Mentions, in the last item, a study this summer by the University of Wisconsin-Madison said the average person leaving W-2 is pulling down around $11,000 a year.
Spivak and Bice: Welfare Works
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Author: jnweaver
Bush, Kerry differ in economic rhetoric
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: Menzie Chinn, a professor of economics and public affairs at University of Wisconsin-Madison and Louise Keely, a UW economics professor.
State still a presidential-ad battleground
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Mentions more evidence of Wisconsin’s central role as a presidential battleground state in a study from the University of Wisconsin Advertising Project and UW-Madison political scientist Ken Goldstein.
Tamoxifen has stroke risk, review says
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: Douglas Dulli, a professor of neurology and public health medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Editorial: Help immigrant students
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
University of Wisconsin chancellors are allowed to waive out-of-state tuition for certain categories of students, athletes among them. Graduate teaching assistants and research assistants are the main beneficiaries. But there�s another category of student just as deserving. That would be students who happen to be undocumented immigrants.
State sows biotech potential
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Wisconsin is one of the 20 states best-positioned to expand its biopharmaceutical industry, but it’s not among those that will add the most jobs in that sector, according to a report being released today.
DiCaprio, Moore will stump here for Kerry
Capital Times
Hollywood heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio will come to Madison Wednesday to lend his star qualities to the effort to kick George W. Bush out of office. DiCaprio will stump for Democratic candidate U.S. Sen. John Kerry at the Orpheum Theatre at 1:30 p.m. downtown, heating up a politically charged week that will culminate Saturday night with an appearance by “Fahrenheit 9/11” director Michael Moore at the Memorial Union Terrace on the UW campus.
Editorial: Nino Amato’s truth telling
Capital Times
Nino Amato’s speech at last week’s rally for lower tuition at the University of Wisconsin may well be seen as a turning point in his public career.
Michael Moore coming to Madison
Capital Times
The day after the Rock the Vote tour hits Madison urging people to register to vote, Michael Moore will visit to exhort those voters to kick George W. Bush out of the White House. Moore is scheduled to bring his message to the Memorial Union Terrace stage at 8:30 p.m. Saturday, rain or shine.
Kapani’s SEED of justice
Capital Times
It’s about justice, Seema Kapani says of the SEED project. SEED — Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity — features seminars designed to breed diversity and inclusion in the university classroom and curriculum and beyond. (10/9/04 Capital Times)
Bumper stickers: Your vote, your joke
Capital Times
UW-Madison political science professor Ken Mayer is quoted in this item about what effect bumper stickers have on the outcome of political campaigns.
Editorial: Franken’s a big hit
Capital Times
Who would have thought you could get 500 people to watch radio? That’s what comedian and political commentator Al Franken did Wednesday, when he broadcast live from the Great Hall of the Memorial Union on the University of Wisconsin campus.
Editorial: The higher ed burden
Capital Times
From the “This really should go without saying” department comes the news that education experts have determined college tuition hikes are creating financial burdens for students and their families.
Rally rips UW for rising costs
Capital Times
As students rallied for lower tuition (Friday), an ousted former regent accused the University of Wisconsin administration of “gamesmanship” with administration numbers.
‘Daily Show’ rates high
Capital Times
The day his book debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list for nonfiction, “Daily Show” executive producer Ben Karlin was in Madison joking about the book, the show – and, whenever the opportunity arose, President George W. Bush.
Man to sue over wrongful conviction
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Steven Avery, the Manitowoc County man who served nearly 18 years in prison before DNA tests proved he did not commit a sexual assault, will seek $36 million in a federal civil rights lawsuit to be filed Tuesday against the county, its former sheriff and its former district attorney. DNA tests sought by the Wisconsin Innocence Project, a program of the University of Wisconsin Law School, resulted in Avery’s being released from prison Sept. 11, 2003.
Investment board makes wise move in supporting venture capital efforts
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Mentions UW-Madison and College of Engineering efforts to emphasize interaction with business.
In a generation, gap separating compensation of chiefs, others widens
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: Barry Gerhart, UW-Madison business professor.
UW: Didn’t try to deceive
Capital Times
University of Wisconsin Regents said they did not mean to deceive anyone when they used a narrow definition of “administrative position” to brag of the university’s lean overhead.
Economists: Raise $5.15 wage
Capital Times
A number of economists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison are among 562 economics experts who signed a statement calling for a modest increase in the U.S. minimum wage.
Mayor wants bus passes for city workers
Capital Times
Mayor Dave Cieslewicz wants to get city employees out of their cars and give them a free ride. The mayor proposes in his recently released 2005 executive operating budget to provide free Madison Metro bus passes to all city employees next year. (UW-Madison bus pass program mentioned.)
Dave Zweifel: TABOR would cut our quality of life
Capital Times
The results of a poll conducted in Wisconsin at the end of September had some disturbing results – up to two-thirds of those responding feel there ought to be a constitutional amendment limiting spending by state and local governments.
Embryonic stem cells save ailing mouse embryos
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: Gary Lyons, a professor of anatomy at the University of Wisconsin Medical School.
Art’s not all about money
Capital Times
At the first-ever Wisconsin Arts Congress next Tuesday at the Overture Center, built in part to revitalize downtown Madison, you can be sure of one thing: Art will be measured by money. (Andrew Taylor, director of UW-Madison’s Bolz Center for Arts Administration, is quoted.)
UW biz aid center gets federal grant
Capital Times
The UW-Extension’s Small Business Development Center has been awarded a $95,000 federal grant to strengthen the technological competitiveness of small businesses.
Lawmakers scrutinize UW System salaries
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
While the payroll at most University of Wisconsin System campuses stayed flat last year, salaries in the system’s administrative arm jumped 9%, a sign some state legislators said shows costs need to be trimmed.
Fears linger over deadly flu gene
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
It doesn’t take much to turn a mild strain of flu deadly, according to a scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his international team of researchers. Indeed, it appears it took just one gene to make the 1918 Spanish influenza virus into one of the most lethal and pernicious pandemics in history.
Police Report: UW police nab 2 teens in vandalism rampage
Capital Times
University police Tuesday arrested two self-described “anarchists” in connection with a vandalism spree that left more than 20 cars and two buildings damaged.
(10/6/04 Capital Times)
Franken show packs Great Hall
Looking a little worn out from his 5 a.m. arrival in Madison today, comedian and political commentator Al Franken landed his Air America radio show at the Memorial Union’s Great Hall. Broadcasting live in front of a morning overflow crowd of more than 500, Franken received a standing ovation when he took the stage… (10/6/04 Capital Times print edition)
Experts: College tuition hikes burden families
WASHINGTON — The price of public university tuition is rapidly outpacing inflation and increases in family income, a panel of education experts told a higher education forum on Tuesday. (Capital Times/Medill News Service)
Carol Bartz to get entrepreneurship award
Capital Times
Carol Bartz, a 1971 UW-Madison computer science graduate and CEO of Autodesk, will be inducted into the Entrepreneur Hall of Fame next Tuesday. She will receive this annual award from the UW-Madison Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship.
First lady defends Bush stem cell research policy
Capital Times
MILWAUKEE – First lady Laura Bush defended her husband’s policy on stem cell research Tuesday in a state known for advances in that area, and indirectly criticized Democrats as overstating its immediate promise. (AP)
Dave Matthews delivers at Vote for Change concert
Capital Times
You should feel sorry for any Republican Dave Matthews fans who skipped Tuesday’s Vote for Change benefit concert at the Kohl Center, afraid that the event would turn into an anti-Bush rally.
State residents give Bush low marks on economy, poll says
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
President Bush’s handling of the economy remains a soft spot for him with Wisconsin voters, according to poll results released Tuesday. Quoted: G. Donald Ferree Jr., associate director at the University of Wisconsin Survey Center, which conducted the Badger Poll.
Unfunded programs cost state $2.4 billion, groups say
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Unfunded federal programs and tax policies have cost Wisconsin $2.4 billion since 2002, and significantly contributed to the state’s fiscal crisis, according to a report released today by two budget watchdog groups.
Exhibit captures ancient glory
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Visionary painting and scientific inquiry aren’t the most comfortable of bedfellows, nor are they fashionable in our post-modern, post-Freudian era. But they mesh in a Milwaukee exhibit featuring the works of Christiane Clados, who is in residence at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s department of anthropology this semester, thanks to the outreach efforts of the German Academic Exchange Program.
Local biotech ConjuGon raises another $1.1 million
Capital Times
Madison-based ConjuGon has raised another $1.1 million from angel investors to fund research and development of its technology that can aid companies in developing new drugs to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which annually are responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide.
Mayor seeks to hire a tavern coordinator
Capital Times
Mayor Dave Cieslewicz wants to hire a tavern coordinator to work with bar owners to help reduce campus area drinking problems. Funding for an “alcohol policy coordinator” is included in Cieslewicz’s 2005 executive operating budget, the mayor announced Monday.
UW won’t sponsor Halloween activities
Capital Times
University of Wisconsin-Madison administrators will not sponsor any Halloween events on campus, not even alternative programming designed to keep people away from State Street. That has upset some students who believe the university is trying to avoid responsibility for the annual Halloween weekend problems on State Street.
Bush making 8th visit to state
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: Virginia Sapiro, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist.
Pain relievers may help cancer fight
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: Mark Ritter, an associate professor of radiation oncology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Star power politics: Actress Natalie Portman draws big UW crowd
UW-Madison freshman Ben Emmrich skipped two classes this morning — including one exam — just so he could hear Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry’s message. Well, sor of. It helped that actress Natalie Portman, best known as Queen Amidala in the “Star Wars” series, was on campus to deliver the message for Kerry. (10/4/04 Capital Times print edition)
Latino Dems fight back
Capital Times
Members of Madison’s Latino community came together Sunday to unite against what they say is a Republican smear campaign aimed at presidential candidate John Kerry and fellow Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold. (Francisco Scarano, a professor of Caribbean and Latin American history, is quoted. )
Cosby still the best at stand-up
Capital Times
He could have been just another one of the thousands of red-sweatered folks milling around downtown Madison late Saturday afternoon, still flush with excitement at the Badgers’ win. But the gray-haired man in the Bucky Badger sweatshirt and slippers happened to be America’s greatest living stand-up comic.
Rob Zaleski: He ranks Madison creme de la creme
Capital Times
What is it that sets Madison apart from other cities?…Of course, a lot of it has to do with State Street, (Abdul) Bensaid says. “At one end you’ve got one of the greatest universities in the world. At the other end you’ve got one of the greatest state capitols in the world.
Absent but quite influential
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Wisconsin voters will begin casting their ballots for president this week,as campaigns, political parties and interest groups gear up for a bigger and possibly pivotal extended round of absentee voting. Quoted: UW-Madison political scientist Charles Franklin.
Changes needed to profit from research
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Wisconsin has to make big changes now if it wants to catch up with states that have committed millions of dollars to translate research to revenue, according to a report by the Wisconsin Technology Council that will be released soon.
Will you vote on Nov. 2? Really? Promise?
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A massive get-out-the-young-vote effort begins Monday, helped in part by what observers are calling a first for Wisconsin politics: a campaign to ask young people to pledge to vote in November.
UW profs give points to both candidates
Capital Times
…In interviews this morning, University of Wisconsin-Madison professors agreed that Sen. John Kerry did not embarrass himself Thursday night, with some awarding him a decisive win, and some saying Bush may have scored a backhanded victory.
Co-gen plant is upheld
Capital Times
State Rep. Spencer Black called the project ‘ill-conceived, … never competitively bid … and sold with a promise to give the university first call on the power produced that was later broken by the PSC. ‘A Dane County circuit judge this week upheld the Wisconsin Public Service Commission’s approval of the $180 million power plant that Madison Gas and Electric and the UW-Madison are building on the west side of campus.
UW eyes its master plan of the future
Wisconsin State Journal
Elements as disparate but unique to UW-Madison as its lakefront views and its contributions to the field of agriculture could be major organizing principles in a new 10- to 20-year campus master plan. Then again, with a final product still 12 months off and plenty of opportunities for second thoughts and U-turns, no one knows exactly what will emerge, university officials and consultants said.
Candidates’ differences clearly defined in debate
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: UW-Madison political scientist Kenneth Mayer.
Bush hurts science, Nobel winner tells UW students
The Bush administration has held back science, a Nobel laureate said during a visit to UW-Madison. (9/30/04 Capital Times print edition)
Pantless men give public, cops eyeful
Officer Scott Kleinfeldt thought he was heading to a fight, but it turned out to be an innocent little LSD-fueled romp by two immodest men. The men, both 19-year-old UW-Madison students, were arrested without pants Monday….” (9/30/04 Capital Times Police Report print edition)
Filling the boomer gap won’t be easy
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: Katharyn May, dean of the nursing school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
University Ridge clears hurdle on expansion plans
Capital Times
Expansion plans for University Ridge took a step toward becoming reality Tuesday following action taken by a University of Wisconsin Athletic Board sub-committee.
Rally planned to reopen lab to study Lou Gehrig’s disease
Capital Times
Patients of a University of Wisconsin researcher will rally today to reopen a lab that deals with a degenerative neurological condition.
Doug Moe: What are those fight song words?
Capital Times
A READER, Alexander Shashko of Madison, writes the following: “Dear Mr. Moe,
Here is my question: Is UW scrolling down the words to ‘On Wisconsin’ on the new scoreboard at any point during games this year?”
Die-hard sports fans fined $181 for ‘camping’
Capital Times
In the early morning hours Tuesday, when the temperature was down around 49 degrees, Alan Paberzs was understandably chilled. The UW-Madison graduate student had been waiting in the hockey ticket line outside the Kohl Center for nine days and was sleeping on a blanket, he said. Using a blanket on university property in this instance was apparently considered “camping” and against UW rules.
Fluno Center draws takers to UW executive programs
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
When it was looking for a new home for its 28 weeks of training programs, the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association evaluated 13 universities.
Having won international accolades for food and lodging and since it already housed the Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Fluno Center for executive education got the nod, said Gary Pfann, director of university-based programs for the Arlington, Va.-based cooperative association.