OPINION: Improving UW culture can only be solved by confronting uncomfortable past

UW Madison: Tucked away unassumingly on the fourth floor of Steenbock Library, the University Archives is starting to teem with life — and for good reason.

The archives are home to materials exclusively pertaining to the University of Wisconsin, from yearbooks to student organization records to faculty correspondence. Some files, like those related to the Dow Chemical incidents, are highly processed and have been viewed by many historians and the general public. Other boxes of information sit unprocessed, with papers upon papers researchers have yet to look through...