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Michael Feldman: Lorrie Moore’s departure a loss for university, Madison

Regarding State Journal columnist Chris Rickert?s Sunday piece, “Paying star profs a risky game,” Lorrie Moore was, indeed, forced to look for another position by the recent UW across-the-board cuts.Her loss to UW-Madison is as great as any football coach actually lured by an astronomical contract, if we still think of the university as an academic institution and not primarily an athletic one.