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(11/14/05 6:00am)
If any question remained concerning whether the university
actually lived up to its No. 1 party school ranking, Halloween
dispelled all doubt. Although the university solidified its party-
school status, Madison's reputation as a politically active campus
remains dubious.
(11/14/05 6:00am)
Around 3.8 to four billion years ago, our first single-celled
ancestors got their acts together and started doing the metabolic
and reproductive watootsie that defines life. To make a very long
and interesting story short, every species that has since waddled,
swum or flown into existence owes its life to this very innovative
group of prehistoric cells.
(11/14/05 6:00am)
Jumping out to a 10-0 lead, the No 19 Badgers looked poised to
give head coach Barry Alvarez a win in his final game at Camp
Randall. However, the Badgers were only able to muster up 72 more
yards (until their final drive), and fell to the Hawkeyes,
20-10.
(11/09/05 6:00am)
The University of Wisconsin-Madison accepts approximately 60
percent of its undergrad applicants. Harvard University accepts
about 10 percent. With that 50-point gap, we might ask, is
Harvard's campus that much thicker with freshman genius than our
own?
(11/07/05 6:00am)
Innovation followed journalist Edward R. Murrow wherever he
went. His World War II stories helped define the radio broadcast
model, and Murrow's 'See It Now' established the 30-minute news
show format. Now, 40 years after his death, Murrow allows George
Clooney to prove he can actually direct a film, as seen in 'Good
Night, and Good Luck.'
(11/01/05 6:00am)
Following up 'Age of Empires II: Age of Kings''a game that
effectively set a new benchmark for the real-time strategy
genre'posed a tremendous challenge for Ensemble Studios. 'Age of
Mythology' was a highly successful diversion for the series, but
fans of the 'Empires' series have had to wait six years for
Ensemble to finally release 'Age of Empires III.'
(11/01/05 6:00am)
The other night I made myself some grilled cheese for dinner,
and I can tell you'without exaggeration or hyperbole'that it was
the finest grilled cheese sandwich that has ever existed on
Earth.
(10/26/05 6:00am)
While each half of Dangerdoom has been a part of the hip-hop
scene for quite awhile, both recently raised their profiles with
individual album releases of cult status. Producer DJ Danger Mouse
mashed Jay-Z and the Beatles on The Grey Album, while rapper MF
Doom joined with renowned producer Madlib to create the classic
album Madvillain.
(10/24/05 6:00am)
Apparently, some confusion exists concerning the duties of house
fellows in UW Housing. Contrary to what some believe, house fellows
do not serve as house mommies or house daddies. They neither ground
misbehaving hellians nor govern the homestead with threats of
revoking television rights. Rather, house fellows represent
professional colleagues devoted to creating fellowship and
community in the dormitories. As such, they foster proactive and
reactive measures to curb alcohol consumption in UW Housing, but
ultimately possess neither the power nor the responsibility to
completely regulate resident's behavior.
(10/24/05 6:00am)
It's 9:30 p.m. and a dozen Madison Police officers crowd a
narrow apartment hallway, guns drawn.
(10/11/05 6:00am)
Anyone who has stepped outside on a Saturday morning, only to be
swept away by an unrelenting tide of red and white-clad Badger fans
with an unholy thirst for blood and Miller High Life, can attest to
the popularity of college football here in Madison.
(10/10/05 6:00am)
He's the Johnny Appleseed of propaganda, the commander-in-chief
of sowing the belief that enlisting in the military will bolster
the war on terrorism. As leader of the armed forces, President Bush
holds the power to remind potential and current soldiers why the
war in Iraq endures and what end it may achieve. But despite the
desperate wave of military recruitment resulting from the Iraqi
quagmire, honest information about service scarcely escapes the
president's lips.
(10/06/05 6:00am)
If you get your music news from the Internet-and if MTV makes
you wanna (thank you, Beck) smoke crack, there aren't many other
options-you may already have heard that members of Radiohead and
Pulp are being sued along with Warner Brothers as part of a band
naming rights dispute involving the upcoming film \Harry Potter and
the Goblet of Fire.""
(10/05/05 6:00am)
Last week saw a convergence of racial issues here on campus and
around the nation that should garner everyone's attention. On Sept.
28, William Bennett, the moralizing former D.C. drug czar with a
slots and craps vice, made headlines on his \Morning in America""
national radio show. If ""you"" wanted to reduce crime, Bennett
said, ""you could abort every black baby in this country."" The
next day, UW-Madison Chancellor Wiley hosted a Plan 2008 forum that
ended in expressions of frustration at the lack of campus
diversity. Both events suggest that W. E. B. DuBois' prediction
that the 20th century's principal problems would occur along the
color line might also apply to the 21st century.
(09/30/05 6:00am)
The first thing you will notice upon approaching the Broom
Street Theatre, 1119 Williamson St., is a foreboding feeling of
horror. This feeling can only be conjured by the realization that
the playhouse is less a theatre and more a creepy garage, staggered
just far enough from the street to make yelling \help"" futile.
Relish this sentiment while you can-you will soon be longing for
it.
(09/30/05 6:00am)
(09/29/05 6:00am)
Dr. Paul W. Barrows has given 16 years of dedicated service to
the University of Wisconsin. No one has ever suggested that he did
anything other than superb work, nor has anyone ever filed
complaint about him. Yet, because of former Dean of Students Luoluo
Hong and her campaign against him, Paul Barrows is no longer the
Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs. That is a loss for the
University and its students.
(09/29/05 6:00am)
A group of parents from Dover, Pa. began their attempt to block
their school district's decision to have intelligent design
\theory"" covered in biology classes this Tuesday when opening
arguments in their Federal court case began.
(09/28/05 6:00am)
The current cinematic climate teems with talented independents
trying to have their voices heard over one another. So naturally,
many of those working outside the establishment try to garner
attention through shocking their way to notoriety.
(09/27/05 6:00am)
I look in the mirror and see my face, covered in a mossy
five-day growth of facial hair. At first this is very comforting.
The appearance of a reflection means I'm not a vampire, and I can
therefore be reasonably sure that neither Hugh Jackman nor Wesley
Snipes are coming to kill me. But then the tranquility passes and I
remember the matter at hand: What am I going to do about this damn
beard?