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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 […]

When you arrive on a college campus, everything is new and exciting: new housing, new classes and new friends. For some people, though, meeting those new friends can sometimes be a challenge. At UWM, the perfect place to start new friendships is the Klotsche Center. Hundreds of people use the facility each day, whether it’s […]

The waves of Lake Michigan crash along the shore of Bradford Beach. Even though it’s April and only 40 degrees outside, people are still enjoying Lake Park. During the lunch hour, people eat in their cars, watching the waves. Others walk their dogs. Another person, a man with long, dark facial hair wearing a neon […]

On Wednesday April 1, UWM’s CAB Coffeehouse crew, a club promoting local performers, presented a spring concert, the April Fools Music Bash, in the Unions Fireside Lounge. Essences of colorful lights circling the small stage in back of the room welcomed open mic performers onto the stage. The UWM CAB, Campus Activity Board, Coffeehouse is […]

“He was killed.” Jasmine Jackson, a current student at UWM, described as she recalled the homicide of her child’s father. “I don’t know. Someone just found him in an alley, shot in the head.” For many UWM students of color, survival isn’t guaranteed while living in one of America’s most segregated cities. Yet, UWM is […]

Karen Kramer pulled her wide-eyed, 22-year-old daughter, Becky, into a hug. She held her daughter tight, so she could hear her heart beating rapidly. As Karen kissed her daughter’s blonde head, tears rolled down Karen’s cheeks onto Becky’s pale, bruised skin. The two sat for hours, talking and crying. Karen begged Becky to stay. To […]