Celebrity Chef Guy Fieri will be coming to the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point this Friday to recreate the menu for both Upper and Lower DeBot for one day after winning a contest. It was announced last week Wednesday that UWSP DeBot Dining Services won the third annual Flavortown America Competition where over 100 schools around the nation entered the contest ... Read More »
Campus cliques are still “in” even after high school, you just have to know where to find them on campus. High school was about having the right friends but college is all about the connections and relationship building. Because, you’ve got everybody here. You got your freshmen, ROTC guys, sorority girls, intramural jocks, Asian nerds, cool Asians, regular jocks, unfriendly ... Read More »
The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point club sports department announced over Easter weekend that it will field a parkour club in the fall of 2018. After months of deliberation, the club sports committee unanimously approved a proposal brought forth by students to officially add parkour to the school’s list of club sport offerings. Students like Flip Johnson, junior physical education major ... Read More »
The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point dining services is undergoing major budget cuts to their funds for coffee. The Dining and Summer Conferences staff states that this change has been a long time coming. Michael Bronski, a UWSP student and a barista at the Homegrown Café, states that he has been getting suspicious about the recent shipments of coffee beans for ... Read More »
STEVENS POINT, WI – Administration at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point hosted an open forum on Monday in response to kick-back from leaked emails suggesting their recent proposal slated the art major for elimination due to what they referred to as “excessive amounts of nudity.” Other emails cited the pivotal importance of modesty in the work-place, concern that nude paintings ... Read More »
The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point has announced a revised plan for major offerings. University president said the major restructuring resulted from parent complaints that their UWSP graduated children were rabble-rousers. Bill Bobson is one such parent who described his son as “too woke” from his college education. To sooth these concerns, majors will now reflect the current Wisconsin reality. The ... Read More »
Sarah I. Syphus, senior English and Spanish major, was planning to graduate in December 2018, but has decided to extend her stay at UWSP indefinitely in order to help fight the Reimagining. The Reimagining proposes to balance UWSP’s budget through the elimination of 13 majors and has stirred up a controversy on campus. Students throughout the university are fighting back ... Read More »
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 »
Last year was the first time I encountered the topic of Asian interracial relationships while watching a video on YouTube. An Asian man and his biracial Korean and black girlfriend were en route to his parents house, where he planned to introduce his girlfriend to the parents for the first time. They were coming unannounced. The man was visibly hesitant ... Read More »
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 »
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