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It wasn’t a calm and quiet Saturday night in the union on April 4. Because the ballroom was home to Hmong Student Association’s second annual “I am Hmoob.” The cultural program showcased a variety of performances, as well traditional Hmong dancing, and singing. Over 100 people were in attendance for the event including students, community […]

Aamani Carter is a freshman at UW-Milwaukee and one of the few student performers at the 2015 UWM Annual Drag Show in the Milwaukee Theatre. He shared the experience of transforming into his drag persona, Gluttoni Sinn. Reported by Sarah DeGeorge.

One of the many recreational sports classes that UWM offers is Kung Fu. TJ Staniszewski, an assistant instructor at the Chinese Kung-Fu Center of Milwaukee, shows students how cool the forms of martial arts can be, and also the mental and physical benefits it has for people. TJ said he’s never had to use his […]

Presidential and vice presidential candidates for the UWM Student Association all voiced concern over the Governor Walker’s proposed budget cuts to the UW System in a campus debate Thursday, but several challengers argued for a more aggressive approach in getting the SA message out and connecting with faculty. One presidential candidate, Franco Ferrante, focused his […]

Kyle Noll is working on getting his master’s degree in volcanic studies at UW-Milwaukee. In his free time, he uses his favorite past time and love for billiards to teach students at the UWM Union Rec Center. Dylan Deprey reports.

In room 154 of Mitchell Hall, the Art History Gallery currently features one of the largest collections held in the UWM Art Collection, the Reflections on a Collection, an exhibition that commemorates the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the Rogers Family Collection of Greek and Russian Christian icons to University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The exhibit’s […]

Students gathered in the Union Concourse March 4 to make the pledge to “Spread the Word to End the Word” and to get their pictures taken afterwards. Tables aligned with piles of shirts containing the phrase “Spread the Word to End the Word” lead the front of this display along with large white boards with […]

University of Wisconsin President Ray Cross was welcomed to UWM with a cold reception. Cross came to Milwaukee as part of a series of budget meetings held across the UW System. The only audible approval Cross received was when Richard Grusin, a UWM English professor and director of 21st Century Studies, asked, “Given your repeated […]

Marija Gajdardziska-Josifovska, Dean of the UWM Graduate School, apologizes to a conference center filled with UWM faculty and staff. “Apologies that there is no dinner,” Gajdardziska-Josifovska says. “I guess this is the start of our budget cuts.” The room erupts in laughter at the timely joke. The UWM faculty and staff members have gathered in […]

Several months of tension finally broke Friday morning when UW-Milwaukee’s Institutional Review Board approved a proposal set forth by the members of Transforming Justice that would give community members a unique and personal voice on the subject of prevalent social issues in Milwaukee, such as racial prejudice and mass incarceration, by creating a public archive […]

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee students and staff may soon get used seeing personal pronouns become a standard topic of conversation on campus. Whether it is actress Laverne Cox appearing on the cover of TIME or Bruce Jenner’s status dominating gossip conversations, the transgender community has received a dramatic increase in visibility on the national level. The […]

For students at UW-Milwaukee, the death of Tony Robinson hits home not only because of the closeness of Madison to Milwaukee, but because students could have likely crossed paths with Robinson next year when he would have attended Milwaukee Area Technical College if he had lived. At UWM, Robinson’s death is also igniting and rekindling […]