Opinion

The Hipsters, the Jocks, the Metrosexuals, the Schoolies, the Goth’s, the Bros, the Geeks, the Gamers, the Stoners, the Skanks. The University of Milwaukee is home to one of the most diverse campuses in the state of Wisconsin if not in the entire Midwest. If you want to know where you fit in, a quick […]

A butcher takes the blade, and with the sharpened steel cuts dead flesh away from bone. So do we common Americans, albeit with much less purpose or dignity, thrust the blade of haughty entitlement into our own bellies. We expose our guts swollen with greed and rotting with foul inconsideration of others. We are selfish. […]

Have you ever heard your parents reminisce about the ridiculous trends that they remember from their youth? As adults, we will be similarly scoffing when looking back on one in particular: leggings. Trendiness is no excuse for absurdity. Leggings have become an everyday substitute for pants on college campuses nationwide causing onlookers to simply shake […]

He has saved the world time and time again in moments we didn’t even know we were in danger. In chaos, he has granted mercy to the weak and has brought fear to the tyrant. He is a physician, a soldier, a philanthropist, a savior…. a mad man in a box. This man is the […]

It is becoming even more important for journalists to acquire a diversified skillset in today’s world. With online journalism becoming even more prominent it is important that future journalists learn how to edit their own video and audio packages. The internet has helped to advance the ability of storytellers to tell stories in multiple ways. […]

It’s time to reconsider the dress of college students today, especially young women. There is a line between attractive and trashy, and it has been crossed. Time and time again, I notice questionable judgment calls of women’s attire on campus. When I see a girl walk by with her butt hanging out, I feel embarrassed […]

The Milwaukee Bucks have been Milwaukee’s hometown basketball team since 1968, and they have called the BMO-Harris Bradley Center home since it opened in 1988. For the last two years, the team’s owner, Sen. Herb Kohl, has been proposing a plan to build a new arena for the Milwaukee Bucks to help draw more people […]

I have been staring at my computer screen trying to write this for the past hour and a half. My anxiety has me in a chokehold as I struggle to define and describe myself in a creative and interesting way. So I guess I’ll start with the honest facts. I am unbearably awkward. Not in the […]

The year is 1962. The city of West Allis, southwest of Milwaukee, is a thriving municipality. The population is growing each year. In 1950 the population of West Allis was  just over 40,000. By 1960, nearly 70,000 people lived there. Jobs are plentiful and West Allis is one of Wisconsin’s premiere industrial producers. Fast-forward 50 years. […]

Anyone who has been to a Milwaukee Bucks game during the past decade knows the Bradley Center isn’t exactly a hot bed for NBA talent, or passionate fan support. Since the 2000-2001 season, the Bucks have posted a record of 363-457 while drawing an average attendance of 15,938 fans per game. The Bradley Center holds […]

A young woman on the edge of “letting go” and “staying the same.”A young woman fighting for a future. A young woman wanting so badly to change but still grasping so tightly on the one thing that will ultimately kill her. A young woman looking for her identity. My name is Alyssa. For 12 years […]

Mr. Van Duzor was nearly as good at quoting The Simpsons as he was at teaching sixth grade science. At every opportunity he would rattle off a relevant—and sometimes not so relevant—quotation to illustrate his point, sometimes mimicking the sophisticated prattle of Kelsey Grammer’s Sideshow Bob and sometimes shouting “doh!” when he dropped a beaker. […]