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Onwisconsin || Fall 2013 For University of Wisconsin-Madison Alumni and Friends A new Wisconsin ex-pier-ience Law and ANDY MANISANDY Order: SNP Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan ’77, JD’83 leads a fight against the illegal drug trade 30 The Wisconsin Alumni Association’s Goodspeed Family Pier is now open! To find out more about the first element in Alumni Park, drop by, tie up, or visit uwalumni.com/alumnipark. WHERE BADGERS BELONG FALL 2013 That New Brat Smell 18 | Worth Your Weight in Gold 24 | Title IX, Realized 26 | Alum set to buy the NYSE 42 GET BACK IN TOUCH WITH YOUR U-RAH-RAH. GIVE TO THE ANNUAL CAMPAIGN TODAY. There’s no better way to reconnect to everything wonderful at UW–Madison. You’ll also make sure that a new generation of Badgers will experience a world-class intellectual environment and a campus life that’s the envy of the Big Ten—just like you did. Your gift will keep your U-RAH-RAH going strong. No matter where life takes you. Visit sharethewonderful.org Photo illustration; original photo by Jeff Sciortino Photography. UWMadison_sprd_alt.indd 1 8/7/12 11:47 AM GET BACK IN TOUCH WITH YOUR U-RAH-RAH. GIVE TO THE ANNUAL CAMPAIGN TODAY. There’s no better way to reconnect to everything wonderful at UW–Madison. You’ll also make sure that a new generation of Badgers will experience a world-class intellectual environment and a campus life that’s the envy of the Big Ten—just like you did. Your gift will keep your U-RAH-RAH going strong. No matter where life takes you. Visit sharethewonderful.org Photo illustration; original photo by Jeff Sciortino Photography. FALL 2013 3 UWMadison_sprd_alt.indd 1 8/7/12 11:47 AM KEEP ON As long as Badgers keep on doing what we do—so uniquely, so passionately, so astoundingly and so joyfully—we will continue to change the world. 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