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Free speech takes catherine.fink@marquette.edu center stage at Marquette’s rock climbing club gives students Marquette University the opportunity to reach new heights in the city By Phoebe Goebel phoebe.goebel@marquette.edu of Milwaukee

By Catherine Fink

Marquette University First Ascenders are climbing the walls but it isn’t the ones inside places like the Alumni Memorial Union or Johnston Hall.

Instead, it is the walls inside of the historic Turner Hall Ballroom basement where students can r o c k climb at a concert venue.

Connor O’Malley, a sophomore in the College of Business Administration and club vice president, said he climbed intermittently before he came to Marquette.

“When I came to Marquette I officially joined the club and started routinely climbing to practice my technique and to get better at climbing. I felt like I joined a community that is so supportive of one another,” O’Malley said.

O’Malley said the club started in 2014 with a few members and it has now grown to 64 members who meet twice a week.

Shannyn Donahue, a firstyear in the College of Communication, said she loves climbing due to the variety in courses.

“I really enjoy indoor climbing and have been doing it for a while,” Donahue said. “I really love the routes that Turner has on their rock walls. It’s fun to see what they create and it helps you challenge yourself to get better at climbing,” Donahue said.

Jackson Ressner, a sophomore in the College of Business Administration and club treasurer, said rock climbing helps him relax.

“Anyone can join, it doesn’t matter if you’re super experienced or a beginner, everyone has a place,” See EDGE page 2

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Student organizations at Marquette University have announced their endorsement of the Free Speech Statement that the university follows.

The schools within the University of Wisconsin System are also facing debates about free speech as a recent survey was postponed due to feedback from students and faculty.

The Marquette Gender Sexuality Alliance and Marquette’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors have announced their recognition of the Free Speech Statement of Marquette and have made two changes to the Five Pillars of Free Speech and Expression that are seen within the statement.

Free speech is a topic being addressed throughout other schools in the state of Wisconsin. The students of UW System schools were supposed to receive a survey about free speech last week, but it was delayed because of the responses from both students and faculty.

The point of the survey was to gauge student opinion on their rights to express themselves at college.

The Knight Foundation, a group of social investors who support a more effective democracy by funding free expression and journalism, arts See FIRST page 3

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Ressner said. It’s a really great way to unwind at the end of the day and you will always find someone that will be happy to climb with you,” Ressner said.

The club practices different types of climbing when at Turner Hall said First Ascenders President Abby Tilton, a junior in the College of Business Administration.

“What we do in the gym is called top rope climbing.

That’s where the rope is at the top of the route and the belayer is on the other end pulling in the slack as the climber goes up,” Tilton said.

“Outdoor climbing is called lead climbing or sport climbing, where you have bolts that are set into the wall on your route.”

When possible, the club climbs outside during the fall and spring which O’Malley said poses different obstacles and ways to go about than climbing indoors.

“On breaks throughout the year, we’ll go on outdoor trips and we have some regular spots we go to like Devil’s Lake State Park in Baraboo, Wisconsin. It usually varies

each year and outdoor climbing is a bit more complicated but at Devil’s Lake there are so many complex rock formations that you never run out of climbing opportunities. It’s always a different adventure every time,” O’Malley said.

Outside of team practices, Donahue said members have the ability to climb alone and work on their own skills and techniques.

“Even though you’re really working by yourself, there is a lot of support from other team members. It takes a lot of focus to climb on your own and it is personally challenging. There may be 20 of us climbing individually, but it is still a team of people working together,” Donahue said.

Tilton said the team tries to make practices fun while trying different things.

“We just had a practice where the theme was night climbing so all of the lights were off and we climbed with just headlamps,” Tilton said.

“We also have had lock-in practices and do other fun things as a club.”

Ressner said that training is important and the club holds belay classes, lead

certification and other training to prepare climbers for the transition to indoor to outdoor rock climbing.

“As the climber climbs up the belayer takes in rope so if the climber were to fall unexpectedly then they only drop as far as the rope is connected to them,” Ressner said.

Outdoor rock climbing is different from being on the rock climbing wall in the gym, Ressner said.

“You have to become lead certified to join the outdoor trips. There is a greater chance of falling outdoors, but the benefit outweighs that as you get to see awesome views, climb new routes and it’s just a much different experience than just at an indoor gym where you’re on a wall,” Ressner said.

Tilton said outdoor climbing trips occur during breaks and allows members to travel to other states.

“During fall break the club took a trip to Kentucky where we went to the Red River Gorge area, camped and climbed,” Tilton said. “It’s a great experience to be able to take your skills and challenge yourself in an area you haven’t climbed before.”

Tuesday, April 19, 2022 Over spring break, Tilton said the club went to the Horseshoe Canyon Ranch in Arkansas.

“It was an opportunity for new climbs and allowed for everyone to get to know each other better,” Tilton said.

O’Malley stated how rock climbing can be life changing.

“We don’t hold any competitions, but climbing becomes a part of life,” O’Malley said.

“It’s mainly just about the adventure of climbing and being with a fun group of people who help each other.”

Tilton said while there are no official competitions as a club.

“We are considered a club sport and student organization which is different from

other club sports where we don’t compete as a club officially,” Tilton said. “Our members have competed in multiple competitions such as at Adventure Rock, another gym in Milwaukee, or some members go to Chicago or Minneapolis for tournaments.”

Tilton said the mission of the club is to give individuals an opportunity to push themselves personally and allow members to compete if they want to as individuals.

“It is a unique sport to experience where it’s not competing against other people, you’re competing against yourself and that’s something I really enjoy,” Tilton said.

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FIRST: UW-System involved in talks and culture in the community recently conducted a poll of student opinions on their free speech on college campuses.

They found that 65% of college students do not feel like they can speak freely on their college campus.

The Knight Foundation also found that over the past 6 years, students feeling about their accessibility to free speech on college campuses had decreased, and students are feeling more censored.

The changes that were made take place in the fourth pillar and are replicated on the second page of the statement.

The change omitted the statement “Or otherwise directly disrupts the functioning of our university” from the pillar, which Amber Wichowsky, a professor in the political science department, recognized it as being redundant by the student organizations.

When there were questions about postponing the free speech conversation during the meeting, Wichowsky said that this is an issue that needs to be discussed now due to her experience with students’ concerns with their speech rights.

“I think our students are really forward to this body taking the free speech conversation up at this meeting,” Wichowsky said during the March academic senate meeting.

This isn’t the first time free speech has been a topic of conversation on Marquette’s campus.

In 2016, Marquette Professor John McAdams was terminated from the university due to a blog post. In the post, McAdams questioned a teaching assistant who criticized a student who discussed traditional

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Marquette organizations endorsed a free speech statement last month. UW System schools have also been involved.

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values of gay marriage in a class.

This case was taken to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which ruled on the side of McAdams, claiming that his speech was protected, and he should not have suffered the punishment that Marquette gave him. McAdams was later reinstated to the University after the controversy took place, and damages were awarded by the Milwaukee County Circuit court.

Phillip Jones, a sophomore in the College of Communication, said that he thinks that Marquette’s Campus should be an open place where students can express themselves without being questioned. this is basically the same as the quote, maybe throw in something about other schools that have similar statements to bring more context “I think everyone on campus should be allowed to freely express themselves in any way

besides things that would be considered threatening or hate speech,” Jones said.

As a racial minority, Jones said that he believes that minority students have free speech, but sometimes feel like it is restricted due to the possibility of being judged by other students.

“I feel like minorities don’t have their speech affected too much because we are allowed to say what we want when we want and have a lot of leeways,” Jones said. “But some people don’t feel comfortable speaking because of a multitude of reasons so this affects free speech because they feel like they can’t say what they want.”

Maggie Carroll, a first-year in the College of Nursing, said that she has never faced issues with her freedom of speech at Marquette. She believes that students should have freedom when it comes to expressing themselves, but it should not

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include forms of hate speech.

“I’ve never personally had an issue with my speech or expression being held back and I feel comfortable saying what I believe in on campus,” Carroll said. “As long as the speech isn’t racist or hurtful, students should not be held back by the university because we are adults and have the right to be ourselves even is Marquette is a private school.”

Jones said that he hopes Marquette will provide an environment where students feel like their speech is protected and not judged.

“Marquette should promote that it is a safe judgment-free environment where you can say however you feel,” Jones said.

“There could be constructive criticism, but no one should degrade you for how you feel or what you say. If we promote a safer environment to share them people will feel more comfortable.”

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A non-Marquette victim and her non-Marquette affiliated ex-boyfriend engaged in a physical altercation inside a residence in the 900 block of N. 14th Street. The victim suffered injuries and the ex-boyfriend fled prior to MUPD’s arrival.

A non-Marquette subject hit a non-Marquette victim, resulting in injury, and stole the victim’s cell phone without their approval. MUPD then took the subject into custody and brought them to the Criminal Justice Facility.

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STARS report gives Marquette ‘bronze’ designation Sustainability group grades university on emissions, biodiversity

By Bailey Striepling

bailey.striepling@marquette.edu

“We’re running out of time to realistically make the reductions necessary to avoid the worst impacts and we need to act now,” Paul Mathewson, staff scientist for Clean Wisconsin, said.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released the third part of the Sixth Assessment Report “Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change“ April 4.

The Working Group III report provides an updated global assessment of climate change mitigation progress, examines the sources of global emissions and assesses the impact of national climate pledges in relation to long-term emissions goals.

“I think this report is the clearest warning yet that we are at a crossroads,” Mathewson said. “Climate scientists have been warning about this for years and the longer we delay, the harder it is going to be to limit warming to a level that avoids the worst impacts.”

The report said that average annual greenhouse gas emissions from 2010-2019 was the highest in human history, but the rate of growth has slowed.

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Marquette has earned the ‘bronze’ designation from STARS.

Mathewson said we’ve made some progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions but not enough.

“If we’re going to avoid the worst impacts of climate change and limit warming to less than 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit then we need immediate and substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions,” Mathewson said.

The report also said that limiting warming to around 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit requires global greenhouse gas emissions to peak before 2025 at the latest, and be reduced by 43% by 2030. The global temperature will stabilize when carbon dioxide emissions reach net zero – for 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, this means achieving net zero carbon dioxide emissions globally in the early 2050s and for 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, the early 2070s.

“Every single aspect of the report is concerning,” Chelsea Malacara, Marquette’s sustainability & energy

management coordinator, said. “It revealed that even if all emissions ceased today, we will still be experiencing the negative impacts of a rapidly warming planet for the next 30 plus years.”

The report said reducing greenhouse gas emissions across the full energy sector will require major transitions. It suggests a substantial reduction in overall fossil fuel use, the deployment of low-emission energy sources, switching to alternative energy carriers and energy efficiency and conservation.

The IPCC said there are options in every sector to halve emissions by 2030. Cities and other urban areas, like Milwaukee, offer significant opportunities for emissions reductions, such as better urban planning, introducing electrification and providing more green spaces.

Marquette Board of Trustees approved an updated investment policy

March 24 for the university endowment with new socially responsible investing and sustainability language that strictly prohibits direct investments in public securities whose primary business is the exploration or extraction of fossil fuels.

“It was wonderful to hear that Marquette updated the endowment policy to prohibit any new direct investments in fossil fuels,” Miriam Schwabe, president of Students for an Environmentally Active Campus, co-founder of Fossil Free Marquette and a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences, said. “I think it would be wonderful if we continued in this transition through some direct changes on campus as well.”

The Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System gave Marquette a score of 36.76/100, which is a Bronze rating for comprehensive sustainability achievements.

Marquette’s previous STARS rating from 2013-2016 was a 51.18/100, which is a Silver rating.

“At a higher education institution, certainly the prioritization of climate action is needed at the leadership level, yet students, employees, alumni and donors not only have a voice in that. We are key to making our community climate resilient and sustainable,” Malacara said.

Marquette received a 2.17/8.00 for greenhouse gas emissions in the 2022 STARS report as well as a 2.73/6.00 in building energy efficiency, a 1.57/ 4.00 in water use and a 0.75/10.00 in hazardous waste management.

The 2022 report also found that Marquette had emit 50,000 tons of carbon emissions for “imported” electric and thermal energy.

In the 2013 report, Marquette received a 1.68/14.00 in greenhouse gas emissions reduction, a 1.24/8.00 in building energy consumption, a 3.23/7.00 in water consumption and a 1.00/1.00 in hazardous waste management.

“Building a sustainable and thriving community is so much more than just recycling or reducing resources.

It is about building a system that is resilient, equitable, just, healthy and ecologically thriving for all beings,” Malacara said. “When we all take personal responsibility for the role we play in building and contributing to that kind of system, that’s when the magic happens.”

Marquette is working towards getting hybrid squad cars for the Marquette University Police Department, enhancing opportunities for bicycle use, pursuing renewable energy initiatives, creating sustainable building standards and continuing the Sustainability Internship Program.

“Marquette has a lot of work to do in terms of sustainability,” Schwabe said. “The STARS program offers wonderful ideas on how to create a sustainable campus in many areas, including in the dining halls, landscaping, dorms, curriculum and more. I would love to see Marquette take some more initiative in these areas.”

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Earth Day’s Wisconsin origins Former WI senator, Gaylord Nelson, influential in creation

By Connor Baldwin

connor.baldwin@marquette.edu

First celebrated nationally in the United States on April 22, Earth Day’s debut demonstration observed 20 million people advocating for environmental awareness. Earth Day was first conceived by Wisconsin native and former senator and governor Gaylord Nelson.

Nelson, who was inspired by former Wisconsin governor “Fighting” Bob Lafollette for his progressive mentality, worked for environmental prosperity. As governor, he helped found the Outdoor Recreation Acquisition Program which purchased one million acres of land for parks in Wisconsin.

During his time as a senator he worked alongside former President John Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson

and Richard Nixon and championed for environmentalism.

When working with Kennedy, Nelson with others went across the nation on a tour of the United States visiting areas across 11 states in five days. However, Nelson felt dissatisfied with the nature expedition because of the response from Kennedy, who was tied up with foreign affairs at the time.

So Nelson turned his interest from working with politicians to working with the public. Environmental disasters such as the Santa Barbara oil spill off the coast of California and the Cuyahoga River Fire of Cleveland, Ohio in 1969 painted an explicit picture of the pollution issue.

These events pushed environmental awareness to the forefront and united demographics to come together to understand the impact humanity has on the environment. By the 1970s, 70% of surveyed Americans said that air and water pollution were a serious problem where they lived. In response, Nelson

orchestrated a national grassroots protest April 22, 1970, which was celebrated as the first Earth Day. That Earth Day people marched the car-free streets of New York.

Some wore face masks to shed light on poor air quality and pollution.

The protest in Chicago saw people holding black balloons with “gasp” written on them and after their protest in Civic Center Plaza, there was no litter left behind.

Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane is a toxic chemical that was used as an insecticide for crops. However it was banned in 1972 for its dangers to the environment and was a main subject in the book “Silent Spring,”

by Rachel Carson, which was a key contributor in raising awareness.

The chemical was accidently consumed by people and had lasting effects on their health.

In Milwaukee during 1970, Earth Day observers nominated substitutions for DDT such as ladybugs, toads and the praying mantis.

This national green gathering was heard all the way in Washington, D.C. and brought bureaucrats to think critically about their involvement in protecting the environment. The Clean Air Act of 1970, Clean Water Act of 1972 and other

The Marquette Tribune pro-environmental protection laws were catalysts for reducing pollution and restoring nature.

The United States Environmental Protection Agency was also established at this time, December 1970.

Responsible for conducting research on environmental improvement, the EPA inspects for clandestine pollutants. It has set standards on water and air quality in collaboration with states.

By the 1990s, Earth Day had gone global, and was celebrated in more than 140 countries. This brought environmental issues to the world platform. In 1992 the United Nations had an Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, heralding the impact socioeconomic humanity had on the environment.

“In establishing Earth Day, Gaylord Nelson helped us to recognize that our fragile environment was increasingly at peril and that each of us could make a difference,” former President Bill Clinton said.

In 1995 Nelson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Clinton for establishing Earth Day. After his days as a U.S. politician, he shifted his perspective and became a member of the Wilderness Society. The Society has over 100

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million acres of protected wilderness in 44 states. They even have a regional office in Stevens Point, Wisconsin.

“Gaylord Nelson is an inspiration to all of us at The Wilderness Society,” Jon Roush, President of The Wilderness Society said. “We are blessed by his experience, wisdom and vision and we feel particularly proud that President Clinton has honored him in this extraordinary way.”

Nowadays Earth Day is celebrated almost around the entire world and is considered the largest international demonstration with over one billion people celebrating in modern times. Some have their own traditions and plant trees, pick up litter or reduce their carbon footprint.

Student organizations such as Students for an Environmentally Active Campus offer engaging opportunities.

“SEAC has taken numerous efforts to get students involved in activism around Milwaukee! We host beach and campus cleanups, have attended local protests for environmental action!” Miriam Schwabe, a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences, said in an email.

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Marijuana legalization in Wisconsin not likely State Senate majority leader said change in legality unlikely in ‘22

By Megan Woolard

megan.woolard@marquette.edu

Though Wednesday, April 20, or “4/20” is approaching, the legalization of marijuana in Wisconsin is not.

Devin LeMahieu, Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader and Republican from Oostburg which is around 50 miles away from Milwaukee, said in an online panel with WisPolitics.com last week that the probability marijuana is legalized in the next year, medically or recreationally, is slim to none.

“First of all, we don’t have support from the caucus, and that’s pretty clear,” LeMahieu said in an online panel with WisPolitics. com last week. “We don’t have 17 votes in the caucus for medicinal purposes or recreational purposes.”

Currently in Wisconsin, CBD oil, which is derived from cannabis plants but does not contain THC, has been legal since 2017 when former Republican Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker signed legislation.

Tetrahydrocannabinol or THC is the main compound and the reason people get a “high” from using marijuana. Any other use of marijuana for medical or recreational purposes is illegal in Wisconsin.

A Marquette University Law School poll from 2019 link? indicated that the majority

of Wisconsinites support the legalization of marijuana.

The poll showed that 59% of Wisconsinites supported the legalization of recreational use, while 83% supported legalization for medicinal purposes.

Neighboring states such as Illinois and Minnesota have changed their stances on marijuana legalization within the past decade.

In Illinois, both recreational and medical marijuana have been legal since 2020. While in Minnesota, medical marijuana has been legalized since 2014.

Many supporters of marijuana legalization cite racial disparities as one of the pushes toward legalization. A 2020 report from the American Civil Liberties Union found that Black people were four times as likely as white people to be arrested for possessing marijuana in Wisconsin.

Others cite economic reasons and tax revenue as a push for legalization. The Marijuana Policy Project conducted a report on the tax revenue received from states where marijuana is legal. The report stated that in 2021 legalized states generated more than $3.7 billion in tax revenue from marijuana sales.

“The legalization and regulation of cannabis for adults has generated billions of dollars in tax revenue, funded important services and programs at the state level, and created thousands of jobs across the country,” Toi Hutchinson, president and CEO of the Marijuana Policy Project, said in a press release.

In terms of medicinal properties, marijuana can be used for pain management, nausea and appetite

control among other uses. There has also been some research done on marijuana use as a way to help those struggling with PTSD. The topic of marijuana legalization or further criminalization has already been passed around the Wisconsin legislature this year.

Back in February, Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers vetoed a bill that would have made butane cannabis extraction a Class E felony which could carry a prison sentence of up to 15 years. It’s currently a Class I felony that carries a maximum three and a half year prison sentence.

Butane cannabis extraction is when a hydrocarbon, like butane or propane, is used to extract cannabis concentrates. Cannabis extracted in this way can carry THC concentration of up to 90%.

“I am vetoing this bill in its entirety because I object to creating additional criminal offenses or penalties related to marijuana use,” Evers said in a veto message Feb. 4. “This bill represents a continuation of past policies and paradigms we know have had detrimental effects on people, families, and communities across our state while also creating a new sentencing disparity for marijuana resin.”

Evers has been a supporter of decriminalizing marijuana, both recreationally and medically, during his time in the governor’s office. He also cited the 2019 Marquette Law school poll as a reason for the veto.

The future of marijuana legalization in Wisconsin and federally remains up in the air.

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Mentorship program begins new recruitment for 2022-23 Students, alumni paired in career development meetings

By Megan Woolard

megan.woolard@marquette.edu

In a little under six months, Marquette students will connect with Marquette alumni to begin a relationship that will take place over the course of an academic year and potentially beyond.

The Marquette Mentors Program, is looking for new students to partake in the program for the 2022-2023 academic year. It was established during the 20132014 school year and continues to run through each academic year. Mentors and mentees meet monthly, virtual or in-person, depending on the mentor’s geographical location.

The program, which is run

through the Marquette Alumni Association, pairs one undergraduate or graduate student with a Marquette alum.

Student-Alumni pairings are matched based on college, major and career of interest. There are mentors in 25 states and one in England.

“Students are really responsible for driving that relationship with their mentor and their responsible for setting goals with their mentor... the goals are really what the student wants to accomplish in partnership with their mentor,” Dan DeWeerdt, senior director of Marquette Mentors and Alumni Engagement, said.

DeWeerdt said that the course of the program is up to what the student wants out of it. Some goals students have set were to enhance their resume, increase networking or get into graduate school. Mentees sometimes have the opportunity to do a job

shadow as well.

“My goals for the Marquette mentor program were to help start figuring out job applications...and how to find what I wanted in a hospital and a unit... another thing I wanted to do was a mock interview because I had never really done a professional interview before,” Lauren Neiheisel, a senior in the College of Nursing and current mentee, said.

Neihesel worked with a retired nurse and ended up getting a job in January She credits the mock interviews she did with her mentor as one of the reasons for her success.

“Working with her was super helpful because I was looking at hospitals in all different cities and I wanted a specific type of unit and to be in a nurse residency program which isn’t at all hospitals. She helped me be like super selective and organize my

thoughts,” Neihesel.

Following the job offer, Neihesel said she continued to talk with her mentor about different career paths after a few years in the industry. She ended up making an excel spreadsheet to keep track of all her thoughts and conversations she had with her mentor.

Kim Eck, a current mentor, has been with the program for almost the entirety of its lifespan. She’s wrapping up her eighth year as a Marquette mentor this spring.

“As a mentor my job is to help them achieve those goals and help the mentee feel as if they’ve really accomplished something and that they have something to take away from the program,” Eck said.

Eck has some experience working with foundations, so she said her mentees are primarily students with an interest working in the non-profit world. She said

she’s helped students get connected with organizations such as the American Red Cross and Habitat for Humanity.

For Eck, the key to being a good mentor is adjusting to the needs and wants of your mentee.

She said that from the Fall to the Spring it’s often a student’s goals or career paths may change.

“It’s never a one-size fits all... realize that your path is not always going to be a linear path, things change... that’s what life is all about,” Eck said.

For interested students in informational lunch is being held in Zilber Hall 370 Wednesday, April 20, from Noon to 1 p.m.

There will be a program overview and a panel of mentees and mentors to speak about the program. Students must register ahead of time using this link or they can email daniel.deweerdt@ marquette.edu for more information on how to get connected.

How is Milwaukee celebrating Earth Day?

Marquette to hold prayer service for planet April 22, 9 p.m.

By Clara Lebrón

clara.lebron@marquette.edu

Milwaukee continues to celebrate Earth Day 52 years after U.S. Senator from Wisconsin Gaylord Nelson founded it in 1970 with the help of 20 million demonstrators in different cities.

The implementation of Earth Day was meant to create awareness among the American public about the damage that both they as individuals and corporations were causing the environment.

Today, the United Nations, scientists, and environmental activists warn the public about the rising sea levels, droughts, and worsening living conditions climate change could create; and Earth Day still presents an opportunity to confront how our behaviors can impact the Earth.

“Living in an urban environment today means being often disconnected from nature. Earth Day can bring the environment back to the forefront of the minds of Milwaukee residents.

It provides an excellent educational opportunity for the younger generations attending schools that celebrate this holiday,” Matt Dupasquier, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences, said.

Dupasquier will be celebrating Earth Day by continuing to work on his senior project with his team. The design is meant to create use out of underutilized spaces on campus by making a permeable pavement amphitheater

which will be placed behind the Haggerty Museum.

“The added stormwater storage should help solve flooding problems that the museum has been having as well as provide a place for natural stormwater infiltration instead of directing this water into Milwaukee’s combined sewer system,” Dupasquier said.

The design also projects the usage of a bioswale, which is a type of man-made trench, placed on the lawn of Sensenbrenner Hall to reduce the amount and increase the quality of rainwater in the area.

Dupasquier and his team are not the only ones striving toward a more sustainable campus. Marquette Sustainability is hosting a reuse fair on

April 21st at the AMU West Lawn from 12 pm to 2 pm. Additionally, Late Night Marquette will be hosting a DIY event where students can learn how to make their own laundry detergent on April 29th from 2-4pm.

Other activities on campus include making several environmental professionals available to students, and communal prayer for Earth Day on April 22 at 9:00 p.m. in the garden outside the St. Joan of Arc Chapel.

However, opportunities to celebrate Earth Day also exist outside of the 107 acres that encompass Marquette‘s campus.

“With Earth Day starting in Wisconsin 52 years ago, it’s easy to see why people get so excited for April and Earth Day”, said Davita

Flowers-Shanklin, Volunteer Program Manager at the Urban Ecology Center said.

The Urban Ecology Center is a Milwaukee-based organization that specializes in creating environmental awareness specifically in cities.

The organization has three branches, but they are only celebrating Earth Day in Riverside Park by organizing a park cleanup in partnership with Milwaukee River Keeper a science-based advocacy organization working for swimmable, fishable rivers throughout the Milwaukee River Basin.

Due to scheduling conflicts, there are no other activities dedicated to Earth Day that the organization will be overseeing.

“Usually we try to schedule events on Saturdays to make sure that as many people as possible can come.

Since Earth Day happens to land on a Friday this year, we weren’t able to accommodate this time,” Chris Steinkamp, Branch Manager of Riverside Park, said.

Additionally, there are several volunteer opportunities throughout the week and the year in all three parks the center has stations.

Although Riverside is the main branch of the Urban Ecology Center, the other two branches based in Washington Park and Menomonee Park are closer to Marquette. The organization also works with service learners and students looking for volunteer hours.

Photo by Josh Meitz joshua.meitz@marquette.edu Graphic by RJ Siano ryan.siano@marquette.edu

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Kim’s Land of Unread Stories: ‘The Unhoneymooners’ New York Times Beststelling author published novel

By Kim Cook

kimberly.cook@marquette.edu

Editor’s Note: This review contains minor spoilers essential to the plot of “The Unhoneymooners.”

Olive Torres has always been the opposite of her twin sister, Ami. While Ami is lucky in love, has a stable job and is somehow able to pay for her entire wedding with contest and sweepstakes wins, Olive has more embarrassing stories than she can count, was recently laid off from her job and lives a pessimistic lifestyle in which she considers herself eternally “unlucky.”

And having to spend her sister’s wedding day with the groom’s best man and older brother, Ethan, who also happens to be the person she loathes most in the world, is probably the most unlucky and unfortunate thing that she can think of.

So when a bad batch of shellfish leaves her sister’s entire wedding party doubled over with food poisoning, Olive’s luck seems to be taking a turn for the better as she is one of the only two people unaffected. Even better, Ami offers Olive her her all-expenses-paid honeymoon to Maui.

Then, when Olive finds out that Ethan was also offered the trip by his brother, all bets are off. Too stubborn to let the other have the trip to themselves, the two call a truce. They decide that they can both go on the trip and never have to see each other.

There’s only one catch: In order to attend the trip, they have to pose as newlyweds. Not a simple task for two people who can’t stand each one another.

But as Olive gets more comfortable playing her role, she realizes that her nemesis isn’t quite the “Satan’s errand boy” she once thought him to be, and maybe, just maybe, Ethan may not hate her quite as much as she thought he did.

My Rating and Review: This book is such a fun, light read. I haven’t read nearly 400

Photo by of Kim Cook kimberly.cook@marquette.edu

“The Unhoneymooners” follows perpetually-unlucky Olive Torres on a honeymoon vacation with a man who isn’t actually her husband.

pages in a day in a long time, and “The Unhoneymooners” was just the page-turner that I needed this week. Author Christina Lauren’s characters were clever and have a stubborn humor to them that makes for a story that doesn’t feel as long as it is thick, and left me wanting more.

Every scene made me picture what the story would look like as a romantic-comedy film and the chuckles that would come from the audience at every clever joke or comment. Ethan’s charm prove him always great for a laugh, especially when he experiences flight anxiety or when he decides to take on a group of mouthy

teenagers in paintball.

While I would hate to give too much away, the book does function almost exactly like the type of rom-com that you see on the Hallmark Channel at Christmastime. It’s not that the plot was predictable, it just wasn’t as thought out as I thought it could have been.

Olive and Ethan as enemiesto-lovers in this novel was probably the best thing to happen to this story. The back and forth bickering made them sound like an old married couple, but as time progressed and the more I paid attention, the more I noticed their love and lust for each other

was more reminiscent of season 2 of Netflix’s “Bridgerton.”

While I do love them as a couple, overall, Ethan does a lot of the heavy lifting for the relationship with his quips and quirky romantic gestures. Olive is a decent character, but her pessimistic lifestyle and habit of jumping to conclusions for the majority of the book made it hard for me to enjoy her character and her contributions to the plot. Her character didn’t find much growth until her life had completely fallen apart and she had to build it back up again, and even then, I don’t think I got to see enough of that growth in the

last few pages before the book came to an end.

“The Unhoneymooners” by Christina Lauren has to be one of my favorite books that I have read this year. I couldn’t have asked for a better time to read it. This book is perfect for beach read, a day of relaxation, or for anyone who might think they are unlucky in love. I promise, this book with have you laughing, crying and feeling all of the feels.

I rate Christina Lauren’s “The Unhoneymooners” four out of five stars.

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Alex’s Book Cave: ‘The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo’ Tale recommended

by TikTok’s ‘BookTok’ online community

By Alex Wagner

alex.wagner@marquette.edu

Editor’s Note: This story contains spoilers for Taylor Jenkins Reid’s novel “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.”

Lights, camera, action!

“The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” takes us through the life and career of aging Golden Age Hollywood starlet Evelyn Hugo and her wellpublicized seven marriages. From her humble beginnings in 1950s Hell’s Kitchen, New York City to her retirement in the mid-1980s.

Evelyn bares all those dirty little secrets to journalist Monique Grant. Monique is confused why Evelyn would tap her for this massive opportunity; she’s not a seasoned journalist with awards and name recognition, she’s a lowlevel reporter. Evelyn promises all will be revealed in due time but

warns that Monique may not like the truth.

This captivating tale moves back and forth between Evelyn’s career and her meetings with Monique.

It maintains the glitz and the glam of Hollywood by addressing the nature of Evelyn being a closeted queer Cuban American woman in 20th century America.

Rating and Review: I’ll be the first to admit it – BookTok made me do it. I saw this book come up on my “For You Page” every time I was on TikTok, and after reading the synopsis, I knew I had to give it a read. And for once, BookTok did not lie to me! I read this and immediately fell in love with the plot and most of the characters.

Evelyn has a dream: to become famous. She’s willing to do anyone or anything to become a star. In fact, that was the point of her first husband; she married him because he would take her from New York to California. She says throughout the novel that she’s “not a good person,” but I don’t think that’s the case. I think she’s opportunistic and has a strong personality. I

mean she’s a woman of color in 1950s Hollywood trying to make it big, I would do the same thing if I was in her shoes.

Each of her husbands are well written too. Usually it’s hard for authors to create characters with their own personality and idiosyncrasies, but Taylor Jenkins Reid doesn’t have this problem.

Granted, maybe because Evelyn’s husbands have their own distinct sections instead of being in the whole novel, this helps Reid in crafting them.

Celia St. James is the opposite of Evelyn. She’s a carefree, Type B personality, and would prefer a happy life than a successful career.

I found her endearing and sweet, but otherwise annoying. I felt she expected too much of Evelyn, granted Evelyn could learn to compromise and be a better friend, but Celia should have known what she was getting into.

I felt Monique was more of a literary device for the end of the novel for Hugo’s “big reveal.” I wasn’t really attached to her as I was to Evelyn and Celia. It doesn’t help that we don’t gleam a lot

from her life other than that she brought down by the hatefulness. was raised by single mother and I give “The Seven Husbands of is divorcing her husband. These Evelyn Hugo” by Taylor Jenkins events play such a small part of Reid five out of five stars. the novel that I viewed them more as nuisances.

I loved the plot, I thought it was very well written. It flowed naturally between Evelyn’s career, her meetings with Monique and the stories of her marriages.

Reid did a great job of crafting a real and safe LGBTQ relationship between two women without bringing in the bigotry of the time. It was a The Seven Husbands novel about two of Evelyn Hugo women who fell in love, not broader society in general.

There’s discussion of what being openly gay would entail during that time period, and while it is important, it was nice to not to be Graphic by Lily Werner elizabeth.werner@marquette.edu

Students’ guide to show, movie streaming in summer Picks included “One Tree Hill,” “Inventing Anna” on Netflix

By Jolan Kruse

jolan.kruse@marquette.edu

With the semester coming to an end the one thing I’m looking forward to is more free time. Although some of us might think we’ll be busy 24/7 making memories with friends, we may end up doing a lot more TV streaming than planned.

Here’s a guide to your summer streaming based on Marquette students’ recommendations.

Teah Rogers, a first-year in the College of Nursing, recommended watching “ShangChi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” on Disney Plus. She gave it a rating of 9 out of 10.

“It was funny and entertaining.

If you like Marvel movies, it’s a lot of action and it’s very different from the other Marvel movies.

The concepts and superpowers are unique compared to the other Marvel movies too,” Rogers said.

“I also love this one because it’s the first Asian superhero in the Marvel Universe.”

This movie featured Asian culture, which is different from other Marvel movies which

display more Western culture.

Rogers explained that Shang-Chi is a martial arts warrior who must protect the world from a villain while investigating a suspicious organization called “Ten Rings” which is owned by his father. It’s also a journey of self-discovery.

Summer Luna, a first-year in the College of Arts & Sciences, usually watches romantic comedies, romance and dramas.

Luna recommended watching “One Tree Hill” on HBO Max. The show’s nine seasons follow the journey of the main characters, who start out as kids, to their adulthood. One of Luna’s

favorite things about the show is the love triangles.

“It’s kind of like a comfort show and there are so many different plots, so you never get bored of it.

There’s just so much going on,” Luna said. Luna rated “One Tree Hill” a 10 out of 10.

She also mentioned it’s a good show to have on in the background while multitasking, but it is also engaging and binge-worthy.

Alex Perez, a sophomore in the College of Business Administration, usually watches comedy, action, anime or scifi. Right now, he is binging Hulu’s “It’s Always Sunny

in Philadelphia.” It’s about four friends who own a bar in Philadelphia. The show follows their daily lives and the comedic situations they get themselves into.

“It’s a comedy that’s pretty raunchy but also pretty realistic in how it portrays the main characters as regular workingclass people compared to other sitcoms that show regular people living in fancy apartments,” Perez said.

Perez would give it an 8 out of 10.

“It’s a bit more down to earth than other TV comedies,” Perez

Graphic by Lily Werner elizabeth.werner@marquette.edu

said. “I also appreciate how it doesn’t try to glamorize the lives of the main characters.” Perez mentioned the show’s inclusion of social commentary in some of the episodes, such as racism, which he explains makes it even more interesting.

Rogers also recommended watching “Inventing Anna” on Netflix.

“I like investigative crime shows and this one is based on a true story, which I think is really cool. I would rate it 9 out of 10,” Rogers said.

“Inventing Anna” is based on a magazine article titled “How Anna Delvey Tricked New York’s Party People.” The show is from a reporter’s perspective as she follows an heiress who used charm and wit to steal from many socialites in New York.

Another show Luna recommended is Netflix’s “Elite,” filled with a dramatic plot. “Elite” is a show about a private high school in Spain. Luna explains what makes this show unique is the drama isn’t typical high school drama, it contains murder, drugs and lots of plot twists.

“I love watching Spanish shows, they’re really good, they’re super intense and filled with drama and plot twists. They’re very addicting,” Luna said.

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STAFF EDITORIAL

Information, presence necessary to ‘be the difference’

Being an active member of the Marquette University community is important to creating a safer and more equitable environment for everyone. It’s important that students and the university take steps to stay engaged in what is happening near and far from campus.

Recently, Marquette University Student Government and the President’s Task Force on Community Safety hosted a Campus Safety Student Forum to share its seven action steps to address the recent increase in crime on campus and get student insight.

Although many students expressed concern for their safety on campus, there was low student attendance at the forum.

Showing up to events like this forum, where the university is calling on students to share their concerns, is important because a larger student presence showcases that students are actually concerned. Additionally, students should take every opportunity to use their voices.

Students who weren’t able to

Krisha Patel

This story is fictional and part of a series called “A Greener Future.” It is a prediction of what the global environment may look like 10 years from now. This story is based on present day data and available evidence.

Ten years ago, I would have seen smoke billowing out from the cars whizzing past me on the highway. But now, more people are driving electric cars.

In 2022, less than 1% of cars worldwide were electric. There were some projections that estimated half of all cars on the road going electric by 2050.

The large switch over to electric was largely motivated by people’s decision to address climate change, and decrease their carbon dioxide

attend the forum should consider submitting questions and comments to the Task Force.

Being active in campus events is also important in political elections. In the MUSG spring elections, there was only a 30% student voter turnout, with 2,189 of 7,269 eligible voters ==casting votes.

While this year’s voter turnout was significantly higher than last year’s 24.3% rate, it is still low overall. Voting is a quintessential way for students, and people in general, to use their voices to bring attention to issues they care about. To have students who can represent the interest of the larger student body, more students should vote in the upcoming MUSG elections. This is especially important since MUSG is the only student-led organization on campus that directly works to bridge the gap between students and the administration.

The responsibility to be engaged is on students, but the university should also work to make sure students have the

necessary information to access these events.

To be good global citizens students should consider attending more events about international issues.

The College of Arts & Sciences and the International Affairs Program hosted a two-day panel on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine March 22 and 23.

Both nights were highly attended, which is a great way to increase awareness. Going to events that are informative about the global community is essential if students want to be the difference.

There are a host of events that occur across campus every week that many may not know about and may not attend.

For example, two events that didn’t receive much promotion were the TEDxMarquetteU hosted a “Flourish Conference” March 28 and the Metcalfe Chair lecture featuring Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American studies Davarian Baldwin March 31.

One issue that may prevent easy access to information about events is the current organization of campus events. Some events are shared through university news, the Events and Programming Calendar and the Calendar Events. Other events are only promoted through different colleges and departments.

Having too many places to try finding events can create confusion and prevent students from readily accessing event information. Not only does this jeopardize students’ ability to learn and broaden their knowledge of different topics, but it also hinders their ability to become more informed and engaged citizens.

In addition to increasing communication about campus events, the university should help promote more events hosted by student organizations. This will support student organizations as well as facilitate more opportunities for students to interact across groups.

Another way Marquette can help student organizations

increase their event promotion is by revising its poster policy for student organizations. Currently, the Office of Engagement and Inclusion must approve all student organization publicity.

Some of the university policies for advertising and publicity put restrictions on the content, sizes and locations for where student organizations can put up posters.

As a private institution, Marquette can restrict student organizations’ ability to advertise events. But in keeping with its Jesuit values, the university should work to make avenues for student communication more accessible, so students can become more involved and connect with others.

Being an engaged citizen requires staying informed and being present at campus and community events. In order to do this, Marquette needs to help connect students with the information to access these events. Taking these steps now will not only help students be the difference during their time at Marquette but also when they leave.

emissions from driving gaspowered vehicles. Electric cars have changed our generation for the better by being a cheaper alternative, more environmentally friendly and having better performances such as speed.

By using petrol-powered vehicles, we were putting our lives at risk. Petrol-powered vehicles use a spark-plug engine to turn on. The potential dangers of that electrical shock and the flammability of the fuel meant that they were more likely to catch on fire than electric cars.

Another downside to petrolpowered vehicles was how much money people were spending on them. The average American spent nearly $1,800 on gas in 2021 and without electric cars, the number would’ve only gone up with increasing gas prices.

With electric cars, it was reported they saved about

$1,000 of fuel on average, which may have been another contributing factor to the switch.

Additionally, gas has many negative health impacts and harms the environment. Gasoline is composed of 150 chemicals coming from crude oil. People are constantly exposed to gasoline when filling up their cars at a gas station. Breathing small amounts of gasoline can cause nose and throat irritation, headaches, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, confusion and breathing difficulties.

A typical passenger car can emit about 4.6 tons of carbon dioxide a year, which negatively contributes to climate change.

Electric gases emit fewer greenhouse gases and air pollutant, which in turn decreases the contributions to climate change.

Another alternative to using gas was using diesel. Diesel fuel

is thicker than gasoline, meaning it evaporates slower and lasts longer. This is more efficient in big vehicles such as SUVs and trucks.

However, diesel fuel was more expensive than gas. Additionally, it was 13% times more likely to cause pollution than petrol-operated cars.

To protect ourselves and the environment all while making better financial choices, it was smarter to turn to electric cars.

Statistically, electric cars are safer to operate than gasolineoperated cars. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, electric cars had less automobile accidents than gas-run cars due to the fact that they weren’t as flammable. They were also less likely to be flipped over in an accident because they have a lower center of gravity.

Electric cars also have

lower maintenance issues than gasoline-powered cars. Electric cars are battery-run and there are less fluids, like engine oil, which normally requires regular anging.

Back in 2022, an electric car could go up to 300 miles before needing a charge, which was comparable to other vehicles.

Starting this transition has changed our world for the better, and it’s astounding we didn’t make the switch a long time ago. Many people were skeptical about the reliability and the cost, but electric cars have proved to be a long-term investment, as electric cars’ prices have decreased as the market has expanded.

Electric vehicles rise to majority use

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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Fast fashion going out of style

Laura Niezgoda

This story is fictional and part of a series called “A Greener Future.” It is a prediction of what the global environment may look like 10 years from now. This story is based on present day data and available evidence.

As the models walk down the runway, the lights capture the shifting fabrics. The one strange thing that sets Paris Fashion Week 2032 apart from any other is the manufacturer of each design: the models themselves.

Each model has sewn her own clothes from patterns given to them by designers including, but not limited to Christain Dior and Chanel. This Fashion Week has been called upon by social media influencers to incorporate sustainable fashion into the major industry, after years of requests.

In 2022, fast fashion had an enormous impact on the global economy. The industry generated $203,300 million in revenue in 2020 and employed 300 million workers around the world. By 2027, it was estimated to increase to $252,440 million.

Take a garment from the runway in Paris Fashion Week

Grace Cady

This story is fictional and part of a series called “A Greener Future.” It is a prediction of what the global environment may look like 10 years from now. This story is based on present day data and available evidence.

I’m walking through a forest plush with greenery, animals roaming freely and trees as far as the eye can see. I’m writing from a world where we realize the impacts of deforestation.

From a time when the forests are left alone and the tropics host all walks of animal and plant life.

Forests are vital to the Earth for a variety of reasons.

Over half of the world’s landbased plants and animals call forests home, and having plentiful forestry is vital to the survival and well-being of these plants and animals. Animals can either thrive off their environment or be neglected by it. For example, when birds are supplied with trees to fly back and forth from they are thriving. When trees are stripped from their habitats, they are being neglected.

Forests also have a big influence

to an affordable trendy piece that may end up in a store like H&M or Forever 21 and the end product is fast fashion. This process not only negatively impacts consumer culture but also contributes to the growing problem of climate change.

The trend cycle of continuous demand for new, stylish clothing is to blame for fast fashion.

Trends are certain garments that are popular that signal the change in design styles. The trend cycle then details the amount of time that a trend has stayed “trendy.”

The rise and the fall of a trendy garment has is detailed in the introduction, rise, acceptance, decline and obsolescence of a trend cycle.

Historically, the trend cycle lasted 20 years before the widespread usage of social media. In 2022, the fashion trend cycle had been repeating history with pieces from the 1990s and the Y2K circulating back.

However, due to the rise of social media, this trend cycle shrunk. With the constant exposure to current items, the desire for new items grew and turned the cycle into a “hypercycle.” The “hypercycle” then encouraged microtrends, which are specific items that quickly go in and out of style.

Microtrends encourage consumers to buy items they may not necessarily like, but purchase them because they are trendy. In these microtrends, the microtrend cycle lasted for three to five years, but now it only lasts a few months, even as fast as a few weeks.

The production had to keep up with the demands, so companies like Shein, Zara and ASOS rose in popularity. These companies release hundreds of new items per week to keep up with consumer demand for new products.

For SHEIN, the company brought the production of new items down to just ten days.

An investigation conducted by the United States Department of Labor found in Los Angeles that a dress that cost $24.90 did not fairly pay a worker the federal minimum wage of $7.25. If they had, the dress would have cost $30.43. This cost could be more if the factory i was paying $12 per hour minimum wage in Los Angeles.

The process is exploitative to workers who are expected to work at an inhumane rate and pollutes the environment, as the fast fashion industry makes up 10% of the global carbon emissions.

The quick production turnover

leads to depletion of our natural resources like water. The introduction of microplastics into our environment and also releases harsh and toxic chemicals in the air, such as hydrogen chloride.

Even though social media caused the emergence of ultra fast fashion, it also brought to light alternative methods of Graphic by Alexandra Garner their own garments, there was consuming clothing.

The sustainable clothing a slow cultural shift as people movement called for ethical became more interested in production of clothing, following sewing patterns to asking consumers to be more make clothes exactly how they want. Social influencers dictated socially responsible.

The overproduction and the fashion sphere and led us overconsumption went out of to where we are today. Major style. Today, sustainability is a fashion brands that orchestrate necessity in the fashion industry. the global fashion sphere had the Instead of jumping on micro models sew their own clothing trends, social influencers focus to support sustainability in the on curating their own style and fashion industry.

Sustainable fashion is not a focus on ethically consumed clothing from sustainable fashion trend, but it is a necessity within brands or shopping second-hand. fashion now.

Personal style can no longer Recently though, there has be dictated by trends or cycles. been attention on making one’s Instead, fashion must abide by own clothing.

Instead of buying a new ethics and the fair treatment of garment if there was a hole or the Earth and its people. other imperfection, it became Laura Niezgoda is a sophomore studying communication studies popular for people to mend their and criminology and law studies. own clothing. After more and She can be reached at more people began to mend laura.niezgoda@marquette.edu

on rain patterns. Rainforests specifically contribute to rainfall through transpiration when water moves through a plant and releases into the plant’s leaves, flowers and stems.

According to Global Forest Watch, in 2018, Wisconsin had natural forests extending over 42% of its land area – from 2001 to 2020 Wisconsin lost 5.6% of its tree cover.

Since trees absorb and store carbon dioxide, the process of deforestation causes a major release of carbon dioxide and greenhouse gasses into the air.

As more trees were cut, our air becomes more polluted.

A study was conducted in 2019 by the Institute for Health Policy Studies which analyzed the impact of deforestationrelated fires and their impact on people’s health. During 2019 in the Amazon region, there were 2,195 hospitalizations due to respiratory illness as a result of the fires.

The health implications of air pollution and deforestationrelated fires were an alarming issue.

In 2022, damage and loss were responsible for 10% of all global warming.

A 2020 analysis conducted by the Zoological Society of London found that more than half of the 100 most significant tropical timber and pulp companies did not make a commitment to protecting biodiversity – only 44% committed to no deforestation efforts by then. As of the year 2021, forests covered about 31% of the world’s land area, but were disappearing very quickly. Many major companies were to blame for not doing more to commit to climate protection.

Some of these companies include Cargill, IKEA, Starbucks and McDonald’s.

Back in 2021, Walmart was named one of the major companies responsible for deforestation according to Earth. org. The company had set zero deforestation goals for the year 2020 and also had no system to monitor the origin of forest-risk commodities such as pulp and paper. In 2021, Walmart said that deforestation efforts were “not an immediate business priority” for the company.

When companies as major as Walmart were making no conscious effort to assess their contribution to climate issues and deforestation, they were taking an

immense toll on the environment.

Luckily now, companies have been forced to see the error in their ways, and by federal mandate must create systems to assess their contribution to deforestation.

Now, companies are more aware of their contribution to deforestation. We hold companies responsible for their contributions to deforestation and implement legitimate change, we combat the climate issues that used to exist. Companies can produce, thrive and earn profit while still preserving the environment. By setting goals to source products and resources without committing deforestation, companies can contribute to a better climate.

In 2021, some world leaders made a promise to end deforestation by the year 2030.

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke at a meeting of more than 100 world leaders committing to end deforestation and said, “We have to stop devastating the loss of our forests.”

Overall, because of the cutback on deforestation, we are living in a better world.

A world where I can write to you from a plentiful forest. A

Walking through a greener world

world where the greenhouse gas emissions are lower and the trees grow higher.

Deforestation’s effect on climate change is immense.

Since we have made a continued effort to combat deforestation and create a more viable environment, life will continue to improve if we continue our effort against deforestation.

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

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Finding early success

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First-year attacker/midfielder Meg Bireley (33) travels with the ball in Marquette’s 24-17 win over Butler April 16 at Valley Fields. Bireley had three goals and two assists in the win.

Coach impressed by how Bireley has adjusted to college

By Kelly Reilly

kelly.reilly@marquette.edu

With key members of the program graduating, the Marquette women’s lacrosse team entered the 2022 season with different looks across its five positional units amid a young group of talent.

Some of the key losses included Megan Menzuber, who finished her career No. 2 in program history in points and goals,

Emily Cooper, who finished her career No. 2 in program history in draw controls and Juliana Horning, who finished her career as the program’s all-time saves leader.

First-year attacker/midfielder Meg Bireley was one newcomer who looked to make an impact early on.

“I started playing lacrosse when I was in third grade, I just did the park district league. Since I was young, I was always playing lacrosse seriously, I’d say when I got to high school is when I got more serious about it,” Bireley said.

In high school, Bireley led Glenbrook South High School

to state runner-up in lacrosse during her senior season. Across her four years, she totaled 208 goals, 90 assists and 363 draw controls.

Bireley comes from a Marquette family, as her dad earned her master’s at Marquette, making the decision to commit to the Golden Eagles an easy one.

“Ever since I was a young kid, this was a school that I had always known about,” Bireley said. “In high school I would go to Marquette lacrosse camps and ID camps and so I knew that this was a school that I wanted to go to. I got to witness firsthand how great of a program it was and I wanted to be a part of it.”

Assistant coach Caitlin Wolf said she has been impressed by how Bireley has adjusted to the college environment both on and off the field.

“She is unfazed by anything that comes her way, knows how to take care of what is on her plate and (when) to ask her for help when she needs it,” Wolf said.

Along with adjusting to the college level, Wolf said she has seen Bireley grow as a player which has allowed her personality to come out more.

“As a freshman she started out a little quieter, now she is celebrating more, directing more, just involved in the full unit more than just her play,”

Wolf said.

Wolf said Bireley’s leading attributes as a player has led to her success this season.

“Meg is fierce, fearless, really quiet on the field and unassuming which I think is a huge advantage for us,” Wolf said. “She has a ton of skill and great lacrosse IQ (and) sometimes she flies under the radar, which benefits us a ton.”

Throughout the first 14 games of her career, Bireley had notched 23 goals, six assists and 29 points. She leads all first-year players on the team in shots with 63.

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Class of 2022 recruit provides versatility to team Forward played on New Zealand’s senior national team in Feb.

By John Leuzzi

john.leuzzi@marquette.edu

After losing three members of last year’s roster either to graduation or the transfer portal and potentially a fourth in Justin Lewis, Marquette men’s basketball head coach Shaka Smart picked up some gold in Class of 2022 forward Ben Gold.

Smart announced last Wednesday that the Wellington, New Zealand native had signed his national letter of intent that day and will join the Golden Eagles late next month.

“I’m super excited about Ben Gold,” Smart said in a media availability last Wednesday.

“There’s a lot of attributes that he has that I believe, once he gets his feet under him here, and that does take time for any freshman, but once he makes the transition, it’s really exciting what he can become as a player.”

Gold, who announced his commitment to Marquette in

February, joins guards Sean Jones and Chase Ross in Smart’s first recruiting class at Marquette.

“I’m excited to announce my commitment to @MarquetteMBB. Thank you to everyone that’s helped me along the journey,” Gold said on his Twitter when he committed to Marquette Feb. 14.

Gold comes from a basketball family as his dad and two older brothers played the sport in New Zealand.

“As the youngest of three, he’s used to trying to compete with those guys but he’s kind of passed them up in terms of height and size,” Smart said. “The way his body’s changed in the last two, three years is amazing. You always try to get guys that are trending upward.”

Smart said for an incoming first-year player, Gold has “very good maturity.”

Along with his level of maturity, the 6-foot-11 forward brings a level of toughness to Marquette’s roster.

“One thing I like about him (is) he’s got a rugby background,” Smart said. “Which to me is like football players in this country. They’re (rugby players) not going to be soft.”

Gold joins redshirt

first-year forward OlivierMaxence Prosper as members of the Golden Eagles roster who are products of the NBA Global Academy.

Currently, Gold plays for the NBA Global Academy in Canberra, Australia, while Prosper played for the NBA Academy Latin America.

“Those NBA academies have a lot of good players, so there’s a lot of talent on those teams,” Smart said.

Some alumni of the NBA Academy that played in this past year’s NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament consist of Oumar Ballo (Arizona), Bennedict Mathurin (Arizona), Alex Ducas (Saint Mary’s), Francisco Farabello (Texas Christian University) and Hyunjung Lee (Davidson).

Smart said he got to see Gold play in person back in December at the Tarkanian Classic and the G League Showcase in Las Vegas when he was playing with the NBA Latin American Team for that weekend.

“He was playing a little bit out of position (as) it was his first couple of weeks with that team and fortunately, we had watched a lot of tape on him so we knew what he was all about as a player,” Smart said.

“(It) was just getting a chance to kind of see him in person. “We had already offered him a scholarship and he’s a high-character guy, who has a chance I think to become a terrific player.”

In a game against NBA Academy Africa in Las Vegas, Gold racked up 22 points and eight rebounds in 25 minutes at the showcase.

Along with playing in the NBA Global Academy, Gold has represented his home country on the national level several times. In late February, Gold played for Basketball New Zealand at the FIBA Basketball World Cup Qualifiers in Manila, Philippines.

In two games in the FIBA Basketball World Cup Qualifiers, Gold averaged 3.0 points, 1.5 rebounds, 0.5 assists and 0.5 blocks.

With New Zealand’s senior national team, Gold played with a group of professional basketball players in their 30s.

“And one of the reasons they included him, he was by far the youngest guy that was included when he played a couple months ago with that group, is that they see a bright future in him and

potentially long-term could be a significant piece on their national team. Maybe even in the Olympic Games or big, big international competitions.”

As for where Gold might play on the court next season, he lists himself as a small forward. Smart said like others who play the one through four on the team, Gold will be interchangeable in rotations.

“He’s gotten stronger so the way that the game has evolved, you want as many guys in the game to have versatility,” Smart said. “But I think you’ll see him playing kind of the four, but for us he’s multi-positional and (we’re) excited about moving him around some.”

As a big man, Gold is able to stretch the floor with plays inside the paint and beyond the arc poising some interesting options on how Smart might use him on the floor come November.

“One of the best things about him is he could really, really move for that size,” Smart said. “He’s what we call a clean mover and that’s so important in basketball. He’s got a lot of positive attributes and I think his best basketball, like a lot of these guys, is still ahead of him.”

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Gold plays for the NBA Global Academy in Canberra, Australia. He played for Basketball New Zealand at the FIBA Basketball World Cup Qualifiers in Manila, Philippines in Feb.

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The relationship between a wristband and a player San Andres went 12-2 overall last year in single matches

By Ben Schultz

benjamin.a.schultz@marquette.edu

After four years of change for redshirt junior Fran San Andres, one thing has remained constant: a red and yellow wristband he wears on his right wrist.

San Andres is from Madrid, Spain and the red and yellow on his wristband resemble the Spanish flag.

“It’s given me good luck. I like to think of it that way,” San Andres said. “In four years I’ve never taken it off.”

The wristband can be seen in photos of San Andres donning the blue and gold in match, in the team photo that hangs from the rafters inside the Helfaer Tennis Stadium and Recreation Center on Marquette’s campus.

San Andres said the wristband was a gift from his family before he traveled over 4,000 miles to Milwaukee to play tennis collegiately as a token of remembrance.

That was until this year, when San Andres’ father came to check up on him after surgery at the end of January before coming back this past Wednesday with his mother to watch him play against Xavier and Butler Friday and Saturday, respectively.

“It’s an amazing feeling,” San Andres said. “They

haven’t seen me play in a while now cause I was always here (Milwaukee), but I think they’ve liked it so far.”

San Andres said he started playing tennis at the age of three while also playing soccer and basketball.

Despite choosing tennis over the others, his soccer and basketball skills can still be seen when he steps on a tennis court either when he’s juggling a tennis ball with his feet or bouncing the ball before a serve.

He said he first picked up a tennis racket to “have fun,” but it has turned into more than that.

“It was just to have fun and then I started competing when I was around 12 years old,” San Andres said. “I just fell in love since I was very young with tennis.”

As for continuing the love for the game after high school, San Andres said he had to leave his home country as there is no college tennis program in Spain.

“I didn’t want to stop playing tennis, I wanted to keep playing,” San Andres said.

That’s where Toni Gordon came into the picture for San Andres, who played for Marquette head coach Steve Rodecap when he was coaching at Texas Christian University.

“Thanks to him (Gordon) I got in touch with coach (Rodecap) and we just made it happen,” San Andres said.

San Andres said he came to Marquette with some expectations, which revolved

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Redshirt junior Fran San Andres (left) earned All-BIG EAST First Team honors in 2021.

around the game and in the classroom.

“I just wanted to get a good education and get as good as I possibly could in tennis,” San Andres said. “I think I’ve achieved both. I’m about to graduate now and think I’m playing my best level I’ve ever played now.”

As for his own expectations for San Andres, Rodecap said they were high.

“I knew he was going to be good,” Rodecap said.

Last spring during his redshirt sophomore season, San Andres went 12-2 overall in single matches and 7-2 within those matches in the No. 1 singles role which earned him All-BIG EAST First Team honors.

Rodecap said that after being out about seven weeks earlier this season with a wrist injury, San Andres is back to playing as well as he did before the injury. Back to the same level where he could only be defeated twice in singles play.

“I told him yesterday (Friday) the level’s there,” Rodecap said. “If he had that COVID year that he lost and this year, full year, he’d end up being one of the best players to ever play here.”

However, before seeing any of this success and going from No. 6 singles to No.1 singles San Andres said he didn’t always see the court during BIG EAST matches in his first year.

“I remember my freshman year I wasn’t even playing in the lineup in BIG EAST (play),” San Andres said.

“Then my junior year I went from not being in the lineup to playing one (singles) in BIG EAST (play).”

As for the reason for this, Rodecap said San Andres needed to mature.

“He had a lot of growing up to do,” Rodecap said. “The thing that’s really neat about seeing him today, four years later, is the amount of maturity that he’s gone through is light-years.”

San Andres said he has also seen himself mature and change throughout his time at Marquette.

“I’ve matured a lot. I’m a

completely different guy from when I was a freshman,” San Andres said. “I think overall the experience playing with the team and living abroad and alone has given me a lot of maturity.”

This past weekend, San Andres had his senior day along with redshirt junior Shaddy Khalafallah.

“I’ve loved my four years here and I wouldn’t trade it for anything,” San Andres said.

Despite senior day being a thing of the past, the season isn’t over yet for San Andres and Marquette as the BIG EAST Tournament begins this Friday in Cayce, South Carolina.

Rodecap said the conference tournament will serve as an opportunity for San Andres to continue to leave his impact on the program.

“This year will decide a lot of that (San Andres’ impact),” Rodecap said. “If we can go down there and figure it out, I think that would mean a lot to Fran (San Andres).”

No matter what happens after he laces up his white Nike’s with the yellow swoosh for the last time, San Andres said he is going to continue to do what he loves all while wearing his red and yellow wristband.

“I’m going to still keep playing tennis,” San Andres said.

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O’Grady breaks single season goals record in loss Golden Eagles fall to No. 2 Georgetown 20-10 on the road

By Sam Arco

samuel.arco@marquette.edu

Following a loss to No. 10 Notre Dame at Valley Fields Tuesday, the Marquette men’s lacrosse team was tasked with facing another Top 10 program Saturday afternoon, this time in then-No. 3 Georgetown.

And despite a record-setting day from first-year attacker Bobby O’Grady, the Golden Eagles fell to the Hoyas 20-10 on the road in the nation’s capital.

Georgetown started the game as the aggressor, jumping out to a 4-1 lead midway through the first quarter, not letting Marquette get set into its offensive rhythm.

After redshirt sophomore attacker Devon Cowan’s 16th goal of the season, which brought the Golden Eagles back within a 5-3 deficit, the Hoyas responded with backto-back goals to take a 7-3 lead going into the second.

Georgetown would tack

on three more goals to take a 10-3 lead midway through the second quarter. Marquette finally responded with three straight goals, two of which came from O’Grady, which brought Marquette to within four, 10-6.

O’Grady, the reigning BIG EAST Player and Freshman of the Week, entered the afternoon needing just five goals to break Ryan McNamara’s program record of 40 goals scored in a season.

Despite Georgetown’s top scoring defense in the nation, O’Grady did just that, scoring five goals to give him 41 goals on the season, the most ever scored by one in a Marquette uniform in a single season.

Two goals from Georgetown senior attacker Dylan Watson to end the first half gave the home side a 12-6 lead at the break. Cowan and O’Grady led the Golden Eagles with two goals each in the opening half, but the Hoyas attack was too much to handle.

In the third quarter, Georgetown would keep its foot on the pedal, gathering its largest lead of the game at the time at 17-8, holding Marquette to just two O’Grady goals in

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First-year attacker Bobby O’Grady (13) heads to net in Marquette’s 16-11 win over Providence April 2.

the quarter.

Like the third, the fourth quarter saw little scoring from both sides, as Georgetown’s defense clamped down on Marquette and denied any form of comeback on the road, giving them their second-straight loss.

Watson led the Hoyas with five goals and one assist on the day, also giving him 41 goals on the season.

Georgetown out-shot Mar-

quette 63-32 overall and 4623 on shots on target throughout the afternoon. Despite facing an abundance of shots, Marquette first-year goalkeeper Michael Allieri recorded a career-high 26 saves.

Cowan and sophomore Pierce Washburn scored the remainder of Marquette’s goals, each recording two on the day.

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Kenzie Hare flips commitment to Marquette Duffy picks up fourth member in 2023 recruiting class

By Jackson Gross

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Nine days after experiencing its second player to leave her program, Marquette women’s basketball head coach Megan Duffy gained a newcomer. Kenzie Hare, a guard in the Class of 2022, announced her commitment to Duffy’s program Tuesday night on Twitter.

“I am SUPER excited and grateful to announce that I have committed to Marquette University to continue my academic and athletic career!!”

Hare said in the post. “Huge thanks to my family, friends, coaches, and teammates for their support!!”

Hare decommitted from Saint Louis University after head coach Lisa Stone was fired March 18 following a 9-18 overall record this year.

In her decommittment post March 24, Hare thanks Stone, Billikens associate coach Ty Margenthaler and assistant coaches Brittany Lange and Deon Thomas for believing in her and offering the opportunity to play at Saint Louis.

The senior guard is coming off her only season at Naperville North High School and was named as 2021-22 Naperville Sun Girls Basketball Player of the Year after averaging 20.1 points, 4.2 rebounds, 3.1 steals and 3.1 assists per game.

Prior to her time with the Huskies, Hare played three seasons at Bartlett High School where in a COVID-19 shortened final season she

was named the Upstate Eight Conference Player of the Year for the second straight season.

The 5-foot-9 guard dropped 30 points, 5.1 rebounds, 5.0 assists and 4.3 steals a contest during that season.

She joins Emily La Chapell, Aizhanique Mayo and Charia Smith as members of the 2026 class to commit to Duffy’s program.

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‘woah,’ but then they will just go right in,” first-year attacker/midfielder Elise Smigiel said. “It is cool to watch her play because she plays without any fear.”

Wolf said Bireley has been a contributor all season for the Golden Eagles. “(She is) someone that we rely on,” Wolf said. “She plays all game every game, it was just a matter of time before the stats matched up and got her enough points to be recognized.”

Bireley earned BIG EAST Freshman of the Week honors April 14 following her first career hat-trick performance in the Golden Eagles’ 19-14 win

over Villanova.

“It was pretty exciting, our team really came together, everyone was doing their job to make it easy for us to score, it was a big game for us because it was our first BIG EAST win of the season,” Bireley said.

Smigiel, who is roommates with Bireley, said that the recognition was long overdue for Bireley.

“We definitely saw it coming, to get that kind of recognition we have to win those games and we had a little bit of a losing streak for a while so that’s why we weren’t able to see that,” Smigiel said. “Our big win against Villanova, she really started strong and it was awesome to see her get that.”

Bireley said she looks up to the upperclassmen on

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Bireley (left) with her sister Greer (right) following Marquette’s 24-17 win over Butler April 16.

her team, including those who share the same role and position as her.

“Our team is really good with upperclassmen trying to help younger players balance and transition from high school to college,” Bireley said.

“On the lacrosse field, it is really helpful to have upperclassmen attackers. They are really positive people and try to give everyone confidence.”

This past Saturday Bireley faced off against her older sister,

Greer, when Marquette hosted Butler University at Valley Fields. Greer finished the game with three assists and three goals while Meg had three goals and two assists.

Prior to the Golden Eagles’ 24-17 victory over the Bulldogs, Meg said both were excited to play against each other, as “it would be something different.”

“Both of us are excited,” Meg said prior to Saturday’s contest.

“When we were in high school,

we were used to playing on the same team and playing together so it should be interesting being on opposite teams and going against each other.”

Heading into the remainder of the season and the remainder of her Marquette career, Bireley said she knows that she has a role on the team and knows what to do with it. “(I want to) play and work hard for the rest of the team and as an attacker, try and get some goals.”

Graphic by RJ Siano