Jan. 21, 2015 By Emily Leclair The UW-Whitewater men’s basketball team ended its winter break with an eight game winning streak and improving its overall record to 14-2. The ‘Hawks are currently...

Nov. 19, 2014 By Vesna Brajkovic It’s hard to imagine UW-Whitewater without including Willie the Warhawk, the university’s mascot since the 1950s. But Willie hasn’t always been the purple and...

Sept. 10 2014 Royal Purple Editorial Staff Opinion We’ve all been in that position before: You send someone a text; they reply with nothing but a blunt “Ok”—two treacherous letters that glare...

May 7, 2014 By Andrea Behling I’d rather do anything than write this goodbye letter after four years at the Royal Purple. I’ve cried over dozens of them since my freshman year—written by people...

  April 9, 2014 By Emma Cunningham   You’ve seen him in the weight room while athletes are working out. You’ve seen him downtown on Saturday nights, and you’ve seen him in the...

March 19, 2014 By Michael Riley The Tri-Sigma house, where a fire occurred on the morning of March 14, did not have an operational fire sprinkler in place, according to a news release from the Wisconsin...

By Ben Holzhueter and Samantha Jacquest March 14, 2014   A fire occurred on the first floor of the UW-Whitewater Tri Sigma sorority house located at the corner of Main and S. Prairie St....

March 5, 2014 Commentary by Royal Purple Editorial Staff The Royal Purple was honored with third place in the general excellence category in the Wisconsin Newspaper Association’s Better Collegiate...

Jan. 29, 2014 By Alexandria Zamecnik By Michael Riley     Black Friday launched the start of the second-largest credit card scam in the United States, which still affects people...

Sept. 12, 2013 Column by Andrea Behling, Royal Purple EIC Why do I write? The answer to this four-word question is, well, hard to put down in writing. Joan Didion did it in a piece first published...