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Risks for Underage Drinkers on the Rise
05-09-2013
Greg Summers Named Provost, Vice Chancellor of UWSP
05-09-2013
U.S. Department of Education Plans Changes for FAFSA
05-09-2013
Students Push for Inclusivity Coalition
05-09-2013
It’s Getting Hot in Here
05-02-2013
SGA Strives to Implement Differential Tuition
05-02-2013
The UW Surplus and How it Affects Stevens Point
05-02-2013
O.N.E. Conference Helps to Expand Inclusivity on Campus
05-02-2013
Flooded Streets and Lake DeBot: Water Collects on Campus
05-02-2013
Landing a Job After Graduation
05-02-2013
Student Ambassadors Promote Diversity
04-25-2013
Stevens Point Brewery Ranked No. 35 Best Craft Brewery in the U.S.
04-25-2013
Donating or Selling? Students Give Plasma for Money
04-25-2013
Graduate School Stress
04-25-2013
From Boston to Point
04-25-2013
First String Player to Conduct Concert Band
04-19-2013
Fund Run Celebrates 33 Years
04-18-2013
Patrick Dougherty Builds Sculpture on Sundial
04-18-2013
Knutzen Hall Gets a Facelift
04-18-2013
UWSP Unveils Pointer Alerts System
04-18-2013
Downtown Mural Tour Uses Art to Highlight Town’s History
04-18-2013
Search for New Provost Will Soon Be Over
04-11-2013
Portage County Looks Out for Pedestrians
04-11-2013
The Effects of Divorce on Adult Children
04-11-2013
Sprouting Healthy Kids
04-11-2013
Stoner Teaches Class About Sexual Diversity in Televison
04-11-2013
SGA Elections Results
04-04-2013
UWSP Ranked No. 9 in Midwest
04-04-2013
Students in Support of a Tobacco-Free Campus
04-04-2013
Civil Discourse Initiative Gains Momentum
03-21-2013
Campus Searches for Parking Solutions
03-21-2013
Racism Accounts Raise Questions
03-21-2013
Community Damages Charge Residents
03-21-2013
Community Handles Aftermath of Abduction Scare
03-14-2013
Students Take a Stand on Human Trafficking
03-14-2013
Campus Procedures for Crisis Situations
03-14-2013
Drunk Vandalism Creates Tension Between Students and Residents
03-14-2013
Fire Crew Offers Firefighting Certification Course
03-14-2013
Student Government Candidates Debate
03-07-2013
Confession Time
03-07-2013
The U.S. Bank and SGA Scholarship
03-07-2013
Veterans Fight to Earn More Class Credits for Service
03-07-2013
Tuition Increases Inevitable - SGA Proposes Solution
03-07-2013
Arts Alliance Buys the Fox Theater
02-28-2013
SGA Presidential Campaigns Start
02-28-2013
Will Green Get the Vote?
02-28-2013
Inclusivity Week Promotes Understanding Across Cultures and Genders
02-28-2013
Mandatory Attendance: A Necessary Evil?
02-28-2013
Wisconsin Bids Against Skyward
02-21-2013
Annual Fight Night Comes Out Swinging
02-21-2013
Job Fair Attracts Students and Businesses
02-21-2013
Tutoring and Learning Center Strives to Meet Student Needs
02-21-2013
Stevens Point Brewery Sees Fourth Expansion in Four Years
02-21-2013
English Professor Hosts Poetry Reading
02-20-2013
Faculty Salary Struggles
02-14-2013
Parking Services, Here and There
02-14-2013
UWSP Alum Hired as Warden
02-14-2013
Student Legal Services
02-14-2013
Wrap It Up For Valentine’s Day
02-14-2013
Tar Sands Lecture Informs Eco-Friendly Pointers
02-07-2013
Where Are the Student Activists?
02-07-2013
Controversy over Combat
02-07-2013
Scheduling Solutions
02-07-2013
“Sugar Babies” Become New Trend
02-07-2013
Guns, Proposals, and Postulations
01-31-2013
WDMD Students Use Technology to Help Others
01-31-2013
SGA Round Up
01-31-2013
Pointers for Life Head to D.C.
01-31-2013
2013 Political Update
01-31-2013
Adderall: Study Aid or Risky Recreation?
12-14-2012
Apocalypse Maybe?
12-14-2012
Neenah Paper Recognizes Design Student
12-14-2012
Finals Frenzy
12-14-2012
UWSP Conserves Energy During Break
12-14-2012
A Farewell to Sports
12-14-2012
Irony in Germany
12-14-2012
January Brings New Chief for IT
12-06-2012
UWSP offers Grant to Improve English Skills
12-06-2012
Belegarth Fighters Storm Debot Field
12-06-2012
Alcohol Ban Considered
12-06-2012
Model UN Prepares for NY Conference
12-06-2012
961 Frowns on 420
11-29-2012
Popularity of Facebook Dwindling
11-29-2012
A Full Plate for Lame Duck Congress
11-29-2012
Underground Tunnels at UWSP
11-29-2012
Lack of Communication at SPTV
11-29-2012
Superstorm Sandy Hits Home
11-15-2012
Housing Woes Affect Students
11-15-2012
Student Law Enforcement Association Lends a Hand
11-15-2012
Where the Buck Is Everybody?
11-15-2012
Celebrating Our Veterans
11-15-2012
SPTV Overcomes Technical Difficulties
11-08-2012
Faculty Discounts
11-08-2012
Changes for Stevens Point
11-08-2012
States Pass Historic Laws on Election Night
11-08-2012
Get Acquainted with Local Politicians
11-01-2012
Debates Tighten Race
11-01-2012
Votestock: Tune In, Turn Out, and Vote Now
11-01-2012
What’s Influencing Your Vote? - Commentary
11-01-2012
A Closer Look at International Programs
10-25-2012
UWSP Tobacco Policy Reviewed
10-25-2012
First Lady Rallies in Wausau
10-25-2012
Academic Custodial Staff: Always Here to Help
10-25-2012
University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point Deemed Veteran-friendly School
10-18-2012
Master Plan Unfolds
10-18-2012
Comm Week: Alumni Give Back
10-18-2012
In the Devil’s Church
10-18-2012
Election Update 2012
10-11-2012
New Student Org Focused On Creating Change
10-11-2012
Alex Kuo Comes to Campus
10-11-2012
Students Design New Lower Debot
10-11-2012
Nano Technology
10-11-2012
CWES Recieves Grant, Funds Summer Fun
10-04-2012
Bookstore Discusses Outsourcing
10-04-2012
SVC’s Call to Arms; Get Out and Vote
10-04-2012
Lot X Soon To Be Ex-Lot
10-04-2012
A New Kind of Night Life
10-04-2012
Celebrate Banned Books Week
10-04-2012
Cuba: Once So Far Now So Near
09-29-2012
Stevens Point, UWSP Evaluate Alcohol and Drug Policies
09-29-2012
Kurtwood Smith Campaigns For Obama
09-29-2012
Quiet On Set
09-28-2012
UWSP In Top 10
09-28-2012
UWSP Doctorate Program: A Perfect Fit for Students
09-28-2012
Penn Visits UWSP, Focuses Speech on Student Issues
09-21-2012
Ragweed Wages War
09-21-2012
Nursing Program Expansion Underway
09-21-2012
Embodied Learning Engages Lecture Students
09-21-2012
Lower Debot Redesigned by Students
09-21-2012
GDRs Improved for 2013
09-13-2012
Student Vote Coalition Begins Work
09-13-2012
Legislation for Co-ed Suites at Standstill
09-13-2012
Sometimes it’s Easy Being Green
09-13-2012
Political Update: Republican National Convention
09-07-2012
Political Update: Democratic National Convention
09-07-2012
Summer Renovations Give Campus an Environmental Face-Lift
09-07-2012
Jim Haney Steps Down; Rhonda Sprague Steps Up
09-07-2012
Commencement Speakers
05-17-2012
CNR End of the Year Wrap-Up
05-17-2012
A Grand Year for the College of Letters and Science
05-17-2012
Another Year of Success in the CPS
05-17-2012
UWSP Prepared to Implement Voter ID Law
05-10-2012
Student Fee Allocations Approved
05-10-2012
Farmshed Hosts Event-Filled Weekend
05-10-2012
Anonymous Source Releases Planned Budget Cuts
05-10-2012
Why Students are not Reimbursed for Unused Meals
05-10-2012
Voters to Cast First Ballots in Recall Election Tuesday
05-03-2012
University Dining Services Support Local Ice Cream From UWRF
05-03-2012
University Dining Services Support Local Ice Cream From UWRF
05-03-2012
“Syncopation” Published by Cornerstone Press
05-03-2012
Shifting Gears, Changing Lives
05-03-2012
L&S Symposium held in Science Building
05-03-2012
So You Want to Change the World...
04-19-2012
Professor Lisa Theo Declares Campaign For State Senate
04-19-2012
Grassroutes Caravan
04-19-2012
Rep. Baldwin visits UWSP on “Higher Education Tour”
04-19-2012
Sustainability in a Small City
04-19-2012
Pointer Compact Dead - at Least Through 2013
04-12-2012
Guest Speaker Talks About Sustainability In Africa
04-12-2012
What is Waste at UWSP?
04-12-2012
“Fake Democrats” to Appear on Recall Election Ballots
04-12-2012
SGA Election Results: Hoffmeister For the Win
04-12-2012
United Nations Student Organization Attends Conference in New York
04-12-2012
SGA and Farmshed Provide Students Hands-On Experience Opportunities
04-05-2012
Students Speak about State of Lower Debot
04-05-2012
A Look at Protective Services on Campus
04-05-2012
One Flush Away From Possible Solutions
04-05-2012
Students Arrested in Washington D.C. Last Week
04-05-2012
Wisconsin Votes: Primaries and Legislative Update
04-05-2012
Wisconsin Voters Voice to Voice Opinion in Primary Election
03-29-2012
Brazil to Build World’s Third Largest Hydroelectric dam
03-29-2012
Commencement Ceremony Moved Indoors
03-29-2012
SGA Presidential Debate Held Tuesday Night
03-29-2012
Judge Holds Voter ID Law Unconstitutional
03-15-2012
UWSP Must Evolve to Meet Changing Environment, Summers says
03-15-2012
Celebración Sheds Light on Hispanic Politics and Culture
03-15-2012
SGA Elections to be Held Soon
03-15-2012
Patterson Sets Aside Money for Faculty
03-08-2012
UWSP Student Eric Duffey Passes Away
03-08-2012
Penokee Hills Mine Could Devastate Environment, Local Economies
03-08-2012
Scholarships Now Offered by SGA
03-08-2012
Student’s Death Highlights Veterans’ Mental Health Crisis
03-08-2012
Twin Bill of Housing Proposals Gets Shot Down
03-01-2012
UWSP accepts $1.9 million budget lapse
03-01-2012
Growing ideas, growing scientists, EMARL
03-01-2012
The Trend Towards Privatization
03-01-2012
Stevens Point Water Tastes Best in Nation, Raises Questions of Water Quality
03-01-2012
My First Taste of New York City
03-01-2012
Four Senators, Constitution Changes Threaten Recall Efforts
02-23-2012
Central Rivers Farmshed: Farming New Farmers
02-23-2012
UW’s Adidas Controversy Raises Questions
02-23-2012
Regents Consider Costs of Funding Cuts to System
02-23-2012
Voting Has Gotten Confusing, but Help Has Arrived
02-23-2012
Students Uncertain of Impact of Course Evaluations
02-23-2012
Duffy Conducts Town Hall Meeting in Point
02-16-2012
AFL-CIO Reclaim Wisconsin Tour Begins
02-16-2012
Struggle for Water is a 21st Century Universal
02-16-2012
More Student Off-Campus Housing in the Works
02-16-2012
New Bioplastic Recycling Program Launches at UWSP
02-16-2012
ACTA Carries Ambitious Goals, Serious Consequences
02-09-2012
Obama to Commission New Mortgage Committee to Investigate Housing Crash
02-09-2012
Impending Doom, or the Future of Fossil Fuels?
02-09-2012
UW-Parkside Race-Based ‘Death Threats’ - Starting a Conversation?
02-09-2012
UW System Sued Over Education Syllabi
02-09-2012
Mining Bill Passes State Assembly
02-02-2012
Chancellor Patterson Holds Budget Summit
02-02-2012
Drug Use at UWSP: Student Survey Provides Insight
02-02-2012
Walker's State of the State Address Met with Civil Unrest
02-02-2012
Pointer Compact in Legislative Limbo
02-02-2012
SOPA Elicits Massive Response from Internet companies, consumers
01-27-2012
Recall Organizers Turn In 1 Million Signatures to Recall Walker
01-26-2012
North American Main Veins
01-26-2012
Republican Primaries: Still Happening
01-26-2012
New Aquaponics Course offered at UWSP
01-26-2012
ACLU Files Federal Lawsuit Against Voter ID
12-15-2011
Case Study Updates and a New Gassy Nightmare
12-15-2011
Differential Tuition Passed by 21-3 Student Senate Vote
12-15-2011
Penokee Controversy
12-15-2011
UW Board of Regents to Have Regional Distribution
12-15-2011
Bobcats and Mountain Lions
12-11-2011
Police and Political Turmoil
12-08-2011
UWSP faculty union will be the first to register under Gov. Walker
12-08-2011
Despite coming cuts, UWSP finds funds to renew Old Main cupola
12-08-2011
World AIDS Day: inspi(RED)
12-08-2011
Recall Effort Kicks Off with Success in Madison
12-01-2011
Students Reject Pointer Compact by 2:1, SGA survey says
12-01-2011
OccuPoint Occupies
12-01-2011
Bobcats and Mountain Lions
12-01-2011
Lawsuit Brought Against New Voter ID Bill
12-01-2011
More than you ever wanted to know about road salts
12-01-2011
Recall Effort Begins on Campus
11-17-2011
City Faces Lawsuit over CenterPoint Mall
11-17-2011
Legos® of the Future
11-17-2011
WIST and Integrated Paper Services reach understanding
11-17-2011
Campus Compact: A Burden and a Rescue
11-17-2011
OccuPOINT demonstrators urge others to "move their money."
11-11-2011
Students and swing states to decide next election
11-10-2011
Israel prepares a military strike on Iran, warning international community
11-10-2011
Wisconsin Energy Outlook
11-10-2011
Race-based grant qualifications to change
11-10-2011
UWSP Sounds the Alarm at Budget Forum
11-10-2011
Solid Finish for the Wrestling Team at the Pointer Open
11-10-2011
Heavy with Debt - Loan Burden to Ease on Students, Obama Says
11-04-2011
Broadcasters Prepare for First Ever National Emergency Test
11-04-2011
LIghting the Way to Energy Efficiency
11-04-2011
Dean Thomas awarded Conservation Medal
11-04-2011
Retain Our Retention Rates
11-04-2011
State Budget Lapse Hurts UW-Stevens Point
11-04-2011
Texas Attempts to Clinch World Series
10-27-2011
Occupy Stevens Point
10-27-2011
Environmental Groups Draw Connections Between Deregulatory Bill and Mining Project
10-27-2011
Students Gather to Learn About Undergraduate Research
10-27-2011
WISPIRG Recognition Denied by SGA Senate
10-27-2011
State Issues Citations Against UW-Stevens Point, Unviersity Fights Charges
10-20-2011
Lapses: more state budget cuts in UWSP future
10-20-2011
Is the UW segregated fees policy illegal?
10-20-2011
Reading through the bull.
10-20-2011
UWSP Student to Track Down Pollutants in Local Waters
10-20-2011
Release the Sunbird's "Come Back to Us All": a Review
10-20-2011
Wall Street occupation brings global uprising to the U.S.
10-13-2011
“Obamacare” an Aid to Student Health
10-13-2011
UWSP Working On New IDs
10-13-2011
Three Words Worth Understanding
10-13-2011
Professors leave due to budget cuts
09-22-2011
Greenhouse to be reborn as local food eating hub
09-22-2011
Community: Stevens Point Journal