Over the last five years, Lee Evans passed Tim Krumrie in the hallway nearly every day. It was a good way to get to know a person. Or about one.
Mike Lucas: Evans, Krumrie now on the same page
Capital Times
Category: Opinion
Gordon Davies: Today, Even B Students Are Getting Squeezed Out
Chronicle of Higher Education
A wave of students moving through the nation’s high schools promises to place unprecedented stress on America’s colleges and universities. We have seen other periods of rapid growth since World War II –Ã? with the GI Bill and the baby boom –Ã? but this is not just another surge, it’s a tsunami. (Subscription required.)
Amy Rinard: Despite reprieve, foes wary of Taxpayer Bill of Rights
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Opponents of the so-called Taxpayer Bill of Rights, an idea proposed by some Republican legislators as a way to limit government spending, won a reprieve when Senate Majority Leader Mary Panzer (R-West Bend) announced that the Senate would not take up the issue this summer
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Don Kettl
Pabst Farms is wrong for UW research park (The Business Journal of Milwaukee)
Milwaukee Business Journal
Regarding your June 11 editorial “Saying ‘yes’ to parking, regional cooperation” and your cartoon depicting former Mayor John Norquist as Mayor “No,” here are points worth considering.
University Presses Facing Hardships
The university publishing industry has long struggled to survive financially, but the announced closings of two small academic presses this year reflect increased pressures just as publishers had begun to benefit from an improved economy.
Todd Finkelmeyer: Will UW melt under Arizona sun?
Capital Times
A couple items to ponder while lounging around the pool or squeezing in a quick nine holes at your favorite course…
Public Funding Of Election Campaigns Works
Quoted: Professor Kenneth Mayer and his colleagues at the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Rep. Tom Petri: Direct Loans Are A Bad Deal
Wisconsin State Journal
The Wisconsin State Journal editorial June 17, “Preserve Balance in Student Loans,” cites competition between the Department of Education’s Direct Loan Program and the Federal Family Education Loan programs as producing benefits for students, colleges and taxpayers.
Tom Oates: Perfect outcome for Harris, Mavs
Wisconsin State Journal
Don’t let the dark suit fool you. Devin Harris is not a gangster. He’s not a gangsta, either.
Dave Zweifel: Tommy for UW president? Why not?
Capital Times
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson called the other day to offer a compliment.
Hesselberg: Arboretum puts brakes on bike event
Wisconsin State Journal
One of Madison’s most venerable bicycling events quietly left Madison last week, the victim of an unofficial no-left-turn policy suddenly enforced by the UW-Madison Arboretum.
Mike Lucas: Alvarez feeling energized by Camp Randall project
Capital Times
Outside his window, the construction team is working on the new scoreboard, which is beginning to take shape above the north stands at Camp Randall Stadium. The workers are dwarfed by the large support beams, extending from the skeleton framework of the scoreboard to the pavement. Barry Alvarez has built his University of Wisconsin football program along these same lines, anchoring everything to a strong base.
Rob Zaleski: Statins can save lives, if people take them
Capital Times
Quoted: Pat McBride, who recently was named associate dean for students in the UW Medical School
Dave Zweifel: Neviaser made Madison a better place
Capital Times
The last time I talked to Dan Neviaser was at Bill and Lori DiCarlo’s Christmas party at their home near Ashton.
GOP forest proposal raises serious issues
Capital Times
Wisconsin is blessed with large public national and state forests, amounting to about 10 percent and 5 percent, respectively, of our forested land.
Donald M. Waller is a professor of botany at the UW-Madison
Mike Lucas: The great state debate – who should play Badgers?
Capital Times
The e-mailer, Leahrae, expressed a sentiment that is shared by many season ticket holders who have grown weary of seeing the same old, faceless exhibition opponents on the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball schedule.
Tom Still: For Fathers And All Of Us, Lift Research Ban
Wisconsin State Journal
My father’s slow retreat in the face of Alzheimer’s disease was typical of how it robs people of their lives.
Andy Baggott: For Harris, degree best guarantee
Wisconsin State Journal
When Devin Harris is taken in the first round of the NBA draft Thursday, the former University of Wisconsin point guard will become part of a diverse and curious legacy.
Tom Still: Lyall’s accomplishments include a UW System more attuned to economic growth
www.wisbusiness.com
MADISON ââ?¬â?? Katharine Lyall’s legacy as president of the University of Wisconsin System can be told, in part, by the numbers.
Stem Cell Research
The Korea Times
This past May, Nancy Reagan said at the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation dinner that “Ronnieââ?¬â?¢s long journey has finally taken him to a distant place where I can no longer reach him. Because of this, Iââ?¬â?¢m determined to do whatever I can to save other families from this pain. I just donââ?¬â?¢t see how we can turn our backs on this.ââ?¬â?¢Ã¢â?¬â?¢ The former First lady was referring to stem cell research.
Matt Pommer: Ellis rattles GOP strategy
Capital Times
Sen. Mike Ellis is threatening to upset the 2004 legislative strategy of many of his fellow Republicans.
Last week Ellis urged an extraordinary session of the Legislature to reduce state spending by $430 million for the new fiscal year that begins July 1. Republican leaders gave the idea the cold shoulder. It was as welcome as a skunk at a church picnic.
Molly Ivins: Big money’s making a move to get rid of Clean Elections
Salt Lake Tribune, The
No sooner do we win a long struggle to clean up politics and restore democracy in this country than we find the whole thing under attack, and we have to go out and re-fight the same battle all over again. Good thing we’re not easily discouraged.
Quoted: A study done by political scientists at the University of Wisconsin in May of this year
Bill Wineke: UW is forgetting its roots
Wisconsin State Journal
I owe virtually everything successful in my life to my days at the UW-Madison.
When I was a country kid in 1960, a member of a 32-member graduating class from a mediocre high school, with no particular accomplishments in my record, the UW-Madison took me in and taught me about the world.
Andy Baggot: Athletes Should Make Voices Heard
Wisconsin State Journal
There was a time not long ago when a meeting of the University of Wisconsin Athletic Board prompted a sense of heightened anticipation.
You never knew when the 22-person board, as powerful as it is diverse, would pick up the scent of an issue and really get after it.