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Professor’s blunder hurts UW’s cause

(Sara) Goldrick-Rab’s irresponsible expression of her concern for academic freedom and UW-Madison harmed the very causes she was trying to support. Her remarks about Gov. Walker and legislators allowed their supporters to take the offensive. But most damning of all, when the public should look to UW-Madison faculty for leadership in reasonable discussions of public policies, she offered little more than vitriol.