Quoted: Ed Jesse, professor and extension agriculture policy specialist for the Department of Agriculture and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Getting out of the red (MJS)
Duluth News
Author: jplucas
Analysis: Dark days at the White House
Seattle Times
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin political science professor.
Black enrollment up at U-M (Detroit News)
The percentage of African-Americans among incoming freshmen at the University of Michigan increased 27 percent this fall, rebounding from a dramatic drop after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling prompted changes in its application process.
Yale bans drinking games at Harvard-Yale game
CNN.com
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (AP) — Yale is banning drinking games from this year’s football game against Harvard and will shut down all tailgate parties after halftime — a move some alumni say could put a damper on one of college football’s oldest and most storied rivalries.
Arrested Student Speaks About Halloween
NBC-15
“A police officer came up, grabbed me and said that I’d thrown rocks at police officers.”
That was the beginning of a long night for then UW sophomore Afsheen Foroozan.
Foroozan says the officer who took him in was wrong … he was actually throwing tennis balls, that were part of his costume.
State Street Stretch
NBC-15
Dale Morris will be among the madness on Madison’s State Street Saturday night where he says he’ll drink some beer.
“Within reason, you know, cuz it gets pretty crazy around here you gotta keep on your toes,” he explains.
Businesses Prepare for Halloween
WKOW-TV 27
Halloween is just 2 nights away and businesses are bracing for another round of partying on Saturday night, a night that has typically erupted into riots, looting, and windows being smashed in years past.
Student-Investors Get More Money
Wisconsin Public Radio
(MADISON) The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents recently voted to allow a group of students to handle more than 30 million dollars of investments on behalf of the University. Itââ?¬â?¢s a hands-on experiment that they hope will be a good — and profitable — learning experience.
The Spookiest Places (Forbes)
Forbes
Quoted: Joanne Cantor, from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Grocery chain banishes ‘Seventeen’ for ‘Vagina 101’ story (AP)
Quoted: Scott Spear, a University of Wisconsin professor of pediatrics who chairs Planned Parenthood’s national medical committee.
City wants best deal when cable contract renewed (Fond du Lac Reporter)
Quoted: Barry Orton, a professor of telecommunications at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Madison takes unprecedented measures to prepare for Halloween (AP)
Duluth News
MADISON, Wis. – They’re banning guests in the dormitories, restricting access to downtown, and staffing the most police officers for an event in Madison’s history.
Augmented reality brings a new dimension to learning
Wisconsin Technology Network
Madison, Wis. – Kurt Squire, an assistant professor at the UW-Madison School of Education, hopes to bring a new dimension to education and learning with “augmented reality” games, which combine aspects of physical activity, traditional reading and math problems, and video-game simulations.
UW-Madison tries to put kibosh on Halloween bash (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
Star Tribune
Slamming the door in the face of eager trick-or-treaters, officials in Madison, Wis., have a message for would-be-revelers from Minnesota headed to this weekend’s giant Halloween bash: STAY AWAY!
In a chilly message sent to colleges and universities in surrounding states, the University of Wisconsin-Madison warns that “out-of-town guests are not welcome” this weekend and that they will be barred from the school’s residence halls.
Long-Time UW-Madison Dairy Scientist, Palmer, Dies (Wisconsin Ag Connection)
Wisconsin Ag Connection
An associate professor of dairy science and dairy systems management extension specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has died. Roger Palmer passed away on Monday at his home. He was 62 years old.
State St. revelers will be warned
Wisconsin State Journal
Halloween revelers on State Street shouldn’t be scared when a cheerful, disembodied voice loudly proclaims an end to festivities this weekend.
“Thank you for attending the Halloween event,” the voice will nicely, but authoritatively, say via loudspeakers. “The city of Madison thanks you for your patronage of the State Street area and wishes you safe travel to your next destination. Please begin moving out of the State Street area so cleanup crews can prepare the area for tomorrow’s business day.”
Engineering Degree Now Available At UW Rock County
WKOW-TV 27
College students in Rock County will no longer have to leave the area to receive a bachelor’s degree in engineering.
A special ceremony marked the beginning of a collaboration between UW Rock County and UW Plateville Wednesday.
New Interactive Kiosk of Badger History Available
UWBadgers.com
MADISON, Wis. – Would you like to see video of the Rose Bowl in 1963 or the first women’s basketball sellout? How about a breath-taking run from the career of Crazylegs Hirsch or the graceful running style of Suzy Favor-Hamilton? Do you want to test your knowledge of Badger Athletics and perhaps enjoy a video salute to the UW Band or Bucky Badger?
Closing the Doors
WKOW-TV 27
UW-Madison has already said guests won’t be allowed in residences halls this weekend, and privately owned complexes are taking the University’s lead.
One company told 27 News, that it is actually requiring it’s residents wear wrist bands this weekend. Students in the privately owned residence halls are required to put those wrist bands on by noon Thursday.
A Halloween Plan is in Place
NBC-15
This intersection, along with plenty others in this area, will be blocked to traffic, starting at about seven on Saturday night.
And if State Street gets too crowded … police will use those barricades to keep pedestrians out, too.
Adelman Travel’s Camp Randall Office Ignited Controversy
WKOW-TV 27
As a federal investigation into the state’s current contract with Milwaukee-based Adelman Travel Systems continues, a former state senator told 27 News similar questions about the propriety of Adelman’s affiliation with a state entity were raised twelve years ago.
In 1993, UW-Madison officials took the unprecedented step of leasing UW Athletic Department office space inside Camp Randall to Adelman to serve as the department’s in-house agency.
Government Flu Preparedness in Doubt (WPR)
Wisconsin Public Radio
(MADISON) A national survey shows doctors believe the federal government is very unprepared to deal with an avian bird flu pandemic that has killed more than 60 people worldwide. A researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison thinks the U.S. is ready, but adds that no country may be able to cope if the outbreak is widespread and resists treatment.
Tech Colleges to Be Workhorses of New Economy
www.wisbusiness.com
MADISON ââ?¬â?? Wisconsinââ?¬â?¢s technical colleges are a ââ?¬Å?secret weaponââ?¬Â for economic development, cranking out more than 20,000 graduates annually, nearly 90 percent of whom stay and work in the Badger State.
That was the thrust of a talk by two of Wisconsin�s technical college leaders who spoke Tuesday at a Wisconsin Innovation Network luncheon
Dumb and Dumber (Inside Higher Ed)
Inside Higher Education
By mid-October, the leaves on campus are turning, homecoming games are being celebrated, and ââ?¬â? at any number of colleges ââ?¬â? bigotry in one form or another hurts some students deeply.
The Compleat Conductor
Wisconsin State Journal
In his rented lodgings on the UW-Madison campus, Gunther Schuller leans over a card table with a dictionary and a magnifying glass to work on his autobiography the same way he would approach a piece of music as a conductor: with painstaking, meticulous attention to what’s on the printed page and adherence to the well-researched facts.
Secret state data resurfaces
Wisconsin State Journal
onfidential information on minors in the state’s Child Protective Services program has surfaced on a computer hard drive in Nigeria, and state officials say they can’t account for how the data got there.
Marquis said specs on the Nigerian hard drive didn’t match the Health and Family Services Department’s general equipment records, records of machines used by the former employee or old computers sent to UW-Madison’s SWAP surplus shop to be sold or scrapped.
‘The fire of justice is burning’
Wisconsin State Journal
Mukhtar Mai of Pakistan, who some credit with exposing a feudal justice system that sanctions rape and murder, will tell her story Friday from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Red Gym on the UW- Madison campus.
Frightening experience (South Bend, Ind. Tribune)
Quoted: Joanne Cantor, a University of Wisconsin communications professor emerita who has studied the effects of mass media on children for 25 years.
The Increasingly Private Public School (The Nation)
Yahoo! News
They call it a public institution and it sounds like one from its name, but 92 percent of the money to run the University of Virginia comes from private sources. At the University of Michigan the figure is 82 percent; at the University of Illinois a mere 75 percent. The privatization of the nation’s greatest, once-public institutions of higher learning is well under way.
Quoted: Katharine Lyall, president emeritus of the University of Wisconsin.
Wisconsin combats Big Ten Halloween parties (Indiana Daily Student)
Indiana Daily Student
Students making the trip north to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the Halloween weekend festivities might want to think twice about putting on that French maid or Mario costume.
A recent letter from the Dean of Students office at Wisconsin to all the Big Ten schools states the implementation of two policies that will be carried out this weekend in an effort to discourage out-of-town students from attending the annual bash.
Madison booed; Milwaukee hosts Halloween bash (The UWM Post)
While out-of-town guests are not welcome at the University of Wisconsin for Halloween events this coming weekend, Milwaukee is offering a 1930s- and �40s-themed party with drinks, music, celebrities and more.
Groups go to court over wiretap rule for Internet calls (AP)
WASHINGTON — A new federal regulation making it easier for law enforcement to tap Internet phone calls is being challenged in court.
Privacy and technology groups asked the federal appeals court in Washington on Tuesday to overturn a Federal Communications Commission rule that expands wiretapping laws to cover Internet calls — or Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP).
Need a study boost? Try an espresso (The Daily Northwestern)
Quoted: Eric Heiligstein, director of clinical psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin.
Students Speculate On Halloween Enforcement
WISC-TV 3
MADISON, Wis. — Details about Madison’s police enforcement this Halloween weekend will be out Wednesday.
This year police haven’t tipped their hat as to exactly which type of enforcement will be used, only that it will be stepped up.
School on Cutting Edge of Socially-Minded Ethics (WPR)
Wisconsin Public Radio
(MADISON) The University of Wisconsin-Madison Business School ranks among the world�s top schools for offering classes on social and environmental issues. The newly- developed classes teach students about the human costs of doing business. (Second item.)
NCAA may reward programs. Schools could get $100,000 for high performance rates
USA Today
The NCAA is drawing up a groundbreaking incentives program that could award schools up to $100,000 for scoring high in a new measure of athletes’ academic performance. Teams with lofty academic performance rates (APRs) also would be recognized with plaques and possibly uniform patches.
Please, do NOT riot in Madison (Minnesota Daily)
Two years ago, I wrote a satirical column about moving our University�s homecoming to Madison during Halloween weekend. I sarcastically suggested that we teach Wisconsin a thing or two about rioting, considering the crazy hockey riots Minnesota hosted at the time and the weak rioting Madison experienced the year before.
Woman confesses in killing
Wisconsin State Journal
Police would not say how the victim and Sidoff became acquainted. However, they may have met in Madison, where Sidoff worked for the past four years at UW Hospital as a nursing assistant in the psychiatry in-patient unit. Sturzenegger was a patient there, Linda Brei, vice president of public affairs, confirmed Monday.
Bioscience betters beer
Wisconsin State Journal
Slide that beer down the counter and make way for the stem cells.
A report shows bioscience research and industry provide jobs for more than 26,000 people in Wisconsin and add more than $6.9 billion to the state’s economy.
Party hardly: UAlbany gets help to shed party animal image – Albany (Albany Business Review)
MSNBC.com
Jason Zogg has a nightmare scenario in his mind, and it makes him both angry and scared.
He has earned his degree from the state University at Albany. He is seeking a job. An employer has narrowed his choices to Zogg and another new college grad. Both job candidates have virtually the same qualifications, work experience and academic background.
Halloween House Party Crack-Down Coming
WISC-TV 3
MADISON, Wis. — Madison police are putting a new emphasis on fighting house parties in an effort to curb Halloween rioting and violence.
Patrols for parties have been substantially increased to nearly 400 officers. This includes doubling the number of teams looking for house parties.
Some business and IT majors in high demand (Minnesota Daily)
Quoted: Judy Symon Hanson, assistant director of international programs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business, said business majors are becoming more attentive to the fact that business itself in increasingly global.
Engaging the Public (Inside Higher Ed)
Inside Higher Education
Quoted: Sean Carroll, a genetics professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison,
Dems hold emergency contraception hearing in Oshkosh (Oshkosh Northwestern)
Three Madison-based, Democratic state legislators held a hearing at the Oshkosh Public Library on a bill that would require hospitals to inform rape victims about the availability emergency contraception and provide victims with the drug at their request.
Reedsville farmers receive UW recognition (Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter)
MANITOWOC ââ?¬â?? Rosalie and Randy Geiger of Reedsville will receive a prestigious honor Thursday for decades of work as dairy industry leaders in Wisconsin.
The couple will travel to Madison to accept the Honorary Recognition Award from the University of Wisconsin College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, during a banquet in the Memorial Union on the UW-Madison campus.
For Some College Graduates, a Fanciful Detour (or Two) Before Their Careers Begin
New York Times
Laurie Heckman worked as a whitewater rafting guide in Colorado. Steve Wiener has been crisscrossing the country in a large van, taking international tourists to see major cities and national parks.
Zach Carson bought a small bus, converted the engine to run on recycled vegetable oil and is touring the country promoting alternative fuels.
Building a buzz on campus (The Boston Globe)
Boston Globe
During lunch at Boston University, five girls ogled a 6-foot-7 blond senior with a winning smile and high cool-quotient as he approached their table. He was cute, they agreed. But equally intriguing was his pitch.
Madison Prepares for Halloween Celebration
NBC-15
Madison: For three consecutive years the annual State Street Halloween party has ended when police used pepper spray to disperse an out of control mob.
UW Lays Down New Rules For Halloween Weekend
WISC-TV 3
MADISON, Wis. — The UW is doing what it can to crack down on security this Halloween weekend.
Many of the measures are unprecedented but warranted due to recent years of Halloween rioting and violence.
Bare-minimum diet: Is long life the payoff?
USA Today
Khurram Hashmi has drastically cut the calories he consumes ââ?¬â? eating mostly salads and raw vegetables ââ?¬â? in the hopes of living a longer, better life. But he’s hungry almost all the time.
ââ?¬Å?That’s something for me that has never gone away, but it is easier to accept now,ââ?¬Â says Hashmi, 37. He says he used to cheat, but not anymore. The hunger tells him that the diet’s working, he says.
ââ?¬Å?It is the only nutritional regimen thought to retard aging,ââ?¬Â says Richard Weindruch at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His studies have suggested that middle-aged mice can start the diet and still get the longevity benefit.
Lectures on the Go
Chronicle of Higher Education
Take your typical college student ââ?¬â? bright, curious, but probably a bit sleep-deprived and short on attention span. Stick that student in a lecture hall with a professor droning on for 50 minutes about macroeconomics or teleology. Then give the student a laptop with wireless access to the Internet, which lets him or her furtively chat with friends via instant-messenger software.
Centenarians increase in age and numbers
USA Today
Quoted: Richard Weindruch at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
A whirlwind’s winning ways: Donna Shalala (U.S. News)
U.S. News and World Report
In 1988, as one of her first acts as the new chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Donna Shalala convened a get-to-know-you meeting with student government leaders. Suddenly, the meeting was crashed by Black Student Union leaders angry about the tiny share of minorities in the student and faculty population as well as offensive actions by some fraternity members.
Students manage a true ‘trust’ fund
Wisconsin State Journal
Twenty students at UW- Madison have more than $40 million in their hands.
It may sound like they won the lottery, but in truth, it’s just part of their education – to invest more money than most of us will ever see.
After tornado, Wis. counties take new hit (The Boston Globe)
Boston Globe
QUoted: Ken Mayer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
UW-Madison sees more diverse freshmen (Wausau Daily Herald)
Wausau Daily Herald
Souriya Vong Vang chose to attend the University of Wisconsin-Madison this fall because it was affordable. But now that he has about two months of his freshman year complete, Vang said UW’s diverseness makes the school a good fit.
“Every single day when you walk about, you seen new faces all of the time. Not just different races, but it’s just the sheer amount of people here that makes this place so great,” said Vang, 19, who is a graduate of Wausau East High School.
Online college directory grows; officials urge caution (Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune)
Eighteen-year-old Cindy Barton sat on a thin desk chair and guided her mouse across a flashing computer screen in her dorm room at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
South Korean teachers, Howard-Suamico students learn from each other (Green Bay Press-Gazette)
Green Bay Press-Gazette
Sixteen-year-old Carly Terral giggles as she wraps the hand-embroidered scarlet skirt around her. Her classmates shout supportive suggestions ââ?¬â? ââ?¬Å?tie it around the frontââ?¬Â ââ?¬â? as she struggles to knot the long dangling ribbons of the outfit, known in South Korea as ââ?¬Å?hanbok.ââ?¬Â
Quoted: Sandra Arfa, the director of the English as a Second Language program at UW-Madison.
Nicotine on the brain
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: Timothy Baker, associate director of UW-Madison’s Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
Madison not inviting (The UW-Eau Claire Spectator)
Callie Larson was one of 80,000 people who celebrated Halloween in Madison last year just as she had done the previous two years. However, this year the UW-Eau Claire junior said she plans to stay put.