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UW-Milwaukee’s public relations club held its November portfolio meeting this past Friday in the university union with two guest speakers who discussed the necessity to use social media and the importance of having strong writing skills. Guest Speakers The school’s PRSSA, Public Relations Student Society of America, Chapter invited John Gardner, Senior Account Executive at […]

University of Milwaukee-Wisconsin students and faculty called for solidarity and the need for well-funded public education at a protest today in response to Scott Walker’s budget proposals. Members of the Students for a Democratic Society and Milwaukee Graduate Students Association led the noon walkout, which was part of the National Day of Action to Defend […]

Bob Burkart-Lemke couldn’t help but smile as he heard the sound of makeshift drums and the faint buzzing of a vuvuzela. The retired science teacher of 30 years and UW-Milwaukee alum doesn’t mince words when it comes to his beliefs. And Lemke believes it is a good thing that students are responding en masse. Lemke […]

Lecturer Tess Gallun’s documentary, Out of Respect: A Story of Five, premiered to a sold-out audience in the Milwaukee Art Museum’s Lubar Auditorium in February. The film traces the rejection, hardship, spirit and resilience in the lives of five LGBT young people aging out of Milwaukee’s foster care system. Watch the trailer and listen to […]

Soledad O’Brien gave a speech from New York via Skype for the Evening to Promote Racial Justice Wednesday about how experiences from her childhood and career made her more aware of racism in America and the power one individual can have in making change. Force winds in New York and snow in Chicago prevented O’Brien […]

About 50 people from around the state gathered Friday at UWM’s School of Continuing Education to discuss water issues in Wisconsin and concluded that the two major concerns were the need for the government to implement more policies regarding water and the need to educate the public. One of the topics discussed was the emerging […]

Dr. Louise Cainkar gave a lecture at UWM’s Hefter Center, where she discussed the pre-existing racism towards Arabs and Muslims in America, and how the Bush Administration used 9/11 to gain widespread acceptance of the Islamaphobia idea. About 20 people from varying cultural and professional backgrounds attended the event.  Students, professors, anthropologists and members of […]

Alena Joling, a student at the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, sits alone at the counter of a dark coffee house on campus, sipping her coffee.  She looks like actress Ellen Page, except with extremely short, bleached hair, Buddy Holly glasses, and sporting a mustard-colored tie. Underneath this hip exterior beats the heart of a devoted Cheesehead. “It’s the […]

MILWAUKEE – Approximately 70 people filled Curtin Hall on the campus of UW-Milwaukee on Friday to listen to Dr. Arthur Kleinman, an anthropologist from Harvard Medical School, talk about the struggles China has been through as well as their continued quest for happiness. Kleinman came to UW-Milwaukee to talk about his new book titled “Deep China: […]

Out of 2 million youth who experience homelessness every year, 1 in 5 identifies as LGBTQ. As the numbers begin to surface, so do the faces. Meet Josiah. Paint Josiah was seeing red.  On the weekend of Valentine’s Day, 2009, the seventeen year-old returned to his home in Milwaukee, greeted by the silent stare of his […]

Stephen Kimble always knew he wanted to be a firefighter. At age 15, while attending high school in Milwaukee and working to support his family, he decided to take the first step in pursuing his dream. Kimble said signing up to participate in the Milwaukee Fire Department’s Explorer Post 875 was a life changing experience. […]

When Dana Harbaugh served in the Navy as a lead aircraft crewman in Desert Storm and Desert Shield, he said he was “shaken into reality.”  The experience made him realize how important it is to keep our country free and to remember those who made it that way. In 2000, Harbaugh joined the Pearl Harbor […]