Feature Stories

Fourteen students in the JAMS 500 Advanced Integrated Reporting class created this piece of collaborative student journalism in spring 2015. The goal of this “time capsule” is to document for future generations how UWM students live, work, study and play. Student collaborators were: Ryan Artman, Sean Cornell, Brooke Dowden, Katie Eggers, John Gingrass, Joe Halley, […]

Reaching across the top of a wooden casket as it slowly rolled past more than 1,000 mourners in the pews of the St. Monica Parish, sisters Chloe and Hailey tightly held each other’s hands. Walking in front of them was their little brother, Bryce, and father Michael. Together, as their eyes welled with tears and […]

Entering the police station will raise the blood pressure of most people. Your demeanor changes. You stand up straight and reply to every question with a “yes sir.” “Do you want to wear a vest?” asks UWM Police Officer Arbinger. “Yes sir,” I reply. Seconds later he pulls up in his black and white squad […]

The Golda Meir Library. Midnight. Mere days before finals week at UWM. All these combined will probably induce a sliver of stress down any student’s spine. We all wish that we were as punctual as possible, but the majority of us procrastinate in some way or another, sometimes more than we should. And that is […]

I walk into Axel’s bar on Oakland Avenue on a Tuesday night. Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Hey, Tonight” is blaring over the speakers. The haggardness of John Fogerty’s voice combined with the blown-out speaker perfectly captures the rugged feel that is Axel’s. My bartender, a blonde middle-aged woman asks for my I.D. in her Russian accent. […]

Imagine leaving class a couple minutes late because you had to ask your professor a question. As you walk to your car, you notice a white and orange piece of paper on your windshield. When you finally arrive at your car, you noticed that you received a ticket for parking in a spot longer than […]

UWM is well on its way to becoming a top-tier research university. On Oct. 24, 2012, UWM broke ground on its first major academic construction project in nearly 20 years, beginning construction on the five-story, 150,000 square foot, Kenwood Interdisciplinary Research Complex located on the corner of Kenwood Boulevard and Maryland Avenue. It is now […]

Mike Sportiello says there’s an apathy problem at UWM. “We have a lot of people who just go to class and go home,” he says. Sportiello has been elected as the Student Association president for the 2015-16 term, and despite the election results being in his favor, he admits they reflect a disconnect. Less than […]

UWM Chancellor Mark Mone took on a series of questions from a panel of journalists at the Milwaukee Press Club located in downtown Milwaukee. Mone was chosen as chancellor of UWM in December of 2015, succeeding Michael Lovell who took was named president of Marquette University. Mone had served on the faculty in the UWM […]

UWM has a notably diverse campus. Students from all over the globe come to study history and art, research science and chemistry, or play in Panther sports with the hopes getting to the big leagues. There is one thing that brings everyone together; we’ve all got to eat. Between the downstairs Union station, The Gasthaus […]

Tucked away in a second-floor room in the UWM Alumni House, developers in the UWM App Brewery are working away in a small lab fit with powerful computers and a great view of Lake Michigan. The UWM App Brewery is collaboration between schools on campus, the largest benefactor being the School of Information Studies. However, […]

Littered with the remains of a once thriving industrial sector, Milwaukee’s Walker’s Point neighborhood spawns dense clusters of rusted-out warehouses and long-forgotten telephone wires. The sights along Greenfield Avenue are awash with urban decay. To the north lies a sprawling vacant parking lot, slowly being reclaimed by thickets of yellowing prairie grass. A cracked and […]