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Posted at 11:00 p.m. 2/8/10
With two wins after two matchups, the coach and one of the players said they agree: the Blugold men's tennis team is off to a good start for 2010.
Posted at 7:20 p.m. 2/7/10
The UW-Eau Claire men's basketball team rebounded from a slow first half to come away with a 79-70 win on Saturday at home against UW-Platteville.
Posted at 7:20 p.m. 2/7/10
Playing against National Collegiate Hockey Association rival UW-Stevens Point, the UW-Eau Claire women's hockey team took the first game but lost the second over the weekend at Hobbs Ice Arena.
Posted at 11:00 p.m. 2/8/10
For the UW-Eau Claire wrestling team, the 32nd Annual Blugold Invitational turned out to be a challenge, which one wrestler said was normal for the event.
Posted at 11:30 p.m. 2/6/10
Shades of Grey introduces an England set about 700 years after a mysterious apocalyptic event, referred to only as the "Something That Happened." Society is now based on a color caste system, where a citizen's ability to see a certain color determines their social class.
Posted at 11:20 p.m. 2/8/10
Spoon's newest album Transference, their seventh full-length, dabbles in the classic rock-inspired indie that has become popular in the last few years. The piano is clunky and slightly out of tune. The guitars wail with a tone straight from a 1970s biker bar. Even Britt Daniel's melodies seem straight from another decade.
Posted at 11:00 p.m. 2/5/10
Last weekend patrons of the Acoustic Café were invited to experience this ancient custom with a local belly dancing troupe. Peanut Butter and Gypsy, Eau Claire's original belly dancing troupe, and sister group The Jelly Bellys gave a free performance Saturday night to a packed house.
Posted at 6:45 p.m. 2/7/10
Student Body President Michael Umhoefer and Student Body Vice President Amber Bretl do not deserve to be recalled after the whirlwind of controversy surrounding Student Senate's approval of the Blugold Commitment.
Posted at 11:00 a.m. 2/6/10
Currently all Web sites exist on a level playing field. Whether you want to go to Google.com or Isitchristmas.com should not matter. All Web sites, assuming their servers are equal, should load at the same speed.
Today the UW System Board of Regents voted 14-2 in favor of the Blugold Commitment. The approval allows UW-Eau Claire to increase tuition $1,200, to be phased in over four years, with the requirement that Eau Claire come back by May with more specific information about where the money will go, according to a University issued press release.
Student Senate voted 13-12 on Monday against recalling last semester's vote that approved a resolution in favor of the Blugold Commitment. In order to pass the recall, a two-thirds vote was needed, which would have required at least 17 senators to vote in favor of rescinding the resolution. The resolution supports increasing tuition $1,200 over four years, with 40 percent of that money going towards financial aid.
After the Eau Claire City Council's Jan. 26 decision to keep the current three-story height limit on Water Street buildings, students and community members remain split over the issue. Under the original proposal by the city Plan Commission, a person could apply to the city to construct a building of four stories in height, said Thomas Kemp, a member of the Eau Claire City Council and an economics professor at UW-Eau Claire. The council struck that portion of the proposal, he said, making three stories the maximum under any conditions.
Posted at 12:15 am 2/2/10
Sophomore veteran David Jeske was recognized by Gov. Jim Doyle during the State of the State Address last Tuesday. During his speech, Doyle thanked Jeske, a finance major, for his services to the country.
The Blugold Organization Bash, known as BOB, is held twice every academic year to give students the opportunity to see what organizations they can join on campus.
The possibility of high-speed rail connecting Eau Claire to the Twin Cities became more of a reality last week. Included in the $810 million in federal funding for Wisconsin's high-speed rail development is $1 million to study a high-speed train route from the state capital to the Twin Cities.
A series of informative and entertaining events honoring Black History Month are scheduled to be held on campus throughout February and into March.
A small California-based company named College Financial Advisory has been sending letters to Wisconsin students claiming to help them find financial aid opportunities for a fee. Freshman Aaron Hrad received such a letter over winter break at his home in Phillips, Wis. He said the letter seemed very official until he looked closer at the fine print.
Posted at 11:00 p.m. 2/5/10
After Wednesday's 83-62 loss at home against UW-River Falls, UW-Eau Claire players and coaches said they felt the sting of the loss and all pointed to one big reason for the defeat: defense.
"We had breakdowns," coach Tonja Englund said. "It's a tough loss."
Posted at 11:00 p.m. 2/5/10
When they needed it most, the UW-Eau Claire men's hockey team prevailed against rival UW-Stout in a decisive 6-1 win, breaking a four-game losing streak. The win is the second time this season the Blugolds have beaten the Blue Devils, a feat that hasn't happened since the 1999-2000 season.
Posted at 11:00 p.m. 2/5/10
The UW-Eau Claire women's hockey team traveled to Lake Forest (Ill.) to play a two-game series against its Northern Collegiate Hockey Association (NCHA) rival last weekend. The Foresters entered the weekend double-header with a 7-1-2 NCHA record, which put them on top of the NCHA standings, while the Blugolds entered the game with a 4-2-2 NCHA record.
It was "Senior Day" for five of the Blugold swimmers and many of them had their family and friends on hand to witness their final races at the McPhee Pool. Coach Art Brandt said some words about each senior individually, which prompted the photo opportunities to begin.
After its season opener on Jan. 15, the Blugold women's gymnastics team has competed twice, but has come up short both times. Their second loss of the season came from the UW-La Crosse Eagles on Friday.
The weekend was rough for the Blugold men's hockey team as it dropped both games against National Collegiate Hockey Association rivals UW-Stevens Point and St. Norbert College with scores of 3-4 and 1-8, respectively.
Overtime is a weekly prediction column where sports editor Ashley Hofer and staff writer Nick Gourdoux make their picks concerning upcoming sporting events. Questions about Blugold outcomes comprise the first four quarters while the overtime question poses a national scenario. The staffer with the most correct picks wins the all-important bragging rights for the week.
What do Ludwig Van Beethoven and Jimi Hendrix have in common? One man, a classical composer and the other, a rock-and-roll guitarist separated by hundreds of years? Well, according to a study by two Eau Claire professors, the short answer is that both men produced great music. While looking at short samples of Beethoven's Piano Sonata in E and Hendrix's 1968 recording of All Along the Watchtower, both have similarities in pitch.
Well before even applying to this university, UW-Eau Claire-bound students have a pre-existing knowledge of "the hill." It's almost become an urban legend, this massive stretch of pavement and sidewalk laughing at us and separating the classrooms that we toil in from the comfortable dorm rooms that beckon us.
Everyone has a secret - it may be heartbreaking, hilarious or touching, maybe shocking, thought-provoking, repulsive or silly. Now is the time for that secret to be told. Eric Jennings, reference and instruction librarian at UW-Eau Claire, is inviting the people of Eau Claire to anonymously reveal a deep, dark secret in a community-based artistic venture, "Secret Post."
"Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" establishes right off the bat that it's supposed to be a tongue-in-cheek style of noir film. This isn't exactly a new concept, so with films that attempt to do such a thing, the execution needs to be spot on and original in order to be something unique and not just another cliché film trying not to be cliché.
"Because of Poppy Weisz" is the latest production from UW-Eau Claire's own student theatre group, the UWEC Players. The Twitter accounts for Weisz and her nonprofit organization "Poppy Aid" are the Players' clever viral marketing ploy. And it works.
Posted at 8:40 p.m. 2/2/10
When I walked out of Genesis, the Foster Gallery's most recent exhibit, I imagine I felt like Wendy or Michael did upon leaving Neverland. For a brief moment, I belonged to a captivating world of monsters and magical underwater creatures. Unfortunately, it had to end, and I was required to return to my grown-up world of depressingly colorless textbooks.
Perhaps it's the barrage of questions I was asked this winter break concerning the usefulness of my major. Or maybe it's standing at the precipice of finishing my final semester as an undergraduate student. In any case, something has caused me to reflect on my education and to explore the significance of the humanities within and outside the university.
The schools' decision to enforce stricter sanctions on dancing is for the best. Some teens dance inappropriately because their peers are doing it, and these policies will help alleviate the awkward social pressure some students experience.
To say returning home from war is a strange journey feels slightly cliché to me, almost like it is what I am required to write. The fact of the matter is that being back in Eau Claire feels very natural to me, and that is important.
The chaos that inevitably ensues with the arrival of winter break seems to have overshadowed the biggest political story since President Obama's election in November of 2008: the special election to fill the Massachusetts Senate seat vacated by the death of the "Liberal Lion" Ted Kennedy.
When the residents of 133 Niagara St. were asked to make a list of their needed items, the list included objects such as toilet brushes, bed stands, coffee tables and televisions. Not only were these items asked for, but when I first scanned the list, I didn't even think twice. It seemed perfectly reasonable to ask for these possessions, and even to "need" them.
Every once in a while, legislators make responsible decisions. Gov. Jim Doyle recently signed a bill that would require all state public schools to include birth control and sexually transmitted disease education in their sex-ed curriculum, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.
The Obama administration projects rosier economic-growth prospects than most mainstream economists do but foresees a sobering jobless recovery, according to documents released Monday about underlying assumptions in the government's $3.83 trillion federal budget for 2011.
Syse has developed into an up-and-coming music producer and has begun to make a name for himself on music Web sites and around the Midwest.
Posted at 11:00 p.m. 2/5/10
Friday, Jan. 29
At 11:04 p.m., the communications center dispatched officers to Murray Hall after a resident assistant reported the smell of burnt marijuana. Once they arrived, the officers met with the RA who said the odor of the drug was near one of the rooms in the building. The officers went to the room the RA specified, but couldn't detect any unusual smells. They knocked on the door of the room, but no one answered.
At 2:55 p.m. an officer met with a student in reference to a theft by fraud complaint. At the time, the student said about $1,350 in purchases had been made without his consent via his debit card.
Posted at 11:00 p.m. 2/5/10
Saturday, Jan. 30
A student patrol member notified an officer at 11:53 p.m. that a group of people were suspiciously entering and exiting a vehicle in the Towers Lot. When the officer arrived at the scene, the student patrol said the group was headed towards Towers Hall.
On Saturday an officer received a phone call regarding a male who was upset and kicked a drinking fountain in a dorm before running away.
The UW-Eau Claire Student Senate invites new and returning students to consider the Eau Claire student health insurance plan. The plan is prorated for spring through summer coverage only. Enrollment for coverage from Jan. 25 through Aug. 25 costs $553 for students 30 years of age and under, and $717 for students 31 years of age and older. Other rates apply for spouse and family coverage.
The University Writing Center is making services more accessible by opening other locations throughout the UW-Eau Claire campus. Walk-in appointments will be available to students at the following times and locations:
