Tag Archives: SGA

UWSP SGA’s Quest to End Honorlock Use on Campus

Editor’s Note: After the original publication of this article, The Pointer received a note of concern from the Center for Inclusive Teaching and Learning about its reference to the 360 degree room scan. According to CITL, the center has never recommended that the 360 degree room scan feature be disabled. Subsequently Will Scheder confirmed to The Pointer in writing and in ... Read More »

Sustainable Tips-n-Tricks for Valentine’s Day Gifts

With Valentine’s Day around the corner, you may have asked yourself how you can celebrate the holiday while living a sustainable lifestyle as a conscious consumer.  While getting gifts for loved ones is enjoyable, it’s less so when those gifts aren’t used for very long and add to the clutter that’s laying around your home.  One way to celebrate this ... Read More »

UWSP Reviews Free Speech Research Project Results

In early February, faculty, staff and students reviewed the statewide results of the Free Speech Research Project, a survey governed by the UW system administration and carried out by the Wisconsin Institute for Public Policy and Service last November. The Free Speech Research Project was given to 10,000 students across the UW system campuses last November, asking them things such ... Read More »

UWSP Makes Life-Saving Opioid Overdose Reversal Drug Available Across Campus

Boxes for life-saving devices called Nalox-Zone were installed across campus in early November in order to prevent overdose and death from opioids. The Nalox-Zone boxes contain Naloxone, a drug also known as Narcan, which acts as an opioid antagonist that can be administered to people who are suspected to be overdosing on opioids. The program provides free Naloxone and free ... Read More »

Processing Compost and Recycling on Campus at the Waste Education Center

Editor’s note: Because of staffing issues early in the fall 2022 semester, several stories that were completed in a timely fashion were unfortunately not published when they should have been. Because Pointer staff members still feel them to be important for-the-record stories, we are publishing them as we can without shifting their focus from the time period in which they ... Read More »

Prevent Suicide Portage County Hosts Workshop

Editor’s note: Because of staffing issues early in the fall 2022 semester, several stories that were completed in a timely fashion were unfortunately not published when they should have been. Because Pointer staff members still feel them to be important for-the-record stories, we are publishing them as we can without shifting their focus from the time period in which they ... Read More »

UWSP Participates in “Trick or Trash” Initiative

The Office of Sustainability, SGA, and the Green Advocate Program collaborated to have various waste bins around campus where students can recycle their candy wrappers to create dog waste bags.  This initiative is called “Trick or Trash,” and it is UWSP’s first year having the program on campus. The Trick or Trash bins are located at various spots on campus, ... Read More »

2022 Student Body Presidential Election Kicks Off

Friday, March 11, through Thursday, March 17 at noon, UWSP students will have the opportunity to vote for Kyle Beyersdorf and Allie Waite or Julia DeAngelis and Mason Garrigon as Student Body President and Vice President. Collin McNamara, Chief Justice of the Student Government Association, says this year’s ballot has some excitement. “We have a contested race for President for ... Read More »

Anti-Immigration Activity in Wisconsin

Immigration and Customs Enforcement had performed a state-wide operation between Sept. 21 and Sept. 24. I.C.E. had made 83 arrests in Wisconsin during the operation.  Near the area of Stevens Point, six arrests were made in Marathon County and four from the Wausau area. The federal agency claims that 44 of those detained had prior criminal records, 21 had feloniously ... 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 »