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Professors of the world, unite!

If some professors at the University of Wisconsin at Madison get their way, the first thing a newly minted PhD will learn about is not research or teachingâ??but union dues. This summer Wisconsinâ??s Democratic Governor Jim Doyle gave the schoolâ??s professors the right to unionize. Not all want to, so this fall the faculty lounges are livelier than usual.