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Intramural Soccer Started!
Green Revolution opened the new season with a win! 2:1 over TIMF!
Schedule is here and pictures are here!
Fall welcome picnic 2009
Pictures here.
Predictions for the 2009-2010 Year in AAE
There is great excited for the year ahead, and the THC wrote down some of the exciting predictions for what will happen during the school year. Please pay attention so that you don't miss any of these tremendous happenings:
1. Marin is finally promoted to professor.
2. Ken does so well as department chair that he is promoted to “department throne”
3. AAE becomes so prominent a department that the economics department renames itself the “Unapplied and Unagricultural Economics Department”
4. Jean Paul publishes a record 143 papers during the academic year
5. The university generously gives the new building across University Ave to AAE…following our MST style take over of the building
6. The THC Green Revolution wins the IM soccer title…several players leave grad school early to pursue their professional careers.
7. Amazingly, Jeremy hits a snag that forces him to take 4.5 years to finish grad school…while David Garber mysteriously returns for a record tenth year of grad school
8. The job market opens
9. The “Brad Barham Beer Garden” is constructed on the roof of Taylor Hall…constructed with a heated greenhouse for winter relaxation, this allows Brad to finally wear shorts year-round in Wisconsin
10. A first year student bravely ventures where no first year student has gone before…the fifth floor of Taylor Hall…then realizes they went too far and returns to the fourth floor…where they achieve another first – asking Barbara a question to which she does not know the answer
11. After robust t-shirt sales (which will be available shortly), generous donations, and a failure to repay its president for his expenditures (reverse embezzlement sucks), the THC amazingly gets four digits in its bank account…immediately throws happy hour in the Brad Barham Beer Garden. In addition, buys several forks that last for one week in the lounge.
12. After really good behavior by students, food and drink are finally allowed into the computer lab.
13. Vernetta wins American Idol
14. UW-Madison enacts a hiring freeze…for the whole campus except for AAE
15. Brian Gould uses Stata for the first time; it turns out that he, in fact, enjoys the black box
16. After hiring new faculty members Tania Barham, Tomoki Fujii, Fang Lai, Andrew McKim, Karina Schoengold, Jason Scorse, and Aaron Swoboda,
our department finally hires the complete set of the 2005 graduates of Berkeley’s program.
International Spring Potluck and Awards Night 2009
At the THC International Potluck, the new econ-based rap group, Giffen Group, made their debut appearance. Rocking the crowd with tight rhymes and really dorky economic jokes, MCs Optimus Rhyme and Principle-Agent illustrated their lyrical prowess and provided hope that the future of economics might consist of as many tight tracks as problem sets and papers. Here is a recording of their first song, "Econorappers," which verifies their profound knowledge of economic theory and narrates their rise from the poverty line to some of the best rhymers combining economics and hip hop. Look out for their first album (they are currently all-but-abum (ABA)), which is sure to win them the Nobel Prize, either in economics or hip hop
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- AAE international spring potluck and awards ceremony (2008)
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Pictures from this year's event courtesy of Wilson Law
This Year's Food Award Categories (with REAL prizes) :
- Main Dish:
Laura Schechter (vegetarian lasagna/ roshambo)
Laura's Award Winning Recipe - Dessert: The Lewises (prayer bars)
- Excellence in Creativity and Uniqueosity: Debanjana Chatterjee (shrimp masala)
- Best Looking Dish: The Bromleys (beefiness)
THC 2007-08 Departmental Award Winners
Excellence in Teaching: Laura Schechter
Outstanding Contribution to the Graduate Program: Barbara Forrest
When: Saturday, April 12th 5-8 pm
Where (click for map): Van Vleck Room 911 (480 Lincoln Dr.)
Questions about the potlcuk? Your answers are here
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recipes
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- THC
BBQ MADNESS 2007
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the Photos
Time: Septmeber 8, 2007--5 PM;
Place: Rennebohm Park (Click for a map)
That's right, we broke out the special 24 point Snap ITC font for this event; we mean business, serious, BBQ business. Ring in the new school year with the beautiful people of AAE and special guest Lionel Richie.
***** Most Brand Newest: 9/2/07 Need help getting to the BBQ? Have a car, but want some company? If so, please contact Lindsay (lludwig@wisc.edu) and tell her if you need, or can provide, transportation (be sure to include where you will be coming from).
***** Brand Newest: 8/29/07 Sign-up Sheet for the BBQ is now posted on the door of the third floor lounge. Don't forget to show everyone how cool you are by signing up. Remember, the THC provides the meat (and "veggie" meat) and beer but relies on you to help with desserts, sides and salads.
****Even More Brand New: 8/22/07 Legendary Cattle Rancher and BBQ Master Tom Cox agrees to 'steer' the grill for THC BBQ MADNESS 2007. Tom is known for his peerless analysis of global agricultural policy, impressive research record, expert BBQ prowess, and for saving Christmas in Hogspit, Kansas in 1977.
***Brand New: 8/1/07 Check out our exclusive interview with this year's special guest, Lionel Richie
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Will former President Butsic make an appearance? His publicist won't say. Stay tuned for further developments....
- THC Elections To see the election results, please click here --May 19, 7 PM at Carsten's House (937 E. Gorham Apt #2).
- April 21--2007 Annual International Spring Potluck
The 2007 version of this famed annual rite of AAE passage was held in
the main lounge of the stately Pres House, on Library Mall, and was MCed
by loquacious THC President Van Butsic
butsic@wisc.edu. As always,
students, faculty and staff raised the bar for international
cooking by a graduate student (or a graduate student's significant
other) .
Click here to see photos from this year's potluck by THC Photographer-in-residence Marin Bozic.
Congratulations to Dan Bromley and Vardges Hovhannisyan (re: Mrs. Bromley and Mrs. Hovhannisyan) for taking home the top prizes for cooking (re: good taste in spouses).
Finally, congratulations to Brian Gould and David Lewis, who took home the awards for, respectively, Excellence in Teaching and Outstanding Contribution to the Graduate Program. Nicely Done.
- March 22--The THC Ultimate Roshambo Tournament Happy Hour Experience...It's On!
Congratulations to THC Roshambo champion David Watts, who intimidated foolish Roshambo opponent into a unique Nash Equilibrium of humiliating defeat. Also, a big thank you to THC Roshambo Commissioner-In-Chief Hillary Caruthers, who presented (and fashioned) the championship trophy, and overcame enormous THC-executive-incompetence to make the event a success.
- February 15-- THC Movie Fun Night
- January 24---Happy Hour ( photos )
- 2006 Fall BBQ
Click here to see photos of the 2006 installment of the THC's world famous, annual kickoff event.
