Salaar Akbar, Orientation Leader
• October 8, 2023
As an orientation leader, I vividly remember the many times Willie connected with new students and their families, making them smile and potentially easing their nerves as they embarked on this huge transition...
Nov. 19, 2014
By Vesna Brajkovic
It’s hard to imagine UW-Whitewater without including Willie the Warhawk, the university’s mascot since the 1950s. But Willie hasn’t always been the purple and...
Dec. 4, 2013
By Bethe Croy
Willie the Warhawk is most often seen giving high-fives, dancing around and getting students pumped up at a variety of athletic events, parades and...
According to university archives, Whitewater’s signature purple hawk came to be more than 50 years ago, when UW-Whitewater President Robert C. Williams approved Willie as the official mascot.
