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[In regard to the Spring 2015 Traditions, “Displays on Bascom Hill”]: In 1968, at the height of the war in Vietnam, students awoke one morning to find Bascom Hill covered with crosses painted white (just like the crosses in the cemetery at Omaha Beach in France) and a sign…
Kim Kelleher's latest move has landed her at Wired magazine, where she is VP-publisher.
Remember when Chadbourne Hall housed only women? Attending a class in the old Law Building? Your room at old Ogg Hall? Grabbing a table at the old Union South? Take this walk down memory lane and revisit campus buildings that have come and gone.
India’s Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru ended his 1949 U.S. tour with a UW visit.
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.
I enjoyed “Commencing a New Era” [News & Notes, Spring 2014]. Another event that occurred in 1990 involved a senior named Jordan Marsh ’90. He recognized that the ROTC policy conflicted with the state’s civil rights law, so he organized a sit-in. It started with just a handful of…
The predecessor to today's campus radio station may have been tiny, but it forged lifelong bonds among students from the 1950s to the early '90s and sponsored one heck of a trivia contest.
Alumni commemorate 165 years of Badger excellence.
Hines traces her path to the judge’s bench directly back to her experience as one of four black students in the UW Law School’s Class of 1971.
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Their genesis unknown, the names of geography students mark the decades.
An aerial view provides a peek into what the UW looked like seventy-five years ago and contrasts it with today's perspective.
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.
“We’ll get along a lot better if you don’t compliment me so much.”
