A proposal that would have linked UW System executive pay raises with those of faculty, academic staff and unionized workers fizzled in committee Thursday, The Capital Times reported.
The Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities stalled on a 5-5 vote to approve the legislation.
State Rep. Rob Kreibech, R-Eau Claire, the committee chair, offered the proposal as a compromise with another that would have given the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee oversight of executive raises. That measure resulted from controversy over a Sept. 2 vote to raise administrators' pay ranges.
Randrique J. Norman, 18, of Madison was arrested Thursday after he threatened visitors to his west side home with a steak knife and flammable liquid, according to a police report.
Police were called to Norman's apartment in the 5800 block of Russett Road after he threatened visitors of one of his family members. The visitors left but Norman armed himself with camp fuel and ran down the stairs after them. The liquid spilled on the steps, and fire officials said the spilled liquid made the air so combustible that someone could have started it on fire with a lighted cigarette.
Officers discovered Norman had created similar mayhem the day before when he got upset and poured the fuel all over his body and those of others and threatened to set everyone on fire. No one called the police that time.
Norman was brought to Dane County Mental Health for assessment Thursday and then booked into jail on charges of second degree recklessly endangering safety and disorderly conduct while armed.
UW-Madison assistant professor at the La Follette School of Public Affairs Clark Miller will receive $400,000 from the National Science Foundation to study global environmental policy, according to The Capital Times.
Miller, along with two researchers at Harvard University, will study the environmental policy initiatives of the United States, India and Germany.
Miller plans to study these variations by researching countries' relationships with groups such as the World Trade Organization, which regulates worldwide trade and tariffs, and the World Bank, which provides loans and policy advice to developing countries.
Miller plans to study how nations place themselves regarding environmental policies, such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
