Tag Archives: UWSP

UWSP Wrestles With Teacher Shortage and College Restructure

UWSP staff and faculty continue to contend with the problem of teacher position shortages, lack of funding, and administrative structural issues that affect multiple colleges across campus. Faculty, staff, and students bear most of the brunt of these shortages and systemic restructuring, creating a vacuum of space where certain resources were once held. According to educationaldata.org, the U.S. falls below ... 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 »

Pointers Conquer Concordia

The Pointers volleyball team beat Concordia University in three out of four sets on Saturday, Sept. 10, winning the match.  After a clean sweep win against St. Mary’s just hours before, the team went into this match with confidence.  The team won their first two sets, but lost some steam in the third match with a final score of 23-25. ... Read More »

Student Body Presidential Election Results

The winners of the 2022 student body presidential election are Kyle Beyersdorf and Allie Waite. Will Scheder, current president of the SGA, said this was the first contested race they had in several years which increased voter turnout. Julia DeAngelis, current vice president, and Mason Garrigan were the runners up. Scheder said, “I’ll do my best to make sure Kyle ... Read More »

The Dreyfus University Center Food Court is Now Open

The Dreyfus University Center food court reopened its doors Feb. 22 after closing due to a staffing shortage. Marty Kalepp, the executive chef at the Dreyfus University Center food court, talked about the struggle of finding student employees. The number of workers heavily influenced the decision to close. Currently, they are in need of more student employees and a dozen ... Read More »

Pointer Profile: Sara Traxel

Sport: Softball Year: Junior Hometown: Oak Creek, WI Major: Chemical Engineering and Paper Science Engineering Why did you choose these majors? I really liked chemistry in high school, and I was also really good at math, so I wanted to put those two together. I heard about chemical engineering at Point and thought it would be kind of challenging, but ... Read More »

Trivia 52: The Stacked Deck

UWSP’s radio station, 90FM, is hosting the world’s largest radio trivia contest Trivia 52: The Stacked Deck for the fifty second year, April 8-10.  For the first time in two years, the contest will return to its regular mode.  COVID-19 put the spring 2020 contest on hold, but returned in April 2021 with a COVID-19-friendly mode.  Rather than teams gathering ... Read More »

Tyler Krueger Named WIAC Coach of the Year

UWSP’s men’s hockey head coach Tyler Krueger has been awarded the WIAC Coach of the Year honor for the 2021-2022 season. Krueger led the team to a 21-6-1 overall record and a WIAC regular-season championship with an 11-2 conference record. It was Krueger’s fourth WIAC regular-season championship in his five years as head coach. The team made it to the ... Read More »

Pointer Profile: Brooke Wellhausen

Sport: Track & Field Year: Senior Hometown: Williams Bay, WI Major: Physical Education Why did you choose this major? I was actually first elementary education and special education and I took this one class where we were doing math, and I realized, ‘oh my goodness, I can’t sit still in a classroom for that long.’ I need to be moving ... Read More »

Pointer Profile: Nick Chesterman

Sport: Track & Field Year: Senior Hometown: Sun Prairie, WI Major: Business Management What initially appealed to you about track as a sport? Honestly, I really wanted to play football, but I realized I just wasn’t going anywhere with that. I also had some success in high school. I was a pretty good long and triple jumper. I knew I ... Read More »