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"On Wednesday Feb. 5, Eagle Advocates, a club at University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, held its fourth annual Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) night. The event was held concurrently with UWL’s women’s basketball team as they battled University of Wisconsin-Platteville in their ninth conference game."

"Eagle Advocates was founded in 2020 after the murder of George Floyd. The protests surrounding the event inspired athletes to make a club targeting racial equity in athletics. Eagle Advocates is an exclusive group for student-athletes dedicated to raising awareness and fostering a sense of community around DEI discussions."

UWL Womens Basketball hosted their fourth annual DEI night with Eagle Advantage. Click the link to read more. (Written by Paige Geiser.)

Eagle Advocate’s night of unity: DEI in action boosts game attendance On Wednesday Feb. 5, Eagle Advocates, a club at University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, held its fourth annual Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) night. The event was held concurrently with UWL’s women’s basketball team as they battled University of Wisconsin-Platteville in their ninth conference ...

"On Wednesday, Jan. 29, the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Student Association (SA) swore in Chloe Childers, Rae Lutsey and Jolani Lujan to fill the following seats, respectively; Fraternity and Sorority Life (FSL), the Pride Center and Asian Latinx African Native American+ Womxn (ALANA)."

"Director of REC Sports Jeff Keenan then spoke to SA about actions the REC will take to address overcrowding."

The first student senate meeting of the semester happened last night. Read the happenings in the link below. (Written by Bella Walker.)
https://theracquet.org/17268/news/student-association-gathers-to-hear-from-the-rec-sports-director-and-the-vice-and-assistant-vice-chancellor-of-diversity-and-inclusion-and-swear-in-new-senators/ #

Student Association meets with REC director, diversity leaders and swears in senators On Wednesday, Jan. 29, the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Student Association (SA) swore in Chloe Childers, Rae Lutsey and Jolani Lujan to fill the following seats, respectively; Fraternity and Sorority Life (FSL), the Pride Center and Asian Latinx African Native American+ Womxn (ALANA). Director...

“‘We respect that many people do not wish to view sexually explicit material so we were clearly disappointed to see that the prosecution in this case has entered into evidence sexually explicit images from our videos,’” said Gow.

“Gow strongly criticized the prosecution’s case, even accusing the UW System of placing falsehoods in the investigative report. The report talks at length about how computers returned to UWL from Gow had information deleted from them, Gow countered by stating the computers were ‘seized’ from his office.”

Disciplinary hearing for former Chancellor Joe Gow was held in the Omni Center today. Read more about it here. (Written by Isabel Piarulli.)

Inside the high-stakes hearing on Joe Gow’s future at UWL Last Dec, former University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow was dismissed from his position by the UW Board of Regents following the discovery of his appearance in pornographic content. Today, June 19th, Gow represented himself in a disciplinary hearing to keep his role as a tenured facult...