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Moving on to the University of Wisconsin, Vailreceived his Ph.D. in Bantulinguistics...
...spring break last week, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that could have significant ramifications for student life on campuses across the country. the Court will hear the case of Board of Regents v. Southworth, in in which a group of law students at the University of Wisconsin have claimed that their compulsory student activities fees--which finance a wide range of groups, including student political groups of all stripes--violate their free speech rights. Two lower courts ruled in the dissenters' favor, agreeing that they could not be forced to endorse, via their fees, views they didn...
While Harvard's activities fee is currently assessed on an all-or-nothing basis, the Wisconsin students seek the opportunity to opt out of subsidizing only particular groups. Loyal readers of this page will recognize the quandary this poses as being similar to the debate launched by Daniel Choi'94 last fall over Harvard's policy of refunding the portion of student health fees that funds UHS-performed abortions...
...Wisconsin dissidents, for example, want to opt out only of supporting particular "political" student groups. But this becomes difficult when the old lines have become increasing blurred however; last school year, for example, Ballet Folklorico de Aztlan, a dance group here at Harvard, joined the very-much-political anti-grape campaign. If the Court rules in their favor, the students at Wisconsin and elsewhere may soon be faced with a checklist student groups seeking support on their termbills. Is that what conservatives really want...
After a year, he signed on as a graduate student at Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin and embarked on the work that would one day make him famous: studying faint, hazy blobs of light called nebulae (from the Latin word for cloud) that are visible through even a modest telescope...