Pepper spray clears crowd again
By Laura Kalinowski and Mary Chen | Oct. 31, 2005100,000 pack State St.; police don riot gear for fourth year
100,000 pack State St.; police don riot gear for fourth year
After a weekend of engaging in illicit behavior, many students will face Halloween with the sobering reality that their decisions landed them out of favor with the law. The same ' ¦
It is no secret that Wisconsin head coach Mike Eaves preaches defense, but the offensive potential for the No. 12 Wisconsin Badgers (3-0-1 WCHA, 4-1-1 overall) hockey team was on full display this weekend in a two-game romp over the Alaska Anchorage Seawolves (0-2-0, 2-4-0), rolling 6-1 Friday night and 5-1 Saturday night at the Kohl Center. In the two games, Wisconsin outshot Alaska 87-40.
'Saw II' was shot in a mere 25 days and retains all the gory glory of last year's original, but remains in a league of horror movies that will never overcome its grand master'David Finchner's 1995 thriller of intelligence, 'Seven.'
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Liz Phair's latest release is lyrically very different from her previous work. Gone is her desire to be someone's 'blow-job queen.' Instead, she wishes to be part of somebody's fairy tale as in the title track, or to have someone who means everything to her as in the first single, 'Everything to Me.' Similar themes of longing and regret give this album'heavier on ballads than Phair's previous work'a more adult alternative feel. It is thankfully not as poppy as her last album, Liz Phair, but, much to the chagrin of many hardcore fans, not the stripped-down sound of her much lauded debut, Exile in Guyville.
Hoping to break the silence surrounding injustice toward Pakistani women, the Asian American Network Against Abuse of Women hosted an event Friday featuring remarks from a Pakistani woman who was ' ¦
Tens of thousands lined State Street for this year's Halloween event Saturday night. While this weekend's party was an overall improvement from past years because there was not a riot, ' ¦
Two weeks ago, it would have been easy for the Wisconsin women's soccer team to give up. Mired in a slump that saw the Badgers sitting in the cellar of the Big Ten standings and losers of six of their last seven games, confidence was hard to come by for Wisconsin.
A multidisciplinary team of UW-Madison researchers recently received a five-year, $3.4 million grant to develop techniques for using stem cells to repair nerve damage in victims of diseases like Multiple ' ¦'
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A Madison resident is calling for help. A grassroots campaign to provide impoverished Madisonians with hygienic products will launch Tuesday. At the helm is Eileen Newman, who encourages residents to ' ¦
This column bought to you by Eric's Bail Bonds. Were you a little too drunk? Was that pumpkin 'asking for it'? Did the tree you were relieving yourself on turn ' ¦'
October 15 was the best College Football Saturday I've ever not actually seen. I'll explain.
The Hold Steady has been labeled by many as a 'bar band,' and while that may sound simplistic, it is anything but. The band co-opts the good-time riffs of artists ' ¦'