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(09/16/13 5:18am)
It seems to be a sick, dramatic irony that the protesting proponents for a higher minimum wage, or a “living wage” as the left has now incongruously deemed it, are acting in accordance with principles of ritualistic self-sacrifice. Minimum wage laws destroy low-skilled jobs and hurt the very economic class the “do-gooders” are trying to save. The very real efforts of these practitioners of self-immolation give metaphorical credence to the eternal aphorism “The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.” While unfortunate, much of progressive history has been steeped with racist and sexist policy. From eugenics advocacy, race-based abortion advancement and defending Jim Crow laws, to special legislation purporting that women must work fewer hours because they were responsible for bearing future generations (and thus were collective property), well-meaning progressives seem to be eternally on the wrong side of history. This time is no different. The persistent push for increasing minimum wage laws hurts low-skilled laborers who are more represented in the lower income brackets.
(09/12/13 3:13am)
I’m becoming a Zen master.
(09/11/13 4:07am)
Toward the end of August, an idea dawned on me that I wish had dawned on me sooner, since it (in retrospect) seems so obviously beneficial, munificent, edifying, etc. Toward the end of August, I bought a wordbook at the bookstore.
(09/03/13 3:41am)
The most frustrating question I was asked this past summer was, “Why did you choose to go to school in Wisconsin?”
(07/26/13 5:08am)
Every festival during the summer is obligated to some sort of inclement weather, generally either scorching heat or rain. The first day of Pitchfork 2013 unfortunately suffered from an overabundance of both to almost comical, God-rebuking degrees. There’s nothing more disheartening than walking down the road toward Union Park and reading a bank sign’s proud declaration that it’s 104 outside.
(06/03/13 10:03am)
Tuition within the University of Wisconsin System will likely be frozen for the next two years after the state’s Joint Finance Committee approved an omnibus motion May 23 relating to the UW System, but other portions of the approved motion have UW students, specifically those associated with United Council, worried.
(06/03/13 9:47am)
We asked your fellow Badgers what they wish they had known coming into freshman year and what they wished they had learned at SOAR. This is the advice they had to share with you:
(06/03/13 4:20am)
First things first, new Badgers: Congratulations! You’ve finally made it to the wonderful University of Wisconsin-Madison, where fun grows on trees and new friends come at you in droves. Yay!
(05/06/13 5:53am)
The low turnout and peaceful, law-abiding nature of 2013 Mifflin Street Block Party attendees allowed police to send officers home earlier than expected, lessening the cost to tax-payers and inspiring the city to look into decreasing patrol levels at future Mifflin Street Block Parties, according to Madison Police Department Lt. Dave McCaw.
(05/03/13 8:32am)
Despite their arrest at the 2012 Mifflin Street Block Party and the Madison Police Department’s promise of a stricter, zero tolerance policy, some of the 103 students arrested last year plan to celebrate all the same, if not with little more discretion.
(05/03/13 7:21am)
For anyone who has suffered through a cold, drawn-out Wisconsin winter, there is little to brag about when describing the weather in the Midwest. While walking more than a quarter of a mile outside in early February is often a challenge, battling the harsh conditions of an often non-existent spring proves to be even more difficult for softball players. Such an unforgiving climate makes for a few months of almost solely indoor practices and numerous cross-country road trips for the Wisconsin softball team.
(04/30/13 1:49am)
Expectations breed discontent. Oftentimes no matter how artfully a development team delivers on their original vision, fans will be dissatisfied with the final product. That's not unexpected. But what's frustrating are bandwagoners jumping on this spiraling vortex of Internet backlash against a well-received game by virtue of more in-depth critiques.
(04/26/13 9:31pm)
Before any of his new songs were released, the announcement of Snoop Doggs’s self-proclaimed reincarnation into the Rastafarian reggae singer Snoop Lion triggered a sense of puzzled amusement and skepticism in the internet-savvy public. Fans of celebrity gossip laughed in the same voyeuristic way they might laugh at Lindsay Lohan’s next arrest, yet Snoop Lion has maintained his enthusiasm. Society’s verdict softened, and it seems Snoop Lion has been granted his chance. Early single “Here Comes the King” was a little annoying, but still just catchy and quirky enough to set high hopes—if not expectations—for Snoop Lion’s debut, Reincarnated. His dedication to the project is admirable, but not enough to make up for the general lack of quality on this album. I wish it weren’t the case, but Snoop Dogg is the superior alias of Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr.
(04/19/13 7:52am)
The Badgers’ football team, under first-year head coach Gary Andersen, will sing “On Wisconsin” after every game. Win or lose, home or away, Andersen says he owes it to the fans to put on a show.
(04/18/13 3:01am)
Noted cartoonist Alison Bechdel spoke to University of Wisconsin-Madison students Wednesday in an event co-sponsored by the Wisconsin Union Directorate’s Distinguished Lecture Series, the UW-Madison LGBT campus center and the New Harvest Foundation.
(04/17/13 6:22am)
With warm(ish) temperatures arriving earlier this week, it feels like summer is near, or as I like to call it, the transition from bitching -about-the-cold to bitching-about- sweating. Seriously, I could have four people fanning me like I’m Cleopatra and I’d still sweat walking the 10 minutes to class. I really wish sweat was a vestigial trait like wisdom teeth, or an appendix you could just opt out of or have surgically removed. I’d give my life savings to pay for that procedure.
(04/11/13 7:18am)
This is the second story in a two-part series spotlighting sexual assault survivor Laura Dunn, a 2007 University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate, who became a primary advocate for the Campus Sexual Violence Elimination Act, which President Barack Obama signed into law March 7 under the Violence Against Women Act.
(04/11/13 5:16am)
There’s an odd stench in the air at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. No, it’s not the billow of reefer stemming from Don’s creative team. No, that my friends is the debilitating odor of death. The office is no stranger to death, but this season seems a more macabre meditation on mortality.
(04/11/13 4:30am)
Forensic consultant and sexual assault researcher David Lisak spoke with University of Wisconsin-Madison students about his research Wednesday at a campus sexual assault summit.
(04/09/13 5:42am)
The Daily Cardinal caught up with George Watsky to discuss his tour, newly released album and the YouTube video that made him famous.
