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Students, protesters, Hillary supporters and non-students came together and voiced their opinions about Hillary Clinton in a colorful scene around the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus. Matthew Campbell reports.

The trial for a lawsuit between two Milwaukee police officers shot during patrol six years ago and the gun store that sold the weapon used in the shooting finally kicked off Wednesday, with the attorney representing the officers arguing in his opening statement that the sale contained hallmark signs of an illegal gun transaction. The […]

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee freshman students interested in media careers through a Living Learning Community were assigned to each interview a person at least 20 years older than they are about changes in the media. For these students, the news is immediate, individualistic, constant, on-demand, and often accessed through social media or a smart phone. Sometimes, […]

The people who came to UWM to see Hillary Clinton on Thursday spanned generations. Here are two of those stories: Waited Two Hours By Meggie Hall Amid the screams and the “Hillary” chants, stood an older woman; Hillary Clinton had arrived in Milwaukee.  Lines had stretched out and around past Maryland Avenue, and  one woman […]

Milwaukee— Hillary Clinton spoke in the Wisconsin Room at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where she said young people have a stake in the upcoming election particularly when it comes to college tuition and student loan debt. “I have a plan that will allow any person to go to a four- year college or university to […]

Milwaukee—Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton came out hard against the current state of college tuition in a speech given in the Wisconsin Room of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Union on Thursday. The Former Secretary of State deplored the debt that students incur while getting their college degrees. Clinton encouraged those in attendance to raise their hands […]

With white shutters warming under the bright spring sunshine, Dorothy Bertolas’ small one-story home sits quietly along the sleepy residential streets of Menomonee Falls, Wis. The house’s interior is warm, snug, and neat as a pin. Its walls, all painted in a crisp eggshell white, are laden with relics of a time gone by. Years […]

Gov. Scott Walker vetoed a provision in the biennial state budget on Sunday that would have turned all probationary contracts for academic staff in the UW System into fixed-term contracts. The Legislature would have mandated the elimination of indefinite status, the non-PhD equivalent of tenure, for about 158  academic staff at UW-Milwaukee, as well as more […]

The Dean of The School of Freshwater Sciences, David Garman, is the recipient of British Consulate’s Brit Weeks’s Innovation in Academia award. Garman has been the Dean of The School of Freshwater Sciences for about four years. His previous jobs have dealt with all different aspects of environmental management of water resources. The School of […]

The courtroom was filled with family members and friends of club promoter Christopher Gray waiting to hear the sentencing of Melvin Jones, the teenage murderer of their lost loved one. Jones was sentenced to 25 years in prison and 10 years of extended release on Friday May 8 for the murder of Gray. Jones was […]

“We’re ready for this, boys!” yelled captain Zach Lubin. “Everything starts tonight.” The thud, thud, thud of his goalkeeper gloves echoed inside the tunnel. I fiddled with my shinpad tape, stretched a quadricep muscle, and glared at the referees, willing them to get this landmark evening underway. I was understandably impatient. I had waited six […]

There are 158 employees at UW-Milwaukee whose probationary terms could be switched to fixed term contracts – likely two years long – if the full Legislature approves a Joint Finance Committee measure ordering the Regents to eliminate indefinite status for academic staff in the UW System. As a result, they are on what the chancellor […]