Author: jnweaver

….Kevin Barrett, who will be teaching a course on Islam in the fall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, claims that “overwhelming evidence proves that 9/11 was an inside job.” He will be trying to convince, as he’s done before, his students that Bush was responsible for 9/11. He will be preaching to a captive audience of somewhat naive and usually poorly informed young people, proselytizing and trying to convert them to his position.

This has nothing to do with academic freedom. This is an instructor taking advantage of his students, attempting to teach them what to think rather than how to think….

Dear Editor: I do not agree with UW instructor Kevin Barrett’s assertions about the 9/11 atrocity. However, I think it is crazy and counter-productive to attempt to have him fired. In fact, what I believe ought to happen is that his views should be subjected to very detailed serious examination.

Well-known community volunteer Martha Vukelich-Austin has been named the new president of the Foundation for Madison’s Public Schools, Susan Bakke, chair of the foundation’s board, announced today.

Today I’m announcing that veteran newspaperman Paul Fanlund, the current vice president for operations at Capital Newspapers, will become the executive editor of The Capital Times.

Later this month, Paul will assume responsibilities for the newspaper’s news content and its many initiatives on our Web edition while I, as editor, will devote more of my time directing The Capital Times’ editorial stands, writing my editorial page columns and working with Paul on the overall direction of the paper.

Several letter writers express their feelings on the controversy involving a lecturer in a fall class on Islam.

President Bush has nominated a Wisconsin native to head the U.S. Mint. Edmund Moy grew up in Waukesha, went to Waukesha North High School and is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin.

The Muslim community of Wisconsin should be embarrassed because someone is teaching an introduction to Islam course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who is willing to inform his students that the Bush administration was directly responsible for the attack on 9-11-01 that brought the Twin Towers down and resulted in the deaths of over 3,000 human beings.

Gov. Jim Doyle says comments of two Republicans on the State Building Commission show his former top aide was not the one who nixed a company’s bid to do a $68.7 million redevelopment project involving the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Hundreds of limited-term jobs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison would be converted to permanent work under a plan unveiled by the university.

Limited-term employment on the UW-Madison campus has long been controversial because the workers perform work similar to permanent employees without the same pay, benefits and job security. Many of the employees work for the athletic department and Wisconsin Union.