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The much anticipated demolition of Baird, Trowbridge, and Wilder Halls will begin this Monday, June 8. According to recently completed schematics, the construction project will take up less space than once feared. Rather than a serious impediment to student foot traffic, current plans show the construction zone to limit disruption to the university.
After a final round of cuts by the UW System forced UW-L to cut the men's baseball program, student athletes in the program began searching for private funding to keep the team running. In a campus-wide announcement June 10, Chancellor Jow Gow announced the cuts, calling the announcement "very painful.
The state Joint Committee on Finance Wednesday voted to slash Gov. Jim Doyle's proposal to increase financial aid for UW students. The original plan, which took $25 million from UW school auxiliary accounts, provided that amount in new aid to students from households making less than $60,000.
At Student Senate last Wednesday, Dean of Students Paula Knudson and Vice Chancellor for Administration and Finance Bob Hetzel defended a new $20 segregated fee for the maintenance of the new sports complex. This new fee, which has been decided without a Senate vote, will cover the upkeep costs for the building and field.
Here we are, dangerously close to the end of another semester and, for some, the end of their college careers. Those who will not be re-joining us next year are headed off into an uncertain economy with a limited number of open positions in their companies.
As a part of the Master of Occupational Therapy curriculum at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, students have the opportunity to take an optional course, International Perspectives in Occupational Therapy. This course is taught in collaboration with the occupational therapy program at the Robert Gordon University (RGU) in Aberdeen, Scotland.
The La Crosse Parks and Recreation Department is hosting an event that is the first in city history. From May 1-3, La Crosse will host its first-ever Fitness Festival, which will include the first marathon in La Crosse history along with a half marathon, cycle criterium, 5K race, kids races, fitness expo, and last but not least a mascot race.
Watch the news lately and you might notice that the stories all have something in common…they're bad. That is not to say that they're poorly reported or not important to know about, but rather that, overall, the content of the stories is rather disheartening.