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First Lady Michelle Obama visited Milwaukee’s Wisconsin Center on Monday Sept. 29 to rally support for Mary Burke as Wisconsin’s next governor. Although Mrs. Obama admitted to having met Burke for the first time only hours earlier, she said that she “loved” Burke as a candidate for Wisconsin’s next governor. “She is smart. She is […]

Some UWM students are angry. And they’re through being silent. A crowd of Milwaukeeans and students gathered Thursday night to march in protest of the continued presence of the Tao Kappa Epsilon (TKE or “teek”) fraternity on the UW-Milwaukee campus. Starting at Riverside Park, hundreds of students and their allies carried their signs and voices […]

UW-Milwaukee is becoming a destination campus for international students, as the number of international students on campus has risen dramatically over recent years, driven in part by an influx of students from China, the largest group. According to Jennifer Gruenewald, the Director of Student and Scholar Services, the top five international students UWM has received […]

What can a nickel and a few pennies buy? To many individuals, such loose change does not go very far. It doesn’t even cover the cost of a small package of gum. For the Creative Corrections Education Foundation and UWM’s Helen Bader School of Social Welfare, however, change can make all the difference. Giving as […]

Representatives and supporters of the Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association (MTEA) greeted students and faculty in front of UW-Milwaukee’s School of Education on a recent Thursday afternoon with chants in protest. “We are demanding that the UWM Chancellor stop [its] chartered Urban Day School from paying $100 a head for students to enroll at its school,” […]

Frightening people. That’s what Juan Lopez had in mind when he put his exhibit together. “My goal was to scare people, as well as be able to use a new version of magic lanterns to project the material,” Lopez said. “The idea was to reflect the pictorial qualities of the phantasmagoria.” The exhibit in question […]

From spiders, to twins, to a surly police officer that protects a city from getting soaked in piss, Willy Jonas has played them all. A BFA acting major about to enter his senior year of college, Jonas has been in plays almost every year since kindergarten. Even after never having been in a musical past […]

The UWM Childrens Learning Center opened its doors to a brand new environment in the Northwest Quadrant last winter, ending the Learnng Center’s 40-year run at the old building located on Kenwood Avenue. And parents and staff members say they’re thrilled with the change. That building was originally designed for university uses for classes and […]

UWM’s Physical Environment Committee is planning to officially address the growing use of popular electronic cigarette devices this fall. The devices are currently not included in the university’s smoking policy, but a top official says they’re already banned by default. Walking around the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee campus, you may notice that a large amount of […]

Student safety in the classroom at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) is not as secure as you would hope. Although teaching assistants and professors receive safety instructions during an orientation, a Media Milwaukee investigation has uncovered that teaching staff on the UW-Milwaukee campus – ranging from a department chair to teaching assistants – don’t know […]

Due to declining enrollment, reduced retention rates and a lack of reserve funds, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is considering cuts to academic staff. According to Margo Anderson, a distinguished professor who sits on the University Committee, less students and less funding equals less instructors. “It’s not that anybody wants to lay somebody off. It’s just […]

There I sat, two days after semester’s end, journalistic gumption bleeding out my side from the final, decisive puncture wound in a miserable month of sporadic attacks. “I must deny this request because the information you requested is not a public record,” read the crippling message. The author: a UWM public records custodian with an […]