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Noted: “Even if a judgment were obtained in France, it would be impossible under American law to enforce it here,” said Robert Drechsel, a journalism professor who teaches media law at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Quoted: Often during debates over renaming campus buildings, people worry it will have a domino effect, said Stephen Kantrowitz, a history professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. They ask, where does it stop?

Quoted: In the 1950s and early 1960s, the CIA spent billions developing psychological interrogation techniques and employing a half-dozen leading psychology departments, according to Alfred McCoy, history professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror.

Quoted: “If you go back historically, when you thought of small businesses, you probably thought of a more traditional shop like a restaurant or a small retail store,” said Dan Olszewski, director of the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship at the Wisconsin School of Business. “Now, I think people are more likely to think of an entrepreneur. They’re thinking of Mark Zuckerberg before Facebook got big.”

Ross Reynolds interviews John Ahlquist, co-author of the book, “In the Interest of Others: Organizations and Social Activism,” which looks at the history of the longshoremen and the union’s involvement in politics. Ahlquist is a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Noted: Wheeler is pushing the “strongest open Internet protections ever proposed” by the federal agency. So said Barry Orton, professor of telecommunications at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: “The ability to get that close to birds that cheaply has a lot of potential to revolutionize bird censuses,” said Kristoffer Whitney, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who looks at the history and ethics of wildlife biology.

Noted: “Pearson has been the most creative and the most aggressive at [taking over] all those things we used to take as part of the public sector’s responsibility,” said Michael Apple, a professor of education policy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Noted: Barry C. Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said, “He’s really latched onto two or three Washington issues to focus on. … When he arrived, it was about the healthcare law and wanting to repeal that, and then moving on to Benghazi and other foreign policy issues. To his credit, he hasn’t relented on any of those things. They’re still his focus, even though we’re a year and a half from the election.”

Quoted: Laura Kiessling at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, who studies ways to draw natural antibodies to tumor cells, comments on the benefits of Spiegel’s approach: “It can be tailored to selectively recruit specific types of immune cells to kill tumor cells. The smaller size of the compounds could also be an asset in eliminating tumors, but the benefits would need to be looked at in vivo,” Kiessling says.

Noted: While GW, Pomona and GMU can exempt both the caller and the person who needs help, the University of Wisconsin-Madison grants amnesty only to the caller. According to Marc Lovicott, public information officer for the UW-Madison police department, the university’s “Responsible Action Guidelines” are on a case-by-case basis and there are no guarantees for amnesty,

Quoted: Barry Orton is a professor of telecommunications at UW-Madison. “The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission Tom Wheeler has announced he going to go for a very robust net neutrality regulation under what’s called Title II, which means he’s treating the Internet as a public utility.”