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Six months after some UW Health doctors wrote questionable sick notes for protesters rallying against Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to limit public sector collective bargaining, the University of Wisconsin-Madison hasn’t finished disciplining the doctors.Six months after some UW Health doctors wrote questionable sick notes for protesters... more
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Latest Complete Sports News Updates Mr.Andy Dalton recalled the group praying just before the doors of the Brown-Lupton University Union Ballroom opened that night. Texas Christian University, led by senior quarterback Mr.Andy Dalton...Latest Complete Sports News Updates Mr.Andy Dalton recalled the group praying just... more
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Protest outsourcing of jobs at University of Wisconsin in Madison
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This is my first documentary short I've tried to make. It was very fun to shoot and only took a strictly scheduled weekend. Tens of hours in the edit lab for post production however. The quality shown on youtube is very bad because of the lame compression I used to get it off our Avid computers. Comments and constructed criticism are appreciated, thanks for watching!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6398-74QzcThis is my first documentary short I've tried to make. It was very fun to shoot... more
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Friday, March 17, 2000
By STEVEN A. HOLMES
THE NEW YORK TIMES
WASHINGTON -- Two scholars say in a new research paper that despite earlier denials, the Census Bureau was deeply involved in the roundup and internment of Japanese Americans at the onset of U.S. entry into World War II.
The academics say the Census Bureau's involvement included identifying concentrations of people of Japanese ancestry in geographic units as small as city blocks, lending a senior Census Bureau official to work with the War Department on the relocation program and a willingness to disclose names and address of Japanese Americans.
While it is common today for the Census Bureau to publish reports that detail the number of people of a given race living in an area as small as a city block, such information was generally not available in the 1940s. But the authors of the paper contend that the Census Bureau provided such detailed information as well as age, sex, citizenship and country of birth to the War Department, now the Defense Department, on only one group -- Japanese Americans.
In 1941 and '42, the paper says, Census Bureau officials believed that such information was valuable to the War Department's effort in rounding up Americans of Japanese ancestry.
The paper, "After Pearl Harbor: The Proper Role of Population Data Systems in Time of War," was written by William Seltzer, a statistician and demographer at Fordham University, and Margo Anderson, a history professor at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee whose area of expertise is the census.
Seltzer and Anderson plan to present the paper at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America next week in Los Angeles.
The practices described in the paper did not appear to have violated laws governing the census, which prohibit the bureau from disclosing information on individuals. But the authors indicated that Census Bureau officials appeared to be willing to provide such data. What is not clear is whether they were asked to do so.
"We're by law required to keep confidential information by individuals," the paper quotes the director of the Census Bureau, J.C. Capt, as saying at a meeting of the Census Advisory Committee in January 1942. But if the defense authorities found 200 Japanese Americans missing and they wanted the names of the Japanese Americans in that area, Capt said, "I would give them further means of checking individuals."
The Census Bureau often boasted that its conduct in the relocation of Japanese Americans had been its finest hour because it resisted pressure to provide explicit data to the War and Justice Departments.
But Census Bureau officials do not dispute the findings of the paper. They say, however, that the strengthening of the laws protecting the confidentiality of data on individuals and the environment today would make a repeat of those abuses unlikely.
Japanese Americans have long suspected that the Census Bureau played a prominent role in the roundup and relocation of 120,000 residents of Japanese ancestry to detention camps in the interior.
"We've always suspected this," said Norman Mineta, a former California congressman who was relocated with his family from San Jose to a detention camp in Wyoming. "After all, they are the keeper of this kind of information."
On Dec. 9, 1941, two days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Census Bureau produced a report titled, "Japanese Population of the United States, Its Territories and Possessions." The next day it issued a report on the Japanese population by citizenship and place of birth in selected cities. The next day it published another report, this one on the Japanese population by counties in states on the West Coast. All reports were based on data from the 1940 census.
Capt justified the speed with which the bureau produced these reports by saying at meeting of the Census Advisory Committee in January 1942: "We didn't want to wait for the declaration of war. On Monday morning we put our people to work on the Japanese thing."
The United States declared war on Japan that Monday afternoon.Friday, March 17, 2000
By STEVEN A. HOLMES
THE NEW YORK TIMES
WASHINGTON -- Two... more
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Wofford College was tied with the University of Wisconsin with 1:17 left in the game, but came up short in a 53-49 final score. Wofford was down by eight points at the half, but used a 12-4 run to tie the game four minutes into the second half and kept it a one possession game until the final seconds of the NCAA Tournament game at Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena.
Wofford ends the season with a 26-9 record, the most wins in school history. Wofford was a No. 13 seed in their first-ever NCAA Basketball Tournament appearance, while Wisconsin was a No. 4 seed and now advances to the second round.
This piece includes a number of colorful photographs, as well as video highlights of the game.
Please visit my website to view the photographs, and to watch the exciting video highlights:
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/03/20/wofford-college-falls-to-wisconsin-in-ncaa-tournament-heartbreaker-53-49/Wofford College was tied with the University of Wisconsin with 1:17 left in the game,... more
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On Sunday, an enthusiastic gathering of Wofford students, alumni and other supporters joined the 2010 Southern Conference basketball champions on the Wofford College campus, and learned the team’s destination for the NCAA Basketball Tournament. Wofford will head to Jacksonville (FL) to play the University of Wisconsin on Friday.
Wofford finished the regular season with a 26-8 record, and Wisconsin enters the tournament with a 23-8 overall record. The trip marks the first time in program history that Wofford has earned a bid to the NCAA Tournament.
The winner of Wofford’s first-round game will then face the winner of the game between No. 5 seed Temple and No. 12 seed Cornell University on Sunday, March 21.
This piece includes color photographs, a video of the East Regional selection announcement at Wofford and a music video.
Please visit my website to view the photographs, and to watch the videos:
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/03/15/ncaa-basketball-tournament-east-regional-wofford-college-plays-university-of-wisconsin/On Sunday, an enthusiastic gathering of Wofford students, alumni and other supporters... more
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Have you ever picked up a cold, frosty beer on a hot summer's day and thought that it simply couldn't get any better?
Well, you may have to think again.
A team of researchers at Rice University in Houston is working to create a beer that could fight cancer and heart disease. Taylor Stevenson, a member of the six-student research team and a junior at Rice, said the team is using genetic engineering to create a beer that includes resveratrol, the disease-fighting chemical that's been found in red wine.
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin in June had called resveratrol, which is a natural component of grapes, pomegranates and red wine, a key reason for the so-called French Paradox -- the observation that French people have lower rates of heart disease despite a cuisine known for its cream sauces and decadent cheeses, all loaded with heart-clogging saturated fats.
The Wisconsin researchers had noted that adding small doses of resveratrol to the diet of middle-aged mice significantly slows their aging and keeps their hearts healthy. And they added that giving high doses to invertebrates extends their life spans, and high doses also stave off premature death in mice fed a high-fat diet.
Stevenson said that the Rice research group, most of the members of which aren't old enough to legally drink alcoholic beverages, came up with the idea of adding resveratrol to beer during a casual conversation about potential projects to undertake. "The idea is that it may have greater effects [in beer than in wine]," he added. "The amount of red wine you'd need to drink to get the same results they get with rats in labs is about half a bottle a day."
He explained that the amount of resveratrol in wine varies from bottle to bottle, since it depends on growing conditions for the grapes and other variables. The researchers felt they could design a beer with higher and more consistent concentrations of the cancer-fighting chemical.
The students, using their own Dell, Lenovo ThinkPad and Gateway laptops, are now in the process of developing a genetically modified strain of yeast that will ferment beer and produce resveratrol at the same time. Stevenson said that as the research advances, the team will need to use one of Rice University's computer grids to run compute-heavy genetic models.
The Rice effort is the latest in a series of projects that use technology to find cures to major health concerns like cancer and heart disease.
In August, scientists at Stanford University announced that they have found a way to use nanotechnology to have chemotherapy drugs target only cancer cells, keeping healthy tissue safe from the treatment's toxic effects.
CONT'D::Have you ever picked up a cold, frosty beer on a hot summer's day and thought... more
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Several universities across the United States have sought to limit alcohol in their nearby municipalities. The Madison city council has prevented new liquor licenses around the University of Wisconsin. The University of Iowa, has sought legislation to limit the number of bars and liquor stores near the campus. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has been pushing an ordinance that prevents "bottle clubs", places that provide mixers, if people BYOB.
Do you think that these new restrictions will help limit alcohol consumption, or will young people find other ways to get overly intoxicated.
Dude, where's my beer bong?Several universities across the United States have sought to limit alcohol in their... more
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Students at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point butted heads Thursday after an anti-abortion organization planted 4,000 white crosses on campus to symbolize aborted fetuses and a student responded by pulling hundreds of them out of the ground.Students at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point butted heads Thursday after an... more
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The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin contributed over 4 tons of electronic and pharmaceutical waste to the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge.
This is the first of several videos explaining the tribes numerous projects that included cleaning up the reservation, replacing gang symbols with Native American art, teaching youth about the legend of the sturgeon and its place in tribal culture.
In part one, the non-profit interfaith Earth Healing Initiative looks at the many recycling projects of the College of Menominee nation.
The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin in Keshena is being praised for its massive cleanup projects during the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge - involving over 100 projects across eight states that comprise the Great lakes basin.
The college of Menominee Nation held a pharmaceutical and electronic waste collection as part of the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge.
Other tribal projects during the challenge included the clean up of two reservation communities by tribal school students, the Menominee Teen Court Panel, and many other volunteers.
All classes at the tribal school taught the students about the sturgeon, that is a vital part of Menominee heritage.
Called the protector guardian of Menominee wild rice, the sturgeon used to spawn on the reservation until a man made dam blocked the route to ancestral spawning grounds.
The students whitewashed gang graffiti at a skateboard park replacing it with American Indian art.
"The younger students put their hands in paint and made flower hand prints on the wall," said teacher Beth Waukechon.
Adults participated in the challenge in a big way - as the tribe's Solid Waste and Recycling Department held curbside e-waste collections during Earth week 2008 - and all month accepted e-waste at the transfer station.
Native American and other students also made garbage monsters at the Keshena Public Schools with help from their parents using common every day trash from home.
More than four tons of e-waste and other recyclables were removed from the reservation during April.
At the College of Menominee Nation, over 23 pounds of medicines were turned in including 100 bottles of pills, more than 25 computers and dozens of related components like hard drives, printers, keyboards and speakers; televisions, radios, DVD players, 12 cell phones and over 100 small batteries.
Sponsors include the tribe's Community Resource Center, Menominee County Police, Menominee Tribal Police, Tribal Clinic Wellness Program (Maehnowesekiyah), Probation and Parole, Community Recycling Project, Recreation Department and the U.S. Post Office in Keshena.
While hosting the collection, the college's Implementing Sustainable Development class found out they won the National Recycling Coalition Bin Grant through Coca-Cola, said professor William Van Lopik, Ph.D.
"One of premises of the class is to do things, not just talk about what we are going to do and how the world is going to be changed, but having students do things," Dr. Van Lopik said.
The grant pays for 50 recycling bins.
The class has participated in the ten-week Recycle Mania project two years in a row that involves weighing recyclables as they leave the building. This year, the class ranked 136 out of 200 colleges and universities with 8 pounds of recyclables per person, beating out Ohio State and Georgetown, Van Lopik said.
This video on the projects connected to the Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge was made possible by a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in collaboration with the EPA Region 5 office in Chicago, and the EPA Great Lakes national Program Office in cooperation with the non-profit Interfaith Earth Healing Initiative in Marquette, MI.
The EHI involves American Indian tribes and "a coalition of churches, synagogues and other faith traditions joining together to heal, protect and defend the environment," said EHI founder Rev. Jon Magnuson of Marquette, Michigan.The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin contributed over 4 tons of electronic and... more
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BUCKY THE BADGER! Let's get the This Is College guys back to Wisconsin!!!!!
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Heavens yes, little Davidson College keeps rolling on! Sweeps into the Elite Eight!! Davidson College's Stephen Curry scored more than 30 points for a third straight game, as Davidson racked up another stunner Friday night, rolling over third-seeded Wisconsin 73-56, and advancing to the Midwest Regional finals. Davidson (29-6) now has the nation’s longest win streak, 25 games.
Photographs and video are included.Heavens yes, little Davidson College keeps rolling on! Sweeps into the Elite Eight!!... more
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Jake Futernick and Steve Basilone try to hit all the "Big Ten" colleges. At the University of Wisconsin the costumed Halloween revelers arrive early and often impersonating everyone's favorite Kazakhstani journalist. After the big game Trevor tires the three story beer bong and the basement dance floor gets hot. In case you forgot... this is collegeJake Futernick and Steve Basilone try to hit all the "Big Ten" colleges. At... more
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Watch the U of Wisconsin's head basketball coach Crank Dat.
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