COVID-19 Archives - Page 6 of 18

UW Oshkosh positive COVID-19 test rate on campus stagnates near 4%

Carter Uslabar, Editor in Chief • December 9, 2020

The UW Oshkosh Student Assembly met for the last time in 2020 on Tuesday to discuss upcoming campus events and changes to quarantine requirements on campus. Throughout the fall semester, UWO’s administrators...

COVID cases trend down

Sophia Voight, Assistant News Editor • December 9, 2020

Winnebago County saw a decrease in COVID-19 cases over the past week due to the lack of testing available to residents over the Thanksgiving holiday, according to the county health department. However,...

Wisconsin senior living facilities battle COVID-19

Joseph Schulz, Managing Editor • December 9, 2020

Robin Wolzenburg, the director of housing and clinical services for the senior living advocacy group LeadingAge Wisconsin, recently received an email that broke her heart. The email, from a Wisconsin...

Dear Chancellor Leavitt, I was wrong

Joseph Schulz, Managing Editor • December 9, 2020

Dear Chancellor Leavitt, I apologize. I was wrong. In an editorial earlier this semester, I predicted gloom and doom. I predicted that we would once again be sent home and forced to continue classes...

‘Words of the year’ are appropriately dreary

Owen Peterson, Opinion Editor • December 9, 2020

Last week, Merriam-Webster released its annual list of the “words of the year,” and, as per usual, it served as an imperfect but entertaining time capsule of the year. Trying to define a span of...

UWO alumni discuss teaching during pandemic

Andrew Hansen, News Writer • December 9, 2020

The UW Oshkosh Aspiring Educators Organization held a first-year teacher panel featuring three alumni who spoke about the realities they faced teaching amidst the COVID-19 pandemic this past Thursday. “I...

A conversation with Wisconsin State Senator Dan Feyen

Sophia Voight, Asst. News Editor • December 9, 2020

Republican incumbent for Wisconsin’s 18th senate district Dan Feyen beat out upcomer, Democrat Aaron Wojciechowski and is getting ready to serve his second term in office. The newly re-elected...

How YouTube is changing education

Jelissa Burns, News Writer • December 9, 2020

YouTube has just about any video you could think of, from cooking videos to gameplay walkthroughs and everything in between. Since the creation of the website in 2005, people are now uploading 500 hours...

‘Win-win’: Tuition credit offered to UWO nursing students working in the pandemic

December 3, 2020

Beyond gaining valuable real-world experience, UW Oshkosh nursing students will now be eligible for a tuition credit of $500 for working to fight the coronavirus pandemic. The new incentive, announced...

NFL stumbles through season, combats COVID

Cory Sparks, Sports Editor • December 2, 2020

As the NFL makes its way through the 12th week of its regular season, it is not filled with the reassurance that was in the air in mid-September at the beginning of the football season. As December,...