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UW-Madison accounts for students in Paris following Friday’s attacks By Miller Jozwiak THE DAILY CARDINAL
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Members of the Madison and campus community joined together Thursday night to march in solidarity with Mizzou students.
Madison shows support for Mizzou students By Bri Maas THE DAILY CARDINAL
Students and campus community members flooded State Street Thursday evening in solidarity with students at the University of Missouri surrounding protests that recently led to the university system president’s resignation. In the past two months, Mizzou students have begun protesting and speaking out against hate crimes and other raciallycharged events that happened over the last five years at the mostly white university. The protests, including a boycott by black members of the football team, sparked a nationwide response that found its way to the top of Bascom Hill this week, where UW-Madison students and community members huddled in support. “I’m here because I believe in fighting the injustices we see at Missouri and here on campus,”
said UW-Madison fifth-year senior Tiffany Merritt-Brown. “As a black student, I believe in fighting and taking a stand against the things we see going on.” Hundreds of demonstrators gathered atop the hill, where leaders of the Black Liberation Movement—an alliance of the Young, Gifted & Black Coalition, the Black Student Union and Movimiento Estudiantil Chican@ de Aztlán—called for action and led “black lives matter” chants. The crowd then marched down the hill to State Street, where it gained momentum, at one point totaling up to 1,000 people, UW-Madison Police Department Lieutenant Aaron Chapin estimated. He added there were no issues with the large, but peaceful, crowd. “I think it’s a fantastic thing when people in the United States are able to exercise their First
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Friday’s Paris attacks started at 2:20 p.m. Central Standard Time and were ended by a raid four hours later. By 9:48 p.m., UW-Madison confirmed on its Facebook page that all 13 Madison students studying abroad in Paris were safe. The six separate, but coordinated, attacks left 129 dead and hundreds wounded. The investigation is ongoing and a manhunt has begun for one suspect, according to The New York Times. UW-Madison senior Julia Cullen is studying abroad in Paris and was in her apartment preparing to go out with a friend when she received a text saying “Are you okay? There was this shooting in Paris.” International Academics Programs Director Dan Gold sent her and the other students in
Paris an email within three hours of the first explosion. “They just wanted me to respond saying that I was safe,” Cullen said. “They also sent me another email asking if I had heard from some other students that are studying here.” Senior Ben Winding was closer to the shootings and the last to respond to UW-Madison. Unable to sleep, Winding answered a call at 3:33 a.m. his time from IAP Assistant Director Matthew Geisler. Winding was in a bar in Paris’ 3rd district, which is between the 10th and 11th districts where several of the attacks happened. “When we heard that the death toll was going up and up and up and that the attacks were in different spots and it was really calculated, we started getting really freaked out,” Winding said. “People started gradually finding out and then the bar closed the
doors and locked them. Everyone moved away from the windows and we went to the back of the bar. And we just hung out for three hours until we felt like it was safer.” Winding thought UW-Madison did a good job reporting the condition of the students. “I do feel like UW has done a good job utilizing their Facebook page, letting everyone know that all of its study abroad students were safe,” he said. University Communications Executive Director John Lucas said the university will not currently change any students’ plans in France. “We’ll continue to monitor the situation, but no changes are planned for our students in France at this time,” Lucas said in an email. He also noted the university has offered assistance to all French students on campus if needed.
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UW-Madison held a candlelight vigil Saturday night for the victims of the attacks in Paris that left 129 dead and hundreds wounded after six separate, but coordinated, assaults.
Madison police arrest local man after attempted thefts on State Street Madison police arrested a 42-yearold man after he attempted to steal money from cash registers at a slew of State Street restaurants last week. The unnamed suspect identified himself as “Tim” from a
security firm to the manager of Which Wich Sandwich Shop on the 400 block of State Street last Monday, according to a Friday incident report by Madison Police Department Joel DeSpain.
After convincing the manager to let him inspect the restaurant’s freezer, the suspect unsuccessfully attempted to open a safe and cash register. Before the staff could call him out, police said the suspect ran,
telling the staff everything was OK. Tim then used the same strategy at Forage Kitchen, a new restaurant on the corner of State Street and North Lake Street. Police said a Forage Kitchen employee ques-
tioned the suspect’s credentials and asked for a business card. Police put “Tim” on ice the next day on a charge of attempted theft after spotting him in the State Street area.
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