Twenty-six days after he was hired as head coach of Northwestern’s football team, Pat Fitzgerald mentioned one factor that would drive him away from his dream job.
“If I start to feel stress in this job, I’m out,” he said. “I’ll resign.”
(UW athletic director Barry Alvarez and new Badger head coach Bret Bielema are also quoted in this story.)
Driving around Milwaukee with a bumper sticker that reads “9/11 – The Big Lie,” Rob Steinhofer gets a steady stream of hostile stares and obscene gestures.
But it was a drive to New York City for hearings before the federal commission investigating the 2001 terrorist attacks that convinced Steinhofer his government was engaged in a coverup.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources have successfully wielded a new weapon to fight off the invasive rusty crayfish in northern Wisconsin: a two-pronged maneuver that leaves no collateral damage in its wake.
Op-ed column by UW-Madison sociology professor Joe Elder notes that it took half a century to achieve the fragile peace between Israel and Lebanon that preceded the recent outburst of extraordinary violence and asks: Is the U.S. really insisting on another half-century of tragedy before calling for a ceasefire?
Quoted: Jeremi Suri, an associate professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Saying the nation is at a crucial moment in the development of stem cell research, Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle urged supporters of human embryonic stem cell research to bring their “will for progress” to the political arena this fall.
This is cutting off your nose to spite your face. There’s no other way to put it. We know we said we hoped to have nothing further to say about efforts to force the UW to silence lecturer Kevin Barrett, but the actions this week of the Ozaukee County Board are so bizarre we draw them to your attention lest they spread unnoticed.
Members of the Ozaukee County Board in eastern Wisconsin are so outraged at the UW for allowing the 9/11 skeptic Barrett to teach an Islamic studies class that they voted to cut funding to the UW Extension program.
The Madison Police Department and the Dane County Tavern League are getting parts of their wish lists answered in the city’s response to a rise in robberies.
In a joint press conference held Thursday by Mayor Dave Cieslewicz and Police Chief Noble Wray, the recent rise in crime was blamed on too many bars, too many drunks and too few cops.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison provost warned an instructor who believes the U.S. government orchestrated the Sept. 11 attacks to stop seeking publicity for his views, days after he defended the teacher’s right to free speech.
Provost Patrick Farrell also warned Kevin Barrett to stop associating himself with UW-Madison when he advocates his views. Otherwise, Farrell wrote in the July 20 letter, he would reconsider his decision to allow Barrett to teach a course on Islam this fall.
Gov. Jim Doyle, speaking today in Washington, D.C., said states cannot be expected to make up for federal inaction on human embryonic stem cell research.
He said states are losing time and wasting money struggling with the situation left by President Bush’s veto of the bill that would have lifted the 5-year-old federal ban on funding new human embryonic stem cell lines.
Doyle appeared this morning with U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, at the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning think tank, upon the release of the center’s report on stem cell research.
Review of “Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death” by Deborah Blum, a journalism professor at UW-Madison.
The adaptive liquid microlens, developed by researchers at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, could lead to cheap and easy-to-make sensors, “lab-on-chip” devices used for testing biological and chemical substances in a fluid, and even “camera pills” that photograph the intestines after being swallowed.
Kevin Barrett hasn’t exactly endeared himself in Wisconsin. The University of Wisconsin-Madison instructor’s conspiracy theories behind the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks appear to defy reason.
In the big picture, $8,427 is not a lot of money, especially to a governmental agency like the University of Wisconsin Extension, which manages hundreds of millions of dollars. The amount has a greater value as a symbol, which is why the Ozaukee County Board voted to cut that many dollars out of its funding for UW Extension next year.
As University of Wisconsin administrators defended their decision to employ instructor Kevin Barrett, a top university official suggested in a letter to Barrett last month that he should be less outspoken about his personal views.
The future of the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha campus is being scrutinized anew in an effort to compare the costs of various options for expansion or transformation.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has threatened Kevin Barrett with dismissal if he continues to publicly endorse the theory that the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were an inside job.
Drums will be beating and cash registers will be ringing in Madison next week.
About 35,000 people are expected to hit town for the 2006 Drum Corps International World Championships Tuesday through Saturday, according to the Greater Madison Convention & Visitors Bureau. That will result in an estimated $3.3 million in direct spending in the area.
Student leaders say the governor’s plan to limit tuition increases at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is a step in the right direction but needs to go further.
….”We think it’s a step toward reinvesting back in the university system. However, we feel that what students have said they need, and families said they need, is a tuition freeze,” said David Glisch-Sanchez, university affairs director for the United Council of University of Wisconsin Students.
Many art show openings and receptions take place at the beginning of the month, as you can see from the accompanying gallery listings. But this is an especially big weekend over at the Memorial Union on the University of Wisconsin campus.
That’s because the Memorial Union will open a show of historic photos to accompany the 75th anniversary of the Wisconsin Hoofers, which bills itself as the largest inland sailing club in the world. There will be other activities including a reunion, demonstrations and a film.
Brenda Muth, an acute care nurse practitioner in transplant nephrology at UW Hospital, is featured.
Quoted: Katherine Frank, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
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Quotes: Katherine Frank, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Wisconsin at Madison with a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from Duke.
A key lawmaker said Wednesday he was outraged to learn details about the way the University of Wisconsin System managed a $26 million information technology project that failed.
Proposed rules meant to speed up the firing of University of Wisconsin System professors charged with serious crimes were developed without the mandatory approval of faculty groups, faculty leaders complained Wednesday.
The Ozaukee County Board has voted to cut funding for next year’s University of Wisconsin Extension program by the amount paid a University of Wisconsin-Madison lecturer who contends that the U.S. government orchestrated the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Tuition at the University of Wisconsin System would rise either 3% or 3.75% in 2007-’08 and 1.75% in 2008-’09 under preliminary budget plans presented to the Board of Regents on Wednesday.
Proceed with caution.
That is the motto University of Wisconsin senior offensive tackle Joe Thomas has embraced as he continues his comeback from the serious knee injury he suffered just seven months ago.
In a move some members hope will spread across the state, the Ozaukee County Board voted Wednesday to cut funding to next year’s University of Wisconsin Extension program by the exact amount being paid to a controversial part-time University of Wisconsin-Madison lecturer who contends that the U.S. government orchestrated the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=479477
Mentions the Center on Wisconsin Strategy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Leon Epstein, a retired University of Wisconsin political scientist who was an expert on political parties and politics, died Tuesday after a fall at his home on Madison’s west side, University of Wisconsin-Madison officials said today. He was 86.
Epstein taught in the Political Science department from 1948 to 1988, reaching full professorship in 1954. He served as chairman of the department from 1960-63 and was dean of the College of Letters and Science from 1965 to 1969.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – After years of rising tuition, University of Wisconsin System considered on Wednesday Gov. Jim Doyle’s call to hold down tuition increases to below the rate of inflation for the 2007-2008 and 2008-2009 school years.
Regents, who govern the UW System of 13 four-year universities and 13 two-year colleges, considered a budget plan that would increase tuition by 3 percent for 2007-2008 and then 1.75 percent in 2008-2009.
Several regents expressed support for Doyle’s call, but the board will not formally vote on the budget request until later this month.
New students who think they’re about to spend their college life in a tranquil Midwestern town are going to get a wake-up call when they arrive later this month.
City officials are putting out the word that Madison at night is not always a safe place, especially at bar time, and it’s the students’ job to avoid falling prey to criminals.
“It’s not real welcoming, but it’s reality,” said Lt. Carl Gloede of the Madison Police Department’s Central District.
Meet Bret Bielema, stand-up comic.
The University of Wisconsin’s rookie head coach, armed with a microphone and his humor on the first day of the Big Ten Conference pre-season football meetings Tuesday, showed he can be refreshingly candid, edgy and plain hilarious.
Feature story about the blooming of a titan arum at Virginia Tech mentions that in 2001, scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison made a really big deal out of it, pollinating the plant by hand and setting a plastic tent to measure gas emissions.
A columnist’s tongue-in-cheek letter to Chancellor Wiley begins: I touch digits to keyboard this Wednesday to apply for a position on your august faculty.
University of Wisconsin lecturer Kevin Barrett knows a little about life outside the mainstream–indeed, he once penned a travel guide under the pseudonym Dr. Weirde.
But he never expected to find himself carrying the banner for one of the most controversial theories of our times, a hypothesis that more than a few critics think goes beyond strange.
Inside the dim and dusty Silver Moon on Sunday afternoon, about 60 people stared with wondering eyes and listened with alert ears to 9/11 conspiracy theories explained by UW-Madison lecturer Kevin Barrett.
It’s about all the stuff kids take to college.
You wouldn’t believe it.
Mount Horeb saw the loss of two of the community’s rising stars as Greg McCullick and Eric McNew died over the weekend.
“It’s really very tragic,” said Maureen McCarthy, Mount Horeb High School attendance secretary, who knew the young men. “They were two kids who were really going places.”
Paul Barrows was among those honored at a diversity program recognition banquet at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
On Friday, the PEOPLE program celebrated the more than 1,000 students who have participated. The program, also known as Pre-College Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence, helps the state’s young people of color earn high school diplomas and go on to college.
Sister city activists and other Madisonians with ties to Cuba said today they fear the Bush administration will use the transition in power from Fidel to Raul Castro as the occasion to activate a plan to replace that nation’s communist system.
They said such a move could lead to war.
(Professor Robert Skloot, clinical assistant professor Dr. Bernard Micke, and professor emeritus Robert Kimbrough were interviewed for this story.)
How Madison manages Halloween is a big deal.
Drawing crowds of 75,000 or more to State Street on the final weekend of October, Halloween partying is big business packing Madison area hotels, restaurants and taverns to capacity and big fun for the most part.
But the city has never quite gotten a handle on the underside of the festivities: deadly drunkenness, violence and crowd control nightmares. As a result, the cost of policing the party has risen to over $600,000 annually.
A lot of Madisonians would be just as happy if the party was canceled. But that’s not going to happen…
Mentions that a University of Wisconsin-Madison study shows that, on average, only about half an hour per day is spent on science instruction, compared with almost an hour on mathematics instruction and about 70 minutes on reading/language arts instruction.
The University of Wisconsin, Madison, is defending a lecturer’s private views he expressed on a radio show that the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks were a sham.
It appears that academically qualified students are not finding space in the University of Wisconsin System schools, especially at the Madison campus. This situation will only become worse once the new diversity criteria are fully implemented. It remains to be seen how many in the new diverse student body will actually complete a degree.
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=478242
If dollars were votes, the race between Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle and Republican challenger Mark Green would be on its way to a record turnout. Story quotes UW political scientist Charles Franklin and mentions John and Tashia Morgridge’s contributions to Doyle.
In Wisconsin, we know a thing or two about snowflakes. We also know a really lame snow job when we see one.
Whether you are the president of the United States or a candidate for governor of Wisconsin, when you take a political position contrary to the interests and wishes of more than 70 percent of the American people, you have to do some pretty fast talking to try to explain it away.
The dishonest public statements put out by both George W. Bush and Congressman Mark Green to try to justify their opposition to embryonic stem cell research didn’t even come close.
A man suspected of exposing himself to several women in the Madison area was being held today on 22 criminal charges.
Brian C. Carley, 30, was arrested after checking himself into the Veterans Hospital Friday. He was charged with four counts of lewd and lascivious behavior, four counts of fourth-degree sexual assault, seven counts of disorderly conduct and seven counts of bail jumping. Police spokesman Mike Hanson said Carley fought briefly with officers during the arrest.
SUN PRAIRIE – Republican gubernatorial candidate U.S. Rep. Mark Green said today he would not follow Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle’s lead in trying to trim state spending by reducing the state’s workforce or contracting out with private businesses for state services.
Speaking at a campaign stop at Sir Hobo’s Restaurant, Green accused Doyle of engaging in “political gamesmanship” with state employees.
….Green also blamed Doyle for a $26 million computer payroll system at the University of Wisconsin that has failed to work as expected.
While many campers this summer are tying square knots, paddling canoes or weaving friendship bracelets, a growing number are instead drawing up business plans and generating personal budgets. At entrepreneur and finance camps from coast to coast, business is open.
Maybe I�m too politically correct, but I�d like to propose sensitivity training for state Rep. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, and University of Wisconsin lecturer Kevin Barrett.
Dear Editor: After reading the latest list of animal protection regulations that have been violated at the UW-Madison, I can’t help but wonder why the government allows this research facility to continue operating. Any sensible person can see that it’s managed by people who do not have any regard for animal welfare.
Moreover, I’m shocked that the university would agree to pay a fine, but doesn’t have to admit to doing anything wrong.
Dear Editor: In an utterly predictable move, Rep. Steve Nass and his cronies have chosen to cut and run from any debate with Kevin Barrett. But typically, not before taking a few cowardly potshots at the professor.
I do not for a moment believe that Nass actually wrote that July 27 letter to the editor. He just signed it after ordering one of his unfortunate clerks to search the Bartlett’s Web site for a few juicy quotations that he could urge us all to “reflect” on.
Dear Editor: I noticed in Rep. Nass’ cowardly way of backing down to Kevin Barrett’s debate challenge, that he took it upon himself to quote some of the Founding Fathers.
Once it was the reason for an attempt to remove him from office, but Madison’s smoking ban now appears to be rewarding Mayor Dave Cieslewicz’s campaign for re-election.
According to the latest filings, contributions from the medical community have amounted to about 13 percent of the money that Friends of Dave Cieslewicz has raised this year.
In Wisconsin lurks a force that scientists say is strangling embryonic stem cell research far more than any federal funding restrictions.
The University of Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, generally known as WARF, holds three broad patents that essentially give it control of embryonic stem cells used in the United States.
University of Wisconsin officials need to make a greater effort to ensure that Wisconsin students have access to public higher education.
Quoted: John Parrish, an animal science professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
MedFlight had to land unexpectedly in the town of Rutland Friday after an equipment warning light appeared during a hospital-to-hospital patient transfer.
