Nearly a week after Madison saw its first snow emergency, snow piled in banks and caked with salty debris rests alongside the debate between city officials and area environmentalists over how much salt is necessary to spread.'
The Wisconsin men's tennis team will open its 2007 season Saturday when it hosts Butler and Northern Illinois at Nielsen Tennis Stadium. The action begins when the Badgers take on Butler at 10 a.m. The match against Northern Illinois is set to begin at 3 p.m.
UW-Oshkosh head football coach, Phil Meyer, resigned Tuesday and announced his plans to join the University of Minnesota football program as offensive line coach.'
Perhaps the only redeeming feature in an otherwise nondescript season for the Green Bay Packers was their final game. With a chance at a .500 season after a 4-8 start, the Green and Gold traveled to Chicago and soundly beat the best team in the NFC. And make no mistake about it: anyone who says the Bears were not up for that game is not versed in this rivalry.
In the world of college athletics, many talented players come and go, especially in the rich tradition of University of Wisconsin hockey. However, it is only a few times in a generation that a player exudes the same excellence on the ice that he does in his commitment to the community. Captain Andrew Joudrey has established himself as one of these special individuals.
The UW women's basketball team got their second win of the season over Michigan Thursday night.'
The streaking UW men's basketball team hits the road to face Iowa Sunday, but will make a pit stop in Platteville, Wis. Saturday for a special honor.'
A new state plan unveiled Thursday could connect patients and doctors in a new wayA-: digitally.
After years of petty lawsuits and other roadblocks, the music industry threw in the way of the natural evolution of the music industry model, it is finally seeing the light. This could very well be a consumer equivalent to VJ Day. '
Elected at only 21 years old, King brought a fresh young perspective and progressive politics to the council. Eventually, he earned the crown as the youngest council president ever. However, lacking the perspective that comes with more life experience, Ki'
Mayor Dave Cieslewicz's Streetcar Study Committee may not be the only entity deciding the fate of his proposal to add streetcars to Madison to address growing congestion and pollution problems. '
UW-Madison Undergraduate School of Business Dean Mike Knetter said the school needs the currently proposed tuition increase to maintain the quality of the school, at an informational meeting in Grainger Hall Thursday. '
Anthony Amos, 32, was arrested Wednesday night on charges of drug possession with intent to deliver. Amos recently made his way onto Madison's Most Wanted list for his involvement with drugs.
Preview of weekend series against Minnesota State.'
When it comes to Hollywood directors, Clint Eastwood has a fascinating anomaly of a career. We used to regard him primarily as the squinty icon that popularized characters as integral to great cinema as Josey Wales, Dirty Harry and the Man With No Name. Even though he's been directing movies since 1971, including modern classics like ""The Outlaw Josey Wales"" and ""Unforgiven,"" Eastwood has never entered a true artistic prime as a director; that is, until the last few years. With the one-two punch of ""Mystic River"" and ""Million Dollar Baby,"" Eastwood made us forget all the ""Blood Works"" and ""Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evils"" and re-established himself as one of the best contemporary American filmmakers. And now, with ""Letters From Iwo Jima,"" a focused and assured tour de force that ranks as one of the greatest war movies ever made, Eastwood has given us what is arguably his best film yet.
As the battle between the understaffed and underfunded in UW-Madison's Department of Comparative Literature and the College of Letters and Science drags on, the department may be in danger of being phased out, said a recent letter posted on the department's website.
Pop music went into cardiac arrest quite a few years ago. You can blame it on the evolution of recording technology that allowed producers to turn almost anyone into a Grammy winner, or you can even blame the recording industry's desire to sign moneymakers over true talent, but somewhere along the way Michael Jackson turned white, Ashlee Simpson went platinum and pop went to hell. Raw talent was traded in for an image""a product, and it's safe to say that music is no longer the love of many pop stars' lives, but an easy starting point for them to build their resumé.
After four years of serving the local music community, Madison's music publication Rick's CafAc has announced it will cease operation due to declining revenues.
A brief idea of the military history program at Madison.'
In this week's \Going Back to Kali,"" Laura discusses her struggles with sleep without the background noise of a television.'
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