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Monday, March 26, 2012
Serial robbers target student neighborhood By Abby Becker The Daily Cardinal
Robbers targeted pedestrians early Sunday morning in a series of three strong-armed robberies in a student neighborhood. Taking these and other incidents into account, the city of Madison is employing a greater police presence in the downtown and central districts. “Based on the similarity in the suspect and vehicle description, it appears likely that the same suspects were involved in a total of three robberies overnight,” Madison Police Department Sgt. Ann Lehner said in a statement. Four or five men targeted a group walking in the 10 block of North Mills Street at 1:40 a.m., according to police. One
of the suspects took a 19-yearold woman’s phone, while another suspect punched her friend in the face. Police reported a second incident at 4:45 a.m. on the 100 block of North Park Street between Spring Street and Fahrenbrook Court. One of the suspects threatened to shoot a 20-year-old woman if she did not give him her phone,
Madison police repotred three robberies in the Regent Street area early Saturday morning.
according to Lehner. At 4:47 a.m., three suspects approached two men on the 1300 block of Regent Street and stole one man’s wallet, according to police. Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, said it is not uncommon for crime to increase in this area during the spring.
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LAPD announces Chadima investigation The Los Angeles Police Department has started a criminal investigation into the allegations that John Chadima, former UW-Madison Senior Associate Athletic Director, sexually assaulted a student Athletic Department employee while in a Los Angeles hotel during the Rose Bowl weekend. The LAPD initially stated they would not conduct a formal investigation into the incident. However, the department confirmed Friday that a criminal investigation is in the works, according to the
Wisconsin State Journal. The student accused Chadima of grabbing his crotch after an employee party on Dec. 31, according to a UW-Madison report. Chadima was suspended shortly after the incident and eventually resigned. Two men leveled their own sexual misconduct allegations against Chadima after the report’s release on January 23. One, from a former student and Athletic Department employee, accused Chadima of continual physical and verbal
sexual misconduct in the 2000’s. A former football player also accused Chadima of making suggestive sexual comments and bringing him to his house against his will in 2010. The university has ordered an internal review of campus alcohol policies. At this time, the LAPD has not released a timetable for their investigation. The UW-Madison Police Department is currently conducting its own investigation into all three allegations. —Sam Cusick
Professor Neil Whitehead died Thursday, March 22 after an illness. He was known for his research on violence.
Anthropology chair Whitehead dead at 56 By Samy Moskol The Daily Cardinal
Neil Whitehead, a professor and chair of UW-Madison’s Department of Anthropology, died Thursday March 22 from a sudden illness. He was 56 years old. Originally from England, he received four degrees from Oxford University before accepting a job offer from UW-Madison in 1993.
“Life has become nothing but field work, one constant ethnography.” Neil Whitehead 1956-2012
In his classes, students found him as eccentric as he was captivating. “Undergrads loved him because
he was so charismatic, dynamic. When you heard Neil talk, you were enchanted. He had such a brilliant mind, and was such a big person,” said Erika Robb Larkins, a recent UW-Madison graduate student in a university press release. In a February interview with the Daily Cardinal, Whitehead acknowledged students thought he was memorable. “Kids get a kick out of a strange English professor,” he joked. Whitehead was most widely known for his work on violence and shamanism. In his 2003 book “Dark Shamans,” he chronicles his ethnography of the Kanaima, shamanistic Amerindians in Guyana, and tries to comprehend their reasons for violently killing sought-out victims. As he became more devoted to understanding Kanaima,
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UW-Milwaukee student dies in Panama City Beach on spring break
ON CAMPUS
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Fans of New Berlin Eisenhower High School cheered on the girls’ basketball team at the state tournament at the Kohl Center. The Lions lost in the championship game. + Photo by Shoaib Altaf
A UW-Milwaukee student died on spring break Saturday after falling from the balcony of the condominium building where he was staying in Panama City Beach, Fla. Jacob Winkler, a 21-year-old native of Menomonee Falls fell from the seventh-floor balcony of the Gulf Crest Condominiums Saturday morning at around 2 a.m. He was pronounced dead at
the scene. Police are investigating the incident, but say they do not suspect foul play. Winkler’s high school classmate and friend Emma Smith said he was loving, fun and popular. “He was always smiling,” Smith said. “He just seemed like he genuinely loved life a lot. He was a happy person.”
“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”