Plan 2008 fails to achieve goals, real change
By Alexis Drutchas | Feb. 25, 2007Plan 2008 needs to be about more than just diversity and should instead seek to reach out to all people, regardless of race, gender, sexuality, class and so on.'
Plan 2008 needs to be about more than just diversity and should instead seek to reach out to all people, regardless of race, gender, sexuality, class and so on.'
Much of the UW men's basketball team's hope of getting a No. 1 seed for the NCAA Tournament was dashed Sunday as they lost 49-48 to Ohio State.'
For a band that doesn't use any lyrics—save one song which reproduces a war movie—Explosions in the Sky has a lot to say. Entering the music world in 1999, the Texas-based group built a style of post-rock instrumental pieces that practically induce a meditative state. It's a skill that has carried them through four studio albums and an original film soundtrack (Friday Night Lights) and has now matured for their entrancing yet depressingly-titled effort All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone.
The Wisconsin women's hockey team advanced to the WCHA Playoff Championship Saturday night, completing a sweep of North Dakota with a 3-0 victory.'
The UW men's hockey team not only lost two games against Michigan Tech this past weekend, they may have also lost any chance of hosting a first-round WCHA series.'
Safety concerns at the SERF have heightened after police arrested a man for stealing a wallet at the facility Thursday evening. '
When it snows in Madison, it blizzards.
Black leather typically says one thing — trouble with a capital ""t"", sometimes in a good way. But in the case of the overstuffed chairs of the Chazen Museum library, it reads more like divinely comfortable and magically plush. However, und'
The Wisconsin women's basketball team fell short at Iowa Sunday afternoon, losing their final game of the regular season and Big Ten play 103-93. With the loss, the Badgers (7-9 Big Ten, 18-11) fell into a four-way tie for fifth place in conference standings going into the Big Ten tournament, earning themselves the No. 7 seed.
The University of Wisconsin men's indoor track and field team continued their dominance at the Big Ten Championships in Bloomington, Ind. over the weekend. The Badgers stretched their streak of consecutive Big Ten Championships to seven.
It seems like Lucinda Williams has been in a constant process of getting over failed relationships for the last decade, and her latest album hasn't come around to change that—thematically, the songs on West detail Williams' intensely personal attempts to deal with the disappointment of love, which is standard turf for her. But in terms of music, West is an effortlessly perfect combination of country, folk, blues and rock that neither she nor many others has ever achieved.
Madison police spent more than 10 hours Friday morning surrounding an apartment building where Valentine's Day robber Anthony Chancy was located. '
Bennett's Smut-N-Eggs, 416 S. Park St., a popular restaurant where patrons could eat and watch pornography, closed its doors this weekend. '
After two botched elections last spring, we hope those running the new online balloting system will work out the kinks well beforehand.'
Last week's tease of spring has got me pissed off. I hate winter, I hate the cold, and right now I'm thinking about how stupid ice fishing is. What idiot does this for leisure?'
WARF provides patent services for UW-Madison researchers.'
Adding to the insult of losing the Big Ten Title to Ohio State Sunday, the UW men's basketball team may have lost junior forward Brian Butch for the rest of the season with an elbow injury.'
In this week's \Going Back to Kali,"" Laura vents her frustrations about Charter Communications.'
In the ""Cancelled"" episode of ""South Park,"" aliens kidnap our tyke heroes, leaving Chef and Jeff Goldblum's scientist from ""Independence Day"" to find out where they've been taken. Goldblum figures out that i'