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Alan Cumming is currently starring in the CBS hit drama The Good Wife, for which he has been nominated for the Emmy, SAG and Satellite awards.
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Amongst his many other ventures, Alan is making a documentary about his grandfather, is writing his second book and continues to perform in cabaret in gigs around the world. His album I Bought A Blue Car Today won a Bistro award, and the Rich Morel Pink Noise remix of Next To Me, which Alan wrote with Lance Horne, is available on I Tunes.
He continues to be an activist for gay rights and education and has received many awards for his work including most recently honors from The LGBT Task Force, The Point Foundation, Theatre Offensive and the Chicago Film Festival. He was awarded an OBE (Officer of the British Empire) for his work in the arts and LGBT rights by HRH the Queen in 2009.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Kanawha Valley runners swept the Class AAA 3,200-meter runs Friday night at the Gazette/Friends of Coal Relays, and both have come a long way - neither was a factor a year ago.
George Washington junior Matthew Brafford failed to reach the top six in last year's state meet. Hurricane senior Emily Schwendiman didn't even run the distance until this year.
"I said, 'Nope, never running it,' " Schwendiman said after her 4-second victory. "But then [assistant coach Jason Henley] put me in it. He has a plan for everything; I trust him. He said it would make me faster in the mile."
She is just faster, period. As a junior, she finished just 11th in the 1,600 and 12th in the 800 in the state meet. As she showed Friday night, she likely won't finish that low in the 1,600 or that "new" event, the 3,200.
She faced a rematch against Capital's Peyton Panger, who dusted her by 12 seconds two weeks ago in the BB&T Classic. This time, Schwendiman deserted her competition during the sixth of eight laps, with Panger falling to fourth.
"My coach kind of had a strategy just to go out with Peyton, because she likes to go out fast," Schwendiman said. "And last time, that's where she got me. I could never get her."
Brafford simply went out front and stayed there, comfortably beating future Air Force runner Ryan Graf of Jefferson. The margin may have been comfortable, but Brafford refused to finish that way, nearly needing medical attention afterward.
He finished in 9:17.98, 7-plus seconds better than his previous best and the best time for anybody in the state not named Jacob Burcham. The Cabell Midland senior, heading to Oklahoma, has taken his sub-9-minute marks to out-of-state meets, including the Eastern Relays this weekend in Louisville, Ky.
Brafford started his breakout season with a second-place finish in the state cross country meet.
"This is by far the best race I've ever had," he said. "My whole goal this season is to break 9:20. . . . This is the most important year for me to get my times down so colleges will look at me and just get my name out there."
In boys Class A, Buffalo's Dylan Rich took an easy victory in what he called his first competitive 3,200. In AA, defending state champ Will Shaffer received a rude awakening from Fairmont Senior's Nick Trefz and Bridgeport's Abe Merinar, whose schools dropped down from AAA. Shaffer clipped more than 4 seconds off his season best, yet finished third.
Most of those distance specialists and many other runners will be back in action today when the Relays resumes. Field events begin at 9 a.m., with running events firing up at 10.
St. Albans pulled off a 1-2 finish in the boys AAA discus, with senior Travis Vickers throwing 146 feet, 4 inches and Jacob Lomax tossing 133-6. That put the Red Dragons in third place with 26 points after six events, behind Point Pleasant's 33 and Jefferson's 30.
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It was the unkindest cut of all.
Jason Kidd, the original face of the Brooklyn Nets, made his Downtown debut a memorable one Tuesday night at the Barclays Center, drilling what proved to be the game-winning 3-point dagger with 24 seconds remaining to lift the Knicks to a stirring 100-97 victory over our borough's suddenly slumping franchise before a bi-partisan sellout crowd of 17,732 on the corners of Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues.
Kidd, who led New Jersey to back-to-back NBA Finals appearances in 2002-03, was the Nets' undisputed superstar nearly a decade ago when the team first announced its plans to become Brooklyn's first major pro sports franchise since the Dodgers left for Los Angeles in 1957. The now 39-year-old future Hall of Famer was instead traded to Dallas in 2007 and eventually helped the Mavericks win their first-ever world championship four years later.
Now a member of the East River rival Knicks, Kidd missed the original "Clash of the Boroughs" due to back spasms on Nov. 26, when the Nets pulled out an historic 96-89 overtime triumph against the city's more-established franchise. He made sure to leave a permanent imprint on Brooklynites in the rematch, finishing with a season-high 18 points with six rebounds and six assists.
Kidd's 3-pointer with just over four minutes to play forged the first tie of the night, and his last-second dagger elicited a roar of approval from the orange-and-blue clad fans in the state-of-the-art arena, which pulsated from opening tip till final buzzer in the newest installment of our city's ever-bourgeoning feud.
"I just want to win. I'm a competitor," beamed Kidd, who received a tap out from Knicks center Tyson Chandler, deftly stepped into the onrushing Jerry Stackhouse for a foul call and tickled the twine to snap a 97-97 deadlock before pounding the Nets' herringbone-design hardwood and raising his fist in triumph.
Kidd missed the ensuing free throw to keep it a one-possession game, but rather than call timeout after the devastating long-range bomb, Nets coach Avery Johnson urged his players up the floor.
Deron Williams, the Nets' $100 million point guard as well as the organization's pied piper during the final stages of the move to Brooklyn, had the last chance to force OT when he wound up with a loose ball off a missed 3-pointer by Gerald Wallace.
Williams took to the air from just beyond the arc along the left elbow, but his potential tying shot bounded off the rim as time expired, leaving he and his teammates with their fifth straight loss and initial defeat to the Knicks since the relocation.
"I hate him," Williams said of Kidd with tongue firmly in cheek, taking a playful jab at the player he idolized on his path to the pros. "That's a good quote, you can use that, 'I hate him'.
Of course, Kidd's heroics would not have been possible without the otherwordly performance of Brooklyn-born Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony, who continued his early season MVP campaign with a season-high 45 points. Anthony and Kidd combined to hit 11 of New York's 14 3-pointers as Johnson stepped to the postgame press conference podium chagrined by his club's inability to avert an 0-4 homestand with Wednesday night's visit to Toronto looming.
"We kind of got sucked in and once we did, Kidd got open and made the play," he said. "In a perfect world, they probably should have made seven or eight 3s tonight, not 14. The main thing is we didn't do a good job of guarding the 3-point line. Every time we took a big lead, they hit a 3. I'm proud of our guys. They played hard under a lot of adversity. This was a winnable game, but we didn't close it out."
Missing center Brook Lopez for the sixth straight game, the Nets ran out to an early 17-point lead as backup pivotman Andray Blatche resumed his career-reviving renaissance with the Nets after six turbulent years in Washington. Blatche finished with a season-high 23 points, but it was his inability to snare a rebound before Kidd's big 3 that ultimately cost the Nets a chance to improve to 2-0 against their blood rivals.
"That hurts. It was a really tough battle. We had the game won," Blatche lamented. "Tyson Chandler made a great play to tap the ball back out. But that's on me. We just need to stay positive until the next one. The game is made of runs. We made ours, they made theirs."
Blatche was also involved in the game's most controversial play. His putback in the late stages of regulation was negated by a delayed offensive interference call, costing Brooklyn an opportunity to open a four-point cushion. But neither Blatche nor Johnson used the borderline ruling as an excuse for the crushing loss.
"I thought it was a clean putback, but the biggest play was Tyson tapping the ball out for the second chance," Blatche humbly noted.
"Once that ball went in we were getting back in transition and then suddenly there was a call," Johnson added as his team fell to 11-9 and 4 1/2 games behind Atlantic Division-leading New York. "There was a little indecision there, but we just felt the play should have kept going. Obviously, it was a big play in the game. But this was a really [well] officiated game. There's no complaining about the officiating tonight."
Despite the expression of his ire for Kidd, Williams took ownership of the defeat and the Nets' ongoing struggles, as a true leader should.
"I need to play better. I dont' feel like I've had a good game yet this season," he said after finishing with an ultimately unsatisfying 18 points and 10 assists. "I need to get back to trying to dominate games. I'm trying to find a rhythm out there but it's just not happening for some reason. I have to be more aggressive out there."
"We have to go to Toronto and get the job done," added Blatche as the team prepared to leave the country, having suffered by far its most gutwrenching loss in its new home compliments of a familiar but now unfriendly face.
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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.
(1841) Three Volumes. (This has also been published under the shorter title, Extraordinary Popular Delusions.) A history of popular folly. The opening sections, on economic bubbles have (allegedly) been used to train stockbrokers. No doubt Mackay would include the sub-prime mortgage market if he were writing today. As it is, his chapter on Tulipomania describes a period when tulips were (briefly) more expensive than gold and there was a lively futures market in them. There is also an interesting chapter on beards. Contents: National Delusions, The Mississippi Scheme, The South Sea Bubble, The Tulipomania, Relics, Modern Prophecies, Popular Admiration for Great Thieves, Influence of Politics and Religion on the Hair and Beard, Duels and Ordeals, The Love of the Marvellous and the Disbelief of the True, Popular Follies in Great Cities, The O.P. Mania, The Thugs, or Phansigars, The Crusades, The Witch Mania, The Slow Poisoners, Haunted Houses, Philosophical Delusions, The Alchymists, Fortune Telling, The Magnetisers. Editorial Decisions There are a lot of incomplete copies of this work online. Most contain only Volume 1; others are abridgements. This is the complete three-volume version. I have restored accents and italics, using my paper copy as a guide. I have largely left the authors idiosyncratic spelling alone. The footnotes are often informative and I have left them in the text in square brackets [like this]. Is there is a competition for the greatest number of tags? This work is in the Canadian public domain OR the copyright holder has given specific permission for distribution. It may still be under copyright in some countries. If you live outside Canada, check your country's copyright laws. If the book is under copyright in your country, do not download or redistribute this work.
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Two-Stage Extreme Phenotype Sequencing Design for Discovering and Testing Common and Rare Genetic Variants: Efficiency and PowerKang G.a, c · Lin D.a · Hakonarson H.b · Chen J.aaDepartment of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania, and bCenter for Applied Genomics, The Joseph Stokes Jr. Research Institute, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa., and cDepartment of Biostatistics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tenn., USA Corresponding Author |
Next-generation sequencing technology provides an unprecedented opportunity to identify rare susceptibility variants. It is not yet financially feasible to perform whole-genome sequencing on a large number of subjects, and a two-stage design has been advocated to be a practical option. In stage I, variants are discovered by sequencing the whole genomes of a small number of carefully selected individuals. In stage II, the discovered variants of a large number of individuals are genotyped to assess associations. Individuals with extreme phenotypes are typically selected in stage I. Using simulated data for unrelated individuals, we explore two important aspects of this two-stage design: the efficiency of discovering common and rare single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in stage I and the impact of incomplete SNP discovery in stage I on the power of testing associations in stage II. We applied a sum test and a sum of squared score test for gene-based association analyses evaluating the power of the two-stage design. We obtained the following results from extensive simulation studies and analysis of the GAW17 dataset. When individuals with trait values more extreme than the 99.7–99th quantile were included in stage I, the two-stage design could achieve the same power as or even higher than the one-stage design if the rare causal variants had large effect sizes. In such design, fewer than half of the total SNPs including more than half of the causal SNPs were discovered, which included nearly all SNPs with minor allele frequencies (MAFs) ≥5%, more than half of the SNPs with MAFs between 1% and 5%, and fewer than half of the SNPs with MAFs <1%. Although a one-stage design may be preferable to identify multiple rare variants having small to moderate effect sizes, our observations support using the two-stage design as a cost-effective option for next-generation sequencing studies.
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Location: Madison, Wisconsin
Website: http://www.wisc.edu
Type: Public
Federal Circuit: 7th Circuit
University of Wisconsin – Madison has been given the speech code rating Red. A red light university has at least one policy that both clearly and substantially restricts freedom of speech. Read more here.
University of Wisconsin: Students' Due Process Rights
March 13, 2009
FIRE successfully persuaded the University of Wisconsin's Board of Regents to affirm due process rights for students, including the option of a hearing before a committee including student peers, attorney representation in the case of serious allegations, and both e-mail and paper notification of proceedings. The Board had proposed changes to the State Administrative Code governing infractions and judicial procedures within Wisconsin's public universities that would have limited due process rights and granted more discretion to administrators. FIRE's Adam Kissel engaged in a speaking tour of University of Wisconsin schools in opposition to these changes, even speaking before the Board […]
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Mohammed Cartoon Controversy: FIRE Response to Intimidation and Newspaper Disputes
February 22, 2006
As a result of worldwide controversy regarding caricatures of the prophet Mohammed, first published in a Danish newspaper, free speech was being openly disregarded on American college campuses. In the weeks following the printing of the cartoon, students, professors, and student publications not only reprinted the controversial cartoons but even created their own satirical cartoons depicting Mohammed. Chilling of speech in relation to the cartoon was found at Century College, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and New York University, amongst others.
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University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire: Ban on RAs' Leading Bible Studies
October 10, 2005
The University of Wisconsin's (UW) Board of Regents voted to uphold religious liberty on campus under its jurisdiction by permitting resident assistants (RAs) to hold Bible study groups in their dormitory rooms. Six months before FIRE advocated on the RAs' behalf, a residential life official from UW Eau-Claire sent Christian RAs a letter notifying them that residential life officials were not permitted to host Bible, Torah, or Koran study sessions in their dorm rooms because their religious beliefs may make them less "approachable" to students who did not hold the same views. FIRE first wrote to Interim Chancellor Vicki Lord […]
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Red Light Policies
University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents: Policies- Racist and Other Discriminatory Conduct Policy 12-13
It is the policy of the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System, that racist and other discriminatory conduct toward students, employees, officials, and guests in the University of Wisconsin System is conduct that will not be tolerated. Discrimination, discriminatory attitudes, and expressions that reflect discrimination are inconsistent with the efforts of the University of Wisconsin System to foster an environment of respect for the dignity and worth of all members of the university community and to eliminate all manifestations of discrimination within the university.
Responsible Use of Information Technology Policy 12-13
Respect and Protect Privacy and Be Civil:
Users of University IT resources are expected to protect others' privacy. They may not use University IT resources to stalk, harass, threaten, or otherwise cause harm to another individual or entity, or to the activities of others.Office of Equity and Diversity: Sexual Harassment Information and Resources- What is Sexual Harassment? 12-13
Some behavior that is not in violation of university policy may, nonetheless, be unprofessional under the circumstances. Consequences of such unprofessional behavior may include poor performance evaluations or possible discipline.Dean of Students Office: Reporting and Response to Incidents of Bias/Hate 12-13
While some acts of bias or hate may be violations of the law and/or University policy, many may be considered speech protected by the First Amendment; which allows for the expression of hateful and intolerant statements and expressive conduct. In such cases, no formal action can be taken against the offending party(ies). However, the University has an obligation and the right to respond to such incidents in a manner consistent with the role of promoting a climate of tolerance, respect, inclusion and dialog.Division of University Housing: Student/Community Expectations- Dismissal on the First Offense 12-13
Some behaviors and policy violations may result in dismissal from University Housing on the first offense. These
behaviors include, but are not limited to: ... Interfering with a staff member engaged in the performance of his/her duties; interference includes, but is not limited
to: verbal abuse, physical intimidation or use of physical force, and the display of demeaning or humiliating visual
materials.UWS 18 Conduct on University Lands: Computer Use 12-13
No person may, with
intent to harass, annoy or offend another person,
send a message to the person on an electronic mail
or other computerized communication system and in
that message use any obscene, lewd or profane
language or suggest any lewd or lascivious act.Division of University Housing: Student/Community Expectations- Harassment 12-13
"Harassment" is defined as verbal threats, intimidation, or conduct which: tend to cause or incite a breach of the peace; or are severe or pervasive enough to substantially interfere with a reasonable student's educational performance, opportunities or benefits, or mental, emotional or physical well-being and which actually do so interfere. The presentation of any idea, regardless of the ideas' nature or perceived value, may not be considered harassment unless it is accompanied with verbal threats, intimidation, or conduct as previously defined. Behaviors and actions exhibited via electronic media including email, text messaging or social networking websites (e.g. Facebook or Twitter) may be in violation of the harassment policy or fit the definition of a bias incident.
Prohibited Harassment: Definitions and Rules Governing the Conduct of UW-Madison Faculty and Academic Staff 12-13
A member of the university faculty or academic staff is subject to discipline if, in a work or learning-related setting, he or she makes sexual advances, requests sexual favors, or makes physical contacts commonly understood to be of a sexual nature, and if
the conduct is unwanted by the person(s) to whom it is directed, and
the actor knew or a reasonable person could clearly have understood that the conduct was unwanted, and
because of its flagrant or repetitious nature, the conduct either
seriously interferes with work or learning performance of the person(s) to whom the conduct was directed, or
makes the university work, learning, or service environment intimidating or hostile, or demeaning to a person of average sensibilities.Prohibited Harassment: Definitions and Rules Governing the Conduct of UW-Madison Faculty and Academic Staff 12-13
The University of Wisconsin-Madison endeavors to maintain an environment that challenges students, faculty, and staff to develop their critical thinking capacities to their fullest potential-an environment in which controversial, provocative, and unpopular ideas can safely be introduced and discussed. The university is, therefore, unswervingly committed to freedom of speech as guaranteed under the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and to the principle of academic freedom adopted by the Board of Regents in 1894, which states in part: "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 and winnowing by which alone truth can be found."
Colleges have free speech on the run
November 30, 2012
In 2007, Keith John Sampson, a middle-aged student working his way through Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis as a janitor, was declared guilty of racial harassment. Without granting Sampson a hearing, the university administration — acting as prosecutor, judge and jury — convicted him of "openly reading [a] book related to a historically and racially abhorrent subject." "Openly." "Related to." Good grief. The book, "Notre Dame vs. the Klan," celebrated the 1924 defeat of the Ku Klux Klan in a fight with Notre Dame students. But some of Sampson's co-workers disliked the book's cover, which featured a black-and-white photograph of a Klan […]
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Free speech expert questions suspension of UW fraternity
May 30, 2012
A UW-Madison free speech expert is questioning whether the university had the evidence to suspend a school fraternity for two years. Donald Downs, a UW-Madison political science professor, said he is reviewing the case with the Committee for Academic Freedom and Rights, an independent faculty group that takes on university issues like free speech and due process. Last week, the university released a decision to suspend Delta Upsilon after fraternity members reportedly taunted two black female students using socioeconomic terms. The Committee on Student Organizations wrote that it believes a bottle was thrown but could not determine whether it was […]
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UW regents to consider revised changes to student conduct code
June 3, 2009
Students faced with suspension, expulsion or criminal charges for non-academic misconduct could have legal representation during hearings at University of Wisconsin System schools, but students would be expected to answer questions on their own, according to a revised policy the Board of Regents will consider this week. The change is part of a new conduct code that would expand administrators' jurisdiction to allow them to discipline students for certain types of off-campus, non-academic misconduct. The issue has attracted interest at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where more students rent off-campus housing in a traditionally residential neighborhood. Homeowners have pushed UWM to […]
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UW System conduct code revisions still need tweaking
May 7, 2009
A committee of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents on Thursday voted to delay until June the consideration of proposed revisions to the student conduct code. A key issue was a provision that would allow students to have a lawyer speak on their behalf during disciplinary proceedings where they face suspension or expulsion or have been charged with a crime in connection with their conduct. While students and advocates have argued that students are entitled to legal representation during such hearings, some student affairs officers testified that lawyers make the hearings too adversarial. The university system has been […]
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UW Regents consider conduct code changes
May 6, 2009
University of Wisconsin System students facing charges of misconduct could have lawyers represent them at disciplinary hearings under a change praised by student advocates but opposed by some deans of students. The UW System has spent two years considering changes to its student code of conduct, including giving universities the authority for the first time to punish students for off-campus, nonacademic misconduct. The system announced several revisions to the proposal last week after student leaders, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education and others complained an earlier plan went too far. The UW System Board of Regents is expected to […]
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Possible changes to UW code of conduct debated
March 5, 2009
Amid the controversy surrounding the proposed changes to the UW student code of conduct, Adam Kissel of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education discussed their potential effect on students' rights Wednesday at Memorial Union. The proposed changes would give the university the ability to punish students for crimes committed off-campus, but such offenses would have to be repeated violations or serious ones, like sexual assault or destruction of property. Kissel presented his worries that the new revisions may take away some of students' rights, such as the right to legal representation at a disciplinary hearing. Under the new proposed […]
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Wis. Provost Will Review Teaching of Instructor With Controversial 9/11 Views
July 14, 2006
The provost of the University of Wisconsin at Madison announced that he would conduct a review of the teaching of an instructor who believes that the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, were orchestrated by the U.S. government. The provost's announcement in late June came amid calls from state legislators to fire the instructor, Kevin Barrett, after he discussed his views on a local conservative radio talk show. … To read the full article, please click here: http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=zpmdxytkjhqy5skzbrm8hqdj05pgd8rc
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FIRE criticizes honor society
December 1, 2005
The Philadelphia-based Foundation for Individual Rights in Education criticized the honor society Phi Beta Kappa Tuesday, citing the society's inconsistent policies regarding freedom of expression. In a nine-page letter, FIRE program director Samantha Harris referenced several possible constitutional free-speech violations by seven universities in which Phi Beta Kappa chapters are present. "Nearly all of Phi Beta Kappa's member institutions maintain speech codes of some kind, many of them unconstitutional or an unlawful violation of contractual promises made to students and faculty," Harris said in the letter. "Policies such as [these] pose a real and imminent threat to academic freedom at […]
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Controversy of Biblical proportions
November 29, 2005
The University of Wisconsin System has not fared well this past year in the national spotlight. Last year, UW-Whitewater received a cacophony of criticism for hosting the controversial University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill Another pepper-spray finale to Halloween was covered by CNN, a high profile conservative attacked UW-Madison for being "a willing partner in the degradation of higher education." Yet, these controversies were not the result of any direct action by the UW System and the powers that be were not responsible for their outcome. But the same can not be said about the brouhaha over the ban against […]
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Proponents obtain no legal opinion
November 28, 2005
The state's attorney general's office declined to offer a legal opinion regarding the controversial University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Bible-study ban last week. The office received requests from both the UW System and the delegation of 25 Republican legislators and both parties are disappointed with the recent declination. "We got a quick response," UW System spokesperson Doug Bradley said. "I think we had asked in hopes of getting some expert legal opinion and she declined to opine, so it is what it is." State Rep. Scott Suder, R-Abbotsford, who was among the group of 25 requesting Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager's opinion, […]
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Legislators request Lautenschlager's opinion in Eau Claire controversy
November 17, 2005
Twenty-five Wisconsin legislators sent a letter to Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager Wednesday, asking her legal opinion on a University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire policy, which they feel may be unconstitutional. The policy, which first made headlines earlier this month, prohibits resident assistants from leading Bible studies in their residence halls. "Consultations with the Legislature's top attorneys indicate that this policy may conflict with the 'free exercise of religion clause' of the First Amendment," the letter reads. "We are concerned the Bible ban puts the UW System in a precarious position with the U.S. Constitution." Just two days earlier, the Attorney General's […]
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Speech codes on campus
November 16, 2005
Once again, state legislators and the national media have turned their attention to the UW System. This time, their fiery gaze has zeroed in on UW-Eau Claire. Over the summer, RAs who led Bible studies during their off-hours were contacted by Associate Director of Housing and Residence Life Deborah Newman and informed that they are not permitted to hold the Bible studies in their dorm rooms. The decision has been furiously condemned by numerous Wisconsin legislators and the Philadelphia-based Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. For all the attention given to Eau Claire, they are not the only institution with […]
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In-depth: Words Left Unsaid
October 27, 2005
Dedicated to the pursuit of truth, universities create forums for discussion. According to many, this basic foundation shook on June 20, 2005, when the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals gave universities the right to censor student newspapers. The Hosty v. Carter ruling has come under fire in recent months from several First Amendment rights groups and media watchdogs that found the ruling both shocking and appalling. This week, a coalition of several major groups headed by the Virginia-based Student Press Law Center (SPLC), delivered their friend-of-the-court, or amicus, brief to the Supreme Court. The coalition group hopes the high […]
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Court flawed in student paper ruling
October 27, 2005
Sometimes even federal judges make mistakes. Last week the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education filed an amicus brief in Hosty v. Carter, the recent 7th Circuit Court ruling that allows colleges to censor student newspapers that receive a substantial amount of funding from that college. FIRE's brief joins two others in support of Margaret Hosty, Jeni Porche and Steven Barba — the three students suing Dean Patricia Carter, alleging a violation of the First Amendment. The story begins late in 2000, when the Innovator, the student newspaper for Governors State University, published a number of articles critical of the […]
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In-Depth: Letter and the law
October 13, 2005
The University of Wisconsin's Student Services Finance Committee denied recognition to the UW Roman Catholic Foundation Sept. 26 in a 6-6 vote for a second time after the group had appealed the first decision a week earlier. The decision follows in a line of denials issued to Christian student groups by student-funding groups around the country. In the past eight months, more than eight universities have been involved in similar cases, and often universities have returned recognition to groups after lengthy legal battles. In an effort to retain student funding, UWRCF sued Associated Students of Madison in Student Judiciary. During […]
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Ideology creeps into academic evaluation
October 5, 2005
At which point does diversity, a most recent shibboleth in academe, turn around and devour its own tail? Just before the start of the fall semester, Edward Swan, a student in the College of Education at Washington State University, was informed he was in jeopardy of being removed from his program. The college is bound by state law to evaluate the character of each student at graduation. Since 2001, the college has used a system where each semester, faculty members fill out a "professional disposition evaluation" for each student they have in class. The forms ask for marks on, among […]
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Educating the University
June 1, 2005
Donald Alexander Downs. Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus. Cambridge University Press. 318 pages. $28.99 Our universities are ailing. Many, including most of our elite universities, have abandoned the notion that a liberal arts education is constituted by a solid core, that is, a basic knowledge of the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences that all educated people should possess. Furthermore, for all their earnest words about the beauty and necessity of multicultural education, university administrators and faculty preside over a curriculum that routinely permits students to graduate without acquiring reading, writing, and speaking fluency in any foreign language, […]
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Vindicating Freedom of the Press from Alaska to Wisconsin
February 25, 2014
As we celebrate Free Press Week here at FIRE, I find myself thinking back on cases in which FIRE has intervened on behalf of student journalists and protected the freedom of the press that the First Amendment guarantees. I don't have to look very far back, either. As our work over the past year (including as recently as this month) demonstrates, FIRE is committed to defending student newspapers and media outlets against censorship and ensuring that free press rights can be properly exercised on college and university campuses.
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Student Spotlight: Haley Sinklair, Making Waves at University of Wisconsin-Madison
December 18, 2013
FIRE's Campus Freedom Network's Student Spotlight is proud to recognize University of Wisconsin-Madison student Haley Sinklair for her innovative student activism. Haley, a junior majoring in sociology and legal studies and the director of communications for Young Americans for Liberty at UW-Madison, has helped lead her group through a busy year promoting free speech rights on campus. The recipe for success? A healthy dose of creativity. The group exemplified its creative spirit with "Old Americans for Tyranny vs. Young Americans for Liberty." For this event, Haley said the chapter split into two—half of their members dressed normally, while the other half donned old-fashioned gowns, […]
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UW-Madison Senior Rebukes Censorial Commenters, Defends Open Debate
November 14, 2013
University of Wisconsin-Madison senior Alex Schaefer penned a passionate defense of the virtues of free and open debate this week in student newspaper The Badger Herald, responding to the reaction of the paper's readership to a controversial letter to the editor. Schaefer was disappointed that many comments to the letter advocated stifling the author's ideas and viewpoints, with some decrying the decision to publish the letter, and one going as far as suggesting that the letter be "reported" to the school. Recognizing the crucial role that the free exchange of ideas plays in developing and reaching informed conclusions, Schaefer cogently argues that instead of […]
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Victory for Academic Freedom: Wisconsin Governor Vetoes Unconstitutional Ban on Faculty Speech
July 1, 2013
Yesterday, in a victory for academic freedom, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker issued a line-item veto to strike an unconstitutional ban on faculty speech and research from the Wisconsin state budget. A late addition to the budget proposal, the broad, vague ban would have prohibited University of Wisconsin faculty "from doing any work related to" the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization. FIRE wrote Governor Walker twice urging this result. As we stated in our first letter, sent on June 13: [T]he Joint Finance Committee's proposed prohibition is extreme in its breadth, preventing faculty from performing any number […]
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FIRE Writes to Wisconsin Governor Urging Veto of Unconstitutional Budget Measure
June 21, 2013
On June 6, we reported on an addition to the Wisconsin State Legislature's budget proposal that would forbid University of Wisconsin (UW) faculty from working with the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, a nonpartisan, nonprofit journalism organization. FIRE then wrote a letter to Governor Scott Walker on June 13, expressing our concern with this provision and explaining its unconstitutional effects. As of this week, both the Assembly and the Senate of the state legislature have approved the budget proposal, including this provision, and it is awaiting Governor Scott Walker's signature or veto. FIRE has written again today to Governor Walker […]
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FIRE to Wisconsin State Legislature: Protect University of Wisconsin Faculty's Academic Freedom
June 13, 2013
Today, FIRE sent a letter to Governor Scott Walker and Wisconsin state legislators asking them to protect academic freedom by rejecting a controversial modification to the state budget. Specifically, the modification would prohibit University of Wisconsin faculty from "doing any work related to" the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism (WCIJ). The current budget proposal, in prohibiting WCIJ and UW faculty from collaborating, will severely restrict UW faculty's academic freedom. The letter notes the Supreme Court's long history of protecting academic freedom and freedom of speech on public university campuses. These principles are so critical that "speech related to scholarship […]
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Wisconsin Legislative Committee Threatens UW Faculty, Journalism Nonprofit
June 6, 2013
Wisconsin State Capitol from Monona Terrace - Wikimedia CommonsJust before 6 a.m. yesterday morning, the Joint Finance Committee (JFC) of the Wisconsin State Legislature voted 12–4 to add a motion to the proposed state budget that would kick the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism (WCIJ) off the University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW–Madison) campus and forbid UW employees from even working with the WCIJ. WCIJ executive director Andy Hall said that he was "blindsided" by this striking blow to academic freedom. If the motion is passed into law, it will unacceptably restrict the academic freedom and freedom of association rights of UW–Madison journalism […]
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Fraternity Cleared of Discrimination Charge for Protected Speech But Punished Anyway
June 1, 2012
On May 23, a University of Wisconsin-Madison disciplinary committee voted 10-0 to clear the Delta Upsilon Fraternity (DU), a registered student organization (RSO), of a charge of discrimination, finding that the speech in question was protected expression. According to the disciplinary committee's findings and an evidence packet, two student members of DU, after a long night that seems to have included some kind of party, noticed two non-members (who also were students at the university) trespassing on DU's property. The DU members yelled at the non-members using sentences such as, "How did it feel to be peasants," and the individuals […]
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University of Wisconsin-Madison To Pay $500,000 for Violating Religious Student Group's First Amendment Rights
September 26, 2011
A 5-year-old legal battle over First Amendment rights has culminated in an enormous, nearly $500,000 bill for the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW). Back in 2006, UW refused to officially recognize or fund, from student fees, the "Badger Catholic" (then, "Roman Catholic Foundation") student group. After a lawsuit and an injunction from a federal court, UW settled with the group and agreed to recognize it and release the suggested funding for the group's operation. But soon after, UW backtracked and refused to disburse the portion of the funds that would go toward events that included prayer, worship, or proselytizing. The resulting […]
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Why Academic Freedom is Implicated by the Wisconsin GOP's Open Records Request
March 29, 2011
Last Friday, I commented on the legal issues raised by the Republican Party of Wisconsin's recent open records request of the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UWM). Specifically, the Wisconsin Republicans are asking that UWM turn over all emails sent and received by Professor William Cronon on his university email account that reference a variety of terms and names connected to controversial state legislation regarding the rights of public sector employees to bargain collectively. I pointed out that while the request itself is perfectly legal, the question of whether Cronon must turn over "all emails into and out of" his university account […]
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Supreme Court Rejects Appeal of Seventh Circuit Decision Protecting First Amendment Rights of Religious Student Organizations
March 8, 2011
On Monday, the Supreme Court of the United States rejected an appeal by the University of Wisconsin at Madison (UW) against a ruling from the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit that prohibited the university from denying funding to student organizations that engage in religious activities. This decision represents a victory for the First Amendment rights of students and student groups, and leaves intact the conception of student groups as private speakers in a government-established forum (i.e., the student organization structure). The Seventh Circuit, which covers the states of Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin, had ruled that UW could not […]
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Seventh Circuit: UW-Madison Cannot Refuse Religious Student Groups Funding on Basis of Religious Viewpoint
September 3, 2010
In a victory for free speech on campus, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled on Wednesday that the University of Wisconsin-Madison's (UW's) policy of denying funding to student groups that engage in "worship, proselytizing, and religious instruction" is a violation of the First Amendment. The case, Badger Catholic, Inc. v. Walsh, arose when student group Badger Catholic (formerly Roman Catholic Foundation, UW-Madison) was repeatedly denied student activities funding by both UW and its student government because the group engages in religious speech. As Judge Frank Easterbrook, author of the Seventh Circuit's majority opinion, explains: The […]
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Victory for Free Speech at University of Wisconsin: Antiwar Panel to Be Held Tonight
April 26, 2010
After cancelling a panel of antiwar speakers last Friday, University of Wisconsin – Madison (UW) has reversed its decision, and the event will proceed tonight as planned. The university also will not charge an unconstitutional security fee to any of the student or academic sponsors of the event. Steve Horn, president of the UW chapter of the Campus Antiwar Network (CAN), had come to FIRE for help, and FIRE advised the event's sponsors about how to advocate for speech rights on campus. About two weeks ago, according to Horn, space was formally reserved in UW's Wisconsin Union for today, April […]
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Don Downs on UW-Madison Newspaper's Internet-Age Free Speech Dilemma
March 25, 2010
University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Don Downs has an essay today at Minding the Campus worth reading, in which he discusses how he and the staff of the Badger Herald newspaper dealt with a controversy involving an advertisement run by Holocaust denier Bradley R. Smith on its website. Downs explains that Like some other controversies involving the Herald in recent years, this episode began, essentially, as an accident. The process involved in the placing of ads did not fully vet Smith's advertisement, which announced his mission and provided an Internet link to his group and other materials. The ad remained on line […]
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New Due Process Rules Finally Hit University of Wisconsin
September 10, 2009
As of September 1, revisions to UWS 17, which governs the on- and off-campus behavior of students in the University of Wisconsin System (UWS), have taken effect. As Torch readers may remember, FIRE played an active role in the revision process, particularly when it became known that proposed revisions to the conduct code severely limited the due process rights of UW students. Adam quickly embarked on a speaking tour of the UW system and made FIRE's case directly to Regents in a public meeting. With the help of FIRE and a host of committed UW students, many of these rights […]
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Wisconsin Students' Right to Legal Representation Diminished in Ambiguous New Draft of Conduct Code
June 4, 2009
I reported last month that the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents had announced the restoration of fairly strong due process rights for students in the May 2009 draft of UWS 17 and 18, the statewide code of nonacademic student conduct. The restored rights include the option of a hearing before a committee including student peers, attorney representation in the case of serious allegations, and both e-mail and paper notification of proceedings. After protests from some deans of students and judicial officers, the Regents agreed to make some final tweaks to the changes they had announced, with a final […]
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Victory for Student Rights in Wisconsin: Regents to Restore Basic Due Process Rights Including a Hearing by Peers and Attorney Representation
May 6, 2009
Due process matters. It can protect a student from being expelled for no good reason or from being tried for an alleged infraction without any of the legal privileges that citizens routinely get in off-campus judicial systems. My statewide speaking tour of Wisconsin in March made clear to me that college students across the state understand the value of their due process rights, and many of them spoke out against the changes that the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents was considering to UWS 17 and 18, the system-wide disciplinary code. Many of the changes were unobjectionable from a […]
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Angry Wisconsin Dean Resents Fair Procedures for Students
May 6, 2009
As you can see in today's press release, the University of Wisconsin System has been reevaluating part of its student conduct code with a particular emphasis on disciplinary procedures and what process is due to students who are accused of violations. The revisions to the code sections entitled UWS 17 and 18 include the following. Take a look at them and see if they seem reasonable to you: Changes of significance that have been made to the Chapter 17 documents going to the Board of Regents include: 1. A student accused of a violation of Chapters 17 and 18 may […]
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Adam's Lecture at the University of Wisconsin Uploaded to Podcasts Page
March 16, 2009
Earlier this month, FIRE's Adam Kissel went on a tour of the University of Wisconsin system to speak to students and faculty about due process and the proposed changes to Chapters UWS 17 and 18 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code. We have posted his lecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on our Multimedia page. Be sure to check back regularly for new podcasts and multimedia content.
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FIRE Writes Wisconsin Regents about Reconsidering Due Process Changes for Students
March 13, 2009
As I wrote last week, I spent several days in Wisconsin to discuss a number of due process concerns in the proposed changes (PDF) to Chapters UWS 17 (PDF) and 18 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code. Some of the proposed changes diminish due process for students accused of infractions, and other proposed changes make it easier for the University of Wisconsin (UW) System to suffer from due process lawsuits because of the greater ambiguity and administrative discretion in the proposed changes. Students and faculty members have contributed many voices to the debate, and their concerns are generally in line with […]
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Wisconsin Faculty and Students Rise in Defense of Due Process
March 4, 2009
I am on tour this week in Wisconsin because of proposed changes to UWS 17 (PDFs), the part of the Wisconsin Administrative Code that applies to University of Wisconsin student non-academic disciplinary matters. The proposed changes, as I outlined earlier today, seriously diminish the due process rights of students and add so much uncertainty (in the form of administrative discretion) to the process that UW is practically asking for due process lawsuits in the future. Yesterday I spoke to outraged audiences at UW-Oshkosh and UW-Stevens Point. Tonight, I will be speaking in Madison at 6:00 pm. The biggest events are […]
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Due Process Matters, or, Why I'm On Tour in Wisconsin
March 4, 2009
Due process matters. Just ask Hayden Barnes, who was expelled from Valdosta State University by means of a note slid under his door—without any hearing or any chance to respond to the "evidence" (a Facebook.com collage) against him. Or ask Professor Donald Hindley at Brandeis, whose provost put a monitor in his classroom over a misapplication of the university's harassment policy—and then cut off the appeal of his punishment by simply declaring the matter "closed." Or ask "The Coalition of Some Dudes," two male students at Colorado College who were found responsible for sex-related violence because of a poster they […]
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University of Wisconsin Faculty Criticize Proposed Changes to Misconduct Code
October 6, 2008
Last week, the University of Wisconsin (UW) System Board of Regents approved new revisions to the student misconduct policies including "Student Nonacademic Disciplinary Standards" and "Conduct on University Lands." The revisions were sent to a legislative committee for review last Friday. They will be returned to the Board of Regents for a public hearing before being sent to the state legislature for a vote. The revisions, if enacted, will have serious ramifications for students' due process rights. The Badger Herald reports: The revised codes include the universities' power to discipline students for serious criminal offenses off campus, the shift of […]
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The University of Wisconsin Needs to Drop the Security Fee—Permanently
December 13, 2007
The Wisconsin State Journal reports that on October 22, the College Republicans at the University of Wisconsin–Madison hosted a speech by political pundit David Horowitz. The university intended to charge the student group $1,300 in security fees, but according to The Badger Herald, ended up covering the fee for the group when the group demonstrated that it simply couldn't pay. To levy additional charges on student groups for controversial speech unconstitutionally hinders the expression of that speech. As the Supreme Court wrote in Forsyth County v. Nationalist Movement (1992), "[s]peech cannot be financially burdened, any more than it can […]
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Victory for Religious Liberty at the University of Wisconsin
May 10, 2007
A few days ago David French reported over at Phi Beta Cons that the University of Wisconsin Roman Catholic Foundation settled its religious discrimination lawsuit against the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The terms of the settlement consisted of the following: [T]he Foundation's recognition as a student group was affirmed, the university agreed to award the Foundation more than $250,000.00 in student activity fees, and the parties agreed to a framework that should prevent any future viewpoint discrimination. At its essence, the settlement guarantees that the university will treat the Foundation the same as other student groups. In return, the Foundation has […]
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Debate at University of Wisconsin a Success
April 13, 2007
On Wednesday night, FIRE President Greg Lukianoff debated University of Wisconsin Professor Howard Schweber on "Political Correctness, Academic Speech, and Free Speech on Campus" at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The Badger Herald reported that the debate went very well. Greg came to the defense of free speech—even when the expressive form of the speech might be found offensive. Prof. Schweber posited that while all viewpoints are welcome, some forms of speech are unacceptable. He distinguished, for example, between "f*ck you" and "f*ck the draft." Greg argued that if you give administrators the power to police speech they deem "impolite," […]
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Victory for Religious Freedom in Wisconsin
March 12, 2007
Last September, FIRE reported that the University of Wisconsin–Madison was derecognizing and defunding a number of religious student organizations, including the Roman Catholic Foundation, on charges of religious discrimination. In February, FIRE reported that the Board of Regents for the University of Wisconsin System passed a new policy that, despite some ambiguity, more or less protected freedom of association. According to Inside Higher Ed, a U.S. District Judge handed down a ruling last Thursday explicitly ordering the University of Wisconsin to cease its violation of religious groups' freedom of association. The University cannot use the nondiscrimination policy to disqualify […]
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Professor Kaplan Speaks Out—And New Questions Abound
March 8, 2007
One of the big mysteries in the ongoing debacle at the University of Wisconsin Law School has been what, exactly, was said in Professor Kaplan's classroom on February 15. (For background on this story, see here; for the reaction from the University's Committee for Academic Freedom and Rights, see here.) From the first, the tone of the debate was set by an email from KaShia Moua, a Hmong student, which included alleged quotes from Kaplan. Moua sent her email on February 20, and various news outlets have been repeating the quotes therein for some time now. On Monday, Professor […]
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UW's Free Speech Committee Expresses Concern over Kaplan Case
March 5, 2007
Yesterday, at the University of Wisconsin, the Committee for Academic Freedom and Rights released a statement on the recent imbroglio at the Law School over a professor's provocative statements about the Hmong people. The Committee said that it was following the affair "with deepening concern" and that it was worried about the consequences for academic freedom. Key quotes: There is a distinct possibility that the emotion and pressures surrounding this case—especially after the public meeting at the law school the evening of March 1—will have a chilling effect on honest and good faith discussion of racial and cultural issues […]
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Furor at UW Law over Professor's Classroom Comments
February 28, 2007
For the past two weeks at the University of Wisconsin Law School, several students have been decrying what they see as racially insensitive remarks made by a tenured professor during class. According to the campus newspaper, The Badger Herald, Professor Leonard Kaplan made the provocative remarks about the Hmong people, an ethnic group from Southeast Asia with a sizeable population in Minnesota and Wisconsin. The article quoted from an e-mail sent to law school students by KaShia Moua, a Hmong student (although it is not clear whether she was in the class at the time). Moua alleged that Professor Kaplan said, among other […]
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Professor Under Review for Saying 9/11 Might Be an 'Inside Job'
July 6, 2006
The provost of the University of Wisconsin at Madison announced last week that the university would conduct a "review" of an instructor who has publicly stated that he believes the 9/11 attacks were an "inside job." The instructor, Kevin Barrett, was a guest on a radio show last week where he defended his controversial views. Shortly thereafter a state representative called for Barrett's immediate dismissal and UWM provost Patrick Farrell announced the review of Barrett's course materials, syllabus, and evaluations. "Mr. Barrett's statements regarding the events of Sept. 11 have raised some legitimate concerns about the content and quality […]
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Bible Studies: Not So Bad After All
March 14, 2006
FIRE's press release today announces a tremendous victory for religious liberty throughout the 13 schools in the University of Wisconsin System. Since last November, the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire (UWEC) has been under attack for a policy that banned RAs from leading Bible studies—or studies of any other holy book—in their dorm rooms, on the grounds that open religious practice might make RAs less "approachable." After six months of pressure from FIRE, the UW system's Board of Regents finally settled the controversy on Friday by approving a policy that gives RAs the right to "participate in, organize, and lead […]
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Wisconsin Regents' Education Committee Approves New Bible Study Policy
March 10, 2006
In a fantastic development for religious liberty and freedom of association on campus, the Education Committee of the University of Wisconsin's Board of Regents yesterday approved a new policy governing activities by RAs that would acknowledge that they have the same right to lead or participate in Bible studies or any other group activities as other students (search for the words "Education Committee" in the preceding link). FIRE has been leading the charge since last November to force UW to protect all students' rights equally, and it now looks like the end of UW's repressive policies is at hand. […]
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Kersten Lauds FIRE's Religious Liberty Efforts
March 9, 2006
An excellent column by Katherine Kersten of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune recently called attention to FIRE's efforts to protect religious liberty on campus. She writes: The Foundation for Individual Rights (FIRE) is a Philadelphia-based organization that defends constitutional rights, including freedom of speech, due process and religious liberty, on college campuses. In 2003, FIRE commissioned twin surveys of 1,037 students and 306 administrators at more than 300 colleges nationwide, testing their knowledge of various aspects of the First Amendment. The survey revealed a troubling cluelessness about our most fundamental freedoms. For example, only 30 percent of students and 21 percent of […]
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Editorials Endorse Repeal of 'Bible Study Ban'
March 9, 2006
Today, the Education Committee of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents is set to vote on repealing UW-Madison and UW–Eau Claire's infamous "Bible study bans." It was FIRE, of course, that brought this issue to the surface. As the Education Committee votes—and, hopefully, as the full board prepares to vote tomorrow—it's an appropriate time to consider the widespread support that the recent policy recommendation by UW System President Kevin Reilly has received. As we noted in a press release, FIRE supports Reilly's proposed policy; it is what we have been requesting for months now. So does the Badger […]
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There Is No Such Thing as 'Hate Speech'
February 24, 2006
Yes, that is correct. "Hate speech" is not a category of speech recognized under current constitutional law. It is merely a convenient way to pigeonhole speech that some people find offensive. But what is very troubling is when people begin to treat "hate speech" as unprotected speech. For example, a student leader at Penn State, a university which was recently sued for its unconstitutionally vague and overbroad speech codes, made the following comment featured in a prominent article in the student newspaper The Daily Collegian: "We support any and all university policies that prohibit intolerant actions against any student on […]
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The UW Waiting Game Begins
February 15, 2006
Yesterday, the Badger Herald at the University of Wisconsin–Madison featured an article on the letter recently sent to UW System President Kevin Reilly by ten Wisconsin legislators. As the article points out, FIRE's public exposure of UW–Eau Claire's ban on RAs' holding Bible studies in their dorms (which is also in force at UW-Madison) resulted in a "firestorm of controversy last fall," policy recommendations by a special committee, and a call for feedback from the public. A new system-wide policy on the subject will be promulgated in March. Interestingly, the article also said the following: The public-comment period ended last […]
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Legislators Renew Call for Religious Liberty at UW
February 9, 2006
FIRE recently received a copy of a letter sent on February 7 to Kevin Reilly, the president of the University of Wisconsin System, about the ongoing "Bible study ban" controversy there, which FIRE brought to public attention. It's from ten Wisconsin state legislators and it's so good that it's worth quoting in full: Dear President Reilly: We wanted to weigh in on your ongoing dialogue, discussion, and effort to come up with a uniform, written, and defensible UW System policy regarding RA's and their First Amendment rights. First, we want to applaud you for testifying before the Assembly […]
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Nine Days Left to Set UW Straight
January 27, 2006
An article in yesterday's edition of The Spectator, the student newspaper at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, provided some useful information about FIRE's battles against UWEC's and UW-Madison's nationally infamous "Bible study bans." As you may recall from FIRE's January 16 press release: The University of Wisconsin (UW) has missed yet another opportunity to demonstrate that it respects its resident assistants' (RAs') basic rights. A UW System committee recommended late last week that two UW campuses be allowed to maintain policies banning RAs from leading Bible studies on their own time and in their own dormitories. UW has faced months […]
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Cuius Regio, Eius Religio
January 16, 2006
The University of Wisconsin committee charged with making recommendations for a final, system-wide policy on whether RAs should be allowed to lead Bible studies in their dorms put out its Resident Assistant Working Group Final Report late last week. The committee's recommendation: each school in the UW System should make the decision for itself. The Report reads: [T]here is general agreement among UW System institutions in how they define the rights and responsibilities of RAs. In particular, there is agreement that RAs can participate in, organize, or lead meetings as long as they don't use their position to inappropriately influence, pressure, or […]
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UWEC's Edifice of Repression Begins to Crumble
December 1, 2005
Today's FIRE press release announces that the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire (UWEC) is now in federal court over its unconstitutional ban on RA-led Bible studies in those RAs' own dormitories. Since FIRE exposed this shameful example of religious repression last month, UWEC and the UW system have been taking enormous hits from all sides for their stubborn insistence on maintaining and defending a policy that has not even been codified at UWEC and that exists at only two of the system's campuses (UW-Madison apparently features a similar ban on RAs' private practice of religion). Through it all, UWEC and […]
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Have RAs Surrendered Their Religious Rights?
November 10, 2005
FIRE's case at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire (UWEC), where Christian RAs have been told that they may not lead Bible studies in their own dorm rooms or dorms, has captured a great deal of attention in the national media, including syndicated columnist Suzanne Fields' latest. Condemnation of UWEC has generally been widespread, and for very good reason. However, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel and MSNBC.com have run a story including quotes from two organizations that suggest that FIRE is barking up the wrong tree here and that RAs, as state employees, ought to be prohibited from having Bible studies in their […]
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Articles:Safety at Sea."Heavy Weather Sailing in a Multihull"Heavy Weather Sailing in a Multihull. Chapter by John Shuttleworth from Adlard Coles - Heavy Weather Sailing, 4th edition.click on thumbnail for larger picture Multihull Design Considerations for SeaworthinessThis article is the text of a talk given by John Shuttleworth at the US Coastguard symposium on seaworthiness. This Paper evaluates how a multihull performs in waves with respect to rolling and pitching. Stability is evaluated both in relation to wind and wave action. In particular reference will be made to Prof. Marchaj's recent work - ' Seaworthiness the Forgotten Factor.' Multihulls are studied under the same criteria as monohulls are evaluated in the book, giving a clear comparison between old and new multihull designs, and monohulls, particularly with regard to capsise in wind and waves. Other factors affecting seaworthiness, such as pitching, surfing, rolling, yawing etc, are discussed. Read more. An Italian translation of the above article can be found at http://www.cantierino.it/Aarticoli/C-MHSeaVorthness/aaMHSeaVorth.htmlBuilding articles."High school project with a difference."The story of building 2 Shuttle 31 catamarans." 2002click on thumbnail for larger picture "Malihini." by Doug Gibson.The story of building a 35 ft "Two Hoots" type catamaran in Hawaii and sailing her to the USA and back. (PDF file 760Kb). You need Acrobat Reader to read this article. The article was originally published in Multihulls magazineclick on thumbnail for larger picture Cruising articles.We got here in two stages. After launching the boat in May of last year (2011) we spent the summer on sea-trails and the endless list of remaining jobs. We planned to leave the UK in July but persistent bad weather held us back until late August when a big crowd finally waved us off from Tenby harbour. .....Read more. Watch the launch on Youtube of tractor towing boat over fields to river. http://youtu.be/_ZakD3za4sU. The story of sailing "Zazen" from England to Australia by Alix Pearce. Multihulls Magazine's youngest jouranalist. click on thumbnail for larger picture Zazen on sea trials in the Solent prior to the voyage.Shuttle 40 Zazen. Zazen interior and biscay trip photos here."Biscay trip photos." This is the story of the voyage as seen through the eyes of 12 year old Alix Pearce who sailed to Australia in 2003/4 with her father, mother and twin brother Lorin, plus the odd crew member. This is a unique opportunity to hear it from the children's point of view. the story is in 7 PDF files each about 1 to 1.2 MB. Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4. Part 5. Part 6. Part 7.Sailing a Shuttle 31 through the Abacos islands in the Bahamas.click on thumbnail for larger pictureGladys Cook Schneider sailed with her husband Dale and children Johnny and Daisy, plus nanny and seasoned Bahamas sailor Capt. Jimmy. This is the story of a family adventure aboard the "Eagle" Technical articles on design."The Search for a Seakindly Fuel Efficient Vessel. "Adastra" Winner of the Naval Architecture Showboats Award 2013."Adastra" 42.5 M power trimaran design considerations for fuel efficincy and seakindliness. In recent years there have been a few attempts to find a new solution to achieving low fuel consumption in large ocean going yachts. In this article we will look at the design considerations and compare performances of some of the types of vessel in commission today. We will review aspects of the design of various vessels, not with a view to criticising them, but to show how our thinking has been guided by what has gone before, and then to give our ideas and design concepts on how we have taken up the challenge to reduce fuel consumption and still retain sea kindliness. Finally we will endeavour to demonstrate how successful our solution has been and to explain why the concept has worked so well. Read more. "Design develoments in high performance cruising catamarans. From the Spectrum 42 to the Dogstar 50." 2002Beyond the Tektron 50. In 2000 I was approached by Peter Bryant to design a new up do date version of the Tektron 50, He wanted a cruiser/racer that could beat the current 40 ft racing trimarans racing in Britain....... Read more. The same article translated into German can be found at.... Nachfolger der TEKTRON 50 .. DOGSTAR 50... oder wie man dem schnellsten 50 Fuß-Kreuzer der Welt Beine. John Shuttleworth (bersetzung von Klaus Ehm fur MEHRRUMPFBOOTE, Multihull Deutschland)The design of a 52ft. Aerorig cruising catamaranIn July 1995 I was asked by Dr. Ian Munro to design a new large cruising catamaran with an Aerorig. Dr. Munro has retired and and intends to sail around the world over a period of 10 years with his wife as crew. They have been used to a very comfortable standard of living and wish to cruise without a crew to help, and yet want to have many of the comforts of home, like a washing machine, large galley with refrigeration, and air conditioning.... Read more.
CAD CAM in Yacht DesignTremendous advances are being made in Computer Aided Design and manufacture (CAD,CAM) and most important for the normal user, smaller and cheaper systems are available that will run programs previously only available for very large and expensive machines. Read more. Articles About Our Designs - in order of size.70 Foot Cruising CatConstructed in Cowes, England to the full American Bureau of Shipping approval for plans and building, this 70 ft. cat has been designed to the highest standard, for performance, strength, weight carrying capacity, and comfort. Mike Schicht was chosen to head the building team because of his extensive composite building experience using vaccuum bagged laminates. Read more. Reflections on the Design of "Brittany Ferries G.B." 65 ft. Racing Trimaran for the two handed transatlantic race A
talk by John Shuttleworth at the Multihull Offshore Cruising and Racing Association A.G.M., January
1982. The design of a 52ft. Aerorig cruising catamaranclick on thumbnail for larger pictureIn July 1995 I was asked by Dr. Ian Munro to design a new large cruising catamaran with an Aerorig. Dr. Munro has retired and and intends to sail around the world over a period of 10 years with his wife as crew. They have been used to a very comfortable standard of living and wish to cruise without a crew to help, and yet want to have many of the comforts of home, like a washing machine, large galley with refrigeration, and air conditioning.... Read more. "Design develoments in high performance cruising catamarans. From the Spectrum 42 to the Dogstar 50." 2002click on thumbnail for larger pictureBeyond the Tektron 50. In 2000 I was approached by Peter Bryant to design a new up do date version of the Tektron 50, He wanted a cruiser/racer that could beat the current 40 ft racing trimarans racing in Britain....... Read more. The same article translated into German can be found at.... Nachfolger der TEKTRON 50 .. DOGSTAR 50... oder wie man dem schnellsten 50 Fuß-Kreuzer der Welt Beine. John Shuttleworth (bersetzung von Klaus Ehm fur MEHRRUMPFBOOTE, Multihull Deutschland)Tektron 50click on thumbnail for larger pictureThis summer sailors on Lake Ontario will see an exceptional new multihull take to the water. This Catamaran, which has been built near Toronto, pushes back the boundaries of performance cruising further than has ever been attempted before. Furthermore this boat is intended as a test bed for an exciting new range of yachting instruments of manufactured by Tektron Equipment Corporation, and will therefore provide more data than has ever been gathered on a multihull before, in terms of rig and hull stress against performance on all points of sail, and sea states. After tuning up on Lake Ontario, the Tektron 50 is entered in the 1988 Quebec-St Malo race. Read more Spectrum 42click on thumbnail for larger pictureAdapted from and original article in Multihull International 1985 The initial response to this cat in my original article in Multihull International has been excellent. This boat is built with the same high tech concepts as my best racing designs, many new techniques were developed to speed up the building process. 15 years on from when this boat was first launched, several have been built and a number have made ocean crossings. We are all very excited by the performance. She meets all my expectations. Pitching is very well controlled, and the boat trims slightly bow up on a reach as designed.... Read more. PowerShuttle 40click on thumbnail for larger pictureThe new Powershuttle 40 has been designed as an economical, environmentally friendly catamaran. Utilising the new 90 or 130 HP Honda 4 stroke outboards extraordinary fuel economy can be achieved when compared to conventional power boats, and yet the Powershuttle 40 has more accommodation, including a huge shaded cockpit, and dive platform aft. The dive platform hinges down to the water to provide easy access. Steps up the transom make boarding easy. Read more. Tektron 35click on thumbnail for larger pictureOne of the main aims of this new design was to produce a boat boat with comfortable living accommodation space with as little sacrifice as possible to sailing performance, windward ability and seakeeping qualities . This 35 ft Catamaran exemplifies the new generation of performance cruising multihulls, designed and engineered with the latest thinking on structures and computer designed hull forms. The boat is nevertheless suited for skilled amateur construction. the first production version is currently under construction in Canada by Eugene Tekatch, who built the Tektron 50. Read more. Read the article from Mulihulls world on the Tektron 35 Read the article written by Don Peaslee on the Tektron 35 Tek 35 specifications.click on thumbnail for larger picture35 Foot Catamaran for Home building "Two Hoots" designMany people wonder about what the benefits of ocean races are to ordinary sailors. Races like the OSTAR and La Route du Rhum, where enormous sums of money are spent on the latest technology, materials, and systems, to assist the shorthanded sailors to sail the boats as fast and as safely as possible. Yet, in the fast moving world of multihulls I believe that it is possible to see a direct correlation between the money spent on developing high-tech race boats and cruising designs. This catamaran is an excellent example of such a boat... it is the payoff for the cruising multihull. Read more. Shuttle 31 Catamaran31ft Foam sandwich or wood epoxy racer cruiser catamaran.This 31ft catamaran is part of a range of fast cruisers which developed from the highly successful Spectrum 42. Designed and engineered with the latest thinking on structures and computer designed hull forms, the boat is nevertheless suited for skilled amateur construction. The first boat is currently under construction in Brazil by Multimar, built from PVC Foam Sandwich with E glass and polyester resin, although the design lends itself equally well to wood epoxy construction. Read more. "Wood Epoxy Shuttle 31 Catamaran."The story of building 2 Shuttle 31 catamarans." 2002.click on thumbnail for larger picture In July 2000 I received an order for a set of plans for a Shuttle 31 to be built in Western Red Cedar strip planking with Epoxy and glass reinforcing. I had been in correspondence with the teacher of a group of young people at a Waldorf (Steiner) school in Switzerland. This teacher, Thomas Wolf, intended to head up a team of 12 students with the aim of building two 31 ft cats in less than two years. At the start of the project the students wrote to me "We are twelve students at the age of 16-17 years. We attend a Waldorf school in Muttenz, Baselland. Two afternoons per week we work at the boats. While our schoolmates attend special courses like working on a farm, we will solely concentrate on building the boats. Also during the holidays we will sacrifice some weeks for the project." Read more. 30 Foot Racing Tri "N'aia" for Mike ReppyAfter winning class 3 in the 1988 CSTAR in Damiana, the 42ft Tri. I had designed for him in 1982, Mike decided to try and raise money for a bigger racing boat. In the meantime he would build a 30ft racer as a test bed for some new ideas. Initially we started with and all out day racer for San Francisco Bay, but soon Mike decided that he wanted to do the Transpac as well, and that the boat should be demountable so that he could ship her back from Hawaii.I had already designed two successful 30 ft offshore racing trimarans, Caledonia, which had knocked over 6 days off the transatlantic record when winning class 6 in the '88 CSTAR, and Shockwave. Shockwave was definitely faster than Caledonia, but when Mike talked about a new boat I had a hunch that by doing some thorough research and incorporating my latest ideas on rig efficiency, we could make another significant leap in performance. Read more. Designers Comments on "Shockwave". 30 ft Racing Trimaran for the around Britain and Ireland race.Built for John Fowler by Dave Irving at Queen Anne's Battery in Plymouth in vacuum bagged polyester and E glass, with carbon reinforcing in the main hull, Shockwave is designed to win the 30ft Class in the forthcoming Round Britain & Ireland Race. Shockwave is a development of the extremely successful Caledonia which was amateur built and sailed to a record Class VI win by my design assistant, Rod Stuart, in the 1988 C-Star. Read More.Part 2 (147k) Lynx Study Plan (129k) Published Articles About Our Designs and Theories.