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.
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.
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.
I read with interest W. Lee Hansen’s Cap Times op-ed “Is a new UW ’BlackOut Student Diversity Plan’ the answer?”. I respect Lee’s long-time interest in these issues, but wanted to clarify several points that he made.
Natural selection is tricky to catch in action. As Darwin put it, “A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die.” The grain in the balance—the slightly increased chance that organisms carrying one gene variant will fail in the struggle for existence—is the cost of selection. It is almost invisible, only becoming statistically evident when viewed across thousands of individuals, who may display only subtle differences in the affected character.
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.
Editorial from WISC-TV’s Neil Heinen.
While I suspect we will never fully take for granted the miracle of organ transplants, the life-saving operation is certainly viewed today as commonplace and increasingly successful.
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.
Depending on how old you are and how long you’ve lived in Wisconsin, you’ve likely heard the dismissive phrase “When in doubt, Stout!” It’s an outdated reference to UW-Stout being a college choice of last resort.
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.
Wisconsin’s open records law requires the release of public documents “as soon as practicable and without delay.”
Clearly, Americans fear sharia, Islam’s legal framework. At least nine states have passed “foreign law” statutes banning sharia in American courts — even though no U.S. court has ever ruled based on sharia.
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.
I’m a true-blue Madison guy of many decades, so I have a deep appreciation of what a world-class university means for a successful Madtown.
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.
Noted: W. Lee Hansen is a professor emeritus of economics at UW-Madison.
Carl Gulbrandsen is so understated that even some people close to him didn’t know he played in a band growing up in Viroqua — or that his cousin is rocker Butch Vig of Garbage, Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins fame.
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.
The horrendous tragedy in Orlando has prompted fierce debates about how to prevent such attacks – should there be more restrictions on gun ownership? Different military and diplomatic policies combatting terrorism?Many of these debates break out along partisan lines with seemingly little room for compromise and action. But there is something we can do – each of us, whether parents or policy-makers, Republicans or Democrats.
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 Rep. Daniel Riemer: The UW is one of the best deals in the United States. UW-Madison’s in-state tuition is the third lowest of the top 50 universities in the U.S. Meanwhile, according to the Goldwater Institute, UW-Milwaukee, now a Carnegie top-ranked Research One (R1) university, has among the lowest costs to educate per student of any R1 or R2 university in the country. In short, both research universities are low-cost models for the nation, especially UW-Milwaukee. Both of these great research universities now also get less than 20 percent of their funding from the state budget.
Letter to the editor from Taggert Brooks, a professor of economics, and John Nunley, an associate professor of economics at UW-La Crosse.
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?
The Rising Star cave system, part of the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site in South Africa, has been well mapped and was explored by cavers for many years, but without any fossils being noted there. That changed in September 2013, when two South African cavers, Rick Hunter and Steve Tucker, entered a remote, unmapped chamber and found the first-known fossil bones of what is now called Homo naledi strewn across its floor.
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.”
Most people get upset stomachs from time to time. Usually, a few trips to the bathroom or antibiotics solve the problem. For pandas, it’s an entirely different story. Our research into panda digestion shows that pandas get upset stomachs so frequently it may help explain why it’s so hard for them to reproduce. Our work may, as a result, highlight a new way to boost pandas’ breeding success in captivity.
The Chazen Museum of Art on the UW-Madison campus is one of this city’s cultural gems. But it’s a lousy location for a bus depot.
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.
Again the great state of Wisconsin has mothered a class through her university, and sends it forth to serve. The test of culture is not in how much you may know, but how much you may do with your knowledge.
It’s one thing to attend to due diligence, double-check your numbers and make sure final budget documents are correct before releasing them.
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.
Op-ed by Kathy Cramer: “A job for life.” Those are the words Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is using to describe tenure. It may be a terrible tact to take for his state’s university system, but it’s a smart move politically.
Former Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton tells the story of how she attended a recent gathering at which one of Gov. Scott Walker’s appointees regaled a group of young people about the give and take that is so much the bedrock of American democracy.
Open Government 101 is now in session. UW System officials — including the Board of Regents — please be seated.
Donald Trump won the Republican nomination for president in large part because of voters who have not graduated from college. In the Indiana primary, for example, Trump won 47 percent of the vote among college grads — but 60 percent among those who had not earned a bachelor’s degree.
As former UW Athletic Director Pat Richter well knows, I wrote about the demise of the men’s varsity baseball team until I was blue in the face.
Letter to the editor: The kids playing baseball in Wisconsin deserve better.
Letter to the editor: Some of our UW faculty have moved to the University of Minnesota. Minnesota of all places! Good luck with the climate. It’s worse than ours.
A job for life. ”Those are the words Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is using to describe tenure. It may be a terrible tact to take for his state’s university system, but it’s a smart move politically.
Column by Republican state senator from Saukville: When fourth grade groups visit the Capitol, I explain to them my job is to listen to all of my constituents: students, teachers, and parents. In the end, I make the best decision for all of Wisconsinites in mind. UW System President Ray Cross has a similar dilemma. He must work with the legislature, the governor, the Board of Regents, the Chancellors, the faculty, and the students.
Letter to the editor: It’s funny how UW-Madison, which claims to be reeling from budget cuts by those nasty old Republicans in the state Legislature, has no trouble forking out $47 million to “upgrade” (gentrify) Witte Hall. This is merely one step (along with the $100 million upgrade of Memorial Union) in the process of transforming the campus into a four-star hotel and spa.
Letter to the editor: Is there nowhere in Wisconsin beyond the reach of the cement industry?
Letter to the editor: Regarding Gov. Scott Walker’s May 29 column, “We didn’t eliminate UW tenure,” there seems to be two main issues.
Letter to the editor: Chancellor Rebecca Blank’s sentiments in “Rebecca Blank: Dueling op-eds with Scott Walker dangerous for UW’s future is both understandable and wrong. Understandable because it is true that the chancellor is the one “under the hot lights” facing the bullies in the Republican Legislature and Gov. Walker, but wrong because bullies need to be confronted.
Letter to the editor: The Republican attack on UW has led to professors leaving the university in droves. UW-Madison professors bring in around $1 billion in research grants each year. That’s more than twice as much money as the university gets from the state.
