Gov. McCallum admits a mistake Consider us pleasantly surprised.
Politicians make mistakes all the time.
But they rarely admit to them. Yet that s exactly what Gov. Scott McCallum did yesterday. Better still, he s taking steps to fix the error. Late last month, The Badger Herald reported that only two students applied to replace student Regent Joe Alexander on the UW Board of Regents. The story quickly degenerated into finger-pointing by the governor s office, which is supposed to nominate a student, and student government leaders, who are supposed to recruit students to apply for the post.