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MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY BOXING CLUB Fists of fury clash inside ring, students focus on fitness, competition

By Phoebe Goebel

phoebe.goebel@marquette.edu

Students at Marquette University put up a fight in boxing club, an organization that allows students to safely coach, practice and compete in the sport of amateur boxing. The club offers boxing opportunities at many different levels and gives students an opportunity to enter the fighting ring.

Sahara Adhikari, a graduate student in the College of Engineering, said she has been a member of the boxing club for almost a year now. Adhikari went into the club with little knowledge of the sport, but now said that she is very thankful for all of the skills she has learned.

“I didn’t know much about boxing because this is new. I reached out to them because I wanted train for my own

self-defense and when I joined here it was really nice, so I continued my training,” Adhikari said.

Three times a week, the Marquette boxing club meets to practice and improve their skills.

These meetings take place at the United Community Center Boxing Gym and the Rec-Plex boxing room. The organization offers two teams for students to participate in.

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The first team is the fitness team, which allows students with a lower level of experience to get a taste of the basics of boxing. The second team is the competitive team, who go through more advanced training in order to get them ready to compete in real competitions.

Pouya Mirzaei, a senior in the College of Health Sciences, is the president of the Marquette

boxing club. He said the head coach of the team, Angel Villarreal Jr., trains some of the strongest amateur boxers in Wisconsin. The team also has other assistant coaches such as Alex Alarcon and Ian Santiago. Alarcon is a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences and Santiago is a member of the Milwaukee community.

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and gives us extra attention and coaches us and we have extra coaches as well,” Adhikari said.

“They teach us techniques. I have never done boxing before and I was kind of intimidated to come here at first, but they made us feel comfortable and taught us a lot about boxing.”

Adhikari said that even though she originally joined the club for herself, the community she has built through the boxing club has been a huge part of her experiences here at Marquette. She said that as a female boxer she has felt very supported by both her teammates and her coach.

“I would love to see more females join the boxing team for Marquette University. It would be pretty cool to spar with more female boxers because we sometimes have to spar with the male boxers now,” Adhikari said.

Brandon Schuster, a senior in the College of Business Administration, is also a member of the competitive team. Schuster, along with other teammates and coaches, traveled to Iowa State University for a boxing competition. Even though this was his first competition as a Marquette University boxer, Schuster brought home the win.

“It was a great experience and a great team bonding experience as well,” Schuster said. “I got

the unanimous decision victory.

Me and my team were all there to support and I really believe it really kickstarted the club and put the Marquette boxing club on the national collegian level.”

Boxing means a lot to Schuster due to his passion for fighting.

Schuster said that he started to take the sport seriously about two years ago, and it now gives him something to strive for as well as a sense of purpose. Schuster is glad that he now has the chance to compete as a Marquette student alongside his fellow peers.

“We’re all family here. It is more than just a sport, it builds a team and family, and our club believes that boxing brings people together. I love it,” Schuster said.

Mirzaei, who has always loved

Tuesday, March 8, 2022 boxing, came up with the idea to introduce it to the Marquette community through a club. He met with Alarcon, and by searching for resources they were able to start the Marquette boxing club. Mirzaei credits a lot of the start-up to their coach, who he said has become a mentor to the students.

Mirzaei said that his goal for the future of the club is to grow stronger and larger through attending more competitions and

even hosting one of their own.

He said that a lot of the club’s motivation comes from Schuster’s recent victory in Iowa.

“This milestone has set a goal for each and every student-boxer in our club, pushing them to work harder,” Mirzaei said. “I am confident that our club will be able to host a show sometime in the next couple of semesters.”

Timothy Littau contributed to this report.

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Students who are on the boxing team say that it is a “great experience.”The team meets three times a week.

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Two years of COVID-19 Reflecting after White House declared national emergency

By Bailey Striepling

bailey.striepling@marquette.edu

“Since I am a nursing student, I see what happens behind the patients’ doors. It is a very dark reality that everyday people are suffering and dying through a horrible virus,” Alyssa Nowak, a junior in the College of Nursing, said.

It’s been two years since former President Donald Trump declared COVID-19 a national emergency. So, where are we now?

The White House announced March 2, 2022 the National COVID-19 Preparedness Plan to sustain and build on the progress that’s already been made and to aid America in moving forward safely.

The plan had four key goals: protect against and treat COVID-19, prepare for new variants, prevent economic and educational shutdowns and continue to vaccinate the world.

The Centers of Disease Control and Prevention is currently monitoring 10 COVID-19 variants and there are still two variants of concern, delta and omicron. They do not, however, have any variants classified as variants of interest or variants of high consequence, as of March 7.

The CDC estimates that 43% of Americans have had COVID-19. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been 78,529,635 positive COVID-19 cases and 950,529 COVID-19 deaths in the United States, as of March 7.

Since the Marquette University COVID-19 Dashboard was established Aug. 21, 2020, there have been a total of 2,338 positive COVID-19 cases on campus.

As of March 7, Marquette University’s COVID-19 alert status is green, meaning less than 5% of COVID-19 tests are positive.

There have been 14 positive COVID-19 cases in the last seven days and 43 in the last 14 days.

Due to the continued decline in community transmission and Marquette’s high vaccination and booster rates, Marquette

announced that masks are optional indoors on campus beginning March 2. Marquette has required masks in public, indoor spaces on campus since the fall 2020 semester, in conjunction with the City of Milwaukee’s mask mandate that began June 9, 2020.

“I understand why the university lifted the mandate given the infection rate on campus and the high vaccination rate, but I think it was lifted a little too soon,” Alvaro Clara, a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences, said.

Wisconsin’s statewide mask mandate ended March 31, 2021 but Milwaukee County’s mandate ended more recently, March 1, 2022.

“I believe lifting the mask mandate and providing students a choice leads to freedom and satisfaction because individuals with all types of beliefs are able to act on those beliefs, whether they choose to go maskless or remain wearing one,” Rosie Kyriakopoulos, a sophomore in the College of Education, said.

As of March 7, only three U.S. states still have a statewide mask requirement in place, regardless of vaccination status: Hawaii, Oregon and Washington.

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Marquette no longer requires masks in public indoors spaces on campus.

March 1 A non-Marquette affiliated subject took merchandise from a business without consent on the 1600 block of West Wisconsin Avenue. The subject then tried to take off from officers but was taken into custody.

After checking the subject, it showed they had active warrants. They were

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then cited and moved to the Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility.

March 2 Three Marquette students and a nonaffiliated Marquette subject were consuming alcoholic beverages on the 800 block of Nor th 18th Street. They were all cited by the Marquette University Police Depar tment.

March 3 Unknown subject(s) deliberately shot a non-Marquette victim at a business on the 1500 block of West State Street.

sorry’ is the way to go with these types of problems, but apparently people are just super excited to act like the pandemic is over,” Kaiden Brinson, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences, said. “The choice doesn’t feel like a safe move for the community, and I don’t feel safe because of that.”

Ninety-five percent of Marquette faculty and staff and 94% of students have uploaded proof of vaccination of the primary series. Eighty-one percent of faculty and staff and 86% of students are up to date on their COVID-19 vaccines, meaning the primary series and the booster.

“I would say I feel safe because I am young and fully vaccinated, but it does kind of bother me when there’s people with a nasty cough,” Clara said. “In one of my classes today, this girl was coughing and I saw people that didn’t come to class with a mask on, put one on halfway through class because she was coughing so much.”

As of March 7, 65.4% of the U.S. is vaccinated. Rhode Island is currently the state with the highest vaccination rate at 80.9% and Alabama has the lowest at 50.3%.

Wisconsin is currently ranked 22nd for percentage of population fully vaccinated against COVID-19 at 64.7% and 71.2% with at least one dose.

With easing mask mandates and social distancing guidelines, COVID-19 rates are trending down and two years later, experts are talking about what is being referred to as “the new normal.”

This means recognizing that COVID-19 is one of several circulating respiratory viruses and the world must learn to live with that in mind, such as lifting mask mandates like Marquette.

“Marquette is slowly returning to the place it once was, giving hope to those who have yet to receive the full Marquette experience,” Kyriakopoulos said.

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CORRECTIONS The victim’s injuries were overall not life threatening and an investigation is developing.

March 4 On the 1500 block of West State Street, a non-Marquette subject was discovered to be obtaining cocaine. Charges are being sent to the District Attorney’s office.

March 1st “Seal approved

by Board of Trustees” stated the university received a new “logo”. Only the seal has been changed.

Marquette’s logo remains the same.

Also, March 1st “Alumnus gives back” falsely implied Bobbi Lemonis was a Marquette alum. She is not a graduate of Marquette.

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Salting the streets: protecting environment, people Potable water and public safety, health of concern in MKE

By Megan Woolard

megan.woolard@marquette.edu

Over 6,000 tons of road salt are stored within 2 miles of Marquette University’s campus. That same salt may end up on the road or in Wisconsin residents’ drinking water.

The balance between public safety and environmental impacts of road salt is one some Wisconsinites are attempting to navigate.

“We’re not telling people to abandon the use of salt. We’re telling people to use the salt that they put down as something that has impacts and to use it in the best way possible,” Phil Gaebler, water resources engineer for the City of Madison, said.

This salt is the concern of UW-Milwaukee assistant professor of geosciences Charles Paradis. He’s currently working on a study concerning the potential impacts of road salt on both rivers and groundwater.

“We think that some of

the road salt is stored in the groundwater and then released to the river water in the summer, so far the data suggests that would be the case,” Paradis said.

Road salt commonly contains both sodium and chloride, which can be pollutants to the environment and certain bodies of water, including drinking water.

“Chloride is toxic to aquatic organisms that are adapted to live in freshwater, it’s a stressor for their system. If we are drinking sodium, that has health impacts for us as well,” Allison Madison, sustainability and development coordinator for Wisconsin Salt Wise, said. “Chloride concentrations tend to go up faster because some of the sodium gets caught in the soil but we are also seeing sodium concentrates increase in drinking water.”

Potable water and aquatic organisms aren’t the only things to consider when talking about the environmental impacts of road salt.

“It also can change the way that lakes function when they turn over since you create this hypersaline bottom liquid that doesn’t let the oxygenated

water from the spring melt get to the bottom of the lake and I think that’s going to come back to have significant environmental impacts,” Gaebler said.

Gaebler and Madison said that one of the primary ways to avoid the potential for environmental damage is to look into other de-icing methods besides salt. Once the temperature drops below 15 degrees Fahrenheit most road salts aren’t effective. Alternative options include sand to create traction or using products with a lower melting point.

“When you don’t use these practices you end up overapplying salt because a lot of the salt they put down either doesn’t have time to work or doesn’t stay in place. You have to give the salt enough time to work and for it to stay where you put it,” Gaebler said.

Another way to lessen salt use is to calibrate equipment to keep track of how much salt is being applied. Action can also be taken before a winter storm hits. The use of brine, a combination of salt and water, applied to pavement before a storm is known as anti-icing.

By applying brine, it helps to prevent the bonding of snow to

still are, but it’s much less than it was a year ago. There is still a lot of work but it is nice that I can see people and I feel like I’m not completely isolated,” Chacon said.

Some students are taking this time to just relax and take their minds off school.

Barter Perez, a first-year in the College of Arts & Sciences, said he is going to stay in Milwaukee with family.

“My aunt is pregnant and so she is fixing the house to make sure it is baby safe, so I am going to help with that,” Perez said. “Other than that I am just going to chill down and play some (video) games.”

Perez said that he will also continue to work at the Alumni Memorial Union and he will start working on doing his taxes. Other students are also planning to take time off and relax.

Chacon said he will have a staycation and go back home to Waukesha to spend time with family and reconvene with hometown friends who are also on spring break.

“I’m going to work too, I’ve

got an internship that I’ve been doing. I’ll go home, there won’t be as many deadlines, it’ll just be going to a job and meeting up with friends and not thinking about homework for a while,” Chacon said.

Some adventurous students will use the break explore new parts of the country.

Eliza Warner, a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences, is visiting her sister in Hawaii.

Although the trip from Milwaukee to Hawaii is more than a 12 hour flight, Warner said she will stay busy by listening to music and podcasts. Warner is excited to see her sister and looks forward to traveling to Hawaii, which is new land for her.

“She [my sister] has been learning how to surf so I think she wants to teach me how to do that … It will be very different from anywhere else I’ve visited. Hopefully a lot warmer than the weather here,” Warner said.

Although going out west, Anika Asija, a first-year in the College of Arts & Sciences, is sticking to the continental states

the pavement.

“It’s kind of like oiling your skillet before you cook. If you oil, the spatula comes up pretty easily, but if you forget to do that and you’re scraping and scraping it’s a lot more work,” Madison said.

Some cities have also reconsidered how much salt they apply to certain streets. Madison said that some streets, such as main roads with heavy traffic and high speeds, may need to be plowed and salted. However, residential roads or lower traffic areas may not need to be plowed and salted every storm as residents can travel at lower speeds.

“It’s not necessarily that your municipality is being lazy, there are reasons why we might not just dump more and more salt down,” Madison said.

Another concern some people have is residual salt or salt

that’s left on sidewalks, streets and parking lots after a storm.

“A lot of people in the past have just said leave it, the next rainstorm will take care of it.

I feel that’s not the best use of that salt. If there are ways that you could collect that salt or reuse it in the future or properly dispose of it that is much friendlier for the environment,” Gaebler said.

This accumulation of salt, Paradis said, should be a concern for all Wisconsinites whether they get their water from Lake Michigan or a groundwater well.

“You can’t simply say, ‘Oh I’m in Milwaukee County and all I care about is surface water’ or ‘I’m in Dane County and all I care about is groundwater,’ it’s not that simple. In fact, that’s a flawed point of view you need to understand the connection between the two,” Paradis said.

visiting her friend in Arizona.

“My friend goes to Grand Canyon University…I am going to stay with her for a couple of days and then her roommate is actually from California so we are going to drive down there,” Asija said.

Although she was young, Asija said she has been to Arizona before. She said she looks forward to revisiting Arizona as an adult and seeing her best friend who she hasn’t seen in a while.

“I definitely like going out west, I like the weather a lot more and the energy is better there,” Asija said.

The Grand Canyon is one of

the seven wonders of the world and is the only one located in the United States. The Grand Canyon is larger than the entire state of Rhode Island.

Residence halls will be closed from March 12 to March 19.

They will open doors again Sunday, March 20.

So whether staying at home or going out, students look forward to taking a break from studies and enjoying their mortal lives. “I hope everybody has a nice spring break and they can relax in the way that they best seem fit,” Chacon said.

Spring semester’s halfway point Rest, adventure among students’ plans for 2022 break

By Connor Baldwin

connor.baldwin@marquette.edu

Adventure or ease? Spring break offers students a chance to take the liberty to enjoy a week to themselves at home or across the country.

Spring break first sprouted in the 1930’s to attract swimmers to Fort Lauderdale, Florida by hosting a College Coaches’ Swim Forum in the state’s only Olympic-size pool.

Every year more than 1.5 million students vacation during spring break. Marquette spring break, which starts March 12, has many students ready for their vacation.

So far, the semester has been off to a nice start for Diego Chacon, a junior in the College of Engineering.

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President Lovell delivers presidential address in person Capital projects, business school, student wellness

By Julia Abuzzahab

julia.abuzzahab@marquette.edu

Marquette University President Michael Lovell gave the presidential address to the Marquette and greater Milwaukee community where he discussed many new projects such as new buildings, fundraising and overall wellness of Marquette’s campus March 3.

One of the main topics presented was the university’s plan to transform the Helfaer Tennis Stadium and Recreation Center into the Wellness and Recreation Facility by 2024.

Although no groundbreaking date has been set, the fundraising, design process and programmatic planning have already begun.

The facility is designed to combine fitness and recreation facilities with the Counseling Center as well as the Marquette University Medical Clinic.

Lovell said in his address building this facility will be a key part of the university’s Campus Master Plan. He also said this facility will create a culture of wellness on campus.

“We think about student success, we cannot … overlook the fact that wellness of our student body is extremely important to their overall success,” Lovell said. “I know from talking to students [that] the very highest priority for them today is around mental health and whilst ensuring that our campus provides those services that our students need to be successful.”

Another project the university is working on is the new business administration school. It is set to be completed in December of 2022, although classes will begin in January 2023 for the spring semester. Lovell also announced the building will be named the Dr. EJ & Margaret O’Brien Hall by wish of the lead donor who kept their name anonymous.

Danny Blachowicz, a firstyear in the College of Business

Administration, said it’s exciting to see the new business building’s progress in its construction every day.

“It definitely was a big reason in me coming here and I think it’s important to give the business building an upgrade,” Blachowicz said in an email. “I am so excited for it to be done and I can’t wait to see how it turns out.”

Similar to Blachowicz, Valentino Kadile, a sophomore in the College of Business Administration, said that he is also excited for the new building to be finalized.

“I’ll be living in the Lark next year, so it’s going to be really nice to walk a short distance from my apartment to my business classes,” Kadile said in an email.

There will be a plan to honor the late dean of the College of Business Joe Daniels though the university has revealed no other details.

Joe Daniels was the former dean of the College of Business Administration.

After O’Brien Hall allows classes to be held in the building,

David Straz Hall will be converted to a College of Nursing facility hopefully by 2024.

“We envision … once we open the facility we will build to prepare and train 5,000 nurses over the next decade,” Lovell said.

“This is a tremendous step forward for our nursing school.”

Creating the Lemonis Center for Student Success, alum Marcus Lemonis, Marquette University 1995 graduate, and his wife, Bobbi, donated $15 million to create the facility.

Lovell said the center is aimed to support student success and wellness by providing one space for students to go. Lovell said they hope renovations within Memorial Library to create the center will be completed in 2024.

“When you think about what we can provide our students in terms of welcoming space for everyone, the place where everyone can come and feel like they have a home- that they have the resources they need, that we break down barriers and provide frictionless services so that any student, no

matter what they need they can go to one place and have access to it at an individualized level,” Lovell said.

Lovell also brought up Marquette’s Time To Rise campaign successes, as $566 million out of the $750 million goal has already been raised.

Lovell said December of 2021 was the month that raised the highest amount of money in the history of their campaign, raising $45.5 million.

“By Dec. 31, we’d already exceeded our yearly campaign goal of $90 million,” Lovell said.

“What makes me most excited is that number on the right, the 53,000. The number of our alumni and friends that are investing in our university.”

Forty-four percent of those who donated to the Time To Rise campaign were first-time donors.

Time To Rise is Marquette’s $750 million campaign to raise money to further support students, faculty, the campus and communities.

Marquette student opens basement barber shop Milwaukee native cuts hair for students, community

By Sarah Richardson

sarah.richardson@marquette.edu

Sometimes the best things are found where you least expect them; like a fresh haircut in an unfinished basement.

Zabdiel Pozos-Lopez, a first-year in the College of Health Sciences, started cutting hair in high school.

He said he was inspired by the hairstyles his peers had.

“I thought it was so cool, everyone came into school with their high-fade, midfade, low-fade,” Pozos-Lopez said. “I wanted to learn all that.”

Pozos-Lopez said he began learning how to cut hair, training with barbers JP Perez, Sergio Armenta, Gio Sanchez and Flako at Flashy Faded in Bayview. PozosLopez said he swept floors for a year and a half in exchange for knowledge. He started his own business once he began attending Marquette.

As a commuter student, Pozos-Lopez at first began traveling to his clients’ dorms

at Marquette. As he acquired more clients and less time, he moved his business to the basement in his home on the far southwest side of Milwaukee. All of his clients drive to Pozos-Lopez’s house off 90th Street to get their hair cut, styled or shaved.

There is a blurred line between client and friend in Pozos-Lopez’s business. Most of his clients are friends he met through schools or other activities, or recommendations from current clients.

Junior Romans, a firstyear in the College of Arts & Sciences, is one of PozosLopez’s clients. The two met through the Urban Scholars Program at Marquette.

“It doesn’t feel like I’m really getting a haircut, it’s more of a home-type feel,” Romans said. “We can talk about anything.”

His goal? Pozos-Lopez said it is to bring confidence to his clients and make them feel good.

Hunter Yang, a first-year at the University of WisconsinMilwaukee, is one of PozosLopez’s non-Marquette clients who experiences this exact sensation when he walks out of the makeshift salon.

“After getting my cut,

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Zabdiel Pozos-Lopez, a commuter student, cuts hair in his Milwaukee home.

looking in the mirror, I couldn’t feel any more confident in myself,” Yang said.

Daniel Levit, another one of the barber’s clients and a first-year in the College of Health Sciences at Marquette, said haircuts boost his pride in himself whenever he gets one.

Levit said it means so much more when he can give credit to his friend.

“My friends are like, ‘Who cut your hair? It looks super nice’ and this and that, and I’m like, ‘That’s my boy right there,’” Levit said.

Pozos-Lopez wants to help people gain confidence again,

though according to him, he didn’t always have it himself.

A Nicaragua native, PozosLopez moved to the United States when he was four years old.

“It was really hard because I did not know English, so I spent about six months learning the language,” Pozos-Lopez said. “It was a struggle because all of the kids had made friends and I didn’t have any friends.”

He is the first of his family to attend a university. He isn’t attending Marquette to study hair, however. It was his orthodontist in eighth grade who inspired him to begin

studying teeth and dentistry.

He juggles his studies as a biomedical sciences major on the pre-dental track at Marquette along with his appointments.

Pozos-Lopez schedules all of his appointments through Instagram, @zabdiel_x0, which he also uses as a platform to display his passion for fashion with posts of photoshoots.

“I deal with a lot of people’s outer appearance and I think that’s really important,” Pozos-Lopez said. “I love seeing all of my clients walk out of here happy.”

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Ukraine invasion topic at Marquette, MKE Student with family from country shares anxieties

By Julia Abuzzahab, Connor Baldwin, TJ Dysart theodore.dysart@marquette.edu connor.baldwin@marquette.edu julia.abuzzahab@marquette.edu

Eliza Borysenko, a junior in the College of Health Sciences, said her dad was born in Ukraine and came to the U.S., so she still has family in Ukraine. She said this situation has been difficult for her to see.

“It definitely took me by surprise, but I think it was so alarming to see that this was still occurring,” Borysenko said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin called a “special military operation” against Ukraine Feb. 24 causing bedlam around the world, including Marquette University.

Lowell Barrington, associate professor of political science, said this situation is an active military aggression by Russia against Ukraine.

“It’s essentially an act of war, invading Ukraine, and trying to

take it over,” Barrington said.

“There was a sense initially that Russia might just try to move to the far Eastern parts where they have some proRussian separatists that … controlled territory that changed very quickly and this has now become a full attack from multiple directions.”

Feb. 23 Ukraine called for a state of emergency after growing Russian forces came along its border.

Feb. 27, Russia continues to encroach upon Kyiv, Kharkiv and Kherson. The Ukrainian defense ministry estimates that Russia has lost around 4,500 men, 150 tanks, 700 armored personnel carriers, seven fighter jets and 26 helicopters.

As of March 2, Russia has confirmed that 498 Russian soldiers have died and 1,597 soldiers have been injured and over 2,800 Ukrainian troops have died while over 3,700 have been injured.

In 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is not only defending “a war against Ukraine,” but also “against the entire democratic world.”

Despite having similar

cultures, Barrington said having a democracy next door to Russia places Putin in an awkward situation in terms of his personal, populist, nationalist, autocratic and authoritarian system.

“When Russia went in, in 2014, it went in an invaded and actually took over Crimea,” Barrington said. “It’s basically forcibly taken that over and it now considers Crimea part of Russia. It’s a republic within Russia, according to Russia, that’s not internationally recognized, but that’s what Russia thinks.”

The Russian reaction comes after its reason to believe Ukraine had an interest in possibly joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

“Ukraine being a part of NATO is a much bigger deal.

It creates an even longer border with NATO, right against Russia,” Barrington said.

Elected in 2010, former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych said Ukraine should remain “neutral” in cooperation with both Eastern and Western forces. In 2014, Yanukovych opposed a deal for greater assimilation with the European Union.

This caused mass protest across Ukraine as many Ukrainians wanted a closer relationship with the EU. Yanukovych tried to end the protests violently.

Russia supported Yanukovych’s decisions throughout the crisis as the United States and Europe sided with the protestors.

After this decision, Ukraine’s parliament unanimously voted Yanukovych out of office after he fled Kyiv and denounced the protests as a “coup d’etat.”

Many countries around the world disagree with Russia’s decision to invade Ukraine and have responded by instilling sanctions against Russia.

Breaking its neutral stance for the first time, Switzerland adopted the same sanctions that the rest of the European Union has invoked against Russia Feb. 28, as well as their own.

“We are in an extraordinary situation where extraordinary measures could be decided,” President of Switzerland and Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis said in a news conference in Bern, Switzerland.

The Council on Foreign Relations said these sanctions will most likely send Russia into economic pain, which will

include rapid inflation and a drop of living standards.

As of March 7, the Russian ruble is worth 0.0078 of one U.S. dollar. It’s fallen over 26%.

Although it has not imposed sanctions against Russia, the Taliban, a deemed terrorist organization by the United Nations and Afghanistan government, disclosed a concern for the “real possibility of civilian casualties.”

“All sides need to desist from taking positions that could intensify the violence,” Abdul Qahar Balkhi, spokesperson for the Taliban, said in a tweet.

The UN said that as of March 7 more than 1,551, 406 refugees have fled Ukraine.

“If Putin goes through Ukraine, takes over Ukraine, and then actually sends troops into Poland, he’s crazy. At that point … it’s essentially attacking the United States, according to the native agreements,” Barrington said. “This is largely going to stay contained to a conflict between Russia and Ukraine, but it doesn’t mean that we won’t be affected by it. And it doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t be finding ways to help the Ukrainians here.”

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Education Preparedness Program educates inmates, students Group given $745,000 grant to educate incarcerated

By Clara Lebrón

clara.lebron@marquette.edu

The Education Preparedness Program looks to make a change in the Milwaukee community by offering courses to students inside correctional facilities in the local area.

The program was originally spearheaded by Robert Smith, a professor of history, Theresa Tobin, a professor of philosophy, and Tobin’s thendoctoral student Marisola Xhelili Ciaccio in 2014.

Ciaccio was researching women’s incarceration, and through her findings realized that Wisconsin has the highest black male incarceration rates in the country. At this point, she contacted Tobin

and Smith and began creating the foundation for what would be the EPP. Currently, Wisconsin’s incarceration rate outpaces entire countries. Countries like the United Kingdom, Portugal and Canada all have lower incarceration rates than the state of Wisconsin alone.

Wisconsin had 663 incarcerated inmates per 100,000 residents in 2021.

Darren Wheelock, a professor of criminology, also joined the efforts to create this program. Five years later, the group was afforded a $745,000 grant, and the Education Preparedness Program was born.

“At that point, they realized that the program would probably be best suited if they found someone who had experiential knowledge in dealing with both the legal and educational systems, and I was hired by the team

to round out the five members,” Shar-Ron Buie, the outreach coordinator for the program, said.

The EPP started in June 2021. The five team members developed a system where the professors go into institutions, specifically the Milwaukee House of Corrections and Racine Correctional Institution, and teach.

“The students inside these facilities are Marquette students. There are no ‘technically’” Buie said.

EPP courses are conducted by various Marquette professors and are credited at worth three credits. The classes are offered not only to students inside correction facilities but to students on campus as well.

“I learn a lot from them [the students]. I’m taking African American history with Dr. Smith in the House of Corrections. What I appreciate is how the students and the

institutions link their life experiences, and we have great discussions,” Corena Smith, a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences who takes classes online in the program and works with the Center, said.

Smith, along with almost all “outside” students participating in these courses, is online in her Education Preparedness Program course.

“Being able to work with the team on creating applications and building partnerships with re-entry councils in the city and working with other interns is great. I learn a lot from the people we help.

Most of them were incarcerated, and when they came out, they did great things. One of the participants has a podcast, and another owns a business where she helps people get their records expunged.

It’s just, really amazing,” Smith said.

The EPP was developed at

Marquette, but the program is planning on expanding to other educational institutions in the state of Wisconsin. Buie said that the organization is trying to collaborate with the University of WisconsinMadison and University of Wisconsin-Parkside.

“What that will do will allow a number of our classes to transfer to any one of these institutions that’ll take that certificate and have it recognized. Then finally, our goal is to be able to provide a complete bachelor’s degree to our students,” Buie said.

This semester, the program offers seven courses. There are still spaces available for the course Psychology of Human Development of Children and Adolescents in a Diverse Society, taught by Dr. Gabriel Velez.

Benjamin Wells contributed to this report.

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Music of midterms: students’ favorites for studying Songs include ‘Pluto Projector,’ ‘MerryGo-Round of Life’

By Izzy Fonfara Drewel

isabella.fonfaradrewel@marquette.edu

Midterms are upon us. Every nook and cranny of the library is packed with students studying, reviewing and praying for a good grade. With every study space on campus completely full, it can be difficult to focus and block out the noise.

A lot of people listen to music to block out the noise, including myself. However, when I’m studying there are certain songs I try to avoid, such as music with words because I will, without a doubt, begin singing and no one needs to hear that.

Some people prefer songs with words because they feel like it blocks out the world better, and

others don’t even listen to music.

But for those who do, I am on a mission to create an ultimate study playlist for the week of midterms.

Minecraft SoundtrackLiterally any song from the original Minecraft album, “Minecraft, Volume Alpha,” but I included “Mice On Venus” and “Minecraft.” This whole album hits me with the nostalgia factor, and it just helps me get into the zone when I’m working. I listen to this soundtrack so much that it normally ends up in my Spotify Wrapped at the end of the year. Video game and movie soundtracks can be great to listen to while doing homework because they are designed to keep you focused and engaged.

Pluto ProjectorTabitha Czarnecki, a first-year student in the College of Education, recommends this song because of its chill vibes.

“I know it well enough where I can focus more on homework than the actual lyrics but it’s not so crazy of a song that it distracts

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I know it well enough where I can focus more on homework than the actual lyrics...

TABITHA CZARNECKI First-year in the College of Education

me,” Czarnecki said.

This song was released in 2019

by English singer Rex Orange

County. The artist also has a new album coming out on March 11 called “Who Cares?” which will hopefully feature more studying tunes.

Merry-Go-Round of LifeThis classical piece from the 2004 animated film “Howl’s Moving Castle” allows me to romanticize my own life while still completing my homework.

Additionally, a recent study found that students who listen to classical music while studying occasionally perform better on exams.

(Shiki no Uta)- The title roughly translates to “Song of Four Seasons,” and is sung by Japanese artist Minmi. This suggestion comes from Ethan Masarik, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences, who said that he listens to Minmi because she sings in Japanese, which keeps him from being distracted by the lyrics.

Tongues & Teeth- This song from The Crane Wives comes from Mary Oates, a first-year in the College of Arts & Sciences, who explains that she likes the instrumentals of the songs, along with the voices of the singers.

Oates also mentioned that the folk-type feel of the song makes her nostalgic for another life she hasn’t lived.

While these are only a few of the songs on the Marquette University Radio playlist, there are plenty more where they came from. Ranging from French pop to video game music to folkrock, there is a wide spectrum of songs to listen to while you try to memorize every little fact The next time you curl up to read about cell transportation or review the intricacies of stock markets, remember to turn on the top studying tunes of Marquette’s students.

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Marquette University’s midterms week this semester is March 7-11. Students are studying across campus, including at Raynor Memorial Libraries and the Alumni Memorial Union.

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Kim’s Land of Unread Stories: ‘Unnatural Magic’ C.M. Waggoner’s debut fantasy novel is for beginners

By Kim Cook

kimberly.cook@marquette.edu

Sixteen-year-old Onna is the brightest student in her class and is able to write the parameters of spell faster that any of the sound men her age. Despite her profound abilities and willingness to learn, she is denied admission to the top magical university in the country and is sent back home to accept the life of provinciality waiting for her. Stubborn and determined, Onna instead fixes her eyes on the city of Hexos and soon finds herself engrossed in solving the murders of four trolls.

Tsira is a half-troll that never really fits into the mold that her clan leader mother had for her.

Now out on her own and away from her clan, she hopes to make a life for herself in the human world.

That is, until she finds a half-dead human soldier in the wilderness.

Over time, an unlikely partnership grows between them, their bond being tested when an attempt is made on Tsira’s life.

Unknowingly, Tsira and Onna end up on the same trail to finding the murderer loose in the city before the fate on their home is put in jeopardy.

Rating and Review:

This book has been sitting on my TBR (to be read) list for about a year and a half now. Before I opened it, I was pretty sure that I was going to love it because it had magic and mystery — two of my favorite things in a novel. And while the premise of the story and the alternating perspectives of the novel were something that I was looking forward to, the book as a whole ended up being a little flat for my liking.

Don’t get me wrong, C.M. Waggoner’s world building and character development were strong, especially with this being her debut novel, but her concentration on building the characters and giving them dialogue together distracted her from the plot of the novel.

Because of this, the ending that was almost entirely predictable and jam packed into the last 20-orso pages of the book.

The three main perspectives in this novel confused me at first, but eventually I got used to the scheme in which Waggoner was rotating.

The first character I met, Onna, is a teenage girl that is too bright for her age and excels in academic magic. Onna ends up being one of my favorite characters in the novel. She is insanely smart, but is also courageous in a way that I didn’t think she would be. In times throughout the novel, she didn’t even seem like a magic student, but a character who had more power and ability than they knew

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Kim Cook gives “Unnatural Magic” a three out of five stars. what to do with.

The novel’s other perspectives, Tsira and Jeckran, the soldier that Tsira saves from the brink of death, are relatively square characters in the long run that never really seem to click together as love interests. Waggoner takes a lot of

time throughout the novel to build Tsira and Jeckran’s relationship and gives them a happy ending, but I would have liked to see them have a little more of a back-andforth, will they/won’t they type of relationship. They are written together from the get-go and there

never seems to be any substantial tension between them.

And let’s not forget about the plot. While I usually love a good fantasy mystery novel like “Six of Crows” by Leigh Bardugo or “These Violent Delights” by Chloe Gong, it disappoints me to say “Unnatural Magic” offers a mystery that is half-baked. There is a lack of immediacy that I think is needed to make the troll’s murders more of a dire situation and problem in the story. The idea was there for suspense and stakes, but there came a point where I was 280 pages into the 388-page book and I had no clue how Waggoner was going to tie off all of her loose ends. When I finally came to the conclusion of the book, I wasn’t surprised by the way it ended at all, I wasn’t even close to the edge of my seat.

While the novel isn’t necessarily a must-read, I would recommend “Unnatural Magic” as a beginner fantasy novel. Getting exposed to the world of magic can sometimes be a big adjustment for fiction readers, so I think this novel would give readers that are unsure about the genre something to dip their toes into. For a debut novel, Waggoner does a very nice job at world building and developing a magic scheme that is unique to the genre.

I give “Unnatural Magic” by C.M. Waggoner 3 of out 5 stars.

Rashad’s Records: King Von’s posthumous album ‘What It Means to Be King’ deserves proper treatment from fans

By Rashad Alexander

rashad.alexander@marquette.edu

When his debut album “Welcome to O’Block” dropped in November 2020, I knew the ceiling was high for King Von’s future. Not only did he showcase his versatility and creative storytelling, but you can tell he was really living the life he spoke on so heavily in his music. Von was suiting up to be the next rap star out of Chicago, even dubbing himself as the new “King of Drill” at one point.

But everything changed when Von was killed in Atlanta a week after “Welcome to O’Block”

dropped. It was a shock to the world considering his rising stardom at the time and the quality of music on his debut project.

Nearly a year and a half later, his posthumous album arrives, showing what should have been with the then 26-year-old.

“What It Means To Be King” continues the storytelling that Von was so well known for during his lifetime. It starts off with “Where I’m From,” where he tells the story of him learning about a close friend’s death while Von was in jail.

“How the f*** you gon’ die on us, n****? O just died, we need you. / Now I’m on the overtired on the deck with n***** I don’t even know. / And n****, I over cried, I can’t lie, I’m a gangster but that s*** hurt,” the Chicago native rhymed.

His ability to paint a picture with

his lyrics was and continues to be unmatched. You can feel what he was going through and you know he was living what he rapped, something that I feel makes him different from other rappers.

One thing that can ruin a posthumous release is the inclusion of features that just don’t belong on the album. For example, Pop Smoke’s second posthumous release, “Faith,” was riddled with unnecessary features to the point where you can tell most of the songs were simply unfinished and needed additional verses.

But with WIMTBK, it had features with people who were friends with Von, rather than big name stars who never worked with him. G Herbo, 21 Savage, Fivio Foreign and his best friend Lil Durk all had features and were all associated with him during

his career. The backend of the album sees smaller artists that Von was close with, like Dreezy and OMB Peezy. I liked this touch because it allowed Von’s close friends to be a part of this project, making it more like a King Von album.

Nineteen songs were picked out of the 300 tracks Von allegedly had left for his team to decide what to include on WIMTBK. It can be extremely difficult to grab the best songs without the artist’s presence, but his team definitely chose right.

However, I feel like the order of the songs could have been done a little better. For example, Pop Smoke’s first posthumous album, “Shoot For The Stars, Aim For The Moon” saw four straight love songs from tracks 13 to 16. This made the album very consistent with the track list and made it feel sectioned, rather

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than it being all over the place.

For WIMTBK, I felt like the songs “Don’t Play That,” “My Fault” and “Hard To Trust” could definitely had been a great three track run, considering they show off the more romantic side of Von. And the stretch from tracks three to seven where there were features definitely could have been switched up to where there was a solo Von song in there. Albums are supposed to paint a picture and the track order has to be well done in order to create that image.

The Chicago music scene is at an all time high with artists like Lil Durk, Polo G and G Herbo flourishing in their stardom. But King Von had every right to be up there with them.

His musical contributions helped put Chicago drill music back on the map, and “What It Means To Be King” reminds us of what could have been one of the biggest stars out the windy city.

I rate King Von’s “What It Means To Be King” a 7 out of 10. My favorite songs were “My Fault,” “Get It Done” and “Rich Gangsta.”

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EMPOWERING WOMEN Alexandra Garner, Executive Opinions Editor Hope Moses, Assistant Opinions Editor

Editor’s Note: The stories in this edition focus on women’s issues in honor of International Women’s Day.

Allyship with women calls for active engagement

Being an ally to women at Marquette University requires more than a verbal commitment during Women’s History Month.

Allyship requires a constant dedication to listening, uplifting and supporting women on campus every day.

Recognizing the inequities that women experience on campus, in workplace environments, through interactions with other students, faculty and staff is important, regardless of if they are subtle or clear.

In some classrooms where the majority of students are men, women may be talked over, cut off or “mansplained” to by their peers or professors. Women may be seen as less intelligent and overlooked by men in male-dominated fields, such as STEM. In co-ed student organizations, female leaders may be ignored by their male counterparts. Among students, women may be scrutinized for their appearances, actions, viewpoints and words. Women may be judged for wearing certain types of clothing, sharing their

Krisha Patel While having a baby can bring joy to many families, discussions about maternal health, especially Black maternal health, often fall out of focus due to persisting racism in health care.

The average pregnancy related mortality rate in the United States is 17.2 deaths per 1000,000 births across all races, according to the American Journal of Managed Care. However, the average pregnancy related mortality rate is the highest for Black women at 43.5 deaths per 100,000 live births. The infant mortality rate is also higher among Black infants than white infants; Black infants have 2.3 times the mortality rate of white infants. These differences in mortality rates across Black and white mothers and children can point to systemic racism and lack of care for Black patients

opinions in class discussions and even exercising at the gym.

In every aspect of campus life, stigmas against women can be intentionally or unintentionally perpetuated. It’s important to keep in mind that the experience of women on campus is not singular.

At a predominantly white institution, the experience for women, specifically women of color, can be drastically different.

While Marquette was founded in 1881, women were not admitted to undergraduate programs until 1909.

However, the first Black woman to graduate from Marquette was Mabel Watson Raimey.

Raimey was not only the first Black woman to earn a law degree from Marquette and be admitted to the Wisconsin Bar in 1927 but she was also the first Black woman to earn a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

According to the Office of Institutional Research and Analysis, there are 1,295 students of

color who identify as female compared to 2,909 white students who identify as female, as of fall 2021. For students of color who identify as male, there are only 925 compared to 2,303 white students who identify as male.

The challenges that women of color on campus face are exacerbated, as they have to navigate campus life as women and people of color. Allies need to make efforts to not only amplify women of color’s voices but also to listen to their stories.

This also requires uplifting women who identify as transgender and/or transfeminine. Transgender and transfeminine women have often been excluded from conversations and activism involving women’s rights and equality.

The responsibility to create safer and more equitable spaces for women doesn’t just fall on men. Women supporting women is also crucial. Cisgender white women, who have largely been the first group to experience the benefits of gender equality

progress before other marginalized groups of women, need to create more inclusive environments.

In a world where cis men are largely in positions of power, men need to reflect on ways they can create spaces for women.

HeforShe, a United Nations solidarity movement focused on gender equality, shared that men can be better allies by not sharing sexist content or hate speech, being a bystander to violence against women and communicating with women in their lives about ways they can act in solidarity.

Additionally, cis white women need to take an intersectional approach to the feminism movement. Excluding women of color and women who identify as transgender is inequitable, wrong and anti-feminist. Kimberlé Crenshaw, a law professor at Columbia University and the University of California, Los Angeles who coined the term “intersectionality” in 1989, explained in a 2020 “Time” interview that intersectional feminism is a “prism for seeing the way in which

various forms of inequality often operate together and exacerbate each other.”

Using an intersectional lens to focus on women’s issues involves understanding that other aspects of a women’s identity can create opportunities or challenges; these can include race, sexual orientation, class, religion and physical ability. Allyship requires active engagement in conversations about the struggles that women on campus face.

Addressing inequities calls for reflecting on ways that you’ve contributed to gender inequality and ways moving forward that you can disrupt the status quo.

that continues in medical fields.

One reason is that Black patients may be seen as undervalued and not given the same attention and care as white patients and their health complaints are turned away. This could be because of implicit biases among medical staff.

Health care providers need to reflect and recognize where their implicit biases are discriminately influencing the care they give to different patients.

Celebrities aren’t any exception. For example, protennis athlete Serena Williams said in an interview with CNN that her complaints of feeling pain and shortness of breath during her recovery were dismissed by the medical staff shortly after her emergency C-section. This led to her developing a pulmonary embolism, where a blood clot from the legs can get dislodged and get into the lungs. Williams had reported having a history of

blood clots. Due to the delay in receiving adequate treatment and lacking close monitoring, Williams ended up in the operating room once more to treat her pulmonary embolism along with other complications.

Similarly, Olympic athlete Allyson Felix said that she almost lost her life as well as her baby’s life due to complications of preeclampsia, in which someone’s blood pressure rises to dangerous levels in pregnancy and the urine becomes filled with protein and can become toxic.

Felix said in an interview with ESPN that she found she had severe preeclampsia much later in her pregnancy, around 32 weeks, which led to her daughter being born several weeks early.

Typically preeclampsia is diagnosed around week 20.

Black mothers deserve the same attention and care as their white counterparts.

Another factor that can increase risks for higher maternal mortality rate is poverty. Black women are more than twice as likely to live in poverty as white women. According to the National Partnership for Women & Children, a Black woman who works full-time and year round typically makes 62 cents to every dollar a white woman makes.

Additionally, the experience of being a Black woman in the United States, in which structures of racial inequality continue to persist, is largely tied to higher maternal and infant mortality rates. Dealing with the day-today challenges of racism in the U.S. can biologically alter the stress levels in Black mothers over time and can create a kind of “weathering” effect on the body.

These high, long-term levels of stress can also lead to high blood pressure and preeclampsia in Black mothers, which can lead to higher rates of maternal and

infant mortality.

This is horrifying. Racism in the U.S. is truly killing Black mothers and babies.

Black women not only have to deal with the challenges of racism in their day-to-day lives, such as interpersonal and structural racism, but they also have to deal with discrimination by health care workers.

We need to address the trend in high maternal mortality rates among Black women and how it ties into racism.

We need to advocate for a change in the health care system by making all the resources available and accessible to everyone. Health care providers need to understand their racial bias when providing care. More importantly, we can be a voice for Black mothers to ensure that they get the same care as anyone else.

Black mothers, infants deserve better

The editorial was crafted with leadership by the executive opinions editor. The executive board consists of the executive director of the Wire, managing editor of the Marquette Tribune, managing editor of the Marquette Journal, general manager of MUTV, general manager of MUR and ten additional top editors across the organization.

Krisha Patel is a junior studying nursing and Spanish for the health professions. She can be reached at krisha.patel@marquette.edu

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‘Girlboss’ culture mocked due to sexism Laura Niezgoda Gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss: the holy trinity insult exemplifying the sexism that women in power receive as they take on leadership in the workforce.

The meme “gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss” rose in popularity during Jan. 2021 as a response to feminist attitudes in the workplace, parodying the “live, laugh, love” saying. This meme invalidates the work that women put into their work life and devalues their contribution to the corporate world.

Women’s work lifestyle is not as respected or valued as men’s are through lack of representation, the toxicity of the girlboss movement and the exclusion that pits women against women.

Currently, women have very little representation in corporate leadership. According to the Pew Research Center, just 5.4% of women are CEOs in Fortune 500 companies in 2017. This number does not represent the number of women in the workforce though, as 56.1% of the female population aged 16 and over engaged in

the workforce during 2021.

Girlboss is a phrase used by workplace feminists to describe their “hustle” culture entailing long work hours that allow them to rise up into leadership roles, like CEOs and presidents of companies.

In order to be viewed as a productive employee, “hustle culture” calls for more than just the average 9-5 workday; Work becomes the employee’s life, as they log hours after they are supposed to be off the clock. This culture falsely gives the notion that if a person works harder, they will become more valuable.

The implications of a nonexistent work-life balance that hustle culture presents can certainly be scrutinized, but within our society, men’s commitment to the hustle is taken seriously and praised.

The same cannot be said for women.

Hustle culture becomes an exceptionally complicated conversation when gender is involved. For a woman to put in extra work hours to try and break through a system pitted against her is inspiring, but the toxicity prevails more often than not.

Sophia Amoruso, the founder of online, fast-fashion brand

“Nasty Gal,” is the epitome of a girlboss. She released a memoir in 2014 titled “#Girlboss,” detailing her experience within the corporate world through a feminist perspective. Amoruso lives and breathes hustle culture and explains the tribulations she faced within the industry which was quickly shared in a 2017 Netflix series named after Amoruso’s memoir.

Despite this uplifting story about a girl turning an eBay store into a fashion empire, her former employees have detailed the negative work environment within “Nasty Gal.” Early Glassdoor reviews detail that the employees suffered from a lack of leadership within the company.

In June 2020, Amoruso stepped down from the role of CEO due to COVID-19 related reasons.

Girlboss culture is also plagued by exclusion.

White feminism is a type of feminism that fights only for the rights of white, liberal, cisgender women instead of adopting an intersectional lens.

The intersectional feminist fights for all races and abilities, while white feminism applies to just a select group of people.

Racism and sexism are both painfully apparent in the workforce. Women of color

be put into a fund for the players’ post-career goals and charitable events. The U.S. Soccer Federation has also stated that it will provide equal pay to both men’s and women’s senior teams in all future tournaments, including the World Cup which will begin Nov. 21 of this year.

This is a great success for women’s soccer and a step in the right direction for women all over the world, showing them that when they fight for what they want they can achieve a lot. But, they shouldn’t need to fight so hard. Unequal pay in soccer is far from an isolated incident — it happens all across the board in professional sports and anything different is considered monumental.

One of the few sports that has committed itself to equal pay between men and women in major tournaments is tennis.

The reason that this happened was because of a woman.

Billie Jean King, recognized as one of the greatest women’s tennis players of all time, won the U.S. Open in 1972 and was awarded $10,000 – Ilie

Nastase, victor on the men’s side, was awarded $25,000.

After this, King lobbied and threatened to boycott. As a result to her protests, one year later the U.S. Open became the first grand slam to offer equal prize money between

Graphic by Kendal Bell

Women in business shouldn’t have to adopt “hustle” mentalities to survive.

represent only a marginal fraction of the workforce.

Currently, only 4% of women of color have executive-level managerial, whereas white women make up 20%. White women are also more likely to be promoted than women of color.

These instances cannot be boiled down to women not working as hard as men.

When trends show that there is a disproportionate rate of success among a certain group of people, there is a larger problem of exclusion that must be addressed.

Hatred of the girlboss phenomenon is a reflection of how the girlboss has failed us. Money and success are the

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desired outcomes for reaching these leadership positions.

While money is a significant predictor of success in our capitalistic system, we have conflated money with a feminist lens that has only perpetuated the problem. Money, a driving factor in greed, has been seen as a way to gain equality.

Women and their work must be recognized as influential in our society. Not only do women complete jobs well, but they also look to provide support for employee wellbeing. Sixty-one percent of female managers check on their employee’s emotional well-being, compared to 54% of male managers. Women are also more likely to check and make sure the workload is manageable for the employees.

The girlboss meme is a broader picture of internalized misogyny that our society perpetuates. Instead of joking about it and trying to laugh off the problems that our society faces, we must value the work all women do.

Laura Niezgoda is a sophomore studying communication studies and criminology and law studies.

She can be reached at laura.niezgoda@marquette.edu

U.S. women’s soccer team achieves long awaited victory

Grace Cady Women should not have to work so hard to be seen as equal.

Feb. 22 marked the day of a big win for women in soccer.

The U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team finally reached a settlement in their class action equal pay lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation. This brings well deserved closure to a longstanding issue over equal pay claims in litigation pending since March 2019.

Both parties issued a joint statement following the settlement: “We are pleased to announce that, contingent on the negotiation of a new collective bargaining agreement, we will have resolved our longstanding dispute over equal pay and proudly stand together in a shared commitment to advancing equality in soccer.”

The U.S. Soccer Federation will pay a total amount of $22 million to the players – an additional $2 million will

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Unequal pay in soccer is far from an isolated incident...”

men and women. It then took 35 more years for the rest of the major tournaments to follow suit. The Grand Slam tennis tournaments include the U.S. Open, Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon tournaments.

King had to be the best, she had to win the tournament and then threaten to boycott in order to fight for her right to be paid equally.

There is also still an overall

gender pay gap in America.

Women today are still only making 82 cents for every dollar that a man makes. Even more so, women of color are making less than that 82 cents per dollar so the pay discrepancy between men and women of color is more significant. There is no rhyme, reason nor excuse for the wage gap to still exist. With the progression being made for women’s civil and human rights, pay needs to catch up.

Women in sports already need to work significantly harder just to be respected by their fellow male athletes, sports reporters and society in general. They shouldn’t have to wage a war on organizations to be paid fairly as well.

A common argument that perpetuates the narrative that female athletes are not being paid as much is because they are not drawing in as much of a crowd. Yet, there is never a solution given to this issue.

Instead of leaving the matter at that and moving on, we as a society should be uplifting women in sports, encouraging

others to attend their events and raising awareness to the issue. Women in general deserve better. They are strong, hard working and they shouldn’t have to continuously go the extra mile just to be given tangible, equal rights.

Equal pay for women in sports, and everywhere, need to make more progress.

Grace Cady is a sophomore studying journalism. She can be be reached at grace.cady@marquette.edu

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Photo by Collin Nawrocki collin.nawrocki@marquette.edu

Redshirt junior guard Greg Elliott (5) finished with eight points and six rebounds in Marquette men’s basketball’s 85-77 win over St. John’s March 5 at Fiserv Forum.

MU locks up No. 5 seed in BIG EAST Tourney with win

By Sam Arco

samuel.arco@marquette.edu

With BIG EAST Tournament implications on the line Saturday night, the Marquette men’s basketball team defeated St. Johns 85-77 at Fiserv Forum in the teams BIG EAST regular season finale.

“I was really happy for our seniors, to win on Senior night against a really good St. John’s team that would just not go away,” head coach Shaka Smart said. “Our guys hung in there and continued to battle. I thought in our last game against DePaul we got disconnected and that never happened tonight.”

With the win, Marquette clinches the No. 5 seed and a first-round bye in the BIG EAST Tournament. The Golden Eagles will now take on Creighton in the quarterfinals March. 10.

With Greg Elliott, Darryl Morsell and Kur Kuath all being

introduced before the game in honor of Senior Night, it was the young buck Justin Lewis who carried the freight once again for the Golden Eagles, posting a game-high 28 points.

Marquette came out the gates with intensity on both ends, starting the game on a 10-0 run forcing St. John’s to call an early timeout.

Morsell was feeling it early for the Golden Eagles, putting up eight quick points on 4-for-5 shooting to start the game.

After starting the game going 0-for-5 from the field, St. John’s shot 41.2% from the field in the first half to keep things from getting out of hand early.

Lewis also had a huge first half for Marquette, putting up 17 points in the opening frame.

With a combined 30 points from Lewis and Morsell in the first half, Marquette led 42-35 at the break over the Red Storm.

Julian Champagnie chipped in 10 points for the Johnnies.

St. Johns started the second half strong, cutting the Marquette lead to 48-46 with 17:05 left in the second half.

It was a back-and-forth battle at Fiserv the entire second half, with neither side leading by more than double digits.

Marquette was getting quality minutes and key contributions from its bench in the second half from the likes of firstyears Stevie Mitchell and David Joplin.

Joplin finished with five points on 2-for-6 shooting in just six minutes of play.

“Jop is a guy who comes in and knows his role, which is to shoot and score,” Smart said. “I think he’s going to be one of the best scorers in the BIG EAST in time as he continues to grow and improve in areas.”

A 3-pointer from Mitchell at the top of the key gave Marquette a 69-61 lead with 7:36 left to play.

Despite struggling for most of the game from the 3-point line, Lewis provided Marquette with a much needed 3-pointer in the corner right in front of the Marquette bench to give the Golden Eagles a 76-67 lead with 2:02 to play.

Marquette shot 7-for-22

(31%) from beyond the arc.

Lewis would then do his diligence at the free throw line, sinking four straight at the charity stripe to help ice the game down the stretch.

As a team, Marquette went 20-for-25 (80%) from the free throw line throughout the game.

Alongside his 28 points on 9-20 shooting (4-for-7 from the 3-point line), Lewis finished with seven rebounds and two blocks to lead the Golden Eagles.

“Justin, I feel, is one of the most improved players in our league,” St. John’s head coach Mike Anderson said.

Morsell added 20 points on an efficient 8-for-14 shooting to go along with six rebounds and four assists.

Kuath was the only other Marquette player to finish in double figure scoring, posting 12 points and collecting seven rebounds on the night.

With the win, Marquette finishes the season with a 13-3 record at home after going just 7-7 at Fiserv last season.

Elliott, who has played five

seasons for Marquette, finished with eight points and six rebounds in what could be his last game at Fiserv Forum.

“I’ve got to rank it at one or two (tonight’s game) in terms of my favorite games played,” Elliott said. “It still hasn’t hit me that this might be my last game at Fiserv yet.”

Elliott will have one more year of athletic eligibility following this season.

Up next, Marquette (19-11) will take on Creighton March.

10 at 1:30 p.m. CST in the BIG EAST Tournament Quarterfinals in New York City.

The Blue Jays completed the season sweep over the Golden Eagles, winning both games by a combined total of seven points.

“Both of those games we certainly had our opportunities, but I thought Creighton went and took those games down the stretch,” Smart said. “Basically, the postseason started today, we knew we had to win to put ourselves in a better position and the guys did a great job of doing that.”

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CLUB SPORTS

Figure skating team embodies grace and determination Rensch serves as team representative for U.S. College Skating

By Catherine Fink

catherine.fink@marquette.edu

Ballet, dance, strength, poise and ice are words that don’t sound like they belong together, but when those elements are added together, it’s the very definition of figure skating. Raw strength combined with the beauty of ballet and dance can mesmerize anyone watching the performance of a figure skater.

Many of the members on the club figure skating team found their way to ice skating at a young age and were inspired by others just like Kelly Littau, a sophomore in the College of Health Sciences DPT program.

“I started figure skating when I was six years old.

Since my brother played hockey I always wanted to go to the rink with him. I saw the skating team practicing and I liked the pretty dresses and the beauty of their dancing ice,” Littau said.

Figure skating doesn’t have to end when college begins.

Marquette’s figure skating club has a wide range of members with many who have been ice skating for a long

time.

Kristina Chen, a first-year in the College of Nursing, said she has been skating since she was eight years old and wanted to continue in college.

“I was actually looking at Marquette for an extracurricular activity. I saw they had a figure skating club. I wanted to join it and continue my skating and competing but also have new experiences and meet new people,” Chen said.

The club offers skaters the option to continue training and to grow in their skating.

“We all learn from each other and have our own coaches back home so we all bring something different to the ice which helps improve our skills,” Chen said.

Vice President Michaela Brooke, a junior in the College of Health Sciences, said the camaraderie of the team is special.

“I didn’t have the dresses for competitions, but the older members were happy to share theirs with me so I could compete,” Brooke said.

Chen said while it is important to practice and spend time preparing for a competition, it is also important to make time for fun while learning new moves.

“Anyone can join, we went to the outdoor rink and we had fun goofing around and

we took videos trying new tricks. It was just so fun and we like to teach other people new moves even if they are not part of the team,” Chen said.

While the team has fun, the end goal is to help its members grow their skill sets and encourage them to compete in other university competitions, Brooke mentioned.

“There’s different ways you can progress through the sport. Typical jumps and spins you see on TV are called moves, which is more like skating skills, so like edges and turns and other sort of footwork elements,” Brooke said.

Group practices are held at Milwaukee School of Engineering Mondays and Pettit National Ice Center Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Marquette’s club team is different from other figure skating clubs, as the team has many seasoned competitors.

Additionally, the club has a National U.S. Figure Skating Ambassador. Amanda Rensch, a second-year graduate student in the College of Health Sciences and the former president and captain of the intercollegiate skating team at the University of Notre Dame.

Rensch is representing Maquette University as the Midwest section ambassador for U.S Collegiate Skating which

Photo courtesy of Marquette Club Figure Skating

Team competed at the University of Miami Ohio this past weekend.

is a subset in the U.S Figure Skating Association.

Rensch said there are differences in some skating routines that she performs, when she skates with the team and when she is not acting as an ambassador.

“I do freestyle where I go out there and do a program and do jumps and spins and we have some skaters that do ice dance where it’s really

focused on edge quality and turns and presentation and choreography,” Rensch said.

Marquette competes at a national level in the Midwest division, and its biggest achievement to date was in the 2019-2020 season.

“We’re in the Midwest division with about 25 schools where three different schools host every year. We placed fourth at a competition and we had enough points that we were alternates to go to nationals in the 2019-2020 season,” Littau said.

This past weekend, Marquette headed to the University of Miami Ohio for a competition. Brooke said members, including herself, tried out new areas of the sport.

“I’m doing my first ice dance pattern at this competition, which is very scary and exciting because I’ve never done it before,” Brooke said.

Littau said figure skating allows one to express yourself in a way other sports don’t.

“It’s really expressive, you show your emotions and bring that aspect into the sport where a lot of other sports don’t provide that. There’s also the element of artistry and it brings you back to why you started skating,” Littau said.

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Shaka Smart style showcases success in season Executive Arts & Entertainment Editor ranks outfits

By Randi Haseman

randi.raseman@marquette.edu

During the early afternoon of Thursday, March 10, players on Marquette’s men’s basketball team will begin trickling into Madison Square Garden to face off against the Creighton Bluejays. The players will don their jerseys, stripes lining the players’ sides.

But the one Marquette man I’m most interested in will be just courtside, pacing and occasionally slamming the floor: head coach Shaka Smart. Who’s to say what Shaka will be wearing?

In preparation of the BIG EAST Tournament, here’s a recap of some of the Smart styles we’ve seen this season.

Season Ticket Holder Practice Oct. 14 Shaka debuted this new “Lost in the Fight” tee for a practice at Fiserv Forum. This is one of the first looks we got into Shaka’s style – both in coaching and fashion.

4 out of 5 polos Haunted Hoops Oct. 31 Shaka stuck to a tried and true tee for this “Haunted Hoops” event at the Al McGuire Center. Milwaukee community members were invited to the Al to watch an open scrimmage and play Halloween games and activities.

While kids were showing up as Buzz Lightyear or Wonder Woman, Shaka dressed up as the coach who would turn Marquette’s men’s basketball program around.

The blue and white joggers look custom. I wish he would have chosen a different shoe, but I think he was trying to go for a color-coordination moment with the light blue lettering.

5 out of 5 polos Marquette v. Bowie State Nov. 4 In this exhibition game, the team did not come to play around and neither did Shaka’s outfit in this 98-40 win.

This striped polo and white long sleeve is a certified Shaka classic.

He knows business professional shirts and ties are so over;

an effortless layered look is definitely in this season.

The candid pieces also make Shaka’s sideline hype easier.

5 out of 5 polos Marquette v. Southern Illinois UniversityEdwardsville Nov. 9 Despite being second to firstyear guard Stevie Mitchell and his 14 point performance, Shaka stole the show. This monochromatic piece pops against the white jerseys.

I would have liked to see more gold accents throughout this fit, but it’s early in the season.

3 out of 5 polos Marquette v. New Hampshire Nov. 12 This outfit drew inspiration from Shaka’s SUIE fit, but it didn’t work as well and that may be reflected in the win of 75-70 too. The light gray polo is a bit too oversized and contrasts too much with the black.

Let’s just say, I expect more from you, Shaka.

2 out of 5 polos Marquette v. No. 10 Illinois Nov. 15 “The theme of this game was audacity,” Shaka said after the game.

Shaka definitely had audacity to wear an achromatic outfit to clash against the bright, U-of-I orange.

While this Marquette win was one of the best from this season, I think the outfit should have matched the energy Shaka was bringing.

1 out of 5 polos Marquette v. Northern Illinois Nov. 27 Shaka finally brought some color to the home games. This long sleeve and polo combo was totally out of the blue (haha) for Shaka. I’m a big fan of the championship blue, so this is an automatic W – just like the game.

5 out of 5 polos Marquette v. Jackson State Nov. 30 Just as quickly as we see a splash of color, Shaka returns with another bloutfit (aka “black outfit”). Even the shoes Jordan 11 Jubilee are all black.

I’ll give some leniency because Marquette cruised to a 30-point victory over Jackson State.

4 out of 5 polos Marquette @ No. 23 Wisconsin Dec. 4

We can see from this away game photo that Shaka’s style doesn’t switch up on the road.

This rival game was disappointing, but Shaka’s fit eases my pain slightly. The shoes are 100% needed for this apparel to work.

3.5 out of 5 polos Marquette v. No. 4 UCLA Dec. 11 Another disappointing but understandable loss (upsetting top 10 teams is where we draw the line, I suppose). This navy blue long sleeve is a subtle change in the Shaka staple.

4.5 out of 5 polos (but only if it’s a navy blue long sleeve) Shopping with Golden Eagles Dec. 12 Marquette’s basketball teams and Kohl’s cooperated on this event to merge the Marquette and Milwaukee communities. I love the Jordan winter gloves. Both on and off the court, Shaka has great style and heart.

5 out of 5 polos Marquette v. No. 20 Seton Hall Jan. 15 This close game was a nail biter, but with the championship blue once again shining, we know who won the fashion and basketball contest. This is one of the best outfits I’ve ever seen from him. No notes.

5 out of 5 polos Marquette v. No. 20 Xavier Jan. 23 The ref should have given Shaka a technical for unsportsman’s-like conduct: out-dressing everyone.

Following this game, Marquette debuted at No. 22. If AP had a top 25 poll for fashion, Shaka is top two and he’s not two.

5 out of 5 polos No. 24 Marquette v. No. 12 Villanova Feb. 2 I’m a bit surprised Shaka’s accessories didn’t include a broom for this sweep. This cerulean polo is a different but welcomed choice for Shaka’s repertoire, especially paired with the navy long sleeve.

5 out of 5 polos Marquette v. Georgetown Feb. 16 Georgetown isn’t a big contender for Marquette. That may be why Shaka didn’t go all out in the styling department for this look. While you already know I’m adoring the blue polo, the shoes are throwing me a bit off.

Photo by Collin Nawrocki collin.nawrocki@marquette.edu

Coach Smart’s signature striped polo at Marquette v. Bowie State.

Photo by Alex DeBuhr alexander.debuhr@marquette.edu

Shaka Smart in full gold attire at Marquette v. Xavier Jan. 23, 2022.

Photo by Collin Nawrocki collin.nawrocki@marquette.edu

Smart sporting a classic polo while completing a season sweep of Villanova.

3 out of 5 polos Marquette v. Butler Feb. 26 – National Marquette Day Natty Marquette Day is all about wearing the most amount of blue and gold you can possibly fit on your body. For his first NMD as a Golden Eagle, Shaka seemed to take the subtle route.

To really show he’s a trendsetter and not a trend follower, he opted for a black and white ensemble.

2 out of 5 polos Marquette v. St. John’s

March 5 Here’s the man of this and every hour looking smug, knowing the Golden Eagles would pull off a win for Senior Night and Al’s Night. To finish off the last home game of the regular season, Shaka stuck to his roots of havoc defense, getting lost in the fight and a distinct fashionable flair.

5 out of 5 polos

As Marquette looks ahead to the beginning of the BIG EAST conference tournament along with the NCAA tournament, the most mad thing about March is the lack of designers trying to replicate Shaka Smart’s style.

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WOMEN’S LACROSSE

Black, Roche implements new training program Coach mentions regimen brought squad closer together

By Jackson Gross

jackson.gross@marquette.edu

After failing to make the BIG EAST tournament for the second year in a row following the 2020-21 season, Marquette women’s lacrosse head coach Meredith Black, along with assistant director of sports performance Stu Roche met to discuss the training regimen for the team.

What followed this discussion was the creation of a new training program for the team.

While this was all implemented after the 2020-21 season, Black said this is something that she and Roche have been discussing with the players for years.

“We collect feedback at the end of the season, every year, and I think for the past couple years there has been a trend in the direction of girls wanting to push a little harder, or positive feedback from the lifts,” Black said.

Black said it was a good time to change things up because of how little the team could do in these areas due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“This year those restrictions were lifted, so it re-

ally made sense to make that switch over now because it was an easy transition,” Black said.

This new program began in the summer after all the players had gone home to start their personal training.

With the team being scattered across the country, one of the main concerns for Roche and Black was being able to keep the team engaged in what they were doing during the summer with everyone “being left to their own devices.”

“One of the silver linings of the pandemic is that we have been able to transition from what we have previously done in sending the players home with a few pieces of paper in hand from the last meeting of the semester that we just detail their program,” Roche said.

Beyond that, Roche and Black came up with a way to keep the team connected and accountable by using what is called a “penny swap.”

“They have pennies or vest tops that they wear that have their number on there, we just dump them in a pile in the middle of the room at the end of the semester and they would randomly pick a penny of the pile and they will be your ‘accountability buddy’ for the summer,” After the team returned to campus for the fall, Roche said

Photo by Collin Nawrocki collin.nawrocki@marquette.edu

Junior midfielder Emma Soccodato in Marquette women’s lacrosse’s 16-13 win over Cincinnati Feb.12.

the program centered around catering the program to each athlete, whether it be lifts, workouts or what he calls maximum aerobic speed (MAS) running in which an athlete goes from an aerobic to anerobic state in the run.

“So they would not be able to sustain that speed anymore for an extended period of time,” Roche said. “We’re basically looking for that threshold that their fitness can carry their speed and so every athlete is evaluated with the yoyo intermediate run test and the yoyo IRP 1 and so we get a score from that and which we can convert into an estimated maximum aerobic speed.”

After implementing these new measures when the team came

back in the fall, Black said she was excited with where the team was at in terms of their shape.

“The fall was incredible, our girls at the end of the season were in just unbelievable shape, everyone was running faster than they ever had and it showed in the numbers,” Black said.

Many of the players, including senior midfielder Lydia Foust, said that this is the hardest the team has worked heading into her third season with the team.

“I think the coaches really pushed us, I think because of COVID-19 we were held back a little bit in terms of what we could do and this year they fully pushed us to our max level with our strength coach with us multiple times a week,” Foust said.

“Really we’re just in the best shape any of us have been in and so it was definitely difficult but prepared us for these upcoming games.”

With all that hard work, Black said she believes that it helped bring the team together heading into the season.

“Going into this year I think the team was the closest-knit team maybe since our first year of our program,” Black said. “Whenever you have to take on a a really challenging situation together as a group it just automatically helps you grow closer in connectedly, so I think them going through this in the fall was great because it was challenging.”

Graphic by John Leuzzi

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

First quarter struggles lead to loss to UConn Duffy’s crew now awaits to hear fate on NCAA Tournament

By Ben Schultz

benjamin.a.schultz@marquette.edu

UNCASVILLE, Conn. – The Marquette women’s basketball team’s streak of five-straight appearances in the BIG EAST Tournament finals came to an end Sunday afternoon after a 71-51 loss to No. 7 UConn in the semifinals at Mohegan Sun Arena.

“Obviously that first quarter they (UConn) came out, just threw I think every punch we could handle,” Marquette head coach Megan Duffy said.

“Their defense was tremendous.

Thought we had some good offensive looks in that first quarter but were unable to make them.”

UConn did open the game throwing the first punch as Duffy said with a 7-0 scoring run forcing her to call a timeout just over two minutes into the game. Following the timeout, junior guard Jordan King scored the first basket

for Marquette.

From there, the Golden Eagles finished 3-for-19 from the field in the first quarter, missing a mix of wide open and heavily contested shots. The Huskies went 10-for15 from the field and 2-for-3 from 3-point range.

Duffy said Marquette’s poor shooting effort translated into UConn’s offense getting open looks.

“In that first quarter we were definitely very cold and that led them to getting kind of anything they wanted in that first quarter,” Duffy said.

UConn was able to keep its offense flowing starting the second quarter on an 11-0 scoring run, totaling a 19-0 run that stemmed from the first quarter.

Marquette ended the run with a basket from sophomore forward Liza Karlen as the Golden Eagle offense started to pick up some steam. Following the underfive media timeout, Marquette outscored UConn 5-4 and held the Huskies scoreless the final 2:14 of the half.

At halftime Marquette trailed UConn 39-18 and shot 8-for-36 from the field. The Huskies were able to make more than half their

shots in the half, going 17-for-32 from the field.

After being held scoreless in the first half, graduate student forward Lauren Van Kleunen came out and scored the Golden Eagles first seven points in the third quarter.

The Golden Eagles then would go on an over five-minute scoring drought, failing to score another basket until the 2:17 mark of the third quarter.

In that time, UConn scored 12-straight points including backto-back three’s from redshirt senior guard Evina Westbrook.

Marquette subsequently called timeout before finishing the quarter outscoring UConn 5-4, including a three from graduate student guard Karissa McLaughlin.

The final frame opened with sophomore guard Danyel Middleton getting a steal and a fast break layup to start a 5-0 scoring run for the Golden Eagles.

Marquette continued to make shots and outscored UConn 9-2 over the first 3:32 of the quarter.

“Towards the end, the last 15 minutes I think we really competed at the level we wanted to,” McLaughlin said.

Photo courtesy of Ben Soloman

Women’s basketball fell to No. 7 UConn in the BIG EAST semifinals.

The Golden Eagles found themselves in a hole too big too dig out of going into the second half, but were ultimately able to outscore the Huskies in the second half, 33-32.

Overall, Marquette shot 20for-64 from the field and 5-for-7 from the 3-point range.

McLaughlin led the way in scoring for Marquette, playing the whole game and scoring 15 points. She also added two assists and a rebound as well.

“I think Coach Duffy just wants her scorers and play makers to stay aggressive,” McLaughlin said. “I was just doing everything I could to keep my team in it.”

In her final BIG EAST

Tournament game, Van Kleunen scored nine points, grabbed six rebounds and had one assist.

“I’ve been so lucky to be her coach for a couple years,” Duffy said. “Just the last really two weeks of the season, the way she’s been completely, literally giving every ounce of what’s left in her, energywise.”

Marquette (21-10, 13-7 BIG EAST) will now wait to see where and if its season will continue, as the NCAA Selection Committee will decide the NCAA Tournament fate for the Golden Eagles. The fields for both the NCAA Tournament and the WNIT will be announced March 13.