By: Anthony Cefali

Earlier this week, Badger Herald opinion columnist and former Daily Cardinal writer Andrew Carpenter wrote about the reality of climate change. Carpenter takes an esoteric, if self-indulgent, stance on the issue; he doesn’t really see climate change...

By: Jamie Stark

Like Stephen Colbert’s coverage of obscure stories, I enjoy bringing under-discussed issues to light. In that respect, as students we should be particularly intrigued by the potential addition of student loan amendments to the fast-tracked health ca...

By: The Daily Cardinal Editorial Board

UW System employee salaries were released last week with few surprises and the same aggravating discrepancies. Ten system employees earned over $300,000. Chancellor Biddy Martin made more than UW System President Kevin Reilly by almost $23,000, and nobody...

By: Samantha Witthuhn

Two weeks ago, the powerful hand of the law laid a smack down on one of the few remaining legal drugs being used throughout Wisconsin. Salvia divinorum, commonly confused with saliva, was effectively banned from being manufactured and distributed among th...

By: Mark Bennett

As we enter into warmer weather, melting snow and relentless rain, it is becoming clear that spring is on the way. With clear streets and temperatures above the freezing mark, it is just about time to bring out the bicycles again. In fact, many students a...

By: Kathy Dittrich

The most recent chapter in the saga of radio royalties played out earlier his month when more than 400 broadcasters visited Washington D.C. and lobbied Capitol Hill in opposition to the Performance Rights Act. The PRA has passed both the House and Senate ...

By: The Daily Cardinal Editorial Board

Last week ASM’s Academic Affairs Committee proposed the creation of a standing committee to address textbook issues as a more permanent way of addressing the financial burden of textbooks on campus. The proposed committee would be comprised of three...

By: The Daily Cardinal Editorial Board

In a rare instance of the City of Madison and Dane County not seeing eye to eye, a lawsuit resulted over their disagreements on how to handle 911 calls. Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk recently announced that the County was seeking to implement an aut...

By: Qi Gu

Pasteurization is not just a nightmare for cheese gourmets. It is a nuisance for anyone who sees selling and consuming raw milk as their natural right. Supporters are now ready to lift a 53-year-old ban on unpasteurized milk in Wisconsin, the second large...

By: Mark Bennett

As someone who spent his childhood never more than 20 minutes away from the City of Milwaukee, who has made the trip between Milwaukee and Madison hundreds of times in his life and who now holds residence in the city of Madison for the majority of the yea...

By: Samantha Egelhoff

BPA-free water bottles have popped up everywhere. They come in a rainbow of colors. You can acquire them basically everywhere, from the corner Walgreens to the merchandise stand at your favorite band’s concert. They keep you hydrated. They last. The...

By: John Liesveld

By: Jamie Stark

Eloquence in print isn’t too hard. It’s a medium that, through the magic and archaic technology of Gutenberg, allows me to spend hours debating between using “brutish” or “bestial” before anyone ever reads my words. Aft...

By: Matt Beaty

The Supreme Court has had slurry of important cases during Obama’s presidency, most notably overturning portions of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law. However, the recent case of McDonald v. Chicago, which challenges the Chicago handgun ban, ...

By: The Daily Cardinal Editorial Board

Last week, the state of Wisconsin received the “Billy Madison” treatment in the Department of Education’s Race to the Top. At no point in Wisconsin’s rambling, incoherent proposal were they even close to anything resembling a ratio...

By: Alyssa Lochen

The ever-raging abortion debate has made numerous headlines recently because of the near-constant protests by pro-life groups outside the Madison Surgery Center. As an avid proponent of a woman’s right to choose, I always react to these demonstratio...

By: Kathy Dittrich

Our private lives and personal beliefs follow us everywhere we go. This includes the classroom. Students and teachers do not check their biases, preferences or opinions at the door; but too often such aspects of character are absent from our classrooms an...

By: Melissa Grau

Rebels have always been a favorite of mine. They cannot be ignored, whether it’s the teenager deliberately staying out past curfew or the revolutionary hero. We’ve got Martin Luther King Jr., Amelia Earhart, Rosa Parks, James Dean, Gandhi, Emi...

By: The Daily Cardinal Editorial Board

On March 1, the Faculty Senate heard a proposed revision to Chapter 8 of the Faculty Policy and Procedures. The potential addition of three sentences to the faculty speech code is a direct response to the 2006 Supreme Court case Garcetti v. Ceballos, in w...

By: Matt Payne

There are a group of individuals on campus who are a part of a long standing tradition at this university. They often wake the rooster up in the morning and burn the midnight oil at night. They are college students like us while at the same time wearing t...