Short in Stature and Tall in Talent Posted on April 24, 2014January 22, 2015 by Srijan Sen As a longtime sportswriter and senior editor at Milwaukee Magazine, Howie Magner manages to keep an emotional detachment from the teams and athletes he covers. “After a while the fandom gets sucked out of you,” Magner told a classroom of journalism students at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee recently. As a child, there was rampant relocation […]
September 11 as a Distant Memory Posted on November 23, 2013September 30, 2014 by Srijan Sen For many students at University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, 9/11 has become a distant memory of a “terrible tragedy” that happened when they were young. William Matthews, a UWM senior, has trouble recollecting exactly how he felt when planes went into the twin towers in New York. He sat on the chair with a grim […]