UWM Post completes move

**As a matter of disclosure, I held positions at the UWM Post as its assistant news editor, news editor and managing editor between May of 2004 and May of 2006.

BY BRADLEY WOOTEN

The UWM Post completed moving into its new office space Aug. 5, next door to where it used to be in the east-most corner on the ground floor of the Union.

The move comes after more than nine months of negotiating with then Student Association president Russ Rueden. The terms of the negotiation stated the newspaper would move locations in exchange for a 10-year contract in a commercially-zoned sector of the Union. The SA will take over the UWM Post's former office.

Other student organizations must apply for new and to renew Union office space each year. The same held true of the UWM Post until recently.

"Because of conflict assigned, it allows us to relax and not worry about our office each year--which was a very sensitive topic," said Dan Polley, editor in chief of the UWM Post. "A topic that took up a lot of free time of top members of the UWM Post. The move will help us in freeing up that time and produce a greater, quality newspaper."

Now that the UWM Post will be paying for Union office space, the publication's tout of independence from the university has greater credibility.

"I think it lends to a greater degree of independence," Polley said. "It allows us to act above all the politics going on at UWM and allows us to really do our job and that's report on the news everyone else makes."

The SA has not begun to move from its current Union third floor location, but has painted one office yellow.