The Green Bay Packers have not given the University of Wisconsin permission to play a football game at Lambeau Field, team President John Jones said Thursday.
That came on the same day Wisconsin’s athletic department denied a published report that it was working to move one of its 2007 football games to Green Bay.
MADISON – Stung by a $26 million software failure, University of Wisconsin System regents moved Thursday for stronger oversight of information technology projects.
MADISON – A Catholic group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison sued school officials on Thursday, claiming their policies discriminate against religious groups who want to qualify for student fees.
MADISON ââ?¬â? University of Wisconsin System regents moved on Thursday to award raises to three veteran chancellors as part of a strategy to stop the loss of top leaders and professors to other schools.
The Democrats’ election victory on Tuesday will increase the number of lawmakers who support relaxing President Bush’s restrictions on stem-cell research, but not by enough to overcome a presidential veto.
However, the political winds may be blowing toward a modification of federal and state policies on the controversial research, most of which is conducted at universities.
Roughly one in six students enrolled in higher education ââ?¬â? about 3.2 million people ââ?¬â? took at least one online course last fall, a sharp increase defying predictions that online learning growth is leveling off.
The NCAA’s president, Myles Brand, went on the offensive on Thursday, defending the academic performance of college athletes and criticizing people who he says have unfairly labeled athletes as poor students.
In a news conference in which the National Collegiate Athletic Association released its latest graduation-rate report, Mr. Brand said that some newspaper editorials had mischaracterized athletes’ classroom performance. That misinformation, he said, has given the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means the impression that athletes are not serious students. The committee has opened an investigation into college sports, focusing on both academic and financial issues (The Chronicle, September 22).
Quoted: UW Political Science Professor Donald Downs.
It sounded like a good idea at the time.
Get the proposed same-sex marriage constitutional amendment on the November ballot to drive up the Republican vote while driving Democrats out of office. The plan worked for President Bush two years ago, particularly in Ohio. So why wouldn’t it do the same in Wisconsin this year, the GOP brass reasoned.
Welcome to the real world.
Patrick Erwin went to bed Tuesday harboring a deep sadness and a looming dread that he would soon need to leave Wisconsin.
Voters had just passed a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage and civil unions in the state, and Erwin, who is gay and lives in Madison, said he felt his life here was about to become more difficult.
In the wake of widespread Democratic election gains and voter unrest over the Iraq war, Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold said Wednesday he will spend the next few days mulling a run for the presidency in 2008 and could make a decision soon.
Nine UW-Madison students will be at UW-Parkside in Kenosha on Saturday to battle other computing gurus in the north-central regional competition of the 31st annual International Collegiate Programming Contest.
Quoted: Political scientists Charles Franklin and Donald Downs.
In August 2001, I told a US Senate subcommittee that as much as half of stem cell revenue would likely end up going to patent holders because of absurd patents on the human embryo. No one seemed to care. The debate over embryonic stem cells then was whether it was ethical to do research on them.
Quoted: Kenneth Goldstein, a professor of political science and Judaic studies at the University of Wisconsin.
The way Mike Hamrick sees it, playing a college football game on field turf is better than playing one on frozen tundra.
The UNLV athletic director recently received multiple offers from University of Wisconsin representatives, asking if he would consider selling next year’s Wisconsin-UNLV football game set for Sept. 8 to the Badgers, so it could be played at the “neutral field” site of Lambeau Stadium in Green Bay. The first offer was for $1 million. The second offer was for $1.3 million. Both times, Hamrick told the Wisconsin officials to take a Lambeau Leap. (Actually, he just politely said “no.”)
First it was hamburger, then municipal water, apple cider, swimming in the lake, the day-care center, the petting zoo .� .� . and now, spinach. Is nothing safe?
Joe Paterno has missed only one game since becoming Penn State�s head football coach in 1966, but he could miss his second on Saturday when the Nittany Lions play host to Temple.
Paterno remained hospitalized Wednesday in State College, Penn., following surgery on Sunday to repair a fractured shin bone and torn ligaments in his left knee.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin.
BARRING the discovery of a secret cache of uncounted ballots in Northern Virginia, the Democrats will have control of the US� Congress for the first time since 1994.
Professor Kenneth R. Mayer, of the Political Science Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, is the visiting Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Political Science at the Australian National University, Canberra.
Quoted: John Coleman, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist
Quoted: Dennis Dresang, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor.
MILWAUKEE ââ?¬â? From health care to stem cell research, education funding to tax cuts, Gov. Jim Doyle should find more support for his policies in the statehouse as he embarks on his second term in office.
He will be buoyed by a shift in power in the Senate and an increase in Democrats in the Assembly, but that doesn’t guarantee success.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor John Coleman.
Quoted: David Canon, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who specializes in Congress.
With the baby boom echo winding its way through high school and college, the Department of Education projects the number of high school graduates will keep rising through 2009. Not only are there more high school graduates, but the percentage expecting to go to college also has grown. It’s now more than 60%, says David Hawkins, director of public policy for the National Association for College Admission Counseling.
MADISON – Gay marriage was never legal in Wisconsin, but some gay rights advocates fear that the state’s new ban on it could jeopardize couples’ ability to share health and other benefits.
The University of Wisconsin System, which has sought domestic partner benefits to help it recruit and retain employees, may have also been dealt a setback in its effort to secure them from lawmakers, Freker said.
Quoted: UW political science professor Howard Schweber.
Less than 24 hours after they learned that their party had swept back into control of the U.S. House of Representatives, Democratic leaders said on Wednesday that they would move quickly next year to pass legislation to make college more affordable for students and their families.
“We will invest in our schools, colleges, and students so that every child has an opportunity to succeed and so that America maintains its economic leadership in the world,” Rep. George Miller of California said in a news release announcing his plans to seek the chairmanship of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, the panel on which he currently is the ranking Democrat.
Michigan’s overwhelming adoption of a ban on the use of affirmative-action preferences by public colleges and other state agencies appears likely to result in months of legal wrangling over the measure’s enforcement there and the emergence of campaigns for similar ballot proposals in other states.
As ballots were counted through Wednesday morning, unofficial election results showed that the proposed ban on preferences, known as Proposal 2, had passed with 58 percent of the vote. It was resoundingly approved despite being up against a much-better-financed opposition campaign that enlisted much of the state’s economic and political establishment, in a year when Democrats made a good enough showing at the polls to win most key elections.
Quoted: Dr. Bryan Heiderscheit, director of the University of Wisconsin Running Clinic.
Quoted: Political scientist John Coleman.
Jim Doyle’s convincing victory Tuesday night also was a win for dynamic and promising embryonic stem-cell research at UW-Madison – the signature issue of the Democratic governor’s campaign.
In September 2003, I began a national campaign to persuade universities to adopt an academic bill of rights, aimed at extending traditional academic-freedom protections to students and restoring objectivity and fairness to classrooms. Mounting such an effort is not easy. Getting the issue of campaign finance reform on the national radar, for example, reportedly required some $120-million and the work of several major public-interest organizations. My campaign consisted of two staff members and myself, and a budget to match.
Wisconsin voters re-elected Gov. Jim Doyle to a second term Tuesday over Republican challenger Mark Green in one of the most negative and expensive gubernatorial campaigns in state history.
Quoted: John Coleman, political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
MILWAUKEE – Though he opposed a constitutional ban on gay marriage and restoring the death penalty, two questions overwhelmingly approved by voters, Gov. Jim Doyle won re-election thanks to support from political independents.
Quoted: Dennis Dresang, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor.
Gov. Jim Doyle, who made his support for stem cell research a pivotal issue in a hard-fought governor’s race, defeated Republican challenger U.S. Rep. Mark Green on Tuesday to become the first Democrat re-elected Wisconsin governor in 32 years.
Quoted: John Coleman, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Voters appeared to say no to spending caps in three states, dealing a serious blow to anti-tax activists, while, in Missouri, a ballot measure that would have explicitly permitted research on embryonic stem cells was too close to call.
Meanwhile, Democrats were poised to pick up a number of governor’s seats, winning key open races in Arkansas and Ohio and apparently defeating the Republican incumbent in Maryland. Thirty-six governorships were contested in this election.
Besides making college more affordable, training more scientists and engineers, and expanding federal financing of stem-cell research (see article), here are some other higher-education issues to watch now that the Democrats have gained control of the U.S. House of Representatives.
The newly configured Congress that emerged from Tuesdayââ?¬â?¢s election is likely to change the landscape for higher education in significant ââ?¬â? but not necessarily predictable ââ?¬â? ways.
MADISON, Wis. — Election news has proliferated just about every public arena in recent months and now it has made its way to a local stage.A group of students moved election coverage into a format that is both new and old in a project called “A Living Newspaper,” WISC-TV reported.It was something created during the Great Depression by the Federal Theater Project to bring awareness to controversal issues by having actors write and present monologues and vignettes from news coverage. Now, a group of Universiyt of Wisconsin theater students are hoping to use their acting craft in the same way — to inform.
Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema isn’t a fan of college football’s new speed-up-the-game rule that mandates the clock starts when a ball is kicked off rather than when it’s received. But if Bielema can use the rule to his team’s advantage, he will, and that’s just what he did Saturday against Penn State.
Access to UW-Madison is the university’s top public- perception problem, Chancellor John Wiley told faculty members Monday.
“Our biggest public relations challenges are not faculty felonies, not (controversial Islam lecturer) Kevin Barrett, not whether or not the band is on probation,” Wiley said. “It’s ‘my kid didn’t get into Madison.’ “
Wisconsin’s war on those wascally wobbers who are making off with Wisconsin’s “motion W” has expanded far beyond that wily corn growing state to our west.
Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema isn’t a fan of college football’s new speed-up-the-game rule that mandates the clock starts when a ball is kicked off rather than when it’s received. But if Bielema can use the rule to his team’s advantage, he will, and that’s just what he did Saturday against Penn State.
Madison, Wis. – When it comes to building an effective board of directors, it’s a different world than the one that existed five years ago.
Three years after the University of Michigan won approval from the U.S. Supreme Court to use affirmative action (in some forms) in college admissions, voters in Michigan could strip the institution of the right to consider race when admitting students.
Former Badgers coach Barry Alvarez is one of the people you may have received a phone call from in connection with the Nov. 7 election.
But unlike most of the other recorded phone calls which have gone out, the UW-Madison Athletic Director is not asking you to vote for a specific candidate, or to vote a certain way on a referendum issue.
It’s a final push to court the college vote as the hours tick down to Election Day. It typically takes a charismatic candidate or heated issue to get students to the polls. This year there is no Howard Dean for this group to rally with, but with two polarizing issues on the ballot, it might be enough to draw them out.
On Monday a nonpartisan get out the vote campaign spent the afternoon camped out on Library mall. It registered more than 4,200 students before the election. On this particular day, it was looking to remind youth voters to get to the polls.
“We are under attack,” were the words Wisconsin Alumni Research Association Director Carl Gulbrandsen used to open his talk at the UW Law School Friday night.
Gulbrandsen spoke in grave terms about the prospect of losing the Bayh/Dole bill, legislation that enables the conversion of federally funded research into innovative scientific products and procedures. The speech was sponsored by the Kastenmeier Distinguished Lecture Series.
Gulbrandsen warned that many Bayh-Dole critics come from the ranks of academia. They want to remove Bayh/Dole’s protection for institutions like WARF which share the benefits of federally funded research to the benefit of the reseracher and the university.
(SUPERIOR) The fight to get a Christian group at UW-Superior sanctioned as a student organization is heading to the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents.
The Board of Regents is expected to consider guidelines for student groups at its December meeting. The UW-Superior chapter of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship was denied student status last semester by a student government committee because although any student can join, the organization�s constitution says the leaders must be Christian.
Quoted: Michael Apple, a professor at the University of Wisconsin who studies the issue.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin.
MADISON, Wis. — Stem-cell politics have been front and center in the race for governor, especially in TV ads.
WISC-TV examined the Mark Green ad in which former Gov. Tommy Thompson stumps for the gubernatorial candidate.
The ad takes viewers back to Wisconsin in the Tommy Thompson era. The former longtime governor and Health and Human Services secretary comes out swinging for Green.
Quoted: Kyle Holen, a medical oncologist at the University of Wisconsin Paul P. Carbone Cancer Center,
Madison, Wis. – On a visit to the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, former U.S. Senator Birch Bayh said the landmark patent law that bears his name is under attack from critics who don’t understand the context in which it was passed.
Attacking his opponent for a lack of character was something incumbent Benjamin F. Cassell Jr., R-Stevensville, did often before the Queen Anne’s County Board of Commissioners primaries.
Now, less than a week before the general election, Mr. Cassell’s character has come into question.
A new program started Friday night where students walk the same beat police do overnight. This is in response to repeated incidents in recent months where students walking home have been battered, mugged, and sexually assaulted
Back in ‘the day’, Americans worked for one company most, if not all, of their adult lives. And their loyalty was rewarded with a guaranteed income for life; a pension when they retired.
Then, the unthinkable began to happen: the guarantee disappeared as companies ran into financial trouble or saw pension plan investments dry-up in the stock market.
University of Wisconsin-Extension financial specialist Michael Gutter says, “People who’ve been eligible for these (pensions) may have not saved in other accounts, such as IRA’s, because they counted on the fact that they had a known income source going into retirement. So, for some individuals, there’s not much planning that can be done if they’re already facing this crisis.”
MADISON, Wis. — As the UW campus looks to find ways to keep the streets safe, a new Neighborhood Watch group hopes to give it the old college try.
Collaborating with Madison police, the UW Greek community kicked off the watch this weekend.
Joe Gow said he owes someone a big thank you.
