Summer 2020 Incidents

UW-Madison understands the tremendously negative impact bias or hate incidents can have on individuals and communities. This report provides a summary of incidents reported through the bias reporting process from June 2020 through August 2020.

Previous semester logs are also available for review.

wdt_ID	Date of Report	Date of Incident	Location	Type	Targeted Identity	Request for Contact	Action Taken
1	06/02/2020	06/01/2020	Non-Campus University Property (e.g., Student Organization House, Arboretum) - 216 Langdon St.	Written (not vandalism), Written (Vandalism	Race/Ethnicity, Political Affiliation, Socioeconomic Status	Yes	A student submitted a report documenting Race/Ethnicity, National Origin, Political Affiliation, Religion and Sexual Orientation bias in the form of vandalism as well property damage. Outreach sent to reporting student and they informed our office that t
2	06/03/2020	06/01/2020	Online/Social Media	Microaggression, Verbal (non-threatening)	Race/Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status	No	An anonymous individual submitted a report documenting Race/Ethnicity and Socioeconomic Status bias in the form of a video on TikTok. It was determined that the person identified in the video is not a UW Student. No outreach sent to reporter since it wa
3	06/03/2020	06/01/2020	Online/Social Media - TikTok (found out about the incident on Twitter)	Microaggression, Verbal (non-threatening), Public Space (multiple people can witness incident), Online	Race/Ethnicity	Yes	A community member submitted a report documenting Race/Ethnicity bias in the form of a video on TikTok. Outreach sent to reporting individual. It was determined that the person identified in the video is not a UW Student. Case closed.
4	06/03/2020	06/03/2020	Online/Social Media	Verbal (non-threatening), Online	Race/Ethnicity	Not necessary, unluess additional information is needed	A community member submitted a report documenting Race/Ethnicity bias in the form of a video on TikTok. Outreach sent to reporting individual. It was determined that the person identified in the video is not a UW Student. Case closed.
5	06/04/2020	06/04/2020	Non-Campus University Property (e.g., Student Organization House, Aboretum)	Online	Race/Ethnicity	No	An anonymous individual submitted a report documenting Race/Ethnicity and Socioeconomic Status bias in the form of a video on TikTok. It was determined that the person identified in the video is not a UW Student. No outreach sent to reporter since it wa
6	06/09/2020	06/03/2020	Online/Social Media - TikTok	Verbal (non-threatening), Public Space (mulitple people can witness incident), Online	Race/Ethnicity	Yes	A community member submitted a report documenting Race/Ethnicity bias in the form of a video on TikTok. Outreach sent to reporting individual. It was determined that the person identified in the video is not a UW Student. Case closed.
7	06/06/2020	02/18/2020	On-Campus Other Building (University Owned)	Microaggression, Verbal (threatening)	Age, Unknown	Yes	A staff member submitted a report documenting Age bias within the Wisconsin Union Theater. Since there was no student involvement reported, the report has been set to HR for the Union. Case closed.
8	06/13/2020	06/12/2020	On-Campus Other Building (University Owned) -	Online	Socioeconomic Status	Yes	A student submitted a report documenting Socioeconomic Status bias. Outreach sent to student to seek more information. Student provided brief response, without more detailed information. Not enough information provided in the report to address it furt
9	06/15/2020	06/01/2020	On-Campus Outside/Not in Building (University Property)	Written (vandalism), Public Space (multiple people can witness incident)	Race/Ethnicity	Yes	A student submitted a report documenting Race/Ethnicity bias in the form of graffiti on their apartment building. Outreach sent to reporting student. Impacted student is working with DoSO, PEOPLE, and DDEA. Case Pending.
10	06/17/2020	06/16/2020	On-Campus Other Building (University Owned) - Amazon hub	Public Space (multiple people can witness incident)	Race/Ethnicity	Yes	A student submitted a report documenting Race/Ethnicity bias in the Amazon hub. Outreach sent to student. Incident was reviewed to determine if there was contract violation with the facility use agreement with Amazon. No violation was found. Case clos
11	06/17/2020	06/17/2020	Online/Social Media	Online	Race/Ethnicity	Yes	A community member submitted a report documenting Race/Ethnicity bias on social media by a UW Student. Responded to reporting community member. Conversation held with student. Case closed.
12	06/18/2020	06/18/2020	Online/Social Media	Microaggression, Verbal (non-threatening), Verbal (threatening), Online	Race/Ethnicity	Not necessary, unless additional information is needed	An individual unaffiliated with UW submitted a report documenting Race/Ethnicity bias on social media by a UW student. Responded to reporting individual. Conversation held with student. Case closed.
13	06/17/2020	06/14/2020	Elsewhere in Madison - online correspondence, FB and private messaging	Microaggression, Verbal (non-threatening), Verbal (threatening), Public Space	Race/Ethnicity, Gender, Political Affiliation, Unknown	Not necessary, unless additional information is needed	A student submitted a report on behalf of another student documenting bias by another student via private messages and a facebook community page. Response sent to reporting party. Incident shared with Law School. Law School is addressing the situation
14	06/23/2020	06/23/2020	Online.Social Media - Instagram	Microaggression, Written (not vandalism), Public Space, Online	Race/Ethnicity, Political Affiliation, Socioeconomic Status	Yes	A community member submitted a report documenting Political Affiliation and Socioeconomic Status bias by a UW student on social media. Response sent to reporting individual. Three outreach attempts made to named student to invite them to have a conversa
15	06/24/2020	05/02/2020	On-Campus Other Building (University Owned) - McClain Sports Medicine Center	Microaggression, Verbal (non-threatening)	Race/Ethnicity, National Origin	Not necessary, unless additional information is needed	An anonymous student submitted a report documenting race/ethnicity and national origin bias by another student. Worked with the Sports Medicine department to address this. No outreach sent to reporter because it was anonymous. Three outreach attempts s
16	06/25/2020	06/25/2020	On-Campus Other Building (University Owned) - The Terrace	Verbal (non-threatening), Verbal (threatening), Public Space	Race/Ethnicity	Not necessary, unless additional information is needed	A student submitted a report documenting race/ethnicity bias by a security guard at The Terrace. Report was sent to the Union to look into working with the private security company to address the incident. Outreach sent to student and student stated tha
17	06/26/2020	06/25/2020	On-Campus Other Building (University Owned)	Written (not vandalism)	Race/Ethnicity, Socioecnomic Status	Yes	A community member submitted a report documenting race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status bias in a flyer posted in a University building. Responded to reporting individual. Worked with Facilities Planning and Management and the flyer was removed. Case
18	06/30/2020	03/15/2019	On-Campus Other Building (University Owned) - Health Sciences Learning Center	Verbal (non-threatening), Public Space (mulitple people can witness incident),	Gender, Gender Identity/Expression, Sexual Orientation	Not necessary, unless additional information is needed	An anonymous individual submitted a report documenting gender, Gender identity/expression, and sexual orientation bias by a past student during a speech. School of medicine and public health is working to address the incident. Case pending.
19	07/05/2020	07/04/2020	Online/Social Media - Twitter and other social Media	Microaggression, Online	Race/Ethnicity, Gender Identity/Expression	Not necessary, unless additional information is needed	A student submitted a report documenting Race/Ethnicity and Gender Identity/Expression bias by another student on social media. Outreach sent to reporting student. Email sent to student named in the report inviting them to have a conversation about the
20	07/06/2020	06/19/2020	Online/Social Media	Microaggression, Verbal (non-threatening), Online	Disability, Race/Ethnicity, National Origin	Yes	A graduate student submitted a report documenting Disability, Race/Ethnicity, and National Origin by another graduate student during a virtual meeting. Outreach sent to reporter. Case pending.
21	07/06/2020	08/15/2014	On-Campus Other Building (University Owned) - Sewell Social Sciences	Verbal (threatening)	Unknown	Not necessary, unless additional information is needed	A previous graduate student submitted a report documenting bias by a faculty member. Report sent to Human Resources for follow-up. Case closed.
22	07/06/2020	07/06/2020	On-Campus Other Building (University Owned)	Microaggression, Verbal (non-threatening), Public Space (multiple people can witness incident), Online	Disability	Not necessary, unless additional information is needed	A student submitted a report documenting Disability bias by a faculty member. Sent outreach to reporting student. Informed McBurney of the report.
23	07/15/2020	07/15/2020	Online/Social Media - Emails sent to UW Madison Student Listserv	Written (not-vandalism), Public Space (multiple people can witness incident), Online	Race/Ethnicity	No	An anonymous individual submitted a report documenting race/ethnicity bias by an unaffiliated student group. Report was sent to administration at Center for Leadership and Involvement. The report was filed anonymously, so no follow-up done with reportin
24	07/15/2020	07/15/2020	Online/Social Media - Facebook	Miroaggression, Public Space (multiple people can witness incident), Online	Race/Ethnicity	Not necessary, unless additional information is needed	A student submitted a report documenting race/ethnicity bias by a former UW Student. Outreach sent to student reporter. Case Closed.
25	07/16/2020	07/15/2020	Online/Social Media	Microaggression, Verbal (non-threatening), Written (not vandalism), Online	Race/Ethnicity	No	An anonymous individual submitted a report documenting race/ethnicity bias by a former UW Student. Outreach sent to student reporter. Case closed.
	Date of Report	Date of Incident	Location	Type	Targeted Identity	Request for Contact	Action Taken