No longer ‘the 1,000-pound badger’ (Durham Herald-Sun)

MADISON, Wisc. — It pays to talk to the neighbors early and often.
That’s one of the lessons university leaders in this city say has been driven home over the past decade, as they’ve undertaken a number of building projects on the University of Wisconsin campus. Steps such as working with the city and neighboring village of Shorewood Hills to create standing committees of residents and officials have gone a long way toward improving town-gown relations, members of a discussion panel said Monday.