Iowa prep standout Jason Bohannon was certain about his choice and announced his intentions Tuesday to play basketball at the University of Wisconsin beginning in 2006.
Iowa guard commits
Wisconsin State Journal
Author: jplucas
Heart From the Heartland: Peace Corps Is Special Tradition at Wisconsin
New York Times
FOUR hundred miles deep into the North African desert, Jim Doyle gathered the bundle of aerograms and month-old magazines that were his link to a former world, the one he had left behind to join the Peace Corps. This particular day in November 1967, the mail carried news about his college campus and hometown, the University of Wisconsin in Madison. There had been a protest against the Vietnam War, specifically a blockade against recruiters for the company that made napalm, and it had ended with tear gas, billy clubs, arrests and demonstrators taunting cops with cries of “Sieg heil!”
Game skills pay off in real life (San Jose Mercury-News)
The Wichita Eagle
Quoted: Professor James Paul Gee at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
MU board regroups amid Gold outcry
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The Marquette University Board of Trustees has scheduled an emergency meeting today to review the flood of angry e-mails, letters and phone calls from concerned alumni, faculty and students upset over last week’s decision to adopt Gold as the school’s nickname.
State basketball stars on the guest list
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Madison – University of Wisconsin freshman Jolene Anderson and former Milwaukee Washington standout Helen Johnson, a junior-college All-American who has signed with Louisville, are among 57 players invited to the 2005 USA Basketball Women’s national team trials.
Biotech crops on 1 billion acres
USA Today
Biotech farmers this week are lauding what they say is a milestone for the industry: the planting of the billionth acre of biotech seed.
Colleges Must Do a Better Job of Recruiting Foreign Students to the United States, Report Says
Chronicle of Higher Education
American universities should work harder to encourage international students to come to their campuses to study science and technology, according to a report released on Tuesday by the National Academies.
Berkeley Bans Alcohol at Fraternity and Sorority Events Following Series of Incidents
Chronicle of Higher Education
The University of California at Berkeley has banned alcohol consumption at all events held by campus fraternities and sororities.
The ban, announced on Monday followed numerous alcohol-related violations at Greek events over the past few months.
U. of Wisconsin Press’s Director Resigns, as Fast-Growing Publisher Faces Financial Strains
Chronicle of Higher Education
The University of Wisconsin Press, a midsize scholarly house that recently doubled the number of new books it publishes, is losing its top two officials amid a period of financial stress.
MGE going strong at 150
Wisconsin State Journal
MGE’s latest projects include the $180 million natural gas- fueled power plant on the UW- Madison campus. The 150- megawatt plant already is sending some electricity to the power grid, Wolter said, and will start providing steam heat and chilled-water for air conditioning to campus buildings this summer.
Boston College set to adopt language that welcomes gays
Boston Globe
Boston College administrators have agreed to change the school’s statement of nondiscrimination to make it more welcoming to gay students and employees, but the revision stops short of prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
New database extends UW’s business outreach efforts
www.wisbusiness.com
With more than 250 buildings, 153 departments, 41,500 students, scores of labs, dozens of consortiums and a head-spinning number of faculty and researchers, the UW-Madison campus can be an intimidating place to navigate.
“We’ve got a large number of resources for business people, but people often don’t know where to turn,” said Noel Radomski, a policy and planning analyst in the university’s Office of Corporate Relations (OCR).
Clock ticking on student loan bargain
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: Steve Van Ess, director of the Office of Student Financial Services at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Motherly moments (Baltimore Sun)
Quoted: Rima Apple, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
State considers expanded newborn testing (Nashua Telegraph)
QUoted: Dr. Norman Fost, a pediatrics professor and director of the medical ethics program at the University of Wisconsin
Scientists give mice boost in longevity
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Quoted: Peter Rabinovitch, a University of Wisconsin pathologist.
Evidence from early Earth raises hope of life elsewhere (Detroit Free-Press)
Detroit Free Press
Quoted: John Valley, a geochemist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Bluefin tuna gets ever scarcer in sushi-loving world (NYT)
Contra Costa Times
Quoted: John Magnuson, an emeritus professor of zoology at the University of Wisconsin.
Vaccination often good for life (Newsday)
Newsday
Quoted: Ronald Schultz, chairman of pathobiological sciences at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine at Madison, who has been studying the efficacy of canine vaccines since the 1970s.
Good Samaritan donors are inspiring or aspiring (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Quoted: Denise Connelly, a senior psychologist at the University of Wisconsin.
Frozen talks over fusion reactor warm up (New Scientist)
New Scientist
Quoted: Raymond Fonck, a physicist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison
The Adderall Me – My romance with ADHD meds (Slate)
Quoted: Eric Heiligenstein, clinical director of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin.
Pets caught in blazes can get breath of life (Chicago Tribune)
Quoted: Dr. David Brunson, veterinary anesthesiologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine
At least 18 UW administrators made political donations (AP)
St. Paul Pioneer Press
MADISON, Wis. ââ?¬â? At least 18 University of Wisconsin-Madison administrators donated money to state candidates before the 2004 election in an effort to improve relations between the school and lawmakers, according to a newspaper report Friday.
Jim Lattis ‘Takes Five’
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is famous for many things. An astronomy education center in an old steakhouse, though, probably isn’t one of them. UW Space Place, located for the last 15 years in a former Ponderosa restaurant, will move next month to a newly remodeled facility at the Villager on S. Park St.
UW Cyclist, 20, critically injured in race crash
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Muskego – After surviving a similar accident last spring, avid cyclist Matt Wittig was in critical condition Monday after a weekend accident during a Wisconsin Cup race in Muskego County Park, a hospital spokesman said.
UWM uncovers a pearl in Jeter
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
After Bruce Pearl cashed in his winnings for a million-dollar-a-year gig at Tennessee, a couple of immediate thoughts came to mind:
One, that UW-Milwaukee, because of its elevated profile as a Sweet 16 participant, probably could attract an experienced coach.
Scenes From the Picket Lines
Chronicle of Higher Education
By now it seems written into the academic calendar: With spring come the police barriers, the bullhorns, and the sandwich boards. Every April campus labor activists across the country head outside. Strikes, teach-ins, and rallies bloom like daffodils.
High Court to Hear Case on Military Recruiting
Chronicle of Higher Education
The U.S. Supreme Court announced last week that it would review a lower-court ruling that would allow colleges to restrict military recruiting on their campuses.
Mifflin Quiet As Students Pick Books Over Booze
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison students honored their pact with the city by hitting the books Saturday instead of throwing another bash on the traditional date of the Mifflin Street block party.
“It’s a party at the library instead of at Mifflin,” said Megan Duckett, a Mifflin Street resident who was studying for finals in zoology and philosophy of environment.
Grantee To Study Education Costs
Wisconsin State Journal
Allan R. Odden, a nationally recognized expert in school finance at UW-Madison, received a $500,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation of New York to determine what it costs to adequately fund K-12 education in Wisconsin.
A much bigger pile of Mifflin citations
Wisconsin State Journal
While this year’s Mifflin Street block party was smaller and safer than last year’s according to officials – it drew about 20,000 people compared to 25,000 last year – the number of tickets passed out April 30 significantly exceeded totals from a year earlier.
In the week since the annual party, Madison police passed out 191 citations to 36 people carrying fines of more than $85,000. And the day of the party, police arrested 225 partiers on a total of 317 charges, most of them city ordinance violations such as underage drinking and having open intoxicants.
Review: Madison Rep’s ‘Blonde’ does a dazzling Mae West
Wisconsin State Journal
There is a special pantheon of Olympian celebrities who are famous only because they’re famous: Donald Trump and Paris Hilton aren’t going to win talent shows anytime soon, and when was the last time even Mickey Mouse made a movie?
Mae West is one of these icons; instantly recognizable for no modern reason. Her movies show a one-joke, sniggering, swaggering, thick-set singer whose voice can most charitably be described as “effective.” Her most famous co- star, W.C. Fields, called her “a plumber’s idea of Cleopatra.”
Tour guides at UW can expect surprises
Wisconsin State Journal
Madison is an easy sell in May when white sails glide across Lake Mendota and the air is heavy with apple blossoms.
But there are those who sell Madison when it’s tough: during the melting mud season of March, while being panhandled and heckled and propositioned by pimply adolescents.
Ritalin/Adderall Abuse Among UW Students
WKOW-TV 27
It’s a battle of the senses for many students at the UW during finals – the mind wants to study but the body wants to sleep.
Police Dole Out $80K In Fines To Mifflin Street Party Hosts
WISC-TV 3
MADISON, Wis. — Police have distributed fines for the Mifflin Street block party, and one house alone racked up $19,000 in tickets, News 3 reported.
3,000 Teachers Assistants File Complaint Against State
WISC-TV 3
MADISON, Wis. — Three-thousand University of Wisconsin-Madison teaching assistants have filed a formal complaint against the state.
Feuding Over Fines
NBC-15
The city of Madison is waiting to collect on more than $80,000 in fines from Mifflin Street partiers. More than a week ago, 20,000 people packed the two blocks for the annual bash. Now, a handful of students might have to pay the price.
Wisconsin Claims Inaugural TDS Border Battle Cup
UWBadgers.com
MADISON, Wis. – The long-standing rivalry between the Badgers and the Minnesota gophers was put to the test this season with the inaugural Border Battle presented by TDS telecommunications company.
Still: Having two biomedical tech centers in Wisconsin will help the state
Wisconsin Technology Network
Milwaukee ââ?¬â? Examine the techno-geography of other states across the Midwest, and you’ll find they’re generally “bipolar.” No, that’s not a psychiatric diagnosis, but instead a reflection on the fact that most successful states have one or more tech centers.
Job Opportunities for College Graduates Expected to Increase (NewsHour with Jim Lehrer)
Job creation numbers were unexpectedly high in a new report released by the government Sunday. Experts take a look at the employment picture facing new college graduates and young adults.
Grantee to study education costs
Allan Odden, a nationally recognized expert in school finance at UW-Madison, received a $500,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation of New York to determine what it costs to adequately fund K12 education in Wisconsin.
Obituary: Janet Muriel Saul
Madison.com
Muriel earned her master’s in library science from the UW-Madison and worked as reference librarian in the UW-Madison College of Engineering Library for nearly 20 years.
Obituary:Burmeister, Marne
Madison.com
She graduated from high school in Viroqua and then moved to Madison, where she attended secretarial school and was employed by the UW Dairy Sciences Department.
In foortball season, ‘alcohol culture’ OK
Wisconsin State Journal
I write shortly after the Mifflin Street block party. About 20,000 revelers enjoyed tradition, as hundreds of thousands have before them. Many say “let them play,” while others would “make them pay.” This annual, open-air beer bash regularly results in student riots, burning and looting, with multiple arrests and individuals incapacitated from alcohol. This year students defied the city and other officials, and some will bear the burden. It was an “orderly” event; “only” 225 arrests were made (more than 1 percent of attendees). Chilly, overcast weather kept crowds, and hence, ambulance calls, down.
$400,000 pledged to fight pediatric cancer
Wisconsin State Journal
The fight against childhood cancer got a big boost this week thanks to a three-day appeal led by Connie and Fish, the morning duo on the Madison radio station WZEE-FM (104.1).
Listeners pledged more than $400,000 during The Cure Kids Cancer Radiothon, greatly exceeding organizers’ expectations. All of the money will go to UW Children’s Hospital.
“It’s just been a phenomenal three days,” said Michael Felber, a public affairs consultant to the hospital. “The way all of south-central Wisconsin responded just blew everyone away.”
Obituary:Roberts, Neoma Lee
Madison.com
She was preceded in death by her first husband, Wallace “Gene” Clingan, dean of students at UW-Madison at the time of his death
Native plants set for sale
Wisconsin State Journal
Volunteers at the UW Arboretum share many traits with the native plants they’ll be selling today.
They’re hardy and well-adapted to their environment. Rain or snow or a late frost or scorching weather won’t deter them. They come back year after year.
High-Tech copier does it in 3D
Wisconsin State Journal
If you had a fancy high-tech copy machine that would actually make 3-D copies of things such as molecules and proteins, wouldn’t you be tempted to play around with it, just a little bit?
Like, wouldn’t it be cool to copy something like a model car? Even Ted Pan, the technology specialist who runs the unique copy machine for UW-Madison’s Biology New Media Center, is human.
Students build Web sites for non-profit groups
Wisconsin State Journal
Students in the E-Projects in Community Service (EPICS) course at UW-Madison also meld learning with lending a hand to nonprofit groups.
Student teams designed Web sites, built Web-based information systems, created logos and developed marketing materials at no cost for the civic groups.
The EPICS program brings together undergraduate and graduate students of diverse skills and backgrounds from fields such as engineering, art, business and journalism.
Keep biotech jobs here
Wisconsin State Journal
We hope a Middleton pharmaceutical company’s success and now sale will boost the industry in the Madison area.
What we’d hate to see is the new owner move the company’s 170 jobs — about 75 of them in Middleton — to its East Coast headquarters or elsewhere.
Applying business skills in social area
Wisconsin State Journal
Lessons in business and philanthropy aren’t usually taught together. But a new class that just wrapped up at the UW- Madison School of Business showed MBA candidates that they can apply entrepreneurial skills to social problems.
Students who took the class “Social Entrepreneurship: Redefining Markets and Organizations” said the course opened their eyes to a world possibilities.
Art Museum Q&A
Wisconsin State Journal
What is the timetable for completion?
Answer: Officials at the Chazen Museum of Art (formerly Elvehjem Museum of Art) and UW-Madison plan to raise $15 million more for the project by fall 2006. The Peterson Office Building is scheduled for demolition in 2007. The entire museum will be done by 2009.
What does Chancellor John Wiley say to anyone who scoffs at a $20 million donation to the art museum when tuition rises and budgets are tightened?
Answer: “That’s a very easy question,” Wiley said. “We’re cutting things that are funded on the base budget of the university. That means the money that comes from the state and from tuition. There is no way anyone should expect private donors to substitute for state money and tuition at a public university. It’s the obligation of the state and the students to provide our base budget. We can ask donors to fund the expansion of the art museum.”
UW art museum gets $20 million gift
Wisconsin State Journal
Two UW-Madison alumni with New York-area roots have donated $20 million for a major expansion of the university’s Elvehjem Museum of Art, known now as the Chazen Museum of Art.
UW Chancellor John Wiley said the gift from Jerome and Simona Chazen is a “tremendous new development” and a major step toward the university’s plan to create an arts and humanities district on the east side of campus.
The expansion will involve construction of a new building at the current site of the university’s Peterson Office Building, across the street from the existing museum. The two buildings will be linked by an enclosed skywalk; Murray Street between them will be converted to a pedestrian mall.
Chief by chance
Wisconsin State Journal
Becoming an entrepreneur was the last thing on Cheryl Rosen Weston’s mind when she was growing up in Chicago, one of four children raised by their young, widowed mother.
It was never a goal when she went to UW-Madison for a degree in education and stayed on for law school, in the days when relatively few women became lawyers.
Financial literacy: Learn or lose
Wisconsin State Journal
If you can’t explain how inflation affects fixed interest rate loans or what a falling U.S. dollar means to Americans traveling abroad, you’re not alone.
While U.S. consumers are faced with a mushrooming number of financial products and services and are being asked to take a greater role in investing their retirement dollars, a recent survey shows an alarming number of adults don’t understand basic economic and financial concepts.
TIF: A high stakes game
Wisconsin State Journal
Quoted: Steve Malpezzi, chairman of the real estate department at UW-Madison.
Grads: Hello again, parents
Wisconsin State Journal
As graduation fast approaches, many college students are dreaming of their first real job, a good salary and a nice apartment.
For some, though, it means moving home with mom and dad.
Alison Kilkelly, 23, graduated from UW-Madison in December with a psychology degree, but moved back in with her parents in Madison “because I didn’t have any income,” she said. She’s been waitressing. Her search for a real job just paid off with an offer from Marshall Field’s, where she’ll be cosmetics manager.
New evidence from Earth’s infancy raises hopes for life on other worlds (Knight Ridder)
Quoted: John Valley, a geochemist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Some Mifflin residents face hefty fines
Wisconsin State Journal
Residents at five Mifflin Street addresses who welcomed partiers to their homes Saturday got a less welcome visit Thursday evening from Madison police.
Sgt. Pete Schmidt said officers delivered citations to the first five of about 15 houses that will receive hefty fines connected to last weekend’s block party.