The Marquette Tribune - March 31st, 2009

THE MARQUETTE TRIBUNE TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 2009

Volume 93, Number 50

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The keys to a paradise suite?

By Jeff Engel jeffrey.engel@marquette.edu

At the top of the Alumni Memorial Union lies a place shrouded in mystery. Rumors about the fifth floor of the AMU have circulated for years, with students whispering tales of gold-plated toilets, the blueprints to Stonehenge and an urn containing the ashes of Pere Marquette himself.

The locked doors at the top of either AMU staircase keep curious adventurers from accessing the area. Even the elevator requires a

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key to reach the fifth floor.

Unfortunately, for those who enjoy juicy gossip or a good mystery, the fifth floor is not as extraordinary as some believe.

The fifth floor, called the Pere Marquette Discovery Suite, includes a conference room for Board of Trustee meetings, a dining room that seats about 75 people and a reception area, according to Steve Frieder, assistant to the president and corporate secretary for the Board of Trustees.

Most universities provide their president

with a house in which he or she could also entertain guests, Frieder said. However, since University President the Rev. Robert A. Wild resides in the Jesuit Residence, the fifth floor of the AMU provides an area for him to hold special receptions.

The space offers a place for Wild to meet with donors who have a potential to provide major gifts, as well as for gatherings to thank donors for their generosity, Frieder said.

“It’s used as a cultivation tool in fundraising,” Frieder said.

See AMU, page 2

Photo by Ted Lempke/edward.lempke@marquette.edu

These golden keys unlock the fifth floor of the Alumni Memorial Union.

Groups object to president as Notre Dame speaker Obama’s views on abortion conflict with some Catholics

By Kaellen Hessel kaellen.hessel@marquette.edu

Photo by Ron Edmonds/Associated Press

President Obama is scheduled to address Notre Dame graduates during their commencement ceremony this spring. Some at the Catholic university have objected to the choice of Obama as speaker, given his views on abortion. Obama would be the sixth president to speak at Notre Dame’s commencement.

There have been various reactions to the University of Notre Dame’s announcement that President Obama will receive an honorary degree and be this year’s commencement speaker.

Obama will be the ninth president to be awarded an honorary degree and the sixth to speak at commencement, according to a Notre Dame news release.

Notre Dame has a long history of inviting United States presidents to be commencement speakers.

According to a statement released by Notre Dame President the Rev. John Jenkins, although the university does not support all of the president’s policies he is being honored as an “inspiring leader.”

“It is of special significance that we will hear from our first AfricanAmerican president, a person who has spoken eloquently and movingly about race in this nation. Racial prejudice has been a deep wound in America, and Mr. Obama has been a healer,” Jenkins said in the statement.

Spencer Cross, a freshman at Notre Dame, said no one wants to look back and say they refused to let the first black president speak.

“Like it or not, he’s going to be a historical figure,” Cross said.

This is not the first time a presidential speaker has been protested at Notre Dame.

In an e-mail, university spokesman Dennis Brown said President Ronald Reagan’s social justice policies were protested in 1981. He said President George W. Bush’s support of the death penalty was protested in 2001.

“When President Bush spoke at our 2001 commencement, there was a petition in opposition,” Brown said. “Protesters gathered on campus on the day of the commencement, some students wore white arm bands in protest, and one graduate turned his back on the president and prayed the rosary during the speech.”

Most students are in favor of having Obama on campus, according to an editorial in Notre Dame’s student newspaper, The Observer.

The editorial reported 73 percent of students who wrote letters to the editor were in favor of having Obama speak. Ninety-seven percent of the letters from seniors also supported the university’s decision to honor See ND, page 7

Former student found guilty Cody convicted in September stabbing at Water Street bar

By James Teats james.teats@marquette.edu

On Friday afternoon, a jury found former Marquette student Jessica Cody guilty of stabbing two college students with a pocketknife in a Water Street bar on Sept. 13, 2008.

Cody was convicted of two counts of second degree recklessly endangering safety for stabbing Katlynn Dallmann, a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences, and Janel Higgs, a junior at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The incident happened after a verbal altercation ensued between the then-underaged females at Sullivan’s, 1225 N. Water St. Dallmann was cut in the arm and near the left eye, receiving 19 stitches in her arm, eight above her eye and 16 below her

eye. Higgs was cut near the neck and had to undergo immediate surgery to reattach a muscle.

Wisconsin state statutes define second degree recklessly endangering safety as a person endangering the safety of another and doing so with criminally reckless conduct, risking death or great bodily harm unreasonably and substantially. The maximum penalty is 10 years for each count, totaling 20 years, half of which would be spent in jail.

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Former Marquette student Jessica Cody testifies in court last week. Cody, later found guilty of stabbing two people, could face up to 20 years in jail.

TODAY’S WEATHER

INSIDE THE TRIBUNE Students competed in Iron Chef Marquette at Friday’s Late Night event.

Photo by James Teats/james.teats@marquette.edu

Mayor Barrett wants to reallocate funds for local improvements.

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Women’s basketball ends its season with a WNIT loss.

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DPS Reports Mar. 26 At approximately 5 p.m. an 18-year-old male student entered the McCormick Hall cafeteria. The student noticed that his MUID was missing 20 minutes later when he left to go play basketball.

At 7:45 p.m., the student decided to deactivate the card and noticed that two purchases for $3 worth of merchandise had been made without his consent at the McCormick Hall vending machines.

DPS was contacted, and after reviewing videotape of the vending machines, officers identified a 34-year-old female Sodexo employee as an alleged suspect in the fraudulent use of the student’s MUID. The suspect currently denies these allegations.

Mar. 27 At 1:18 p.m. a 22-year-old female student reported that an unknown vehicle struck her parked, unattended vehicle in the Structure Two parking garage. Rub marks on the driver’s side of the car’s rear bumper caused an estimated $500 in damages. There are no suspects as of press time.

Photo by Ted Lempke/edward.lempke@marquette.edu

Students at Late Night’s Iron Chef Marquette tested their skills at preparing their best dorm food recipes. Professional Sodexo chefs helped contestants with cooking. Microwaves were essential.

Cooking up college cuisine Students compete in Iron Chef event

By Dan Kraynak dan.kraynak@marquette.edu

Bobby Flay was the only thing lacking in the Alumni Memorial Union’s Marquette Place Friday evening, when the room was transformed into the first-ever Iron Chef Marquette culinary challenge.

Over 100 students were present for the cook-off that featured five teams of four students each competing against each other for prizes and the title of champion.

Mary Kate Wagner, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences and master of ceremonies for the event, began by explaining the rules of the challenge to the audience members and participants.

Each of the five teams would receive help from their own professional Sodexo chef and would have 45 minutes to prepare three dishes, including an appetizer, entrée and dessert. The teams would be judged on overall originality, presentation, taste and teamwork.

“You cannot be dependent on your head chef,” Wagner said to

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Other events held there include a year-end banquet for resident assistants and a teaching excellence awards dinner, Frieder said.

The AMU opened in 1990. Previously, a smaller space in the Brooks Union, later torn down to make room for the Raynor Library, was used for the types of events now held on the fifth floor of the AMU, Frieder said.

The fifth floor and its amenities were made possible through a gift

the teams prior to the start of the event.

Next, Wagner revealed the ingredients the teams would be using in the challenge. These included items that could be found in the average student’s dorm room or apartment, she said, such as yogurt, cheese, water, oatmeal, salsa, rice cakes, peanut butter and bread.

As the cooking segment of the culinary challenge began, audience members were asked questions about food and nutrition for the chance to win prizes.

Wagner asked attendees multiple choice questions such as: “If you are drinking a sufficient amount of water, your urine should be the color of what? — water, lemonade or apple juice?” and true or false questions such as: “Taking a vitamin supplement is the same as eating the natural source of the same vitamins.”

The answers were “lemonade” and “false,” respectively.

As the competition heated up, contestants scrambled to put the finishing touches on their dishes.

“I must say, I could cut the tension in this room with a butter knife,” Wagner said with 15 minutes remaining in the event.

At this point in the competition, Jason Rae, a senior in the College

of Arts & Sciences, was optimistic about his team’s chances of winning the challenge.

“We’re going to win because we’re the best team there is,” Rae said of his team of Marquette Student Government members. “All that I know how to cook is Ramen, so that’s why they put me here by the microwave.”

But in the end it was Team Two, comprised of residence assistants from Straz Tower, that won the cook-off. Each team member received a $50 Pick ‘n Save gift card and frying pan.

“You guys came in here with a tiny presentation, but I couldn’t believe it — you turned it into a Denny’s Grand Slam,” said Chris Miller, vice president of student affairs and one of the judges.

The Straz Tower RAs won with their fresh chopped salad and warm pita appetizer, a honey-roasted chicken sandwich entrée, and a warm fruit compote with cinnamon granola crumble dessert.

At the end of the challenge, judge Barb Troy, a clinical assistant professor of nutrition, seemed pleased with the effort of all the teams in the competition.

“All the food has been exceptionally good and the presentation has been very impressive,” Troy said.

by Dr. and Mrs. Sanbo Sakaguchi, Frieder said. The floor is dedicated to the couple.

Sakaguchi, a 1944 Marquette graduate, donated the money in recognition of Marquette being one of the few schools that admitted Japanese-American students during World War II, Frieder said.

At that time, many JapaneseAmericans were placed in internment camps on the West Coast.

While the fifth floor is decorated very “tastefully,” Frieder does not think it is “overly ostentatious.”

Despite rumors, there are no hot tubs or faucets made of gold, he said.

The Rev. James Flaherty, an assistant professor of philosophy and a member of the Board of Trustees, compared the fifth floor to an “upscale hotel.” However, he said there is nothing too expensive there that students would be upset about.

Although the floor remains a mystery to most students because of its private access, some student leaders and student workers in the AMU have seen the area, Flaherty said.

The fifth floor has nothing “extravagant” or out of the ordinary, according to one AMU student employee who asked not

At 3:21 p.m. a DPS communications officer dispatched all available units to a possible entry of a student residence in the 900 block of North 18th Street.

When officers arrived at the residence, they determined that three middle-aged male suspects had already fled the scene, taking with them a bicycle from the basement of the residence. Minutes

later, officers located three men, who matched the suspects’ descriptions, and a bicycle at the intersection of 15th Street and Kilbourn Avenue. The 19and 20-year-old male student victims were able to identify the men and the bicycle. The Milwaukee Police Department was contacted, and took two of the suspects into custody. All three men received state charges of theft and criminal trespass to dwelling. The students’ property was recovered.

Mar. 28 At 2:57 a.m. DPS officers were dispatched to McCormick Hall, where they met with an on-duty residence assistant.

The RA requested that the officers go to the dorm’s fifth floor, where a burning smell had been detected in the stairwell.

When the officers arrived at the scene, they discovered a fireworks device that had been placed and lit in the stairwell.

The officers then heard yelling coming from a nearby dorm room, and interrogated the students in the room. They admitted to setting off the firework and claimed that the act was horseplay.

The officers also discovered open and unopened bottles of alcohol and a fraudulent Michigan driver’s license in the room. A 19-year-old male student admitted that the fake ID was his. He said he used the ID to purchase the alcohol and he was responsible for lighting the firework off in the stairwell. The student was issued an MPD referral slip, and the ID was confiscated.

Events Calendar MARCH 2009 S M 1 2 8 9 15 16 22 23 29 30

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Seventh Annual International Poetry Reading, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Raynor Library Career Workshop: Finding an Internship, 4 to 5 p.m., AMU

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Tuesday 31 “Religion in the Post Secular Society: Habermas on Religious Beliefs and their Secular Translation,” 4 p.m., Alumni Memorial Union Team Spelling Bee, 6 to 8 p.m., AMU Majors Fair, 6 to 8 p.m., AMU

Wednesday 1 French Mass, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., St. Joan of Arc Chapel

Marquette Ethics and Political Philosophy Workshop, 4 p.m., Coughlin Hall Professional Networking Using Linked In, 4 to 5 p.m., AMU Graduate School Open House, 5 to 7 p.m., AMU

Friday 3 Entrepreneurial Careers Employer Panel, noon to 1 p.m., AMU

Contact Us and Corrections The Marquette Tribune welcomes questions, comments, suggestions and notification of errors that appear in the newspaper. Contact us at (414) 288-5610 or marquettetribune@gmail.com.

to be identified.

The student has been in the dining room and the floor’s bathroom, which she said has faucets with blue and gold Marquette emblems on them.

Brian Pelrine, a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences and president of the Residence Hall Association, attended a luncheon on the fifth floor of the AMU in January. He was invited because he serves on the Trustee Committee for Student Affairs.

Pelrine said the fifth floor space is very well-furnished, with “fancy” curtains and “nice” carpeting. He also cited an impressive collection

of plates hanging on the wall of the dining room. The balcony has a good view of campus, he said.

Although some might think the fifth floor is too lavish, Pelrine said he does not.

“Those who use the fifth floor are often individuals who do much for the university, often without benefit for themselves,” Pelrine said.

“I’m very honored to have had the chance to go up there because I might not get another chance,” Pelrine said.

At deadline, Tribune access to the fifth floor of the AMU was not approved.

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MUSG Senate’s SOA threshold raised Funds over $2,500 need full body’s vote

By Tori Dykes victoria.dykes@marquette.edu

The Marquette Tribune really

packs a punch

The threshold for Marquette Student Government Senate funding approvals has increased.

The MUSG constitutional amendment was approved with a 21-3 vote and one abstention at the March 26 Senate meeting.

Previously, the full Senate considered funding requests above $1,500. Now, it will consider allocations above $2,500.

The Student Organizations Allocation Committee, made up of both Senate members and other student representatives, will approve all other funding requests under $2,500.

The amendment was proposed because the original intent of the allocations process was for the Senate only to approve “extraordinarily large” funding requests, said Senator Logan Schott, a freshman in the Col-

Our nation has recently experienced a historic election and the inauguration of the 44th president.

As a new administration and Congress get to work, we wonder: What is the way forward for our nation?

The Les Aspin Center for Government Alumni Council is offering a chance to examine the issues that America faces through The Way Forward, a series of engaging forums. Join us for our next event — a unique and interactive conversation with one of America’s most well-known political consultants.

James Carville Behind the headlines from Clinton to Obama: your questions, his perspective.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009 7 P.M. Monaghan Ballroom Alumni Memorial Union

Free and open to the public NO ADMITTANCE WITHOUT A TICKET Tickets will be available for students starting March 30 in the AMU’s Brooks Lounge. Pick them up quickly - they will be available to the public starting April 6.

Sponsored by:

The Les Aspin Center for Government Alumni Council, the MUSG Student Activity Fund, the Helen Way Klingler College of Arts and Sciences, and the Division of Student Affairs

lege of Arts & Sciences.

However, the average allocation amount for student organizations in 2007 was $1,776, meaning the $1,500 benchmark for supposedly large funding requests was actually below the average amount allocated, Schott said.

Senator Billy Doerrer, a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences, voted against the amendment, saying that raising the threshold would limit Senate oversight of the SOA Committee.

“It’s our job to hold them responsible,” Doerrer said of SOA Committee members. “We’re trying to fix something that isn’t broken.”

Senator Henry Thomas, a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences, said the Senate has its oversight in the people it chooses to appoint to the SOA Committee. He said having to approve so many funding requests was taking time away from the Senate’s other legislative duties.

In other MUSG news...

• The Senate passed a recommendation called “Dining Dol-

lars are the Difference,” which proposes that students’ unused Dining Dollars at the end of a semester be donated to the Hunger Task Force of Milwaukee.

The legislation, which passed with a 26-0 vote, was co-authored by student Sam Toman, a senior in the College of Communication.

The next step will be coordinating a plan among Sodexo, the university and Hunger Task Force, according to an MUSG press release.

Currently, unused Dining Dollars do not roll over to the next semester and are instead used to defray overhead costs for Sodexo.

“This would go a long way in affecting a lot of people in a positive way in the Milwaukee area,” said Senator Adam Tandez, a junior in the College of Nursing.

• The Senate also passed a recommendation that a Middle Eastern Studies minor be offered by Marquette.

According to Senator Shazia Ali, the recommendation’s sponsor, all the courses necessary for the minor already exist and just

need to be put together.

Ali, a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences, described the recommendation as “very timely” with regard to the prominent role the Middle East plays in global politics. She said a Middle Eastern Studies major is a potential goal for the future.

• Finalized plans for the Wells Street median will be presented at this Thursday’s MUSG Senate meeting at 7:30 p.m. Outgoing MUSG President Ray Redlingshafer, a senior in the College of Business Administration, will be joined by Ghassan Korban, the coordination manager from the Milwaukee Department of Public Works, and Alderman Bob Bauman. Korban is overseeing the median construction, which is expected to begin April 15.

• This Thursday’s Senate meeting will be the first under the leadership of Henry Thomas and Stephanie Stopka, the newly elected MUSG president and executive vice president.

A new term will also begin for the academic senators who were elected or re-elected during last Wednesday’s election.

Thomas and Stopka new student body executives College of Arts & Sciences, was vice president of MUSG last seelected Residence Hall Associa- mester, but was removed by the tion President.

Senate in December after an offThe referendum question on the campus altercation with a Tribune ballot asking whether or not the reporter on a weekend. It was university should expand the role reported that Matthew took the of the Office of the Ombuds to reporter’s ID card and told him, provide a confidential outlet for “Bad things happen when you

By Tori Dykes students’ concerns, passed with mess with MUSG.” victoria.dykes@marquette.edu 82.4 percent of the vote.

In an interview, Matthew said, Additionally, three fi- “I feel like when I left MUSG in Henry Thomas and nalists for senior speaker January there were a lot of things Stephanie Stopka were were chosen. They are that I wanted to get done that I elected the new presiJean Baumgardner from didn’t get done. I realized that I dent and executive vice the College of Health believed I did no wrong.” president of Marquette Sciences, Patrick LehMatthew said one of his main Student Government on man from the College of goals will be ensuring that the March 25.

Engineering and Mary budget for next year spends stuThe new term begins Kate Wagner from the dents’ money responsibly.

April 1. Thomas and Thomas College of Arts & Sci- “I’d like to take a good look at Stopka will preside over ences. the budget,” Matthew said. “A lot their first Senate meetVoters also selected of people in the organization being on April 2. come complacent with Thomas, a junior in the College MUSG academic senait.” of Arts & Sciences, and Stopka, a tors for the next term.

He said MUSG Projunior in the College of Business Residential senators are gram Board funding was Administration, defeated compet- elected in the fall.

One student elected a specific area he would itors John Kristan and Shazia Ali, examine for potential both juniors in the College of Arts was senior Abe Matthew, who ran as a writecuts. & Sciences.

Matthew will only be Thomas and Stopka had 56.5 in candidate for senator able to attend five meetpercent of the vote, while Kristan from the College of Arts & Sciences. He received Matthew ings before he graduand Ali had 43.5 percent. ates.

A total of 2,515 students voted, 4.3 percent of the votes.

There were three availFor contest-by-contest which represented 35 percent of all eligible voters, MUSG Elec- able seats for Arts & Sciences breakdowns and vote totals, see tions Coordinator Liz Driscoll senator and only three candidates the Tribune’s complete MUSG ran, including Matthew. election report at www.marsaid.

Matthew was the legislative quettetribune.org.

Megan Janni, a junior in the

Former legislative vice president elected as senator

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VIEWPOINTS TUESday, march 31, 2009

PAGE 4 Editorial Board: Andrea Tarrell Viewpoints editor

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Editor-in-chief

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Obama invite should stand

• To...my beautiful children...I love you. — God

• To...friends that don’t lock doors. Thanks for the free show.

Love, Gabe

Etiquette queen Emily Post must be spinning in her grave.

Some Catholic bishops and alumni are demanding that the University of Notre Dame revoke its invitation to President Barack Obama to deliver the commencement address at the university’s May 17 graduation. They’re angry that university officials asked an abortion rights Democrat to address the Catholic university. Bishop John D’Arcy, who presides over the Fort Wayne-South Bend Diocese, has already said he will not attend the address, and other detractors are threatening to protest the speech.

Fortunately, Notre Dame officials are sticking to their guns and have said the university will move ahead as planned.

To revoke an invitation extended to the sitting president of the United States would certainly be rude. But worse, such a move would miss an incredible opportunity.

Personal politics aside, Obama is a groundbreaking president. He broke racial barriers to become our nation’s first black president.

And who better to address our generation than the man who revolutionized presidential campaigns by harnessing the power of the Internet, who uses a Blackberry and who streams public addresses on the White House Web site? Who, in his Election Night victory speech, specifically thanked students for rejecting “the myth of their generation’s apathy” and supporting his campaign?

Also speaking at Notre Dame’s commencement will be Harvard Law professor Mary Ann Glendon, who was George W. Bush’s ambassador to the Vatican. Former religion editor for Newsweek and Notre Dame alumnus Kenneth L. Woodward wrote in Monday’s Washington Post, “It’s important that the president hear her message as well as deliver his own. It is equally important that this kind of engagement take place at a university devoted to both faith and reason.

Where else but in a university setting should we expect this kind of principled presentation of issues?”

While we don’t know what Obama will say to Notre Dame’s graduating class, it is highly unlikely is that the president will “press a pro-choice agenda,” as Woodward wrote. Clearly Obama is a skilled orator with a keen understanding of his audiences’ moods and mindsets. It’s likely he’ll talk to the graduates about the problems our nation faces, what young people can do to address them and hope for the future.

Throughout the presidential campaign, Obama talked about making politics less divisive. Even if some in the Notre Dame community didn’t vote for him, what better way to begin addressing the problems we face than hearing what the president has to say?

We hope conservative students, parents, alumni and bishops relent and attend the president’s address. The chance to hear from a sitting president is an opportunity that rarely presents itself. To hear from such a groundbreaking president at such a time of incredible national change? That’s once in a lifetime. Politics should not overshadow the occasion.

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• To...whoever stole my flash drive from the Brew this weekend.

That thing cost like $5, but had my Spanish 106 paper that’s due Thursday on it. Real cool.

• To...Don at Hair at the Hilton. Thanks for the great cut!

• To...Jon Dooley. Quit crowding my inbox with pointless e-mails!

Seriously, not cool.

• To...Kilbourn Street between 3rd and 19th.

Have you found my glasses?

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Milwaukee claims several national honors “Here’s to you...”

Lindsay Fiori Welcome to the greatest city in the country: Milwaukee.

Milwaukee is a wonderful place to live, a true utopia. It has to be because it ranks number one across the board.

Milwaukee ranks first in the nation when it comes to racial segregation, boozing and even the chances of ending up behind bars.

Coming in first is good, right?

Milwaukee ranks number one as the most segregated city in America, according to U.S. Census data analyzed by Jet Magazine. This segregation is mostly observable in residential locations — blacks and whites don’t live next to each other and many whites don’t live in the actual city. Most cities have seen this type of residential segregation improve steadily since the 1980s.

Not Milwaukee. At least we’re consistent.

Milwaukee also places first in highest incarceration rates of black citizens. This may have something to do with all that segregation. This is great! Our segregation is getting us even more number ones and even more national recognition.

Brew City gets top nod for be- waukee’s only second place ing the drunkest city in America, award. The city places second natoo, according to Milwaukee’s tionally for the number of teenage Planning Council for Health and pregnancies, too, according to the Human Services.

Planning Council.

There are at least The council writes seven different Sometimes that Milwaukee is Facebook groups Milwaukee even the seventh poorest devoted to pro- outranks other city of the 50 largest claiming this countries. The United States cities. loud and proud infant mortality Milwaukee ranks — and it’s cerseventh nationally rate for Milwaukee tainly something for the percentage of which to be is worse than of families living in proud. Two of the the countries of poverty and fourth groups are called Malaysia, Panama, for the percentage of “Milwaukee: #1 Jamaica and children living beDrunkest city in Russia. low the poverty line, America ... I’ll according to a June Drink to That!!”

2008 community and “I Helped Contribute To health profile by the city’s Health Milwaukee Becoming America’s Department.

Drunkest City.”

That same report shows that And these number ones aren’t sometimes Milwaukee even outMilwaukee’s only claims to fame. ranks other countries. The infant The city also makes its way into mortality rate for Milwaukee is plenty of top tens. Those are good worse than the countries of Matoo, right? I mean, it says “top.” laysia, Panama, Jamaica and Milwaukee is second in the Russia. country for police brutality, acSo here’s to you Milwaukee. cording to WTMJ-TV. I bet all Way to go. Let me be the first to those incarcerated black citizens applaud you for all of your woncan attest to this. Such brutality derful awards. was exemplified in 2004 when And why stop here? Maybe eight police officers allegedly Milwaukee can get even better beat Frank Jude Jr., causing seri- by ranking number one in unemous injury to the man. The case ployment, domestic violence and got national attention and resulted suicides. The sky is the limit and in a federal trial where three offi- there’s no telling what a city as cers were found guilty, according perfect as Milwaukee can do. to news reports.

But police brutality isn’t Millindsay.fiori@marquette.edu

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Freegan lifestyle a way to combat consumerism Megan Hren I’ll never forget the way the French exchange students at my high school carried on about the portion sizes served at American restaurants. We would go to a restaurant, and they would laugh and gasp at the amount of food served up for a single person, taking pictures of themselves holding up the plates and pointing at the food. Our restaurant portions are a tourist attraction, I learned.

So much for trying to repel the stereotypes that Americans are fat and overindulgent.

Support these stereotypes with some truthful statistics, and it’s obvious that Americans not only eat a lot and buy a lot, but we waste a lot. In 1997, the New

York Times relayed that the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that America wasted 96.4 billion of the 356 billion pounds of edible food produced each year. Naturally, with that type of food going to waste, people have started eating out of the trash.

Some rebellious citizens, called “freegans” are rejecting America’s consumerism society by subsisting on other peoples’ garbage. The freegans practice what has come to be known as “dumpster-diving” and “skip dipping” which are terms used to describe the process of foraging trash for edible food outside restaurants, grocery stores, homes, cafeterias, etc.

Sounds kind of gross, doesn’t it?

I thought so too, until a little research told me that many of these freegans are eating better than I am. These days, with my college-student food budget for the semester dwindling, I’ve been eating a lot of peanut butter sandwiches, pasta and eggs.

Come to find out that a little to the hungry. dumpster diving at a local resStill, the fact that freegans extaurant could make for a meal ist shows that there’s work to be of organic fruits done on the home and vegetables, front. The New York expensive breads The freegans practice Times also noted in and even some what has come to be its 1997 article that edible meat. (By known as “dumpsterthe USDA estimated the way, dump- diving” and “skip that “recovering ster diving is not dipping” which just 5 percent of the illegal, although are terms used to food that is wasted trespassing on describe the process could feed 4 million private property of foraging trash for people a day.” With is). so many going hunedible food outside With the econgry each day in the restaurants, grocery omy in its current world, that statistic state and recent stores, homes, is frustrating, though efforts to recy- cafeterias, etc. no doubt complicacle and preserve tions would stand in food, I would the way of organizventure to say that perhaps if the ing an effort to get our wasted USDA did a study today, they food to hungry stomachs. would find fewer amounts of True — the statistics of our food being wasted in the United wasteful country are more than a States. Feeding America, an or- decade old, but solutions to the ganization previously known as issue are just being born. I adAmerica’s Second Harvest, is mire the creativity and self-deterjust one example of an organiza- mination of the freegan lifestyle. tion working to save edible food I have to say that I am not at the from the trash and distributing it point of looking at a dumpster

and salivating with hunger, but I do respect that some people are out there making use of America’s wasted food. Although, it’s a shame that the food ended up there in the first place.

Freegans don’t just eat garbage, they also wear it and share it. This is an area that I might actually look into. Freecycle. org and Craigslist offer forums where people can post items that they don’t need anymore, but are willing to give to someone who does, rather than throwing them away.

It’d be interesting to see what would happen if America tried harder to “waste not.” Perhaps this country and maybe others would no longer “want not.” The taste of “waste not, want not,” actually sounds delicious, even if it means picking through the garbage.

For more informaton on freeganism, see freegan.info. megan.hren@marquette.edu

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Walker’s proposed Obama unlikely to legalize pot layoffs irresponsible Dear County Executive Scott Walker: I was deeply troubled to read about your plans to lay off at least 230 unionized county employees to solve your budget problems.

Not only did you fail to inform our union members of these plans, but you disrespected your own employees by putting their jobs, benefits and salaries on the chopping block first, while presenting no other solutions to the budget.

This is unbelievable considering that you have declined hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal stimulus funds through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that could save these very same positions.

The Recovery Act funds you dismissed could also create thousands of new jobs for the hardworking citizens of our county who are struggling to cope during this recession.

You dismissed these funds just

like you will dismiss at least 230 union members to please the conservatives that are bankrolling your campaign for governor.

While you continue to use your taxpayer-funded office as a stepping stone to the governor’s office, your employees with soon be stepping into job centers and unemployment offices to seek new work.

But they won’t be as lucky as workers in other counties, who actually have leaders that are looking out for them. You have forbidden your own department heads from cooperating with the state on efforts to bring new projects and new jobs to the area.

We will fervently oppose your plans to initiate mass layoffs and will continue to assist in efforts to side-step your roadblock to Recovery Act funds.

Annie Wacker Vice-President Milwaukee-Area Labor Council

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Stoners everywhere have been getting mixed signals lately thanks to the Obama administration’s stance on legalizing marijuana.

Last week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited Mexico for her first diplomatic tour of the country that has been rocked by more than 7,300 deaths in the Mexican government’s war on drugs. Clinton alluded to a change in U.S. drug policy after conceding that America’s voracious appetite for drugs only fuels the problem.

Not so fast, said President Barack Obama when answering an online question during a town hall forum last week. Legalizing marijuana is off the table in his administration.

It really is silly, the pot question, to be brought up during this time of crisis. But if there’s ever been a time to reexamine our war on drugs, Mexico’s growing drug problem and our burgeoning prison bills couldn’t be stronger signs that the time for some introspection is upon us.

The classical argument against legalizing marijuana doesn’t focus on the drug itself but rather the supposed slippery slope the legalization would promote. How could the government legalize one

drug but ignore the others?

For many, the answer is paradoxically clear. Alcohol, a drug that claims thousands, if not millions of addicts, and kills more than 70,000 people per year, according to the Center for Disease Control, is perfectly legal for adults 21 and up. There are currently more than 40 million Americans who smoke, all of whom will only burden our health care system years down the road.

Florida’s Medical Examiners Commission released a report last year that found prescription drugs had claimed three times as many lives as all illegal drugs combined in 2007 — a statistic Rush Limbaugh and middle–aged conservative women with back problems aren’t helping. The same report found that marijuana use had caused zero deaths in the state.

I cannot condone smoking pot.

The recreational user is most likely to inhale some amount of smoke, which can’t be beneficial to any person’s lungs.

It is inconceivable, though, to condone the criminalization of marijuana when it has fostered the very drug culture where anti– marijuana activists derive their arguments. Want to talk about a

gateway drug? Ask your friendly neighborhood drug dealer what he thinks about free samples of crack cocaine. Worried about increasing gun battles over drug deals gone wrong? No need for exceptional violence when you can simply pick up some weed from your local convenience store.

The total money saved and raked in through taxes could go toward education programs for students, as similar tobacco and alcohol programs have shown success in curbing use of these products in recent years among teenagers.

The industry created by legalization could put thousands back to work and would take away much of the power enjoyed by cartels and other unsavory figures of our government–perpetuated drug culture.

Once marijuana is taken off the forbidden shelf, our inner Adam and Eve complex won’t fall to temptation — creating an environment where marijuana use declines.

Matthew Christ is a columnist for the Independent Florida Alligator at the University of Florida.

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Katie Burns, Andrea Salmins, Joseph Schuster and Libby Gard (left to right) are part of Marquette’s Student Conduct Board. The board is a member of the Association for Student Conduct Administration, a nationwide university conduct board group. The ASCA recently shifted its emphasis to education instead of punishment.

Conduct boards work toward mediation Group wants to educate, not punish and judge students

By Matthew Reddin matthew.reddin@marquette.edu

At its February meeting, the Association of Student Judicial Affairs — a national organization for university conduct boards — changed its name to the Association for Student Conduct Administration, reflecting its decision to focus on educating students instead of judging and punishing them.

The newly-named ASCA, of which Marquette is a member, made the change to distance itself from legal proceedings and focus on enforcing university

policy, said former president Gary Dickstein.

“The name seems to fit better with what we do,” Dickstein said.

He said that when the organization was created about 20 years ago, most schools subscribed to a disciplinary model that mimicked a circuit court of appeals.

However, schools now include mediation, conflict resolution and restorative justice practices with their conduct boards, which don’t fall under the umbrella of a solely judicial system.

“The discipline processes are designed to be educational in nature, and to discourage repeat offenses,” Dickstein said.

The change has been in the works for the past eight to 12 months.

Dickstein was president during this time, but his term as president ended at the February meeting.

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At Marquette, the change from judging students who committed crimes to educating students who made mistakes has already occurred. Dean of Students Stephanie Quade said the switch happened in the mid 1990s, when the Student Conduct Board was restarted, after a brief hiatus, by the Office of Student Development.

Quade, who has been in charge for 10 years, has made an effort to focus on educating students brought before the board, going as far as to stop using words such as “punishment” or “guilt.”

In addition, the conduct board is run by students, which Quade said helps facilitate the learning aspects of the program.

“A peer-led model is going to give us a better opportunity to educate students,” Quade said.

The board is not the only

means at OSD’s disposal, however. For more serious cases and multiple offenses, students are referred to a conduct administrator, who meets with them in an alternate setting.

“The boards are hearing cases that are [students’] first or second cases,” Quade said.

The Board works directly with the Office of Residence Life, which refers students to the board via incident reports. However, students are not considered responsible until they have had a hearing.

Student Conduct Board chair Joseph Schuster, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences, said this makes the experience more equal for everyone.

“The Student Conduct Board is really geared towards the fairness of the student,” Schuster said.

He said the hearings have two

segments. In the first part, board members ask the students what specifically happened during the incident in question, and in the second part, board members ask the students about themselves.

This second part is designed to help the board members create “educational outcomes” for the students, which assign responsibility to students, individually, and then gives each student a project to accomplish. The intent of this project is to teach students not to make the same mistakes again.

Schuster sees the peer-led, non-judicial system set up by the board as a point in its favor.

“In some situations, it helps to be in more of a conversation with your peers, because we’ve all had similar experiences.”

Mayor wants to put stimulus money into city streets

“Fair” streets: 448.5 miles “Good” streets: 361 miles “Bad” streets: 214.4 miles

43.8% 35.3% 20.9%

tee on Finance of the Wisconsin Barrett tries to State Legislature illustrated BarSource: Milwaukee Department of Public Works rett’s wishes. move $221 million The mayor wrote to stop proposals of lane expansions on the Interstate-94, and halt the proto local projects posed Pabst Farms Interchange

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anthony.dizinno@marquette.edu

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett is hoping to amend the state transportation budget. Barrett wants to reallocate $221 million originally planned for freeway development to local road projects and improved mass transit.

Barrett wants to see the money, appropriated as a part of President Obama’s stimulus package, shifted away from highways to surface streets.

A March 25 letter addressed to the 16-member Joint Commit-

project, a plan to build three industrial buildings and an exit off I-94, because of a lack of development.

“We need to realign our transportation funding strategy to place an emphasis on maintaining our existing infrastructure and increasing our support for mass transit systems,” Barrett wrote.

In the letter, Barrett said the Pabst development isn’t occurring because no tenants have signed on and proposed Target and Kohl’s stores do not meet the original description of Pabst

being a “one-of-a-kind high-end retail destination.”

Barrett committed $5.5 million to local road maintenance in 2008 as part of the City Local Streets Capital budget, an increase of 31 percent from 2005 when $4.2 million was allocated, the letter said.

As it pertains to I-94, Barrett said since local roads are “vital connections in delivering goods and services for economic growth,” more money should be directed to surface streets than highways, for now.

Jodi Tabac, a spokeswoman from the Mayor’s Office, said nothing is definitive in regard to the mayor’s idea, but his staff is working to ensure its proposal can advance.

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Milwaukee street infrastructure

“Good” streets 20.9% 35.3%

361 miles 43.8%

“Fair” streets 448.5 miles

“Bad” streets 214.4 miles

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“The Barrett administration has a team of dedicated department heads and appropriate city employees who are helping to take the necessary steps to put through Mayor Barrett’s plan,” she said.

Barrett’s plan for improving the transit infrastructure differs from the one proposed by Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker.

Fran McLaughlin, director of communications for the County Executive’s Office, said Walker’s plan requires fewer funds and serves more areas beside just downtown.

“The county executive has proposed bus rapid transit,

which is like light rail, but instead hybrid buses that are much more efficient,” McLaughlin said. “I don’t know if (Barrett’s) qualifies as mass transit, since it would be a three-mile loop downtown. This doesn’t service the outskirts of the city that needs jobs, but strictly the downtown community.”

Dennis Shook, regional communications manager for the Wisconsin Department of Trans-

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Notre Dame’s campus is scheduled to host President Obama at its commencement this spring.

Cody Continued from page 1

The jury trial began last Monday afternoon. After selecting a jury, the state’s presentation began Tuesday.

Assistant District Attorney James Griffin called six witnesses to the stand and used several photo exhibits for evidence. Griffin’s witnesses included the Milwaukee police officer that detained Cody, the two victims, a Sullivan’s door manager and two other witnesses at the scene.

Dallmann and Higgs told their sides of the story. Higgs’ account was a video testimony taped in January because she is currently studying abroad in Italy, and was unable to make it back for the trial.

Neal Steffek, a former Sullivan’s door manager, testified that he and another bar’s bouncer found Cody on the sidewalk shortly after the altercation and held her until police arrived. Steffek said Cody admitted guilt using explicit language.

Cody’s defense attorney Michael John Hicks requested a motion to dismiss the case when Griffin finished the state’s presentation. But Judge Dennis R. Cimpl, presiding over the case, denied the motion.

Hicks then began his presentation and brought eight witnesses

Obama, according to the editorial.

Shin Inouye is the director of specialty media for the White House.

In an e-mail, Inouye said, “(The president) does not govern with the expectation that everyone sees eye to eye with him on every position, and the spirit of debate and healthy disagreement on important issues is part of what he loves about this country.”

Cross said everyone needs to realize how honored they should be that the president is coming.

“I think people need to grow up,” he said.

Although those in opposition are in the minority, opposition on campus is still prevalent.

NDResponse, a coalition of anti-abortion student groups at Notre Dame, was

TRIBUNE portation, said there’s really nothing to share in response to the potential allocations other than what Barrett is proposing.

“There haven’t been any decisions made,” Shook said. “There are a lot of questions still unanswered about what kind of development. The money won’t go anywhere yet because it hasn’t been allocated.”

Barrett also warned in the letter that since 20 percent of Mil-

formed to express opposition to the choice of commencement speaker, according to a statement put out by the coalition.

The group’s opposition is based on the Catholic stance on abortion and on the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ 2004 statement “Catholics in Political Life,” which says no abortionrights politician should be honored.

Jon Buttaci, president of the Orestes Brownson Council and part of the coalition, said prayerfulness is central to the response. According to its Web site, the goal of the council is to help students better understand the teachings of the Catholic Church.

Although graduation is important to him, Buttaci said he will not attend his own commencement because of Obama’s views on abortion.

“I can’t in good conscience attend these ceremonies where somebody advocating this is honored,” Buttaci said.

J.C. Clark, a sophomore at Notre Dame, said he hopes there will be demonstra-

to the stand, which included invesAccording to her testimony, the tigating detectives, a bouncer at night began as a normal weekend Brothers Bar & Grill, a neighbor- night with beer pong at a friend’s ing bar at 1213 N. Water St., and apartment. She and a small group three male Marquette students. of friends took a taxi to Sullivan’s, One student called to the stand where she happened to run into a was Remington Tonar, a senior in friend, a fellow male Marquette the College of Arts & Sciences. student.

Tonar testified his recollection of Cody said she approached the the incident and said that he went friend to calm him down when to the bar with Cody that night. she saw him about to get into a Tonar’s testimony was brought fight with another group of men. up several times throughout the She said the two victims were upcase because he said when he set with her being near the student asked Cody about the initial ver- and told her to leave. bal altercation, she told him she She then said the three of them said to the girls, started yelling “Have you ever “Me and Janel have to live and shoving had your throat with something for the rest each other, slit?” which of our lives. ... And with havand that the Cody later ad- ing two felonies on (Cody’s) two girls mitted saying. started punchrecord she can kind of feel He said he had ing her, which what it’s like.” known Cody was when she Katlynn Dallmann since August and Junior, College of Arts & Sciences pulled out the he considered her 2- to 3-inch an acquaintance. pocketknife In an interview after the trial, and started waving it in front of Tonar said he wrote down every- her, all while the male student was thing he could remember about attempting to keep the girls sepathe incident the night after it oc- rated. Cody said she did not know curred. He said Cody later let him that she cut the girls until the deknow that her attorney would con- tective told her when she was artact him for a statement and to ap- rested. pear in court.

Cody’s recorded interview with He said he was not surprised by the investigating detective showed the guilty verdict and that the sen- that she lied by telling him that she tencing should be interesting. used a piece of glass, not a knife.

Then Cody waived her Fifth She said she lied to the detective Amendment rights against self-in- because she was scared. crimination and took the witness During her testimony, Cody said stand to testify. she felt foolish that the argument

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waukee’s current roads ranked in “poor condition,” the need is greater to fix them with the freeways not quite at capacity.

“I want to be clear that it is not my suggestion that the state halt its investment in the I-94 N/S corridor,” Barrett wrote. “But spending those dollars for additional lanes now, while local streets throughout the state are crumbling and potholes expanding, defies common sense.”

tions on campus, although he doesn’t support violent protests or pictures of aborted fetuses.

Clark said this situation has made him realize if he wants his views to be heard, he needs to be more active. He said he is now in the process of joining an antiabortion group on campus.

The university needs to be open to people of different beliefs, said Notre Dame alumnus Bill Dunn, who graduated from Notre Dame in 1989.

Dunn said he voted for Obama, but does not want Notre Dame to be lumped together with narrow-minded institutions.

Un-inviting Obama would not be a good idea, said Dunn. If Obama isn’t allowed to speak because his views on abortion contradict the Church’s, then divorcees shouldn’t be allowed to speak either, he said.

Unless the pope offers to give the commencement speech, Cross said there is no reason why Obama should be uninvited.

was over a boy.

The pocketknife was never found.

But Dallmann and Higgs’ testimonies described occurrences different from Cody’s. Each described Cody as the aggressor.

Dallmann said she later approached Cody to try to apologize for a misunderstanding that sparked the initial verbal altercation. She said she and Cody then started yelling and becoming physical with each other when Higgs stepped in, trying to break up the fight.

She said she first thought she was punched and did not know she had been cut with a knife.

Higgs said she tried to push Dallmann out of the way and did not see her get hurt.

After all the testimonies, the attorneys argued about specific charges. Hicks made another motion to dismiss after the closing arguments, which Cimpl also denied.

Griffin’s closing argument highlighted Cody’s inconsistencies between her testimony and what she told the investigating detective. He said that the motions she claimed to have made with the knife could not have possibly caused the victims’ injuries.

Hicks then made his closing argument and said that the cuts did not constitute serious bodily injury. He highlighted inconsistencies between testimonies and argued that evidence was not strong

enough to prove guilt. He also argued for self-defense.

But the jury did not buy it. The jury reached a verdict after about four hours of deliberation on Thursday and Friday afternoons.

The state fought for its original charges of first degree recklessly endangering safety, which means the defendant’s conduct also showed utter disregard for human life. But the jury knocked it down to second degree.

Cody’s sentencing is set for May 8 at 1:30 p.m.

“I feel good,” Dallmann said.

“I’m happy with the outcome.”

Dallmann said she felt nervous throughout the entire trial because at times the jury looked like it could have swayed either way.

She said she was especially nervous on the stand because everything happened so fast the night of the incident that it was hard being grilled and asked to remember absolutely everything.

She said she was surprised that the case went all the way to a jury trial but that she feels relieved it’s basically over. She said she was happy to have Griffin as her lawyer and that she wanted to stand up and clap after his closing argument.

“Me and Janel have to live with something for the rest of our lives,” Dallmann said. “And with having two felonies on (Cody’s) record she can kind of feel what it’s like.”

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In Fargo, goodwill runs as deep as the Red River

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FARGO, N.D. — One family offered their home to anyone left homeless by flooding, even sharing their security entry code.

When another couple lost their house, total strangers showed up at their hotel with chicken dinners, brownies and quilts.

In the neighborly spirit synonymous with North Dakota, some people have given out their phone numbers on radio talk shows, offering shelter to any listeners in need. The generosity is so common that even as thousands of people are driven out of their homes by the overflowing Red River, most storm shelters are virtually empty.

“There is a different flavor up here — the type of hardworking ethic and the people helping each other up here that you don’t see in a lot of cities,” said Tom Hlady,

Courtney Johnson said emergency shelters are being used by a relatively small number of flood victims.

On Sunday night, three shelters in Fargo, Grand Forks and Moorhead, Minn., hosted just 257 people, including about 30 firefighters. That, Johnson said, suggests that most families found other places to stay.

The spirit of outreach is all over news radio.

When sandbaggers were needed urgently in nearby Hendrum, Minn., broadcasters repeatedly gave driving directions to volunteers, and hundreds of people turned out to save the town. When someone requested a windshield for emergency airboats, a listener volunteered to make one.

One caller to WDAY said he had delivered a bunch of pizzas to the Fargodome stadium, where the sandbagging effort was based.

Then he called back to say he would fetch a bunch of crayons, coloring books and puzzles.

“Where do kids need them?” he asked.

Sarah Sebranek, a social studies teacher at Fargo North High School, has seen it at every turn.

Last Tuesday, when the sandbagging effort intensified, more than half of her students did not show up for classes. When her church offered free day care so parents could help fight the floodwaters, the Red Cross showed up unannounced with peanut butter and jelly, snack chips and pintsized cartons of milk.

Some parents who were not members of the church came by to help watch the kids. Women there had sandwich-making parties, helping feed National Guardsmen and other sandbaggers.

“We’re not heroes,” Sebranek said. “We just rise to the occasion.”

MacKenzie Blume, a 28-yearold mother of a toddler, joined the Hladys in signing up to share her home. Her preference: Someone with a child who might enjoy her son’s toys.

“I guess we do unto others as we would want done unto us, the Golden Rule thing,” she said.

Jim and Bonnie Myers saw the love firsthand on Friday, after their home just north of Moorhead burned to the ground because firefighters could not get past floodwaters.

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The couple, both 73, fled to a Fargo hotel, where strangers showed up with roasted chicken, cole slaw, brownies and clothing.

A woman even dropped off some homemade quilts and, for the diabetic Jim, a blood-sugar monitor.

“I find it very touching, very giving,” said Jim, a retired trucker. He said the charity often comes from “people who still have to fight their own fight” to save their homes.

Jay Thomas, a WDAY radio personality who has helped orchestrate the gestures of kindness, says what’s happening is out of the ordinary.

“Up here, it’s the way we do things,” he said.

At the Hladys’ church, senior pastor Bob Ona said he feels blessed to live in such a tight-knit place.

“This will be one of those markers that we will all talk about for the rest of our lives — how people helped each other out,” he said. “I think it really makes the place attractive.”

“It’s good, and it’s probably going to stay that way for a long, long while.”

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On Monday, weary residents were grateful to see the Red River retreating after its steady, threatening climb last week. But they faced a new threat: an approaching snowstorm expected to kick up wind-whipped waves that could threaten the sandbag levees. The storm was expected to persist through Tuesday evening.

Locals don’t consider the outpouring of kindness at all unusual.

Their 138-year-old city was ravaged by a fire more than a century ago and tested often over the years by the Red River.

Fargo, they say, is a survivor, and one neighbor watching another’s back is a way of life.

Hlady and his wife are leaving this week for a vacation in Phoenix. They planned to give their home’s keypad security code to the church for anyone who needs a place to stay.

“People can go in, use our food, our beds and do whatever they need to do,” Pam Hlady said.

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women’s basketball

A youth movement in the making Season ends with loss in the WNIT

By Paul Thorson paul.thorson@marquette.edu

A year ago at this time the women’s basketball team was getting ready to hit the road for a WNIT quarterfinal game against Kentucky.

This year, Marquette found itself with another chance to make the quarterfinals, but the Golden Eagles’ bid fell short when the they lost to Illinois State 51-50 last Thursday.

In a game that saw 21 lead changes and 15 ties, it was fitting that it would come down to a final shot.

Marquette had the lead 50-49 with less than 10 seconds left when senior Erin Monfre fouled Illinois State’s Kristi Cirone.

Cirone sank two free throws and a shot by Angel Robinson rimmed out at the buzzer. Just like that, Marquette’s season was over.

“To be honest, I thought it was in,” Robinson said after the game. “Things happen. I am going to make that shot.”

Robinson finished the game with a team-high 15 points and freshman Jessica Pachko had another solid game with 12 points and seven rebounds.

Perhaps someday Robinson

will make a shot like that for Marquette in the postseason. But for now she and her teammates, particularly the seniors, have to deal with the realization that the season is over.

“When I got back to my room I couldn’t sleep,” senior Krystal Ellis said. “I did all my laundry and cleaned my room, cleaned the apartment, I think that’s when it hit me and I couldn’t sleep.”

“I am excited about what the young players did and how we are going to build a future. We have competed and we were there. Now we are going to make sure we finish those games out.”

Terri Mitchell Women’s basketball coach

Ellis retires as the school’s alltime leading scorer. She finished Thursday’s game at Illinois State with zero points, going 0-for-8 from the field in 13 minutes of play.

Coach Terri Mitchell said from the beginning of the WNIT that her younger players would play, and that this postseason was as much about the future as now.

“I am excited about what the young players did and how we are going to build a future,” Mitchell said. “We have competed and we were there. Now we

are going to make sure we finish those games out.”

Marquette will have to finish those games out next year without three key seniors in Ellis, Monfre and Marissa Thrower.

They might not have pulled out the win, but Mitchell knows how close they were, and what that could mean in the future.

“The end of the day we didn’t finish it,” Mitchell said. “That is the part to build on.”

Marquette certainly has some solid pieces in place to build a winning team. Robinson led the team in scoring as a sophomore at 13.9 points per game, and Pachko seemed at times like Marquette’s most consistent scorer, averaging 8.9 ppg. Newcomer Lauren Thomas-Johnson became a starter in the postseason, and freshman Georgie Jones provided another viable low-post option for the Golden Eagles.

“The new players like Georgie and Jess, you know, they probably haven’t experienced this many losses ever before in their careers, but I think we all learned how to win,” Robinson said.

Marquette finished the season with an overall record of 1716. Robinson’s hope is that the losses the team experienced this season will motivate next year’s team to do great things. The team will look a little different without Ellis on the floor, but her legacy will continue with the efforts of her teammates.

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Marquette senior guard Krystal Ellis (20) dribbles against Illinois State last Thursday. Ellis played just 13 minutes, scoring zero points in a 51-50 loss.

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Robin Metzler, the lone senior on Marquette's women's tennis team, prepares to fire a forehand shot during a 7-0 win over Wright State Saturday. Metzler and the Golden Eagles helped coach Jody Bronson earn her 297th win.

One for the record books Bronson sets win mark with victory

By Eric Grover eric.grover@marquette.edu

The women’s tennis team wrapped up their home schedule with a pair of convincing 7-0 wins against St. John’s and Wright State Saturday at the Helfaer Tennis Stadium.

With the victories, coach Jody

Bronson became the all-time wins leader at Marquette in any sport. In her 24 years leading the team, she has compiled a record of 297-264. But for her, coaching is about more than trophies and records.

“I’m here because I love Marquette and I love coaching the girls and watching them get better,” Bronson said. “So for me, numbers are really not important because it’s really all about the kids. I just love what I do.”

Saturday also marked senior

day for the team, which said goodbye to lone senior Robin Metzler. Metzler, who won a total of four matches on the day, reflected on what tennis has meant to her these last four years.

“It’s been everything,” she said.

“It’s been great. I’ve grown a lot and matured a lot. I love it. It’s sad that it’s over and I’ll never compete on these courts again.

It’s been everything.”

Trailing in the first set in her See Record, page 14

In preparation for the many fantasy baseball teams I am in this year, I have been reading a few of ESPN’s Diamond Debates. Since fellow Tribune writer Tim Kraft and I tend to disagree on, well, most everything, I thought a little Court Clash could be fun. That’s what I’m calling it. I don’t care if you like it. I’ll go first.

With this season now over, how good will the men’s basketball team be in 2009-’10?

Bullock: I think Marquette will be better than most people think it will be. Some of these guys that are coming in as part of coach Buzz Williams’ first recruiting class will surprise people. The way I see it, Williams will throw those freshmen into the fire during the nonconference season, try out about 174 different lineups and then, in the end, the Golden Eagles will churn out another 20-win season.

Kraft: It’s hard to believe Marquette will have any success next year because inexperience will plague this team. Williams will en-

Tim Kraft ter his second season as head man but won’t have his three “assistant coaches” on the floor in Dominic James, Wesley Matthews, and Jerel McNeal. Also, it’s going to be the same old Marquette basketball unless 7-footer Liam McMorrow jumps into the lineup and gives Marquette a post presence for the first time since (pause) anyone … anyone? I think they’ll be a scrappy team that won’t be taken lightly, but in the end they’ll fall short of their bid for a fifth consecutive 20-plus win season.

How competitive will the rest of the Big East teams be?

Kraft: The Big East is the Big East and you’d have to think they’ll be a powerhouse again.

Next year, the competitiveness of the Big East will rely on who stays and who goes. Big men such as Georgetown’s Greg Monroe and Notre Dame’s Luke Harangody have the chance to come back to school and help rejuvenate their See Clash, page 13

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Briefs Men’s Basketball Marquette senior guard Jerel McNeal joined exclusive company Monday when he was named an Associated Press Second Team All-America, the highest honor received by a Marquette player since Dwyane Wade was named a consensus first team selection in 2003.

McNeal averaged 19.8 points, 4.5 rebound, 3.9 assists and 2.1 steals per game in 2008-’09. He is Marquette’s career leader in points (1,985) and steals (287).

“Just sitting here and thinking about it, and looking at the list of players it means a lot,” McNeal said in a university press release. “It’s an unbelievable accomplishment.”

McNeal is joined on the second team by Connecticut’s Hasheem Thabeet, North Caro-

lina’s Ty Lawson, Notre Dame’s Luke Harangody and Kentucky’s Jody Meeks. First team selections were Oklahoma’s Blake Griffin, North Carolina’s Tyler Hansbrough, Pittsburgh’s DeJuan Blair, Arizona State’s James Harden and Stephen Curry of Davidson.

Men’s Soccer The Marquette men’s soccer team continued it’s spring exhibition schedule over the weekend, splitting a pair of 60-minute matches in Minnesota.

The team started out with an impressive 1-0 victory over the Minnesota Thunder, a professional team playing in the United States League’s First Division. The winning goal was tallied early on in the 16th minute, when Nick Kay put Anthony Colaizzi’s cross into the back of the net. Goalkeeper

Matt Pyzdrowski kept the slate clean, and the Golden Eagles earned a solid victory.

In the second game against Graceland University, coach Louis Bennett mixed the lineups around a bit but did not find the success of the earlier match.

Graceland’s goal seven minutes in proved too much and Marquette fell by a 1-0 score.

The team continues its schedule with a pair of matches this Saturday against WisconsinParkside at Valley Fields, and in the evening versus WisconsinMilwaukee at Shorewood High School.

Track & Field The Marquette track and field team wrapped up its weekend at the UTEP Springtime Invitational with several noteworthy performances.

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The Golden Eagles won only three games last season, but their last victory was a 2-0 decision over the Panthers on the road. If nothing else, braggin’ rights are on the line once again. the day for the Golden Eagles, winning the discus throw. Her 47.29-meter toss came painstakingly close to the NCAA qualifying mark of 47.30-meters.

Other stand-outs for Marquette included Alyssa Davis' second-place finish in the triple jump, good for a Big East mark.

Liz Wilkie tied for second in the pole vault, and Kelley Corcoran finished fourth in the hammer throw. Kelly Magennis also took fourth in the javelin.

For the men, Nick Van Derra took second in the pole vault, which set a Big East-qualifying mark. Jeff Kluge finished third in the hammer throw, setting a personal record. Michael Heim also finished fourth in the discus for the team.

The team returns to action this Friday for the Duke Invitational in Durham, N.C.

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teams after a rough 2008-’09 season.

Bullock: That last sentence should start with an “if.” The departure of marquee players will be the story of the Big East next season. Terrence Williams, Sam Young, Levance Fields and Jeff Adrien are all seniors, while Monroe, DaJuan Summers, DeJuan Blair, Earl Clark and Hasheem Thabeet will all likely be drafted.

The Big East won’t be nearly as talented as this season.

Photo by Shirley J. Knowles/Special to the Tribune

Marquette's Jimmy Butler (33) in action against Louisville. Nick Bullock thinks Butler and the Golden Eagles will be as strong as ever next season.

Does no Krystal Ellis mean there is no point in watching the women’s basketball team next season?

Bullock: I know she tanked big time at the end of the season, but I can’t help but forget how talented vintage (read 2006-’07, 2007-’08) Ellis was. Angel Robinson may have better point skills than Ellis, but the sophomore will never be able to fill it up like the school’s all-time leading scorer.

Kraft: You would think that losing the all-time leading scorer would change things for the worse for any program, but again, Nick, you are wrong. This year was obviously frustrating for the wom-

en’s team, but with Ellis gone, the team can focus on distributing the ball and look for balanced scoring.

I think you’ll see a new and improved Golden Eagles squad next season.

Has Terri Mitchell lost her touch?

Kraft: This is a tough call because her team is simply too inconsistent. They blew big leads but mounted comebacks of their own. They played close with nationally ranked teams all season but bowed out early of the Big East Tournament to last-place Cincinnati. I’m going with NO simply because there is an obvious respect between Mitchell and her players. This season slipped away from Mitchell, but when her players performed well, they never failed to mention Mitchell and the positive influence she was day in and day out.

Bullock: Two-straight seasons of no NCAA Tournament appearance? Check. Benching her best player during what she claims to be a meaningful WNIT run?

Check. YES, Mitchell has lost it.

The days of a top-25 Marquette women’s squad are gone, and if she isn’t careful, Mitchell may soon be gone too.

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MEN’S TENNIS

Shao, Hagan leading team by example Golden Eagles earn a 7-0 weekend win

By Erik Schmidt erik.schmidt@marquette.edu

The men’s tennis team had extra motivation in its 7-0 win over Wright State Saturday — seniors Trent Hagan and Stephen Shao were playing in the final home match of their careers at Marquette.

Fittingly, Hagan and Shao set the tone with a win in No. 1 doubles and led the Golden Eagles to the crucial doubles point. Shao also dominated Jan Alafriz 6-3, 6-4 for the last home singles win of his career.

“Though tennis is a group effort, our two seniors obviously play a major role,” coach Steve Rodecap said.” They are very mature and have high standards for themselves.”

Hagan and Shao have been Rodecap’s pillars for most of the season. When the team has looked shaky or troubled, they have always been able to lean on the seniors for guidance. Backed by its seniors’ strong play, Marquette has been nearly unbeatable at home. The Golden Eagles own an 11-1 record at Helfaer Tennis Stadium, with their only loss coming months ago to nationally-ranked Wisconsin.

Clearly, the boys always show up at home, but the match provided a little more incentive for them.

They didn’t want their senior leaders to end their careers with a bad taste in their mouths. Not when they had combined for a remarkable 145 total career wins, ranking

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early morning singles match against St. John’s, Metzler battled back and eventually captured the set and the win 6-3, 6-4.

She then dominated her overmatched Wright State opponent later in the evening 6-0, 6-0. With an emphatic smash as she hustled to the net, Metzler ended her career in home matches at Marquette on top.

Photo by Dylan Huebner/dylan.huebner@marquette.edu

Stephen Shao earned a 6-3, 6-4 win over Jan Alafriz of Wright State in his final home match at Marquette Saturday. The Golden Eagles took a 7-0 win.

them both in the top-five all-time at Marquette.

“Individual stuff is great, but all I care about is the team,” Shao said.

“The Big East Championship is obviously our goal. It is cliché, but we just need to take it one match at a time now.”

Despite what Shao’s focus is on, it’s hard to ignore the individual accolades of him and Hagan. The duo’s doubles victory gave them their 18th-career win together. But besides the great numbers, the pair

has meant so much to this team and the program.

They have been the face of Marquette tennis, adorning every tennis brochure, program and Web site for the Golden Eagles. And with the win over Wright State on Senior Day, they now have a proper ending to their careers.

Well, almost.

After Marquette finishes a fourgame road trip, they will journey to Tampa Bay, Fla. for the Big East Championships — the team’s

chance to prove just how motivated and talented they really are. For most of the season, Marquette performed well, but they were unable to secure a big win over an elite opponent. At the Championships they’ll find plenty.

“I think we can compete with anyone,” Rodecap said. “Louisville and South Florida are very good. Our rivalry with DePaul gets pretty heated. Notre Dame is obviously very good, they were the champions last year.”

If the team can be motivated yet again by their inspirational seniors, they have the ability to take down anyone. Hagan’s and Shao’s careers are now one misstep away from ending. Win and advance, lose and go home. It’s that simple.

“Right now we have all the right parts,” Hagan said. “It’s just the little things we need to improve on.”

If Marquette can piece it together, a conference championship may be in reach.

“Robin has gotten a lot better through her four years and she has had to fight through a lot of stuff,” Bronson said. “A lot of physical things, injuries ... sometimes hitting a one-handed back hand. Sometimes it wasn’t pretty, but she’s got the heart of a lion.

She finds a way to win and she’s developed a lot as a person and a leader. I’m really proud of her.”

The match of the day occurred very early in No. 1 singles between freshman Paola Calderon and St. John’s ace Ira Aleksova.

Calderon took the first set 6-2,

then dropped the second 4-6. A back-and-forth third set brought the match all the way to a thrilling tiebreaker, where Aleksova finally imploded with several double-faults and mental mistakes. Calderon stayed focused, and swept the tiebreak in a 7-6 third set.

“I kept my mind together and tried not to think about mistakes,” she said. “I was just thinking about every ball. It got me through.”

Also notching singles wins on the day were Olga Fischer,

Rachael Hush and Gillian Hush with two each, and Kylie Moore and Elly Strother.

“They didn’t let us play well,” Wright State coach Sean McCaffrey said. “They’re talented, they’re athletic, they’re well coached, and we were simply outclassed today.”

While the home season has drawn to a close, there is still a lot of work to do for the team. Next weekend’s matches against DePaul and Notre Dame in Chicago will pit Marquette against two top-25 teams in as many days.

“We have to step it up,” Bronson said. “These matches could mean a lot for us. We need to have a great week of practice and make sure we’re the ones in charge.”

And although Metzler won’t be playing at home anymore, she feels there’s a lot more to add to her legacy before she’s through.

“We have to come back on Monday and start practicing hard,” she said. “We have tough matches next week so we need to go out there and do it.”

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MEN’S GOLF

Just too much to overcome Stellar final day still can’t save MU

By Pete Worth peter.worth@marquette.edu

Despite tallying the fourthbest overall score of Sunday’s third round of the Florida Atlantic University Spring Break Championship, the Marquette men’s golf team couldn’t overcome two poor performances on Friday and Saturday and settled for an 11th-place finish.

“It was disappointing,” coach Tim Grogan said. “Each event we go into we’re preparing for the top spot. That’s what we prepare for, and that’s what our mindset is. We just got off to a very poor start.”

Aside from senior Dustin Schwab’s 4-under 67 on Friday, there weren’t many high-

lights in the first two days of the tournament, which was held at the Gleneagles Country Club in Delray Beach, Fla. The team shot a combined 23-over-par 298 on Friday before a brutal 43-over 311 team total Saturday in which the Golden Eagles had more double bogeys or over (six) than birdies (five).

“It was pretty much the low point of the season so far,” Schwab said. “It kind of came out of nowhere. We were all playing somewhat decent coming in.”

Thanks to an enormous turnaround Sunday, Marquette was able to come out of the weekend on a positive note. The Golden Eagles fired a 6-over 285 in the final round, led by Mike Van Sickle’s low-round of 65.

Unfortunately for Marquette, Van Sickle (who finished tied for 22nd) was not his usual self before Sunday. He shot a

team-high 9-over 80 on Friday, and then followed it up with a 3-over 74 on Saturday. Van Sickle admitted he was playing a little out of character in the first two rounds.

“I was a little tentative with my swing at times, and things got out of hand,” he said. “I had a couple bad swings and a couple missed putts. I was almost in a daze, like ‘What’s going on?’ In the last round, I just focused on more normal shots and hitting more club and trying to play the wind.”

Schwab said the team tried not to concentrate too hard on making up for its leader’s struggles.

“We all know what we need to do,” he said. “We never expect him to play bad, but everybody does — it’s golf.

“You have to be mentally prepared to play for yourself, and if everybody plays well

then the teams going to come out good.”

Schwab came in as Marquette’s second finisher, firing a three-day total of 8-over 221 to earn him a tie for 27th.

Ben Sieg showed the most consistency of any Golden Eagle throughout the tournament, firing 75, 76 and 74 in taking home a tie for 52nd. Kelly Kretz shot an even-par 71 on the final day and finished 72nd.

Grogan was pleased by Sunday’s performances but said he would like to see more consistency from round-to-round.

“Our focus has to be there,” Grogan said. “Any time you’re in a slump, you don’t try to reinvent the wheel. If we look at bits and pieces throughout the spring, there have been a lot of positives. It’s ‘Can we string those together?’ ”

SHOT OF THE TOURNAMENT Mike Van Sickle stood just 10 feet away from a back-nine score of 29 on the final hole of the FAU Spring Break Championship. But, like most of the first two days of the tournament, his final putt was not meant to be. Despite a final-round 65, Van Sickle finished in a disappointing tie for 22nd.

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BloodCenter of Wisconsin

The Applied Research Laboratory at the BloodCenter of Wisconsin invites you to participate in a study entitled “Assessment of the TacuraTM Separator System for Single-Unit Red Blood Cell Salvage from Prematurely Terminated Double-Unit RBC Collection Procedures.” The purpose of the study is to determine if the Tacura apheresis device can safely and successfully collect a single RBC product when the collection procedure is terminated early.

All collections will be performed at the BloodCenter (located at 638 N. 18th Street, Milwaukee) from Monday through Friday. Stipends of $60 will be given for those who complete the collection procedure.

To be eligible for this study, you must meet the current guideline requirements for research double RBC apheresis donors. Male donors must weigh at least 130 pounds and be at least 61 inches tall. Female donors must weigh at least 150 pounds and be at least 65 inches tall. All participants must be 18 years of age or older.

If you are eligible and are interested in participating, please call the Applied Research Laboratory at (414) 937-6244.

Please leave a concise message with your: 1) Full name (with spelling) 2) Phone number(s) 3) Date of birth 4) The best available day/times you’d like to participate.

You may also e-mail us at ARL@bcw.edu.

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