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MADISON, Wis. – A University of Wisconsin law professor acknowledged Monday his comments about the Hmong people have caused pain but said he has been misquoted and misunderstood by critics.

Professor Leonard Kaplan said he did not make the “hateful” statements that some students said he made during a Feb. 15 lecture to his legal proces

The law school dean the University of Wisconsin at Madison sent an e-mail message to students and faculty members last week apologizing for the hurt caused by a professorâ??s anti-Hmong comnents during a class lecture, while also saying that no harm had been intended by them.

MADISON, Wis. — A University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor broke his silence on Monday over reported derogatory remarks that he made about Hmong-Americans.

Professor Leonard Kaplan issued a letter to the dean of the UW law school saying that his comments about Hmong people have caused pain but that he’s been misquoted and misunderstood.

We sometimes act like companies that “spin off” from research at UW-Madison are a new idea, something that only takes place in a petri dish in a research park.
Lyle Hill started his “spin off” during the depths of the Great Depression, taking the vitamin research being done at the ag school and combining it with his love of farming. Hill whirled vitamins and cattle feed together in a mixer at his Fitchburg farm, and gave birth to Vita Plus, a company that today does more than $100 million a year in feed sales across the Upper Midwest.

Who’s the biggest Badger fan?
Is it the guy who defied his family heritage – and has the license plate and traveling trophy to prove it?

NEW YORK – Today’s college students are more narcissistic and self-centered than their predecessors, according to a comprehensive new study by five psychologists who worry that the trend could be harmful to personal relationships and American society.

Opinion column: Charles Hoslet is managing director of the UW- Madison Office of Corporate Relations. Tyler Leeper is a first year MBA student at UW- Madison, the current president of the UW’s Entrepreneurship Association, and president of Wingra Canoe & Sailing Center, a watercraft recreation center in Madison.

No wonder the war against global warming has generated such a reluctance to fight.
Too often the only weapons offered are limits, sacrifices and cutbacks – hardly the stuff that elicits volunteers.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Kammron Taylor took the loss especially hard, but he should know he’s not alone.
The University of Wisconsin senior guard had teammates, coaches and an entire state sharing his pain after UW went from the euphoria of being ranked No. 1 to the disappointment of being relegated to second place in the Big Ten Conference in record time. With their 49-48 loss to second-ranked Ohio State in a two-hour tug-of-war Sunday at the Value City Arena, the top-ranked Badgers saw their magical season go “poof” in less than a week.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The big-picture ramifications, if any, of Sunday’s 49-48 loss to Ohio State won’t be determined until two Sundays from now when NCAA tournament bids — and accompanying seeds — are handed out.
The short-term reality for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team is this: The Badgers won’t be Big Ten Conference regular-season champions.

A victory over Ohio State on Sunday might be enough for the Wisconsin Badgers men’s basketball team to maintain the No. 1 ranking that made the state so proud earlier this week.
But regardless of what happens on the basketball court, Wisconsin should be proud that its flagship university is No. 1 in more ways than one.

When Los Angeles native Mike Montgomery started thinking about college, UW-Madison wasn’t even on his list. Way too cold, he said, way too far away – and definitely way too white.
It took a Posse to change his perspective – and then to hold him to it.

Larry Petty stands like a weathered tree at a bus stop on the Capitol Square – bent at the trunk with a bad back, his right knee gnarled with injury, leaning on a crooked black cane.
Life’s harsh blows have left their mark on the 48-year old. But at 6 feet 10 and a half inches tall, he is as striking now as when he was a University of Wisconsin basketball star from 1977 to 1981.

Pahoua Thao remembers coming to Madison in 1992 after her family left a refugee camp in Thailand and stayed briefly in Oklahoma. She was 7 and spoke no English.
Before she arrived, she expected the United States to be like heaven – bright and shiny.

“Not that I was disappointed,” she said. “But it was a cold day, cloudy. And very quiet. I think I had expected more people.”

Now 22 and on the verge of graduating from UW-Madison, Thao is a self-assured young adult who’s already making contributions to the community that helped her grow up.

A University of Wisconsin law professor is under scrutiny for comments he allegedly made in a Feb. 15 lecture about the Hmong community.

According to an e-mail sent to several law and Hmong students obtained by The Badger Herald, professor Leonard Kaplan spoke for 10 minutes using â??racist and inappropriateâ? comments.

An evidentiary hearing began Thursday in the case of a Waunakee babysitter convicted of first-degree reckless homicide in the death of an infant.

Q: Where did the term heartland’ come from? What part of the country does it refer to?
A: Linguists usually don’t have a precise answer to when or how a particular word was created, but “heartland” is an exception, says Joseph Salmons, a UW-Madison German professor and co-director of the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures.

UW-Madison Law School professor Leonard Kaplan was contrite Thursday after some students accused him of making offensive comments about Hmong people in his Feb. 15 Legal Process class.