Is the state Legislature’s most vocal critic of the University of Wisconsin gearing up to give the new UW-Madison chancellor a hard time?
An aide to Rep. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, circulated a Web link Monday to a National Review Online story slamming Carolyn “Biddy” Martin, the provost at Cornell University, who is expected to be confirmed this week by the Board of Regents.
“Can you be an obscure, self-indulged, theory-laden, post-modern scholar and manage to be an effective university president?” writes Travis Kavulla, a former associate editor of the National Review.