David Heiling, Sports Editor
October 4, 2012
Friday afternoon, The Spectator’s David Heiling sat down with 20-year-old Katie Pointer, a student member of the Board of Regents for the UW System. As a freshman at UW-La Crosse, she was the Vice President of the College Republicans and went on to be a financial advisor to the Ron Johnson campaign... Read more »
Rachel Kalume
November 17, 2011
UW-Eau Claire presented the final facilities of the Campus Master Plan to the public on Monday. The planners introduced the project in Davies Center, outing the university’s plans over the next twenty years. Rick Gonzales, facilities management director, said the session was intended to gather last... Read more »
Carolyn Tiry
October 20, 2011
A change in the way the UW System Board of Regents are appointed could bring a greater diversity of ideas to the table, a local regent said. A proposal currently making its way through the Wisconsin state legislature would require the Board to have at least one appointee from each of the eight state... Read more »
Emily Gresbrink
October 6, 2011
“You don’t know me, son, so let me explain this to you once: If I ever kill you, you’ll be awake. You’ll be facing me. And you’ll be armed.” Those words from the pilot episode of 2003’s “Firefly” hung next to UW-Stout professor James Miller’s door in... Read more »
Carolyn Tiry
September 22, 2011
Families and businesses create budgets all the time. These financial plans are rarely perfect, but people still have the ability to move money around to cover any holes that may appear. The universities of the UW System, however, didn’t have that option until two weeks ago. On Sept. 8, the Board of... Read more »
Frank Pellegrino
March 11, 2010
Student Senate passed a resolution on Monday recommending changes to the Board of Regents’ policy on differential tuition initiatives. The resolution was similar to one that was recently passed by UW-La Crosse and to ones being worked on by other UW System schools. They have all come in response... Read more »
Collin Hawkins
February 25, 2010
Allow me, if you will, to begin this editorial with an apology. I was one of the three students who drove down to the UW Board of Regents meeting in Madison on Feb. 4 and 5, a meeting time clearly scheduled with little deference to student schedules or involvement. We attended these meetings to argue... Read more »
Sara Nemec
February 25, 2010
LA CROSSE, WIS. – Two UW-Eau Claire students attended a UW-Lacrosse Student Senate meeting last Wednesday to share their support for a La Crosse resolution recommending changes to the Board of Regents policies on differential tuition. The UW-L Student Senate unanimously passed the measure. The... Read more »
Frank F. Pellegrino
February 11, 2010
The UW System Board of Regents voted Friday 14-2 in favor of approving the Blugold Commitment. The approval allows UW-Eau Claire to increase tuition $1,200, to be phased in over four years. However, an amendment was passed with that requires Eau Claire to come back by May with more specific information... Read more »
Rob Hanson
February 11, 2010
Before this thing gets off the ground, I would first like to apologize to anyone who read my column in November about student’s apathetic approach to the Blugold Commitment. As we all have found out months later, if you didn’t voice your opinion on the matter, you probably saved yourself... Read more »
