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Wake-up call: Walker’s easy win exposes Dems’ weaknesses

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Charles Franklin, a UW-Madison political science professor who conducted the widely followed Marquette Law School Poll this year, says it will become a challenge for organized labor to find ways to maintain its influence in the public arena.”Union people are the ones who show up to make calls on behalf of candidates from morning until night. These people aren?t going away, but their financial resources are going away, and that will make the unions weaker,” Franklin says. “The Democratic Party will have to evolve to replace some of that monetary support and to retain the people power that unions provide to the party.”

Floyd A. Hummel: Corporate influence will change democracy

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In his “kiss and make up” column in Saturday?s newspaper, UW-Madison professor Kenneth R. Mayer advises Democrats to “stop blaming the American Legislative Exchange Council, or Super PACS, or the Koch Brothers, or Citizens United. Stop insisting that the only reason you lost was you were outspent 3-to-1, or 5-to-1, or 10-to-1 …”This is such an overly casual dismissal of deep problems with American democracy that I am shocked to hear it from a political scientist.

Campus Connection: UW unveils plan for raises; but only 30 percent to get pay bump

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In an effort to retain top talent, UW-Madison administrators on Tuesday unveiled a plan to direct pay increases of at least 5 percent to in-demand faculty and staff who have demonstrated exceptional performance. But this is not an initiative designed to bump up most workers? pay. Instead, a memo sent from UW-Madison administrators to deans and directors across campus on Tuesday notes ?it is anticipated that no more than 30 percent of eligible employees within a school, college or division may receive increases.? Those who are underpaid compared to those in similar positions or who are at risk of leaving due to their talents are to be the main targets of the raises.

New program to allow students to earn UW credits while in high school

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Students across the state will be able to pick up valuable college credits while still in high school thanks to a new dual enrollment program announced Tuesday by the University of Wisconsin Colleges and the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. The partnership is to be in place by the start of the 2013-14 academic year….This new initiative is different from the current Youth Options program that allows students to take courses at UW campuses, technical colleges or other higher ed institutions. That?s because the Youth Options students must take classes at the college or university.

ALRC votes to renew Segredo’s licenses

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Madison?s Alcohol License Review Committee will allow Segredo, a bar and nightclub on University Avenue, to keep its liquor and entertainment licenses. That?s only if the business follows a few stipulations. Segredo has to contact police weekly with an incident report, and provide a copy of a revised employee handbook that reflects their message of how to cooperate with police.

Madison Politiscope: Combative Dem spokesman Graeme Zielinski pushes the envelope

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….he (Zielinski) has long-claimed that UW-Madison professor Charles Franklin, who conducts the Marquette University Law School poll as a visiting professor, is a Republican “hack” whose polls showing Gov. Scott Walker winning the recall election by five to seven points in recent weeks were “as reliable as a three-dollar bill.” As it turned out, Franklin?s poll results matched Walker?s 7 percent win. When I asked months ago for justification of his allegations against Franklin, Zielinski told me that several of Franklin?s students had informed the party that Franklin boasted about consulting for GOP groups. “If he denies this, we don?t believe him,” Zielinski concluded in an email. Indeed, Franklin says he has never worked for any party or partisan organization.

UW women’s basketball: Callahan hired as recruiting coordinator

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Bobbie Kelsey isn?t bottling up her enthusiasm over her most recent hire. The University of Wisconsin women?s basketball coach said the program “hit an absolute home run” by adding Jayme Callahan as recruiting coordinator, a move that was announced Monday. Callahan, who spent last season as an assistant at Clemson following a one-year stint at La Salle, replaces Kyle Rechlicz, who was named UW-Milwaukee head coach in May.

State employee union leaders rebuff irked workers’ bid to depose them

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Leaders of the Wisconsin State Employees Union have held off an attempt by angry prison guards and others to win key executive board seats in the wake of the failed recall attempt against Gov. Scott Walker. At least some union members continue to question the union?s pre-primary endorsement of Kathleen Falk and donations to her campaign after polls showed her behind eventual Democratic Party nominee Tom Barrett, said Dan Meehan, a prison guard who narrowly lost a bid for statewide vice president at the union?s annual convention over the weekend. “Rage is what it is ? absolutely, completely,” Meehan said. “My members don?t feel they?ve got a voice anymore.”

UW men’s basketball: Dekker makes U18 team

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Sam Dekker keeps adding to his young resume. The incoming freshman for the University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team made the USA Basketball Men?s U18 National Team 12-man roster that will begin play later this week at the FIBA Americas U18 Championship in Sao Sebastiao do Paraiso, Brazil.

UW-Madison to give merit-based raises to third of faculty, staff

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UW-Madison will give targeted raises to about one-third of its faculty and academic staff members in an effort to make salaries more competitive and buoy spirits amid a four-year dry spell in across-the-board pay increases. The new initiative, described in a memo to university administrators that was to be sent out Tuesday, will mean raises of at least 5 percent for some high-performing staff members who are at risk of leaving or underpaid compared to those in similar jobs. Paul DeLuca, UW-Madison?s provost, described the plan as “retention on steroids.”

Chris Rickert: A touch of irony on UW?s road to China

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UW-Madison is pressuring its athletic apparel contractor, Adidas, to contribute to the approximately $3.2 million in severance pay owed to 2,800 workers at a former Adidas subcontractor in Indonesia. Meanwhile, interim chancellor David Ward is leading a delegation of state officials in China, where the university will open its first foreign office ? the UW Shanghai Innovation Office ? and kick off an entrepreneurship and innovation conference. Anyone else see the irony here? Indications are that the university probably doesn?t.

Editorial: Governor & Legislature – Start Now

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Governor Walker and some state legislators have begun talking about working together. Talk won?t cut it. Action will. After you have your brat and your beer with each other here?s what you can do….Governor, once you have their ears tell lawmakers and you own Department of Administration to give the University system the flexibility and autonomy it needs to deal with endless budget cuts and still compete on a global scale. We know you believe in this. Make it happen.

Study: Economic impact of Dane County arts scene is double comparable communities’

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The amount of money that nonprofit arts and culture organizations in Dane County ? and their audiences ? poured into the local economy in 2010 was nearly double that of many other communities of comparable size, according to a new national study. Groups ranging from tiny dance companies to the region?s symphony orchestra helped generate more than $145.5 million, compared to the median $78 million spent in similar communities with populations of 250,000 to 500,000 people, according to “Arts and Economic Prosperity IV,” touted as the largest study ever of its kind.

Librarians offer list of beach reads

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A plethora of mysteries, histories, kids? books and romances will fill readers? mythical beach bags this summer, but authors Madison claims as its own also are beckoning for attention. Heading the list of non-fiction recommendations is yet another Madison-based author. UW-Madison emotions researcher Richard Davidson joined with veteran science writer Sharon Begley to release ?The Emotional Life of Your Brain: How Its Unique Patterns Affect the Way You Think, Feel, and Live ? and How You Can Change Them? (Hudson Street Press, $25.95) in March.

US students survive 9 days in New Zealand bush

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Two U.S. students trapped in the New Zealand wilderness by a snowstorm trekked back out to safety after surviving their nine-day ordeal by rationing their meager supplies of trail mix and warming themselves in hot springs. Alec Brown and Erica Klintworth, both 21, returned to the city of Christchurch on Monday after meeting up with members of a search team, famished but otherwise in good shape, police said. The two students, on a foreign study program in New Zealand with University of Wisconsin Stevens Point, had planned to hike and camp for a few days at some hot springs on the country?s South Island.

Curiosities: Should corn really be ‘knee high by the Fourth of July’?

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A: Maybe if you?re standing on your head. “Nowadays, if corn is knee-high by the Fourth of July, it?s way behind,” said Joe Lauer, agronomy professor at the University of Wisconsin?Madison. The last time the old adage was a useful gauge of corn crop development was maybe two generations of farmers ago. “The technologies we have now for growing corn ? from the equipment we have to the plant hybrids we develop to the treatments we put on the seeds and in the fields ? have shifted things,” Lauer said. “With all that working for us, corn should be chest- or even neck-high by the Fourth of July.”

Madison360: To reunite Wisconsin, elite leaders must step up

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?Together apart. ?Those words popped to mind in the aftermath of Wisconsin?s recall election as describing our political culture. The phrase was part of the title of a reporting project 20 years ago by the New Orleans Times-Picayune about myths on race and segregation in the south. I met the project?s editor shortly after it appeared and the title stuck with me. Now it seems to aptly describe Wisconsin?s gaping political divide. We are together, but very far apart.

….One compelling suggestion is that major business and academic leaders, people with the cash and clout to speak freely, need to step forward. The idea is not from a political scientist but rather a historian, a professor who left the University of Wisconsin-Madison last year.

UW men’s basketball: Dekker a finalist for U-18 national team

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Highly touted University of Wisconsin men?s basketball recruit Sam Dekker has been selected as one of the 14 finalists for the U.S. men?s U-18 national team. Dekker, a guard/forward from Sheboygan Lutheran who was Wisconsin?s Mr. Basketball this past season, will continue training in Colorado Springs, Colo., through Monday. The official 12-man team will be selected prior to the team?s Tuesday departure to Brazil for the 2012 FIBA Americas U-18 Championship.

Seely on Science: UW professor disputes deer czar’s findings

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With his Texas drawl, his TV title of ?Dr. Deer? and his disdain for some long-standing tenets of professional deer management, James Kroll was sure to stir things up when he was hired by Gov. Scott Walker to evaluate the state?s deer hunt strategy. Strangely, the controversy that surfaced was over comments Kroll made a decade ago in an interview with a Texas magazine. Kroll was quoted as equating public hunting grounds with socialism and calling national parks ?wildlife ghettos.? Overshadowed by that sideshow was a sobering, scientific look at Kroll?s preliminary findings by Tim Van Deelen, a respected associate professor in UW-Madison?s Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology.

Man convicted in Mifflin St. block party stabbing

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MADISON (WKOW) — A Green Bay man was convicted of stabbing another man at last year?s Mifflin Street block party. 23-year-old Colin Rosenow pleaded no contest to a charge of first-degree reckless endangerment. He was originally charged with attempted homicide, but it was reduced as part of a plea deal.

UW System regents approve 5.5 percent tuition hike

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Tuition in the University of Wisconsin System will rise by several hundred dollars next academic year, after the Board of Regents voted Thursday to accept the maximum 5.5 percent rate hike. The increase applies to all 13 of the system?s four-year colleges, as well as its 13 two-year campuses. All students – in-state and out-of-state _ who attend UW-Madison, the system?s largest campus, will pay an extra $681 per year in tuition. That figure includes $250 from a previously approved surcharge earmarked for certain student programs and classroom support.

Dr. Jonathan L. Temte: Don’t underestimate whooping cough’s threat

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Thanks to the Wisconsin State Journal for Monday?s excellent article on pertussis. The resurgence of whooping cough may be due to a change in our childhood pertussis vaccine 15 years ago. In 1997, the U.S. Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended a safer vaccine for prevention of pertussis. This emphasis on safety came at the expense of a shorter period of protection following vaccination.

UPDATE: Downtown Madison Shooting Investigation: Both Suspects Now In Custody

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Madison Police Department detectives, acting on a tip, traveled to the Chicago area Wednesday with hopes of apprehending Mr. Darrion D. Brown, age 20, Fitchburg on a tentative charge of Attempted Homicide. Working in concert with Cook County Sheriff?s Department detectives, a search warrant was executed around 6:00 p.m. on a Dolton, Illinois residence. Dolton is a community between Chicago and Gary, Indiana.

Campaign 2012 Newsmakers: UW-Madison Professors Katherine Cramer Walsh and Barry Burden

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Analyzing six historical June 5 recall elections, UW-Madison political science professors Kathy Cramer Walsh and Barry Burden said Republican Gov. Scott Walker?s political star will continue to rise nationally as a result of his second victory over Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett in 18 months. Democrats are “demoralized,” and may take years to recover, Burden said.

Second University Avenue shooter arrested near Chicago

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The second alleged shooter in the May 19 University Avenue shooting was arrested Wednesday night near Chicago. Darrion Brown, 20, was taken into custody without incident at about 6 p.m. at a residence in Dolton, Ill., a suburb between Chicago and Gary, Ind., according to Madison Police Department spokesman Joel DeSpain.

Campus Connection: League of Women Voters reports students having trouble voting

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The League of Women Voters Wisconsin is reporting it has received more than 100 phone calls as of 2 p.m. from college students who are indicating they?re having trouble voting in Tuesday?s recall election. ?It?s a significant issue out there,? says Carolyn Castore, who is coordinating the League of Women?s Voters Wisconsin/Election Protection initiative. ?We?re getting all sorts of odd stuff.? Some of the more common problems for students, reports Castore, are related to hassles over proof of residency and apparent misinterpretations of the state?s relatively new voter ID law that was enacted last year and requires one to establish residency at a given address for 28 days in order to be able to vote from that location.

Leland Pan: Why UW should put Adidas on notice now

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Over the past year, Wisconsinites have seen unprecedented attacks on workers? rights. But these attacks have not just been on public employees; since August, students at the University of Wisconsin have been pushing Interim Chancellor David Ward to hold Adidas, the primary producer of UW apparel, accountable for withholding $1.8 million in severance pay to 2,700 Indonesian garment workers. The company?s refusal to pay its workers is an explicit violation of Adidas? contract with the university, which states, ?Licensees shall provide legally mandated benefits.?

The struggles against sweatshops abroad and against corporate power in our own country may seem separate, but the rights of foreign workers are intimately connected to the conditions of workers in our own state. As corporations relocate to countries with weaker labor standards, workers in the U.S. endure major rollbacks to their own workplace standards.

NBA: Ex-UW star Taylor’s stock takes upward swing

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ST. FRANCIS ? The same suitcase Jordan Taylor has been living out of for well over a month was lined up alongside a handful of others in the front lobby of the Milwaukee Bucks? Cousins Center practice facility on Sunday morning. Over the course of 48 hours, the former standout point guard for the University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team had gone from Los Angeles to Chicago to Milwaukee and worked out for two NBA teams: the Chicago Bulls and the Bucks.

American Family Children’s Hospital climbs in U.S. news national rankings

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Madison?s American Family Children?s Hospital announced Tuesday it has jumped up the U.S. News & World Report?s rankings of children?s hospitals. The children?s hospital, which is part of the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, was ranked in the top 50 children?s hospitals nationally for seven specialties of medicine and surgery, and the top 30 in five categories.

John L. Gann Jr.: City should get retiring alumni to move back

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If Madison is complacent about economic growth as Paul Fanlund and others concluded in these pages on May 9, the city is hardly alone among its peers. My research for ?The Third Lifetime Place: A New Opportunity for College Towns? suggests that this tendency is common in college towns nationwide. But the substandard new growth that disturbs Fanlund may not be the only economic peril. Another is the potential gradual withering of what the city already has: the economic payoff from a 40,000-student university.

Student groups hope for lower UW tuition increase

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Some University of Wisconsin student groups are trying to soften the blow of higher education costs after system President Kevin Reilly recommended raising tuition at all UW campuses by 5.5 percent Monday. The UW Board of Regents will discuss Reilly?s proposal, which would bring the annual cost of tuition at UW-Madison over $10,000 for in-state students for the first time, at its meeting Thursday. But some student groups are hoping they can convince the regents to accept a smaller tuition increase, according to The Daily Cardinal.

Recommended increase would push in-state tuition above $10,000 per year at UW

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UW-Madison?s tuition and fees would top $10,000 per year for in-state students for the first time if a recommended tuition increase of 5.5 percent is approved by the UW Board of Regents on Thursday. For the sixth consecutive year, University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly is recommending a 5.5 percent tuition increase for in-state students at the 13 four-year campuses in the UW System. He?s recommending the same increase for UW System?s two-year campuses for the second year in a row.

College football: Big Ten Conference offers tepid support for playoff proposals

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As the world of college football plows steadily toward a likely four-team playoff, the Big Ten Conference offered, at best, lukewarm support on Monday for new proposals for determining a national champion. Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany and Nebraska chancellor Harvey Perlman outlined the conference?s point of view in a teleconference after a meeting on Sunday of the Big Ten?s Council of Presidents/Chancellors.

UW researchers hope to see into eye of hurricane ? from afar

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In a 15-story building, in the middle of land-locked Wisconsin, a team of scientists waits for hurricane season. That?s when a multi-million dollar, unmanned aircraft will start flying from Wallops Island, Va., loaded up with a UW-Madison-engineered instrument to gather data from tropical storms off the Atlantic coast. “It’s sort of a mystery right now in our science community as to why hurricanes intensify or de-intensify,” said Chris Velden, a UW-Madison scientist working on the project. “We hope to get some information from this aircraft to be able to answer those questions.”

UW System president recommends 5.5 percent tuition increase

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UW-Madison?s tuition and fees would top $10,000 per year for in-state students for the first time if a recommended increase of 5.5 percent is approved by the Board of Regents on Thursday. University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly is recommending the 5.5 percent tuition increase for in-state students at all 13 four-year campuses for the sixth consecutive year, according to Regents meeting materials made public Monday. Reilly is recommending an increase of $247 per year at the System?s 13 two-year campuses.

Robert Mathieu and Steven Ackerman: Doctoral research, teaching both valued

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As two of many faculty and staff long engaged in preparing UW-Madison graduate students to be both excellent researchers and excellent teachers, we were disappointed with the headline in the May 27 newspaper: “Interest in research wanes among UW-Madison Ph.D.s.” The headline missed the point and an important sea change in graduate education: Interest in teaching is increasing among UW-Madison Ph.Ds.

Firefighters working out on ropes course in Kohl Center

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Wisconsin sports teams spend plenty of time practicing in the Kohl Center, and on Monday a special group of Madison firemen will do the same. Instead of training on a court or rink, though, they will use ropes courses to practice some of the more complicated rescues Dane County needs. The Madison Fire Department?s Heavy Urban Rescue Team, which a city news release said uses “complex rescue techniques” to respond to emergencies like building collapses anywhere in the county, will train at the UW-Madison arena Tuesday afternoon.

Obituary: Elizabeth Marie (Gross) ?Betty? Dobbratz

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MADISON/ CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Elizabeth Marie “Betty” Dobbratz, age 64, died on the evening of Jan. 18, 2012, in Corpus Christi, Texas after an eight-month battle with brain cancer. Her last weeks and days were spent surrounded by family and friends. Betty worked at CWC (Central Wisconsin Center) and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in administration, retiring in 2002.

College football: Alvarez says media should be in BCS equation

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If major college football adopts a playoff format, University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez would like to see the media have a major role in implementing it. Bowl Championship Series officials are trying to devise a Final Four model to present to TV executives by June 20. The current BCS contract with conferences, bowls and ESPN, the current rights holder, expires after the 2013 season.

School’s out, road construction in on UW campus

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The books have been put away, the jackhammers are primed, let the road construction season at UW-Madison begin. Road work this week is mainly around the Charter Street Heating Plant and on Observatory Drive, according to a news release from the UW-Madison news service. Rail lines near the heating plant are being removed because there is no longer a need for coal to be delivered to the plant.

Obituary: Josiah Steiner Dilley

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MADISON – Josiah Steiner Dilley, age 88, died peacefully in his sleep of cancer on Tuesday, April 24, 2012, surrounded by family in Madison. He worked from 1963-1993 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a professor of counseling psychology, and authored three books: ?Higher Education: Participants Confronted,? ?…And I thought I knew how to Communicate!?, and most recently, ?The Pause that Empowers.?

UW rowing: Women’s varsity four grabs national title

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CAMDEN, N.J. ? The University of Wisconsin women?s lightweight rowing team accomplished one of its two goals Saturday. It won the varsity four national title but didn?t win the Intercollegiate Rowing Association national championship. With a heavy tail wind on the Cooper River, UW?s varsity four won its second consecutive national title.

Curiosities: Why do raindrops make your car dirty?

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A: Wash your car on any given day and the chances of rain always seem to be pretty good. Raindrops typically leave a mosaic of grime that requires another trip to the neighborhood car wash. Rain makes cars dirty, according to UW-Madison atmospheric scientist Steve Ackerman, because “the air near the ground has all kinds of particles floating in it: pollen, pollutants, dust, smoke, etc.”

On Campus: UW-Madison students defy gravity

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Some college students struggle with the dreaded weight gain known as the ?freshman 15.? These students had to deal with the opposite problem: weightlessness. Six UW-Madison students spent a week in late April conducting experiments on a gravity-defying aircraft at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, according to UW-Madison.

UW Athletics: Alvarez to add to senior staff

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University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez is looking to fill yet another hole on his senior staff. The last 14 months have seen four front-office departures. The latest to pull up stakes is senior assistant athletic director Tim Wise, who will assume a similar role at Miami (Fla.) and work with some familiar people. Former UW deputy AD Shawn Eichorst, who left last April, is the athletic director there. Steve Waterfield, a former associate athletic director at UW, is Eichorst?s top assistant.

NCAA lightweight rowing: UW’s stroke rate draws high interest rate

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When Erik Miller goes out in the world to sell the University of Wisconsin women?s lightweight rowing team to recruits, he generally lets the results speak for themselves. ?The reason I think kids want to come here is they know they?re going to be part of a really successful program,? Miller said. ?It?s a talented team. And we?re strong nationally every year.?

Race for the Cure registrations down 25 percent in Madison, organizers say

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Race officials say they don’t know how much blame to place on a controversy involving Planned Parenthood, noting that a difficult economy has hurt many fundraising efforts. Gloria Ladson-Billings, a UW-Madison professor who describes her views on abortion as somewhat conflicted, said she had some initial concerns with Komen?s handling of the Planned Parenthood issue but has decided to continue participating in the race.

“It became clear to me that the local chapter wasn?t linked to any of this, and in the end, I feel the race is so important it outweighs some of the other stuff.” Ladson-Billings, a breast cancer survivor, organizes a team of more than 100 people through Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Madison.

Plain Talk: It?s Walker?s policies that turn back the clock

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During the only two debates that he would agree to appear in, Scott Walker spent a lot of time claiming that Tom Barrett wanted to return to the past and that it was now time to move ?forward,? something Walker claims he?s been doing these past several months. If only it, like a lot of things he says, were true. Frankly, in less than a year and a half Walker and his allies in the state Legislature have done more to turn back the clock on state policies ? everything from fair taxation to environmental safeguards ? than any administration in recent history.

….A biofuel power plant at the UW-Madison was scrapped even though it would have provided a market for Wisconsin farmers to sell some of their crop waste and other material that is now discarded. Instead, Walker ordered the plant to be converted to natural gas.

Capitol Report: Deer hunting Texas style? Walker administration says ‘no’

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Talk of Wisconsin?s rich deer-hunting tradition being overhauled by a Texas wildlife biologist hired by the Walker administration to manage the state?s deer population has led to mounting fear that Wisconsin?s public hunting land will go the way of Texas. If that scenario played out, public land would be snatched up by private owners, preventing the state?s roughly 600,000 deer hunters from roaming free of charge to hunt…Besides raising concerns among some Assembly Democrats, (James) Kroll?s preliminary report also has drawn criticism from Tim Van Deelen, a UW-Madison associate professor of forest and wildlife ecology.

UW men’s hockey: 3 Badgers in mix to replace Detroit legend

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The challenge of replacing future Hall of Famer Nicklas Lidstrom in Detroit could fall to a standout defenseman from the University of Wisconsin men?s hockey program. Question is, which one? Reports say Lidstrom, who starred for the Red Wings for better part of two decades, will announce his retirement Thursday. Already there is speculation about who will step into his immense shadow. Three former Badgers appear prominently in the discussion.

Playing basketball in Germany a hair-raising experience for Nankivil

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ULM, Germany ? Keaton Nankivil?s sweet stroke from beyond the arc is still the same. He still keeps his family and friends in Wisconsin close to his heart. He also still claims to be a quiet guy, yet turns chatty when sharing stories about standing in awe at the ruins in Rome, learning just enough German to be able to order food and perfectly dissecting the pro basketball teams around Deutschland. But there?s something very different about Nankivil, a former Madison Memorial and University of Wisconsin athlete who now calls Germany home.

Know Your Madisonian: Tyler Leeper keeps Wingra Boats afloat

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Q: You own another company that has nothing to do with boats. What is it? A: It?s all entrepreneurship. After graduating with an MBA from UW-Madison in 2008, I became an owner of ProactiCare, a company that is developing a patient monitoring device to prevent pressure ulcers and falls. Since then, I?ve helped write the business plan, put together the company?s strategic direction, set up the marketing and sales program and raised seed financing.

Tom Kleese: Much to consider in college selection

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Last Thursday?s editorial titled “Interest rate debate a sideshow” cuts through the political nonsense to focus on the cost of a college degree. What is more important, however, is the potential value any degree may hold. As a former UW System professor who now helps families navigate through the college admissions process, I fear some opt for a “pretty good school” and then aim for a “good grade point average.” Neither is sufficient when the price tag of a UW-Madison degree has surpassed six figures.