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Gov. Doyle has revised his budget to where it would provide the UW System with $25 million less than his original proposal; Doyle compared this reduction to the nearly $60 million shortfall offered by members of the state Assembly.
The state's potential underfunding of the UW System would hurt students by forcing the university to make cuts to its academic offerings.
When meeting in a special budget session, Wisconsin's legislators should be more flexible in their voting than their party leaders have been; the state budget is now more than 100 days late, and Wisconsin is the only state without a budget.
Related: "Selfish leaders neglect their No. 1 task," Wausau Daily Herald, Oct. 11.
This column, and the related, express two different viewpoints of a recent e-mail to students awaiting the state-financed Wisconsin Higher Education Grant, the funding for which has been held up due to the ongoing budget impasse; UW System officials maintain the e-mails broke no laws, as student information was neither included in the e-mail nor released to any other agency.
Related: "Govenor wrongly solicits students," Badger Herald, Oct. 11.
UW-Madison Police Chief Sue Riseling presented a list of 17 recommendations compiled by a team charged with reviewing the UW System's security policies; Chief Riseling chaired President Reilly's 2007 Commission on University Security, which was formed in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings in April.
The UW System Board of Regents recently approved a request by UW-Stout Chancellor Charles Sorensen to have the campus's library renamed after former Chancellor Robert Swanson, who led the campus from 1972 until 1988.