The Whitewater Common Council gathered to address an extension of the face coverings requirement, as well as prohibition of smoking or vaping within 20 feet of playgrounds and an amendment to the City...
Let me establish that I’m all for the freedoms and whatnot that we have as people. You are free to smoke as much nicotine and tobacco as you want.
But I don’t want it in my face, or even on my campus.
If...
Brian Kevin Beck, Emeritus Associate Professor, Languages & Literatures
• November 16, 2016
As for a total University ban on smoking, all of the four reasons given (Letter, Nov. 9) are surely “well-meant,” but might also seem suspiciously-“problematic.” Reasons given not the truer motivations...
May 6, 2015
More and more effort is being put into living more green and protecting our environment, but people may not think about the impact of tobacco litter on the environment. In the U.S. alone,...
Dear Editor,
Recently there has been a movement at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater to become a tobacco-free campus.
The WSG decided to vote against the university becoming tobacco free, even...
Dear Editor,
I am a senior at UWW and currently enrolled in the Health Message and Advocacy capstone course.
The basis of our class is to help accelerate the policy of a tobacco free campus here...
Dear Students,
Thank you for sharing your opinion.
For the past three years, WSG has been participating in addressing the issue of reducing tobacco use on campus. Members of WSG have volunteered...
Oct. 29 2014
I am writing to inform you of my concerns with the tobacco policy that our campus currently has. I do not agree with it and I wish it would change. Recently WSG made it clear that they...
Oct. 29 2014
As a current student here at UW-Whitewater, I feel as though the opinions of the students as a whole were misrepresented by the decisions made by WSG in regards to the Tobacco Free Campus...
Oct. 22 2014
Formaldehyde, Cadmium, and Benzene. Why am I naming these presumably toxic chemicals? Because we are all breathing these in daily while walking to class, work, or on a daily jog and we...
Though health is always a concern for college students, a recent push to make UW-Whitewater a smoke-free campus is a little unreasonable and unrealistic.
Bars across the state have gone smoke free. Now, UW-Whitewater is making the effort to go in this direction. Students began informally meeting last fall to gather information across campus on making UW-Whitewater a smoke-free community.
