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Marshall, John Richard M.D., Ph.D.

Madison.com

In 1970, he was hired at UW as an Assistant Professor. He was promoted to Full Professor in 1978. John became residency director and directed the Anxiety Disorders Center in the Department of Psychiatry. He was chairman of the UW Department of Psychiatry from 1980 until 1989.

Tom Oates: Seniors on Wisconsin football team found success despite coaching changes

Wisconsin State Journal

Although many had experienced the same thing when Bret Bielema left for the, um, greener pastures of Arkansas in 2012, the University of Wisconsin football players were still shocked two years later when coach Gary Andersen told them just hours after the Big Ten Conference Championship Game that he was fleeing for the, um, academic flexibility of Oregon State.

UW’s Nigel Hayes deserves our respect — Donna Silver

Wisconsin State Journal

Letter to the editor: A protest about very real racial injustices should not be interpreted as unpatriotic. It shows that Hayes cares about the direction this country is going. I would call that good citizenship, especially when it has required such bravery.

Madison shouldn’t pay for UW art — Gil Gonzales

Wisconsin State Journal

Letter to the editor: As a city taxpayer, I question the spending of $160,000 for a project that is essentially a gift to UW. The universtiy surely has resources (art students or instructors who could create a sculpture for a lot less) or finances to get their own public art.

Weber, David R., M.D.

Madison.com

He graduated from the Indiana University School of Medicine in 1962 and was an intern and resident in Internal Medicine at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals in Madison. He served one year as chief medical resident.

Professor Li Chiao and students embody life’s pressures in dance performance ‘Weight of Things’

Daily Cardinal

Some artists at UW-Madison put all that energy of disappointment with society on stage. In a series of movement and dance, UW-Madison Professor Li Chiao-Ping and students capture the essence and conflict of life. The “Weight of Things” confronts what we as humans place value on and what we see as important. The show also addresses the hardships of women and the constraints our society has placed on them, having to live up to standards of beauty while constantly battling within themselves to have as much power as men.

Sustainable education course needed at UW

Daily Cardinal

As a community of college-educated citizens, we are doing ourselves a disservice if we are not informed in the field of environmental sustainability. The environment provides us with all of the base resources we need to survive. Humans will never be able to synthetically produce all the goods and services that the environment gives us, and yet we are destroying it as though we are losing nothing; in fact, we are losing everything.

Chris Rickert: Local hate speech and the movement to normalize Donald Trump

Madison.com

Noted: Markus Brauer, a UW-Madison psychology professor who studies behavior modification comment: ?”‘Prescriptive norms’ tell people what is the right thing to do. And there are many studies suggesting that people’s perceptions of prescriptive norms are heavily influenced by the leadership, in the positive and in the negative direction.”

Election results prompt some Madison women to seek insurance-covered birth control

Wisconsin State Journal

University Health Services gynecologist Dr. Mary Landry said the clinic has seen 55 online requests for intrauterine device (IUD) consultations between Nov. 8 and Nov. 10. In the week after the election, UHS reported between 5 and 10 requests for IUD consultations per day. Typically, she said, the service sees five to six such requests per week.

Morin, Dornis C. “Bud” Jr.

Madison.com

In 1964, Bud earned his PhD from UW-Madison. Bud worked at the Synchrotron Radiation Center as an accelerator physicist for over 20 years until his retirement in 1993.

Clients seeking professional help for election depression

Wisconsin State Journal

Donal MacCoon at Madison Psychiatric Associates said the vast majority of his clients are talking about the election … noting that he treats UW-Madison staff who are worried about some of their minority students. “It’s affecting their lives personally, but even beyond that, it’s affecting their communities and how they feel. How do they honor their own ethical obligations?”

Inside College Basketball’s Most Political Locker Room

New York Times

The Wisconsin basketball players Nigel Hayes and Jordan Hill took a step behind their teammates during the national anthem before the ninth-ranked Badgers’ season opener on Friday. It was another in a long series of visible protests from one of college basketball’s most socially aware locker rooms.

Experts worry campus concealed carry won’t mix with UW drinking culture

Badger Herald

In many states across the country, legislation that allows concealed carry, a license which grants an individual the ability to covertly carry a gun on them, has already been passed. The addition of guns on campuses has caused students, staff, faculty and parents to worry, especially after mass school shootings such as Virginia Tech and Sandy Hook.

Patrick Sims: UW is committed to making campus welcoming for all

Wisconsin State Journal

A lot has happened between the Oct. 29 Wisconsin Badgers home football game against Nebraska and the team’s huge win during this past homecoming weekend. As a campus community, we’ve had to contend with the horrifying representation of a noose being brought into Camp Randall, grappled with what many have referred to as a lukewarm response at best by the university, to dealing with the outcome of the presidential election.

At least 590 provisional ballots cast last week because voters lacked valid ID

Wisconsin State Journal

Noted: UW-Madison political science professor Ken Mayer, who is studying the effect of Wisconsin’s voter ID law on election participation, called the number of provisional ballots cast evidence of “hard disenfranchisement” and “many times greater than the number of fraudulent ballots cast through voter impersonation.”