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

Finding Gravity asks the question, Can a game of pool save a mans life?

UWO Student Film Showcase premieres 4 films May 17

May 9, 2021

The Student Film Showcase will premiere four short films that UW Oshkosh Radio-TV-Film students produced in their capstone course. Since the showcase is not open to the public this year due to the pandemic,...

Photos courtesy of Leah Porath and Nikki Arneson
Porath and Arneson are both seniors on the UWO basketball team, and they have helped the team in becoming Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) champions in each of the last three seasons.

‘Women’s sports are underappreciated’

Cory Sparks, Sports Editor May 5, 2021

With the increasing rating and wage gaps between men’s and women’s sports, UW Oshkosh women’s basketball athletes have taken notice of the disrespect for women’s sports on a daily basis. According...

Katie Pulvermacher / Advance-Titan

Making friends with the fauna on campus

Katie Pulvermacher, Staff Writer May 5, 2021

Colleges all across America claim that their animals on campus, especially squirrels, are different from animals off-campus, as they are overly friendly and let you walk right up to them. Being a student...

Courtesy of UWO Flickr

Professor discusses climate change denial

Katie Pulvermacher, Staff Writer May 5, 2021

There is an “incredible solid body of science” that climate change is real and happening. So why then do people still deny that it exists? Misty McPhee, an associate professor of environmental...

Advance-Titan // Courtesy of April Lee

Surviving finals week

Lexi Langendorf, Arts & Entertainment Editor May 5, 2021

It’s almost that time of the year again where overwhelmed students swarm the library, cry over final projects and get more caffeine than sleep. Finals week, being packed with exams, essays and final...

Screenshot of map showing sex offenders in the Oshkosh area

Increased presence of sex offenders in Oshkosh

Lexi Langendorf, Arts & Entertainment Editor May 5, 2021

Oshkosh has more sex offenders per capita than the city of Milwaukee, according to the Wisconsin Department of Corrections Sex Offender Registry and U.S. Census Bureau. “Sex offenders have always...

Courtesy of Peyton Litterick

Why social media is ruining my life

Peyton Litterick May 5, 2021

Hi, I’m social media. Pay attention to me. See that picture of my friends and I trying to take a cute selfie at the pumpkin patch a couple weeks ago? Well, it turned out decent after spending...

Graphic by Cory Sparks

Crisis Text Line is an asset for nursing volunteer hours

Cory Sparks, Managing Editor May 5, 2021

With the COVID-19 pandemic taking over the world during the last 12 months, many UW Oshkosh pre-nursing students had to look to isolated ways to get their required volunteer hours in. One of the...

Matt Scherrman, photo courtesy of the Advance-Titan

Scherrman brings talent and commitment to the diamond

Cory Sparks, Sports Editor April 28, 2021

With the UW Oshkosh baseball team approaching the final 15 games of the season, freshman pitcher and infielder Matt Scherrman has been putting on a clinic both at the plate and on the mound. Through...

Graphic by Amanda Hollander

Oshkosh spring temps continue to rise

Mackenzie Seymour, Staff Writer April 28, 2021

Fluctuations between warm and cold weather patterns in Oshkosh this month may be the result of global climate change. Over the last few weeks, the fluctuation of temperatures has resulted from the...

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