With an informal corporate motto of “Don’t Be Evil,” you would not expect a company to be taking over the world. Do not worry, Google’s takeover is a peaceful and covert one.
If you think the list on google.com/options is a long list, try the 21 printed pages from the “List of Google Products” Wikipedia article. [...]
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 [...]
I had to think hard to remember what I did last Thursday. After a few moments of concentrated effort, I remembered that I slept into the late morning, had a bowl of Frosted Flakes for breakfast, struggled through a pivotal Spanish exam and watched the Miami Heat beat the Los Angeles Lakers in overtime that [...]
Most of you are probably like me: limited to fluency in only our native tongue. While there is nothing wrong with this, it can be restrictive in successful communication, business and travel. Plus, language is key to culture.
For the second year, Linda James from the Art department and Laura Beadling from the English department are [...]
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 [...]
At the top of last Friday’s front page, the Wisconsin State Journal elected to run a story detailing the arrests of 57 men for soliciting prostitution on Badger Road in Madison. The arrests were a result of an eight-month investigation, led by officer Jeff Pharo, of a Web site that hosted a discussion forum for [...]
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 [...]
If you commute to Platteville, or have a commuter-parking pass, you have probably noticed the lack of available parking. The economic downturn has caused more people to commute to school instead of staying in a dorm or apartment. The lack of commuter parking is extremely frustrating. Between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. seems to be [...]
“For an hour, I forgot he was black.”
These were the sentiments expressed by MSNBC host Chris Matthews a few weeks ago, after watching President Obama’s State of the Union address. According to foxnews.com, Matthews said, “I was trying to think about who he was tonight. And uh, it’s interesting. He is post-racial, by all appearances. [...]
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 [...]
Every day the number of pets needing a home increases. Thousands of pets sit in shelters for years. Unfortunately, society has placed a bad connotation with animal shelters. However, they are one of the best places to get animals.
It is sad that many animals sit in cages never getting a home. Humane societies put [...]
February 14 is Valentine’s Day, a national holiday that is supposed to celebrate love. Lately, however, it seems to have become more of day to see who can spend the most. Valentine’s Day has turned into a day to show off what your romantic partner has given you, instead of being a day for love. [...]
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 [...]
By the second month of the year, a number of New Year resolutions have probably been abandoned. I have managed to maintain a perfect record with my New Year resolutions; I never make any. But if I could, in my role as Dean of Students, suggest new semester resolutions for UW-Platteville students, I would suggest [...]
It has not been a particularly amiable week at work, school or at home throughout the state of Indiana this week. Water cooler talk has hardly crept above the hushed whispers that greeted co-workers utter on Monday morning; students and teachers that finally found some common ground in cheering for the Colts have fallen back [...]
Classes, work, sports and homework; there are never enough hours in the day. We find ourselves running from place to place with no time to relax. For some, this is not a big deal. They have learned to fly by the seat of their pants and keep on going. But for others, time constraints and [...]
If there’s one unforgivable sin among today’s graduating high school students, it is a refusal to at least consider going to college.
After reading the stories online about the thirteen year old from Lake Delton, Michael Crisafulli, who shot his father on Jan. 19, I was shocked to hear that this child can be tried as an adult in the Wisconsin court system.. According to an nbc15.com news release, anyone over 10 years old being charged with [...]
We have all heard about recycling, probably beginning with mini celebrations for Earth Day in grade school. Right now, UW-P is participating in the international RecycleMania initiative, a 10-week program designed to increase recycling awareness in colleges and universities.
Probably most of us have meant to recycle more often, but it’s easier to not [...]
Virtual murder of your online social life is now an option, according to an article on npr.org.
“Web 2.0 Suicide Machine” allows you to totally destroy your virtual life if you would ever want to do so. Gordan Savicic told NPR that SuicideMachine.org allows users to get their actual lives back.
“The site is the work [...]
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 [...]
Many UW-Platteville students live off-campus, including myself. Most of us know that utilities costs go up in the winter, sometimes because a furnace is heating our homes. The hike in prices is unavoidable, but there are ways to lower these expenses.
First, go around the house or apartment and make sure that the windows are closed [...]
Today, student volunteers will set up booths on the UW-Madison campus to receive donations for the American Red Cross to be used for Haiti relief. Madison’s official student governance group organized the fundraiser, and some area businesses have said they will match any donations made at their storefronts. A group representative has said that if [...]
Finals week has arrived once again, and most of us are panicking. We have a 20- page paper due in three days, a grade-saving presentation to assemble or a portfolio to organize and revise. We have exams, group-meetings, conferences and projects, plus our every day activities of work, class, eating and sleeping. Our stress levels are intesnse, and we do not know how we are going to get everything done on time. | Dec. 10
Don’t look now, but the terrorists are coming — to northwestern Illinois. A nearly-empty maximum security prison located in Thomson, Ill., population 559 and located approximately 55 miles from Platteville, is among the leading candidates to house accused terrorists who are being relocated from Guantanamo Bay. | Dec. 3
There is a growing epidemic at UW-Platteville, and it is nationally affecting students, instructors and staff. The subject is not the H1N1 virus. I’m referring to academic misconduct, specifically cheating and the submittal of the work or ideas of another as one’s own, original work. The words following “cheating” in the previous sentence form a reasonable definition of plagiarism. | Dec. 3
Last week, my ethnic studies class effectively stunned me into tears. | Dec. 3
An estimated 794,000 children were victims of abuse or neglect in the United States in 2007, the latest year for government statistics on the subject, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. In the same year, 1,760 children died from abuse or neglect. | Dec. 3
“Why don’t you put that video game down and do something productive, like read?” Most gamers have heard this question, but video games have grown into a sophisticated medium capable of telling intellectually stimulating stories with literary value. | Nov. 19
I love this time of year because the seasons are transitioning and Christmas decorations are lining the shelves of stores. The only downfall is that Christmas music is now on the radio nonstop until Dec. 26. | Nov. 19
It’s early Sunday morning. Packs of inebriated college students are roaming Second and Mineral Streets in Platteville heading from bar to bar, chatting, drinking and dancing. You walk into Players and head to the dance floor. The music blasting from the speakers is rifled with hip-hop and rap beats and filled with countless utterances of the taboo word, nigger, or nigga. Who dances to these songs with all of this offensive language? Everyone — whites, blacks, Latinos, Asians. And yet no one screams “offensive!” or “hate crime!” | Nov. 19
For Opinion Editor Laura Becherer, the impending release of “New Moon” raises the question: Is chivalry sexist? | Nov. 19
I have been a student here at UW-Platteville since September of 2005. I consider myself a part of this campus and community, and I find it ridiculous and ignorant for someone to write racial slurs or comments throughout dorm rooms or anywhere else on campus. | Nov. 12
Two incidents of racial graffiti in the resident halls were reported a few weeks ago. Whether these actions resulted from legitimate racial hatred is debatable. But on a campus that is almost entirely made up of white students, professors and administrators, it is too easy to write off these events simply as child’s play and deny that there is not a deeper, more subtle racial tension present in much of the campus community. | Nov. 12
Nigger. It is a powerful, controversial, polarizing and fighting word. It is a word that was found here and has no business here. We as a campus should do our duty as seekers and instructors of higher education to exterminate this word and address the causation of such fundamentally flawed and socially destructive belief systems. | Nov. 12
I was recently downtown in Platteville. While passing a bar, I saw a bicycle that looked familiar. It was a green Coast King belonging to my roommate, despite the fact that he was not in town and I last saw the bike on my front porch when I left the house. Someone had obviously gone onto my porch that evening and stolen it. | Nov. 12
Tuesday evening the members of Presidents’ Council discussed the recent incidents of racist graffiti that have been discovered in the residence halls. We would like to take this opportunity to address our fellow students about how reprehensible we feel this behavior to be. | Nov. 12
More instances of racial slur graffiti have been cropping up on campus lately. I’m not sure if this is something done with true hate crime intent, or if it’s just a few drunken idiots who think they’re being funny. Either way, it’s still disgusting. | Nov. 5
The Exponent does not seek out sensationalism. It is not a publication that thrives on tragedy. Yet, when a tragedy occurs, as it did last week, the Exponent has a responsibility to cover the story, knowing full well that, despite their best efforts, staff members may be criticized. | Nov. 5
While growing up, I and maybe you, heard and spoke the grade-school-playground proverb “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.” In my opinion, that proverb is, has been and always will be a load of horse manure. And, to quote Biff Tannen (I really hope I don’t need to explain who he is) “Manure! I hate manure!” | Nov. 5
