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Jacqueline Kelley: Monkeys deserve better living conditions

Dear Editor: I agree with Rick Marolt that the UW-Madison has not properly evaluated ongoing experiments using monkeys. My interests, however, concern the living conditions that are forced on all the monkeys kept by the university.

Several years ago I was allowed to visit the UW-Madison monkey colony after proving I was free from tuberculosis. I still recall the horrendous smell of monkey urine, but mostly I remember looking carefully at individual monkeys and deciding they were very sad and probably