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How quickly the list of UWM chancellor finalists was developed, and how short it is, surprised some. But overall the UWM community seems impressed with the three choices.  If they know who they are, that is. “I am very excited on Mark Mone making the short list; he always takes the faculty concerns into consideration,” […]

Game Start. Many retro gamers gathered Friday, the 7th of November, at the 8th Note Coffee House in the Union for Retro Game Day to play their favorite Nintendo 64, Super Nintendo and PlayStation games. Level 1. Gamers surrounded 4 T.V.s around the 8th Note, playing their timeless classic favorites including Super Smash Bros., Legend […]

Since the beginning of this school year, freshmen have been complaining about the “artificially intelligent” college math program ALEKS, which, for the first year, is now used in most math classes at UW-Milwaukee. Earlier this fall, many students bombarded the UW-Milwaukee Class of 2018 Facebook page with statements that were along the lines of “I […]

The lights dimmed as the band played with wild harmony; the crowd is silent as one among them makes the way to the stage. As the artist recites work, another draws cartoons on a large screen, the room’s energy guiding the drawing. The aura inside the Lyrical Sanctuary, a long-standing UWM tradition, was powerful with […]

One of the three finalists for UW-Milwaukee’s next chancellor is the current provost at the University of Akron in Ohio, Dr. William M. “Mike” Sherman, who has specialized in physical and health education and who’s second in charge of a public university facing many challenges similar to those at UWM. He’s run into controversies with […]

The UW System released the names of three finalists for UW-Milwaukee chancellor Wednesday morning – and they are the current interim chancellor and two academic leaders from Missouri and Ohio. The announcement of three names comes as a surprise, as the UW System originally said there were five finalists. This will be the third search […]

The search and screen committee for the new UWM chancellor met Tuesday at 1 p.m. in the Union’s Fireside Lounge to discuss the five remaining candidates vying for the position of chancellor. On the eve of the finalist announcement, the committee spent the entire meeting in closed session. The names – until Wednesday morning – are […]

How easy is it for a student journalist to get information from UW-Milwaukee Police? Not easy at all. It began Oct. 7. At the time, I was working on an assignment for a journalism class, and one of the tasks associated with this assignment was to talk to a school official and ask them questions […]

Milwaukee Film was missing a key component, organizers felt: The black audience. So, the Milwaukee Film Festival’s Black Lens program was developed this year to broaden the festival’s appeal to diverse communities. A University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student was one of those running it. Milwaukee Film Festival co-programmer, Geraud Blanks, talked to UW-Milwaukee’s Minority Media Association on […]

Gov. Scott Walker won the governor’s race on Nov. 4, but how did UW-Milwaukee students vote? A team of student journalists interviewed random UWM students to find out the answer. What they found was a campus divided, mirroring the state’s political divide, despite stereotypes that university students are a monolithic voting group. Some students said […]

The author’s presentation was not as much a reading as it was a performance. Ana Maria Shua read each piece in her native Spanish, with an engaging energy and a magnetic rhythm that drew in the audience at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. When Shua – considered one of Argentina’s foremost writers living today, finished each […]

Are muscle-bound students working out in cut-off shirts too intimidating for people new to campus fitness, such as freshmen? Some people think so, and that’s one of the reasons that UW-Milwaukee officials are making everyone wear sleeved T-shirts to work out at the Klotsche Center. The new policy was also created to ward off possible infections at […]