Category: Opinion

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.

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.

Election editorial.

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.

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.

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.”

For the second time in seven years, violent unrest has followed the presidential election in the small country of Gabon in West Equatorial Africa

This is a letter of comment concerning the actions and abuse of authority by Sen. Steven Nass.

On Sunday evening, students did not receive a WiscAlert. This is disturbing, because when a violent sexual assault occurs in the heart of campus, I think it’s well within our right to know.

For the second time in seven years, a presidential election in Gabon has triggered violent unrest. Rich in oil, uranium and manganese, Gabon now faces a turbulent future. Incumbent president Ali Bongo’s narrow victory over opponent Jean Ping ignited the country’s main cities and forced a recount of the vote.

Politics naturally involves debate, but perhaps never before has it seemed so divisive. Beyond the partisan divide, our society is split along racial, ethnic and class lines, divisions that have rocked communities and forced hard conversations across the country.

Where are the professors? Nothing annoys academics more than pointing out how little time they actually spend teaching students.

Letter to the editor: The Madison Trust for Historic Preservation believes the contract negotiated with Amazon by the UW Board of Regents to allow a package pick-up center in the Historic Red Gym is an inappropriate use within this prized national historic landmark.

Students at UW-Madison are stuck in the epicenter of Wisconsin’s disastrous political discourse. Nowhere in the nation, it seems, is the debate over education as prevalent as it is a few blocks away at our state Capitol.

Letter to the editor: The article on the proliferation of luxury high-rises aimed at UW students was in depth, informative, and thoroughly dispiriting. Setting aside the soul-crushing banality of their architecture, these buildings symbolize perfectly the elitist agenda of UW administrators.

With UW-Madison at its epicenter, the UW System appears to be sinking deeper into the intellectual morass known as political correctness. UW-Madison has unveiled a pilot program targeting 1,000 students devoted to improving race relations, largely in response to racial incidents on campus last year. If deemed successful, this program is likely to grow and probably move to other campuses.

With UW-Madison at its epicenter, the UW System appears to be sinking deeper into the intellectual morass known as political correctness.

The whining and bleating factions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison haven’t lost a step judging by the kerfuffle they’re stirring up over the renting of some space at the old Red Gym.

The United States has one big advantage where it still towers over the rest: its world-beating universities. The days of U.S. supremacy in manufacturing are gone, although we still are competitive in certain areas connected to our research universities. Yet when the world is “free to choose,” to paraphrase the late iconic conservative University of Chicago economist, they “choose” the U.S. for education and research.

Letter to the editor: I am an out-of-state student studying conservation biology at UW, and I have seen firsthand the pride Wisconsinites have in this great state, especially on campus and in Madison.

What we all want after college, to get a job, just became a little easier for members of the University of Wisconsin System.