John Dean, former presidential counsel to President Richard Nixon, expressed his outlook on the Watergate scandal Friday as part of the University of Wisconsin Law School’s 2013 Kastenmeier Lecture.
While October is a busy month for most students on campus with midterms approaching and football games in full swing, it is an even busier month for Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment.
Fetch Rewards, a Madison-based application creator, launched its grocery shopping application Friday at Fresh Madison Market.
University of Wisconsin-Madison junior Reuben Sanon, a current affairs intern in Washington, D.C., for the semester, has been off work all week because of the government shutdown.
Jonathan Gruber, a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, gave a lecture Thursday at Union South on the current national issues of health care reform, including the implementation of “Obamacare.”
For college students today, the word “debt” is an omnipresent warning about the problems facing our future. From record student loan debt, about $27,000 on average per person, to the immense and growing national debt, college students are bombarded by figures that demonstrate the threat to our American dreams. Unemployment for young people remains in the double digits, about 11 percent, due to the lasting impact of the Great Recession. Our national debt has reached $200 trillion, and counting. Yet, despite these staggering facts, many college students remain unmoved, either feeling powerless to enact real change or disengaged from politics in general. But perhaps the scariest part about the national debt is that it threatens our futures to an even greater extent than it does those best positioned to fix it. And so, it is up to our generation to defeat the debt, before it defeats us.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank met with faculty and staff in the Chazen Museum Wednesday to introduce herself to her new colleagues. The event was a chance “to put a face with our program name and to get to know her and to introduce her to the rest of our staff,” according to Dominic Ledesma, associate director of the Chancellor’s & Powers-Knapp Scholarship programs.
The I’m Shmacked production company featured the University of Wisconsin-Madison in a YouTube video filmed during Parent’s Weekend on Sept. 21, which has raised discussion from students and university officials about the drinking culture depicted in the video.
Paul Williams, a retired emeritus professor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison plant pathology department, came to the university as a graduate student in 1959 off a train from Vancouver.
An intoxicated University of Wisconsin-Madison student who was walking and texting suffered a possible concussion from being hit by a car while crossing University Avenue early Friday morning, according to a police report.
Ira Flatow, host of National Public Radio’s “Science Friday,” described how science has become “sexy” in America as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series at the Wisconsin Science Festival.
New safety procedures are being put into place after a UW Physical Plant employee died last spring while working at the Art Lofts, according to a University of Wisconsin-Madison news release.
As we’re sure you are probably and hopefully aware, in the past few weeks, the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus and its surrounding community has seen an increase in strong-armed robberies taking place in off-campus housing where university students live. Suspects are robbing people at random, often threatening the victims with a weapon.
Former University of Wisconsin-Madison student and Daily Cardinal Editor-in-Chief Jacob “Jack” Zeldes died peacefully Sept. 18 after a long battle with health issues.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department is coordinating stricter patrols of campus-area intersections with the city’s Transportation Enforcement Safety Team to crack down on traffic violations and safety hazards at busy crosswalks, according to UWPD spokesperson Marc Lovicott.
Last week, The Daily Cardinal issued a call to action in response to potential changes to Shared Governance at UW. As a student representative on several Shared Governance committees, and the Chair of the ASM this year, it is my responsibility to ensure students continue to have the opportunity to enrich our great University, and leave a legacy on campus. Shared Governance has a winning track record for its victories on campus. To defend this principle, we must keep winning the race.
Students in the Associated Students of Madison Legislative Affairs Committee now have the ability to register voters for upcoming elections, after a city clerk deputized members at a meeting Monday.
In 1963 a full scholarship to play Badger football was worth $1100 a year. But, even with the help of his scholarship, University of Wisconsin-Madison alumnus Richard “Dick” LaCroix had to work harder than he ever dreamed to complete his education at UW-Madison.
The victims of a robbery at gunpoint in a Vilas Avenue apartment Sunday night were confirmed to be University of Wisconsin-Madison students, according to a university release.
The LGBT Campus Center, located on the first floor of the Red Gym, started its welcome week festivities Tuesday with an ice cream social and a visit by congressman and part-time ice cream scooper for the day, Mark Pocan, D-Wis., one of seven openly gay members of the U.S. Congress.
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