“The main thing that you want to know, is that he feasts on the blood of young children. That’s how he maintains his vigor,” was the first thing Professor of English, David Arnold said. This piece of information was the start of a long list of fascinating facts about English department chair, Michael Williams. Williams has been the chair of ... Read More »
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Funding the Freeze: A March Through the Snow
Despite the snow, students, faculty and alumni met at the capitol building on April 18 in Madison to march to the University of Wisconsin-System Board of Regents office with letters condemning the proposed program cuts currently under consideration at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. At a press conference before the march, Chad Goldberg, sociology professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison and ... Read More »
Now Accepting Editor-in-Chief Applications
The Pointer is now accepting applications for Editor-in-Chief of the 2018-2019 year. The position involves planning, choosing and assigning stories, editing all content, managing staff, payroll, hiring and personnel matters, overseeing the publication website, social media and publicity, and print layout including submitting reports and the final copy to the printer each week. The editor needs to keep up-to-date on ... Read More »
The DUC Wasn’t Always What You See Today
Like every building on campus has somebody important it was named after, the Dreyfus University Center gets its name from the 40th Governor of Wisconsin, Lee Sherman Dreyfus. According to “The World Is Ours” by Justus F. Paul, Dreyfus was a Communication professor at the University of Wisconsin. He was also the ninth president of the University System and then ... Read More »
Gun Control or Guns for Teachers?
Gun control has been on many people’s minds in the wake of the tragic school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Florida, on Feb. 14. However, increased attention to the issue has not yet produced any change in our gun control laws. The student walk outs on March 14, and the March for Our Lives on March ... Read More »
Meet New General Education Director: Shanny Luft
“I am very very excited.” Throughout our interview Shanny Luft, general education director, mentioned that he was very excited, too excited, in fact. He worried that he sounded like a seventeen-year-old boy, and not a professor. But his passion for learning is what makes Shanny Luft the perfect person to take over the position of general education director. Luft ... Read More »
Using Facebook After Cambridge Analytica
Facebook has recently admitted that approximately 87 million users, primarily in the United States, had their information collected and sold to Cambridge Analytica. Only a small percentage of users allowed access to their profile information, through the use of a personality quiz developed by Aleksandr Kogan, data scientist at the University of Cambridge. People who took the quiz accidentally gave ... Read More »
General Education Committee Responds to Point Forward Proposal
On Friday, April 6, the General Education Committee met and finalized a letter expressing concern over the Point Forward proposal put forward March 5 which proposed the elimination of 13 majors in the humanities, social sciences and art disciplines. In the letter, the committee addresses the fact that they were not consulted about the Point Forward Proposal at all prior to its March 5 ... Read More »
Save Our Majors Rally Gives Floor to Students
Against the backdrop of a vibrantly blue sky and under the sunshine of a clear Wisconsin March day, students, faculty and community members rallied on the sundial in light of the program restructuring proposal at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Representative Katrina Shankland spoke to kick off the event on Wednesday, March 21. A silent sit-in at Old Main was ... Read More »
Campus Responds to Curriculum Restructuring Proposal
The chancellor’s office released a proposal on Monday, March 5, detailing Academic Affair’s vision for combatting the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point’s current budget deficit. In the week since the proposal was released to campus, conversations and debate have proliferated around the topic. Under the proposal, 13 academic programs are slated to be “eliminated.” The 13 programs are American studies, art, ... Read More »