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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 […]

The Public Safety and Health Committee for Milwaukee county voted in favor of the ordinance which will allow police officers to write citations and arrest citizens if they violate Wisconsin’s “Safer-at-Home” order.  The committee held a virtual meeting on April 21 to discuss a new ordinance relating to the enforcement of orders to protect people from Covid-19. […]

“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 […]

Haley Griffin was heading into a busy week of senior classes at Berklee College of Music when she was told to pack up her studio apartment in Boston and move back to her home in Wisconsin. As a major in Professional Music at the distinguished university, Haley would now have to repurpose her suburban living […]

As COVID-19 continues to shut down sports, they are not done yet, as the World Baseball Classic has been suspended until at least 2023.   The qualifying event was initially scheduled for March 2020 in Tuscon, Arizona, but was already cancelled due to the pandemic, according to ESPN. That event is now pushed back to 2021.   […]

Quarantine has been harsh due to all the uncertainty and lack of information given to the general public in regards to possible cures and quarantine end dates. With this being said, everyone who has been in quarantine has been passing time whether they enjoyed it or not. My mission in this article is to provide […]

The slow and awkward evolution of fashion and hype has been a staple of our pop culture as far as we can remember. Just about every person has an opinion on whether something looks nice or not. The idea that it could be related to the generational gap whether you find something good looking or […]

The Covid-19 epidemic has been nothing but merciless since hitting the United States on January 15, 2020. The epidemic has affected upwards of 1.3 million people since reaching the United States. The Covid-19 virus feeds off of people who are in contact with a person who is infected; the virus spreads through saliva or any […]

The 2020 NFL Draft concluded on Saturday night as each team looked to add talent to their rosters for the upcoming NFL season and 254 men accomplished their dreams of getting drafted by an NFL franchise. However, with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the draft took place inside the basement of NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. Goodell […]

About 1,500 people formed a crowd on the Madison Capitol lawn Friday to protest Gov. Tony Evers’ extended Stay-at-Home order, according to the Wisconsin Capitol Police.   On the day the order was initially supposed to be lifted, small business owners and people from small towns rallied together to express their concerns about the extended order which is now in effect until May […]

University of Wisconsin physician Dr. Beth Potter and her husband Robin Carre were murdered by their daughter’s boyfriend after being kicked out for not social distancing, prosecutors say.  A runner discovered Potter and Carre around 6 a.m. on March 31, lying in a ditch in the UW Arboretum near the intersection of Arboretum Drive and […]

Khari Sanford’s bail was set to $1 million for the murders of Beth Potter and Robin Carre during his preliminary court hearing via Zoom. Sanford, 18, and Ali’jah Larrue, 18, were charged with two counts of first-degree intentional homicide for the execution-style murder of UW-Madison Doctor Beth Potter and her husband Robin Carre. Their bodies […]