“In a time of austerity, we must be creative in seeking ways to cut back on expenses without cutting into the quality of the educational enterprise.”
Those words could fit the plan by Gov. Scott Walker to split the flagship University of Wisconsin-Madison campus from the rest of the state university system. In fact, they were spoken by former Gov. Patrick Lucey in 1971, when he proposed creating the present unified UW System out of the two state systems which existed then.