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On Father’s Day this year, I found myself reminiscing on all the amazing things my dad has done for me, my two sisters and my mom. Four to one is the ratio here; three daughters and wife are what my dad has been surrounded by for 21 years. Now this alone should give you a […]

Summerfest, the world’s largest music festival, is known best for being held in the middle of summer. Walking through downtown Milwaukee’s Summerfest grounds, while embracing the hot sun and winds of Lake Michigan, is what makes this music festival so memorable. But with the 2021 dates being changed from June to September, is it bad […]

The Honors Association for Research and Publication (HARPY) of the UWM Honors College hosted “The Beast” on Friday, May 7, an event creating a space for connection and storytelling among students, faculty and staff about dealing with the “beasts” they live with both within themselves and in the outside world. HARPY is a student-led organization […]

In March of 2021, exactly one year since they began organizing, Colectivo Coffee workers voted to decide whether they would be represented by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, or IBEW. The initial vote ended in a 99-99 tie, although that will be broken when at least seven challenged ballots will be counted by the […]

A once loud and bustling hallway is now quiet, with only a couple of students around but no personnel. Located in Bolton Hall, it houses the Roberto Hernandez Center, Black Student Cultural Center, Southeast Asian American Student Center and the American Indian Student Center.  “I know that many students rely very heavily on our centers,” […]

Dr. Juchuan Wang discussed how the use of the term “China Virus” has diverted attention away from domestic failure during the COVID-19 pandemic.  May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, and in honor of this, panelists celebrated having the hard conversation of Anti-Asian bias in America, according to Dr. Chia Vang, the Associate Vice Chancellor in the Division of Global Inclusion & […]

On Thursday May 13, 2021, the Center for Disease Control announced that those who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 will no longer need to wear a mask or physically distancing themselves from others. “If you are fully vaccinated, you can resume activities that you did prior to the pandemic,” said the CDC in a press […]

Labrador retrievers Ernie and Betty White love their jobs in scent detection. They are excited and focused, ready to zip across prairies and trot through woodlands, always rewarded for finding their target scents with a treat or favorite toy. But Ernie and Betty White aren’t helping law enforcement or search and rescue efforts; they’re locating […]

Chuck Todd speaks on the state of journalism, the effects of the Trump era on the media and the future of reporting during Milwaukee Press Club event. On February 29th Chuck Todd addressed professional and student journalists in an event hosted by Charles Benson by the Milwaukee Press Club. Benson asked Todd about the current […]

Former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin has been convicted on all charges for the killing of George Floyd on April 20th 2021. The 12 jurors found Chauvin guilty of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter after he killed George Floyd by kneeling on his neck during an attempted arrest in May 2020. Chauvin’s […]

21-year-old Celina Xiong, President of UW-Milwaukee’s Asian Student Union, posted a message of grievance in response to the spa shooting in Atlanta to the ASU Instagram on March 31st. She shared this post, like many others, on all of her social media sights. Her hope was to let her community know that she cared and […]