Myths That Hurt the UW Politically

• Students can't graduate in a reasonable time because the UW doesn't offer the required courses frequently enough. Most often, students fail to check requirements, postpone taking the harder courses, fail to seek advisors, or switch majors late. Departments are very aware of making sure required courses are taught regularly.
• Students have to take courses in the Summer Session to graduate in a reasonable time because the UW doesn't offer the required courses frequently enough. This is a fib students (especially at UW-Madison) have told for years so they can stay in Madison and enjoy the laid-back Summer Session and the Terrace. See above.
• Superior Wisconsin high school students are frozen out of UW (especially at UW-Madison) because the UW admits too many inferior out-of-state, or minority applicants. Rep. Steve Nass is especially concerned about those affirmative action admits; Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen disagrees.
• UW tuition is too high.  In fact, it's still relatively low, even though the Legislature has used the UW students and faculty as a punching bag.
• The UW is too far left. Rep. Nass seems to recycle this one weekly. A recent Isthmus piece on Nass revealed a possible root cause for this myth:

In explaining his views on higher education, Nass points to something that happened when he was a student at UW-Whitewater. He got an F on a test in an American politics class, he says, for disagreeing with his professor's belief that the world would run out of coal by the end of the 20th century. Nass went to another professor to complain.

"He told me, ‘You will have to write what she says in the classroom and agree with her,'" says Nass. So for the rest of the semester, Nass did just that, through gritted teeth. He eventually passed the class, though, he says now, "So much for free speech."

So it's those far lefty UW-Whitewater professors.  It's almost a classic: "Dad, I got a bad grade because I was defending your conservative values and the professor is a Commie."

- Barry Orton

Comments

[nonheroicvet]

Commie faculty at Whitewater? Nass apparently wasn't a business major. Anyone remember Joe Chopp of the Biology Dept in the late sixties? Another possibility is that Nass is Nuts.

[Tim]

Nass is a liar. I cannot imagine any professor denying a student the chance to disagree if the disagreement is done with thought and facts.

Nass likely objected from an ideological standpoint. No thought.

[Dale]

LOL.. try graduating with an engineering degree at UW-Madison in 4 years. Unless you're superman or come to college with 30 math and physics AP credits, it's just about impossible.

[Barry Orton]

The engineering degree problem has been similar at all major universities for the last 50 years. It's far too many required courses and too few electives. That's a different issue.

[Joel Peissig]

Do any of you know how I can get a hold Mr. Paul Soglin.
Maybe an e-mail?
Can't find one here at this site.
Thank-you.

[Tim Kisting]

Oct 28, 2007 Milwaukee Journal reprint of Soglin's stupidity!!!

Soglin you are a cut and run liberal piece of shit, from the 60's to your mayorship of the peoples Republic of Madison in the 80's and 90's. Bush HAS never lied the 46 billon need for our valient war in Iraq is TOTALLY neccessary, and unlike your socialist mind would never be spent on socialized medicine, welfare programs etc, even if there were no war. That is the true disconnect of your clueless arguments. The only nightmare is that you continue to be a coward. The world is already in WW111 you cluesless idiots, we are in the beginning stages of a 100 years war on our fight on terrorism. We can not appease, listen, understand, feel there pain etc, terrorist must be hunted down, destroyed by whatever means possible, and Bush and patriotic Americans have a blank check to do it. Soglin, your like Neville chamberlain at the 1938 Munich Conference when Hitler was appeased, in the name of "peace" cowards like chaimberlain and your ilk were responsible for 10 of millons of murders, the holocust etc, because the world did not start WW11 in 1938, rather than September of 1939. Soglin, you and your liberal ilk are guiltu of treason.
Timothy Kisting
6235 S Karrington Ln
New Berlin, WI 53151
414.525.8004
New Berlin, city the supported Bush in 2004 by a 74-26% margin

[Tiredof Wingnuts]

Hey Kisting -

Apparently this--> http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/14/944677/-Happy-Valentines-Day:-An-Obscene-Phone-Call-From-A-Wisconsin-Wingnut

is about YOU.