The Badger Herald and three non-voting advisers, including noted First Amendment expert Donald Downs and former Republican congressional candidate John Sharpless. The staff consists of nearly 100 students. The office is located off-campus at 152 W. Johnson St. Suite 202. The paper is printed by Capital Newspapers, Inc., home of the "Wisconsin State Journal" and "The Capital Times". "The Badger Herald" was founded in 1969 by a group of four students seeking a conservative alternative to the UW–Madison's primary student newspaper, "The Daily Cardinal", which editorialized against the Vietnam War and had close ties to leaders of the radical campus protest movement. When
American badger with intermediate forms occurring in the areas of overlap. In Mexico, this animal is sometimes called "tlalcoyote". The Spanish word for badger is "tejón", but in Mexico this word is also used to describe the coati. This can lead to confusion, as both coatis and badgers are found in Mexico. The American badger has most of the general characteristics common to badgers; with stocky and low-slung bodies with short, powerful legs, they are identifiable by their huge foreclaws (measuring up to 5 cm in length) and distinctive head markings. Measuring generally between in length, males of the species are slightly