“I completely shut myself out from the world around me. It’s something you think you can handle yourself and I just wanted time to myself to get back on track.Coming into college you have the financial turmoil of having to pay bills for the first time. To fix this you get a job, but that […]

With the 2008 presidential election coming up, debates on policies, the economy and the candidates themselves are often the heated topics of various conversations. It is no secret that this year the Democrats are considering two candidates who do not fall into the white male category—something that has not yet occurred in the history of […]

Basketball teams often talk about how no one comes into their gym and wins. In the case of the UW-Platteville men’s basketball team, no one has come to Bo Ryan Court in the Williams Fieldhouse and escaped with a win. The latest team to fall victim to UW-P is UW-Stout, who lost their WIAC conference […]

Slicing down the slopes with the wind rushing by your face as trees pass in a blur of color. Sounds like a good time right? Winter sports and activities are a prevalent part of life for many UW-Platteville students. Whether it’s skiing, snowboarding or snowmobiling, UW-P students enjoy winter sports and outdoors as a part […]

After a year and a half of renovation and construction costing $25.67 million, Ullsvik Hall is once again filled with students, staff and faculty.
The project began construction May 9, 2006, and has not been used since the summer of 2006 when the renovation project required that all services in the building be moved to other […]

The death of close friend and UW-Platteville student Jill Uppena has prompted a group of students to join together and form a UW-P Yellow Ribbon Chapter.
Yellow Ribbon is an organization that was developed in 1994, when Mike Emme, a 17-year-old boy, committed suicide. Yellow was chosen because it was the color of Emme’s car. […]

A committee investigating UW-Platteville’s smoking policy proposed a referendum that could prohibit smoking on some parts of campus and increase fines for smoking violations.

The Student Senate ad hoc committee investigating the smoking policy gave its final presentation Jan. 28 outlining its findings and suggestions. In their report, committee members said the current smoking policy is unsatisfactory, difficult to enforce and lacks adequate penalties.

On Jan. 26, Campus Programming and Relations hosted comedian Robbie Printz to a standing room only crowd in the Pioneer Student Center.
He began his career by playing local clubs while finishing his degree and now performs at hundreds of colleges nationwide. Printz hails from Boston and made his television debut on MTV’s Half Hour Comedy […]

Volunteers in the Platteville community have been working together to collect six big ideas to improve the Platteville area.
The project, known as My Community My Vision, began in June of 2007 and collected over 450 ideas from members of the community. A selection committee evaluated and chose ideas they felt would impact Platteville most, Ralph […]

Playing hard against tenacious competition simply was not enough for the UW-Platteville Pioneer women’s basketball team during their games against UW-Whitewater and UW-Stout. The Pioneers played both opponents tough and found themselves on the losing end of both WIAC conference games.On Jan. 23, the Pioneers hosted the No. 3 nationally-ranked Warhawks of UW-W and lost […]