Back to School: Pandemic Edition

In this short documentary, Cherita Booker shows us what it’s like to return to school while also navigating online classes during the pandemic.

Strive

Meet Tiff Polzin, a third-year student at UWM studying music theater, dance and psychology. Being constantly overbooked and doing school primarily virtually this semester due to COVID-19 has brought on a lot of anxiety for this self-proclaimed perfectionist. In this short documentary, Brianna Schubert shows us the struggle and beauty of endlessly striving to be […]

Butterfly Effect

Audrianna Hutchinson introduces us to Jakayla Bridges, a young local who has overcome struggles in life and is now making waves in the TikTok makeup universe.

Ghost Campus

Matthew Hollendonner takes us into a ghost campus: UW-Milwaukee during Spring 2021. Student workers struggle with online classes and barely interact with people on the job due to Covid restrictions.

Denim Day

Lauren Clausing takes us behind the scenes of “Denim Day”, an event held by UWM’s Women’s Resource Center to stand in solidarity with survivors of sexual violence.

Anti-Asian Bias: UW-Milwaukee Confronts Asian Hate

Dr. Juchuan Wang discussed how the use of the term “China Virus” has diverted attention away from domestic failure during the COVID-19 pandemic.  May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, and in honor of this, panelists celebrated having the hard conversation of Anti-Asian bias in America, according to Dr. Chia Vang, the Associate Vice Chancellor in the Division of Global Inclusion & […]

The CDC’s New Mask Guidance

On Thursday May 13, 2021, the Center for Disease Control announced that those who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 will no longer need to wear a mask or physically distancing themselves from others. “If you are fully vaccinated, you can resume activities that you did prior to the pandemic,” said the CDC in a press […]

Chauvin Pronounced Guilty in the Killing of George Floyd

Former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin has been convicted on all charges for the killing of George Floyd on April 20th 2021. The 12 jurors found Chauvin guilty of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter after he killed George Floyd by kneeling on his neck during an attempted arrest in May 2020. Chauvin’s […]

Minnesota Officer Shot and Killed Man by Mistake, Chief said

Minnesota police announced at a news conference that the officer who fatally shot a black man on Sunday mistakenly fired a gun, thinking it was a taser. “There was accidental discharge that resulted in the tragic death of Mr. Wright,” Brooklyn Center Chief of Police Tim Gannon said. “I have asked the BCA [Bureau of […]