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He’s only 22, what’s a boy to do?

By Joe Hasler | Oct. 31, 2006

What's so special about turning 22 years old? The answer—and I say this with all due respect to all of my friends and family members who've spent the last week sending me cards and packages and showering me with birthday salutations—is absolutely nothing. In fact, I would argue 22 is the most meaningless of all the birthdays, if for no other reason, because it comes on the heels of an unprecedented set of landmark birthdays.

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Final round of ads appeals to voter emotion

By Andy Berens and Abrianna Barca and Travis Serebin | Oct. 31, 2006

As the Nov. 7 election rapidly approaches, a slew of ads from Wisconsin candidates take to the airwaves.'

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Panel to settle fate of Union renovation

By Whitney Newman | Oct. 31, 2006

In the wake of revelations that voter-approved student referendums may be overturned for the second time in two years, the Student Judiciary assembled Monday night to form a panel to hear arguments against the living wage initiative and Student Union Init'

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Halloween likely to remain the same next year

By Leah Cowen | Oct. 31, 2006

Despite a few problems at Freakfest 2006, the new State Street Halloween festival will largely remain the same next year. '

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Area bishop pushes anti-gay marriage message on parish

By Chelsey Lewis | Oct. 31, 2006

All Catholic churches across Madison will be forced to play a pre-recorded announcement Sunday, supporting the ban on gay marriage.

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Reader of the Day

By The Daily Cardinal | Oct. 31, 2006

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Finance committee shaves budgets of GUTS, CFACT

By Jeff Grimyser | Oct. 31, 2006

The Associated Students of Madison Student Services Finance Committee continued determining student organization budgets Monday night, slightly trimming the budgets of two organizations. '

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Average undergrad debt more than $18,000, expected to rise

By Whitney Newman | Oct. 31, 2006

Gov. Jim Doyle announced Monday he intends to prevent UW System tuition from increasing faster than the rate of inflation if he is re-elected governor Nov. 7, a goal many students may welcome, as UW System undergraduates' average debt rises every y'

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Doyle, Green both raise close to $2 million, spend $4 million

By The Daily Cardinal | Oct. 31, 2006

Both gubernatorial candidates, incumbent Gov. Jim Doyle and Republican Mark Green, have spent and raised nearly the same amount of money in the last pre-election period, according to their respective campaign finance reports due Monday. '

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Regents near disciplinary process agreement

By Jacob Kushner and Tony Schultz | Oct. 31, 2006

The committee that oversees the UW-Madison faculty disciplinary process voted to amend a proposal that if passed would expedite suspension without pay hearings for faculty convicted of serious misconduct. '

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Poll suggests Green leads in governor race

By Ashley Spencer | Oct. 31, 2006

With the State Governor election just a week away, recently released polls show major discrepancies in projected results.

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Bob Barker says time is right for host’s retirement

By John Leppanen | Oct. 31, 2006

Legendary game show host Bob Barker will retire in June, following over 50 years in television.

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Badger Bits

By The Daily Cardinal | Oct. 31, 2006

Simpson nets big award

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Ryan discusses preseason topics

By Sam Pepper | Oct. 31, 2006

The season has not even begun for the UW men's basketball team and the honors are already rolling in. Senior forward and dark-horse John Wooden award contender Alando Tucker was named Big Ten Preseason Player of the Year Sunday and his head coach could not be more proud.

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Tarah gets scarah-y

By Tarah Scalzo | Oct. 31, 2006

\When I watch a horror movie, I'm not looking for life-changing performances or anything,"" writes Tarah Scalzo in Night Tarrors. ""I expect to leave feeling that there may be something inside of or around me that I can't control. Nausea and an '

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Political lit., flyers violate UW policies

By Heather Gjerde | Oct. 31, 2006

With less than a week left before the midterm elections, political student organizations are busy campaigning by dropping literature in campus lecture halls, such as 3650 Humanities.

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Death penalty costly for state

By Daily Cardinal editorial board | Oct. 31, 2006

Next Tuesday, there is a referendum on the ballot to re-enact the death penalty in Wisconsin. We believe there are countless reasons to vote ""No,"" and encourage students to cast their vote as such on Nov. 7.

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Language credits an unnecessary hassle

By Adam Seston | Oct. 31, 2006

""Wait, what?"" I exclaimed to my academic advisor with shock when he informed me I needed to take three semesters of a foreign language in order to graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree. That was three years ago, and only now has the wake created from that terrifying discovery finally deteriorated.

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Senator Obama stands behind Wis. Democrats

By Bob Spoerl | Oct. 31, 2006

MILWAUKEE—U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, addressed hundreds on a near- freezing morning Tuesday in Milwaukee to show support for Wisconsin Democrats running for critical state offices in next week's election.

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Union renovations’ future now unclear

By Andrew Haffner and Erica Pelzek | Oct. 30, 2006

Similar to the unclear future of the wage increase for student workers, implementation of the heavily campaigned Student Union Initiative, a Wisconsin Union renovation project funded by student segregated fees, is now questionable as well.