Link to the full text of the Cardinal's year-end staff opinion:

A lot has happened at UW-Madison over the past semester. From the highs of record election turnout and the proposed new line of funding for stem cells to the lows of more announced budget cuts that could result in hundreds fewer students attending our fine institution, there have been major changes to the makeup, the mission and the appearance of the university.

In the coming semester, we are sure to see many more developments that might further change the university, and in the face of a continuing budget crisis, we realize many of those changes will inevitably be for the worse. But while we realize adding classes and drastically increasing pay scale for faculty may seem like reaching for a pie in the sky, there are nonetheless many smaller achievements we think the administration might attempt. In that light, we have compiled a holiday wish list of actions the administration might take over the course of the coming semester in order to change UW-Madison for the better.