Campus Programming and Relations attended the National Association for Campus Activities Northern Plains Regional Conference April 3 - 4 in Minneapolis, Minn., to scout for next year’s UW-Platteville campus entertainers.
The conference includes educational sessions on topics including promotion, publicity and running a successful meeting, David Nevins, Pioneer Involvement Center leadership development coordinator, said. The conference […]

UW-Platteville’s General Education Task Force held open forums last week to discuss possible changes to general education class requirements.
The Academic Affairs Council first recommended that a General Education Task Force be formed to review general education in October 2007, Shane Drefcinski, General Education Task Force chair, said.
“Having gone through general education classes, there were things […]

The UW-Platteville Pioneer Dairy Farm has proven to be a hands-on educational tool for many of the university’s agricultural students. The farm offers job opportunities for students wanting to be involved in agricultural work. Student employees work an average of 10 to 15 hours per week, while some put in over 30 hours per week, […]

I was extremely disappointed to open the sports section of the newspaper last week to find a headline boldly proclaiming the error of a student-athlete. Every year, student-athletes are reminded by the athletic director that we are held to a high standard on campus. Therefore, I am not attempting to defend any poor decisions made […]

Every team struggles at some point in their season, no matter the sport. And in the case of the UW-Platteville baseball team, they seem to be in their mid-season slump. The problem for a talented and experienced Pioneer team is that when you play in the WIAC there are no easy games. Being able to […]

David Dregne and Devine Nzegwu came through on last week’s Student Senate presidential ticket, winning with 367 votes.
Voting began at midnight, April 15 and ended at 6 p.m., April 16, Kenny Brotheridge, Student Senate vice president, said. Any student with a UW-Platteville e-mail account was able to vote.
All the voting was done on the UW-Platteville […]

With the WIAC Championships just a couple of weeks away, the UW-Platteville’s men’s and women’s track teams are trying hard to maintain the momentum they have going.
“We’re kind of right where we need to be,’ head coach Jim Nickasch said. “The men look really good for the conference meet because we’re a little bit deeper […]

Photograph by Kate Olsen
Mythbuster Grant Imahara answers a question during his visit to UW-P April 21.

UW-Platteville was buzzing April 21 when two members of the Discovery Channel show Mythbusters answered questions from members of an audience of nearly 2,000 at the Williams Fieldhouse.
Mythbusters is a television show where modern and ancient myths are put […]

After class, many of us American students head to Bill’s, an off-license general store just down the road from the university. Bill is everyone’s friend and the go-to guy for the best information on the area and London.
Mohinder ‘Billha’ Chandhok, or Bill, opened Bill’s 27 years ago and has been helping the American students […]

Jordan O’Connell
oconnellj@uwplatt.edu

Students, be advised: the Exponent reports and editorializes on hearsay and conjecture, and is more concerned with passing judgment on students’ free expression than covering the real issues of this student governance election.
The posters in question were neither misleading nor false, as so reported in last week’s edition of our student news source, the […]