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The Tutoring-Learning Center, which I love

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Alright, so in the chronicle of my signing up for more and more things, I’ve written my love songs for my very first campus involvement, SPAFCS, and my third, the Cupboard. But the second thing I ever got involved in definitely merits mention, because it’s one of the most phenomenal campus resources for ANY STUDENT […]

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The Proposed Health and Wellness Center Vote

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Coming up really soon is election season (March 7-13). You’ll be voting on the 2014-15 SGA President and Vice President, selecting who you want to represent you on the Senate, and, among a few other things, VOTING IN A HUGE IMPORTANT REFERENDUM. I’m gonna try to say some things about that which I hope will […]

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Searching in Salamanca

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After a few weeks off from traveling, our group loaded up on a bus and headed south to Salamanca for the day. It was more relaxed than Segovia and we had better weather which was much appreciated (still no sun though)! For the morning we did a walking tour with our professors: seeing the convent, […]

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Down Time & Close Visits

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We had a few ‘off’ weeks where we weren’t traveling or scheduled through the university. It gave us a few moments to breathe which was nice. Although we wished the weather would’ve cooperated more (while you had snow, we had cold rains), it gave us the opportunity to explore things closer in and around Valladolid. […]

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Campus Feature: The Cupboard student food pantry

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One of the most popular associations with the phrase “college student” is “poor.” There’s a variety of reasons for this, but one of them is that while paying massive school bills, a lot of students try also to scrape by supporting themselves either on or off of campus. And in the case of many people—not […]

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Cheer team wins national championship

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The 2013-14 cheer and stunt team from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point won the national collegiate championship this last weekend at the WOW Sports Factor Competition at the Minneapolis Convention Center. Over 100 teams and 1,400 athletes from five states and Canada participated in the three-day competition. The co-ed cheer and stunt team from UW-Stevens […]

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Paying for College

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Hola chicos! Did everyone survive the ice age we’ve been having here in Wisconsin? I know it was a rough week or so for me, I have come to hate the snow and cold. It never really bothered me until I realized that there are places in the world that still have great weather but […]

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First Excursion – Segovia

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Yesterday many of the extranjeros (foreign exchange students) took a short bus trip south of the city to Segovia; known mostly for it’s vast Roman aqueduct that welcomes you in to the city. Block by block the Roman empire constructed this aqueduct as a means to bring water to the city 15K from the top […]

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