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Bronze Radio Return injects energy into Sunday night crowd
By Matt Fox and Michael Frett | Oct. 21, 2015Bronze Radio Return faced that uphill battle at the Frequency this Sunday that all bands have to someday face: the Sunday night crowd. With the exception of a few loud members, the audience responded initially with awkward enjoyment. They were clearly receptive of the music, but something held them back.
Flu shots are vital in keeping campus healthy
By Matt Fox and Sarah van Orman | Oct. 7, 2015Sneezing and sniffling classmates, germy doorknobs, public restrooms—it feels like getting sick is impossible to avoid. Each year, influenza affects the campus community and students miss significant amounts of class time and work. To limit the effects of the flu on the student population, University Health Services (UHS) offers a flu shot, free of charge, to every UW-Madison student through November 20.
Video games is a medium worth studying as an art
By Matt Fox and Alex Lovendahl | Apr. 28, 2015I find myself often stymied when considering how to write about games. Not truly permeated into the mainstream (though advocates will herald the “Call of Duty” series’ gross as “larger than Hollywood”) I find myself often simply justifying the thought I put into the medium. Yet the games themselves and the subtexts they contain is enough to merit study as a form of literature, akin to the study of cinema and television.
Paul Soglin balances perspectives in protest response
By Matt Fox and Jen Wagman | Apr. 16, 2015City officials were caught between competing ideals Tuesday, when a protest organized by Madison West and East High School students regarding Tony Robinson's death shut down traffic on East Washington Avenue for several hours.
UW-Madison group fights at Capitol for the wrongly convicted
By Matt Fox and Andrew Bahl | Apr. 8, 2015Representatives from the Wisconsin Innocence Project presented before roughly 40 state legislators and staff members Wednesday, emphasizing the need for law enforcement to wear electronic surveillance devices, as well as a need for an increase in the compensation for Wisconsinites who are wrongly convicted of crimes.
State releases mixed jobs numbers
By Matt Fox and Negassi Tesfamichael | Mar. 19, 2015Wisconsin’s unemployment rate dipped below five percent for the first time since 2008 in February, according to a revised jobs report released Thursday by the Department of Workforce Development.
Fellowship targets undergraduate community leaders in alternative learning
By Matt Fox and Tamar Myers | Mar. 2, 2015An online course about an Aldo Leopold-type approach to sustainable hunting enrolled thousands of students, spurred fervent discussions in online forums and drew over 80 participants to an exposition that included a deer skinning demonstration and pheasant hunt. Though by many counts it was successful, the future of courses like it is uncertain in the face of university resource strains.
Legislative Affairs Committee discusses rumors surrounding biennial budget
By Matt Fox and Laura Grulke | Jan. 26, 2015The Legislative Affairs Committee began the semester Monday discussing the upcoming budget and its suggested effects to the UW system’s funding along with rumors of UW-Madison becoming a public entity.