Since the Universities of Wisconsin started shuttering two-year branch campuses in 2023 amid steep enrollment declines, counties that own the buildings and land have been left to regroup and decide what’s next for the properties.
After graduating from Riverside, Schultz went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to pursue what he thought was his dream of being an astronaut. But he quickly realized he wasn’t cut out for it (“calculus was kicking my butt”) and wound up spending half of his sophomore year in theaters, watching movies by filmmakers like Claude Lelouch and Akira Kurosawa.
“The things we actually worry about are the horses rather than the zebras,” Dr. James Conway says. Conway, a pediatric infectious disease expert at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, uses this metaphor to explain that while rare complications — zebras — can occur, it’s important for physicians to first focus on preventing the most common causes of serious illness — the horses. “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” Conway adds, noting this cliché is truer than ever in countries like Sudan.
Steven Brooke at the University of Wisconsin-Madison detailed “important mistakes of fact and interpretation.” Neil Russell, an academic in Scotland, called the U.S. conclusions “a mischaracterization of my findings.” Marie Vannetzel, a French scholar who has conducted field research with Al-Gameya Al-Shareya, rebutted what she called “a dishonest manipulation of my text and my work.”
