Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 74. Sunrise is 5:15 AM and sunset 8:34 PM for 15h 18m 18s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 94.5% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1899, the New Richmond Tornado devastates that small Wisconsin community: On…
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Daily Bread for 4.29.22: No Free Speech Problem for Trump Apologist Kellyanne Conway
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of 61. Sunrise is 5:50 AM and sunset 7:53 PM for 14h 03m 33s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 1.9% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1862, Union forces under David Farragut capture New Orleans. There is only…
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Daily Bread for 4.28.22: Exclusive Video — Kellyanne Conway Visits UW-Whitewater
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 46. Sunrise is 5:51 AM and sunset 7:52 PM for 14h 01m 01s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 5.6% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1881, Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico. What else has…
Assault Awareness & Prevention, Daily Bread, Education, Harassment, Indolence, Law, Litigation, Misconduct, University, UW System
Daily Bread for 10.15.21: From UW-Whitewater’s Administration, Too Many and Too Few Words
by JOHN ADAMS • • 1 Comment
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Daily Bread for 10.8.21: Ex-student Stephanie Vander Pas sues for failure of UW-Whitewater to protect her and others from sexual harassment by former chancellor’s husband
by JOHN ADAMS • • 3 Comments
Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will see scattered showers with a high of 72. Sunrise is 7:01 AM and sunset 6:22 PM for 11h 21m 22s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 5.6% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1871, fire destroys Peshtigo, Wisconsin: Peshtigo, Wisconsin was devastated by a…
Assault Awareness & Prevention, City, Ethics, Misconduct, Sexual Harassment, University, UW System
At UW-Whitewater, Beverly Kopper’s Tenure Was about More than Beverly Kopper
by JOHN ADAMS • • 6 Comments
Former UW-Whitewater chancellor Beverly Kopper was on leave – apparently for part of that time under federal or state medical leave act provisions – before her resignation from UW-Whitewater. I’ll not speculate about the circumstances under which she claimed leave under the law. There’s another matter that requires attention. There’s talk at UW-Whitewater these days…
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At UW-Whitewater, For All That Value, Too Little Administrative Respect for Values
by JOHN ADAMS • • 4 Comments
There’s a press release (screenshot here) contending that UW-Whitewater contributes a large sum – hundreds of millions – to the Wisconsin economy. The release is written by Assistant Vice Chancellor Sara Kuhl. Kuhl begins the release touting the power and influence of the university by misspelling a common English word (emphasis added): UW-Whitewater, one of…
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Janesville Gazette’s Reprehensible Story About an Alleged Sexual Assault
by JOHN ADAMS • • 4 Comments
At the nearby Janesville Gazette, there’s a story about an alleged sexual assault that’s simply reprehensible reporting: Excessive drinking was prelude to sex assault, court document alleges. (The reporter, Frank Schultz; editor, Sid Schwartz.) Here’s how Schultz’s story begins – a single-sentence first paragraph: An 18-year-old Janesville man is accused of second-degree sexual assault after…
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UW-Whitewater’s Administration Covers Crap with Catsup
by JOHN ADAMS • • 10 Comments
For months, UW-Whitewater has publicized on its website a sham study from a burglar-alarm company as confirmation that Whitewater has the safest campus in Wisconsin. The study is a shabby fraud, with a methodology so far below proper academic standards that it taints the serious work of faculty and students at the school, in the UW…
Assault Awareness & Prevention, City, Crime, Culture, Distraction, Newspapers, University, UW System, Wisconsin
Truth-Telling and Tale-Weaving
by JOHN ADAMS • • 1 Comment
In conditions of real injury, in which truth-telling is important, tale-weaving about irrelevant matters is worse than wasteful: it’s a misdirection from the significant to the insignificant. Three recent stories illustrate the critical difference between these approaches. As a truth-telling story, Hope Kirwan of Wisconsin Public Radio reports ‘Students Deserve To Be Heard’: UW-La Crosse…
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‘Keeping Harvey Weinstein’s Secrets’
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Harvey Weinstein is responsible – directly and personally – for his actions. Others, however, assisted him in concealing his violent coercion. Astonishingly, as the New York Times reports, some of those who aided Weinstein were – of all people – attorneys who made public careers as victims’ rights advocates. The two podcasts embedded below detail…
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Unbelievable
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In December 2015, T. Christian Miller of ProPublica and Ken Armstrong of The Marshall Project published An Unbelievable Story of Rape, about a woman (her middle name is Marie) who was raped, pressured to recant her account, and later found herself charged with a misdemeanor offense. In fact, she was raped, her attacker was later…
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For UW-Whitewater’s Administration, Talking Points Won’t Be Enough
by JOHN ADAMS • • 9 Comments
Yesterday, I posted on The Marketing of Misinformation: UW-Whitewater’s Use of a Counterfeit ‘Campus Safety’ Study. Today, here is a look at some of the university administration’s talking points in response to long-standing acts of sexual harassment and assault on campus. (They’re from the new university chancellor’s recorded interview with a local newspaper.) From the video…
Assault Awareness & Prevention, Crime, Trump
What Trump’s ‘Not My Type’ Defense Means
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Writing at The Atlantic, Megan Garber explains The Real Meaning of Trump’s ‘She’s Not My Type’ Defense (‘The president, in attempting to downplay E. Jean Carroll’s rape allegation against him, isn’t talking about attraction. He’s talking about protection‘): There is, as always, a certain clarity to Trump’s cruelty. The president seems to understand, on some level,…