On Dec. 19, the Stevens Point City Council passed a resolution to actively oppose the Dakota Access Pipeline, also known as the DAPL. This resolution was written and proposed to the city by Brewster Johnson, senior natural resources planning major. The DAPL is a 1,172-mile long crude oil pipeline. It was supposed to go either near or through Standing Rocks ... Read More »
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Cancer Survivor Advocates to Decriminalize Marijuana at Local Level
Ben Kollock, senior urban forestry and forest recreation major, was sitting in his environmental ethics class when he first felt a swollen lymph node in February 2014. What he thought would just be the common cold ended up being much worse. After a visit to the doctor, Kollock discovered he had leukemia, a cancer that attacks bone marrow and the ... Read More »