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Colleges are reaching their limit on alcohol

USA Today

To curb abuses, some universities rein in tailgating, sales at games, commercial ties to beermakers. There’ll be no oversized trucks, buses or RVs allowed outside the historic Yale Bowl on Saturday. No drinking games. Pack up your coolers, grills and buffet tables by halftime of the 122nd Harvard-Yale game, please, and head into the stadium ââ?¬Â¦ or head home

Gundrum renames Avery bill

Badger Herald

Recent legislative action named for Steven Avery, who was wrongly convicted for and later exonerated of a crime he did not commit, will be renamed following Avery�s implication as the prime suspect in the murder of a young Hilbert, Wis., woman, a state representative said Monday.

UW man in trenches of the bird-flu battle

Wisconsin State Journal

Not everyone can claim a chicken as a career counselor.
But sick chickens in Pennsylvania steered Yoshihiro Kawaoka into bird flu research.

As attention to the human threat of a worldwide epidemic from bird flu has swelled in recent months, the UW-Madison virologist has emerged as one of the country’s leading experts on the subject.

Homicide case likely to complicate civil suit

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Steven Avery already had a tough challenge in trying to prove his civil rights were violated when he was wrongly prosecuted for and convicted of a Manitowoc County rape in 1985.

And that case just got a whole lot harder, now that prosecutors say they will charge Avery with homicide, two legal experts said Friday. Also quotes Gordon Baldwin, emeritus law professor at UW-Madison.

Down for the Count

New York Times

In a laboratory at Indiana State University, a dozen green iguanas sprawl tranquilly in terrariums. They while away the hours basking under their heat lamps, and at night they close both eyes – or sometimes just one. They lead comfortable lives pretty much indistinguishable from any ordinary pet iguana, except for one notable exception: the bundles of brain-wave recording wires that trail from their heads

Quoted: Giulio Tononi, psychiatrist at the University of Wisconsin and Chiara Cirelli.

Brain meets world: neuroscience and policy-making

Daily Cardinal

Regulating scientific research is a priority for lawmakers, but as science marches forward, its breakthroughs must be incorporated into policy-making and modern legislation. To address this need, the UW-Madison Neuroscience Training Program and LaFollette Public Policy School created a joint program to equip Ph.D students with skills to bridge scientific and political disciplines.

By the sight of the moon for Ramadan

Capital Times

When members of Dane County’s Muslim community gathered to celebrate the end of Ramadan with Eid al Fitr, the Festival of Fast-Breaking, on Thursday morning, they didn’t know until just hours before that they would be meeting.

That’s because the timing of the annual holiday is determined by the appearance of the slim crescent of a new moon, signaling the start of a new month in the Islamic lunar calendar.

Kemal Karpat, a professor of history at UW-Madison, is quoted.