Hard as it may be to believe, there are those for whom the Badger Herald simply isn't right-wing enough.

Weary of what they describe as liberalism in the Madison media, conservative students at UW-Madison will roll out their own newspaper next semester.

On Feb. 12, the birth date of Republican President Abraham Lincoln, the Mendota Beacon will begin publishing every other week under the direction of junior economics major Tim Shea, who will be its managing editor. The paper will get start-up money from a conservative group known as The Leadership Institute, in Arlington, Va.

Shea described his decision to start the newspaper as an act of intellectual self-defense.

"There's definitely a lot of hostility toward the conservative way of thinking on campus," Shea said. "By putting out a newspaper, that's something that people can pick up and read, and they don't have to listen to people shooting down their views. They can just read the paper and then decide whether or not they agree with what we have to say."