Today’s transactions show former Wisconsin forward Ryan MacMurchy being signed by the Elmira (N.Y.) Jackals of the ECHL.
A quick peek at the Jackals’ roster shows that the member of the 2006 NCAA championship team won’t be the only Madison connection on the team.
Two major sticking points in moving the stalled state budget forward have been addressed, Gov. Jim Doyle announced this afternoon, with the Senate Democrats agreeing to remove their universal health care plan from the budget and Assembly Democrats dropping their plan to cut $130 million from Doyle’s budget for public schools.
Doyle said at a news conference there are “real consequences for this state” in not yet having a finished budget, but added, “now we are making progress.”
Virtually nothing stirs up the human emotions more than the practice of using animals in medical and scientific experiments that have become so commonplace on many of our university campuses.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is no exception. Scientists there experiment on everything from pigs to monkeys in researching the causes and cures for human disease.
It’s been a whirlwind summer for Annie Thomas, who got married, relocated to Ohio, found a home and landed a new job within a span of several months.
Thomas, a former standout with the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team, was hired as an assistant coach at Cleveland State. She will handle recruiting, and community and academic endeavors for the program, in addition to working with Vikings post players. Cleveland State is coached by Kate Peterson Abiad, a River Falls native who served as a UW assistant for six seasons.
Pottygoers looking for a loo after the Badger football game Saturday night won’t have to keep their legs crossed when eyeballing porta-potties inside closed and empty bar beer gardens.
The toilets can be used, according to Madison City Council President Mike Verveer, bringing relief to thousands of fans who might otherwise contemplate going behind bushes, cars, each other, etc. and risk getting not only embarassed and possibly wet shoes but city cop fines as well.
Even with the toilet reprieve, Stadium Bar owner Jim Luedtke is still upset his beer garden has to shut down before the game is over, which will result in a jammed-up Monroe Street as fans try to find their friends and family pouring out of Camp Randall stadium right across Monroe St. from the bar.
IT WAS during a lunch at the Harvard Club in 1988 that Alvin Lane first invited Russell Panczenko, director of the art museum at UW-Madison, to visit Lane’s house in New York City and see his art collection. Panczenko would recall that Lane described the collection as “modest.” When Panczenko actually saw it, some months later, he used another word. “It was awesome,” he said.
The two were lunching in the first place because Lane, who died in Manhattan last week at 89, had thought enough of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and its art museum to have made several cash donations to the museum over the years.
Dear Editor: It appears that the money changers are back in the temple — the Temple of Alvarez. As a Wisconsin sports fan for many, many years, and a football season ticket-holder for 37 years, I highly resented being unable to see a home game last Saturday.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A couple hundred students jammed into a University of Wisconsin-Madison building Thursday to protest Halliburton Co.’s recruiting at a campus job fair.
The protesters sat in front of the company’s booth, virtually blocking access to the its four recruiters. Engineering student and protest organizer Chris Dols led the group in song.
“I said, ‘From high to low, Halliburton got to go,'” the crowd sang.
The UW-Madison conducted research on the deadly Ebola virus in 2005 and 2006 in a lower-level security facility than is recommended until the National Institutes of Health told the university to stop.
John Hammond, director of the Sunshine Project, a watchdog group for biological research, said Wednesday that researchers at the University of Wisconsin made and manipulated copies of the entire Ebola virus genome without proper safety precautions.
Thanks to years of bashing from political opportunists in the state Legislature, the University of Wisconsin has a public relations problem on its hand.
Legislative leaders, particularly on the Republican side, have succeeded in cutting hundreds of millions of dollars from the UW’s budget over the years. Unfortunately, not enough people are bringing pressure to bear on those politicians who find sport in bashing and cutting one of the state’s crown jewels.
STEVE LEVITAN says he knows what it’s like to be pregnant.
“At this point I just want it out of me,” Levitan was saying Tuesday. He was laughing, stuck in traffic in Los Angeles, when he said it.
Levitan’s baby, a sitcom named “Back to You,” enters the world at 7 tonight on the Fox Network. It stars Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton and is one of the most highly anticipated new shows of the television season. With his partner Christopher Lloyd, Levitan created “Back to You,” and the two share executive producer and writer credits on the show.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison did relatively well in a 50-college test of how much students learned about history and economics during four years of college, but students in Wisconsin and nationally knew little when they came in and not much more when they left.
No college did better than a D-plus on the Civic Literacy Test released Tuesday by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, a nonpartisan conservative educational organization that stresses the values of a free society.
The national average was F.
The memory of William “Curly” Hendershot is alive and well on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Hendershot was the Dow Chemical Co. recruiter whose 1967 visit here sparked one of the most important protests of the Vietnam War era. A sit-in against the company that made napalm used in Vietnam ended in a bloody clash with police that turned many students into radicals.
On Thursday, students plan to carry signs reading “Curly, off campus!” as they protest a recruiting visit by a company they see as a villain in the war in Iraq: Halliburton Co. Protesters plan to disrupt the company’s visit to an engineering career fair by discouraging students from talking to its representatives.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s new Institute for Clinical and Translational Research will get $41 million over five years from the National Institutes of Health to improve the way biomedical and health sciences discoveries make their way into clinical trials, hospitals and doctors’ offices.
The Big Ten Network, the NFL Network and Fox Sports Net Wisconsin will soon be offered in high definition on DirecTV, as the satellite provider begins launching dozens of new HD channels.
Trade media have reported that Wednesday is a possible launch date for the first new HD channels.
Madison psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Eimermann died of heart disease while swimming in Devil’s Lake during a triathlon Saturday, according to Sauk County coroner Betty Hinze.
“He died of atherosclerotic disease,” Hinze said today. “The plaque in the arteries built up to a point where his system shut down.”
The National Institutes of Health has awarded the UW-Madison Medical School a $41 million grant to help get medical research findings to patients more quickly.
The goal of the effort, known as translational research, is to move biomedical and health sciences discoveries into practical use in doctors’ offices, clinics and hospitals, where the knowledge can be used more rapidly and effectively to improve people’s health, officials said.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s proposal for a new engineering school and research park would require buying some 83 acres of Milwaukee County Grounds property near Highway 45 and Swan Blvd., UWM Chancellor Carlos Santiago said Monday.
Universities are sometimes rebuked for offering classes and programs that strike many people as impractical or of dubious value. But thats certainly not the case at Concordia University Wisconsin in Mequon, which has seen a glaring need and is boldly moving to fill it.
Dear Editor: Your story Thursday on the global decline of child mortality cites the need for “training village health workers.”
Your readers may like to know that their university is doing just that in the East African country of Uganda, where approximately one in seven children die before their fifth birthday.
With funding from the Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment, personnel from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the UW-Extension have started a partnership with Uganda’s Makerere University that will ultimately reach over 100 villages.
Red Grooms and Red Grange. Red Buttons and Red Sox and ruby-red slippers. Redheads and red hats. Red violins and red carpets. Redfaced and redshirted. Red Green. Red everywhere you look.
Especially Saturdays in September when Madison paints the town red. Or at least dons a whole lot of red clothing in support of the UW Badgers, whose football coach, Bret Bielema, has the team dressing in all-red uniforms and has asked fans to do the same.
“A total ‘sea of red’ sends a very commanding message,” says Betty Hurd, lead instructor in the fashion marketing program at Madison Area Technical College.
“Red is a regal color,” she adds. “It’s powerful and domineering, so the Badger football coach is sending the message that we’re at Camp Randall. We’re winners, and we mean business.”
Heralded freshman running back John Clay likely will redshirt this season, University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema said today at his weekly press conference.
“That’s probably the route we’re going to go,” Bielema said.
Clay, an All-State back at Racine Park who led his team to the 2005 WIAA Division 1 state title, was 11 days late to training camp as he waited for the NCAA to make a ruling on his eligibility.
The Big Ten Network vs. major cable TV providers.
The Citadel vs. Wisconsin.
What do these two matchups have in common?
Both are all about the money.
And both — um, how shall we put this — screw Joe Fan.
Not that the Big Ten Network, your cable provider or the UW truly care.
Madison psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Eimermann died while competing in a triathlon at Devil’s Lake State Park Saturday morning.
….Eimermann had a private practice at Psychiatric Services, 2727 Marshall Court, and also served on the volunteer clinical faculty as a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.
….Whether it’s clearing a path to get an ambulance through a tightly packed crowd outside a Badger game or getting quickly to a fight brewing at bar time on State Street, mounted police have some advantages in some venues that officers on foot or bicycles just can’t match.
Sgt. Kari Sasso of the University of Wisconsin police department often works with her horse, Vegas, a quarter horse-thoroughbred cross, at Badger football games, and the pair patrols on campus, as well.
MILWAUKEE — When he gives lectures on how alcohol harms Wisconsin communities, Dr. Paul Moberg starts by showing an editorial cartoon he calls “sobering.”
The 1994 cartoon by Green Bay Press-Gazette cartoonist Joe Heller shows University of Wisconsin-Madison mascot Bucky Badger in front of a blackboard bearing a series of ignominious state rankings: Wisconsin leads the nation in binge drinking and in percentage of adult drinkers.
“Hello,” the caption says, “My name is Bucky and I have a drinking problem.”
By Hannah Young, correspondent for The Capital Times
A national fraternity says a decision by University of Wisconsin Police to cancel an event that was to kick off Hispanic Heritage Month is “very close to racial profiling, if not racial profiling.”
The Madison branch of Lambda Theta Phi, a Latino fraternity, had arranged for the celebration to be held Saturday in Memorial Union’s Tripp Commons, but was told last week that the event would be canceled due to concerns the University Police had about security.
The Kauffman Foundation has already stepped into the Wisconsin scene by helping to get the Urban Entrepreneur Partnership going in Milwaukee by giving a $5 million grant to the University of Wisconsin-Madison as part of a five-year, $30 million program to make entrepreneurship available to all parts of the university, not just the business school.
Feature story on “Small Arms: Children of Conflict,” an exhibit of Michael Kienitz’ photographs, which is on display at Madison’s Chazen Museum of Art until Oct. 28.
By Sonya Geis
Washington Post Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 13 — Scholars across the political spectrum protested what they called an assault on academic freedom after the University of California at Irvine withdrew a job offer from a liberal professor who wrote an op-ed criticizing the Bush administration.
The University of Wisconsin’s Chazen Museum of Art has decided to celebrate an impressive and luxurious art show with an impressive and luxurious closing reception.
To celebrate the exhibition “Natura Morta: Still-Life Painting and the Medici Collections,” the Chazen will host a special benefit event called “A Medici Masquerade” on Friday, Oct. 19, from 6 to 8 p.m. It will feature festive music, dancing, entertainment, hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar.
….Those who attend can expect to experience an evening at the Medici court, according to the invitation. They will “mingle and carouse” with fellow art lovers, “dance with the ladies and gents from Courtly Cadenza.”
Dear Editor: Thank you for Dave Zweifel’s excellent Sept. 10 column on the Charter Street power plant. That this travesty even happened, let alone that it’s allowed to continue, and worse yet that the University of Wisconsin and the state are trying to defend it, is nearly beyond belief.
I think that the people responsible should be summarily dismissed for this unbelievable disregard for human welfare. Or perhaps we can give them an option: Drink that bottle of water.
Don Ferber, Madison
Metro bus riders on the UW-Madison campus won’t be able to use the bus stop southbound on Charter St. at its intersection with Johnson St., because of safety concerns when the route 80 bus has to cross over from the right lane to make a left turn eastbound onto Johnson St.
….Passengers are asked to use the stops on Johnson St. at Mills St. one block east of the affected intersection, or on Charter St. between Linden Dr. and University Ave. a block and a half north, to get on or off the bus.
A decade or so ago, the University of Wisconsin put its stamp on a sports drink that was meant to become synonymous with its athletic department, and become marketable to a large-scale audience.
But Badger Max not only failed to unseat its close cousin Gatorade, which was developed at the University of Florida in the mid-1960s thanks to the curiosity of an assistant football coach, it was far from a hit at home.
Badger fans, beware.
You probably know that you can lose your season tickets to UW sports events if you engage in unruly or illegal behavior. You may not know that you can also lose the remainder of your season tickets if you give or sell a ticket to someone who commits such behavior.
Gov. Jim Doyle’s administration is recruiting Waukesha high schoolers today to join thousands across Wisconsin in a program offering guaranteed college admission, although it is uncertain whether the governor will be able to deliver on the promise.
The Madison World Music Festival will take over the Memorial Union Theater and Terrace this weekend, giving audiences a cosmopolitan menu of music and dance from all corners of the world. As always, the three-day festival is entirely free and open to the public.
This year, on the heels of the screening of the musical documentary “Gypsy Caravan” at Sundance, the festival will feature three different Romani or Gypsy bands.
Dear Editor: When I found out that the superintendent of the University Ridge Golf Course was being replaced in September of 2006, I was surprised to say the least. When I found out that general manager Mike Urben and food and beverage manager Rick Schafel were forced to resign recently, I was floored.
I worked for these upstanding gentlemen from 1996 to 2004. I learned everything from having an upstanding work ethic to the nature of the golf business from these gentlemen. I’ve worked for three other golf facilities, and none compared to the operation and management that Mike and Rick instilled in their staff. They were looked up to and respected greatly by every member of their staff.
For some legislators, there is no sense of urgency with regard to the unfinished state budget.
Despite the fact that the budget is the blueprint for state government, state Sen. Neal Kedzie, R-Elkhorn, actually went so far as to release a press release hailing the benefits of not having enacted a budget. Kedzie claims that taxpayers should celebrate because “more delay means more money in their pocket.”
That’s a little like someone who fails to make necessary repairs on their home and then brags about all the money they are saving as the house crumbles into disrepair.
Wilson Miller is legally blind, but didn’t think that would stop him from getting a college education.
Think again.
He had trouble finding usable textbooks, a problem that, according to state officials, could affect as many as 10,000 students in the University of Wisconsin and Wisconsin Technical College systems who are blind, vision impaired or have other reading difficulties.
Aaron Olson is confident he’s ready for UW-Madison. He graduated from Memorial High School last year with a 3.6 grade point average, scored a 28 on the ACT exam and did it all while being an athlete.
But University of Wisconsin-Madison officials continue to struggle to attract minority students like Olson, and even more importantly, to retain them through graduation.
Daven Jones can’t quit now. He won’t quit. He doesn’t know how to quit.
“Stuff happens,” the University of Wisconsin freshman wide receiver said this week after returning to practice for the first time since injuring his left knee in camp. “You’ve got to overcome obstacles, I guess.
UW football coach Bret Bielema would love to see unsuspecting foes venture into the Red Sea.
When seventh-ranked UW (2-0) faces The Citadel (2-0) at 11 a.m. Saturday at Camp Randall Stadium, the Badgers will again be dressed in all red uniforms and Bielema wants to see fans make the same fashion statement.
What happens in Vegas â?¦ stays in Vegas.
What else stays in Vegas? Wisconsin fans. Over 20,000 of them. This was evident strolling down Las Vegas Boulevard, i.e. “The Strip,” where virtually every other pedestrian was wearing either a red or white Badger shirt. High fives and “Go Badgers!” were common greetings of solidarity amongst passersby in anticipation of the UNLV-UW football game.
….Badger Backers, and their record-breaking fandom, can’t stay in Vegas. They put their money on their team, wherever they go. And that’s where the real jackpot is.
(Chris Kennedy, a Waunakee native who was a walk-on to the University of Wisconsin football team during the first four seasons of the Barry Alvarez Era, has written a book about his experiences. “No Bed of Roses” will be released Sept. 28.)
….One of the issues, it seems, is that no one is taking ownership of this problem. Gov. Jim Doyle should either step in himself or direct someone else in authority to deal with it.
This is, after all, a facility owned by the taxpayers of Wisconsin, not some private corporation.
There’s no excuse for a UW facility, especially one that harbors some of the top engineering and environmental minds in the country, to be a major polluter of our air and water.
UW-Madison economist Morris Davis doesn’t want to become known as the most bearish real estate pundit out there.
But considering past housing slumps and the depth of the current crisis, Davis isn’t looking for any recovery for at least another three years.
Dear Editor: Rep. Frank Lasee’s recent proposal to cut funding for Wisconsin’s one public law school because there are “too many lawyers” attempted to draw on popular negative sentiments toward lawyers.
While Lasee’s proposal has few if any supporters in the Capitol, there is likely broad agreement that it is always best to resolve disputes without the expense and drama that attorneys bring.
For this reason, Lasee and others should support the state Senate proposal to extend collective bargaining rights to University of Wisconsin faculty and academic staff since there’s robust evidence that the process of collective bargaining lends itself to more expeditious and less costly resolutions of conflict.
….Has there been any research to show what the alcohol industry means to the university in terms of financial support and student employment? If there is any doubt about the city of Madison’s position on the effects of alcohol — check out the Metro bus sporting the full body paint beer ad: “Drink Miller Genuine Draft!!!”
Now I know a suggestion to make the UW campus area a tavern- and alcohol advertising-free zone will be met with all kinds of sensible reasons why the idea is absurd. However, if the city of Madison, state of Wisconsin and University of Wisconsin were serious about the health of the students, and a vegetable, not alcohol, was the source of the ills, I think we would see a unified effort to rid the campus area of the product.
When Bret Bielema heard of Matt Shaughnessy’s situation, the University of Wisconsin football coach felt he had to do everything he possibly could, because he had experienced a similar situation before.
Shaughnessy — Wisconsin’s starting defensive end — is currently back home in Norwich, Conn., to be by his seriously ill brother’s side….
The situation reminded Bielema of what he went through during his junior year in 1991 as a defensive lineman at Iowa when his sister was killed in a horseback accident.
Who will fill in for senior wide receiver Paul Hubbard, expected to be sidelined for six to eight weeks because of a knee injury suffered Saturday in the victory over Nevada-Las Vegas?
Concordia University Wisconsin in Mequon plans to invest more than $14 million to start the second pharmacy school in the state.
The decision, which the university’s board of regents approved Friday, is designed to meet the growing demand for pharmacists in Wisconsin and throughout the country. That demand is expected to increase in coming years as more pharmacists retire.
The state’s only pharmacy school is at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The Big Ten Network will broadcast at least 20 games involving the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team this season, including the first seven, the university announced today.
That could be bad news for area fans, because negotiations to add the new network to the lineup for Charter Communications — the largest cable provider in Madison — remain at an impasse.
Wisconsin is about to gain some much-needed pharmacists.
Officials at Concordia University Wisconsin in Mequon announced today that the university’s Board of Regents has approved funding to start a pharmacy school in the 2009-10 academic year.
The state currently has just one school of pharmacy, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. That school graduates about 130 pharmacists annually, but more than three applicants apply for every available seat in the school, said UW-Madison Pharmacy Dean Jeanette Roberts.
When Greg Ryan came to Madison 21 years ago, he was a recently retired pro soccer player taking over a University of Wisconsin women’s program that had just pulled the training wheels off the bike.
A laptop computer and an undisclosed amount of money were among the items stolen from several offices in the Humanities Building late Thursday night or early Friday morning. In the same time frame, a projector was stolen from Vilas Hall. The method of forced entry was similar in both buildings and police said the same person may be responsible.
LAS VEGAS — After reviewing the University of Wisconsin football team’s season-opening victory over Bowling Green last season in his head coaching debut, Bret Bielema pointed out that a team typically makes its biggest amount of improvement between its first and second games.
That didn’t happen. The Badgers won the following week to improve to 2-0, but they were far from impressive during a 34-10 victory over Western Illinois, a Division I-AA outfit.
It didn’t happen this season, either. The Badgers escaped Sam Boyd Stadium with a 20-13 victory over UNLV Saturday night, but this wasn’t the step forward UW (2-0) had hoped to take after opening the season with a 21-point victory at home against Washington State the previous week.
Of course, it could have been worse.
Starting last year, the two principal public figures pushing for an accredited graduate school of public health in Milwaukee, Mayor Tom Barrett and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Chancellor Carlos Santiago, have been making subtle references to well-heeled donors waiting in the wings – angel investors, if you will.
It’s now clear that it wasn’t wishful thinking. Joseph Zilber, who in a matter of just a few weeks has become Milwaukee’s newest major philanthropist, has decided to give the proposed school the financial boost it needs to become a reality.
Pablo Delgado scored the winning goal in the 42nd minute as the University of Wisconsin upset No. 7 California, 1-0, on Sunday to win the Cal Legacy Classic in Berkeley, Calif.
Bret Bielema knew the University of Wisconsin’s 20-13 victory over unranked Nevada-Las Vegas wasn’t artistically impressive.
His team didn’t appear to improve across the board from the opening week and was fortunate to escape with a victory over a 26½-point underdog. Bielema understands that the Badgers (2-0) will face more demanding competition and more hostile road venues than they did Saturday against the Rebels.
Researchers hope to recruit 1,250 families in Waukesha County, starting next year, who are willing to allow scientists to study their children through medical tests and physical examinations for more than 20 years. Participants might be compensated or offered other incentives.
Other pilot sites are in California, New York, Pennsylvania, Utah, North Carolina and South Dakota.
Coordinated locally by the Medical College of Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the $2.7 billion study is being funded by the federal government.
