As the sun was rising on Sept. 12, 2001, University of Wisconsin police officers filed into a meeting. The command staff had a message for the assembled officers: Things will be different now.
Although the terrorism of the previous day had been largely confined to New York and Washington, there were two immediate tasks to deal with in Madison. The first, recalled Capt. Dale Burke, was to plan for the football game scheduled for that weekend. The second was to account for any materials on campus that could be hazardous.