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Feature: Graffiti: Art on an Urban Canvas By Vanessa Gertz Art versus vandalism... it is a battle that has been dueled out between the artists and the officials in virtually every society worldwide. It appears that "art" is an abstract term now, nearly impossible to define. The line between what is art and what is vandalism is becoming a hard one to see, sometimes as thin as a coat of spray paint. Two Students Advance in City Council Primary By Vanessa Gertz and Jeremy Gragert Two UW-Eau Claire students, Brandon Buchanan and Darrin Wurz, were nominated on February 17 to move on to the local general election for City Council on April 6. The February 17 primary was held to narrow down the field of candidates from 12 to 10, allowing for only 10 candidates to vie for the five open at-large council seats in the coming spring election.  Making Our Voices Heard By Brandon Buchanan On February 17th the City Council had its primary elections to determine who the ten candidates would be on the April 6th ballot for the City Council elections. With your support, I was able to collect over 2,300 votes and get past the primary. In the last primary election, only 270 people voted in Davies, but on the 17th, 896 ballots were cast. That is over a 300% increase in voter turn-out. SHADOWGRAPHS By Justin Otto In the past few months I have been the victim of two anonymous violent crimes. The first took place following a concert in St. Paul after parking a car I'd borrowed from a far removed friend. I had placed my book bag in the back seat and left it unattended, and upon my return it was stolen, the rear panel window of the car shattered. The second act was a beer bottle thrown through the window of the room adjacent to mine in the late hours of the night. Fraternal Frustration: Or How The Town Next Store Managed to Be Dumber Than The Frats By Trae Dorn Let me start by explaining something important about me: I hate the Greeks. I find the vast majority of fraternity guys morons, and the majority of sorority girls vapid. Yes, I am the stereotypical Greek hater. But I'm about to do something I never thought I'd ever do - defend the frats. That's right, Mr. I-irrationally-hate-the-Greeks is stepping up to the plate to defend them. (I just felt shivers, did you? Was that hell freezing over? Crap...) US Involvement in Haiti a Question of Morals By Samuel Kramer When Americans hear about a country where only four of ten people have clean drinking water, eight of ten live in poverty, one in twenty lives with AIDS or HIV, the life expectancy is just 51 years old, only half of the population is literate, and political unrest is the way of life, most would think of Africa. It would be very surprising to most Americans that these bleak statistics belong to a nation in our very own backyard: Haiti. A Deficit of Wisdom By Brandon Buchanan The latest issue of BusinessWeek included an article on the ballooning trade deficit which currently stands at over $400 billion. The article concludes by stating that this trade gap could lead to a "potential problem" in our financial markets. But what does that mean? Ballot Boxing Again By Andrea Determan It started with the signs hanging on the bridge. Then, signs on sticks were stuck into snow banks all over campus. Then you received a campaign visit from two passionate people during a campus organization meeting. Then, trying to get to food in Hilltop on Monday, you were blockaded by mobs of restless students, waving their Blugolds vying to get a ballot... Ok, so that last one is probably an exaggeration, but you get the gist: it's Student Senate voting time. Experience Matters By M. Scott Olson & Dawn Snyder There is serious business to be done, and Student Senate and the student body need serious leaders to do it. Experience is key in this election. It is vital that the future Student Body President and Vice President have knowledge of this campus, its students, and its student government that is both broad and deep. The Best Teacher is Experience By Chad Wade and Meredith Marx The hot button question that students seem to be asking my running mate Meredith Marx and me is "What makes you different from the other candidates?" This year's lack of a "big" issue like last year's Davies Center expansion means the candidates have done a lot of agreeing with each other. However, there are some key differences that set us apart, the most obvious being experience. The Road Less Traveled By Bob Bourgeois and Lindsey Nelson Our platform differs from the other candidates in terms of new and innovative ideas and feasibility. We wanted to come into this election with a list of goals that, at the end of the year, we could in good conscience check off on our list. We came up with ideas that we and many other students feel strongly about, not promises that sound appealing to students and contain the sole purpose of securing votes. Legality vs. Morality: A Defense of Gay Marriage By Matthew Konradt It may be true that some laws are based on broad moral principles that 99.9% of cultures and religions agree on (murder for example). However, other than the occasional occurrences, legality and morality have no necessary connection. I understand this is a bold statement to make, but allow me to defend myself. Reassessing My Bad Liberal Self By Phil Kolas I consider myself a liberal, and I spend time mostly with people like me. I can tell you from experience that they are normal people, who want to see real social, intellectual, and economic change in the world. However, I think some of them have lost (or need to make a connection with) the real American world. Like comedian Lenny Bruce once said, "Liberals understand everything except the people who don't understand them." Letter to the Editor: In regards to 'What in the...?' By Larry Troyer Written in response to the article "What in the...?" by Justin Greif, which appeared in The Flip Side Volume 1, Issue 6 (February 18th - March 2nd, 2004). Letter to the Editor: In regards to 'What in the...?' By Nicholas Johnson Written in response to the article "What in the...?" by Justin Greif, which appeared in The Flip Side Volume 1, Issue 6 (February 18th - March 2nd, 2004). Game Freaks: Super Star Wars - Legacy or Laugh? By Matthew White and Matt Biedermann Our two Matts are at it again, as they review the classic 16 bit Super Nintendo title "Super Star Wars," which brings the excitment of a science fiction epic to the realm of 256 color sprite graphics. The Super Star Wars games did something for the game industry... but was that something a shining victory or a smelly, crappy defeat? An Open Letter: McCarthy Reloaded By Matthew White Dear NRA Members-at-Large, while I was out surfing the net yesterday, I stumbled across your website. I was looking through your various policies, your politics, etc., and then I stumbled over this big list on your website. It's called FactSheets: National Organizations With Anti-Gun Policies. I was thinking, maybe we should just review the most heinous offenders on your list... |
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