{"id":722213,"date":"2026-06-24T00:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T00:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/722213\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T00:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T00:29:08","slug":"uwl-unveils-10-foot-stainless-steel-eagle-in-the-l-sculpture-la-crosse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/722213\/","title":{"rendered":"UWL unveils 10-foot stainless steel \u201cEagle in the L\u201d sculpture | La Crosse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                &#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u200bCOPYRIGHT 2026 BY NEWS 8 NOW\/NEWS 8000. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. THIS MATERIAL MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST, REWRITTEN OR REDISTRIBUTED.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>LA CROSSE (WKBT)\u00a0\u2014 The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse has a new landmark on campus.<\/p>\n<p>UWL unveiled a 10-foot stainless steel \u201cEagle in the L\u201d sculpture Tuesday, celebrating one of the university\u2019s most recognizable symbols.<\/p>\n<p>The project was funded by alumnus Joe Laux and\u00a0created by fellow UWL alumnus Luke Achterberg.<\/p>\n<p>Achterberg spent about six months sculpting the piece. The finished artwork weighs more than a ton, making it a prominent new fixture on campus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a full circle moment,\u201d Achterberg said. \u201cIt\u2019s bringing all of that knowledge, education, study and time back to the place where it essentially started.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cEagle in the L\u201d logo dates back to 1989.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bCOPYRIGHT 2026 BY NEWS 8 NOW\/NEWS 8000. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. THIS MATERIAL MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST, REWRITTEN OR REDISTRIBUTED.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; \u200bCOPYRIGHT 2026 BY NEWS 8 NOW\/NEWS 8000. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. THIS MATERIAL MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":722214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88,161913,983,3,41170,452],"class_list":["post-722213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-la-crosse","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-shareable-stories","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}