Independent Student Newspaper of UW Oshkosh Campuses

The Advance-Titan

Independent Student Newspaper of UW Oshkosh Campuses

The Advance-Titan

Independent Student Newspaper of UW Oshkosh Campuses

The Advance-Titan

Kadihjia Kelly

Women’s Center hosts discussion on importance of Black women’s mental health

Sophia Voight, Assistant News Editor March 17, 2021

Having grown up witnessing Black people’s mental health not being taken seriously, Kadihjia Kelly decided to get into counseling to help people of color who have suffered racial trauma and mental health...

City approves mask mandate if state mandate is overturned

City approves mask mandate if state mandate is overturned

Sophia Voight, Assistant News Editor March 10, 2021

The Oshkosh Common Council passed a city-wide mask order Tuesday that would require residents to continue wearing masks indoors if the state mask order is overturned. “This is just a safety net if...

St. Patrick’s Day vandalism in
Oshkosh on March 17, 1979.

This week in UWO history

Advance Titan, Advance Titan March 10, 2021

March 11, 1920 — Oshkosh lost 14-17 to River Falls in basketball, but the team had a good excuse for their performance. Poor train connections in Hudson forced them to take a sleigh. The drifts become...

 Katie Pulvermacher / Advance-Titan
Photo caption: Student assistant Catriona Ellis (left) and assistant professor Ladwig (right) pose with specimens from the 1880s.

Herbarium fourth largest in state

Mackenzie Seymour, Staff Writer March 10, 2021

UW Oshkosh’s Neil A. Harriman Herbarium is a natural history museum that displays a wide variety of plants from all over the world. The herbarium was founded in 1964 by Neil A. Harriman, a biology...

Amateur stock trading has become increasingly popular with the advent of platforms like Public and Robinhood. The trend had a Rubicon moment in February after the r/wallstreetbets banded together to drive the GameStop (GME) stock up astronomically.

Stonks: Do they only go up?

Cory Sparks, Managing Editor March 10, 2021

Whether someone conducts hours of research looking through balance sheets and quarterly reports of individual companies or funds in the stock market or not, there is one thing both types of investors can...

Graphic by Sophia Voight
On March 12, 2020 UWO suspended all in person classes and sent students home as cases of COVID-19 rose in Wisconsin.

One year later: How UWO responded to COVID-19

Sophia Voight March 10, 2021

In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. This is the month that many people in Wisconsin became aware of the coronavirus and started adapting their...

Another strain of SARS-CoV-2 found in Wisconsin

March 5, 2021

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services and laboratory partners identified a second variant strain of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in Wisconsin on March 4. This variant strain...

Improvements coming to UWO music practice rooms, anthropology spaces

Improvements coming to UWO music practice rooms, anthropology spaces

March 5, 2021

Students in the music and anthropology departments will benefit from more than $3 million in capital projects approved for the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. Renovations at UW Oshkosh were approved...

Fox Cities campus students get crash course in Wisconsin gerrymandering

Fox Cities campus students get crash course in Wisconsin gerrymandering

March 5, 2021

University of Wisconsin Oshkosh students recently got an up-close look at the gerrymandering of electoral maps with the help of somebody tasked with making those shenanigans a thing of the past. Quest...

Kerrigan and Tommy Thompson

This week in UWO history

Advance Titan, Independent Student Newspaper March 3, 2021

March 4, 2003 — The Oshkosh Faculty Senate passes a resolution 13-4 condemning a U.S. led invasion of Iraq, supporting diplomacy instead. The resolution “encourages UW faculty to educate our...

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