Articles by Ty McNulty

Midterm results are generally the way that students, staff and the university review the progress of the school year so far. This year is no different, but the reviews being done are in some cases atypical compared to previous years. The common grade and progress reports are being conducted. However, recently completed and not yet […]

Does anyone remember pedometers? The pacer-looking device that older folks wore strolling around the mall comes to mind. Pokémon and Tamagotchi also sold devices that tracked steps taken in order to reach virtual goals, marketed at children. Now, the worldwide wearables market (devices like smartwatches) ships 222.9 million devices per year. Almost all of these […]

Love it or hate it, you can’t leave it. Your grandparents who once scoffed at younger people spending so much time online now incessantly share and update on their Facebook feeds. The president tweets out policy, and politicians engage in real-time. Social media sites have made impossibly large communities where millions of people find comfort […]

Knives Out, a Lionsgate film directed by Rian Johnson With its incredibly star-stacked cast, scowling down at you from their poster on the wall, with the dramatic ads of feudal drama and elements of tragedy. With the menacing title Knives Out, this theatrical production by Rian Johnson has embraced stereotype and defied trope. A film […]

Red Light Ramen Cuisine Type: Japanese Price per entrée: $13-16 Attire: As you please Reservations: No Payment: Credit Cards Accepted 4/5 empty dishes It’s 1 a.m., and the line wraps around the block. It’s freezing, and there are only two heat lamps consoling patiently waiting drunk patrons. The real surprise is, this isn’t a bar. […]

Who’s hurting? In 2018, 608,775 people were charged with possession of marijuana. Marijuana convictions aren’t the majority of arrests, but they are not a minuscule number of lives affected by outdated laws. Times are changing and the majority of states, 33, have legalized medical marijuana. There are 22 states that have decriminalized marijuana and 11 […]

It’s not that Jeffrey Epstein dying is such a tragedy – the man was a wasteland of sexual assault allegations and pedophilia, shady money schemes, insidious business deals, and Nazi-ish ideas like a “baby ranch.” It’s a common trope for the mega rich to be mysterious and eccentric assumed truth, but for those who stumbled […]

Maybe the final decision to hire or fire someone from their position at Madison West shouldn’t fall directly to one person, the superintendent. If a board reversed the decision to fire Marlon Anderson, it seems likely that some more contextual and diverse thinking would have kept Anderson from being fired in the first place. After […]

“We have more pressing needs in Milwaukee than to divert money to a streetcar that just goes around in a circle,” Milwaukee Alderman Tony Zielinski told CBS 58 when asked for comment about Mayor Tom Barrett’s proposed $46 million expansion to Milwaukee’s streetcar, the Hop’s primary route. Speaking of circles, that’s exactly the kind of […]

It’s quite often said that a man is only as good as his word. On April 26th, 2019 Skylard Grant found how firmly that phrase can ring true. In Judge Jeffrey Wagner’s courtroom Grant sits, quiet and still, next to his defense attorney Susan Roth. Across the aisle representing the state sits attorney Grant Huebner, […]

In a nondescript room in UWM’s Lubar building the morning of Friday, April 5th, six members of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee met to oversee the proceedings of five of UWM’s animal research programs. Chaired by Rodney Swain, Ph.D., a professor at UWM, the meeting convened to review ongoing protocols – experiments and […]

At the 46th Annual Juried Art Show, some common themes were on display. Consciousness, be it about the space the artists take up as individuals, or on a much larger scale and the ways people interact with the world. Ten artists who were chosen by a panel of jurors each gave short speeches about their […]