A Chinese student studying at Harvard had to go back home last year to attend his father’s funeral. It took him five months to get permission from U.S. immigration authorities to return to his studies here.
It’s stories like that that are causing a drastic drop in the number of foreign students studying at universities in the United States.
Extend benefits to all In response to the Monday editorial, “Allow the UW system domestic partner insurance benefits,” we need to go one step further and allow all state employees the same. It is already set for city and county government employees. Why not the UW and state?
God must love government, reasons Waukesha County Executive Daniel Finley, because that�s why we have so much of it in Wisconsin.
Wage too low, even for students Mac VerStanding claims raising the minimum wage would ruin State Street, which he describes as “lined with locally owned stores staffed largely by college students doing homework behind the counter.” He goes on to suggest that these college students are well taken care of with financial aid and pre-paid room and board: Even paid a mere $5.15 an hour, these students greatly appreciate the wage, which goes to textbooks or walking-around money.
The recent Wisconsin State Journal story on county health rankings carried the headline “Go to college and you might live longer.” It displayed data that in Dane County, people with less than a high school education are three more times likely to die before age 65 than those with more than a high school education. How could a social factor like education be so important in producing longer and healthier lives?
Kindig is an emeritus professor of the UW-Madison Medical School’s Department of Population Health Sciences.
It should be clear by now that the “religious right” has nearly succeeded in hijacking the concept of Christianity.
Williams, a UW-Madison professor of professional development and applied studies, also is a moderator for the Community of Hope United Church of Christ, Madison.
“The response has been less than overwhelming to Governor Jim Doyle’s proposal to invest nearly $750 million in public and private money in the state’s biotechnology future…,” says Wisconsin Technology Council president Tom Still.
“Doyle should address all legitimate gripes about the specifics of his plan, but he shouldn’t back down a nanometer on the core idea behind it: Wisconsin has a chance to be a national leader in biotechnology, including stem cell research, and that opportunity won’t wait forever while we wring our hands.” (12/26/04 Opinion)
Of the many complaining questions that faculty members ask, the one I used to hear most often was, “Why do you administrators make so much more money than we do?” The answer is simple: Administrators work harder, they have more work to do, and they actually do it. (Subscription required.)
End race-based scholarships Race and ethnicity-based admissions practices are permitted under certain conditions by last year’s Supreme Court decision in the University of Michigan case. By contrast, race and ethnicity-based scholarship programs are in clear violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, and national origin.
W. Lee Hansen, Madison
Picture 750 UW-Madison 18-year-olds roaming State Street, . Warming hands by a community campfire. Crawling into cardboard boxes insulated with old newspapers for the night.
WASHINGTON The person to watch in American medical science today is a California real estate developer named Robert Klein II. As the driving force behind the initiative to invest $3 billion in stem cell research over the next decade, the builder-financier has just been nominated by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to head the citizens’ committee overseeing the state’s Institute for Regenerative Medicine.
Jonathan Chait: A few weeks ago, a pair of studies found that Democrats vastly outnumbered Republicans among professors at leading universities. Conservative gleefully seized upon this to once again flagellate academia for its liberal bias. Am I the only person who fails to understand why conservatives see this finding as vindication?
“Dear Editor: Now that the Republican Party has established itself as the party of religion, the Democrats have an opportunity to position themselves for the backlash. Let’s face it, the Republican-controlled Congress and the Bush administration are destroying America’s ability to do basic research – particularly in the physical and environmental sciences.”
You have to wonder what’s going on at the UW System these days. In August, there was the Board of Regents’ recommendation to boost tuition 4.3 percent and have taxpayers provide 7.2 percent in additional funding in each of the next two years. The regents want money for a 5 percent pay raise for all employees in the new budget at a cost of around $50 million, with UW officials saying it’s needed to help keep faculty from leaving the system.
Hoboken, N.J. ââ?¬â? AS we fret over the nation’s fitful economic growth and the growing number of jobs moving overseas, few are discussing a matter that may be a better indicator of our future in the global marketplace: the declining number and quality of patents awarded to Americans.
Quoted: Norm Fost, pediatrics professor and medical-ethics expert at the University of Wisconsin Medical School, is confounded by the paroxysms over steroids in sports.
What is Gov. Jim Doyle doing to higher education in Wisconsin? What does he think higher education is for?
A few weeks ago, the governor proposed a $375 million research initiative called the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery. The aim of this institute, a public-private partnership, is to bolster the state’s competitive position in medicine — especially stem cell research — and development.
It isn�t a shortage of venture capital that�s holding back Wisconsin business start-ups, it�s a flow of deals that comes in drips, not gushers.
I’ve been hanging around Madison for more than four years now and writing for The Daily Cardinal for several of them. In my last column for the Cardinal and I just wanted to make an observation and talk about a few of the issues I am passionate about.
As the end of the semester is approaching and finals are looming in the not-too-distant future, I can’t help but feel a little nervous. Last semester after finals were over and I was eagerly checking my grades, I was horrified to discover I had received a D in one of my classes. Having had an AB in the class going into the final I was in total shock.
Commentary By Julianne Malveaux
Fewer African-American students were admitted to state universities this year, prompting concern that their presence is endangered on many campuses.
Daily Cardinal staff opinion:
For all its advantages, the UW-Madison campus is not very diverse. The administration has made attempts to devise programs to attract students of different backgrounds and lifestyles to UW System campuses. The fact remains, however, that most students here are middle class white people.
As college costs have soared in recent years, so has student aid, which now totals $122 billion a year. Given the new, more costly environment, it’s time for Congress to conduct a comprehensive updating of student aid programs to keep college opportunities open in a manner that is cost- effective for taxpayers.
Last summer, the Wisconsin Legislature was mulling over a proposal for a Taxpayer Bill of Rights. TABOR is a Republican-led initiative intended to constrain state spending through the adoption of a constitutional amendment. TABOR stems from the aspiration for fewer and lower taxes, but it is a drastic proposal that spares no consideration for those reliant upon state services. The proposed TABOR would strip the UW System down to its bare bones and force UW-Madison to become a private university.
If you allow your imagination to wander, you can imagine a world ten, 15 or 20 years from now that is quite different from what we know today. Imagine a world where we are not going to our doctors to find out how to treat heart disease or diabetes, but how to prevent them
It was inevitable that Governor Jim Doyle’s proposal to build a $375 million interdisciplinary research center on the UW-Madison campus would be characterized as a ââ?¬Å?responseââ?¬Â to California, where voters passed a $3 billion, 10-year initiative to fund human embryonic stem cell research.
When the Wisconsin Historical Society responded to Gov. Jim Doyle’s demand for a 10 percent budget cut by voting to close the society’s popular museum across from the Capitol, state budget director Dave Schmiedicke accused the board of acting irresponsibly.
“It does appear to be a scare tactic,” griped Schmiedicke. “We’re really expecting a more responsible process.” But it is Schmiedicke, not the Historical Society board, who is acting irresponsibly.
Wisconsin has excellent schools, technical colleges and public and private colleges and universities. The state has two nationally ranked medical schools, now well-endowed with more than $600 million from the Blue Cross conversion. The University of Wisconsin-Madison is one of the country�s leading research universities. However, Wisconsin lags in transferring technology to the private sector, says Thomas Hefty, co-chair of the Governor�s Economic Growth Council.
No doubt to their chagrin, opponents of embryonic stem cell experiments have only helped Wisconsin hold the high ground in this promising branch of research. But that edge is eroding fast.
For many, Badger fandom is life at the University of Wisconsin. Students use Badger football and basketball games as opportunities to escape the rigorous pressures of academic life. Traditions have been built and upheld by fans, while UW student sections have gained notoriety for their enthusiasm and are considered among the best in the nation.
Out of the thousands of sociological details Wolfe gets right, you pick out some he gets wrong (thus establishing your superior hipness). Wolfe takes risks in his novels to describe the moral climate of the age.
MILWAUKEE ââ?¬â?? At the State University of New York in Albany, Carlos Santiago helped forge a partnership between IBM and the campus that led to the creation of a $1.5 billion “center of excellence.”
Now that he’s taken up residence in Wisconsin, Santiago sees no reason why UW-Milwaukee can’t aspire to do the same.
We are firm believers in the method of consistent reminding. One rally, one article and one protest are not enough to send a message. The student body must continue their plea for help.
University of Wisconsin students are stuck with a hefty tuition bill every semester. Students must pay their bill in one large chunk whether it be through financial aid, hard-earned cash or gracious parental assistance.
Much hoopla has been raised at UW-Madison over a Nov. 5 vote by the UW System Board of Regents to hike the salaries of top university figures across the state.
“But can she still wear a toga?” You bet I can – even though I went through four years of college without drinking a single drop of alcohol, says Kathryn Audie Sturino who graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2003 and now lives in New York.
This September, Rebublicans and Democrates in Congress passed The Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act.
“The Vietnam War was raging in the summer of 1968 when I heard that one of my high school classmates had returned from Saigon in a body bag. I didn’t know him that well, but the horrible news brought the war much closer to home.”
When Maurice Clarett lit the fuse and rolled that stink bomb into the Ohio State football headquarters Tuesday, you could smell it at Camp Randall Stadium.
Administrators at American universities have one more thing to worry about.
Just as we all have a personal code of ethics, we also have moments when we wish we didn’t.
Barry Alvarez is no different.
What’s the spot on the UW-Madison campus nearest to your heart?
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Provided you are reading this in the comfort of your own home, or in a lecture hall, and not still behind bars or nursing sore wrists, congratulations on successfully surviving Halloween 2004. That weekend was full of crazy costumes, overcrowded parties and, of course, the usual herds of police officers equipped with tear gas and riot gear. The benefit of hindsight lets us calmly look back and ask the serious question: was Halloween weekend successful, tear gas and all, or is it time for UW students to say goodbye to Halloween and hello to an October sans looting and arrests?
No Wisconsin student can claim that in the past year they haven�t been directly affected by rapidly rising tuition costs. Repeatedly, the University of Wisconsin has been forced to tell its students that, because of the Governor, Legislature and Board of Regents, more money will be needed in the form of tuition hikes.
What a relief that the election is over! And, thanks to Sen. John Kerry�s swift and gracious concession, we were able to feel that relief early the day after the election. An op-ed piece by UW Law School Professor Ann Althouse.
The Halloween hooligans come to town to see a riot. If we want them to stay away, Madison must deliver only disappointment.
The greatest honor a University of Wisconsin student-athlete can receive has been bestowed only four times.
….Because of the unwillingness of our elected and unelected officials to take a stand for struggling students, we are organizing to stand up for ourselves. We have formed a growing coalition of student organizations, unions, PTAs, local Green parties and progressive Democrats around the state to demand that the state reinvest in the UW System.
Once upon a time, it was easy for students to get season tickets for Badger basketball. But, over the past few years, the popularity of Wisconsin basketball has skyrocketed dramatically as the team has won a share of three Big Ten titles. Times have quite obviously changed. The demand for season tickets by students has grossly outweighed the supply. It is for this reason that the recent calamity involving the ticket lottery is so problematic, merely serving to further frustrate the patience of students.
By Laura Vanderkam
I am what pollsters call a ââ?¬Å?likely voter.
Merri Lindgren is a librarian at the Cooperative Children’s Book Center, a noncirculating library of the School of Education at UW-Madison
In many ways, this Halloween looks to be the last straw. Comments from city officials ranged from perturbed to infuriated and Mayor Dave Cieslewicz in particular had the harshest words, saying, “I have had enough. This must come to an end.” Although we are disturbed by the vagueness of his sentiment, we agree with it in principle. Because people cannot seem to act in a sane manner, the Madison police department is entirely justified in using draconian measures to deter future Halloween incidents. However, city officials should hesitate to make rash policy decisions when emotions are running high. The backlash might rival the behavior they are trying to stamp out.
In Baghdad on Saturday night, thousands of young American men and women wished for nothing more fervently than to spend the evening safely.
Halloween on State Street was a big part of campus life even before I was a student here in the early 1980s. For the most part, it has been a peaceful celebration that reflects the energy and creativity of students. Madison wouldn’t be the city it is if not for the 40,000 students on the UW campus. Students bring excitement, ideas and optimism to the city. Some of us like Madison so much that we find excuses to stick around after we graduate. That’s what I did, and now I’ve got a great excuse to keep living in Madison. In fact, my job requires it.
Halloween is quickly approaching, and as you are putting the finishing touches on your costumes, the Associated Students of Madison is finalizing plans for an inclusive, fun and safe weekend celebration. ASM, in collaboration with Madison business associations, the City of Madison, the University of Wisconsin and the UW Greek System, is trying to make safe space for the entire community by holding costume contests for children, trick-or-treating at State Street businesses and having complimentary hay rides throughout the downtown area during the day.
During Monday�s news conference regarding the basketball ticket fiasco, a front row girl walks up to basketball head coach Bo Ryan and puts her arms on his shoulders.
We have been watching this educational process unfold with officials at the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department since late last week. That’s when its original plan for distributing student season tickets for UW men’s basketball went kerflooey thanks to two computer-related problems.
Quoted: Charles O. Jones, the presidential scholar who has ties to both the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the Brookings Institution
When my niece Lauren came home recently from her first semester at Spelman College in Atlanta, one of the first things we talked about was money.
I asked Lauren if she needed any. She gave me that look teenagers give when asked an obvious question.
Don’t mind the three-eared guy with the robot arm.
He’s Stelarc, an Australian performance artist, who will give a guest lecture Nov. 4 for one of the hottest new classes on the UW-Madison campus.
A recent caller to your “Sound Off” feature complained about apparently mistaken university priorities, citing coach salaries and stadium renovations during a time of state budget retrenchment and course cancellations.
