The Pointer UW-Stevens Point Student Newspaper
As the campus’ legislative liaison (government relations) the past 14 ½ years, I’ve attended many SGA Senate meetings throughout the years and have worked collaboratively with student leaders and their administrations of all political stripes. Starting with SGA President Jessica Hussein in 1996 through this academic year’s Rutledge SGA administration, I have had the pleasure to work with many wonderful ... Read More »
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ACLU Files Federal Lawsuit Against Voter ID
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against the State of Wisconsin on Tuesday, alleging the voter ID law signed into law by Governor Walker this summer violates the 24th amendment to the U.S. Constitution by imposing a form of a ‘poll tax’ on particular groups of citizens in order to vote. The lawsuit claims the state is imposing ... Read More »
Penokee Controversy
The Florida-based company Gogebic Taconite (GTAC) wishes to mine a vein of iron ore containing more than two billion tons of iron ore in Northern Wisconsin. In order for this to happen current environmental regulations on water quality, which have made mining in this area impossible since the 1970s, must be altered. As controversy over the cultural, environmental and economic ... Read More »
Differential Tuition Passed by 21-3 Student Senate Vote
The University of Wisconsin- Stevens Point Student Senate voted Thursday, December 8, to approve the differential tuition proposal, the Pointer Compact, giving administrators the go-ahead to carry the plan to the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents and the Wisconsin Legislature. If all goes as planned within the Old Main administrators’ timeline, the plan will be in effect by the ... Read More »
Case Study Updates and a New Gassy Nightmare
Throughout the semester this column has discussed many topics, from solar roads to tar sands. Over time those stories developed to become what they were and have developed further to become what they are now. The following is an update on some of these situations as well as a new demon to face: a gassy, rank creature from the depths ... Read More »
Bobcats and Mountain Lions
Erik Anderson, wildlife Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, has been a busy man this past season–a very busy man. Anderson, his graduate student and a team of undergraduates are working to assess bobcat populations and the presence of mountain lions in Wisconsin. Bobcats Currently, bobcats can only be harvested North of Highway 64. In order to make any ... Read More »
UWSP Faculty Union will be the First to Register Under Gov. Walker
The newly formed labor union representing faculty at the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point (UWSP), will make history when it charters with its national organization. The Stevens Point Academic Representation Council (SPARC), will be the first union local to register under Governor Walker, whose term has been marred, in large part, by his controversial anti-union measures. In order to ... Read More »
Police and Political Turmoil
Whether it is the video from Occupy Oakland of Iraq War Veteran Scott Olsen being struck by a police teargas canister or a California officer pepper spraying students at point-blank range, controversy over the recent tactics used by law enforcement has spread through the media. There has been increasing talk that police brutality is on the rise, and many see ... Read More »
SGA: Table DT, Students Need More Time
With disproportionate budget cuts affecting higher education statewide, differential tuition has been called on to make ends meet at UW-SP. The $250 million already cut, and 65 million more looming on the horizon, will impose a potential 8% increase in tuition for the next two years, in the event that differential tuition is implemented. Ironically, the justification for this auxiliary ... Read More »
Herman Cain: The Pizza President that Never Was
Good riddance Herman Cain. Your decision to end your campaign to seek the nomination for the Republican Party and face President Obama was a smart decision from a personal perspective. While I am glad that you are no longer campaigning, because the country has bigger problems to worry about than discussing your latest gaffe, I will regret not hearing what ... Read More »