Letter to the editor: Students don’t come to a program understanding how to do research. Research involves many challenging skills, such as collecting and interpreting data, writing and presenting reports, publishing the results, getting funding for research, and identifying commercial possibilities. All this is learned only by a student’s active participation in the research process.
Gov. Scott Walker has done it again. This man continues to attack the University of Wisconsin System, interfering with business that should not be messed with. If the $250 million in cuts to the UW System in the 2015 budget weren’t enough, he now wants the UW System to allow students to opt out of allocable segregated fees, which will have detrimental effects on our schools.
Noted: Now in “Transparent,” I’m still putting lessons learned at the Rep to work on the show. I also can’t seem to get away from people with connections to the Badger State. I’ve reunited with Judith, and our cast includes two graduates of UW-Madison, Jill Soloway and Amy Landecker, as well as Madison native Brad Whitford. Now if they’d only bring brats and cheese curds to the set, I’d be one happy guy!
On Feb. 27, UW-Madison community members received a familiar “Timely Warning” email that highlighted the ongoing threat of burglary on campus. UW-Madison is obligated to send these emails under the Clery Act, which requires campuses to report specific crimes, such as homicide, sexual offenses and robbery. While these emails often describe the alleged perpetrator, rarely do they include identifying photographs like the one circulated on Monday.
We are all doing well in our golden years and enjoying our retirements; two here in Wisconsin and one in Illinois. I can unequivocally state that the reason why we are doing well is the education we received from this great university.
For 43 years, I have been a proud alumnus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
We’re sure Gov. Scott Walker did not mean for students at the UW to lose their access to services if they are sexually assaulted when he proposed allowing students to opt out of some segregated fees.
While these allocable segregated fees are only 17 percent of the total of segregated fees students pay, amounting to $88.98 per student each semester, according to UW’s Office of the Registrar, these fees fund a multitude of on-campus services. These services include, but are not limited to: the bus pass, the Rape Crisis Center, Tenant Resource Center, Badger Catholic, Sex Out Loud, SPILL, VETS Support, GUTS Tutoring and various grants for student org operations.
The University of Wisconsin System is supposed to be one of the state’s most effective paths to helping children of lower- and working-class households join the middle class. Unfortunately, it’s not working out that way.
Members of the University of Wisconsin community received a familiar crime warning email Monday describing an ongoing string of on-campus burglaries involving electronics and credit cards … Those who opened the email, however, may have been surprised that in addition to the usual description and location of the crime and a vague description of any suspects involved in the case, this particular email also included photos of the suspects — two young black men.
UW-Madison professor of virology Yoshihiro Kawaoka doesn’t teach classes on campus.
Letter to the editor: I attended UW-Madison’s art department half-time for four years (1975-79), to earn a BS in art. During that time, without exception, every professor made time for me during office hours to answer questions. Two professors did extended independent studies with me. There was no way they could have been paid for those many one-on-one contact hours other than feeling the satisfaction of helping this student to a greater depth of learning. I am grateful to them to this day!
As soon as prospective students are admitted to UW-Madison, they begin the housing application process. Along with this process, students are highly encouraged to apply for a student job on campus. These jobs are presented as being conveniently located, with flexible hours and a great way to make friends and connections. While all of this may be true, there is one major detriment to working for the university: the pay.
What’s so weird about it is it feels like our athletic programs are all on the rise and our academic programs are either stuck in the same place or in decline.
There are many reasons that Prent Corp., founded 50 years ago by my father in Janesville, has grown into the world’s leading designer and producer of custom thermoformed packages for the medical device industry. I can honestly say, however, that without the contributions by our employees, our company would not have been able to achieve the success that we have enjoyed in these five decades.
Mr. Schickel graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1955 with a bachelor’s degree in political science and moved to New York, where he freelanced for magazines and reviewed his first film, “Sammy Going South,” starring Edward G. Robinson, in 1963.
The governor’s companion budget bill calls on the UW Board of Regents and the campuses across the state to “guarantee all members of the System’s community the broadest possible latitude to speak, write, listen, challenge and learn.”
Gov. Scott Walker’s latest attempt to micro-manage UW-Madison has hit a new low. Now Gov. Walker wants to meddle with student fees.
In a small piece of the proposed state budget, Gov. Scott Walker has earmarked $10,000 for the University of Wisconsin System for “codifying the state’s commitment to academic freedom” and wants the System to protect offensive speech.
Letter to the editor: I think that Gov. Scott Walker has an excellent idea to allow UW-Madison students to opt out of allocable student fees, but only if Wisconsin taxpayers are also allowed to opt out of paying taxes for those programs that they disagree with.
Letter to the editor: As a political independent and current student, I am grateful for those that have made these efforts possible, which includes countless Democrats and Republicans who have worked together over the years. One may not always agree with his politics, but former Gov. Tommy Thompson invested in UW as governor — and his recent video offering his support of our grand university is proof that he cares deeply about helping bridge the divide between the state and the university. For that, the ol’ Badger deserves bipartisan praise.
Last year, I appeared as a contestant on Jeopardy! I came in third. Which sounds pretty good if you ignore the fact that the game is played with only three contestants. Unless you also bear in mind that more than 70,000 took the online test last year — the first step in getting onto the show. Only about 450 new players appear on air each season, which still put me in the top 0.65% — an unheard-of acceptance rate in the field of scholarly publishing, where I’ve worked for the past two decades.
Last week, President Trump pleased conservatives when he nominated Neil Gorsuch to the United States Supreme Court. He looks to have made good on his promise to appoint a conservative justice to the Court. Court watchers are now left to wonder: how conservative will Gorsuch be? Our analysis suggests that if confirmed, Gorsuch might be the most conservative justice on the Supreme Court.
In his final state budget before facing another election, Gov. Scott Walker is proposing significant investment in Wisconsin’s public schools and universities.That’s a welcome change from his past state spending plans that cut funding for K-12 and higher education by hundreds of millions of dollars.
We asked you to respond to Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to cut tuition at the University of Wisconsin in the fall of 2018.
Noted: Stephen M. Born is emeritus professor of Planning and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Gov. Scott Walker has been quite successful at fooling 51 percent of the voters every four years. The re-election budget he offered this week shows he’s deep into campaign mode once again, hoping Wisconsinites will buy his attempts to fix things and forget about the fact that he broke them in the first place.
Recently, UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank proposed an initiative called the Badger Promise. The objective is to welcome more first-generation students who have completed programs at one of Wisconsin’s two-year campuses by providing free tuition at UW-Madison.
Noted: Separate research published in 2015 by Johnson, C. Kirabo Jackson, an economist at Northwestern, and Claudia Persico, an economist at the University of Wisconsin, found that
Noted: And whom else might this ban keep out? Remember Steve Jobs? His biological father was Abdulfattah “John” Jandali. He came to America as a student in the 1950s and studied at the University of Wisconsin. He was from … Homs, Syria.
On the night of Thursday, Jan. 26, I was in Flagstaff, Ariz., with my training group, sifting through my Twitter feed.
As the meltdown on the Berkeley campus reminds us, free speech seems to have a fragile beachhead on university campuses. While “safe spaces” have multiplied across academia, the idea that campuses should be zones that respect free speech seems to have withered.
There was a bit of irony in the latest flap over at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where Chancellor Rebecca Blank has asked the Board of Regents to review admission policies that prohibit asking prospective students about or considering their criminal history.
Dear Editor, I am writing in response to the controversy surrounding Daniel Dropik. In subsequent moves to prevent further such incidents, admission’s staff should note that there are on campuses throughout the country many students who have criminal records. For many former offenders, higher education offers a clear path from a dark past toward a brighter future. An educated ex-con can do a lot of good in the world.
Jeff Sauer, who embraced the challenge of replacing legendary men’s hockey coach Bob Johnson at the University of Wisconsin in 1982 and went on to win two NCAA titles in 20 seasons, died Thursday of pancreatic cancer.
Column by eight members of White Anti-racist Graduate Students (WAGS): Kathryn Boonstra, James Gleckner, Tyler Hook, Julie Kallio, Lauren Lauter, Amato Nocera, Erica Ramberg, Rob Timberlake and Glen Water.
Former University of Wisconsin hockey coach Jeff Sauer died Thursday morning, according to a spokesperson for USA Hockey. He was 73.
Among a myriad of other injustices, the overall health of our nation faces stomach-sinking danger, and the threats to U.S. sexual, reproductive and women’s health are substantial. But we, as students at UW-Madison, are in a privileged position to access services and education to protect our minds and bodies and it will become increasingly important to protect and support them as threats to public health rise.
Earlier today, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank announced plans for UW-Madison to make several changes to existing policies regarding incoming students.
You can look at the mishandling of funds at the University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh (UWO) as a blot on the accounting controls of the University of Wisconsin System (UWS), or you can applaud the efforts of former UWO Chancellor Rick Wells to integrate his campus and its related foundation with the economic development of its region.
“Unprecedented.” It’s a word that gets tossed around a lot lately, with regard to Donald Trump. This time, however, it’s justified. Behind all the chaos, confusion, and international consternation of Trump’s thinly-veiled Muslim immigration and travel ban there’s a clear-cut constitutional crisis brewing, as argued on Twitter by Donald Moynihan, director of the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin.
LA Times editorial: College, we like to think, is a time of intellectual inquiry. But it is also, as anyone who has spent any time on a campus knows, a time of boundary-testing, experimentation and alcohol-fueled parties. Not exactly the kind of place where it makes sense to let folks wander around carrying hidden weapons.
Did you know there’s a list of the 40 worst colleges for Jewish students? Algemeiner.com, a Jewish news site, has published it. I bring this up to question the contents. Algemeiner, if you’re going to publish such a list, could you please actually put the worst colleges for Jewish students on it, not the best? Ridiculously, University of Madison – Wisconsin, one of the best schools for Jewish students in the nation, is number 39 on the list.
Column by Wisconsin’s Lieutenant Governor: As the mother of middle schoolers, I’ve supplied my fair share of two-liter bottles to make ecosystems. An ecosystem is that complex, interwoven web of realities and relationships in a particular ecological area. A forest’s ecosystem, for instance, includes the trees and their leaves, the bugs and birds, herbivores, omnivores and carnivores.
As you might imagine, there’s a lot to unpack when a UW-Madison student who’s been convicted of setting fire to black churches starts passing out invitations around campus to join a “pro-white student club.”
I was disturbed reading the news yesterday. Well, that seems a bit general. For the last week and a half, I’ve been disturbed by the news every time I go on Facebook or Twitter.
Column by College Republicans: Freedom, liberty, opportunity, justice. These are just a few words used to describe our country. If any of these terms deeply resonate with your image of this country, you are probably a Republican.
Mildly dissing fellow Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to cut UW System tuition, Vos said he’d rather increase financial aid for needy students because “just cutting tuition across the board means you are going to give the same assistance to somebody who could write a check without even blinking.”
Noted: UW-Madison Political Science Professor Barry Burden said the governor’s fundraising numbers will keep climbing.
Republicans like to claim “freedom” as a banner ideology of their party, but the GOP in Wisconsin has shown an aversion to freedom lately. In particular, state Sen. Stephen Nass, R-Whitewater, seems to have a fundamental misunderstanding of freedom, namely academic freedom.
Recently revealed allegations of the misuse of public funds by the former chancellor and vice chancellor at UW-Oshkosh should have taxpayers and legislators outraged – and demanding a long-overdue independent audit of the entire UW System.
Among the issues Michelle Obama targeted during her tenure as first lady, improving access to higher education was at the top of the docket. Her Reach Higher initiative was meant to inspire every American to pursue some sort education beyond a high school diploma.
“The Problem with Whiteness” is not that every single white person is racist. “The Problem with Whiteness” is that in 2017, there are still people who are afraid their white privilege will be taken away by a professor teaching a class on what it means to be white.
Quoted: Federal regulations already define milk as “the lacteal secretion, practically free from colostrum, obtained by the complete milking of one or more healthy cows,” and UW-Madison Center for Dairy Research director John Lucey notes that there are “‘Standards of Identity’ for yogurts and most cheeses, where they state that those products must be made from milk.”
Gov. Scott Walker is pitching his proposal to cut—“that’s right, cut,” as Walker said in his State of the State address—tuition at UW schools as something new, and it took even Republican lawmakers by surprise.
I applaud my colleague Donald P. Moynihan’s critiques of the legislative interventions with university courses that have emerged in recent times. A critical aspect of academic freedom is the freedom of faculty and departments to choose what and how to teach. But he is wrong to play down the suffocating effects of identity politics activists and the forces of so-called political correctness.
In April of last year, a University of Wisconsin-La Crosse student filed a unique complaint with the campus’ “Hate Response Team.” He charged that a new Harry Potter mural on campus represented “white power,” “man power,” “cis power,” “able power” and “class power.”
Before we get too far ahead of ourselves, returning to our roots doesn’t mean we’ll be printing five days a week again. And it definitely doesn’t mean we won’t be perusing new ventures in the form of partnerships or technology.
Gripe if you must, UW System officials, for you have at least a few legitimate things to gripe about, including $600 million in cuts to state aid since 2011 and overly sensitive white Republican lawmakers who have a problem with courses like “The Problem of Whiteness” and take out their frustration by threatening to cut university funding yet again.
Letter to the editor: I have been a practicing psychiatrist in this community for over 30 years, and this proposal by our legislators to allow guns in UW campus buildings has caused me great concern.
