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.

To save student government we must first destroy it

An attempt to undermine the upcoming Student Association elections and subvert the independence of the election commission was revealed in the leaked private Facebook messages of Special Assistant to the President and United Panthers vice presidential candidate Eric Grow last Wednesday.

An emergency Student Association senate session held on April 6 failed to draw enough senators to meet quorum, meaning that a deal to obtain 200 subsidized parking spaces in the Klotsche Center and Pavilion parking garage may be in jeopardy.

The landscape of the upcoming Student Association election has changed dramatically over the past week, with the mushrooming fallout from United Panthers vice presidential candidate Eric Grow’s leaked Facebook conversations prompting emergency action by the Independent Election Commission mere days before ballots are distributed to students’ email accounts.

An anonymous source leaked 39 pages of private messages from United Panthers vice presidential candidate Eric Grow’s Facebook account on Wednesday, highlighting racist and sexist remarks about other members of SA and a plot to rig the presidential election.

The Student Association at UW-Milwaukee hopes to do more to fulfill their shared governance role this semester despite a history of poor attendance at committee meetings and concern from Chancellor Michael Lovell. According to Wisconsin’s statute 36.09(5), the legislation that gives student government authority, “The students of each institution or campus subject to the responsibilities [...]

On Feb. 12, three parties formally threw their hats in the ring, each one nominating candidates for the presidency and vice presidency.

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

New executive branch promises accountability and repaired relations