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[maklarr7000]

Retro game day at the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point!

[mttbellamy]

Just saw a dove walking around on campus...it’s too cold for you sir

[spacebeige]

I learned about feminism in college. (I also learned a little about reading the room.)

[vero-magic]

National Final: LA Galaxy OC 1, Calgary FWFC 0

Macario scores GWG & Beall posts shut out for UWS champions

There has always been y’all on here about LA and an NWSL team, I get the hype about that but, I thought I’d share that the LA Galaxy women just won the UWS Championship! Support your local WoSo teams, even if they’re minor league! :)

[uwmarchives]

Inter-Archives Loans and the ARC Network

Did you know you can request archival materials from other University of Wisconsin schools and the Wisconsin Historical Society to be sent to our reading room here at the UWM Archives? Area Research Center (ARC) Transfers allow researchers to access a wide assortment of materials at their nearest member institution. Unfortunately, due to the physical condition and financial value, not all materials are available for transfer, including all AV materials except microfilm. However, this increased access opens up opportunities for researchers to view records that might otherwise be difficult to work with due to distance.

The above cartoons and flyers come from a collection housed at UW-Stevens Point: the League Against Nuclear Dangers (LAND) records, 1973-1994 (Stevens Point Mss BK, Box 3). The cartoons can mostly be found in issues of the organization’s newsletter where they shared the dangers of nuclear power to subscribers. I personally found these cartoons hilarious and unsettling due to their content and delivery. They demonstrate the issues LAND found particularly important, specifically nuclear waste disposal and their opinions of those in the Atomic Energy Commission claiming all was safe for those living around nuclear plants. All joking aside, however, LAND was an impressive and impactful grassroots organization that stopped nuclear power plants from opening in Wisconsin during its existence.

The organization was founded in 1973 by Gertrude Dixon to oppose the construction of a proposed nuclear power plant in Rudolf, WI. Their membership primarily consisted of female homemakers who were concerned with the health and safety risks posed to their families and communities by these power plants. Their aim was to learn all they could about nuclear power and its dangers and then make that information accessible and understandable to the average person. Some members, including Gertrude Dixon and her husband, even published books and other documents on the dangers surrounding nuclear power. After the Wisconsin Public Service Commission canceled their plans for nuclear power plants in the state, LAND shifted its focus to other nuclear issues including radiation exposure in northern Wisconsin and nuclear waste sites proposed in the state.

Included in the collection are newsletters, reference materials, the findings of different studies conducted by and for the group, correspondence, press releases, newspaper clippings regarding both the group and larger nuclear power issues in Wisconsin, as well as flyers and speeches. More specifics regarding the collection’s holdings can be found in its finding aid.

To find materials at other institutions in the ARC Network, visit their individual catalogs or search for finding aids through the Archival Resources of Wisconsin and narrowing your search to a single institution.

Drop us a line at [email protected] or fill out the form on our Inter-Archives Loans page with your desired ARC Network materials and we’ll get the process started.

-Samantha Dickson, Archives Graduate Intern

[beardedwhaleshark-blog]

Why go to UWSP?

My friend in high school asked me.

“Everybody is literally going everywhere else” she said with snark. 

“That is kind of the reason I want to go there. I want to get away from all this *gestures vaguely about me*

But deep down I was going for the familiarity and proximity to home. I was both scared out of my mind and riveted to be be on my own. Nobody to tell me what to do, tell me what I can and cant be. But also nobody to help me when I get stuck or nobody to be there at the drop of a hat when I mess up. Granted my support base was only 20 minutes away, college was still a huge step and 20 minutes seemed like 20 states when I was leaving my cat and the very room where I grew up in. 

Stevens Point was a familiar place because both of my sisters when to UWSP. We visited them almost every Friday and would take them out to eat at Hilltop or Culvers. I loved Friday nights when I would get home from school and my parents and I would go drive to Point to deliver mail and leftovers to my sisters. Black eyed Peas sang “Tonight is going to be a good night”, and the highway is full of cars traveling to their weekend destinations. The nice thing about getting away to Point was I was comforted by the fact we weren't going to have any awkward run-ins with people we knew. 

I liked SP because it wasn't rapids. it didn't have that rapids vibe. and I knew I would be saving money by going to UWSP rather than another UW. 

My mom and dad don’t know this but the summer before I started college I started skipping church to come to point on a Sunday afternoon. I told them I got a job cleaning a bar near campus and I would go buy a deli sandwich and a blue raspberry soda from Trigs and take my sisters dog for a walk down to the river. Those moments leading up to my first day at UWSP solidified my already solid decision to come to Point. I could be what I want to be, do what I want to do, and I would eventually find that now would be the time where I would discover who I really was.

[kingkalumet]

Roses that grew from the concrete 📸 @freakish-nerd Model IG: @zantasiajohnson @kwordjohn @sugarswerve @theeoutsiderr @Kalumetdesigns @instantkarmaapparel

[moths-in-the-shower-blog]

One day I’ll walk this path sober and think “how wonderful it is that I’ve seen this through different eyes”