All these years, so much talk about closer ties, and there’s still a chasm between city and university.
So much so, that for many residents in the city to learn about university-related crime, they’d have to look for an out-of-city station or publication.
See, from Saturday @ 2:58 PM, Student reportedly called name, kicked, punched: UW-Whitewater says attackers used sexually derogatory term before attack.
My point isn’t that UW-Whitewater did not alert its students about the now-reported incident – they have a campus-notification system.
My point is that hyper-local news sources are few, and no less ideological (often selectively so) than are self-acknowledged commentators.
I’d guess it’s made worse by a university leadership that so evidently yearns for Old Whitewater’s acceptance.
It’s only when the city and university – both – have a culture that encourages more than striving to be one of a few hundred in middling magpies that there will be improvement in city-university conditions.
That’s at least one, and perhaps two, chancellors from now.