UW earns split with Minnesota thanks to impressive Saturday performance
By Nico Savidge and Jon Spike | Nov. 8, 2010
Remember the countless hours you spent in the basement as a child playing ""Mortal Kombat,"" ""GoldenEye 007"" and in your later years the ""Call of Duty"" series? Nearly every student in our generation has experience with at least one of these, but a new California law seeks to stop minors from accessing these violent games.
In the next few weeks, members of Associated Students of Madison Student Council will cast an important vote on a new funding model for financing services provided to UW students. The Campus Service Fund, proposed by Student Services Finance Committee Chair Matt Manes, aims to provide a more cost-efficient method for financing essential campus services. We urge the members of Student Council to vote in favor of Manes' proposal.
The UW-Madison campus has long been a hotbed of political activism. The campus is constantly pasted with flyers, sidewalks are marked with chalkings and Bascom Hill is often covered with a political statement of some sort. It is this young, politically-attuned demographic like UW-Madison students that were attracted to Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's ""Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear"" in Washington D.C. last week.
In the real world, four square is a playground game for the kids who didn't get chosen to play kickball. Foursquare in the digital world is a ""location-based, social networking site, travel guide and game,"" according to the recent announcement from UW-Madison declaring its debut on the popular site. Unlike the second-rate playground game, the digital version has taken some steps toward popularity. In its first year, Foursquare has lost its underdog status as a social networking site, currently experiencing a growth rate more than double that of Twitter.