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September 19, 2022

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Higher Education/System

Campus life

Wisconsin volleyball takes down NCAA attendance record

Wisconsin State Journal

The Badgers made history at the Kohl Center Classic, breaking the NCAA’s regular-season attendance record as 16,833 fans gathered Friday. It broke the previous record set nine days ago by Nebraska and Crieghton in Omaha, topping their mark of 15,797. UW dropped the match in five sets, but that did little to dampen the atmosphere.

Crime and safety

Reconciling antisemitism and free speech on college campuses

San Diego Union Tribune

At my alma mater, University of Wisconsin-Madison, the fall semester is off to an inauspicious start. Administrators there are calling for “civility and kindness” after antisemitic messages were written on campus sidewalks in seven different locations. The chalkings labeled Jewish student groups as “racist,” “genocidal,” and “having blood on their hands.”

Arts & Humanities

Health

Athletics

‘What a special environment this was’: Wisconsin volleyball sets NCAA attendance record in loss to Florida

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

It was a record-setting night for the University of Wisconsin volleyball team, but there was no storybook ending.

The Badgers set a NCAA regular-season attendance record with 16,833 fans to beat the record of 15,797 Nebraska and Creighton set in Omaha earlier this month. Florida, however, left the building with a 3-2 victory in that was fueled by a strong start and a fifth-set comeback.

UW Experts in the News

Smith: Some wildlife species thrive, even in Milwaukee’s suburbs, 100 years after being rare or absent from Wisconsin

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Noted: The Canada goose population was so low that when the Endangered Species Act was passed in the U.S. in 1973, “honkers” were given serious consideration of being placed on the inaugural protection list, said Stan Temple, Beers-Bascom professor emeritus in conservation in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology and senior fellow at the Aldo Leopold Foundation.

Forced to speak in a foreign language: A blessing for EU politics

Brussels Times

In a diplomatic context, using a non-native language is an asset, not a handicap. Negotiations conducted in a non-native language display more rationality and are facilitated by greater empathy. But can this be extrapolated to European politics? In The Language(s) of Politics. Multilingual policy-making in the European Union (Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2022), University of Wisconsin political scientist Nils Ringe presents the results of several years of research on the linguistic dimension of EU-level politics.  What are his main findings?

Obituaries

Barbara A. Prescott

Wisconsin State Journal

Barbara worked for the duplicating service within the UW-Madison campus for 30 years before her retirement.

UW-Madison Related

10 Best Non-MCU Series On Disney+

CBR

Big Shot is a comedy-drama starring John Stamos as coach Marvyn Korn. After being fired from the University of Wisconsin as their men’s basketball coach due to controversy surrounding his temper, he relocates to California to coach a girls high school basketball team. Soon after, his daughter joins him in California, and Korn adjusts to coaching girls while trying to manage his temper on the court.