CAMPUS NEWS
UW-Madison announces new mask requirement for campus buildings
By Samantha Henschel | 4:43pmStarting Aug. 5, all students, employees and visitors must wear masks when inside campus buildings.
CAMPUS NEWS
UW Housing gears up for ‘record-setting’ class, manages residence hall overflow
By Sophia Vento | Jul. 13An influx of students seeking on-campus housing has spurred concerns among the incoming class as UW ...
CAMPUS NEWS
Spring graduates swim 3.5 miles across Lake Mendota
By Ellie Nowakowski | Jun. 21Hoping to make one last memory before moving out of Madison, Gleb Tsyganov, Daniel Miller and their ...
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Wealth and Poverty: Daily Cardinal Action Project Part Two
How is the Madison art community adapting to financial challenges during the pandemic? We also discuss the cost of attendance at UW-Madison and why it is higher than other UW campuses. Finally, we learn where food deserts exist in Madison and how to increase access to nutritious food.
This is all covered today in our 2-part episode series on the Cardinal’s spring 2021 action project issue Wealth and Poverty, hosted by Gaby Vinick and Hope Karnopp.
Guests: Emily Knepple, Samantha Benish and Forrest Ziebell
COLUMNS
Column: UW-Madison must require vaccines for Badger sporting events
By Joe Rickles | 2:00amThe new Delta variant could put attending Badger sporting events at risk. A vaccination policy could fix that.
ARTS
Cabinet of Curiosity's 'Sea Change' offers hope in the aftermath of the pandemic
By Alisyn Amant | Jul. 24As live shows begin to return, intimate productions like 'Sea Change' lead the way in the post-pandemic world.
ARTS
Underground artists from musical hotbeds
By Seamus Rohrer | Jun. 7The vast modern-day music landscape is full of hidden gems, like the Baltimore group Snail Mail.
VOLLEYBALL
Dana Rettke returns for fifth season
By Lara Klein | Jun. 7Star volleyball player Dana Rettke announced that she would return to Madison for a final season.
SCIENCE
UW’s Gilroy Lab is launching cotton into space with TIC-TOC
By Joyce Riphagen | Jun. 7The Gilroy Lab at UW Madison launched its astro-botanical experiment Thursday, June 3.
SCIENCE
I just think they’re neat: Sandhill cranes
By Helena Wehrs | Jun. 7Sandhill cranes, once hunted to near extinction, now thrive in Wisconsin.
FOOTBALL
Meet the team: the 2021 Badgers
By Simon Farber and Dexter McCann | Jun. 7Wisconsin heads into 2021 with an experienced wide receiver room, as both Danny Davis III and Kendrick Pryor will return for a fifth season under new COVID-19 eligibility rules.
OPINION
Big Pharma profiteering is to blame for the ongoing pandemic
By Em-J Krigsman | Jun. 7Rising prescription costs, the opioid crisis and tax breaks — Big Pharma’s history of profit-driven selfishness is easily eclipsed as the COVID-19 pandemic prompts these same companies to delay progress, threatening hopes for international herd immunity.
CAMPUS NEWS
Campus community reacts to possible end to UW System tuition freeze
By Caitlyn Halfon | Jun. 7As the Joint Finance Committee of the Wisconsin State Legislature makes way for the possible conclusion of the eight-year UW System tuition freeze, UW community members express their thoughts.
STATE NEWS
Gov. Evers announces re-election bid
By Emma Grenzebach | Jun. 7Gov. Tony Evers formally announced his re-election bid Saturday at the state Democratic Party’s virtual convention.
OPINION
Laziness and a lack of flexibility
By Ethan Wollins | Jun. 7If the solution to COVID-19 was fewer positive cases and more vaccinations, the university did an inadequate job at giving their students the liberty they work so very hard to deserve.
IN-DEPTH
The Fight against Pipeline 3
By Anna Feldman and Amona Saleh | May. 15Native Americans raise issues regarding environmental impacts and indigenous rights as construction on a pipeline from Alberta, Canada through Minnesota and Wisconsin continues.
STATE NEWS
A ‘very un-Wisconsin idea’: Democrats criticize Republican’s report recommending UW System consolidation, end to tuition freeze
By Hope Karnopp | May. 11Democrats criticized a report created by the Chair of the Senate Committee on Universities and Technical Colleges that recommended consolidation within the UW System and ending the tuition freeze.
IN-DEPTH
UW grad speaks on her time working with primates on campus
By Addison Lathers | May. 9The recent graduate previously worked as a student research assistant at the Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research alongside the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center.
IN-DEPTH
Ex-Badger tight end returns to the classroom amidst pandemic
By Kalli Anderson | May. 3Ex-Badger football player Daniel Howell Jr. will complete his degree after 30 years.
CAMPUS NEWS
‘The first step is listening’: PAVE hosts Denim Day in support of survivors of sexual assault
By Ellie Nowakowski | May. 2In partnership with the Interfraternity Council and the Panhellenic Association, Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment (PAVE) hosted their Denim Day “Take Back the Night March” in support of survivors.
ADVERTISING BLOG
How To Spend A Summer Weekend in Madison
By Daily Cardinal Advertising Team and Taylor Slutzker | Apr. 30After enduring a stereotypical midwest winter filled with icy streets and sub-zero temperatures, it’s impossible not to appreciate warm weather to an elevated extent. When you’ve spent three months fiddling your thumbs trying to figure out what to do inside all day (a feeling that became even more exaggerated from the pandemic and working from home), it starts to feel criminal not to be outside once the temperature hits 60 degrees or higher.
ALMANAC
Badger Promise rumored to have been discontinued in original form, now a threat
By Mackenzie Moore | Apr. 29When it was introduced in 2017, the Badger Promise made it look as though UW-Madison was providing a major incentive for first-generation college students to call Madison home. The program, which originally offered two to four semesters of free tuition to first-generation college students transferring from two-year colleges around Wisconsin, is rumored to have been discontinued due to budget cuts and the fact that one of the university’s high ranking officials wants a new boat.
ALMANAC
Mifflin Street Block Party quiet, respectful
By Mackenzie Moore | Apr. 29Since 1969, the Mifflin Street Block Party has been an annual tradition for UW-Madison students. While it originally began as an anti-war protest, one thing has been true for decades — it is an opportunity for students to get obliterated with their peers before getting ready for finals week. That is until the 2020 Mifflin Street Block Party was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Something appears to have been learned from the past year, as Mifflin was reportedly very tame this past Saturday.
ALMANAC
“Heroic students save dog from hot car during Mifflin”
By Owen Shao | Apr. 29Anticipation for the annual Mifflin St. Block Party has subsided in Madison, Wis. Thousands of crushed cans and shattered glass were all that remained Sunday morning as the students in attendance reeled from their collective “post weekend denial.” Public concerns regarding student safety and COVID-19 precautions are being raised in response to the large congregation of maskless children. However, these questions appeared insignificant and misguided in light of the heroic act that took place Saturday.
