Quoted: Dave Black, the general manger of WSUM-FM (91.7), the UW-Madison student radio station.
At a crossroads with Cream
Wisconsin State Journal
Author: jplucas
Saving habitat saves rare species
Wisconsin State Journal
The discovery of an ivory- billed woodpecker deep in an Arkansas swamp has bird lovers in Wisconsin talking about the possibility of finding such flying ghosts in this state’s remote wooded or marshy reaches.
Is there, for example, a hidden population of passenger pigeons tucked away out there somewhere? Not likely, say experts such as Stan Temple, a wildlife ecology professor at UW-Madison who teaches a course on extinction.
Evidence can help both sides (Wausau Daily Herald)
Wausau Daily Herald
Quoted: Krista Ralston, law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the director of the law school’s Legal Defense Program.
Poll: Most wouldn’t take less Social Security to help poor (AP)
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
House Panel Weighs Whether Congress Should Encourage or Require Overhaul of Credit-Transfer Policies
Chronicle of Higher Education
The federal government should encourage states and colleges to improve their policies for granting credit to transfer students instead of requiring countrywide changes, several state and national higher-education leaders said at a Congressional hearing on Thursday.
Protesters Declare Victory at University of Hawaii, Ending Sit-In at President’s Office
Chronicle of Higher Education
A group of about 50 student protesters at the University of Hawaii-Manoa declared victory on Tuesday and ended their six-day sit-in at the office of the university system’s interim president, David S. McClain.
Cranberries and pigs
WIBA Newsradio
Researchers at UW-Madison have found that the compounds in cranberries could help prevent heart attacks and strokes. Kris Kruse-Elliot conducted the research by feeding powdered cranberries to pigs. (Last item.)
Students Mobilize For and Against the Morning After Pill (WPR)
Wisconsin Public Radio
(MADISON) University of Wisconsin students around the state are fighting efforts to restrict campus health services from promoting — or providing — emergency contraception. On the Madison campus Wednesday, students were trying to mobilize opposition to a proposed bill which Wisconsinââ?¬â?¢s Attorney General says is probably unconstitutional. (First item.)
Editorial: About next year’s party
The annual Mifflin Street block party did not exactly go off without a hitch. There were 225 arrests, a couple of fires and various other problems Saturday, and police have been busy writing up additional citations for folks who sold beer illegally.
UW anthropology prof named to National Academy of Sciences
University of Wisconsin-Madison anthropology Professor Karen B. Strier is among 72 new members of the National Academy of Sciences. She is one of 19 women in the group – the largest group of women ever elected in one year.
Japan honors UW professor
A University of Wisconsin-Madison professor will be honored with one of the most prestigious decorations bestowed by the Japanese government.
4 cops needed to subdue Stanley at Mifflin party
Suspended University of Wisconsin running back Booker Stanley, 22, attacked both a man and a woman at the Mifflin Street block party last weekend and it took four officers to finally subdue him, according to a criminal complaint filed today in Dane County Circuit Court.
Discount tuition considered
The UW Board of Regents is considering joining a coalition of Midwestern states in offering discount tuition to out-of-state residents who enroll at participating public schools. UW-Madison is not a participant.
UW-Madison Starts Resource Web Site
Wisconsin State Journal
A new online database has been launched by the Office of Corporate Relations at UW-Madison to provide businesses and others with another tool to identify and access resources and services at the university.
The Wisconsin Business Resources Database contains links to nearly 100 offices on the Madison campus, and has a growing list of other campuses in the University of Wisconsin System. Its Web address is www.wbrd.wisc.edu.
Wicked witch to Weinermobile (AP)
Seattle Times
NEW YORK ââ?¬â? It’s a simple proclamation that can bring you instantly back to the land of Oz: “As coroner, I must aver / I thoroughly examined her / And she’s not only merely dead / She’s really, most sincerely dead!”
UW will honor six exceptional alumni
Wisconsin State Journal
At graduation ceremonies that are just around the corner, UW-Madison seniors may look around and wonder which of their classmates are going to make it big.
This weekend, the Wisconsin Alumni Association will honor six former Badgers who did.
Marquette opts to go with the Gold
Wisconsin State Journal
MILWAUKEE – Capping a nearly yearlong debate, Marquette University declined Wednesday to reinstate its old Warriors nickname and instead took on a new moniker, the Gold.
The Jesuit university abandoned the Warriors name and Indian logo in 1993, but the nickname adopted a year later, the Golden Eagles, never seemed to catch on.
ABC News: Students Use Clickers to Help Guide College Lectures
ABCNEWS.com
May 5, 2005 ââ?¬â?Ã? Educators across the country are buying into a new technology that finally allows professors to answer questions that sometimes drive them up the wall. With class sizes getting ever bigger, sometimes numbering in the hundreds, it’s hard to keep in touch with the students. Thus the old haunting questions:
Is anybody out there listening? Is any of this sinking in? Is anybody awake?
English teachers group says new SAT writing test could backfire
USA Today
A group representing English teachers nationwide says the new SAT timed writing test ââ?¬Å?sends troubling messages about writingââ?¬Â and might actually undermine high schools’ efforts to improve skills.
‘Clickers’ come to class
Wisconsin State Journal
When UW-Madison professor Jeffrey Henriques began his Introduction to Psychology class Wednesday morning, he asked students to answer a multiple-choice question displayed on a large screen at the front of the room.
Students considered the question and quickly began weighing in with their answers.
But they didn’t do it by raising their hands. In this class, that’s old school. Instead, nearly all of the 200 students in the lecture hall pulled out small, remote control-like “clickers” and began punching in their answers.
Wisconsin considers joining states’ tuition-discount program (AP)
Duluth News
MADISON – University of Wisconsin System regents are considering joining a coalition of Midwestern states in offering discount tuition to out-of-state residents who enroll at participating public universities.
A bitter pill for older patients
USA Today
Excluded from drug trials, the elderly face unknown risks.
Quoted: Alta Charo, UW-Madison professor of medicine and bioethics.
Police To Fine Mifflin House Parties Thousands Of Dollars
WISC-TV 3
MADISON, Wis. — Some Mifflin Street residents are in for a rude awakening in the next few days.
Police will be calling, armed with thousands of dollars’ worth of fines for more than a dozen homes. And the crackdown is far from over, News 3 reported.
Mix-Up Over UW Birth Control Ban
WKOW-TV 27
A proposed ban on birth control given out by clinics in the UW System is creating a statewide student protest.
But the author of the proposal says it’s a misunderstanding, since his plan would only cover emergency contraception.
Massachusetts firm to buy UW spinoff Bone Care for $600 million
Wisconsin Technology Network
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? Massachusetts-based Genzyme Corp. said on Wednesday it has agreed to buy Bone Care International, a University of Wisconsin-Madison biotech spinoff, for $600 million in cash.
Health of campus should be priority with energy use
Daily Cardinal
Among all of the beauty on campus, the tower of coal that decorates Charter Street is extremely out of place. This lump of coal is not only a disgrace to the beauty of campus, but it is the source of some of the dirty, coal-powered energy that we use on campus.
Obviously, the university needs its electricity, I’m not going to argue that. But did you know that coal power plant pollution currently causes 448 premature deaths per year in Wisconsin, according to a study from the Clean Air Task Force? It also causes 9,340 asthma attacks and costs us millions in health co
Committee rejects Picnic Point bike ban
Daily Cardinal
Cycling enthusiasts will not have to re-route their paths around Picnic Point, thanks to Monday’s vote by the UW-Madison Campus Natural Areas Committee not to ban bicycles from the west-campus natural area.
According to UW-Madison Professor Bill Cronon, who serves as chair of the committee, the members voted four to three against the ban and six to one in favor of more visible efforts to encourage those biking on Picnic Point’s main gravel path to exercise more responsibility.
UW System opposes 3% tuition cap plan
Daily Cardinal
Proposed legislation that would establish a 3 percent tuition cap remained stuck in a state committee Tuesday after university officials argued it would cripple the quality of education in the UW System.
One day after local lawmakers suggested the state should use $17 million of its general purpose revenue to offset tuition increases for low-income students, Rep. Rob Kreibich, R-Eau Claire, offered his own solution to help cash-strapped students in a meeting of the Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities-a cap on tuition increases for the next two years at 3 percent. The proposal earned the bipartisan support of several Democrats, including Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Madison.
Focusing on housing safety
Badger Herald
In the early morning hours of April 10, three students at Miami University-Oxford were killed when a fire broke out in an off-campus rental home. One of the three was said to have been killed by the blaze itself and the two remaining victims were pronounced dead from carbon-monoxide poisoning. Although details of the cause of the fire are still under investigation, it was certainly accidental, meaning it could have been anything as innocent as a dropped cigarette to a stove being left on.
A tragedy like this one cannot be ignored and must call our attention to our own safety right here at the University of Wisconsin. With many students renting housing after their freshman years, it is important to assure these students will be safe in the chance of a fire like the one that occurred at Miami University.
SSFC working on behalf of students
Badger Herald
Money is tight for your typical college student. Tuition is high, rent is expensive and credit card debt threatens to affect us for years. The blame for tuition increases can be pinned on state government and their haphazard raids into University of Wisconsin system coffers, but students on campus like to find their own local scapegoat.
A popular target at Madison is the Student Services Finance Committee, which makes decisions on how segregated fees are spent to fund student organizations. It is the easiest way for a concerned student to directly affect their tuition. However, many students decide that rather than providing their input to committee members or taking the unthinkable step of actually getting involved in student government, they would rather place the blame on Associated Students of Madison without examining the realities of segregated fee allocation.
UW group assists in finding international internships
Badger Herald
In an effort to promote an international exchange of students and a positive impact on society, the UW Association Internationale des Etudiants en Sciences Economiques et Commerciales helps students find internships in other countries.
The UW branch is part of the international AIESEC, which operates at 800 universities and in 89 countries and territories, making it the largest student organization in the world.
Historic Hiram Smith Hall campus icon since 1892
Badger Herald
University of Wisconsin�s Hiram Smith Hall, 1545 Observatory Dr., built in 1892, has seen its share of changes.
According to the Wisconsin Historical Society, Hiram Smith was the first Dairy School in the United States. It was the first piece in the cluster of agriculture buildings near Linden and Elm Drive and was soon followed by the Soils building, the Heating Plant and then Agriculture Hall in 1903.
UW-Milwaukee grant to start new institute
Badger Herald
Continuing in a trend of academic expansion, Gov. Jim Doyle, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Chancellor Carlos E. Santiago and Aurora Health Care President Ed Howe announced the creation of the Wisconsin Institute for Biomedical and Health Technologies.
Through a $1 million UWM-provided seed grant, the WIBHT will involve the support of six schools and colleges and 65 researchers from UWM and Medical College of Wisconsin, according to a release.
Senate greenlights 2nd student regent
Badger Herald
The state Senate voted in favor of adding a second student regent to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents Tuesday by approving Senate Bill 121 in a voice vote.
If passed into law, the legislation would double the student representation on the 16-member board. The addition of a non-traditional student appointed by the governor would represent the views of individuals who may be older, employed or already parents.
Ban cash grab during state budget work (Janesville Gazette)
The latest fund-raiser for Ted Kanavas, R-Brookfield, accurately illustrates what is so wrong with Wisconsin’s campaign laws.
On Thursday, Kanavas raised campaign money with an event at the Madison Club, a block from the Capitol. His invitation promoted the appearance of UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley.
Where Does Mifflin Street Fine Money Go?
WISC-TV 3
MADISON, Wis. — Police are calling Saturday’s Mifflin Street block party a success, while they tally up costs. City alders are calling the event the safest in years.
Meanwhile hundreds of partiers are left with thousands of dollars of fines. Two hundred twenty-five people received about 317 tickets for ordinance violations, mainly alcohol offenses, News 3 reported. However, fines for many of the offenses have doubled, leading to greater fines and more revenue for the city.
UW grad hopes to mold Dane County into drug research dynamo
www.wisbusiness.com
Trevor Twose says he thoroughly enjoyed his days as a post-doctoral researcher at UW-Madison in the early 1970s.
“Those were interesting times for a number of reasons,” says Twose, a wry smile washing over his lean face. “Molecular biology was just breaking through. My work mostly focused on drug resistance in bacteria.”
Congratulations on J-School’s 100th anniversary
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication already has stellar credentials.
Its graduates have won nine Pulitzer Prizes, most recently Anthony Shadid of the Washington Post.
Besides working for the biggest and best newspapers, wire services and television networks in the country, its graduates also fill the ranks of so many Wisconsin newspapers, especially this one.
Pitfall of Public-College Privatization (Inside Higher Ed)
Inside Higher Education
States are moving, in a variety of formal and informal ways, toward privatizing public higher education systems. Most of the discussion about the wisdom of the trend has centered on the relative merits of colleges� greater independence from state regulation and whether tuitions will rise excessively if state support drops off.
Speaker focuses on challenges of journalism
Wisconsin State Journal
Journalism and the print media have been under scrutiny, and competition from blogs and challenges to newspapers’ credibility threaten to undermine the future of the profession, said John Geddes, managing editor of The New York Times.
But journalism has withstood many challenges to its authority, thanks to the virtues and experiences provided to generations of UW-Madison School of Journalism graduates since its founding 100 years ago, he told a crowd of several hundred alumni, whose memories of the journalism school on its centennial span some 70 years.
Journalism in crisis? Hand-wringing is nothing new
Wisconsin State Journal
Editor’s note: John Geddes, managing editor of the New York Times, was the scheduled keynote speaker Saturday night at the 100th anniversary celebration of the founding of the UW-Madison School of Journalism of Mass Communication. Here are excerpts from his prepared remarks.
The mood of the moment seems to be that the world of journalism is deteriorating before our eyes.
Two weeks ago media magnate Rupert Murdoch told the American Society of Newspaper Editors that the end of newspapers as we know them is nigh. My colleague Nick Kristof soon opined that the climate of press freedom is more ominous in the United States than at any time in the past century. Six weeks ago Jeffrey Rosen of New York University somewhat jocularly called for the commissioning of a new book titled “Laying the Newspaper Gently Down to Die.” And everywhere online, there’s some correspondent taking a whack at MSMs, the acronym of the day for most of us in the mainstream media.
Don’t lower the bar on compliance
Wisconsin State Journal
Thirty years ago at UW-Madison, 12 club sports for women were officially integrated into the athletic department and received varsity status. These 12 sports – badminton, basketball, crew, cross country, fencing, field hockey, golf, gymnastics, swimming and diving, tennis, track and field and volleyball – had 109 participants, with no scholarships and a budget of $118,000.
Today, the UW-Madison still supports 12 women’s varsity sports (lightweight crew, ice hockey, softball and soccer added; badminton, fencing, field hockey and gymnastics eliminated). There are nearly 400 women student-athletes, 227 on scholarship. Today’s women’s athletics budget exceeds $9 million.
From shop to launch, a boat comes to life
Wisconsin State Journal
Today, the boat in the sky heads for the water.
Known as a “peapod” for its stout, broad shape, the 13- foot-long Maine lobster boat being launched this afternoon behind Memorial Union is the creation of UW-Madison artist- in-residence Joshua Swan. For the past four months, Swan could be found bending, shaping and planing wood in the art department’s seventh-floor woodshop – dubbed for the duration “The Boatyard in the Sky.”
Melanie Conklin Column: Playing Local
Wisconsin State Journal
If you’re lucky enough to have a ticket for one of the virtually sold-out shows of “The Producers” this week, look in the pit.
While touring shows often tap a bit of local talent to round out the orchestra, this show hired 22 local musicians. Actually, they turned to Madison Symphony Orchestra’s GM Ann Bowen and UW-Madison’ School of Music’s Les Thimmig to find the local musicians.
ASM selects 2005-06 leaders
Badger Herald
It took more than four hours of heated debate and arguments, but the Associated Students of Madison eventually elected Eric Varney as the 2005-06 chair Monday night. Less than 10 minutes later, ASM members elected Dylan Rath as vice chair.
Editorial: A Milwaukee investment
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Shortly after Carlos Santiago signed on as University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee chancellor last year, he signaled that he wanted the university to become a bigger player as a public research institution.
Blind student earns M.D.: ‘Things are only impossible until they’re done’ (AP)
MADISON, Wis. ââ?¬â? The young medical student was nervous as he slid the soft, thin tube down into the patient’s windpipe. It was a delicate maneuver ââ?¬â? and he knew he had to get it right.
Tim Cordes leaned over the patient as his professor and a team of others closely monitored his every step. Carefully, he positioned the tube, waiting for the special signal that oxygen was flowing.
In Madison, Wis., the King of Quirks
Washington Post
The magazines and trade associations that rank cities for one thing or another constantly mention Madison, Wis. A visitors bureau handout lists 65 accolades from recent years, including “Best Places to Live in America” (Money magazine), “Best Walking Cities” (Prevention) and “Best College Sports Town” (Sports Illustrated).
According to America’s list makers, Madison is also one of the friendliest, best-designed, healthiest, most literate, best-wired little cities in the country, with the best biking, canoeing and hotel rooms under $125.
La Crosse officials work to curb binge-drinking culture
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
One year after a college student’s drowning death sparked fears that a serial killer was roaming the La Crosse riverfront, the city and university officials have enacted changes designed to help curb what officials said really led to the tragedy: a dangerous binge-drinking culture.
Advocates defend morning-after pill
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Access to emergency contraception must be protected as a vital health care service to women, said legislators and other women’s advocates on Monday in Milwaukee.
Lawyers urge taping of police questioning (AP)
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Quoted: Keith Findley, co-director of the Wisconsin Innocence Project, which worked for Zimmerman’s retrial
Tuition proposal
WIBA Newsradio
Members of Associated Students of Madison and other campus groups are getting behind a proposed state budget amendment that would increase funding to the Higher Education Grant program. Ashok Kamar chairs the academic affairs committee for ASM.
Supreme Court Will Hear Appeal of Case Involving Campus Bans on Military Recruiters
Chronicle of Higher Education
The U.S. Supreme Court announced on Monday that it would review a lower-court ruling that would allow colleges to restrict military recruiting on their campuses without risking their federal funds.
Groundbreaking Surgery at UW Hospital
NBC-15
Surgeons at UW Hospital have performed the state’s first endovascular graft for a thoracic aneurysm.
Doctors and the 71 year old patient were on hand Monday to show how the new procedure is performed.
Mifflin Street Balcony Fall
WKOW-TV 27
An 18-year old man told Madison Police he fell from a balcony during the Mifflin Street Block Party.
27 News has learned a Madison Police investigation is underway after a teenager says he was injured at the Mifflin Street Block Party.
Editorial: Mifflin Street Block Party – What Worked, What Didn’t (Channel 3000)
WISC-TV 3
This might sound like we’re straddling the fence here, but the facts are some things worked at Saturday’s Mifflin Street block party, and some didn’t. So while we’d like to claim the party a success or a disaster, and there is evidence for both, like so much of life the day was more complicated than that.
San Francisco: Stem cell’s Silicon Valley?
USA Today
San Francisco has grabbed the lead among California cities battling for the state’s new embryonic stem-cell research headquarters, a $3 billion program that could fuel creation of biotechnology’s version of Silicon Valley.
High court to review law on campus military recruiting
USA Today
The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether the U.S. government may withhold funds from colleges that deny military recruiters access to their campuses to protest the Pentagon’s ban on openly gay people from serving in the military.
Proposal would decrease students’ food choice, not increase state money
Daily Cardinal
It began as an initiative to save tax dollars for prisons has become a potentially major headache for UW students. Due to the success of prisons that do not purchase foods together in bulk, Gov. Doyle felt that implementing a similar plan in the UW System would allow for the same control and a decreased budget
Wife chooses artificial skin to heal her burned spouse (WSJ, May 2. 2005)
A burn patient will undergo an innovative technique at UW Hospital and Clinics to use a synthetic form of skin to heal wounds.