Biddy Martin hadn’t finished signing her contract to be the next chancellor of UW-Madison before inflammatory e-mails about her began flying around the state Capitol.
“An obscure, self-indulged, theory-laden, post-modern scholar, ” read the National Review Online commentary circulated by an aide to Rep. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, chairman of the Assembly Colleges and Universities Committee.
The message came on the heels of a press release Nass issued the day Martin was named, saying he was “cautiously optimistic ” about her appointment but asserting the people of Wisconsin “don ‘t want a university promoting the liberal indoctrination of young minds at the altar of political correctness. “