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(12/15/05 6:00am)
Most hardworking Americans seem to feel that their work ethic
entitles them to consume at astronomically high rates, even while
millions of hard working citizens of other nations can barely feed
themselves. This sense of entitlement is not only unwarranted, but
also immoral.
(12/08/05 6:00am)
The immigration reform debate is beginning to look like most
political debates in our polarized nation. Extremists from small,
opposing factions are pushing everyone in the middle to take
positions that are far more intense and less practical than they
might normally choose.
(12/01/05 6:00am)
For car-addicted Americans, high gas prices and smoggy skies may
soon be nothing more than bad memories of the petroleum era. Two
promising new developments in alternative fuels could replace
conventional gasoline and diesel tomorrow if only American
politicians could be weaned off the cash-engorged teats of the big
oil lobby.
(11/17/05 6:00am)
As the roasted turkeys are carved and stomachs are filled to
overflowing next Thursday, very few people will be thinking about
what eating the Thanksgiving bird really means in terms of the
impact that its production has on the nation and the world.
(11/10/05 6:00am)
For people not intimately involved with the organic food
industry, the rise of organic food products from humble origins on
the fringes of American counter-culture to the center of a
multi-billion dollar industry has probably passed unnoticed. Only
ten years ago organic products were found almost exclusively in
specialty stores, and were largely produced by small specialized
organic food companies.
(11/03/05 6:00am)
Despite the ideologically charged and closely contested national
elections of 2004 that left the Republican Party in control of both
houses of Congress as well as the presidency, Washington is
producing few innovative or ambitious policy proposals. The policy
drought persists even in the context of the major natural disasters
and international crises that have marked 2005.
(11/02/05 6:00am)
With a state audit of the University of Wisconsin's hiring
practices underway at the request of UW System President Kevin
Reilly, it might not be surprising to learn that some professors
within the humanities departments of the College of Letters and
Science are worried about the tenure process.
(10/27/05 6:00am)
At 6:00 a.m., football fans will unpack their SUVs along Regent
Street. By 6:30 a.m., their grills are lit with brats sizzling
happily away, lacing the crisp morning air with their sweet smoke.
At 7:00 a.m. most fans have a beer in hand, and are raising the
stars and stripes to the top of the portable flag poles they often
bring to games.
(10/20/05 6:00am)
New research, which has major implications for college students
and their tireless pursuit of sexual interaction, was released this
week by Duke University professor Martin Binks. What he discovered
may make a major difference in the way students expend energy in
their pursuit of sexual partners.
(10/13/05 6:00am)
In the far southern reaches of Panama, on the narrow strip of
land that connects North and South America, lies one of the few
remaining unconquered regions in the western hemisphere. The area,
known as the Darien Gap, is the only break in the great
Pan-American Highway which stretches from the Northern Alaska, to
Southern Chile.
(10/06/05 6:00am)
Critical analysis of the Iraq war has been offered to students
by academics in innumerable forms since the war began in 2003.
Although most explanations and predictions offered have been sound,
they share one common problem: They come from the isolated and
sometimes out-of-touch world of American academia.
(09/29/05 6:00am)
A group of parents from Dover, Pa. began their attempt to block
their school district's decision to have intelligent design
\theory"" covered in biology classes this Tuesday when opening
arguments in their Federal court case began.
(09/22/05 6:00am)
Today the very mention of Madison's smoking ban is enough to
make most students' eyes glaze over, roll back into their heads and
eventually close as they drift into a deep peaceful sleep where
they dream of a world without broken record political debates.
(09/15/05 6:00am)
The transformation of New Orleans from burgeoning cultural
center of the South to shallow house-filled lake has dominated
headlines for the past two weeks. Aid has poured in from across the
globe, and relief efforts are finally making serious
progress.
(09/08/05 6:00am)
As summer fades into fall, the vast fields of corn surrounding
Madison turn from brilliant emerald green to dead raspy brown, and
the great Oaks that shade Bascom Hill slowly cede their orange
leaves back to the soil.
(06/03/05 6:00am)
Each spring the stresses of class and Madison's hyperactive
social scene fade away, students return to far-off cities or humble
hometowns and familiar childhood surroundings and almost instantly
forget everything that happened during the semester.
(05/05/05 6:00am)
The standardized and nearly universally accepted field of
women's studies has reached the point where it cannot continue to
develop in a constructive way without the development of a new and
complementary field of study: men's studies.
(04/27/05 6:00am)
What is yellow, camouflage, or red, white and blue, weighs about
four ounces and has more symbolic power suggestive of America's
superiority complex than a Norman Rockwell painting? There is only
one answer: \Support Our Troops"" ribbon-shaped vehicle magnets.
(03/17/05 6:00am)
As Bill O'Reilly's staff revives him from his Ward
Churchill-induced orgy of \patriotic"" indignation, dusts him off
and points him toward his next victim, the rest of the nation
should take advantage of the calm between the media storms and
re-examine what Churchill actually said.
(02/21/05 6:00am)
The great University of Wisconsin is famous nationwide for the
progressive political conscience of its student body. Sadly, the
progressive stance of Madison's students seems to be a phase most
of them grow out of by graduation, after which they succumb, in
droves, to materialism and overconsumption.