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(02/05/13 5:48am)
First, let’s get this straight. I’m a huge football fan. Super Bowl Sunday is one of my favorite days out of the year. Football. Wings. Drinking. The only thing that would make it better would be if my favorite team had actually made the big game. Sadly, though, they did not. And so, for the 18th time in my life, I sat through a game that has absolutely no bearing on my fandom. Only this time, I took notes. On everything but the game.
(02/05/13 4:24am)
Press X to “insert good deed here,” press B to “insert bad deed here.” These boring prompts seem to permeate nearly every genre of game nowadays. The prevailing belief is that if developers add choice, their game will immediately morph into something tasteful that tests the moral fiber of its audience.
(02/04/13 6:00am)
Perhaps no college major inspires greater fear in the hearts of well-wishing parents than that of art. The very term “Art Major” arouses imagery of the delicate Narcissus smoking cigarettes in a dark corner and listing to Ani DiFranco on a record player. But the stigma extends beyond the collegial: is a serious career in art plausible? In a field that supposedly values aesthetics over marketability, are even its most skilled practitioners condemned to a life of Raman and broken stencils?
(02/04/13 12:16am)
Looking through my WiscMail this week, I noticed something, or rather someone, was missing from my inbox. Whereas last fall the president, vice president and other prominent politicians had flooded my inbox—often sending messages that had personal subject lines addressing me as “friend”—this semester, I had to search just to find one email. A little hurt that the president seemed to be avoiding me, I thought I’d send him a message to check in.
(01/30/13 12:20am)
With old man winter making it colder than a witch’s tit out there, I’ve found myself dreaming of sipping on a piña colada while gently swaying side to side on a hammock. The warm breeze rustles my hair so it tickles my nose and fills the air with the scent of the sea. My pasty skin gradually deepens to a beautiful bronze that fake-and-bakers just cannot match from cancerous tanning beds. Perhaps a cabana boy refills my glass and brings me freshly sliced mangoes on a silver platter.
(01/29/13 1:32am)
For this upcoming article, would all my esteemed readers please imagine Damian Lewis reading this in his normal voice.
(01/22/13 12:08am)
Over this past winter break, UW’s student-run organization Textile and Apparel Student Association (TASA) was fortunate enough to travel to New York City to meet with several distinguished designers and fashion companies. Of the companies visited, TASA had the pleasure to meet with the founder and creative director of Boy Meets Girl, a company founded by one of UW’s very own, Stacy Igel. Igel graduated from UW with three degrees: Design, Retail and Business—very much preparing herself for the roles she would take on when starting her own company.
(12/14/12 10:55pm)
The last week has provided more than enough material for sports writers around here. With Bret Bielema deciding to leave the head coaching job at UW for the same position at the University of Arkansas, think about all of the potential angles to the story.
(12/08/12 9:24pm)
The Wisconsin football team conducted practice without Bret Bielema at the helm of the program for the first time in seven years Saturday afternoon. With Barry Alvarez adding interim head coaching duties to his standing duties as the school’s director of athletics, the energy level appeared to be high throughout.
(12/07/12 4:35am)
was the evenings before Finals, when all through the halls. Creatures were stirring, but no booty calls. The homeworks were done with speed without care, the presence of Finals loomed in the air.
(12/06/12 3:40am)
With the Supreme Court to rule on affirmative action this session—Fisher v. University of Texas—and our university to design a new Diversity Plan—our previous plan expired in ’08—I thought it appropriate to take a look at the idea of diversity as tied to ethnicity and address its misguided and racist nature. It’s a touchy subject and I really hope that I can have an open conversation with individuals about the topic. Feel free to comment on the article online or send me an email at snemcek@wisc.edu.
(12/05/12 9:30am)
Bret Bielema’s seven-year tenure as the Wisconsin football team’s head coach came to a sudden, unexpected end Tuesday when he was hired by the Arkansas Razorbacks, throwing the UW program into a state of turmoil four weeks before the Badgers face Stanford in the Rose Bowl.
(12/05/12 5:23am)
As we settle into the warm, fleece-lined crevices of our winter coats and guard against the frigid, winds of a Wisconsin winter, its hard not to have one’s mind directed toward certain seasonal traditions and celebrations.
(12/05/12 5:19am)
I’m unbelievably excited for winter break. It’s been years—and yes, I mean years—since I’ve been on a legit vacation. But wait, there’s more—I’m going to one of the happiest places on Earth: Southern California.
(12/04/12 8:30pm)
UPDATE: UW Athletic Director Barry Alvarez has issued a press release stating:
(12/04/12 4:48am)
Franchises, developers and publishers can all easily disappear in a multi-billion dollar industry. Acclaim was once the cream of the game publisher crop, but they filed for bankruptcy in 2004. Now, in lieu of the recent THQ humble bundle (which allows gamers to name their price for a bundle of a variety of the company’s games) that went online, I thought it pertinent to reflect on this fledgling company that’s losing money faster than Jean Ralphio’s Entertainment 720 on “Parks and Recreation.”
(12/03/12 5:17am)
Dear Alex,
(12/03/12 3:12am)
Samy from five weeks ago would not recognize Samy today. My life has been forever changed, quite suddenly, by Michael Jackson.
(11/28/12 2:43am)
With the Dec. 21 deadline for application rapidly approaching, the University of Wisconsin-Madison is on the brink of beginning its search for a proficient replacement to Interim Chancellor David Ward. As an editorial board and as students, we believe that it is necessary for certain qualities to be embodied by the incoming chancellor, whoever he or she may be.
(11/28/12 2:41am)
No one likes The Man. All he does is sit up in his tower and tell us what we can’t do. “No, Mitch, you can’t play tag with trucks on the interstate,” or “No, Mitch, you can’t light furniture on fire,” or “No, Mitch, you can’t perform open-heart surgery.” The Man is the reason there isn’t a system of ziplines across campus to get us to our classes and the reason The Bear Olympics isn’t a thing. The Man is smart though, and one thing he does let us do is publicly oppose him.
