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Game Start. Many retro gamers gathered Friday, the 7th of November, at the 8th Note Coffee House in the Union for Retro Game Day to play their favorite Nintendo 64, Super Nintendo and PlayStation games. Level 1. Gamers surrounded 4 T.V.s around the 8th Note, playing their timeless classic favorites including Super Smash Bros., Legend […]

Self-proclaimed “Gender Outlaw” Kate Bornstein received many laughs and tears throughout her recent talk at UW-Milwaukee and even provoked an outburst by several attendees, which led to their removal. Bornstein, who spoke in the Union Ballroom on Oct. 30, explained to the audience of around 100 about her struggle with lung cancer and how the […]

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 […]

The media are at fault for the high African-American incarceration rate in America due to their criminal portrayal of blacks, said Joe Austin, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee who specializes in history, in an Oct. 16 lecture on campus. The professor’s speech was entitled “Preparing for the Great Incarceration: The criminalization […]

President Barack Obama made his way to Milwaukee just days before the Nov. 4 election in an effort to rally voters for gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke. “Grab your friends, grab your coworkers, grab your lazy cousin who’s sitting at home, who never votes during the midterms, sitting at home watching reruns of old Packers games,” Obama […]

It’s time to suit up and bring out the salon-quality hair: Broadcast Club is in full swing at UW-Milwaukee and looking for aspiring broadcasters across campus. Broadcast Club encompasses a weekly student-produced television show known as “Student Showcase,” which highlights various activities throughout the student body at UWM. Each show consists of a host who interviews […]

Throughout the beginning of fall semester, students took part in the creation and formation of a theatrical piece by the name Mil-wonky Too! (Sex, Drugs, and D2L).  The improvised production, designed to capture the realities of college life at UW-Milwaukee, provoked some audience members into tears with its stories of the system making it harder […]

“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. […]

Since the beginning of this school year, freshmen have been complaining about the “artificially intelligent” college math program ALEKS, which, for the first year, is now used in most math classes at UW-Milwaukee. Earlier this fall, many students bombarded the UW-Milwaukee Class of 2018 Facebook page with statements that were along the lines of “I […]

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 […]

Indian community members gathered at the Union Ballroom to celebrate life and ancestors with dancing and singing at the fall UWM powwow. The grand entrance began at 1 p.m. in the afternoon on a recent Saturday. Songs were song for the veterans and the warriors. Flags were held high, and the marching and dancing was […]

The lights dimmed as the band played with wild harmony; the crowd is silent as one among them makes the way to the stage. As the artist recites work, another draws cartoons on a large screen, the room’s energy guiding the drawing. The aura inside the Lyrical Sanctuary, a long-standing UWM tradition, was powerful with […]