Articles by Samantha Tripp

The allegations of date-rape drugging surrounding the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity last fall were not the first. Through police reports and interviews, a team of Media Milwaukee journalists has unearthed new information about previous date-rape drug and sexual assault allegations made against a TKE member a year before the  fraternity made the news. According to an incident report provided […]

Miriam Pixtun is a Kaqchikel Maya woman from Guatemala, and Robert Van Zile an Ojibwe language instructor at Indian Community School of Milwaukee and Saokogan Chippewa. They came together to discuss a common threat: mining companies and the environmental issues associated with them. Over eight different University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Schools, Centers, and Student Organizations worked […]

Author, playwright, and performance artist Kate Bornstein spoke to a crowded audience – and one heckler – at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Oct. 30 about gender and sexuality.

Some UWM students are angry. And they’re through being silent. A crowd of Milwaukeeans and students gathered Thursday night to march in protest of the continued presence of the Tao Kappa Epsilon (TKE or “teek”) fraternity on the UW-Milwaukee campus. Starting at Riverside Park, hundreds of students and their allies carried their signs and voices […]

A crowd gathered in Milwaukee to protest the deportation of undocumented citizens and what they call the inhuman breakup of families. Samantha Tripp reports.