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At its peak hour last year, the Mifflin Street Block Party reached about 10,000 people, according to Madison police. This was down from an estimated 15,000 the year prior.
As the weather warms and the student body migrates to the Terrace, the Brat Stand - an appendage of the Rathskellar - opens for business. Long, slowly progressing lines were abundant last weekend, and some customers waited over half an hour for food or drink.
Newly elected representatives of Associated Students of Madison issued a release Sunday citing a five-point mission to improve ASM for the next academic year. The five goals range from the obvious - implementing a budget cap for ASM expenditures - to the elusively vague - focusing on issues of higher education.""
The Student Tenant Union's Tenant Education Week serves the student body in a necessary way. Most students who live in non-university housing do not have complete knowledge of renting properties in Madison.
As student enrollment at UW-Madison rose from 15,000 to almost 40,000 from 1955 to 1980, many single-family homes on campus were converted into multi-unit student homes. For years, the owners of these homes have thrived by leasing them on yearly terms to student tenants while offering patchwork maintenance and setting very low aesthetic upkeep standards.
This week, Madison Metro proposed a number of route changes aimed at decreasing congestion and increasing on-time performance for bus arrivals and departures across the city. Overall, the changes will add a net 33 hours to daily bus service across the city.
This week, Madison Metro proposed a number of route changes aimed at decreasing congestion and increasing on-time performance for bus arrivals and departures across the city. Overall, the changes will add a net 33 hours to daily bus service across the city.
In January, a tax increase was passed in Wisconsin to add an additional dollar to every pack of cigarettes. The legislation, supported by Gov. Jim Doyle, was part of a larger movement to prevent people from smoking, and it has shown preliminary success.
Only time will tell if the murders of Brittany Zimmermann or Joel Marino had anything to do with Madison's homeless and transient communities. In the meantime, skeptics will rightly wonder whether a witchhunt is afoot, whether the police are persecuting those who cannot defend themselves for lack of a concrete lead. But simmering beneath the surface is an uncomfortable reality: In recent months, the vagabonds of downtown have grown increasingly prevalent and aggressive. As a result, and independent of the ongoing homicide investigation, city authorities must act responsibly and discerningly to alter their lifestyles.
When more than 35 student groups collaborate to generate campus-wide environmental awareness, it is nothing but important. The first annual Green Week represents this unprecedented cooperation and features a variety of conferences, classes and films aiming to inform students of eco-friendly practices. The week began Friday and ends on Earth Day, April 22.
The Athletic Department announced Wednesday a new program to help freshmen athletes adjust to life at UW-Madison.
The instructional staff at UW is increasingly based on non-tenured educators rather than professors on tenured track. This increase is part of a national trend to hire cheaper instructors on yearly contracts instead of more expensive faculty research members.
In recent weeks, a number of developments have made the need for a statewide smoking ban even more pressing.
Tuesday night Mayor Dave Cieslewicz spoke on a bevy of issues at a City Council meeting, including public safety and green efficiency in Madison.
The UW Athletic Department sent an e-mail Monday notifying students of changes to the football season ticket policy.
The death of Brittany Sue Zimmermann, a UW-Madison junior, marked the first student homicide in the downtown area since 1996. As a part of the UW-Madison community, she will be greatly missed by students and residents alike. The Madison community's response to the event has been nothing short of remarkable.
Among the Student Service Finance Committee elections and bylaw changes, the Campus Antiwar Network was able to add the Iraqi Student Project to the ASM spring polls.
In a curious and irrelevant overnight prank, an unknown number of eco-fools deflated dozens of car tires on campus Tuesday, leaving notes on the cars reading Happy Fossil Fools Day! Drive Less.""
Gov. Jim Doyle and future Wisconsin governors no longer have the power to edit individual words of legislation on their own whims. It's about time.
Wyndham Manning is the best candidate to succeed Ashok Kumar as the Dane County District 5 Supervisor. He is neither a great candidate nor the lesser of two evils, but rather the better of two mediocres.
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