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(02/02/06 6:00am)
In the city that never sleeps, Carrie Bradshaw, of HBO's 'Sex
and the City,' always slept around. The paycheck for her New York
City sex column funded a spacious Manhattan flat, luncheons at
five-star restaurants and packs of slims as sleek as the heels of
her $485 Manolo Blahnik stilettos.
(01/26/06 6:00am)
Almost as quickly as the Senate ratified President Bush's No
Child Left Behind Act in 2002, it abandoned the policy on the
proverbial doorstep. In another step toward prioritizing education
last month, Senate Republicans sneaked a $3.75 billion college-aid
provision into the budget. Both bills have potential to improve
public education on the condition that they do not get left behind.
(01/19/06 6:00am)
As the new poster child of eating disorders, actress Lindsay
Lohan stars in 'thinspiration' photo galleries for pro-eating
disorder, or pro-ED, websites. The starving starlet does not
endorse pro-ED groups, but Lohan's social status makes her a
standard for beauty. Lohan, among other leading ladies whose
starved bodies serve as trophies of perfection, exacerbates our
nation's addiction to thin.
(01/13/06 6:00am)
In anticipation of his sixth year in office, President Bush
celebrated a politically correct winter holiday and ushered in 2006
at his Texas ranch where he suffered a cedar tree attack. In case
you missed it, the President recounted his cedar incident on New
Year's Day after visiting veterans from the Amputee Care Center of
Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio Texas.
(12/12/05 6:00am)
Last week, a U.N. climate conference concluded with the Bush
Administration maintaining opposition to the Kyoto Protocol. As a
concession, the administration consented to exploring new
discussions, but under a loophole that renders talks 'open and
nonbinding' and void of 'any negotiations leading to new
commitments.' Meanwhile, the globe warmed up as the United States
pumped out the highest levels of greenhouse gases in the world.
(12/05/05 6:00am)
At a dinner party during her tenure as national security
advisor, Condoleezza Rice referred to President Bush as 'my
husband' before quickly correcting herself. Rice never took vows of
matrimony when she came to office as Secretary of State in 2004,
but the oath she took when confirming the position bound her to a
four-year Bush administration ball and chain.
(11/28/05 6:00am)
Like Hallmark set the trend by creating a commercialized holiday
in February, mass retailers followed suit by selling December
between the pages of glossy catalogues. Millions of shoppers awoke
at dawn (or earlier) last Friday to deck one another while decking
the halls with merchandise purchased at low, low prices. However,
for most retail chains, the process of decking the halls began long
ago. As a result, winter holidays receive virtually no recognition
for their religious roots.
(11/21/05 6:00am)
Years ago, coal miners relied on canaries to alert workers if
levels of toxic gases in the mineshaft reached dangerous levels. If
the songbirds went silent, miners immediately fled the shaft.
Today, as the Bush administration pushes to renew the majority of
the Patriot Act, the nation relies on canaries in the Senate to
protect Americans from the dangers of data mining.
(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.
(11/07/05 6:00am)
For some, 'Hail Mary' represents a sacred prayer recited
ritualistically by devout Catholics. For others, 'Hail Mary'
represents a football play executed as a last-ditch effort to win
the game. Yet, at public universities nationwide, the distinction
between church and state remains blurry as football teams
collectively engage in prayers and attend religious
services.
(10/31/05 6:00am)
After a weekend of engaging in illicit behavior, many students
will face Halloween with the sobering reality that their decisions
landed them out of favor with the law. The same goes for I. Lewis
Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, who faces
the sobering reality of indictment on five felony charges for
providing investigators with fictitious testimony and misleading
the grand jury in the CIA leak case. When the public comes knocking
on the White House door for the truth this holiday, the
administration can no longer peddle sugary lies.
(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.
(10/17/05 6:00am)
The Student Services Finance Committee's vote Thursday to slash
the majority of SAFEwalk's budget will permanently bench many
red-shirted SAFEwalkers-all for the sake of green. Money issues
permeated the debate over the SAFEwalk decision as SSFC members
assessed the \value"" of walking a student home versus that of
providing a ""free"" cab ride. Although the misguided compromise
initially appeases the SSFC and appears like a boon for the
reallocation of students' segregated fees, it will drastically
increase the cost of SAFEride and future financial burden.
(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.
(10/04/05 6:00am)
Each morning in Madison, the dawn breaks on a line of red-eyed
consumers waiting to fill up on the precious fluid that empties
wallets, relies on foreign production and provides energy for
forward motion. At over two dollars a unit, coffee provides the
fuel for life. But before caffeine addicts imbibe just any java,
they should support the livelihood of those who produce their
coffee by purchasing fair trade brew.
(09/26/05 6:00am)
Ronald McDonald might want to seek legal counsel from Joe Camel
in light of efforts by Bill Lockyer, attorney general of
California, to label chips and fries with the warning, \This
product contains a chemical known to the state of California to
cause cancer."" In a debate more heated than vats of boiling oil,
the food industry and U.S. Food and Drug Administration have taken
action to prevent the cautionary label from appearing, and have
thereby endangered consumer health.
(09/19/05 6:00am)
Prime time television lost its virginity in 2005. After years of
abstaining from airing condom ads during peak ratings, the major
networks aired a prime time Trojan commercial. The new \Make a
Difference"" campaign intends to decrease the incidences of STDs
and HIV/AIDS by encouraging sexually active men and women to use
protection. Awareness of HIV/AIDS must be raised, but the message
should not come packaged in a Trojan horse.
(09/12/05 6:00am)
When Mattel Inc. introduced Barbie in 1959, this infamous blonde
had only one objective-to look good. Yet, Barbie gradually moved
from a passive object to an active representative of female
advancement, now claiming over 80 professions and 45 nationalities.
(09/06/05 6:00am)
Congratulations, Badgers: We guzzled, gulped, groped and gagged
our way to an honor never yet realized in the history of our
beer-blooded student body. We received Princeton Review's highest
honor as the No. 1 party school in the nation. Like a fly preserved
in a jello shot, frozen in time, our alma mater will go down in the
history books as the school that always parties and never sleeps.
Except during lecture.
(08/31/05 6:00am)
Congratulations, Badgers: We guzzled, gulped, groped and gagged
our way to an honor never yet realized in the history of our
beer-blooded student body. We received Princeton Review's highest
honor as the No. 1 party school in the nation. Like a fly preserved
in a jello shot, frozen in time, our alma mater will go down in the
history books as the school that always parties and never sleeps.
Except during lecture.