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Royal Purple

Founded 1901

Royal Purple

Q&A with UW-W Forensics Team National Champs

April 12, 2016

By Nicole Aimone April 13, 2016   The UW-Whitewater Forensics team came home from the University of Kentucky Pi Kappa Delta National Championships last month with a ranking of sixth in the...

Letter to the Editor: Dance to prevent assault on campus

April 12, 2016

I am proud to be a student at UW-Whitewater and refer to this campus as my temporary home. I enjoy the relatively peaceful walks to classes, being in a place where professors actually know your name, and...

Follow passions, do your own thing in college

April 12, 2016

April 12, 2016 College is the time to figure out who you are and where you hope to go in life. In the time it takes to earn a degree, students are able to take away some incredibly important life lessons. It’s...

Letter to the Editor: We won’t get fooled again

April 12, 2016

April 12, 2016 There are a couple of topics I would like to cover this week. The first concerns the reactions I have received from my other letters. Most of my conversations fill me with hope that people...

Letter to the Editor: Standing up to UW-W administration

April 12, 2016

April 12, 2016 Last week in the Royal Purple Jeff Ehren responded to my earlier letter to the editor and posed a few questions for me. I thought I should respond. Substantiation for all of the claims...

Chris Henige’s documented history of procedural issues

April 11, 2016

April 12, 2016 What follows is a summary of a systematic pattern of abject failure by the administration to comply with the rules found in Chapter VI of the Faculty Personnel Rules. I have tried...

Primary sparks high turnout

Primary sparks high turnout

April 6, 2016

By Kimberly Wethal April 6, 2016   The HawkCard office was a busy place on April 5, Wisconsin’s primary election day. After months of primaries, it was finally Wisconsin’s turn, making...

Amber Levenhagen

Crowd divided over Trump rally

Presidential hopeful Donald Trump held a rally at the Janesville Connection Center in the Holiday Inn Express on March 29. His rally drew in thousands of people, both in support and opposition to his...

Letter to the Editor: UW-W faculty must learn, organize

April 5, 2016

April 5, 2016 I would like to respond to Chris Henige’s letter from last week. According to him, there has been a universal failure of faculty governance at every level and at every position for several...

Forums offer campus climate solutions

Forums offer campus climate solutions

March 30, 2016

By Kimberly Wethal and Maddy Scheel March 30, 2016 The UW-Whitewater Campus Culture Working Group discussed  short- and long-term plans for campus betterment during open forums   the week before...

Letter to the Editor: Administration fails on shared governance

March 29, 2016

March 29, 2015 On March10, the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents voted on new policies related to Faculty Tenure and Post-Tenure Review, among others. This was followed immediately by a...

Letter to the Editor: Budget cuts put paychecks over higher education

March 29, 2016

March 29, 2016 I am writing this letter because I have been encouraged by colleagues to keep writing in hopes that there will be changes in the future. I tried to think about what would be best to write...

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