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

UWO Photo — The UW Oshkosh Fond du Lac Falcons at a Jan. 31 game.

Competition heats up with new sports league at UWO Fond du Lac, Fox Cities campuses

Submitted news February 8, 2022

Athletics has returned at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh campuses at Fond du Lac and Fox Cities. Men's basketball conference games for the Falcons at Fond du Lac and Cyclones at Fox Cities continue...

Mountain peaks, glaciers, and prayer flags near the Kunzum La Pass, a high mountain pass connecting the Lahaul and Spiti valleys in the Indian Himalaya.

New UWO research links continents to key transitions in Earth’s oceans, atmosphere and climate

Submitted news February 2, 2022

A new study led by University of Wisconsin Oshkosh geologist Timothy Paulsen advances the understanding of the role continents have played in the chemical evolution of Earth’s oceans, with implications...

Screenshot of Chancellor Andrew Leavitt during Town Hall

Town hall meeting updates to prepare for spring semester

Katie Pulvermacher, News Editor January 30, 2022

Discussing topics dealing with COVID-19, mental health and spring classes during his recent town hall meeting, Chancellor Andrew Leavitt said he trusts UW Oshkosh’s pandemic plan will help ensure a successful...

Masks are back for the start of the spring semester

Masks are back for the start of the spring semester

Advance-Titan staff January 19, 2022

Beginning Jan. 31, masks will again be required in campus recreation centers and at Polk Library. In a campus email, Police Chief Kurt Leibold wrote today: "We eased this restriction when COVID-19 rates...

April Lee / Advance-Titan - Javin Mills does a COVID test at the Albee Hall testing site.

UWO updates COVID-19 mandates on masking, testing and isolating/quarantining

Advance-Titan staff January 4, 2022

With COVID-19 cases are increasing in our region and more positive cases through on-campus testing, UW Oshkosh has updated its mandates about masking, testing and isolating and quarantining. In a mass...

Amber Brockman / Advance-Titan Due to shortages of raw materials to make physical textbooks, publishers are reaching out to bookstores to warn of plausible shortages in the upcoming spring semester.

Textbook shortages expected for spring

Amber Brockman, Managing Editor December 8, 2021

Due to disruptions in global supply chains, publishers have been reaching out to bookstores to warn of possible shortages for the spring semester. “From labor shortages to transportation delays,...

Courtesy Eli Oskey
Eli Oskey, a UW Oshkosh junior and avid hunter, shot this buck in Seymour in 2019. Oskey said despite white-tailed deer testing positive for COVID-19 in Illinois and other states, he is not worried about contracting COVID-19 from game meat.

Deer test positive for COVID, caution urged for hunters

Mackenzie Seymour, Staff Writer December 8, 2021

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (WDHS) is encouraging people to wear masks when field dressing game during the hunting season due to recent studies discovering white-tailed deer testing positive...

Courtesy of Kate Mann From left, Executive Director of the Day By Day Warming Shelter Molly Yatso Butz, Public Affairs and Crime Prevention Officer Kate Mann, Outreach
OPD helps the homeless
Specialist Maddie Conley, Operations Director Amanda Hammond and Program Director Denise Hol

OPD helps two homeless men get an apartment

Katie Pulvermacher, News Editor December 8, 2021

During the frigid winter months, it is almost impossible to think about not having a coat, winter boots or even a house with heat to stay in to fight off the cold. Homeless people are a population...

Katie Pulvermacher / Advance-Titan Emma Hathorne creates a pottery piece in her free time. Elsewhere’s goal of imperfection and realness makes for an inclusive environment where anybody with the time to create their own art work can go in and work

UWO ceramics students ‘gauge the success of their work’ by creating pieces for new downtown shop

Katie Pulvermacher, News Editor December 8, 2021

As an artist, often your biggest goal is to market and sell your art. Having the reassurance that others like what you are producing is a huge form of validation. For a few UW Oshkosh students, this...

Courtesy of Gabrielle Kamentz Virginia Sorenson, a Milwaukee dancing group member, was one of six people killed in the Waukesha holiday parade where Darrell Brooks Jr. drove his SUV through the crowd.

‘Hug the people you love a little tighter’

Katie Pulvermacher, News Editor December 8, 2021

Virigina Sorenson was holding a Milwaukee dancing group’s banner in the Waukesha Christmas Parade when a man driving a SUV came barreling through the parade, killing her and five others and injuring...

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