Many people can push their mind or body to the limit, but very few people can push their mind and body past their breaking point and continue moving forward. I challenge everyone reading this to sign up for that triathlon, marathon, or 5K you’ve been telling yourself you’ll train for.
Imagine a world where characteristics that make us “different” are invisible. Race, gender, sexual orientation and religion are all inconceivable.
Life is a culmination of indescribable virtue and value regardless of gender, appearance, race or age.
Discouraging. Disturbing. Disrespectful. Disgusting. These are a few words used by the Committee on Student Organizations and the international fraternity Sigma Chi to describe the recent actions of UW-Madison’s chapter of the fraternity. Sigma Chi’s members, roughly 50 of them, participated in a chant that “encouraged sexual assault” and “contributed to a culture of fear and concern,” according to the CSO. The chant is an anthem of rape culture. Lyrics, if they can be dignified with the term, include: “We’re going to throw her against the wall and we’re going to fuck her, and then fuck her mother and sister.
It’s no secret: There is a strong divide between urban and rural Wisconsin, between Madison and Milwaukee and the rest of Wisconsin.
This coming week, Donald Trump will be inaugurated as the president of the United States. His road to the White House has been a long and rocky one, but to the shock of many Americans and people around the world, Jan.
Let me take a moment of your valuable time to talk about memes. In this time of short attention spans, memes—which have captured the long-practiced form of photo captioning and made it mainstream—have proliferated. They vary in comedic value and subject matter, and it feels as if there’s a new style every day.
UW-Madison’s spring course guide has been available for more than two months, but some legislators recently raised concerns about next semester’s offerings, particularly about an African languages and literature class called “The Problem of Whiteness.” The class itself has now gained national attention, thanks to people like state Rep.
What does this mean? It means that we examined our assumptions about race, and the foundation upon which our experiences with race rest.
ASM delivers early voting to students Leading up to November’s general election, Associated Students of Madison prioritized voting accessibility on campus.
About once or twice a month, shared governance committees meet to discuss plans for campus projects and changes.
We have lost a lot here in Wisconsin. The dignity of working women was attacked on Election Day when the state voted to re-elect a U.S.
Sunday, the Army Corp of Engineers announced that the North Dakota Access pipeline would not be immediately granted permission to pass through the Missouri River next to the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota.
UW-Madison is an extremely liberal place. This is neither a good or bad thing, it’s just how it is.
Each year, dozens of websites and companies across the world aim to rank universities through a slew of categories, from top 10 party schools to best liberal arts colleges.
Donald Trump’s historic election portends massive changes at many levels of the government. The environmental sector may be most at risk.
After spending a sunny afternoon at the playground with some of the boys in my hometown, someone said to me, “It would have been nice if you were born a boy instead of a girl.” I was six or seven years old at the time, and it was at this point in my life that I felt a little off about my identity. I was aware that everyone had a different lifestyle, but for the first time discovered that many societies have some set of unwritten standards for different gender identities. I was an eclectic mix of various traits as a child.
The proliferation of fake news this past election cycle is alarming. This is especially the case on Facebook, where over half of the adult population in America has an account and millions of these individuals use social media to get their news. A recent BuzzFeed analysis reported on the accuracy of news stories on Facebook.
With Thanksgiving so close we can already smell the pumpkin pie, the excitement is palpable around campus.
As a community of college-educated citizens, we are doing ourselves a disservice if we are not informed in the field of environmental sustainability.
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