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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 […]

UW-Milwaukee Professor Joe Austin spoke Thursday about the struggle of being young and colored in the 1940’s, arguing that the news media purposely portrayed blacks as criminals, helping lead to the high black incarceration rates in the country and state. Austin was the featured speaker in the 45th Annual Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture, on the […]

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, […]

One of the three finalists for UW-Milwaukee’s next chancellor is the current provost at the University of Akron in Ohio, Dr. William M. “Mike” Sherman, who has specialized in physical and health education and who’s second in charge of a public university facing many challenges similar to those at UWM. He’s run into controversies with […]