This will be brief, but if this is not changed, it's awful news for WI universities:
A bill currently awaiting approval by Wisconsin’s legislature could jeopardize data-intensive research projects at the University of Wisconsin by effectively forcing the school to withdraw from high-speed networks, such as Internet2, that link universities around the world.
“Virtually all our science-based traffic…flows through that network, so it would be catastrophic,” said Paul DeLuca, the provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
One project at risk is the Protein Structure Initiative, which collects and shares x-ray crystallography and protein structure data among over a dozen institutions.
Source: The Scientist