Chris McIntosh joked Thursday that his first day as athletic director at the University of Wisconsin came amid a lull in college athletics.
Quoted: “It could radically change the meaning of the text,” Prof. Howard Schweber from UW-Madison’s political science department said. Unless the legislature could overturn the partial veto with an unlikely two-thirds majority vote, that would be the law.
Doctors told Daniel Wilburn’s family he had asthma. But when the 24-year-old’s breathing problems turned worse this spring, tests showed major blood clots in his lungs had put so much pressure on his heart that all of the organs were failing. On April 4, Easter Sunday, Wilburn got a second chance for life with a rare heart-lung transplant at UW Hospital.
On his first day as the University of Wisconsin’s athletic director, Chris McIntosh’s department and the student-athletes he leads entered a new world Thursday.
Saeed Khalif received a pay raise of nearly 50% when he left the University of Wisconsin football program to join Michigan State’s.
Quoted: In many states, the basic requirements for becoming a police officer are lower than they are for other professions, according to Jirs Meuris, assistant professor of management and human resources at the University of Wisconsin’s school of business.
“You need 1,500 [hours of training] to become a barber, on average — you need years of trade school to become a plumber or electrician,” he said.
In addition, a new report published last week and co-authored by former Kentucky secretary of state Trey Grayson, a Republican, and University of Wisconsin Professor Barry C. Burden concluded that the Arizona procedures “deviate significantly from standard practices for election reviews and audits” and that any findings are “suspect and should not be trusted.”
Barry Burden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and director of the school’s Elections Research Center, said the latest extension was “yet another sign that the Cyber Ninjas are in over their heads and didn’t really have the experience or qualifications to do the review that they’re doing.”
