The band selection for the campus-sponsored Badger Blowout Concert usually causes chatter among students, but this year, the size of the venue is smaller than in years past, drawing criticism from the Wisconsin Union Directorate's music director.
The recently proposed Sudan divestment bill may cost Wisconsin taxpayers and retired public employees nearly half a billion dollars, according to State of Wisconsin Investment Board Director David Mills. '
As the U.S. Congress decides how much funding to give for biomedical research, it must remember that the rest of the world is quickly catching up.'
For some UW-Madison students, the April 3 election will come and go as fast as the tropical fruity drinks in their hands. Still, many of those students who made their way to warmer destinations this spring break remembered to cast an absentee ballot befor'
Wisconsin students and residents could stop unwanted phone calls from telemarketers on their cell phones under new legislation. '
Students and Madison area residents will be able to view 183 international and independent films in their own backyard April 12 to April 15 during the ninth annual Wisconsin Film Festival.'
After nearly a year-long struggle for Registered Student Organization status — the factor that makes a student organization at UW-Madison eligible for large amounts of segregated fee funding — the UW Roman Catholic Foundation was granted the statu'
Junior guards Jolene Anderson and Janese Banks combined for 49 points to lead the Wisconsin women's basketball team past Western Kentucky Wednesday evening at the Kohl Center, 79-72. '
UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication Director James Baughman's latest book ""Same Time, Same Station,"" explores the evolution of television between 1948 and 1961, including the relationship between television programming'
Police seized a Madison man early Wednesday morning after he allegedly broke into a house on the 1100 Block of Mound Street with a knife and later charged at police with the weapon.
In an aggressive move to counter President Bush's war plans, the U.S. Senate signed off on a bill Thursday that provides $123 billion to pay for war costs in Iraq and Afghanistan.'
Would you like balsamic vinaigrette with your ice cream? Students share their odd food combinations that entice their taste buds, but likely do not appeal to their other senses.'
\Clutch are as unclassifiable as they come. Are they metal? Hardcore? Punk? Listening to only one of their albums will likely give the wrong impression,"" writes Brian Sweeney.'
It's official. Just months after Al Gore's theatrical release of ""An Inconvenient Truth"" blew open a political Pandora's box on global warming, a small clan of Ralph Nader crusaders have followed suit, entering the field of ""enlightened people making eye-opening documentaries to inspire Americans"" with their new film ""An Unreasonable Man."" Co-directed by Henriette Mantel and Steve Skrovan, it chronicles the turbulent life of Ralph Nader, a contemporary Don Quixote of consumer advocacy and two-time presidential nominee who, practically overnight, was demoted from beloved public figure to political outcast.
The university-owned Charter Street power plant—known for its single brick smokestack and mountains of coal—has not drawn widespread criticism since a baghouse was installed in 1988 to reduce the once visible cloud of black soot. However, an impending lawsuit by the Sierra Club has brought the plant into the public eye once again.
As UW expands, conserving energy becomes harder and harder.'
Anyone who follows Wisconsin politics knows that Dave Obey has a notoriously short fuse. Anyone who follows Wisconsin politics also knows that the 18-term congressman from Wisconsin's 7th District is one of the most principled and authentic public servants in the country. Thirty-seven years in the U.S. House of Representatives may not have softened his legendary temper, but neither has it eroded his dogged commitment to building a more responsible and transparent federal government.
We encourage the City Council to approve an alcohol permit for the new Majestic Theater.'
The Wisconsin Supreme Court agreed to hear a price-fixing lawsuit that has been brewing in lower courts since March 2004. Filed by two former UW-Madison students, the lawsuit asks the court to eliminate the ban on drink specials and create a class of pers'
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