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An athletic balancing act

By Katie Gilbert and By Rachel Schulze | Nov. 27, 2001

UW players juggle academics, sports

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Wisconsin volleyball will host Tournament rounds

By James Wold | Nov. 27, 2001

Monday afternoon, the Wisconsin women's volleyball team was named the sixth-overall seed in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's 2001 Women's Volleyball Division I Championships. Due to the high ranking, the ' ¦

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Thanksgiving travel smooth, despite security

By Joe Kaser | Nov. 27, 2001

As students around the country set down their books and ventured home this Thanksgiving, they took part in what is historically the most popular travel week of the year. But ' ¦

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Suspects at large after State St. armed robbery

Nov. 27, 2001

Police officers responded Monday afternoon to an armed robbery in an apartment at 311 State St. According to a Madison Police Department news release, the robbery, which remains under investigation, ' ¦

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First city rail accident since beginning of whistle ban injures two

Nov. 27, 2001

Two months after a citywide evening train whistle ban took effect, a 38-year-old Madison man and his daughter were hit by a train Sunday evening. The accident, which took place ' ¦

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A detour from superstardom

By Alan Hamari | Nov. 27, 2001

Ham's Beef

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Wiley announces new School of Business dean

Nov. 27, 2001

Michael Knetter is slated to be the next UW-Madison School of Business dean, UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley announced Monday. Knetter, who currently serves as an international economics professor and associate ' ¦

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Report questions patriotism in college

By Courtney Heeren | Nov. 27, 2001

UW-Madison student's letter cited as example

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Travel troubles can't stop humiliation

By Caitlin Kirihara and Mike Bromberg | Nov. 27, 2001

Brom's Qualms'

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Frat's mission is freedom, equality

By Tom Walsh and Stella Joyce | Nov. 27, 2001

Once upon a time of anti-Catholic and anti-Semitic sentiments, on a campus far, far away, three men of different faiths came together to create a fraternity based on the principle ' ¦

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Local survey shows support for financial aid, stem-cell research

Nov. 27, 2001

Constituents of the 77th Assembly District, which includes the majority of the UW-Madison campus, voiced overwhelming support for student financial aid and stem-cell research in a survey conducted by state ' ¦

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Powell, in reversal, will run for District 5 position

By Nathan Tasso | Nov. 27, 2001

Ald. Tom Powell, District 5, said Monday he will run in April to keep his Madison City Council seat, despite his assertions last spring that he would hold office only ' ¦

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Bush pushes for ban on human-cloning efforts

Nov. 27, 2001

The Bush administration urged the U.S. Congress Monday to ban human cloning in response to a Massachusetts company's Sunday announcement that it had produced the first human embryos via a ' ¦

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Assault on civil liberties reflects Bush's reign

By Jonathan Linder | Nov. 27, 2001

Attorney General John Ashcroft has been in rare form since Sept. 11. Unsatisfied with arresting more than 1,200 individuals under a cloak of secrecy to find out what knowledge they ' ¦

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Letters to the Editor

By Alex Pacheco | Nov. 27, 2001

UW problems more urgent than Lyall raiseHow can UW System President Katharine Lyall look in the mirror and not be disgusted with herself? Tuitions have gone up, a recession is ' ¦

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Econ summit will address Wisconsin's 'brain drain'

By Joel Troge | Nov. 26, 2001

As the Wisconsin job market for college graduates declines, attendees at the Wisconsin Economic Summit will meet to discuss how to turn around the dormant growth of high-income industries that ' ¦

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FDA gives authorization to birth control patch

Nov. 26, 2001

A patch intended to help women prevent pregnancy will appear in drugstores soon, following its approval by the Food and Drug Administration Tuesday. The Ortho-Evra patch, manufactured by Ortho-McNeil, emits ' ¦

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New Trade Center may be significantly smaller

Nov. 26, 2001

The 110-story towers of the World Trade Center may be replaced by buildings half that height along with a memorial in as little as five years, according to the holder ' ¦

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Smoking ban, parking hike, guest ordinance receive council approval

By Nathan Tasso | Nov. 26, 2001

The Madison City Council voted 13-5 Nov. 20 to ban smoking in most workplaces, the second anti-smoking ordinance to receive council approval this month. The ban, which will go into ' ¦

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Marines enter Afghanistan

Nov. 26, 2001

Local forces take Kandahar airport