Social activism worth the risk for athletes
By Madison Schultz | Mar. 30, 2017March is every college basketball lover’s favorite month, and this year, Badger fans were eager to see how the team would do.
March is every college basketball lover’s favorite month, and this year, Badger fans were eager to see how the team would do.
If lawmakers continue to propose such limited and harmful views of what teaching is, means, and looks like, then I propose that the value of the work of our representatives and state government rests on the minutes and hours spent thinking about the dangerous impact of their ideas on those they purport to serve.
The most popular majors at UW-Madison are, according to U.S. News & World Report, economics, biology, political science and psychology.
One of the biggest things college kids have to adjust to is the need for more effective time management skills.
Religion, like any belief or proposition, is just words without those to enact it. To say that one can criticize an idea without criticizing those who execute this idea is nonsensical.
To be clear, I am a strong proponent of open dialogue and the sharing of opinions. My issue with the article was not the opinions that were stated, but the blatantly false and factually unfounded claims it made.
College campuses continue to boast horrifying statistics on sexual assault even with programs in place to help educate incoming students about how to identify and prevent high risk situations in which sexual assault can occur.
Rape and the fear of rape is a part of the American college experience for women. On American college campuses, one in four undergraduate women will be sexually assaulted or raped by the time they graduate.
Allocable segregated fees—the approximately $90 each UW-Madison student pays along with their tuition every year—go toward funding many clubs, resources and services across campus.
We are an extremely concerned group of students from a variety of backgrounds who are appalled at the op-ed by Kort Driessen entitled “Islam's flaws cannot go unnoticed in discussing the term 'Islamophobia',” published on March 13, 2017.
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It has been just over a month since President Donald Trump issued his “Muslim Ban.” Now seems the opportune time to have an honest, rational and necessary conversation surrounding Islam and its criticisms. In the immediate wake of the ban, I noticed many of my fellow campus liberals using the word “Islamophobia” to seemingly no end.
We are sending this letter in response to the article titled “Nearly half of UW fraternities faced punishment during 2016.”
If I had a dollar for every single time I’ve been told a STEM degree is more valuable than a degree in something non-technical, I would be a wealthy man. Today, society puts such a huge emphasis on getting degrees in the broad sciences, that it makes people forget the values of the non-numerical.
I write to address and reiterate the importance of Good Samaritan laws having a more clear and progressive approach to protecting bystanders and the endangered person involved in a dangerous situation due to alcohol or drug use. I have personal experience with a situation where Good Samaritan laws proved their importance. It was Halloween weekend my freshman year.
The summer before high school, I read 1984 by George Orwell. As I was still grasping the English language and needed lots of assistance in understanding the content, it was a challenging yet rewarding novel as I began to uncover the meanings behind Orwell’s words in the fictionalized dystopia.
This letter is in response to the proposed reintroduction of the transgender bathroom bill by State Rep.
Most people immediately think of race or ethnicity when they think of diversity, but I think there is another form of diversity that often goes unnoticed: diversity in viewpoint.
On Feb. 27, UW-Madison community members received a familiar “Timely Warning” email that highlighted the ongoing threat of burglary on campus.
The most common argument I hear when discussing immigration is that if immigrants—specifically Mexican immigrants—want to come to the U.S.