Letters to the Editor
Apr. 3, 2002UW housing should not impede democracyThe foundation of a democracy is the people. Therefore, I would think the housefellows in University Housing would be delighted to see candidates Echnaton Vedder ' ¦
UW housing should not impede democracyThe foundation of a democracy is the people. Therefore, I would think the housefellows in University Housing would be delighted to see candidates Echnaton Vedder ' ¦
The 1980s Civil War miniseries \North and South"" is replaying in California with Hollywood taking on Silicon Valley. The battle lines are being drawn around piracy, copyright and technology that ' ¦'
David Hajdu gives the folk scene a thorough examination and in his book \Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard ' ¦'
Local candidates more than welcome in dormsThe race for county supervisor is on. While some candidates, namely Ech Vedder, District 5, and Tom Powell, District 8, recently have been criticized ' ¦
Maryland takes home its first national title
Intense specks of tan and pink create luxurious diversions from the incandescent purity of the sand's whiteness. Thousands of bikini-clad, nubile bodies join together in an orgiastic celebration of youthful ' ¦'
Oh, to be a small overlooked diner full of friendly patrons on a sunny Sunday noon time. But which one of the Madison diners to be? Bennett's? No, because that ' ¦'
Recent proposed tuition increases for the 2002-'03 school year have become \very problematic"" for university administration in terms of attracting students, UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley said. ""I want the students ' ¦
Suspect could ID al Qaeda cells
A Boston Globe reporter was shot in the shoulder and wounded in Ramallah Sunday, amid Israeli warnings that foreign journalists were at risk and should not be in the West ' ¦
The state budget situation, leaving state funding for the UW System at an uncertain level, prompted UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley to ask the Associated Students of Madison to reduce student ' ¦
The preliminary report of the Alcohol License Review Committee's Subcommittee on Comprehensive Alcohol Issues gives a great deal of lip service to viable drinking alternatives. Such proposals are greatly welcome. ' ¦
A city report aiming to curb excessive alcohol consumption and promote safer practices was released March 29 with mixed reception from local city and university leaders. The study was the ' ¦
After going through 12 city committees, the State Street Design Project needs only to be tinkered by the Downtown Coordinating Committee April 3 before it is sent to the City ' ¦
President Bush is under growing pressure to do something'almost anything'to defuse the intense hostilities between Israel and the Palestinians, which flared anew Sunday with two more suicide bombings and Israeli ' ¦
LONDON'A little after three in the afternoon this Saturday, just as the Oxford-Cambridge crew race set out along the Thames in London, the Queen Mother died peacefully in her sleep ' ¦
With state funding for the UW System possibly taking a hit in this year's budget, some Republican legislators are suggesting university officials look more to private funding. The main argument ' ¦
Ron Rosner, candidate for District 5 City Council, is refreshingly independent of the packaged issues students have heard year after year from ambitious, unoriginal candidates. In comparison, Tom Powell has ' ¦
Wisconsin has new congressional boundaries based on the 2000 census data, and it didn't take a three judge federal panel to decide them. Due to its slow population growth compared ' ¦