Madison’s Park Commission deserves praise for supporting a hip-hop concert this Thursday on the Library Mall. Promoter Florenzo Cribbs had sought a permit to hold the concert at Peace Park on State Street but couldn’t come up with the $1,000 deposit needed to use a city park.
Verona native Neil Walker claimed the first medal of the Athens Games for athletes from the Madison area or the University of Wisconsin on Sunday, but it wasn’t the success the Americans hoped for in the 400-meter freestyle relay.
The last Quonset hut on the University of Wisconsin campus is scheduled to be demolished on Monday.
A sociologist who calmed the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus during the dark days after 9-11 has been selected as dean of the university’s largest college.
A proposal to grant tuition breaks to students from California might work for other University of Wisconsin campuses, but probably not at UW-Madison, says UW-Madison Provost Peter Spear. (8/13/04 Capital Times print edition)
Katie Hammes is not sure she’ll be watching the Olympic Games on television when rowing coverage begins Saturday. That might be too difficult considering she was a fraction of a second away from being in Athens herself.
Local business leaders, including some who questioned the need for universal health care coverage less than a decade ago, say they need help from the federal government to cope with skyrocketing health care costs. (Chancellor John Wiley is quoted in this story.)
The University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team will make its network TV debut under second-year coach Lisa Stone in the 2004-05 season, according to the team schedule released Thursday.
It won’t be at the site he was hoping for, but hip-hop promoter Florenzo Cribbs says he’ll pursue his plans for a free concert Aug. 20 – on the Library Mall, not down State Street in Peace Park.
I was honored recently to be elected to the presidency of the Wisconsin Technical College System Board. This leadership position comes at a critical time for a technical college system that we can all be proud of and that has a reputation as one of the nation’s finest.
The one-time “sleeper issue” of stem cell research leapt squarely into the center of the presidential race Monday….(L.A. Times article from 8/10/04 Capital Times print edition)
Police released a sketch of Audrey Seiler’s supposed abductor despite having strong reservations about her story.
President Bush’s 3-year-old restrictions on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research have probably hurt Wisconsin workers in that field, Gov. Jim Doyle says. Continue reading
Wisconsin’s debt more than doubled over a decade to nearly $15 billion, according to an Associated Press analysis of census data. The soaring debt means more state dollars that could go to other programs must instead go to pay off principal and interest on the loans for years to come.
The potential of a pension reduction for more than 123,000 retired public employees lurks in the wake of last week’s Wall Street debacle.
President Bush, who followed his father and grandfather to Yale University despite an undistinguished academic record, said Friday that colleges should get rid of ‘legacy’ admission preferences that favor the sons and daughters of alumni. (From 8/7/04) Capital Times print edition)
Tissue Is Now Frozen
Stacey Hodkiewicz started dealing with a form of heart arrhythmia at age 10.
“Wow. It is indeed a rare day when normal Wisconsinites are privy to the wanton power grabs and backstabbing of the Capitol crowd…,” says Green Party candidate Tony Schultz.
UW Can’t Build Separate System
The state of Wisconsin will pay for one digital network, requiring the University of Wisconsin to abandon plans to build its own separate network.
The University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics is now a Level 1 trauma center for pediatric care. The hospital also revealed two initiatives Thursday. One is a MedFlight ground unit. (See 8/6 Capital Times print edition)
One of those struck was UW-Madison student Aleen Tierney.
Global warming means more summer smog for millions in Baltimore and 14 other U.S. cities, the Natural Resources Defense Council said in a report issued Wednesday. (AP story in 8/5/04 Capital Times quotes lead author Jonathan Patz of UW-Madison)
Gov. Jim Doyle ought to be paying attention to the Democratic primary election results from Missouri. Democratic voters there rejected Gov. Bob Holden in his own party primary because of concerns about his lack of accountability and his failure to make a sufficient commitment to hold the line on tuition hikes at the state’s universities.
“College doesn’t prepare you for life.” It was part of a conversation I heard two young men having over a beer and a deep bag of greasy popcorn on the terrace at the UW’s Memorial Union one recent, balmy summer evening.
Spectators could hear the conviction in Rachel Brooks’ voice as the aspiring attorney addressed the jury. Perhaps that’s what helped her prosecution team win its own conviction as part of a mock trial with an educational purpose….Brooks is one of 800 high school students participating in the People program, a summer initiative to give minority and disadvantaged students a taste of life in college.
Malika McCormick figured she’d have no problem getting into nursing school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Midway through her undergraduate education at UW-Madison, McCormick had good grades, prerequisite course credits and plenty of excitement for nursing as a career.
UW System President-elect Kevin Reilly did not receive a unanimous vote of approval by the Board of Regents. Regent Gerard Randall abstained during the vote Thursday afternoon, concerned that by the time the full board had a chance to vote on Reilly, the decision had already cemented in the public’s mind.
A group of UW-Madison students plans to travel to New York to protest at the Republican National Convention. The trip is being organized by the Student Labor Action Coalition, which has reserved three buses with a capacity of 165 for the trip.
Xu Bing, the 49-year-old Chinese-born artist who fled into exile and now lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., is one of the art world’s hot names right now. And to think he got his start a decade ago at the University of Wisconsin’s Elvehjem Museum. He will have a major show opening here in September. (See 7/30/04 Capital Times print edition)
UW professor of veterinary medicine Dr. Sheila McGuirk, a colon cancer survivor, is one of 20 cyclists selected from nearly 1,200 applicants to team up with Lance Armstrong for the Bristol-Myers Squibb Tour of Hope, Oct. 1-9.
Judd Guthmiller, like Ernest Hemingway, is painfully aware of the consequences when The Sun Also Rises — and shines on a scoreboard creating glare on the video screens.” But I don’t believe that will be a problem here,” said Guthmiller, a 26-year-old project manager for Daktronics, which is installing the scoreboards in Camp Randall Stadium.
Kevin Reilly will make $320,000 as president of the UW System, on the high end of the position’s pay range. Reilly sounded familiar themes Thursday in his first news conference….
Wisconsin’s delegation to the Democratic National Convention cast its 87 votes for John Kerry for president — and, in the process, stem cell research. (7/29/04 Capital Times print edition)
As is unfortunately becoming too common for the state Legislature, political ideology is taking the place of substance.
This week’s defeat of a proposed constitutional amendment to rein in state spending is only the first battle in a long and likely costly political war, say the leaders of a zealous conservative group backing the measure.
One of the first messages Matt Smith heard as a University of Wisconsin freshman rower in the fall of 1996 was about the Olympics.
What does Tricia Dickinson likes best about her job? “It provides an incredible opportunity to contribute to the success of a place that truly makes a difference. “
Nino Amato, the University of Wisconsin regent who scolded his colleagues for raising executive pay ranges in private, has lost his seat on the board. Prominent policy-makers from both parties expressed dismay….
New high school graduates who think they are finished being judged by colleges and universities should think again. Some are in for a big surprise this summer. (Capital Times 7/28/04 print edition)
Voice of the People: There has been a lot of press lately concerning the merits of building additional residence halls on the UW-Madison campus. (Letter to the Editor from ASM chair Emily McWilliams in 7/28/04 Capital Times print edition)
The new play opening Friday at Broom Street Theater is called “Audrey Seiler, Where Are You?” But writer John Sable and director Dana Pellebon are actually not that interested in where the UW-Madison college student went for four days when she faked her abduction last March.
“I got up in the dark to drive down here and I’m still in the dark,” said Marinette Mayor Doug Oitzinger, complaining that just before the one and only public hearing on a proposed constitutional amendment, he still didn’t know what the amendment said.
The new book “Woodland Reflections: The Art of Truman Lowe” serves a very important cultural function. At a time when the renewed culture wars tend to undercut the accomplishments of non-white artists, Jo Ortel’s impressive monograph provides major critical documentation of this American Indian sculptor’s accomplishments.
A Cornell University professor who is considered to be a national expert on kosher and halal food laws is a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin.
In triathlon jargon, it’s known as a brick. A brick is a workout consisting of two different events back to back — say a grueling five-hour bike rid followed by a two-hour run. (Story features Joe Scherman, a 22-year-old UW pre-med student & part-time employee of the Medical Sciences lab.)
Kevin P. Reilly has been tapped to become the new president of the University of Wisconsin System by a regent search panel, the UW announced this morning.
The UW-Madison’s Office of Corporate Relations made “solid progress” in addressing its mission of serving the needs of business in Wisconsin and beyond, according to its official review of its initial year.
University of Wisconsin officials announced Thursday that tickets for all six homes games for the 2004 football season are sold out. It is the first time in school history all games have been sellouts before the start of the season.
In an apparent swipe at the Gov. Jim Doyle administration, the departing president of the Wisconsin Technical College System called on officials to stop playing political games with the system’s leadership and urged them to “seek compromise.”
Pharmaceutical giant Abbott Laboratories and UW-Madison spin-off Deltanoid Pharmaceuticals Inc. today announced the completion of an option and license agreement to develop a new generation of vitamin D receptor activators (VRDAs) for the treatment of kidney disease.
Fear of losing civil liberties since the Patriot Act was enacted in October 2001 has caused a huge surge in membership in the American Civil Liberties Union in Wisconsin and nationally. (UW-Madison & UW Sytem employees quoted.)
Bruce R. Ellig, a graduate of the UW-Madison School of Business, has donated an unspecified amount to establish the Bruce R. Ellig Chair in Pay and Organizational Effectiveness in the school’s Department of Management and Human Resources.
…OK, so it’s just one issue. But judging from the volume of calls and e-mails I receive every time I write about student loan debt, it’s an extremely important one.
David Smith pulled out of the search for a new University of Wisconsin System president today, one day before he and the other three finalists were to interview for the job.
All-American or overly offensive? Your attitude about the ice cream cone, introduced in the Midwest 100 years ago this week, will hint at how much you think like Leon Kass. (Babcock ice cream is included in this feature article by Mary Bergin.)
Six Dane County Democratic legislators are urging the state Technical College System Board to retain Nino Amato, a Republican appointee from Madison, as its president when it meets later this month, saying “He has been an outspoken voice for students and faculty as well as a watchdog for taxpayers.” (See 7/15/04 print edition)
Rob Thomas: Our fair city looked awfully good Wednesday night during the first three hours of ESPN’s taped coverage of the Great Outdoor Games V.
GenTel BioSurfaces Inc. of Madison announced that it has received five Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants totaling more than $900,000 by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation….The UW-Madison spin-off company specializes in the development, manufacture and distribution of biochips for life sciences, pharmaceutical and diagnostics research.
Thanks to her fifth-place finish in the 200-meter freestyle finals Saturday, USA Swimming announced Tuesday that University of Wisconsin swimmer Carly Piper earned a spot on the U.S. squad that will compete in Athens. (The Capital Times)
Things will be tight in the sparsely furnished Madison townhouse where newly arrived Hmong refugee Chia Pao Lor and his wife and seven children will bunk temporarily with his cousin Thao Lor, her husband, Mang Yang, and their eight children. Lor and his family arrived in Madison Tuesday evening, landing at Dane County Regional Airport on the final leg of their journey from Thailand to cheers, tears and hugs from some 40 friends and relatives.
