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Club hockey petitions to reinstate buses Team works to lift ban on busing services after illegal drug case By Andrew Dawson

andrew.dawson@marquette.edu

Photo by Andrew Dawson/andrew.dawson@marquette.edu

Marquette club hockey team members collected more than 350 signatures in the AMU Wednesday and Friday.

After having its buses taken away last semester, the club hockey team is petitioning to bring them back. Marquette’s Department of Recreational Sports ended the contract with Lamer’s Bus Services Inc., the company originally providing transportation, and prohibited the team from signing with another company after students were found consuming illicit drugs in the back of one of the buses Oct. 25. However, buses continued until the next week with Lamer’s providing services to the home games the following weekend. Hundreds of fans used to attend the team’s home games at The Ponds of Brookfield Ice Arena, about 13 miles away by car, but freshman goalie Alejandro Anderson said since the bus ban, the stands now lack

5 students at McCormick sent to hospital

a student presence. “Everyone loves coming and the team loves that the fans are there,” Anderson said. “It’s just a great environment and now it’s like 20 people and mostly parents.” Last Wednesday and Friday, the team set up a table in the Alumni Memorial Union to encourage students to sign a petition to reinstate transportation services. So far, the team has more than 350 signatures. It hopes to get at least 500 and present it to the Department of Recreational Sports in hopes of reversing the ban. “There has not been any word from Rec Sports or MUSG regarding the future of the buses,” Ryan Zanon, club hockey president and captain, said in an email. “My plan is to hand in the original copy (of the petition) to MUSG so that they can send it to Rec Sports, seeing as that they speak on behalf of the student body here at MU. I feel strongly that the support and backing of MUSG will really open up the eyes of Rec Sports.” The team originally charged $5 for admission to games, but after being told by Marquette University that charging for attendance was not allowed because it would make the team a profitable organization. The team was allowed to charge for the buses because they organized it themselves. Zach Bowman, MUSG executive vice president, said he believes the decision by the Department Recreational Sports was an administrative decision made without student input. “(Club sports) presidents usually meet once a month, but this decision was probably came down from whoever is in charge of recreational sports in general,” Bowman said. MUSG cannot necessarily pick a side in the matter, according to Bowman, but it can help assure that future decisions affecting the team are fair. “The team has a lot of work to do on their end and we’ll be there for them if they need us,” he said. With only four home games remaining on the schedule, it will be difficult to have buses back this season; however, the team still plans on pushing for the return of buses after the season ends in hopes of having them reinstated next year. “It is a bit time pressing fancying the idea of buses again for this year, however it is my goal as president of the team to get the buses back for my teammates and Marquette students,” Zanon said in an email.

allegedly distributing the drugs. The students await university conduct and legal action, but according to Brian Dorrington, senior director of university communication, the university is focused foremost on the students’ health. “We take the safety and wellBy Matt Kulling being of our students very serimatthew.kulling@marquette.edu ously and expect all of our students Five students were admitted to uphold Marquette’s values,” to the hospital late Sunday night Dorrington said in an email. “The after reportedly ingesting an ununiversity is grateful for the swift specified illegal action our Departdrug. ment of Public Interim DirecSafety, Residence tor for the DepartHall staff and law ment of Public enforcement partSafety Russell ners who immediShaw said an ofately responded to ficer arrived on the the students. The scene at McCoruniversity has exmick Hall Sunday. tensive drug and He said that due to alcohol educamedical concerns tional programs, and concern for including a dedithe students’ safecated coordinaBrian Dorrington, senior director tor who works to ty, they were taken of university communication to Sinai Samaritan educate students Hospital in downtown Milwauabout associated risks.” kee for treatment and evaluation. Last week, there were five sepaAs part of the investigation, rate instances of drug violations in one female student was also McCormick, O’Donnell, Schroeder taken into custody by the Miland Straz Halls. waukee Police Department for

Five students await university conduct and legal action after DPS found them allegedly using illegal drugs in McCormick Hall Sunday.

INDEX

NEWS

VIEWPOINTS

SPORTS

Les Aspin

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Leary

Students treated at Sinai after reportedly ingesting illegal drugs

We take the safety and wellbeing of our students very seriously and expect all of our students to uphold Marquette’s values.”

CALENDAR...........................2 DPS REPORTS......................2 CLASSIFIEDS........................5

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

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