Articles by Catie Middleton

Wisconsin is a state filled with a population of diverse people, and a rich history. The state is also home to some very strange laws, most of which Wisconsinites have never heard of. Through the help of the Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau (LRB), which provided history and context, these laws are examined and unpacked below. […]

An emotional, grieving mother addressed her child’s killer in a Milwaukee courtroom on Dec. 15, calling him a “cold-hearted, backstabbing coward” and a “lying devil in disguise.” Tamio Shipman-Allen was found guilty of killing his girlfriend’s 14-month-old daughter and sentenced to 28 years in prison, and 16 years of extended supervision. Prosecutors say that the […]

UW-Milwaukee’s Women and Gender Studies program held its third lecture in the Fall Brown Bag Series on Nov. 16 where two very different topics were connected and combined: James Joyce and disability studies. Sarah O’Connell, an English PhD candidate, presented on her topic “Gerty Makes a Scene: Sexual Selfhood and Disability in James Joyce’s Ulysses.” […]

Caitlin Scarano has always known that she wanted to write. She started writing stories at the young age of five and found that words wormed their way into her mind, even while attending church with her grandmother. “Church can be pretty boring for small children, so my grandmother gave me a pen and the church […]

The world of hillbillies and hollers is one so many of us only experience in TV shows or movies, but J.D Vance brings it into reality with his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. The moving, funny, poignant story that Vance weaves tells of his own family, a unique group of […]

I am not a Scott Walker fan. Anyone who knows me, knows that I don’t have any respect for him or the decisions he has made as Wisconsin’s Governor. So the prospect of Wisconsin schools Superintendent Tony Evers running against Walker as a democrat in the upcoming election is exciting. We desperately need some change […]

Universal healthcare. Something we all can agree is a good idea, but the way that Republicans and Democrats go about it is something that is as controversial and heated as the gun debate. When President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law in 2010, Republicans were furious. And now, Trumpcare, or the American Health Care Act, looms on […]

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is expecting a 2.4 percent decline in enrollment this fall, in part driven by a drop in international students, Chancellor Mark Mone said in his fall plenary address on Thursday. This decline comes due to prior year enrollments and the changing dynamics of the United States, however Mone says there are […]

Into the Water. Paula Hawkins. New York, New York. Penguin Random House. May 2, 2017. 388 pages. $28.00 The water isn’t all that is murky in Paula Hawkins new novel, Into the Water. Hawkins, the author of New York Times bestselling novel The Girl on the Train, has mastered the formula for a great mystery-thriller, […]