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Radio personality Eric Von focused on the city’s lack of media justice Wednesday, when he addressed a group of students at UWM as a guest speaker in the University’s Union. Center of conference room overlooking Spaights Plaza, Von explained how hard it is for blacks to get into the journalism field; media employers look for […]

Eric Von spoke to about 30 audience members in the Union Wednesday afternoon about his career in radio, the lack of color in media, and where media will be in the future. The event was sponsored by the Minority Media Association (MMA), which is a group that focuses on increasing diversity between students. The organization […]

Rocky Marcoux, Commissioner of the Milwaukee Dept. of City Development, and Robert Greenstreet, Dean of the UWM School of Architecture and Urban Planning, spoke to about 100 audience members Thursday evening about future building developments in downtown Milwaukee and surrounding neighborhoods. Both Marcoux and Greenstreet discussed the needs of certain businesses and building complexes in […]

Locals gathered at river parkways throughout the greater Milwaukee area to pick up trash, litter, and random debris in the Milwaukee Riverkeeper Annual Spring River Cleanup. In honor of Earth Day, volunteers braved a grey sky and windy drizzle to spend three hours cleaning the Milwaukee River Basin area. Some came with groups of friends, […]

For UWM microbiologists John Berges and Erica Young crime is nothing new; millions of criminals go unnoticed each day.  Most of those criminals, however, are not visible to the naked eye, yet they form an essential part of aquatic life. For roughly a year, this topic has governed CSI: Lake Michigan, Berges’ and Young’s ongoing, […]

Some people wouldn’t refer to themselves as old or seasoned.  Pat Villarreal, however, is one of those people.  And when it comes to handling sexual harassment, she says that is a good thing. As an active member of the women’s rights movement, 17-year veteran of Milwaukee County government, and current director of UWM’s Office of […]

On the night of May 8 in the UWM Union Ballroom, Dan Savage presented “Savage Love Live” to hundreds of students and faculty. Savage’s frank, humorous tone was evident while he advocated for sex toys, non-monogamy, and LGBT rights. The event was coordinated by both the Peer Health Advocates and the LGBT Center. UWM has […]

A faint echo turned into a bellowing chant, reverberating sound waves down the Union’s second floor corridor.  This chant came from a collection of repeated shouts of “Holy Moley Donut Shop….Holy Moley Donut Shop” around a microphone in Union Room 280 to kick off the third Grassroots event at UWM. Family Power Music (FPM) (link) […]

A room with elegant green carpeting, pure white tablecloths and golden chairs would be the last place you’d expect to find hedgehogs running around but that was the setting for the Midwest Hedgehog Rendezvous where two new permanent grand champions were crowned. On April 16 about 40 hedgehog enthusiasts gathered together at the Roadway Inn […]

Gazing across a crowd of roughly 100 people at the Union’s Fireside Lounge, Jessica Valenti chuckles, recalling a moment that might be too embarrassing to share.  Composing herself, she goes on to tell a tale from her childhood. At six years old, Valenti, a feminist author and creator of the website Feministing, came home one […]

Former senior Mossad officer and former Milwaukee Jewish Community Emissary, Mosche Ben David, gave a presentation May 9 at the Congregation Sinai in Fox Point. David addressed how sometimes we see the present without seeing the past and Israel is made to look bad because the world doesn’t know the full story. According to David […]

Over 500 people came to the UW-Milwaukee Union Ballroom at Tuesday night to see guest speaker Dan Savage. The evening’s discourse covered sex, politics, and everything in between. Savage is most notably recognized for his national column and pod cast ‘Savage Love.’ He has recently used this column to transition into political punditry for the […]