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Comedian Brian Regan to perform in Madison

Jan 21, 2025 | badgerherald.com | Aiden Mellon

Comedian Brian Regan will stop at Madison’s Orpheum Theater on Friday as part of his 2025 national tour. Regan’s stop in Madison marks his first performance in years in the state’s capital city. Performing within a year and a half in the same city would go against an unwritten theory of performance business, Regan said.
In crowded dorms, overpriced apartments, freshmen lose out most

Dec 28, 2024 | badgerherald.com | Aiden Mellon

At the University of Wisconsin, lease agreements and housing plans weigh so heavily on freshmen, that these concerns are a regular part of freshmen introductions, alongside the classic questions of “what’s your major,” and “what dorm do you live in?”Putting aside the merits of off-campus life, the pressure felt by the UW’s newest and least experienced students to sign a lease is wrong.
Computer science student enrollment woes help department pull off miracle

Dec 4, 2024 | badgerherald.com | Aiden Mellon

If you spend enough time around computer science majors, one of the things you’re likely to hear is a long series of complaints about course enrollment. That’s been my experience living with two CS majors, and after two years of hearing about the shortcomings of the course enrollment process in the CS department, I decided to take a closer look at the problem myself. Here’s what I learned:Difficulty with course enrollment is a common experience for CS students at UW.
Students are moving at speed of internet: Curricula, course expectations aren’t keeping up

Nov 16, 2024 | badgerherald.com | Aiden Mellon

In the last months of 2024, it has been difficult think of Elon Musk as anything but an important player in the presidential election. Once widely beloved as an eccentric entrepreneur with an answer to humanity’s biggest problems, Musk’s madcap charge into politics and the Trump campaign has undoubtedly complicated his reputation, but there was a time not too long ago when one of the most controversial things about Musk was his desire to merge organic and artificial intelligence.
Out-of-state Californian students drive UW’s higher education import economy

Nov 13, 2024 | badgerherald.com | Aiden Mellon

One of the most interesting enrollment trends at the University of Wisconsin in recent history has been the shift toward accommodating an ever-larger population of out-of-state students. Currently, UW now enrolls over 9,500 more students than they did in fall 2011 — the earliest year with publicly accessible enrollment records — yet the number of students from Wisconsin in that same time period has decreased by 972, according to enrollment data from 2011 and preliminary data from 2024.
Postal Service track record in 2020 should allay voters, election officials concern over mail in ballots

Nov 1, 2024 | badgerherald.com | Aiden Mellon

From the fourth quarter of 2023 to the fourth quarter of 2024, on-time delivery rates for First Class 2-day mail in Wisconsin have dropped from 91.3% to 70.5%, according to USPS. This comes as the USPS pilots a new cost-savings plan, Local Transportation Optimization, in Green Bay, which involves ending the evening pickup of mail from post offices to delivery centers, according to Spectrum News.
Why are all my friends jacked now?

Oct 15, 2024 | badgerherald.com | Aiden Mellon

One of the most interesting parts of high school was watching my classmates go from scrawny kids to fully grown, buff adults in just a few years. This transformation was, of course, in large part due to the biology of aging from 14 to 18, but there was also another force at work — the gym. It really felt like something had changed during the pandemic.
The affordable housing no one is talking about

Oct 2, 2024 | badgerherald.com | Aiden Mellon

Categories: Co-ops offer some of the most inexpensive housing arrangements in Madison: Students, university should take noteOctober 2, 2024 For renters, the housing story in Madison has been a tragedy in recent years. You don’t have to look far to find this story. It has been covered, at length, by every paper in the city. There is, however, one small segment of the housing market that has been underreported that has, in many ways, defied the odds — housing cooperatives.
Controversial speakers have helped shape how UW students, administrators approach free speech on campus

Sep 19, 2024 | badgerherald.com | Aiden Mellon

In recent years, UW has seen several prominent, polarizing Republican personalities on its campus: Matt Walsh in October 2022, Ben Shapiro in November 2023, Michael Knowles in March 2024 and Charlie Kirk this September. To varying degrees, each visit has challenged students and administrators to assess controversial ideas and weigh the merits of free speech against the consequences of divisive rhetoric.
Voters should not let Harris off the hook on Gaza policies

Sep 10, 2024 | badgerherald.com | Aiden Mellon

In last April’s midterms, Democrats in Madison made it clear that Biden’s policy on the war in Gaza did not work for them. Over 14,000 Democrats in Dane County voted to send an uninstructed delegate – one not bound to support then presidential candidate Joe Biden in the Democratic National Convention – in a form of organized protest against the party’s handling of the war in Gaza.