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Founded 1901

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Goodbye win streak

Goodbye win streak

October 21, 2015

By Josh Sinclair Oct. 21, 2015 The 14th-ranked UW-Whitewater women’s soccer team had won 33-straight WIAC regular season games. That streak ended on Oct. 17 when the ’Hawks lost 1-0 in overtime against...

A construction crew member works to take down the former Olsen Funeral Home on Oct. 19, one day after two trees that inspired a student-made petition were cut down. A bur oak still stands behind the house. Once fully demolished, Campus Edge Apartments will be built on the property in its place. Photo Kimberly Wethal

New development to replace historic trees and home

October 20, 2015

Online petition creates buzz over tree removal By Vesna Brajkovic Oct. 20, 2015 Two maple trees that garnered a lot of attention this past week were taken down in the middle of the night last Saturday,...

Football breaks record, UW-P’s hearts

Football breaks record, UW-P’s hearts

October 8, 2015

By Andrea Sidlauskas Oct. 7, 2015 Despite a cloudy 50-degree afternoon interspersed with chilling 16-mile-per-hour winds, a record-breaking crowd filled Perkins Stadium this past Saturday to watch the...

Benjamin McCulloch, son of one of the vendors at the market, uses a bubble wand to create a trail of bubbles. The Whitewater City Market was in full swing on Tuesday, Sept. 8, despite rain clouds looming over. Around two dozen vendors selling produce, jewelry and homemade goods lined Whitewater Street near Cravath Lakefront. Photo by Kimberly Wethal.

City Market celebrates community

October 7, 2015

Oct. 7, 2015 By Andrew Breunsbach Special craft marshmallows. Meat trucks. Live acoustic music. All of this and more can be found in the Whitewater City Market. Located downtown on the Cravath...

Photo by Amber Levenhagen, Photo Editor

People of Whitewater: Andrew Eppen

September 23, 2015

The life of a student DJ By: Kimberly Wethal Sept. 23, 2015 You know him on stage as “McCoy’s Boy.” For now, that is. Originally choosing a name based off a love for “Star Trek” and...

Chancellor Beverly Kopper’s inauguration makes new role official

Chancellor Beverly Kopper’s inauguration makes new role official

September 16, 2015

By Kimberly Wethal News Editor The yellow brick road has turned into a purple drive, the Wizard became Willie Warhawk and Chancellor Beverly Kopper says she’ll leave it up to everyone else to decide...

Zero is hero, shutout streak at three games

Zero is hero, shutout streak at three games

September 16, 2015

September 16, 2015 By Justin St. Peter For many soccer teams, giving up fewer than one goal a game is a good accomplishment. The No. 19 (D3soccer.com) Warhawks men’s soccer team is doing that and...

Singer Cal Shapiro belts out lyrics and freestyle raps during the performance. Timeflies performed at UW-Whitewater's second annual Welcome Back concert on Sept. 1. Hundreds of students piled into Kachel Fieldhouse to watch the show. UW-W student and DJ Andrew "McCoy's Boy" Epper opened the show. Photo by Aaron Gottschalk.

Welcome back concert in second year with Timeflies

September 2, 2015

By Kimberly Wethal News Editor   The sidewalks leading up to the Williams Center were lined with students waiting with friends and acquaintances from their Residence Halls. The duo Timeflies...

UW-Whitewater Chancellor Beverly Kopper and interim provost John Stone run through Perkins Stadium before students. Incoming freshman found themselves being swept up into their welcome activities after their arrival on campus on Sunday, August 30. Club U Dub Dub got students interacting with their peers and made them a part of the "Warhawk family" by participating in the R U Purple rally, running through Perkins Stadium and painting Warhawk Drive purple. They finished off the night by attending Club 1868. Photo by Aaron Gottschalk.

Kopper honored to be UW-Whitewater’s 16th Chancellor

September 2, 2015

  By Kimberly Wethal News Editor Chancellor Beverly Kopper has a closet overflowing with purple. It’s not all Warhawk purple, she admits, but the days she’s not donning one of...

Professor recieves 2015 Book Award for documentary

Professor recieves 2015 Book Award for documentary

May 6, 2015

May 6, 2014 By Vesna Brajkovic D. Ndirangu Wachanga, associate professor of communication, is the first person to receive the 2015 Book Award for a documentary film. The documentary, titled “Ali...

“Being a giant, Viking of a man, he would appear to be hard to approach but he’s actually very social and the worst he will do to you is talk your ear off about pretty much anything,” long-term friend Thomas Sharpe said. “Lately he likes to wear toe shoes. Those shoes that form to your feet, according to him they are amazing, and he has a collection of zany hats.”

People of Whitewater: Joe Millis

May 6, 2015

Kilt-wearing Warhawk never sought attention, just wanted to ‘man up’ May 6, 2015 By Amber Levenhagen Joe Millis never wanted any attention, but when you decide you want to wear a kilt every...

Another award for Leipold

Another award for Leipold

May 6, 2015

May 6, 2015 By Justin St. Peter After an unprecedented string of success as the head coach of the Warhawks football team, Lance Leipold faced uncharted territory after not making the Division III playoffs...

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