Ultimately, the UW Board of Regents deserves great credit for crafting this campus free speech policy and taking, head-on, the unique and growing threats to civil discourse on today’s college campuses. With the above modifications, Wisconsin students and taxpayers can be assured that UW campuses will remain incubators of ideas, forums for debate, and truly “safe” for speakers of all points of view.
Noted: Natasha Oladokun is a poet and essayist. She holds fellowships from Cave Canem, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and the Jackson Center for Creative Writing. Her work has appeared in the American Poetry Review, Harvard Review Online, Pleiades, Kenyon Review Online and elsewhere. She is associate poetry editor at story South, and is the inaugural First Wave Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
In a bold move, the American Political Science Association recently appointed us — a team of 12 women — to edit the flagship journal of the discipline of political science, the American Political Science Review (APSR).
Aili Mari Tripp is Wangari Maathai Professor of political science and gender & women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Spencer Black served for 26 years in the state Legislature. He was chair of the Assembly Natural Resources Committee and the Assembly Democratic leader. Since leaving the Legislature, Black has been vice president for conservation for the national Sierra Club and adjunct professor of planning at UW-Madison.
Written by Robert Enright, a Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Board Member of the International Forgiveness Institute, Inc.
UW Madison and Chancellor Becky Blank did the right thing by reinstating Quintez Cephus as a student after he was found not guilty of sexual assault changes.
Nearly 60% of graduates each year choose to leave Wisconsin to pursue their post-graduate ventures — be it to serve other communities with Americorps and the Peace Corps, join the military or enter the workforce.
Freedom of speech has been an integral principle in American jurisprudence since our country’s conception. Generally, it is an idea celebrated and protected, regardless of political affiliation. Heralded as one of our democracy’s central tenets, it would make sense for it to be continuously upheld.
UW Madison and Chancellor Becky Blank did the right thing by reinstating Quintez Cephus as a student after he was found not guilty of sexual assault changes.
Campus Free Speech Bill supports those who espouse hate speech more than those who disrupt it.
Wisconsinites understand the issues associated with the case of Quintez Cephus, and the dilemma facing UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank. She’ll be damned if she decides to reinstate the former Badger wide receiver and to allow him to attend the university this fall, and she’ll be damned if she doesn’t.
Letter to the editor: A commonsense solution that may honor the intent of the authors of this legislation, while simultaneously guaranteeing complete participation by all students in campus referendums, would be to include a campus-wide balloting initiative as part of the required enrollment process for classes each semester.
Cephus’ attorneys: Unless UW’s better angels prevail, Cephus will lose another year of his academic and athletic career based on allegations that jurors overwhelmingly and immediately rejected.
It’s hard for us to see a just conclusion that doesn’t include Cephus’ reinstatement as a student in good standing at the university.
Letter to the editor: Negotiations should begin immediately to reinstate Cephus to the football team, while allowing him to continue his education at the start of this upcoming semester.
Column: Such a series between perennial top-25 teams, a staple on non-conference schedules well into the 1990s, has become all too rare in college football. If you’re looking for a root cause as to why fans aren’t going to games, having to pay increasingly big bucks to watch a steady stream of unattractive opponents is a really good place to start.
Paige Glotzer is Assistant Professor and John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Chair in the History of American Politics, Institutions, and Political Economy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her book, Building Suburban Power: The Business of Exclusionary Housing Markets, will be published in April, 2020.
Youth climate activists are here today on behalf of students, staff, faculty and supporters of UW to demand that UW immediately condemn the TMT project and end all forms of support through divestment.
Letter to the editor: The University of Wisconsin, Department of Natural Resources and a local fishing club seem to be more interested in either studying a dirty lake, promoting a “trophy” fishery or catching those trophy fish, at the expense of the general interest of residents, especially those who own shoreline property.
Letter to the editor: In service of their psychiatric health, I would like to remind my student-patients with international origins — citizen and non-citizen — that you belong in the United States and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
On the southern outskirts of Paris, a cemetery holds the bodies of the city’s unclaimed dead. Until recently, there lay a hundred whom some consider to be the first victims of global climate change. They were mostly elderly and poor, the forgotten people of the worst weather disaster in contemporary European history: the heat wave of August 2003, which killed nearly 15,000 in France alone and thousands more across the continent.
This year is the 100th anniversary of the first meeting of the Algonquin Round Table, one of the 20th century’s most famous literary gatherings.
Dr. Ratner-Rosenhagen is a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Whether Republican senators would rise to the occasion is debatable. With John McCain and Jeff Flake now gone from the Senate, it seems less likely that many of their Republican colleagues will take a stand against this racist tilt to our politics. But the only way we can know is to get them on record. A round robin would give them just such an opportunity.
-John Milton Cooper is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
To my mind Nails’ Tales failed because it portrayed Badgers football Saturdays as comically grotesque masculinity rather than what it is at its heart: a celebration of community.
“Young people haven’t established a voting habit yet,” noted University of Wisconsin at Madison political scientist Barry Burden in the July 12 front-page article.
As the newly elected president of the Board of Regents, here’s my pledge: I will continue to be a tenacious advocate for the University of Wisconsin System.
The UW System is Wisconsin’s economic driver, and the best investment our taxpayers can make. We are returning $23 for every dollar invested in us.
The university has shot itself in the foot by opting for secrecy over transparency. The people have every right to know what public officials are doing with the money that has been placed in their care and how they decide to spend it.
We are certainly worried about the increase in student fees at the University of Wisconsin-Madison being considered by the System Board of Regents Thursday.
Assistant Professor Traci Snedden from the School of Nursing: As we watch the Women’s World Cup and the sheer athleticism of these elite female players, what we don’t see is the lagging research on concussion injury in girl’s and women’s soccer. The rate of concussion among female soccer players has been called an unpublicized epidemic.
The budget provides less than half of what the UW asked for and what they asked for wasn’t enough to sustain the System’s capacity to educate students.
The $81 billion state budget the Republican-run Legislature is approving this week includes $8.8 million for research on dairy farming at UW-Madison, UW-Platteville and UW-River Falls. Democratic Gov. Tony Evers is expected to — and should — issue partial vetoes to improve the Republican-proposed budget. But he should leave the Dairy Innovation Hub intact.
This week, UW-Madison took some small steps to change that narrative with the dedication of a new heritage marker on Bascom Hill that recognizes the historical significance of the campus as the Ho-Chunk’s ancestral home.
All 85 Bucky on Parade statues in a row.
A recently released study by researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Vanderbilt University offers a thought-provoking and somewhat unsettling look into the realities of how some students get credits that they need for graduation.
Wagner, who holds a doctorate in history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has put together a well-organized volume.
For 35 years Combat Blindness International, headquartered here in Madison and founded by UW ophthalmologist Dr. Suresh Chandra, has been restoring sight to more than 360,000 people in five countries.
Facebook is issuing Libra, a new electronic currency, and everyone is rushing to explain it; perhaps the best overall explanation comes from Bloomberg’s Matt Levine. Most of the commentary focuses, unsurprisingly, on the economics. Yet there is also a very important political economy story. Here’s what you need to know about the politics of Libra.
Years of antipathy towards University of Wisconsin-Madison by majority Republican lawmakers and then-Gov. Scott Walker have taken their toll.
The idea is simple: You make a pledge for every birdie made during the tournament to support The UW Carbone Cancer Center, American Family Children’s Hospital, Imitative to End Alzheimer’s, Department of Ophthalmology, or Transplant and UW Organ and Tissue Donation. American Family will match your donation up to $100,000.
This State Journal editorial ran on June 13, 1969: The end of the school year at the University of Wisconsin has come, and this is a good time to assess the student unrest and the success or failure with which the university has reacted.
Howard Schweber is an expert in constitutional law, judicial politics and American democratic theory as a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor. I called him to talk about the play.
The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Legislature is rejecting the voters’ message. They are cutting the budget requests to fund our public schools and the UW.
In addition to addressing one of the most important human health and environmental issues of our time, creation of the Freshwater Collaborative of Wisconsin is a smart economic development strategy for the UW System and for the state.
Earlier this year, President Donald Trump signed an executive order requiring colleges and universities that receive federal funds to do what they’re already required by law to do: extend free-speech protections to men and women on campus.
Personal biases aside, UW-Madison is objectively one of the best universities to attend.
To be generous, it may just be a lack of knowledge or personal experience that led Dave Cieslewicz to dismiss student loan debt as no big deal (Citizen Dave, 5/30/2019). It certainly isn’t the facts, as the 45 million people in the United States today saddled with over $1.5 trillion in student loan debt can attest.
Quoted: Bioethicist R. Alta Charo from the University of Wisconsin–Madison said the new measures are significant for two reasons. “First, it is a clear indication that this administration values symbolic statements over research aimed at saving lives,” she wrote to Gizmodo in an email.
By leveraging a small part of its purchasing power, UW Health has been building a system that upholds community health, minimizes pollution of air and water that diminishes health, and improves economic well-being of our rural residents.
MADISON, Wis. – Madison certainly has its share of unsung heroes; people who have made a profound difference in the world yet remain unrecognized or at least underappreciated here in their hometown.
The Republicans on the budget-writing Joint Finance Committee, who hold a 12-4 majority because of arcane legislative rules, have been making a mockery of the state’s political process as they go through the budget recommendations made by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers. If Evers likes it, throw it out. If there’s something he doesn’t like, put it in.
New missile tests in North Korea have put the region back in the spotlight. The tests portend trouble ahead for President Trump’s extremely ambitious Korean agenda no matter how much confidence he has in Kim Jung Un.
–David P. Fields is the associate director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin and the author of “Foreign Friends: Syngman Rhee, American Exceptionalism, and the Division of Korea.”
In a recent OpEd published on Madison 365, Kaleem Caire chastised Madison youth of color and their adult allies for their demeanor and their “foul, abrasive, and derogatory language” as they raised legitimate concerns about the important issues they face in the Madison Metropolitan School District.
Letter to the editor from Johnson, a professor, department of bacteriology at UW-Madison.
Column: It would be a shame to lose the moral high ground and esteem of those of us who have enjoyed bragging about UW Health’s commitment to the broader community and not just the bottom line.
Guest column: My beautiful child was 20 years old when he died of a vaccine-preventable disease as a UW-Madison student in the University of Wisconsin System. The horror and pain was unspeakable. That was 17 years ago.
Letter to the editor: I was dismayed to see Lindsay Christian’s May 16 article “UW Health shifts focus from local food” since I have been in charge of food operations for six years and there has been no shift away from using local products, nor any change in our commitment to a local spend of at least 20 percent of our total food budget.
[R]ather than abruptly canceling contracts with local suppliers, UW Health should have taken an approach similar to the city of Madison’s response to SSM Health’s plans — seeking ways to avoid an unnecessary choice.
It may be that more money needs to be appropriated to research at University of Wisconsin System campuses to help the struggling dairy industry. But state Sen. Howard Marklein, R-Spring Green, and 27 other Republicans have taken a partisan path to address the problem.
Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt delivered the commencement address at the University of Wisconsin-Madison over the weekend, and delivered what I thought to be a brilliant message to 2019 graduates.
