Articles by Miela Fetaw

UW-Milwaukee Chancellor Mark Mone has declined to be interviewed by a Media Milwaukee student journalist about sexual harassment and assault on campus following two weeks of investigative reporting into such cases at UWM, choosing instead to respond with a campus-wide update. Read more on this development by Media Milwaukee.

Two of the 37 sexual harassment complaints that UW-Milwaukee hasn’t released were lodged against UWM police sergeants, and the lurid accusations resulted in warring decisions between the Office of Equity and Diversity Services (EDS) and provost, who found that one of the EDS decisions was riddled with factual errors when overturning it, Media Milwaukee student […]

The UW System has a record of only one sexual harassment complaint against faculty or staff from UW-Milwaukee in the last 20 years, despite the fact that UWM’s own records show there have been more than 30 cases of alleged sexual harassment at UWM in the past five years alone. The UW System and the […]

Thirty-seven professors and other staff members at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee were accused of sexual assault and sexual harassment in the past five years, but, despite the national attention on “silence breakers,” little is known about the complaints because the university has yet to comply with an open records request seeking details, a Media Milwaukee […]

The body of a 38-year-old man was found on the corner of Kenwood and Murray late Tuesday night. The medical examiner identified the victim as Woo-Suk Jang. According to the medical examiner’s report, Jang collapsed around 12:15 Wednesday morning. He was found lying on the sidewalk around 12:30 a.m. UWM did not have a statement […]

After four people died in a London attack Wednesday, UW-Milwaukee confirms all of its students studying abroad in the city are accounted for and safe. That assurance comes from UWM Study Abroad Director Mark Eckman. UWM is currently on Spring Break week. “As of 3/22/17, there are 98 students/participants currently registered as traveling abroad. 9 […]

A “modern-day leper.” Those are his words. Ventae Parrow is branded by the state of Wisconsin as a “homeless sex offender” and, by many in society, an outcast to be feared, warned about, and shunned. He’d have more rights to move freely if he’d killed someone. He’s served his prison sentence (again), but the elaborate […]

The police officer who shot and killed 23-year-old Sylville Smith in the Sherman Park neighborhood in August, sparking days of unrest, allegedly sexually assaulted a man and told him he “was the boss and there are no limitations on how [he] lives.” Sexual assault allegations against Dominique Heaggan-Brown emerged Aug. 15, two days after the […]

A Columbus police officer will receive psychological support counseling and time off after fatally shooting and killing 13-year-old Tyre King, according to the Columbus Division of Police. Following a report of an armed robbery, officer Brian Mason, a nine-year veteran, shot King after he “pulled a gun from his waistband”, Columbus police say. The weapon […]

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaSjlXpQg2w The aftermath of an officer-involved shooting was captured via Facebook Live in a graphic 10-minute video late Wednesday evening. Lavish Reynolds started the video with 32-year-old Philando Castile slumped in the driver’s seat moaning after being shot by an officer. The lower half of Castile’s white shirt is soaked in blood, and his right […]

A warm smile and a round figure greeted the student journalists the moment they stepped out of their car in the small town of Beaver Dam. One would have never guessed this was the man who just two days ago resigned as the voice of UW-Milwaukee’s Men’s basketball program after 16 seasons. Radio announcer Bill […]

Considered the largest state protest since Act 10 of 2011, tens of thousands of Latinos, immigrants and pro-immigration supporters from around the state packed the Capitol Thursday morning against what some describe as state anti-immigration legislation. Organizers of “A Day without Latinos” or “Dia Sin Latinos” assembled at the state Capitol building at 10 a.m. […]