A handful of UW students held up signs of protest during Governor Doyle’s Tuesday campus news conference on the state budget impasse, which included a student speaker, who had been approached to participate through university e-mail, from a confidential list of students eligible for financial aid.
“This is not a legitimate educational interest, recruiting people to stand with the governor at a press conference, while he launches into an attack on all Republicans in the state,” said UW-Madison student Mike Hahn of Wisconsin College Republicans. “It’s not a legitimate education interest.”