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(03/03/22 8:00am)
From the confines of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, we often think of debates over COVID-19 restrictions through the lens of mask mandates in class and vaccination card requirements for events and venues. While there are active debates surrounding the balance between restrictions that ensure community safety and the promotion of civil liberties, these discussions take an additional sense of urgency in developing countries.
(02/24/22 8:00am)
Content warning: Mentions of sexual assault, harrassment.
(02/24/22 7:56am)
I grew up in the UAE, a country where politics aren’t much of a thing. Consequently, I didn’t have the chance to understand global political dynamics. It was enough for me to know the prime minister of my birth country and the leaders of the UAE. Any global leaders were an added bonus. However, since joining the Cardinal, it has been impossible to ignore American politics.
(02/24/22 8:00am)
Research papers, lab write-ups and hundred-page reading assignments — as college students assume immense responsibilities, “dropping out and becoming a stripper” always remains an option. The facetious remark voiced by many may appear harmless, providing a needed moment of comedic relief, yet there is a fundamental problem in correlating failure with being a stripper.
(02/17/22 7:55am)
Most American universities do not have the privilege to use affirmative action because they do not need to reject many students to meet their target class size. These schools admit most of the students who apply so their student body diversity is reflective of their immediate geography.
(02/17/22 8:00am)
Admired as the “public ivies,” the University of California school system remains world-renowned, yet structurally unfair. In turning their back on tax-paying Californians, these flagship state universities have fortified their favoritism towards out-of-state applicants.
(02/10/22 8:10am)
In the wake of the creation of the University of Austin, a university that will pride itself on providing an “unbiased” education to their students, professors around the country have critiqued this methodology. The founders of this new university have posed a problem with the ways other universities educate their students, citing a lack of differentiated political opinions amongst professors as an issue.
(02/10/22 8:00am)
The United States has a long history of imperialist policies that have resulted in the displacement of indigenous peoples. Following the country's independence, much of the belief of Manifest Destiny led directly to native tribes’ getting expelled from their land. As U.S. imperialism rose, the country formed treaties with tribes that have frequently been violated. The Line 3 pipeline is a proposed channel that will carry tar sands oil from Alberta, CA to Superior, Wis.
(02/03/22 8:59am)
Let’s say you want to be a good person. You figure that across your life, you want to donate roughly 10% of your time, money, or other resources explicitly to helping other people and doing good for the world.
(02/03/22 8:00am)
When freshman CJ Wallace first read about the university’s decision to remove Chamberlin Rock, he, like many other students, was left quite confused.
(01/27/22 8:00am)
Following a two-year search process, the wait is finally over! The Board of Regents has selected the eighth president to lead the University of Wisconsin System Schools, replacing former Republican Gov. Tommy Thompson who held the interim position since 2020 while entertaining us with his antics and dangerous hobbies.
(01/27/22 8:00am)
I came into the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a freshman thinking I was a business major. Was I actually? Well, no. I was admitted into pre-business, but that felt as real to me as being a coveted direct admit business major.
(01/27/22 8:00am)
Content Warning: This essay contains mention of sexual assault.
(12/09/21 8:00am)
“I think there is still a lot to be done in terms of representation and embodying diversity in UW-Madison’s overtly heteronormative environment.” – QTPOC’s founder on the university’s needed effort in creating more spaces for queer and trans students of color.
(12/02/21 8:00am)
On Nov. 19, with a razor-thin majority of 220 to 213, the United States House of Representatives passed the Build Back Better Act. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi succinctly remarked, “This bill is monumental. It’s historic. It’s transformative. It’s bigger than anything we have ever done.”
(12/02/21 8:00am)
Everyone dreads getting calls from their jobs on off-days, with the ominous fear that they might ask you to come in and that your guilt will get the best of you. When you really need this one day off, the guilt leads you to succumb to working another shift.
(11/19/21 8:02am)
When a developer proposed “Hub II”, a seven-story student apartment building with a rooftop swimming pool to be built on Langdon Street, then-student and District 8 Alder Sally Rohrer remembered being “sketched out.”
(11/18/21 3:00pm)
It seems the fourth time's the charm. After three rejected proposals, CoreSpaces, a nationwide real estate company, has been approved to build a third luxury apartment complex in downtown Madison. Past proposals were rejected by the Campus Area Neighborhood Association for reasons, such as improper prior management, impairing the historic character of the proposed site and creating barriers to affordable off-campus housing — to name just a few.
(11/18/21 3:00pm)
Rumours of a miniature-sized Target have long permeated the Madison community, and now, you cannot miss the stark red doors while walking down State Street. At the heart of off-campus student housing and food favorites, the small, but mighty supply depot has quickly become a competitor with Walgreens and Fresh Market for everything from groceries to toiletries.
(11/11/21 8:00am)
Americans have slowly been coming to terms with the abuses of the criminal justice system. The horrific circumstances of George Floyd’s death last May sparked national protest, shifting the push to end qualified immunity — a rule that protects police officers from civil suits — from libertarian circles into the popular press and the halls of congress. The abuses of power documented in the Making of a Murder Netflix series shocked millions, and the work of the Innocence Project is widely known.