Matt O’Connor, Author at The Badger Herald

Wage wars: In search of the ‘American dream,’ students are often pushed to accept unpaid internships as necessary evil

Seen to stifle diversity and benefit the wealthy, unpaid internships leave students caught between the prospect of invaluable work experience and the threatening lack of a paycheck

As professors, students grapple with recent course controversies, new challenges make for uncertain future

From viral Facebook posts to Fox News appearances, the rules of the game are changing for courses at the center of controversy

UW students set their sights on local elections to bolster campus representation in city government

Affordable housing, sustainable transportation among issues raised by student candidates looking to bring fresh perspectives to the eighth district

Facing rising costs and increasing hostility, student journalists work to hold campus, university accountable

Journalists across the country — especially student journalists — are struggling. But at UW, it's students and their untold stories who have the most to lose.

From the desk of the editor: On the importance of getting off campus

For incoming freshmen, your home away from home could lie outside confines of campus

Alec Cook will be sentenced tomorrow. Here’s what you need to know.

Cook faces maximum sentence of nearly 40 years in prison, $95,000 in fines

Amidst backlash to family separation policy, Walker sends National Guard troops to southern border

Walker refused to comment on Trump policy of separating families at southern border

2018 Election: Here are the candidates running for public office in Wisconsin this year

Governorship, US Senate seat, entire US House delegation, half of state Senate, entire state Assembly on ballot this year

UW to conceal names of Klan-affiliates in Memorial Union

Porter Butts Gallery, Frederic March Play Circle, named after Ku Klux Klan affiliated indivduals, will be covered up

Great power, greater responsibility: The media’s role in reporting, combating rape culture

Though media can make mistakes, panelists agreed it is always striving to combat sexual violence, assault

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