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(12/03/01 6:00am)
For many centuries now the internecine conflicts that plague the
history of Islam and the West have ingrained misperceptions in
Western minds. The question of what Muslims really believe and how
they practice their faith has never been an important one to most
people. However, after recent events, this attitude seems to be
changing. The American conscience has awakened to the reality of
the Muslim presence in America. To that end, I will attempt to
outline the \five pillars"" of the Islamic faith, considered by
most to be the major foundations of the Islamic identity.
(11/29/01 6:00am)
As the five-year segregated-fee case now known as Fry v. Board
of Regents of the University of Wisconsin nears a possible
conclusion, questions have arisen concerning the implications for
UW-Madison.
(11/26/01 6:00am)
About 1,200 Marines began moving into southern Afghanistan
Sunday night, marking the introduction of conventional ground
troops into the seven-week-old war, Defense Department officials
said Sunday.
(11/08/01 6:00am)
A proposal to require Wisconsin voters to present a state-issued
ID card at the polls before they vote is expected to be acted on by
the state Assembly today.
(11/07/01 6:00am)
The state Senate approved a bill to speed up BioStar funding by
a one-vote margin Tuesday, one day after the Joint Finance
Committee failed to approve the measure.
(11/06/01 6:00am)
In 1895, Professor Wilhelm Roentgen discovered a strange new
type of radiation. After some experimentation, he had his wife put
her hand between a cathode ray tube and a piece of
radiation-sensitive paper, and found that he could readily see the
shadow of her wedding ring and of the bones in her hand. He called
the mysterious radiation an X-ray, from the mathematical use of X
to stand for an unknown, and so began the science of medical
imaging.
(11/02/01 6:00am)
While the anthrax scare hits Americans, another threat of
bioterrorism may have the potential of attacking America as well.
(10/31/01 6:00am)
In the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks and the subsequent start of
the war effort being waged, emotions have been high on college
campuses. Self-appointed \progressive peace coalitions"" have
spoken out against the U.S. campaign, decrying it as an act of
aggression against the weak. This all presupposes an idea: that war
is inherently unprogressive. To better understand the state the
world is in, we must re-examine some ideas, and, from a liberal
perspective, ask the question: Is war inherently unprogressive and
is peace always the right choice?
(10/29/01 6:00am)
Between 60,000 and 70,000 goblins, ghosts and ghouls, fur
traders in canoes, human beer kegs, walking soup cans and
spandex-legged superheroes roamed the streets of downtown Madison
to celebrate Halloween Saturday.
(10/23/01 6:00am)
The wide-open spaces of an American highway, the spot usually
reserved for announcing the distance to the nearest Burger King,
are now adorned with shimmering stars and stripes and a clich??
patriotic slogan. The far-reaching effects of recent events have
truly sent shockwaves throughout the nation, a point that is
hammered home by the first noticeable change to be permitted in
Monroe, Wis., for more than two decades.
(10/19/01 6:00am)
Barely five weeks after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks brought
air travel in the United States to a sudden halt, a Dane County
Regional Airport official said Thursday that air travel has been
'rapidly' increasing.
(10/15/01 6:00am)
The town of Montrose failed again in its four-year quest to stop
the construction of a WSUM student radio tower when a Dane County
judge refused Friday to issue an injunction stopping UW-Madison
from going ahead with the project.
(10/04/01 6:00am)
Six people are dead and all Greyhound bus departures were halted
at approximately 4:15 a.m. Wednesday, after a passenger of a
Greyhound bus slit the bus driver's throat with a sharp object,
possibly a box-cutter or razor.
(09/25/01 6:00am)
Anyone who has gone for a run or a bike ride on the Lakeshore
Path, taken a hike out to Picnic Point, played intramural soccer,
walked up Observatory Drive between College Library and the Social
Science building or spent any time at the Lakeshore residence halls
has been in contact with some aspect of the Campus Natural Areas.
(09/21/01 6:00am)
In 1881, America's 20th president, James Garfield, was shot and
killed, famous cubist artist Pablo Picasso was born and
construction of the Washburn Observatory of UW-Madison was
completed. Today the same telescope that was used for research of
the solar system until 1951 is open to the public and to university
astronomy students to explore the universe.
(09/20/01 6:00am)
A recently formed city subcommittee on alcohol issues met Monday
as part of a series of 'stakeholder' meetings, in which committee
members receive input from citizens with an interest in how alcohol
is used in Madison.
(09/17/01 6:00am)
In a bridge between the east and west Towers residence halls on
State Street lies an office. It buzzes with people working hard to
produce quality programming for WSUM, Madison Student Radio. Some
UW-Madison students may find it surprising that their campus does,
in fact, have an operating music station, because for several years
it has been without a radio signal and has relied solely on
Internet broadcasting from the station's Web site,
http://www.wsum.wisc.edu . Over the four years that WSUM has been
in existence, there has been a continuing struggle to implement
radio broadcasting, although a license was given to the station by
the Federal Communications Commission to allow for
broadcast.
(09/13/01 6:00am)
Search and rescue teams dug nine survivors out of the rubble of
the World Trade Center towers Wednesday while federal investigators
said they believe they have identified several of the men who
hijacked four transcontinental flights and crashed three of them
into New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon, near
Washington, D.C.
(09/12/01 6:00am)
New embryonic cell lines beyond the 60 or so lines permitted by
the Bush Administration to receive federal funds will be necessary
in the future, the National Academy of Sciences said in a report
released Tuesday.
(09/11/01 6:00am)
With construction on a WSUM student radio tower expected to be
completed this fall, the town of Montrose has again filed suit in
Dane County Circuit Court to stop the project.
