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Ask Bucky

Do you have questions? We have answers! Ask Bucky is a service provided by the Campus Information and Visitor Center, your one-stop shop for information about the UW–Madison campus and community and your centralized source for off-campus housing listings. For more information, call 263-2400, visit the office in the Red Gym or the new satellite location in Bascom Hall, or visit the Campus Information and Visitor Center Web site. Below are two questions Ask Bucky recently received.

Q: Do you know of an Internet radio that has the Wisconsin Badgers games on it? It would be a big help to me because I can’t make it to all the games but I would love to listen to them!

A: Access a variety of shows for free on the Wisconsin Badgers Web site, including coaches’ television and radio shows for football and men’s basketball, audio broadcasts for women’s basketball, men’s hockey, volleyball and softball, the weekly “Badger Sports Talk” radio show, Livestats (home games only except football) and post-event news conferences after home games (select teams).

In addition, Yahoo! Sports provides fans with live Internet audio of sporting events and helps generate revenue for the athletic department. This service is available via Yahoo! Sports College Broadcast on a subscription basis.

Q: The terrace sunburst chairs are awesome! What is some of the history behind them?

A: The famous chairs first appeared on the Memorial Union Terrace in the 1970s. However, an earlier version of the sunburst chair based on a French design may have also existed in the 1950s and ’60s. Prior to the sunburst chair, the Union used a different chair design, which also had a flat seat and round back. These chairs had flexible metal slats in the seat and back, and as traffic (and thus, the use of the chairs) increased in the 1960s, the rivets in the chairs began to break. This caused the chairs to pinch innocent sitters in uncomfortable places. This is one of the reasons for the development of the current design.

Blood drive scheduled in memory of 9/11

In remembrance of the Sept. 11, 2001, tragedy, the American Red Cross, with the Wisconsin Union Directorate Community Service Committee, is organizing a blood drive from noon-5 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 9, in the On Wisconsin Room of the Memorial Union.

The event is co-sponsored by the Red Cross, Youngblood and the Community Service Committee. To make an appointment for the drive, call 227-1357 or visit http://www.givelife.org.

For more information about the event, contact Nikki Leis at 576-0138 or leisn@usa.redcross.org.

WAA seeks nominations for top alumni awards

The Wisconsin Alumni Association is calling for nominations for its top honors, the Distinguished Alumni Award and the Distinguished Young Alumni Award. The former is given to UW–Madison alumni with outstanding achievements in professional or volunteer service.

The Distinguished Young Alumni Award goes to a graduate under the age of 40 who has demonstrated unusual achievement or initiative.

For nomination guidelines, visit http://www.uwalumni.com/daa. Send nominations by Saturday, Oct. 15, to the Wisconsin Alumni Association, Attention: Nominations, 650 N. Lake St., Madison, WI 53706-1476.