City committees prepare to decide on downtown park
City officials will begin deliberations Monday to decide whether to condemn several properties on the corner of North Bassett Street and West Mifflin Street to build a neighborhood park.
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City officials will begin deliberations Monday to decide whether to condemn several properties on the corner of North Bassett Street and West Mifflin Street to build a neighborhood park.
Should the state have the right to end people’s lives as a punishment? Is that ever going to be effective in reducing the pain and suffering inflicted by the most heinous crimes, let alone eradicating them completely? I do not deny that those who commit statutory wrongs in our society should be punished, but I wonder whether this particular disciplinary method is serving as an effective deterrent. Outside of certain particularized situations, I can no longer accept that it is.
On a warm spring evening in Madison, two unsuspecting young adults were enjoying a peaceful evening at the park. Then, without warning, the night took an interesting turn.
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Gov. Scott Walker released more details of his Feb. 20 budget plans Sunday, announcing he would allocate $475.6 million to education reforms such as skills development and performance-based initiatives in K-12 and higher education.
When former University of Wisconsin-Madison student Tosha Songolo visited her family in the Eastern Congo for a week in 2010, she entered a country “clearly torn apart” by the deadliest conflict the world has seen since World War II.
Following last weekend's two game series at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, head coach Mike Eaves of the No.12 Wisconsin men's hockey team tried to scrape the positives from a pair of tough losses. Eaves was disappointed with the outcome of the contests but applauded the effort and energy his players put forth.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld diploma privileges for UW-Madison and Marquette University Law School graduates at a meeting Monday night.
Throughout the highly publicized property battle between Brothers Bar and Grill and the UW System Board of Regents, student organization MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan) said it has slipped through the cracks in university priorities.
The infamous 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner developed the idea of the gesamtkunstwerk (commonly translated as ""total work of art""), a multimedia form of artistic production that, he argued, was more effective and affecting than any of the arts on their own. For Wagner, it wasn't enough for the arts to be siblings: They had to become full-blown kissing-cousins. Of all the venues I've been to in my four years as a Madisonian, it's the Project Lodge that most reminds me of Wagner's incestuous conception of art.
In lieu of the recent article, ""Victim comes forward, reveals shocking story,"" published on March 4th in the Badger Herald regarding the alleged rape at Sigma Chi, the Office of the Dean of Students (ODOS) received much flak regarding its role in the investigation and its pursuit of action. In many respects, ODOS was accused of belittling the incident and trying to suppress the inception of an investigation into the case.
The Wisconsin women's hockey team is escaping the frigid weather of Madison this weekend and heading to Fort Myers, Fla., to face the University of New Hampshire.
Chancellor Carolyn Biddy"" Martin will address the university at the Kohl Center today, as a matter of formally introducing herself to the campus and outlining her plans for UW-Madison's future.
College students nationwide are binge drinking and abusing drugs more than ever before. This is not surprising considering the unprecedented pressures faced by today's average college student compared to those of previous generations.
Despite the FBI probe into Gov. Jim Doyle's recently indicted donor, the state Senate plans on voting next week on reconfirming Transportation Secretary Frank Busalacchi.
Riding an 11-game unbeaten streak, UW women's hockey head coach Mark Johnson is excited for what is yet to come. Fresh off a sweep of North Dakota, Johnson is confident his team will continue to bring its best effort against Minnesota State this weekend.
No matter how good the presents you got over break were, they pale in comparison to the present Warren Hill got on Dec 16 of last year.
As the last leaves fall and walking through the chilled morning air to power lecture becomes an almost unreasonable request, keeping warm throughout the day—and night—becomes imperative. To keep readers warm every night this week the mixologists at Wando's suggest the Smashing Pumpkin.
A bill requiring public-assistance beneficiaries to show documents to prove citizenship or immigration status encountered opposition at a Committee of Judiciary public hearing Thursday.
Donations in the amount of $150 million will fund a brand-new UW-Madison science research facility, Chancellor John Wiley announced Monday.