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Personnel Matters an Administrator’S Extended Leave Has UW’S Policies Under Scrutiny DISPATCHES Personnel Matters An administrator’s extended leave has UW’s policies under scrutiny. Questions about a UW-Madison for an explanation. While administrative leave until the administrator’s extended leave expressing confidence that all investigation is complete. flared tensions between the university policies were fol- Coming in the middle of university and some state law- lowed in granting Barrows Wisconsin’s biennial state budget makers this summer, sparking leave, Wiley (who is Barrows’ deliberations, the case may have an investigation that may supervisor) agreed to appoint several lasting effects on the uni- affect how the university han- an independent investigator to versity. Lawmakers voted to cut dles personnel decisions. determine whether any of the UW-Madison’s budget by an The controversy involves a actions he or Barrows took additional $1 million because of leave of absence taken by Paul were inappropriate. Susan the controversy, and the Joint Barrows, the former vice chan- Steingass, a Madison attorney Legislative Audit Committee has cellor for student affairs. The and former Dane County Circuit now requested information on leave, for which Barrows used Court judge who teaches in the paid leaves and backup appoint- accumulated vacation and sick Law School, was designated to ments throughout the UW Sys- days, came after he acknowl- explore the matter and is tem to help it decide whether to edged a consensual relationship expected to report her findings launch a System-wide audit of with an adult graduate student. this fall to UW System President personnel practices. While not a violation of univer- Kevin Reilly and UW-Madison The UW Board of Regents sity policy, the revelation raised Provost Peter Spear. also plans to review employ- 920 concerns about Barrows’s judg- Barrows’s vice chancellor ment agreements, administra- Number of environmentally ment, according to Chancellor position was eliminated during tive leaves, and backup friendly gasoline cans given John D. Wiley MS’65, PhD’68. his leave, but he was expected to appointments. System officials away during the June kickoff of At the same time, Barrows — return to the university as a con- say that they expect changes in a UW-Madison program to help whose annual salary as vice sultant overseeing diversity pro- both personnel policies and in control environmental emis- chancellor was $191,749 — grams. In July, however, Wiley their relations with lawmakers, sions. The cans were free to revealed personal and family cir- said he lost confidence in Bar- which they admit have been anyone willing to trade in their cumstances that Wiley believed rows’s ability to do the job, sug- strained by the controversy. old storage cans, which typi- supported the need for medical gesting other allegations of “They have every right to cally release ozone-depleting leave. improper conduct had surfaced. be critical of us,” Regent pollutants. In June — after Barrows Barrows was assigned to a President David Walsh told had been on approved leave $72,881-a-year job — a backup the online news site Wispoli- for seven months — a group appointment stipulated in his tics.com. “We've made some of state legislators called atten- employment contract with the mistakes.” tion to the situation and asked university. He remains on paid — Staff In Foul Bloom Four-year-old Benjamin Adams of Madison wards off the stench of the aptly named corpse flower, a spectacular plant that rarely blooms in cap- MICHAEL FORSTER ROTHBART tivity. In June, not one, but two corpse flowers did just that at UW-Madison’s Botany Green- houses, where botanists have been cultivating the flowers, which can grow to more than eight feet tall. Native to equa- torial rain forests of Indonesia, the plant derives its nickname from the foul odor it releases when in bloom — a smell like rotting flesh that attracts polli- nating carrion beetles, and, apparently, little boys. FALL 2005 11 DISPATCHES One More for the Coach In making this his final season, Barry Alvarez embraces a smooth transition. Q AND A JEFF MILLER (2) Jessica Ritschke UW-Madison tour guide Jessica Ritschke x’06 has led countless wide-eyed fresh- men and their parents around campus. But there’s more to being a tour guide than pointing out Bascom Hall and mentioning your favorite fla- vor of Babcock Hall ice cream. Q: Do you prefer to stick to the script, or do you like questions? A: We love questions! The worst thing is when you get a bunch of blank faces. You think, am I being bor- ing? Is this not good? It’s great for us if the group is attentive and talkative. With this season, Barry Alvarez will cap a career that has given him a trove of memories and achievements, including three Rose Bowl titles. “One of my greatest thrills is when a fan says, ‘Hey coach, thanks for a job Q: Have you ever gotten a well done,’ “ Alvarez said at a press conference announcing his retirement. really strange question? A: Sometimes at the begin- Barry Alvarez was at ease, line,” Alvarez said. “As one of Alvarez, who will continue as ning of the tour, people braced with a confident stride, my close friends told me, you’ll the UW’s athletic director, will will ask where the basket- an easy smile, a hearty laugh, know when it’s the right time. I turn over the reins of a program ball court is in the Red and the company of family. believe it’s the right time.” he transformed from a Big Ten Gym. It hasn’t been there Moments before he walked into There was nothing nervous laughingstock into a national since the 1930s. I guess a packed Kohl Center media in his bearing, but emotion still powerhouse to hand-picked suc- for someone who doesn’t room in late July and rocked tugged at his heart and cracked cessor Bret Bielema, the Bad- know about that, it’s a the Badger faithful with the his voice as he publicly thanked gers’ defensive coordinator. legitimate question, but news that he is stepping aside family and friends and recalled a “About fifteen years ago, I for us it’s strange. as head football coach after the coaching career that produced looked at Wisconsin as a sleep- 2005 football season, it was three Rose Bowl titles, a Heis- ing giant,” Alvarez said. “My Q: What’s the most mem- apparent that he’d made peace man Trophy, and one of the on-the-field memories could fill orable thing that ever with his historic decision. most compelling turnaround a book ... things like clinching happened on one of “This is my personal time- stories in college football. a Rose Bowl berth in Tokyo, your tours? watching an overtime win at A: Definitely the streaker Minnesota from a bed at the incident. My tour group Mayo Clinic, giving Ron Dayne was walking near the UW: A College with a Conscience x’00 a bear hug after coming Southeast dorms during Editors of a new college guidebook took a look at UW-Madison and down to the sidelines the day lunch in the spring when liked what they saw. Colleges with a Conscience, published this sum- he broke the NCAA rushing this guy in a white robe mer by Random House, lists the UW among eighty-one “great record, with us clinching a Rose saw us coming. He opened schools with outstanding community involvement.” Bowl berth that day.” up his robe and started Among the criteria editors considered were the level of student Donna Shalala, who hired hopping up and down in activism, institutional support for service learning, and whether com- Alvarez in 1990 when she was front of us, naked! Then munity involvement factored into admissions policies. UW-Madison UW-Madison chancellor, says he ran into Sellery Hall, won praise for having eighty courses that incorporate service as part Alvarez made the college foot- which is where we were of the curriculum, as well as the Morgridge Center for Public Service, ball world look to Madison as he headed. a clearinghouse for faculty and students looking to link learning built a 108-70-4 career record with community involvement. — Staff going into his final season. 12 ON WISCONSIN DISPATCHES “He was a miracle “I came from a town of worker,” says Shalala, now 1,800 people, but I had president of the University 2,500 pigs on my farm,” of Miami. “No one believed Bielema said. “Everybody that Wisconsin’s program else got to go to the mall could be restored to great on Saturday, and I stayed eminence, and Barry did it home and did chores. I with class and energy and didn’t understand it at the skill.” time, but I do now. I do understand that if you’re After just one season of going to commit yourself to working with Bielema, a something, to do it right, former Iowa player who it’s got to be a 100 percent served as an assistant for commitment.” the Hawkeyes and Kansas Chancellor John Wiley State, Alvarez was con- lauded both men — Bielema vinced that Bielema was a for his passion and energy, rising star capable of lead- and Alvarez for building the ing the program into the program and skillfully jug- future. The thirty-five-year- gling the coaching and ath- old coach is described as letic director roles. “I expect tireless, with a work ethic great things ahead for the developed on his family’s “I am honored, humbled, and thrilled about entire department under “I got the idea for the prod- this opportunity,” says Bret Bielema, who will farm outside of Prophets- become new head football coach beginning Barry’s leadership,” he said.
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