One reads this morning, as might have been expected, that the UW System regents have named Dr. Dwight C. Watson to be the new chancellor of UW-Whitewater. These recent years have seen two failed chancellors at UW-Whitewater. One hopes, genuinely and truly, that Dr. Watson, now Provost and Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs…
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Assault Awareness & Prevention, City, Culture, Negligence, Public Relations, Sexual Harassment, That Which Paved the Way, University, UW System
Beyond the Third Investigation
by JOHN ADAMS • • 4 Comments
Some weeks ago, I promised readers a copy of the third investigation report into sexual harassment on the UW-Whitewater campus. That report is linked at the bottom of this post. Read merely alone, the report describes gross intentional misconduct, gross negligence and moral indifference about harassment and assault, as well as separate matters of managerial…
City, Film
Film: Wednesday, May 22nd, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park, Mr. Church
by JOHN ADAMS •
? This Wednesday, May 22nd at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of Mr. Church @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building: “Mr. Church” (Drama/Comedy/Inspirational) Wednesday, May 22, 12:30 pm Rated PG-13; 1 hour, 44 minutes (2016) Taking place over a span of two decades, Mr. Church (Eddie Murphy) is the…
Babbittry, City, Culture, Seven Deadly, University
Coming & Going Depend on Doing
by JOHN ADAMS •
Originally posted 5.3.19, updated 5.17.19. Although another candidate has withdrawn from the final pool of applicants for a new UW-Whitewater chancellor, conditions that led to the present (stretching over the last two chancellors’ tenure) matter more than the immediate and futile hope that a single appointment will overcome years of the wrong direction. Genuine change…
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Film: Tuesday, May 14th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park, The Mule
by JOHN ADAMS •
This Tuesday, May 14th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of The Mule @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building: “The Mule” (Crime/Drama/Thriller) Tuesday, May 14, 12:30 pm Rated R (Language; violence) 1 hour, 56 minutes (2018). Based on a true story: a 90-year-old retired horticulturist and Korean War veteran…
America, Babbittry, City, History, New Media, Newspapers, Press, Social Media, Writing
The Media’s ‘Post-Advertising’ Future
by JOHN ADAMS •
Nationally and locally, the media (whether profit or non-profit) continue their significant transformation: the decline of print, the rise of (interactive) digital media, and the collapse of a middle-of-the-road partnership of boosterism between mediocre newspapers and middling officials. Print’s doomed, and so is digital that merely repeats the same banal style of contemporary print. Traditional…
City, Film
Film: Tuesday, April 30th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park, If Beale Street Could Talk
by JOHN ADAMS •
This Tuesday, April 30th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of If Beale Street Could Talk @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building: If Beale Street Could Talk (Drama/Romance/Crime) Tuesday, April 30th, 12:30 pm Rated R (language, sexual content). 1 hour, 59 min. (2018) Based on the book by James…
Bad Ideas, Business, CDA, City, Crony Capitalism, Development, Economics, Economy, Environment, Foxconn, Government Spending, Local Government, Speaker Vos, State Capitalism, State Government, That Which Paved the Way, WEDC, Wisconsin
Foxconn: The Closer One Gets, The Worse It Is
by JOHN ADAMS •
There is, about Foxconn in Wisconsin, a fair amount of ignorant insistence that there will be supply chain opportunities, etc. Public employees talking about the Foxconn project’s supposed benefit is the practical equivalent letting them recite limericks or play sheepshead: it’s not productive. For those near Foxconn, however, that project is more than wasteful talk:…
Assault Awareness & Prevention, City, Culture, Nepotism, Public Relations, Sexual Harassment, That Which Paved the Way, University, UW System
Third Investigation: ‘Up to 10 students, faculty report being harassed by former UW-Whitewater chancellor’s husband’
by JOHN ADAMS •
Originally posted 4.19.19. One reads today, in a Good Friday records release from the UW System, that Up to 10 students, faculty report being harassed by former UW-Whitewater chancellor’s husband: An investigation into the husband of former University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Chancellor Beverly Kopper found that at least seven and up to 10 students or staff…
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Film: Tuesday, April 23rd, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
by JOHN ADAMS •
This Tuesday, April 23rd at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of Can You Ever Forgive Me? @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building: Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Biography/Comedy/Drama/Crime) Tuesday, April 23rd, 12:30 pm Rated R (Language); 1 hour, 46 min. (2018). When biographer/profiler Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy) no longer finds…
Bigotry, City, Economy, Herrenvolk, Immigration, Local Government, Mendacity, Trump
An Answer to Trump: Welcome All
by JOHN ADAMS •
So Trump claims – absurdly – that America is full, and that contrary to the law he might send asylum seekers and migrants to sanctuary cities. Oakland’s mayor, Libby Schaaf, gave Trump the reply he deserved (and a reply that a just and well-ordered society should expect): Trump: ….So interesting to see the Mayor of…
CDA, City, Conflicts of Interest, Federal Government, Local Government, Taxes/Taxation, Trump
Trump’s Tax Returns
by JOHN ADAMS •
If Trump wanted his tax returns to remain private, then he should not have run for public office. So many men want to be private figures and public officials at the same time, opportunistically claiming one role or another as it suits them. Small-town Whitewater has had a problem like this for years: tiny notables…
Charity and Mercy, City, Education, Poverty, Press Release, School District
What Matters, What Doesn’t
by JOHN ADAMS •
Some contrasts are so clear that, on seeing them, one can tell immediately what matters and what does not: Number of homeless students in Whitewater School District reaches ‘crisis level’: The number of homeless students in [Dr. Lanora] Heim’s district last school year was more than double what it was three years ago—going from…
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Film: Tuesday, April 9th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park, The Favourite
by JOHN ADAMS •
This Tuesday, April 9th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of The Favourite @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building: The Favourite (Biography/Comedy/Drama/History) Tuesday, April 9th, 12:30 pm Rated R (Strong sexual content, nudity, language); 1 hour, 59 min. (2018) A brilliant, stunning, comedic, feminine tour-de-force historical costume drama. In…