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Photo by Isabel Bonebrake isabel.bonebrake@marquette.edu The Celebrating Puerto Rican Culture Club is a new student organization that is joining Marquette’s campus this fall semester. Continued from page 1
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to teach people about Puerto Rican history and culture,” Velazquez said.
As of fall 2021, 15.3% of undergraduate students are Hispanic, according to the diversity and inclusion report.
“We came here and we felt so lost among such a different culture and we found each other and that brought us comfort and happiness, so us being able to open the door for that opportunity to be brought to other people is cool,” Hernandez said.
Although they felt a sense of community from a group chat that was created for the Puerto Rican students on campus, they felt like more needed to be done.
Velazquez said she created this club for everyone, whether they are Puerto Rican or not.
“My goal was for people to actually learn about the culture and history and see the beauty that we see,” Velazquez said. “I want it to feel like a community.”
“Most of the activities are for Mexican students but there are people we know from Venezuela and Panama, but I feel like they just generalize mostly,” Pascual said.
Hernandez said there is a lot of misinformation when it comes to Puerto Rico and Puerto Rican culture. Hernandez and Pascual recalled people asking them questions like “Do you speak Puerto Rican,” “Do you have wifi” and “Do you have Netflix or Instagram?”
“I would say that 99% of the time, no one is trying to offend anyone, it’s just they don’t know it so they don’t know how to properly approach questions,” Hernandez said.
Velazquez said they don’t mind people asking them questions because they want people to learn more about their culture.
At fall O-Fest, about 107 students signed up to be a member of the club.
Hernandez said she hopes they can share their culture. They hope to provide the club members with knowledge about Puerto Rico.
“I love when people are motivated and excited about our culture. I want everyone to celebrate Puerto Rico,” Hernandez said. “I’m glad a lot of people who aren’t Puerto Rican or even Latinos came to this club enjoy it because I’m really hoping they get a better grasp about what Puerto Rico is.”
Velazquez said their first event is scheduled for Sept. 22.
Velazquez said they also want to recreate a feeling of “home” for its members and show others what it’s like to experience Puerto Rican culture.
“We [Puerto Ricans] gather a lot,” Hernandez said. “There’s always some type of gathering with family. There’s food, there’s music and I feel like maybe we can recreate that for them, the feeling of being in Puerto Rico.” The MarqueTTe Tribune
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Tuesday, sepTeMber 13, 2022 Faculty in residence program makes its way to Marquette
Heidi Bostic and husband move into Campus apartments
By Skyler Chun
skyler.chun@marquette.edu
Heidi Bostic, dean of the College of Arts & Sciences and College of Education, and her husband, Stephen Pluháček, moved into Campus Town East, a university-owned apartment, this August. They are the first participants in a new Faculty in Residence program being piloted at Marquette University this school year.
The vision for the Faculty in Residence program is for faculty participants to serve as campus community leaders and create a “clear and visible presence to help deepen integration and a more holistic student experience at Marquette.”
While Bostic and Pluháček still own a house on the east side of Milwaukee, Bostic said she considers the terms “house” and “home” to be two separate things.
“A house is a building you can own, and a home is where you share your life with others,” Bostic said in an email. “Having lived in many different places across the U.S. as well as in Europe and South America, we have found that ‘home’ is wherever we are together.”
And right now, for them, Marquette’s campus is home.
Joe Nelson, a senior in the College of Nursing, also considers Campus Town East his home on campus. Being close to the Sendik’s grocery store, Recreation Center and right across from the Alumni Memorial Union, Nelson said his apartment is in a convenient location.
“This is my third semester living in the same room with the same roommates, and I love it here,” Nelson said. “The location on campus is unbeatable and it is centrally located next to a lot of important buildings I go to regularly during the week.”
After moving in, Bostic and Pluháček spent their time volunteering to greet and assist families and students as they moved into Wells Hall and Schroeder Hall on campus.
“The first weekend before classes began, things were a little lively. Since then, it has been a wonderful and peaceful experience with many unexpected meetings with colleagues and students across campus,” Bostic said in an email. “We love the energy that comes from living around students.”
Bostic said they both loved talking with students during move-in and getting a sense of the different areas of study that students are pursuing.
“We spoke with some parents of first-year students who were struggling with the reality of leaving their children and having to go home without them,” Bostic said in an email. “We reassured them that Marquette is a caring community that will support their students and ensure that they feel a sense of belonging and community here.”
Specifically, she said they loved meeting students and families from Omaha, where Bostic and Pluháček met and completed their undergraduate degrees.
Pluháček, an affiliated faculty member in the department of theology, said he is looking forward to getting to know more people in the Marquette community.
“I love the causal meetings that turn into robust conversations,” Pluháček said. “Making room in one’s life for others, including deeper relationships with faculty, staff and students, can open up time and space in unexpected ways.”
He also said he loves how easy it is to attend various events, such as mass at the Church of Gesu, prayer services and athletic events.
When Nelson first heard about the program, he said he thought it was an interesting idea.
“As a senior living in an
apartment, I always viewed the transition from living in a dorm to an apartment as a step in the direction of greater independence,” Nelson said. “Especially by not having an RA on each floor and one continuously on-duty in the apartments, I feel like I’m living more on my own.”
However, he said that by having Marquette faculty living in the apartments, students may begin to feel less independent.
“One of my first thoughts was a concern about the noise undergraduate students make in the apartments, especially on the weekends,” Nelson said. “Hopefully we won’t be too loud for our faculty.”
Right now, Nelson said he is not sure exactly how the Faculty in Residence program will benefit students’ residential life, but believes it has good intentions.
“I typically don’t have long conversations or get to meet other students when we pass by,” Nelson said. “I can only imagine it will be the same when I run into my faculty neighbors … that’s not to say the faculty will ruin the community in Campus Town East.”
The Faculty in Residence program has four major goals: to foster student success, particularly for undergraduate students in their first and second years; expand employee engagement; sustainability and community relations.
“A significant body of research suggests that students benefit from the opportunity to interact with faculty members beyond the classroom. So we hope that students will gain from additional mentoring and conversations with faculty,” Bostic said in an email. “Just imagine if a significant percentage of faculty and staff lived near campus— think about what that could mean for our community.”
Aside from just living on campus, the Faculty in Residence program will be collaborating with Near West Side Partners and others to hopefully develop more opportunities for student success.
“We love living on campus and envision a future where we will always live on or near campus,” Bostic said in an email. “This is really a stage-of-life decision; perhaps ten years ago we would not have embraced the opportunity the way we do now.”
Just like Bostic and Pluháček consider their “house” and “home” as separate things, they
Heidi Bostic
Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences and College of Education
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While MU students moved into their residence halls. Bostic and her family moved into a campus apartment
also like to make a distinction between “work” and a “job.” They said a job is what you do to pay the bills and put food on the table, but work is a part of your calling and what you feel inspired to do.
“We both have been fortunate to find a lot of overlap between the two. We are not seeking a separation between work and life,” Bostic said in an email. “Both can unfold together while living on campus. It’s a path to a more joyful and integrated life.”
Join the club: Reality of creating a new student org
Extracurricular activities put on display last week
By Will Eikenbary
will.eikenbary@marquette.edu
Prominently displayed on the wall of the Alumni Memorial Union sits a list of student organizations some 200 clubs long, showcasing everything from the Marquette Rowing Club to Marquette Model United Nations.
With the start of the 2022-23 school year, the responsibility of working with these clubs was given to Jen Reid, the director of the AMU. Despite this, however, Reid said the process for creating a club this year is the same as it was previously.
First, a student will submit a form with a “request to organize” to Reid or another staff member. Once approved, they will then set up a meeting to create a club “constitution” which details their goals and mission. Finally, the student is required to get five signatures of other interested students and have an E-board with at least a president and vice president.
“I review the applications and look for duplicates,” Reid said. “If we have two groups doing essentially the same thing, we would likely deny that request and try to put those groups in contact with one another.”
The process of creating a club at Marquette is familiar to Allison Spears, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences and the current president and founder of Marquette’s chapter of A Moment of Magic. AMoM is a nonprofit which allows college students to provide costfree performances for children with medical vulnerabilities.
Spears said she began working with AMoM at the beginning of her first year with a chapter at the University of WisconsinMadison. By her junior year, she knew she wanted to bring this passion to her community on campus.
“Before I went through Marquette, I applied for a [AMoM] chapter at the national level,” Spears said. “Essentially, I filled out a lot of paperwork, went through a couple interviews and once I got the go-ahead from them, to start a chapter at my school, I started the process with Marquette. I met with OEI, gave them my pitch, y’know, ‘this is what I want to do, this is my organization’ and they gave me the go-ahead to draft a constitution.”
Spears isn’t the only student on Marquette’s campus passionate about giving back to her community. Max Mantych,
Photo by Isabel Bonebrake isabel.bonebrake@marquette.edu Max Mantych, a senior in the College of Health Sciences recently created a club of his own: Marquette Global Brigades.
a senior in the College of Health Sciences, said he recently created a branch of Marquette Global Brigades, an international non-profit which develops partnerships with rural communities around the world.
The branch, called Public Health Telebrigade, is a sustainable development volunteer program that is entirely virtual. Mantych, the club’s campus chairperson, said his biggest advice for other students interested in starting organizations was to start the process as early as possible.
“To get established at Marquette as an organization, it’s going to be important to set up a meeting with the Office of Engagement and Inclusion to learn a little bit more about the process because there’s a lot of boxes to check off for them,” Mantych said. “The [whole] process took around a month.”
While Reid said student organizations are a valued part of campus, that doesn’t mean the current implementation of them might not have some changes in due time.
“There’s data that supports how being in a student organization contributes to belongingness and leadership development — and we don’t want to inhibit that at all — but we also want to set them up for success as well,” Reid said. “The model of having 300 student organizations, frankly, is a little bit difficult to manage. There’s so many of them, how do you support [them] effectively? That’s what we’re thinking about [moving forward].”
Despite the challenges that come with creating a club, Spears said the opportunity was well worth it in the end.
“[Our] first year, it was hard for me to get everything off of the ground,” Spears said. “It was a lot of work and you don’t always see that payoff right away. Now, going into our second year, we have a super dedicated group of volunteers who are passionate about the mission and who genuinely want to be there. It’s been a really cool thing to not only be a part of but know that [I started].”
Marquette implements swipe access in residence halls
Change comes after Humphrey Hall trial last spring semester
By Hannah Hernandez
hannah.hernandez@marquette.edu
In the spring semester, Marquette University piloted the new secure entry process at Humphrey Hall. This new process required students to tap their MUID to gain access to the residence hall. Then, the students would need to tap their MUID at the front desk to enter the residence.
Although everyone with a MUID can enter the building, only residents and staff of the building can check in at the front desk to enter the residence.
As part of the pilot, the Office of Residence Life surveyed hall staff and residents at Humphrey Hall in April 2022 for their feedback. Based on the survey, 51% of residents felt their safety increased, 72% of desk receptionists reported feeling their safety increased and 80% of desk receptionists report believing the residents’ safety increased.
Following the pilot, the university said they will implement the secure entry process in all residence halls for the fall 2022 semester.
“The response on campus was positive in terms of student participation and the added sense of security felt by residents,” Peterson said in an email. “By requiring an MUID to enter residence halls, it creates an added layer of safety for each hall’s residents by limiting the access of non-residents without proper permissions or consent.”
The effort to make residence halls and other campus building more secure was a result of the President’s Task Force on Community Safety.
“The President’s Task Force on Community Safety outlined the first recommendations to address a rise in crime in our community while being mindful of our mission,” Peterson said in an email.
The other approved action steps are to add police patrols, security officers, and security cameras, expand the Ambassador program, and expand the safety content at SPARK and new student orientation.
Alayah Watson, a first-year student in the College of Arts & Sciences, lives in Straz Tower, and she said that the new process increases safety.
“I believe that having to scan an ID before entering does help with safety because that way you know who is entering and exiting the building,” Watson said in an email.
David Ibitoye, a first-year in the College of Arts & Sciences, also said he sees the inconsistencies throughout the residence halls.
“I like how the system is for my dorm, [Carpenter Hall],” Ibitoye said in an email “But I do know that for dorms like The Commons they just show their keys to the front desk instead of ids which I say could be a problem cause if someone were to steal your key, they could easily get in your dorm.”
Jakita Fleck, a first-year student in the College of Arts & Sciences, lives in Abbottsford Hall. FrazierLewis also said that the new secure access is safer because it tracks which students and guests are in the building, therefore, if
Photo by Alex DeBuhr alexander.debuhr@marquette.edu Humphrey Hall served as the pilot residence hall for the MUID system last spring semester.
anything happened it would be easier to find the person.
“I definitely think ID scanning increases student safety,” Fleck said in an email. “Even if you don’t have an ID and sneak into a res hall behind someone who scanned in, having the second scan forces anyone entering to be verified. It’s a smart way to strengthen safety, and not that inconvenient because students usually already have their IDs on them anyways.”
Living where you work:Being a facilities manager
Student employees find ways to balance multiple obligations
By Julia Abuzzahab
julianna.abuzzahab@marquette.edu
When a pipe breaks, mail gets mixed up or the washing machine stops working in your residence hall, one might not think twice about who helps to ensure those are being fixed in a timely manner.
That’s the job of being a facility manager. The job typically consists of seniors or graduate students, and they make sure the building is safe and operational for all those living in the dorms as well as balancing the life of being a full-time student.
“The way that the residence hall director and the residence assistants are in charge of the people who live in the building, the facility managers are in charge of the building,” Simran Armstrong, a graduate student at the School of Dentistry and facility manager for Wells Street Hall, said.
Hannah Ray, a senior in the College of Health Sciences and facility manager for Mashuda Hall, said it can often be difficult juggling having a full-time job as well as being a student.
“I feel like I have been unable to compartmentalize my work from school, but hopefully I can start seeing the distinctions soon as we get past the settling after move-in,” Ray said in an email.
Similar to Ray, Cameron Heiser, a senior in the College of Business Administration and Campus Town West facility manager, said it can occasionally feel like there’s a lot going on being a student and a manager. However, Heiser said he feels like he’s been able to manage his time between the two.
“The only thing that can be taxing sometimes is that you live where you work, so if things come up you sometimes have to address them right away,” Heiser said in an email.
A trend between the three, Armstrong said she also struggles with the balance occasionally.
“It’s a really intensive job, and it requires a lot of time from everybody,” Armstrong said. “Doing it while also trying to be a student can be difficult because there will be nights that you’re on call and you won’t sleep … then you’ll have to go to class the next day.”
To help better manage her time, Ray said she only uses her work phone during her office hours as well as when she’s on duty.
Cameron Heiser
Campus Town West facility manager hard not to respond right away, so it’s very important to set boundaries and communicate with everyone living and working in the building who to call when,” Ray said in an email. “I feel like I have a running to-do list that I have yet to clear, and that does stress me out.”
Ray said that facility managers have to keep up on communication with the university’s maintenance staff when things need to be looked at. She said they also have to ensure constant communication between the residence hall director, resident assistants and residents as well as staffing the front desk and mailroom.
Currently, Ray said that she has a staff of 11 who work the front desk and mailroom. She said that they do an amazing job covering the desk from 7 a.m. to midnight every day.
Another part of her job, Ray said, is being on duty. Ray said being on duty means being available from 4:30 p.m. until 8 a.m. the following day. On weekends, she’s on duty from 4:30 p.m. Friday to 8 a.m. Monday. She said she’s on call 12 times throughout the semester.
“When you are on call, you can receive calls from RAs on duty, the RHDs on duty, the desk receptionists and Permar staff,” Ray said. “Being on duty means answering questions related to facilities and responding on site to major concerns.”
Heiser, Ray and Armstrong all became facility managers after hearing about the job while being RAs.
Ray said that going from being an RA to becoming a facility manager is the most popular route. She said this is probably due to the fact that RAs work alongside the facility manager.
“However, it is very possible to become a facility manager without having been an RA, as one of the current facility managers took this path after learning about the role while working on Summer Crew,” Ray said in an email.
Armstrong said the job was particularly appealing due to the larger apartment and increased pay, but most importantly she said for the opportunity.
“There’s very few 19 or 20 year olds who can say that ‘Hey I supervise a staff, I know how to do these things and have those hard conversations,’” Armstrong said. “I appreciate the opportunity that it’s given me and the relationships that I’ve built with my staff.”
