Gov. Jim Doyle said Thursday that he has already asked state department heads to institute belt-tightening measures to deal with an expected budget shortfall stemming from the economic slowdown.
State to limit spending
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Author: jnweaver
Rob Zaleski: Overpopulation issue overlooked by presidential candidates
Capital Times
I kept thinking that at some point during the long, laborious process to elect our next president it was bound to happen. But now, after more than 20 debates and with the election just 10 months away, it has dawned on me that none of the candidates — or any of the media — is going to bring up what the late Gaylord Nelson, the former Wisconsin senator and governor and the father of Earth Day, felt was the most urgent issue that humanity faces: overpopulation.
Quoted: Botany professor Don Waller
Milewski: Colleges feeling helpless as NHL raids top talent at will
Capital Times
College hockey programs that have been fortunate enough to get highly skilled players to join their team always have been looking over their shoulder. That glance now shows the NHL a lot closer than it has been before.
It’s part of the process, of course, that the pro level takes the best college players, often before they’ve completed four years in school. The manner in which it’s being done is what has some college hockey coaches and administrators uneasy.
….Wisconsin, which has lost four players in the last two offseasons, has seen players sign because of offers that might not have been available later.
Cinematheque series shows off films old and new
Capital Times
It’s hard to think of two film directors more unlike than John Ford and Michael Haneke, except to say that both their films need to be seen on the big screen.
Ford’s movies, especially westerns like “The Searchers” and “She Wore a Yellow Ribbon,” need to be seen in a theater to fully appreciate the widescreen splendor of their visuals. Haneke’s films need to be seen in the theater, on the other hand, because they’re so disturbing that if you were watching at home, you might turn them off.
Bringing a venerated classic American director and a controversial modern German director together is business as usual for the UW-Cinematheque program, the free on-campus film series that features foreign, classic and independent films. Even in the age of Netflix, many of the films that Cinematheque shows simply aren’t available on DVD.
NFL hopeful injures knee
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
ack Ikegwuonu, the former University of Wisconsin cornerback, blew out his knee Tuesday in a training exercise and won’t play football in 2008.
Venture Firms Peek Out Of Silicon Valley (Forbes.com)
Forbes
In 2000, when John Neis, co-founder of Madison, Wis.-based Venture Investors, tried to convince venture capitalists on the West and East Coasts to fund TomoTherapy, a Wisconsin cancer-radiation company he had seeded, they weren’t interested. “It was not in the comfort zone for them,” he says. So he returned to Wisconsin and pulled together a group of Midwestern investors.
His firm culls eight states for deals; most come from research done at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Michigan.
Faculty show is a huge deal
Capital Times
The big art event this week — and I mean big in so many ways — is the opening of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Faculty Art Show at the Chazen Museum of Art, 800 University Ave., which runs through March 30.
Every four years or so, a mammoth view of what is happening in the art department, which enjoys a fine reputation nationally, goes on view at the Chazen.
As in previous years, this year’s exhibit will be expansive (displayed in all the Brittingham Galleries and the cavernous Paige Court) and very varied.
Almost three dozen current and retired UW art professors are featured among the artists. Also showing are affiliated artists who work with the Tandem Press and related departments.
Emergency contraception bill OK’d by Assembly
Capital Times
A bill that didn’t even get a public hearing last legislative session when Republicans controlled both statehouses cleared its last real legislative hurdle Wednesday, setting up an expected signing by Gov. Jim Doyle.
The Republican-controlled state Assembly decisively approved a bill requiring all hospitals –including religiously-based institutions–to offer emergency contraception to rape victims. The bill passed 61-35, with 16 Republicans joining the entire Democratic caucus except for one member, Rep. Bob Ziegelbauer of Manitowoc, in support.
The bill won’t move quickly to the governor’s desk, however, because the Assembly failed to muster the needed two-thirds vote to counter a move by Rep. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, to prevent automatic transmission of the bill to the Senate. Instead, the bill will need to wait until the full Assembly meets next, which won’t be until February.
Diseases will flourish without pet vaccinations
Capital Times
Nationwide, fewer than half of all puppies and kittens are vaccinated, according to a study by University of Wisconsin-Madison veterinarians, suggesting that dangerous diseases like distemper and parvovirus will continue to flourish.
“A population must reach a certain threshold of immunity — called ‘herd immunity’ — in order to protect the whole group,” said Ronald Schultz, a vaccinologist who heads a department in the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine. “If not enough individuals in a population are protected, disease can always find a new foothold, or even worse, remain active in the population.”
Part of Dillinger movie starring Depp likely to be filmed in Madison
Capital Times
Representatives of Universal Studios will be in Madison Sunday, looking for classic 1930-1935 vehicles to be used in the forthcoming movie “Public Enemies,” which will star Johnny Depp as John Dillinger and be directed by UW-Madison alumnus Michael Mann.
Scott Robbe, executive director of Film Wisconsin, said the call for classic cars is “a strong indicator” that the movie will be filmed in Wisconsin, as has been rumored for several weeks.
Making the best of a tough time
Capital Times
Gov. Jim Doyle faced a tremendous challenge as he prepared this year’s State of the State address. The stock market is on a roller-coaster ride that just about everyone thinks will end in some sort of crash. Each day brings new evidence that suggests the Bush-Cheney recession will be painful.
U.S.-Iran escalation thwarted, foreign policy expert says
Capital Times
Everything pointed toward a confrontation between the United States and Iran a couple of months ago, but two unexpected events took place to undermine the “step-by-step escalation toward war,” political novelist and foreign policy expert Hannes Artens said during a Madison appearance Wednesday night.
First, the situation in Pakistan got tense when President Pervez Musharraf declared emergency rule, purportedly suspending the Constitution and imposing martial law, and oil prices spiked to nearly $100 a barrel, helping fuel a recession.
With recession gripping the U.S., “this is not really the best time to start another war in the Middle East,” Artens told a small audience in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union.
Algae could be key to faster computer chips
Capital Times
The key to the next big computer chip breakthrough could be tiny algae that encase themselves in intricately patterned, glass-like shells.
The unicellular algae, called diatoms, exist in oceans, lakes and even wet soil and build their hard cell walls by laying down microscopic lines of silica, a compound related to the key material of the semiconductor-industry silicon.
“If we can genetically control that process, we would have a whole new way of performing the nanofabrication used to make computer chips,” Michael Sussman, a UW-Madison biochemistry professor and director of the UW-Madison’s Biotechnology Center, said in a UW press release.
Doyle pushes tax incentives, warns of spending cuts
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Gov. Jim Doyle called for new tax breaks Wednesday to create the next generation of high-tech jobs but warned that a stalling economy threatens state government’s ability to pay its current bills.
Cormorant reduction planned
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Mentions that field studies in 2004, 2005 and 2006 by the University of Wisconsin-Madison concluded that cormorants did not affect yellow perch populations, a key sport fish in Lake Michigan waters.
UW women’s basketball: Anderson in contention for Naismith
Capital Times
Senior Jolene Anderson has made the next phase of cutoffs for the Naismith Trophy, an award given to the nation’s top women’s basketball player.
Gypsy moth spraying set
Capital Times
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources will be taking to the skies once again in May and June, spraying close to 2,500 acres of city and suburban properties to suppress the destructive gypsy moth caterpillar.
A public information meeting is set for Monday, Jan. 28 at 7 p.m. at the University of Wisconsin West Madison Ag Station, 8502 Mineral Point Road, where representatives of the DNR, Dane County Parks and the Dane County Tree Board will outline the spraying plans and the areas to be sprayed.
Twenty-three Dane County locations are set to be sprayed in late May or early June, including 16 sites in Madison.
(The UW campus and the Arboretum are among the proposed treatment sites.)
Lucas: With Dickie V sidelined, silence in college game is deafening
Capital Times
The ABC/ESPN tag team of Brent Musburger, the venerable play-by-play voice, and Steve Lavin, the hip but grounded analyst, acknowledged how quiet it has become.
And it had nothing to do with Tuesday night’s traffic backup on the campus arteries leading to the Kohl Center; an annoying “rush hour” gridlock which delayed the arrival of many University of Wisconsin men’s basketball ticket-holders. Nor did it have anything to do with the unthreatening presence of a struggling, second-tier Big Ten opponent….
But maybe you noticed, too, how quiet it has become; a deafening silence, if you will, since Dick Vitale has been sidelined since mid-December with health issues.
Outdoors: Large-scale effort needed to save grassland birds
Capital Times
WISCONSIN DELLS — Of all of the birds that spend part of their lives in Wisconsin, the group that needs the most help are grassland birds. Their populations, along with their habitat, are in decline.
That is one of the reasons why the Department of Natural Resources held a statewide Grassland Bird Symposium last week, bringing together state and federal wildlife managers and researchers, and land managers from (non-governmental conservation organizations.
UW-Madison wildlife ecology research associate Kevin Ellison and the UW Arboretum are mentioned.)
Thomson: massive stem cell investment needed to catch California
Capital Times
UW-Madison stem cell research leader James Thomson said Tuesday that Wisconsin would have to invest $50 million a year in stem cell research to compete with California’s $3 billion investment.
The result would be high-paying jobs for the state and continued recruitment of top scientific minds to the University of Wisconsin, he predicted.
State of the State: Doyle to address economic agenda
Capital Times
When Gov. Jim Doyle delivers his annual State of the State speech tonight, he’ll receive the requisite applause and standing ovations from lawmakers as he lays out his vision for the coming year.
But once the applause dies down and the chambers empty, Doyle may face some tough sledding in the remaining few months before lawmakers adjourn for the year and head for the campaign trail.
Stiemsma keeps it fresh
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Brian Butch had his doubts, but he put his faith in his teammate and dug in.
Greg Stiemsma didn’t let him down.
If you think the sight of a 6-foot-11, 260-pound center is imposing in the paint, picture him, apron and all, wheeling and dealing in front of a stove. Stiemsma owns the lane on the court, and runs the kitchen at home, whether it is grilling, breakfast or, Butch’s favorite, fettuccine.
Badgers success no surprise to ex-star
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
There are a lot of people who would’ve laughed at, derided or otherwise ridiculed the notion that Wisconsin would be No. 11 in the country the year after Alando Tucker left.
No shock here, but Tucker would not be one of them.
Ebola vaccine possible as researchers defang and isolate strain of virus
Capital Times
A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has safely isolated a strain from the lethal Ebola virus that may break down some research safety restrictions and foster the development of a vaccine.
The discovery genetically disarms the virus and confines it to a set of specialized cells, making it easier and safer for study.
“We wanted to make biologically contained Ebola virus,” Yoshihiro Kawaoka, the team’s research leader, said in a statement. “This is a great system.”
UW prof: Neagtive ads work (WisPolitics.com)
The public hates negative ads. At least thatâ??s what the media and pundits offer up every election year.
But UW-Madison political science professor Ken Goldstein argues theyâ??re usually more accurate, more likely to focus on substance and policy, and more likely to spark votersâ?? interest and participation. In short, they work.
UW-Madison gives away batteries for smoke detectors after fires
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — University of Wisconsin-Madison leaders are urging students to make sure their smoke detectors are working after two recent off-campus fires.
The university is handing out nearly 2,000 9-volt batteries at the student union Tuesday to students who live in houses and apartments.
Lucas: 10 years later, Kohl Center home to plenty of great memories
Capital Times
John Elway finally won a Super Bowl. Matt Damon, not Bo Ryan, was cast in the hit movie, “Saving Private Ryan.” Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa and Marion Jones were still credible, if not safe from themselves. A President was claiming that he did not have sexual relations with that woman (an intern named Miss Lewinsky). And a former Northwestern men’s basketball coach, Kevin O’Neill, insisted that almost everyone who attended the opening of the Kohl Center was wearing a red, plaid shirt. “I had one of our managers do a count and there were 13,412 in there. Several women had them on, too,” O’Neill swore.
In any mention of 10-year anniversaries (see multiple entries above), O’Neill and his colorful X-rated language would have to be among the “firsts” in the Kohl Center — as in the first coach to litter the sidelines with expletives.
Doug Moe: Worst official theft of UW win: 1940 NCAA boxing title
Capital Times
MIKE EAVES is mad, and he should be.
The UW-Madison men’s hockey team lost a game last weekend when a referee incorrectly disallowed a Badger goal that tied the game at the last second. The referee misinterpreted a video review of the goal, and Denver won the game, 3-2.
….The episode is bad enough that it just may go down as the second most egregious referee’s mistake in the annals of University of Wisconsin athletics. But as bad as it was, the disallowed goal in Denver is a distant second.
Rights under federal laws eroded, legislator says
Capital Times
Job shield for state workers sought
A state lawmaker wants to restore federal job protection laws for more than 60,000 state and University of Wisconsin employees that he contends have been eroded by a series of U.S. Supreme Court rulings.
Rep. Cory Mason, D-Racine, said Monday that he is seeking co-sponsors for the bill, which would expressly grant the workers protections accorded under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act and anti-age discrimination laws.
Fans must give $2,500 annually to Badger Fund for best parking spots
Capital Times
When the University of Wisconsin initiated mandatory donations for men’s basketball preferred parking in 2001, only new buyers were subject to the charges. Those fans who already held spots were grandfathered in, with no additional fees.
Seven years later, that free pass is over.
The athletic department is raising its annual giving levels for the right to purchase parking at UW lots near the Kohl Center, according to a letter sent to season ticket holders last month, and applying it uniformly.
Foreclosed properties piling up
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: Andrew Reschovsky, a professor of public affairs and applied economics at the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
State venture capital rises
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Four companies raised nearly three-quarters of the state’s venture capital in 2007 – Virent Energy Systems Inc., NimbleGen Systems Inc., Deltanoid Pharmaceuticals Inc. and OpGen Inc. All are based on technologies developed at UW-Madison.
UW leader’s salary lags
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Chancellor John D. Wiley’s annual earnings of $341,495 – including a state-provided car, free housing, retirement pay and club dues – may seem generous to the average Wisconsin taxpayer. But it may not be enough to attract a top leader to take the reins at the University of Wisconsin-Madison when Wiley steps down in September.
Tax shortfall may threaten state services
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Collections of the three most important Wisconsin taxes increased less than 1% in the second half of 2007 – falling far short of the 3% assumed growth needed to cover state expenditures this year and raising fears that deep spending cuts will be necessary.
Catholic group wins suit
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials must stop denying funding to student groups for prayer, worship or proselytizing, U.S. District Judge John C. Shabaz ordered Thursday.
Ice castles: New book celebrates shanties and fishing lore
Capital Times
UW-Madison professor of landscape architecture Arnold Alanen is quoted in “The Fish House Book: Life on Ice in the Northland” by Kathryn Nordstrom.
Biz forum to honor 11 ATHENA nominees
Capital Times
From child care to health care, this year’s ATHENA Award nominees represent a variety of careers and interests. Clinical social workers are included in the mix, along with lawyers, educators and businesswomen.
(Among the nominees: Sue Morschhauser, program manager, Department of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.)
Days of ‘Doc,’ the country vet, are long gone
Capital Times
Older livestock farmers remember the days when most rural towns had a veterinarian.
….Old “Doc” has long ago retired from the rural scene, but animal care is still number one in most dairy farmers’ minds. There are concerns that food animal veterinarians will be in short supply in coming years — currently 30 percent of the graduating class at the UW School of Veterinary Medicine has expressed interest in food animal-large animal practice.
Sconnie world: Retail outlet, road trips expand Badger lifestyle
Capital Times
What started as a T-shirt slogan has become a lifestyle brand touting all things Wisconsin.
Sconnie Nation recently opened a retail location in conjunction with custom printer Underground Printing. In addition, it licensed its trademark Sconnie brand to a separate company offering road trip packages.
What has resulted is a network of enterprises created by students, primarily for students.
Doug Moe: Story of Daily Cardinal relights fire for news biz
Capital Times
SOME TIME ago I suggested that newspaper people weary of reading the gloomy forecasts for the future of their business need only watch “Deadline USA” to get their fire back.
It’s still a good idea — few scenes can get a journalist’s blood stirring better than that movie’s closer, when a gangster, the subject of an expose in Humphrey Bogart’s (dying) newspaper, asks Bogart over the phone what the racket is in the background.
“That’s the press, baby,” Bogart replies. “The press. And there’s nothing you can do about it.”
Now, thanks to Allison Hantschel, I have another suggestion. Hantschel is a former editor of the UW-Madison’s century-plus-old student newspaper, The Daily Cardinal, and she has just published a book, “It Doesn’t End With Us: The Story of The Daily Cardinal.” It’s not just a great yarn about a newspaper but an interesting history of the University of Wisconsin and the city of Madison as well.
Doug Moe: Ney bridges New York-Madison connection with hip-hop
Capital Times
IT IS a long way from Madison to Madison Square Garden, and once Willie Ney was there, sitting wide-eyed on the New York Knicks’ bench one night earlier this month, he thought it couldn’t get much better than that.
Ney, executive director of the Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives at UW-Madison, was in Manhattan as part of an extraordinary new program that will bring a New York City high school graduate to Madison next fall on a full college scholarship. The Knicks, New York’s storied National Basketball Association franchise, are involved, along with a New York City UW-Madison alumni group.
Best of all, a bunch of New York high school students with big talent and big dreams are involved. They are writing and performing poetry, proving there is more to hip-hop culture than a scowl and a snarl.
Study: Online privacy concerns increase (AP)
NEW YORK (AP) — Privacy concerns stemming from online shopping rose in 2007, a new study finds, as the loss or theft of credit card information and other personal data soared to unprecedented levels.
….The study, to be released Thursday, comes as privacy and security groups report that an increasing number of personal records are being compromised because of data breaches at online retailers, banks, government agencies and corporations.
Hooked on ballroom
Capital Times
People are finding more reasons to dance.
After watching athletes and entertainers learn steps on television, more adults have taken up ballroom dancing.
….Ballroom dance has been a mainstay at Wisconsin Union Mini Courses for 30 years, according to program director Jay Ekleberry.
UW slow in news of employee security leak
Capital Times
UW-Madison officials waited more than a month before advising more than 200 faculty and staff members of a potential exposure of their personal information on the Internet last year.
The personal information — including e-mail addresses, phone numbers and Social Security-based campus ID numbers of faculty and staff who made purchases from the DoIT computer shop — had been accessible on a campus Internet site for at least a year, said Brian Rust, communications manager for the UW’s department of information technology.
Driver guilty of homicide in I-90 crash
Capital Times
A Mount Horeb woman who admitted to drinking cognac and using cocaine before a crash on the interstate that killed a UW-Whitewater professor last June entered a no-contest plea today and was found guilty of homicide by intoxicated use of a motor vehicle.
Samantha J. Young, who turned 20 last Saturday, was northbound on I-90-39 near Edgerton in southern Dane County, driving at speeds estimated by witnesses to be up to 120 miles per hour, when her car rear-ended a northbound vehicle driven by UW-Whitewater professor of psychology Paula Poorman, 56, of Madison.
Wisconsin Senate approves minimum wage boost
Capital Times
The state Senate has passed a bill that would raise Wisconsin’s minimum wage.
The measure, written by Democrats, would boost the wage from $6.50 to $7.25 an hour. Then it would increase annually based on inflation.
Principal picked for new elementary school
Capital Times
Pam Emmerich, 37, has been named as the principal for Madison’s newest elementary school, now under construction on the far west side.
Emmerich is currently the assistant principal at Chavez Elementary on the city’s southwest side.
(She has a degree in elementary education from UW-Eau Claire and a master’s in education administration from UW-Madison.)
Officials here tout new cardiac technique
The Madison Fire Department is implementing new cardiac protocols that could potentially triple the survival rate of someone having cardiac arrest.
….Through the efforts of Dr. Darren Bean, medical director of the Madison Fire Department and a University Hospital physician, the Fire Department has gotten approval from the state to allow its paramedics and emergency medical technicians to revise their practices for cardiac resuscitation. The department is also launching a countywide program designed to improve survival rates from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest — rates that have not changed locally or nationally in 20 years.
UW men’s hockey: Badgers protesting loss to Denver due to referee’s error
Capital Times
Mike Eaves doesn’t think anything will come of it, but the men’s hockey coach and the University of Wisconsin are going ahead with a protest of Friday’s officiating error-tainted loss to Denver.
The aim is to have the defeat stripped from their record, replacing it with a tie in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association standings. But to Eaves, a consolation prize would be the restructuring of the video review and appeals processes to avoid similar snafus in the future.
Badger Player Also Has Drinking Citation In Minnesota
WKOW-TV 27
27 News has uncovered UW basketball player Kevin Gullikson has been cited four times for underage drinking in the past two years, including a Minnesota citation, where the case was dismissed, despite Gullikson’s apparent violation of court requirements.
Gullikson remains with the basketball team. Team spokesman Brian Lucas has yet to return a phone call from 27 News. In published reports, Lucas has said Gullikson’s situation is being handled internally.
Records show Gullikson, 20, was most recently cited for underage drinking Jan.6, with a blood alcohol level of .20, more than twice Wisconsin’s legal driving limit of .08.
Now 10 years old, Kohl Center called ‘tremendous success’
Capital Times
When Plymouth schools Superintendent Paul Brandl was retiring, he looked into warm Florida or Arizona like his friends had, but he decided on Madison instead. His major objective was to live within walking distance of the Kohl Center.
Doug Moe:
Capital Times
….On Tuesday you may want to check out WSUM-FM/91.7, the UW-Madison student radio station. As was the case for one day last January, the station — with many students out of town — is being “hijacked” by old guys, including Madison radio veterans Tom Teuber, Rick Murphy and Dave Benson. The day’s programming — from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. — will be coordinated by UW-Madison alum Bruce Ravid, who now lives in Los Angeles, where he runs an executive search firm. Ravid spent years in the music industry, including a stint as promotions director for Capitol Records.
Thomas Gitter: Kudos to Charter for Big Ten stance
Capital Times
Dear Editor: It is time to speak up and support Charter Communications in its dispute with the Big Ten Network. It must be very disappointing for Bo Ryan to recruit a team and field it, to be viewed by only about 10 percent of the TV viewers.
Ramp proposals aim to get cars off streets
Capital Times
If Madison’s parking operations manager has his way, there will be fewer cars on downtown streets for plows to maneuver around as soon as early next month.
Operations manager Bill Knobeloch is recommending that “non-pay” availability of city parking ramps be expanded by four hours a night during snow emergencies and that the city offer monthly overnight parking passes for the Overture ramp.
Knobeloch sees a market for the 24/7 monthly parking passes among downtown condo owners whose units come with only one parking space, and among university students. “I have had several parents call asking how to get their kids’ cars off the streets at nights and in out of the weather,” he said.
UW women’s basketball: Anderson breaks scoring mark in Badgers’ loss
Capital Times
IOWA CITY, Iowa – Jolene Anderson wanted no fanfare with breaking the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball career scoring mark.
“I just want to get it over with,” Anderson said in an interview earlier last week, hoping to perhaps break the record at the Kohl Center in UW’s game Thursday against Michigan.
Anderson shattered the record in dominating style Sunday night, but the effort proved to be bittersweet, as the Badgers suffered a 78-74 overtime Big Ten Conference loss to Iowa at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
Local artists’ books take comics to a new level
Capital Times
Harvey Pekar, Paul Buhle and Tom Pomplun know the score: Traditional print media are losing readers. Maybe their graphic novels — essentially bulked-up versions of “comic books” — are the answer.
The three are producing books that might make a difference by not just racking up sheer sales numbers but by communicating graphically in funny, stylish and meaningful ways.
….”Madison Strike Riot” dramatizes the protests SDS joined in 1967 at a University of Wisconsin building where Dow Chemical was recruiting potential employees. Dow produced napalm for Air Force use in Vietnam, and the book vividly depicts administrators and police smashing a peaceful sit-in. The notorious 1970 bombing of the UW’s Sterling Hall involved no members of SDS, which had disbanded a year earlier.
Broadband Sales Could Make Millions for Educational Institutions
WKOW-TV 27
Three educational institutions will make more than $100 million in the next 30 years by selling frequencies that can be converted to wireless broadband.
UW-Milwaukee, Milwaukee Public Schools and Milwaukee Area Technical College will lease a dozen channels of educational broadband Clearwire. Each will get $4.2 million initially and monthly payments of $55,000 that increase annually.
Dave Peterson: Big-money sports’ pull on UW sickening
Capital Times
Dear Editor: Please don’t let this Big Ten Network fiasco be swept under some rug.
I have no problem with the NFL Network. That’s professional sports and, of course, all about money.
But Chancellor John Wiley and his highness Barry Alvarez really sold out to the greed of the athletic department with its luxury boxes and ridiculous ticket pricing, with a pittance going to UW-Madison programs.
Mayek, Hamilton and Duesterbeck: UW has lost incredible asset in Dr. Brooks
Capital Times
Dear Editor:
….We’re not privy to the politics that caused him to leave Madison for North Carolina. But we understand his frustration with being denied research dollars to better understand, study and possibly find a cure for this unfortunate disease. The irony is that Wisconsin has the highest rate of ALS in the country.
We hope that the UW Medical School is truly aware of what a loss this is for our community. We know that, like us, there are many other families and friends who thank him for his dedication to helping understand, diagnose and treat those afflicted with ALS, and for his efforts to boost awareness through MDA fundraising, his own physician practice, support groups and teaching.
Nancy Mayek, Beth Hamilton and Ann Duesterbeck, Verona
PEOPLE equals success for 3 at UW
Capital Times
“It’s ultimately not about what color you are. Everybody brings something to the university community.”
Cydny Black was reflecting on her first semester at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, after starting out last fall with a scholarship from the Pre-college Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence (PEOPLE) program, which recruits, readies and funds tuition for minority and low-income students for the university.
One of three PEOPLE students from Madison high schools interviewed by The Capital Times at the start of the fall semester, the 18-year-old African-American said she has really enjoyed herself on a campus that is more than 80 percent white.