UW begins championship defense Friday
By Tom Lea | Sep. 25, 2006After winning the national championship last season, the UW women's hockey team starts its title defense Friday against Quinnipiac.'
After winning the national championship last season, the UW women's hockey team starts its title defense Friday against Quinnipiac.'
The UW System's foremost academic officer, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Cora Marrett, will conclude her six-year service in December to become the assistant director of Education and Human Resources at the National Science Foundation, UW System President Kevin Reilly announced Friday.
In response to the Spring 2006 elections debacle and coup-like uprising of Student Government, a reactionary council opposing the Associated Students of Madison's internal operations, ASM members said Sunday that they are seriously contemplating the formation of an internal reform committee.
The nation's largest religious student organization was precluded from university funding on Friday, provoking a potential lawsuit and allegations that UW-Madison officials sabotaged the UW Roman Catholic Foundation's application process.
After analyzing the film from Saturday's loss, UW football head coach Bret Bielema admitted at his Monday press conference that the team had failed in achieving consistency and that a major misstep had surprisingly come from the special teams unit.'
A judge's ruling in Mark Green's court case that will decide if the Green Team will have to divest a major portion of campaign contributions will be announced Monday.
Drug research takes a lot of time. The process of creating a new drug candidate takes up to six months of tedious chemistry, and most candidates produced end up without therapeutic effects. But a recent discovery in UW-Madison's pharmacy department may change all that.
Love it or hate it, ""Jackass"" is a powerful force—it was the show that made real-life violence funny again, revitalized the art of low-brow humor and enraged every moral conservative. When they released their first movie in 2001, reactions were clearly split—at least half the audience was cackling uncontrollably along with the performers, some walked out in disgust and one or two probably threw up in the aisles.
Following Wednesday night's draw with in-state rival UW-Milwaukee, the men's soccer team was looking for a win entering Sunday's game with Michigan State. What they got instead was another draw and a point on the road.
Anyone searching for real passion and insight in artistic expression need look no further than the Chazen Museum of Art's new exhibition: ""Vision and Continuity,"" featuring the sculptures of Alexander Archipenko.
The Badgers were one of only three teams in the Big Ten to escape last weekend without a loss, defeating Illinois and Northwestern on the road.'
This weeks News of the Weird features painful rituals, gator shortages, prison art and shady business on the Mexican border.'
Adebate raging on Capitol Hill over so-called ""network neutrality"" could change the way we use and pay for the Internet.
With the Wolverines' superior talent and athleticism, momentum was a key in UW's chances to upset No. 6 Michigan on the road Saturday. However, a couple game-changing plays went Michigan's way and dashed the hopes of Badger fans.'
Craig Foster is a fourth-year senior who enjoys moon-lit walks on the beach, making pancakes and growing a forest of facial hair.'
\At some point,"" writes Eric R. Schmidt, ""making 'Flyboys' must have become as boring as watching it.""'
ANN ARBOR, MICH.—Despite a solid first-half effort and a good defensive game, the UW football team's attempt to upset No. 6 Michigan fell short, losing 27-13. Sophomore wide receiver Mario Manningham burned Badger cornerbacks for 113 yards and two touchdowns while senior Steve Breaston gave the Wolverines great field position all game long.
The world really scares me sometimes. The universal fear of terrorism, the rise of global warming, the fact that David Hasselhoff is back on TV with America's Got Talent—all truly horrifying. But the one thing that makes me toss and turn the most at night is what quietly sits in our wallets. Not Jamba Juice gift cards or fake IDs, but green paper with the faces of past presidents nobly looking back at us.
The UW women's soccer team won its 300th career game as they beat Iowa 1-0 Sunday afternoon. This moved the Badgers to 4-3-2 overall and 1-1-0 in the Big Ten this season, making up for Friday's 4-2 loss to Illinois.
The Badgers (3-0) head to Ann Arbor, Mich. Saturday to face the Michigan Wolverines who are coming off a big win over then No. 2 Notre Dame.'