It’s a big mistake, but probably not a crippling one. That’s what UW political scientist Charles Franklin is saying about Barack Obama saying working-class voters are “bitter about the economy” during a speech in San Francisco.
Three days after a 27 News exclusive report, Wisconsin Management Company agreed to release Brittany Zimmermann’s fiance from his lease of the apartment where he found her body two weeks ago. Jordan Gonnering, a UW student, shared the West Doty Street apartment with Zimmermann.
Nearly two weeks since UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann was murdered in her off-campus apartment, authorities said they want more information from people who were approached by panhandlers around the time of the killing.
Zimmermann’s body was found around 1 p.m. April 2, and authorities said someone forced their way into her West Doty Street building. A source told 27 News the student was stabbed.
College rejection letters are going out in record numbers. Wisconsin is part of this nationwide trend. Shamane Mills reports. (Audio.)
Beginning next academic year, all first-year athletes at the UW-Madison will be required to attend â??life-skillsâ? training. Brian Bull reports. (Audio.)
UW-Madison student Jordan Gonnering will be let out of the lease he held on the apartment where he found his fiancee murdered earlier this month, Wisconsin Management Company announced this morning.
The UW-Madison student who found his murdered fiancee in the flat they shared in Downtown Madison may have to keep renting the $790-a-month apartment unless officials are successful in intervening on his behalf.
“Where a police department doesn’t take any role in that, it invites an awful lot of abuse and misuse of the police,” said Michael Scott, a UW-Madison law professor and former police chief.
Ladies and gentlemen: Step right up! And see the ah-MAZ-ing transformation of a quiet campus art museum into a big top so small you won’t believe your eyes!
Kelly Nolan. Joel Marino. Now Brittany Zimmermann. Madison police have been unable to crack those and two other homicide cases in the last 10 months.
Why not?
The Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, is a familiar presence here in Madison.
He first visited in 1979, returned in 1981, when he performed the first Kalacakra Initiation Ceremony ever to take place in the Western Hemisphere. He returned again in 2001 to meet with UW-Madison Professor Richard Davidson about the benefits of meditation and, then, came back last summer to raise money for Buddhist charities. He ‘s planning to return July 19-24 to dedicate the $6.1 million temple at Deer Park, near Oregon.
Quoted: Richard Monette, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin and former chairman of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa, said in many cases tribes have no certainty whether trust will be applied in their favor or against.
Noted: Dr. James Stein, a cardiologist at the University of Wisconsin, complained to Schering-Plough that the minutes did not provide a full picture of the panel discussions, according to another e-mail.
“Some parts of the minutes do not accurately reflect the divergence of opinions expressed at the meeting,” Stein wrote.
Quoted: Alfred Senn, a retired historian at the University of Wisconsin who taught a course and wrote a book on politics and the Olympics.
The news that Adam Nickel died after completing the Little Rock Marathon because of the confluence of an extremely rare and difficult-to-detect medical condition and very unlucky timing gave race director Bill Torrey closure, but no comfort.
Nickel, 27, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin, finished 18 th in the March 2 race after completing the 26. 2 miles in 3 hours, 2 minutes, 26 seconds, which is considered an elite time. He had a heart attack at the finish line and died moments later.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin political scientist and co-developer of Pollster.com. “But you never know.”
So you want tickets to tonight’s Reel Big Fish concert in Ames?
Too bad. The only people who are going to be rocking out tonight in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union are people who volunteered at least 10 hours of their time to a central Iowa community service agency.
The concert, hosted by students at Drake University and Iowa State University, is one of three 10,000 Hours Shows scheduled across the Midwest this month. The 10,000 Hours Show concept, which gives people free concert tickets for doing community service, started at the University of Iowa in 2003 and has spread to Wisconsin, Arizona and Texas.
“It’s been really exciting, watching the whole thing grow,” said Tanya Bruskewitz, a senior at the University of Wisconsin at Madison
Jon C. Pevehouse had not even finished his first year as a tenure-track professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 2001 when other universities began trying to lure him away. By last year, Mr. Pevehouse decided it was time to consider the offers seriously. He quickly ended up more than doubling his salary, with a move to the University of Chicago.
Mr. Pevehouse was considered an up-and-comer, and his departure last spring was a blow to Madison’s political-science department. But he wasn’t alone: In all, nine political scientists, more than a fifth of the department, left Madison last year.
“It was a body blow,” says Donald A. Downs, a longtime professor of political science there. “People worry about holding down the fort.”
SAUK CITY â?? Baraboo High School graduate and former North Freedom resident Carsen Nachreiner had a vision as a teenager of how to revitalize Sauk City’s downtown and riverfront.
Now, as a senior landscape architecture major at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Nachreiner has thrust himself into the revitalization efforts in Sauk City. Nachreiner is completing his senior capstone project with the village of Sauk City.
MADISON, Wis. — Filming of the College Championship for game show “Jeopardy” is continuing Saturday in Madison.
More than 120 crew members and equipment came to Madison for two days to film five shows. The winner gets $100,000.
There are two students from Wisconsin competing: University of Wisconsin-Madison student Suchita Shah and Marquette University’s Danielle Zsenak.
Filming began on Friday and will wrap up Saturday
President Harry S. Truman popularized the phrase, “If you can’t stand the heat, you better get out of the kitchen.”
Montello native Jeffrey Wright proved he can stand the heat by earning the prestigious Truman Scholarship for his dedication to public service.
Wright is one of 65 students in the nation to earn $30,000 for graduate study leading to a career in government or public service. Wright is particularly involved in human rights.
Noted: But no minutes had been kept of the meeting, which was supposed to be anonymous. (See “More Questions On Vytorin Panel”). An attempt to create an account of what happened there began later on. But one panelist, James Stein, a cardiac imaging expert at the University of Wisconsin, disagreed with assertions made in the document.
“This really overstates our recommendation,” Stein wrote to Schering-Plough executive John Strony. “It was the decision of the company to change the primary endpoint.”
Joel Marino, 31, was stabbed by an assailant at his home in the 700 block of West Shore Drive, near campus, on Jan. 28, at about 1 in the afternoon. He tried to make his way to St. Mary’s Hospital, but collapsed and later died from his injuries. A sketch of the man who is believed to have committed the crime was produced based on information from a witness who police spokesman Joel DeSpain said got â??a very good look.â?
Brittany Zimmermann, 21, was murdered in her apartment in the 500 block of West Doty Street on April 2, in the middle of the afternoon. Sources close to the investigation say she also was stabbed. Police confirm similarities between the two murders, which occurred about a mile from each other.
Lou Marino says he tried, first through police and then through his state senator, Mark Miller, to have an alert sent to UW-Madison students: â??I wanted to be sure UW students were safe and the community would be safe.â? He also wanted to enlist the â??40,000 sets of eyesâ? that might have seen something of value to the investigation.
Think our record-setting winter pokes holes in the case for climate change? On the contrary: In a warming world, scientists tell us Wisconsin can expect a future of more weather extremes and variability, including heavy snow. And these effects won’t be caused by carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases we generate now; they’re the after-effects of our lack of understanding going back at least a generation.
Lewis Gilbert is interim director of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a member of the Task Force on Global Warming Technical Advisory Group.
MADISON, Wis. – The University of Wisconsin student who found his murdered fiancee may not be able to get out of his lease of the apartment flat.
Russ Endres, owner of Wisconsin Management Co., declined to say if Jordan Gonnering would be forced to fulfill the final 16 months of his lease. Gonnering found his 21-year-old fiancee, Brittany Zimmerman, murdered on April 2 and Madison police are still looking for her killer.
Shortly after UW student Brittany Zimmermann was murdered, school officials advised students to take extra precaution when walking home from class.
They listened and even more than a week later, students continue to be cautious.
The number of students using the SAFEwalk and SAFEride programs has more than tripled since the crime.
A Madison police official said the continuing investigation into the unsolved murders of UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann and medical equipment salesman Joel Marino are generating new tips, and revealed for the first time there was no forced entry into Marino’s Madison home before his murder.
Marino was killed January 28. Zimmerman was murdered April 2.
Wisconsin Management Company is refusing to allow Brittany Zimmerman’s fiance, Jordan Gonnering, to cancel his lease of the apartment where he found his fiance murdered last week. The couple rented an apartment together managed by Wisconsin Management Company, one of Madison’s largest property management firms.
The stage is set for one of televisions’ most popular game shows to begin filming in Madison.
Governor Jim Doyle on Thursday welcomed the cast and crew of ‘Jeopardy!’ to the UW-Madison campus. The show begins taping its college championship series at the Kohl Center on Friday.
The growth in international graduate student applications at American colleges and universities has slowed considerably, according to new survey results released today by the Council of Graduate Schools. The council found that the number of international applicants grew only 3 percent in 2008, after gains of 9 and 12 percent in the preceding two years.
When Stanley J. Seeger gave Princeton $2 million for Hellenic studies nearly three decades ago, the giftâ??s income paid for two courses in modern Greek and trips to Greece for five.
Rare Greek coins paid for, in part, by a gift from Stanley J. Seeger include a silver grosso from the island of Chios, 1324-29, above, and a gold ducat, from Lesbos and Ainos, 1400-49, below.
But the Seeger money, which must be spent only on matters Greek, is now worth $33 million, multiplying through aggressive investing like the rest of Princetonâ??s endowment. So the university offers Greek, Greek and more Greek â?? 13 courses this semester, including â??The Image of Greece in European Cinemaâ? and â??Problems in Greek History: Greek Democracy,â? as well as trips to Greece and nearby areas for more than 90 students and faculty members last year. The history department recently hired its second Byzantine specialist. And the fund paid half the cost of a collection of 800 rare coins from medieval Greece.
ROCHESTER, Mich. (AP) â?? Threatening graffiti found in three menâ??s restrooms led Oakland University to cancel campus classes, sports and cultural activities for two days.
The school said it sent out a security alert Saturday after finding one threatening message, and officials said they found similar messages in menâ??s restrooms in two other buildings later that day.
Lucille A. Henes, age 95, passed away on Tuesday, April 8, 2008. She retired from U.W. Hospital at the age of 65.
The toughest ticket in town?
It’s probably one to see the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team play at the Kohl Center, where every game has been sold out in advance for the past five years.
The University of Wisconsin System plans to embark on a private fundraising campaign to provide need-based money for college tuition, following a recent wave of private financial aid gifts in Wisconsin.
The System awards about $6 million a year in privately funded financial aid for low-and-moderate income students, said Kevin Reilly, system president.
Brittany Zimmermann’s killer broke through a door to get into her apartment before taking her life, police confirmed Thursday.
“There was forced entry on a door to the building in which Zimmermann resided,” said Joel DeSpain, spokesman for Police Chief Noble Wray.
As employees had feared, Famous Footwear is moving its corporate headquarters out of Madison.
“I’m a little overwhelmed right now,” said Meghan Hurley, a recent UW-Madison graduate who has been with the company for just six months and works on a media team in the marketing department. “I need to let it sink in. I loved it here, so it’s sad.”
WASHINGTON — Most pundits describe this presidential election as the first “open” race since 1952, the last time a president or a vice president wasn’t a serious contender. Presidential scholar Charles Jones disagrees, claiming New York Sen. Hillary Clinton has run as a “self-declared heir apparent.”
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly says he plans to launch a statewide fundraising campaign to boost need-based financial aid.
Reilly says the goal is to double the privately-funded aid awarded to low-income system students from $6 million to $12 million per year.
He says the system will publicize the campaign on its Web site and sell donors on the benefits of supporting need-based grants for students.
The toughest ticket in town?
It’s probably one to see the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team play at the Kohl Center, where every game has been sold out in advance for the past five years.
No doubt mindful of that lucrative reality â?? 89 consecutive sellouts of 17,190 â?? UW Athletic Department officials are looking to create a bit more seating in time for next season.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – The slaying of a college student in a downtown neighborhood frequented by beggars has forced this liberal city to ask a difficult question: Has Madison been too nice to the homeless?
A debate over the city’s friendly treatment of its transient population had been under way for months, but last week’s killing of University of Wisconsin student Brittany Zimmermann started something of a backlash against the homeless.
Police have arrested dozens of transients on unrelated charges as part of the investigation, but none are considered suspects in the death. The city also announced plans Wednesday to confront problems at a nearby park where the homeless congregate, although those efforts were in the works before the murder.
This week, the 2008 â??Jeopardy!â? College Championship will be recorded at the Kohl Center, making UW-Madison the ninth college campus to host the competition, and a Holmen High School graduate will be among the contestants.
The contest, April 11-12, will feature 15 student hopefuls from universities nationwide with their eyes on the $100,000 grand prize. Students hail from universities such as Harvard, Cal Tech and Georgetown.
Is inequality making us sick? The answer to this key question set the stage for discussion March 26 at a public presentation held at the University of Wisconsin-Madisonâ??s Health Sciences Learning Center.
MADISON, Wis. — In the wake of the slaying of a college student in a downtown neighborhood frequented by beggars, some said they are concerned that the homeless are being unfairly scrutinized.
Groups that help the homeless said the killing of University of Wisconsin student Brittany Zimmermann last week has started a backlash against the homeless.
MADISON, Wis. — Madison police said on Thursday that there were signs of forced entry in the building where University of Wisconsin student Brittany Zimmermann was found dead last week.
Authorities are continuing to investigate the 21-year-old’s killing and have questioned several people, but have named no suspect or suspects in the week-old case.
Police Chief Noble Wray released the details, which are some of the first bits of information about last week’s slaying that have been revealed by authorities.
MADISON, Wis. — Many renters in downtown Madison have already pushed security to the top of their “to do” list in the wake of a college student’s death in her apartment last week.
Chelsea McNerney, a University of Wisconsin-Madison student, can now count on using the backdoor to her downtown flat, the one closest to her parking lot.
She and her second-floor roommates didn’t have keys to both locks on the back door, like the downstairs renters did, so they often got locked out and had to go around to the front.
We are less than 24 hours away from the first Jeopardy! show right here in Madison. And who else would stop by the set other than the show’s very own host, Alex Trebek.
“This is my first visit,” says Trebek. “I got in late last night and this morning walked through the rain.”
We got an exclusive interview with the host of the long-time running show, now in it’s 24th season, and Alex let us in on what life is like once the cameras go off.
A Madison police official confirmed Thursday someone forced their way into UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann’s West Doty Street apartment, before the 21 year old junior was murdered April 2.
In a e-mail, Madison Police spokesman Joel DeSpain divulged a key, new piece of information on the circumstances of this crime. “There was forced entry on a door to a building in which Zimmermann resided.”
DeSpain wrote it was a difficult decision for police chief Noble Wray to acknowledge how the apartment was entered. “He took time deliberating whether revealing this detail would outweigh investigators desire to withhold the information while they search for a killer.”
The stage is set for one of televisions’ most popular game shows to begin filming in Madison.
Governor Jim Doyle on Thursday welcomed the cast and crew of ‘Jeopardy!’ to the UW-Madison campus. The show begins taping its college championship series at the Kohl Center on Friday. The Governor says it’s great to have the production here. Doyle says he’s a big fan and proud to have two Wisconsin students taking part in the production. UW-Madison student Suchita Shah and Marquette University student Danielle Zsenak will be among the competitors.
Survivors of the shooting at Virginia Tech and families of those who were killed there have reached an $11-million settlement with the Commonwealth of Virginia that precludes lawsuits against the university and the state.
A majority of the victims’ families agreed to the settlement, which offers them financial compensation, health-care benefits, and other assistance.
NEW YORK — The dollar is at risk of being surpassed by the euro as the world’s leading reserve currency in the next seven years, according to a study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Realized and forecast increases in the number of countries using the euro, and the growth in the economies that have adopted it since 1999, make the 15-nation currency a stronger competitor than the German deutsche mark and Japanese yen were in the 1980s, economists Menzie Chinn, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Jeffrey Frankel wrote in a working paper for the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based NBER.
There are a lot of underpaid, unsung employees in the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department, but if you ask me, one group stands out for a variety of reasons.
They’re almost always the first ones in the locker room before every practice. They’re almost always the last ones out.
They make every trip and attend every workout with every UW team whether it’s an in-season scrimmage or a voluntary conditioning session during the summer.
One of America’s notable sociologists of academic life is about to take part in a faculty trend that might be worthy of analysis in its own right: He’s moving to the University of British Columbia.
Like a growing number of professors at elite American institutions, Neil Gross, 36, an assistant professor of sociology at Harvard University, has answered Canada’s call. This fall he will join the sociology department at British Columbia as a tenured professor.
Many Americans taking senior positions at British Columbia come from top-tier public research universities, like Eric Margolis, a philosophy professor from the University of Wisconsin at Madison
WASHINGTON â?? A new U.N. Human Rights Council official assigned to monitor Israel is calling for an official commission to study the role neoconservatives may have played in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
On March 26, Richard Falk, Milbank professor of international law emeritus at Princeton University, was named by unanimous vote to a newly created position to report on human rights in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs. While Mr. Falk’s specialty is human rights and international law, since the attacks in 2001, he has devoted some of his time to challenging what he calls the “9-11 official version.”
On March 24 in an interview with a radio host and former University of Wisconsin instructor, Kevin Barrett, Mr. Falk said, “It is possibly true that especially the neoconservatives thought there was a situation in the country and in the world where something had to happen to wake up the American people.”
Q. How are the lakes impacted by a rough winter like this one, with crews spreading so much salt on the roads?
A. If more road salt is used, more will end up in the lakes, says Stephen Carpenter, a zoology professor in the UW-Madison Center for Limnology. A heavy winter is likely to add salt to the lakes. It also adds a lot of meltwater, which dilutes the salt.
UW Hospital will borrow money to buy back $110 million in auction-rate and variable-rate bonds and reissue them as variable-rate and fixed-rate bonds, the hospital’s board decided Wednesday.
As is her way, Jolene Anderson didn’t get emotional Wednesday afternoon when quite possibly the biggest moment of her life arrived.
The University of Wisconsin women’s basketball program’s all-time leading scorer didn’t shed any tears when her name was called as the Connecticut Sun’s selection in the second round of the WNBA draft, capping an incredible rise from her small town beginnings.
Quoted: Jonathan Patz, professor of environmental and health sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Neglectful mouse mothers are the product of both nature and nurture, a study from the United States suggests.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, writing in the journal PLoS ONE on Wednesday, report that poor parenting seems to be influenced by environment, being neglected themselves, and genetics, with an imbalance in the brain-signalling chemical dopamine.
In mice, child neglect is a product of both nature and nurture, according to a new study.
Writing in the journal PLoS ONE on April 9, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison describe a strain of mice that exhibit unusually high rates of maternal neglect, with approximately one out of every five females failing to care for her offspring. By comparing the good mothers to their less attentive relatives, the group has found that negligent parenting seems to have both genetic and non-genetic influences, and may be linked to dysregulation of the brain signaling chemical dopamine.
