Of the Cardinal Staff

There was, I admit, a certain panache in writing for the Daily Cardinal, even for myself, a sometime contributor.
My Poly Sci professor asked me, in front of the class, whether he should await more "fiery editorials." from me. The Wisconsin-type local in the same class said he thought it was "cool" that I wrote for it, with no east coast sarcasm implied. I got most praise when I attacked the 60s baby boomers for their supercilious attitude; always telling us (in the late 1980s) how much better and socially concerned they were than we were.
But the 60s ended, and the 70s seemed to be little more than a totally baked pot party.
Now, apparently, the Badger Herald is the dominant paper (Wisconsin is the only major campus with two newspapers), having been established in the late 1960s, it is the most-read paper (If papers have any readership on campuses at all).
The Cardinal actually folded in the 1990s because of lack of advertising. It re-emerged later that decade.
So who cares? If you look through the Wikipedia entree, you will find far more news industry names than the Herald. Anthony Shadid, the editor-in-chief while I was there, is now a Washington Post reporter who has received numerous awards for his coverage of the middle east, and has written two books on the subject.
Sarah Kershaw is a New York Times reporter. Scott Sherman is a contributor to the Nation. Nathan Bracket is now an editor at Rolling Stone. Tom Vanderbilt has written three books, the last the critically acclaimed (first page of the NY Times book review) book "Traffic."
But the Cardinal, the more left-wing of the papers, became notorious for its endorsement of radical campus uprising. It even approved of the bombing of Sterling Hall, where a post-doc researcher was working and killed in the summer of 1970. Many people, including advertisers, thought that that action (the target was the Army Math Research Center) was beyond radicalism and forgiveness.
So, in the age of Obama, we'll see what happens to possibility of two dueling campus papers in an age in which few people bother to read them or any other publication.