Madison – To ensure he savored every moment of Wisconsin’s sixth NCAA men’s hockey championship, Mike Eaves didn’t leave the Bradley Center ice until he looked into the eyes of each of his players and shared an intimate bond outsiders can’t truly understand.
MADISON, WIS. ââ?¬â?? The task for Mark Johnson and Jean-FranÃ?§ois Chamba this morning is simple: sample 23 different kinds of soft goat’s-milk cheese. Not some havartis, some Swiss, some cheddar. Just soft goat’s milk. Twenty-three kinds.
If you choose to measure a team by how it reacts in its worst hours, 20 minutes in a locker room in Mankato, Minn., start that tale for the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team.
The Sunday afternoon rally drew nearly 5,000 fans to the Field House where they gathered to honor the national champions, the 1977 University of Wisconsin hockey team. The individual player introductions were handled by the tri-captains: Steve Alley, John Taft and Mike Eaves. A teary-eyed Elroy Hirsch, the UW athletic director, led the crowd in the singing of varsity, capping the festivities. An emotionally drained Eaves confided afterward, “I’m still trying to unwind, it’s going to take a long time to come down.
MILWAUKEE – He arrived at the University of Wisconsin with bold promises that invited scrutiny and pressure.He took a hard line with players from the start, chasing off several he didn’t want in his program and recruiting over many of the rest.
MILWAUKEE, Wis. ââ?¬â? When choosing superlatives for a college hockey crowd, “classiest” is not always the adjective selected. Roam from rink to rink and invariably there will be moments in the game when you have to turn to your young one and say “earmuffs.”
For all the success the University of Wisconsin athletic teams enjoyed in the past 10 years, from back-to-back Rose Bowl championships in football to an unexpected appearance in the Final Four in men’s basketball, something was missing from those increasingly packed trophy cases.
There was time for one last public give-and-take session between the first family of University of Wisconsin hockey, and as usual, Adam and Nikki Burish did not disappoint.
CHICAGO – Madison may not be the biggest biotech community in the nation, but the area is drawing plaudits on at least two fronts at the International BIO convention here.
A study touts the wide range of biotech jobs in the Madison area; meanwhile, a Middleton High School biotechnology teacher, Kathryn Eilert, has won a $10,000 national award.
This is an exciting time for science, especially biotechnology, in Wisconsin:
The state is launching the first phase of the $150-million Wisconsin Institutes of Discovery, a public-private center for biomedical research at UW- Madison.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison appeals panel this morning overruled a university attorney’s efforts to limit the scope of inquiry in the Paul Barrows matter.
Quoted: Leslie Eisenberg, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and a Wisconsin Historical Society expert on burial sites.
Leftovers never taste better than the original entr e, and that certainly is the case here since the feast involved an NCAA title. But some flavor can be found in a few previously untouched items following the landmark season by the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team.
Paul Barrows, a former top administrator at UW-Madison, insisted at a disciplinary hearing Monday that he never sexually harassed women.
“No. Never,” he responded to questions about whether he committed any of the acts described by two women who testified earlier in the day that he looked strangely at one and followed her on State Street and asked the other repeatedly for a dinner date.
Brother and sister Adam and Nikki Burish talk with Mark and Teri on Live at Five about their experiences in helping the University of Wisconsin to become the first college in history to capture both the men’s and women’s hockey national titles.(Video.)
MADISON, Wis. — The former University of Wisconsin vice chancellor accused of sexual harassment faced down those allegations at a hearing on Monday.
Diversity at Madison’s campus is driving away some employers that recruit students. Companies like Alcoa, General Motors and Proctor and Gamble say they don’t find enough minority students here.
The University says only 10-percent of its students identify themselves as minorities. In comparison, the University of Illiniois boasts a 32-percent minority population.
A plan to tune-up the University’s two unions won’t get the go-ahead until fall at the earliest. The Student Judiciary ruled late last night to nullify results of two referenda because the electronic voting system missed 436 votes.
After reliving the final moments of Saturday night’s big win, fans were pumped up and ready to greet their champion Badgers at the Kohl Center Sunday night.And while some of these fans may be getting their first taste of Badger victory, others are quick to remind you they’ve been here before.
When deciding where to apply to college, high-achieving high school seniors put the highest priority on the academic rigor of an institution and its reputation in their potential major, a survey released Monday says. The prestige of an institution, the clubs and activities on campus and close contact with faculty also rank high in importance, says the nationwide survey of 600 seniors, all of whom had SAT scores of 1100 and above.
If there is such a thing as the perfect storm in the college admissions process, it hit this year. Students applied to more colleges, and many schools received a record number of applications. At the same time, many high-achieving students zeroed in on the same selective institutions. The result: Admissions deans and their staffs made hair-splitting decisions and left many students and high school counselors stunned.
UW-Madison administrator Paul Barrows told a university appeals committee discipline he received for acts of sexual harassment and his use of leave were unwarranted. After 27 News reports on Barrows’ months of taxpayer-supported sick leave, an investigation determined the former Vice Chancellor should not been granted much of the leave.Ã?Â
CHICAGO ââ?¬â?? The global biotechnology industry will face many serious issues over the next year, ranging from ethical and regulatory fights to the rigors of engineering better biofuels and bioproducts. But few of those challenges will compare with what immediately confronts the 20,000 convention visitors at BIO ââ?¬â?¢06.
The University of Wisconsin has responded to public outcry and wisely reversed its decision to close its fertility clinic.
MILWAUKEE — The better team won. Everyone knows it, and no one knows it better than Jerry York.
Quoted: Marc Galanter, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin.
MILWAUKEE, April 8 ââ?¬â? The furious final 15 seconds left Mike Eaves, the Wisconsin men’s hockey coach, stressed and confused.
Boston College swarmed like gnats around the Badgers’ net, trying to tie the N.C.A.A. Frozen Four championship game Saturday night. Wisconsin goalie Brian Elliott might have been the only person at the Bradley Center who did not hear Peter Harrold’s desperation shot hit the right post with two seconds to play. It bounced away, leaving Wisconsin a 2-1 winner.
Quoted: Charles Jones, an emeritus professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Forward-thinking, civic-minded name-droppers at the respect-starved University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee are dog-tired of know-it-alls at a better-known Madison-based higher-learning uber-college and their smarter-than-thou self-importance.
And they think they know what the answer is.
Kill the hyphen.
UW-Madison will review a photo in Playboy magazine that features a campus fraternity, a spokesman said.
The UW Board of Regents on Friday gave the needed university approvals for a $150 million public/private hub for biomedical research at UW-Madison that planners say will be the first of its kind in the Midwest.
Quoted: Charles O. Jones, an emeritus political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
The UW Board of Regents on Friday fired a professor convicted of sending naked pictures of himself to a detective posing as a 14-year-old boy.
Another UW-Madison professor convicted of stalking a former girlfriend last year agreed to resign this week rather than fight to try to save his job, the school said Friday.
Maybe the biggest stir that John Morgridge ever caused among his employees as the famously frugal CEO of Cisco Systems was when he tried to take away their free soda.
MILWAUKEE – Move over, Detroit.
Madison is now Hockeytown, USA.
A rare public look at the inner workings of a UW-Madison staff disciplinary case will unfold today and Tuesday, as former vice chancellor Paul Barrows tries to overturn the university’s decision last fall to punish him over allegations that he harassed two women.
“We own college hockey.”
With those words, UW Athletic Director Barry Alvarez capped off a remarkable period in Badger history.
THUMBS UP: To University of Wisconsin alumni John and Tashia Morgridge, for their generosity to their alma mater. The Morgridges donated $50 million to the university to help build two research centers. Their money, along with $50 million from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, will help build the first phase of the Wisconsin Institutes of Discovery.
CULVER — Molly Engstrom, a 2001 graduate of the Culver Academies, realized her dream of playing ice hockey in the Olympics for Team USA. What she hadn’t dreamed was having to play on a fractured ankle.”I took a puck in the ankle two days before we were to leave for Italy,” said Engstom, who was the keynote speaker Sunday at the Culver Academies’ winter sports banquet. “There was talk of not taking me to the Olympics. But there was no way I was going to roll over.”
MADISON ââ?¬â? The University of Wisconsin-Madison will review a photo in Playboy magazine that features a campus fraternity, a spokesman said.
The full-page picture goes along with an article in which Playboy names UW-Madison its No. 1 party school.
Ã? After one of Ryan Huibregtse’s best friends committed suicide, his priorities as a college student changed and life took some unexpected turns.
During the better part of the tragic episode, the UW-Madison freshman disconnected with Madison and its people. He stopped functioning in school and quit his job with university food services.
Anne Reiland is ready to move on.Like her classmates, Anne feels an understandable excitement about the approaching culmination of her freshman year at UW-Madison, but a short conversation with this promising young woman is all it takes to reveal a deeper urge.
Critics call it violent, dangerous and senseless.But members of the top- ranked UW-Madison Badger Paintball Club say their sport is much more than a bunch of guys running through a haze of testosterone shooting each other with pigment.
Quoted: Dennis Dresang, a political science professor at UW-Madison.
A proud and storied Wisconsin men’s hockey program that spent the last 15 years in a championship wilderness has come in out of the cold. The Badgers won their sixth NCAA title but first since 1990 by beating Boston College 2-1 Saturday night.
The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System has fired a tenured professor who was convicted of sending naked photographs of himself to a detective posing as a teenage boy and has accepted the resignation of another professor who was found guilty of stalking a former girlfriend.
Alexandra Baldari and her parents have talked a good deal over the past year about how to pay for her college education, and the upshot is this: If she enrolls at the University of Miami in the fall, she will bear much of the cost, which could total $40,000 or more a year, on her own.
After reliving the final moments of Saturday night’s big win, fans were pumped up and ready to greet their champion Badgers at the Kohl Center Sunday night.
And while some of these fans may be getting their first taste of Badger victory, others are quick to remind you they’ve been here before.
They say to know where you’re going, you have to know where you’ve been.
We know where they’re going – to the national championship game.
But two loyal fans know where the Badger hockey program has been.
13 skaters – that’s how many Badgers were raised here in Wisconsin.
And without them, this season would have looked much different.
Jack Skille’s triple overtime goal against Cornell is just one of many moments made possible by a hometown boy.
Other teams honored at the White House were the University of Colorado men’s and women’s skiing team, the University of Florida men’s basketball team, the University of Wisconsin men’s cross country team, the University of Portland women’s soccer team, and the University of Washington women’s volleyball team.
PERHAPS IT’S TIME to hold public universities responsible for the bad behavior of their youthful charges. Don’t expect to earn number-one party school status, and be rewarded for it with more taxpayer money.
Don’t expect to make headlines about bad management and easy spending to prop up failed administrators, and have legislators fatten your wallet.The taxpayers of Wisconsin have provided hundreds of millions of dollars to the system as an investment in their children and the future of the state’s economy. That’s a serious matter. It should be treated seriously, not as a national party joke, or a piggybank for questionable administrators.
DURHAM, N.C., April 6 ââ?¬â? Duke University is widely considered one of the great success stories in higher education, having transformed itself from a respected regional university with a history of segregation into a selective research university on a par with the country’s most elite institutions.
But now as university officials grapple with accusations that three white members of the lacrosse team sexually assaulted a black woman, officials fear that the events could affect how many recently accepted students ââ?¬â? particularly women and blacks ââ?¬â? will enroll. They have scoured the e-mail messages that roughly 600 alumni have sent to monitor opinion. And they say they worry that everything they have accomplished across several decades could be at risk.
The Badger Mens Hockey team has made it into the NCAA championship game. They beat Maine with a score of 5 to 2 in the semifinal game on Thursday night at the Bradley Center in Milwaukee.
Marc and Helen Burish had been through this routine plenty of times before. For the last 18 years they’ve been packing up and heading off to watch their kids play hockey. But the last couple of weeks have been unlike anything they have ever experienced before
All of us at the College Board deeply regret the recent scoring problem on the SAT. When we found the scanning errors, we disclosed the problem as quickly and responsibly as possible to students, high schools, colleges and the news media.
Jake DeLillo recalls a rainy Saturday last October when he took the all-important SAT college admissions test at Yorktown High School in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. As captain of the lacrosse team there, DeLillo, 17, had been recruited by several colleges. Then his SAT scores came in lower than expected, and his options appeared to shrivel. DeLillo picked a college only to discover later that his SAT had been scored incorrectly ââ?¬â? 170 points shy of the accurate score.
A growing number of states are creating programs to aid human embryonic stem cell research in the absence of congressional support for the promising but controversial work. Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich, a Republican, signed a bill Thursday to spend $15 million for stem cell research. Maryland is the fifth state since 2004 to approve spending taxpayer money on such research. California, Connecticut, Illinois and New Jersey also have approved state-funded research programs. At least four other states are debating bills or ballot initiatives to promote stem cell research, says Alissa Johnson of the National Conference of State Legislatures.
The chairman of the board of Cisco Systems and his wife have donated $50-million for the proposed Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, which will include two new science centers to be built near the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and will include facilities for university research.
What’s it like to wake up sober at the No. 1 party school in America?
There are 13 of them, more than any other season in University of Wisconsin men’s hockey history. They are Wisconsin natives, guys who grew up in places like Antigo, Eau Claire, Hudson, La Crosse, Madison, Menomonie, Plover, Rice Lake, Sun Prairie and Wausau.
They are guys whose grew up following the Badgers, dreaming of the day they would pull on the Cardinal and White sweater and skate in front of their families and friends.
They are guys whose greatest desire is to give the Badgers their sixth NCAA championship, a task that begins tonight when they face Maine in the NCAA Frozen Four semifinals at the Bradley Center.
