Is a photo of a drunken 21st birthday acceptable to put online? You are 21, legal and for the most part in a socially acceptable situation. But it depends on the content of the photo, doesn’t it? If in a zoot suit doing a keg stand with a face covered with permanent marker, it’s considered [...]
Dear Editor: I would like to address an article in the Thursday, April 19, edition of the Exponent written by Kaleigh Dunn. The article is called “Walker declares war on women.” She complains of various attacks that Gov. Scott Walker has made on women through new laws that were enacted “secretly.” I want to say [...]
Dear Editor: This letter is in response to Kaleigh Dunn’s April 19 opinion article “Walker declares war on women.” The bills Gov. Scott Walker signed and Dunn referred to are SB 202, SB 92 and SB 306. SB 202 repealed the 2009 Equal Pay Enforcement Act. Both address multiple types of discrimination. Walker opponents only [...]
Annual reported rates of sexual assault collected through University of Wisconsin-Platteville campus police for the years 2008 through 2010 were twice as high as the average sexual assault reporting rate for college campuses, based on statistics from the American Association of University Women. The Interim Dean of Students, Artanya Wesley, has six open cases of [...]
The men’s track and field team brought home a third-place finish from the Augustana Meet of Champions. The Pioneers won the 4×100-meter relay in a season-best 41.63 seconds. It was a photo finish with only 19 hundredths of a second separating the Pioneers from second place Augustana. Freshman Joel Walden cruised to a 12-second victory [...]
Oh it’s April, the time for showers and the most important offseason time for NFL teams. The NFL draft is upon us. The time is now for young up-and-coming players to prove their worth and tomorrow’s superstars to embark on their quest to greatness. However, the world of sports has succumbed to the stopwatch. Your [...]
A large crowd comprised of many fellow student athletes witnessed the Pioneer softball team attempt to take down the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater squad ranked seventh in the country. The attempt was stopped just short, as the Warhawks swept their hosts 7-6 and 8-2. The first game was a tightly contested affair, coming down to the [...]
The Pioneer baseball team continued to struggle through the 2012 campaign, as a four-game losing skid through Tuesday has the team sitting at 5-24 overall and just 1-13 in the WIAC. The past week featured four games against WIAC foe University of Wisconsin-Superior. Each game saw the Pioneers keep the contest close only to fall [...]
Four University of Wisconsin-Platteville students were arrested April 13 after a police drug raid uncovered a marijuana growing operation. Members of the Platteville Police Department and Grant County Sheriff’s Department served the search warrant at approximately 9:30 a.m. at 550 W. Cedar St. The search uncovered marijuana plants along with drug paraphernalia and an undisclosed [...]
Students in Software Project 2 have been working on two phone and online applications for students, which will be available for use within the next month. The applications, which took over 700 hundred hours to produce, are the end result of a challenge presented to various software engineering majors by Assistant Chancellor for Administrative Services [...]
Starting next year, parking in front of residence halls, including Rountree Commons, will be prohibited without a parking permit. The City of Platteville, not the University, owns the streets weaving between the residence halls. The City of Platteville and the University of Wisconsin-Platteville are working together to issue these permits for next year. Their goals [...]
Two presidential cabinet members spoke on the importance of agricultural education for America’s economy at Platteville Farm April 18. “We cannot have a strong country if our rural communities and our rural economy is not strong, and the only way we get there together is through high-quality education,” U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said. [...]
