Dear Editor, April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Sexual violence is a major public health, human rights and social justice issue which impacts every community, including UW-Platteville. It is important that our community work together to increase awareness and knowledge in order to prevent sexual violence. We can do this by engaging in conversations [...]
Sigma Phi Epsilon raised more than $1,760 at a service auction Saturday. Twenty-two SPE members auctioned off four hours of their time to work for bidders. Proceeds of the auction benefit the Farmer’s Market Senior Nutrition Fund and the SPE Balanced Men Scholarship Fund. Each year, SPE sends scholarship applications to all incoming freshmen males. [...]
The Pioneers track and field team brought home four wins and three second places from the Wartburg Outdoor Select. T.J. Valley continued his impressive 2012 season with a victory in the 110-meter hurdles. Josh Vandenbush won the triple jump with a jump of 43 feet 8 1/2 inches. Mark Niemann won the javelin with a [...]
The Pioneers rode solid pitching outings by junior Melissa Anderson and sophomore Jeni Freiburger to sweep a doubleheader with Beloit College April 4. In game one, Anderson pitched a complete game to pick up the victory as the Pioneers cruised to a 6-1 win. The game was 1-0 for the Pioneers heading into the fifth [...]
The Pioneers lost three of four home games to University of Wisconsin-Stout April 5-6 in back-to-back doubleheaders at Kendall Murray Baseball Field. In the doubleheader April 5, the Pioneers lost the first game 13-5 and won the second 8-7. In the doubleheader Friday, the Pioneers lost the first game 9-1 and the second 13-10. Senior [...]
In an episode titled “Blitzgiving” in the sixth season of the TV show How I Met Your Mother, Ted Mosby explains to his children the legacy of “The Blitz.” The Blitz is described as that one person who always left or “blitzed” the group and right after something epically amazing would happen. The Blitz typically [...]
Monday night means wings at Brother’s and Camaraderie. Tuesday night, dollar wrist bands at Boondocks. Wednesday night, Ladies night at School Girlz and dollar burger night at the Ticket. Thursday is VFW taco night. Friday, well, who doesn’t just go out for fun on Friday night? Now that the Platteville bar scene has nicely given [...]
Hookups, breakups, long-term, short-term, and long-distance; these terms define the multifaceted beast that is the college dating scene. What we as students are facing today is not what our predecessors were dealing with back in their day. Everyone today seems to have the right answer but the real solution to dating is an answer you [...]
Although the dreaded finals week is a few weeks away, it will be here before we know it, and it will be time for many students to head home for the summer, begin their careers as professionals or pick up a summer job. With finals week, we tend to get stressed out and sometimes overwhelmed. [...]
I was recently riding a train from Chicago to St. Louis, sitting in front of two mothers and their children. Everything was normal, the kids were annoying and the mothers were doing their best to preoccupy them. Suddenly, a familiar chorus sprung up from behind me. The kids, who were between 6 and 10 years [...]
Recently a good friend of mine enlisted into the United States Navy. He went to college for a few years and determined that he would be better off serving our country and applying his skills in that way. He will be focusing in a nuclear engineering position on submarines once he finishes his basic training. [...]
