University of Wisconsin President Kevin Reilly has asked the Board of Regents to re-examine a decision made by UW-Stout Chancellor Charles Sorensen to reject bringing ROTC to campus.
Author: jplucas
Readers strongly agree: Dropping Elvehjem name wrong
Capital Times
They didn’t waste any time.
The new Chazen banners are already in place and the old stone wall honoring Conrad Elvehjem has already been cut up and the segment with Elvehjem’s name has been removed. The stone bench with Elvehjem’s name has also been removed from an outside entrance.
Reader responses
Capital Times
Here is a sampler of the reactions to the University of Wisconsin renaming its art museum from the Elvehjem Museum of Art to the Chazen Museum of Art. The total responses – 142 against the name change, six for it – have been edited for length and grammar, but not for opinion.
Mayor seeks urgent Halloween power
Wisconsin State Journal
It’s closer to Independence Day than All Hallows Eve, but Madison is considering some strong measures to prevent another Halloween melee this fall.
The unofficial Halloween celebration on State Street has become violent and been broken up by police in the early morning for three straight years.
Baggott: Report details UW’s diversity
Wisconsin State Journal
There are several ways to measure the growth of the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department in recent years, but perhaps the most telling is the size of its staff.
National TABOR campaign hinging on Colorado (Rocky Mountain News)
Anti-tax activists will descend on the Jefferson Hotel in Richmond, Va., next month, for a two-day “TABOR Summit.”
Security for controversial professor higher than fee (AP)
Duluth News
WHITEWATER, Wis. – Security for controversial Colorado professor Ward Churchill cost more than the price of bringing him to the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater campus, according to new UW figures.
Retire? Not So Fast (Forbes.com)
Forbes
Quoted: John Karl Scholz, an economics professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Stout to give ROTC 2nd look (St. Paul Pioneer-Press)
St. Paul Pioneer Press
The president of the University of Wisconsin System on Thursday resurrected a proposed Army ROTC program at UW-Stout that had been rejected by the Menomonie school’s chancellor.
The decision by President Kevin P. Reilly to resume discussion of the program was welcomed by three Republican lawmakers from western Wisconsin who had complained about the decision not to offer ROTC.
`Star Wars’ a PG-13 dilemma (San Jose Mercury-News)
Quoted: Joanne Cantor, professor emerita of communication and psychology, University of Wisconsin.
Major gain in cloning of human embryos (AP)
South Korean scientists have dramatically sped up the creation of human embryonic stem cells, growing 11 new batches that for the first time were genetic matches for injured or sick patients.
It is a major advancement in the quest to grow patients’ own replacement tissue to treat diseases.
Quoted: Norm Fost, a medical ethicist and professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Keefe UWO’s 18million-dollar man (Oshkosh Northwestern)
Some might crack. But you get the impression Tom Keefe isn�t freaking out with his $11.7 million to, say, $18 million assignment at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.
Jensen proposing UW-Waukesha, UW-Milwaukee merger study (Waukesha Freeman)
Greater Milwaukee Today
WAUKESHA – A study to merge the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus with the UW-Waukesha campus is scheduled to be proposed today by state Rep. Scott Jensen, R-town of Brookfield.
South Korean Scientists Produce Stem Cells by Cloning Human Embryos
Chronicle of Higher Education
Scientists in South Korea have developed a reliable technique for generating lines of human stem cells from cloned human embryos, opening up a new avenue for studying diseases and possibly for treating or curing them.
UW Hmong Language Courses Popular (WPR)
Wisconsin Public Radio
(MADISON) A national program on southeast Asian cultures says its Hmong language courses are growing in popularity. While the upper Midwest has seen thousands of new immigrants from Laos and Thailand pour in during the last year, a program coordinator says most participants are actually first-generation Hmong-Americans.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has regularly hosted the Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute since 2000.
Koreans shake up stem cell creation
USA Today
South Korean researchers Thursday announced the creation of 11 custom-made cloned stem cell lines, made for the first time from the skin cells of child and adult patients. The advance is considered a significant refinement of the controversial stem cell technology that opens the door wider for future treatment of such diseases as juvenile diabetes and Parkinson’s.
Bringing books to life (The Sampson, N.C. Independent)
WARSAW – Mrs. Gail Bell’s Honors English III class at James Kenan High School witnessed an unusual occurrence on Tuesday; Dr. Timothy Tyson, associate professor at the University of Wisconsin Madison came to visit them.
U.S. Calls Its Last Witness in Tobacco Companies Trial
New York Times
Quoted: Michael C. Fiore, a medical professor and director of the Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention at the University of Wisconsin Medical School who underwent seven hours of cross-examination over two days by Ted Wells, a lawyer for Philip Morris.
Infant had severe injuries (Appleton Post-Crescent)
Quoted: Dr. Gregory Hollman, pediatric intensive care physician with University of Wisconsin Children�s Hospital.
Academic Groups Call on Federal Government to Ease the Path for Foreign Students and Scholars
Chronicle of Higher Education
A large group of academic associations is urging the federal government to take more action to welcome international students, researchers, and scholars to the United States by overhauling the visa process and taking other steps to remove hurdles to foreigners.
2 Activist Groups That Have Attacked Research Labs Are Major Terrorist Threats, Senators Are Told
Chronicle of Higher Education
Attacks by two extremist groups, one of which has been tied to numerous acts of vandalism against research facilities at universities, are growing in both frequency and size and represent one of the most serious domestic-terrorism threats today, federal law-enforcement officials told a Senate panel on Wednesday.
Brain Drain, Part 2 (WSAW-TV)
The job outlook for college graduates is much better now than it was a few years ago. But Wisconsin businesses still face challenges in getting those graduates to work in our state.
Even though many Wisconsin students in UW schools will stay in state for their first jobs…many others will leave the state to begin their careers.
Brain Drain Part 1 (WSAW-TV)
Many Wisconsin cities hope college graduates will stay in the state to start their careers, but that’s not always a guarantee, as many will hit the road, and it’s causing cities, businesses, and colleges to take a closer look at this phenomenon known as the “brain drain”.
“Being a business major is so broad, you can pretty much do a ton of different things,” says UWSP senior David Savides. That’s also how his job search has been over the last few months: broad.
University of California Faulted on Hiring of Women
New York Times
A new report by four professors at the University of California, Davis, has found that despite an unusual hiring wave and a steady increase in the number of women in the Ph.D. applicant pool, the University of California still lags in hiring women.
Athletic Dept. Senior Staff Re-Aligned
UWBadgers.com
MADISON, Wis. – Director of Athletics Barry Alvarez announced Wednesday that current Assistant Athletic Director Terry Gawlik will be promoted to his Senior Staff with oversight duties for 13 sports. Gawlik will also assume Senior Woman Administrator (SWA) duties. (Athletic Communication)
Smith: So much for that separation thing
Wisconsin State Journal
Tuesday’s hearing on the “conscience bill,” designed to protect pharmacists from birth control pills, featured a Catholic UW-Madison pharmacy student who had “sleepless nights” trying to decide whether to continue in pharmacy school after he learned – on the Internet, no less – that birth control pills can destroy fertilized eggs. He wants the government to protect his religious right to refuse to give out drugs that doctors prescribe for patients.
I find all of this concern for my eggs touching; it makes me want to break out into the old Monty Python song, “Every Sperm Is Sacred.”
UW SPORTS: Gawlik promoted to replace Bailey
Wisconsin State Journal
The pending departure of Cheryl Bailey from the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department’s senior staff has led to one promotion, a series of behind-the-scenes assignment changes and a smaller management team.
Terry Gawlik has been promoted from assistant athletic director to associate AD, effective July 1. She takes over as senior women’s administrator, replacing Bailey, a long-time senior associate AD who announced her resignation last month effective Aug. 31.
Capitol should ditch its dirt to prevent rot
Wisconsin State Journal
That’s the advice from Brian Hudelson, of UW-Madison’s Plant Disease Diagnostics Clinic, who pinpointed the bulb rot penicillium that claimed a third of the Square’s tulips this spring.
Graduates fear debt more than terrorism
USA Today
The generation that came of age after Sept. 11, 2001, fears college debt and joblessness more than another terrorist attack. That’s according to a new survey of college seniors and graduates of the class of 2005, most of whom were just weeks into their college careers that fateful Tuesday.
Student Admits Role In Burglaries To Get Copies Of Exams
Wisconsin State Journal
A UW-Madison mechanical engineering senior admitted being involved in three burglaries of his physics professor’s office to find copies of exams, according to charges filed Monday in Dane County Circuit Court.
A UW-Madison official called it the worst example of cheating she has seen at the school.
Baggot: Badgers’ model coach is Nuttycombe
Wisconsin State Journal
There are thousands of ways to illustrate the volatile nature of coaching at the major college level, but this one just came across my desk:
The University of Wisconsin is in the process of hiring its 10th head coach since 2000. That’s half of its current lineup (20 coaches for 23 programs). That’s a lot of turnover in a pretty short period of time.
Professor testifies on anti-smoking plans (Reuters)
Wisconsin State Journal
Cigarette-makers should pay for a $130 billion program of counseling and free medication for smokers who want to quit, an addiction expert testified yesterday in the trial of the government’s racketeering suit against U.S. tobacco companies.
Professor Michael C. Fiore, an expert in treating nicotine addiction who teaches at the University of Wisconsin Medical School, said that the plan would cost $5.2 billion a year for 25 years and would be open to all 47 million smokers in the United States.
Life changes (San Diego Union-Tribune)
San Diego Union-Tribune
It was a true eureka moment. The discovery two decades ago of a similar set of genes in fruit flies, mice and humans was both startling and unifying.
Up to that point, biologists believed that diverse animals use diverse tool kits to build their bodies. With the discovery of so-called homeobox genes, it became clear there is but one.
Interview with Sean Carroll, a professor of genetics at the University of Wisconsin,
Opinions collide on pharmacy morals bill
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Madison – With a diploma in hand and a career as a pharmacist set to begin, Matt Thill wants to be sure he won’t be held back because of his religious beliefs.
Last week, Thill, 24, graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison pharmacy school. On Tuesday, he told a legislative committee Tuesday that he supports a bill that he says would protect his right to object on moral grounds to dispensing certain medications, including birth control pills and other hormonal medications that might interfere with pregnancy.
Alzheimer’s drug market to hit $5.5 billion by 2009, study says
Wisconsin Technology Network
Quoted: A study by UW-Madison researcher Jeff Johnson that identified an amino acid-peptide sequence that encourages a protective response in the brain against Alzheimer’s.
SE Wisconsin hopes its biotech industry will rival Madison’s
www.wisbusiness.com
WAUWATOSA ââ?¬â?? Individually, each of the four major building projects underway on the Milwaukee Regional Medical Center campus and the neighboring Milwaukee County Research Park is impressive.
Wardens’ mileage policy criticized
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Regents President Toby Marcovich said in an interview that he would ask University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly to review the most cost-effective way to provide chancellors with cars after questions about a $700 monthly stipend the 15 chancellors and Reilly now receive.
The vehicle allowance for chancellors, set in August, was disclosed this month in an audit that legislators reviewed Tuesday during a public hearing.
NSF Honors 9 Academics for Service as Mentors in Science, Math, and Engineering
Chronicle of Higher Education
The National Science Foundation on Monday announced the winners of the 2004 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring.
The individual recipients include Jeffrey S. Russell, a professor of engineering at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
At Marquette, Hawks Don’t Fly and Gold Doesn’t Glitter
New York Times
In Greek mythology, the Golden Age was a time without war, property or labor. Gentle breezes rendered clothes unnecessary. Death came as painless as a catnap. At Marquette University, the Gold Age lasted about a week, and it was not quite as serene.
Embattled professor submits report
CNN.com
DENVER, Colorado (AP) — A University of Colorado professor facing possible dismissal after being accused of plagiarism and lying about his American Indian heritage denied the allegations again in a report he submitted Monday to a committee investigating his actions.
Interactive ‘clickers’ transform classrooms (AP)
CNN.com
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (AP) — Professor Ross Cheit put it to the students in his “Ethics and Public Policy” class at Brown University: Are you morally obliged to report cheating if you know about it?
City May Gate Off State Street For Halloween This Year
WISC-TV 3
MADISON, Wis. — City officials want to gate off State Street for this year’s annual Halloween bash, and so far the controversial proposal is getting support.
Representatives from the university, the business community and police met Tuesday to discuss plans to prevent more riots this year. Police said they want to keep out-of-towners out of the party this year.
Former UW-Madison Professor Dead At 94
Wisconsin State Journal
John D. Workman, a UW-Madison professor emeritus of German who acted as a consultant to the U.S. during World War II, died Saturday. He was 94.
Whither academic freedom?
USA Today
College students who say they can’t safely express conservative views on campus are taking their case to a setting they hope will be more hospitable: state legislatures.
Help workers claim anti-poverty tax credits
Wisconsin State Journal
One of the most effective ways to fight poverty in Wisconsin doesn’t require passing any new legislation or creating any new bureaucracies. It simply involves helping low-income families collect an estimated $50 million a year in tax credits they now fail to claim.
That is why an experimental program sponsored by the UW-Madison Center on Business and Poverty deserves encouragement and financial support.
UW quietly reaches goal of $1.5 billion
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison’s goal of raising $1.5 billion for buildings, financial aid and other needs has been achieved a full 18 months ahead of schedule, officials said Tuesday, but no one plans to stop now.
Officials don’t want donors to put away their checkbooks yet, because several new projects – such as the $375 million Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, a biotechnology research center proposed by Gov. Jim Doyle in March – still need money.
Testimony urges support for rights of pharmacists, patients
Wisconsin State Journal
Matthew Thill, a fresh-faced 24-year-old from Marshfield, says he’s probably the only one in his 2005 University of Wisconsin Pharmacy School graduating class who would refuse to dispense birth control pills for moral reasons.
A lifelong Catholic, Thill said he didn’t learn how birth control pills worked until he was a sophomore in college – from a Web site, actually. That shaped his belief that the hormones in the pills can destroy fertilized eggs before they implant in the uterine wall.
Education trends explain ââ?¬Ë?where the boys are’
USA Today
More than 57% of the freshly robed graduates parading across podiums this graduation season will be female, up from 43% in 1970. In Minnesota this year, women outperformed men in every degree category, earning more than two-thirds of the master’s degrees and more than half the doctorates. That’s good for the girls, but what about the boys?
Research On Vitamin D Makes Doctors Consider Prescribing Sunshine (AP)
Quoted: Hector DeLuca, a University of Wisconsin-Madison biochemist who did landmark studies on the nutrient.
Forest’s Colorful Jewels in a Fight for Their Lives
New York Times
Quoted: Dr. Tom Rooney, a research scientist at the University of Wisconsin.
Stem-cell bill inches toward 218 (The Hill)
A fight between centrist and conservative Republicans over a bill to expand federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research has intensified in the past week as the House moves closer to a promised vote.
With 199 co-sponsors, supporters of the bill are confident that they have enough votes to pass it when leadership brings it to the floor this month, furthering the possibility that this legislation will become the first veto of President Bush�s tenure in the White House.
NCAA reprimands Seton Hall, Hofstra soccer programs (AP)
Philadelphia Inquirer
Quoted: Terry Lynn Gawlik, chair of the Division I Men’s Soccer Committee and assistant athletics director at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Close to Success (New York Sun)
New York Sun
Quoted: Kenneth Mayer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Obituary: Workman, John D.
Madison.com
Professor Workman taught German at the University of Wisconsin from 1939 to 1972, and was awarded professor emeritus status in 1972.
Tom Still: Wisconsin fares well in the economic rankings game– most of the time
Wisconsin Technology Network
Entrepreneur magazine was not overwhelmed with the entrepreneurial programs at the UW-Madison in its April 2005 edition, and several surveys show the state ranks in the bottom third when it comes to creating new companies.
Space Place to get more space in new place
Wisconsin State Journal
For years, Madison residents and schoolchildren have had a unique place from which to study the stars and the planets and all the other wonders of the heavens.
It’s called Space Place and it is operated as the outreach and public education arm of the UW-Madison Department of Astronomy. Oddly enough, the popular program has been housed in the most earthbound of places — a converted Ponderosa steak house at 1605 S. Park St.
There has always been the lingering smell of grease about the place, even when everyone’s attention might be focused on the most sublime of astronomical marvels.
UW student abducted by man with gun, sexually assaulted
Wisconsin State Journal
A UW-Madison student was abducted and sexually assaulted by an armed man while walking home on campus along Observatory Drive early Saturday morning.
A police report said the female student was walking home when she was forced into a car in a parking lot off Observatory Drive. The abductor, armed with a handgun, drove her to a nearby location and sexually assaulted her. She reported the crime to the police at 3:30 a.m.
Student admits roles in burglaries to get copies of exams (WSJ, 5/17/05)
A UW-Madison mechanical engineering senior admitted being involved in three burglaries of his physics professor’s office to find copies of exams, according to charges filed Monday in Dane County Circuit Court. A UW-Madison official called it the worst example of cheating she has seen at the school. According to a criminal complaint, Nicholas Z. Hanson, 22, of St. Louis Park, Minn., admitted to burglaries in October and November and involvement in another in December in which another mechanical engineering senior, allegedly working on Hanson’s behalf, was caught by the professor.
Same-sex union foes find allies in Arizona
Wisconsin State Journal
The battle over same-sex unions in Wisconsin is attracting new soldiers.
Assembly Speaker John Gard on Monday asked legislative leaders to accept a Christian public-interest law firm’s offer to help in defending the state’s refusal to pay health insurance for gay and lesbian partners of its employees.
Chancellors’ Cars No Bargain
WKOW-TV 27
27 News has uncovered state records showing that providing cars for UW Chancellors is costing Wisconsin almost twice as much as it costs to put other state workers behind the wheel.
Providing chancellors with cars is done through a unique arrangement that’s drawn criticism from some state lawmakers.