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Optimize Your Dining Dollar and Purple Point Use

By: Lainah Mangwiza Easing into college life for students goes beyond reducing academic stress. The basis of debit-card like funds such as Dining Dollars and Purple Points is to ensure an ease in a student’s ability to access additional meals,… Continue Reading →

Why Use Purple Points?

On-campus and off-campus, you see signs and logos like this: What does that mean? It means you can use your HawkCard to save time or money or make a convenient payment. Purples Points is a multi-purpose, debit card-like or gift… Continue Reading →

How to Prepare Your Parent for College

Going away to college can be scary not only for the student, but for the parents too! There are hundreds of checklists for the student to use to prepare for college, but there aren’t always a lot of tips for… Continue Reading →

What’s the Difference Between Purple Points and Dining Dollars?

Greetings, Warhawks! All students, at some point in their time here at UW-W, ask “What’s the difference between Purple Points and Dining Dollars?” Often times you get various answers from friends and peers, but here are the facts, brought to… Continue Reading →

Why I Love Having a Job on Campus

I think one of the best decisions I ever made in college was getting a part time job. For the past two years I have worked at UW-Whitewater Ticket Services, located in the Center of the Arts building. During these… Continue Reading →

How To Use Your Meal Plan

The UW-Whitewater student ID, officially dubbed the “HawkCard”, is a necessity for all students here on campus. The way the HawkCard works for meal plans and things of the sort can be a lot to digest (pun intended) during the… Continue Reading →

Help! I’m Almost Out Of Purple Points!

So…its halfway through the semester and you start to sweat; not because of midterms, the roomie drama, or even the fact that the end of the semester is drawing near and you are sooo not ready.  No, you’re sweating because… Continue Reading →

Which Meal Plan is for Me?

By Laura Schoenike • @lauras2011 Let’s be honest…meal plans are confusing. How do you know which one is right for you, and that you’re getting the most for your money? First, choose which description sounds most like you, and we’ll… Continue Reading →

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