MyKayla Hilgart mhilg143uwsp.edu The Allen Center is challenging its Cardio Center members to keep active during Wisconsin’s deep freeze with an incentive to win free prizes during the Winter 100 program. The program began on Monday, Jan. 27 and will run through Friday, March 14, which marks the beginning of spring break for University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point students. Members can ... Read More »
‘Tis the season of love! This week the Pointer went around and interviewed students on their views on love at first sight and soul mates. Anna Schuttenhelm Multimedia Reporter aschu445@uwsp.edu Read More »
Rachel Pukall rpuka198@uwsp.edu Steve-O’s, a new bar in the square of downtown Stevens Point, has recently opened their doors after undergoing a huge renovation on Jan. 24. Ryan Stevenson, the new owner of the formly known as bar Mugshots, bought the building and renamed it Steve-O’s after his last name. Stevenson has also been managing the Point After Pub and ... Read More »
By Emily Margeson emarg634@uwsp.edu For 50 years, the CPS Café has been taking local produce and meat and creating healthy homemade foods available on campus. Located on the first floor of the CPS, the café is open to the public and serves around 300 people daily. Employees consist mostly of dietetics students, allowing them to gain experience in food service ... Read More »
Jazmine Bevers Jbeve283@uwsp.edu Known for its hospitable atmosphere and playful interior, the Basement Brewhaus is making the press with its annual Beer Tour. For $1.50, any person over the age of 21 can sample one full Wisconsin beer a week, keeping track on a punch card for every new brew. 12 punches on the card are equal to five “Brewbucks,” ... Read More »
Julia Flaherty jflah017@uwsp.edu This semester’s Coffee and Culture series kicked off this week, teaching students about Hmong culture as well as the importance of community awareness on campus. Tuesday’s event, “Hmong History and Culture,” drew in a crowd of approximately 75 students. “About half of the students who come to Coffee and Culture come because of a class,” said Mariah ... Read More »
MyKayla Hilgart mhilg143@uwsp.edu From Dec.15 to Jan. 26, the Edna Carlsten Art Gallery in the NFAC displayed the Juried Student Exhibition, an opportunity for art students to receive special recognition and awards for their work. “It is a joyous event for the university community and the extended community to see our student accomplishments,” said Caren Heft, director of the Edna ... Read More »
Winners of “The Sing Off” Perform on Campus Emma St.Aubin estau255@uwsp.edu Many of us jam to country tunes on our iPods and on the radio while we drive around town and until now those beats were never a capella. Home Free, the world’s first country a capella vocal band, began in 2000 and won season four of “The Sing Off” ... Read More »
Mary Marvin mmarv339@uwsp.edu Snow is as familiar to Wisconsinites as cheese and beer. It is part of our culture, our heritage and our sleepy Sunday mornings when we have to gear up to shovel our sidewalks. It is bad enough doing it for one driveway, but imagine doing that for an entire campus. The university has about 40 acres of ... Read More »
Julia Flaherty jflah017@uwsp.edu In the university’s title nine series of General Education Access Opportunities, the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point presented Jeana Magyar-Moe in “The Psychological Effects of Participation in Sports for Girls and Women,” on Jan. 28. Despite Magyar-Moe’s lecture being cut short by a surprise evacuation in the Dreyfus University Center where the lecture had been held, her point ... Read More »
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