Oct. 29 2014
I am writing to inform you of my concerns with the tobacco policy that our campus currently has. I do not agree with it and I wish it would change. Recently WSG made it clear that they...
Oct. 29 2014
As a current student here at UW-Whitewater, I feel as though the opinions of the students as a whole were misrepresented by the decisions made by WSG in regards to the Tobacco Free Campus...
Oct. 29 2014
It’s that time of year again. Pumpkins are being carved. Candy corn has filled the store’s shelves. Children are begging their parents for the most expensive costumes to wear for trick-or-treating.
Halloween...
If there was a literary cannon for modern young-adult fiction you’d probably find a few Harry Potter novels in there, maybe The Hunger Games, definitely something by John Green; basically...
By Nat Edson
A group of Senate staffers fed up with the government formed a group, Capitol Steps, to satirize the nation’s rulers who employed them.
The group was formed in 1981 when...
Oct. 22 2014
By Michael Riley
If you give a teenager a handgun, a box of matches and a smart phone, the potential to do more harm with the first two is obvious, but maybe not so much with the third...
Oct. 22 2014
Formaldehyde, Cadmium, and Benzene. Why am I naming these presumably toxic chemicals? Because we are all breathing these in daily while walking to class, work, or on a daily jog and we...
Oct. 22 2014
Royal Purple Editorial Staff Opinion
With the gubernatorial elections quickly approaching on Nov. 4, most of Wisconsin’s citizens have been considering who they believe deserves their...
Oct. 22, 2014
By Michael Riley
The city of Whitewater’s approximate $9.5 million balanced municipal budget for 2015 calls for a 1 percent increase in both the total operating budget and property...
Oct. 22, 2014
By Alexandria Zamecnik
By Andrew Marvitz
There is the old saying that you can’t judge a person until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes. Some people don’t ever get...
Oct. 15, 2014
By Emily Leclair
The Yik Yak app has taken over the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater with 1,486 active users as of Oct. 1. Three weeks earlier, it only had 203 users.
Yik...
By Jake Prinsen
As the fog machine rolled out layer after layer of thick mist and the lights turned to the band as they started “Live and Let Die,” a hush fell over the audience...
