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Campus Connection: Student fires back at UW-Madison professor

On Tuesday I posted a strongly worded letter from UW-Madison physics professor Marshall Onellion. He is no fan of the university?s “holistic” admissions policy or UW-Madison?s response to a report by a conservative think tank which purports to show whites and Asians aren?t getting a fair crack at being admitted to Wisconsin?s flagship institution of higher education.

In that letter, Onellion is not only highly critical of UW-Madison interim Chancellor David Ward, but he also singles out a student — referring to her as a “thug” and ripping comments she made to the Wisconsin State Journal about the Center for Equal Opportunity?s (CEO) findings. That student, Mia McKinney, a senior from Racine, emailed me a letter of her own Tuesday night.