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UWSP Houses Students in Dormitory Kitchens

During the summer of 2023, UWSP Housing and Residence Life announced that some students would be placed to live in dorm kitchens due to overflow and higher-than-anticipated enrollment numbers for the fall 2023 semester. Students assigned to the temporary spaces are those who applied late to housing, mostly first-year students. Using floor kitchens as dorm rooms has caused a stir ... Read More »

New Health and Wellness Center Proposed by SGA

SGA has proposed to get funding for a new health and wellness center having cited structural problems in Delzell Hall, but the project is at a standstill as appropriate state funding is pending. The current health and wellness center, located in Delzell Hall, is not structurally sound and is not HIPAA compliant. Delzell Hall was built in 1952 and contains ... Read More »

UWSP Food Pantry Tackles Food Insecurity

Since 2012, an on-campus food pantry called The Cupboard has been available for all UWSP students to use. With the support of student volunteers and management from The Cupboard Operations Coordinator Amber DeValk, The Cupboard has helped relieve countless students from going hungry while being in school.  “The Cupboard was created to help students meet their basic food needs so ... Read More »

Saying Farewell to Retiring Faculty: Interviews With Two Professors

Rob Stolzer, a professor of art, will be retiring this semester after 32 years of teaching classes such as drawing, painting, illustration and graphic narration at UWSP. He has taught drawing and illustration courses at The Glassell School of Art in Houston, Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia, Rutgers University in New Jersey, and Tyler School of Art ... Read More »

The Truth about UWSP’s Pesticide Use

The UWSP grounds crew reduced their pesticide use by 90% the past 25 years to sustainably care for the 104 acres of turf and flower beds on campus. Chris Brindley, the grounds superintendent, has worked for the UWSP grounds crew for 25 years. Throughout his career, Brindley noticed a significant decrease in pesticide use. When Brindley first began working at ... Read More »

A Pointer Flashback: Interviews With UWSP Alumni

As UWSP’s 2022-23 academic year comes to a close, alumni reflect on their time at UWSP and share what they have been up to since graduation. Kenneth Farmer, a local author and lawyer, graduated from UWSP in 1978 with a double major in political science and communication. Farmer grew up in the area, as his father taught economics at the ... Read More »

UWSP Honors Native American Burial Ground with Mural Memorial

On March 28, UWSP erected a mural painted by Christopher Sweet, an artist, and a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation and White Earth Ojibwe tribes, to commemorate the burial ground beneath the campus. It is titled “The Wake and The Healing.” Sweet’s mural took about two months to complete, and he worked on the panels individually. The painting stands 24 ... Read More »

UWSP Wrestles With Teacher Shortage and College Restructure

UWSP staff and faculty continue to contend with the problem of teacher position shortages, lack of funding, and administrative structural issues that affect multiple colleges across campus. Faculty, staff, and students bear most of the brunt of these shortages and systemic restructuring, creating a vacuum of space where certain resources were once held. According to educationaldata.org, the U.S. falls below ... Read More »

Tech Startup Bank Collapses, Aftermath Ripples Throughout the U.S.

A commercial tech startup bank from Santa Clara, California, known as Silicon Valley Bank, failed on March 10, becoming the second largest bank to fail in U.S. history. SVB was mainly focused toward venture capitalists and tech business startups; however, many other investors and depositors had a stake in the bank. Worried investors pulled over $40 billion out of SVB ... Read More »