Should coaches be paid more than the chancellors and deans who run a public university?Should a head football coach be paid $1.3 million for one year, even if his team did have a 12-1 record and the money he’ll make comes from funds generated by athletic programs?
The measure approved by the House on Friday criticizing President Bush’s plan to increase troop levels in Iraq was an especially substantive nonbinding resolution, compared with the topics that usually get such treatment.
Others introduced in the House this term include those honoring sports teams and expressing sorrow at the death of Gerald Ford, said David Canon, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison who specializes in the U.S. Congress.
At my suggestion last Sunday, readers went to www. vetomatic.com. vetomatic.com to see just how crazy the “Frankenstein” veto power is.
The Web site, created by UW- Madison mechanical engineering student Dale Emmons, let’s anyone pretend to be governor with the most powerful veto pen in the nation. All of the laws proposed above could have been accomplished with elaborate vetoes, according to the Veto-Matic — “Wisconsin’s premier supplier of partial-veto automation software.”
Quoted: Jackie Hitchon, CALS Communications.
Can a researcher who uses the scientific method to prove fossils can be billions of years old nevertheless believe that science is wrong and the Earth is only a few thousand years old?
And, if such a person could be found, should a reputable university award that person a graduate degree or hire him to teach science?
Quoted: telecommunications expert Barry Orton.
Quoted: political scientist Barry Burden.
Lindleigh Whetstone wears headphones as she shoves clothes into the washing machine. Her classmate, Stepheno Zollos, wears them as he shops for groceries. An onlooker might assume the teens are listening to the latest top-40 hit, but they’re really learning Spanish.
Whetstone, 18, and Zollos, 17, are in Kathy O’Connor’s class at Tidewater Community College in southeastern Virginia. O’Connor got a grant for $11,000 to lend her students iPods so they can practice their Spanish conversations anywhere – not just in front of a computer.
Quoted: Richard K Davidson, principal of the Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Craig Werner, Afro-American studies professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Over the last few years the large ‘W’ logo to symbolize Washington sports has taken a back seat to the new Demon logo. A few W’s still exist at Case Field. None can be found in the Washington High School gym. A few jackets can be found if the sports enthusiast looks hard enough.
VIROQUA, Wis. â?? A former St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter will host a writing workshop in Viroqua in the fall.Patrick Strickler, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize while at the Post-Dispatch, lives on a 40-acre farm in Avalanche since retiring in July from communications at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers released information from a study that shows some promising links between activity and breast cancer risk.Researchers found a reduced risk of breast cancer in women who exercised vigorously for six or more hours each week.
MADISON â?? Some illegal immigrants would get reduced tuition, gay partners of university employees would get health insurance and professors would be able to form unions under Gov. Jim Doyleâ??s budget plan.
Doyle has touted his proposed funding for the University of Wisconsin System as allowing campuses to add students, expand research and increase financial aid. But the fine print reveals far more plans for the 13 four-year universities and 13 two-year colleges.Tuition would go up at the flagship UW-Madison campus by nearly $500 over two years. Similar annual increases of
Last summer, Vernon Burton gave lectures on history and the use of computing in humanities research at meetings in Britain and France. When he finished each talk, the first question wasnâ??t about his research, but about Chief Illiniwek, the mascot at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and why the university would keep a symbol that is offensive to American Indians.
Quoted: UW Professor Virginia Sapiro, who specializes in political psychology and public participation in elections.
A recent shortage in a widely used cancer treatment drug points to the importance of research going on at the UW-Madison Paul Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Dr. Dan Mulkerin is working on an oral form of chemotherapy. When you take it as a pill it gets converted in the body to the same drug used in the intravenous method.
MADISON, Wis. — Hundreds turned out on Saturday to jump into the frigid waters of Lake Monona or to support those taking the plunge.Well more than 100 groups registered to participate in the 2007 Polar Plunge in Madison, a fundraising effort benefiting Special Olympics Wisconsin.
(MADISON) Researchers at the University of Wisconsin- Madison say theyâ??ve found a substance thatâ??s stiffer than a diamond. The compound doesnâ??t really have a name, but Roderic Lakes calls it â??extra liberalâ? because of its unique positive-negative balance.
Lakes is a Distinguished Professor of Engineering Physics and Biomedical Engineering. He and some colleagues recently published an article in Science Magazine describing the new compound, made of bariumtitanate and tin, which he says looks like tin with grains of sand in it.
Whatâ??s hip-hop to you? If itâ??s just police incidents outside Club Majestic and songs with vile lyrics set to pounding bass beats, youâ??ll be surprised to learn that the UW Arts Instituteâ??s artist in residence this spring is Marc Bamuthi Joseph, a leader in the field of hip-hop theater.
In three decades, hip-hopâ??s grown way beyond its origins as the sound of rebellious black youth. Among its diverse legions are, yes, macho thugs touting guns and drugs, but also social
activists and multi-genre artists bearing transformative messages.
The University of Wisconsin appears headed for a prolonged fight with Republican state lawmakers and conservative activists over its decision this month to adopt a freshman-admissions policy directing each of its campuses to consider the race and ethnicity of applicants.
Fair Wisconsin today released an updated list of employers based in Wisconsin that offer domestic partner health insurance. Gov. Jim Doyle has announced he will include a request for state employee domestic partner benefits in the 2007 budget.
These are the best of times in the life of Jake Dowell because he believes that, for now, the worst has run its course.That reality is connected to his role as senior center and assistant captain for the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team, but only on the periphery.It has more to do with the fact that an immense emotional void has been filled and, as a result, Dowell is a better person, not to mention a better play
MADISON, Wis. — A Mount Horeb man accused of driving drunk and hitting a college student while she crossed the street on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus was in court Thursday to face formal charges.
Bradley Zika faces his third drunken-driving charge, as well as a bail-jumping charge.
Quoted: UW-Madison sociology professor Myra Marx Ferree, a 57-year-old Boomer, said that women of her generation are more optimistic than her students, despite the “glass ceiling” in every area of their lives.
Covering the domestic partners of state employees under the state’s family health insurance benefit is an inexpensive proposal that will produce good value for taxpayers.
The Legislature should approve it.
Gov. Jim Doyle proposed in his state budget to extend health insurance to the domestic partners of gay, lesbian and heterosexual employees, including those in the University of Wisconsin System. Currently, family health insurance offered to state employees is restricted to spouses and dependents (generally meaning children). Domestic partners do not qualify under those terms.
Two months after he finished up as president of Middlebury College in 2004, John M. McCardell Jr. wrote a column for The New York Times called â??What Your College President Didnâ??t Tell You.â? In the piece, he discussed how he was â??as guilty as any of my colleagues [as presidents] of failing to take bold positions on public matters that merit serious debate.â? Taking advantage of his new emeritus status, he proceeded to take a few such positions. Among other things, he wrote that the 21-year-old drinking age is â??bad social policy and terrible law,â? and that it was having a bad impact on both students and colleges.
Delete â??interimâ? from her title â?? Lori Berquam is now officially the University of Wisconsin Dean of Students.
After a yearlong, nationwide search that brought in finalists from New Jersey and Illinois, Chancellor John Wiley and Provost Patrick Farrell decided to choose an in-house candidate who has served as UWâ??s interim dean of students since July 2005.
And Berquam said she couldnâ??t be happier.
Elizabeth Hitch announced Thursday she will leave her post as provost at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse for a similar position at a college in Utah.
Starting July 1, she will be vice president of academic affairs at Utah Valley State College in Orem, a city of 89,000 about 40 miles south of Salt Lake City.
Q: What exactly is hip- hop?
A: Hip-hop got its start in the South Bronx during the mid-1970s, says Craig Werner, a UW-Madison professor of Afro-American Studies and noted popular music historian.
“Happy Valentine’s day, would you like a condom from sex out loud?”
Talking about sex out loud is no problem for UW student Ann Slabosky.
After all, she is the head of a student group that focuses on sex.
But for some women, sex is the last they thing that want to think about.
“They’re very stressed out, they have a high class load,” said Slabosky, “they’re not having enough time to work out, things like that and that will cause them to not really want to have sex as much as their boyfriends want them to have sex.”
A tuition deal between schools in Wisconsin and Minnesota benefits students in both states and must continue.
But Wisconsin should not give in to a University of Minnesota threat to end the pact unless Wisconsin students pay more to attend it. The demand is untenable.
This is just the kind of news I didn’t want to hear. A UW-Madison microbiologist warns that tomorrow’s cause of global warming might be dirt.
Yes, dirt.
At least, that’s the hypothesis of Teri Balser, an assistant professor of soil science.
After four years of job cuts across state government, the budget introduced Wednesday by Gov. Jim Doyle proposes a change in course, increasing the number of positions for the first time in his tenure and essentially bringing the state full circle.
The budget proposes that by June 2009, there would be 68,085 jobs in state government including the UW System and UW Hospital and Clinics in Madison – seven fewer than when Doyle took office in January 2003.
The Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism and winner of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize, is coming to Dane County the first week of May.
The concept of a new on- campus practice facility for the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team will take a step forward next month, but the earliest that such a project could appear on the capital budget is 2009.
UW senior associate athletic director Doug Beard said school and team representatives are scheduled to meet next month with consultants from Ayers Saint Gross – the firm involved with helping UW with its master campus plan – to begin discussing site options.
The government was premature in deregulating production of alfalfa that is genetically engineered to resist a weed-killing herbicide, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
MADISON, Wis. — The American Family Children’s Hospital is still under construction, but the AAA Child Passenger Safety Inspection Station is now officially open.
The idea of the inspection station is to help reduce injuries and deaths in infants and children in crashes by properly installing and using child safety seats.
“This inspection station will allow them a high quality, hands-on education and teaching experience allowing them to know what kind of car seats to use for their child, how to install it properly in the car and how to get their children properly secured,” said Kylene Anttila, child passenger safety technician at University of Wisconsin-Madison Children’s Hospital.
MINNEAPOLIS – Bo Ryan wasn’t the most popular or sexiest choice six years ago.
With the Badgers only a year removed from reaching the 2000 Final Four, there was hope among Wisconsin fans that the school could land a big name when replacing Dick Bennett. Milwaukee native and then-Utah coach Rick Majerus was a popular choice. So was California coach Ben Braun, a University of Wisconsin graduate.
Sure, Ryan was known in the state – he won four Division III national championships at Wisconsin-Platteville – but his record in two seasons at Division I Wisconsin-Milwaukee was 30-27.
When the University of Wisconsin Varsity Band performs at the Stefanie H. Weill Center for the Performing Arts on Thursday, Feb. 22, there will be many local students featured.
In an unassuming building on the University of Wisconsinâ??Madison campus, scientists are attempting to perfect techniques that could allow them to mold embryonic stem cells into cells that emulate the functions of the cells that our own bodies produce. Like a blank page waiting to be written on, these cells have the potential to change the way we look at the world of medicine.
MADISON, Wis. – The University of Wisconsin marching bandâ??s assistant director has resigned after an internal report criticized his treatment of a female colleague during a rowdy band trip to Michigan last fall.
The report released late Tuesday said Michael Lorenz engaged in â??unwelcome, intimidating, and frighteningâ? behavior after he entered a part-time employeeâ??s hotel room in the early morning of Sept. 23
MADISON – University of Wisconsin officials say they were prepared to fire the marching bandâ??s assistant director, but he resigned before that happened.
Mike Lorenz was the marching bandâ??s second in command. On a football trip last fall, school officials criticized his treatment of a female employee.
MADISON, Wis. – The University of Wisconsin marching band’s assistant director has resigned after an internal report criticized his treatment of a female colleague during a rowdy band trip to Michigan last fall.
The report released late Tuesday said Michael Lorenz engaged in “unwelcome, intimidating, and frightening” behavior after he entered a part-time employee’s hotel room in the early morning of Sept. 23.
The band played during Wisconsin’s game against Michigan later that day in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Madison, Wis. – Molly Jahn is a realist, and she’s telling anyone within ear shot that Wisconsin has a realistic chance to lead the drive toward energy independence.
Molly JahnThe new dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Jahn believes Wisconsin can leverage existing economies and industries to grow an emerging one – biofuels.
MADISON â?? State sales and income taxes would not increase under a budget Gov. Jim Doyle unveiled Tuesday.
But those who drive, own a car or smoke would be hit by new taxes and fees.
Doyle called the two-year plan to spend $58 billion in public dollars an “opportunity budget” that provides tax relief for residents and protects the state’s priorities.
WASHINGTON â?? Matt Guidry wants Congress to make college less costly so new graduates who choose modest paying jobs such as teaching won’t be burdened with expensive student loans.
Guidry, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, joined other college students Tuesday at the U.S. Capitol to express support for legislation that would increase federal funding for Pell grants to low-income college students.
In his budget address tonight, Gov. Jim Doyle prescribed injecting more than $1.7 billion in new state and federal money into Medicaid and health programs to make medical coverage available to nearly every state resident without it.
The Democratic governor’s two-year budget, which also calls for new money for public schools and universities, would include some $1.2 billion in new taxes on cigarettes, oil companies and hospitals.
Tom Fairchild, a former state attorney general, state Supreme Court justice and federal appeals court judge, has died. He was 94.
Fairchild was remembered Tuesday as a magnanimous judge who remained humble and kind all his life.
Quoted: Anne Miner, executive director of the Initiative for Studies in Technology Entrepreneurship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business.
Global warming coverage has been building to a crescendo these last weeks and reached a peak and turning point on Feb. 2 with the release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change scientific assessment group’s Summary for Policymakers.
In his budget address Tuesday, Gov. Jim Doyle prescribed more than $1.7 billion in new state and federal money into Medicaid and health programs to make medical coverage available to nearly every state resident without it.
The Democratic governor’s two-year budget, which also calls for new money for public schools and universities, would include some $1.2 billion in new taxes on cigarettes, oil companies and hospitals.
The University of Wisconsin System has taken hits about a controversial new admissions policy. Rep. Stephen Nass, chairman of the Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities, has promised that â??this is only the beginning of the fight.â?What does it all mean? If you want to understand what the UW System is trying to do, you have to ask this question: Do we want UW enrollment to resemble the state as a whole?
Contrary to what critics say, the University of Wisconsin campuses will not start taking race into account as a result of a new admissions policy the Board of Regents adopted the other day. The campuses started doing that about 35 years ago.
New findings, reported in the journal Nature, help to explain why so many of the 50m people killed by Spanish flu were healthy men and women in the prime of life.
Quoted: Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a virologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
MADISON, Wis. — An 18-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison student is in serious condition on Tuesday after being hit by a car in a busy campus crosswalk on Monday night.
Meanwhile, the man who faces charges for allegedly hitting her has faced charges previously in two prior incidents of operating while intoxicated.
Bradley Zika, 31, is being held on charges of OWI causing injury, having an open intoxicant in the car and driving without a valid driver’s license in connection with the incident, WISC-TV reported.
Quoted: UW political science professor Howard Schweber.
Quoted: Dr. Steve Barczi, a geriatric specialist at the University of Wisconsin Hospital.
Quoted: telecommunications professor Barry Orton.
TomoTherapy – considered one of Madison’s shining stars in the new tech economy – could also shine on Wall Street, experts said Monday, after the company filed papers seeking to raise up to $201 million in a public stock offering.
