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UW chancellors tout teamwork, dual growth

As big Wisconsin rivalries go, this one may lack the intensity of the Packers vs. the Bears or Miller Lite vs. Bud Light.

Nevertheless, the state’s two biggest schools – the University of Wisconsin campuses in Madison and Milwaukee – have years of mutual distrust and animosity behind them. In the constant jockeying for state funding, backers of each often act resentful that a dollar that goes to one means one dollar less to the other.