Previously, a college football media guide could be as long as the imagination of a sports information director or as fat as the school’s budget. But the NCAA figured the ever-expanding books were becoming an out-of-control recruiting tool. So as a cost-cutting measure this year it limited the pages to 208.
The Senate is having trouble deciding how to approach the controversial issue of stem cell research using human embryos, dimming hopes of Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., and other supporters that a bill will pass before the summer recess begins Friday.
Ron Reschke’s boots were made for walkin’.
On April 29, the former firefighter who is now a courier for UW Hospital and Clinics, set out on a Walk to Heal to raise money for cancer research. On Friday, 12 weeks and 1,200 miles later, he returned to Madison to finish his trek wearing the same boots.
With walking poles in hand and music from members of the UW Marching Band in the air, Reschke was welcomed home with a celebration at the UW Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Some Madison gripes are eternal:
ââ?¬Å¡Ã?â??Ã?¢ There’s no place to park Downtown.
ââ?¬Å¡Ã?â??Ã?¢ UW-Madison students drink too much beer and get rowdy.
ââ?¬Å¡Ã?â??Ã?¢ Punk kids on State Street are acting strange and making grownups nervous.
Sound familiar?
It ought to. People in Madison have been saying the same thing for the last 150 years.
The SEIU has been a leader in innovations as they become more visible and aggressive in their tactics, said Chip Hunter, an associate professor in business at UW-Madison. Should they decide to secede, their vision of bottom-up organizing could become more commonplace, he said.
Young farmers have an un- flagging advocate in Dick Cates, a board member for the state Agriculture Department and a director of UW- Madison’s School for Beginning Dairy Farmers. Over the last 10 years, the school has trained Laskowski and some 200 other future farmers, including some who never grew up on a farm, Cates said.
With Bascom Hall to their backs and the state Capitol straight ahead, UW-Madison students at a rally Friday complained that they were being squeezed by tensions between lawmakers and university administrators.
“We’re trying to show that we’re squished in the middle,” said Dylan Rath, vice chairman of UW-Madison’s student government group, Associated Students of Madison.
The media and the politicians are having a field day with the Paul Barrows affair, but no one is asking why so many legislators really hate the university.
Questions have been raised about UW-Madison Provost Peter Spear and his role in passing judgement on former Vice Chancellor Paul Barrows
Outrage from lawmakers over paid leaves to former UW-Madison Vice Chancellor Paul Barrows and other top university executives has led Chancellor John Wiley to scrap a plan to give paid leave to UW-Madison Provost Peter Spear after Spear’s retirement to Arizona.
f your boss sent you an e- mail thanking you for your “hard work and dedicated service” in the past year, would you type “What a joke!” and hit reply? Or accuse the boss of being “less than sincere?”
Call it a sign of bravery, the protections of civil service or an indication of plummeting morale among state employees, but those are among the responses sent to Gov. Jim Doyle after he sent out “an open letter to state employees” last month.
Quoted: Sam Batzli, an assistant scientist with the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Environmental Remote Sensing Center.
Quoted: Norman Fost, who will argue that it’s unethical not to do research on children, and that current regulations are too strict. “The main problem is there’s not enough research,” says Fost, director of the bioethics program at the University of Wisconsin.
Public power and wastewater treatment plants throughout Wisconsin will remain state-owned and operated as a result of Gov. Jim Doyle�s veto of a controversial budget item calling for the privatization of such facilities.
MADISON – Gov. Jim Doyle said Thursday he will veto a provision in the Republican-crafted state budget that would force the state to cut 270 jobs at its power plants and either sell the facilities or let private contractors run them.
A University of Wisconsin-River Falls public safety officer will keep his job after he pleaded guilty last week to a felony stalking charge.
David Kuether, 45, River Falls, is accused of leaving Carmen Boortz 23 phone messages within 24 hours last December. Boortz, 45, also works at the university in the outreach and graduate studies office.
Brandon Gordon was a low-key New York City kid, his freshman roommate a Southern preppy boarding school grad who partied hard when he got to college. The year they spent living cheek-by-jowl in a Brown University dorm room produced few fond memories.
Quoted: Joanne Cantor, UW-Madison professor emerita of communication arts said.
Susan Kurien is apart of that group called the Consumer Law Litigation Clinic. She says, “part of what our clinic tries to do is help clients who don’t necessarily have the means to hire their own attorneys. Our flexibility here at the clinic is that we are a non profit.”
MILWAUKEE ââ?¬â?? When UW-Milwaukee Chancellor Carlos Santiago was provost at State University of New York at Albany, he was part of the team that created a $1 billion nanotechnology research center.
Santiago, who celebrated his first anniversary as chancellor last week, hopes to duplicate that public-private partnership at the state�s second largest university.
When former MVP-turned-tattle-tale Jose Canseco released his book of sensational steroid stories involving some of baseballââ?¬â?¢s biggest names, Congress, seizing the chance to prove ââ?¬Å?ethicsââ?¬Â was still in its lexicon, acted quickly to admonish the accused.
Democrats Russ Feingold and Herb Kohl of Wisconsin are among a majority of U.S. senators who support a bill to lift restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research.
We laud our senators’ efforts and urge them to fight hard in the coming weeks to ensure a vote. Attention to President Bush’s pick for the Supreme Court is no excuse for inaction.
JEFFERSON – The Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services announced today it is awarding a $59,959 grant to Jefferson County for a project that will promote early identification of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.
Memory Care Connections projects are operating in partnership with the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Institute at the University of Wisconsin Medical School
Quoted: Raymond Fonck of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, a member of the ITER design team
Companies that are trying to justify RFID investment wholly on the basis of anticipated savings in labor, operational efficiencies, and shrinkage in their supply chain are merely deluding themselves. In fact, if a company does find significant opportunities in these areas, it means that gross inefficiencies exist in its operations, and that the company can achieve major improvements even without applying RFID.
UW-Madison researchers will be leading a five-year effort to coax new cancer treatments from the natural world.
The program, funded by a $5.6 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, will draw on the university’s traditional strengths in chemistry and biology but leverage them in an unprecedented way, said Ben Shen, a UW-Madison professor of chemistry and pharmaceutical science who will lead the group.
Noted: Frank Turkheimer, professor at University of Wisconsin Law School;
UW-Madison’s resident Watergate scandal expert vowed to fight a disorderly conduct charge filed against him Wednesday for allegedly threatening to blow up the office of his health insurance provider over a billing dispute.
Quoted: Dhavan Shah, a professor of journalism and mass communications and political science at UW-Madison.
Galdi, who will be a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said her goal is to earn a degree in dairy science and business. She would then like to go to law school and pursue a career in estate planning with an emphasis on agricultural law.
Quoted: Patty Loew, an associate professor who teaches American Indian issues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: A study that tracked 12,000 graduates, a University of Wisconsin-Madison Science of Sociology masters thesis by Katherine McCoy.
Quoted: Barry Orton, a professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle was right to veto millions of dollars in cuts to the University of Wisconsin System made by Republicans who control the Legislature.
Stem cell research has been a popular and divisive topic for several years. With the Assembly�s recent approval of Assembly Bill 499, the issue has become even more heated in Wisconsin.
Quoted: Joe Lauer, a UW-Madison agronomy professor.
If you find yourself trying a new frozen breakfast/snack product someday – cute little mini-granola shells filled with yogurt and topped with fresh fruit – you’ll have Rachel Prososki and her trusty team of food science students to thank.
Last weekend, for the sixth time in eight years, the team representing the University of Wisconsin-Madison competed in the finals of the Student Product Development Competition sponsored by the Institute of Food Technologists.
There are several groups in the region working to protect and restore the endangered Karner blue butterfly. Now these efforts could be helped by a new computer mapping and statistical modeling technique. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Chuck Quirmbach has more. (Audio.)
UW Hospital and Clinics announces big plans for Madison’s east side.
The hospital plans to buy land for the future development of a medical services complex.
Federal funds for academic research rose by 13.1 percent in 2003, the second straight year of double-digit increases, the National Science Foundation reported on Wednesday. The growth, coupled with a continuing drop in funds from industry, fueled an increase in the federal share of academic-research money to nearly 62 percent, its highest level since 1985.
I am an addict. And I�m not alone. There is a new addiction plaguing college campuses: online gambling.
In one case that briefly captivated national attention about student gambling in June 2003, a student at the University of Wisconsin murdered three roommates because he owed them thousands in gambling debts.
Parents are famous for asking teens who claim that all their friends are doing X whether the kids would join their friends if the friends walked off a cliff. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s answer to that question is “you bet.” The problem for UWM is that state taxpayers don’t like that answer any more than a parent would.
MADISON, Wis. ââ?¬â? Saying he wants to keep a college education affordable, Gov. Jim Doyle pledged Tuesday to use his veto pen to return $43 million in funding to the University of Wisconsin System and student financial aid above what Republican lawmakers approved this month.
Last week another bulls-eye was painted on the UW System’s back when it was revealed that four University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee administrators have received more than $600,000 in salaries after they were granted year-long leaves when they resigned from their administrative positions.
MADISON ââ?¬â? Lawmakers voted Tuesday to freeze the pay of top administrators in the University of Wisconsin System until UW leaders come up with a plan to address controversial personnel policies.
The Legislature’s Joint Committee on Employment Relations held up pay raises for more than 30 top University of Wisconsin System administrators until the Board of Regents, which runs the system, responds to controversies over long, costly paid leaves given a few staff and faculty members.
UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley defended the practice of providing top university executives with back up positions, in the event of a demotion, resignation or firing.
“Those people need some place to return to, they also have mortgages,” said Wiley. “You can’t get anyone to take a job like that if they don’t have a job to return to, if they are suddenly terminated.”
Gov. Jim Doyle announced Tuesday that he would use his veto power to provide nearly $50 million more in funding for students and staff in the University of Wisconsin System than had been approved by the Republican-controlled Legislature.
(AP) — Two years ago, when twins Ruth and Amanda Leppard decided to live at home while attending the nearby University of Central Florida, the whole family got together to talk about what would — and wouldn’t — change from high school
The joint committee on employment relations signed off on contracts for UW faculty and staff…as well as some non-represented state employees. UW Library Sciences professor Louise Robbins told lawmakers they would only be able to “tread water.”
O’Neil Walker is one of a small number of black students at Middlebury College in Vermont. He was scheduled to graduate this summer, but was suspended after Middlebury said he violated the school’s behavior code. Nina Keck reports.
MADISON, Wis. — The UW System is reaching out to lawmakers on the state’s Joint Finance Committee after a News 3 investigation into a new system-wide computer project.
(MADISON) Public vaccinations helped stem the spread of certain childhood diseases. Now, some health experts think it may be time for a similar concerted effort to help kids to trim down. Tuesday night (7/19), the University of Wisconsin Medical School is holding a free public seminar entitled ââ?¬Å?Confronting the Childhood Obesity Epidemic.ââ?¬Â
Local political experts, fearing a brutal Senate confirmation battle, expressed relief at President Bush’s choice of relative judicial newcomer John G. Roberts Jr. as his Supreme Court nominee Tuesday night.
“I’m just delighted,” said UW-Madison law professor emeritus Gordon Baldwin. “It’s better than my expectations.”
Gov. Jim Doyle will use his veto pen to restore $43 million of funding he proposed for the University of Wisconsin System and student financial aid after Republican lawmakers reduced both in the budget they approved this month.
Doyle on Tuesday also pledged to eliminate a requirement for nonunion state employees – including university faculty members and staff – to contribute 1.5 percent of their salaries toward their pensions.
University of Wisconsin System faculty will get a 5 percent raise over the next two years – along with many other state employees – but administrators won’t get a penny more until System officials “get their act together” regarding questionable compensation and leave policies, lawmakers said Tuesday.
“I think the university doesn’t quite get how ticked off elected officials are in this state about what we’ve been reading in the last month,” Assembly Speaker John Gard, R-Peshtigo, said before a legislative committee that sets pay levels for state employees. The committee later voted to deny the raises to administrators until the university completes an internal investigation.
Quoted: John Stier, turf expert at the UW-Madison’s O.J. Noer Center for Turfgrass Research.
MADISON – Before Congress takes its traditional August break, the Senate may help decide the future of federal support for human embryonic stem cell research. Let’s hope a scientifically sound and ethical resolution is reached – and that states such as Wisconsin follow the lead.
The head of the Assembly’s higher education committee said he is drafting a bill that would ban schools in the University of Wisconsin System from granting administrators paid leave after they resign and from guaranteeing them backup jobs.
UW-Madison officials refused to release records to 27 News on a student’s claims about the actions of former Vice Chancellor Paul Barrows.
Last month, UW-Madison officials said Barrows’ failed relationship with the student was part of the reason for his seven months of paid leave.
