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All athletes can understand the nerves that come with a big game, much less a game against your crosstown rivals in front of an electric crowd. If Milwaukee had any of those nerves, the Panthers handled them poorly as Marquette retained Milwaukee women’s volleyball control with an emphatic 3-0 sweep victory Tuesday night at the […]

“Sex Week,” as it is affectionately called, was comprised of events and talks such as “Pleasure Principles,” “Sex in the Dark,” and “Condom Bingo.” Most of these college sex week events took place in the Flicks room in the Sandburg Residence Hall, but others, such as the “Condom Olympics,” took place at Riverview off- campus. […]

Use one Korean television show for inspiration and add in riddles and a scavenger hunt. That’s what board members of the Asian Student Union and Hmong Student Association did, sending teams of students around campus in a version of the Amazing Race. The board members created a fright week of events that led up to […]

Maintenance has changed the shower handle in a 23rd floor suite of Sandburg North Tower after University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee freshman, Madison Brink, made a trip to the hospital Oct. 23 when she was scalded by her shower the previous day. Madison took the city bus to St. Mary’s Columbia Hospital where the doctor classified her […]

They did the Mash. The Monster Mash. And the Cupid shuffle. And of course the Wobble. And any other dance you could think of. Students from UWM and other area colleges gathered to laugh, dance and socialize at the UWM Black Student Union Halloween Party.  While some came in costume and others just wore jeans, […]

From fan pages to Halloween costumes, one local legend has inspired a near cult-like following among campus visitors and is now engrained in the UW-Milwaukee community. Eric Slawyk, who may be better known as the UWM Pen Guy,  uses free pens and scripture verses to help positively promote his Christian agenda on campus. Although his motives may […]

UW-Milwaukee student Leah Mailloux was walking four blocks from campus, when a stranger ran up behind her. “I had my headphones in, walking along two blocks away from my house, and some guy runs up behind me, tries to grab my purse and my phone, he grabs a hold of my phone but didn’t get […]

The UW-Milwaukee German program commemorated the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall Sunday, by sponsoring “25 Years Later.” Held in Curtin Hall, the event included a documentary film on the history of the wall that divided East and West Berlin, as well as speakers and professors who discussed the wall’s importance and […]

Republican Scott Walker won his third election for governor in four years. As many remember, Walker secured his governorship first in the gubernatorial election in 2010 against Tom Barrett and then faced a recall election in 2012 where he beat Barrett again. Walker defeated the democratic candidate Mary Burke this time around by over 5 […]

“Arm yourself with knowledge,” Steve Jagler, executive editor of BizTimes Milwaukee magazine, said to his journalism class at UW-Milwaukee last week. This is a saying that Jagler tells all of his new reporters as well.   Molly Dill, Erica Breunlin and Hilary Dickinson, new reporters with BizTimes, all agreed that Jagler’s advice is some of […]

Fifty years and 40 missions after NASA’s first spacecraft to Mars, “The Red Planet” astronomy show on Oct. 17 celebrated the exploratory history, current discoveries, and future NASA missions to the planet. The event, held at UW-Milwaukee’s Manfred Olson Planetarium, was the sixth astronomy presentation between Sept. 12 and Oct. 24 to highlight Mars and […]

Before he spent the past 16 years running the Milwaukee LGBT Film Festival, UW-Milwaukee’s Carl Bogner worked his way through a series of book stores, where he indulged in a love of reading and literature. Film was another interest. In those days, people could only see the films he was interested in at universities, and […]