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Dining Advisory Board Discusses The School Year and Debot.

The Dining Advisory Board committee met on Friday 21 in the afternoon to discuss the current school year and updates on the Debot dining hall renovations. Sierra Kelley discussed the secret shopper program which is a way for DAB to discretely evaluate dining locations on things like service, freshness and options. Suzette Conley the director of dining explained things like ... Read More »

Sustainability on Campus

The University of Wisconsin- Stevens Point makes constant strides toward record-breaking sustainability. UWSP is the first UW school to have compost bins in every academic building, the first college in the state to achieve 100 percent renewable electricity use, and the first in the country to offer an Ed.D in Educational Sustainability. UWSP has received several awards for its sustainability ... Read More »

With No Debot Bringing Woe, Some Students Hold Onto Hope

With Debot Dining center shut down until Fall of 2019, students are not sure how they feel about dining at the Dreyfus University center for most of their meals. The lines grow long, and staff try to serve customers as quickly as possible to keep things moving. Ashley Vollrath, early childhood education major and group fitness instructor said her favorite ... Read More »

350 Stevens Point Talks Dumpster Diving

350 Stevens Point held a crash course on how to dumpster dive called Dumpster Diving 101. Mchailey Johnson, vice president of the organization, lead the discussion on the “do’s and don’ts” of diving. The talk was a follow up event to their demonstration on Thursday April 12, when the organization covered the Sundial in food they had collected from dumpsters. ... Read More »

Debot Renovation Plans Revealed

Debot is set to be shut down for a year and renovated and revamped starting at the end of the 2017-18 school year. Students should mark their calendars for Friday, May 18, 2018, which is the day Debot will serve its last meal, according to Suzette Conley, the Director of Dining and Summer Conferences. After the last meal, all of ... Read More »

Hungry Students Find Closed Stations at Dining Services

Like a first semester freshman’s Dawg Dollars balance, the number of students employed by Dining and Summer Conferences is declining. When Dining first transitioned into being self-operated in 2009, the goal was to employ more students. Suzette Conley, assistant director of Business Operations, said that while finding employees has never been easy, the difficulties have been increasing over the past ... Read More »

There is a History Behind These Walls

Students at the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point may not know the history of the buildings that they walk in and out of every day. These are more than large infrastructures molded to fit the purpose of classrooms or offices.There is a history behind these walls; perhaps a story that is long overdue. The Allen Center was first created ... Read More »