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Richard Withers serves as a chief election inspector in the Sandburg dorms. This spring election, the turnout was predictably light despite some important issues on the ballot. Withers says that the Sandburg dorms has some of the lowest turnout historically of any ward in the city. Sean Lyons reports.

Brett Westfahl has attended school for eight years. That means for eight years he has sat in the same spot in the music-building lobby at UW-Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts. Students have come to recognize him and expect him in that spot. There is a reason he enjoys it. Lauren Miller reports.

UWM Union Sociocultural Programming celebrates Cesar Chavez Day in the Union Concourse on March 31, 2014. Students can marvel at the picture gallery during the day and enjoy a panel discussion led by community activists at night. Britney Donald reports.

Sue McCarthy, Shaquita Glenn, and Stephen Jansen share what they think of the Sister Talk meetings, held every other week in Bolton 196. McCarthy runs the event, Glenn facilitates, and Jansen attends. Sister Talk is a meeting where women of color and their allies come together and talk about issues they face while creating a […]

To be number one means to be successful, to be the best. It is a title that often comes with honor and pride. But when being number one means that your state has the highest incarceration rate of black males in the country, honor and pride are quickly locked away. “We have all the statistics. […]

Mondays and Tuesdays can be the most grueling start of the week but there is nothing like the feeling of being greeted on Wednesdays to a home-cooked meal hosted by University Christian Ministries. Located directly across the street from the UWM Union terrace, students from different backgrounds and religious beliefs can come together from 12 […]

Students wore jeans on April 23 to show awareness of sexual assault on the UW-Milwaukee campus. Denim Day booths, sponsored by the Women’s Resource Center, were set up around campus, supplied with buttons, stickers, books, and bracelets to give to students to spread the word about stopping sexual assault. Lizzy Leberfing, a volunteer for the […]

It was hard to miss Professor Martin Jack Rosenblum, with his long grey beard and Lennon-like glasses, smoking a cigarette somewhere outside the Golda Meir Library or near the Music Building. He sometimes seemed like some kind of Milwaukee rock legend before they knew who he was. He had that presence about him. To students, […]

MILWAUKEE –Mark Mone, named as the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s interim chancellor in the wake of Michael Lovell’s sudden departure, pledged during his first press conference to keep the university moving forward with a focus on its strategic plan and need for resources. Lovell’s leave date was moved up, and officials said they hope to have […]

Neighbors murdering loved ones, friends killing family, cannibalism, trusted figures throwing you to your death; this is too much for most to bear. On April 9 Gilbert Sezirahiga, a Rwanda genocide survivor and deputy director of SMILE AGAIN, came to UW-Milwaukee and told how he overcame the unthinkable. Robin Weigert, the assistant director of the […]

The University Information Technology Department has reached the decision to begin implementing Office 365 software for students, faculty and staff by summer 2014. Students and staff will have more storage space for calendar appointments, email and will be able to use IM and video chat with teachers. Microsoft Office 365 is a cloud-based server with […]

Level 1 Team Denmark Ichiban from Denmark High School are the current winners of UWM’s first mock Japan Quiz Bowl. The team competed against four different high schools and 14 other teams. Team Denmark Ichiban consisted of Logan Schmidt, Mason Geibel and Kyleen Warpinski, who all agreed that the interviews were very interactive and proved […]