The University of Wisconsin is naming its football field at Camp Randall Stadium after former football coach and athletic director Barry Alvarez.
UW to name field at Camp Randall after Barry Alvarez
Wisconsin State Journal
October 4, 2021
Top Stories
UW-Madison unveils Bakke Recreation & Wellbeing Center
WKOW-TV 27
The university held a ceremonial groundbreaking Thursday, even though construction actually started in the spring. The facility is named after Jim and Sue Bakke. They gave $20 million for the $113 million project.
Research
Living, teaching and practicing the way of Leopold
Kenosha News
Stanley Temple is hopeful and nowhere near ready to give up his fight for science-based conservation practices and advocacy.
National Science Foundation Invests $75 Million In Five New Data Science Institutes
Forbes
Students involved in this research will interact closely with industry partners, creating new career opportunities and strengthening synergies between academia and industry. The institute will include researchers at the University of Washington; the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Duke University; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; the California Institute of Technology; Purdue University; the University of California, San Diego; and the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Campus life
Barry Alvarez Field? Yep. Wisconsin will honor its former coach and AD in a ceremony at Camp Randall Stadium
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Welcome to Barry Alvarez Field at Camp Randall Stadium.
University of Wisconsin officials announced Friday they are naming the field for UW’s former head football coach and athletic director.
A new name for UW-Madison’s natatorium and a $20 million donation to help build it
Wisconsin State Journal
The new fitness facility on the site of the former natatorium, 2000 Observatory Drive, will bear the name of the Bakke family, who are contributing $20 million to the $113.2 million project expected to open in 2023.
University breaks ground on new recreation and wellbeing center
The Daily Cardinal
A new recreation center is set to be built in place of the former Natatorium outside Dejope Residence Hall, and overlooking Lake Mendota. The $113.2 million establishment will be named the Bakke Recreation and Wellbeing Center.
Crisis response workers to accompany UWPD officers on mental health calls
NBC-15
Mental health professionals will start responding with UW-Madison Police officers next week to certain calls, the university announced Friday. The “co-responder model” consists of two trained University Health Services workers joining UWPD officers on calls where students are experiencing a mental health crisis. The duties of mental health crisis workers include taking students to the hospital, if necessary. UWPD Chief Kristen Roman explained that this partnership has been planned out since 2020, with help from the Mental Health Services’ Student Advisory Board, BIPOC Coalition and Associated Students of Madison.
Q&A: Eli Tsarovsky wants to make sure UW students’ voices are heard
Wisconsin State Journal
Eli Tsarovsky graduated from the University of Wisconsin last May after majoring in biochemistry. In August, he was voted president of the Campus Area Neighborhood Association and he also works as the community health AmeriCorps coordinator.
State news
360: Voters, lawmakers weigh in on GOP investigations into 2020 Wisconsin presidential election
TMJ4
Quoted: UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden is the director of a non-partisan elections research center. He’s been following the election investigations closely.
“It’s really unclear what’s happening in each investigation because these things are mostly not being done in a public way,” Burden said.
Burden believes it’s unlikely that the probes will uncover anything problematic or new due to a lack of evidence to support claims of fraud.
“The motivation for what they’re doing is sort of hard to figure out,” he said. “It may be that they’re looking for reasons or justification to make some changes to state law. It might also be a way just to keep this issue on the front burner going into the next election cycle just to keep their voters energized.”
Rebecca Kleefisch won’t mandate vaccines or masks but has yet to release plan to navigate COVID-19 as governor
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: Patrick Remington, a former epidemiologist for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s preventive medicine residency program, said leaning on the Wisconsin Emergency Response Plan is important to coordinate different entities but ideally, state officials would adopt an additional statewide plan that focuses on preventing and controlling the spread of the virus to combat the outbreak.
“That’s appropriate in the middle of an emergency, you need to have command and control and have top-down response. … It’s only part of the approach. You need to have a prevention and control plan that accompanies an emergency response plan,” Remington said.
Crime and safety
Madison man banned from UW-Madison campus after spitting in student’s face
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison Police arrested a man on a tentative charge of disorderly conduct with a hate crime enhancer after he allegedly spit on and made comments about COVID-19 to an Asian-American student last month.
50 people ejected, 23 arrested during Badgers game, UW police say
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison police reported that 50 people were ejected from Camp Randall Stadium and 23 people were arrested during Saturday’s game between the Badgers and Michigan.
Arts & Humanities
A long-lost silent movie turned up in a storage closet and got its first screening in almost a century. Next stop: Turner Classic Movies
Chicago Tribune
“The First Degree” next screens Oct. 24 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Cinematheque, with live piano accompaniment by David Drazin. The film is scheduled to air on Turner Classic Movies, with the Chicago Film Archives-commissioned score written and performed by Quasar Wut-Wut, sometime before mid-2022.
Health
Highly contagious delta variant means more hospitalizations for Wisconsin kids, stress on health system
Wisconsin Public Radio
Quoted: Still, kids’ risk of severe disease is much lower than that of adults, and doesn’t seem to be any higher with delta than it was with earlier iterations of the virus, said Dr. Greg DeMuri, a pediatrician at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“It’s just that there are more cases, so a small percentage of a large number is still a significant number,” he said.
Athletics
On ‘Barry Alvarez Day,’ Badgers fans salute the former coach and athletic director and he returns the gesture
Wisconsin State Journal
Barry Alvarez had his day at Camp Randall Stadium on Saturday and as he walked onto the field that will soon bear his name the crowd sent down a thunderous ovation.
Wisconsin naming Camp Randall Stadium field after Barry Alvarez
USA Today
University of Wisconsin officials announced Friday they are naming the field for Wisconsin’s former head football coach and athletic director.
The Green Bay Packers’ Decision To Draft Kevin King Over T.J. Watt Still Haunts Them Today
Forbes
The Green Bay Packers, desperate for a young pass rusher, were on the clock with the 29th pick in the NFL Draft. The top remaining rusher in the eyes of most scouts just happened to grow up two hours from Lambeau Field, starred at the University of Wisconsin and came from impeccable bloodlines.
UW Experts in the News
Wisconsin House Dems highlight split on approach to infrastructure, social spending bills
WKOW-TV 27
Ellie Powell, a political science professor at UW-Madison, said it was more likely than not Democrats would reach a deal on both bills. That’s because the stakes are too high; Powell said with their slim majority in both houses ahead of a mid-term election that traditionally punishes a party with unified power, this was Democrats’ best chance to pass legislation that could resonate next year with voters.
For the Record: UW legal team to assist Afghan refugees at Fort McCoy
Channel 3000
Professor Erin Barbato, director of the clinic, and her law students will help the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops with volunteer legal aid, helping refugees with information about their legal status in the country, possible visa applications, and what pathways to citizenship might be open to them.
School Mask Mandates Are Going to Court. Here’s What to Know
Time
Suzanne Eckes, an education law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Education, says that while cases specifically related to face masks in school are uncharted territory, courts have historically decided that parental rights do not trump a school’s ability to take steps to keep kids safe.
An American tragedy: 700,000 US COVID deaths despite widely available vaccines
ABC News
“Heading into the winter months, we can significantly delay the next grim milestone if more people, especially those at high risk for severe illness, choose to get vaccinated,” said Ajay Sethi, an epidemiologist and associate professor of population health sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Imbalance of power: Why low-wage, working women bear the brunt of anti-mask backlashes
USA Today
Nancy Wong, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of consumer research and marketing, said the imbalance is magnified when employees are female because anger about mask mandates can trigger sexist bullying and harassment.
The South Pole just had its most severe cold season on record
The Washington Post
Matthew Lazzara, an expert on the meteorology of Antarctica and scientist at the University of Wisconsin, monitored the South Pole temperatures in recent months from his office in Madison with awe. In an interview, he said it was around minus-100 degrees on numerous occasions. Over the years, he’s traveled to Antarctica many times to support his research.
Obituaries
Hermanson, Sue (Buchen)
Wisconsin State Journal
She was employed by the University of Wisconsin for 40 years.
Lewis, Betty J.
Wisconsin State Journal
She was employed as a research coordinator by the University of Wisconsin Department of Ophthalmology until her retirement in 1998.
Herring, Phillip F.
Wisconsin State Journal
He received an appointment at the University of Virginia, and by 1970 was invited to join the faculty of the English Department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison with tenure. Herring was a popular teacher of Modernist literature, but in addition had a long career as a scholarly writer and biographer, producing important works on James Joyce and Djuna Barnes.
Teresa Miller, Law Professor and Prison Reformer, Is Dead at 59
The New York Times
Ms. Miller attended Booker T. Washington High School in Norfolk, graduated from Duke University in 1983 with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and went on to Harvard Law School, graduating in 1986. She then earned a master of law degree from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
UW-Madison Related
Hundreds take part in Madison march for abortion rights
Wisconsin Public Radio
Noted: The Madison Bans Off Our Bodies march was cosponsored by Indivisible Madison and the University of Wisconsin-Madison BIPOC Coalition; however, on Friday, the UW-Madison BIPOC Coalition announced its rescindment from the event.
“We are officially rescinding our cosponsorship and endorsement of this event because the primary organizers have repeatedly failed to recognize their privilege, be inclusive of all folks with uteri, and understand that BIPOC, queer, disabled, and/or low-income folks do not owe cis-gender, middle-class white women their support, nor labor in a movement that white women co-opted,” the organization said in a statement.