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Raising consciousness with poetry

Capital Times

When Jim Ferris was a doctoral student, he directed a theatrical production in which each cast member had a disability. All but one of the performers used a wheelchair, so that put a woman who could walk in the minority. “Where do I fit?” she asked. It is a fundamental question for people who live with a disability, says Ferris, a poet who also teaches at the University of Wisconsin and has succeeded in making disability studies an interdisciplinary program there.

Doug Moe: The Talk (Capital Times)

Capital Times

National Public Radio’s “Inside Edition” on Wednesday took a look at the increasingly comical use of Sen. John McCain in political ads by both the Bush and John Kerry campaigns….UW-Madison Professor Ken Goldstein was interviewed on the show…

New weekly paper to debut

Newspapers around the country have been trying to capture the “20-somethings” who are not reading the newspaper “with the fervor of their parents and grandparents,” said James L. Baughman, director of the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communications.

Wireless Power Booster (Esato.com)

Quoted: Zhenqiang Ma, a University of Wisconsin-Madison electrical engineer, says he has redesigned a key electronic component in wireless devices so that it can increase the strength of outgoing signals while saving battery power.

Ailing convict gets his wish (Grand Rapids Press)

Maurice Carter, convicted in the 1973 shooting and wounding of a Benton Harbor police officer, is expected to be released from prison within the next few weeks following Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s decision Friday to commute his life sentence.

Quoted: Keith Findlay, head of the University of Wisconsin Law School’s Innocence Project.