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Police Blotter

September 30, 2020

Liliana LaValle, digital learning and instruction librarian, Emma Mabie, student co-curator and fifth-year integrated strategic communications student, and Greg Kocken, head of special collections and archives, raise their right fists.

UW-Eau Claire opens virtual exhibit commemorating 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in the Chippewa Valley

September 29, 2020

Students marched into Schofield Hall toward Chancellor James C. Schmidt’s office on Nov. 26, 2019 to demand “institutional transparency” after a thread of racist Snapchat messages surfaced. Ten months later, however, university administration has refused The Spectator’s requests for comment, regarding the most recent decision to reinstate the five members of the Blugold football team involved in the incident.

Promises of transparency not fulfilled by university administration

September 29, 2020

The news column “COVID on campus” posts relevant COVID-19 news every week for UWEC students.

COVID on campus

September 29, 2020

The EDI Rapid Action Task Force released their final report on Jan. 31 before their dissolution in February, but are now calling on the UW-Eau Claire administration to make “all deliberations and documents related to the incident and subsequent investigation” public.

EDI Rapid Action Task Force opposes decision to reinstate five suspended football players

September 24, 2020

Event organizers Stephanie Hoeksema, Jacksen Wolff and Maja Samec stand outside of Schofield Hall after the “Cops off Campus: Dare to Divest” rally. The group posted messages onto Chancellor James C. Schmidt’s office.

Rally dares to divest police department

September 24, 2020

Additional responsibilities for resident assistants include six additional front desk work hours allegedly without pay and no hazard pay when responding to COVID-19 related incidents.

The pressing concern in university housing

September 23, 2020

Police Blotter

Police Blotter

September 23, 2020

This image of a Snapchat group chat depicts a racist interaction between UW-Eau Claire football players that was released in November 2019.

‘Strong majority’ of Blugold football team opposed to university-ordered reinstatement of five suspended players

September 22, 2020

The news column “COVID on campus” posts relevant COVID-19 news every week for UWEC students.

COVID on campus

September 17, 2020

Student Health Service can provide as many as 60 Polymerase Chain Reaction COVID-19 tests in one day, Patricia Kress, a physician and medical director at SHS, said. On weekends, she said they generally can do a little over 40 tests and possibly more depending on how comfortable the staffing is.

‘They’re in short supply and high demand’

September 17, 2020

A student sits at a socially-distanced table in the Towers Hall lobby. School started on Sept. 2 at UW-Eau Claire and many settings on campus look similar to this one: mostly vacant.

Loneliness is an epidemic on college campuses during a pandemic

September 15, 2020

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