I read with interest the Opinion article by William Holahan and Matt Flynn (“ UW-Milwaukee would be demoted by plan to split apart Wisconsin university system, ” Dec. 11) about the recently concluded Legislative Study Committee on the future of the UW System . I was a member of that committee, and while I’ll would grant that their article was well written, my experience was much less cut and dried than what they describe.
I would be correctly described as a member of that committee with a partisan background. I did not, however, vote in “lockstep” with other members who might also be so categorized. Furthermore I would suggest many of the questions were more nuanced than the authors claimed. Additionally there were members of this committee (including some UW employees and past Regents ) who did not show, nor do I believe they have, strong partisan leanings. Instead their clearly expressed concern was for the future of the system. That was also my concern.