Are the University of Wisconsin System and its Madison campus headed for divorce court? Can this marriage be saved? Should it be saved?
These are good questions, but no one can answer them yet because Gov. Scott Walker has yet to make fully public a proposal for such a split.
But we can speak to what we will consider, and it is not a given that what is good for the Madison campus is be good for Wisconsin, the rest of the UW System or the Milwaukee campus. Put another way, how Madison benefits should not necessarily trump the needs of the state, the system, the Milwaukee campus or students.