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I won a $500 research grant to go to Washington, DC over spring break from the UW History department. It may sound nerdy, but spending the week in the National Archives and the Library of Congress will be the best spring break I've ever had.

The fact that some self-styled historian would deliberately alter a document for personal gain. I'm sure I'm in a small group of people who are really truly bothered by this, by as an aspiring professional historian, this is despicable. History is sacred, and changing it to tell a better story or a story that will make you some money is just downright contemptible. http://www.nytimes.com/20.../25/us/25lincoln.html?hp

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I'll confirm this. After being at the football game this afternoon, probably one of my favorite hockey cheers of all time... and I've been to a lot of games.

That officiating crew (I'm assuming it was the same crew both nights, but I could be wrong) was utterly hopeless. The referees seemed to make a conscious decision to not call actual real penalties and only call non-penalties. Every time they called a penalty - on either team - it was a bogus call, but when there was actually a penalty committed, nothing. But what really stood out to me was the horrible job done by the linesmen of all people. How can you blow multiple icing calls, a play when the puck clearly hits the netting behind the goal, and multiple offsides calls all in one weekend? Linesmen make calls that are very binary, so to mess something up that has almost no grey area... just horrible. Wisconsin got hosed this weekend by the officials, pure and simple. And I'm usually an official apologist; usually when people are complaining about the officials I'm thinking in my head, "Oh, come on, they're usually right, they do a pretty good job." But not this weekend, no. Just awful.

That's why I qualified by saying that while it's an advantage, it's not really much of an advantage.

Buckylovesbeer, my roommates and I were laughing about that too. Those jerseys looked like practice unis. But we also thought that they might have a recruiting edge in the South. If you think about it, there is literally no other Southern hockey program, so if you're a high school hockey player from Texas, or Florida, or Louisiana, you might end up at AL-H because it's closer to home. That said, I'd still rather struggle to recruit in the North than have an edge in the South and get nothing from the North, because lets face it, hockey is better in the North.

Apparently, they were for Diwali. They were rattling the windows and floor in College Library something fierce last night. The looks on everyone's faces in the quiet study room on the second floor were pretty funny.

Every time I see this video, or the song comes up on my iPod it gets stuck in my head. It's the only song I don't actually get upset to have stuck in my head though. Teach me how to Bucky, Teach me Teach me how to Bucky!

I was in Iowa City today. I am in no way bugged by that.

Just saw a half dozen ESPN trucks and semis roll through campus. It's gonna be a big week!

Actually, it probably wasn't out of quarters. The auto-changers spit out change so that all the coins remain at relatively the same level, otherwise you would run out of quarters very quickly because besides pennies, they're the most often distributed coin.

A purely rhetorical question for Hawing because she knows the area so well seeing as she works there... but why did they choose Library Mall for the President's visit? I mean, it's a wide open space surrounded by five story buildings and is currently occupied by a lot of construction material. It seems like an odd choice to me. I would understand the decision a lot better if there wasn't so much construction going on in that area currently. Either way... pretty exciting to have the president on campus next week.

Actually, I learned that factoid from Prof. McDonald of the UW History department. I'm taking his History 600 seminar (Crisis in Canada: October 1970) this semester. So I'll be spending a lot of time in the stacks this semester, which is really exciting. I love the Historical Society - it's a really spectacular library with a beautiful reading room and an absolutely stunning wealth of materials. Madison - and the entire state - should consider itself beyond lucky to have such an incredible history library.

The Wisconsin Historical Society has the largest collection of Canadian historical and government materials outside of Ottawa. The University of Wisconsin does not have a professor who specializes in Canadian history. That's a lot of material that no one is really looking at...