear to us at the same time that these fires were intentionally set.”
The fires were reported at about 10:15 p.m. on Tuesday night, UWPD said. Officers were called after getting reports of smoke coming from two rooms on the building’s first floor.
Officers believe fires were started intentionally.
Madison officials stressed the importance of safety precautions after a porch collapsed, hospitalizing two people at last year’s party.
As part of a “tavern safety inspection” just after 10 p.m. on Sept. 1 at City Bar, 636 State, police “made contact with approximately 138 patrons who were determined to be under the age of 21” and confiscated 137 fake IDs, Assistant City Attorney Jennifer Zilavy said in a Wednesday memo to the city’s Alcohol License Review Committee.
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and Jessica Randall, a first-year student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been busy organizing the survivor clothing drive she runs by herself. The effort, which she first organized in high school, is now a regular part of her campus life.
With decades of failed efforts to contain, co-opt or kill the Mifflin Street Block Party behind them, city and UW-Madison officials on Thursday urged a small group of Mifflin residents and landlords to at least be safe during the annual bacchanalia of cheap beer and questionable behavior.
Chief Kristen Roman was recognized as the National Association of Women Law Enforcement Executive’s Woman Law Enforcement Executive of Year.
A University of Wisconsin at Madison art professor allegedly bared her breasts to a student on campus, resulting in a disorderly conduct citation and current removal from teaching duties.
A master’s student at UW-Madison is speaking out in hopes of protecting other students after they say a professor exposed herself to them in an act of anti-trans hate.
An art professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison was cited with disorderly conduct for exposing her breasts to a student on campus in late March, according to the UW-Madison Police Department.
Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, Lori Reesor, said the student died at their Mifflin Street residence. She said Madison police determined the death to be accidental, but she said she knows the death “had a profound effect” on many in the university community.
“The Dean of Students Office is working to support the student’s family and friends, and, alongside Chancellor Mnookin and the university’s leadership team, we share our collective sympathy for their loss,” Reesor said.
Noted: Roychowdhury served as a research assistant while a doctorate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his degree in May 2022. “He is no longer affiliated with the university,” a spokesperson with UW-Madison said Thursday.
“Under the law, you’re not supposed to use cash to keep people detained. Cash bond is always supposed to be just a way of making sure people are complying with the rules to decide if they actually are guilty or not,” said Cecelia Klingele, a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School. “The idea is if you have money, you get to be out pending release, and if you don’t have money, you’re stuck, and so we should set high bonds that people can’t meet. In fact, under existing law — U.S. and state law — you have to set reasonable bonds in amounts that people are expected to be able to pay. People are supposed to be out pending release. And we use conditions to keep everyone safe, not money, which has disparate effects on different people.”
“There’s two parts to the discussion about bail in Wisconsin,” University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor Adam Stevenson said. “One is what, if any, cash is required for release and the other is what conditions or rules do folks have to follow when they are out in the community on bail.”
Referendums are increasingly being used by both political parties, particularly with nonpartisan spring elections, which don’t usually generate great voter turnout, said Barry Burden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor.
“These elections just don’t generate the same level of media coverage or public discussion so these gimmicks are one way to get the attention of the voter,” Burden said. “The effect on overall turnout probably won’t be great, but in Wisconsin, most people assume elections are going to be close, so even a change in the balance of things by a percentage point or two could tip the race and tip the balance of the Supreme Court itself.”
DNA found in a half-eaten burrito helped exposed a former Wisconsin university research assistant now accused of firebombing a pro-life center last Mother’s Day.
Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Lori Reesor said the student died outside Smith Hall. She said UW-Police reported they are still gathering information, but they don’t suspect foul play. She also said police believe there is no ongoing threat to the community.
A student died Monday outside Smith Residence Hall, according to an email from Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Lori Reesor sent to the campus community.
Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Lori Reesor said in a letter to students and employees that the individual died outside of Smith Residence Hall. Reesor noted that there is no foul play suspected, and that the UW–Madison Police Department and Dane County Medical Examiner’s Office are still investigating.
A $2.8 million settlement has been reached in a lawsuit filed by a former University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher who accused the director of Madison’s public zoo of sexual assault during an out-of-state work conference in 2018.
University of Wisconsin Law School professor John Gross, director of the Public Defender Project, explains efforts by lawmakers to increase penalties for drug overdoses resulting in homicide charges.
Madison police worked with UW-Madison, Shorewood Hills and Waunakee police and the Dane County Sheriff’s Office in identifying, arresting, and charging the trio in the cases, which impacted more than two dozen people, Fryer said.
A former University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges he threatened students, professors and their families.
Arvin Mathur was arrested at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport March 10 after emailing victims that he was returning to campus for “an evening of fun” on St. Patrick’s Day. Mathur, 32, of Grass Lake, Michigan, now faces six counts sending online threats to nine individuals associated with UW-Madison.
A federal grand jury has indicted a former University of Wisconsin-Madison student accused of threatening people at the school, prosecutors announced Wednesday.
A former University of Wisconsin-Madison student will remain in custody and be transported to Wisconsin from Michigan to face a charge of making threats against people at the school.
A former University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student will remain in custody and be transported to Wisconsin from Michigan to face a charge of making threats against people at the school.
A former University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student threatened students, staff members and professors at the university, telling some of them via email before he traveled to the U.S. last week that he planned to kill their children, according to court documents.
A former University of Wisconsin at Madison anthropology graduate student, Arvin Raj Mathur, was arrested for sending numerous violent and threatening emails to students, faculty and staff members at the university, The Detroit News reported.
The UW-Madison Police Department says a former graduate student was arrested Friday after the agency notified federal law enforcement of alleged online threats he made against the community.
Arvin Raj Mathur, 32, was in Michigan’s St. Clair County Jail on Sunday following his arrest after traveling from Copenhagen, where he has been enrolled at a university, court records and online jail records show.
A former University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student was arrested in Michigan last weekend after allegedly threatening nine people on campus, emailing some about plans to kill their children and harassing others over social media for months, federal court records show.
A former University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student threatened students, staff members and professors at the university, telling some of them via email before he traveled to the U.S. last week that he planned to kill their children, according to court documents.
A Dane County Court commissioner Thursday allowed a suspected hit-and-run driver to keep her license despite her being charged with injuring a UW-Madison student on a campus street.
FBI alerted MPD of threat on Yik Yak.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison student was charged with a single count of making terrorist threats by threatening to bring weapons to Bascom Hall on social media Tuesday. Dane County municipal court filed a criminal complaint against 26-year-old Thomas Hansen.
A UW-Madison graduate student was ordered banned from campus after he was charged Tuesday with making an online threat to “start sneaking guns into crowded school buildings” and advised that others “don’t go to Bascom Hall next week” during a chat on a social media platform last week.
Madison police say 26-year-old Thomas Hansen was arrested last Friday at an off-campus apartment on Grand Ave. after the FBI alerted them to the online threat, which mentioned weapons and the campus area.
A 26-year-old man is charged for allegedly making threats over social media, which referenced University of Wisconsin-Madison, after the FBI informed Madison Police Department about the post.
