The three finalists for the vacant Dining Services Director position visited campus last week.
The first candidate, Shuja Shiddiqui, visited UW-Platteville on March 3. Shiddiqui earned his bachelor’s degree in organizational behavioral management and industrial organizational psychology in 1991 from the University of Houston. In 2000 Shiddiqui earned his master’s degree in management information [...]

Meet Eric Wall, the starting 5-spot for the UW-Platteville men’s basketball team.

She’s not popular, not rich and not what at you would expect to see on television, especially dancing.

ct between different departments on campus in regards to student issues. The Exponent reported in the March 4 issue that thefts and inappropriate behavior has been increasing in Glenview Commons according to those who work there. The campus police reported otherwise. Student Affairs has yet to comment or respond to the issue in any public [...]

Monday’s Student Senate meeting lasted three hours, due to a heated debate that called into question whether an executive board member should be terminated from his position.
The hearing, initiated by student body President Eli Caywood and Vice President Cody Camacho, was to decide if Special Projects Manager Adam Hendryx had failed to fulfill the position’s [...]

College students may not have enough money to take week-long vacation to Mexico, but by living in Wisconsin there is an opportunity to do something fun and inexpensive on Spring Break.
A brewery tour of Wisconsin is a great opportunity for you and your friends to experience all that goes into the making of handcrafted beers.
A [...]

It is time for us to take responsibility for our own education. The rates of students repeatedly failing remedial math courses is climbing. This is not acceptable.
There could be several contributing factors to this rate of failure. Maybe students are not receiving adequate high school preparation. Maybe UW-Platteville teachers are not accommodating to different learning [...]

The UW-Platteville Presidents Council is sponsoring a performance and dialogue on diversity. FLOW Theater will be performing its production of “One Race, One People, One Peace: We are one human race!” in Velzy Commons at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 25.
“The student leaders of UW-P have come to the consensus that we need to do a [...]

The Pioneer baseball team will look to top a successful season as their preseason practice is well underway. The 2009 season ended in the second most wins in school history, after going 21-19 and 11-13 in the WIAC, which placed them fifth overall.
The Pioneers look tentatively toward Greenville, Ill., for their first game of [...]

The Construction Management Association, a student organization, attends the Associated Builders and Contractors Construction Management Competition every year.

After the recent Zeta Beta Chi hazing incident, I have heard a few people talking badly about the Greek community. The conversations mostly contain comments such as, all they do is party and haze one another, or who would want to be in a fraternity or sorority; someone must be really desperate for friends to [...]

Regarding the hazing in the campus sorority, I thought it was ridiculous that the campus suspended the sorority for two semesters instead of kicking them out entirely. I do not know if they thought the hazing was considered harmless or if they thought it “was not that bad,” but I thought they would at [...]

Gary Storck endures pain on a daily basis. Storck was born with Noonan’s syndrome and has had multiple open-heart surgeries to address the heart problems that come with that condition. Storck also suffers from glaucoma, and his intraocular pressure often reaches 40, twice the highest limit of the normal range. In addition, he battles post-traumatic [...]

UW-Platteville wrestlers anxiously awaited their their last match of the season before entering the WIAC Championship.
“I’m looking forward to ending on a high note,” head coach Chris Walter said.
With the team ranked 29th nationally, Walter said he is happy with how the second half of the season turned out.
Individually, wrestler Jesse Milks, senior [...]

Wisconsin governor Jim Doyle announced earlier this month that he wants 25 percent of the state’s energy usage to be renewable by 2025. The governor’s remarks have started a debate on campus on how UW-Platteville can shift more of its energy consumption to renewable sources, and several UW-P faculty members think they have a good idea.

Marianne Sierk lit up the Pioneer Student Center with jokes and stories for Campus Programming and Relations’ Stand-Up Saturday on Feb. 13.

Students, volunteers and alumni invited the community to help celebrate the Chinese New Year with activities, entertainment and food.
Velzy commons in Ullsvik Hall was decorated with red and gold for UW-P’s celebration of the spring festival welcoming the Chinese year of the tiger. Those born in the year of the tiger (every 12 years) are [...]

UW-Platteville’s Boxes and Walls effectively revealed human struggles through powerful displays. The Body Image room revealed that 42 percent of elementary students first through third grade want to be thinner, 51 percent of 9 and 10-year-olds feel better about themselves if they are on a diet, and 80 percent of 10-year-olds fear being fat. And [...]

UW-Platteville has seen a wide variety of characters pass through their halls as distinguished lecturer over the years. A co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, a firefighter trapped during 9/11 and now an environmental activist and relative to two slain politicians — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been named distinguished lecturer for the spring [...]

The 2010 Pioneer baseball’s First Pitch Banquet was a home run on Saturday, when around 200 attended to help the team’s most important fundraising event of the year to fund the team’s spring break trip.

Kassia and Friends II, a recital put on by the UW-Plateville faculty vocal chamber ensemble named Kassia, wowed audiences with many different pieces of music.

Despite the home ice advantage, UW-P hockey suffered back-to-back losses against Robert Morris Chicago Jan. 29 and 30.

Seven weeks, four blocked arteries and one life-altering ordeal later, Associate Vice Chancellor and Dean of Graduate Students David Van Buren has returned to UW-Platteville.
Van Buren had quadruple bypass surgery Dec.7, 2009 at St. Mary’s Hospital in Madison. Arterial blockage was discovered after a failed stress test. Doctors were hoping to use stints to diminish [...]

UW-Platteville lacrosse will host the Great Lakes Lacrosse League for the first time on April 24-25.

The Exponent, took home three awards this year at the 2009 Wisconsin Newspaper Association Foundation’s Better Newspaper and Advertising Contest.

More than any generation previous, ours has heard warnings of the perils of racism, sexism, homophobia and a lack of respect for diversity. I have encountered the word diversity with such relentless regularity that it has joined other buzzwords (change, wellness, tolerance, sensitivity, national security) in the scrap heap of words so familiar to me [...]

Southwest Hall designated suite 105 to teaching and bringing to light the problems that the campus community face in everyday life. The goal of the exhibit is to open student’s eyes to problems that occur on campus and to motivate and encourage change.

According to UW-Platteville Campus Police and the Platteville EMS, an ambulance has been called to campus for a “medical emergency.”Both departments declined to comment further on the incident.
Continue to check back  online at uwpexponent.org or turn to the pages of next week’s Exponent for more details as soon as we receive them.

UW-Platteville’s Ottensman Hall was evacuated for almost an hour this morning following a reported gas leak.
Scott Marqurdt, director of campus police, said that a valve within the building was left open by mistake causing gas to leak into the air. Someone within the building smelt the gas and pulled the fire alarm, alerting campus police [...]

In the fall 2009 semester, 20 participants submitted a total of 56 photos which were on display in the PSC from Tuesday , Nov . 17 – Thursday , Nov . 19.

It’s graduation time again, and while dreams of tassel-turning and diplomas swim in the heads of those soon to shake hands with the chancellor, it can be a bittersweet ‘congratulations’ for those without a serious job prospect. | Dec. 15