When I think of diversity, I envision cities like New York, not rural Wisconsin towns like Platteville. To the advantage of the university, the administration has encouraged students and professors from diverse backgrounds to attend here. As citizens of the world, we benefit from such initiatives because it exposes us to cultures unlike our own […]

There was a hidden message in the “Do you see Orange” event held by InterVarsity last Thursday. The group wanted to show that one out of every twenty children in Africa is an orphan because of AIDS.
“Our goal for this semester was to raise money and awareness about AIDS in Africa,” Ben Belton, InterVarsity […]

The College of Liberal Arts and Education will be hosting a Faculty Forum “East of the Sun and West of the Moon: The Land, Light and Life of the Sámi People” on Dec. 6.
David Schuler, assistant professor of theatre, will be presenting an introduction of the culture and history of the Sámi people, an […]

This week students had a chance to weigh in on the potential changes to UW-Platteville's smoking policy. The student smoking review committee, which was formed under the supervision of Student Senate, held an open forum on Dec. 4.
The forum opened with an introduction detailing how students heard about the forum, an overview of the survey [...]

Some people say there is an external, objective reality, an ultimate, verifiable truth that exists independently of any individual and is true for everyone. Others claim the only reality is highly individual and is constructed by each person based on sensory inputs, language and so-called cognitive filters everyone uses to make sense of everything beyond […]

UW-Platteville is updating and regularly testing the campus emergency alert system. The tests will take place on the first Wednesday of each month at noon. As part of the system, a message will be broadcasted throughout each building on campus and message will be posted on each page on the UW-P Web site.
“During the first […]

Three students from Platteville, Steven Wilkens, Branden Furseth, and Bryan Parr traveled to New Orleans to attend the Crop Science Society of America’s annual meeting that was held Nov. 2 to 8.
While in New Orleans they attended special series of talks. One was with Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, the President of Iceland, regarding Global Warming. Other […]

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Every year, the Saturday before Thanksgiving marks a time-honored tradition in Wisconsin. It’s opening day for the gun deer hunting season. Droves of hunters in blaze orange coats and hats take to the woods and open fields.
Over 640,000 Wisconsin residents purchased licenses this year. This fall, over 340,000 deer were registered […]

Both performers and audiences were given a treat when Chanticleer performed “A Chanticleer Christmas” in the Richard and Helen Brodbeck Concert Hall Nov. 27.
“The songs were incredible, and while I hadn’t heard some of them before, I still enjoyed listening to them,” Ryan Putz, UW-Platteville student and audience member, said.
The international “orchestra of voices” from […]

Students at UW-Platteville will have a new short study tour available to them for the summer of 2008. The International Business Resource Center is sponsoring the North Africa International Short
Study Tour that will encompass travel in the countries of Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco from June 9 to 25, 2008.
“The students who go on this trip […]