Governor Doyle’s TV Ad portion of his re-election campaign starts July 18 and his support for stem cell research will be a centerpiece of his message.
His opponent, Republican Congressman Mark Green has already fired back, saying he supports the research, within reason.
MADISON, Wis. — A number of tips have come in regarding possible suspects in an assault on Observatory Drive earlier this month, University of Wisconsin police said.
Wide range of feedback on the Barrett decision.
I represent a group called Truth 12/7 that believes that the U.S. attacked itself at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, and also later in the war, at Iwo Jima and Guadalcanal.
The state has paid $145,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a UW-Madison employee who claimed she was passed over for a job after she criticized school policy.
Quoted: Sheila O’Brien, a certified veterinary technician at the UW- Madison School of Veterinary Medicine.
I admit I have more than a little sympathy for the folks living in the UW-Arboretum area who don’t want to see a developer “improve” three lots at Arboretum Lane and Arboretum Drive.
For generations, Madison has been a place where life is good.
Plenty of good jobs with government and UW-Madison as the solid, steady anchors. Good schools, chock-full of middle-class, college-bound students. Easy to find a nice, affordable place to live.
That was then.
This is now: State government shedding jobs. Madison businesses moving to the suburbs. Companies facing business competition from Austin, Texas, to Shanghai. More families short on cash and stuck in low-paying jobs. Growing numbers of trophy homes priced exclusively for the rich. And a feeling among business people that Madison’s city leaders are out to get them.
In 1967, Judy Haag took an entry-level state job and started living the Dane County dream of government service. Decades later, she helped the state automate and eliminate the very clerk’s job she was first hired to fill – and some 80 more just like it.
Haag’s nearly 40-year career shows both the opportunity that government jobs can offer and the way that those jobs – the core of this region’s economy – are no longer the force they once were.
Quoted: Dr Darold Treffert, clinical professor at the University of Wisconsin Medical School.
WASHINGTON, July 15 ââ?¬â? Before Sept. 11 changed everything, President Bush wrestled publicly with the issue of embryonic stem cell research, then opened the door to federal financing for the science in the first major decision of his nascent administratio
Quoted: Roberto Rodriguez, a writer and expert on indigenous geography and human migration at the University of Wisconsin, has used old maps and oral tradition to do his own study of Aztlan
The latest in the academic follies comes from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where the administration has cleared the way for an instructor to teach his belief that the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were plotted by the US government to create an excuse for war.
By now, most everyone has heard about the recent academic freedom conflict at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Quoted: Virginia Sapiro, associate vice chancellor for teaching and learning at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Those walking by the Social Sciences Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus on a sunny afternoon might have heard it. The music, which appears to come from a tower located right outside the hall, sounds like bells, but it’s easy to assume the music is prerecorded and comes from a loudspeaker. After all, who or what could be making it?
As a guardian of the First Amendment, this newspaper supports the right to free speech and the expression of thoughts.
MADISON – The state has paid $145,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a University of Wisconsin-Madison employee who claimed she was passed over for a job after she criticized school policy.
Milwaukee, Wis. – The resignation of University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee vice chancellor of research Abbas Ourmazd was made official today in a statement released by the university.
Q. What’s the best way to dispose of unused fishing bait?
A. It may seem counterintuitive, but the best thing to do with leftover bait is to fertilize the garden, says UW-Madison limnologist John Magnuson.
Campus police want the public’s help in finding two people suspected in the violent mugging of a 31-year-old UW-Madison graduate student on Observatory Drive last week.
On Thursday, police took the unusual step of presenting the victim, Stephen England, who spent eight hours in the hospital after the attack, at a news briefing at the scene of the crime. He spoke about the case and made a plea for help in finding the pipe-wielding man who hit him multiple times and a female accomplice who may have helped the attacker get away in a red sedan.
The usual UW bashers in the state Legislature certainly provide some good copy for this newspaper and others.
The story line typically goes like this: Outraged lawmaker castigates state university again for (fill in the blank – insufficient patriotism, wasteful spending, mismanagement or wildly unconventional thought).
The raging lawmaker gets to grab headlines and score cheap political points. The University of Wisconsin System suffers an excessive spanking and tries to strike back.
All the while, the reputation of the entire state of Wisconsin is trashed.
The war of words over a controversial UW lecturer escalated today when a Madison legislator called a fellow legislator “ineffective and useless” for condemning UW’s decision to allow the lecturer to keep his position.
Dear Editor: When I was a UW-Madison student, Joe McCarthy was demagogically intimidating much of the academic community and U.S. society by unjustifiably labeling political dissenters as unpatriotic subversives.
Most beating victims are reluctant to tell their story, but Stephen England says there’s a dangerous man still on the loose and he hopes his story will help catch him.
(MADISON) The State Assembly has decided not to vote on a measure calling for the dismissal of a controversial University of Wisconsin instructor.
UW Police are asking anyone on campus late at night not to walk alone after a mugging and beating last week.
In October, colleges feared the new regulations to make it easier for the government to monitor computer networks could have ended up costing institutions billions of dollars. But after a court ruling, lobbying and lots of lawyering, higher education lobbyists now believe most colleges will not end up being covered by the regulations.
MADISON, Wis. — A University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student who was the victim of a campus attack one week ago has spoken publicly for the first time about the attack with the hope that someone will recognize the man who attacked him.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is dead wrong to allow 9/11 conspiracy believer Kevin Barrett to continue to teach there.
Saying the university needs to “see the light” or face retaliatory budget cuts, state Rep. Steve Nass on Wednesday introduced a resolution demanding UW-Madison fire a part- time lecturer who says the 2001 terrorist attacks were orchestrated by the U.S. government.
MADISON, Wis. — The state Assembly on Wednesday refused to take up a resolution calling on the University of Wisconsin-Madison to fire an instructor who believes the federal government orchestrated the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Quoted: Paul S. Boyer, emeritus professor of history at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Quoted: Alfred McCoy is a Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, and the author of A Question of Torture; CIA Interrogation from the Cold War to the War on Terror.
The Why Files site, based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, explores the science and technology behind the news. For example, one scientist recently made headlines with claims that red rain that fell in India might have contained alien cells. A Why Files investigation found a much more likely source for the odd red cells, algae, and previously published findings to back up that explanation.
MADISON, Wis. — A Madison man pleaded guilty Wednesday to possessing an unregistered sawed-off shotgun on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus in March.
Jason Hall, 21, appeared in U.S. District Court in Madison on Wednesday.
A legislator wants a controversial UW lecturer to be fired.
The State Assembly won’t be taking up a resolution looking to oust a controversial UW-Madison instructor.
Kevin Barrett came under for some recent remarks he made about the 9/11 attacks, and he’s planning on voicing those opinions in an upcoming introductory course on Islam at the UW.
MADISON – The state Assembly on Wednesday refused to take up a resolution calling on University ofWisconsin-Madison to fire an instructor who believes the U.S. government orchestrated the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
About 500 students at Wake Forest University this fall will have a special cell phone/personal digital assistant that will have a feature that could be a professor�s dream: The cell will automatically be linked to students� course meeting times, so it will be silenced during class hours.
A framed and autographed newspaper article is University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan’s contribution to the Madison 150 Time Capsule.
Dear First Amendment, You’ve been an amazing friend for a long time. You probably don’t recognize my name, but you’re responsible for my profession existing. So I owe you a ton.
We certainly hope that Kevin Barrett’s 15 minutes of fame have expired.
The UW-Madison part-time lecturer who believes in the ridiculous theory that the U.S. attacked itself on Sept. 11, 2001, gets to keep his job, UW officials announced this week.
That’s the right decision for the wrong guy.
But it’s still the right decision.
Quoted: UW-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin.
The company also donates to various causes. Flesch officials were inspired by the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to create the Gordon Flesch Foundation, which gave $100,000 to New York City police officers and firefighters. The foundation, which makes donations of about $100,000 a year, also helped Hurricane Katrina victims and contributes to local charities, including Habitat for Humanity and UW- Madison.
Controversial though it is, the decision by UW-Madison to let an instructor who believes the 9/11 terrorist attacks were orchestrated by our own government fits within the most conservative traditions of the university.
Kevin Barrett will teach a course on Islam at the school. He apparently believes the twin towers of the World Trade Center were blown up by U.S. government operatives in order to provoke war in the Middle East. He said as much during a radio interview.
The University of Wisconsin will allow part-time lecturer Kevin Barrett to teach a fall class on Islam, including his theory that the U.S. government planned the 9/11 terror attacks to launch a war on Muslim nations.
Quoted: Theodore P. Gerber, of the University of Wisconsin
Quoted: David Canon, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Could the attacks of September 11 have been planned by someone other than terrorists? Some people are blaming our own government.
A part-time instructor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who has caused an uproar by asserting that the federal government conceived and executed the September 11 terrorist attacks will be permitted to teach a course this fall on Islam, the university announced on Monday.
(MADISON) Ethnic cleansing in Darfur Province has prompted some state governments and universities to pull their money out of corporations with operations there. The University of Wisconsin may follow the lead of Illinois, which is leading the charge to put financial pressure on the Sudanese government, which is accused of committing atrocities. (Second item.)
The University of Wisconsin at Madison ââ?¬â? under political pressure to fire an instructor who argues that the United States plotted the 9/11 attacks ââ?¬â? has cleared the way for him to teach this fall.
Now that the $109.5 million renovation of Camp Randall Stadium is effectively complete, what are the chances of another major concert being staged there?
“I can’t say it’s out of the question,” said Doug Beard, a University of Wisconsin senior associate athletic director. “It’s not something we’re looking to do.”
University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez not only filled a hole on his administrative staff on Monday, he expanded that staff, too.
John Jentz was promoted from assistant athletic director to associate AD, with his primary duties continuing to focus on finance and the operation of the business office. He also will supervise video services, bowl and postseason travel and take over as administrator for men’s and women’s rowing.
A controversial lecturer who was cleared Monday to teach a course on Islam at UW- Madison said he’s pleased with a review that found no fault with his plans for the class.
“I don’t blame them for taking a look,” instructor Kevin Barrett said after the university announced he would, as planned, teach a course this fall called “Islam: Religion and Culture.”
A helium-based imaging technique may help doctors detect smoking-related lung damage in healthy smokers sooner and more accurately than existing imaging methods, according to a study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
MADISON, Wis. – A part-time University of Wisconsin instructor who believes U.S. government officials orchestrated the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks will be allowed to teach a course on Islam, the school announced Monday.
A state lawmaker reacts with disbelief; as UW-Madison signs off on a controversial instructor. (Audio.)
A UW-Madison instructor has been cleared to teach a course in Islam, after his controversial views on the September 11th attacks prompt a review. On Monday, UW’s Provost gave Kevin Barrett the go-ahead to teach this fall.
