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GOP Sets Committee Vote on Kavanaugh for Friday

Wall Street Journal

Steve Kantrowitz, a Yale classmate who is now a history professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, questioned that assertion. He wrote on Twitter Tuesday morning, “Perhaps Brett Kavanaugh was a virgin for many years after high school. But he claimed otherwise in a conversation with me during our freshman year in Lawrance Hall at Yale, in the living room of my suite.”

Stephen Kantrowitz: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

Heavy.com

Kantrowitz is a professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate classes on 19th century American history. He describes himself as ” a historian of race, politics, and citizenship in the nineteenth-century United States” and says that he is especially interested in the Civil War.

Women silent on sexual assaults

The Vindicator

When Christine Blasey Ford came forward to report that President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, sexually assaulted her in 1982, you could cue the response: Why didn’t she speak out then? Why didn’t she go to the police?

-OtherWords columnist Jill Richardson is pursuing a PhD in sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She lives in San Diego.

 

Florence is a rainfall disaster like Harvey, and it won’t be the last

Slate

At the end of August, a series of storms made southern Wisconsin momentarily the wettest place in the United States. Flooding caused an estimated $100 million in damage in Dane County, prompting Gov. Scott Walker to declare a state of emergency. In Madison, which is on an isthmus between two lakes, lake water surged to record highs, flooding streets, houses, and funnily enough, the basement of the University of Wisconsin’s Center for Limnology—the study of inland lakes and rivers.

Farewell to a professional love

San Diego Reader

In 1960, I entered the journalism profession with a Master’s degree and an addiction to work in a field I already knew that I loved: writing and reporting. I had worked 40 hours a week as editor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus newspaper and almost that much under a fellowship as a graduate student.

Conan/Colbert writer Brian Stack comes back to UW

The Capital Times

Brian Stack was just another student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the 1980s. A grad student who had done some cartooning for the campus paper at the University of Indiana when he was an undergrad, Stack popped into the Daily Cardinal offices one day to see if they could use some comic strips.

What’s the Matter With Wisconsin?

New York Times

That legacy in a word is progressivism: seeded by socialist immigrants from Germany and Scandinavia, nourished by liberal icons like Robert La Follette and Russ Feingold, and sheltered by institutions like the proudly lefty University of Wisconsin at Madison, with a campus where granola crunched underfoot like fall leaves.

A tradition of distinction for Fola Lasisi

The Guardian

I was awarded Master’s degree in Civil Engineering of the same university, on fellowship. I later proceeded to the University of Wisconsin, Madison sponsored by the university of Ife and USAID in 1972 where I acquired Ph.D. degree in Agricultural engineering in 1974. Thereafter, I became a professional engineer in Wisconsin USA and a registered engineer in Nigeria in 1974.

Ben Sidran Looks Back on 4 Decades With Live Music Box Set, Shares ‘The Funkasaurus’

Billboard

Noted: The timing was certainly right, coming right after Sidran had compiled personal papers and artifacts for his alma mater, the University of Wisconsin. “I had gone through all these tapes, so I knew what was there,” Sidran tells Billboard. “I knew where all the great stuff was, so it came together very quickly. I had literally hundreds of tracks to choose from. “

Wisconsin professor cycles around the Midwest for solar

On Jim Tinjum’s #bikethewind tour last year, he often saw the installations he visited for miles in advance — turbines towering gracefully in the distance. On his recent #bikethesun tour, covering about 1,200 miles (2,000 kilometers) of the Upper Midwest, he often had to pedal around in search of his solar destinations.”Some of the sites were nestled in to the landscape pretty well,” said Tinjum, an associate professor of engineering with a specialty in renewable energy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

$30 Million Poured Into Effort to Energize Young Voters

AP

Students returning to the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus this summer were greeted by therapy dogs for petting. Those lured by the chance to ruffle a dog’s ears were then asked to register to vote — a “Pups to the Polls” gimmick that was just one of several similar events being staged in 11 battleground states by the liberal group NextGen America.

State Workers In Wisconsin Can Get Transgender Treatments Covered

NPR

In another case, two transgender women employed by the University of Wisconsin and covered by the state insurance program have sued the Group Insurance Board and the university’s board of regents, among others, accusing them of discrimination based on their inability to get coverage for gender confirmation surgery. The case is scheduled to go to trial in October, before the same judge who ruled in favor of the patients on Medicaid.

In Wisconsin, State Workers Seeking Transgender Treatment Again Will Be Covered

Kaiser Health News

In another case, two transgender women employed by the University of Wisconsin and covered by the state insurance program have sued the Group Insurance Board and the university’s board of regents, among others, accusing them of discrimination based on their inability to get coverage for gender confirmation surgery. The case is scheduled to go to trial in October, before the same judge who ruled in favor of the patients on Medicaid.

Ex-cabinet secretary, university head Shalala bids for House

Wisconsin State Journal

Noted: Shalala, former president of both the University of Miami and the University of Wisconsin, is banking that her experience is seen as an asset by voters. The Democratic candidates take similar positions on most key issues — tackling climate change, reducing gun violence, improving health care, overhauling immigration — but none of the others can match Shalala’s lengthy record or familiar name.

Top 25 Public Colleges 2018

Forbes

While the top private schools list is dominated by northeast schools, the top public schools come from all different regions: eight from the South, eight from the West, four from the Midwest and five from the Northeast. Hailing from the South is the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (No. 9), the University of Florida (No. 13), the University of Texas, Austin (No.16), Georgia Institute of Technology (No. 20), and the University of Georgia (No. 23). The Midwest is represented by the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (No. 11) and the University of Wisconsin, Madison (No. 17).

War of the Past, War of the Future: Netflix Tries Both

The New York Times

I have no doubt it’ll be an interesting picture, as Mr. Chazelle is an interesting and energetic filmmaker (although his work isn’t always entirely compatible with my taste). FilmStruck’s Criterion Channel is now showing a chat with Mr. Chazelle, conducted at the University of Wisconsin, as part of its “Masterclass” series of film supplements. The movie he lauds therein is “Chronicle of a Summer,” the 1961 French documentary directed by Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin.

Why Education May Be the Issue That Breaks Republicans’ Decade-Long Grip on Wisconsin

The New Yorker

It has been nearly a decade since Governor Scott Walker—who grew up near Darien—and his fellow-Republicans began implementing their vision of conservative austerity and privatization in Wisconsin. The result has been a state more attractive to corporations, with a smaller middle class and deteriorating public infrastructure and institutions—from roads to the University of Wisconsin system to public schools.

Wisconsin House Primary: Can Randy ‘Iron Stache’ Bryce Get His Mojo Back?

The Weekly Standard

And so it is that Bryce, one of the most intriguing figures of the 2018 elections—the Democratic prototype for hyped midterm candidates—seems closer to a nadir than a peak. As of the primary results in Wisconsin Tuesday night, his opponent is another Janesville native, Bryan Steil: a lawyer, a member of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, a 37-year-old with little political baggage, and a seemingly normal conservative Republican.

What primaries in Minnesota, Wisconsin tell us

Yahoo News

In Wisconsin, the contested Democratic gubernatorial primary “drew about 20 percent more voters than [the] contested Republican primary for U.S. Senate, even though the GOP race was more competitive and generated far more television advertising,” according to state political expert Craig Gilbert. Especially striking, Gilbert noted, was the fact that the “ultramobilized blue” bastion of Dane County” — including the University of Wisconsin college town of Madison — “produced 40 percent more votes than ever before in a Democratic primary for governor or Senate.”

Democrats’ hope to beat Walker is former teacher

AP

Evers, 66, has deep ties to the state. Born in the tiny town of Plymouth, he graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and worked as a teacher, elementary and high school principal, superintendent and regional administrator before joining the state education department in 2001. He’s been state superintendent, an elected position, since 2009.

Organizers: Madison Police Won’t Participate in Pride Parade

AP

OutReach LGBT Community Center board member Jill Nagler told the Wisconsin State Journal that LGBT community members voiced concerns about feeling unsafe with officers participating armed and in uniform. OutReach announced Friday that event organizers are rescinding parade applications from Madison and University of Wisconsin-Madison police and Dane County Sheriff Dave Mahoney.

Beautiful Michigan Sunset Caused by Smoke

WBCK

The following is an satellite image brought to us by the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  This images shows us the the smoke drift trajectory across the state of Michigan.  You can actually see the smoke partially obscuring lake Michigan and Superior.

Then and Now: Milwaukee Latino leaders progress from activism to classrooms and boardrooms

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Noted: Salas served briefly as executive director of United Migrant Opportunity Services and has been involved in numerous Latino civil rights issues throughout his life. He earned an undergraduate degree in education from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a master’s degree in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He went on to teach social science at Milwaukee Area Technical College and Chicano and Latino studies at UWM and UW-Madison, and is a former member of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents.

The latest book by Jerry Apps

Madison Magazine

“Once a Professor: A Memoir of Teaching in Turbulent Times,” published this year by the Wisconsin History Society Press, draws on Apps’ diaries from the 38 years he spent as a professor of agriculture at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and as an administrator for UW Extension.