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(05/05/14 6:06am)
The approach of graduation and the completion of my academic career at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have come suddenly. Really, it only seems like reality now that I’ve got all my final preparations set and everything is ready to go to finish up as a student here. Time to say my goodbyes. The decision to write for The Daily Cardinal was perhaps one of my better decisions in the last four years. I want to thank my friends and family for their engagement and encouragement as well as the awesome staff who helped me along the way.
(05/01/14 5:50am)
My one piece of advice for University of Wisconsin-Madison students: go abroad. And don’t just go abroad for three weeks in the summer and pretend you’re doing charity work in Costa Rica. Don’t just go abroad for a semester and take an introductory language course where you’ll forget everything, because you’re drunk the entire time. Go. Abroad. Find a place you think seems interesting and go there for an entire academic year. Go abroad and really commit to being abroad.
(04/28/14 3:40am)
Dicks come in all shapes, sizes and colors, and sometimes have the last name Cheney. Sometimes they’re circumcised and other times they’re not. While we’re very familiar with the range of dicks first mentioned in American culture, uncircumcised penises, which have an intact foreskin, are less familiar to us Americans. This is the result of the simple fact that many people with penises in the United States are circumcised at birth. Although the exact number has been changing over time, since the 1970s more than 50 percent of all people with penises had the procedure performed after birth. While those numbers are going down, the low over the last few decades, 2007, was still as high as 55 percent.
(04/22/14 5:07am)
A recent article on BBC explored the role cities play in efforts to combat global climate change. Cities are immediately described as “carbon criminals” since they account for “three quarters of global energy consumption and for 80 percent of greenhouse gas emissions.” True that may be, however cities are far from “carbon criminals.” Instead they’re keys to saving us from our own self-destructive tendencies.
(04/14/14 2:59am)
Dear Dirty Bird,
(04/07/14 4:36am)
Dear Dirty Bird,
(03/27/14 4:29am)
(03/24/14 3:57am)
The downside of getting into a relationship is the inevitability that it will end one way or another. It’s easy to dwell on this, especially since we’re young and things are changing so quickly that the long-term durability of a relationship isn’t always guaranteed. We sometimes find it’s time to just get out and move on, but unfortunately it isn’t always easy and seldom are break-ups mutual either, even if we wish they were. There are ways to break up to help soften the blow. This shouldn’t be seen as just advice for the breaker-uper, but also the broken-upee.
(03/10/14 4:52am)
Five months ago I still lived in Freiburg, Germany. I was lucky enough to live in the world-renown Vauban neighborhood. It is touted as a premier example of sustainable development encompassing innovative planning and building practices for environmental, social and economic sustainability. This includes everything from passive building to natural drainage ditches (yes, the ditches are a big deal) for excess greywater. It was a level of sustainable living unlike any other. Every detail is considered to lower energy use, car use, increase livability and attract all segments of society. It’s a true culture of sustainability, which extends well beyond the edges of the neighborhood as it becomes a ubiquitous quality of German culture at large. It makes advocates of sustainability like myself giddy.
(03/10/14 3:51am)
The cold is finally beginning to dissipate, the sun is coming back out and spring break is here. That means one thing: Clothes are coming off! Time to begin welcoming the season of shorts, tanks and cute swimsuits. But let’s be honest with ourselves, this sometimes has to do as much with practicality as with attracting potential partners. And during spring break festivities, these are more likely short-term sexual partners.
(03/06/14 7:17am)
(03/03/14 2:43am)
Dear Michael,
(02/24/14 9:48am)
We all have individual desires, concerns (fears even) and spectrum of sexuality goes beyond the gay/straight/bi triptych. Each of us arguably has an unique sexuality. Religion, class, gender identity, cultural and racial identities and life experiences all play unique roles in shaping sexuality and how it blossoms. There are two things that many students may struggle with while on campus within the context of sexuality: stigma and shame.
(02/17/14 7:05am)
Some may have noticed that a group of men were passing roses out to women passing by the St. Paul University Catholic Center on Library Mall. These individuals were taking part in a small campaign being spearheaded by Badger Catholic, a spirituality and faith organization on campus according to their website, called Roses in Library Mall.
(02/10/14 5:32am)
For Valentine’s Day, let’s talk relationships, relationships, relationships, in all forms! In our modern world, it’s hard to define most of our relationships, much less celebrate Valentine’s Day with them! Where’s a V-Day card for our Grindr or Tinder fuck buddies, Hallmark?! So whether we’re fretting about what to buy one lover—or six—let’s look at sharing the love in more than one way.
(02/07/14 4:46am)
High-speed trains heading north from Switzerland into Germany bend into the Rhine Valley and around the hills and mountains that mark the Black Forest. Approach Freiburg—Madison's sister city—passengers' views include wine vineyards and verdant hills. Inside a sleek white train modem, amenities make for incredibly comfortable rides. Then, over the loud speaker comes this announcement: "Sehr geehrte Fahrgäste, im Kürzerem erreichen wir Freiburg. Ausstieg rechts," or "Ladies and Gentlemen, we will be arriving in Freiburg shortly. Exit to the right." That's the call for departing passengers to leave the train upon arrival at Freiburg's main station.
(01/31/14 4:19am)
A new bill is circulating the halls of the Wisconsin state Capitol to increase the building-height limit from the current one-mile radius around the Capitol to a two-mile radius. Expanded height limits in Madison are entirely unnecessary and major overkill. Even though the bill is being introduced with the best intentions, the outcome is not a good urban-planning move and doesn't do much to help Madison as a city.
(01/30/14 7:48am)
(01/27/14 6:41am)
Hello readers, and welcome back to getting down with the Dirty Bird. Regular readers may have already noticed Alex Tucker isn’t writing this column; she is currently taking a semester leave and handed over the duties of writing the Dirty Bird to me. Like Alex, I am a peer-to-peer sexual health educator at UW-Madison. I look forward to writing the Dirty Bird this semester. Hopefully I can fill the big shoes left for me. As always, the Dirty Bird is here to titillate, educate and open our minds to the wonderful world of sex.
(11/25/13 4:59am)
Next week most Americans will likely gather with family and friends to celebrate the annual thanks-giving ritual critical to American culture and tradition: Thanksgiving. The importance of Thanksgiving is being devalued, though, because a certain commercial trend gaining prominence—the ever-famous Black Friday. It is important to retain some sacred values in our society, and Thanksgiving fills that role—it is above both religious and ethnic heritage and can be embraced by all. Thanksgiving’s value is priceless and needs to be cherished. As a society we need to pull back our obsession with Black Friday and rethink our relationship with Thanksgiving.