Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson, two Upright Citizens Brigade alumna and downright unapologetically funny women are owning comedy right now and for good reason. They’re absurd, casually uncut, relatable, confident and auspiciously intriguing.
An effort to alleviate the anxiety that accompanies living with a stranger prompted UW-Madison to team up with RoomSync this year, a Facebook application that empowers incoming freshman in the roommate assignment process while preserving the educational benefits random roommate selection offers.
Universities blame states, states blame the federal government, the federal government blames students and students blame universities. Any combination edges closer to the truth about the ever-growing calamity that is higher education’s accessibility.
As another frigid Madison winter approaches, the homeless community is once again burdened by the logistics of local shelter resources.
Gone are the Saturday SERF sessions to burn off and sweat out beverages consumed the night before if a new Madison business has anything to say about it. The Capitol Pedaler owners are ushering in the era of exercising while you drink.
Madison may boast the 9th highest percentage of bicycle commuters in American cities, according to the League of American Bicyclists, but it’s still an automobile's paradise. And it’s not easy having two wheels in a world with four.
Expensive introductory textbooks? Check. A more refined wardrobe to impress potential new friends? Check. Self-conducted cost-benefit analysis of majors with their average post-graduate earnings to determine an academic path before struggling through a basic economics class? Probably not.
A simple taste of Madison’s scenery and school spirit is all it takes to clinch many incoming students’ commitment to the Badger family. However, had Maria Espino been exposed to the environment pre-enrollment, she said there is a good chance the ethnic uniformity of the student body would have dissuaded her from becoming the junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison she is today.
Long before it became merely a space to store equipment for what some may believe is a perpetual cycle of construction on campus, Library Mall flourished as an inspiring landscape with the power to converge struggle and companionship and, at the end of the day, collect and embody the Wisconsin spirit.
The Dane County District Attorney’s office dropped sexual assault charges Monday filed against a University of Wisconsin-Madison employee in July, according to state court records.
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