By Jackson Schmidtke Since 2000 Lisa Stone has been a Bulldog, Badger, and Billiken, but she insists that she will always be a Blugold. The coach who guided the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire womens basketball team to 159 wins, two Final Four appearances and one national championship game left the program in 2000, but has [...]

By Josh Becker UW-Eau Claire and the V-Day Campaign will be hosting the Vagina Monologues at 7 p.m., Feb. 21-23 in Schofield Auditorium. The Vagina Monologues is an event featuring a series of true stories and monologues from women, originally created by activist Eve Ensler in 1994. The Monologues grew into the V-Day Campaign, which [...]

By Katie Hoffman Elections for Eau Claire City Council President take place this year on April 3. Current president Kerry Kincaid began her first term three years ago, earning the recognition of first woman elected as council president. Running unopposed for her re-election, Kincaid said she looks forward to continuing her position with the council. She [...]

By Daniel Weber   [portfolio_slideshow id=14312]     Sara DeSantis began her life in a religious family and has been attending mass on a regular basis as long as she can remember.  Raised in a Roman Catholic family, it was important to her mother that spirituality was a large part of her upbringing and her [...]

By Cal McNeil [portfolio_slideshow] White and red poinsettias line the windows and white holiday lights weave through the displays at Avalon Floral, a sign of the coming holiday season. Sandy O’Connell, the owner, works on wedding floral arrangements in the back room, carefully putting the flowers into each vase. “As of this week, I’ll have [...]

Women get tattoos for a variety of reasons, whether to commemorate a special person in their lives or to express their individuality. While more and more women are getting tattoos, that doesn’t mean the general public is any more accepting of a woman with a tattoo.

There are nearly 1,600 non-traditional students at UW-Eau Claire who are seeking a degree and who must balance academics and life outside the classroom.