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Documents related to ethics complaint against Dr. Joseph Kemnitz regarding lies he told about the Vilas monkey scandal.

March 28, 2008 ethics complaint mailed to:
Patrick Farrell, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs University of Wisconsin-Madison re: False statements by Professor Joseph Kemnitz.

Attachment #1 August 13, 1997 statement made by UW-Madison Graduate School Dean Virginia S. Hinshaw.

Attachment #2 November 19, 1997 press release from UW-Madison dated stating that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) had withdrawn its funding for the Vilas Zoo monkey colony.

Attachment #3 September 18, 1997 Uw Official Backtracks On Monkeys' Fate (all Editions)
Pact With Zoo Violated More Recently (first Edition)
Pact With Vilas Zoo Violated More Recently (second Edition)
Capital Times

Attachment #4 March 7, 2008 County plans to honor monkeys Badger Herald

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From University Communications
News releases

Aug. 11, 1997 Statement On Primate Center Policy By UW-Madison Graduate School Dean Virginia Hinshaw

“I called a meeting this morning with Primate Center officials to obtain information about all exceptions that were made to the June 15, 1989 policy between the Primate Center and the Henry Vilas Park Zoo. That policy states that the Primate Center's monkeys housed at the zoo will not be used in studies involving invasive experimental procedures.”

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Aug. 27, 1997 Review Of Primate Center Policies and Procedures: Statement by Graduate School Dean Virginia S. Hinshaw

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University Communications
News releases
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 19, 1997
CONTACT: Joseph Kemnitz, (608) 263-3588; Christine Parks, (608) 265-2697
SAFEGUARDS ADDED TO PRIMATE CENTER ANIMAL ASSIGNMENTS

MADISON -- A review of the Wisconsin Regional Primate
Research Center outlines seven new ways to safeguard assignments of monkeys originating from the center's colony at Henry Vilas Park Zoo.

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June 30, 1999 Kemnitz to lead Regional Primate Research Center

As an administrator, Kemnitz directed the center through one of its most difficult periods when the center, under intense public scrutiny, moved primates from an aging facility at Vilas Park Zoo to the Tulane Regional Primate Research Center and the Wild Animal Orphanage in San Antonio, Texas.

 

 

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