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By Brittany Schoepp | Sep. 12, 2006A weekly guide to events to events and places in Madison'
A weekly guide to events to events and places in Madison'
Athletics are a huge part of UW-Madison. They give us something fun to do on weekends, and they provide major funding at the same time.'
The UW men's golf team escaped the dreary weather in Madison and headed south to Pinehurst, N.C. to compete at the Mid Pines Intercollegiate. When it was over, the Badgers had their first tournament victory since Sept. 2004.
After weeks of running campaigns increasingly marked by personal attacks and negative advertisements, Democrats Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk and incumbent Peg Lautenschlager will square off on Tuesday for their parties' nomination for attorne'
""The Wicker Man"" plays like a highlight reel from all the worst episodes of ""The X-Files."" It is a boring freak show, held together by the thinnest of plots, and is as suspenseful as ""March of the Penguins."" There are moments intended as sinister which, if they weren't played straight, would suggest self-parody. When the identity of the wicker man is revealed, it's an inadvertent punchline.
The Associated Students of Madison's Student Services Finance Committee approved two student organizations and denied two student organizations' segregated fee funding for the 2006-'07 academic year Monday night. '
An attempted mugging went awry early Saturday morning, with several men successfully fighting off their attackers.'
College students embrace the trend toward an increasingly interconnected world, but a device initially developed to allow students to check their friend's hobbies recently morphed into a device that could conceivably be used for stalking.
Spurring five years of increased homeland security provisions and strengthened surveillance of U.S. citizens, the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks left the nation with much to reflect on, especially at UW-Madison. '
A fight broke out at Club Majestic, 115 King St., Friday night and escalated into a series of fights on the street. The instance is the latest in a series of violent episodes connected to the Capitol area nightclub.'
Football tickets listing the UW Marching Band's seat numbers were mistakenly distributed to non-band member students at Saturday's game.'
Imagine a world that comes with its own soundtrack, where it takes not much more effort than a single thought to hear anyone's voice and a box that sits in your room can answer almost any inquiry or satisfy any curiosity that may come to mind.
According to Democratic incumbent Peg Lautenschlager,\I ran for the office of attorney general because I wanted to put my skills as an attorney and prosecutor to work in greater service to the people of this state. I hope you will consider my record of ef'
In the minds of most beer-drinking, Terrace-going, Midwestern-bred Badgers running around campus, the vast majority of the world's conflict and change is witnessed through sporadic run-ins with a news anchor or camera lens.
We exaggerate your life. You can thank us later.'
According to attorney general candidate Paul Bucher, \We must create an independent governmental accountability board with real teeth, and we must empower the attorney general's office to aggressively crack down on public corruption through an aggre'
So I'm going to be up-front with you now at the beginning, so we can establish some trust early on in our relationship. The truth is this: The whole reason I'm writing this particular article—and perhaps the entire reason I sought out my own music column—is that I've had a joke in my head for months that I have to get out before it takes up legal residency. But for this joke to work, you see, I have to put forth a certain argument. And, because this is a music column, I'm going to put forth the argument like this: Men and women tend to create wildly different kinds of music.
Evil comes in many forms. Dictators and vampires are evil. Gopher fans are close. Yet, there is one form of evil so disgusting, so haunting and so harrowing that even those hurt by it, are too fearful to speak up against it. The evil I speak of most likely sits in his huge leather throne, lighting his cigars and chuckling as his malevolence seeps through a metropolis.
In Bret Bielema's press conference Monday, he addressed many concerns including protecting quarterback John Stocco and dropped passes.'
Today's primary election for the attorney general of Wisconsin gives citizens a chance to vote in one of the most bitterly disputed, antagonistic electoral contests in state history. '