Author: jplucas

Letter by Karma Chavez, UW-Madison.

Noted: Before you drop a bomb on a potential mate, rehearse your speech with a trusted friend or visit a therapist to talk it through, suggests Dr. Ken Robbins, M.D., a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Noted: John Coleman, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, examined the period 2000-2008 and found that states permitting such spending were no more likely to have Republican legislatures, business-friendly regulatory policies or low business costs.

Quoted: Wisconsin voters are not likely to swing wildly to one side or the other, according to UW-Madison Political Science Professor Charles Franklin.

Quoted: Tim Osswald, a plastics expert who is professor of mechanical engineering at UW-Madison.

Quoted: Emily Auerbach, a profesor of English at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, is the author of Searching for Jane Austen (Wisconsin, 2004), which examines how the novelist?s family, friends, and fans created an Austen persona that distorted her personality and style.

Quoted: “I?m not in favor of putting the links directly in the story itself,” said Stephen J.A. Ward, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. And he said using editors to insert links “certainly gives the public an appearance that journalists are participating in commercial enterprises” as they try to maintain their editorial autonomy.

Qouted: Joanne Cantor, professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin and co-author of the study, continued the study?s findings of childhood fears haunting adults in two books, including “Mommy, I?m Scared: How TV and Movies Frighten Children” and What We Can Do to Protect Them” (Mariner Books, $20.95).

Quoted: The most marginal of marginal voters are 18- to 24-year-olds, who voted 2 to 1 for Obama, says political scientist Barry Burden of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Their turnout is almost certain to fall for two reasons.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Barry Burden warns the ads could backfire and contaminate Kapanke?s own campaign if they?re perceived as too negative or link him to unpopular corporate interests.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison Political Science Professor Charles Franklin said Feingold?s voting record makes him ?one of the most difficult Senators to predict,? which helps and hurts him in an election season like this one.

Quoted: This time could be different, said Barry C. Burden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor, with the right combination of a budget shortfall and voter dissatisfaction ? even if the savings isn?t overwhelming.

Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, highlighted the influence that national forces ? including the national congressional ballot, presidential approval and the state of the economy ? will have on this year?s midterm elections. National forces will likely have a greater effect this year than local forces, which have more to do with incumbency status and the quality of the candidates, he said.

Noted: Although Wisconsin has been warming since the 1950s, says Michael Notaro, an associate scientist at the Center for Climatic Research at UW-Madison, over that same period of time the autumn temperatures have actually changed quite minimally and fall has tended to be wetter — a stark contrast to what Wisconsites have been experiencing over the past several weeks.

“This year is a complete mirror image of what we saw in ?08,” UW-Madison political scientist Charles Franklin said. “This year the shoe is obviously completely on the other foot.”