Committee approves measure to eliminate legislators’ sick leave
A bill that would stop politicians from accruing any new sick leave cleared a Senate committee Tuesday, making way for the bill to be voted on in the full Senate.
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A bill that would stop politicians from accruing any new sick leave cleared a Senate committee Tuesday, making way for the bill to be voted on in the full Senate.
The University of Wisconsin System will form a new task force to take on sexual assaults across all 13 four-year UW campuses.
What, or more specifically, who is a man? Is he a product of some nebulous inner force, or is he rather the sum of the externalities that influence his lifestyle and behavior? Can one person force another to be something they aren’t, or will a person always possess enough free will to preserve their identity and their consciousness? Is identity itself a malleable and programmable force?
University of Wisconsin-Madison’s men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan signed a check for $66,130 to be donated toward Coaches vs. Cancer at his Shooting Down Cancer event Thursday.
So the local cinemas have decided that “Fright Night 2” is far too pedestrian to grace their hallowed halls (rather ironic, given that most of them screened “We’re the Millers” when THAT came out), and WUDfilm decided that cute PIXAR monsters and Simon Pegg smacking zombies around was somehow exactly what this Halloween season needed.
It’s late October. The leaves have only just started to dress themselves in soft, pastel yellows and brilliant reds. An electric chill is in the air, and you can smell the musty tang of cold, damp earth as your boots crunch through a blanket of dead leaves. You reach Picnic Point at sunset, and the burnt umber essence of crackling pine warms your party’s trembling fingers. Marshmallows are passed around, maybe followed by sticks to toast them and that one guy fusses over getting his s’more EXACTLY right. Everybody swaps stories, laughter and a few terrible jokes.
Is it sad that asking for a film to be fun AND intelligent is usually hand-waved with an unsatisfactory “Well, most people just won’t get it, so why bother”? I think it’s a tragedy. I like films to be intelligent. I like ideas and consequences that make me think. I’m weird like that.
It took me a while to start writing this review. I had to sit in the middle of the floor and hug myself, rocking back and forth and muttering “It was just a movie, I should really relax” over and over. I’m at an ideological stalemate here; I usually only reserve the Mystery Science Theater 3000 mantra for movies that I actively dislike because they’re poorly made. But “Prisoners” isn’t poorly made. It’s actually one of the better films I’ve ever seen. But—and imagine now that I’m tugging at my shirt collar and swallowing nervously—that’s the problem.
I’ve been put in a very awkward place. As a fan of Frictional Games’ “Amnesia” series, I had already figured that my perceptions would skew my reception of the game. But I was wrong. I also thought that giving the latest title in the series a gushing recommendation would be as simple as copy pasting “BUY IT BUY IT BUY IT” until I ran out of word space. I was wrong about that, too. It’s a very uncomfortable position to be in, you know. Horror games are only supposed to make you uncomfortable while you’re playing them (and for several weeks afterward when you have to walk home in the dark after work).
The “Riddick” series is a curious anomaly. As a franchise, it has always seemed to stay at the periphery of general knowledge, just inside the circle of “cult classic” (a term that I find somewhat silly, as it sounds like a euphemism for the Necronomicon). I don’t know of many people that have actually seen the first two films, which is a real shame. “Pitch Black,” the series’ kickoff title, is still one of David Twohy’s best movies, and probably the establishing point in his career. The guy knows exactly how to blend brutal horror with exciting, visceral fisticuffs. “Riddick” is one of those movies that has its own gleeful formula, and pulls it off with remarkable grace and intelligence.
I don’t like movies about government conspiracies. Every time I see a film wherein a modern-day government (or a body within that government) is depicted as the antagonist, my immediate thought is, “Why the heck would this government allow somebody to make a movie wherein they are depicted as the antagonists?” Perhaps there’s a form of subtle commentary there that I’m not seeing. But regardless, it’s a reliable way to completely disintegrate my willing suspension of disbelief.
Here’s a bit of fun trivia: Neill Blomkamp was once signed up to direct a film adaptation of the “Halo” series of video games alongside producer Peter Jackson. The funding for the project never really got off the ground (except for a mildly entertaining and well-filmed promotional short), and 20th Century Fox backed out before most of the filming had taken place.
I’m sitting on the floor of a friend’s room in my residence hall, watching a movie with her and several others. One of the characters on the screen says, “Things are gonna turn out a little different,” and I hear one of our congregation automatically correct him: “Differently,” she says. I immediately look up at her and say, “No, it’s not.”
Wisconsin Republican lawmakers were given a collective time-out after throwing mass fits over a Dane County judge’s decision to place a permanent injunction on the voter ID law, passed last spring.
Two UW students were sent to jail Monday after refusing to sign a statement which they interpreted as an infringement upon their right to protest.
Although Madison's Ride the Drive ended two hours early because of weather, hundreds gathered downtown Sunday to bike, walk and rollerblade throughout Madison's streets for the second time this year.
Wisconsin has always been associated with power football, and an integral part of that had been the thankless yet important job of fullback. From recent stalwarts like Bill Rentmeester, Chris Pressley and Matt ""the Hebrew Hammer"" Bernstein to former NFL standout Cecil Martin who blocked for Ron Dayne (recruited mostly as a fullback), all the way back to Heisman winner Alan Ameche, the position has been essential to Badger offenses.
Scientific research is the basis of our ever-evolving understanding of the universe. From the search for the Higgs boson particle in physics to the latest advancement in stem-cell research, science logically and progressively reveals the workings that were either never thought to be possible or were otherwise attributed to mythical sources.