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August 30, 2019

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Higher Education/System

Rick Esenberg and Luke Berg: The doublethink of the campus free speech debate

The Capital Times

Ultimately, the UW Board of Regents deserves great credit for crafting this campus free speech policy and taking, head-on, the unique and growing threats to civil discourse on today’s college campuses. With the above modifications, Wisconsin students and taxpayers can be assured that UW campuses will remain incubators of ideas, forums for debate, and truly “safe” for speakers of all points of view.

Cross names interim UWGB chancellor

Wisconsin State Journal

The system announced Thursday that Cross picked Sheryl Van Gruensven as interim chancellor. Van Gruensven currently serves as UW-Green Bay’s vice chancellor for business and finance. She’s also the co-founder and co-leader of UW-Green Bay’s Women’s Leadership group.

Crime and safety

Arts & Humanities

Graphic Novels With Fresh Voices From the Margins

The New York Times

Flowers’s loose, expressive line is a little messy, a little scribbly, with both cursive and all-caps text floating through the images. She is a protégée of the great cartoonist of childhood, Lynda Barry, also known for her expressive style. A professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Barry has explained how important handwriting is to the experience of reading comics; in her view, judging “good” and “bad” drawing misses the point of comics, which has more to do with the personality of the hand of the cartoonist than with any kind of realism.

Athletics

Business/Technology

UW Experts in the News

Revisionist History Podcast

Revisionist History

Featured: Throughout the 1970s, a biologist named Howard Temin became convinced that something wasn’t right in science’s understanding of viruses. His colleagues dismissed him as a heretic. He turned out to be right — and you’re alive today as a result.

Fossil DNA Reveals New Twists in Modern Human Origins

Quanta Magazine

Quoted: “But that kind of very simple approach isn’t very good at sorting out the complexity” of how those lost populations interacted, said John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Nor does it allow researchers to test specific hypotheses about how that interbreeding unfolded.

Humans Dominated Earth Earlier Than Previously Thought

New York Times

Quoted: Because information about the past informs predictions of global change in the future, in terms of climate and land use, hard evidence of past land use is invaluable, experts say. “It’s an important paper,” said John Williams, a paleoecologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who was not involved in the project.

Obituaries