I was moved by a recent letter from a UW-Madison engineering professor questioning the generous financial package being awarded to UW athletic director Barry Alvarez while the school is being forced to cancel academic courses due to lack of funding. The irony is Alvarez was hired during UW-Madison Chancellor Donna Shalala?s era as part of her efforts to raise the profile of the athletic department. Shalala?s hope was that success on the athletic field would translate into increased support for university programs around the state. Unfortunately, the opposite has occurred.
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