Articles by Jena Kleindl

Benjamin Cadel is an undergraduate student from France and Shiv Issar is a doctoral student from India who is studying abroad at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this short documentary, they talk about what it’s like being abroad in the U.S. during the global pandemic and how it’s impacting them.

Deaf Milwaukee community members shared both positive experiences and the more inaccessible, unwelcoming ones at UWM’s annual See What I’m signing event . “Coming here, I was like a fish out of water,” Katelyn Miller said. “ I felt lost, I felt stressed, I felt overwhelmed, I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t know […]

With UWM Sexual Assault Awareness Week nearing, almost 100 sexual assaults were reported to on-campus authorities in 2016. Yet, less than half are directly communicated to students. A 2016 UW System report on UWM sexual assault included the raw numbers of sexual assault reports on the UWM campus. On-campus crimes must be released and shared […]

UWM junior Ryan Fields tells Jena Kleindl about a song that sums up his deepest thoughts.

Sgt. Bryan LaChapelle and Lt. Brian Switala were the two UWM police officers involved in the March 19 on-campus shooting of former UWM student Irie Payne, 30, who is now accused in a criminal complaint of pointing a gun at an officer’s head during an attempted escape. LaChapelle shot Payne as the former UWM student […]

UWM Chancellor Mark Mone denounced members of the Student Association with a four-page letter in response to the SA vote that condemned a raise in student fees to repair the Union, saying SA was given ample time to express their concerns. “No Student Association representative ever appealed or objected to the Union Capital fee in […]

An hour-long campus-wide power outage that briefly stalled campus life Wednesday afternoon was caused by an off-campus WE Energies issue, the university spokesperson says. The fire alarms in Lapham and the KIRC sounded after a sensor detected a drop in water pressure from the power failure, according to the UWM Police Department. Power is restored […]

Spring semester at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee came to a screeching halt this week after record-breaking low temperatures sent the city into hibernation and the campus community facing a rare streak of canceled classes. “It is not unusual for us to cancel classes once per winter — we’re in Wisconsin! But it is unusual to […]

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee students awoke on the morning of Jan. 23 to a thick layer of snow coating the roads and sidewalks, but, to the distress of some, classes went on as planned. Running public transportation contributed to UWM’s decision to stay open on Wednesday, according to Michelle Johnson, senior director of Integrated Marketing & […]

Given the rise of anti-Semitic hate crimes in America, remembering and studying the Holocaust seems essential. A unique class at UW-Milwaukee is helping students understand how it happened. Jena Kleindl reports.