At the end of its meeting Tuesday afternoon, the University of Wisconsin Athletic Board’s finance committee voted to do nothing — and it may have been the most welcome inaction to Badger fans in a decade and a half.
The vote was to approve the freezing of ticket prices for a year, something the Athletic Department has not done since 1992. Back then, the department’s budget was $16.5 million; on Tuesday, the finance committee authorized a total spending authority of $89,149,700.
Backed by a strong economy and a growing stock market, American colleges and universities raised an estimated $29.8-billion in the 2007 fiscal year, the highest total ever recorded, according to a report scheduled for release today by the Council for Aid to Education.
Religion is said to be the driving influence behind Americansâ?? low moral opinion of nanotechnology, according to a researcher who surveyed public opinion on science and technology.
Dietram Scheufele, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of life sciences, and a colleague found in their study that only 29.5 percent of respondents from a sample of 1,015 adult Americans agreed that nanotechnology was morally acceptable.
When the survey was conducted in European countries, who are reportedly also key players in nanotechnology, the results were strikingly different.
Want to see a taping of the 2008 “Jeopardy! College Championship” at the Kohl Center in April?
Ticket applications for the event, taking place April 11 and 12, will be available Monday at all Subway restaurants in the greater Madison area. All ticket requests must be postmarked no later than March 10.
Last Tuesday, Barack Obama stood in front of 15,000 shouting supporters in Madison, Wis., basking in wins in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia. In addition to issuing a classic call to arms for the rest of the campaign, Mr. Obama took time out to welcome any Republicans to his bandwagon.
Quoted: Dhavan V. Shah, a journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin.
MADISON, Wis. — Officials at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are working this weekend to clear up confusion among student voters.
Students are now receiving e-mails with a list of campus polling places after many declared they simply didn’t know where to go to vote. Most UW students living in campus dorms can vote in or near their building, officials said.
The Associated Students of Madison Student Services Finance Committee heard budget presentations of University Health Services, Recreational Sports and the ASM bus passes Thursday.
A Madison man allegedly stalked his wife, a Madison police officer, by placing GPS devices in her vehicles, using sophisticated computer software to track her movements through her cell phone and hacking his way into the Madison Police Department’s human resources computer program to learn her work schedule.
Dustin M. Farberg, 38, a former corrections officer who now works as a human resources assistant for UW’s School of Medicine and Public Health, faces charges on felony counts of stalking, identity theft and vehicle theft and a misdemeanor computer crime for the alleged three-month-long stalking of both his wife and another police officer with whom she was having an affair.
Bill Clinton delivered a sweetly conciliatory Valentine’s Day stump speech in Madison Thursday afternoon, touting his wife’s experience as a Democratic presidential contender and only obliquely criticizing her rival Barack Obama.
Former President Clinton urged voters to support his wife’s presidential bid for both policy and personal reasons Thursday during stops across the state.
She “has the best heart-and-mind combination of anyone I’ve known,” the former president told a crowd of 2,100 at the Stock Pavilion at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
MILWAUKEE (AP) â?? Former President Clinton promised undecided voters that if his wife is elected president, the economy will be stronger under her than under his watch, when the nation had record job growth and a balanced budget.
Clinton spoke to voters in multiple stops across Wisconsin on Thursday, just days ahead of the stateâ??s primary. His wife, New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama are locked in a close race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
It’s hard not to come to the conclusion that Bill Clinton, our first rock star president, has been beaten at his own game by Barack Obama.
The contrast between Obama’s appearance at the Kohl Center on Tuesday night and Clinton’s appearance this afternoon at the UW Stock Pavilion was clear, on several fronts.
MADISON, Wis. — Former President Bill Clinton roped in more than 2,000 people at a speech Thursday in a University of Wisconsin-Madison pavilion normally used for livestock education.
Clinton spoke for about an hour at the Stock Pavilion on behalf of his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton. He is the second Clinton to visit Wisconsin this week, while his wife is instead focusing on later primaries in Texas and Ohio. She will be in the state starting Saturday. Their daughter, Chelsea Clinton, was in the state earlier this week.
The Bill Clinton road show rolled into Madison Thursday, and at times it was a bit hard to tell who he was campaigning for. Several times during his speech at the UW Livestock Pavilion, Clinton referred to what “we” are going to, although he was in town to campaign for his wife, Hillary Clinton.
Two University of Wisconsin alumni will be featured on United States Postal Service stamps that will debut in late February and early March.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is scheduled to appear at the Concourse Hotel at 10:30 a.m. today.
Huckabee is on a three-day swing through Wisconsin as he pursues a long-shot bid for the Republican presidential nomination.
Former President Bill Clinton was to be in Madison at the UW-Madison Stock Pavilion at 2 p.m. campaigning for Hillary Clinton.
MADISON, Wis. — Former President Bill Clinton will campaign for his wife during a tour of Wisconsin Thursday that includes a stop in Madison.
New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign said Bill Clinton will make stops in Milwaukee, Madison and La Crosse Thursday.
Bill Clinton will attend a campaign event at 2:30 p.m. Thursday at the Stock Pavilion at 1675 Linden Drive on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
MADISON, Wis. — The Madison City Clerk’s office and office of the Dane County Clerk said more poll workers are needed throughout the area for Tuesday’s primary. The city clerk’s office said approximately 40 poll workers are needed for the downtown Madison and campus areas.
Some 20,000 people poured into the Kohl Center on Tuesday night as presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama brought his hypnotic campaign to Madison on the heels of sweeping victories in todayâ??s Potomac Primaries, adding to a series of wins that have given him a critical edge in the Democratic race for the White House.
MADISON, Wis. — Speaking to a crowd of more than 17,000 in Madison Tuesday night, Barack Obama railed against the Iraq war and spoke sharply against the presumptive Republican nominee, Arizona Sen. John McCain.
Instead of focusing on his Democratic challenger, New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Obama criticized McCain’s support for the Iraq war, tying his backing of that and other policies to the Bush administration.
Noted: John and Tashia Morgridgeâ??$179 million, primarily to educational causes. Cisco Chairman John Morgridg met his wife, Tashia, while in high school in Wisconsin, and both attended the University of Wisconsin. They have long supported educational programs in their home state. This year, they made a founding gift of $175 million to establish the Fund for Wisconsin Scholars, which will provide grants for low-income graduates of Wisconsin public schools attending Wisconsin public post-secondary schools. The Morgridges also gave $4 million toward the building of a public pool facility in Milwaukee County.
In an effort to attract the most qualified candidates to be the next UW-Madison chancellor, the UW System Board of Regents unanimously approved Friday a salary range increase for the position.
While organizers geared up for a massive turnout at Tuesday’s appearance in Madison by Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, supporters of his rival, U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, today stepped up their call for the two to face each other in a Milwaukee debate.
Obama spokesman Dan Leistikow said the response to Obama’s appearance has been “tremendous. We sent out an initial e-mail to about 9,000 people in the Madison area. Within 24 hours, 50 percent of those people not only read the e-mail, but RSVPed on the Web site. That is unprecedented.”
Leistikow said the event “will be more than just a rally” and that attendees are being asked to bring their cell phones so they can find new ways “to take action and volunteer via text messaging.”
The UW Board of Regents on Friday fired a UW-Parkside professor who failed to show up to teach last semester.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents on Friday cleared the way to boost salaries for 13 college leaders, saying more competitive pay will help recruit the best candidates for three open chancellor positions.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents on Friday fired a former UW-Parkside assistant professor who filed a race discrimination lawsuit against the university last summer.
Ogbonnaya “Oko” Elechi lost his job because he stopped showing up for class, not because he filed the lawsuit, according to university officials. Elechi took a job at Prairie View A&M University in Texas without telling Parkside he was leaving, said Lenny Klaver, UW-Parkside vice chancellor.
MADISON, Wis. — Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton is scheduled to make four stops in Wisconsin this week on behalf of her mother.
Chelsea Clinton is the daughter of former President Bill Clinton and current presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton.
News 3 has learned that Chelsea Clinton plans to visit Milwaukee and Madison on Monday. She will speak in the East Ballroom in the UW Milwaukee Union at 10:30 a.m. In Madison, she’ll speak in the main lounge of Memorial Union on the UW campus at 3:15 p.m.
MADISON, Wis. — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is coming to Madison next week to host a rally.
The U.S. senator from Illinois will make his first Wisconsin campaign stop of the year on Tuesday night at the Kohl Center.
Obama’s campaign officials said that the senator will make his case to the state’s voters that he’s the man to stand up for hardworking families and to build a strong middle class, WISC-TV reported.
MADISON, Wis. â?? A University of Wisconsin-Parkside professor, fired this week after not showing up to teach last semester, had informed the school months earlier he planned to stay away until the school resolved its discriminatory environment, his lawyer said.
In a federal lawsuit filed in July, Ogbonnaya Oko Elechi claimed that university officials discriminated against him because of his race and Nigerian descent.
After 90 years, Madison’s afternoon newspaper will stop daily printing and shift its focus to its Web site and a more widely distributed free weekly print edition, its top executives said Thursday.
Presidential candidates spent $107 million on television advertising so far this season, with nearly all of it spent in the run-up to the earliest primaries and caucuses and almost none of it on Super Tuesday states, a University of Wisconsin-Madison study shows.
Students who graduate from the University of Wisconsin System could soon have an extra transcript to trumpet their achievements outside the classroom, system President Kevin Reilly announced Thursday.
An alumni group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has sued Intel (NSDQ: INTC), accusing the chipmaker of infringing on a university patented invention that significantly improves the speed and efficiency of computer processing.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), a private, nonprofit corporation that is a supporting organization to the university, filed the suit Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. WARF said it filed the suit to protect the interests of the university and its inventors and to receive compensation for Intel’s allegedly unlicensed use.
Dear Editor: The University of Wisconsin endangers the lives of students, faculty, staff and Madison residents when it refuses to close its doors during inclement weather. One didn’t have to be a meteorologist to predict Wednesday morning that the snow would not let up, but would continue to fall, sometimes heavily, throughout the day.
We are proving nothing more than our foolishness by attempting to conduct “business as usual” in such conditions. Risking life and limb to conduct such business should not be expected or encouraged.
Frances Ellsworth, Madison
(This is the entire letter to the editor)
Madison, Wis. – The licensing arm of the University of Wisconsin-Madison has filed a patent infringement suit against Intel Corp., one of the world’s largest semiconductor companies, claiming that Intel’s widely used Core 2 Duo processor includes patented technology invented by UW-Madison researchers.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, which noted the technology significantly improves the efficiency and speed of computer processing, filed the suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin.
NAMUR, Wis. â?? A University of Wisconsin-Green Bay professor died following a four-vehicle crash in southern Door County in which four others were injured.
Anne Kok, 60, of the town of Nasewaupee, was an associate professor and chair of the universityâ??s undergraduate program in social work. The universityâ??s online newsletter described her as an award-winning scholar who joined the faculty in 1988.
Eastside alder Brenda Konkel applauds those changes, but also wants more. “I think the thing we really haven’t gotten any progress on is better help from the city on notification(of snow emergencies),” said Konkel on Monday.
This winter has been one winter storm, after another. With those early dumpings in December came complaints, and promises from even Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz that plowing operations would improve.
The ’60s generation is bowing to its elders, at least when it comes to buildings on the UW-Madison campus.
While three 1960s-era buildings on campus have come down or will in the near future, five other structures dating back nearly 100 years will get major renovations and live on, according to Alan Fish, UW-Madison ‘s vice chancellor in charge of facilities planning and management.
People working in UW-Madison buildings along Lake Mendota reported a shake and a boom apparently caused by an ice quake Thursday afternoon.
“It actually sounded like a bus drove into the building. The whole building shook, ” said Patrick Brenzel, a staff member in the eighth-floor offices of the department of sociology, 1180 Observatory Drive.
Dear Editor: Don’t judge law professors by their truly nutty beliefs but do judge law professors by their writings and the tone of those writings and by what they have done and by what they have failed to do.
Kevin Barrett is the best thing that has ever happened to the University of Wisconsin.
Dear Editor: Ann Althouse wrote recently on her blog: “I don’t know why the University of Wisconsin has not rehired 9/11 conspiracy believer Kevin Barrett to teach a course on the history of Islam. But if we know a person believes something truly nutty, are we not entitled to use that as evidence of his intelligence, judgment and trustworthiness?”
Really!?
Dear Editor: On the subject of the truths and half-truths of the 9/11 issue, it is time to once again address the subject in terms of academic freedom for Kevin Barrett based on the documented evidence.
The presumptive attack on Barrett by UW law Professor Ann Althouse in her recent blog while at the same time refusing to engage in debate on the issue is my paramount concern.
MADISON, Wis. – An accidental leak of personal information may have affected nearly 530 University of Wisconsin-Madison employees, or more than twice as many as previously reported, an official acknowledged Tuesday.
The university said earlier this month that the mistake in which Social Security-based ID numbers, e-mail addresses and other information was published on an Internet site affected only about 200 faculty and staff.
The university notified 205 employees that their information may have been exposed by an online database that tracked purchases from a campus computer shop. That information was inadvertently posted on a university Web site and available to the world for a year.
The Madison School Board said Monday night that Daniel Nerad will be the district ‘s next superintendent. He holds bachelor ‘s and master ‘s degrees in social work from UW-Madison, which he attended in the 1970s.
Brian Rust, communications manager with DoIT, the Division of Information Technology at UW-Madison, said he’s surprised, too. “Normally, you would think there would be backup for the mail customers wanted kept,” said Rust.
At UW-Madison, 8 million to 10 million messages a day come through for the WiscMail system’s 93,000 users. Of those, up to 7 million as rejected as identifiable spam.
A new report in Madison calls on university and city officials to crack down on underage drinking, raise drink prices and shutter bars to stop alcohol-related crime.
Capitol Neighborhoods recent 14-page report frames its findings on a strategy that would need to be implemented in whole to have any real effect.
But, city and university officials are taking a wait and see approach, talking up their own efforts to reduce alcohol-related problems.
In his article (â??Barrett alleges discrimination at 2 UW schools,â? Jan. 21) Pedro Oliveira Jr. misstates my position, writing, â??Barrett was heavily scrutinized in fall 2006 for his public affiliation with the belief that the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center were perpetrated by the U.S. military.â?
Dear Editor: I am out of a job because The Capital Times and other mainstream media outlets refuse to report the news.
As a scholar, my job is to seek and report the truth, no matter where it leads. That is also the job of the media.
Gov. Jim Doyle said Thursday that he has already asked state department heads to institute belt-tightening measures to deal with an expected budget shortfall stemming from the economic slowdown.
College and universities in Wisconsin are getting richer.
Each of Wisconsin’s top 15 college endowments has grown by at least 15%.
The richest endowment belongs to the biggest school: UW-Madison. It’s got $1,645,250,000 in its coffers for its 41,000-plus student body.
MADISON, Wis. — The Capitol Neighborhoods Association met Thursday night to discuss ways to combat alcohol problems in their community.
Authorities said that excessive drinking in downtown Madison is a problem that has led to dangerous, and even deadly, situations.
Officials from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the city of Madison suggested ways Thursday to curb binge drinking and violence, especially among college students.
The chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside announced last week he will step down this coming fall, becoming the third UW System chancellor to resign this year.
Everything pointed toward a confrontation between the United States and Iran a couple of months ago, but two unexpected events took place to undermine the “step-by-step escalation toward war,” political novelist and foreign policy expert Hannes Artens said during a Madison appearance Wednesday night.
First, the situation in Pakistan got tense when President Pervez Musharraf declared emergency rule, purportedly suspending the Constitution and imposing martial law, and oil prices spiked to nearly $100 a barrel, helping fuel a recession.
With recession gripping the U.S., “this is not really the best time to start another war in the Middle East,” Artens told a small audience in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union.
When the Dalai Lama returns to Madison this summer to share his message of kindness, compassion and peace with his followers and admirers, the revered spiritual leader will be the recipient of a rare prayer offering.
When the University of Wisconsin initiated mandatory donations for men’s basketball preferred parking in 2001, only new buyers were subject to the charges. Those fans who already held spots were grandfathered in, with no additional fees.
Seven years later, that free pass is over.
The athletic department is raising its annual giving levels for the right to purchase parking at UW lots near the Kohl Center, according to a letter sent to season ticket holders last month, and applying it uniformly.
Chancellor John D. Wiley’s annual earnings of $341,495 – including a state-provided car, free housing, retirement pay and club dues – may seem generous to the average Wisconsin taxpayer. But it may not be enough to attract a top leader to take the reins at the University of Wisconsin-Madison when Wiley steps down in September.
Collections of the three most important Wisconsin taxes increased less than 1% in the second half of 2007 – falling far short of the 3% assumed growth needed to cover state expenditures this year and raising fears that deep spending cuts will be necessary.
If you were reading this sentence over AOL’s new instant messenger, each word would be u-n-f-o-l-d-i-n-g letter by letter as it was typed.
Real-time messaging will add emphasis and intonation to text conversations, said Gregg Vanderheiden, professor and director of the Trace Research and Development Center at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, which also worked on the project. “It’s not there to expose all your little typos,” he said.
UW alumnus Robert L. Herman, the man who started Herman Landscape Service in Madison and whose landscape designs are evident at many homes and businesses in southern Wisconsin, will be posthumously inducted into the Wisconsin Green Industry Federation Hall of Fame.
About 200 UW-Madison employees learned recently their university identification numbers — which were based on their Social Security numbers — were available for about a year on a publicly available Web site that tracked purchases made at the university ‘s technology store.
