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(05/02/06 6:00am)
Rainfall increased steadily from about 1 p.m. onward last
Saturday, the day of the Crazy Legs 5-miler, Mifflin Street Block
Party and Green Bay's drafting of former Buckeye A. J. Hawk. At the
end of the Crazy Legs race, late in the morning, long after Tim
Keller took home the title, participants who had walked or shuffled
most of the way (seemingly a large percentage of the field) ran
into the stadium toward the finish while the Badger varsity
cheerleaders flung up you're No. 1\ hand signals.
(04/26/06 6:00am)
In Ireland, higher education and technical schools are free for
first-time graduates, and as a result the Irish workforce is highly
educated. In part, this helps explain why Ireland has led the
member states of the European Union in economic growth, earning the
nickname Celtic Tiger.\ Contrast that with the United States, where
young people graduate from college with increasingly burdensome
debt.
(04/19/06 6:00am)
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel columnist Eugene Kane recently wrote
that the Milwaukee's black community received a double gut shot\
last Friday. Two children, Quadrevion Henning, 12, and Purvis
Parker, 11, last seen March 19, were found dead in McGovern Park's
lagoon. No foul play is suspected, but it took a month to find
their bodies, which only happened by accident. Secondly, three
former Milwaukee police officers—Andrew Bartlett, Jon Spengler and
Daniel Masarik—were acquitted that same Friday, by an all-white
jury, of felonies associated with the near fatal beating of Frank
Jude Jr. The alleged beating occurred at a party held on October
24, 2005, at Spengler's home in the city's Bay View neighborhood.
(04/12/06 6:00am)
Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reported in the April 17
New Yorker that the Bush administration has intensified\ war plans
and clandestine operations against Iran's uranium enrichment
program.
(04/05/06 6:00am)
In last week's new episode, Smug Alert!,\ ""South Park""
ridiculed Hybrid car owners, San Francisco and George Clooney.
Clooney's Academy Awards acceptance speech for Best Supporting
Actor created a deadly smug cloud. Trey Parker and Matt Stone,
creators of ""South Park,"" often bash Hollywood celebrities who
comment on domestic or foreign affairs—witness their last movie,
2004's ""Team America: World Police."" Parker and Stone's view
resonates with many.
(03/29/06 6:00am)
Go to any ATM in the country and you can withdraw cash from your
bank account—every bank across the country is integrated into an
efficient information system. Contrast this with the health care
industry, where medical records are predominantly paper (as in the
days of Florence Nightingale), which means that only your local
hospital can access your medical history with any ease.
(03/22/06 6:00am)
The last time our two-party system shook was when President
Richard Nixon, a Republican, successfully drew Southern whites away
from the Democratic Party by exploiting racist sentiment. Decades
later, are we verging on another shake- up? The Democrats are
engaged in an internal war between party liberals like Rep. John
Conyers, Jr., D-Mich., and party conservatives like former Virginia
Gov.Mark Warner. Meanwhile the GOP seems stuck in gerrymandering,
pork-barreling machine politics. Both parties are going through the
motions, and this monster movie is getting old. Could someone stop
the reel?
(03/07/06 6:00am)
Ex-U.S. Rep. Randy Duke\ Cunningham, R-Calif., pleaded guilty to
taking $2.4 million in bribes from defense contractors during the
past several years in U.S. District Judge Larry Alan Burn's San
Diego courtroom this week.
(03/01/06 6:00am)
Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings' Commission on the
Future of Higher Education recently bombed academia with the
suggestion that the government should use standardized tests to
measure public universities' success in educating students. The
Commission's final report is due by August. Apparently, the
nation's universities are not prepping us for competition in the
'new global economy' or the 'flat world' as New York Times
columnist Thomas Friedman's calls it. The Commission's
recommendation suggests that professors are mere providers of
services, and that a college student's mind can be calipered.
Higher education does need reform, but reform must go beyond
improving the service.
(02/22/06 6:00am)
Drawing outside attention to the campus Coastie phenomenon, the
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel printed Megan Twohey's article, 'The
Great 'Coastie ' Divide' in Nov. 2005. Twohey never mentioned that
it was once more common on our campus to refer to the Ugg crowd
from New York, New Jersey, California and Illinois as JAPs (Jewish
American Princesses). Maybe Twohey felt the issue was irrelevant or
never considered it. That's an odd omission. If Coastie is in fact
another way of saying JAP, the 'Coastie Divide' hints at more than
a difference in style.
(02/15/06 6:00am)
If tragedy becomes farce, then Vice President Aaron Burr's
shooting of Alexander Hamilton in 1804 found reincarnation last
Saturday when Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot-gunned
his hunting partner, 78-year-old millionaire Harry Whittington, in
the chops. Nature is not exactly red in tooth and claw when the
modern sportsman, unlike the Hawkeye of Hamilton and Burr's day, is
most at risk from his fellows. However, there are still places
where big beasts abound; unfortunately, those areas, dubbed
biogeographic islands by writer David Quammen, are shrinking. Given
that fact, you'd think that more sportsmen, if not the Vice
President, would be green.
(02/08/06 6:00am)
This week several European newspapers reprinted offensive
cartoons of Mohammed from Denmark's Jyllens-Posten that were
originally published on Sept. 30, 2005. Crude cartoons met crude
reactions: Muslims in Beirut, Dubai and Damascus burned all things
Danish; Iraqis, Indians, Indonesians and Iranians rallied; Hamas
called for executions; and NATO soldiers killed Afghan rioters.
Clearly, free expression'whether in Jyllens-Posten, Washington
Post, or The Daily Cardinal'can be offensive. Fittingly, the
Vatican commented: 'The right to freedom of thought and expression
cannot entail the right to offend the religious sentiment of
believers.' But the Holy See's idea is wrong. Freedom of thought
and expression must entail the freedom to offend.
(02/01/06 6:00am)
Our mission to Iraq and Afghanistan has cost $357 billion over
three years, according to a paper by Columbia Professor Joseph E.
Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes, of Harvard's Kennedy School of
Government. As Stiglitz and Bilmes show, we are currently spending
$7.1 billion per month. In January, then, we spent approximately
$229 million per day. On a finer level, the per capita cost means
that each of us at the UW owes the Feds $1,200. In that light, we
should ask ourselves three questions: What benefits have we seen
from the war? Why has the cost been so high? And finally, has it
been worth it to our republic? Sadly, the answers are as negative
as the debt.
(01/25/06 6:00am)
Four college freshmen (two UW students, two visiting students
from Auburn and Purdue) are being threatened with hate crime felony
charges'three years in the slammer along with $20,000 in fines, if
convicted'for vandalizing LGBT materials, loudly shouting their
strange views, and scaring an LGBT liaison in Ogg residence hall.
Because the four were motivated by a hatred of 'faggots,' they may
be charged with felonies rather than misdemeanors and their
sentencing, if convicted, may be enhanced under Wisconsin statutes.
A felony charge may be too strong for this sort of stupid
harassment and vandalism.
(01/18/06 6:00am)
Thus far, 2,217 U.S. soldiers have been blown apart, shot or
burned to their death in Iraq, and the Sisyphean effort they died
for has sapped the national treasury of $230 billion. Yet
pacification seems far off. Is our mission in Iraq worth the blood
caused by our bombs?
(12/14/05 6:00am)
To date, 130 War on Terror detainees have died in U.S. custody
at prisons like Abu Ghraib in Iraq. Our government has classified
28 of those deaths as homicides and nearly every case occurred
during interrogation sessions. These deaths are not entirely
unrelated to the Bush Administration's wartime philosophy, which
holds international law (the Geneva Conventions) and even U.S. law
(the War Crimes Act) in contempt.
(12/07/05 6:00am)
Ever heard of Bobos? Short for 'Bourgeois Bohemians,' Bobos is
what commentator David Brooks calls the contemporary upper-middle
class. As Brooks points out in his 2000 book 'Bobos in Paradise,'
Madison is becoming Bobo. On one hand, Bobos are as banal as any
era's bourgeoisie'over on Monroe Street, couples hire nannies for
their children. On the other, Bobos are highly educated and exhibit
traces of 1960s Bohemianism'strangely enough, the reason Madison
has so many bike trails, coffee shops and bookstores. Put simply,
Bobos are counter-culture merchants; they do business not only for
personal profit, but for 'a cause.' Yet, whether Madison's Bobo
concentration is good is hard to say.
(11/30/05 6:00am)
Do American women have a 'right' to choose how and when they
give birth? Or is that 'right' another casualty in the pro- v.
anti-abortion battle?
(11/16/05 6:00am)
Attorney General Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, President Ulysses S.
Grant's nominee to the U.S Supreme Court, was rejected by the
Senate in part because he advocated judicial neutrality in a time
of judicial partisanship. Times have changed.
(11/09/05 6:00am)
The University of Wisconsin-Madison accepts approximately 60
percent of its undergrad applicants. Harvard University accepts
about 10 percent. With that 50-point gap, we might ask, is
Harvard's campus that much thicker with freshman genius than our
own?