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Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month at Fiesta de Noche

Join Sigma Lambda Beta and LASO for a night of festivities

By Izzy Fonfara Drewel

isabella.fonfaradrewel@marquette.edu

Culture and heritage are a huge part of someone’s identity. The celebration of culture can be seen in each carefully prepared comfort food, every detailed stitch of the traditional clothing and felt in each beat of music passed down for generations. As the school year picks up, Marquette welcomes the first cultural heritage month of the school year.

Sept. 15 marks the start of Hispanic Heritage Month, and students are developing plenty of ways to celebrate. Between lotería nights and dance workshops, there are opportunities for every kind of person.

The on-campus Latin dance group Paso a Paso is offering a Bachata workshop Sept. 24 at 5 p.m. Bachata is a style of dance that hails from the island of the Dominican Republic.

“We are teaching … the steps in the bachata, the counts, how to turn, how to work with a partner, how to dance with yourself,” said Mya Ruiz-Diaz, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences. “It’s all social dancing, so if you were to go to a family function, a party, any social event you’ll be able to know how to dance with a person or just by yourself.”

The group was started in 2019 by Marquette alumni, but because of the COVID-19 pandemic, they weren’t able to achieve all of the goals they had originally set. One of the primary plans was to create a team for performances and Latin dance competitions in the area.

“We wanted to do the Salsa Congress in Chicago, but by the time we were learning our routines spring break happened and then we didn’t come back,” Ruiz-Diaz said.

The Chicago International Salsa Congress is a competition celebrating all forms of Latin dance and music while featuring participants from all over the world.

Hopefully, these workshops will inspire others to join the group and open themselves up to a world of dance. If all goes well RuizDiaz has plans for beginning a competing team.

“By next semester, [we’ll be] trying to figure out if anyone is interested in being in routines or being in the start of creating a dance group,” Ruiz-Diaz said.

Even though they will be teaching Latin dances, Paso a Paso is open to anyone and everyone.

“Our goal is to really diversify our group because we are a Latin American dance club but we do want to make it open and included to anyone,” RuizDiaz said. “You don’t have to be Hispanic to learn Hispanic dance moves.”

Following the Bachata workshop, Sigma Lambda Beta will be hosting Fiesta de Noche in collaboration with the Latin American Student Organization (LASO). The event will take place Sept. 25 at the Ray and Kay Eckstein Commons from 8 p.m. until midnight. Luis Navarrete, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences as well as a brother of Sigma Lambda Beta, is extremely excited for the upcoming party.

“We’re going to have free food like rice, Mexican rice, beans, Puerto Rican rice and chicken fajitas,” Navarrete said. “We’re going to have a DJ … Then we also have performances by a local dance group from Milwaukee, they will be doing traditional Aztec dances.”

Due to the year missed by the pandemic, organizations are eager to get the event back up and running. Fiesta de Noche has a rich history full of joy, fun and friendship that goes back for years, almost back to when Sigma Lambda Beta was founded in 1998.

“Originally, it started out as a

Photo provided by Sigma Lambda Beta International Fraternity and Latin American Student Organization

Fiesta de Noche will be Sept. 25 from 8 p.m. to midnight at the Ray and Kay Eckstein Common.

cookout, like, just one little grill and they cooked for people and their friends, outside in the middle of the day. Then it started to evolve, you know, as more people started telling their friends,” Navarrete said.

To help out with the unforeseen circumstances of COVID-19, Sigma Lambda Beta is hosting the event this year along with LASO.

“We are partnering with LASO this year to help cover some of the cost but also they have a lot of people that are willing to participate in this event,” Navarrete said.

Fiesta de Noche has a reputation for having a fun-filled atmosphere. By the end of the night, the smoke trails away into the stars and the laughter and music ring out through campus.

“I think one of my favorite memories is definitely working the grill,” Navarrete said. “It was exhausting and I smelled like smoke and charcoal, but as soon as we were done … we started dancing and just had a good time.”

Fiesta de Noche is only one of many events happening during Hispanic Heritage month. There is something for everyone to experience, and they are all rich in culture, knowledge and celebration. More info about gatherings and cultural months can be found on Marquette’s website.

More about MU and MKE

Wednesday, 9/15 Thursday, 9/16 Hispanic Heritage Month Kickoff @ Eckstein Common at 6 p.m. Friday, 9/17

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Milwaukee gears up for a fun filled fall season

Activities like apple orchards, pumpkin farms, Oktoberfest

By Kim Cook

kimberly.cook@marquette.edu

The weather is changing and warm, sunny days are turning into brisk, chilly nights. With the summer season on its way out and the autumn season just around the corner, there are plenty of fun fall activities that Milwaukee and its surrounding areas have to offer.

Visit an apple orchard or pumpkin farm:

There are plenty of apple orchards around the Milwaukee area. Apple Holler, located in Sturtevant, WI, is one apple picking location that attracts families and friends from the Milwaukee area. The orchard’s website offers a picking guide for apple pickers to see when each type of apple will be ripe enough to pick, August through November.

“We usually go and fool around [and] have some fun, get a pumpkin and get some treats,” Brittany Sockwell, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences, said.

While it is a 30 minute drive away from Marquette’s campus, Apple Holler is well worth the trip and offers more than just apple picking. Guests can enjoy wandering a corn maze, taking a hay ride and visiting a general store where they can try an apple cider slushie.

Enjoy the Wisconsin fall colors:

Wisconsin’s autumn leaves complete the fall aesthetic and turn Marquette’s campus into a golden and rustic playground. Anna Houston, a junior in the College of Communication, loves the fall colors and has always wanted to get a better view of them from Holy Hill, a popular location in Hubertus, WI that allows sightseers to fully take in the beauty of the autumn season.

“I think [fall] is so pretty and the colors are so warm and inviting,” Houston said. “When you see the colors of the leaves on the walk home, it’s like you’re a character in a movie.”

While Holy Hill is almost an hour from Marquette’s campus by car, students who aren’t able to travel to the popular location will still be able to appreciate the state’s fall colors as they appear around Milwaukee later this month based on the predictions of Travel Wisconsin’s 2021 Fall Color Report.

Attend Milwaukee Oktoberfest:

An event that is maybe a little closer to home for most Marquette students, Milwaukee Oktoberfest will take place Sept. 24-26 this year. The event’s website boasts a packed schedule of events for attendees to enjoy. Admission is free and takes place at the Milwaukee County War Memorial Center, which is about a 20-minute walk or a short bus ride down to the lakefront. With attractions like a bratwurst eating competition, performances by various German bands and a wiener dog beauty pageant, Oktoberfest offers a little something for everyone that attends.

Grab some friends for a scary movie:

As Halloween gets closer, Ella Uylaki gets more and more excited for her favorite holiday. The junior in the College of Arts & Sciences said one of her favorite things to do around Halloween is to visit Landmark’s Downer Theatre here in Milwaukee where they play midnight showings of classic horror movies during weekends in October.

“Me and my girlfriends went [there] and saw ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ for the first time,” she said. “The theater itself is old, it’s stuck in the 70s and it’s so perfect.”

Photo by Isabel Bonebrake isabel.bonebrake@marquette.edu Wisconsin’s autumn leaves complete the fall aesthetic and turn Marquette’s campus golden and rustic.

Drake shows he’s far from done with his new album

“Certified Lover Boy” dropped on Sept. 3, mixed reviews

By Rashad Alexander

rashad.alexander@marquette.edu

It’s not often that two extremely high profile artists drop an album within a week of each other. Many were anticipating Drake and Kanye West to drop their albums on the same day as part of their ongoing rivalry. While West’s album, “Donda,” ended up releasing the Sunday before Drake’s, it only helped the anticipation for their albums.

Now here we are with the finished product. “Certified Lover Boy” was already hit with a lot of criticism when the cover art was revealed. The cover features 12 Apple iPhone emojis of pregnant women of different skin tones on a white background. At first I thought it was weird, but then I realized it made sense for him.

Drake has been known to be pretty corny at times with some of his lyrics and actions, but it ends up working well with his music. So if you think the cover art is weird, it’s just Drake being Drake.

You can tell immediately that Drake is trying to let people know he is still that guy who dominated the 2010s. On the intro track, “Champagne Poetry,” he lets it be known that he still thinks he’s the best at what he does, despite being 34 years old.

“Under me I see all the people that claim they over me, / and above me I see nobody,” he raps.

Despite his age and the new era of rap, Drake still has some unfinished business.

This project was feature heavy, with appearances from Lil Durk, Future, Lil Baby, Lil Wayne and more. All the features on “CLB” took care of their business on Drake’s album. My favorite features on the project were Jay Z’s verse on “Love All” and 21 Savage’s appearance on “Knife Talk.” Jay Z showed off on his verse, showing the new generation of rappers that he can still lay out a good verse when he wants to. “This ain’t the same Shawn that you knew once

I don’t shine shoes, this ain’t what you want” raps the 51-year-old. One criticism social media had for the album was that the album sounded “boring.” I saw a lot of critics say that Drake hasn’t changed his sound since the prime of his career until now. And while I do agree that this album doesn’t sound different from things he’s done in the past, this album is not boring. Songs like “Way 2 Sexy” and “TSU” have potential to be radio hits, while “You Only Live Twice” showed flashes of of the old Drake. Point is, there are a lot of songs to like on “CLB.” In fact, Drake recently made history by taking up nine of the Top Ten Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, becoming the only artist to have that many songs in the top ten at the same time.

You can tell Drake put a lot of detail into this album in order to make it memorable. “IMY2” begins with a sample of an interview quote from late rapper Juice WRLD. “I think that’s what life is about. Truly finding yourself, and then closing your eyes and dying in your sleep,” the late Chicago rapper said. It’s details like this that showed Drake really wanted this album to be remembered by fans.

Overall, “CLB” was definitely worth the wait and you can tell a lot was put into this project. While I wouldn’t rank this album among his best pieces of work, this is far from bad. Despite the wait, Drake provided a memorable and overall fun album for his fans.

My favorite songs on the projects were “Pipe Down,” “Get Along Better” and “Girls Want Girls.”