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The Passion of C-FACT, or 'What Happens When You Lose Your Papers'
By now you’ve heard the news: Last week, Chancellor Biddy Martin refused to overrule the Student Service Finance Committee’s (SSFC’s) decision not to fund Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow (C-FACT) with student segregated fees. Since C-FACT had been denied seg. fees for procedural reasons — their leadership was delinquent on… Read more »
Uprising in Iran: A note on pronunciation.
There’s a little pet peeve I have for the networks covering the Iranian protests of the election that doesn’t involve twitter. As much as I’d love to delve into that controversy revolving around CNN, I will save that for a later post after I’ve thought about the criticisms a little… Read more »
ASM meetings during the summer? Yep. Here's what's going down.
Seeing as we can’t add Erik Paulson as an editor on the blog, consider this a guest post… ====== I’m a member of the Student Council, one of five reps from the Graduate School. Muckrackers has kindly agreed to carry a guest post to talk about the next ASM meeting.… Read more »
A story of Eight ALRC applicants: or, How to appoint a student without really trying
UPDATE 1:46, P.M.: After contacting the candidates, it seems that no one was interviewed for this position. Both Rahul Kamath and Qi Zhang were not interviewed, but only submitted their letters and received rejection e-mails a couple of days later. —- After we found out a few weeks ago that Mark… Read more »
About Muckrakers
Muckrakers is a collaborative blog comprising posts by Herald columnists and Editorial Board members. The blog is designed to offer topics for debate, rebuttals and other additions to the UW-Madison public discourse.We encourage you to add your voice to the discussion by commenting.
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Recent Comments
Carl Fergus on The Passion of C-FACT, or ‘What Happens When You Lose Your Papers’ 3 days ago
There’s no way that this decision was made along ideological grounds. Half of the voting members of SSFC at the… Read more »
Jason Smathers on Uprising in Iran: A note on pronunciation. June 27, 2009, 7:31 am
It’s true, the Wikipedia version is “Kha-Men-Nay-E, and I probably should have done that. http://names.voa.gov/sounds/660.mp3 The Merriam-Webster, from what I… Read more »
Jake Victor on Uprising in Iran: A note on pronunciation. June 24, 2009, 7:32 pm
Do you have a non-Wikipedia source for that pronunciation of Khamenei? Merriam-Webster gives the pronunciation as having the stress on… Read more »
Pete Anderson on Uprising in Iran: A note on pronunciation. June 21, 2009, 7:15 pm
I have an even more basic complaint. I find the words ‘Iran’ and ‘Iranian’ are too often pronounced incorrectly by… Read more »
Kurt Gosselin on A story of Eight ALRC applicants: or, How to appoint a student without really trying June 11, 2009, 4:56 am
Thanks Jason for getting this information out there. I would argue that this appointment was not appropriate for Chair Wiegand… Read more »
Anonymous on Student Council Meeting: Live blog June 2, 2009, 6:07 am
UC advocated a cap of tuition at the rate of inflation for four year institutions, which is different from a… Read more »
Charlie Gorichanaz on The flawed dialogue with the campus right May 12, 2009, 8:39 am
This is another test.… Read more »
achaia3 on The flawed dialogue with the campus right May 12, 2009, 8:38 am
This is a test.… Read more »
Anonymous on The flawed dialogue with the campus right May 12, 2009, 6:31 am
Anonymous, your insults suck almost as much as the far right. God you are awful.… Read more »
Anonymous on The flawed dialogue with the campus right May 3, 2009, 1:09 am
Sam, your analysis sucks almost as much as your writing. God you are awful.… Read more »
Anonymous on Math shows anti-gay support decreasing May 1, 2009, 11:38 pm
test… Read more »
Anonymous on Math shows anti-gay support decreasing April 27, 2009, 2:57 am
this is very impressive; way to use your math skills!… Read more »
Anonymous on Chomp Chomp Chomsky April 19, 2009, 2:44 pm
Well said, Bob!… Read more »
Anonymous on Math shows anti-gay support decreasing April 18, 2009, 5:30 am
Did anyone see the crazy antigay preacher on the campus today? And if so, what was his name?… Read more »
Anonymous on Chomp Chomp Chomsky April 17, 2009, 8:43 pm
Well said Bob Mitchum. A pathetic piece… Read more »
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