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Remembering the victim of campus anti-war violence

Itâ??s been 37 years since four anti-war radicals in Madison blew up a University of Wisconsin campus building, killing a physics researcher and injuring three other people.

Now the university has put up a memorial plaque to Robert Fassnacht, the then-33-year-old graduate student and father of three who was killed.

Fassnachtâ??s family was initially opposed to a memorial. But UW Chancellor John Wiley, who knew Fassnacht as a graduate student, asked the Physics Department to reconsider a memorial, and the family agreed.