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Woody Knox: Wrong to label UW System surplus as a ‘slush fund’

Everyone?s frustrated to find an account UW System set aside. I get it. But I take exception to calling it a “slush fund.”In the political world, “slush fund” implies it will be used to fund golf junkets to Hawaii or purchase political influence. But with the System, we know it will be used for the purposes intended — retaining, building, inspiring and investing only in the future of Wisconsin.