Students protested a proposed alcohol-consumption policy at a meeting Monday evening at Memorial Union, complete with pitchers of beer.'
Police are investigating the link between an incident where gunshots were heard and a Madison resident was discovered injured early Monday morning, according to a police report.'
1990 Badger football co-captain Nick Polczinski died Feb. 16 at age 39 in his Oconto Falls home, Gannett Newspapers reported Monday. '
Keaton discusses the effect of beer goggles upon unsuspecting bar-goers.'
The Nittany Lions' zone defense never stood a chance as the UW men's basketball team knocked down 12-of-23 3-pointers in the game Saturday at the Kohl Center.'
Wisconsin residents planning to attend the University of Minnesota may soon pay higher tuition.'
While I understand Eric Stringfellow's effort in his Feb. 11 article ""Climate change debate pits science vs. politics"" to rightfully make clear that minority views do exist in the global warming debate, simplistic articles such as these are part of what make the climate change debate very difficult.
If this was indeed Andrew Joudrey's last weekend playing at home as a Wisconsin Badger, it was a memorable one.'
Even though the Wisconsin women's basketball team got off to an explosive start, senior All-American candidate Katie Gearlds of No. 15 Purdue carried her team by scoring a career-high 41 points, as the Boilermakers triumphed at the Kohl Center Sunda'
The war chests of state politicians seeking re-election could shrink under a new bill that would prohibit them from receiving political contributions while the state budget awaits approval. '
Students may have to hand over an extra $500 over two years to pay for their tuition if Gov. Jim Doyle's budget gets passed as it is written. '
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It seems like common sense that a lawmaker entrusted with the power to regulate the private sector should not be allowed to take up a lucrative position lobbying for those very same industries immediately after leaving office. Yet this very scenario has played out over and over at all levels of government.
The Badger women's hockey team stormed into the postseason this weekend, closing out its regular season with a sweep of Bemidji State, winning 2-0 and 6-0 behind shutouts by goalies Jessie Vetter and Christine Dufour.
Imagine a saucy new reality television show featuring nine people forced to work together making major decisions about hot-button issues of our country. Well, maybe that's a stretch, but if a few select members of the U.S. Senate get what they want, we may soon have new means of satisfying our fix for reality melodrama in the form of telecasted U.S. Supreme Court proceedings.
Todd Field's ""Little Children"" lives and breathes the language of American suburbia—not just the grating drone of daytime chatter, but also the hidden bitterness of lives spent in unhappy marriages, among horrible, sex-starved, pointless people. Like all good satires, it feels closer to the truth than the most precise of photographs. A barely interested narrator, whose monotone voice suggests dull scientific study, provides commentary throughout. The effect is quietly hilarious, like a futile effort to be reasonable and calm.
In the past five years, plenty of films have been made dealing with the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and their aftereffects, both directly and indirectly. But Billy Ray's ""Breach"" is the first film to depict, with a palpable level of historical perspective, what the immediate pre-9/11 world was like.
Located on Williamson Street in the heart of Madison's artsy coffee-shop neighborhood, the Broom Street Theater has had a reputation since 1968 of putting on original shows with radical subject matter. The theater has a long history of facing government opposition to putting a radical theater in Madison, but managed to stay afloat—keeping alive its mission to make sure no idea will ever be off-limits and to guarantee society's norms can always be challenged.
The Badger men's basketball team made Saturday into a statement game, defeating lowly Penn State by 26 at the Kohl Center.'
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