Whitewater’s fifth annual Main Street Festival will return from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 15, featuring multiple events similar to previous years’ including street painting.
“The event will not only...
The Anderson Library will have a different look after the main floor was remodeled this summer.
Following months of work that began almost immediately after graduation in May, the library now...
I’ve always viewed the first week of school in September as a breath of fresh air and a new start that allows for growth and change.
The Royal Purple and its staff are no exception this fall. Our...
The No. 12 University Wisconsin-Whitewater football team kicked off the 2018 season with a bang by rolling past the University of Dubuque 38-6 Sept. 1 in Dubuque, Iowa.
The Warhawks ensured not to repeat...
A technical error with the campus-wide emergency warning system caused a false emergency alert to sound at approximately 3 p.m. on May 13.
An alert was sent out campus-wide via email and broadcast...
It’s about time I pass the torch.
For the past two years, I’ve been so proud to serve as Editor-in-Chief for the Royal Purple, one of those years working alongside one of my best friends as co-editors...
Hundreds of UW-Whitewater students rallied after the Spring Splash festivities last weekend to participate in a clean-up effort throughout the City of Whitewater and the City of Janesville.
Make...
Royal Purple, Editorial Staff Opinion
• April 23, 2018
Amidst a whirlwind of trade-war threats, increased tariffs and retaliatory economic measures, many media jobs and a number of local farms could be at serious risk of struggling to survive.
The United...
There are 3.5 million truck drivers, homeless people and Evangelical Lutherans in the United States each, respectively.
You would never say that people with any one of these traits are rare, or that...
Pasan Samaranayake could be the next Whitewater Student Government (WSG) president. The junior economics major is running against incumbent candidate Tom Kind in the presidential election, which ends Friday,...
Over Spring Break, I attended Easter Sunday service with my family, like I do every year. Except four years ago, I stopped practicing religion.
I grew up Lutheran, but post-confirmation I went through...
Royal Purple, Editorial Staff Opinion
• March 18, 2018
When thinking of hunger and who it impacts most, our minds often drift to populations who are more vulnerable – children, the elderly, those living below the poverty line.
As a society, we often forget...
