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For University of Wisconsin-Madison Alumni and Friends BACKGROUND IMAGE: JEFF MILLER, UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS UNIVERSITY MILLER, JEFF IMAGE: BACKGROUND Where Badgers belong SPRING 2013 Making Introductions When you become a member of the Wisconsin Alumni Association® (WAA), Students, this is college. Forgiveness you’ll find yourself part of a special Badger community: one that offers a Olympic Financial Fails sense of belonging, keeps you connected to the UW and celebrates your Hosting mega sports can backfire. and Dignity Badger spirit. Control Freak Can these powerful So take up residence in this close-knit neighborhood of Badgers. In the movie biz, it’s a good thing. concepts help people and uwalumni.com/membership nations in distress? Join WAA today! A Long and Winding Row An alum paddles across the ocean. YOUR LEGACY. THEIR FUTURE. We can shape how we’re UW Planned Giving remembered. Remembering the University of Wisconsin-Madison in your will is an investment in the future. For our children. For our university. For the world. To discuss your legacy, contact Scott McKinney in the Offi ce of Gift Planning at the University of Wisconsin Foundation at [email protected] or 608-262-6241. supportuw.org/gift-planning UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION On Wisconsin Full Pg October 2012.indd 1 10/10/2012 11:00:28 AM SPRING 2013 contents VOLUME 114, NUMBER 1 Features 22 Uniquely Human By Jenny Price ’96 and Maggie Ginsberg-Schutz ’97 A UW professor guides those who have been seriously harmed by others along a path to forgiveness. And a UW alumna encourages leaders to take a new approach to conflict: honoring dignity. 32 College 101 By Vikki Ortiz Healy ’97 A special partnership with the UW introduces ninth-graders to the notion of a degree following high school. 36 36 Getting Torched? By Eric Goldscheider Economist Andrew Zimbalist ’69 argues that big-time sports and big-time stadiums are not necessarily a boon for cities. 42 Imagination, Inc. By Jenny Price ’96 The devil’s in the details, as a young grad has discovered in her job with the animation studio Pixar. 44 Rowing to Extremes By John Allen Oceans, mountains, car accidents, continents — über-athlete Sonya Baumstein ’07 has yet to meet the obstacle that can stop her. 42 Departments 5 Inside Story 8 Posts 10 Scene 32 12 News & Notes 18 Q&A 19 Classroom 20 Sports Cover: Looking within yourself is a 48 Traditions necessary first step on the journey to 51 Badger Connections forgive or to treat others with dignity. 63 Sifting & Winnowing Illustration by Edel Rodriguez. 66 Flashback SPRING 2013 3 INNOV V TION Photo of Mark Cook courtesy of Egg WARF. photo by iStock. The Chicken or the Egg? For UW–Madison Professor Mark Cook, it’s both. He combined two lines of his research — how chickens transfer natural antibodies to eggs, and how eggs added to livestock feed could enhance growth. The results: more than 20 patents, the creation of Wisconsin- UW–MADISON ARCHIVES based agricultural biotechnology, and chickens, pigs, calves, cattle, and even fish around the world benefiting from this UW innovation. yearofinnovation.wisc.edu4 ON WISCONSIN insidestory EDEL RODRIGUEZ George Washington On Wisconsin had the right idea. SPRING 2013 “Every Action done in Company, Publisher ought to be with Some Sign Wisconsin Alumni Association of Respect, to those that are 650 North Lake Street, Madison, WI 53706 Present,” he wrote in a journal Voice: (608) 262-2551 • Toll-free: (888) WIS-ALUM • Fax: (608) 265-8771 when he was a teenager, putting Email: [email protected] to paper more than one hundred Website: onwisconsin.uwalumni.com rules of civility. Co-Editors Niki Denison, Wisconsin Alumni Association We’re saying the same today, Cindy Foss, University Communications albeit with different words. Calls Senior Editor for civility came daily during John Allen, Wisconsin Alumni Association the recent American campaign Senior Writer season, it seemed. It was within Jenny Price ’96, University Communications that milieu that featuring a UW During times of pain and uncertainty, forgiveness and dignity offer a way forward. Art Director professor’s research and a Earl J. Madden MFA’82, University Communications former student’s work on two human qualities — forgivenesss and dignity — had particular appeal to us at Production Editor Eileen Fitzgerald ’79, On Wisconsin. University Communications When I turned to online sources to confirm that treating others respectfully was Class Notes Editor a trending topic, I was richly rewarded. I discovered the National Civility Center, the Paula Apfelbach ’83, Wisconsin Alumni Association; Editorial Intern: Aimee Katz x’13 Civility Project, the Institute for Civility in Government — even the Civility School (although that link took me to a web page that mentions cotillions and mastering Design, Layout, and Production Barry Carlsen MFA’83; Toni Good ’76, MA’89; chopsticks). Kent Hamele ’78, University Communications Then I saw a news headline reporting “Grandmothers Seek More Civility from Campus Advisers Congress,” and I knew this was serious business. Paula Bonner MS’78, President and CEO, These days our discourse can devolve into an exchange more combative than and Mary DeNiro MBA’11, Executive Vice President and COO, Wisconsin Alumni civil. We are so determined to use our mouths to argue that we forget to use our ears Association • Amy E. Toburen ’80, Executive to listen to other points of view. Apparently powerful forces, such as grandmas and Director, University Communications and Marketing • Lynne Johnson, Senior Director of hurricanes, are needed to convince us to work through our differences. Communications, UW Foundation As we struggle with these differences, our coverage of Robert Enright and Donna Advertising Representatives Hicks (see page 22) explains how they are finding ways to deal with tremendously Madison Magazine: (608) 270-3600 difficult circumstances: helping those who have experienced horrific personal injury Big Ten Alumni Alliance and entire countries that are at war. National Accounts Manager Susan Tauster: (630) 858-1558 Conflict has always been part of humankind, but thanks to Enright and Hicks, we see a way forward. We can apply their lessons to our own lives, pledging to forgive, to Alumni Name, Address, Phone, and Email Changes • Death Notices value dignity, and to demonstrate civility as we navigate our complex world. Madison area: (608) 262-9648 Toll-free: (888) 947-2586 Cindy Foss Email: [email protected] Co-Editor Quarterly production of On Wisconsin is supported by financial gifts from alumni and friends. To make a gift to UW-Madison, please visit supportuw.org. Printed on recycled paper. Please remember to recycle This magazine was printed this magazine. by Arandell Corporation, a SPRING 2013 5 Wisconsin Green Tier participant. ( )2 6 ON WISCONSIN SPRING 2013 7 posts Library Love science. After reading your tively implemented in the way it back many great memories. Loved the article by Erika Janik article, I felt inspired and would was intended, enriching the lives My husband, John T. (Tom) [“It’s a Mailbox … It’s a Bird like to see one in Woodbury, of others. DeYoung ’49, was chairman House … No, Wait, It’s a Library,” where I live now. I want to help Charles Wetzel PhD’63 of Homecoming in 1948, and Winter 2012]. Those who fill the build a better neighborhood and Chester, New Jersey George was a member of his unique Little Free Library boxes a better community. committee. Tom and I had been around the world may be moti- Qin Tang MA’94 An Indian Perspective on married just three months, vated by the words of William A. Woodbury, Minnesota “Black Gold” and it was a thrill for me to be Wood: “Who gives a good book Thanks for weaving the story Homecoming queen. gives more than cloth, paper, and I just finished reading the Winter of India’s locks-for-luck tradi- That was some weekend, ink … more than leather, parch- 2012 issue, and I was moved by tion into the Winter 2012 edition with Fred Waring and his huge ment, and words. He reveals a the challenge to put up a Little [“Black Gold”]. For the past two choir performing Friday night at foreword of his thoughts, a dedi- Free Library in the Philippines in years, I’ve seen another side of the Field House. Then there were cation of his friendship, a page Barangay del Carmen, Iligan City, the practice, from behind the two proms in the Union Saturday of his presence, a chapter of where my youngest son lives. visa windows at the consulate in night with Tommy Dorsey’s band himself, and an index of his love.” When I went to UW-Madison Hyderabad [India]. Some of the and Vaughn Monroe (I think). The Thayer (Ted) Thompson ’60 in 1964 for my MS program in more auspicious-minded appli- football team didn’t do too well, Sedalia, Missouri rural sociology, I was a Filipino cants we see every day arrive but it was fun to watch anyway, Fulbright-Hays scholar and a U.S. straight from Tirupati with freshly and to be introduced on the field The article about the Little Agricultural Development Council shaved heads. Rest assured, at halftime as king and queen. Free Libraries is really informa- fellow. Now I reside in Juneau, though, that all the outstanding Jill Floden DeYoung ’47 tive, interesting, and inspiring. Alaska, but I know I can collect engineering students we send to Stanwood, Michigan I have read stories in the local some books here in Juneau and Madison are confident enough media about Little Free Libraries ship them or bring them when- in their academic qualifications Online Comments popping up in the Twin Cities.