Four Madison researchers have donned green eye shades for a bottom-line look at programs designed to prevent juvenile delinquency: What’s their cost? What’s their yield?
Good programs exist, contrary to myth
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Category: Opinion
SAFE walk serves important function
Badger Herald
I understand the logic behind banning smoking in Madison bars. I almost understand the threats to stop Halloween. Taking away SAFEwalk, though, is something that boggles my mind.
Budget alterations would harm students
Badger Herald
Malcolm X once said, ââ?¬Å?Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.ââ?¬Â It is very unfortunate that our current Legislature apparently disagrees with the words of this great thinker. As students around Wisconsin head back for another year of higher education at one the 26 University of Wisconsin colleges and universities, Congress will be voting on one of the most detrimental pieces of federal legislation to face students in a very long time.
This pertinent proposal is called Budget Reconciliation. If Congress buys this pitch, it will cut at least $9 billion from student loan programs. Budget Reconciliation is a special process used by Congress to cut and change entitlement programs such as Medicaid, pensions and student loans. The attempt by Congress to use this process to gut federal loan programs will be devastating for students both today and in years to come.
Conklin: Hollywood 101
Wisconsin State Journal
The room in Vilas Hall is full of college students, eager to get in on the gig being described by the panel participants for the UW’s media career day. They’re hearing about staplers being whipped at people, coffee runs for the boss, endless photocopying and derisive taunts.
Oh, yeah, and there’s usually no pay at first.
State turns a blind eye to Milwaukee
Badger Herald
Most people who live in Wisconsin will tell you that Milwaukee is not exactly a shining beacon on a hill. While its condition cannot quite be described as abysmal, Milwaukee is simply a city that has been left behind. Sadly, if the University of Wisconsin successfully receives something it is currently seeking, Milwaukee will be left behind once more.
Recently, UW requested to rename its medical school the ââ?¬Å?UW School of Medicine & Public Health.ââ?¬Â One could easily dismiss this plan as attempting little more than a rearrangement of the medical schoolââ?¬â?¢s title. However, to do so would be to ignore the impending changes such a shift would bring.
Dave Zweifel: It shouldn’t cost bars to be good guys
Capital Times
It’s one of those lawsuits that produces guffaws from those who read or hear about it, but it is anything but funny to the people who must bear its brunt.
….It’s the suit that claims the bars near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus conspired to fix drink prices, thereby overcharging money-strapped college kids who wanted to relax with a few drinks now and then.
….The pity is that all the owners did was try to cooperate with the UW and Chancellor John Wiley’s campaign against binge drinking.
Bielema’s defense mechanism breaks down
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
After a gruesome afternoon like Saturday’s, when a Northwestern offense once again reminded a Wisconsin defense that purple is among a contusion’s dominant colors, you’ve got to be asking yourself:
Who is this Bret Bielema guy, and why has he already been entrusted with the future of the UW football program?
Language of football, war shapes views
Daily Cardinal
Before the Badger football showdown with Michigan, AOL Instant Messenger away messages, T-shirts and dialogue among Badger football fans were flooded by puns depicting Ann Arbor as whore-personified -deserving to be beaten, conquered and dominated.
Language of football, war shapes views
Daily Cardinal
Before the Badger football showdown with Michigan, AOL Instant Messenger away messages, T-shirts and dialogue among Badger football fans were flooded by puns depicting Ann Arbor as whore-personified -deserving to be beaten, conquered and dominated.
State funding cuts hurt class selection
Badger Herald
Gov. Jim Doyleââ?¬â?¢s 2002-05 budget proposal eliminated about 200-300 courses at the University of Wisconsin in 2003. Students were forced into crammed classrooms far exceeding capacity. Since the proposal was instated, the College of Letters and Science ââ?¬â? the largest school on this campus ââ?¬â? has cut $4.5 million from its program. Such cuts have reduced the number of faculty and staff positions, increased class size and diminished the overall quality of a UW education.
Lester A. Pines: Barrows demoted based on unverified reports
Capital Times
Paul W. Barrows has given 16 years of dedicated service to the University of Wisconsin. No one has ever suggested that he did anything other than superb work. Nor has anyone ever filed a complaint about him.
Yet, because of former Dean of Students Luoluo Hong and her campaign against him, Paul Barrows is no longer the vice chancellor for student affairs. That is a loss for the university and its students.
Reject cynics’ view of UW research (WSJ 10-7-05)
Guest Column: C. Coe and E. Sandgren
Upon reading Leslie Hamilton’s Sept. 29 guest column in the State Journal, we were struck by the large cultural void that has emerged between people.
Ticketing system good for Bucky
Badger Herald
We want more beer! We want more beer!
This chant is familiar to all those who dedicate their Saturdays to going out to support our amazing (and undefeated) 2005 football team. The season has started off just like any other; students decked out in their brightest red gear, with beers in hand, tailgating before the games.
Recognizing Wisconsin’s Stem Cell Leadership
WISC-TV 3
While the Wisconsin legislature continues to bungle its way through narrow-minded and politically-motivated debates over stem cell research, it’s important to note the National Institute of Health’s establishment of the first and only National Stem Cell Bank here at Wisconsin’s WiCell Research Institute.
(WISC-TV Editorial)
Lampert-Smith: It’s Time For All Of Us To Get Out And Fight
Wisconsin State Journal
If you or a loved one has diabetes, Parkinson’s disease or a spinal cord injury, you need to do two things.
First, send Gov. Jim Doyle flowers and a nice note.
Second, look in the mirror and admit you’re a loser.
Hey, I know it sounds harsh, but I’m a loser, too.
Stem cell research vital to UW
Daily Cardinal
Stem cell research has the potential to treat ailments such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, spinal cord injury, stroke, diabetes, heart disease, osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.
Barrows’ lawyer: client deserves due process
Daily Cardinal
Dr. Paul W. Barrows has given 16 years of dedicated service to the University of Wisconsin. No one has ever suggested that he did anything other than superb work, nor has anyone ever filed complaint about him. Yet, because of former Dean of Students Luoluo Hong and her campaign against him, Paul Barrows is no longer the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs. That is a loss for the University and its students.
Sarah Botham: Not everything is learned in classroom
Capital Times
The fall term is in full swing now at the UW and at campuses across the country. Students are settling in to the rituals of academia; classes and labs, homework and exams, counterbalanced (or in some cases outweighed) by ball games and the high-tech social life of a new-millennium collegian.
….before I start to sound like a hypocrite, let me make it clear that I believe with all of my being that education is a foremost key to success. It just isn’t the only one.
That said, at what point does education hinder rather than enhance our ability to function in the work world?
(Sarah Botham is the owner of Botham, ink. and a senior lecturer in the UW Department of Life Sciences Communication.)
Cardinal View: Stating our university’s needs
Daily Cardinal
Chancellor John Wiley addressed the Faculty Senate Monday, speaking to issues important to professors, such as sick leave and vacation policy, in his annual State of the University speech. While these shortcomings are important, we believe a much wider portrait must be painted to fully assess the condition of our great, state university of Wisconsin.
Nothing comes from nothing
Badger Herald
When former vice chancellor Paul Barrows returned to campus Monday morning, the entire community let out a slow breath, hoping against hope that the scandal was now firmly in the past and that UW could begin the slow process of healing.
Lampert Smith: Rodin’s Thinker, Lipski’s Stinker
Wisconsin State Journal
Other Wisconsin fans at Saturday’s Badger game at Camp Randall Stadium probably saw the empty pedestal at the corner of Crazylegs Drive and Breese Terrace and imagined what I did.
I could just picture a sculpture of old Crazylegs, Elroy Hirsch, doing his famous huck and buck atop the pedestal. He’d look great with the retro- themed renovations just completed at the stadium.
Alvarez should savor this one for a long time
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Fifteen years ago, Barry Alvarez’s first adult portion of the Michigan Wolverines was served cold. Wisconsin lost by 38, Camp Randall had empty seats and a lone Michigan fan with a boom box made it worse by playing that harder-to-get-out-of-your-head-than-the-Macarena fight song that reverberated throughout the silent stadium with each score, which was often.
The Big Blue menace, then, has been as much a part of the Alvarez legacy as anything, including the three Rose Bowl championships.
Housing guests not welcome
Daily Cardinal
Editor’s Note: This is an official response to the Sep. 7, 2005 Cardinal View in which our editorial board criticized the Halloween no-guest rule in UW-Madison dorms.
The Division of University Housing provides a residential community for 7,000 undergraduate students. The residence halls are students’ homes-we are not in the business of running a hotel.
New policy could curb binge drinking
Badger Herald
Progress reports, parent-teacher conferences and detention slips are all elements of years past ââ?¬â? or so we thought. It turns out that University of Wisconsin-Madison is trying to bring the parents back into the school with a new parental notification policy announced last week. Students who thought that upon arriving in Madison they were ââ?¬Å?freeââ?¬Â from their parents are shocked at this policy change. But after a reported 14 trips to detoxification so far this semester, I say it is about time we do something.
Cardinal View: The Steingass Report
Daily Cardinal
With Thursday’s release of the Steingass report-an investigation into the circumstances surrounding Paul Barrows’ employment status-came a slew of new allegations of sexual harassment, decision-making errors and further knowledge of the debates among top UW-Madison officials as the Barrows controversy unfolded.
Sex, lies and paid sick leave
Badger Herald
After a year of eerie silence blended with sordid deceit, the University of Wisconsin opened the blinds on the Paul Barrows affair Thursday afternoon.
The patriarchy isn’t falling
USA Today
There are still too few women at the top, too many at the bottom. Every few years, a report that women are gaining ground prompts panicky articles proclaiming that ââ?¬Å?men are falling behind!ââ?¬Â Don’t get me wrong: I believe in equality for all. I’m concerned about women’s status and I’m concerned about the race, ethnicity and income divisions revealed in the Department of Education survey.
Editorial by Kim Gandy, president of the National Organization for Women
Decline in male college attendance is a serious national problem
USA Today
Where the Boys Are, released in 1960, is the quintessential college spring-break movie. Today, visitors to college campuses can’t help but ask: Where are the boys? Currently, 135 women receive bachelor’s degrees for every 100 men. That gender imbalance will widen in the coming years, according to a new report by the U.S. Department of Education.
Notification policy careless
Daily Cardinal
very year, approximately 100 UW-Madison students are admitted to emergency detoxification. So far this semester, 14 students have been so admitted to university hospitals-most of them 18- or 19-years old. Beginning this week, university policy will direct the Office of the Chancellor to formally notify parents and guardians when “their son or daughter has been involved in a gravely serious situation,” including detox. This action is both inconsistent and dangerous for underage students.
Cardinal View: Halloween needs dramatic changes
Daily Cardinal
Riot gear and pepper spray have defined Madison’s annual Halloween party for the last three years, staining the image of Madison and the university. In our view, there are two major problems that must be dealt with if the city is to enjoy a safe and uneventful weekend this year. The influx of people from closing bars creates a chaotic, congested State Street and, second, most rioters are intoxicated outsiders with no stake in the Madison community.
Dave Zweifel: Wiley justified in slamming legislators
Capital Times
….Frankly, John Wiley deserves a pat on the back. It’s well past time that someone at the university stood up to these bullies.
The UW hasn’t had a great public relations year, to be sure. The lengthy Paul Barrows paid leave and the three professors who remained on the payroll after being convicted of felonies became perfect targets for exploitation. The Nasses and Suders never make an attempt to understand how that might happen before running their mouths and calling for the Legislature to punish the UW.
Bascomgate
Badger Herald
The University of Wisconsin ââ?¬â? and the public at large ââ?¬â? has known since March that Lewis Keith Cohen is something more than just an unsavory character. He has admitted to charges involving the electronic transmission of child pornography and using the Internet to arrange for a sexual rendezvous with a 14-year-old boy.
Payback
Badger Herald
Despite the relatively rare public invocation of the process, much hoopla has been made of late over the University of Wisconsin administration�s use of so-called back-up positions. The jobs, veritable fall-back posts for certain employees who lose their discretionary positions for one reason or another, offer some modicum of job security and guaranteed income to those who otherwise might find their names gracing the unemployment rolls on a whim.
Endgame
Badger Herald
After two years of talks, allegations of negotiating in bad faith and a disastrous and illegal two-day strike in April 2004, the Teaching Assistants Association and Wisconsin�s Office of State Employment Relations are still no closer to an agreement for the 2003-05 contract period.
Waive tuition, ease the burden
Daily Cardinal
UW-Madison freshman Sam Melameb, who intended to study at Tulane University this year, arrived on campus from New Orleans last week with “eight articles of clothing and a pair of sandals.” Despite the traumatic circumstances that brought him to Madison, Melameb is responsible to pay tuition to both institutions. According to Tulane University, students who are enrolled for the current semester and are studying elsewhere will not be immediately refunded, despite the school’s temporary closing.
UW Firing of Convicted Felon Professor Bittersweet
The UW has a huge public relations problem that it needs to fix, especially when it comes to the immediate firing of convicted felon professors charged with heinous sex crimes. I was one of two guests last week on ‘The O’Reilly Factor’ on the Fox News channel to talk about this issue. Bill O’Reilly and his producers had asked me to come on to discuss three criminal professors who had not been fired as of last
week, but had already been convicted and sentenced for their crimes.
Dan Erdman: Galloway not the hero he is made out to be
Capital Times
….His upcoming appearance at the Wisconsin Union Theater is sure to pack the house with local anti-war activists.
However, there are some inconvenient facts about Galloway that aren’t often reported in the American press. Whatever one’s opinion about the Bush administration’s wars, no one who claims to be a progressive ought to have anything to do with Galloway, a dishonest, authoritarian reactionary.
Hoff’s expanded audience
Wisconsin State Journal
WTDY-AM 1670 talk show host Casey Hoff is a bit worried that he won’t be allowed to graduate in December from the UW-Madison as planned. The reason? He got the chance Wednesday night to “rip” Chancellor John Wiley to an audience of millions on national television. And he jumped on it.
The topic was the UW-Madison professors who have been convicted of crimes and remained on the payroll, specifically Roberto Coronado, the UW Medical School professor who was sentenced to eight years in prison for repeated sexual assault of a child and fired the same day the segment aired.
Retribution makes bad policy
Daily Cardinal
It has been 18 months since the Teaching Assistants’ Association walked back into classrooms following an unsuccessful and unpopular strike. Still operating under a contract negotiated in 2001, teaching assistants are scheduled to enter mediated discussions with UW officials in upcoming weeks. Given that recent talks have proven unfruitful for the TAA, we anticipate that upcoming negotiations will be highly sensitive affairs, invoking passionate pleas from union members and student supporters. However, if one state lawmaker has his way, the TAA’s right to collective bargaining will soon disappear.
Patrick Barrett: Galloway talk fits UW credo, and taxpayers won’t foot bill
Capital Times
In recent days, state Rep. Scott Suder, R-Abbotsford, has gained a lot of media attention by attacking the University of Wisconsin-Madison for allowing George Galloway, an anti-war member of the British Parliament, to speak on campus on Sept. 18.
He has based his objection on the fact that the Havens Center, which is based in the sociology department, is a co-sponsor of the event, leading him to claim that taxpayer money is being used to “shove” Mr. Galloway’s “pro-terrorist” views “down our throats.” I would like to take this opportunity to set the record straight.
(Patrick Barrett is administrative director of the A.E. Havens Center, which promotes critical social thought throughout the social sciences and is part of the sociology department at UW-Madison.)
Halloween guest policy uninviting
Daily Cardinal
University Housing created more problems than solutions for Halloween festivities when it declared this past summer that no guests will be allowed to stay in the dorms from Friday, Oct. 28 through Tuesday, Nov. 1. The tactic is meant to prevent out of town students, who accounted for 391 of the 450 arrests during Halloween in 2004, from attending the festivities. The no-guest policy is a dangerous step because the hazards far outweigh the benefits of keeping a minute percentage of the 75,000 party-goers away from Halloween in Madison.
Wisconsin�s helping hands
Badger Herald
In the wake of devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina, the University of Wisconsin System ââ?¬â? along with other colleges and universities around the nation ââ?¬â? has taken it upon itself to help students displaced by our nationââ?¬â?¢s latest tragedy.
Shari Julian: Disaster has created diaspora that will challenge entire U.S.
Capital Times
Imagine sending people who have been assimilated into the most stable demographic population in America into cities and towns all over the United States that are as unprepared as the victims to understand their sense of dislocation and their support needs.
….The University of Wisconsin anthropology and sociology departments may have a role to play in helping the community understand the new cultures moving into their midst.
(Shari Julian earned her doctorate in public/educational administration UW-Madison in 1979. She also earned her undergraduate and master’s degrees here. She later earned a post-doctorate degree in clinical counseling and has been a hospital clinician for 20 years. She is now a faculty member in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Texas in Arlington.)
John Nichols: Suder’s definition of hate speech awry
Capital Times
….So when does Suder get hot and bothered about “hate speech”? When the University of Wisconsin hosts prominent speakers who dissent from the official line of the Bush White House and its allies in this country’s conservative media.
….The reality is that this appearance by Fonda and Galloway, controversial figures with something to say, is in the very best tradition of a university that has for more than a century declared: “Whatever may be the limitations which trammel inquiry elsewhere, we believe that the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”
Cardinal View
Daily Cardinal
Smoking ban needs time, exceptions
Friday classes ridiculous
U.s. Needs To Hold On To Its Science
Wisconsin State Journal
Monday, August 29, 2005
MICHAEL M. COX
I was disappointed by the recent comments by President Bush and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., suggesting that it would be appropriate to include the idea known as intelligent design in science curricula.
There are many misconceptions being propagated by individuals intent on undermining science education in this country.
It is simply incorrect that controversy exists in the science community about whether evolution occurred. Evolution is a fact. I have been a scientist for 30 years. In that time, I have been to nearly 100 international conferences and have visited scores of science departments. Never once — anywhere — have I encountered a controversy about whether evolution occurred.
Dave Zweifel: Don’t slam state workers over pensions
Capital Times
The people who work for Wisconsin government are being demonized once again.
Government workers are either – take your pick – lazy and shiftless or coddled and overpaid.
The latest fuel for state worker bashers came from the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance, which last week issued a report that shows Wisconsin public employees pay a smaller share of their retirement costs than those in other states. Plus, they then receive higher pension benefits than nearly everyone else when they retire.
Lampert Smith: Exhibit stirs thoughts on UW bombing
Wisconsin State Journal
One item in the new State Historical Society Museum exhibit on the bombing of UW-Madison Sterling Hall caught my attention.
It wasn’t the original FBI wanted poster for missing bomber Leo Burt or the photo of physicist Robert Fassnacht, who was killed as he worked late in his office. Or the twisted engine casing of the Ford Econoline van that contained what was, at that time, the biggest car bomb ever manufactured.
Beer, books and blame
USA Today
The annual ranking guaranteed to give college presidents a headache was released Monday: The Princeton Review’s list of the top party schools. This year’s No. 1 ââ?¬â? and we can shortly expect a rebuttal from its chancellor ââ?¬â? is the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Colleges Push Meningitis Vaccine (Inside Higher Ed)
Inside Higher Education
Three months after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention formally recommended that all freshmen living in dormitories be vaccinated for meningitis, college officials seem to be taking the recommendations to heart ââ?¬â? and that response is contributing to a shortage of the vaccine around the United States.
Dave Zweifel: Pressuring sweatshop one tough job
Capital Times
While I was in Chicago last weekend, a group of college kids, including some from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, picketed in front of the Eddie Bauer store on the so-called Magnificent Mile to urge the trendy retailer to pressure one of its Third World suppliers to treat its employees better.
….It’s an admirable cause and involves a practice that needs to be brought to light. But, in this age of the rush to the bottom for workers worldwide, all I can say is, good luck.
Lampert Smith: Let women tackle Badgers
Wisconsin State Journal
Wisconsin Wolves football coach Norm Killion has player concerns that Barry Alvarez never worries about.
Game-night child care is one. Backups for pregnant players is another.
“I have an Olympic-caliber soccer player who says she’ll kick for me next fall if she doesn’t get pregnant,” said Killion, who will be recruiting a new Madison-based women’s professional football team at tryouts beginning Sunday.
Some colleges have lot to learn about racism
USA Today
The decorated halls of higher education sometimes aren’t always so high-minded. In fact, they look downright dumb in some cases. Two schools that immediately come to mind are a pair of otherwise fine academic institutions marred by their leadership’s intransigence over an issue many schools long ago resolved with a few fast-disappearing traits in our nation: common sense, appropriateness and decency.
Commentary By Jon Saraceno
NCAA takes high road with ban of offensive mascots
USA Today
Much has been written over the past week about the NCAA Executive Committee’s decision not to conduct championships on the campuses of member institutions where the use of nicknames and mascots representing American Indians is considered hostile and abusive.
By Myles Brand NCAA president
Korea’s cloning of canine catches U.S. unprepared
USA Today
Snuppy, the world’s first cloned pup, romped onto front pages last week to fascinate and provoke. Seoul National University’s puppy, whose genetic material came from a single cell from the ear of an Afghan hound, teased the public with the prospect that people might soon be able to clone their beloved dogs.
Ban all human cloning
USA Today
Even creating embryos for stem cells to research is morally wrong. Those of us who support a ban on all types of human cloning do so because we believe that ultimately no good can come from the procedure.
COMMENTARY: NCAA fails to muscle out mascots
Wisconsin State Journal
First impressions, second thoughts and the third degree:
Instead of trying to legislate its fuzzy perception of morality regarding the use of Native American nicknames, the NCAA would have been better served emphasizing one of its core values to get its point across.
The NCAA is about many things, but power is No. 1. When it singled out 18 schools last week that feature “hostile or abusive” nicknames and mascots, and threatened to ban those images from postseason tournaments starting next year, the NCAA didn’t look very tough. Downright wishy-washy is more like it.
Science Picks Sides In Evolution Debate
Wisconsin State Journal
Column by John Hawks, assistant professor of anthropology:
Last week, President Bush said this about presenting “intelligent design” alongside evolution in science classrooms: “That decision ought to be made by local school districts, but I felt like both sides ought to be properly taught.”
National organizations of scientists immediately condemned his view. The American Geophysical Union released a statement saying Bush’s position “puts America’s schoolchildren at risk.”
Unsolicited laundry list for Bielema
Wisconsin State Journal
We have a little time on our hands before Bret Bielema becomes the 10th coach in the modern era of University of Wisconsin football, not to mention the 10th new coach in the Big Ten Conference since UW’s unprecedented run of back-to-back Rose Bowl wins in 1999 and 2000.
I thought I would put it to use by throwing together a list of suggestions that might help Bielema prepare for his first season as coach of the Badgers.
Everyone Isn’t A Winner In Barry’s Saga
Wisconsin State Journal
Barry Alvarez thanked everyone but his gardener, his mechanic and the media during his news conference Thursday. Sources say the University of Wisconsin football coach/athletic director corrected those glaring oversights Friday when he bought a new electric hedge trimmer and took his Lexus convertible in to have the tires rotated.
Speaking of losers in the Great Monroe Street Handoff — Alvarez announced he will become full-time AD after the 2005 season and UW defensive coordinator Bret Bielema will take over as coach — the media is joined by a wide range of groups and individuals whose fates have been altered.