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A message to December graduates

Selena Yang, Columnist • December 7, 2021

Life consists of experiences, opinions, words of wisdom, failures and successes that ultimately shape us into the people we are today. I ask each and every one of you to think and ask yourselves: “Who...

Celebrate Suni Lee’s gold medal win, and the small victories and successes of all Hmong

Mai See Thao, Yingyakia Vang and Pa Zao Yang • August 4, 2021

Sunisa (Suni) Lee’s gold medal win in women’s all-around gymnastics at the Tokyo Olympics places Suni as the first Hmong American and the first Asian American to win gold for Team USA. Suni has not...

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...

Be wary of caffeine intake during finals week

Owen Peterson, Opinion Editor • December 9, 2020

With the threat of finals week looming, many students will be preparing to engage in their semesterly toil, full of late-night night study sessions powered by UWO students’ (second) favorite legal drug:...

How Oshkosh mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic

Joseph Schulz, Managing Editor • December 2, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has strained the Oshkosh economy, as iconic events have been canceled, employees laid off and both small and large businesses face financial shortcomings. In the months since...

Being grateful for missing Thanksgiving

Owen Peterson, Opinion Editor • November 18, 2020

As it has with so many other things, COVID is going to change the holiday season and how it is celebrated. With families canceling their usual Thanksgiving celebrations, many will have to wait even...

Twitter Fleets dumb, stupid

Carter Uslabar, Editor in Chief • November 18, 2020

On Tuesday, Twitter made the internet worse. This is impressive on a certain level, considering Twitter’s usual platforming of Nazis, conspiracy theorists and a certain politician I’ll abstain from...

Red Arrow Park challenges beginner disc golfers

Natalie Dillon, News Writer • November 4, 2020

When I returned to campus this fall, Red Arrow Park was the first course I visited because of the reviews on UDisc. As a beginner to intermediate player, I was surprised that I outdrove the basket on...

Foxconn unlikely to create blue-collar jobs

Joseph Schulz, Managing Editor • November 4, 2020

When Scott Walker ran for Governor of Wisconsin in 2010, he ran on a fiscal responsibility platform, railing against government spending. He even went so far as to refer to a proposed high-speed train...