October 31, 2003

U. of Wisconsin Regents Promise Not to Violate Open-Meetings Law Again

By PETER SCHMIDT

Having been taken to the woodshed over a secretive vote on executive pay, the University of Wisconsin's Board of Regents has pledged to reform.

The regents' decision came this month, after Wisconsin Attorney General Peggy A. Lautenschlager, a Democrat, found that they had violated the state's open-meetings law.

The system's announcement of a rare, special meeting by teleconference on September 2 had said only that the regents would discuss a "statutory required personnel

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