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Reader of the Day

Emily Pomeranz, a UW-Madison junior, is still recovering from her summer internship in New Mexico. '

Ben brings old songs back into the fold

Victory in silver lining for gay marriage group

Homosexuality is becoming more acknowledged and more accepted every day in society, if not yet in the legal statutes. Fair Wisconsin may have come up short in 2006, but, sooner or later, a day will inevitably come when gay people will no longer be subject'

News of the Weird

This week's News of the Weird features some \smooth"" criminals.'

Both offense and defense contribute to weekend losses

The Badger men's hockey team could not buy a break this weekend, as they lost 2-0 Friday and 4-3 Saturday in overtime.'

Califone’s newest is masterful folk-rock

With their eighth album, Roots & Crowns, Califone have hit a possible peak in an already strong career making experimental indie folk-rock. It is both their most sweepingly coherent artistic statement and their most accessible batch of melodies and arrangements. 

Student organization plan misguided

Joining a student organization is a great experience, but participation must be driven by desire, not well-intentioned coercion. Wiley's extracurricular activity proposal should not be implemented.'

Volleyball downs Illinois and Northwestern

The Badgers beat Northwestern Friday and Illinois Saturday to extend their conference winning streak to seven matches, but neither victory came easy for the team.'

UW’s two stars help to dominate Mercer

Senior guard Kammron Taylor paced the Badgers in the first half, and senior forward Alando Tucker led them in the second as UW went on to a 72-48 victory over the Mercer Bears. 

Women’s basketball opens season with rout over Air Force

The Wisconsin women's basketball team (1-0) soared high above Air Force (0-1) Friday night with a final score of 91-58, giving the Badgers their first regular season win of 2006-‘07. 

Clutch play by Donovan and seniors leads to victory

IOWA CITY, IOWA — Wisconsin's 24-21 win over the Iowa Hawkeyes on Saturday was full of surprise, suspense and individual records — all leading to a Badger victory. '

New drug battles avian influenza

A new drug recently discovered by UW-Madison researchers has the potential to prevent avian influenza infections in humans.'

Microsoft promises better security with new Windows

Windows Vista is coming and Microsoft is promising that rootkits and malware will be objects of the past.'

Seniors finally defeat Hawkeyes

The wait is finally over. After four straight losses to Iowa — including a heartbreaking 20-10 loss in Barry Alvarez's last home game as head coach — the Badgers came up with a 24-21 win Saturday over the Hawkeyes in Iowa City.'

Badgers suffer another home series sweep

Even though the Badgers were able to put three goals up on the board Saturday, it still wasn't enough to salvage a point for the weekend as they followed Friday's 2-0 loss to Denver with another loss, a 4-3 overtime heartbreaker.'

Ferrell’s talent isn’t fictional

When ""Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"" was in theaters, Kate Winslet compared Charlie Kaufman to Shakespeare and repeatedly referred to him as the greatest writer of our generation. After only a handful of films, not only has Kaufman reinvented the meta-movie; with ""Being John Malkovich,"" ""Adaptation"" and ""Eternal Sunshine"" (ignore ""Human Nature""), he's been responsible for three of the weirdest, and best, movies ever made. If you doubt his enormous talent in the slightest, watch what happens when others try and mimic his inimitable style. First we had ""Eternal Sunshine"" director Michel Gondry's ""The Science of Sleep,"" which was equal parts eccentric and irritating, and now we've got Marc Forster's ""Stranger Than Fiction,"" a somewhat engaging existential romp that, despite a wonderful central performance from Will Ferrell, never quite manages to come together. 

Mac Genius calls Julia a bad apple

\Out of boredom during last year's holidays, I decided to borrow a couple of DVDs from my relatives whom I was visiting,"" writes Julia Shiplett. ""And because my grandparents are not the most technologically inclined people, I had no other choice but'

A double life of books & training

They join with different majors, have different career goals and come from different military branches. But UW-Madison's Reserve Officer Training Corps students have one aspect in common—passion. 

Grad students to balance budget

Remedy of a $20 million budget deficit was the focus of a Coalition for Affordable Public Education town hall meeting Thursday. '

UW Roman Catholic foundation sues UW System

The UW Roman Catholic Foundation filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the UW System Board of Regents and four UW-Madison administrators, claiming the university is discriminating against the organization on the basis of religion.'