In his column on Sunday, “Killers on campus,” Michael Arntfield tries to tie a series of unsolved murders of young women at UW-Madison to the student protests against the war in Vietnam. His thesis — that three serial killers were able to operate because “the white noise of activism and political agitation … obfuscate(d) their presence” is reprehensible and ludicrous.
When thinking about how to revive economically lagging regions, especially in the Rust Belt, I often talk about the importance of universities. Big, high-quality research universities have been essential for creating technology clusters in Austin, Raleigh and San Diego. But even small colleges in rural areas can have big benefits for the surrounding area.
Through variety of student organizations at UW, students must take time to explore, refine political beliefs.
Our Wisconsin provides vital identity education, needed now more than ever on harsh campus climate.
Letter to the editor: CLEAN — Campus Leaders for Environmental Action Now — is a coalition of students dedicated to committing UW-Madison to 100 percent clean energy (solar and wind power) by the year 2030.
In early 2017, Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin introduced the idea of requiring an internship or “hands-on work experience” to obtain a bachelor’s degree in the 26-campus University of Wisconsin system. This was an unsurprising development for many of us in Wisconsin. For the past several years, the governor has championed the view that a “skills gap” was stifling the state’s economy, primarily because, he has said, the higher-education system was out of touch with the needs of the business community.
Column by Gloria Ladson-Billings: Unlike its predecessors, “Black Panther” is decidedly black — not just a “white” superhero in blackface. No, “Black Panther” is decidedly political, cultural, spiritual, and racial. It asks its audience to think about the world we created and the world we want to live in.
Wisconsin may be open for business, but young people are taking theirs elsewhere.
Right to protest should not be infringed upon once prospective student gets to campus.
Some people are hesitant to participate in student protests because they are afraid of what others will think of them, but the truth is that every movement matters, no matter how small the issue may seem.
Pursuing a degree in L&S should not be something that seems like a risk for incoming students.
We need to make innovation a priority. The scientist’s job is to winnow and sift, without any trepidation, revealing scientific truths and teasing the secrets out of nature.
When the U.S. women’s hockey team scored an epic victory over the long-dominant Canadian team, the loudest cheers went up from Wisconsin. Mostly, they were for the U.S. team.
Dejope is a shining example of how the university should not only be open about, but also honor its Native culture. However, UW-Madison gives the impression that such commemoration is not always acceptable.
After reading the recent news, it’s clear we don’t all share the same understanding about shared governance in the university setting.
Continued reports of conduct violations, sexual assault prove that pros of greek life incomparable to cons.
At a recent meeting, the University of Wisconsin Athletic Board again discussed the empty UW-Madison student section for Badgers football games.
On college campuses across the country, free speech is one of hottest topics.
Conservative students and faculty say their First Amendment rights are threatened by a “politically correct” dominant campus culture that seeks to silence dissent, while others say the larger society’s embrace of “hate speech” is part of a system intended to subjugate people of color and other marginalized groups and that it shouldn’t be sanctioned on campus or anywhere else.
In 1977, she became the first-ever female tenured professor in the History Department at the University of Wisconsin when she was promoted to Associate Professor.
First-generation, low-income students like myself are some of the most resourceful and diligent students I know, traits born out of necessity in order to keep up with everyone else. We cannot afford, literally or figuratively, to let any opportunities pass us by.
We are appreciative on many levels for Dane County and UW-Extension’s annual free tax preparation help. First of all, it helps a lot of people. And second, it’s a quiet example of local government and the UW providing that help.
Bucky Badger will make you a promise. If you have the grades and the scores and the luck to get into the University of Wisconsin, and if your family’s income is less than the median, Bucky will give you free tuition and cover your fees.
On Feb. 8, the University of Wisconsin announced a pledge to “cover four years of tuition and segregated fees for any incoming freshman from Wisconsin whose family’s annual household adjusted gross income is $56,000 or less, roughly the median family income in Wisconsin. Transfer students from Wisconsin meeting the same criteria will receive two years of tuition and segregated fees.”
Bucky Badger will make you a promise. If you have the grades and the scores and the luck to get into the University of Wisconsin, and if your family’s income is less than the median, Bucky will give you free tuition and cover your fees.
Beginning this fall, incoming freshmen and transfer students from Wisconsin households with adjusted gross incomes of $56,000 or less will receive free tuition and segregated fees. For freshmen, that is a commitment of eight consecutive semesters tuition free, and for transfer students it’s up to four semesters free.
The student outrage about the new proposed dining plan is more than just anger towards a mandatory meal plan that many simply cannot afford. It is a reflection of longstanding student resentment towards UW’s policies that ignore their voices. Enough is enough.
Every college student has responsibility to prevent sexual assault, support its victims.
Radio is now distributed on sites like iTunes, Pandora and Spotify; in podcasts, online archives and radio streams; and in new hybrid forms like YouTube, audio slideshows, and digital soundscapes. Ironically, “sound has now become a screen medium”, claims Professor Michele Hilmes at the University of Wisconsin.
Ruth Bleier of the University of Wisconsin-Madison earlier called for a “feminist” view to understanding the mechanics of cell biology and sex selection.
(Goldrick-Rab recently moved to Temple from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she once said the number of similarities between Republican Gov. Scott Walker and Adolf Hitler were “terrifying.” Presumably, her contract with her new employer provides her with a daily plate of spaghetti and meatballs to prevent her from saying such uninformed things.)
Legislation working its way through the state Legislature would prohibit Wisconsin businesses who sign on to the global Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) movement from receiving some state contracts.
Every once in a while, a truth is revealed that makes you suddenly realize you’ve been living in the past. There are people who perpetuate outdated myths for their own political purposes.
Tax breaks only go so far. The next step is reversing cuts to the state university system.
UW Business School enforces credit requirements just like any other UW school.
As a former collegiate football player who now suffers from memory loss, mood swings, and depression, it pains me to see the lack of perspective shown by so many football players today.
Even though the Badgers basketball team lost to Nebraska this week, the players are teaching us a valuable life lesson. Enjoy the good times.
The idea that a university is in charge of feeding its students fuels a problematic cycle: The more we ask colleges to do for students, the higher tuition gets, and then we ask them to do even more for students who are forced to pay more to go to school.
The building was soon fully engulfed. Madison’s fire department arrived, but when they pointed their hoses at the blaze, nothing came out. There was no pressure — city water tanks had been drained earlier in the day so a boiler could be cleaned. On top of that, the nearby University of Wisconsin-Madison’s reservoir was empty. Units from Milwaukee and Jacksonville’s fire departments boarded trains and raced to the scene. But when they arrived, the bitter cold temperature had frozen the water in their pumps solid.
Guidance from experienced students could ease overwhelming transition.
Without weekend hours, UHS makes all students, sick or healthy, susceptible to disease.
Turning away students with “too many credits” works against goals of a college education.
Noted: State general-fund support for UW System down 6.3 percent. State government’s subsidy of the 26-campus UW System was $1.1 billion in fiscal 2011 and $1.03 billion six years later.
At halftime of the Wisconsin-Illinois men’s basketball game, the UW-Madison and its athletic department — and especially Badgers fans — gave a heartwarming thank you to the person who led the effort to make the beautiful Kohl Center a reality: former U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl.
Government money applied to things that we as a society think are important — from space travel to the internet — produces major results in every area, in the medical, mechanical, electric, and even retail space.To stay competitive in this global economy, we must value and support basic research. And that means allowing the “Ice Road Truckers of science” to pursue their curiosity in order to drive discovery.
Rebecca Blank is chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Brad Schwartz is CEO of the biomedical Morgridge Institute for Research in Madison.
To be greener, we must want to do more than sign a pledge.
Missing time with family, not offering enough time for employment are just two reasons UW needs to reform academic calendar.
I perfectly understand that I live in a fantasy world, but I hold out hope that, as John Keating desires in “Dead Poets Society,” culture will again teach people to think for themselves, take agency, and carpe diem. If a missile alert came in on my phone, I’d keep doing what I already am: reading a good book and listening to Robert Schumann’s “Träumerei.”
-Mr. Schmiege teaches Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Vice President Pence’s praise of President Trump during a Dec. 20 Cabinet meeting prompted a lot of derision, and not just from the late-night comics. This wasn’t the first time Trump’s subordinates have publicly performed effusive praise that seems to violate “a norm against excessive and ungrounded flattery,” but Pence’s performance made many cringe. In emphasizing that working for Trump was a “blessing,” Pence managed to praise the president once every 12 seconds.
In 1914, Edward Alsworth Ross, the famous progressive sociologist from the University of Wisconsin, called Jews “moral cripples” whose “tribal spirit intensified by social isolation prompts them to rush to the rescue of the caught rascal of their own race.” Subversion? During the campaign, Donald Trump said at a New Hampshire rally that Syrian refugees “could make the Trojan horse look like peanuts.”
A generation of newsroom protocol—the kind I trained under and teach at UW–Madison—mandates that reporters remain free of conflicts of interest.
MADISON, Wis. – The cause of supporting epilepsy research has had no better friend than Lily, and there has been no better benefit than Lily’s Luau.
Lastly, purpose. Longitudinal research tracking people for years shows that purpose in life in the latter decades of life can predict whether a person will be alive 10 years later. Identifying your purpose, your larger aspirations in life, and aligning your everyday behaviour and experiences with that core purpose, is something we know can promote well-being and motivate you to do things that are meaningful to you.Take time daily to think about what you care about most in life. Create reminders to connect to your larger purpose, and question whether your actions that day contribute or are in conflict with your purpose. And ask yourself how your activities can be reframed to support your larger purpose. Richard J. Davidson is the director and founder of the Centre for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the William James and Vilas Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry
In November, the first government satellite in the Joint Polar Satellite System series, JPSS-1, an effort of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), was successfully launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
Letter to the editor: The differences in Gov. Scott Walker and the Republican Legislature’s treatment of universities and Foxconn are revealing.
Last month, the International Criminal Court opened two investigations, including a sensitive one in Afghanistan, and a call has been made to allow it to intervene in Myanmar. But such a flurry of announcements mainly testifies to the impasse at which the court finds itself.
–Thierry Cruvellier is the author of “Court of Remorse: Inside the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda” and “Master of Confessions: The Making of a Khmer Rouge Torturer,” and a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
“There’s something to be said for diversity in all sorts of ways, including diversity of how we deliver education,” says Julie Underwood, dean of education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “My concern about private schools mainly is their constant need for public money and their unwillingness, for the most part, to comply with accountability measures.”
I am concerned about how the mandatory Dining deposit will impact low-income students’ access to our state’s public flagship university.
Sororities and fraternities puts its members in harms way and negatively affects those around the area, so where will colleges draw the line?
The news media — an industry in which, especially in Washington and New York City, the social and professional lives of powerful people are inseparable — has a storied history of men belittling women and excluding them from access to power. Well into the 1970s, women operated at a disadvantage, excluded from key events and spaces and condescended to by their peers. (Kathryn J. McGarr, a historian and assistant professor at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin, is author of “The Whole Damn Deal: Robert Strauss and the Art of Politics.”)
Mandating certain consumer behavior limits freedom, suppresses competition.
