The Segregated Fee Allocation Commission acted on an audit of the Black Student Union March 8 and found that the organization had overspent their 2010-2011 allocations by $2,116.55. The resulting action was the suspension of the BSU’s funding for the 2012-2013 fiscal year, estimated at $17,000 and a fine of $529.13, 25 percent of the [...]
Director for Financial Services Cathy Riedl-Farrey presented the spring 2012 budget update to Faculty Senate April 10 that reported the 1,169 TSI students had provided University of Wisconsin-Platteville with roughly $12.3 million for the semester of spring 2012. TSI brings in money when there is a $1.3 million lapse and $3.5 million budget cut. Because [...]
Legislative Affairs Director Willie Kuehni and BILSA Senator Jordan Miller were elected president and vice president of Student Senate by 1.8 percent of the student body April 11. A total of 2.4 percent of the student body voted for the presidential and vice presidential races, a 4.5 percent decrease compared to the 2011-12 election. Kuehni [...]
Each vote was worth nearly $5,344 in the 2012-13 Segregated University Fee Allocation Commission election. This year alone, $700,000 were allocated to more than 100 student organizations, BILSA Commissioner Nick Kirby said. Approximately 1.8 percent of the student population voted for SUFAC commissioners. Each college is represented by two commissioners. Four members of Sigma Phi [...]
Governor Scott Walker declared war on women after passing bills in secret April 12, restricting equal pay and access to health care for women. The governor passed these gutsy, hot-button bills like artillery fire and watched the news break like bombs from afar Friday afternoon. “Governor Walker didn’t even have the courage to tell us [...]
College life is demanding. School, work, homework, clubs and the prospect of a future job. It will eventually be worth it, when we graduate and begin working and doing something that we hopefully love or at least enjoy. The next thing that a college student wants to do is add yet another thing to the [...]
The University of Wisconsin-Platteville has been criticized at length regarding parking on or near campus. With the increase of students that will attend the university in the fall, and parking remaining virtually the same, I sympathize for future students. As there are few options that are financially viable for the university, and I commute each [...]
Here’s the deal: prohibiting same-sex marriage is an unconstitutional discrimination. Period. Prohibiting someone from doing something that has no negative impact on you or others is simply and utterly outrageous. I’m sure you’ve all heard the same-sex marriage arguments before, but for some reason, approximately 47 percent of the population still isn’t listening. According to [...]
The Pioneers softball team (17-11, 7-3 WIAC) outscored University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point 12-1 Saturday en route to a sweep of the host Pointers, winning the first game 9-0 and the second 3-1. In game one, the Pioneers pounded 10 hits and earned a mercy-rule win. Junior Melissa Anderson pitched the complete-game shutout to raise her [...]
More than a dozen of the nations highly ranked track and field teams arrived in Platteville the morning of April 14 for the UW-Platteville Invitational. The student athletes were spared from the weekend’s high winds and rainfall and were treated to mid-60s temperatures, setting the backdrop for the action on the track. The Pioneer women [...]
