University Legal Clinic helps UWM Renters

Student’s who need help in recovering their security deposits can also come to the University Legal Clinic, a UWM student-run resource center. Every year we help students recover thousands of dollars in wrongly withheld security deposits and it is the main legal issue we deal with.

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Kids today seem to be growing up faster and faster. When I was twelve, I didn’t have a cell phone, a boyfriend or a sex life. Today our sixth, seventh and eighth graders are increasingly having more of these.

Since sex is becoming a big middle school topic, one would think that school systems would accommodate this trend with a more thorough sex ed class. This is not the case. In fact, many public schools are ignoring this increased interest in middle school sex and do not provide a complete sex curriculum to their students.

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Oberlin, Ohio is not a very well-known town. It is known for exactly three things: the guy who eventually made aluminum foil used to live there, Liz Phair went to college there and of course, there is a college there that people like Liz Phair used to go to.

At the start of each semester, you will find a crowd of students gathered outside of Oberlin College’s Allen Memorial Art Museum. They are patiently waiting for the opportunity to rent original works for $5 by artists such as Picasso, Renoir, Dali and Warhol, among others, which they can then hang in their homes or dorms for the entire semester.

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Well my friends, the Wisconsin (predominantly Democratic) state senators have done it again. OK, almost again. Here they go ready to jack up taxes some more and set up a “new and improved” way for everyone in the state to receive “good, quality healthcare.”

Back in June the state senators passed a radical new healthcare plan for Wisconsin. Why are we just hearing about it now, you might ask?

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