UW-Madison researchers react to Robin Vos' 'ancient mating habits of whatever' remark

[riversedge]

Vos is an embarrassment to the University of Wisconsin. He just showed his stupidity to the world with is stupid comments. I realize that the University has to respond to his comments, but they will be wasted on Vos, the Walker Administration and WI Republicans.





The Capital Times ?@CapTimes 21m21 minutes ago

UW researchers react to Robin Vos' remarks dismissing research of "ancient mating habits or whatever." http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/writers/pat_schneider/uw-madison-researchers-react-to-robin-vos-ancient-mating-habits/article_3144b1da-66a7-11e4-93fc-e3c72cb3062d.html …

UW-Madison researchers react to Robin Vos' 'ancient mating habits of whatever' remark

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It may come as no surprise that state Republican leaders, in the flush of electoral victory, are targeting University of Wisconsin funding in the next legislative session. But the scorn for the university evident in Assembly Speaker Robin Vos’ post-election remarks struck some observers.

Vos, who led an assault on university officials over fund reserves last year and backed Gov. Scott Walker’s tuition freeze, said this week that he wants to ensure that faculty at the university spend more time teaching and that research ought to be geared toward helping the state's economy.

“Of course I want research, but I want to have research done in a way that focuses on growing our economy, not on ancient mating habits of whatever,” said Vos. “So we want to try to have priorities that are focused on growing our economy.”

Researchers at UW-Madison are focusing their responses to Vos’ remarks on how the university already boosts the state economy through research and places a high priority on quality teaching.

“Research conducted here at UW-Madison already brings a very big economic boost to the area, on the order of $1 billion a year," Steve Ackerman, associate vice chancellor for research in the physical sciences, said of the influx of mostly federal grant money to the campus...................

[Scuba]

1. Vos is a moron, and a corrupt moron at that.

[ewagner]

2. Agree with Scuba...

more frightening than his stupidity, is the power he holds over all Republican Assembly-critters.

[Half-Century Man]

3. Vos is an ALEC toady.

And speaks with the clarity of a business ingrained thinkers; "If it doesn't make lots of money somehow, that thing is worthless, beneath consideration".

Capitalism is becoming a religion here in the United States. One which is using it's influence to suppress science and opposing though as strongly as the Mother Church did in Medieval Europe.
Continuing along the lines of this allegory; I suppose the Tea Party are the Flagellants (purposely harming themselves and others in an ideologically fever). The Libertarians seem like some esoteric order of monks; able to pull some secret level of wisdom out of the Two Books of Rand, which escapes the rest of us.

[lutefisk]

4. and John Nygren is ALEC's state chair for Wisconsin

Nygren, a high school graduate like boss Walker, is the Co-Chair of the Joint Committee on Finance. He's the one who said UW's budget request would be "a hard sell", which coincided with that moronic sounding threat by Vos. Of course with Cross and Villa in place, they can say all the stupid things they want and in the end do whatever they/ALEC/Walker/Kochs/... want.

Heck, they could turn the UW into a great big online tech school and sell off the real estate if they wanted to.

[AleksS]

5. Do NOT give them any ideas.

Do NOT give them any ideas.

[Worried senior]

7. Nygren

lives in the same county I do.

[hue]

10. Actually UW Research DOES make money. Vos & other retards just can't understand how & why.

Real science is beyond their mental capacity so they demonize it and it becomes their enemy. That's how stupid Rethugs think.

[Ed Suspicious]

6. I don't want university researchers to become

slaves to the market and the economy. What a dolt. So proudly arrogant over their ignorance.

[riversedge]

8. someone created a Facebook page

@RepVos: Ancient Mating Habits of Whatever https://www.facebook.com/ancientmatinghabitsofwhatever … #wipolitics @WisDems

About
This page is dedicated to the amazing research conducted by faculty, staff, and students in the University of Wisconsin system.

[riversedge]

9. and a hashtag...

#AncientMatingHabitsOfWhatever

[alterfurz]

11. Vos is just afraid UW research will expose the "ancient mating habits of whatever"...

...produced himself: