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Walking through Bolton Hall, you may notice the handful of offices lining the first floor. A quick glance shows signs like “African American Student Academic Services,” “American Indian Student Services,” “Southeast Asian-American Student Services” and “Roberto Hernandez Center.” Ever wonder what’s behind those doors? Ever think, what do those people in those offices do? Or […]

Traciana Graves is not a typical lecturer.  She uses a multimedia method of her creation, including song, video, photos and sound bites to advance her ideas.  She is all about interactivity, and by using this approach, Graves keeps audiences interested and engaged in what she has to say. “I want what I do to be […]

The author’s presentation was not as much a reading as it was a performance. Ana Maria Shua read each piece in her native Spanish, with an engaging energy and a magnetic rhythm that drew in the audience at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. When Shua – considered one of Argentina’s foremost writers living today, finished each […]

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 […]

Despite extensive efforts by the Democratic Party to propel its gubernatorial candidate, Mary Burke, into the Wisconsin governor’s seat this past Tuesday, failure was almost inevitable. Over the past four years, Republican Governor Scott Walker has become nothing short of a Jesus figure to conservatives. Walker’s many disciples flocked to the polls in droves on […]

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 […]

Are muscle-bound students working out in cut-off shirts too intimidating for people new to campus fitness, such as freshmen? Some people think so, and that’s one of the reasons that UW-Milwaukee officials are making everyone wear sleeved T-shirts to work out at the Klotsche Center. The new policy was also created to ward off possible infections at […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rK43v5WWhk UW-Milwaukee hosted its second annual “Serving those who serve us” breakfast Tuesday morning in the Wisconsin Room located in the Union. The event was hosted by the Military and Veterans Resource Center, which coordinates various events for the veterans during veterans’ week. Nearly 100 people showed up and were served breakfast. Veterans and current […]

The Life Impact Program held a family bowling event for UW-Milwaukee student parents Nov. 8, from 3 to 5 P.M. The program was organized by the UWM Recreation Department and the Women’s Resource Center. Over 100 people registered for the event, with more people signing up at the event. Katie Eggers reports for Media Milwaukee.

Deborah Miranda, a renowned Native American author and poet, visited the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to give a craft talk on her book Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir.   Process was a prevalent theme throughout the talk. She described the 10 years she spent working on it as “drawing a river that she thought her DNA […]

Disparities in workload assignments among instructional academic staff at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee provoked discussion recently before the powerful University Committee. “In dance and theatre, with academic staff, it’s five courses constitute a 100 percent, whereas everywhere else it’s four,” Luc Vanier, an instructor in the Dance Department and member of the University Committee, said. […]

It is around that time of the year as autumn turns into winter and the leaves on the trees start to fall. You can witness people around the neighborhood raking and blowing the leaves out of their yards. However, for some this may not be as easy as it looks. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Center […]