Category: Blog Posts
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Shot in the Street: The Murder of Amos E. Morse and the Acquittal of Willis W. Haseltine.
Shot in the Street On the evening of June 19th, 1886, everything was the norm for a Saturday evening as citizens of Stevens Point bustle around Main Street. The bustle and chatter of the residents was soon broken by the crack of three shots in the street, as Amos E. Morse, a cashier of the…
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Changing Spaces: The History of Nelson Hall
Arnmhs , via Wikimedia Commons For years, the extent of what I knew about Nelson Hall was that it was old and supposedly haunted. One of those facts is definitely true, the building is over a century old. When researching for UWSP History Club, I made a point to learn everything I could about the buildings…
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Women in the Workforce
May 11, 2026 — Emmy Lindeman The contents on this page will look at how women in the workforce were talked about at UWSP during the 80s through articles published in the The Pointer. During this time more women were entering careers and were pushing for equal job opportunities, unfortunately many still faced unfair expectations…
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WOMEN: An Era of Change
This page will discuss the reactions of UWSP students, educators, or those within the community which had pieces published in the Pointer. The context of these articles that were published in the Pointer describe women’s reactions and responses to events during the 1970s on the liberation movement. The contents of these Pointer articles are highly…
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Lee Burress: Censorship’s Adversary
Here’s a brief timeline of Burress to help follow along while reading this article: The topic of censorship has been around for decades and is still an issue today. One English professor at the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point, who was also the chairman for the English department, battled censorship for his whole career until…
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Gone But Not Forgotten
The life of UW Stevens Point’s own Rex Charles Beeckler. Early years Rex Charles Beeckler was the first UW Stevens Point student to be killed in World War I. He was just 23 years old. Beeckler was born in Granton, WI in 1896. He would attend the UWSP then known as Stevens Point Normal School.…
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WAUSAU’S ONGOING BATTLE WITH EQAULITY
INTRODUCTION Senator Benjamin “Pitchfork” Tillman (D-South Carolina), an admitted white supremacist who had been involved in numerous race related riots and massacres, was welcomed with open arms by Wausau city officials. Mayor M.H. Duncan, along with Honorable Judge Neal, among other officials, took Senator Tillman on a tour of the city until they arrived at…
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Scraping The Stars: A History of The UWSP Planetarium
The modern projection based planetarium came into existence in 1920s Germany and rapidly expanded outwards across the world. So that at the dawn of the Space Age in the 1960s, following the expansion of STEM education as a result of the Second World War and the advent of the Cold War, UWSP pursued a new…
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Student Voice and the CounterPoint
For many students, including myself, the past two semesters on campus have been a tangle of anxiety. The world has seen a shift: emerging turmoil, economic instability, a growing sense that the futures we were promised are falling further and further out of reach, and the list goes on. Anyone who watches the news could…
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History of AIRO on UWSP Campus
Luke Tlachac 5/8/26 AIRO was first created on February 9, 1969, as American Indians Resisting Ostracism with the first members being Gary Kmiecik, Danielle Sanders, Chas Wheelock, Pat Gerard and Kay Wilson with the goals of eliminating stereotypes and generalizations that surround Native Americans, creating a safe haven for Native students, spreading Native identity and…