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The Advance-Titan

Independent Student Newspaper of UW Oshkosh Campuses

The Advance-Titan

Independent Student Newspaper of UW Oshkosh Campuses

The Advance-Titan

Courtesy of Reeve Marketing - Oshkosh 94 member Sheila Knox speaks alongside a panel of other members about Black Thursday’s impact on UWO.

POV: The Oshkosh ’94

Josh Lehner, Assistant News Editor November 29, 2023

UW Oshkosh faculty, staff and members of the Oshkosh 94 — a group of African American students who were expelled after protesting for equal rights on campus — spoke during a remembrance ceremony about...

Jessica Duch / Advance-Titan

‘It all started with a pair of underwear’ 

Jessica Duch, Staff Writer November 29, 2023

By the end of her 34-year career, Julie Dumke, a former Oshkosh area teacher and co-founder and executive director of the Oshkosh Kids Foundation (OKF), realized some students needed more help than they...

Courtesy of UWO Athletics -- The UW Oshkosh women's volleyball team celebrates after its Sweet 16 victory. UWO is advancing to the NCAA quarterfinal for the first time since 2009.

UWO volleyball advances to Elite Eight

Submitted News November 20, 2023

The UW Oshkosh women's volleyball team is headed to the quarterfinals for the first time since 2009 with a win over the University of La Verne (California) on Saturday night (Nov. 18) at the Kolf Sports...

Advance-Titan - Some of the 90 Black students arrested are seen in court. Each student was being charged for unlawful assembly and disorderly conduct.

Remembering Black Thursday 55 years later

Katie Pulvermacher, Editor-in-Chief November 16, 2023

Taken from an Advance-Titan issue from Dec. 5, 1968 It was 8:35 a.m., Thursday, Nov. 21. Vice president Sherman Gunderson opened the outer door of the presidential suite, and hastily noted that a large...

Courtesy of Lori Palmeri - Rep. Lori Palmeri looks over a document with Rep. Supreme Moore Omokunde. An Oshkosh resident since 2008, she was elected to the 54th Assembly District in 2022.

Palmeri’s evolution in politics

Elijah Plonsky, Staff Writer November 15, 2023

Lori Palmeri, Oshkosh’s first female mayor, assumed higher office as the Wisconsin Assembly representative for District 54 and admits the road wasn’t always easy being a single mom. Adversity and resilience...

Photo courtesy of Caleb Considine - Woojin (Jin) Jung, middle, instructs people where to put their food at for the International Student Association’s Culture Night in November.

International student talks culture shock

Caleb Considine, Writer November 15, 2023

It wasn’t easy.   Woojin (Jin) Jung, 20, remembers what it was like when he first came to UW Oshkosh in August 2022. As an international student from South Korea, he left home, his language, customs...

Courtesy of UWO Flickr / The UWO Child Care center closed this spring before the YMCA absorbed the initiative.

Child Care Center grows after YMCA takeover

Anya Kelley, News Editor November 15, 2023

On May 5, UW Oshkosh’s Chancellor Andrew Leavitt announced that the Children’s Learning and Care Center would be closing permanently. The decision left many families grappling with the fact that they’d...

Josh Lehner / Advance-Titan -Provost Edwin Martini (left) and Chancellor Andrew Leavitt (right) discuss UWO’s financial situation and the future of the university during the town hall on Nov. 2.

Leavitt discusses UWO’s deficit

Josh Lehner, Assistant News Editor November 8, 2023

UW Oshkosh Chancellor Andrew Leavitt and Provost Edwin Martini addressed the impact of staff layoffs and the university’s restructuring plans moving forward during a town hall on Nov. 2. The university...

Courtesy of Jennifer Haas - Archaeologists work on uncovering Native American artifacts found at Menominee Park. They are following state-mandated laws to preserve the remains.

Native American village artifacts unearthed

Mattie Beck, Arts & Entertainment Editor November 8, 2023

The city of Oshkosh postponed the reconstruction of Pratt Trail at Menominee Park after finding artifacts and animal remnants thought to be from a prehistoric Native American village. The Cultural Resource...

Kelly Hueckman / Advance-Titan - Ashley Hooyman helps hand out each certificate and pin to the inductees during the ceremony. Hooyman is a first-gen student herself and found community in Tri-Alpha.

Tri-Alpha inducts 39 first-gen students

Kelly Hueckman, Managing Editor November 8, 2023

UW Oshkosh’s chapter of Tri-Alpha, a national honor society for first-generation students, induced 39 members Nov. 7 in the Culver Family Welcome Center. “The students that we are inducting …...

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