Articles by Hannah Borchert

Grey clouds loomed over Washington High School’s now bleak campus that was once filled with lively children. A musky smell overtook the air just before rainfall as a crisp breeze swept through the holes of a black chain link fence that sat in front of the basketball and track field. The paint was worn and […]

UWM’s Outdoor Pursuits offers safe opportunities for students to stay active and make new friends amidst the pandemic. Hannah Borchert with the story.

It’s hard for college students to be social—and socially distant—during a pandemic. Communicating virtually is one way to stay connected, but it has its flaws.

Short documentary that showcases how a small dairy farm is holding up during the Covid-19 pandemic in Wisconsin.

“Tingggggggg” the ringing of a chime fills the air.  “You are my other me. If I do harm to you, I do harm to myself. If I love and respect you, I love and respect myself,” students recite a poem called In Lak’ech, translated from Spanish to English, by Luis Valdez. The students then sit […]

It’s field trip day! Students anxiously await the limited days they get to spend away from the classroom. Little do they know, they are still going to be learning valuable lessons at the Peace Learning Center.   Tracy Ebert is the executive director of the Peace Learning Center. First through eighth grade students from Milwaukee Public […]

Silence surrounded 21-year-old Catherine Copps as the computer screen’s harsh light glared back at her face. Copps is a junior at UW-Oshkosh aspiring to be a high school math teacher. Alone, she stared out of her apartment window at the gloomy skies, hoping for motivation to get through fall semester.  “I’m kind of just really […]

A small rectangular slot in the wall revealed a masked face with eyes that meandered in and out of the frame periodically throughout the court hearing held over Zoom. The hearing covered a criminal complaint filed by the state of Wisconsin for the person behind the mask, Khari Sanford, 18, who supposedly murdered a UW […]

The scenes at the polls during Wisconsin’s unprecedented mid-pandemic election were very different depending on where you were. That’s what a team of student journalists learned when they spanned out to interview election officials – including county and city clerks and poll workers – throughout the state on the day after the election. In the […]

Across from Riverside High School, one of five polling places in Milwaukee holding in-person voting for the April 7 election, UW-Milwaukee student Abigail Klug watched from her apartment as a line formed near the school. What started as six or eight people became a several-hour wait by the afternoon, the line stretching behind the school […]

In a conference room on the first floor of Cambridge Commons residence hall, just down the hall from the main entrance where University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student Sean Baek was last seen almost three weeks earlier, a vigil was held for him. The standard refreshments sat on a table on one side of the room. Flanking […]

Chancellor Mark Mone announced that University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will be extending spring break from March 15 to March 29 to prepare for online classes after announcing a UWM Foundation employee was tested for COVID-19 this morning. The employee being tested came into contact with someone who recently traveled to a third world country.  It’s not […]