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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

UWO Flickr — UWO nursing student Alexis Dietsche of Loyal, Wisconsin, prepares and administers a COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccine center at the Fox Cities Exhibition Center in Appleton on May 12.

130+ UWO nursing students earn tuition credit for vaccination work

Submitted story by UWO News May 28, 2021

More than 130 students from the UW Oshkosh College of Nursing (CON) have provided COVID-19 vaccinations and earned a $500 tuition credit while also receiving valuable real-world experience. The opportunity—which...

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UWO eases mask, physical distancing requirements

UW Oshkosh will ease its mask and physical distancing requirements effective June 1 for those who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. According to an email today from Chancellor Andrew Leavitt, this...

UWO in regional softball championship beginning May 21

UWO in regional softball championship beginning May 21

Submitted news May 17, 2021

UW Oshkosh will participate in regional competition of the NCAA Division III Softball Championship at UW-Eau Claire’s Bollinger Fields beginning May 21. The Titans (24-11) secured an automatic bid into...

"Finding Gravity" asks the question, Can a game of pool save a man's 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...

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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...

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