This stem cell editorial is part of a series of editorials analyzing the gubernatorial candidates’ positions on specific issues. The Journal Sentinel will end the series with an editorial recommending one of the candidates.
The woman who was assaulted by former University of Wisconsin running back Booker Stanley says the former Whitefish Bay High School football star should be held accountable for his actions, but doesnt want a harsh prison sentence.
LA CROSSE (AP) – A final autopsy report confirmed that a University of Wisconsin-La Crosse basketball player found dead in the Mississippi River last month drowned.
The Medical Examiner’s Office said Monday that Lucas Homan, 21, died of cold water drowning with acute alcohol intoxication as a contributing factor. Homan had a blood-alcohol level of 0.32 percent, or four times the level considered legally drunk for driving….He was the eighth college-aged man to drown in La Crosse-area rivers since 1997.
The security firm hired to provide 100 guards to man the ticket booths and gates at the Freakfest Halloween celebration Saturday could only manage to come up with 47 people, forcing city employees to fill the gap.
A University of Wisconsin summer intern has traded a comfortable life and advanced study abroad for Beirut and the burden of rebuilding a country ravaged by war.
When Lebanese student Samer Sobh traveled to Madison July 9 to participate in the UW College of Engineering summer research internship program, he left behind a country poised to capitalize on a booming tourist season.
He returned three months later to a land seeded with cluster bombs and its economy in ruins.
Many people at the conference said there is abundant technology for use by young companies in the state, given the right conditions.
Take, for example, the hard candies imprinted with “UW-Madison” in red letters at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation’s exhibit. The injection molding technology used to inscribe them was developed by University of Wisconsin-Madison students.
Take some lighten-up pills.
That, more or less, was Bret Bielema’s reaction to the minor hullabaloo that materialized from some comments the University of Wisconsin football coach made about P.J. Hill following the Badgers’ 30-24 victory over Illinois on Saturday.
Asked about Hill, who was injured during the game, Bielema said during a postgame radio interview that his star tailback “needs to take some toughen-up pills.” In the time since he made those comments, some have wondered why Bielema would use a public forum to question a player’s toughness.
Mentions that a poll released Monday by the University of Wisconsin Survey Center found 50 percent of registered voters said they favor a ban, while 46 percent oppose it. That’s well within the poll’s margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points, indicating the election could be close.
Mentions that a Badger Poll conducted by the University of Wisconsin Survey Center in Madison showed the amendment passing, 50% to 44%, with 6% unsure or not answering. When only likely voters are considered, proponents topped opponents 52% to 45%. The poll of 508 residents was taken between Oct. 18 and Oct. 26 and has a margin of error of 4 percentage points.
Mentions that, according to a Badger Poll released Tuesday, Kathleen Falk is leading J.B. Van Hollen 43% to 32% among Wisconsin residents surveyed, contradicting a poll of likely voters last week that showed Van Hollen in front.
Reports the gubernatorial race results of the Badger Poll, conducted by the University of Wisconsin Survey Center in Madison, showed Doyle leading Green 50% to 36%, though the gap was smaller (51% to 39%) – and the margin of error double (8 percentage points) – when just likely voters were considered.
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=524063
Story about paranormal investigators by Deborah Blum, a professor of journalism at University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of “Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death.”
Senior University of Wisconsin-Madison running back Dywon Rowan apparently will not face disciplinary action from the UW athletic department following a fight outside Union South early Sunday morning.
Rowan, 21,� of Erie, Pa., was one of five men who fled the scene in a car that was stopped later by UW police, after police had responded to a fight in progress around 1 a.m. Sunday.
Cold weather helped to keep a reduced crowd chilled to good behavior during this weekend’s Freakfest, although it could have been scarier when raucousness briefly roiled on State Street.
(This contains links to a series of articles.)
WHAT DO a 100-year-old woman who rides motorcycles and a 25-year-old woman who raises money running marathons have in common beyond an adventurous spirit? They are both in today’s column, that’s what. I think you’ll like them both.
….JAIME-ALEXIS Fowler is a graduate student in history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and one thing history teaches us is that a marathon is 26 miles long, and 26 miles is a long way, especially if it’s your first marathon, and it’s the Big Sur Marathon out in California on the Monterrey Peninsula, a race famous for its grueling hills.
But Fowler, 25, was on a mission back in April, when she ran Big Sur, and she was still on a mission last weekend, when she ran the Chicago Marathon. In each case she was running to raise money for causes of considerable personal importance.
Maurice Ravel is easily the most imaginative and idiosyncratic of the French Impressionists, at least when it comes to opera. Those who doubt that may want to attend University Opera’s production of “L’enfant et les sortileges,” which opened Friday before about 250 people in Mills Hall on the University of Wisconsin campus.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Jon Stewart and staff from Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” fielded questions from Ohio State University students at a special appearance Saturday, but the comedian also had a query of his own.
“A buckeye is a gay acorn, right?” Stewart asked about 12,000 people gathered at Value City Arena.
The popular news parody is gearing up for a week of broadcasts from Ohio for its “Midwest Midterm Midtacular.” The appearance, not planned for broadcast, was added after spaces for the four nights of tapings at the university’s more intimate Roy Bowen Theatre filled up.
A couple items to ponder while searching for a parking spot prior to today’s Illinois-Wisconsin college football game.
** Despite what most would consider a surprisingly good season to date for the UW football team, demand for tickets to Badgers games this year appear to be down.
Yes, for the third straight season the UW basically sold out every home game at 80,123-seat Camp Randall Stadium before the end of summer.
Yet surf the Web, call a ticket broker or walk around the stadium prior to today’s Illini-Badgers matchup, and you might be surprised at all the extra tickets that can be had.
** How bad has the Badgers’ home schedule really been?
In a word: horrendous.
During the last hour of the city’s first Halloween party to end peacefully in five years, drunken revelers who had been chanting “we want tear gas” seemed to lose their edge and mellow as they petted the police horses that stood among them.
Initially, the mounted Capitol Police officers seemed to further incite an already rebellious crowd as they strode through a mosh pit on the 500 block of State Street shortly before 2 a.m. Daylight Savings Time.
WASHINGTON – If Google is trying to take over the world – or at least the world’s published material – what role should the University of Wisconsin-Madison play?
The university and the Wisconsin Historical Society recently reached an agreement to have Google scan 500,000 non-copyright books and documents into its search engine, allowing Internet users to read these public domain holdings in their entirety.
As the early Halloween crowd began to trickle up and down State Street Friday night, most of the costumed young women looked cold dashing between bars while others warmly welcomed whatever this weekend will bring.
Tom Meersman and Mike Boyle, two students visiting Madison from the University of Illinois, said the draw of the Halloween party on State Street brought them to town, even though they aren’t sure whether they’ll have a place to stay.
This is one in a series of editorials analyzing the gubernatorial candidates’ positions on specific issues. This peice focuses on Jim Doyle and Mark Green’s views on education — including higher education. The Journal Sentinel will end the series with an editorial recommending one of the candidates.
A look at how polls in the Wisconsin governor’s race have tracked. The article quotes University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Charles Franklin, a polling expert, and references the Badger Poll, conducted by the University of Wisconsin Survey Center.
Two conclusions can be drawn from the University of Wisconsin’s 30-24 victory over Illinois.
First, despite a record of 1-4 in the Big Ten Conference and 2-7 overall, the Illini appear to be perhaps a season away from competing for an upper-division spin the league.
Second, despite a shaky start, UW (8-1, 5-1) obviously has the leadership on the sideline and in the locker room to remain poised in the wake of a substantial early deficit. And that poise, as much as the second-half execution, allowed UW to wipe out a 21-3 deficit against the Illini. As a result, UW on Sunday moved up one spot to No. 17 in the coaches’ poll and remained at No. 17 in the writers’ poll.
No tricks this year.
For the first time in four years, Halloween revelers were cleared from State St. at the end of the annual party without the use of pepper spray. Because of a significantly smaller crowd, police said they could clear the street with a horse patrol instead of the spray.
University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema has suspended junior defensive end Brandon Kelly indefinitely for what Bielema called “conduct detrimental to the team.” Bielema didn’t elaborate further on what Kelly did to draw the suspension.
“I just felt it was in the best interest of the team to not have him around,” Bielema said Thursday.
A group unhappy with plans to charge admission to State Street has put the street up for sale.
Bidding was at $15.61 this morning for the deed to the venerable downtown thoroughfare, which lists access prices to such events as Maxwell Street Days, football game days, rallies and marches as $0, then ends “Keeping a straight face while selling tickets to a spontaneous occurrence: Priceless.”
A troubled security firm will only be providing 80 of the 100 workers it promised the city for Saturday’s Freakfest when it signed a contract earlier this month.
So what will happen when Freakfest closes down at 1:30 a.m.?
In recent days, the Madison Police Department spokesman has said police would start clearing State Street at 1:30 a.m., even though State Street bars and restaurants will remain open for two more hours.
But according to Ald. Mike Verveer, once the music shuts down, people will be free to enter the street at will, whether they have purchased a ticket or not.
It’s midnight on a brisk October Saturday, and while most of their friends are out on the town, a group of University of Wisconsin students has set up outside the gates of Camp Randall Stadium.
They have only themselves as company, but they are accustomed to that. They have been in this position many times.Jake Diestelmann, Tony Canales, Aaron Olsen, Chris Manzeck and Eric Ashenbrenner have anchored the front row of Section O for seven straight UW home games, and they were not about to lose their spot for the Homecoming showdown against Wisconsin’s arch-rival, Minnesota.
If you fence it, will they come? That’s the question surrounding the new Freakfest, in which State Street will be closed off on Saturday night for a giant Halloween-themed block party — basically like past years, but maybe without that ugly aftertaste.
It won’t be the free-for-all of old, but the city-sponsored event, running from 7:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m., looks like a lot of fun, with two stages of local bands and lots of food. Madison just has to supply the freaks, who will have to pay a $5 admission to get in. Behave yourselves, now.
Kevin Barrett wants the world to open its eyes and minds and, at the very least, listen to the theory that our United States government was a co-conspirator in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Most consider that idea poorly-supported nonsense. To a few, it’s a frightening reality.
But to the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh’s credit, it understood the underlying principle that afforded Barrett his local spotlight Thursday: Academic freedom.
In plain view of neighbors who thought they were witnessing an abduction, eight Carroll College students carried out an apparent hazing incident that led to their arrest early Thursday, police said.
Russell Rueden, the longtime University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student leader at the center of an investigation into a possible $10,000 embezzlement, was suspended from his position as speaker of the Student Senate after financial records were released that raised additional questions about his use of student funds.
The last day that I spent with Paul Wellstone began on a sunny morning in the living room of his St. Paul home. I’d arrived to join him as he campaigned for re-election in what was widely seen as the most hotly contested Senate race in the nation.
….This week, as we mark the fourth anniversary of his death in a Minnesota plane crash, stem cell research is finally emerging as the sort of political issue that Wellstone thought it should be.
And Michael J. Fox, whose book the senator was reading on that sunny morning that now seems so very long ago, is at the center of the debate. This week, Fox began appearing in televised campaign commercials for Democratic supporters of embryonic stem cell research including Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle who are locked in tight races with Republicans who want to limit support for scientific inquiry.
This will be a busy week for classical music, and a good week for reminding the listening public just how much of the classical music scene in Madison, when it comes to presenters, performers and even composers, is owed directly or indirectly to the University of Wisconsin School of Music.
A state appeals court today threw out a lawsuit claiming Madison bar owners illegally conspired to raise prices when they voluntarily banned drink specials on weekend nights.
The District 4 Court of Appeals rejected arguments that the two dozen bars that stopped serving drink specials after 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays in 2002 violated antitrust laws by working together to fix their prices.
Aside from how the night ends, one of the foremost concerns among those running the city’s Halloween party is whether they can sell tickets quickly enough to avoid a pileup at the gates.
With only a few thousand advance tickets sold, organizers now anticipate a huge crush of demand as the party gets started Saturday on State Street.
That worries some, including City Council President Austin King, because if crowds are forced to wait long for tickets, they could become unruly or simply give up and take the party elsewhere.
Dear Editor: Congressman Mark Green cares about embryos more than American soldiers paralyzed while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. He likes to tell veterans he honors their sacrifice, but his opposition to stem cell research tells a different story.
We know he cares about embryos more than children with diabetes and old ladies with Alzheimer’s disease, so turning his back on paralyzed veterans must seem easy.
Gov. Jim Doyle blasted critics like radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh today for questioning whether actor Michael J. Fox stopped taking medicine for his Parkinson’s disease for political ads he is running promoting candidates that support embryonic stem cell research.
Administrators studying a possible overhaul of the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha have concluded that the least expensive option is a “university center” concept with expanded services from multiple outside institutions.
So how good is Bret Bielema’s football team?
Securing an accurate reading on the University of Wisconsin Badgers hasn’t been easy this season, particularly for those poll voters who haven’t seen the team in person.
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Quoted: Mary Beth Elliott, an associate professor of pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Anthony Shadid made a brief return to Baghdad last week and, as the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the Washington Post drove into the city from the airport, he was aghast by how much it had deteriorated since his last visit just a year ago.
“Baghdad is a city of ghosts at this point,” the 1990 University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate said in a phone interview Monday from his home in Beirut. “It doesn’t embrace life anymore. I don’t think anybody understands how bad it’s become.”
Shadid spent much of 2003 in Baghdad researching his highly acclaimed book, “Night Draws Near,” which views the Iraq war through the eyes of ordinary citizens and which recently was released in paperback.
A University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee foundation awarded a no-bid contract for a new dorm to a construction firm whose executives gave thousands of dollars to Gov. Jim Doyle’s campaign, but the governor’s office insists Doyle was not involved in the deal.
Milwaukee Magazine first reported in Tuesday’s edition that part of a $23 million contract for the 488-bed dorm went to KBS Construction. Campaign finance reports show KBS executives have given some $30,000 to Doyle’s campaign since late 2003.
A memorial tribute to Gordon Baldwin, longtime UW law professor who died Oct. 15 while in Italy, will be held in Room 2260 of the Law School, 975 Bascom Hall, at 4 p.m. Nov. 10.
Memorial gifts in his name may be made to the UW Law School or to the Madison Rotary Foundation.
A Bloomberg.com economic columnist is visiting the University of Wisconsin campus this week to interact with journalism and business students as the Fall 2006 Business Writer in Residence.
It’s ridiculous to believe a soldier, witness to the horrors of combat, can be turned back into a civilian without any psychological damage.
So says a soldier in the film “The Ground Truth,” a new documentary chronicling the lives of several Iraq combat veterans and their coming to terms with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Military Families for Peace, a local veterans group, screened the film and facilitated a discussion about the disorder Tuesday in a classroom on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
(Professor Joe Elder is quoted.)
Wisconsin families would be able to deduct tuition payments of up to $6,000 a year per student from their state income taxes under a proposal released today by Gov. Jim Doyle.
Doyle’s plan would also – for the first time – allow students and their families to deduct the full cost of books and fees from their state income taxes as part of that deduction.
If you’re looking for a security guard this weekend, you’re out of luck. Local security agencies are seeing an increase this year in Halloween business, so much so that they can’t keep up.
“We’re at the point now where we’re not taking any more business for Saturday the 28th,” said John Phillips, a manager at Martin Security, which will have about 45 guards working the downtown area for Halloween.
Fueled by fears that the city’s decision to charge a $5 fee to attend this year’s State Street celebration will squeeze party-goers to outlying neighborhoods, property owners, fraternities and businesses are looking for help.
University of Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema is monitoring the hype machine closely.
This week wasn’t a day old when talk of Heisman Trophy candidates began to include UW tailback P.J. Hill.
College costs are rising less severely this year but still are significantly above the national inflation rate, the College Board said Tuesday.
With the election two weeks away, Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle returned to the stem cell issue Tuesday, unveiling a TV ad with actor Michael J. Fox, who has Parkinson’s disease.
Success breeds accolades. Accolades breed attention. Attention breeds the potential for distractions.
That’s why University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema is keeping a close eye over things as his team — particularly some of its young players — become more and more popular by the week.
Take redshirt freshman P.J. Hill, for example. There’s an entire page in the Badgers’ weekly media release devoted to Hill, who is being touted by the UW as a “Heisman Trophy and Doak Walker Award Candidate.”
The UW-Madison executive MBA program was ranked 45th in the world by the Financial Times of London in its annual report.
The UW program was not ranked last year and was 41st in 2004, according to the Financial Times’ Web site.
The UW program was ranked 18th in the U.S., seventh in the U.S. for public institutions, and third among Big Ten schools.
(This is the complete item in the 10/24/06 Capital Times.)
UW-Madison students want to preserve the past and build for the future.
While only 6.6 percent of the student body voted in the Associated Students of Madison fall election last week, the electors overwhelmingly approved raising student fees to pay for a major renovation of Memorial Union and replacement of Union South.
But another referendum that passed, to bump student wages up to a “living wage” level, could hit a roadblock in the chancellor’s office.
The executive MBA program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business was named among the world’s top 50 executive MBA programs by the Financial Times of London. (In business briefs column.)
Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle’s campaign unveiled a new TV ad today that features actor Michael J. Fox, who has Parkinson’s disease, urging voters to stick with Doyle in the Nov. 7 election.
Quoted: Jessica Horne, a recent University of Wisconsin graduate who went to Sydney with a Michigan State University program in 2004.
When one of China’s top-ranked research institutions decided to compile a list of the world’s top 100 universities – to identify China’s main rivals in an emerging research-driven economy- it often landed in the American Midwest.
The Shanghai Jiao Tong University found that nearly one in five of the world’s leading universities – 19 of the top 100 – were in the Great Lakes region. The report listed the University of Chicago at No. 9; University of Wisconsin-Madison, No. 16; and University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, No. 21.
