Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 35. Sunrise is 6:51 AM and sunset 4:28 PM for 9h 36m 37s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 99.4% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s CDA meets at 5:30 PM. On this day in 1928, Walt Disney Studio releases the animated…
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Daily Bread, Employment, University, UW Madison, UW System, Vaccines
Daily Bread for 11.12.21: UW-Madison Charts the Right Course on Vaccination
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will see scattered of showers of rain or snow with a high of 39. Sunrise is 6:44 AM and sunset 4:33 PM for 9h 49m 20s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 60.3% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day, in 1970, the Oregon Highway Commission decides…
Daily Bread, Education, Marketing, University, UW System
Daily Bread for 11.5.21: Marketing Won’t Revive UW-Whitewater
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 52. Sunrise is 7:35 AM and sunset 5:41 PM for 10h 05m 51s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 0.5% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1862, Abraham Lincoln justifiably removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Army…
Daily Bread, Education, School District, University, UW Madison, UW System
Daily Bread for 10.18.21: UW System Vacancies and New Hires
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 71. Sunrise is 7:13 AM and sunset 6:06 PM for 10h 53m 14s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 95.5% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Library Board meets at 6:30 PM. On this day in 1851, Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is…
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Daily Bread for 10.15.21: From UW-Whitewater’s Administration, Too Many and Too Few Words
by JOHN ADAMS • • 1 Comment
Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 55. Sunrise is 7:09 AM and sunset 6:11 PM for 11h 01m 35s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 74.4% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1956, FORTRAN, the first modern computer language, is first shared with the…
Assault Awareness & Prevention, City, Daily Bread, Law, Litigation, University, UW System
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…
City, Daily Bread, University, UW System
Daily Bread for 10.5.21: UW-Whitewater’s Challenges Aren’t Existential
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 70. Sunrise is 6:57 AM and sunset 6:27 PM for 11h 29m 56s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 1.4% of its visible disk illuminated. The Whitewater Common Council meets at 6:30 PM. On this day in 1813, The Army…
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Daily Bread for 9.24.21: Ongoing Enrollment Declines at UW-Whitewater, Elsewhere
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 79. Sunrise is 6:45 AM and sunset 6:47 PM for 12h 01m 35s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 88.5% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1957, President Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock,…
Daily Bread, Public Health, University, UW System, Vaccines
Daily Bread for 9.18.21: Vaccination Rates on UW System Campuses
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 79. Sunrise is 6:39 AM and sunset 6:57 PM for 12h 18m 52s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 93.1% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1977, Voyager I takes the first distant photograph [7.25 million miles]…
Daily Bread, Public Health, University, Vaccines
Daily Bread for 9.15.21: UW-Whitewater’s Vaccination Rate
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 76. Sunrise is 6:35 AM and sunset 7:03 PM for 12h 27m 30s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 68.5% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Parks & Recreation Board meets at 5:30 PM. This day in 1940 sees the climax of the…
Education, Free Markets, University, UW System
The System Balks
by JOHN ADAMS • • 1 Comment
For eight years, there has been a state-imposed price freeze for in-state UW System tuition. (This restriction applied to UW-Whitewater as a System school.) The WISGOP wanted this freeze, and it has lingered since Walker’s defeat in 2018. During its imposition, administrators complained about the freeze, and rightly so: price freezes, even short-term ones, are a…
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UW-Whitewater Chancellor Watson Resigns Following Cancer Diagnosis
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that UW-Whitewater Chancellor Dr. Dwight Watson has resigned following a cancer diagnosis: UW-Whitewater Chancellor Dwight Watson has resigned following a diagnosis of stomach and intestinal cancer, officials announced Thursday. “After much deliberation, I must resign from my position as Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater,” Watson wrote in his resignation letter. “I…
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Whitewater’s Local Politics 2021: The Limits of Local Politics
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
This is the final post in a series on Whitewater’s local politics of 2021. Earlier posts at FREE WHITEWATER have addressed the limits of local politics in the community: local public (or powerful private) institutions have a limited power of action (with harmful actions likely to be more immediate than helpful ones). It’s certain that a…
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Whitewater’s Local Politics 2021: The Subcultural City
by JOHN ADAMS • • 2 Comments
This is the sixth in a series on Whitewater’s local politics of 2021. There’s no politically predominant group in Whitewater. Strictly speaking, a subculture implies a dominant culture, but it’s less dramatic to describe Whitewater as several subcultures than as balkanized. One might call the city multicultural, but that term often implies an acceptance of…