The Pointer UW-Stevens Point Student Newspaper
Dear Editor, I was stunned to learn of UWSP Chancellor Bernie Patterson’s plans to summarily drop the majors in the liberal arts and replace them with majors in the sciences at the University. People need to know that this is the greatest threat to the well being of the University and to all of central Wisconsin since the University was ... Read More »
Opinion
Walking the steps of a Campus Ambassador
If you’ve seen groups on campus that are gawking at the Dreyfus University Center or gazing about the Health Enhancement Center, you have seen campus ambassadors leading tours. Being a member of the campus Admissions staff, an ambassador needs to be able to speak knowledgeably about all areas of campus life from a student’s perspective but also provide information that ... Read More »
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor, I am a retired professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno. I’d like to submit the following poem to your paper. I have appended the short-short story by Borges to provide context for the poem. I hope you see fit to publish it, as it addresses a problem not only of your university but of our ... Read More »
Letter to the Editor: Majority Politics
Vice-Chancellor, Greg Summers, proposes to eliminate 13 majors at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point. I oppose the elimination of any of them, but it is particularly difficult to imagine how a university could eliminate Political Science during a Trump Administration – so, too, with Spanish (Even a wall would not eliminate the need to speak Spanish in this country). Indeed, ... Read More »
Letter to the Editor
Dear Pointer Staff, I’m writing to express my support. I understand the paper has been under a great deal of strain for years now. I know the Comm department has faced budget cuts in the past and is expecting more in the weeks and months to come. We’re all aware of the murmurs coming from on high. They’ve been haunting ... Read More »
We Need to Keep Talking: Journalism Can Spark Conversation
As we walk along a quiet street in Long Beach, California, we see a head of brown curls emerging from the top of a ragged sleeping bag. The woman they belong to, who looks barely past her teens, sits up and rubs her eyes, smiling at her neighbor who is also nestled among his bedding. The two are situated under ... Read More »
Review: Tinder Triumph
I’m sure a couple of you reading this have downloaded Tinder at least once in your life, but have you ever actually gone on a date with someone you matched with? I was extremely skeptical of Tinder and I disagreed with everyone that said they had met their “soulmate” on Tinder. Then, at a staff meeting, I suggested that one of the ... Read More »
Galentine’s Day: No Boys Allowed
When I think back to grade school, Valentine’s Day was one of the best days of the year. I looked forward to it the second the post-Christmas buzz wore off. Now that I’m in college (and single), my feelings have completely changed. For a while, I was confused why my opinion toward this holiday of love had shifted. If the ... Read More »
Who’s Ya Daddy? Not Me.
While I was eating lunch and checking my emails, I found that my financial aid was being revised for the upcoming spring 2017-18 semester. Apparently I missed some child support payments on a kid I didn’t have. The email was sent from the financial aid office simply informed me my award was changing. It said, “The financial aid office has ... Read More »
Students: Own Your Education
“Education is not a product. The students are not customers. The professors are not tools. The university is not a factory,” declare signs taped to faculty office doors in the Christopher Collins Classroom Center. We all want to believe this, but the evidence around us shows we can’t. And this means that students how have to start taking a much ... Read More »