UW defends axe with miracle finish
MINNEAPOLIS-When a team trails by 10 points with less than three minutes remaining, after giving up more than 400 yards on the ground, few would expect a victory. Even the head coach.
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MINNEAPOLIS-When a team trails by 10 points with less than three minutes remaining, after giving up more than 400 yards on the ground, few would expect a victory. Even the head coach.
Natural events happen in predictable cycles-the rise and fall of wolf populations every five years, the recurrence of sunspots every 11 years.
A couple of years ago, \An Unfinished Life"" must have seemed like a sure-fire piece of Oscar bait, complete with an A-list cast of veterans (Robert Redford, Morgan Freeman), glamour puss celebrities (Jennifer Lopez, Camryn Manheim), and rising stars (Damien Lewis, Josh Lucas), and once-esteemed prestige director Lasse Hallstrom at the helm. It's as soft and sappy as anything Hallstrom has been involved with, containing symbolism and parallelism so overt that Gomer Pyle wouldn't need Cliff's Notes to understand it-and, best of all, it's a tidy, perfectly wholesome PG-13.
UW-Madison facilities planners recently began formulating design guidelines to chart the development of new buildings and guide the appearance of future campus architecture.
UW-Madison does not offer minors, but because it is more flexible for students and easier on faculty, this is not a major problem.
Hordes of students shuffle listlessly through labyrinthine corridors, scale cold concrete and metal staircases and gaze glassy-eyed at windowless ceilings and walls. All the while, muddy echoes of distant music reverberate from the walls in a series of discordant notes.
The music
The Campus Natural Areas Committee held an open input session Tuesday to solicit public opinion on the group's struggle to maintain and protect campus natural areas in its master plan.
Since UW-Madison's first class met Feb. 5, 1849, the university has only grown-in square feet, students, faculty, majors and public involvement. Growing is still the top priority, according to UW-Madison Associate Vice Chancellor for Facilities Planning and Management Alan Fish and Director of Planning & Landscape Architecture Gary Brown, as they unveiled the draft of the UW-Madison Campus Master Plan Tuesday at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
Even the intensifying rain outside could not dampen the optimistic mood surrounding UW-Madison's presentation of its Campus Master Plan to the Joint Southeast Campus Committee Monday night.
Late in the evening and early into the morning, when only raccoons and the occasional badger roam the UW-Madison campus, the Waste and Recycling night crew makes its rounds.
UW-Madison representatives revealed another phase of the Campus Master Plan Thursday, unveiling basic plans for the tentatively named \University of Wisconsin-Madison Welcome Center.""
The City Council voted Tuesday to approve the replacement of Ogg Hall with a 600-bed dormitory and expanded recreational open space.
Picnic Point was originally created for pedestrians, but over the years it has become a more common path for bicyclists. Strong debate has surfaced over whether or not bicyclists should be banned from using Picnic Point due to erosion, safety concerns and the harm they could cause to pedestrians while traveling at high speeds.
Helped by a masterful shot on the 16th hole at Augusta National, Tiger Woods won the Masters Tournament with a birdie on the first playoff hole.
Hiram Smith Hall, a UW-Madison building on the west side of campus, was evacuated Tuesday after the Physical Plant received a call about a broken water main along the west side of the building.
The future of Madison's cityscape became more concrete Monday night when two major construction projects received approval from the city's Plan Commission. The demolition of the house at 353 W. Mifflin St. and Ogg Hall were both approved on consent. No additional commentary from the projects' respective parties was required by the commission.
UW-Madison Provost and Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs Peter Spear announced Monday that he will be the latest high-ranking UW-Madison official to call it a career.
If students are early, they are on time. If students are on time, they are late. If students are late, then they should not bother coming at all.