The Boldt Company announced Thursday it would immediately begin construction on the construction of the Memorial Union Reinvestment Project.
It seems to me the best break for finals fever is doing something you love. For most people this involves imbibing barley and hops, but I go the extra step of involving the printed word as well. With pressure of prescribed packets pummeling the average college student's brain to a pulp, perhaps I shouldn't try to convince the student body to read something when they'd rather be partying before their last punishing final. Instead I thought I might throw a lot of thrilling alliteration at my more devoted readers and suggest what I do for a really nerdy study break: build my summer reading list.
In my well-meaning but generally futile search to get someone on campus to pick up a bit of non-required reading, I thought: Why not take a page out of this so-called ""reality"" TV show world and give non-fiction a gander?
Now that we've reached the middle of the semester, my friends, I think it's safe to say that reading for fun is getting more and more difficult. With midterms on the rise and papers being handed out left and right, I've noticed a few soldiers in the Reading Army jumping ship.
On my one-woman march to educate every single living person about the greatest things books contain, I was enlightened by a friend who told me she ""didn't have the time, y'know, to sit and read stuff.""
I'll be the first to admit I've never been one for technology. We've never really got along, and by that I basically mean I'm a human circuit breaker. I'm positive that something in me is hardwired to break down whatever electronic device is nearest to me. iPods lose their batteries, TVs become creepily blank and I'm pretty sure I even caused a power outage on a city block.
Not to be narcissistic, but I like to think of my every other Wednesday column with you Madisonians as ""my"" day. It's where I relay my opinions to you about the great ideals of literature, and you, my silently captive audience, swallow it whole. Well, all three of you who make it through the first paragraph anyway.
Another new semester has begun my friends, and even though you thought you may have left me and my worldwide literacy ambitions behind, I'm back again to needle you into reading just one more sentence, and possibly the sentence after that.
President Obama's announcement Tuesday of his plan to increase the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan drew mixed responses from Wisconsin lawmakers.
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