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Cardinal View: Editorial Board's Spring Retrospective

As the spring semester comes to an end, The Daily Cardinal Editorial Board reflects on the past few months with a series of short recaps.

Cardinal View: Censoring hip-hop in bars is racist, does not promote student safety

Some campus-area bars don’t like black people or black music.

Students, alumni celebrate university’s history through Founders' Day

One hundred sixty-eight years ago, the inaugural group of Badgers sat down for the first classes at UW-Madison. Now, every Feb. 5, current Badgers celebrate the university’s founding.

Cardinal View: ‘Problem of Whiteness’ course is valuable, necessary

UW-Madison’s spring course guide has been available for more than two months, but some legislators recently raised concerns about next semester’s offerings, particularly about an African languages and literature class called “The Problem of Whiteness.”

The Daily Cardinal endorses Clinton, Feingold and budget increase for Madison's public schools

Clinton deserves student vote for recognition of campus sexual assault

The Daily Cardinal Editorial Board takes a look at the 2016 Election.

Editorial Board’s spring retrospective

Sexual assault climate 

Ending, starting a chapter at the Cardinal

Outgoing editor-in-chief Jim Dayton

Cardinal View: UW System lacks transparency, action on diversity

Students on college campuses across the nation have been protesting to hold their administrators accountable for evaluating diversity and making a genuine effort to improve the experience of students of color. Although UW System administration has recognized the necessity of student voice, and UW System President Ray Cross has met with student protesters, these positive steps have been clouded by miscommunication and a lack of tangible action.

Our Editorial Board's fall retrospective

As the fall semester comes to an end, The Daily Cardinal Editorial Board reflects on the past few months with a series of short recaps.

Cardinal View: UW falls short in clarity of sexual assault policy

We have a sexual assault problem.

Two rappers combine as LORDprez and represent local talent at Revelry

Danny Leonard and Michael Penn II, known as Lord of the Fly and CRASHprez respectively, are two Madison-based rap artists joining forces as LORDprez for their Revelry performance Saturday. Both artists came to the UW-Madison on the First Wave scholarship program for young musicians, helping them persevere their commencement into the music world.

Cardinal View: Soglin is still the right choice for Madison

In the fall of 1967, 22-year-old Paul Soglin and his UW-Madison peers were engaged in a peaceful sit-in to protest the campus presence of Dow Chemical Company, one of the leading producers of napalm during the Vietnam War. When Madison police attempted to remove the students from the building in which they were protesting, the confrontation turned violent and many students, including Soglin, were beaten by officers. Soglin was later chosen to lead the student strike that followed the incident.

Record Routine: CRASHprez shoots for, and lands within, the stars

After months of escalating hype, CRASHprez—who’s slowly assuming the mantle of curator of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s quietly bustling musical underground—has finally dropped his more perfect. project, a sprawling magnum opus exploring the black condition in America as seen through the eyes of a particularly discerning and articulate college student-cum-artist—or do I have that backwards?

Boundless energy carries CRASHprez concert to a higher plane

I’d been eagerly awaiting Friday night, when CRASHprez, the stage name of UW-Madison senior Michael Penn II, would hold his album release concert. CRASHprez announced through a Facebook event that he’d be performing his upcoming album, more perfect., in full for an audience at the Fredric March Play Circle. Fellow Catch Wreck Collective members Lord of the Fly and *hitmayng, along with the multi-instrumental group The BellHops, helped to celebrate the pre-release performance.  

RiFF RAFF overshadowed by openers at Majestic Theatre

The afternoon of Dec. 7, I was posing with Santa at the Hilldale Shopping Center. I didn’t know it at the time, but the mall Santa was a grim foreshadowing of what would be one of the most disingenuous shows I’ve ever attended. The Christmas icon was stripped of his magic the moment I sat on his lap, and all that was left was an old man in a red costume. Children all around me began to cry as they realized the truth about Santa, just like the countless Majestic Theatre audience members that night did about RiFF RAFF, albeit a little less teary.

Rap quadrumvirate descend on Majestic Theatre Friday

Friday, Sept. 26, the Majestic Theatre will be hosting Ab-Soul, along with Bas, EarthGang, and UW student CRASHprez, for what looks to be one of the biggest hip-hop concerts this fall.

Action Project: a note from the management desk

When we say Wisconsin, do we really say it all? Or in other words, as a community, are we really doing everything we can to foster inclusivity for all groups and ideas, and additionally, what else needs to be said about this issue?

A call to action for the campus social climate

The Daily Cardinal is pleased to announce the first of three special issues this semester dedicated to exploring topics challenging to the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the surrounding community. The publications will form a series we call The Daily Cardinal Action Project, an effort to inform the campus community about pertinent issues and spark action.

Cardinal View: Mary Burke's outlook against Scott Walker seems bleak

Nearly four years ago, a deft, bold stroke of a pen enacted a law that turned newly elected Gov. Scott Walker into perhaps the most divisive man in Wisconsin history. Today, he is one of the most highly revered politicians in the country and on the short list for a 2016 Republican Party presidential nomination.