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Founded 1901

Royal Purple

Founded 1901

Royal Purple

Professor recieves 2015 Book Award for documentary

Professor recieves 2015 Book Award for documentary

May 6, 2015

May 6, 2014 By Vesna Brajkovic D. Ndirangu Wachanga, associate professor of communication, is the first person to receive the 2015 Book Award for a documentary film. The documentary, titled “Ali...

Hop on board Welter’s long road to Guinness

Hop on board Welter’s long road to Guinness

May 6, 2015

Longboarder begins solo expedition around the U.S. May 6, 2015 By Vesna Brajkovic It’s 11,908 miles and a year-and-a-half versus one guy on a longboard. With a single backpack and a mission...

Elizabeth Franzke and Chloe Rehberg of Cru, and Ellen Bartelt and Lawrence Bell of the Ignite Ministry and Bible Study, hold hand-made signs as they listen to Gus Backe tell a survivor story.

Student Organization stands for freedom

April 15, 2015

April 15, 2015 By Vesna Brajkovic With standing thunderstorms and gale force winds, about 50 students kept vigil  outside the University Center for 24 hours on April 9 to raise awareness for modern-day...

Entire ‘Rolling Stone’ staff at fault for reporting failure

April 8, 2015

April 8, 2015 Following an outside review by Columbia Journalism School professors, Rolling Stone magazine has retracted Sabrina Rubin Erdely’s story “A Rape On Campus” after “major avoidable...

Thirsty Thursday: UW-Whitewater’s student social climate and the alcohol reputation of campus

April 1, 2015

April 1, 2015 By Vesna Brajkovic UW-Whitewater has continually made various “Top-100 Party School” lists for several years. Currently, according to the annual list compiled by Fiestafrog.com,...

Brienna Herdrich and Justin Nemoir perform jumping jacks during physical training.

ROTC program leads to opportunities

March 11, 2015

March 11, 2015 By Vesna Brajkovic Students in college are defined by either their involvement in an organization, major or lifestyle. But students enrolled in the UW-Whitewater ROTC program are defined...

Students should take advantage of informational interviews

March 11, 2015

March 11, 2015 Informational interviews are the most underutilized resource available to college students, and, well, anyone for that matter. Potential job-seekers that look for advice on a career,...

Head to head: Whitewater Student Government candidates debate day before election

March 11, 2015

  March 11, 2015 Josh Hafemeister Vesna Brajkovic   Among last night’s participants in the Whitewater Student Government presidential debate, the audience included several members...

Steiner uses recycled glass food containers. 
Vesna Brajkovic photo/ BrajkoviVA04@uww.edu

UW-Whitewater students take steps toward a waste-free life

March 4, 2015

Happier with less March 4, 2015 By Vesna Brajkovic Living in a disposable world, where even the apples are wrapped in plastic wrap at UNO’s, creating waste is unavoidable. But a few students...

RP takes home 10 awards at WNA

March 4, 2015

March 4, 2015 The Royal Purple took home 10 awards at the Wisconsin Newspaper Association’s 2014 Better Newspaper Contest on Feb. 27. The UW-Whitewater weekly independent newspaper collected two...

Walworth County receives tournoquets

February 25, 2015

Feb. 25, 2015 By Vesna Brajkovic Two hundred and forty full and part-time law enforcement officers across Walworth County received new trauma tourniquets. The tourniquets, devices used to stop...

Geographer Melanie McCalmont and UW-Whitewater Geography & Geology Department Chair and Professor Peter Jacobs look on as photographer Tim Hughes photographs the rare relief model of Southern New England for McCalmont’s forthcoming book on relief models in the University of Wisconsin system. Three relief maps are currently on display on the basement floor of Upham Hall.
Vesna Brajkovic photo/ BrajkoviVA04@uww.edu

Rare relief maps kept safe in Upham Hall

February 18, 2015

Feb 18, 2015 By Vesna Brajkovic [dropcap]T[/dropcap]hrough the years, Upham Hall has undergone upgrades and renovations pushing for an “out with the old, in with the new” mentality. But it...

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