University Police release exact prostitution stats
Last week’s article “Behind closed doors,” an investigation of prostitution in Madison and the effectiveness of new efforts to police the problem, reported that the University of Wisconsin Police Department has made arrests for prostitution on campus. Statistics obtained today from the UWPD indicate that officers have made six arrests related to prostitution, all of which occurred in the UW… View story »
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Introduction
Welcome to The City Within. The postings here are intended to contain behind the scenes footage of The Badger Herald, anything that doesn't find a home in the day's newsprint: Online follow-ups to print stories, explanations of coverage, news bites of stories affecting college students at the local and national level, and staff gossip.
Just kidding about the staff gossip. And absolutely no "musings" of any kind allowed.
Now that your interest has been thoroughly piqued, you are no doubt asking what the name actually means. It refers to that isolated island of thought we call the UW-Madison campus, the "city within a city." This blog is about The City Within; it approaches it from inside and reaches out to the wider world. So there.
Well, I'm as tired of writing the obligatory statement of purpose as I'm sure you are of reading it, so on to the good stuff...
— Alec Luhn
Portrait of a prostitute
Today’s in-depth, “Behind closed doors,” told the sordid tale of Casey, a former prostitute, in the context of the Madison Police Dept.’s crackdown on street prostitution, as well as a less-visible underground sex industry. An instrumental part of the police effort, former South District neighborhood officer Susan Krause has developed relationships with many of the 50-plus prostitutes known to frequent… View story »
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Local Buddhist monk commends protest in Tibet
The foreign journalists on the sedate Chinese government-led tour Thursday of a temple in Lhasa, Tibet, received a surprise to make any reporter salivate: A throng of some 30 monks descended upon the party chanting “Tibet is not free,” contravening Chinese claims that recent unrest there had quieted. Today’s Badger Herald article “Students take on Tibet conflict” looked at international… View story »
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“What was it like? Did you shoot anybody?”
On the first day of classes, when the instructor urges students to liven up their introductions with a bit of background trivia, University of Wisconsin senior John Osbourne usually won’t mention his 15-month army tour in Iraq. “I try not to say it because there is a certain stigma attached,” said Osbourne, who spoke to me for Tuesday’s “Battle-scarred by… View story »
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Union deficit highlights importance of new Peet’s coffee shop
It was clear Wisconsin Union officials were worried about financial losses when they decided to bring a Union-licensed Peet’s coffee shop into the Memorial Union, as I reported in the Feb. 8 the issue (“Tempest in a coffee cup”). Wisconsin Union Associate Director Hank Walter said a more influential factor, however, was the desire to meet a student need. The… View story »
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Film industry admits piracy estimate overblown
In October, I wrote an in-depth on the media industries’ prosecution of college students for illegal music downloading (“Downloading on trial”). Although the Motion Picture Association of America, which represents the six major U.S. film and TV producers, was mentioned, I did not have space to include the group’s estimate of the cost of piracy to the industry in the… View story »
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Audio files paint picture of Crandon shootings
The release Thursday of new information about the October shootings in Crandon, Wisc., fleshed out more details of the grisly night. See The Badger Herald’s coverage for more details. View the story here. On Oct. 7, Crandon’s sheriff’s deputy Tyler Peterson, angry after a confrontation with his ex-girlfriend and six other acquaintances, gunned down the occupants of a Crandon apartment… View story »
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