Quoted: Dr. Megan Moreno, a University of Wisconsin adolescent medicine specialist who has studied online social networking among college students, said using Facebook can enhance feelings of social connectedness among well-adjusted kids, and have the opposite effect on those prone to depression.
Quoted: The Mekong is unique among the world?s large rivers because “the fish diversity is extremely high, the diversity of migratory species is extremely high, and human dependence upon these species for fisheries is extremely high,” said Peter McIntyre, a freshwater conservation expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Professor William Cronon, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is now in a serious tangle with none other than the state Republican Party, in yet another battle over Scott Walker?s new anti-public employee union law. After Cronon posted a piece on out-of-state think tanks and interest groups that would spur the law, the GOP has responded with an open-records request on Cronon?s own state account e-mails.
A branch of the US Republican Party has been accused of attacking academic freedom by using freedom of information laws to access emails sent by a University of Wisconsin-Madison academic who criticised its policies.
Quoted: “It?s been pretty rare and when you compare Wisconsin to other states that do have recall, we are much more restrictive,” said Dennis Dresang, political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “You don?t want this done on a whim. You really want it done because there is a serious breach of trust.”
Kaja Rebane wants Dane County residents to send a message that corporations aren?t people and money isn?t speech. The UW-Madison grad student helped organize a successful effort to put referenda on the April 5 ballot in both the city of Madison and Dane County.
MADISON, Wis. ? Wisconsin Republicans insist that the anti-union law that sparked weeks of protests at the state Capitol and that is being challenged in court takes effect Saturday because a state office decided to post it online. The head of the office that posted it and a court order temporarily blocking the law?s implementation suggest otherwise.
Quoted: UW-Madison political scientist David Canon asked the Assembly Committee on Election and Campaign Reform: ?Why duplicate the state?s efforts in terms of having (students) go out and get another free ID at a cost to the state??
It?s sad that the performance presented by the UW-Madison dance department and Jin-Wen Yu Dance was a one-night-only event. “March Into Sunlight” deserves to be experienced by more people.
The Republican Party of Wisconsin isn?t happy when uppity university professors criticize our governor.
Quoted: Dr. Michael Stier, a forensic pathologist from UW-Madison, told jurors that Kara, as she was known, died of diabetic ketoacidosis as a result of untreated juvenile onset diabetes. Complications from diabetes caused her body and internal organs to break down days before her death and some of the signs would have been obvious, Stier said.
A thorough airing is needed before any legislative action is taken on a plan to keep the University of Wisconsin System united while still allowing the flexibilities sought in a proposal to split off its flagship campus.
Governor Scott Walker says he?s open to a plan that would offer campuses in the UW-System more flexibility, similar to what he?s offering UW-Madison.
A plan to split UW Madison from the rest of the UW System has competition. The chancellors of UW extension and all the UW campuses ? with the exception of UW Madison?s Biddy Martin, have signed on to this Wisconsin Idea Partnership, a reaction toMartin?s New Badger Partnership which spins off the Madison campus.
Two men were arrested shortly after 3 a.m. Friday morning after a fight broke out on Langdon Street.
A leading Republican lawmaker says the controversial budget repair bill now has the effect of law, but Wisconsin?s Secretary of State says otherwise.
Twin brothers from Madison face battery charges after a fight that stemmed from a disagreement surrounding the taping of the popular music video, “Teach Me How To Bucky,” according to the Madison Police Department.
Some confusion still exists over whether Friday?s publication of Wisconsin?s controversial collective bargaining bill by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau makes it law.
The Republican Party of Wisconsin is seeking, under the state?s open-records law, to obtain e-mail sent by a Madison professor who has publicly criticized that state?s Republican governor, a move the professor is denouncing as an assault on his academic freedom.
Just when it seemed that the political conflict and intrigue over public higher education in Wisconsin could not get any more intense or convoluted, it did. Thrust into the tangled mix of controversy over employee union policies and potential governance restructuring that roiled the University of Wisconsin System this winter came word late Thursday of a Republican operative?s perceived attack on academic freedom and on one of the university?s most visible scholars, which promises to complicate an already combustible situation.
The latest technique used by conservatives to silence liberal academics is to demand copies of e-mails and other documents. Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli of Virginia tried it last year with a climate-change scientist, and now the Wisconsin Republican Party is doing it to a distinguished historian who dared to criticize the state?s new union-busting law. These demands not only abuse academic freedom, but make the instigators look like petty and medieval inquisitors.
Recently William Cronon, a historian who teaches at the University of Wisconsin, decided to weigh in on his state?s political turmoil. He started a blog, ?Scholar as Citizen,? devoting his first post to the role of the shadowy American Legislative Exchange Council in pushing hard-line conservative legislation at the state level. Then he published an opinion piece in The Times, suggesting that Wisconsin?s Republican governor has turned his back on the state?s long tradition of ?neighborliness, decency and mutual respect.?
Here?s what we?ve never understood about the idea of cleaving the Madison campus from the rest of the University of Wisconsin System: Why shouldn?t all the campuses be freed from unnecessary state bureaucracy?
They should be, yet that?s not what will happen under Gov. Scott Walker?s proposal, which has the hearty endorsement of Carolyn Biddy Martin, chancellor of the Madison campus.
Full-time faculty and support staff at Madison Area Technical College voted to amend a three year contract so that they would get smaller raises and would begin paying into their pensions. In exchange, the unions representing the two groups asked the college to “make every effort to avoid layoffs caused by budget reductions.”
Cornell soon could join the growing ranks of universities with full-time Muslim chaplains working alongside the Christian and Jewish chaplains already common on college campuses.
Mark Johnson of the University of Wisconsin was named Coach of the Year by the American Hockey Coaches Association on Thursday, the fourth time in six seasons he has garnered that honor in the wake of the Badgers winning the NCAA title.
Left for dead in their NCAA Southeast regional semifinal after missing 17 straight shots and trailing by 20 points with a little more than 11 minutes left, the Badgers clawed their way back within four points before falling 61-54 on Thursday evening at New Orleans Arena.
It?s been almost 50 years since the second version of the University of Wisconsin Law School was built on Bascom Hill.
“In Madison, once again, we live in interesting times.” Thus begins David Maraniss? keynote, “Into Sunlight: The Connections of War and Peace from Vietnam to Afghanistan, from Lyndon Johnson to Barack Obama, from a Book to a Dance.” Scheduled for 6 p.m. Friday at Wisconsin Union Theater, the Pulitzer laureate?s address provides context for this weekend?s Sunlight Project & Symposium.
Quoted: “Even targeted boycotts are very difficult,” says UW-Madison associate professor of history William P. Jones, “so one this diffuse is not likely to be effective.” Jones notes that successful actions ? the Montgomery bus boycotts and the one against non-union grape growers in California ? were “focused on one company and supported by vigorous picketing.”
Many of you have probably heard of a proposal, as part of the Budget Repair Bill, to “spin off” the University of Wisconsin at Madison from the UW System. Under this proposal, called “The New Badger Partnership,” UW-Madison would operate under a separate board that would provide it with greater control of its own budget.
Badger cheerleaders and Bucky Badger made a surprise visit to a local school to hold a pep rally, and are tuning young New Orleans fans into Badger faithful. Many of the kids were decked in Badger hats and “Teach Me How To Bucky” T-shirts.
When University of Wisconsin Chancellor Biddy Martin began campaigning her New Badger Partnership last year, she made it clear the Madison campus has its own unique needs. In formulating a way to deal with these needs, she was proactive, both in outlining a plan and working with the new governor.
Governor Scott Walker says he?s open to a plan that would offer campuses in the UW-System more flexibility, similar to what he?s offering UW-Madison.
Tuesday, a federal judge tossed out the proposed settlement in the lawsuit over Google?s vast book-digitization project.
Here?s the headline: the Wisconsin Republican Party has issued an Open Records Law request for access to my emails since January 1 in response to a blog entry I posted on March 15 concerning the role of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in influencing recent legislation in this state and across the country. I find this a disturbing development, and hope readers will bear with me as I explain the strange circumstances in which I find myself as a result.
Chancellor Biddy Martin just can?t catch a break when it comes to the New Badger Partnership. After she attracted support from major student leaders across campus, Martin was left with the daunting task of capturing the heart of one of Wisconsin?s most intransigent politicians to date?Gov. Scott Walker.
Budget cuts are flying around mercilessly these days. Madison is facing a 13-percent budget cut in Scott Walker?s proposed budget bill and needs to find ways to absorb those costs without just passing them on to students. Public authority status, included in the budget, is one proposal aiming to do just that, but Chancellor Biddy Martin is looking for other cost-reductions as well. This week, the administration announced a contract with Huron Consulting Group to look for ways to improve efficiency on campus and save the university money.
Quoted: Not everyone was well off. Katherine Curtis, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who specializes in demography and inequality, said blacks who returned to the states where they were born tended to have a higher poverty rate than those who went to other Southern states. One reason could be that they moved back for family, not economic opportunity, she said.
Nerve cell tendrils readily thread their way through tiny semiconductor tubes, researchers find, forming a crisscrossed network like vines twining towards the sun. The discovery that offshoots from nascent mouse nerve cells explore the specially designed tubes could lead to tricks for studying nervous system diseases or testing the effects of potential drugs. Such a system may even bring researchers closer to brain-computer interfaces that seamlessly integrate artificial limbs or other prosthetic devices.
Quoted: Tom Eggert, co-director of the UW-Madison business, environment and social responsibility program, and Deborah Mitchell, who teaches marketing at UW-Madison.
Dane County?s black infant mortality rate, which dropped for several years and became a national success story, shot up again to four times the rate for whites over the past three years, leaving health officials stumped. UW-Madison researchers have been examining the situation in Dane County and comparing it with southeast Wisconsin, where the black-white gap has remained. Quoted: Jeanan Yasiri, executive director of the UW Center for Nonprofits.
On Sunday afternoon, just hours after the University of Wisconsin women?s hockey team claimed its fourth NCAA title in the last six years, an e-mail showed up in my inbox from a man who wanted to express his appreciation for the team?s many fans.
Thomas Beaumont, a veteran chronicler of presidential politics and the Iowa Caucuses, has been named Des Moines Correspondent for The Associated Press. Beaumont graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1989 and earned a master?s degree in journalism from the school in 1993.
Thirteen University of Wisconsin chancellors asked state lawmakers Wednesday to support a new plan that would give all their schools more autonomy but wouldn?t spin off UW-Madison from the rest of the UW System. The chancellors asked legislators in a letter to consider a six-pillar proposal called the Wisconsin Idea Partnership. UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin said it would be difficult to comment on the chancellors? plan until more specifics were released.
UW-Madison is embarking on an external study to look for areas where the university could function more cheaply, effectively and efficiently. There are no cost estimates yet for the contract that university leaders signed with Huron Consulting Group earlier this month. Instead, the company will bill the university on an hourly basis, giving the university flexibility on how much it wants to spend, said Darrell Bazzell, vice chancellor for administration.
UW-Madison, please don?t go.That?s the gist of a letter to state legislators Wednesday, signed by all of the chancellors in the University of Wisconsin System ? except UW-Madison?s Chancellor Biddy Martin. The 13 university leaders asked legislators to support the Wisconsin Idea Partnership, a UW System proposal that calls for more autonomy for all UW campuses, but as part of a unified system. In a dueling letter, also to state legislators, Martin wrote that she is “skeptical” of the UW System plan. She charged that details are not clear, while a plan that would make UW-Madison a “public authority” with its own board of trustees is already in Gov. Scott Walker?s proposed budget.
A group of 22 first-graders near New Orleans will don their ?Teach Me How to Bucky? T-shirts today for a morning pep rally with UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin, Badgers cheerleaders, band members and their favorite Wisconsin mascot. Badger Nation can thank Woodmere School teacher and Madison native Alissa Schneeberg, 24, for this youthful outpost in Harvey, La., on the west bank of the Mississippi River across from the Big Easy. Schneeberg, a La Follette High School and UW-Madison graduate, is in Louisiana with Teach For America and exposed her class to the Badgers before the football team?s Rose Bowl appearance.
They are integral parts of both the present and future of Wisconsin basketball.
Guard Josh Gasser is the freshman starter, more poised and with an all-around game more advanced than anyone could have imagined.
Forward Mike Bruesewitz is the sophomore reserve, a player whose performances and personality can be as brilliant as the red mop that adorns his head.
The Wisconsin Idea Partnership is a win-win for all UW campuses and all UW students. It maintains public ownership and accountability and promotes a synergistic approach in which all campuses work together to revitalize the state?s economy.
We hope that legislators will recognize that the whole is sometimes greater than the sum of its parts – a truism that certainly applies to one of the nation?s great public university systems. [A column by regents Charles Pruitt and Michael Spector].
We disagree with some of Walker?s approaches. And even though we agree that spending cuts are needed, we also believe he and the Republicans in the Legislature should be more open to modest tax increases.
But here?s something that no one in the state should disagree with: It?s time to stop playing make-believe with the state budget.
t could be a breakthrough that allows those with spinal injuries or certain diseases to walk again.Scientists at the University of Wisconsin have successfully shown that they can force nerve cells to grow through
There have been a number of recent opinion articles in support of giving the University of Wisconsin-Madison more freedom to run its own affairs and allowing it to become more independent of the state.
Former Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy is something of a political ghost, a memory of a particular style of legislative representation, full of demagoguery and deception, that has since seen few equals. Two UW-Madison history professors, in recent columns, resurrect the ghost ? although they disagree on how closely Gov. Scott Walker?s politics compare to Wisconsin?s most notorious of politicians.
Opposing Gov. Scott Walker?s budget is one thing.Walking 43 miles across three counties to deliver that message to the Capitol steps is something different.
Graduate students at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, report that they?ve successfully managed to get nerve cell tendrils to grow through tiny tubes made of semiconductor materials.
A plan to grant UW System schools more autonomy while retaining UW-Madison as the system?s flagship university has the backing of the chancellors at UW-Stout, UW-Eau Claire and 11 other public universities in the state.
Faculty from a University of Wisconsin System campus are making a protest trek to Madison, protesting cuts to the UW System. Associate professor James Hartwick, one of the walkers, notes faculty will face a seven to ten percent pay cut under Governor Scott Walker?s budget repair bill. ?Maybe that doesn?t sound so bad, but faculty already make between 11 and 21 percent less than they would make at a comparable institution out of state,? said Hartwick. UW Whitewater faculty are not unionized.
Writing in opposition to the separation of UW-Madison from the UW System, David Ahrens makes some good points. For instance, he explains, if the Madison campus is no longer a part of the UW System, fewer legislators will be interested in promoting its strength, instead steering money to the campuses in their districts.
NEW ORLEANS (WKOW) — The Badger men?s basketball team is in the Big Easy, but they know they?re not here to tour Bourbon Street; they?re here to win a game.
