On Dec. 3, 1990, then-Chancellor Donna Shalala canceled classes in the morning as extremely heavy snow made streets and highways nearly impassable. More than 17 inches of snow fell over a 12- to 16-hour period.
But close it they did. School is back on today, but as I checked the mail this morning, I wondered about opting out of mail service in extreme weather. I feel really bad about some poor government-employee trekking through heck to bring me my Super Shopper and credit card offers.
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Donna Shalala was the UW chancellor? That's wacky.
According to Wikipedia, Shalala served as Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where her two of her policies were a source of great controversy. Under her chancellorship and with her support, the University adopted a broad speech code subjecting students to disciplinary action for communications that were perceived as hate speech. That speech code was later found unconstitutional by a federal judge.[3] Also while chancellor, Shalala supported passage of a revised faculty speech code broadly restricting "harmful" speech in both "noninstructional" and "instructional" settings. The faculty speech code was abolished ten years later, after a number of professors were investigated for alleged or suspected violations.[4]
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