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UW-Madison releases report into former UWPD chief

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Spectrum News

The former chief of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department (UWPD), Kristen Roman, resigned on Feb. 11, 2024. The University of Wisconsin-Madison said Thursday that after a review, Roman “substantiated multiple violations of university employment policies and work rules.”

Letter | Supervisors oppose sheriff’s participation in breaking up encampment

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The Capital Times

Letter to the editor: University campuses maintain a special status in society where First Amendment rights, and their extension into academic freedom, must be zealously preserved. UW-Madison maintains a robust history of free expression, which has helped shape the university into a world-class institution that substantially contributes to the vibrancy of our Dane County communities.

UW protester arrests: 18 students, 7 staff, 9 unaffiliated

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The Capital Times

As University of Wisconsin-Madison leaders continued discussions with student organizers of a pro-Palestinian protest Thursday, campus police released more details about the people who were arrested the day before. Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin met with student and faculty negotiators as both sides remained in a stalemate over an encampment on Library Mall.

Biden’s 2024 Election Campaign Threatened by Israel-Hamas War, Student Protests

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Wall Street Journal

Richard Thau, who conducts focus groups with swing voters, said his recent work finds that many young voters support the goals of the protests but are only lightly committed to the cause. “Support was a mile wide and maybe three inches deep,’’ said Thau, who conducted two focus groups this week with independent voters from across the University of Wisconsin system, all of whom were too young to vote in 2020. “It became clear that these students had empathy for what the people in Gaza are experiencing, but most would not go the extra mile to relieve the suffering of the Palestinians.’’

Milk Has Lost Its Magic

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The Atlantic

If concerns around bird flu persist, milk’s relevance may continue to slide. Even the slightest bit of consumer apprehension could cause already-struggling dairy farms to shut down. “An additional contributing factor really doesn’t bode well,” Leonard Polzin, a dairy expert at the University of Wisconsin at Madison’s Division of Extension, told me. For the rest of us, there is now yet another reason to avoid milk—and even less left to the belief that milk is special.

Making Flying Cleaner

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The New York Times

I spoke to Tyler Lark, a scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison whose 2022 study questioned ethanol’s climate credentials and concluded that it can be more carbon-intensive than gasoline. He told me that the margins on ethanol’s benefits are thin enough that, depending on the model you chose to calculate its effects, the results can be radically different. His paper prompted rebuttals from the Renewable Fuel Association, an industry group, and the United States Department of Agriculture.

Do financial-literacy programs actually work? Some experts still aren’t so sure.

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MarketWatch

There are some educational interventions that could help those at the lower end of the income-distribution spectrum. Educating consumers on certain kinds of fraud or teaching them how to negotiate or dispute debts are examples of some effective interventions, said J. Michael Collins, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and faculty director of the school’s Center for Financial Security.

Chimps are dying of the common cold. Is great ape tourism to blame?

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The Guardian

Months later, molecular testing revealed the culprit: human metapneumovirus (HMPV), one of a collection of viruses that presents in people as a common cold but is “a well-known killer” in our closest primate relatives, says Goldberg, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. More than 12% of the community that Stella belonged to died in the outbreak. Others were lost as a result of being orphaned. “Stella had a baby that was clinging to her body for a while after she died,” Goldberg says. “The baby subsequently died.”

Nothing short of jail will make a defiant Trump respect court orders

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The Hill

If Trump continues to defy a lawful order of the court, Justice Merchan shouldn’t hesitate to use the only effective deterrent the law allows: imprisonment.    John Gross is a clinical associate professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School and director of the Public Defender Project.

Older generation weighs in on UW–Madison student protest

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WMTV - Channel 15

82-year-old Bonnie Block is a Wisconsin native who lives in Madison and is a part of a group called the Raging Grannies, who encourages people to speak out. “We wanted to come and tell these students thank you for being here because I think it’s really important,” Block said. “All my life I’ve been heartened by groups of people who are saying no to what they see is wrong. I think that that’s critical.”

Universities of Wisconsin President, UW-Madison Chancellor speak out on protests

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WMTV - Channel 15

Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman said the system supports freedom of speech while upholding the law and ensuring the safety of the community. “The free exchange of ideas through open dialogue and debate is a hallmark of the Universities of Wisconsin,” Rothman said. “We support the First Amendment and the right to free expression – including through legal protest – and we continue to uphold these ideals, even in the face of difficult and competing demands.”

UW Madison students join university’s rich history of protests

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WMTV - Channel 15

Throughout the years, there have been thousands of demonstrations at UW Madison. Whether it was five people or hundreds at a time, protesters found a way for their voices to be heard. “We want to foster the ability for students to learn something, to be passionate about it and to make their voice heard,” Kacie Lucchini Butcher, director the Center of Campus History.

Protesters camp at UW, demand disclosure and divestment from Israel

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Madison365

On April 29, starting in the morning, alumni, students and supporters came out to UW-Madison to set up an encampment, a budding national trend across universities around the country, in a continued effort to call for a ceasefire in the ongoing war in Gaza. In addition, protestors are demanding UW-Madison disclose and divest from any investments in Israeli companies.

Dueling protesters clash at UCLA hours after police clear pro-Palestinian demonstration at Columbia

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The Associated Press

Dueling groups of protesters clashed Wednesday at the University of California, Los Angeles, grappling in fistfights and shoving, kicking and using sticks to beat one another. Hours earlier, police burst into a building at Columbia University that pro-Palestinian protesters took over and broke up a demonstration that had paralyzed the school while inspiring others.

Margaret H. Fose

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Wisconsin State Journal

In 1946, Margaret accepted a position as membership secretary at the UW Memorial Union. She married Dale Fose on August 28, 1948 at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in Madison. When their first son was born in 1949, Margaret began her career as a stay-at-home mom until 1979 when she returned to work at the UW Memorial Union Director’s Office. She retired in 1988.

2024 Was the Year That Broke College Admissions

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The New York Times

These days Cornell, for example, admits roughly 40 percent of its incoming class without a test score. At schools like the University of Wisconsin or the University of Connecticut, the percentage is even higher. In California, schools rarely accept scores at all, being in many cases not only test-optional, but “test-blind.”