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(10/16/02 6:00am)
An interstate showdown will take place tonight as the No. 8 UW
men's soccer team (1-2 Big Ten, 7-5-0 overall) take on their
rivals, the No. 11 UW-Milwaukee Panthers (3-0 Horizon League, 9-1-1
overall), at home. The Badgers, coming off of a disappointing 5-1
loss to the Indiana Hoosiers, are looking to improve on their
record against the Panthers. The Badgers, coached by first-year
Head Coach Jeff Rohrman, look forward to having home field
advantage.
(10/10/02 6:00am)
In 1990, the Minnesota Republicans made the unfortunate
discovery that their nominee for governor, family-values
conservative Jon Grunseth, was a pedophile. With only eight days
left on the clock, the ruling Democrats let them change the
ballots, knowing full well they would have a harder time against
the popular new competitor, Arne Carlson.
(10/03/02 6:00am)
On Friday, Sept. 27, this paper was honored to feature a guest
editorial by South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a hero of the
anti-apartheid movement in his native country and elsewhere. Bishop
Tutu supplied what has to be among the most dignified arguments in
favor of the Israeli divestment movement that has appeared on
various college campuses such as UC-Berkeley, Michigan and Harvard.
Unlike others, he took great pains to emphasize Israel's status as
the lone democracy in the Middle East and avoided any hint of
anti-Semitism while still emphasizing his profound disagreement
with Israeli policy in the Occupied Territories. However, he
nevertheless invoked arguments deserving of a reply, and I shall
endeavor to answer him with the utmost respect.
(09/26/02 6:00am)
Last spring, confronted by massive new spending and segregated
fee increases, the student body elected a more conservative
Associated Students of Madison. They wanted something different,
and so far have not been let down. This year's Student's Services
Finance Committee has started off by denying eligibility altogether
to certain previously funded groups, citing no discernible service
provided to the student body for the public dollar. Among others,
the InfoShop and the Labor Center have been cut off entirely, and
it's not irrational to say that organizations such as the
Multicultural Student's Coalition, which received massive increases
last year, will be decreased by a significant margin. The InfoShop
should serve as a great example of why there has been such a
backlash, and that these budget cuts are not only valid, but may
serve to spur a renewed sense of purpose for the membership.
(09/19/02 6:00am)
Anyone who reads The Capital Times, The State Journal, The
Journal Sentinel or that fantastic website, WisPolitics.com, will
read constantly of one scandal or another: the caucuses this, Brian
Burke that; Chuck Chvala this, Scott Jensen that; Gary George, Dan
McMurray; the list goes on and on. Wisconsin, whose political
observers have long admired the state's tradition of clean
government dating back to the reforms of \Fighting Bob"" La
Follette, can only despair at Wisconsin's continued decline into
the ethical dumps. It is important, however, to add a different
perspective: you call this stuff scandal?
(09/12/02 6:00am)
Owing to the primaries across the country this week, and last
week's column on the importance of primaries in the determination
of a political party's direction and the overall health of
democracy, here's a review of Tuesday's elections. With the
exception of local nut Ron Greer's nomination to face Rep. Tammy
Baldwin D-Madison, the results show an electorate desiring
moderation, politicians who seek that middle succeeding and a
desire for proven, reliable public service.
(09/05/02 6:00am)
American democracy, like any form of democracy, cannot guarantee
proper representation of the people unless the people make a
decided effort to involve themselves in the election process. Many
point with sadness to the low turnout that occurs in American
general elections and can only look at Europe, whose own turnout is
consistently falling to meet ours, as some sort of city on a hill.
Many non-voters will point to dissatisfaction with the nominees
given to them from our two political parties. How sad, then, that a
vast majority of even those who do bother to vote on Election Day
almost never turn out for the determination of the party candidates
themselves, something not enjoyed by Europeans, our
primaries.
(09/05/02 6:00am)
College life can be tough. Some of us are underpaid, underfed,
undersexed or just plain under-accomplished. We all need to get
away sometimes. We all need an occasional trip to the movies.
(04/23/02 6:00am)
Critics of our two-party, single-member district system often
point to European countries, with their proportional representation
and runoff systems, as shining cities on a hill that we should seek
to emulate. Sometimes they have small victories, such as the recent
passage of instant runoff voting in San Francisco municipal
elections. Other times, they have spectacular failures, such as the
spoiling of the 2000 election, to illustrate what happens when one
leaves the two-party system. Rarely, though, does a failure of
their own proposed systems become so obvious as in France over the
weekend, with conservative President Jaques Chirac and fascist
Jean-Marie Le Pen headed to a runoff.
(04/12/02 6:00am)
\It is not necessary to condemn the suicide bombers,"" said
Palestinian Foreign Minister Farouk Kaddoumi at the Organization of
the Islamic Conference in Malaysia. He then began an extended
oration against Israel and all they have done to deserve the
attacks at Passover Seders, shopping malls and other places where
civilians congregate to go about their daily business. From a
military standpoint, this makes sense enough: A kill ratio of 15
(roughly the average of Israeli civilians killed in a successful
attack) to one (the suicide bomber himself) is something any
general would drool over. The only questions remaining are: What
sort of sick mind considers people at a Seder or shopping at a mall
to be legitimate targets, and why does our government not condemn
such a regime to be an enemy on the same level as al Qaeda?
(04/03/02 6:00am)
I saw a rock star last weekend. It was a pretty good concert,
complete with lots of flashy lights and eager fans. The rock star
played some songs off his new album. He also did a few of those
rock star jumps, where the momentum of a particularly fierce guitar
riff picks the musician up into the air. He struck some nice poses
too, looking for all the world like he was playing in some big
arena instead of a medium sized club. The bassist kept jerking his
head like an ostrich on speed, while the hipster drummer stayed in
the back and tried to look cool.
(03/11/02 6:00am)
The table is set. Office pools are brewing. But only four teams
in the field of 65 can boast of their respective No. 1 seeds in
this year's NCAA tournament.
(03/07/02 6:00am)
During the 2000 election we saw them on our campus for Ralph
Nader and the far left. In 1996 and 1992, Ross Perot got all the
headlines with his who-knows-what agenda. John Anderson ran as a
centrist in 1980, George Wallace on the far right in 1968 and Henry
Wallace and Strom Thurmond on the far left and far right,
respectively, in 1948. Some people claim erroneously that Lincoln
was one of them in 1860. Right now, Ed Thompson occasionally visits
the campus to cash in on the same spirit. Just what is the
fascination with third parties, and why do they always seem to
capture some people's imaginations?
(02/08/02 6:00am)
Sex Out Loud right near the Pro-Life Action League; UW Atheists
neighbors the Campus Ministry; Stop the War Coalition a
well-deserved stone's throw from the College Republicans;
Socialists right across from the economics club. All this could be
found at the student organizational fair Wednesday, and it all made
for some entertaining sights and sounds.
(01/25/02 6:00am)
Imagine spending a Saturday afternoon throwing your body into a
pool of freezing water cut out of a sheet of solid ice. After
immersing yourself in below-freezing water, your body shakes and
shivers and welcomes the heat of the hot tub you quickly jump into.
(01/25/02 6:00am)
Upon arriving in college or simply watching the movie \PCU,""
one spots a certain breed of college personality commonly known as
the activist'young idealists who think one person can change the
world and that change can and should be immediate. Their common
traits include a bright smile, a decent sense of humor and a
prejudice that their own beliefs are a self-evident truth, in
little or no need of any rhetorical defense. Those who read the
opinion pages of the Cardinal, the Capital Times or that other
college paper should know what I'm talking about. However, in my
own experience I have found that nothing dispels these notions
quite like real work in politics.
(11/28/01 6:00am)
Well, they said it couldn't be done, but naysayers were proven
wrong when the Associated Students of Madison approved a doubling
of our segregated fees in a single year and, barring some
intervention by the UW System Board of Regents, it will happen.
Besides the usual budget increases, the Multicultural Student
Coalition, an organization most famous for protesting against the
freedom of speech (remember the David Horowitz debacle?), will
receive the greatest share of segregated fees, a system established
for encouraging free debate. We must ask the simple question of how
this happened.
(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?
(10/18/01 6:00am)
The Wisconsin Senate voted unanimously to confirm UW-Whitewater
student Tommie L. Jones as the student representative on the UW
System Board of Regents Tuesday.
(10/04/01 6:00am)
Pacifism: The doctrine that a woman who carries her keys in
attack position is on the same moral level as a rapist.