Campus Crusade for Christ, an international group, became an official UW-Platteville organization last fall. It began under the supervision of Kyle and Bethany LeMieux, from the Madison Campus Crusade for Christ team, and Mike Glatzel, president of the organization and a building construction management major.
“We are using the same building model as we did at […]

Global warming and global climate change are just a couple of terms for the gradual warming of our planet. And whether or not you believe in it and whether or not you believe it will happen in our lifetime, it will affect all of us. It will affect those on the poles, those on the […]

It is often said that you cannot have thunder without lightning. And in the case of the UW-Platteville baseball team, thunder and lightning are the driving forces for the team. The lightning arm of Joe Lange and the thunderous bat of Ross Bennett have led the team throughout the 2008 season.

Photograph by Kyle Seyfferth

Lange, a […]

Chancellor David Markee, who had quintuple bypass surgery on March 28 is living at home and has been on the UW-Platteville campus.

“I’m feeling good,” Markee said. “Hopefully I’ll be back in full force in the fall.”
There is no set timetable for Markee to return to work full-time.
“It’ll be later in the summer,” Markee said. […]

By Sam Straub
I appreciate the opportunity to respond to the opinion piece published by the Exponent last week concerning concealed carry. The column brings up several common misconceptions about concealed weapons which I would like to address.
The author states that he “would feel far less safe knowing that potentially thousands of students … are walking […]

Tom Nickels, a retired community member, received a book “The Complete Joy of Home Brewery” by Charles Papazian, and stayed up all night reading it.

Submitted by Tom Nickels

“I started 14 years ago in my home and I have a library of books all about brewing beer,” Nickels said. “I heard they were going to have […]

Those who say our agriculture department doesn’t hold a candle to UW-Madison’s obviously have not met our students, faculty and staff. After being here for five years and completing my degree in animal science, I’d like to tell them what exactly their up against.
With the technology of the swine center and the dairy facility, it […]

This is a response to the article “Guns on campus would present danger to students, staff.” I like to hear that some students are talking about a way to make their campus safe from a school shooting. The debate I keep hearing about involves guns on campus and there are strong points on both sides […]

“The role of the student-athlete is a highly visible one. It places the individual in full view of the public, who scrutinize the student-athlete’s behavior both on and off the playing surface. The student-athlete is a role model and is held to a higher standard.” Those words are the first sentences of the second paragraph […]

UW-Platteville students have been working on an unusual research project measuring the decomposition of pigs in the northern climate. The project started last semester by criminal justice students Marissa Johnson and Michael Annable, and being continued on by other students into the 2008-09 school year.
The project’s purpose is to study decompostion rates in the northern […]