Category: Opinion

The mixed signals were embarrassing. UW-Madison is a public institution. The message from UW officials and student groups to presidential prospects and prominent figures who choose to appear on the campus should be that they are expected to be open, transparent and accessible.

If you want to continue to be blind to the explicit acts of hate, discrimination and prejudice that happens on a daily basis at our school, that’s your own problem. I don’t owe anyone anything.

Students already know that mental health services at UHS are inadequate. In 2018, wait times for counseling sessions were as long as 36 days.

The SuccessWorks program located above the University Bookstore started by Dean Karl Scholz is offering a range of services to undergraduates including internships, career counseling, job interviews and even a closet of appropriate clothing for those interviews. What a terrific idea.

After recent violent acts on campus, students, families deserve more comprehensive solutions.

UW administration seeks to address sexual violence on campus through Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct Climate Survey.

Yes, the Canada Goose jacket seems to be a heated point of conversation when it comes to undergraduates seeking to critique class in the university.

The situation in Venezuela is, undoubtedly, difficult. But when it comes to Latin America, Washington has a long history of making difficult situations worse. It is precisely because Venezuela deserves a better government than it currently has that the United States should not play a role in choosing it.Patrick Iber is a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of “Neither Peace nor Freedom: The Cultural Cold War in Latin America.”

When a student takes notes on a laptop in a class that doesn’t allow them, they immediately stick out like a sore thumb. To their peers, not only does this immediately identify them as someone who receives McBurney services, it also makes them seem like someone who directly refutes the researched claims the professor has given for their technology policy.

Column by Sue Robinson, journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

UW Stevens Point aims to cut majors with low enrollment, but still integrate liberal arts in meaningful way.

Lack of transparency about SNAP benefits leaves students confused, unable to take advantage of resources.

Teaching is a noble profession and special calling that should be honored and well-paid. So we applaud the UW System for creating a task force to help identify how UW System institutions can better meet Wisconsin’s needs for more teachers and school leaders.

UW’s failure to cancel class, despite knowledge of the weather’s danger, displays disregard for students’ safety.

Location also matters when it comes to Evers’ view of family-supporting jobs and people in poverty. A report in June 2018 by the UW-Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty showed the overall state poverty rate climbed to 10.8 percent in 2016, with some wide geographic fluctuations.

Mayer’s choice to include this background information about our current president is not a product of his own bias — it is rather the product of an awareness that our current political moment is unlike anything we’ve seen before.

An anthropologist at Harvard University, Richard Wrangham is no stranger to wild animals. His long fieldwork with wild chimpanzees in the Kibale Forest of Uganda, and other African field sites, has done much to help scientists see the role of aggression and violence in our close relatives.

By national standards, for instance, Wisconsin has few people who are either very poor or very rich. As a result, the University of Wisconsin looks bad on national income mobility rankings, even though it enrolls a lot of students from the lower end of the state’s own income distribution.

From my reading, Professor Mayer gave a concise snapshot of the Trump presidency from competing views and then a brief history to help explain why some have been critical of the president.

The annual report by the National Science Foundation on research and development spending by U.S. colleges and universities confirmed what many people already know: The UW-Madison is a powerhouse when it comes to attracting R&D dollars.

Today marks day 33 of the government shutdown. Some 380,00 government employees are furloughed, and an additional 420,000 are required to work without pay, with many of them pressed to find temporary jobs, start GoFundMe pages or hawk their personal possessions.

John Roach’s recent column [“Econ 101,” January 2019] claimed that UW–Madison is inaccessible to all but the wealthy due to tuition increases and high student debt. This is a persistent myth that causes many students to wrongly assume that UW–Madison is beyond their reach.

Just a few days ago, scientists with the University of Wisconsin-Madison issued a disturbing projection following a multiyear forest experiment: Expect the beloved forests of Yellowstone National Park to be replaced by grasslands sometime around mid-century.

Evers called out research and development, especially in the UW System, as a priority tied to the state’s entrepreneurial economy.

Letter to the editor: Two UW professors were key investigators who carried out research for NASA. Geology professor Eugene N. Cameron studied the mineral composition of the rocks to evaluate the conditions and processes of rock formation on the moon. Chemistry professor Larry A. Haskin was interested in the trace elements found in the rocks.

Depuis le 24 octobre 2018, le Gabon retient son souffle, accroché aux péripéties d’un gouvernement affaibli par l’accident vasculaire cérébral dont a été victime le Président Ali Bongo Ondimba (alias «ABO»). Pendant que celui-ci est hospitalisé à Riyad (Arabie saoudite), le gouvernement se tait, avant de déclarer, le 28 octobre, que le chef de l’État souffre d’une «fatigue légère».

A report in June 2018 by the UW-Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty showed the overall state poverty rate climbed to 10.8 percent in 2016, with some wide geographic fluctuations.

There have been a number of questionable decisions coming out of the University of Wisconsin System in recent weeks.

Though anti-Semitism among students manifests itself in graffiti or harassment, it finds a stable home online.

The University of Wisconsin’s new policy protecting free speech is about to be put to a test thanks to a brouhaha over a campus speaker. But it isn’t students who feel triggered and are raising a stink—it’s the university system president, Ray Cross, who claims to be a protector of free speech.

Column by Wagner, associate professor and Louis A. Maier Faculty Development Fellow in the University of Wisconsin Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Wisconsin Republicans endured a tough election last month, losing all major statewide offices. In response, the lame-duck legislators are calling a so-called extraordinary session. Their agenda? To make it harder for citizens to vote and to strip away powers from newly elected Democratic officials.

–Donald P. Moynihan is the McCourt chair at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. He served as a professor of public affairs at the University of Wisconsin at Madison from 2005 to 2018.

Column by Stephen M Gavazzi of Ohio State University.

Limiting Thanksgiving break inconveniences staff, students, while adding little of value.

Though free expression argument is superficially compelling, context must be taken into account.

Another priority of Gov.-elect Tony Evers should be to restore funding for UW Extension, which was cut by Gov. Scott Walker. The UW Extension is the most visible means of the Wisconsin Idea being put to work.

The elimination of majors in Spanish, Chinese, Arabic and Japanese at some University of Wisconsin System campuses, a step not hard to imagine given recent announcements from UW Stevens Point, would deprive Wisconsin businesses of a supply of intercultural experts to help inform the shaping of trade relations.

The annual report by the National Science Foundation on research and development spending by U.S. colleges and universities confirmed what many people already know: The UW-Madison is a powerhouse when it comes to attracting R&D dollars.

Leckrone has changed the lives of students in his band, delighted millions of fans and entertained anyone within earshot for a half a century. And he’s done it with passion and style and class.