Southern Illinois University at Carbondale has reached a settlement with a campus Christian group that had lost official recognition because it required members to abide by its Christian beliefs.
Under the terms of the settlement, the university will now officially recognize the Christian Legal Society as a student organization at its law school. Southern Illinois also agreed to pay for the group’s legal costs and will set up a $10,000 scholarship that will be controlled by the society.
Like most institutions that have received copyright-infringement notices from the entertainment industry, Stanford University has a fairly straightforward process for dealing with the complaints. Campus officials identify students accused of piracy, ask them to delete the offending material from their computers, and prepare to disconnect from the campus network anyone who does not quickly comply.
The process might sound simple enough, but in fact it can be time-consuming and surprisingly expensive. College technology officials say each complaint filed against a student under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act can end up costing their institutions anywhere from $50 to upwards of $100.
The violence on State Street is certainly the talk of the city’s most famous street. Business owners and customers say they are concerned about the early morning shooting, but they don’t think it will have much of an impact.
State Street was business as usual on Wednesday just hours after a man was killed on the 600 block. A violent act that patrons and business owners alike are hoping is an isolated incident.
(UNDATED) Wisconsinâ??s only statewide organization for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights has a new director, but Eva Shiffrin says Fair Wisconsinâ??s mission will stay the same. Shiffrin started her new job last week, after serving as the staff attorney for the Wisconsin Coalition against Sexual Assault since 2002.
Shiffrin says Fair Wisconsin will work for LGBT equality in all aspects of life. Right now, her focus is on keeping a provision for domestic partner benefits for University of Wisconsin employees in the state budget. She says currently, the UW is the only Big Ten school which does not offer those benefits, and itâ??s having a â??huge impactâ? on the university system, in terms of attrition, and the failure to provide employees stability. She says itâ??s unfair and unjust, and is causing the UW to lag behind other Big Ten schools in terms of recruitment. (Seventh item.)
Kevin Price, 34, has a doctorate in political science from UW-Madison and worked a couple years for Merrill Lynch.
UW-Madison entomologist Phil Pellitteri said the term “disorder” is often applied to poorly understood illnesses.
University of Wisconsin political scientist Charles Franklin has his own Web site on polling, Political Arithmetik, and partners on a second site, pollster.com.
These are two must-visit sites for those fascinated with political polling. On both sites, Franklin regularly publishes updated graphs of his “trend estimator,” something more sophisticated than, but similar to, a moving average showing the relative strengths of each presidential candidate in recent national polls.
CLEVELAND â?? Gov. Jim Doyle advocated a larger workforce training budget Tuesday, as he led a roundtable discussion of area manufacturing leaders at Lakeshore Technical College.
“Manufacturing is the heart and soul of this state,” Doyle said during his appearance as part of Capital for the Day events in Manitowoc County. “Wisconsin has the second highest percentage of workers in manufacturing, twice the national average. That’s what we do here … we make things.”
MADISON, Wis. — Madison police are investigating after a 23-year-old man was shot and killed downtown overnight.
The incident happened just before midnight on Tuesday in the 600 block of State Street, near to Library Mall, WISC-TV reported.Authorities said that after a struggle, the victim was shot and was later pronounced dead at University of Wisconsin Hospital.
Sigh. We hate to see missed opportunities and Wisconsin looks like it might miss out on a good one.
The state and the University of Wisconsin-Madison are making a pitch to have a high security national agro- and bio-defense lab just southeast of Madison, but the bid is being undercut by local opposition.
Town of Dunn residents are opposing the $450 million project out of safety concerns and worries that it won’t fit in with the quiet and rural character of their town.
They’ve started a letter writing campaign, convinced the Dane County Board and town board to oppose it and even have an opposition sampler on the town’s web site soliciting petitions and offering yard signs.
Quoted: UW Madison business professor Rodney Stevenson.
A 23-year-old man is dead Wednesday morning after a shooting on a busy section of State Street.
It happened just before midnight on the 600 block near State Street Brats and The City Bar.
Police say the victim was shot during a fight – and later died at U-W Hospital.
They took a 31-year-old man into custody in connection with the shooting.
(MADISON) A University of Wisconsin-Madison official is stressing patience as the school probes reports of worker abuse and corruption with Hermosa Manufacturing, a former subcontractor for Adidas.
Dawn Crim, of the UW Chancellorâ??s Office, told the campusâ?? Labor Licensing Committee that Adidas has pledged to: crack down on blacklisting among its suppliers, start a hotline for reporting worker abuses and help 63 blacklisted workers find new jobs.
Crim acknowledges some labor advocates want UW-Madisonâ??s contract with Adidas cut now, instead of letting it expire in 2011. She says the school intended all along to monitor the situation, to ensure that workers are in fact being rehired and to ensure that the strategy is working. However, she says they feel like they need to give the strategy an opportunity to work. (Second item.)
United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was in Madison over the weekend for the graduation of one of his nine children from a graduate program at the UW-Madison. And while he was here, he presided over a wedding ceremony as well.
Just two years after inventing a better keg tap for the stadium market, Matthew Younkle knows it’s time to expand.
Already, the inventor of TurboTap — a nozzle that attaches to beer kegs and delivers a pour with the right amount of foam in less than three seconds — claims to own leases in 30 percent of the U.S. professional stadium market.
“While the stadium market is big and profitable, it only represents a small fraction of beer taps in circulation,” said Younkle, 32, who created a prototype of the product for an investor’s competition in his senior year at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Itâ??s been 37 years since four anti-war radicals in Madison blew up a University of Wisconsin campus building, killing a physics researcher and injuring three other people.
Now the university has put up a memorial plaque to Robert Fassnacht, the then-33-year-old graduate student and father of three who was killed.
Fassnachtâ??s family was initially opposed to a memorial. But UW Chancellor John Wiley, who knew Fassnacht as a graduate student, asked the Physics Department to reconsider a memorial, and the family agreed.
Quoted: David Morgan, a historian of Mongol history at the University of Wisconsin, says Genghis’s eldest son, Tushi, had 40 sons.
Quoted: Charles Jones of the University of Wisconsin.
Think again when you have your allergic sneezes this year. Think about more than medicine and youâ??ll please Gregg Mitman.
He wants you to think about the environment you inhabit and how what weâ??ve built has made you sick. In his book â??Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapesâ? published this month by Yale University Press, Mitman explores the ecology of allergies, in other words, what humans have done to harm themselves.
Quoted: Ken Frazier, interim CIO at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said that while funding and computer security are significant issues, student safety is a high priority given the exposure students have on new social media services, such as FaceBook.
UW-Madison officials are mulling over the idea of bringing back Kevin Barrett as an instructor this fall.
Barrett’s teaching of an introductory course in Islam last year, involved a restriction on how often he could discuss the 9/11 attack in class. Barrett is in the forefront of a national movement, which claims 9/11’s World Trade Center destruction was caused by bombs and the Bush administration.
UW-Madison spokesman Brian Mattmiller told 27 News Barrett is up for a lecturer’s position in the English department. Mattmiller said there are other candidates for the job and had no timetable for the hiring decision. In an edition of the Badger Herald earlier this month, UW Assistant Director of State Relations Don Nelson told the newspaper UW “currently has no intention to hire Kevin Barrett.”
Should impeachment be back on the table? House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may have taken it off the table months ago, but speakers at UW-Madison’s Memorial Union Monday urged Congress impeach President Bush and Vice-President Cheney.
Madison, Wis. – In retail terms, a â??loss leaderâ? is merchandise sold below cost in order to increase store traffic and sales of other items on the shelves. A store owner might lose a few bucks selling one heavily discounted gadget, but make up for it handsomely through other sales.
Madison, Wis. – The coordination of the companion disciplines of stem cell research and regenerative medicine will be the focus of a new interdisciplinary center being established at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, but it is also being developed with the biotechnology industry in mind.
DAVIDSON, North Carolina (AP) — With 1,700 students, Davidson College may be small. But you’d never know it when you see the stuff students leave behind at the end of the year.
In a large room at a fraternity house, stacks of clothing, furniture, lamps and electronics were already piling up days ahead of last Sunday’s graduation. Mixed in were odds and ends that could only wind up together in a college trash pile: a pair of giant Homer Simpson slippers; a collection of Pokemon cards; a batch of fashion disaster dresses you can only hope were costumes from a campus theme party called the Five Dollar Prom.
(MADISON) At Fridayâ??s meeting of UW-Madisonâ??s Labor Licensing Committee, members said they want to set benchmarks for Adidas in regards to a subcontractor charged with workersâ?? rights abuses in El Salvador.
Until closing in 2005, the Hermosa Manufacturing factory made UW sportswear for Adidas. Since then, the manager has been prosecuted for making off with $285,000 of employeesâ?? back pay, and accused of blacklisting 63 unionized employees.
The UW Chancellorâ??s Office sent an envoy to investigate those claims and follow up with Adidas. After several exchanges between the two organizations, Adidas says it will: inform its subcontractors that blacklisting will not be tolerated, set up a confidential hotline for workers to report discriminatory practices and encourage the hiring of the blacklisted workers. (Last item.)
Futons are strapped to cartops. Old, stained carpets are tossed in the trash. Football game ticket stubs and textbooks are stuffed into boxes.
It’s move-out time at UW-Madison’s residence halls, a process that’s done with surprising efficiency.
Ask any college student to define a mutual fund or a money market account, and odds are they won’t be able to.
But Christine Muggee, a UW-Madison sophomore majoring in business, will proudly tell you she put hours of research into picking out the best of these two investments for herself.
For the presidents of 19 colleges, this month’s mail has already produced at least one unpleasant surprise: a letter, signed by five influential lawmakers, warning of a “troubling” epidemic of online music and movie piracy on the campuses.
Leaders of two committees in the U.S. House of Representatives sent the letters to the top 10 colleges on each of two lists released recently by the Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America. The lists, which overlap slightly, named the colleges that the trade groups said had received the most notices of copyright infringement over the past academic year.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin professor Harvey M. Jacobs, an authority on the movement.
Quoted: Barry C. Burden, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
MADISON â?? Thirty-seven years after a car bomb devastated a campus building and shook the nationâ??s anti-Vietnam war movement, University of Wisconsin leaders dedicated the first memorial Friday to the young scientist killed in the blast.
The 1970 bombing by four student radicals protesting weapons research at Sterling Hall was the most powerful act of domestic terrorism on U.S. soil until the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
But until now, the UW had nothing commemorating Robert Fassnacht, the 33-year-old graduate student and father of three who was working in the building and died in the explosion.
Quoted: Michael Lizotte, director of the University of Wisconsin Aquatic Research Laboratory.
Quoted: Ronald L. Numbers, a professor of the history of science and medicine at the University of Wisconsin, says the museum likely will resonate with people dismayed by the secularization of socie
Rebecca Martin, a former provost and vice chancellor at universities in Wisconsin and Vermont, has been named senior vice president for academic affairs for the University of Wisconsin System.
Futons are strapped to cartops. Old, stained carpets are tossed in the trash. Football game ticket stubs and textbooks are stuffed into boxes.
It’s move-out time at UW-Madison’s residence halls, a process that’s done with surprising efficiency.
TomoTherapy – the Madison medical equipment company that began selling its stock publicly earlier this month – has opened a training center at its Far West Side headquarters and is about to open a one in Europe.
Gov. Jim Doyle generated excitement last year when he proposed the Wisconsin Covenant, which guarantees a spot in a Wisconsin college — with a financial aid package if needed — to any state high school graduate who has fulfilled a pledge to maintain at least a B average and meet other standards of behavior.
However, as state lawmakers prepare to endorse the plan, the excitement has been superseded by questions.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a UW-Madison political science professor.
Saturday’s UW-Madison commencement was part Broadway musical, part spiritual revival, as award-winning actor and alumnus Andre De Shields sent members of the Class of 2007 out into the world to meet the challenges of “unprecedented times” with uplifting song.
Ask any college student to define a mutual fund or a money market account, and odds are they won’t be able to.
But Christine Muggee, a UW-Madison sophomore majoring in business, will proudly tell you she put hours of research into picking out the best of these two investments for herself.
Quoted: Aaron Gilson, an associate director with the Pain & Policy Studies Group at the University of Wisconsin.
Outsourcing, that common practice of big business, is flourishing in big-time college sports, including at the University of Minnesota. The Gophers’ new $288.5 million publicly funded campus football stadium is now up for commercial grabs. Advertising signs, corporate sponsorships and luxury suites are set to be sold at TCF Bank Stadium.
Quoted: Breast cancer researcher Michael Gould of the University of Wisconsin- Madison.
Quoted: Janet Hyde, a psychology and gender studies professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Madison, Wis. – Ian Wilmut doesn’t shy away from the term â??cloning,â? even with the controversial ethical connotations that come with it, but he believes in time the technique he developed to create Dolly the sheep will gain more public acceptance in the development of human therapies, just as human embryonic stem research has.
Quoted: Bill Klein, dairy plant manager for the Babcock Hall Dairy Plant, a research and teaching facility at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Tim Osswald, a polymer engineer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, lead is used in the manufacture of some PVC products.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison last week narrowed its search for a new chief information officer and vice provost for information technology to three finalists.
MADISON, Wis. — Parents of students attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison will soon be able to keep better tabs on the experiences their sons or daughters are having.
A special parent program will launch in June that includes a Web site, a parent newsletter and special notices for any emergencies on campus. UW officials said the move is to help keep parents informed as they’re becoming increasingly involved in their children’s education, WISC-TV reported.
MADISON, Wis. — One of the University of Wisconsin’s oldest graduates to earn a bachelor’s degree this year had to overcome some life-changing obstacles to walk with his fellow students.
Mike Hinrichs, 40, lost his vision in 1999 to diabetes.
“When I went blind over 8 years ago, I never had any idea how far I’d be able to make it,” said Hinrichs.
MADISON, Wis. — The inaugural class of the PEOPLE Program graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Friday.
PEOPLE — Pre-College Enrichment Opportunity for Learning Excellence — is designed to give minority students a jumpstart on college. The students apply for the program in either middle school or high school.
One of the students who graduated this weekend is Mohammed Farhoud. He said the program has given him a chance to pursue his passion: designing 3-D models.
MADISON, Wis. — It was a happy weekend on the UW Madison campus as thousands earned degrees.
Graduates are entering one of the best job markets in years, and many at the UW are taking full advantage.
“I’m starting work on June 4 at Epic Systems in Verona and I’m very excited about it,” said industrial engineering graduate Andrew Forecki.
Forecki is joining a group that’s increasingly in demand.
“I think it’s been a very good job market for engineers at least, most of my engineering friends have really good jobs lined up,” said Forecki.
The signature chairs at the Union Terrace are on icon of the UW.
They’ve been there since since 1948.
Obviously, new chairs have been cycled through, but the design hsasn’t changed much.
27 News Photojournalist Curt Lenz took a trip to Oregon to find out how the sunburst chairs are made – and just what makes them so special.
Until now, the memory of his death has been overshadowed by the 1970 anti-war bomb explosion at UW’s Sterling Hall, which took his life.
Friday, a plaque was unveiled at Sterling Hall to commemorate his death and his family’s loss, in a quiet ceremony attended by Fassnacht family members, friends and people who were on campus, at the same place, where the bomb created incredible destruction.
When four young men blew up the building and its Army Math Research Center in the wee morning hours of August 24, the perpetrators did not know Fassnacht, 33 and a father, was working in his lab.
A Madison man is presumed drowned after he was swept out to sea more than a week ago during a trip to South Africa.
Rescuers had been searching for 52-year-old Sasha Sternberg since he disappeared May 10th.
The Kohl Center was packed with proud parents and students for a graduation ceremony at UW Madison.
About 5,000 students will receive degrees from UW.
Madison: The only fatality in the Sterling Hall bombing in 1970 was honored Friday on the UW campus.
Robert Fassnacht was just a physics student working on his post-doctoral degree back 1970 and most agree recognizing his death was long overdue.
Marvin Wolfmeyer was a classmate of Robert Fassnacht. “He was a very generous person. Very giving. He would go out of his way to help you if he could.” Wolfmeyer drove from Minnesota to be on hand when a plaque remembering Fassnacht was unveiled. “We need to recognize him.”
Perhaps better late than never. Thirty seven years after UW physics researcher Robert Fassnacht died in the Sterling Hall bombing, the UW unveiled a plaque in his memory Friday. Frank Scarpace was a friend and graduate student who worked with Fassnacht. “It’s really ironic, that someone was killed in something like this, who was probably very sympathetic to the antiwar movement,” said Scarpace, who described Fassnacht as “a pacifist.”
Margaret Mead once said, â??Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.â?
Especially if that small group includes LaMarr Billups. The go-to guy in so many causes and so many civic issues in Madison, Billups has left town for Washington, D.C., to be a change agent in one of the most troubled cities in the country.
