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The types of TV shows every freshman should watch

Shows may vary by personal opinion, but here are the five types of TV shows you will encounter and should watch your freshman year.

Five-step guide to college fashion

Incoming freshman: there’s no sugar-coating it—you’ve got it tough. Meeting new friends, learning the layout of a new city and trying to remember which class happens on which day—all while dealing with moving away from family, friends and comfort—can be one of life’s most difficult experiences. But, don’t worry, every single person on the UW-Madison campus has been through it already and survived. Before you know it, new friends will become old, unfamiliar territory will become your favorite study spot and classes will begin to fall into place. The only area left to master is finding your killer college style.

Block of Lake Street will close to accommodate students moving out of dorms

As the semester concludes and UW-Madison students move out of dorms, part of North Lake Street will be closed to traffic for a week.

Elif Batuman’s ‘The Idiot’ updates Dostoevsky for the millennial era

Conor Oberst, the mascaraed Bright Eyes frontman, has a verse on his new album, Ruminations, about life under Ronald Reagan. True, Reagan doesn’t seem so bad now, but at the time he seemed like a bad joke. “Reagan flexes his worn, snipped, tucked, mottled face,” wrote Martin Amis in 1979. “He would make a good head waiter, a good Butlins redcoat, a good host for ‘New Faces.’ But would he make a good leader of the free world?”

City council candidates under pressure to tackle sexual assault on campus

In a January city council candidate forum, a UW-Madison student raised her hand to ask a question that seemed to catch both Zach Wood and John Terry Jr.—who are vying for a seat representing campus—off guard: “What would you do to combat sexual assault?”

'Pretty Witte' set to break ground in March 2017

An idea conceived by four UW-Madison students in the fall of 2012 is coming to fruition with the remodel of Witte Residence Hall.

Immediate and unquestioned: No contact orders offer alternatives to survivors

Three weeks before she turned 18, former UW-Madison student Logan Johnson moved into Sellery Residence Hall in August 2013 to begin her freshman year of college.

With possible changes to burden of proof, fewer campus assailants may be found responsible

After a night of drinking, a UW-Madison student was sexually assaulted in a campus dorm room. She didn’t recall much about the evening, but she remembered vomiting in the dorm’s trash can.

A cultural shift is required to fix or change rape culture

Rape and the fear of rape is a part of the American college experience for women. On American college campuses, one in four undergraduate women will be sexually assaulted or raped by the time they graduate. Indicated by UW-Madison’s Association of American Universities Sexual Misconduct and Sexual Assault Climate Survey, our precious UW-Madison is no exception, with 27.6 percent of undergraduate female students reporting experiencing nonconsensual penetration or sexual touching. 

A tale of two stories as state, federal entities work to combat sexual assault

At a time when many aspects of the UW System have encountered politicization, increasing reporting and investigation of sexual assault on college campuses has become an area of bipartisan support at the Capitol.

Crime warning emails perpetuate racism and negative stereotypes

On Feb. 27, UW-Madison community members received a familiar “Timely Warning” email that highlighted the ongoing threat of burglary on campus. UW-Madison is obligated to send these emails under the Clery Act, which requires campuses to report specific crimes, such as homicide, sexual offenses and robbery. While these emails often describe the alleged perpetrator, rarely do they include identifying photographs like the one circulated on Monday.

After Red Gym controversy, Sellery emerges as likely Amazon pickup point location

Following pushback from students, faculty and alumni last semester about the Red Gym as an Amazon pickup point location, UW-Madison students will likely be picking up their packages from Sellery Residence Hall.

Visit an outdoor study spot during the unseasonal weather

It’s mid-February, and it’s 60 degrees. With the past few months confining studying students to tiny dorm rooms and lifeless College Library, here are some outdoor spaces we are quick to forget about in the winter months. Midterms may be upon us, but so is the springtime sun. Get outside and get studying, Badgers.

Strength in numbers: athletes fight pressure to drink

It’s football Saturday in Madison, Wis., and the Badgers are set to kickoff at 11 a.m. All around campus, thousands of students wake up unusually early. They head to the nearest dining hall or make food in their apartments. But breakfast is consumed only out of necessity. It’s in preparation for the long day of drinking ahead of them.

Back in time: UW-Madison alumni remember before the drinking age changed from 18 to 21

Twelve out of the twenty “Drunkest Cities in America” as identified by 24/7 Wall Street’s are in Wisconsin and UW-Madison is the Princeton Review’s 2016 top party school. Needless to say, Wisconsin has a reputation.

While students excite over ‘party school’ rankings, university works to turn the tide

For Sunny Singh, a senior at UW-Madison, the school’s party culture is hard to avoid. The social life on UW-Madison’s campus is synonymous with drug and alcohol use, to Singh.

UW campus lacks enough sober housing for students

UW-Madison has a reputation of being a renowned university academically, both nationally and globally, and attracts students of many different identities, personalities, and backgrounds. We have also obtained a reputation as being a school with a huge party atmosphere and earlier this year the Princeton Review named us the top party school in the nation. While this may be true, in my two years on campus I have met plenty of people who, for a plethora of reasons, choose not to drink.

Jake Prine, who participated in Choices and BASICS after he was caught drinking in his freshman dorm, said the classes were ineffective.

Chancellor, open panel discuss students’ felony charges, free speech

On the same night roughly 200 students protested white supremacy following the university’s response to a possible ‘alt-right’ group on campus, Chancellor Rebecca Blank spoke at an open panel, addressing student concerns regarding felony records and free speech.

Snapchat filter promoting sexual consent has trial run during men’s basketball game

In an attempt to continue ongoing efforts to raise awareness of sexual assault, a student-activist group ran a second pilot Snapchat filter during the Michigan vs. Wisconsin men’s basketball game at the Kohl Center Tuesday night.