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November 2, 2023

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Can the University of Wisconsin recover? Campuses are closing and the system faces open hostility from the Republican Legislature

Isthmus

It may be too harsh to call it a death spiral. But the University of Wisconsin System is in trouble and it’s not clear when or how it can turn things around. Consider what’s happening.

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos nixed a 6% pay raise for UW System employees while allowing it to go through for other state employees. He’s trying to put pressure on the UW to discontinue its diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

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‘Airplane!’ creators to dish on surprise movie hit at Dearborn event

Detroit Free Press

Written by Abrahams and brothers David and Jerry Zucker — the three guys known as ZAZ at their Hollywood height — the memoir covers the early years of the friends, who grew up together in Wisconsin and founded a theater troupe at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Kentucky Fried Theater, that later led to 1977’s “The Kentucky Fried Movie.”

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Paul Michael DeLuca, Jr.

Wisconsin State Journal

He joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was appointed to the faculty of the Department of Radiology in 1975. He served as chairman of the Department of Medical Physics (1987 – 1998), Associate Dean for Research and Graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (1998 – 2000), Vice Dean of the Medical School (2000 – 2009) and Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2009 – 2014). During his long career, Paul held an appointment as professor in the departments of medical physics, radiology, human oncology, engineering physics and physics.