Fearless Sifting

Earlier I was pretty critical of some of the things that Governor Doyle said about Wisconsin investments in stem cell and biotechnology research. There was one issue I neglected to mention that he got exactly right.
A major theme of the symposium was the growing research opportunities on smaller state college campuses, which some believe would [...]

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Scientific research, and more specifically stem cells, in Wisconsin have been making some headlines recently. Governor Doyle has recently called for a focus on science to propel the Wisconsin economy. The Cap Times also featured an editorial calling for an increase in focus on stem cell research. That part is not really too surprising. The [...]

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From a Capital Times interview with Assembly candidate Peng Her:

What most frustrated you about the Legislature in the last session?
I was most frustrated by the games played by Assembly Republicans. From the stalled budget process to the failure to move forward a serious comprehensive health care plan, Assembly Republicans treated the last Legislative session as [...]

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Not a particularly exciting past couple of days with regards to UW happenings. It’s summer and the stir created by the selection of a new chancellor and Board of Regents meetings has died down. I have run across a couple of things that you may not have seen and are worth a read, but really [...]

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… in many people not being very happy. With 19,000 students all wanting the 13,500 tickets, no system will ever be truly fair or make everyone happy. That being said, I am not a fan of the lottery system. At least with the first come first serve method each student ultimately had control over whether [...]

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After what Glenn Grothman had to say about the growing “left-wing drift” of UW-Madison, how interesting that the NY Times, hardly a bastion of conservative thought, writes an article about how college professors’ political views are shifting more and more to the right. Granted that just means they are becoming more moderate, not necessarily conservative. [...]

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Wisconsin State Senator Glenn Grothman wrote a column on his website detailing what he thinks of the selection of Biddy Martin as the next UW-Madison chancellor. Now before you assume that just because Grothman is a Republican writing about the UW that I disagree with everything he had to say, there was one point with [...]

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The Supreme Court’s recent decision is pretty clear about bans on handguns in cities, but the implications for gun bans on college campuses are less clear. Has it changed the dynamic of the campus concealed carry debate and student gun rights on campus? The Chronicle of Higher Education examines the issue.
The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling [...]

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