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It was like any other day. Joey DeRoche was a 10-year-old 5th grade student preparing for the day. Sitting on his grandma’s couch eating cereal, the news had appeared on the TV in front of him. He sat still, trying to put together the pieces. “I was really confused because I didn’t really understand and the […]

For Ryan Thompson, the memory is still clear. He sat with his seventh-grade classmates: All silent, all stock-still, and all staring intently at the classroom’s television. Over and over again, Ryan watched the planes pile at full-speed into two skyscrapers he’d never seen before. People staggered through clouds of dust and ash. Ryan’s classmates turned […]

For many students at University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, 9/11 has become a distant memory of a “terrible tragedy” that happened when they were young. William Matthews, a UWM senior, has trouble recollecting exactly how he felt when planes went into the twin towers in New York. He sat on the chair with a grim […]

“It was a shock because they told me it was a shock. My mind was thinking about other things. The adults put a feeling of fear in me when all I wanted was for the next recess to come around.” Derek Nebel, a senior studying mechanical engineering, recounts his memories of the attacks on Sept. […]

Nick Fitzpatrick was busy building a gumball machine in 7th grade shop class when an anxious teacher wheeled a television into the room and turned on the news to scenes of a single burning tower. “I knew something bad was happening by how shocked and anxious my teacher was,” he says. “But even after the […]

“I thought it was a movie,” recalls Nou Xiong, 19, on the day of Sept. 11, 2001. She can still picture being a 7-year old-student sitting in class when Twin Towers went down. Xiong, a sophomore at UW- Milwaukee majoring in Pre-Pharmacy, remembers sitting in class watching the television seeing the planes going into the […]

With the morning just beginning, there is a classroom filled with 20 elementary students laughing and playing before the start of the school day. The bell rings and the teacher calls the attention of the little 8 year olds to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United […]

A normal morning routine in school for a third grade student usually starts with a simple icebreaker to get the kids ready for the day. The teacher might have them sing a song together, eat a healthy snack, or go over what they had learned the day before. Twelve years ago, UWM student Adam Bronce, […]

On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, David Hartwig and his fellow 8th grade classmates walked into homeroom not expecting anything out of the ordinary. It was not until one of his teachers turned on the classroom television to display the tragedy that struck the nation on that fateful day. “I remember sitting there watching […]

Ghoulish laughs and blood curdling screams echoed through the halls of UW-Milwaukee’s Mitchell Hall on Saturday, Oct. 19 as guests made their way through the haunted house on the building’s third floor. The new public event to campus was organized by Peck School of the Arts students who collaborated to frighten guests to raise funds […]

The Academic Planning and Budget Committee is considering a redistribution of resources that will add millions of dollars to the Provost to help programs just starting out gain funding. “UW-Milwaukee is like a sinking ship. Certain parts of the university are underwater while others are doing well. We cannot let one department go down,” Provost […]

UW-Milwaukee’s Transportation Subcommittee listened during a recent Tuesday meeting as controversial Milwaukee lawyer and now UWM student, Alan Eisenberg, requested improved handicap parking and accessibility on campus. Head of Facilities Planning and Management, Geoff Hurtado, introduced Eisenberg as the meeting’s guest. Eisenberg contacted Hurtado after several failed attempts to gain the attention of the campus’s […]