Drinking laws enforced selectively, hypocritically
With the start of every new school year come new expectations and new goals. But at the same time, those things that we as students — old or new — expect from our personal lives on campus rarely change. The hookups we regret, the awkward exchange of stares between people we kind of know and the endless hours at the… View story »
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Herald Editorials
September 5, 2008
Avoid Sponsorship of Mifflin
Somewhere between the election of Mayor Dave Cieslewicz and the appointment of Noble Wray as police chief, the annual Mifflin Street Block Party began to lose its spark. Revelry was replaced by restriction as the arrest tally ballooned from seven in 2003 to more than 400 last May. In the wake of this frivolous increase in official presence, the Majestic… View story »
September 2, 2008
The dark side of Parkside
Behind the tumultuous fanfare associated with the nomination of Biddy Martin as University of Wisconsin-Madison’s new chancellor, another chancellor search process taking place revealed a number of disastrous inadequacies in the screening of UW System chancellor candidates. The system, scrambling to find a replacement for outgoing Chancellor Jack Keating, settled on a Robert Felner to take the helm at Parkside… View story »
September 2, 2008
When Jimmy met Biddy
Days before a University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents committee started meeting to decide on the next chancellor at UW-Madison in May, Gov. Jim Doyle interviewed the four finalists for the position over the phone. He then passed his thoughts about the candidates along to the committee. The governor’s interviews have predictably caused some to speculate that Doyle played… View story »
Editorial Cartoons
U.S. addiction to oil will not cease
Even though the price of crude oil has been on the decline for the past week or so, the price of gas is still considerably high and is on the minds of most Americans. Hardly any newscast goes by without a report on the price of gas or the innovations in alternative energy that promise to be the solution to… View story »
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Religious rhetoric an insult to electorate
For many college students, the first years away from home are a time to reevaluate our lives in an unfamiliar setting. A common occurrence in college is for many students to take a break from the religious practice they’ve been brought up in. I myself have, for the moment, let go of my Catholic upbringing. I do not belong to… View story »
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