Archives for the ‘Features’ Category

UW-Platteville’s Mudfest Weekend Tradition

By • Apr 5th, 2012 • Category: Features, News

As a UW-Platteville student, I’m sure you know about the Annual Mudfest weekend that ultimately brings together the majority of campus to the pitch for the Rugby tournaments. For many students, Mudfest weekend is having a bonfire, playing bag toss, and throwing some beers back before heading down to the pitch. Richard Heyer, senior Biology [...]



International Night celebrates Asian culture

By • Apr 2nd, 2012 • Category: Features

The University of Wisconsin-Platteville’s 47th annual International Night, Oriental Express will feature an oriental marketplace, Asian cuisine, karaoke and entertainment by a Milwaukee band Saturday, April 14th, in Velzy Commons. It is sponsored and organized by the International Student Club and co-sponsored by Confucius Institute with support from Segregated University Fee Allocation Commission. According to Jordan Rijpma, [...]



Working students experience college life to the fullest

By • Mar 3rd, 2012 • Category: Features, Opinions

I am one of those farm kids who has worked hard since . . . forever. My father’s influence over this attribute of mine is rather hefty, and I wouldn’t exchange it for a lifetime of laziness. I would like to believe that I would still be a hard working individual if I hadn’t lived [...]



Watch your grammar

By • Mar 3rd, 2012 • Category: Features, Opinions

“I dont get it,” I overheard a peer of mine complain once, “Why must a professor, and not an English professor, feel the need to make multiple-choice answers with the same answer but different punctuation. Not only do I have to know the material, but now I have to know the proper grammar.” Being a [...]



Hunt band scheduled to perform on campus

By • Feb 23rd, 2012 • Category: Features

Clint Hunt, father of seven, spoke warmly of the memory. “At one point we had a 4 year old just offstage playing with a latch-hook rug,” Hunt said, chuckling. “He’d know his cue, and he’d come on to sing a song or tell a joke.” This was in the early years—before the national tours, when [...]



Recyclemania

By • Feb 1st, 2012 • Category: Features

Campuses across the nation will soon be participating in a friendly 10-week competition to see which campus can recycle the most. From Feb. 5 to Mar. 31 universities will be competing for the highest recycling rate. “With each week’s reports and rankings, participating [universities] watch how their results fluctuate against other [universities] and use this [...]



BSU hopes to educate year-round with Black History 365

By • May 12th, 2011 • Category: Features

The Black Student Union sponsored the second-annual Black History 365 event May 3 to educate students on campus about black history. BSU decided to host the event in May this year to show black history is something that can be celebrated outside of February, Black History Month. “We were able to give opportunities for more [...]