Category: UW-Madison Related

MADISON-A demoted University of Wisconsin-Whitewater dean who is on sick leave will seek hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages against university officials he blames for ruining his career, his attorney warned the state.

A 19-year-old woman was the victim of a sexual assault in the early morning hours Friday, Madison police said. The woman also suffered a bruised eye, said police spokesman Michael Hanson.

The assault took place at 2:54 a.m. Friday in the area around the intersection of West Johnson Street and Frances Street, Hanson said. The woman was walking home from a bar and the man attacked her from behind, choking and punching her in the face as she was entering her residence, police said.

The American Transmission Company�s proposal to construct a high-voltage power line across the beltline, a major highway bisecting the UW-Madison Arboretum, has Arboretum officials on the defensive.
This proposition is only one of several options being weighed in an effort to connect the substations in Christiana, a town in Dane County, to the substations in west Middleton, one of the major Madison suburbs.

The University of Wisconsin at Madison, $1.652-billion as of February 7 (increase of $9.8-million in the last month); the goal was $1.5-billion by 2007.

Letter writer says: The case of felons on the payroll “is another example of people not taking responsibility for their jobs or positions. It sounds more like the placements were political – based on who you know and not what you know.”

Police have arrested a man they say sexually assaulted and beat up a 19-year-old woman in Madison on Friday morning.

MADISON, Wis. – A University of Wisconsin-Madison professor was allowed to work on campus for months after he pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting young girls even though some colleagues were threatened by his presence, according to a document released Thursday.

Roberto Coronado, a professor of medical physiology, was allowed to continue to work while he was on bail facing sexual assault charges last year. Coronado pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting three girls in March but was allowed to continue working until he was sentenced to 12 years in prison in August.

A UW grad says she’ll use her Powerball winnings to help pay for school.

“Hard to believe, still is I think.”

Maimoona Bowcock, 25, says her dad bought her a ticket when the jackpot had ballooned over $300 million two weeks

IF YOU watch the Oscars on Sunday and like Jon Stewart in his first year as host, you may want to find your way to the Wisconsin Union Theater the evening of April 10, when Ben Karlin, who has been riding shotgun for Stewart at “The Daily Show” since 1999, returns to Madison as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series at the Memorial Union.

Karlin worked for the Onion here in the 1990s and also freelanced pieces for Madison Magazine and the newspapers. His star has been in quick ascendance since he joined Stewart. Karlin is currently executive producer of “The Daily Show” and its new spinoff, “The Colbert Report.”

Throughout his first term in office, Mayor Dave Cieslewicz has made a point of leaving the office. This week, the plan was to venture into the private sector and ride along with Union Cab….

….Cieslewicz, once a regular bus rider who on one occasion said that he preferred not to drive on the Beltline, will ride in a yellow minivan with driver Jen Sutherland, who grew up near La Follette High School and started driving a cab in 1994. She’s also the president of Union Cab’s board of directors…. Sutherland answers some questions about herself and says she has degrees from UW-Madison in math and psychology.

“I’ve found use for them here,” she says.

“I’ll bet,” the mayor says. “One more than the other, probably.”

Dear Editor: Maybe the editors at The Capital Times should write an editorial that would tell Madison citizens how to behave in a civil manner. I can understand if some right-winger was treated the way Sen. Herb Kohl was, but a solid Wisconsin Democrat?

The atmosphere in Madison can no longer be called liberal or ultra-liberal. Your fair city and university are run and overrun by dangerous radicals.

Letter-writer says: When discussing the survey conducted by the Wood Communications Group, doesn’t the quote from University of Wisconsin System spokesman Doug Bradley say it best?
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“This wakes us up even more” (Survey scalds UW System,” Feb. 24). How can one be any more “awake”?

There is broad agreement throughout Wisconsin that the combination of rapidly rising tuition and slowly rising financial aid is shutting low-income students out of the UW System.
Yet, we’re still not doing enough to solve the problem.

With the Madison Fire Department proposing a new capacity maximum on outdoor beer gardens, some Madison bars may have to brace for a drop in income on football Saturdays.

Outdoor beer gardens around Camp Randall may soon face capacity limits if the city passes a plan proposed by the city�s fire department.

Responding to recent decisions made by the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, the Academic Staff Professionals Representation Organization sent a letter to UW System President Kevin Reilly Wednesday criticizing their choices.

The Feb. 19 article “UW costs rise out of reach for many poor” is just one more example of how out of touch the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents is.

With the help of a $20,000 grant from Milwaukee�s Schoenleber Foundation, the Wisconsin Historical Society will digitalize thousands of pages from two periodicals of Wisconsin History dating back more than 150 years.

MADISON � The last time a 20-year-old college student disappeared in this city, the police led a massive search that cost $100,000 and the national media converged to cover the story.

This time, two police detectives are assigned to the case. The media is paying little attention. And the investigation has yielded few clues three weeks after the student’s disappearance.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison received more from donors than any other university in the country last year except for Stanford.

Donors gave a record of at least $25.6 billion to American colleges and universities in 2005, an increase of 4.9 percent over the year before, thanks largely to greater generosity from alumni and foundations.

….Alumni donations, which account for 28 percent of giving to colleges, increased 6 percent, though the percentage of alumni giving fell to 12.4 percent.

Anyone who has contemplated the open sky and Lake Mendota from Picnic Point, fished off of Raymer’s Cove or hiked to Frautschi Point knows the value of UW-Madison’s Lakeshore Nature Preserve.
This environmental treasure deserves careful protection and nurturing while allowing for human use and enjoyment.

Community members, university officials and students discussed the need to continue protection of the University of Wisconsin�s Lakeshore Nature Preserve Wednesday night.

This precious area covers approximately 300 acres of land along Lake Mendota and extends from Picnic Point all the way to the edge of the Memorial Union.

Donors gave an all-time record of at least $25.6 billion to American colleges and universities in 2005, an increase of 4.9 percent over the year before, thanks largely to greater generosity from alumni and foundations.

Stanford raised $603.6 million, more than any other university last year, and the second-highest total ever behind Harvard’s $683 million in 2001, according to the annual survey released Thursday by the Council for Aid to Education.

Second was the University of Wisconsin-Madison, whose $595.2 million included a $296 million foundation grant awarded to its medical school following the conversion of Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Wisconsin to a for-profit company.

Donors gave an all-time record of at least $25.6 billion to American colleges and universities in 2005, an increase of 4.9 percent over the year before, thanks largely to greater generosity from alumni and foundations.
The No. 2 school on the list is UW-Madison, whose $595.2 million in donations included a $296 million foundation grant awarded to its medical school following the conversion of Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Wisconsin to a for-profit company.

The University of Wisconsin at Madison gave the numbers a major boost when it received a $296-million foundation donation from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Wisconsin — a result of the company’s conversion from nonprofit to for-profit status. When the insurance company made the switch, the state government required it to distribute a percentage of its holdings to charities. Half was designated to go to medical programs on the Madison campus, and the other half to the Medical College of Wisconsin.

A venue on the Capitol Square won’t be able to increase its capacity if a city panel has its way…
A city panel is putting its foot down….and not allowing a bar on the Capitol Square to increase its capacity. A proposal from Kimia Lounge to allow up to 160 people in the bar at once….which would have been a hike of 60….

Robel Teklemariam is self-admittedly crazy.

At the age of 12ââ?¬â??when he first skiedââ?¬â?he flew off 8-to-10 foot high peaks in the majestic New York mountains while gliding on cross country skis, a daring and unheard of thought among his peers at North County School in Lake Placid, N.Y. For Teklemariam, however, leaping through the air was what he loved to do, even if it was unconventional.

After months of debate and a seemingly endless barrage of verbal barbs from the Legislature, a Board of Regents committee drafted a proposal that would make some much-needed changes to the University of Wisconsin�s faculty disciplinary process.

The chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Tuesday defended the right of a campus newspaper to reprint a cartoon depicting the prophet Mohammed as a terrorist, saying the “university has for more than 100 years championed the cause of free and open debate.”

The cartoon, which depicts Mohammed wearing a turban shaped as a bomb with an ignited detonator string, was among several cartoons of the religious figure to spark violence across the Muslim world after they were first published in Denmark.

The Badger Herald reprinted the cartoon Monday, saying in an editorial the reaction to the cartoon made it newsworthy.

How big a pay raise does John Wiley, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, stand to gain under new salary ranges for university administrators approved last week?

It all depends on whom you ask.

Alan Crist, the UW System’s associate vice president for human resources, said Wiley would be eligible for a $1,757 pay increase under the ranges established by the UW Board of Regents on Friday.

Regents President David Walsh said Wiley would be in a position to claim a much higher raise: $56,757.

We have no illusions of Assembly Speaker John Gard sending chocolates and roses to University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly on Tuesday.

A Madison man is in custody, facing charges in connection to the robbery and beating of a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student. A second suspect remains at large.

A tenured UW-Madison physiology professor convicted of child sex crimes was dismissed from the university after the UW System Board of Regents unanimously voted to remove him Friday.

Long overdue in the eyes of some, the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents terminated UW-Madison medical physiology professor and convicted felon Roberto Coronado Friday.

The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents voted to raise salary ranges for senior executive positions Friday.

The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents voted to raise salary ranges for senior executive positions Friday.

The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents has dismissed Roberto Coronado, a professor in the Medical School who pleaded no contest last March to sexually assaulting three young girls.

Coronado, who is serving an eight-year jail sentence, had a tenured faculty position in the UW-Madison Department of Physiology paying $137,641 per year.

The Board of Regents terminated Coronado with a unanimous vote in closed session on Friday.

OK, research will increase at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, in the worthy vision of Chancellor Carlos Santiago. But in what area of research should the campus specialize to best help the regional economy boom? Santiago has come up with an answer that is superbly apt: advanced manufacturing.

Members of the UW Board of Regents fired UW-Medical School Professor Roberto Coronado, a registered sex offender, more than five months after he was sent to prison.

Even members of the Board told 27 News, the firing process took way, too long.

There’s now a proposal to deal with UW faculty and staff who’ve committed serious crimes within sixty da

The intensely debated future of the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha could result in a merger with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, UW officials say. This merger was recently reviewed in a Jan. 31 report to the University of Wisconsin System.

University of Wisconsin regents struck a defensive posture today in approving higher salary ranges for 34 top administrators.

The vote effectively guaranteed that 12 chancellors, including UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley, would receive pay raises after the new ranges take effect in July.

It also signaled a change in the way UW will act to raise the actual salaries of its administrators. In the past, the regents approved all merit increases for top administrators at once, sparking a vigorous public debate in recent years.

University of Wisconsin System regents on Thursday approved a proposal that would put UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley in position to receive 22% more than his current yearly salary of $251,000 and set up other top administrators for raises.

Dear Editor: The pen is certainly mightier than the sword, as cartoonist Mike Konopacki said in his response to letter writer Ovamir Anjum on Tuesday, but to simplify the negative reaction to the Prophet Muhammad cartoons as an issue of “free speech” is a shameful cop-out.

The reactions against cartoons vilifying Prophet Muhammad are not protests against the right to free speech or expression; they are protests against the racist rhetoric that demonizes the faith of more than 1.2 billion Muslims in the world….

Muslim Students’ Association, UW-Madison

Sheldon B. Lubar, Milwaukee business leader and philanthropist, recently gave the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee $10 million, the largest donation in the school�s history.

While most Americans believe slavery was abolished nearly 150 years ago, a young Sudanese man is touring the country to call attention to the estimated 27 million people worldwide he says are living as slaves today.

Monday night, Francis Bok, 26, told a Madison audience the story of the 10 years he spent in servitude in his native, civil-war-torn Sudan. Bok spoke to a half-filled Union Theater as part of the UW-Madison’s Distinguished Lecture Series and received a standing ovation when he was done.

A UW student watched in horror Sunday as an unleashed pit bull owned by former UW Badger linebacker Dontez Sanders attacked and killed her dachshund-Maltese puppy outside her apartment.

The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents plans to vote Friday on whether to raise the salary ranges for their top administrative positions.

Entrepreneur Sheldon B. Lubar is donating $10 million to the business school at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the largest gift in the university’s history.

WHEN SHIRLEY Robinson was attending UW-Madison half a century ago, she was one of only eight women in the concert band. But what she really longed to do was play with the marching band, and that, in the early 1950s, was not possible.

….As bad as Robinson felt then, she felt elated Thursday, a little before noon, still flush after playing the tambourine with the UW Varsity Band and being introduced to a cheering crowd at the Overture Center by band leader Mike Leckrone.

The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay is in the process of finalizing a master plan that officials hope will make it easier for students and visitors to get around campus.

Brian Levin-Stankevich received the recommendation for the chancellor position at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Thursday.

Listed: The University of Wisconsin at Madison, $1.642-billion as of January 15 (increase of $23.1-million in the last month); the goal was $1.5-billion by 2007.

Conservative pundit Jonah Goldberg called coverage of Hurricane Katrina “probably the biggest media scandal of the last 20 years” during a talk here Wednesday night.

“The first thing you should know about Katrina is that everything you know about it is wrong,” Goldberg, the prolific columnist and National Review Online editor told an audience at Grainger Hall on the UW-Madison campus.

His talk was sponsored by the conservative student group Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow.

UW-Madison offers one of the best values in U.S. public higher education, according to Kiplinger�s Personal Finance magazine, but some educators question the of the ranking.

Former University of Wisconsin-Whitewater dean Lee Jones has not shown up to class this semester after he was demoted to his backup position as professor last year.

A UW political science professor says the situations in Iraq and Iran became the centerpiece of the President’s State of the Union Address.

Proponents of a merger between University of Wisconsin campuses kept up the pressure Tuesday as a state task force prepared its first progress report on the hotly debated concept.

Waukesha County Executive Dan Vrakas and the Waukesha County Action Network both released statements urging state officials to combine the UW campuses in Milwaukee and Waukesha.

MADISON, Wis. — What Does The Future Hold For Regent Street?

A street visited by tens of thousands of Badgers fans each year is getting some attention.

Academics from across the country met at the University of Wisconsin-Madison over the weekend to discuss whether public funding of campaigns could remove the influence of special interests from politics.

But the only thing the scholars seemed to agree on was that it is nearly impossible to measure the influence that campaign contributions have.

MADISON, Wis. – Against a backdrop of scandal from Madison to Washington, academics from across the country met at the University of Wisconsin to discuss whether public funding of campaigns could remove the influence of special interests from politics.

But the only thing the scholars seemed to agree on was that it is nearly impossible, in a scientific way, to measure the influence that campaign contributions and lobbying efforts have on elected officials’ behavior.