Homecoming 2010: Legends of Bucky Badger

MADISON, Wis. — As University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni and fans may know, on the eve of the very first Battle for Paul Bunyan’s Axe in 1948, the football trophy mysteriously went missing just like its predecessor, the Slab of Bacon.

Legend has it that within minutes, Bucky Badger gathered a search party of thousands to march down State Street to look for it. Luckily it was found, and the parade continues on each year on the eve of the Homecoming football game. Or so the story goes.

Before this year's Battle for Paul Bunyan’s Axe, UW-Madison alumni and students are invited to a week of tall-tale adventures with the greatest mascot in the land during Homecoming 2010, Legends of Bucky Badger.

Wisconsin Alumni Association Gives $250,000 to Great People Scholarship Campaign

MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Alumni Association (WAA) has given $250,000 to the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Great People Scholarship Campaign to provide more students need-based financial aid on their path to becoming alumni.

The $250,000 gift is made possible through sales of The Red Shirt™, a limited line of T-shirts developed by WAA to help fund scholarships and programming for alumni and students.