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The allegations of date-rape drugging surrounding the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity last fall were not the first. Through police reports and interviews, a team of Media Milwaukee journalists has unearthed new information about previous date-rape drug and sexual assault allegations made against a TKE member a year before the  fraternity made the news. According to an incident report provided […]

UW-Milwaukee Chancellor Mark Mone said late Wednesday afternoon that he had not heard Gov. Scott Walker’s comments earlier that day on faculty workload but stressed that he’s “never met a harder working faculty and staff than at UWM.” Listen to the Mone audio here: Asked about Walker’s comments that faculty should teach more, he added, […]

If the budget proposal put forth by Gov. Scott Walker to cut $300 million from the UW System passes, three months from now, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee could face layoffs, building closures, a hiring freeze, or a slowdown on the admission of the new freshman class, according to the powerful UWM University Committee. Committee members […]

The UW System could face a budget cut resulting in $300 million in lost revenue – although the number is still uncertain – as well as sweeping changes that might imperil the engrained traditions of shared governance and tenure. In addition, there are moves to make the UW a “public authority” – more autonomous from […]

UW-Milwaukee is shielding information from the public in a manner that is out of step with a sweeping new agreement hashed out this summer by the state’s top newspaper association and the organization that represents Wisconsin municipalities. Furthermore, UWM’s open records custodian has cited federal privacy laws as one reason for blacking out information in […]

 This is third part of a series exploring issues behind the headlines of the TKE scandal. You can read parts 1 and 2 here. Although the TKE fraternity at UW-Milwaukee was embroiled in scandal this fall, Greek life at UWM is actually slightly on the rise- although it’s still a very small portion of the […]

Jeff Jara talks folk art at the UWM Art History Gallery: How people engage with it, and how they think about it. Jara is skilled in the field of “self-taught art.” Madeline Power-Luetscher reports.

The Center for Community-Based Learning, Leadership and Research is putting on its 11th annual campus-wide food drive. The student organization is partnered with the Hunger Task Force in order to try and expand their donation options and outreach on-campus. On top of focusing on the food drive, the CCBLLR aims to connect the campus community […]

This is the second story in a series exploring issues behind the headlines of the TKE controversy. You can read the first story here. The controversy over the TKE fraternity’s revocation by UW-Milwaukee and not-yet-proven allegations of date-rape drugging drove sensational headlines this fall. However, those allegations weren’t the norm. Alleged sexual assaults at UWM […]

This is the first in a series exploring issues behind the headlines of the TKE scandal allegations. More than 50 years ago, the TKE fraternity at UW-Milwaukee did more than dance around wearing turkey suits along Oakland Avenue (which the fraternity members did for years for charity) or turn up in salacious, negative national headlines […]

Imagine this. It’s a little before 7 p.m. on a Friday night in December. You’re walking north on N. Oakland Ave. towards E. Geneva Place. As you’re crossing Geneva Place, a UW-Milwaukee Boss van, stopped at the intersection, doesn’t see you crossing because the driver was still looking north. You put your hands up, hoping […]

UW-Milwaukee students weigh in on studies to create a new union on campus. Some want more food choices. Another wants the money to go for a football team instead.