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It has been 18 months since the Teaching Assistants' Association walked back into classrooms following an unsuccessful and unpopular strike. Still operating under a contract negotiated in 2001, teaching assistants are scheduled to enter mediated discussions with UW officials in upcoming weeks. Given that recent talks have proven unfruitful for the TAA, we anticipate that upcoming negotiations will be highly sensitive affairs, invoking passionate pleas from union members and student supporters. However, if one state lawmaker has his way, the TAA's right to collective bargaining will soon disappear.
Thanks to advertisements portraying iPods as parties for one, the MP3 players have become lucrative gadgets that embody the individualism of society. On this campus and nationwide, iPods have become as American as apple pie. Even our president, always enjoying the simple (minded) things in life, listens to his favorite tunes on an iPod and recently released his playlist to the media. As former Microsoft loyalists succumb to Apple's forbidden fruit, Microsoft chair Bill Gates must seriously evaluate the power of podvertising or risk surrendering the market for MP3 players entirely.
The recent proposal to increase the beer tax may give hope to improving the binge-drinking problem here at UW-Madison. Binge drinking has been one of the most frustrating problems confronted by the Wisconsin government and UW-Madison officials. Although the school is one of the top 10 public schools in the nation, it is also the country's number two party school, according to the Princeton Review.
Spring has come around and the Greek system has brought back Humorology, the mini Broadway-esque musicals, and this year the theme is \Make It Happen.""
Let's get one thing straight right off the bat: Beck Hansen is the definition of cool. Throughout his decade-plus-long career as the music industry's most ingenious re-inventor, he has given us something dramatically new with each album, splashing through genres and eras like some mad new age cowboy determined to wreak havoc on the norm. He is truly a unique entity.
The annual Marcia Legere Student Play Festival kicks off tonight at 7:30 PM as three one-act student plays take the stage in Memorial Union's Fredric March Play Circle.
In an effort to clean up a 2001 ordinance ridden with lobbying loopholes, members of Madison's City Council will aim to make business owners who are in frequent contact with alders and city officials register as lobbyists.
The suicide rate of people under the age of 25 in Wisconsin is 36 percent higher than the national average, according to a recent study conducted by Dr. Stephen Hargarten, Richard Withers and Dr. Thomas Shiffler of the Medical College of Wisconsin.
At intermission of this Saturday's Halloween Bash, a break from the contest between Wisconsin's women's volleyball team (7-3 Big Ten, 13-5 overall) and No. 2 Minnesota (9-1, 20-2), a costume contest will be held for fans that dressed up. ESPN2 will broadcast live from the Field House, and all fans covered in a costume receive free admission.
\Drawn Together"" could have been called ""Slapped Together"" and the title would have made a lot more sense. Every ingredient in the show gets tossed in haphazardly, and the producers were probably hoping everything would mix into a hilarious cartoon. They didn't succeed.
The State Street Design Project Oversight Committee met Thursday to make the final decisions on the Phase I of the State Street Design project and talk about the progress of Phase II.
That big gray monster, this mass co-opting culture of yours and mine, the same thing that ate up the '60s, punk, hip-hop and Tolkien, is eating up poker. It has given poker as much glitz as Jessica Simpson. And it is a sad thing. We, as poker-playing UW-Madison students, should be conscious of this drastic change in a storied American tradition, because it shows just how much mass pop culture shapes us.
The Major League Baseball Players Association is killing the game of baseball. Instead of trying to better the game, they are greedily trying to defeat the owners on every issue at the bargaining table, regardless of whether it makes baseball as a whole better or worse.
The 13th-ranked Wisconsin wrestling team enjoyed a successful conclusion to an impressive regular season with a dominating 28-6 victory over Northwestern at the Field House Friday night.The win improved the Badgers to 4-4 Big Ten, 17-6 overall and Northwestern remained winless in the conference (0-7 Big Ten, 9-8 overall).
My friend Tom had to go to the emergency room Friday, and I found the late-night waiting room gruesomely fascinating. I don't mean to say fascinatingly gruesome, because it's not the blood. It's people rendered vulnerable and wretched by sudden circumstances, and while I hated myself for watching and listening, I couldn't help it.
Citing the state's $3.2 billion budget deficit, the Joint Committee on Employment Relations unanimously accepted Gov. Jim Doyle's proposal Tuesday to prevent wage increases for non-unionized UW System faculty and staff.
As the school year gets under way, university and city police say they often have to ticket large numbers of moped users who do not know or follow traffic and parking rules for mopeds.