Panthers may get into trouble because of it, but our quest for independence is what makes us great.

Costello’s departure gives athletics department a chance to move forward

The United Council of UW System students, which every UW-Milwaukee student is a member of, serves to advocate and organize on students’ behalf. All students at UWM currently pay three dollars to be a member of UC, and the referendum to continue the fee comes up every two years.

UWM is planning to reduce its funding of the university’s most prestigious scholarship programs

To save student government we must first destroy it

This past Friday, three SA presidential tickets faced off in a debate discussing the most pressing issues facing UW-Milwaukee. The most substantive ideas and arguments came from parties United Panthers (Rick Banks, Eric Grow) and Allied Student Voice (Dan Laughland, Tereza Pelicaric). Hugo Nguyen, who represented the ICONIC ticket without his VP running mate at [...]

State of the Union: time to rebuild

While it might be known as the land of cheeseheads, Wisconsin’s roots in beer brewing grow much deeper than its roots as America’s dairyland. A large population of German immigrants began to settle in Milwaukee and other nearby cities in the 1840s. With them, German immigrants brought their knowledge, expertise and love of beer. Huge [...]

As long as student government has existed, students have surely been berated for not participating in it. From low turnout in elections to senate vacancies, the UW-Milwaukee Student Association is no exception. While UWM students are partly to blame for their uninspired government, the heart of the problem lies in the lack of a cohesive [...]

The appointment of Chief Justice DeWees to Election Commissioner betrays the SA’s recent attempts to separate the powers