When it comes to addressing the state?s huge deficit, everything is on the table. That was the message from Governor-elect Scott Walker during an appearance Tuesday at the Milwaukee Press Club. Walker will present his budget for the next state biennium in a few months, and WUWM?s Erin Toner was on hand when he outlined his ideas.
The decision by Minnesota athletic director Joel Maturi to hire Northern Illinois coach Jerry Kill as the school?s new head football coach didn?t generate a lot of enthusiasm among Golden Gophers fans.
The intersection of free enterprise and sports is often a relatively happy place. The buying and selling of tickets and merchandise — even at inflated prices — is seen as a necessary trade-off by most fans for the privilege of supporting and watching their favorite team or teams.
Climate shifts over the past 13,500 years coincide with the emergence of new technologies and cultures in the early Indians of North America.
Noted: At first, controllers back on Earth lost contact with the probe and got modulating signals indicating that spaceship may be wobbling a bit, said Sanjay Limaye, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who is one of five American scientists on the Akatsuki research team.
What you learn in school appears to be critical to your health, according to a study released on Tuesday. The long-term study of more than 10,000 Wisconsin residents who graduated from high school in 1957 concluded that the higher a participant?s school rank was, the lower the probability of worsening health as they approached retirement age four decades later.
“We already know (schooling) matters for things like your work and your earnings, but this proves it also matters for your health,” said Pamela Herd, an associate professor of public affairs and sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Home might be where the heart is, but church is a good place to find happiness.Social scientists have long noted that people who are more religious profess greater satisfaction with life, and a new study led by the University of Wisconsin-Madison claims to find why this is so.
The Wisconsin Badgers are going to the Rose Bowl! Wisconsin fans haveanother reason to celebrate! Let the ticket scalping begin!
Kids these days. Guess we can?t blame you for being entrepreneurs in the age of the Great Recession and tuition and fees that have risen faster than the price of gas in the last decade.
Student who gets top grades in high school have better health decades later than those who didn?t make good grades, U.S. researchers suggest.
The Badger Herald identified more than three dozen student ticket scalpers as “The Worst People on Campus” in an editorial intended to blast the practice of profiting from possession of Rose Bowl tickets from the UW?s limited allotment.
Suggestions for changing the system of distributing Rose Bowl tickets to UW students are being offered in the wake of widespread student scalping of the hard-to-get tickets.
There?s something for everyone ? almost ? in President Obama?s tax deal. UW political scientist Barry Burden says the deal the president cut with Republicans to extend the Bush tax cuts sends a pretty clear signal that he?s willing to work with the new Republican majority in the House. ?This is really him working quite directly with the Republican leadership and in some ways stepping on his own party,? said Burden. ?It?s hard to know whether this strategy in the end benefits the Democratic Party, or maybe just him in 2012.?
Matt Rosenthal is on the worst people on campus list at the University of Wisconsin. It?s a list compiled by the Badger Herald newspaper, which printed names of 38 students selling their Rose Bowl tickets for a profit. ?They don?t know those 38 students motives, they don?t know anything,? said Rosenthal, adding that the fact that there was no name attached to the opinion piece ?was not cool.? Rosenthal said he put his tickets up for sale as a joke, and that there should be more tickets available for students.
Governor-elect Scott Walker is raising the possibility of decertifying state employee unions. In remarks Tuesday at the Milwaukee Press Club, the governor-elect sent the clearest message yet that he intends to take on state employee unions.
More than 200 University of Wisconsin-Platteville students marched on campus Tuesday in response to more than two dozen racially motivated hate crimes on campus this semester.
Former Madison alderman Noel Radomski has announced he will challenge Mayor Dave Cieslewicz in the spring election.
Update: The Badger Herald has removed the names of the individuals previously listed here. We don?t have the resources to continue fact-checking and adding the additional 200 or so names that have been submitted to the newspaper since the initial publication of ?The Worst People on Campus.? Because of this, it would be unfair to single out the three dozen people previously listed on this page.
Monday?s list titled ?The Worst People on Campus,? that ran on this opinion page has garnered a tremendous amount of buzz, not only on this campus but across the nation.
In front of a group of friends and their children in a warehouse on the East Side, Noel Radomski announced his candidacy for Madison mayor this afternoon.
The William V. Campbell Trophy, known as the academic Heisman, will be awarded Tuesday night in New York by the National Football Foundation and College Football Hall of Fame. Sixteen finalists who comprise the 52nd national scholar-athlete class already have won $18,000 each in scholarship money, while the winner will receive an extra $7,000.
Note: Wisconsin QB Scott Tolzien is a finalist.
On Sunday night, the University of Wisconsin put 5,800 Rose Bowl tickets on sale for students through the school?s athletics department. All the tickets were scooped up in 20 minutes at a face value of $150 apiece. But shortly after the sale concluded, many of the tickets popped up for sale again — some for as much as $400 each — on various web sites, such as Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist.
Told you so. Two months ago, I panned a visit by President Obama to the UW-Madison campus as an overly produced and scripted piece of partisan hoo-ha. Now comes word that the Democratic pep rally ? which, incidentally, doesn?t appear to have done much to elect Democrats ? was ridiculously expensive. Not just for the Democratic National Committee, but for us.
Vowing to boost the economy, keep the city safe and protect it against “regressive” acts by the incoming Republican state leadership, Mayor Dave Cieslewicz on Monday announced he will seek a third, four-year term. At his event, Cieslewicz said GOP talk of stopping high speed rail, rolling back domestic partner benefits for state workers, reducing embryonic stem cell research and expected budget cuts to UW-Madison challenge “the very definition of a modern economy that Madison represents.” Also, former Ald. Noel Radomski, director of the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education and one of Cieslewicz?s sharpest critics the past year, confirmed he will run for mayor.
Noted: Karen Tuerk of UW-Madison?s geology department.
It was the equivalent of a scarlet letter with a capital “W.” On Sunday night, UW-Madison student newspaper The Badger Herald posted the names of 35 students, calling them, “The Worst People on Campus.” The students, according to the Herald, had committed the cardinal sin of trying to sell coveted Rose Bowl tickets online for a profit.
University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly is asking that roughly 20,000 university faculty and staff receive a 2 percent pay increase each of the next two years despite the state facing a roughly $3 billion budget shortfall. The request made public Monday comes after the governor and Legislature last year didn?t approve any salary increases for UW employees and ordered them to take 16 unpaid furlough days, which equates to a 3 percent pay cut. Regents had approved a 2.5 percent increase over that two-year period that ends July 1. The new recommendation, covering the two-year period starting July 1, will be considered by the Board of Regents at meetings Thursday and Friday.
?Second Skin? is truly a one-woman show.For her solo performance at Music Hall on Friday and Saturday, Dec. 10-11, Ella Rosewood solicited new dances from five professional choreographers. She wrote grant applications, coordinated publicity and recruited a technical team. Rosewood, 22, even developed a dance curriculum for grade levels K-8 and took her dance to seven area schools ? all before she herself has graduated from college. ?I have never been a person who thinks I?m going to be discovered as a dancer, because that doesn?t really happen,? said Rosewood, a dual major in dance and elementary education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?You have to make happen what you want.”
The former Wisconsin FFA President, who has recently been elected to lead the University of Wisconsin-Madison Collegiate FFA, said he is stepping down from the post. In a memo e-mailed to colleagues last night, BJ Chrisler said he is resigning his officer position for personal reasons.
Enrollment at the University of Wisconsin?s 26 campuses across the state this fall is about 1.6 percent higher than a year ago.
Quoted: Experts such as Thomas R. Oliver, professor of population health sciences at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, hope that understanding of the 2,500-page law will improve as time goes on.
Sociology assistant professor Chaeyoon Lim of the University of Wisconsin-Madison said: ?Our study offers compelling evidence that it is the social aspects of religion rather than theology or spirituality that leads to life satisfaction.
As important as your religious beliefs may be to you, they don?t necessarily make you happier, a new study in the American Sociological Review finds. What does make you more satisfied with your life, the study finds, is having friends at your congregation and a strong religious identity.
“Those are the people who give you the sense of belonging,” said lead study author Chaeyoon Lim, of the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Lim conducted the study with Robert Putnam, author of “Bowling Alone” and “American Grace.”
Quoted: Perhaps a dozen children from faith-healing churches die without receiving medical care each year in the United States, but no one really knows the true number, said Shawn Francis Peters, who wrote the 2007 book “When Prayer Fails: Faith Healing, Children, and the Law.”
His induction tonight into the College Football Hall of Fame couldn?t come at a better time.
The Badger Herald is pissed off, and taking names. Well, listing names. The names of UW students who snapped up coveted Rose Bowl tickets, and are attempting to scalp them. As strong proponents of public shaming, we stand with you, Badger Herald.
Scott Tolzien was born 13 years after Johnny Unitas retired from pro football, but from now on, Tolzien will be forever connected to the quarterback with the crew cut and high-top black shoes.
Religious people are more satisfied with their lives than nonbelievers, but a new study finds it?s not a relationship with God that makes the devout happy. According to a study published today (Dec. 7) in the journal American Sociological Review, religious people gain life satisfaction thanks to social networks they build by attending religious services. The results apply to Catholics and mainline and evangelical Protestants. The number of Jews, Mormons, Muslims and people of other religions interviewed was too small to draw conclusions about those populations, according to study researcher Chaeyoon Lim, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
With official word coming Sunday that the Wisconsin Badgers are headed to the Rose Bowl, Doug Walters can now seek out more official memorabilia — and maybe even a trip to Pasadena, Calif.
University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly is asking that roughly 20,000 university faculty and staff receive a 2 percent pay increase each of the next two years despite the state facing a roughly $3 billion budget shortfall.
On Sunday night, the University of Wisconsin-Madison put 5,800 student-tickets up for sale after the Wisconsin Badgers football team was invited to the Rose Bowl. Unsurprisingly, the Wisconsin students bought their allotment of bowl tickets in less than 20 minutes. Why wouldn?t they? The Badgers haven?t been to the Rose Bowl since 2000, and what half-frozen Wisconsinite wouldn?t want to take a mini-vacation to Pasadena during winter break?
The Badger Herald identified over three dozen student ticket scalpers as “The Worst People on Campus” in an editorial intended to blast the practice of profiting from possession of Rose Bowl tickets from the UW?s limited allotment.
Controversy on campus! A UW-student newspaper publicly calls out dozens of classmates.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison student newspaper Badger Herald is ripping students trying to sell their Rose Bowl tickets online.
The University of Wisconsin System is reporting record enrollment for the fall 2010 semester. Preliminary figures show almost 182,000 students attending the UW?s 26 campuses, as of this fall.
The recession has sent tuition-discount rates at private colleges soaring to record highs, reaching 41.8 percent in 2008. But some small colleges have managed to buck that trend, lowering their discount rates while raising enrollment. They?ve done so by figuring out smarter ways to distribute aid dollars and effectively market themselves to prospective students.
Today the Badger Herald posted the names of 30 students who bought low-price (in relative terms) student tickets for the Rose Bowl and then put them for sale at inflated prices online. It?s a practice that has been around forever, but has taken off at especially vicious rates since sites like Facebook began offering places for students to reach thousands of potential buyers very quickly. It?s always been controversial, but in my memory, never widely-publicized in the student press.
Watch out for scams on your Rose Bowl ticket or travel package, warns the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection. “Fraudulent tickets appear on a number of websites, including Craigslist, and in classified ads,” said Janet Jenkins, administrator of the Division of Trade and Consumer Protection.
Opening of the video installation “Shirin Neshat: Rapture” with lecture by Michael Jay McClure, assistant professor of contemporary art at UW-Madison, plus a screening of Neshat?s 2009 feature-length film “Women Without Men”
Quoted: Michael Scott, director of the UW-Madison Center for Problem-Oriented Policing.
Quoted: Michael Jay McClure, assistant professor of contemporary art at UW-Madison.
Innovation in America has been and continues to be one of the great strengths of our economy. This key driver comes from lots of different people and places, but especially from faculty and staff at universities that conduct extensive research. UW-Madison is an outstanding example, especially in the area of human embryonic stem cell research.
Quoted: Carolyn Heinrich, professor and director at the UW-Madison LaFollette School of Public Affairs.
Quoted: John Schaffer, director of the UW-Madison School of Music.
Quoted: Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
The most important point in human embryonic stem cell research lies in whether or not it is ethical. While the embryos are not from aborted fetuses and are only days old, a significant question still exists: Is it morally right?…Let?s continue looking for answers, but reject embryonic stem cell research at UW-Madison and in the private sector.
For the second straight year, TCU is unbeaten, untied ? and unable to play for the national championship. In fact, on paper, here?s how it could turn out ? TCU 43.3, Wisconsin 43.3. That?s right, the Horned Frogs and the Badgers tied for fourth in the country in scoring this season and, down the stretch, their offenses were ridiculously efficient.
It was already a week past Black Friday, but UW-Madison junior Lauren Gunderson, 20, still managed to strike a great bargain when she walked up to an Overture Center ticket window Friday morning with $20, and walked away with a pair of prime seats for that evening?s performance of the Madison Symphony Orchestra?s “Christmas Spectacular” worth $151. The Madison Symphony Orchestra has ratcheted up its marketing among students like Gunderson with its student rush tickets, offering the best seats available at the time of sale. Students must present an ID to buy up to two $10 tickets the day of the show.While student rush has been around for awhile, sales this year have on average more than tripled from the 2009-10 season, said MSO marketing director Ann Miller.
There was much to celebrate Friday night at the Kohl Center, but people left wanting more from the University of Wisconsin football team. The Badgers and some of their biggest fans gathered to revel in a Big Ten Conference title and an anticipated berth in the Rose Bowl.
In Sunday?s editorial you use the term ?human? embryonic stem cell research, thus identifying that the research is done on ?humans.? It is wrong to do research on humans if it hurts them or kills them. Therefore you and the University of Wisconsin are wrong to promote such research. Lord have mercy on the Wisconsin State Journal and the University of Wisconsin.
