Category: Opinion

Column: For years, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has regaled state residents with its tales of woe.  Since the last budget froze tuition and cut state support for the UW System, UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank has outlined staff layoffs, reductions in student employment hours, and even cutbacks in technology support.

Letter to the editor: The phrase “tuition freeze” makes for good politics, but not good policy. The University of Wisconsin System campuses have been economically pinched for years. As a result, many of the best and brightest faculty have simply left for other states.

Letter to the editor: I agree with UW System President Ray Cross that the people of Wisconsin support the UW System and want it to continue. What he wrote in his column “Now is the time to stand with your UW” is ivory tower puffery that fails to address the reality of what is happening in Wisconsin politically.

Letter to the editor: Gov. Scott Walker’s column “Tuition freeze key to college affordability” shows a total lack of understanding of the role of higher education. Universities are not trade schools and were never intended to produce students with so-called “job skillss” Especially UW-Madison, which is a research institution

Should American hunters register their firearms? Would it help improve their image among the general public? Could it help reduce U.S. gun deaths?

Over the last nine months, UW System leaders and I held listening sessions around the state, surveying the public and meeting with focused stakeholder groups about the future of Wisconsin.

Sunday was Sue Riseling’s last day as chief of the UW Madison Police Department after 25 years of service to the UW community, and she leaves as one of the most respected campus police chiefs in the nation.

Twenty years ago, I headed to Sweden for a sabbatical year to study the country’s attitudes toward hunting. As a responsible hunter, I brought my own guns — an old 12-gauge shotgun and a Remington .30-06 — because I didn’t want to miss a shot or wound an animal using unfamiliar, borrowed firearms.

This letter is in response to the July 9 news article (Page 2A) regarding Sen. Steven Nass, R-LaGrange, complaining about a lecture that took place at UW-Madison.

When it comes to putting one’s money where one’s mouth is, former U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl is better than most. He’s also good at putting his money where his heart is, as his generous gift to the UW’s athletic department shows.

Letter to the editor from Russ Castronovo and Lisa Cooper, two members of UW-Madison’s English Department faculty.

But in the fields of zoology and genetics, Abrahamson, who died Saturday at the age of 88, was a towering figure, particularly during his years as a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Columnist ruminates on the UW-Madison’s Multicultural Student Center’s meetings to discuss fatal shootings of police and black men.

Thanks to Marc Eisen for his July 10 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel commentary, “Empowering UWM will empower the state,” advocating investment in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee as the pathway to a prosperous future for Wisconsin.

Letter to the editor from Jeff Carroll: Six years ago, my daughter spent a semester in Cape Town, South Africa, through the UW-Madison Study Abroad program. She arrived to a shared house with one lock in the whole residence and a 2-foot-high wall surrounding the property, not the 10-foot security wall that was promised.

Members of Congress are leaving Washington for seven weeks without passing a bill to pay for the fight against Zika. Their failure to do so will delay the public health response to the mosquito-borne virus that causes birth defects, unnecessarily putting thousands of people at risk.

The Republican state senator from Whitewater, Steve Nass, could use a refresher course on the Wisconsin Idea.

Noted: UW-Madison professor and constitutional expert Howard Schweber didn’t think Steffen’s proposal was likely to run into constitutional problems, though.

The Republican state senator from Whitewater, Steve Nass, could use a refresher course on the Wisconsin Idea.

Letter to the editor from Emily Auerbach, UW-Madison English professor and director of the UW Odyssey Project.

State Sen. Steve Nass is pointing to an essay on gay sexual preferences assigned in a UW-Madison sociology course as evidence of what’s wrong with the state’s premier system of higher education and why it might need to be supplied with even fewer taxpayer dollars during the next round of budget-making.

Nass has written a letter to the UW Chancellor, the President of the UW System and each member of the Board of Regents demanding they justify this course offering, and threatening the legislature could withhold funding for higher education throughout the state if he doesn’t like their answers. Who made this guy the chief of the morality police?

Letter to the editor from Joe Robinson, who accepted but ultimately turned down a job at UW-Madison’s Odyssey Project due to concerns about the racial climate in Madison.

Letter to the editor from Eric A. Johnson, Madison, professor, Department of Bacteriology, UW-Madison

State Sen. Steve Nass would like you to know he is very offended.

I was annoyed and incredulous when I read in The Northwestern that “Wisconsin football fans, clamoring for more night games, will be giddy in 2016,” because ESPN announced that the Ohio State and Nebraska home games will be at night. This ruffled my feathers. I do not believe that fans want more UW–Madison football games at night.

Those of us who have been around Madison for a while can be forgiven for not getting too excited about a recent front-page Wisconsin State Journal story with a headline noting the Mosse Humanities Building “could be demolished.”

Letter to the editor from emeritus professor Lee Hansen: After 50 years of minority student programs at UW-Madison, why has it suddenly become necessary to institute “cultural competency training” for entering students and initiate a “big brother is watching you” system for reporting to campus administrators “hate” or “bias” incidents?

Walking into Mrs. M—–’s Cabinet at the Milwaukee Art Museum is more like walking into a home than an traditional museum space. Located in the Constance and Dudley Godfrey American Wing, Mrs. M—-’s Cabinet is an interactive exhibit which invites viewers to create a narrative through objects collected by Mrs. M—-, a character who “exists somewhere between fact and fiction.”

Letter to the editor from David W. Cole, professor emeritus, University of Wisconsin Colleges.

How did a political novice with no governing experience and a faint grasp of policy become the Republican presidential nominee? The rise of Donald Trump becomes less of a mystery once you’ve done what I’ve been doing these last few years: Talk to the voters. What I’ve found is a burbling disdain that has now been given voice by the Trump campaign.

Girl meets boy. Opposites attract. These are common themes in romantic movies, which usually end happily, with love conquering all. The movie “Me Before You,” which opened June 3 to better-than-predicted crowds, adds an interesting twist: able-bodied girl falls in love with quadriplegic man.

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos laments that only six tenured University of Wisconsin professors have been fired in the last 20 years. Vos says that, at the national level, an estimated 2 percent of tenured faculty are dismissed each year.