Benjamin Franklin was right. Taxation is an absolute certainty in life — even life near the South Pole.
Traditions & History
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The winter battle between the Southeast and Lakeshore residence halls is epic.
It could be the cheese curds and the spicy cheese bread that set it apart. After all, the market is tucked into the heart of America’s Dairyland. Or perhaps it’s the fact that — with one hundred and sixty vendors offering their goods each week — the market is the nation’s largest producer-only farmers’ market.
Once upon a time, the pool was for men only, and nude swimming was encouraged.
This is perhaps the most casual-looking canoeing tuba player we’ve ever seen. Granted, he’s the only canoeing tuba player we’ve ever seen.
With their voices becoming the instruments, six student groups are making beautiful music on campus and beyond.
India’s Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru ended his 1949 U.S. tour with a UW visit.
The Pail and Shovel Party was onto something: if you want to get your message across, take it to Bascom Hill.
The UW athletics community loses a teammate.
Whether a final score is 200 or somewhere south of 80, it’s fun.
Long before Badger football season gets underway ... certain lucky students make the equivalent of a touchdown pass by securing season-ticket packages.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) may be the newest trend in higher education, but at the UW, the practice of using mass-media technologies to connect the public with university instruction dates back more than eighty years.
Rob Vitense ’99 turned a losing streak into a Badger streak.
On March 7, 2014, the lights went out for the last time at UW–Madison’s Synchrotron Radiation Center (SRC).
Based on the ski tracks and slushy footprints in the snow that cover the lake’s icy surface in the winter, plenty of people on campus appreciate the season’s serenity and count the days until the open water turns to ice.
On summer nights for more than three decades, it’s been location, location, location for those who settle in to watch free movies on the Memorial Union Terrace.
Travel back with us now into the shadows of ancient history, to the year A.D. 1993.
The sacrifice? Heading to practice long before the campus comes to life. The reward? Seeing the sun rise and knowing you’ve done your best.
There appears to be a direct correlation between possessing a UW–Madison degree and having an affinity for Paisan’s Italian Restaurant.
Every August 14, thousands of UW students face . . . a twenty-four-hour bout of homelessness.
In May 1969, [the Mifflin Street Block Party] began as a street dance and ended as a three-day riot
If the Memorial Union Terrace is UW–Madison’s patio, the lake’s T-shaped swimming pier is its beach.