Quoted: Scott Rankin, a UW-Madison associate professor of food science.
Milk brand touts kind hand
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Author: jnweaver
From scratch
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
I’m still shopping for more seeds, but I know I will be planting Wisconsin 55, which was bred by J.C. Walker at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the 1940s.
Walker was a lion in plant pathology and the son of a cabbage grower and seedman seedsman from Racine. His Wisconsin 55 is an all-purpose tomato.
UW results on benchmarks mixed
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The University of Wisconsin System has met the majority of its benchmarks but has fallen short of its goal to increase the number of students served by multicultural and disadvantaged pre-college programs, according to a report reviewed Friday by the Board of Regents.
Regents OK fee for UW-Platteville
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Undergraduates at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville will pay $100 more in tuition next year to help fund extra services in student retention, mental health, career planning and senior projects under a plan approved Friday by the UW System Board of Regents.
Entrepreneurship takes baby steps in Wisconsin
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The truth remains that Dane County does a lot better at accelerating start-ups than the Milwaukee 7 region. Of the $88 million of venture capital raised in the state last year, the lion’s share went to Madison firms – and most of that to four firms spawned on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Madison is the blueprint for the rest of the state on getting new companies going, with more than 200 young firms housed at its University Research Park.
Editorial: Protect innovation
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Editorial on patent law quotes Carl E. Gulbrandsen, managing director of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, which manages intellectual property for UW-Madison.
Vytorin minutes disputed
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The companies that market the popular cholesterol drug Vytorin appear to have fabricated minutes of a meeting of an independent panel of experts hired by the companies after a congressional investigation of the drug was begun, according to documents released Friday.
The latest in joint congressional investigations is based on e-mails between a University of Wisconsin-Madison cardiologist and officials with the drug companies Merck and Schering-Plough, which are the midst of an ongoing controversy over whether they deliberately delayed the release of research results showing that the drug did not improve artery health.
State’s schools get double ‘Jeopardy!’
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
When the lights went up in the Kohl Center on Friday night for the taping of the 2008 “Jeopardy!” College Championship, they illuminated a made-for-TV version of Badger glory.
Paul W. Schlecht: Never too young to be a Badger fan
Capital Times
Dear Editor: As University of Wisconsin alumni, my wife and I have a Red Room dedicated to all things Badger.
Appropriately decorated, with a modicum of kitsch, it leaves little doubt as to our loyalties. It’s equipped to double as our guest room, and we hosted family this past weekend, including a 7-year-old niece and 5-year-old nephew.
My nephew woke his mother, at 6:30 a.m. Saturday, to proclaim “Mom, I love Bucky Badger!” Refreshingly innocent, yet precocious enough for me to think it’s time for more advanced concepts. To wit: “Louis, you have to control both sides of the line of scrimmage to establish the running game.”
Better these than video games or cartoons.
Paul W. Schlecht, Madison
Regents approve additional $100 fee for UW-Platteville students
Capital Times
University of Wisconsin-Platteville students will pay an extra $100 starting next year for enhanced services.
The UW System Board of Regents approved the increase today during a meeting in Madison. It will be a $100 charge on top of any other tuition increases approved for the campus this summer.
Debate here over homeless takes hostile turn
Capital Times
Even as advocates for Madison’s homeless population are challenging the larger community to join their battle against the causes of homelessness, anger about the presence of homeless people is bubbling from several quarters.
Service providers, activists and the formerly homeless stood in solidarity in the food pantry of the Community Action Coalition Thursday and, through the local media, challenged Madison to meet the homeless with compassion and work for economic and social justice.
….The news conference was called in response to increasingly hostile public debate over how the city treats homeless people, a dispute magnified by the Madison Police Department’s implication that transients may have been involved in two homicides in recent weeks.
Cops mum on any link between murders
Capital Times
Madison police detectives continue to pursue leads in two recent unsolved murder cases, police spokesman Joel DeSpain said today, but are still uncertain whether the cases are linked in any way.
“We have two investigations ongoing and a lot of resources devoted to each,” DeSpain said. While officers probing the murder of UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann are sharing information with those investigating the murder of Joel Marino, there is nothing to indicate their murders are connected.
“Until we get some forensic evidence or find some suspect or suspects,” DeSpain said, such a link cannot be established.
“Certainly, there are similarities” between the two killings, he said.
Dirty UW snow raises lake fears
Capital Times
UW-Madison has been storing snow north of Goodman Field and south of a marsh that borders Lake Mendota for years, but this winter the snow overwhelmed the storage space and caused passers-by to worry about effects on the lake.
“A berm surrounds the snow pile, and silt fences and hay bales help filter the runoff from the snow pile. But with this year’s snow, as much as we’ve had, some snow was pushed over the bales and barrier so some runoff is going directly into the marsh,” said John Harrod, director of the physical plant for the university.
“We are working to clean it up so we can minimize impacts on the marsh.”
Questions will fly when Jeopardy visits Kohl Center
Capital Times
It’s an answer-and-question game that sometimes seemingly takes a genius to win. But when it comes to explaining the success of “Jeopardy!”, well, that’s a no-brainer.
“It’s the simplicity of the format,” says Executive Producer Harry Friedman. “It’s a really solid quiz show that some days will challenge you because you are asked for information you don’t know, and then other days you will find information you do know and then can feel pretty good about yourself.”
For the next two days in Madison, it will be college students who might end up feeling pretty good about themselves. “The 2008 Jeopardy! College Championship” will be taped at the Kohl Center today and Saturday for shows that will begin to air on May 5. The University of Wisconsin will be represented by Suchita Shah, a senior majoring in neurobiology.
The choice of the UW wasn’t tough, Friedman said.
“It’s a great, classic campus, and we like everything about Wisconsin and what it represents,” he said.
Friedman knows this firsthand. His wife, Judy, is from Fond du Lac, and his father-in-law, Nate Manis, was on the UW Athletic Board from 1971 to 1975.
Will killer go free like homeless carjacker?
Capital Times
Dear Editor: I was quite shocked to read in our hometown newspaper regarding the recent murder of a University of Wisconsin student. She was from central Wisconsin like I am. What really concerned and disturbed me is when I read that the police are wondering about a homeless person being involved.
My son, who is a UW student, was carjacked almost a year ago. He was told to drive the carjacker to a less desirable part of Madison so that the man could go to a drug party. My son was watched by other people while the man attended the party. After three hours of this horrible ordeal, the criminal told my son to take him to an east side motel and forced him to pay for the room.
UW System aims to increase aid
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The University of Wisconsin System will soon start a statewide fund-raising campaign aimed at doubling privately funded, need-based financial aid to students to $12 million annually, UW System President Kevin Reilly said Thursday.
UPDATE: Killer broke into Zimmermann’s apartment before taking her life, police say
Wisconsin State Journal
Brittany Zimmermann’s killer broke through a door to get into her apartment and kill her, police confirmed today.
“There was forced entry on a door to the building in which Zimmermann resided,” Police Chief Noble Wray said through a spokesman.
Art shows kids really are OK
Capital Times
Last Friday was a special and memorable treat for this art critic.
The student art committee at the Memorial Union had asked me to be a juror, a judge, for the 80th Annual Student Art Show.
I agreed, and a week ago Monday I spent a couple hours with members of the committee and my fellow juror, UW art history professor Barbara Buenger, choosing the art for the show.
It was easier than we all had feared. Overall, the quality was terrific, so we did not have to compromise standards as we selected 42 works from the 147 that were submitted by students of all kinds, not just art students.
UW women’s basketball: Connecticut Sun pick Anderson
Capital Times
Jolene Anderson was selected by the Connecticut Sun Wednesday afternoon with the 23rd overall pick in the 2008 WNBA Draft.
Anderson, who went in the second round and recently wrapped up her collegiate career with the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team, was the first Big Ten Conference player picked in the event that was held in Tampa, Fla.
The 5-foot-8 guard, named the co-Big Ten player of the year this past season, led the league in scoring for two straight seasons and averaged 18.8 points per game during 2007-08.
Although Janese Banks participated in the league’s pre-draft camp last week, the ex-UW guard was not picked with one of the 43 selections in the draft.
UW women’s basketball: Anderson heads east toward the Sun
Capital Times
The Anderson home in Port Wing became a war room of sorts Wednesday afternoon as Jim and Julie Anderson fielded telephone calls and inquiries for daughter Jolene, who learned her professional basketball career will rise with the Sun.
The Connecticut Sun picked the University of Wisconsin’s all-time leading scorer in the second round of the 2008 WNBA Draft with the 23rd overall pick and Jolene Anderson basked in the satisfaction of her new position surrounded by a contingent of 20 family and friends
Advocates see media fanning homeless scare
Capital Times
Homeless people “are our brothers, our sisters. They are members of our community,” says Linda Ketcham, executive director of Madison-area Urban Ministry.
She was preparing for a noontime press conference at Community Action Coalition of South Central Wisconsin called in response to what advocates perceive as a growing tendency to demonize the homeless in the wake of two recent deaths. “We’re concerned about the stereotyping, the profiling, the scapegoating that’s going on now,” Ketcham said.
“We have a shared responsibility as a community,” she said, “I think that’s what’s been forgotten here.”
Anderson ready to take next step
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Surrounded by family and friends in her parents’ home in Port Wing, Jolene Anderson was in her comfort zone. No pressure. No nerves.
Only a sense of excitement as all gathered around the TV to watch the 2008 Women’s National Basketball Association player draft Wednesday in Tampa, Fla. When the University of Wisconsin senior heard her name called in the second round of the three-round draft, Anderson didn’t jump to her feet and scream, leaving that to her aunt Betty.
State reworks pension bonds
Capital Times
The state of Wisconsin restructured almost $1 billion in pension bonds this month, to reduce interest rates that spiked because of turmoil in the financial markets.
Frank Hoadley, capital finance director for the state, said the $948 million worth of variable rate bonds were sold in December 2003 to fund half of a $1.8 billion unfunded liability for prior service.
The other half was fixed rate bonds.
The money actually is a small piece of the total pension picture for the $88 billion Wisconsin Retirement System, which includes employees and retirees of the state and numerous local governments.
UW aims to ease college transition for athletes
Capital Times
The UW-Madison Athletic Department will launch a mandatory Life Skills Academy this fall to help freshman student athletes adjust to college life, particularly the challenges of academics, budgeting, alcohol and sex.
“The goal is to help them transition from high school to college,” said Kelli Richards, coordinator of the program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “The first year is pretty much the hardest year in college. We are trying to provide information then that can help them succeed in all four years.”
The academy is part of the NCAA Foundation-Division I-A Athletic Directors Association CHAMPS Life Skills Program, which stands for Challenging Athletes’ Minds for Personal Success. The school has had a CHAMPS program for all athletes for almost 10 years, and that will continue, but the new program will focus on first-year students.
No photo of damage? Landlords can’t dock security deposit
Capital Times
The Madison City Council unanimously passed an ordinance Tuesday night requiring landlords to provide or make available upon request photographic evidence of damage charged against a tenant’s security deposit.
A number of people spoke in favor of the ordinance, including Nancy Jensen, executive director of the Apartment Association of South Central Wisconsin, which represents close to 1,000 apartment owners and property managers.
Jensen said it wasn’t a heated issue among association members. The bulk of the industry is already taking photos as a best practice, and it is not exclusive to student housing, she said.
UW-Madison Veterinary School Receives Large Inheritance
Wisconsin Ag Connection
A long-time supporter of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine has passed away, leaving the program $6 million in her will. The school says Milwaukee native Barbara Suran became ill with cancer and passed away last month–just three months after signing an agreement to fund the Barbara A. Suran Oncology Research Institute with her estate.
Wisconsin’s rich, poor gap grows
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Wisconsin’s rich keep getting richer much faster than poor and middle-income households, according to reports released today.
And while the gap between the rich and poor isn’t as wide in Wisconsin as in the country overall, the disparity is growing, according to the Center on Wisconsin Strategy at UW-Madison and the Wisconsin Council on Children & Families, both based in Madison.
Ranking the Big Ten coaches (SportingNews.com)
It’s not easy following a legend like Barry Alvarez. But Bret Bielema is doing his boss proud, going 21-5 in his first two years. And he’s a decisive coach who isn’t afraid to alter his staff or personnel if he thinks it will improve his team.
Big Ten Network plans spring game kickoff
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Wisconsin football fans who have access to the Big Ten Network should have the opportunity to get an early preview of the 2008 Big Ten football season later this month. The “Spring Football Showcase” is scheduled to run on the network April 19, from noon to 3:30 p.m. (Milwaukee time).
UW’s spring game, coincidentally, is scheduled for 1 p.m. that day.
Editorial: Was panic warranted?
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Researchers, including Dennis Maki, an infectious disease expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told Rust that the virus has had millions if not trillions of opportunities over the past five years to evolve into a pathogen that easily could make the jump to people. So far, it has not. And while that is certainly something for which the human race can be grateful, the ultimate folly in public health is to let down ones guard, whether its against a virus as familiar as measles or as exotic as avian flu, which has killed more than 60% of the people it has infected.
Editorial: Hands off UWM
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Lawmakers looking to close a gaping hole in the state budget shouldn’t look to the University of Wisconsin’s growth agenda. UW-Milwaukee could be hit particularly hard.
UWM won a $9.6 million boost in the previous state budget, and the school plans to build a new engineering campus and research park. UWM is in negotiations with Milwaukee County to purchase 83 acres at the County Grounds in Wauwatosa and has begun interviewing faculty. Chancellor Carlos Santiago, who has made boosting the research profile of UWM Job 1 since he was hired four years ago, has persuaded philanthropist Michael Cudahy to donate the money to buy the county land.
No midlife crisis as UW adult ed center hits 50
Capital Times
About 50 years after Charles Van Hise came up with the Wisconsin Idea, the concept got a roof in Madison, physically and figuratively.
Van Hise, while president of the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1904, expressed his belief that education should extend beyond the traditional classroom setting. The opening of the Wisconsin Center for Adult Education in 1958 gave adult learners a specific space to congregate for that purpose. It would be the first of the three UW Extension Conference Centers in Madison.
The UW System Board of Regents and invited guests on Thursday will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first facility (now the Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St.) with a reception that will feature the products of six that have utilized UW Extension services.
Novelist, 4 from UW win Guggenheims
Capital Times
A Madison-area novelist, two University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists, a UW composer and a UW economist have been named Guggenheim Fellows for 2008.
“We can’t say for sure whether it’s the most the University of Wisconsin or Madison has ever received,” an official at the Guggenheim Foundation said this morning. “But it’s a substantial, respectable number.”
Scholarship fund will honor slain UW student
Capital Times
The family of slain UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann has set up a “Dollars for Brittany” scholarship fund drive in her honor.
“In the days since Brittany’s tragic death, we have searched our hearts for answers that we may never receive. We are grieving her death and we are grieving the future events that we will never celebrate with Brittany,” the family said in a statement.
“One event we will never celebrate with Brittany is her graduation from UW-Madison next fall. Anyone who knew Brittany knew of her love for learning and her ambition and dedication to help others. If you knew her, you would also know of her perpetual positive attitude,” the family said.
UW unveils new student ticket plan for football
Capital Times
Upperclassmen at UW-Madison used to get upper-class treatment when it came to getting the highly-prized Badger football tickets each fall, but not anymore.
The UW Athletic Department announced a new student ticket plan which, among other things, requires all students wanting to go to games and sit in the student sections at Camp Randall Stadium to take part in the lottery system to get their season tickets, a lottery system previously only used for freshmen and new students.
Section P at Camp Randall, the boisterous section reserved for upperclassmen, also will be fair game for all levels of students, now open to all student ticket holders.
UW-River Falls chancellor moves on
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
University of Wisconsin-River Falls Chancellor Don Betz will resign in June to become president of the three-campus Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Okla., university officials announced this morning.
Film Fest wraps up 10-year birthday bash
Capital Times
When director Stuart Gordon went to college here back in the mid-1960s, the Orpheum Theatre was as much a classroom for him as any room on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
And the unrest he saw in the streets was reflected in the rule-breaking films he saw up on the flickering screen, from “Bonnie and Clyde” to “The Wild Bunch” to “2001: A Space Odyssey.”
“There was a revolution going on out in the streets, and there was a revolution going on right here on this screen,” Gordon told an Orpheum audience Saturday night at the 10th annual Wisconsin Film Festival. He and his buddies would often head straight to a friend’s apartment next door after a screening and stay up all night talking about the movie they had just seen.
The streets may be calmer now — really crowded, given the nice weather over the weekend, but calmer — but the challenging films and the post-show discussions continued as the film festival wrapped up its first decade.
Fest is ‘killer’ for film fans of all stripes
Capital Times
The exquisitely rendered independent dramas and powerfully honest documentaries are all well and good, but what do Wisconsin Film Festival audiences really want to see up on the big screen?
Simple. They want more car chases and more Canadians.
At least, that’s the lesson that festival director Meg Hamel could take away from Friday’s screening of the tongue-in-cheek action comedy “Bon Cop, Bad Cop,” which drew a sold-out crowd of some 1,500 to pack the Orpheum Theatre. Hamel told the crowd that it was the largest for the festival in years.
St. Ray’s reconstruction put on hold
Capital Times
A staggering economy pushed a capital campaign for a new cathedral for the Madison Diocese back by at least a year, the diocese said in a statement Friday.
“The next year will allow me the opportunity to address these questions: as to what a cathedral is and why one is needed in Madison and why the inclusion of campus ministry in our capital campaign is a top priority,” Bishop Robert Morlino said in the diocesan statement.
In his column Thursday in the Catholic Herald, Morlino cited a consultant’s feasibility study, which included a survey of thousands of local church members on their priorities for the diocese.
Police ‘very active’ in tracking leads in student murder
Capital Times
Madison police are “very active” today tracking down leads in the Brittany Zimmermann murder case, but are not naming any suspects or persons of interest at this time, or a motive in the slaying or how Zimmermann was killed.
“It’s very active at this point,” said Madison Police Department spokesman Joel DeSpain today. “We are talking to lots of people. We are getting good information from many in the community, including residents, students and transients, with the transient population being very helpful.”
Zimmermann, 21, a UW-Madison senior, was killed Wednesday afternoon in her apartment on West Doty Street downtown.
Sources said she was stabbed, and her father, Kevin Zimmermann, was told by police she suffered a chest trauma, but police are tight-lipped about that aspect of the investigation.
Audit: UW campuses must do more to protect data (AP)
Capital Times
University of Wisconsin campuses should do more to protect the vast amount of personal data stored in their computer networks, according to an audit released Friday.
Campuses that don’t already have them should hire computer security officers to make sure the issue is a priority, the report by UW System auditors recommends.
Campuses also should follow UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee’s lead and implement written policies identifying data that need additional protection and outlining how to respond to security breaches, the audit recommended. Such policies are important to guarding sensitive data and responding quickly if such information is improperly release
Hundreds mourn Brittany Zimmermann at vigil
Capital Times
It was September 2006 and Sister Celestina Menin of St. Paul’s University Catholic Center had just arrived in Madison from Italy.
She approached a young woman sitting on top of Bascom Hill on a beautiful day and asked for information.
The young woman she approached was Brittany Zimmermann, who not only answered her questions but asked if she was in a hurry and invited her to sit down and chat.
“She was so kind and welcoming,” Menin said. When she found out Menin was a nun, Zimmermann had all kinds of questions about God and prayer, Menin said.
UW astrophysicist left ‘big footprint’ on the stars
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Just because something couldn’t be seen did not mean that it couldn’t be mapped.
William Kraushaar, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and a pioneer in the field of high-energy astrophysics, developed experiments that created the first gamma ray map of the sky, showing gamma rays from both the Milky Way galaxy and beyond. He died on March 21.
State writers hit the right notes
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: Robin Chapman, a Madison poet and retired University of Wisconsin professor who serves as a director at the Council of Wisconsin Writers.
Hospital spending varies widely
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Mentions that Medicare spent an average of $56,940 to treat chronically ill patients in the last two years of their lives at Froedtert. That was roughly in line with the national average for academic medical centers and slightly higher than an average of $49,477 for the University of Wisconsin Hospital & Clinics in Madison.
Bird flu fears wane
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: Dennis Maki, an infectious disease expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
New ‘George of the Jungle’ geared to younger set on Cartoon Network
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Mentioned: Suchita Shah, a senior neurobiology major at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, joins 14 other students in the “Jeopardy!” 2008 College Championship being taped Friday and Saturday at the Kohl Center in Madison. The tournament starts airing May 5.
Weak economy sheds jobs
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
“We’re in a recession, no doubt,” Donald Nichols, a professor emeritus of economics and public policy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told about 100 business leaders and students gathered in Madison Friday.
At a semi-annual economic outlook conference sponsored by the UW School of Business, Nichols forecast a long, shallow national economic contraction that will be less harsh in Wisconsin.
Police add neighborhood patrols amid investigation of student’s killing
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Madison police are maintaining extra neighborhood patrols as they investigate the slaying of Brittany Sue Zimmermann, 21, who was found dead in her downtown apartment.
Madison residents feel more vulnerable
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Kristy Ludwig, a third-year student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, lives a half-block away from where fellow student Brittany Sue Zimmermann was killed in her apartment on Wednesday.
Three UW-Stout students die in fire
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
An early-morning house fire in Menomonie killed three University of Wisconsin-Stout students and left the campus in a state of shock Saturday.
Area home sales, prices fall in February
Capital Times
The housing market remains very slow throughout southern Wisconsin, with some areas starting to show some significant price drops.
Quoted: UW-Madison real estate professor Morris Davis
Midday slaying has many on edge
Capital Times
The slaying of a young woman in her downtown apartment has University of Wisconsin-Madison students and her neighbors on edge.
“I’m extra scared because of the little bit of information that’s been released,” said Christian Caflisch, 23, a recent UW-Madison graduate who lives less than a block from where Brittany Sue Zimmermann, 21, was found dead Wednesday in her apartment at 517 W. Doty St. “They are basically telling us, ‘A killer is out there. Be safe.’ ”
Another student expressed confidence in the police.
“We trust the campus and city police to take care of us, to protect our safety,” said senior Jessica Zeier.
Still no suspects in student’s murder
Capital Times
Madison police do not have a suspect or any persons of interest identified in the murder of UW-Madison senior Brittany Sue Zimmermann, but the department has received more than 75 tips over the past 24 hours about the case.
Police spokesman Joel DeSpain said today items found “that may have evidentiary value” are already being examined by forensics analysts with the Wisconsin State Crime Laboratory in Madison.
Zimmermann, 21, was murdered Wednesday in her apartment in the 500 block of West Doty Street in downtown Madison.
For Film Fest fans, so many movies, so little time
Capital Times
Amy Johnson is a film festival junkie with tickets to 16 shows over four days.
“I like movies,” Johnson shrugged, standing in the Orpheum Theatre on Thursday night for the opening of the Wisconsin Film Festival, where she was buying a festival sweatshirt. She opened her day planner, which was jam-packed with movie titles, times and venues.
1,000 UW students try to get on Jeopardy!
Capital Times
Almost 1,000 UW-Madison students tried out Thursday for just one spot as a contestant on the popular TV quiz show “Jeopardy!”.
Most of those interviewed before or after the initial 10-question written test at the Memorial Union wanted to participate because they were longtime fans of the knowledge-based show, but some were more interested in the chance to win some big money.
55 apply to be UW-Madison’s next chancellor
Capital Times
The UW-Madison received 55 applications by the Thursday deadline for the position of chancellor that will become vacant when John Wiley leaves the post in September.
One who did not apply was Boston Mayor Thomas Menino who, as a nominee, received one of the 250 application packets.
Menino made it clear to a Boston Globe reporter that he was not interested.
But packets were sent out to everyone who was nominated by people within or outside the University of Wisconsin.
Student tells of ordeal with immigration agents
Capital Times
Tope Awe said she thought her interview at the Department of Homeland Security office in Milwaukee last week was dragging on a bit too long. And then, the University of Wisconsin-Madison student recalled, in came the plastic bags.
“As soon as I saw the plastic bags, I realized what was happening,” Awe recalled in an interview. Immigration agents suddenly entered the interview room carrying the bags to collect personal belongings from her and her brother, Benga Awe. “I don’t even know how to describe it. I had no idea what to do,” said the 22-year-old Pharmacy School student, who remembered breaking down in tears.
On Thursday, Awe was back at school, trying to catch up on her missed classes after being released two days earlier from the Dodge County Jail, where she and her brother were detained on an immigration hold.
Limit credit lure, colleges urged
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Aggressive marketing of credit cards on college campuses is putting some students deep into debt and needs to be reined in, a local unit of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group said Thursday.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee chapter of the consumer group cited a recent national survey showing 76% of students, lured by promotions such as free T-shirts and food, have stopped at tables to consider a credit card or to sign up for one. The national survey included students from UWM and UW-Madison.
Madison neighbors shaken by slaying
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Friends, neighbors and students reeled Thursday in the aftermath of a University of Wisconsin-Madison student’s slaying – shocked by a promising life cut short and shaken by a midafternoon homicide without a suspect.