Clipsheet

August 14, 2019

Research

Monarch Symbol of Species in Crisis as US Protections Shrink

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AP

Some animals — like a shy mountain caribou species that went extinct from the wild in the lower 48 states last winter, despite protection under the Endangered Species Act — struggle and disappear out of sight. Monarchs can serve as reminders of the others, says Karen Oberhauser, director of the University of Wisconsin Arboretum, and a conservation biologist who has studied monarchs since 1984. That was before a boom in soybeans, corn and herbicide wiped out milkweed in pastures converted to row crops.

Higher Education/System

Students speak out against proposed UW free speech policy

Posted on 8/14/2019

WKOW-TV 27

A few dozen people attended a hearing Tuesday afternoon on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus that was intended as a place for people to share their thoughts on a proposed policy that would impose strict punishments, including expulsion and suspension, on people who disrupt others’ free speech.

Republicans resurrect UW campus free speech bill

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WISC-TV 3

The measure died in the Senate but UW regents adopted the sanctions as policy in October. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, Sen. Chris Kapenga and Reps. Cody Horlacher and Dave Murphy re-introduced the bill Tuesday. Passage would cement the sanctions in statute.

President of Edgewood College leaving for new role, says ‘no one thing’ drove decision

Posted on 8/14/2019

Wisconsin State Journal

Flanagan, 49, will remain president until the end of August, and will advise Edgewood College through the end of 2019 to help ensure a smooth transition. Mary Ellen Gevelinger, a tenured faculty member at Edgewood, will serve as interim president.

Republicans resurrect UW campus free speech bill

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Wisconsin State Journal

Republican legislators are re-introducing a bill that would punish students who interfere with campus speeches and presentations with suspension and expulsion.

Campus life

Madison eyes new sites for short-term intercity bus stop

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Wisconsin State Journal

For safety concerns, Madison officials are looking to temporarily relocate the city’s intercity bus stop outside UW-Madison’s Memorial Union to a new spot on Monroe or Lake streets.

Crime and safety

As UW-Madison reviews Cephus’ readmission request, defense attorney provides insight

Posted on 8/14/2019

WISC-TV 3

“This rush to expel people to provide a safe space for accusers is inevitably tipped in favor of the accuser, and therefore severely tramples the rights and futures of many young men,” Van Wagner said.

Arts & Humanities

Meet the Author: Transplant surgeon Joshua Mezrich on new book How Death Becomes Life

Posted on 8/14/2019

The Sunday Post

American transplant surgeon Joshua Mezrich is a fun guy with a love of all things British. His disarming humour belies his gruelling work, creating life from loss. The 48-year-old, who is based at the University of Wisconsin, confesses to growing up on a diet of M*A*S*H and dinnertime tales from the ER, told by his engineer dad, who was training to become a doctor.

Health

Bone Marrow Transplants

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Wisconsin Public Radio

Interview with Dr. Mark Juckett.

Athletics

Wisconsin Football unveils special throwback uniforms

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NBC-15

The special alternate uniforms will be worn against Northwestern on September 28.

Badgers volleyball team ranked No. 5 in national poll

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Wisconsin State Journal

The University of Wisconsin volleyball team is ranked No. 5 in the American Volleyball Coaches Association preseason poll released Tuesday.

Opinion

Editorial: Seeking justice

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WISC-TV 3

It’s hard for us to see a just conclusion that doesn’t include Cephus’ reinstatement as a student in good standing at the university.

Business/Technology

In order to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation.

Posted on 8/14/2019

New York Times

Noted: When Americans declare that “we live in a capitalist society” — as a real estate mogul told The Miami Herald last year when explaining his feelings about small-business owners being evicted from their Little Haiti storefronts — what they’re often defending is our nation’s peculiarly brutal economy. “Low-road capitalism,” the University of Wisconsin-Madison sociologist Joel Rogers has called it.

Written by Matthew Desmond, a professor of sociology at Princeton University and a UW alumnus.

A coworking champion looks into becoming a coworking space founder

Posted on 8/14/2019

Madison Magazine

This is the fourth column in a series about UpStart, a free entrepreneurship program for women and people of color supported by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, or WARF.

UW Experts in the News

American Capitalism Is Brutal. You Can Trace That to the Plantation.

Posted on 8/14/2019

The New York Times

Noted: “Low-road capitalism,” the University of Wisconsin-Madison sociologist Joel Rogers has called it.

Pioneers of Cultural Relativism: How a group of anthropologists set out to study other societies and reflected on their own.

Posted on 8/14/2019

New Republic

Noted: Patrick Iber is an assistant professor of Latin American history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and author of Neither Peace nor Freedom: The Cultural Cold War in Latin America.

Video: Dr. Mirgain suggests strategies for back-to-school success

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WISC-TV 3

Interviewed: UW Health psychologist Shilah Mirgain talks about strategies for new school year success.

Obituaries

Roessler, La Vern “Ross”

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Wisconsin State Journal

He was employed as an animal care-taker at the University of Wisconsin Primate Lab for 29 years.

UW-Madison Related

Appleton WWII vet turns 100

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WBAY

Noted: Cody Splitt of Appleton was one of the first women to serve in the U.S. Navy during the war and one of five women to receive a law degree from University of Wisconsin-Madison in her graduating class.