From Madison’s Capital Times:

An aide to Rep. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, circulated a Web link Monday to a National Review Online story slamming Carolyn “Biddy” Martin, the provost at Cornell University, who is expected to be confirmed this week by the Board of Regents.“Can you be an obscure, self-indulged, theory-laden, post-modern scholar and manage to be an effective university president?” writes Travis Kavulla, a former associate editor of the National Review.Kavulla later sums up Martin as a “creature of the university, for the university, who thinks universities are ‘useful’ in the sense that they can flush students of the bigotry found in most of American society.”Mike Mikalsen, an aide to Nass, sent the article to Senate and Assembly Republicans.Mikalsen said he circulated the article because Nass had been fielding questions from people wondering what the conservative national press has been saying about Martin.