I wrote for the A-T while attending undergrad at UW Oshkosh. As a journalism major, I think there is no better way to learn the ins and outs of the industry than joining your student newspaper. After my freshman year, I quickly moved up the ranks and ended my time at UWO as the editor-in-chief. It was an exhausting and exciting time in my early writing career, that's for sure.
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Joe Gow and his wife Carmen Wilson walked into a Best Buy in La Crosse, Wisconsin. They were going to buy their first camcorder.
A clerk stood behind the help desk wearing a blue Best Buy polo.
“We need a camcorder,” Gow said nonchalantly. The clerk turned to look at Wilson.
“Well, what are you going to shoot with this?” the clerk asked. “Sports?” ...
Members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 291 line High Avenue in front of the cream colored brick Cummins factory holding signs declaring “UAW on strike” for unfair labor practices.
The strikers, bundled up to beat the spring cold snap, mill up and down the road waving at passing cars and cheering when someone honks their horn. The wind whips through the bushes lining the building. ...
The Trump administration’s federal funding cuts are affecting UW System students and alumni working in park services.
Since the cuts began, more than 1,000 National Park Service (NPS) employees have been laid off across the country. ...
The Wisconsin New Voices bill (Senate Bill 571) is at risk of failing due and we cannot let that happen.
The Wisconsin New Voices bill codifies student journalists’ First Amendment rights by stipulating that student journalists are responsible for determining the content of student publications at public secondary schools and colleges.
The goal of the bill is to learn real life journalistic skills in a student newsroom. ...
UW Oshkosh Chancellor Andrew Leavitt stood behind a podium at the Culver Family Welcome Center wearing a sharp black suit and a blue tie.
Just outside stands the Student Rec Plex – a billowing inflatable structure that houses a full-size artificial turf football field. The walls of what UWo students call “the bubble” ripple as the blowers push just enough air in to keep it standing. A constant dull hum surrounds the complex. ...