Way back when I was covering the Wisconsin Legislature we had a Republican state senator who spent much of his political career attacking the University of Wisconsin.
….Today’s Gordon Roseleip, the shoot-from-the-lip assemblyman from the Whitewater area, Steve Nass, has been rewarded for his over-the-top confrontations. The Assembly Republican leadership has put him in charge of the Colleges and Universities Committee, where he has the potential to do untold damage to the system.
It’s one thing to hold the UW administrators to account for their mistakes and misdeeds. It’s quite another, though, to punish the entire system – students, faculty and everyone else connected to the schools – in the mean-spirited “get even” way in which Nass specializes.
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