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Monday, January 25, 2010
Report: graduate school restructuring may be unnecessary
Defying Denver
By Lydia Statz The Daily Cardinal
An academic staff committee released a report Wednesday stating their belief that the proposed restructuring of the graduate school is unnecessary. The ad hoc committee was created to review a plan submitted by Provost Paul DeLuca that would create a new office to manage UW-Madison’s research operations. Currently, research grants and procedures are managed within the graduate school. The report concluded that while some changes may be necessary, the proposed restructuring would not solve the current problems in the system. The official report states, “While the Committee recognizes that there are problematic areas of the research enterprise that are not functioning optimally… the current consensus of the Committee is that this is not due to the organizational structure per se.” Committee member Jenny Dahlberg of the UW-Madison Neuroscience Training Program said the current system has been successful in promoting both quality graduate education and a successful research enterprise. She said she feared the proposal would weaken that aspect of the university. “I fear the Provost either neglected to articulate, or to consider, the potential negative conse-
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Senior forward Blake Geoffrion celebrates a goal scored during Friday’s game that brought the Badgers to a momentary 3-2 lead against the Denver Pioneers.
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USDA says UW animal research facilities compliant in new report “Specifically, the visit was to look at … an issue of where there was a gerbil and several dogs, and [the USDA] wanted to make certain that the laboratory veterinarians were informed when animals were displaying any evidence of disease.” The inspector also asked for an update to all 20 violations. According to the ten-page detailed
quences a restructuring could have on both our national research and graduate school rankings,” she said. The report also voiced concerns over the cost of the proposed plan. The committee said the cost of adding a Vice Chancellor-level position to oversee the research program would not necessarily address the current shortcomings in the system. The committee’s report recommends to UW-Madison administrators that more assessment is needed before making any decisions regarding the future of the research program. Dahlberg said she stresses the importance of strategic planning and increased transparency in funding UW-Madison’s extensive research enterprise. “Too often a crisis request was made and funds were allocated to bridge the gap but no long-term plans were made to deal with the root of the problem,” she said. The committee said that this lack of future planning may have negative consequences for the research program and the campus as a whole in the long run. Some staff have previously stated that the proposal appeared to be fast-tracked through the system, however, administrators have said the proposed changes are necessary to deal with the complexity and the scope of the university’s research.
Committee ranks Madison Initiative funding proposals By Kelsey Gunderson
The U.S. Department of Agriculture cleared UW-Madison’s Research Animal Resources Center as compliant with animal welfare standards according to a report released last week. A representative to the USDA visited UW-Madison to meet with the Center’s associate director and several veterinarians to follow up an inspection in December 2009, according to Eric Sandgren, who oversees animal research.
SPORTS
The Madison Initiative Student Oversight Board ranked the second round of proposals for the Madison Initiative for Undergraduates funding Saturday and Sunday. The MIU, which Chancellor Biddy Martin proposed last spring, is an additional tuition fee for all students. The initiative aims to increase needbased financial aid, open up high-demand courses and to increase the quality of all practices at UW-Madison. According to Associate Students of Madison Chair Tyler Junger, various
schools and colleges within UW-Madison, like the political science department and the Office of the Dean of Students, submitted proposals for the funding. He said most of the proposals asked for more teaching assistants or professors, and some were for specific services like the McBurney Disability Resource Center. Junger said the board, which consists of several members of ASM, Dean of Students Lori Berquam and five UW-Madison students from across campus, read a total of 114 proposals submitted in late November, and gave each of them a ranking from one asm page 3
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New Planned Parenthood facility opens on South Park Street on anniversary of Roe v. Wade decision By Allison Geyer The Daily Cardinal
On the 37th anniversary of the historic Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, Madison community members gathered to celebrate the grand opening of Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin’s new health center located at 2222 S. Park St. “The center opened on Dec.1, and we have been busy ever since,” center manager Jessie Letarte said. Located in the Villager Shopping Center, near the MTU South Transfer Point, the new center is a consolida-
tion of the former West Mifflin Street and Madison South Planned Parenthood locations. “We had been trying to move for the last 15 years,” said Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin CEO Teri Huyck. “The West Mifflin site was literally falling apart, and the Madison South site did not have a restroom,” she said. “Now with this new state of the art health center we have a great place to care for our patients.” Each year, Planned Parenthood profacility page 3
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A committee met to rank the second round of MIU funding proposals Saturday.
“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”