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(01/21/14 5:48am)
With every New Year’s come new dreams, hopes and resolutions. 2014 is finally here, giving everyone the opportunity to change those bad habits or make new wishes a reality. Resolutions can seem unrealistic and extremely cheesy sometimes, but you need to take these straight on, seatbelt fastened and full throttle. However, are New Year’s resolutions overrated, things that we should just never try to make happen? The challenge of New Year’s resolutions is something that almost everyone faces, but from past experiences, I believe they are well worth it. It is not necessarily what your resolution is, but how it is executed. So as 2014 gets underway, stay strong with these changes and you will surely see results in your future.
(12/09/04 6:00am)
I've been hanging around Madison for more than four years now
and writing for The Daily Cardinal for several of them. In my last
column for the Cardinal and I just wanted to make an observation
and talk about a few of the issues I am passionate about.
(12/06/04 6:00am)
Since Sept. 11, 2001, the national political dialogue and the
social world we live in has been transformed by real and imagined
threats of terrorism. Billions of dollars are being spent
internationally in the \War on Terror"" and domestically in the
Department of Homeland Security. Fighting terrorism has become the
new American priority. But what kind of terrorism are we fighting?
(11/22/04 6:00am)
The anti-sweatshop movement has been one of the most visible
national campaigns of the last decade, particularly on college
campuses. Beginning with the Kathie Lee Gifford expos?? by the
National Labor Committee, organizations, students and workers
launched prominent public awareness initiatives to inform the
consuming public about what was really going into their name brand
clothing. Largely due to their efforts, many people now have some
understanding of the awful conditions under which the people
(mostly women) who make our clothes work. However, there is still a
significant gap between public awareness and public action.
(11/08/04 6:00am)
The re-election (or initial election) of George W. Bush last
week has sent shock waves through the Madison left and liberals
across the country. Bush's victory in the popular vote and the
increased Republican majorities in both the House and Senate have
left a wake of confusion, despair and anger.
(10/25/04 6:00am)
The death of a 21-year-old Emerson College student in the riots
following the Red Sox win Thursday should serve as a wake-up call
to the nation about the true nature of so-called \less lethal""
weapons. Victoria Snelgrove was shot in the eye with a pepper spray
pellet from close range by a mounted officer who began firing into
a crowd after a bottle was thrown.
(10/11/04 6:00am)
While many in the U.S. are consumed with the war in Iraq and the
coming elections, it's vital to remember that other struggles are
still silently raging on. Some of the world's greatest injustices
occur in relative silence and some of the policies with
far-reaching global impact are passed with minimal public input. We
are slowly becoming aware of the importance of global economic
policy, but few citizens know the difference between the World
Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund or the World
Bank. Yet these institutions and the agreements they help to form
dictate the geography of poverty and decide the difference between
civil rights and barriers to trade.
(09/27/04 6:00am)
In the late 19th century the American system of higher education
took a radical change in direction. UW-Madison and other public
\land-grant"" institutions across the country were created based on
the principle that higher education should be accessible to the
widest possible segment of the population. Research conducted
within the university should be accessible and applicable to the
citizenry. These ideas represented a drastic departure from earlier
private, colonial institutions designed primarily to educate only
the elite for leadership roles within society.
(09/13/04 6:00am)
It is early enough in the semester that freshmen are still
finding their way to the rumored houses with keg parties or testing
fake IDs, experimenting with new freedom and, for many, with their
sexual choices. As I began college, one of my older brothers gave
me a rather awkward warning about watching out for myself and
angrily told me a story about a female friend who had been raped by
a male acquaintance after she passed out at his house.
(05/06/04 6:00am)
Labor rights, women's rights, and civil liberties are three of
the most vital issues we as students and citizens need to monitor
and organize around on personal and political levels.
(05/05/04 6:00am)
Labor rights, women's rights, and civil liberties are three of
the most vital issues we as students and citizens need to monitor
and organize around on personal and political levels.
(04/26/04 6:00am)
The Teaching Assistants' Association is poised for a two-day
walkout beginning tomorrow. Most members of the UW community are
aware of the upcoming action, but there remains some general
confusion about the bargaining process, whether or not the strike
will happen and what constitutes \support"" for the TAA.
(04/12/04 6:00am)
Ciudad Juarez, a city on Mexico's northern border just across
from El Paso, Texas is called \The City of Dead Girls."" Since
1993, it is estimated that between 320 and 600 young women have
disappeared and been murdered in the city. The crimes have several
things in common: All of the victims are young women, are an
average age of 16, are poor and are either workers or students.
Many of the victims are beaten, tortured and gang-raped before they
are killed. Their bodies are dumped on the outskirts of town and in
the deserts. A decade of serial murders has created a new
word-feminocide-but has led to no convictions and the killings
continue today.
(03/29/04 6:00am)
What with teaching classes, grading papers, holding office
hours, guiding freshmen students through their first college-level
classes and managing personal course loads, the life of a teaching
assistant can be grueling. TAs work long hours for little pay, yet
somehow they manage the stress and help us manage ours as well.
Essentially, the work of TAs makes the active academic life of a
large university possible. In exchange for all this the state has
decided to make TA's lives more difficult in the future by freezing
their pay and scrapping the zero-cost health-care plan.
(03/08/04 6:00am)
Patriarchy exists. Racism is alive and well. And it's been made
crystal clear of late that homophobia is still a powerful force. It
seems those critics who persist in attacking the same popular
targets, for instance the Women's Studies Department or the
Multicultural Student Coalition or the even more controversial
programs-Affirmative Action and Title IX-in addition to often being
uninformed, confuse the solutions and the problems. It is one thing
to criticize the Women's Studies Department for a structural flaw
but it is another to question the necessity of the Women's Studies
Department by denying discrimination against women exists as a
fundamental and widespread problem.
(02/23/04 6:00am)
Imagine having to notify the government any time you wanted to
change your major, drop a class or go home for a break. It sounds
ludicrous and restrictive but as a result of new federal
legislation invasion of privacy, bureaucratic hoop-jumping and an
increasing threat of arbitrary deportation have become a reality
for the international student community both here at UW-Madison and
throughout the nation.
(02/09/04 6:00am)
Last week, three female students were sexually assaulted in
Madison. Last Sunday at the Super Bowl in a choreographed dance
move, Justin Timberlake ripped off part of Janet Jackson's shirt,
exposing her breast. In the United States, about one-third of
American women report being physically or sexually abused by a
husband or boyfriend at some point in their lives.
(01/26/04 6:00am)
Presently, there exists a rare and widespread agreement about
key questions regarding immigration. Essentially a majority from
across the spectrum agree that current U.S. immigration policy is
deeply flawed. However, there is also much agreement that the
recently proposed Bush \plan"" for policy reform is under the best
circumstances only an election year bid to win Latino voters over
and at worst a throwback to the exploitative Bracero program with
the potential to solidify an underclass of temporary labor.
(12/04/03 6:00am)
It has been said that the truest measure of a democracy is how
it responds to dissent. Following the events in Miami last week,
the questions that ought to be on all our lips are not only those
about so-called \free trade"" and its effects but also those about
the use of state-sponsored violence and its implications for a
democratic society.
(10/28/03 6:00am)
\Sweatshop labor"" is no longer an unfamiliar phrase for many
college students. The efforts of many organizations in the 1990s
brought to the world's attention the dreadful conditions faced by
the workers producing items we consume everyday.