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Vickie Mulkerin: Professor fans flames on UW admissions bias claim

Dear Editor: After all of the controversy in the past week generated by the Center for Equal Opportunity study claiming bias in admissions to UW, I had hoped that there would be a move toward thoughtful discussion, heralded by Chancellor David Ward?s statement last week. But apparently professor Marshall Onellion wants to fan the flames. In his email to the Cap Times, he refers to the student protesters as ?thugs,? a charged term these days in Madison.