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“Zealous to exclude the sexual from the pedagogical, many believe teacher-student relations should be neither social nor personal. Although I can see that a ‘strictly business’ approach is probably the best way to guard against the sexual, I envision an enormous pedagogical loss from prohibiting interaction with the student as a person . . . […]

Title: “Far from the Madding Crowd” Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Director: Thomas Vinterberg Main Actors: Carey Mulligan (Bathsheba Everdene), Matthias Schoenaerts (Gabriel Oak), Michael Sheen (William Boldwood), and Tom Sturridge (Sergeant Francis Troy) Run Time: 1hr 59min Rating: 5/5   “Far from the Madding Crowd”: The Most Underrated English Love Story Growing up, I was the third […]

Title: “Homeless Lives Matter: Homeless My Story” Author: Leo Gnawa Place of Publication: N/A Publisher: Cabri Mort Media Date of Publication: February 5, 2016 Number of Pages: 138 Price: $15 Rating: 5/5   What Can a Homeless Man Teach You? Over Thanksgiving Break 2017, my significant other, Brendan, and I took a day trip to […]

Head concussions are nothing new in the NFL. Last week, Green Bay Packer receiver Davante Adams became the latest victim of a severe hit by a defensive player leading to his removal from the game for a head concussion. Until recently, few, if any, protocols were in place for players who suffered severe head trauma […]

Despite its location, many UWM students don’t even know the American Geographical Society Library exists. Visitors have access to hundreds of globes and maps, including maps of Milwaukee county which detail where the best to live might be based on crime rates and high levels of residential security. Curator Marcy Bidney does her part to […]

The UW-Milwaukee campus merger listening session on Tuesday, Dec. 12 ended a half an hour early as the attendees realized that the board members did not have the answers to their questions. “We’ll tell you what we know, which is not a lot because a lot of it is a flux,” said Ron Perez, Interim […]

She lives a life revolved around the arts. That’s what life is like for Gekayla Telford, or as her Facebook profile says, Ya’amani Anaeshii Telford. The name Ya’amani means peace and joy.  Interesting lead. Gekayla is an actor, writer, and artist all while being a student at the University of Milwaukee. She is an English/Lit […]

For the upcoming fall 2018 semester, the JAMS 505: Research for Advertising and Public Relations course will soon be faded into the background. Students in the advertising/public relations concentration in Journalism, Advertising, and Media Studies will now have a new course requirement to follow. JAMS 407: Persuasive Media Strategies and Tactics is a three-credit course […]

UW-Milwaukee’s Women and Gender Studies program held its third lecture in the Fall Brown Bag Series on Nov. 16 where two very different topics were connected and combined: James Joyce and disability studies. Sarah O’Connell, an English PhD candidate, presented on her topic “Gerty Makes a Scene: Sexual Selfhood and Disability in James Joyce’s Ulysses.” […]

No. That’s what students at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee told school officials last week when a referendum asked them to increase their fees to update the Student Union. The school asked students to support an increase in their fees of $124 per semester to fund the “renovation and/or replacement of the existing Student Union.” In […]

For the third semester in a row, one of Hugo Ljungbäck’s films has been selected to be featured in the student film festival here at UWM. The film “Last Words” was featured for the 73rd Student Film and Video Festival, which followed his spring 2017 submission of “When I Was Four,” and fall 2016 submission […]

A crowd of intrigued community members listened attentively as Matthew Flynn addressed them in Spanish at his meet-and-greet event on Milwaukee’s south side on Nov. 16 at Tres Hermanos Restaurant. At first surprised, but then impressed at his bilingual skills, people said they were excited to hear his plan for Wisconsin, as he is one […]