Canon advises congress
On very short notice last week, UW-Madison poly sci prof David Canon found himself in Washington, testifying in front of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, urging senators to renew and strengthen the Voting Rights Act — the four-decades-old law that ended poll taxes and literacy tests that had disenfranchised voters, particularly African Americans.
The hazards of books
University Communications’ Susannah Jacobson fulfilled a life-long goal by competing on “Jeopardy!” (It airs at 4:30 today on Ch. 15.) She was worried because “with only a few weeks between the call and the taping, I crammed over my lunch hour using a book of lists made for game show prepping. A few days before the show I realized that the book was full of glaring errors.”
However, her final showing was more-than-credible, she reveals.