Quarantined Abroad

Benjamin Cadel is an undergraduate student from France and Shiv Issar is a doctoral student from India who is studying abroad at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this short documentary, they talk about what it’s like being abroad in the U.S. during the global pandemic and how it’s impacting them.

Essential Worker

During the COVID-19 pandemic, most US states issued Stay-at-Home executive orders which closed all businesses deemed unessential. People that work at businesses that are essential still have to work under the new social distancing guidelines from the CDC. Here are two are how two essential workers are navigating the new work environment in Minnesota and […]

Cats Find Forever Homes at Sip & Purr During COVID-19

Sip & Purr cat cafe on Milwaukee’s East Side isn’t only known as a place to cuddle with cats in the popular cat lounge, but a place to adopt. During Gov. Ever’s Safer at Home order, the cafe has organized over 25 cat adoptions since closing its doors to the public. Increases in pet adoptions […]

Green Bay Packers 2020 NFL Draft Reactions

The 2020 NFL Draft has concluded, and the Green Bay Packers had a very surprising class that left fans both angry and indifferent on why the team went about their selections as they did. Packers General Manager Brian Gutekunst came into his third draft with a mindset that nobody expected. The Packers were one game […]

Winners and Losers of The Last Dance

As the spring of 2020 has brought us a world of no sports, the 1990s Chicago Bulls took the stage as ESPN bumped up the release date for the much anticipated 10 part docuseries about Michael Jordan and his dynasty with the Bulls The Last Dance. All 10 episodes were a nostalgic ride back to […]

UW-Milwaukee Students Win Three National Journalism Awards

Two in-depth journalism projects and an audio story produced by students in the Department of Journalism, Advertising, and Media Studies won top honors in the National Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards, SPJ announced. The contest is among the most competitive in the country; UWM students joined winners from Northwestern, Harvard, Yale, University […]

Restorative Practices Transform Milwaukee Public Schools

“Tingggggggg” the ringing of a chime fills the air. “You are my other me. If I do harm to you, I do harm to myself. If I love and respect you, I love and respect myself,” students recite a poem called In Lak’ech, translated from Spanish to English, by Luis Valdez. The students then sit […]