Tag: UW-Madison
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How come ‘outside agitators’ …
always head for the college campus? Dear mother, raised as an abstemious Methodist in southeastern Iowa in the 1930s and never trustful of her children’s Catholic nuns, blamed the campus unrest at the tear-gassed state university campus in Madison during the 1960s on “New York Jews.” Sixty years later, supposedly enlightened progressives are the ones…
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Campus clean-up on aisle 6
THIS is how it’s done! ‘Heil Hitler!’ indeed! Madison police, UW police, State Patrol, and sheriff’s deputies cleared Library Mall of pro-Hamas demonstrators on the University of Wisconsin campus early this morning, beginning shortly before 7 a.m., two days after their Little Gaza popped up. 34 arrests were made. Four police were injured. We’ll see…
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UW Madison campus becoming danger zone
‘We were relieved to get our kids out of Chicago, but …’ The University of Wisconsin’s Madison campus was never a monastery. Often enough, the carillon bells on top of Observatory Drive get drowned out on football Saturdays, Mifflin Street block parties, or various protests. Today’s must-read Wisconsin State Journal report on a rash of loud…
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Defending the UW-Madison against the barbarians at the gate
This post has been hacked by a UW-System prof (retired) who is holding the fort against the barbarians at the gate, quivering with righteous indignation. By Gary L. Kriewald “Whatever may be the limitations which trammel inquiry elsewhere, we believe that the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting…