Talk:Rebecca Blank

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This page created by Staff at the US Department of Commerce using source documentation from the Commerce website on August 2, 2011.

Place of birth?
As Minneapolis–Saint Paul is in two separate states, the official place of birth has to be either Minneapolis or Saint Paul or any of the other 184 communities. --Eingangskontrolle (talk) 20:04, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm assuming you meant two seperate cities since both cities are in Minnesota. --TommyBoy (talk) 01:10, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

Any indication she will be made the full Secretary? 74.69.11.229 (talk) 20:06, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

University of Wisconsin - Madison
I decided to "be bold" and start a UW-Madison section for her. Unless some smoking gun surfaces in the next couple of weeks, her approval by the full Board of Regents is mostly likely going to happen, and she will be the next Chancellor. Entrybreak (talk) 19:12, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

when
When does she start? And who's in charge of Commerce after her? 74.69.121.132 (talk) 21:23, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
 * You're being a bit of an ass. It doesn't matter who's in charge of Commerce after her. Lizabetha (talk) 18:07, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
 * She starts her job at Wisconsin in "mid-to-late July". The president hasn't yet announced a new nominee for Commerce Secretary, but the Times'' is speculating that he will choose Penny Pritzker. --Brian the Editor (talk) 19:01, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

Excuse me Lizabeth but your comment is rude and uncalled for. It DOES matter who is in charge of the Department of Commerce and since she was chosen as chancellor of UW-Madison over a month ago, it would be nice to know who's replacing her. I find your comment outrageous, abusive and bordering on a violation of Wikipedia's civility policy, as stated: Incivility consists of one or more of the following behaviours, especially when done in an aggressive manner: personal attacks, rudeness and disrespectful comments. Yours would fall under all three. If you do so again I will report you to the editors. Have a good day. In the meanwhile, who's the Deputy Secretary replacing her? 74.69.121.132 (talk) 13:28, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

Removal of Racist Rock?
There was a controversy at UW Madison about a rock which had been referred to by some racist term 100 years ago in one newspaper report.

Students from the Black Student Union demanded the rock be removed because of how it had named 100 years back. After a long back and forth, Blank did remove it, and defended the decision. This action was widely ridiculed - I believe it should be in the article.
 * Then you need to provide citations from reliable sources. Bkatcher (talk) 13:32, 23 September 2021 (UTC)
 * I think one article is https://news.wisc.edu/no-longer-a-memorial-rock-removed-from-campus/ however nothing about it being widely ridiculed (though from elsewhere some people did oppose it) and Blank sees to have played a small though pivotal role. A description of the event would seem more appropriate in the University of Wisconsin–Madison main article.   --Erp (talk) 04:22, 24 September 2021 (UTC)