Sugary Desserts and Career Tips: UWM Alum Drew Olson Talks Sports and More

On Wednesday, Oct. 14, inquiries about desserts, as well as T-shirt slogans regarding the Packers are being doled out through the airwaves. Meanwhile, the host of 540 ESPN Milwaukee’s 11 a.m. weekday show, Drew Olson, inserts his earbuds, ready for more talk. Inside a suite on the city’s east side, a relatively small studio houses […]

UW-Milwaukee Students Explore Majors at Campus Fair

College students love free stuff, so with free coffee, pretzels, popcorn, and candy, the Union Ballroom was bustling with UW-Milwaukee students and faculty alike Monday morning for the Exploring Majors Fair. UWM students came to the event to receive something more substantial than popcorn, though: information. Booths set up by various departments lined the ballroom […]

Some UWM Student Veterans Seek Right to Campus Carry

The ongoing conflict of whether students should be allowed to conceal firearms in campus buildings heated the UWM Student Association’s Safety Committee meeting Friday, with committee members pitted against two student veterans, who brought forth a petition signed by 90 people who want the right to carry guns on campus. This was just a public […]

Mergers? Cuts? UWM Efficiency Team Floats Big Changes

At the Oct. 21 meeting of the chancellor’s committee on finding efficiency to deal with UW budget cuts, Co-Chair Kyle Swanson led an exercise by handing around post-it notes and small note cards with schools and departments written on them. “This is going to be like a combination of fantasy football and which body part can […]

Faces of Vietnam: A Premonition and a Guardian Angel

On December 2nd, 1969, Gloria Kinnee awoke to the sound of a sonic boom. Curious as to what could have caused the sound, Kinnee asked her neighbors if they had heard anything. Oddly enough, no one else had heard it, except for Gloria’s brother, Ronald Grieger. They would later find out that their brother Donald […]

Opinion column: Legalize Safety, and Approve Campus Carry

Which would you rather your next significant other conceal and carry– emotional baggage, or a gun? A new bill by legislators Jesse Kremer and Devin LeMahieu would allow permitted individuals to carry their concealed handguns inside of university buildings. Currently, UWM policy bans guns on university lands or inside buildings, but the new bill would […]

UW-Milwaukee Students Voice Concerns About Guns on Campus

A team of freshman UW-Milwaukee students interested in media careers set out on campus with a simple task: Find a random student and, in non-leading fashion, inquire whether they support a controversial bill that would make it so qualifying people – including some students, faculty, and staff – could carry concealed weapons on campus. Some […]

UW-Milwaukee Area Crime Stats Show Overall Drop Since 2007

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee gave campus-area crime statistics to Rep. Jesse Kremer this week after he and state Sen. Devin LeMahieu proposed a campus concealed carry law in part because of crime on and around the campus. The results from the statistical report released by the Milwaukee Police Department to UWM show that overall crime is actually […]

Campus divided? UW-Milwaukee Profs Want Administrative Cuts

There is a level of distrust from some UWM faculty toward administration. This became abundantly apparent at a sparsely attended open listening session of the committee charged with finding efficiencies on campus in the wake of the budget cuts. The suggestions, from the very few in attendance, all had a similar theme. As each member would eventually […]

Victorian in the City? Showcasing Fashion in a Dressed Down City

Stephanie Brown stepped onto the runway in The Milwaukee Theatre in a glitzy black-and-gold fitted bodice that loosens into a high-low swinging bottom. Its details of lace, fringe, and capped sleeves are reminiscent of what one might have worn to a saloon out west circa 1860. As director of booking for Milwaukee Fashion Week 2015, […]