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(05/04/12 3:05am)
Having read the recent letter sent by Badgers Against Racism to The Daily Cardinal, I feel it is necessary to stand against unfounded and inappropriate accusations of racism. Furthermore, by calling the term “Cinco de Mifflin” racist, Badgers Against Racism is implying the students who thought of the phrase are racists themselves. To me, this is extremely inappropriate and unfair.
(03/22/11 6:00am)
State Sen. Timothy Cullen, D-Janesville, introduced a
constitutional amendment last Tuesday that would end the quorum
requirement for fiscal legislation, which would prevent senators
from fleeing the state to block legislation.
(09/20/07 6:00am)
Even before the sun eases up past the horizon, the Lakeshore
Path is dotted with runners and bikers hoping to get the path to
themselves before it's filled with families and leisurely walkers,
looking for the first glinting red leaves of autumn. A few people
walk briskly in the crisp air, swinging briefcases and backpacks,
on their way to work at the Capitol or to campus for school. Golden
light sifts its way through the trees near the Lakeshore dorms,
revealing a large pair of bulldozers near a huge pile of
brush.
(05/02/07 6:00am)
In seventh grade, I chose ""Oliver Twist"" for a book report. As
I came across words like ""dilapidated,"" I thought to myself,
""Dear God, it's me, Carrie. Why didn't I just choose Judy Blume
like everybody else?""
(04/18/07 6:00am)
Since I've started this column, I've never focused my 500 words,
give or take, on one author or one book. I've always wanted to
emphasize that literature isn't fragmented for me. It doesn't stop
when I get to the end, press together the cover and the back for a
few moments, absorbing, celebratin og, digesting and mourning
before I shut off the light. Writing is the world's constant
conversation, and it's a noise that is as comforting and constant
in my head as traffic. It's a six cup a day habit for me because I
need to think about life that seriously and love it and do
something about it.
(03/28/07 6:00am)
I'm sorry, I have to confess that sometimes, I am judging you by
the cover of your book. In Library Mall, I am craning my neck and
squinting my eyes while struggling to read that title through your
fingers. I apologize for staring a bit too long, trying to
recognize the cover art or the name of the author minutely printed
in the right-hand corner of the page.
(03/14/07 6:00am)
When it comes to famous objects of high culture and human
achievement, like the Mona Lisa or the Colosseum, we accept that
knowledge and recognition of their images sometimes comes at an
unavoidable distance. We may not quite understand the magnitude of
the pyramids unless we are standing directly next to them,
preferably while accompanied by a camel.
(02/28/07 6:00am)
The anticipation and fanfare surrounding the next presidential
campaign has begun to gather steam, especially since political
superstars like Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton have
announced their intentions to jostle for a place on the next
presidential ticket.
(02/14/07 6:00am)
One of contemporary pop culture's favorite pastimes is pushing
the limits of ‘shock value' when it comes to sex and sexual
innuendo. Today, unfortunately, addressing sexuality is not usually
associated with making your momma proud, but making her cringe, and
probably call your aunt/local religious official sobbing
inconsolably.
(01/31/07 6:00am)
Harry may be the most famous Potter out of England, but he's not
the first Potter all the kids went crazy for. The first literary
Potter was not a character, but an author. Beatrix Potter was
famous for authoring and illustrating a collection of stories about
Peter Rabbit. Recently, Potter's life was deemed interesting enough
to garner a major motion picture and RenAce Zellweger's British
accent for the film, ""Miss Potter.""
(12/06/06 6:00am)
The holidays aren't really capable of becoming individual
memories. It seems like a kind of unshakable habit or a recurring
cycle. On one hand that means pie and on the other hand that means
hearing the same family stories.
(11/29/06 6:00am)
Poetry and music have a symbiotic relationship. Like oxpeckers
and large mammals in the African bush, these two genres of art have
a long-standing, mutual relationship of elitism. Musicians today
and even more commonly in the past often work in homage to their
favorite poets.
(11/15/06 6:00am)
Woe is us, right? Fulfilling your foreign language requirement
here is crazy hard. I was all about taking Gaelic. I was thinking
about accents, limericks and maybe a thousand ways to say and eat
potatoes. It didn't matter that I had no clue what an indirect
object was. I was going to show the kids on language #4945 what
real conjugating was. I was high on sheer determination.
(11/01/06 6:00am)
Owning books is not, in most cases, like owning CDs or movies,
which you will often enjoy multiple times in your lifetime/the past
month. If you are as musically inclined as I am, it is much to the
annoyance of those around you. And if you liked [Will Ferrell movie
here] as much as every other college kid did, it is much to my
annoyance.
(10/31/06 6:00am)
In the past, Badly Drawn Boy has produced chamber-pop music that
has managed to be both intelligent and innovative. His sound
happily maintained a stable relationship between rock and pop.
However, on Damon Gough's fifth album, Born in the U.K., the
British musician seems to have lost footing in his musical middle
ground.
(10/22/06 6:00am)
Mark Haddon earned praise for his first effort ""The Curious
Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time"" because of his ambitious
creation of an autistic narrator. In ""Night-Time,"" Haddon's
cognitively limited main character still manages to carry the depth
and beauty of Haddon's message. In Haddon's new book, ""A Spot of
Bother,"" it would be a mistake to deem the book ""simplistic""
despite the first glimpses of the book's ordinary
characters.
(10/18/06 6:00am)
Where are we going Walt Whitman? / The doors close in an hour /
Which way does your beard point?"" —Allen Ginsberg, ""A Supermarket
in California.""
(10/04/06 6:00am)
The library and information studies majors are totally rad. Not
only do they know the Dewey Decimal System like the back of their
hand, but they have pancake parties. As I pass their announcements
board on the way to English classes in Helen C. White, I lust and
hope I will find an invite extended to English majors in my inbox.
It would make up for all the career fair e-mails I never open.
(09/20/06 6:00am)
In Greek times, it was often assumed that those who created art
or wrote were possessed by divine spirits. Today, however, art and
expression of creativity is often discussed in negative terms, such
as deeming painters and writers ""starving artists.""
(09/05/06 6:00am)
M. Ward, indie's sophisticated back-porch minstrel, can be
difficult to place within any sort of classification. He does not
seem to be vehemently avoiding any sort of cataloging. His throaty,
creaking voice and lo-fi ruckus have been slightly too off-kilter
and laid back to compete for attention with blog darlings like
Tapes ‘n Tapes.