The UW-Platteville lacrosse club traveled to UW-La Crosse on April 3, for two more games on their road to the A-Bracket. The Pioneers finished 1-1 for the weekend, bringing their record up to 2-2.
The Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour allowed students to be exposed to the business of entrepreneurial ideaology and learn skills needed in starting a business or cultural innovation.
Students on campus may sometimes feel powerless when it comes to the future of the university. However, we are far from it. Wisconsin State Statute 36.09(5) mandates shared governance on the UW System campuses and provides students and staff the opportunities to truly get involved and make a difference on their campus. At UW-Eau Claire [...]
Does attending a frat party equate consensual sex?
Most of us would say no, I hope, but some say yes. According to an article on salon.com, Alex Knepper, a 20-year-old columnist for American University’s student newspaper, wrote that “[a]ny woman who heads to [a fraternity] party as an anonymous onlooker, drinks five cups of the jungle [...]
Last Thursday was the kind of day that makes one revel in the glory of being 22 years old. It was the beginning of a four-day weekend, Friday was payday, I had tickets for a Passion Pit show in Milwaukee and the winter weather was finally breaking. It was impossible to avoid the signals that [...]
A 2008 study done by the Department of Justice reported as many as one in four women will be sexally assaulted on a college campus each year. The Center for Public Integrity said out of those women, 95 percent of them will not report sexual assault.
The UW-System recognizes the problems with sexual assault on [...]
This semester all students on this campus have a special opportunity to rejoin United Council of UW Students. If you have been involved with student government in the past seven years, then you have more than likely heard multiple complaints and shortcomings of this organization. It is understandable that some students would have concerns [...]
When Interim Chancellor Carol Sue Butts retires this summer, she will miss a lot of things, but above all, she will miss the walks.
The Platteville Water Department announced that they will be flushing fire hydrants city-wide beginning at 12:01 a.m on Monday, May 17 and Tuesday, May 18.
The department said customers may experience isolated cases of discolored water on both days and should postpone doing laundry if this condition is present. They are also urging private [...]
Porter Hall will be hosting its anual ‘Night in Vegas’ fundraiser.
On Wednesday, April 14, students are invited to Porter Hall to raise money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
Games will be from 7-10 p.m. and costs $3 for $3,000 Vegas dollars to play games. Games that will be played include Go Fish, Texas Hold ‘Em, [...]
The UW-Platteville men and women’s cross country teams are coached by one of the country’s best runners. Tom Antczak has been the head cross country coach for 18 seasons and also serves as the assistant middle distance coach for the men and women’s track team.
Antczak has been a highly competitive runner for over 35 [...]
With 12 freshmen and five sophomores the Pioneer softball team is by all accounts a young team much the same as they were a year ago.
Last Tuesday the Pioneers had their 2010 home opener and did not disappoint fans that were hoping for a turnaround from the 2009 season when the team went winless [...]
The work of one UW-Platteville student could end up on your television screen.
Ashley Snyder, a junior communication technologies major, recently received an honorable mention from the National Broadcast Society for a script she wrote for the CW television series “Supernatural.” Snyder submitted the script entitled, “Blood and Iron” for the NBS’s Student Script writing competition [...]
Not many students here at UW-Platteville have heard of the fraternity of Phi Delta Chi. Many of us think that it is just another fraternity, but to one particular chapter it was where the legacy started here in Platteville. Phi Delta Chi was the pre-chapter to Tau Kappa Epsilon. TKE was established here at UW-P [...]
