August 13, 2004

U. of Wisconsin Regents Oust an Outspoken Colleague

By PETER SCHMIDT

Wisconsin officials have swatted a gadfly.

The smushed one is Anthony J. (Nino) Amato, who was president of the Wisconsin Technical College System's governing board and, in that capacity, held a seat on the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents.

Mr. Amato, who is also president of a Madison-based consumer-advocacy group, got on the wrong side of members of the university and technical-college boards last September. That is when he abstained from, and then publicly criticized,