There is an election on Tuesday, April 2. The Pointer sat down with Pointers Vote Coalition to get the fast facts on what students need to know before heading to the polls. Kalli Mikkonen is a political science major at UWSP. She is also the secretary of Pointers Vote Coalition and is a Democracy Fellow for Campus Vote Project. She ... Read More »
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 »
From being the second woman in the state of Colorado to be promoted to captain of the fire service, to becoming a first generation college graduate, Professor Tori Jennings continues to seek new adventures. Jennings has been an anthropology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point for seven years. She is now looking to apply her degree in a new ... Read More »
Jill Stein, member of the Green Party and recent presidential nominee, is calling for a recount. To question the current election results, Stein has raised over $6.5 million dollars to fund recount elections in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, according to her campaign website. The recounting was kickstarted because Stein thought the elections were swayed by “cyber hacking,” according to Time ... Read More »
The legislative affairs committee sponsored voter registration around campus and registered over 1000 students. Most of the volunteers were from the retired demographic and passionate about helping students register to vote. The older generation has a history of higher voter attendance than the younger generation as seen in the 2008 election where seventy percent of voters sixty and older voted ... Read More »
The intense controversy surrounding women in politics this election makes it difficult to tell whether this election is about degrading women or empowering them. Clinton’s historic run for candidacy is constantly underscored by Trump’s comments that openly target marginalized groups. Dr. Jennifer Collins, professor of political science, said while it may be easy to dismiss these instances as empty words ... Read More »
Something that has not been entirely clear this election season is what exactly each candidate stands for. To make it easier come election day on Nov. 8, we have compiled the stances on both the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates, according to ProCon.org and npr.org. Clinton Trump Wants to increase federal taxes on the wealthy to expand domestic programs ... Read More »
As election day approaches, politics permeate every area of American life and media bombards the public more than ever before. Screens across the country are alight with the images and words of the two presidential candidates: Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump. While election politics in the past have been focused in newspapers and television newscasts, the ... Read More »
Halloween is just around the corner, but one of the scariest things happening lately is Donald Trump campaigning for president. Brad Mapes-Martins, political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, said that, though there is much controversy over how he would rule as president, Trump is technically qualified to become president. “The qualifications outlined in Article II, Section 1 ... Read More »
Three hour lines and lots of confusion was how many students described their primary election experience. Jack Ivansek, legislative affairs director for the Student Government Association, explained that the long lines many experienced was most likely due to the amount of people who waited until the day of the election to register. He also believed the new photo ID law ... Read More »
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