Madison Mayor Paul Soglin announced Wednesday he would be canceling the traditional Mifflin party on West Mifflin St. this year to be replaced with “a quiet no-stress day” where he could “Mifflin all he wanted inside.”
Commentators nationwide have dubbed Wisconsin’s past political season “historic,” “chaotic,” “momentous,” “groundbreaking” and more. One Wisconsin legislator disagrees.
City officials decided Wednesday food vendors will not be allowed at the 2012 Mifflin Street Block Party.
Presidential hopeful Ron Paul will now be holding his on-campus town hall meeting at the Memorial Union Terrace Thursday, instead of at the Stock Pavilion.
As UW-Madison students awoke with pounding heads the morning after St. Patrick’s Day, one house fellow began a floor-wide initiative to encourage students to find alternative activities to drinking.
Students, faculty, and staff leaving for spring break who wish to vote in the April 3 presidential primary election can still cast an absentee ballot with the Madison City Clerk’s office.
Neil Whitehead, professor and chair of the Anthropology Department, died Thursday, March 22 after an illness. He was 56 years old. This story is a product of the last interviews he had with the Daily Cardinal, Jan. 31 and Feb. 7, 2012.
While a larger tide of public outcry focuses on the killing of African-American teen Trayvon Martin in Florida, a “Speak-Out” on Library Mall Tuesday focused on the less-publicized killing of Bo Morrison in Wisconsin and the state law that protects his killer.
In 1988, UW-Madison’s Zeta Beta Tau fraternity was accused of sponsoring a slave auction party that included members of the fraternity wearing blackface and Afro wigs. The incident sparked a small, but passionate, student-led protest on ZBT’s property, at which eight students were eventually arrested.
After sterns words on its direction from Madison’s police chief earlier this week, the Mifflin Street Block Party was discussed at a meeting of local leaders, police and student government representatives Tuesday.
University officials are seeking input from throughout the UW-Madison community on the university’s Human Resource redesign, design team members said at a forum Tuesday.
A federal court said it will redraw the same Milwaukee Assembly District election maps it ruled unconstitutional last week, taking the task out of lawmakers hands.
Prosecutors in the ongoing John Doe investigation into Gov. Scott Walker’s staff during his time as Milwaukee County Executive have requested more information about two of Walker’s former spokespersons.
Associated Students of Madison Chair Allie Gardner and other student government leaders were arrested protesting in Washington, D.C. Monday.
Student government’s Legislative Affairs Committee discussed plans to advocate making a campus-wide policy to protect underage students who have been drinking from being punished after reporting an incident into a state law Monday.
The Student Services Finance Committee removed the SAFEcab service from its Student Transportation Budget Monday.
UW-Madison administration is simplifying protocol for students to report incidents involving prejudice conduct, speech or expression.
After the Student Services Finance Committee denied the Multicultural Student Coalition funding in October, the group appealed the decision to Chancellor Ward last Friday.
Religious history expert and UW-Madison Emeritus Paul Boyer died Saturday after a short battle with cancer at age 76.
Madison police arrested a 24-year-old Monona man for sexually assaulting a Madison woman and biting the neck of another man at a downtown bar early Sunday morning.
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