Letter to the editor: Players participating in this sort of activity need to understand it’s a protest witnessed only by their teammates, since the television network has no interest in being the conduit for their “statement” to the viewing public.
No insult is too marginal, anonymous or stupid, apparently, to garner the condemnation of some of Madison’s brightest minds, who emphasize the need for a welcoming campus “climate,” emotionally safe for students.
Thanks to the efforts of Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, a recount is underway in Wisconsin. It is highly unlikely to change the outcome — as Hillary Clinton’s campaign has stated — but it is much more likely to overturn some conventional wisdom about counting votes. In particular, we may learn, yet again, that computers are better than humans at counting ballots.
The simmering frustration from in both rural and urban areas has boiled over. This turbulence, whether evident through community demonstrations or election results, conveys an urgent message of discontent rooted in social and economic inequities that result in health disparities.
Letter to the editor: The governor and the Republican Legislature threaten to further reduce state funding of UW-Madison until it meets unspecified criteria. Evidently “world-renowned research” is no longer on the list.
The news that the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s ranking for research activity dropped from fourth to sixth in the nation is just jaw-dropping.
Now-retired UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley would often say that it took well over 100 years for the people of Wisconsin to build a world-class university, but it won’t take but a few years to tear it all down.
For the first time since records have been kept, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has fallen out of the nation’s top five universities in terms of dollars spent on research and development.
Letter to the editor: A protest about very real racial injustices should not be interpreted as unpatriotic. It shows that Hayes cares about the direction this country is going. I would call that good citizenship, especially when it has required such bravery.
Letter to the editor: As a city taxpayer, I question the spending of $160,000 for a project that is essentially a gift to UW. The universtiy surely has resources (art students or instructors who could create a sculpture for a lot less) or finances to get their own public art.
For the first time since records have been kept, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has fallen out of the nation’s top five universities in terms of dollars spent on research and development.
The news that the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s ranking for research activity dropped from fourth to sixth in the nation is just jaw-dropping.
No American principle is more important than the right of dissent against what is percieved as an unjust government.
As a community of college-educated citizens, we are doing ourselves a disservice if we are not informed in the field of environmental sustainability. The environment provides us with all of the base resources we need to survive. Humans will never be able to synthetically produce all the goods and services that the environment gives us, and yet we are destroying it as though we are losing nothing; in fact, we are losing everything.
In the late 1960’s, then-law professor Robert Bork noticed an amusing phenomenon on the Yale University campus. Student protesters would notify the media of an upcoming demonstration, but if no television cameras appeared, the protest would be canceled on the spot. As Bork wrote in his book “Slouching Towards Gomorrah,” in one instance when the media failed to show, students posted a notice reserving their right to be disruptive at a later time, “thus nicely combining the fervor of revolutionaries with the caution of legal draftsmen.”
Westman is professor emeritus of psychiatry, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Letter to the editor: Two recent stories about UW-Madison in the State Journal really caught my interest. The first was about basketball player Nigel Hayes’ public protest during the national anthem. He stands a few steps behind teammates.
Thumbs up to study of voter ID law’s effects. Speculation is swirling about the effects of Wisconsin’s voter ID law on election turnout.
I grew up in Madison, as did my father. I now live in California, but I often thought my children might attend UW-Madison.
Something extraordinary happened in rural America in the 2016 election. Donald Trump appealed to folks in rural communities in an unprecedented way — yet polls failed to capture the depth of support for him in such places. Many pundits have since taken stabs at explaining the problem, yet little of the commentary is rooted in actual research.
As we stood in the long line waiting to get into the Badgers’ nonconference basketball game with Central Arkansas last Friday night, I couldn’t help but think of what this is going to be like come real winter.
Over the past several years, college tuition has been a hot topic. Millennials are living at home following graduation because they cannot pay off their student loans and they are putting off purchases such as homes.
Of course, the election of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States caused anxieties among nations in the Indo-Pacific which have been threatened by an expansionist China seeking regional predominance, nations which therefore seek help from the U.S. government. These governments do not want the U.S. government, however, to run an anti-China containment policy. Their regional resistance to a hostile Chinese hegemony is far more nuanced than that. The big question is whether Donald Trump is capable of such nuance.
These are uncertain times we live in post-election and that uncertainty extends to our relationships with the rest of world.
A lot has happened between the Oct. 29 Wisconsin Badgers home football game against Nebraska and the team’s huge win during this past homecoming weekend. As a campus community, we’ve had to contend with the horrifying representation of a noose being brought into Camp Randall, grappled with what many have referred to as a lukewarm response at best by the university, to dealing with the outcome of the presidential election.
We decided to wait until after the election to begin editorializing in support of the University of Wisconsin’s request for an increase in state funding in the upcoming budget.
UW-Madison leaders have got to be chagrined at how easily it would have been to avoid the crisis sparked by a pair of clueless football fans at Camp Randall Stadium two days before Halloween.
Letter to the editor: As a season ticket holder for over 46 years and donor to the UW, the decision by Delany to hold Big Ten football games on Friday nights is wrong in so many ways.
Letter to the editor: My respect for Wisconsin Badgers basketball player Nigel Hayes continues to grow.
Letter to the editor: While I strongly support his right to speak out and share his opinions, I find it necessary to criticize his most recent actions, which the State Journal reported.
Making sense of this presidential election requires figuring out what happened in rural places across the country. This is especially true in the Upper Midwest, where there were sharp swings toward Donald Trump that helped produce surprising victories in states such as my home state of Wisconsin.
We decided to wait until after the election to begin editorializing in support of the University of Wisconsin’s request for an increase in state funding in the upcoming budget.
Noted: Neil Heinenis joined by Gloria Ladson-Billings, the Kellner Family Chair in Urban Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Rev. Alex Gee, a pastor at Madison’s Fountain of Life Covenant Church and founder of the Nehemiah Center for Urban Leadership and a part of the Justified Anger Coalition.
The 2016-’17 academic year is my 21st spent in Dane County covering University of Wisconsin athletics.
I agree totally with Rev. Alex Gee. I am appalled at the UW’s position and cannot believe this is the same UW that I attended. An extremely open and liberal campus that bore Paul Soglin as mayor of Madison and led a progressive/liberal agenda.
No degree is worth one’s dignity, yet it seems black students are continuously asked to sacrifice theirs.
As I walked up to Varsity Hall in Union South Tuesday morning, I was put into a state of discomfort — a state that I would realize was the theme of the day. As I peered into the room, I scanned the faces of the participants. I fell short of what I was eager to see. I did not recognize many student faces. I did not see my colleagues. I only saw faculty and community members.
I want to start by saying University of Wisconsin is an extremely competent institution. I do appreciate the many educational opportunities and multitude of programming this university provides — not to mention the friends I have made in my four years here. All the same, like any institution, UW has significant shortcomings that must be addressed.
It is with grave concern as a taxpayer, Badger fan and mother of a current UW freshman that I wrote to Chancellor Rebecca Blank about the racist incident at the Badger game.
I have been asked to contribute as an alumna many times, and finally decided I could afford it. But this latest event of someone dressed in a costume of the most hateful nature imaginable attending a UW football game has changed my mind.
I am appalled that this could happen in our UW stadium. This is not free speech, this is a hate crime.
It makes me wonder what kind of lives they live to consider this a form of entertainment. That’s a lot of anger to carry around directed at people they don’t even know. As for the way UW-Madison handled the crisis: As an alumnus, what I want to hear is an unequivocal focus on the condemnation of racism. Let the perpetrators make the argument for free speech.
Election editorial.
There is no disputing the current location of the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball program. Once a college basketball nobody, UW is now living large, situated firmly in the sport’s high-rent district.
My heart sank twice late Monday night as I scrolled by a Facebook status linked to a story about a University of Wisconsin-Stout student dying after a violent assault. It sank first for the life of the student, and second for the repercussions this would have on Middle Eastern students. The mugshot-like photo of the victim, a Saudi student, could prompt further profiling of Muslim students on the UW-Stout campus and potentially here at UW-Madison.
This latest incident of racism at last Saturday’s UW football game is shocking yet somewhat familiar. Last year I gave my football tickets to a black friend of mine and his 10-year-old brother. As they were walking down the aisle to their seat, some jerk, who was apparently sitting with his son, shouted “Sit down n—–!” Many people in the area heard this and NO ONE DID ANYTHING!
I was horrified to read about the writing off of a football fan in Obama mask and noose at last Saturday’s football game. As an educational institution that taught both of my parents, my father an immigrant, I am ashamed at the lack of thoughtful reflection that led to the decision by UW that this was simply “free speech.”
The climate at University of Wisconsin-Madison for many African-Americans, Latinos, and individuals with mixed heritage is often one where they feel unseen, unwelcome and unsafe. Beyond looking at policies at Camp Randall, I challenge the university leadership to confront and reduce hate speech while maintaining free speech.
Social media erupted over the weekend after a pair of football fans showed up at the Wisconsin Badger football game in Halloween costumes depicting Donald Trump hanging Hillary Clinton and President Obama with a red and white rope noose.
Social media erupted over the weekend after a pair of football fans showed up at the Wisconsin Badger football game in Halloween costumes depicting Donald Trump hanging Hillary Clinton and President Obama with a red and white rope noose.
The University of Wisconsin System should be able to manage construction projects on campuses rather than allowing bureaucracy to muddle up the works.
It doesn’t seem like a stretch to say that relations are strained between the University of Wisconsin System and Republicans in the state Capitol. Gov. Scott Walker has proposed extending a tuition freeze for a fifth and sixth year in the 2017-19 biennial budget, a freeze which System administrators say jeopardizes higher education in the state. Walker and his counterparts in the GOP majority in the Legislature would likely reply by inquiring about the status of the System’s cash reserves, which stood at $648 million in the spring of 2013.
Republican lawmakers are fond of saying public institutions should be run more like businesses. But what successful business would put off needed repairs to the tune of $2 billion?
While UW-Madison is famous across the country for its annual Halloween celebration starting the weekend before Halloween, what gets most overlooked are the after-effects on the campus. When googling “who picks up trash on University of Wisconsin-Madison campus?” the results give links to the City of Madison Streets & Recycling Department. But these hardworking men and women can’t be solely counted upon to clean up after the students.
It doesn’t seem like a stretch to say that relations are strained between the University of Wisconsin System and Republicans in the state Capitol. Gov. Scott Walker has proposed extending a tuition freeze for a fifth and sixth year in the 2017-19 biennial budget, a freeze which System administrators say jeopardizes higher education in the state. Walker and his counterparts in the GOP majority in the Legislature would likely reply by inquiring about the status of the System’s cash reserves, which stood at $648 million in the spring of 2013.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is currently asking students to respond to a survey on how comfortable they feel on campus on a number of levels.
A few weeks ago, Wisconsin Badger basketball star Nigel Hayes stood outside ESPN’s pregame College Game Day football broadcast with a sign that read, “BROKE COLLEGE ATHLETE: ANYTHING HELPS.” Within minutes, Hayes was being hailed for “speaking out” against the “injustice” suffered by
Donald Trump has praised Russian President Vladimir Putin’s leadership, suggested that he would recognize Putin’s seizure of Crimea from Ukraine, and questioned the U.S. intelligence community’s assessment that Russia hacked the computers of the Democratic National Committee.
The current—Fall 2016—issue of the Wisconsin Alumni Association’s Badger Insider magazine contains a fun story by John Allen titled “Legends of the Fall Semester.”
Back when I was a freshman at UW-Madison in the fall of 1988, one of the fraternities pulled one of those stupid stunts where white people dress up in blackface. In this case, there was a “slave auction” and skits parodying the likes of Oprah Winfrey.
