The Pointer UW-Stevens Point Student Newspaper
The Student Government Association has denied funding to The Pointer newspaper next year. This deeply disturbs me as the co-editor of the paper because despite my continued efforts to pull the organization from a state of rebuilding into prosperity, it will not see the chance to get there. Budget requests were to be submitted in a new way this year. ... 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 »
K-12 Program Progress or Decline?
Lawmakers of Wisconsin recently took a large step in the field of K-12 education, but was it a step backward or forward? A service for the Wisconsin Educational Communications Boards, Gov. Scott Walker insisted on a $648 million spending increase for funding in K-12 schooling. An estimated $10 million was then eliminated from this budget as a result of aid ... Read More »
University of Wisconsin Calls for Free Tuition
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Student Government Association made a bold statement last month demanding free tuition for all black students. UW-Madison reasoned that African-Americans were legally barred from enjoying the advancements of an education due to slavery and Jim Crow Laws in the past. Currently, African-American students enrolled in the university make up only 2 percent of the demographic. The university has ... Read More »
Leaked Governor Emails Reveal Underground Political Funding
Just as the 2016 presidential election is causing controversy, our governor has recently been outed as causing controversy for his own elections. Last month, The Guardian leaked around 1,500 emails surrounding governor Scott Walker’s 2012 recall election funding. The emails contained information about how the governor used a network of wealthy individuals to donate generous amounts of funding to his ... Read More »
Gov. Walker Cuts $8 Million from Planned Parenthood
Gov. Scott Walker has recently signed legislation that will cut millions of dollars in the public funding which serves 60,000 individuals through Planned Parenthood services. One of the billssigned at “Life’s Connection,” a counseling clinic in Waukesha, restricts how much Planned Parenthood can be reimbursed for prescription drugs. Since lower reimbursement rates are offered to clinics linked to abortion services, Planned ... Read More »
Patterson Sets Aside Money for Faculty
Chancellor Bernie Patterson set aside $100,000 from this year’s budget to bring up UW-Stevens Point faculty salaries to a more competitive level. “We did a salary study and we found that 74 percent of our faculty make less than the Midwestern average, 90 percent of our faculty makes less than the national average; that’s by discipline and by rank,” said ... Read More »