If you havenâ??t heard, 20 members of the Dane County Board sent a letter last week to UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin expressing concern about the universityâ??s experiments on monkeys.
So was this note, signed by nearly two-thirds of the Dane County supervisors, a good thing? If enough constituents make noise, is it important that these officials take an active role in putting a little outside pressure on the university?
Or should these Board members, who have no real power when it comes to deciding what research on campus can and canâ??t be done, be focusing their energy elsewhere?