Letter to the editor from Virginia Tech assistant prof.: News about the Wisconsin Legislature introducing a concealed-carry policy at University of Wisconsin campuses sends fear through me.
Wisconsin State Journal editorial: A chief asset is our university system. About 4,500 foreign students attend UW-Madison. Statewide, the total is more than twice as large. That’s brainpower that could fill and create jobs in the state. One of every eight STEM workers in Wisconsin with an advanced degree is already an immigrant.
Letter to the editor: My dilemma now is: I’m having trouble making my (fairly meager) annual contribution to the UW Foundation or any other UW-related fund.My feeling is, with people like budget-cutting Gov. Scott Walker, Paul Ryan, Ron Johnson and Reince Priebus as the state’s standard-bearers, and Wisconsin voting red, don’t come around to blue-state outsiders like me to make up the budget difference. I wonder if other alumni feel the same way?
There’s an inherent dilemma in effectively managing cybersecurity: IT organizations must dedicate the time and focus required for long-term strategic planning while maintaining the agility to meet evolving threats and take advantage of emerging technologies. Add in the ongoing need to review and revise strategic plans to reflect those changing risk and technology landscapes, and the task can seem herculean.
Noted: Julia Sherman is the coordinator of the Wisconsin Alcohol Policy Project at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
Dietram Scheufele: Truth seems to be an increasingly flexible concept in politics. At least that’s the impression the Oxford English Dictionary gave recently, as it declared “post-truth” the 2016 Word of the Year. Many scientists and science communicators have grappled with disregard for, or inappropriate use of, scientific evidence for years – especially around contentious issues like the causes of global warming, or the benefits of vaccinating children.
Excessive force by police against minorities, especially African-Americans, is nothing new in America. But now video evidence verifies the lethal violence occurring to our fellow Americans.
I am alarmed and disappointed by reports Rep. Jesse Kremer, R-Kewaskum, acting on the wishes of his pro-gun campaign contributors, will again introduce concealed-carry legislation bringing handguns to a University of Wisconsin System campus near you.
Choosing where to go to college is a huge choice. It’s an even bigger deal for me because of the amount of debt I’ll be taking on.
It is not obvious to me that Chinese leaders are very angry over President-elect Donald J. Trump’s phone call to President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan. It’s not even obvious to me that Taiwan is a top priority for the Chinese Communist Party, but the United States is.
Truth seems to be an increasingly flexible concept in politics. At least that’s the impression the Oxford English Dictionary gave recently, as it declared “post-truth” the 2016 Word of the Year. What happens when decisions are based on misleading or blatantly wrong information? The answer is quite simple – our airplanes would be less safe, our medical treatments less effective, our economy less competitive globally, and on and on.
Justin Sydnor is a UW-Madison business professor specializing in risk management and insurance.
I’ve often been asked what the difference between Milwaukee and Madison when it comes to the world of startups. Madison and the UW system represent one of the greatest intellectual brain trusts on the planet; backed up by world-class research.
Letter to the editor: Now, after many successful seasons and a 2016 year where the Badgers were outstanding, the State Journal comes up with the headline: “Cotton Bowl serves as consolation prize.” Consolation? The Cotton Bowl is one of the biggest prizes among the many bowls.
It’s slow going, but the campaign to highlight censorship on campus may be getting somewhere. That’s the message of a new report from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (Fire), which tracks the speech bullies in academia.
Maybe you’ve heard someone say, “My wife has cancer, and her treatment isn’t working.” Or, “I need equipment that performs better in my plant and saves me time and money.” “My child has autism, and I need better ways to help him.”
State legislators should fully support the moderate and reasonable budget request submitted by the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison recently slid two spots in the national rankings for total research funding. The shift is a troubling indicator for our state’s economic future. While this prestigious flagship university is certainly capable of a rebound, these are signs of things to come and no one should be surprised.
The conservative website, professorwatchlist.org, claims its list comes from credible sources, but the website’s entry portraying a UW-Whitewater professor as a left-wing radical smacks of fake news.
State lawmakers should fully support the moderate and reasonable budget request submitted by the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents.
“Person on the street” interviews.
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.
