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Gas leak in Johnston leads to evacuation

A breakdown of textbook costs How is the average dollar spent by textbook manufanufacturing companies?

By Joe Kaiser

77.4 cents for textbook wholesale cost

joseph.kaiser@marquette.edu

This includes cost of production, paper, printing, etc., as well as marketing, the publisher's income and the author's income. The NACS used to report this information separately. In 2008, the NACS reported that 11.7 cents went to the author's income and 7 cents went to the publisher's income.

7.2 cents for operations

This covers the operations of a college bookstore beyond paying its employees, so this includes insurance, utilities, building costs, etc.

10.7 cents for bookstore employees This covers the cost of college store personnel, so this is the money that pays the bookstore’s employees.

1 cent for shipping This is the money used to cover freight expenses from the publisher’s warehouse to campuses across the country.

3.7 cents for bookstore income This is the money that goes into the bookstore’s pocket as income before taxes.

Source: The National Association of College Stores (2011 Figures)

Textbook prices rise despite boom in options for students By Rob Gebelhoff and Kelly Meyerhoffer

robert.gebelhoff@marquette.edu kelly.meyerhoffer@marquette.edu

It is no secret students go to great lengths to save a few bucks on textbooks each semester. For example, Emily Gorz, a

sophomore in the College of Communication, split the cost of an online access code with friends in her comparative politics class to save money this semester. “It was $60,” Gorz said. “Why would each of us pay that much when we can all share a username and password to get to the same online readings?” With students spending an average of $655 on textbooks each year according to the National Association of College Stores, such efforts are expected. Students are

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now so good at this that, although like Chegg.com and Amazon.com. In order to compete with the NACS reports rising these cheaper alternatives, textbook prices, the avereature campus bookstores like the age amount each student tory Marquette-affiliated Bookspends has decreased by Marq and the indepenalmost $100 since 2008. dent Sweeney’s College Books began to make their books AN ADAPTING available for rent. TEXTBOOK INDUSTRY The director of Sweeney’s, Students now attending Marquette entered college after textbook Dan Brown said the comparentals became a popular method ny is in its fourth year renting of doing business – it only became books to students. common in the past couple of years See Books, Page 4 with the rise of online companies

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6 professors hired under interim dean Business dean search still on hold until new president is found By Benjamin Lockwood

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While the search for a new dean remains on hold, the College of Business Administration hired six new professors over break to fill vacancies left after a number of faculty retirements. The interim dean of the college, Mark Eppli, said four of the professors hired were first choice candidates. Three positions were filled in the marketing department, one in finance, one in information technology and the last was hired as a management

faculty member. Eppli said the college is still interviewing candidates for the management and economics department, and finalists for both candidates were invited for campus visits. “In short, we are well on our way to finding new talent for the college,” Eppli said in an email. The progress toward finding a new dean, however, is hindered by other university leadership changes in the past year, notably the president and provost vacancies. “The (business dean) search is on hold until the president search is completed,” said Joseph Daniels, an economics professor and co-chair of the search committee for the business dean, in an email. “Hence, there is nothing to report at all. In fact, the committee has

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MARQUEE...................6 VIEWPOINTS..............8 SPORTS.......................10

Construction workers struck a service line while working on Sensenbrenner Hall Wednesday causing a gas leak in Johnston Hall. Students and faculty evacuated Johnston Hall around 12 p.m. and were not allowed reentry for more than an hour, forcing many students and faculty members to relocate to the Law Library, Straz and Cudahy halls. The Department of Public Safety, Milwaukee Fire Department and Police Department sealed off the area around Johnston Hall until it was reopened around 1:30 p.m. “As precaution, we evacuated all those students and employees in Johnston,” said Brian Dorrington, senior director of university communication. “We were informed both by DPS and MPD there was a potential gas leak from construction on the site.” We Energies arrived at the scene to repair the service line, which was finished by 3 p.m. We Energies spokesman Brian Manthey noted that the repairs and situation would have been different if a main gas line was struck instead of just the service line. “The service line leads to the main (line) of a particular building,” Manthey said. “If it hit a main, we might have needed to shut off the gas.” Carole Burns, director of the Wakerly Technology Training Center, said she saw the line get struck just before smelling the gas. “All of a sudden it started being a pretty heavy smell of natural gas in the building, so we called public safety, and they suggested that we evacuate until further notice,” Burns said shortly after evacuating. Dorrington said the evacuation, which lasted less than two hours before classes resumed, ended once it was determined safe to re-enter. “We assessed the situation, and it was within an hour that we got the all clear,” Dorrington said. “The fire

not met since the (former University President the Rev. Scott) Pilarz announcement.” Daniels told the Tribune in October the lack of a president, provost, dean and faculty created a “domino effect” that causes “uncertainty all the way down.” Eppli said even though his role is interim, he is still focused on the long term. “MU, like all not-for-profit universities, (makes) decisions for the very long run, as we expect to be around this century, the next century and the century after that, and the process to vet significant decisions reflects that long-term view,” Eppli said. Eppli is considered as a candidate for the permanent position as dean of the college, but he said he and the college are not prepared to make a decision.

“Once the university is ready to begin its search for a permanent business dean, I will give serious consideration to whether I wish to be a candidate,” Eppli said. The original goal when the university announced the search committee Aug. 26, just less than a month before Pilarz left the university, was to have the dean position filled by early spring 2014. Eppli still emphasized the progress the college is making, even in the absence of a permanent business dean. He cited the 17 percent increase in the college’s enrollment from last year, the implementation of the university’s first massively open online course in investing, as well as the new vision and “strategic roadmap” for the college.

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After setbacks, Ivy remains on schedule Opus Group confident new apartment will be ready for tenants By Matt Barbato

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The Opus Group expects to complete construction for its apartment project on 14th and Wells Street, “Ivy on Fourteenth,” and be open for occupants next fall, despite losing a few days of construction because of weather, soil issues and telephone pole removal. The construction team completed the foundation process and began putting together the pre-cast and exterior shape of the building during the month-long winter break. “Over the next couple of months the building’s shell will take shape,” said Julie Ledger, the vice president and general manager of the Opus office in Milwaukee. “The wood framing will come right after the pre-cast and that will start to create the six-story structure.” Although the slight delays were not optimal, Ledger said these snags were expected in the early processes of construction and said there were extra days built into the schedule. “It’s a construction project; nothing ever goes strictly as planned,”

Ledger said. “We’ve had our challenges, like any construction project does. The telephone poles were a part of that and the soils were not as good as we expected them to be, but all of that is a very typical part of a building, especially on campus.” Deny Gallagher, a sophomore in the College of Communication, already signed his lease to live in the apartment structure next fall, and he said he is not too concerned about the building being ready. “I’ve heard they’re progressing along and they’re expecting to be ready by May,” Gallagher said. “They haven’t been talking too much about the progress of the building, but when you walk by the building, you say ‘I guess they’re making progress.’” Gallagher said he turned in his security deposit and is optimistic that the building will be done based off of Opus’s history, which includes 13 other campus building endeavors. “A lot of people have come in with doubts, but they keep saying it will be done,” he said. “The company that’s building it has a pretty good track record of staying on course with projects.” Ledger said Opus doesn’t have a protocol of informing future residents of the building’s progress, but instead, uses social media to keep them updated.

Photo by Xidan Zhang/xidan.zhang@marquette.edu

Construction on the Ivy on Fourteenth apartment project began in September and is still on schedule to be open for resident next fall.

“We don’t have a specific process of emailing them an update every month,” Ledger said. “Social media is probably the biggest way we’ve been communicating with the current lease owners.” As for those lease owners, Ledger said if something unexpected came along and delayed the opening of the apartment building, there is a back-up plan if necessary. She did not discuss details about the alternate options, but she did reiterate her belief that the building will be ready on time.

“It will open on time,” Ledger said. “It won’t be the first building at Marquette that we won’t open on time. We’ve never missed a schedule and this won’t be the first one.” Opus is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minn. and also built student-housing complexes at the Universities of Minnesota and Wisconsin-Madison. The Ivy on Fourteenth building will consist of 80 total units, 165 beds, in-unit washing and drying machines, a fitness center and an indoor parking lot.

MUSG seeks voice in leadership hires At least one search committee will have student representative By Joe Kvartunas

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With many university administrative positions left to fill, Marquette Student Government leaders are still working to place student representatives on the search committees that will be responsible for finding candidates. MUSG succeeded in getting a student, MUSG president Sam Schultz, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences, named

to the search committee for the new chief of the Department of Public Safety. “We’ve only met once, but in the first meeting they did a really good job of turning to me,” Schultz said. “I think DPS is known throughout campus and is valued for having a very studentdriven focus. I think on the committee that’s something they are looking for me to emphasize.” Schultz said the DPS chief search committee is close to finalizing the position description in the job posting. Despite having a student on the DPS search committee, MUSG was unsuccessful in getting a student representative on any of the other search committees for the other open administrative positions.

DPS Reports Jan. 13 At 6:01 p.m., a student in McCormick Hall admitted using a controlled substance. MPD will be notified. At 6:1o p.m., three underage students were in possession of a controlled substance, drug paraphernalia and alcohol in Straz Tower. MPD was contacted and took one of the students into custody.

At 10:24 p.m., a person not affiliated with Marquette was trespassing and panhandling in the lobby of Carpenter Tower and was taken into custody by MPD. Jan. 14 At 9:28 p.m., a student was in possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia in O’Donnell Hall and was taken into custody by MPD. The student was cited and released.

Most notably, MUSG attempted to have a student placed on the presidential search committee after former University President the Rev. Scott Pilarz resigned last semester. In a meeting Charles Swoboda, chairman of the Board of Trustees, disagreed whether students were qualified to help pick a president. MUSG leaders still feel that student inclusion in these committees is important for the search process. “The decisions made in these search committees invariably affect student life,” said Zach Bowman, MUSG executive vice president and a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences. “Our inclusion is not only logical, but necessary to demonstrate the legitimacy of the work done in them.”

MUSG is not without support among administration officials. L. Christopher Miller, the vice president for student affairs, said he will lobby to add students to future search committees when he spoke to MUSG at their senate meeting Dec. 5. Eight days later, the university announced the departure of Larry Williams as vice president and director of athletics, for whom a search committee has not yet been formed to find a permanent replacement. Schultz said when the time comes, MUSG will continue to advocate for a student representative on that committee as well. When contacted by the Tribune, Miller declined to comment on the issue.

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Thursday 16 Winter O-Fest and Community Service Fair, AMU Ballrooms, 4 p.m. Sorority Information Session, Cudahy 001, 6 p.m. NEWaukee Social @ Palermo’s, Palermo Villa, 6 p.m.

Friday 17 Brahms’ “Fifth” by the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Marcus Center, 8 p.m. Winter Carnival, AMU, 9 p.m. Live at Pourman’s: Evan Christian,

Pourman’s Pub, 9:30 p.m.

Saturday 18 Milwaukee Wave vs. Missouri Comets, U.S. Cellular Arena, 6 p.m. Snowball, AMU, 9 p.m.

Sunday 19 The Dream Lives On: A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Holy Redeemer Church of God in Christ, 4 p.m. Chinese New Year Celebration, Marquette University Varsity Theater/AMU Ballroom, 9 a.m.

Monday 20 MLK Day of Service, MPS High School, 8 a.m. MLK Days of Engagement, AMU, 3 p.m.

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Last months of 2013 quieter despite rise in phone thefts DPS stresses caution even as campus crime declined last semester By Matt Kulling

matthew.kulling@marquette.edu

Although last semester did not see an increase in burglaries and was followed by a safe winter break, Russell Shaw, interim director for the Department of Public Safety, is still stressing certain precautions for students to take this spring. “It certainly was a good first semester,” Shaw said. “We’re always looking at the numbers, we had a spike in strong arm robberies that involved cell phones, but that’s something that’s happening nationally. We’ve warned students in the past to be especially careful with their cell phones.” Shaw said 30 to 40 percent of robberies occurring nationally are of cell phones. “Everyone could potentially be a target because basically everyone carries a smartphone in this day and age,” Shaw said. “That’s why I stress to be cognizant of where you are. If you’re texting just for the sake of texting, keep your phone in your pocket until

you get inside somewhere. Don’t make yourself a target.” Jordan Holmer, sophomore in the College of Engineering, noted in a November Tribune story on cell phone theft that a phone is recoverable even after it has been stolen. “Apple recently put a new feature in their latest mobile operating system called Activation Lock,” Holmer said. “Even if your phone is stolen and wiped clean, the thief will never be able to activate the phone without your Apple ID and password.” While cell phone theft was prevalent during the fall semester, one of the reasons crime was kept to a minimum on campus during winter break, Shaw said, was a vacant house watch program some students use. “It’s a program DPS has done for several years now,” Shaw said. “What we do is people sign up online, and what it’s doing is it’s letting us know who’s leaving the neighborhood. We have a questionnaire that says ‘are the lights on, are the shades pulled’ because then our officers will check your residence daily, obviously keeping an eye on it and making sure it’s secure.” “If the shades are open or if something suspicious is going on, it lets them know that no one is supposed to be in there,”

he continued, adding that none of the houses signed up for the vacant house watch were broken into during winter break. Shaw also said no crimes against persons were reported during the winter break period. “Considering the perception of what people perceive Milwaukee as crime-wise,” Shaw said. “it goes back to being responsible in trying to keep the area safe.” As an improvement for 2014, Shaw said students need to be more aware of their surroundings, especially when it comes to protecting their cell phones and homes. “If you take cell phones away from our stats, we could have knocked off six or seven burglaries from out list, which would have been a phenomenal year,” Shaw said. “If anything else, I would look at homes. We’ve seen more burglaries in this last calendar year where students have left their off campus residences unsecured when they’ve come home at the end of the night, and for whatever reason that might be they’re not locking their doors, which becomes a crime of opportunity. We saw too many of those this past fall, that people are just not securing their doors… It’s common sense stuff.”

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Gas: No safety risk found after accident

Photo by Joe Kaiser/joseph.kaiser@marquette.edu

The area in front of Johnston Hall was sealed off shortly after the building was evacuated Wednesday afternoon.

department, along with We Energies, determined that there was no safety risk.” The Wehr Chemistry build-

ing was evacuated in March for a chemical leak, but began activity again just two hours later. In that case, both DPS and

the Environmental Health and Safety verified that the chemical released was harmless.

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Inclusion programs planned for spring Safe Zones to open gender and sexuality dialogue for students

By Natalie Wickman

natalie.wickman@marquette.edu

University departments are continuing efforts to maintain a campus that is respectful and responsive toward gender and sexuality as well as racial injustices. Members of the Gender and Sexuality Resource Center, Counseling Center, Intercultural Engagement and Campus Ministry are collaborating to revamp the Diversity Advocate training process and develop Safe Zones, a new program that will train faculty and staff to provide welcoming places where students can talk about gender and sexuality. Steve Blaha, assistant director of Campus Ministry and co-facilitator of LGBTQ and Ally student discussions, helped develop the new training programs. “As part of the training we wanted to explore how our (Jesuit) nature really lends itself well to Safe Zones and Diversity Advocates,” Blaha said. “At this point, there’s a nice portion of training that focuses on our (Jesuit) identity and tradition – it’s an essential and important part because that’s the gift (Marquette) brings to higher education.” The projects are in their final planning stages and are slated to have a joint-launch in late February and continue until April. The first Safe Zone trainees are slated to be certified in March. BRINGING ‘SAFE ZONES’ TO CAMPUS The Safe Zone program will give faculty and staff the ability to provide casual counseling to students questioning their relationships and sexuality, said Susannah Bartlow, director of the Gender and Sexuality Resource Center. While initial training for the program’s launch will begin next month, Bartlow said the Safe Zone training will require ongoing engagement. “You go through training and then you have a set of certification credits where the people who are Safe Zone certified would then have to go to another event or read a (related) book,” Bartlow said. “We’re really looking for people who are active allies in order to form an active network.” Safe Zone training will initially be open to members of the GSRC but will eventually expand to other faculty and staff.

Students may have the opportunity to be trained and certified as well. “We really want to talk to students about what (Safe Zones) look like for (them),” Bartlow said. “Right now what we have is for faculty and staff, but we know that students probably want to go through or be leaders in this training.” CHANGES TO DIVERSITY ADVOCATE TRAINING The new Diversity Advocates training is based on research about how demographic groups understand one another, said Carla Fullwood, assistant dean for Intercultural Engagement and co-chair of Diversity Advocates. There will be an emphasis on how to confront bias stereotypes and oppression as they happen. The revamp requires the approximately 140 Diversity Advocates to go through training again. “The key (training) topics will focus on exploring and understanding social identities, stereotypes and micro-aggressions, understanding and doing activities about power, privilege and oppression,” Fullwood said. The restructured Diversity Advocates training expands its previous orientation session into information and training sessions. Previous Diversity Advocates training was called an orientation session that is now being split up into information and training sessions. The information sessions will be open to both Diversity Advocates and Safe Zone members and are used to let participants determine if they want to join. “We’re doing real social justice training,” said Angela Zapata, diversity coordinator at the Counseling Center and co-chair of Diversity Advocates. “(Information sessions will) talk about campus issues, demographics, campus climate, university mission and the statement on human dignity and diversity.” The decision to restructure came two years ago when Diversity Advocates stopped letting new people join so they could focus on and improve their curriculum. “We did a survey reaching out to the existing Diversity Advocates asking them about the network as it stood and what improvements they wanted to see,” Fullwood said. Those involved with the new programs said they are positive they will help students grow more aware and tolerant. “I’m excited about the direction we’re taking,” Zapata said. “My hope is that we’ll start having more open dialogues between faculty, staff and students.”

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Photo by Rebecca Rebholz/rebecca.rebholz@marquette.edu

Rebecca Tripp, a junior in the College of Communication, carries the rental books she just picked up from BookMarq. The rental option to purchase books is the most popular at the store.

Books: Students find ways to keep book expenditures at a minimum “Sweeney’s has adapted to the changing textbook market over the past several years,” Brown said in an email. “Rentals have certainly contributed to the decline in student spending on textbooks because students choose to rent books for a lower price than purchasing.” Elizabeth McIntyre, communications vice president at the NACS, said in an email that rental programs can save a student between 45 and 66 percent of the price of a new print textbook and is often less expensive than digital formats. The number of college stores offering textbook rentals across the country skyrocketed over the past five years. But the simple advent of renting is not really the cause of the drop in students’ spending on textbooks. As the textbook industry enters the Internet age, students are able to shop around and seek the cheapest options. “Students tend to purchase materials from more than one source,” David Konkol, BookMarq manager, said. This certainly is a relief for student budgets, as books have always been a high-price commodity for students. Between 1987 and 2004,

textbooks saw a constant increase in prices, rising by a total of 812 percent according to the Government Accountability Office. The majority of students will admit to not purchasing at least one required textbook for a class if the price is too high, reports the U.S. Public Interest Research Group. But as students get smarter, so do publishers. According to the Government Accountability Office, publishers release new editions of books with minimal changes. This not only undermines the resale market on used textbooks, but also drives up the total cost by bundling the new edition with workbooks or add-on software. Despite these tactics to drive up the cost, publishers claim the steep cost matches the work put into producing each edition. Bruce Hildebrand, executive director of higher education at the Association of American Publishers, said developing and producing a textbook takes three to five years, but some science texts can take upwards of a decade. Most books now contain interactive components and have applications that allow stu-

dents to take quizzes and observe demonstrations over the internet. THE DOWNSIDE TO RENTING Konkol said renting textbooks is the most popular option at BookMarq, as it gives students the option to obtain books for a lot less while not having to search for vendors to sell the book back to. Despite the efficiency of the option, however, students may end up losing a lot of money if there is confusion about the rental agreements. For example, Danny McKevitt, a senior in the College of Business Administration, lost more than $750 renting through Sweeney’s College Books last semester. Due to some confusion about the hours of the bookstore’s operation posted on the store’s website, McKevitt was not able to return four books he rented from the company the day they were due. When he arrived at the store the next day, he discovered that Sweeney’s pulled out $903.56 from his bank account to replace the books. When he tried to sell the books back to the store, they were only valued at $120. “There’s a lot of frustration,” McKevitt said. “Despite the time that I spent getting the books back on time, I still ended up paying well beyond what the books were valued at.” Unfortunately for McKevitt, the rental agreement he signed with Sweeney’s at the beginning of the semester gave the bookstore the right to charge him the money to replace the books. McKevitt attempted to appeal his case to the bookstore, but it refused to refund him. Brown did not comment directly on McKevitt’s case. He did say the store does put forth a lot of effort to remind students to return their rentals on time as the semester was comes to a close. “Cumulatively over the four academic years Sweeney’s has been renting textbooks, we have experienced a not returned rental rate of less than a half of 1 percent of units rented,” Brown said in an email. “Our customer’s not returned rental rate is far below the industry average, and we attribute that to our frequent, proactive reminder communication to our customers.” McKevitt received multiple emails from Sweeney’s reminding him about the return policy with the store’s correct hours of operation the week before the books were due. Regardless, McKevitt said he remains frustrated with his experience.

Infographic by Ellery Fry/ellery.fry@marquette.edu

I feel the students get cheated when they have to spend a lot of money on something that they’re only going to use a portion of.” Shaun Miller, professor of philosophy “I understand that I made a mistake,” McKevitt said. “But I don’t think turning in your books late is a $900 mistake. I work about 50 hours a week between studies. This just set me back a lot.” Fortunately, cases as extreme as McKevitt’s are rare. Most rentals follow the contract that students agree to at the onset. TEXTBOOKS ADAPTING TO A DIGITAL AGE While there is interest in digital textbooks, this sector represents a small percentage of sales at BookMarq. Konkol said the majority of students still prefer print materials. An explanation for this may be the higher cost tacked onto digital content. While other industries such as music and movies made their products more affordable by making them available online, the textbook industry has reversed this trend and charges more money for digital content, which includes simulations, interactive exercises and class discussion forums. E-textbooks themselves are advancing beyond being mere reproductions of printed pages in PDF forms. Many now allow students to highlight, annotate and share notes with classmates. Rich Hershman, vice president of government relations at NACS, explained that digital adoption will cost more than traditional textbooks because it relies on an investment in technology to support its use on campuses. Many schools lack the necessary equipment to strengthen its wireless networks without the financial investment. While some professors embrace the digital content format, others remain resistant to requiring books for a class. Philosophy professor Shaun Miller said his class can only cover about one-third of the material provided in a philosophy anthology. “I feel the students get cheated when they have to spend a lot of money on something that they’re only going to use a portion of,” he said. “I either find the articles online or have the library scan the articles I need. I then provide these materials either on D2L or through Ares.”

Political science professor Barrett McCormick agrees. “I generally find that textbooks are boring and expensive,” McCormick said. “Rather than choosing weekly topics to follow a book that students would need two or more weeks to read, I choose articles or chapters that fit the weekly topics that I feel the course should cover.” This method allows both Miller and McCormick to customize their course to students. A NEW OPTION FOR STUDENTS? Boundless, a low-cost textbook start-up company, assists professors like Miller and McCormick, by providing a service known as “textbook replacement.” The company does not charge students to access its online textbooks which mimic traditional texts but do not wordfor-word plagiarize the publisher’s content. Students select the books assigned in their classes and Boundless pulls digital content from an array of open-education sources to produce a text the company claims is as good as the actual book. Of course, this practice is sparking quite a bit of conflict. Major publishers like Cengage Learning, Pearson Education and MacMillan Higher Education sued Boundless, claiming the violation of their intellectual property rights. The case was settled last month, but no details of the agreement were released. Boundless represents just one of the many emerging companies in the open educational resources movement which, over the past decade, provided a considerably large volume of academic content on the Internet for free. With increasing competition from rental companies and an open educational resources movement on the horizon, the college textbook model could suffer the same fate as the traditional encyclopedia when Wikipedia developed. “It is impossible to say whether the traditional college textbook model will go away, but it’s safe to say that the range of available course materials will continue to evolve,” McIntyre said.

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Local museums offer a unique yoga space, part of national trend By Brian Keogh

brian.keogh@marquette.edu

Time to break out the spandex and mat and head to the museum. It may sound like an odd ritual at first, but yoga sessions at art museums have become a common occurrence across the country, including at the Milwaukee Art Museum and the

Haggerty Museum of Art. For the past two years, the Milwaukee Art Museum has offered a monthly yoga class, Yoga @ the Museum, in its Windhover Hall with participants posing beneath the graceful wings of its Calatrava architecture. Yoga fans have a chance to take part in that event Saturday at 8:15 a.m. “It’s a beautiful thing, and yoga has a lot of beautiful lines, and the art of yoga in that space really emphasizes all the beautiful lines of the building and the yoga,” said Krista Renfrew, the director of

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special events at the museum, who helped establish the program of stunning success. “We had 45 people RSVP and and then 180 showed up thanks to social media; things like Facebook and Twitter got the word out. It was wonderful,” Renfrew said. Yoga @ the Museum retained its popularity the past two years and currently averages around 170 participants at each session. Part of the appeal is that each session is a unique experience with yoga instructors visiting from Milwaukee’s diverse yoga community to lead the groups. The museum finds instructors with the help of omTownYogis, a non-profit organization dedicated to spreading yoga throughout Milwaukee and the surrounding communities. Although the class is free, the museum suggests a $15 donation providing access to the museum for the day and splits donations with the organization. “It’s an all levels class, so it’s a great mix of people from beginners to more advanced people and instructors and yogis. (It) has great energy,” Renfrew said. This includes children who are invited to participate four times a year in a separate class,

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making Yoga @ the Museum an occasion for the whole family. Students also participate in the exercise at Marquette’s own Haggerty Museum of Art. The Haggerty’s yoga sessions occur less frequently than those at the Milwaukee Art Museum but have been put on with Marquette’s yoga club the past two fall semesters. These sessions started when yoga club co-founder Rebecca Ratterman and member Annie Kelly were approached by Lynne Shumow, curator of education, about using the Haggerty’s space. “I thought it would be an

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The Milwaukee Art Museum’s Windhover Hall and Calatrava architecture provide a serene space for monthly yoga sessions overlooking the lakefront.

interesting place to conduct yoga because of the art and the space,” Shumow said. Like its neighbor on the lakefront, the Haggerty also proved to be a hot spot for yoga, bringing in lots of students on the museum’s “Student Fridays,” which show off the Haggerty’s offerings. “Often when students come, it makes them aware of the excellent exhibitions we have here for them,” Shumow said. Both of the curator’s intentions with the yoga sessions were certainly achieved. “It’s a cool environment to do (yoga) in, and it’s inspiring because you’re surrounded by the product of people’s hard work,” said Kelly, a senior in the College of Nursing. These sessions unite the art of the paintings with the art of yoga forms, both of which involve striving for perfection. While it may depend on your personal definition of art, yoga fits the bill for John Su, a professor of English who instructs a yoga seminar for honors students at Marquette. “The idea of perfecting the self is central to so many ideas of art,” Su said. “If someone wants to express himself or herself through the body, kinetically, much the way you know a dancer might do that, there is no reason not to think of it as an art.” It’s part of a cultural change that may help to explain the emergence of yoga in art museums in Milwaukee and across the country over the past few years. “People are, I think, more willing to express themselves and their creativity kinetically than I think Americans have historically been comfortable doing,” Su said.

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Thursday, January 16, 2014

Once upon a time, Marquee got a new editor

Claire Nowak College produces the most interesting stories. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not talking about academic essays in a textbook. I mean personal stories, the kind you share with friends and family about your exciting and occasionally embarrassing recollections of college life. Your first night away from home. Your first all-nighter in the

library. The first time you woke up in your bed with no recollection of how you got there. Those stories are special because they are yours. They may make you laugh or cringe, but if told in the right way to the right people, they form a special bond between a speaker and an audience. Take me, for instance. Unless we had the pleasure of meeting previously, you know nothing about me. Who is this chick? Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s her deal writing this column? Did last semesterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Marquee editor get a perm? Of course, I could just come right out and tell you the facts â&#x20AC;&#x201C; my name is Claire Nowak, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m the new Marquee editor, and as far as I know, Erin Heffernan has no intention of changing her hairstyle.

But whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the fun in that? I believe information is most effectively shared through storytelling, which is primarily why Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m studying journalism and writingintensive English. People tend to pay more attention and remember more details when theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re engaged in something they can relate to. And frankly, storytelling is a lot more fun than dishing out data. So to ease your curiosity about my identity, I could tell you a story about how working as a Marquee reporter for three semesters allowed me to explore Milwaukee and do things most 19 year olds never dream of, like purposely sleeping in the library for three days. You may hear me talk about how I was asked to become Marquee editor while wearing a festive Santa hat at a Christmas party. I might even tell you the ironic

tale of a certain editor who broke her elbow on her first day of work, making her a journalist who cannot write and has since developed a prejudice against ice. As I let my left, non-dominant hand fly solo across the keyboard, the stories come out and allow us to connect, editor and reader, on a level that only we can share. But this column isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t about my story. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about the stories that I will share with you throughout the semester, whether theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trending on Twitter or tucked away in someoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s subconscious just waiting to be told. True to Marquee tradition, they will generally concern topics about pop culture and lifestyle, but they could range from a massive scandal in Hollywood to a fun, new shop opening in the Third Ward. I will strive to keep you informed and entertained â&#x20AC;&#x201C; forgive

the campaign speech tone â&#x20AC;&#x201C; but I also want to hear your thoughts. Let me know what interests you. What burning stories you want told? Which people or events in the world of entertainment affect the Marquette community? As Kim Possible said, call me, beep me, if you wanna reach me (although email or Twitter would be better). Whether youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a faithful Trib follower or just reading this because I asked you to (Hi, Mom), I look forward to sharing these stories with you. Who knows? By the end of the semester, we may gain more from storytelling than we did when we were kids. I might even start typing with both hands. Claire Nowak is a sophomore studying journalism and writing-intensive English. Contact her at claire.nowak@marquette. edu or @TheClaireNowak with comments.

Busting one last move as a Marquee editor

Erin Heffernan You know that moment in a dance battle where you do a sweet move to pass off a solo? Maybe itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a head spin where you land pointing at the next person, maybe itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of those dorky hand-holding arm-waves dads and white people in movies inevitably pull. Well, this column is like that. Sort of. My time as editor of the Tribâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s arts & entertainment section is over. My own proverbial dance break is giving way to different pursuits as an investigative reporter for the news desk. But

now, in the tradition of the Marquee desk, this goodbye column will pass the role over to the new head honcho, Claire Nowak â&#x20AC;&#x201D; who I hear has some pretty sweet moves of her own. Though I only have one actual dance move in real life (I call it the â&#x20AC;&#x153;punch it downâ&#x20AC;? in which you make parallel fists and then â&#x20AC;Ś well, uh, you punch them down). I do feel like Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve learned a few â&#x20AC;&#x153;big pictureâ&#x20AC;? lessons during my year and a half covering art and culture in Milwaukee and at Marquette. Here is the one I most want to share in this, my finale of column writing. Any trend piece or lifestyle magazine will tell you that local is â&#x20AC;&#x153;so in.â&#x20AC;? People are taking the time to eat locally and make room on their shelves for that bar of artisan soap from the farmers market. But there is less buzz about taking in local culture, especially for college students â&#x20AC;&#x201D; double especially for Marquette students. Milwaukee has a vibrant local

music scene, but at most concerts, you see the mid-twenties crowd with a few stray UWM kids thrown in. The Milwaukee Film Festival was phenomenal this year and made for some of the best weekends of my semester as well as the most memorable movies of my year, yet the theaters were often filled with grey-hairs except for a few of the wilder (and later) showings. Here on campus, the improv groups can be as good as professionals. The Indian Student Association puts on a remarkably entertaining comedy/dance show every year that I never miss, and there are also great bands looking for audiences all the time. We are at an age when seeing art up front and in-person is still something we can make time for (pre-jobs, kids, the gradual dulling of our youthful excitement, etc.). Venturing out to a piece of local entertainment, be it an art show, a piece of theater or a sociopolitical collaborative interpretive

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dance piece (theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re out there, trust me) is something so unique from the Netflix marathons and huge arena shows most of us tend to seek out. The spaces and crowds at these events are small and personal, the topics can be local and familiar (even Marquette-centered,) the prices are usually reasonable and,

best of all, the artists are usually approachable, passionate and looking for ways to reach out and improve their own community. In all my time working on this desk, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen a ton of local art. Even though there were shows I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t especially like, I never once felt like I wasted my time and always wished more students from Marquette were there with me. You meet new people. They mix up your routine. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re introduced to new ideas and stories. I know this advice is familiar to most of us students, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll say it again: Use your bus pass. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be afraid to go alone if thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a show you really want to see (no one will think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s weird if you do). Try something different. Great local art is out there â&#x20AC;&#x201D; find it. Now Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll step down from my soap box/piece of breakdancing cardboard. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to thank anyone who read this column and the Marquee section last semester. It was an honor and joy to write and hear responses from my (admittedly few) readers. Now just imagine me hitting a smooth final dance pose and looking to Claire. I know she will create a section that will continue the mission of Marquee: to help students discover local artists, characters and events and to give local art the attention it deserves. Erin Heffernan is a senior studying writing-intensive English and political science. Email her at erin.heffernan@ marquette.edu with comments or suggestions.

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The Marquette Tribune Editorial Board:

Tony Manno,Viewpoints Editor Elena Fransen, Assistant Editor Tessa Fox, Editor-in-Chief Sarah Hauer, Managing Editor Patrick Leary, Sports Editor Joe Kaiser, News Editor Alec Brooks, Copy Chief Rob Gebelhoff, Projects Editor Maddy Kennedy, Visual Content Editor Claire Nowak, Marquee Editor Rebecca Rebholz, Photo Editor

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Zero tolerance for a bad disciplinary policy

STAFF EDITORIAL

Campus bookstores need to respect students Seamus Doyle

Illustration by Rob Gebelhoff/robert.gebelhoff@marquette.edu

Our view: Campus bookstores like Sweeney’s and BookMarq should adjust their return policies to prevent excessive penalties for students. As a business near Marquette’s campus, Sweeney’s College Books should operate knowing the financial burden placed on students to purchase textbooks and relax its return policies accordingly. Last semester, Danny McKevitt, a senior in the College of Business, was charged $903.56 after returning four rented textbooks to Sweeney’s one day past the deadline. Clearly, his situation was not handled with the ideal sort of understanding one would hope for. A small business like Sweeney’s has responsibilities to its suppliers, but it should also be held accountable for the well-being of its community – which, in this case, happens to be made up of Marquette students, many of whom struggle to afford pricey textbooks in the first place. Students’ voices are left out of the equation when it comes to textbook pricing. Sweeney’s needs to recognize the effect of soaring textbook prices on its customers and community partners, and do its best to alleviate unnecessary fees when they are incurred under reasonable circumstances for both parties. We recognize the dollar value of textbooks is mostly out of Sweeney’s control. Replacement costs are so expensive because the textbook publishers set prices so high in the first place. Then, when marginally updated editions are released with an even higher price tag, the buyback value of previous editions diminishes as well. The handling of these issues is left to federal regulation, where small steps have been taken with legislation like the Higher Education Opportunity Act. It is understandable that Sweeney’s and BookMarq implement late fees and replacement costs to keep their stores operating efficiently. Bookstores profit a mere 3.7 percent off each textbook sale, according to the National Association of College Stores. More than three-fourths of the sale profit is sent directly to publishers to cover costs, so at the

bookstore level, not much can be done about the high prices. Bookstores must remember they do not operate in a typical market, where the buyer’s demand for a particular product provides them with some control over the price. The purchasers – in this case, students – are not the ones selecting the materials; it is up to professors to determine which materials are best suited for their courses. In McKevitt’s situation, Sweeney’s textbook replacement policy seems arbitrary, given he arrived with the physical books to go back on the shelves just one day later. A more appropriate solution would have been for Sweeney’s to accept the rented textbooks when they arrived in store the next day, assessing whatever reasonable late fee a revised, responsible store policy deemed necessary. Following through on a policy to collect the full replacement costs of the books from a student one day after the deadline is excessive and insensitive to the customers who keep Sweeney’s in business. With such incidents, bookstores like Sweeney’s should work in the interest of its customers rather than its suppliers. Both Sweeney’s and BookMarq have done well to lessen at least some of that burden from students by providing the option to rent textbooks or purchase them used, while students also have the option of obtaining textbooks elsewhere. From any reasonable standpoint, returning rented materials less than 24 hours late in their proper condition is not worth paying $903.56 to replace them. Repurchasing the textbooks seems counterintuitive, considering they were sitting on Sweeney’s counter the next day. The role of publishers aside, campus bookstores should make it their responsibility to represent not only their own voice, but the voices of students when it comes to textbook pricing. This gives stores like Sweeney’s and BookMarq a chance to lighten the costs placed on students and foster a healthy relationship between a business and its customers.

When I was in eighth grade at St. Sebastian’s Catholic Grade School, I got in a “fight.” I use quotations because it was hardly a fight: A kid wouldn’t give me back my new basketball at lunch, so I grabbed for it, he tried to punch me, and I tried to punch him back. It was quickly broken up. I had never been in trouble before then, at least not the trouble that lands you in the principal’s office. Our punishment? We had to cut ribbons off of a fence during recess. That was it. Our principal realized it wasn’t a regular occurrence, and he had the flexibility and wherewithal to deal with it situationally, based on our past histories and attitudes. Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Education and Department of Justice jointly released a 35-page document titled “Guiding Principles: A Resource Guide for Improving School Climate and Discipline.” As a result of the report, the Obama administration suggested school districts end “zero tolerance” policies – ones that have strict, uniform punishments for certain misbehavior or rule-breaking. The underlying problem with zero tolerance policies is that they fail to account for less serious circumstances. In Milwaukee, for instance, Alexander Hamilton High School, a public high school on the north side, has a “Zero Tolerance” tardy policy. Any student that reports to class after the bell is expected to go to the tardy room. “No Exceptions,” the policy states in bold lettering. Upon a second tardy, an in-school suspension is administered and “students will not be allowed in class until the in-school suspension has been completed.” Policies such as this don’t make sense. ‘You’ve missed some class, so now lets make you miss more.’ While the philosophy behind zero tolerance policies, which became popular in the early 1990s, assumes strict punishments will deter unwanted behavior, they are misguided and misdirected. Instead, these policies place draconian

punishments on students most in need of attention and help. They are short-term solutions for long-term problems. In many cases, students who face suspensions or expulsions for tardiness, fights, drugs and other rule violations feed from zero tolerance policy schools into the criminal justice system, and not as police or lawyers. In contrast to zero tolerance policies, restorative justice policies seek to reconcile victims with offenders. In the past, Marquette University Law School’s Restorative Justice Initiative worked with Milwaukee Public Schools to reconcile offenders with those whom they hurt. Paul Dedinsky, a former adjunct professor at Marquette’s law school and a current Milwaukee assistant district attorney, worked with MPS and the Restorative Justice Initiative. His dissertation focused on discipline in schools, specifically MPS, and the restorative justice process. “While many promising pockets of schools within MPS – sensing the true nature of the problem of utilizing suspensions as a first, rather than a last resort – successfully adopted restorative approaches, strategies and practices, there is still much work to be done,” Dedinsky said in an email. Though Dedinsky’s dissertation relies on data from 2008, many of the problems persist. While MPS did not have a higher rate of expulsion than most other urban public school systems, it did have a similar number of suspensions as the Los Angeles Unified School District, which is over eight times the size of MPS. “Suspensions can be dangerous,” Dedinsky said. “Instead of being in a classroom, that youth is now in the community, sometimes with specious adult supervision. The damage to academic achievement cannot be underestimated. I met students suspended in excess of 20 times in a given school year. That means these students missed 140 classes that school year just due to suspensions.” In the end, I am left to wonder what would have happened had I gone to a school with a zero tolerance policy and been in my “fight.” While I probably would not have become some hardened felon, prison tattoos and all, there is a very real possibility I would have, at the very least, had a run in with the police, the criminal justice system or a suspension. That is the inherent problem with zero tolerance policies: there is no consideration given to those who may not deserve such a harsh punishment. Seamus Doyle is a junior studying international affairs and writing-intensive English. Email Seamus at seamus.doyle@marquette.edu with any comments or suggestions.

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Thursday, January 16, 2014

New Year, same impossible expectations

Elena Fransen To those who are still going strong with their New Year’s resolutions two weeks in, I commend you. I, for one, am terrible at them. One year, I decided I would become a vegetarian. It was less than a week later, after too many meals of pasta and cheese pizza, when I realized I am not a big fan of vegetables and I liked steak too much to end our relationship. My resolution was unrealistic for me and I set myself up for failure with my own unnecessary standards, making my attempt doomed from the start. I haven’t made a New Year’s resolution since then due in part to a fear of not reaching my goal, which tends to deter some people. But there are still those who believe in the power of resolutions. People tend to dream big when

crafting them, sometimes being impractical about their own capabilities. At the start of every year, aspiring to drop 20 pounds, spend more time with the family or get that promotion, many people set themselves up to either succeed or fail by setting often unrealistic expectations. It’s great that people want to become more active, successful and interconnected, but sometimes our improbable New Year’s resolutions might be acting against us. Meeting goals can push us to work harder, but that is not always the best thing. Gym membership sales at the Rec Center and Rec Plex, and also nationwide, spike in January, and for the first couple weeks, people use them religiously. Then, in most cases, a little thing called life gets in the way. People stop hitting the gym, settle for their job position and resort to monthly calls to family as other important things tend to come up. Some people who stick with their resolutions can become obsessed with their goals and let it negatively affect other facets of their lives. Those hell-bent on getting that elusive promotion could forget about their personal relationships, while someone with the goal of exercising every day may be neglecting their work life. Focusing on one particular resolution can be

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Thursday, January 16, 2014

MU lands local boy Fischer Six-foot-11 center eligible Dec. 14, will fill holes left by seniors By Kyle Doubrava

kyle.doubrava@marquette.edu

Freshman center Luke Fischer was introduced as the newest member of the Marquette men’s basketball team Tuesday after transferring from Indiana University. Fischer averaged 2.8 points and 2.1 rebounds in 13 games this season with the Hoosiers, led by former Marquette coach Tom Crean. Fischer will be eligible to play for the Golden Eagles starting Dec. 14. The Germantown, Wis., native believes the move to Marquette will benefit his playing career and personal life. “It’s a great fit here,” Fischer said. “Close to home, and the future’s really bright, so I’m looking forward to it.” Named Wisconsin’s Mr. Basketball of 2013 after leading Germantown High School to a state championship, Fischer averaged 21.3 points and 9.5 rebounds per game his senior year. The 6-foot-11 center will bring needed size to a team that will lose three forwards — Chris Otule, Davante Gardner and Jamil Wilson — after this season. Fischer accepted the challenge and is already incorporated into practice. “It’s a lot faster game at the next level, but after losing Chris and Davante next year, I think those 13 games I did play will actually help a lot,” he said. Assistant coach Jerry Wainwright will work individually with Fischer throughout the winter and in the offseason. He sees Fischer as a skilled passer and solid mid-range shooter who will split time at both the power forward and center positions. “He’s long-armed, he’s angular, he’s just coming into his body,” Wainwright said. “He has a great feel with both hands. He’s got a great structure for play. Somebody’s taught him the mechanics of shooting, and he’s really got a feel for passing. As long as he’s at

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Luke Fischer, a Germentown, Wis. native, played 13 games for the Indiana Hoosiers before deciding to transfer to Marquette to be closer to home.

Marquette, people will remember him for his passes more than his points. He can really pass the basketball.” Fischer said he felt welcomed and involved with the team in his short time on campus. He was in contact with coach Buzz Williams almost immediately after he tweeted his decision to transfer Jan. 5. “From the first day I was here, it was open arms,” Fischer said. “It’s like I’ve been here for the whole semester already, it’s that open. It’s really nice.” Fischer’s decision to leave Indiana was a gradual process. Moving through the semester, he realized the program was not for him. “It wasn’t (a problem) at first, obviously, because I felt like it

was going to be a good fit for me when I committed,” he said. “Going throughout the year, I started questioning everything.” Fischer also considered Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Creighton, schools that recruited him in high school. He cited Marquette’s academic standing and the thrill of Big East competition as his primary factors. He said out of respect for Crean and the Hoosiers he would not transfer to another Big Ten school. Playing for his hometown crowd will bring Fischer a sense of comfort, but there could be higher expectations for an audience that already knows what he is capable of doing on the court. “There’s always going to be pressure, and I don’t think

it’s going to be any different, really,” Fischer said. Wainwright sees a high ceiling for Fischer during his time at Marquette. There will be plenty of room for improvement over several areas, but his potential astounds the coaching staff.

“You couldn’t ask for more as a coach or as a program,” Wainwright said. “He’s got a great smile, got a great handshake, looks you in the eye. If he works like he did (in practice) for the remainder of his career, not to put pressure on him, but he can be anything he wants to be.”

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Fischer chose Marquette instead of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Creighton.

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Women ready to weather Red Storm St. John’s, Marquette fight for second place in Big East standings

Steven-less Butler still going strong

By Matt Barbato

matthew.barbato@marquette.edu

The Marquette women’s basketball team’s 3-1 start hasn’t been easy in it’s inaugural season in the reformed Big East Conference. Each of the Golden Eagles’ four conference games was decided by six points or fewer, emphasizing the level of competition in the new conference. “It’s definitely a powerhouse conference,” senior forward Katherine Plouffe said. “I like competing in every game even though we don’t necessarily want it to be close. The teams are at such a high level, it makes it fun.” “It’s a great conference. Every game can be anyone’s game so it’s challenging,” assistant coach Christina Quaye said. Marquette (12-3) showed its prowess in tight matchups all season. The Golden Eagles won six of their eight games by fewer than 10 points. Quaye said the team’s success in crunch time comes down to one factor: effort. “We really try to focus on our principles and try to stay focused,” Quaye said. “We key on effort and rebounding has been a big thing for us.” Plouffe said Marquette’s formula for its early-season success is managing what the team can control and improving on what it does well. “What we do well is rebound, run and we want to defend,” Plouffe said. “Defending is what we’ve been working on in practice because we need to pick that up to the level our rebounding is at.” The Golden Eagles welcome St. John’s (10-5) to the Al McGuire Center Saturday afternoon in a matchup between the two teams who are

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Senior forward Katherine Plouffe is the Big East leading scorer because of her ability to dominate the post.

challenging Creighton for the conference’s top spot. The Red Storm are led by sophomore guard Aliyyah Handford, who is averaging 17.8 points per game on 52.4 percent shooting. St. John’s has been a second half team this season, with a scoring margin of plus-52 in the second half, compared to just plus-three in the first. Marquette will need to use its rebounding, which is ranked fifth statistically in the NCAA,

to its advantage Saturday. The Golden Eagles average 10.6 more rebounds than the Red Storm and dominated opponents with a rebounding margin of plus-14.4 per game. One thing St. John’s will have entering Saturday’s game is momentum. The Red Storm enter Saturday’s game on a three game winning streak. “They’re playing really well right now coming off of two big wins,” Quaye said. “They beat DePaul and they beat

Creighton, so we need to stay hungry.” As for Plouffe, who averaged 23 points in three conference games and leads the Big East in scoring, she does not plan on tampering with her play. “Just keep focusing on what I can do and not forcing anything,” she said. “My teammates and my coaches are confident in me and build me up in that way. I’ll try to keep doing what I’ve been doing.”

Men’s lacrosse shakes up fall training Team competitions, drills prepare the team for the spring By Andrew Dawson

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Training can sometimes be a nagging reality for many athletes, but this year, the men’s lacrosse team switched things up. “All fall we did competitions, whether it was in the weight room or 6 a.m. down at (Valley Fields),” redshirt sophomore midfielder Kyle Whitlow said. “We had a lot fun and it was a good way to get in shape and come together as a team.” At the end of last semester, players split into five teams to battle it out in the inaugural annual Thanksgiving Throwdown. Competitors participated

in different fitness events including sprints, individual tug-of-war, power wheels and other workouts. After a nearly month-long competition, one team came out as the victor. The Beumans, captained by Whitlow, were in dead last after a strong start and had no sign of turning things around. However, slowly but surely, the team rose from the dead and pulled within two points with one day left in the competition. On the final day, the Beumans won all the day’s events to take the win away from the Dauntless Red Coats and the Bone Collectors. Following the Thanksgiving Throwdown, the lacrosse team closed out the semester with a football bowl series. Once again players were split into teams and played in a playoff style tournament for the chance to play in the second

annual, unofficially sponsored, Cargill.com Bowl. Sporting NFL jerseys from various teams or pretty much any jersey from any sport that was available, the teams battled in intense games of touch football. Faceoff specialist Paul Ripportella won the day earning MVP honors and led his team, captained by redshirt sophomore faceoff specialist K.C. Kennedy, to the championship. The winners hoisted a homemade trophy made of tin foil, plastic and a potato chip bowl, over their heads in celebration. “It helps a lot during the day because you kind of get into a schedule and into a routine and you’re going through it everyday and something fun like playing in the football game comes up and it just lifts everyone’s spirits,” Kennedy said. “It just lifts everyone’s spirits and you’re just really focused after the game. It’s the little things

like that that make it more fun with the boys.” Coach Joe Amplo said having these unconventional competitions is important to break up the monotony of training during the fall. “At the end of the day, it’s supposed to be fun,” Amplo said. “It’s a long fall semester, training wise, and we don’t get to see an outside jersey at all in the fall and we demand a lot of time from (our team). We demand their effort so for us to make it as fun as possible is a big, big goal for us.” Now that the fall is through, winter brought the team indoors and back to the grind. With the season opener against Lehigh less than a month away, the team has knuckled down, but continues to work hard while having a little fun in the process.

When Brad Stevens left Butler behind for the greener pastures of the Boston Celtics and the NBA, many, including myself, figured that the Bulldogs’ magic had run out. Without Steven’s guidance, the clutch of graduated Rotnei Clarke and the scoring of injured Roosevelt Jones, it appeared Butler was destined for a rebuilding season. Five games into its Big East season, Butler’s winless record, good for last place in the conference, appears to verify that claim. But it only feels partially accurate when looking at each loss individually. Heading into conference play, the Bulldogs were considered one of the Big East’s surprises at 102. They knocked off Vanderbilt, Washington State and instate rival Purdue, along with coming close to upsetting one of the best teams in the country in Oklahoma State. In its Big East lid-lifter, Butler lost a heartbreaker in overtime 7673 against Villanova. The Wildcats remain undefeated in conference play and are the highest nationally ranked Big East squad at No. 6. The Bulldogs then fell to Xavier by 11 points on the road, were edged 99-94 by DePaul and had their hearts broken again in overtime by Georgetown. Their last loss was an 88-60 drubbing at the hands of No. 20 Creighton, whose fans treated Butler to chants of “Where’s Coach Stevens?” toward the end of the game. With its latest contest as an outlier, Butler is still playing downto-the-wire classics that have become commonplace during the last few years. New coach Brandon Miller has done a bang-up job given the talent he’s had to work with, with sophomore guard Kellen Dunham and senior forward Khyle Marshall developing into serious scoring threats. Dunham has nearly doubled his points per game average from last season with a team-leading 18.4, and Marshall has poured in 15.6 per game. Time and time again, however, the Bulldogs simply find themselves on the wrong end of the scoreboard, lacking the magic finishing touch they seemed to have in the recent past. Whether or not the Bulldogs will find someone to take and make the final shot remains to be seen, but it has made a huge difference for this year’s campaign. Regardless, in Saturday’s matchup, the Golden Eagles will face a group of players starving for their first conference victory and are good enough to hang with just about any team in the nation. Similar to the Bulldogs, Marquette continues to develop its identity and having a win over Butler is more impressive than it might initially appear. Trey Killian is a senior from Tampa, Fla., majoring in journalism. Email him at robert.killian@marquette.edu.

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Men face deceptively tough Butler in Indianapolis Freshmen, turnovers and three-pointers all factors in big game By Kyle Doubrava

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Marquette treks to Indianapolis Saturday to face a sputtering Butler team that started its inaugural Big East campaign 0-5. Although the Golden Eagles are holding steady at 2-2, Buzz Williams’ squad needs this win to gain momentum before crucial games next week against Georgetown and red-hot Villanova. Here are three areas, important to Marquette’s sucess, to watch for in the showdown. Use the freshmen effectively Freshmen JaJuan Johnson and Deonte Burton are more effective than perhaps people realize. Burton is a useful tool on the offensive end, scoring 19.2 points per 40 minutes. Contrast

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that to senior Jamil Wilson, who averages 18.2 points per 40 minutes but is a subpar 59.6 percent foul shooter. Burton also averages one offensive rebound per 12.7 minutes, which is more frequent than senior Davante Gardner (13.9). Johnson’s outside game needs some improvement (29 percent 3-point shooter), but is an 86-percent foul shooter and one of three Golden Eagles to have an assist-to-turnover ratio of 1.5-to-1 or better. Regardless of the score, Johnson and Burton deserve to play more minutes. Turnovers could be costly Seton Hall converted 12 Marquette turnovers into 22 points Saturday. The frontcourt committed nine of those miscues. Butler capitalizes on unforced errors, which can get out on the break with leading scorers Kellen Dunham (18.8 ppg) and Khyle Marshall (15.9). Butler takes care of the ball well,

ranking first in the conference in turnovers per game (10.1), so forcing steals along the perimeter or at half-court will be on Marquette’s priority list. Gain confidence in the 3-point shot Buzz Williams does not like it when his players take lowpercentage shots when opportunities in the paint are present. However, if a team wishes to advance to the NCAA Tournament, it must possess multiple weapons in its arsenal. The Golden Eagles’ perimeter game has been dormant for much of the year; the team is shooting 31 percent from long range, and its most accurate shooter is senior guard Jake Thomas (39 percent). Marquette does not have a go-to three-point specialist this season. Thus, drive-andkick plays are less successful, and long rebounds from these misses allow opponents to push the tempo. Someone must step

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Freshman Deonte Burton averages 19.2 points per 40 minutes of play.

up from the outside when the time arises. Butler holds its foes to 30.6 percent three-point

shooting, but that should not deter the Golden Eagles from running their perimeter plays.

Big east notebook By Jacob Born

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Creighton surging to start Big East play Creighton’s season started out rough, as the team lost its opener to crosstown rival Drake and limped through nonconference play to a mediocre 6-6 record. But since Big East play started, the Bluejays soared to the top of the standings. Creighton won four of its last five, including home victories against 12-3 Villanova and 12-5 DePaul. The Bluejays should continue their winning streak when they battle 7-9 Xavier at home before traveling to Indianapolis to take on the 7-9 Butler Bulldogs. Marquette playing much better than expected While many people believed Marquette would benefit from an easier schedule in the new Big East, very few could have guessed the Golden Eagles would perform this well. Marquette is 12-3 with a 3-1 conference record and sits in second place in the conference. This time last year, the Golden Eagles were 8-7 and 0-2 in Big East play. Led by senior

Katherine Plouffe and sophomore Brooklyn Pumroy, Marquette feeds the post to get the gritty points. Marquette will show just how good it is when the team welcomes third place St. John’s to the Al McGuire Center Saturday. Former Big East members update When the “Catholic 7” left the now-American Athletic Conference and took the Big East name with it, it also left the top four teams in women’s basketball in the conference. Last year’s regular season champion Notre Dame (15-0, 3-0) jumped ship to the Atlantic Coast Conference and hasn’t skipped a beat. Fellow ACC counterpart Syracuse (12-4, 1-2) adapted to the new conference well, while Pittsburgh (9-8, 1-2) has had a little more trouble. Former Big East members are dominating the AAC, as Connecticut (18-0, 5-0), Louisville (16-1, 4-0) and Rutgers (133, 4-1) are in first, second and third place, respectively. However, for former members South Florida (8-8, 2-3) and Cincinnati (8-8, 1-4), the conference hasn’t been so kind.

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St. John’s at Marquette Saturday, 4 p.m.

When the Red Storm travels to Milwaukee to face the Golden Eagles, it will be an early matchup between teams at the top of the conference. Marquette’s only defeat in conference play so far was a two-point loss at home versus Villanova, while St. John’s only loss this season came by five points on the road to Xavier.

Marquette will be lethal in its post attack by giving the ball to its leading scorer Katherine Plouffe, who averages 19.4 points per game. Meanwhile, the Red Storm will put the ball in the hands of sophomore guard Aliyyah Handford. Both Marquette and St. John’s are looking knock off a threat to their Big East title hopes.

Player of the Week Ka-Deidre Simmons Junior Guard Seton Hall

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Simmons, a redshirt junior, came into the season knowing she had to step into a bigger role for the Pirates, and she took the challenge head on. Simmons upped her points per game average by nearly four points this season and put up a career-high

25 points in a win against Villanova. She also leads the team with 88 assists on the season. Seton Hall has had a rough start to conference play, but with the continued success of Simmons, the Pirates should climb in the standings.