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

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...

Katie Pulvermacher /Advance-Titan - UWO Education sophomore Alaina Wagner works on a class assignment. She says pay won’t change her mind about her intended occupation.

Teacher shortage likely to outlast pandemic

Katie Pulvermacher, News Editor December 7, 2021

School districts are searching for more teachers that do not exist. The pandemic’s consequences, disadvantages in pay and time teaching are contributing to a nationwide teacher shortage sure to outlast...

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

Leibold: Too early to eliminate masks for spring semester

Kyra Slakes, Staff writer December 7, 2021

UW Oshkosh hopes to further reduce or eliminate masks and COVID-19 testing mandates in the spring semester, but University Police Chief Kurt Leibold said it is too early to make that call. Part of the...

Selena Yang will graduate in December.

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...

April Lee / Advance-Titan
Walking around campus, signs of encouragement can be found. UWO’s suicide prevention campaign is focusing on mental health.

Mental health struggles ‘debilitating’ for students

Kate Steinhorst, Staff Writer December 1, 2021

While pain may not always be visible, the signs throughout the UW Oshkosh campus clearly are. In late October, the university introduced a new suicide prevention campaign that acknowledged that...

Amber Brockman / Advance-Titan
New overdose prevention kits were implemented around campus. Of the 37 overdose deaths in Winnebago County in 2020, 23 were men and 14 were women.

UWO installs overdose rescue kits

Amber Brockman, Managing Editor December 1, 2021

UW Oshkosh partnered with the Winnebago County Health Department and UW-Madison’s Wisconsin Voices for Recovery to install naloxone rescue kits in all residence halls on the Oshkosh campus, according...

Kelly Hueckman / Advance-Titan — he Astronomers frontman Michael Stensland

Musical gems discovered in Titan Underground

Kelly Hueckman, Arts and Entertainment Writer November 25, 2021

From the farthest corner of Titan Underground, the return of live music filled the venue once again with belted melodies, rattling bass and the ring of a steel string. UWO students and faculty couldn’t...

UWO extends current COVID-19 mandates through Dec. 31

UWO extends current COVID-19 mandates through Dec. 31

Advance-Titan staff November 23, 2021

UW Oshkosh is extending its current COVID-19 mandates through Dec. 31 since the greater Oshkosh area is experiencing an upward trend in cases. In a email announcement, Chancellor Andrew Leavitt said that...

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