By Kimberly Wethal Feb. 3, 2016 The changing demographics of the campus – a shift in the number of underrepresented students and non-traditional students – and the reduction in state funding from...

Feb. 2, 2016 Growing up with a sister one year apart from me was like having a built-in best friend and travel buddy all my life. Coming from parents who placed such a big importance on experiencing...

Feb. 2, 2016 An inside look at how ROTC students learn to save lives Over the winter break from Jan. 11 to Jan. 14, I went through Combat Life Saver (CLS) training with five other cadets from the Badger...

By Kimberly Wethal Jan. 27, 2016   You have to feel just a “little bit stupid” in order to get published in a journal Science alongside some of the world’s smartest researchers and scientists. That’s...

By Kimberly Wethal Jan. 27, 2016   Chancellor Beverly Kopper announced the finalists for the position of provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs for UW-Whitewater last week. The...

By Emily Lepkowski Jan. 27, 2016   UW-Whitewater is joining college campuses across the nation in a move to ban this past holiday’s hottest gift, because of their tendency to go up in smoke....

Jan. 26, 2016 In response to Brian Kevin Beck's Dec. 9 letter I honestly thought Mr. Beck’s letter was satire at first. I couldn’t believe that someone would write such an inflammatory call to...

Although there isn’t any snow on the ground, winter is definitely here. In less than two weeks, everyone will be on winter break. It will be fun at first; no papers, no assignments, no deadlines to meet,...

Information compiled by Kimberly Wethal Dec. 9, 2015   Rep. Andy Jorgensen (D-Milton) said he finds going to non-traditional listening session locations around his constituent area gives him...

By Emily Lepkowski Dec. 19, 2015   National Geographic photographer Annie Griffiths told an audience of UW-Whitewater students and faculty she hopes they are excited about something in their...

By Kimberly Wethal Dec. 9, 2015   While her lungs may not have been working the day Fernanda Contreras was supposed to apply to be the commencement speaker for this semester’s ceremony, she...

Dec. 8, 2015 What a strange and crazy trip it’s been. From warding off student government representatives trying to bully us, to writing the newspaper’s horoscopes (yes, it was I who wrote those terrible/hilarious...