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Throwback Thursday: Advertising with Union member profiles
Take a look back in time each week with Throwback Thursdays as we post photos and snapshots from the Union’s amazing history. Find out interesting facts and stories from some of the Union’s favorite people, places and things. We’re eager to hear your stories and memories from the Union as well, so share in the comments section below!
read moreThrowback Thursday: The first stone of Memorial Union is laid
Take a look back in time each week with Throwback Thursdays as we post photos and snapshots from the Union’s amazing history. Find out interesting facts and stories from some of the Union’s favorite people, places and things. We’re eager to hear your stories and memories from the Union as well, so share in the comments section below!
read moreGeorge Cutlip: Living life on the Terrace
By Brooke Appe ’12 It’s a foggy Friday morning on the Terrace. Fresh rainfall lingers on chairs and tables and a slight chill hangs in air. All is quiet except for the laughter of a group of kids squeezing as many as they can on the giant Terrace chair for a photo, and the musings of George Cutlip, a UW-Madison alumnus and Memorial Union Building Association (MUBA) Trustee. He looks out to where the Terrace meets the lake – what he calls, “the visible edge of university life.” “How many scientific ideas have been hashed out right here?...
read moreThrowback Thursday: Workers atop steel beams of Memorial Union
Take a look back in time each week with Throwback Thursdays as we post photos and snapshots from the Union’s amazing history. Find out interesting facts and stories from some of the Union’s favorite people, places and things. We’re eager to hear your stories and memories from the Union as well, so share in the comments section below!
read moreThrowback Thursday: Union Theater at dusk
Take a look back in time each week with Throwback Thursdays as we post photos and snapshots from the Union’s amazing history. Find out interesting facts and stories from some of the Union’s favorite people, places and things. We’re eager to hear your stories and memories from the Union as well, so share in the comments section below!
read moreThrowback Thursday: ROTC dedicates the Union site
Take a look back in time each week with Throwback Thursdays as we post photos and snapshots from the Union’s amazing history. Find out interesting facts and stories from some of the Union’s favorite people, places and things. We’re eager to hear your stories and memories from the Union as well, so share in the comments section below!
read more“Bock” to basics: 5 tips for beer beginners
by Andrew Heisler ’13 Whether you like your brew malty, hoppy, or well…watery (I’m talking about you, Keystone Light), beer of all tastes, styles and origins hold a special place in the hearts of Wisconsinites. It has its own place in the Wisconsin Food Hall-of-Fame right next to the wheel of cheese and the grill full of bratwurst. Wisconsin has a booming craft beer industry. Well-known regional breweries such as New Glarus Brewing Company, Capital Brewery and Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company are only the tip of the iceberg. According...
read moreTerrace food options expand with the opening of The Gazebo and Brat Stand
By Francesca Bonifacio ’13 With summer in full swing and the Memorial Union Reinvestment still going strong, you’d be hard pressed to look around and pinpoint a single Terrace icon resistant to change. Earlier this month, the Brat Stand underwent a massive facelift, and the Terrace welcomed a newcomer to the food stand family: The Gazebo. Between the Terrace food stands, Der Rathskeller and Lakefront on Langdon, diners can find just about anything to satisfy their cravings. The Brat Stand Having long been an iconic Terrace...
read moreA historical walking tour of the Memorial Union main entrance
By Jake Heyka ’14 “Down the forest aisles of France. Hear the green-clad column singing! Noonday beems from rifles glance down the forest aisles of France. In these haunts of old romance how we set the echoes ringing! Down the forest aisles of France hear the green-clad column singing!” –John Herbert Culnan ’21, from the pamphlet given out at the Memorial Union Cornerstone Ceremony Between phase 1 of the Memorial Union Reinvestment, the food and drink to be had, and friends to be made on the Terrace, it’s easy to...
read moreWUD Art mural adds color to the Humanities Building
By Francesca Bonifacio ’13 Erected in the 1960s and rumored to have been designed to “withstand attack,” the Mosse Humanities Building now lives in infamy as something of a blemish on the east side of campus. It may come as a surprise that this labyrinthine eyesore – referred to by some as “the bomb shelter” – is actually home to some of the most culturally rich disciplines at UW-Madison. Housed within the walls of the Humanities building are classrooms where students learn about foundational works of philosophy; how to craft furniture...
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