The Rev. Al Sharpton compared George W. Bush’s re-election a few months ago to a shell game in New York’s Times Square where con artists separate tourists from their money.
“George Bush and Karl Rove engaged the public in a three-card political monte game last year,” Sharpton told a revved-up crowd in a near-capacity Union Theater Monday night during his Distinguished Lecture Series “sermon.”
Addressing issues of tuition increases, faculty and staff salary gaps and federal financial aid cuts, UW System President Kevin Reilly met with student reporters from around the state Monday.
University of Wisconsin System President Kevin P. Reilly discussed recent budget proposals that could affect Wisconsin higher education in a press conference Monday.
Angela Rose is a promoting a CD-ROM called “Sexual Violence: It Can Happen to You” for a good reason: It happened to her.
In 2001, as a student at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Rose started a non-profit called PAVE, short for Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment (www.pavingtheway.net). (Login required.)
Lawmakers and members of the state�s administrative units met with University of Wisconsin System officials Wednesday to discuss various ideas to refine the affairs of higher education.
UW-Madison police found a man dead in a men’s restroom in Van Vleck Hall Friday morning. Police said the call came in at 9:48 a.m. They responded and found the 66-year-old man had no pulse and was not breathing.
BOULDER, Colo. – University of Colorado President Betsy Hoffman said a professor who compared Sept. 11 victims to Nazis will not be fired if a review turns up only inflammatory comments, not misconduct.
Next week, the contents of the New Yorker magazine will burst off the page and onto the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
The “New Yorker College Tour,” running Tuesday through Thursday both on and off campus, will bring some of the magazine’s well-known reporters, columnists, critics and cartoonists to town with a schedule that reads like the octogenarian magazine’s table of contents page.
It may take a village to raise a child, but it takes just one person at a time to make a difference in a community. Multiply that by six, and you’ve got the concept behind the YWCA’s annual Women of Distinction Awards.
Among the honorees are: Shiva Bidar-Sielaff, manager of interpreter services and minority community relations at UW Hospital & Clinics; Martha “Meg” Gaines, clinical associate professor of law and director of the university’s Center for Patient Partnerships; and Jeanan Yasiri, a senior lecturer in the Department of Consumer Science.
Ward Churchill, the controversial University of Colorado professor who has been the target of so much right-wing wrath, spoke Tuesday night at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. And his talk drew far more attention than it would have, thanks to the screeching of media windbags like Bill O’Reilly and politicians who have grown a bit too comfortable in the bully pulpit, such as Wisconsin’s own state Rep. Steve Nass.
… Unfortunately, the Churchill controversy has brought to Wisconsin an example of the worst sort of academic witch hunting, as Nass and his allies have attempted to advance the notion that the University of Wisconsin System should get into the business of censoring ideas.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents has adopted a series of guidelines to regulate the $330 million UW trust fund.
WHITEWATER, Wis.-Amid fervent demonstrations both supporting and condemning UW-Whitewater’s decision to allow Ward Churchill to speak Tuesday, the University of Colorado-Boulder professor of ethnic studies vigorously defended his controversial paper that compared some of the victims of Sept. 11 to Nazis.
Peering out before a packed auditorium Tuesday night, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Chancellor Jack Miller admitted this would not be a typical Native Pride Week lecture.
WHITEWATER, Wis. — The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater was the latest stage for a controversial Colorado professor Tuesday night
UW-Whitewater spokesperson Brian Mattmiller says the campus is prepared to head into uncharted territory Tuesday as the Ward Churchill controversy comes to campus.
he University of Wisconsin-Whitewater will welcome controversial Colorado University-Boulder professor Ward Churchill today. Churchill will be speaking to students as part of Whitewater�s Native Pride week.
The life and works of author, scientist and conservationist Aldo Leopold are being celebrated Friday through March 6 in Wisconsin.
A month ago, the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater’s Native Pride Week was expected to be a mostly low-key affair with a series of speakers, including a little-known Colorado college professor.
On Tuesday, it is expected to be the latest stage for the controversy over Ward Churchill’s essay comparing some of the “technocrats” killed in the World Trade Center to Nazis.
State Rep. Steve Nass, R-Palmyra, got his Assembly resolution passed last week recommending that the UW-Whitewater cancel a scheduled address by controversial University of Colorado Professor Ward Churchill. In so doing, he proved that, while the State Capitol does not sit upon much of a rise, there are many fools on the hill.
…University of Wisconsin political science professor Donald Downs, who has raised legitimate concerns about Churchill’s record as a defender of free speech, may have put it best….
The first Laurie Carlson Progressive Ideas Forum will celebrate the 10th anniversary of South Africa’s constitution by featuring South African Ambassador Barbara Masekela, U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold and UW-Madison constitutional expert John Kaminski in a conversational discussion on the UW campus (on Friday, March 11).
The pressure is growing on President Bush to change the limits he set four years ago on human embryonic stem-cell research.
Robin Douthitt, dean of the School of Human Ecology, is among this year’s 12 nominees.
Jacqui Sakowski, owner of Sakowski Consulting and an adviser for the Women in Business Council at the UW School of Business, has also been nominated.
If Madison is not yet the most progressive city in America, it is well on its way. That was Mayor Dave Cieslewicz’s message to UW-Madison students Wednesday night during a State of the City event in Science Hall.
….Madison’s high-quality schools are a direct result of UW-Madison’s highly regarded School of Education, he said.
About 60 people congregated in the Memorial Union’s Rathskeller Wednesday to binge on Adult Swim, a late-night Cartoon Network programming block geared toward grown-ups that has acquired a cult following.
An electrical contractor working on state-owned equipment caused power failures that twice darkended Downtown on Monday afternoon and evening. Madison Gas and Electric representatives said Thursday.
More than 15,000 books will go on sale during Wisconsin’s largest used book sale Wednesday through March 5 in Room 116 of Memorial Library, 728 State Street.
Madison Gas and Electric officials have traced the cause of two underground fires Monday to a campus area substation.
….The problems were set off by a contractor hired by the university, who was working on university equipment at the station.
Dear Editor: A master’s program in feminist studies is being proposed for the University of Wisconsin. This seems rather redundant. For over 20 years the current program has successfully taught that it has the total truth about gender issues.
No support for the idea of merging two-year University of Wisconsin Colleges with regional four-year campuses can be found among Marshfield Common Council members.
Madison Gas and Electric determined Tuesday the cause of the Monday-evening blackout that left most of the State Street and Langdon Street areas powerless.
Equipment failures at the east-campus substation near the Kohl Center caused both the downtown afternoon and evening power outages Monday.
Life was back to normal for State Street merchants a day after underground electrical cables overloaded, caught fire and cut power to much of Downtown.
The city of Madison might not be as close to running out of combination liquor and beer licenses as officials previously thought.
Although the city still has only a handful of “reserve” licenses left, the City Attorney’s Office has now determined there are 57 additional Class B licenses that can be granted to new applicants.
Things were back to normal this morning on State Street after two underground fires Monday blew off a manhole cover, snarled traffic and knocked out electricity for thousands.
All of the nearly 400 free tickets available for the Ward Churchill lecture next Tuesday at UW-Whitewater are gone.
Tickets to see the controversial University of Colorado-Boulder professor were claimed by 3 p.m. Friday, the first day of availability.
Much of Downtown Madison and the UW-Madison campus were left in the dark for about 95 minutes Monday night when – for the second time in six hours – an underground electrical cable caught fire, sending flames and smoke up through State Street manholes.
Nobody’s lit up the fireworks yet or popped open the Veuve. But maybe someone should. The central city is booming in a way unimaginable only a decade or so ago.
Did I mention that the UW has almost $700 million in new construction in mind through 2011? “It’s the complete rejuvenation of big chunks of the campus,” notes Al Fish, UW Madison’s associate vice chancellor.
You might think I’d be happy: Gov. Doyle and the Republican-controlled state Legislature were in a bidding war to see who could cut my taxes the most.
“The Church and the HIV/AIDS Pandemic,” an unprecedented conference with speakers from as far away as Nigeria and Kenya, will be held Saturday at High Point Church, 7702 Old Sauk Road.
This is a multidimensional event whose participants will range from Roman Catholic to Pentecostal. The organizer is New College Madison, a 1-year-old “experiment in stimulating prophetic inquiry.” It is associated with the University of Wisconsin but not an official part of it.
It is good to hear that the Gaylord Nelson Institute is paving the way for “green” building in Madison (Page 3, “UW lays plans for area’s first ‘green building’,” Feb. 14). We can only hope their success will set a precedent that will influence building practices all over campus.
The University of Wisconsin student organization Al-Awda (Palestine Right to Return Coalition) began a campaign to convince faculty senates across the UW System to pass resolutions calling for divestment of funds from organizations selling arms and equipment to the Israeli military.
…Madison has its own reasons not to feel warm and fuzzy where the New Yorker is concerned, and yet, next month, the magazine’s 2005 “College Tour” is coming to town, to the UW-Madison campus, for three days of lectures and readings featuring the magazine’s writers and editors.
(Professors Robert Enright, Don Nichols and James Baughman are mentioned in this column about the upcoming New Yorker event.)
Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona criticized the lack of local broadcast coverage of election campaigns Tuesday and submitted legislation that would tighten the Federal Communications Commission’s process of licensing broadcasters. McCain’s remarks coincided with the release of research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison showing that local evening and late-night news broadcasts spent far less little time covering 2004 political elections than they did reporting on sports, weather and accidental injuries.
The first Laurie Carlson Progressive Ideas Forum will celebrate the 10th anniversary of South Africa’s constitution by featuring South African Ambassador Barbara Masekela, U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold and UW-Madison constitutional expert John Kaminski in a conversational discussion on the UW campus.
It will begin at 4 p.m. on Friday, March 11, in room 2260 of the Law School and will be followed by a public reception.
Gaylord Nelson, the father of Earth Day, would have been thrilled to be in Tripp Commons Friday to see how a new generation of Wisconsin university students channeled his environmental vision and passion into ideas for a campus center here named in his honor.
An internationally recognized software developer Thursday disparaged the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee as he explained his decision to leave and take his technology lab with him.
The UW School of Music kicks it up a notch.
Imagine in a decade another Cesar Pelli arts palace at the campus end of State Street
The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater has decided to allow controversial University of Colorado-Boulder professor of ethnic studies Ward Churchill to speak March 1 about ââ?¬Å?Racism Against the American Indian.ââ?¬Â
Let’s hope Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts was posturing for a national audience of conservative Republicans when he came out strongly for a ban on some of the most promising stem cell research planned at prominent institutions in his state.
Budgets, as they are proposed by the executive branch of government at the federal and state levels, are at best frameworks for structures that will end up looking very different from the initial plan.
…Unfortunately, the Legislature is not likely to improve on what Doyle has come up with.
Gov. Jim Doyle’s plan to provide domestic partnership benefits to University of Wisconsin employees would cost more than triple the $1 million he has budgeted, according to new figures from the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau.
Governor Doyle’s 2005 Budget Address: Protecting Taxpayers, Investing in Priorities
The University of Wisconsin would have to gut $35 million in administration under Gov. Jim Doyle’s executive budget.
That amounts to cutting about 200 administrative positions at the university, far more than UW officials previously believed they would have to cut. The cuts would help fund 125 new faculty positions at the university in 2006, as well as help balance the university’s overall budget, said state Budget Director Dave Schmiedicke.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison, $1.456-billion as of December 31 (increase of $134.2-million in the last month); the goal is $1.5-billion by 2007
Restoration was the theme of Gov. Jim Doyle’s approach to funding public schools over the next two years in the proposed budget he released Tuesday. Doyle also called for reallocations that would boost UW System faculty and cut 200 administrative positions.
Gov. Jim Doyle on Tuesday gave the Legislature a balanced budget that includes no tax increases and imposes tight limits on local government – restrictions that he insisted would virtually “freeze” December property tax bills.
The UW-Madison Faculty Senate is asking the American Association of University Professors, a national organization representing academic freedom, to censure the UW System Board of Regents for the “questionable terms” surrounding the 2001 dismissal of former UW-Superior journalism professor John Marder.
Dan Flynn, author of the book “Why The Left Hates America.” applied his critique to ideologues of all stripes Monday night.
Gov. Jim Doyle today will propose boosting state aid for public schools by $850 million over two years – enough to push state support back to the 66% promise that the governor and Republican legislators had to break to fix the last budget deficit.
Kites on Ice was flying high Saturday, an unusually warm day that brought out an estimated 45,000 people and saw hundreds of colorful kites launched in the sky above Lake Mendota.
Sunday was a sadder story. The wind was light and sporadic, and for a while there was none at all. The rain held off until the festival was over, but a rainy forecast and gray skies kept the crowds at bay.
