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UW women fail to find hoop in loss
By Connor McKnight | Feb. 18, 2005The UW women's basketball team has had nights of brilliance and nights of forgetfulness in the '05 season. Last night's loss to Penn State was a night to forget. The ' ¦
Wisconsin must take lead with renewable energy
By Adam Schmidt | Feb. 18, 2005Houston, you have a problem. Your oil wells are dry-and it's not just Texas' sticky situation, either. Oil is lodged ever so deep in the American way of life-as subterranean ' ¦
Veterans, Vietnam War-era music inspire professors to collaborate on book
By Chris Fleissner | Feb. 18, 2005UW System spokesperson and Vietnam War veteran Doug Bradley and UW-Madison Professor Craig Werner discussed the role of music for Vietnam veterans during the Vietnam War Thursday at the Wisconsin ' ¦
UW students steamed over false alarms
By Sam-Omar Hall | Feb. 18, 2005Officials blame tampering
Stem cell panel ignites debate
By Jessica Marinelli | Feb. 18, 2005The Undergraduate Biological Research Society's Thursday night lecture evolved from a stem-cell research presentation into a heated discussion concerning ethics and morality. UW-Madison Assistant Professors Su Chun Zhang and Robert ' ¦
Women icers fire into Bemidji State
By Sam Pepper | Feb. 18, 2005UW leads series by 'slim' 22-1-1 margin...
UHS, Bus Pass budgets get full funding
Feb. 18, 2005The UW-Madison Student Services Finance Committee approved in full the proposed budgets of University Health Services and the Associated Students of Madison Bus Pass program Thursday, giving the rubber stamp ' ¦
Parking facility, historic areas among ideas for State Street
By Jon Spike and Becky Salmela | Feb. 18, 2005Downtown Madison's future drew discussion Thursday evening from the Downtown Coordinating Committee. The committee began with an update on the Mid-State Street Parking Facility project. This new project will redevelop ' ¦
News Briefs
By Jon Spike | Feb. 17, 2005Leadership in the state's Republican-controlled Legislature has reached an agreement on a \property tax guarantee"" and will pass a bill through to Gov. Jim Doyle next week that limits how ' ¦
Field tests prove mere mortals can make free throws
By Eric Schmoldt and Jessica Gartner | Feb. 17, 2005It seems so simple. Shoot a basketball from a line 15 feet away from a hoop suspended 10 feet above the floor. To make things easier, nobody is guarding you. ' ¦
The Katkin's Diet
By Katrina Peterson | Feb. 17, 2005I have been a victim of the freshman 15 (well, actually the freshman 10). I know how it goes. Food lurks around every corner and one's main source of exercise ' ¦'
Alder fights to bring anti-war activist back from Iraq
By Molly Reppen and Eri Hillyer | Feb. 17, 2005Joe Lindstrom is one of 120,000 Americans serving in Iraq. Lindstrom was also a UW-Madison student until he was called to active duty. A website, www.BringJoeHome.us, has been started to ' ¦
Learning wine through the grapevine
Feb. 17, 2005Wine is thought to evoke great conversation, but rarely is conversation made of wine. In one glass, all spectrums of academia can be tasted, from botany to religion. Unofficially, Wine ' ¦'
Bruckler leads four Badger seniors into their final weekend at the Kohl Center
By Ryan Hessenthaler and Danielle Szulczewski | Feb. 17, 2005Being one of the youngest teams in the country, the No. 6 Wisconsin men's hockey team is generally known for its promising collection of talented freshmen and sophomores. While the ' ¦'
Reader of the Day
Feb. 17, 2005Brady Russell, Organize this: Brady here handles some sort of campus organizer for the Associated Students of Madison. We really don't know; we didn't ever really get to him organize ' ¦'
Steroid cocktails staining baseball
By Nick Barbash and Mark Sadowski | Feb. 17, 2005Judging from initial sales, it appears that former slugger Jose Canseco's new book about the use of anabolic steroids in baseball is juicy enough (pun intended) to give the author ' ¦