Articles by Paul Bertling

She was 14. She was dirty, she was hungry, she’d been running away from home for about a year, and she was 14. There came a time when she hadn’t eaten anything or slept at all in three days when a man who had taken her out to dinner in the past approached her. He […]

Wajahat Ali used humor to bring light to anti-Islamic bigotry in America during his Understanding Muslims: Islamophobia and Turning Villains into Heroes event. His colloquial banter and sarcastic jokes helped make this event about a touchy subject interactive. Ali is of Pakistani decent, and he sarcastically acknowledges that, “In 2015 America, nothing says popularity like […]

UW-Madison has hired consultant Darin Harris to go around to each of the 14 UW campuses in order to gain feedback for new strategic planning that would be implemented by spring 2016. On Oct. 28, UWM held its first listening session. Many of the people who spoke at the meeting had similar concerns, but it […]

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee gave campus-area crime statistics to Rep. Jesse Kremer this week after he and state Sen. Devin LeMahieu proposed a campus concealed carry law in part because of crime on and around the campus. The results from the statistical report released by the Milwaukee Police Department to UWM show that overall crime is actually […]

Year round, Geoff Marshall flies by on two wheels.