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SSFC approves Student Leadership Program budget, hears MCSC and PAVE proposals

The Student Services Finance Committee approved the Student Leadership Program's budget of $66,108 at the meeting Monday.

Supreme Court to review same-sex marriage amendment

The Wisconsin Supreme Court will review the validity of the state constitutional amendment passed in 2006 banning same-sex marriage and civil unions Tuesday.

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Landmarks Commission approves church apartments

The city of Madison's Landmarks Commission supported, with conditions, a proposal to build a five-story apartment building on the parking lot of Holy Redeemer Catholic Church and School Monday night.

Edgewater plan pitched to city officials

Community members voiced concerns after developers presented revised plans for the Edgewater Hotel at the City Plan Commission meeting Monday.

Faculty Senate approves resolution to oppose graduate school reform

UW-Madison's Faculty Senate almost unanimously approved a resolution Monday opposing any action to restructure the graduate school until a thorough, shared governance process is completed.

Few arrests at football game

The UW-Madison Police Department made fifteen arrests and 36 ejections at the Badger football game against Purdue Saturday.

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Pinker discusses nature of language

Steven Pinker, leading cognitive scientist and author of ""The Stuff of Thought,"" attracted a full house Sunday night at the Wisconsin Union Theater as he spoke about language as a window into human nature.

Students not eligible for H1N1 vaccine

The Department of Public Health for Madison & Dane County and local health-care organization representatives spoke Monday about the H1N1 vaccine shortage in the Madison and Dane County area.

I'm so sick of being objectificationed!

Every night before I get my beauty sleep, I put my cucumbers on, lie on my pink silk sheets in my Victoria's Secret Sexy Little Things collection laced bra with matching crotchless panties and I think to myself, why do I feel so objectificationed all the time?

Student involvement and interest in politics on the decline

Part 1 of 3 in a series on student political activism

Location of Obama visit disclosed

President Barack Obama will speak at Wright Middle School in Madison Wednesday, the White House confirmed Friday.

Freakfest as tame as ever

Freakfest began four years ago as a city-sanctioned event to offset years of Halloween violence and riots downtown, with this year being the tamest yet.

Third Eye Blind draws huge crowd

Of the 44,000 tickets sold for Freakfest, not all were bought to parade around State Street dressed in disguise, but instead were purchased to see the event's headlining band, Third Eye Blind.