Every sport at each of the four Division I athletic programs in the state of Wisconsin had a Graduation Success Rate of at least 60%, according to NCAA data released Wednesday.
Seeing degrees of success
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Author: jnweaver
Residents pleased as Madhatters seeks new location
Capital Times
People don’t immediately think of State Street as a neighborhood where people live, but Bill Cosh has lived on the street for the past 10 years.
His apartment, in a 38-unit building above Walgreens on the corner of State and Lake streets, sits across from where the popular campus bar Madhatters planned on opening, causing an uproar.
That the bar’s owner decided not to relocate to the bottom of State comes as a big relief to Cosh and others like him.
….(Ted) Gervasi, who could not be reached Tuesday night, told (Alderman Mike) Verveer that he would still like to open Madhatters somewhere in the campus area and that he was going to start a new search for a suitable location.
Dave Zweifel: Sex at Brown Deer High? Lasee swoops in
Capital Times
Here’s another example of why we know that Wisconsin legislators have too much time on their hands.
Rep. Frank Lasee, the same guy who wants to do away with the UW Law School because he feels we have more lawyers than locusts, e-mailed a letter to the Brown Deer School Board a few weeks ago “to bring to its attention” that black students at the school were, he claimed, having sex in a segregated hallway at its high school.
Moe: No ashes scattered at Camp Randall, as far as we know
Capital Times
I WAS interested to read in Eric Zorn’s column in Tuesday’s Chicago Tribune that some of Steve Goodman’s ashes were scattered years ago in Wrigley Field.
It got me wondering if any huge fan of the Badgers has ever had himself, or herself, scattered for eternity in Camp Randall Stadium.
Campus group fosters interfaith tolerance
Capital Times
As it turns out, the first step to world peace is sharing some couscous pilaf and cracking a joke or two about soccer teams.
That’s the main thrust behind Dialogue International, the organization that sponsored an interfaith dinner and discussion last night at Hillel, the Jewish center on the UW campus. A group of Turkish Muslim graduate students started Dialogue International shortly after the terrorist attacks of September 11 with a goal of fostering cultural understanding and debunking religious stereotypes with social events.
Hitting the High Notes
BusinessWeek
How this Wisconsin grad’s specialized MBA from the Bolz Center helped him bring a competitive edge to a nonprofit performing arts organization
Editorial: The smarter the better
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
One important key to faster growth is brain power. Madison has benefited from the intellectual gold mine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the nations third-largest research university. Some of the states fastest-growing companies grew out of UW research, including TomoTherapy, which went public in May, and NimbleGen Systems Inc., which was acquired by the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche Holding AG. Then, there is Cellectar, which develops technology that tracks and destroys tumors. It is run by a UW-Madison professor and a former executive at GE Healthcare.
Aysha Akhtar, M.D.: Evidence shows animal research is a waste
Capital Times
Dear Editor: In addition to the ethical issues raised by animal research, more and more members of the medical research community are calling attention to the fundamental problems with animal experiments (“Doc: Testing on animals obsolete”).
As a neurologist and public health specialist, I know there is ample evidence that underscores the urgent need to move away from using animals in research.
China acquires a taste for cheese, whey
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The Babcock Institute for International Dairy Research and Development at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has helped train Chinese farmers in some of the latest dairying techniques. More than 700 model dairy farms have been established around Beijing and Tianjin, with 280,000 cows, according to the Chinese government.
Schools use virtual notices in times of real danger
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
After University of Wisconsin-Madison police got reports of an armed, suicidal man near the university hospital last Tuesday, officials locked down part of campus and alerted students using Facebook, e-mail and the school’s Web site.
Weakest link
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The fifth-ranked Badgers play at Illinois at 11 a.m. Saturday and their defense continues to search for consistency, leadership and playmakers.
Institutes to share research incubator
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A planned $150 million research and business incubator in Madison will be housed in one building, with two institutes representing the public and private sectors each having their own lab areas.
Architectural renderings unveiled Monday on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus showed a building with three towers.
Lucas: Helmet-to-helmet hit on Jefferson should have been flagged
Capital Times
With time running out in the first half, University of Wisconsin wide receiver Kyle Jefferson ran a shallow crosser; a high percentage throw designed to create a mismatch in space. Releasing off the line of scrimmage, Jefferson came under the route of tight end Travis Beckum and worked his pattern, from right to left, across the middle of the field. Jefferson barely avoided contact with the umpire (Jim Krogstad) before catching the ball. As he turned up field, Jefferson was flattened by Michigan State strong safety Nehemiah Warrick (No. 3) who clearly led with his head, thus producing the impetus for a helmet-on-helmet collision.
What happened next should not have been open to interpretation during Saturday’s game at Camp Randall Stadium. Warrick’s hit was illegal and the Spartans should have been penalized 15 yards.
Art Talk: Pro Arte takes ‘half-sabbatical’
Capital Times
The University of Wisconsin’s Pro Arte String Quartet is taking a break this semester. Well, a part-time break — from teaching, but not from performing.
“It’s like a half-sabbatical,” says cellist Parry Karp, the senior member of the group that will celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2012 with several commissions. That’s because three of the four members (second violinist Suzanne Beia is the exception) hold joint appointments that are half-time performing and half-time teaching.
Finkelmeyer: Alvarez still ’emotionally involved’ on game days
Capital Times
….University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez said Friday that it’s getting easier to watch his Badgers play from the comfort of his director’s suite high above Camp Randall Stadium’s FieldTurf.
“Definitely easier, but it’s still hard,” said Alvarez, who roamed the UW sidelines from 1990 through 2005, after which he turned the head coaching duties over to his hand-picked successor, Bret Bielema.
Don’t misunderstand — Alvarez is not second-guessing his decision to change job titles.
Art Talk: Overture hires former Madisonian as staff fundraiser
Capital Times
Former Madisonian Eric Salisbury, who has 11 years of experience as a performing arts manager, has been hired as 201 State Foundation’s first-ever vice president of development. (That’s business lingo for a full-time fundraiser.)
The 201 State Foundation is the non-profit entity for Overture Center for the Arts.
Overture President Tom Carto praised Salisbury’s vision and leadership, and his connections to Madison.
Money withheld from 7 schools
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The state is withholding money from seven Milwaukee voucher schools that have failed to comply with one of the most ambitious studies ever to look at vouchers, and it appears that will prompt some of them to hand over their test scores. John Witte, a UW-Madison professor, is one of the lead researchers.
Madison firm wins grant for cancer drug
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A grant received by Centrose LLC highlights the growing cluster of companies in Madison aiming to develop new drugs in areas like cancer and neurodegenerative and heart disease.
Centrose said Friday it has received a $160,000 grant from the National Cancer Institute to continue developing its lead anti-cancer drug program. The company, based in Madison, is using sugar chemistry to work with a variety of existing and failed drugs to make them less toxic and more effective.
Many University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have received grants from the cancer institute, but more companies in the area are getting them now, said Tom Still, president of the Wisconsin Technology Council.
Jesus Salas: Boost for UW budget is a boost for the entire state
Capital Times
Dear Editor: The governor and state Senate have proposed a state budget that includes the University of Wisconsin System Growth Agenda, which improves access to the UW System, increases the number of baccalaureate degrees and graduating rates, and strengthens campus communities and local businesses. For example, it would facilitate much-needed and long-delayed capital projects that include student unions, residence halls and academic buildings.
Rick Marolt: Animal research no use against human diseases
Capital Times
Dear Editor: At a public debate on Sept. 26, Dr. Ray Greek made the argument, supported by much data and clear logic, that animal research does not and cannot help us cure human disease or find safe and effective drugs for humans. His debate opponent, Eric Sandgren from the UW-Madison, failed to present a meaningful rebuttal.
UW is tops in transplants, For kidneys, pancreas
Capital Times
For the second year in a row, the organ transplant program at UW Hospital and Clinics ranks first in the nation for numbers of kidney transplants and combination kidney-pancreas transplants performed.
According to figures compiled by the United Network of Organ Sharing, UW surgeons transplanted 346 kidneys in calendar year 2006 — 18 more than the University of Alabama-Birmingham, the second-place center — and 36 simultaneous kidney-pancreases.
The national rankings are just one of several milestones UW’s transplant program expects to hit this year. Within the next month, Dr. Hans Sollinger, chairman of the organ transplantation program, said the program will perform its 1,000th simultaneous kidney-pancreas transplant, a national record.
Jesse Miller captured in San Diego
Capital Times
Jesse A. Miller, the 19-year-old who allegedly phoned in the threats that led to a lockdown at University Hospital on Tuesday, is in custody this morning in San Diego.
Local police there arrested Miller, who had been missing from a work-release prison before the threatening calls Tuesday prompted campus-wide warnings and a search.
UW-Madison police department Sergeant Jason Whitney said today that Dane County Sheriff’s Office detectives will go to California to bring Miller back to Madison on a state probation violation. He was AWOL from the county’s Huber Law work release program since Sept. 8.
UPDATE: Suspect questioned in Regent St. robbery
Capital Times
Madison Police Department spokesman Joel DeSpain said a suspect is being questioned in connection with the armed robbery earlier today of the Italian grocery store Fraboni’s, 822 Regent St.
The man is not yet under arrest, DeSpain said, but added that he is not aware that police are searching for anyone else.
DeSpain said the man was found by police in the University of Wisconsin administration building at 21 N. Park St. after it had been cleared because a UW employee in the building saw someone suspicious. UW employees and students in two nearby dormitories were alerted about the robbery at 12:15.
Dave Zweifel: TV control over college football is frustrating
Capital Times
I’ve got an idea for those Saturday night football games that are scheduled solely for the benefit of corporate television.
Since the games are aimed at nothing more than padding the bottom lines of the networks and the NCAA’s Division 1 schools, then what could be more fair than sending them the bills for the costs incurred by the cities in which the universities are located?
Why should Disney-owned ABC, the NCAA, the Big Ten and the UW’s athletic department, for example, make a bunch of extra bucks while the taxpayers of Madison pick up the tab for extra cops, overstaffed detox centers, and the dozens of other added costs that those late games in college cities require?
Lockdown ordered on UW campus
Capital Times
Two dormitories are under immediate lockdown on the UW campus as police search for an armed robber who went into a UW administration building on Park Street.
Students and staff are asked to stay out of the area around 21 N. Park St., and students in Ogg and Smith halls are asked to find shelter in a safe place.
UW police issued an emergency campus alert at 12:15. People on the street around 21 N. Park should follow on-scene police instructions.
(Since this was written, the situation has been resolved. Fraboni’s Italian Deli was the robber’s target. )
Art Talk: Accident breaks Chazen bench
Capital Times
There it lay, outside the back, or north, entrance to the University of Wisconsin’s Chazen Art Museum, behind the red brick Faculty Club and not too far from the soon-to-be-demolished Humanities Building.
The square Tootsie Roll of handsome purplish granite that read “Chazen Museum of Art” had been snapped. Broken in two.
Was it the victim of drunken accident? Of vandalism? Of rebellious students wanting to overturn something? Not at all. Turns out a University of Wisconsin police car drove into it one Sunday a couple of weeks ago, apparently because the driver simply didn’t see the low placed bench.
Editorial: Give UW faculty full rights
Capital Times
….The fact that university staff and faculty are singled out is one of the reasons they rank among the lowest paid among their peers in the Big Ten and behind the technical college staffs in the state.
Perennial UW haters Rep. Steve Nass of Whitewater and Sen. Glenn Grothman of West Bend like to claim that this would mandate unions on our campuses — one of their many misleading statements about the university.
Let’s make it clear: This budget language doesn’t unionize UW faculty and staff. It merely gives them the right to make that choice. Some campuses may indeed vote to join a union, others not. There’s no justification, however, to keep them as second-class employees of the state and deny them the right to make that choice for themselves.
UW men’s hockey: Eaves isn’t overly concerned about dropoff in TV exposure
Capital Times
There won’t be nearly as many University of Wisconsin men’s hockey games available on satellite TV this season, but coach Mike Eaves says that’s not a huge issue for his team.
The UW television schedule released Wednesday shows nine games being broadcast by Fox Sports Net Wisconsin, down from 20 last season. Two additional Badgers games will be live on Big Ten Network, but the dropoff is still significant.
Man who made threats had troubled childhood, mental problems
Capital Times
The young man who police say put the University of Wisconsin campus in turmoil Tuesday with a series of phone calls suffers from mental problems which may well stem from his horribly troubled childhood and have left him threatening suicide in the past. He was also expected to be a witness for the prosecution in an upcoming murder trial.
Court records for several cases involving Jesse Alton Miller, 19, show that he was the subject of juvenile court interventions almost from his birth, that he was sexually and emotionally abused by his parents, that he was rejected time and again by families he was residing with after being taken from his parents, and that he responded to all of that by committing numerous criminal acts beginning at the age of 9 in Milwaukee.
Doc: Testing on animals obsolete
Capital Times
The use of animals for drug testing and disease research is flawed science and should be abandoned, the leader of an advocacy group says.
“It’s like using a canoe to cross the Pacific Ocean. Yes, it was done at one time, but today we use airplanes,” said Dr. Ray Greek, president of Americans for Medical Advancement and a retired anesthesiologist and expert in pain management living in California. “Today we are studying humans at the level where the differences between species outweigh the similarities.”
Greek debated with UW animal researcher Eric Sandgren on the merits of using animals in scientific research before a crowd of about 175 at the Wisconsin Historical Society building Wednesday night.
At the buzzer: Interest groups get last shot as lawmakers shape budget
Capital Times
Smokers, public workers, UW alumni and business groups are making a last-ditch effort to protect their interests as lawmakers and Gov. Jim Doyle try to hammer out a new state budget.
All of the groups have been blanketing elected officials with phone calls, form letters, postcards, office visits and even radio ads in recent weeks.
But legislative leaders say there have been relatively few messages from ordinary constituents demanding that lawmakers get to work on the budget, which was supposed to take effect July 1.
Escapee was deemed low flight risk
Wisconsin State Journal
Dane County Sheriff Dave Mahoney said the escaped jail inmate who triggered a lockdown of UW Hospital on Tuesday night and a building-by-building search of the west campus by police with guns drawn followed the rules when he was behind bars and didn’t seem to be a flight risk.
How UW alerted the campus
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison students had few complaints Wednesday about a multi-pronged communications plan that got the word out about a reportedly suicidal man with a weapon on the west end of campus Tuesday.
Police didn ‘t find the man, Jessie A. Miller, 19, an escaped Dane County Jail inmate with an armed robbery conviction, on Tuesday or Wednesday and now believe he poses a threat only to himself.
But Tuesday night, the university ‘s three mass e-mails about the crisis, its postings on Facebook and updates to the main UW-Madison Web site all put people ‘s minds at ease, a student leader said.
Bad timing, bad location for Madhatters
Wisconsin State Journal
Ald. Mike Verveer admits “the timing is absolutely atrocious, it couldn’t be worse.”
On Sept. 19, just hours after voting for a Alcohol Density Plan that Verveer promised would stop State Street from turning into Bourbon Street by freezing the number of taverns, he voted with the majority of the city Alcohol License Review Committee to allow Madhatters tavern to open at 651 State Street.
And if the timing is bad, the location is worse.
UW warns: Inadequate funding increase would hurt System
Wisconsin State Journal
As legislators continue to wrangle over a state biennial budget, UW System and UW-Madison officials reiterated Wednesday that they are not just crying wolf over what they say would be dire effects on the System if state funding is not increased enough.
Supremacy comes with pressure
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The adage is almost as old as ice: A national championship gets the proud recipient a trophy and a bull’s-eye on his or her back.
So what does that say about consecutive national championships? Is the answer twin bull’s-eyes or does the second championship nullify the bull’s-eye theory altogether?
That is the question facing the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team, back-to-back NCAA champion, as it opens its season with a two-game non-conference series at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y., this weekend. As two-time champions, the Badgers understand they are going to get their opponents’ best games night in and night out.
Madison’s economy chugging, Milwaukee’s lagging
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Madison’s economy grew about three times faster than Milwaukee’s in the recovery from the last recession, although it remains less than half as large, according to a new set of government data released Wednesday.
Va. Tech was on cops’ minds
Capital Times
As UW police search for a man who claimed to have a gun on campus, there was a new emphasis on keeping students informed, prompted in part by last spring’s massacre at Virginia Tech.
“I would say we worked a little bit closer making sure the message was got out, and got out more quickly, than they would have previously,” UW Police Sgt. Jason Whitney said.
….University officials said incidents like the Virginia Tech massacre — and more recently last week’s shooting at Delaware State that wounded two students — have heightened the focus on communicating with students during incidents that carry the potential for danger.
Campus back to normal after suspected gunman vanishes
Capital Times
UW-Madison operations were back to normal today after fears of a possible deranged gunman Tuesday prompted the closing of several campus buildings and the cancelation of classes and other events in the west campus area.
“At this point, it’s business as usual,” University of Wisconsin Police Sgt. Jason Whitney said today.
The search for 19-year-old Jesse A. Miller, an escapee from the Dane County Jail’s Ferris Huber Center, continued today but police were unsure if he was even in the area.
Budget cuts would wreak havoc on UW, Wiley warns (AP)
Capital Times
UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley warned Tuesday that proposed budget cuts would devastate the Madison campus, as lawmakers and Gov. Jim Doyle’s aides continued to negotiate a new state budget.
Wiley said the budget proposed by the Assembly would force layoffs of staff members, thousands of classes to be canceled in the spring semester and enrollment caps in some major fields of study.
The result would be fewer students graduating on time and diminished student services, he wrote in a memo distributed to legislators.
Sifting and winnowing
Capital Times
Columbia University took some hard hits for inviting Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak at its School of International and Public Affairs.
Everyone from New York Sen. Hillary Clinton to the ranting hosts of Fox News criticized the invitation.
….It is always good for Americans to be reminded, as the great plaque on the University of Wisconsin campus teaches us: Great universities must ever “encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”
Study: Few do not form racial prejudices (UPI)
United Press International
U.S. researchers found just 7 percent of respondents do not have the usual human tendency to favor one’s own group and not form racial prejudices.
Their study, published in the journal Psychological Science, found the 7 percent of people that showed no racial bias differed from biased individuals in a fundamental way — they also were less likely to form negative emotional associations in general.
Robert Livingston of Northwestern University and Brian Drwecki of the University of Wisconsin asked white college students to do tasks that repeatedly paired unfamiliar Chinese characters with positive or negative images such as puppies or snakes. The results showed non-biased individuals were less likely than biased individuals to acquire negative emotions toward the character paired with negative pictures.
College ‘Booze News’ Paper Raises Eyebrows in Midwest (AP)
The Booze News can now be found at Illinois State, Indiana, Iowa and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, along with Missouri and Illinois.
Class Resumes Amid Suicidal Gunman Scare (AP)
Washington Post
University students returned to class Wednesday as police searched for a 19-year-old man they said was trying to provoke a shootout with authorities.
Giuliani Shapes Image in Radio Ad Campaign (WNYC-New York)
Quoted: Ken Goldstein, UW-Madison political scientist.
Suicidal gunman reported at UW (AP)
Associated Press
Police searched areas of the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Tuesday evening for a suicidal man they said was trying to provoke a shootout with authorities.
Acorns and art: International artists gild the pine cone (with slide show)
Capital Times
ONEIDA COUNTY — Human-made surprises mingle and blend with the chirps, twitters, glistening ferns and creaking ashes here. Each has a way of alerting the senses to all that rustle and topple when no one is looking.
Where else can hikers encounter insects as large as their head, wooden chainsaws swaying from trees, or a turtle large enough to walk under? When wondering what’s next, it’s easier to be aware and appreciative of the ordinary squirrel that scrounges for food, the mosaic of sunshine and shade, the patter of raindrops, even rotting tree trunks.
This is Forest Art Wisconsin, a partnership between art and nature, a dance between foray and tribute, the forging of new bonds and a strengthening of international alliances.
Bielema still lobbying
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
University of Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema, hopeful that the multi-game suspension given to sophomore tailback Lance Smith might still be modified, recently met with the university’s dean of students to discuss the matter.
Leaders: No wrongdoing by financial aid employees (AP)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Higher education leaders in Wisconsin say none of their employees broke state ethics laws in maintaining cozy relationships with private lenders.
University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly and Wisconsin Technical College System President Daniel Clancy say reviews of their financial aid practices uncovered no wrongdoing.
Doug Moe: Fighting censorship in N.Y. and Madison
Capital Times
THE COLUMBIA University dean who shared a stage Monday with Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and who defended the university’s highly controversial invitation to Ahmadinejad to speak, was himself once denied the chance to give a controversial speech.
It happened in Madison, decades ago, but as William Faulkner once wrote, the past is never dead — it’s not even past.
John C. Coatsworth, who ignited even more controversy over the weekend when he said Columbia would have invited Adolf Hitler to speak, was barred from giving a speech on Cuba at Madison Central High School in the fall of 1963.
Coatsworth today is the dean of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia. He moderated Monday’s discussion with Ahmadinejad. In 1963, (he) was a graduate student at UW-Madison.
Matthew James: Don’t tell me what to wear at games
Capital Times
Dear Editor: You tell Badgers coach Bret Bielema to focus on recruiting non-thug athletes and training them to win football games. I will decide what colors I will wear.
Matthew James, Waunakee
Park St. project creates new traffic problem
Capital Times
Gridlock hit Fish Hatchery Road and Park Street this morning, as storm sewer construction on Park Street slowed commuters down to a crawl heading into downtown Madison. The headaches have just begun.
The project isn’t expected to be completed until the end of December, said city construction engineer John Fahrney.
Debate set Wednesday on animal research
Capital Times
Should animals be used by UW-Madison researchers? Are they a reliable predictor of diseases and their cures for human beings?
Two highly respected experts on the subject will tackle that issue in a debate sponsored by The Capital Times at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the auditorium of the Wisconsin Historical Society building on the UW’s Library Mall.
UW football: Bielema seeks reduced suspension for Smith
Capital Times
University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema is doing everything he can to lend a hand to suspended running back Lance Smith, and he’s hoping his help will soon pay off.
Bielema implied that he would like to see Smith’s five-game suspension reduced on his weekly television show Sunday and said he has had a recent discussion with UW Dean of Students Lori Berquam about the situation.
Booze News: College town party paper isn’t for everyone (AP)
Capital Times
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Ah, college life. All-night study sessions in the library. Professors challenging the conventional wisdom. Snowball battles on the quad. Get real.
For students at the University of Missouri-Columbia, college is all about casual sex, meddling parents, foul-mouthed friendships and partying until you puke. At least that’s the portrayal in The Booze News, a new weekly newspaper that glorifies the wonders of excessive drinking.
The publication’s founders, a pair of University of Illinois graduates, call The Booze News (motto: “Today’s News … Under the Influence”) an over-the-top satire modeled after The Onion, the popular parody newspaper started by college students in Madison that has since gone global.
Sex in Camp Randall stall nets disorderly conduct charges
Capital Times
While the Badgers were scoring frequently in the second quarter of their victory over Washington State on Sept. 1, a young couple was scoring on their own in a stall in the women’s restroom in the upper deck, resulting in a court appearance today on charges of disorderly conduct.
The man, 22, of the Grant County community of Stitzer, and woman, 23, of Madison, were initially cited by University Police for lewd and lascivious conduct, but those charges were later changed to disorderly conduct when the case went to the District Attorney’s office.
UW Assistant Police Chief Dale Burke, who measures his term of service in decades, said he cannot remember a similar incident at a Badger game in the past, but added “sex is a powerful, powerful motivator.”
Fraternity leader to speak here Friday amid allegations of racial profiling
Capital Times
The national leader of a fraternity who said its Madison members may have been the subject of racial profiling is scheduled to speak in Madison Saturday on the topic of civil rights.
Agustin Garcia is the national chairman of the Lambda Theta Phi Foundation, whose UW-Madison branch is looking for an apology from University of Wisconsin administrators after the cancellation of an event they say may be for reasons of racial profiling.
Though Garcia said the talk was scheduled before the incident, he believes it is more relevant now.
Bielema throws support to Smith
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema appeared to imply Sunday on his weekly TV show that he would like to see the five-game suspension of tailback Lance Smith modified.
Pinch of sushi with a fruit twist
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
They turned up their noses at raw fish.
No frou-frou sauce or frilly shapes either.
Ten University of Wisconsin-Madison students settled on fruit and rice as key ingredients. Their creation, sushi with a striking resemblance to a maki roll, nabbed second place in the biggest student product development competition this summer.
A threat so severe that waiting is not an option
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Scientific consensus has settled the questions of whether global warming is occurring and whether humanity is playing a role. So, what to do about it, especially here in Wisconsin?
Failure to act is unacceptable. John Magnuson of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who introduced the “silver buckshot” concept during the discussion, told the panel that his research has shown climate change is not some distant problem, either in space or time.