May 7, 2014
By Lucas Wimmer
For as bad as this regular season has been, the first round of the NBA playoffs has been the polar opposite. In my 21 years, I have never seen a more exciting...
April 23, 2014
By Lucas Wimmer
Honestly, the NBA has been somewhat unwatchable this year. Between the outrageous number of teams tanking for this year’s draft and injuries to star players...
April 16, 2014
By Lucas Wimmer
Four things I learned from the Badgers’ spring game
The University of Wisconsin Badgers held their spring game on Saturday, and a lot of storylines took...
April 16, 2014
Royal Purple Editorial Staff Opinion
Before Jonas Salk introduced his polio vaccine in 1955, more than 35,000 children contracted the polio virus in the United States annually. Yet...
With tuition rates and student loan interest rates as high as they are, students deserve to have a say in the policies and procedures of the university they attend.
Unfortunately, UW-Milwaukee has recently...
April 2, 2014
The hype surrounding Kid Cudi’s “Satellite Flight: The Journey to Mother Moon” was pretty insane. Leading up to the album’s release, it was billed as a combination of all his sounds,...
April 2, 2014
Commentary by Lucas Wimmer
It’s easy for the topic of conversation to go directly to football when talking about UW-Whitewater, and for good reason. The Warhawks have competed in...
March 19, 2014
Editorial Staff Opinion
Spring Break is a time for students to celebrate their week-long freedom from responsibilities. As MTV has been showing us since 1986, the year they began covering...
March 18, 2014
Commentary by Lucas Wimmer
As a student journalist, it is one of my biggest fears that one of my stories will lead to a large backlash and cause trouble for my newspaper.
At times,...
“Dr. J: The Autobiography” by Julius Erving and Karl Taro Greenfeld is a great way to travel into the mind of one of the most prolific dunkers in the NBA. For someone like myself who loves...
March 12, 2014
Commentary by Lucas Wimmer
Recently, a speaker at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater campus stirred controversy and garnered national attention, but should this have been an issue?
Freshman...
March 5, 2014
Editorial Staff Opinion
In a recent study, the American Psychological Association found the most stressed age group was young adults ages 18 to 33.
Stressors like grades, graduation,...
