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39 positions eliminated The decision was made to combat financial challenges By Alexa Jurado
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Marquette University President Michael Lovell announced the elimination of 39 positions at the university due to short and long-term financial challenges Friday, Jan. 22. “These difficult decisions were made with great care and discernment, and I thank each of our colleagues affected by this news for the contributions they’ve made to Marquette,” Lovell said in an email. Lovell explained that the university has taken steps such as reducing discretionary spending to offset lost revenues and
address unanticipated costs. Those being laid off have been offered a severance package, with pay and health care subsidies and outplacement services. Lovell said the actions taken by the university do not involve tenured or tenure-track faculty. He also announced the integration of the offices of Economic Engagement, Marketing and Communication and Public Affairs, all of which will combine to create the new Office of University Relations led by General Counsel Paul Jones. This led to the elimination of three vice president positions. “This past year has been one of the most difficult in Marquette’s history, and today’s news impacts our entire campus community,” Lovell said in the email.
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As part of the university’s mitigation efforts against COVID-19, 39 positions were eliminated Jan. 22.
Individual charged in crash Vaccines begin Jordan Jones switched seats with passenger at Daniels’ hit and run Some students There were several surveillance complaint, Jones “failed to rea- receive COVID-19 By Annie Mattea cameras that captured the crash. sonably investigate what was anne.mattea@marquette.edu An eyewitness viewed the instruck” and “failed to stop the vaccinations Jordan Jones, 21, was charged Jan. 20 in connection with the hit-and-run crash that resulted in the death of former College of Business Administration dean Joe Daniels last February. Jones faces the criminal counts of hit-and-run resulting in death and knowingly operating a motor vehicle while suspended. Daniels was a faculty member at Marquette since 1992 and served as dean of the College of Business Administration beginning in January 2020. Daniels was 60 years old. Daniels was crossing the 10th Street intersection by Wisconsin Avenue when he was hit by a northbound SUV Feb. 11, 2020.
cident and was instructed to call 911 while an off-duty police officer attempted to provide CPR to Daniels. The Milwaukee Police Department and Marquette University Police Department then took over the scene. Paramedics responded to the scene and took Daniels to the hospital. He was pronounced dead shortly after. Officer William Hanney, who filed the criminal complaint, arrived at the scene about 15 minutes following the crash. Hanney did not observe any defects or issues with the road that would have contributed to the crash. According to the criminal INDEX
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vehicle he was operating as close to the scene of the accident as possible and remain at the scene of the accident until he did the all of the following: give his name, address and the registration number of the vehicle he or she was operating to the operator or occupant of or person attending any vehicle collided with and, upon request and if available, exhibit his operator’s license to the operator or occupant of or person.” The criminal complaint indicates that at the time of the incident, the suspect’s vehicle, a red Infiniti, was found crossing the intersection. See CRASH page 2 NEWS
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The COVID-19 pandemic has had drastic effects on people from every corner of the world. In the United States, the COVID-19 vaccine is finally starting to be administered on a wider scale. However, Marquette and Wisconsin professionals still believe that the state has a ways to go before they can return to some sense of normalcy. “I am optimistic about our future, and the progress being made in the work to control the pandemic, but we are very far from over!” Patricia Schroeder,
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director of strategic initiatives in the College of Nursing, said in an email. “We have months ahead of us in following CDC guidelines of wearing masks, distancing, avoiding crowds, handwashing, and more.” There are currently two vaccines, manufactured by Moderna and Pfizer, which have been approved for widespread distribution throughout the United States. In fact, students on the Marquette campus have been able get vaccinated. “I was fortunate enough to have both of my doses of the Pfizer vaccine with no symptoms. I’m grateful that myself and my colleagues were able to receive the vaccine, but I will be even more relieved once it becomes more widespread. I think we are finally
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POSITIONS: Faculty remain concerned Continued from page 1 “We face the future with optimism, knowing Marquette is poised for success.” Our Marquette released a statement Jan. 21 condemning the cuts, calling for the university to re-evaluate its choices. The Marquette Academic Workers Union maintains its stance: No one gets fired. “I am shocked, disappointed, just dismayed at the prospect of firing a dedicated and integral staff during a pandemic and an economic recession,” Grant Gosizk, a visiting assistant professor of English, said. “I
think the senior leadership at Marquette administration has a lot of questions to answer from the remaining staff and faculty at the university.” Gosizk said administration owes its faculty and staff more “coherent answers” regarding the budget and the decision to eliminate positions. “I think these reaffirm anxieties that I think both staff and faculty share about being overworked (and) underappreciated at the university,” Gosizk said. Gosizk mentioned the $12 million surplus planned for in the 2022 fiscal year budget. He said it is at the expense of those 39
staff members laid off. He also pointed to the $9 million in federal aid the university received. “Much of that money has been approved for payroll purpose precisely, I imagine with the federal intent to retain employees during this unprecedented time,” Gosizk said. Gosizk said he is “operating tentatively” at Marquette, feeling that there is a larger cut on the way. Lovell did not mention the future for nontenure-track positions at the university. “I think that’s a sentiment that a lot of entities share,” Gosizk said.
He said the 39 staff members should be reinstated. “In order to demonstrate and preserve shared governance at this university, faculty deserve a stronger role in budgetary decisions that quintessentially affect the way that they operate in the classroom and the quality of education students receive,” Gosizk said. “I also think that students deserve a stronger role in budgetary processes ... I think we’d be seeing a very different budget, if those two groups were given a more concerted seat at the proverbial table.” Alum Brooke McArdle, who has been a student
advocate for ensuring MAWU’s goal, expressed her frustration at the news of the position eliminations. “The elimination of 39 faculty and staff positions is greatly disheartening, but unsurprising. Marquette’s administration has shown that they are committed to the degradation of Jesuit values, notably the ones they tout most often, ‘cura personalis,’” McArdle said. “In such an uncertain time, the university should be allowing its values to guide its actions; However, the administration has proven that pride and price drives its decision-making.”
CRASH: Suspect could face 31 years in jail Continued from from page 1 The suspect vehicle was found about 300 feet from where the collision occurred. Following the incident, a woman who was arrested after she had previously told officers she was the driver of the vehicle gave a full statement to police that indicated that she was not driving. She said that Jones was driving while she used her phone. During the interview, she appeared very nervous. On the night of the incident, she and her boyfriend, Jones, had been at an automobile auction test driving vehicles. She had driven a Honda with no license plate back to Jones’ family lot, as Jones was nervous to drive a car without a plate since his license was suspended and he did not want to be pulled over. Later, Jones then drove back to his home with the woman in tow. At the time of the incident, Jones told her to switch places with him, as she had a driver’s license. She told police that she was driving, and Jones did too. She said that she was “scared and things got out of control and she didn’t know what to do.” The woman said she was in the car less than a minute after the crash. In an analysis of the car, Hanney found that the pedals were very difficult to reach at his height of 5’11. The woman was 5’2 and Jones was 6’2. The mirrors also seemed to be arranged toward a taller individual’s driving preferences. While in custody, Jones had a phone call with his mother where he expressed concern, saying “if anything switches up it’s over, OK, you get what I’m saying?” His mother said she understands and cautioned him that the phone call was being recorded. Jones said that the woman he was
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driving with should be okay, as she had a valid driver’s license. He also wanted to check in on his girlfriend, saying that his emotions were all over the place. Jones maintained that he was not the one driving in a
follow-up interview Feb. 18. The criminal complaint indicated that Jones appeared nervous when officers stated that the female companion was not driving the car. Jones said he was not supposed to be driving as he didn’t have
a license. The officer informed him that not coming forward as the driver in the incident could result in being charged with a hit-and-run. Jones also said it was a “sticky situation” because he was
a felon. If Jones is convicted, he could face up to 31 years in prison and fines up to $110,000. His vehicle operating privilege would also be revoked for five years.
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VACCINES: Nurses among recipients be what we’ve been used to in the past.” Yet, Wisconsin Governor moving in the right direction,” Olivia Ward, a senior in the Col- Tony Evers has been petitioning the federal government for lege of Nursing, said. Ward was able to receive the more vaccines. vaccine through her position as nursing assistant at Froedtert Hospital. She was hired after a growing need for care for COVID-19 patients. “Seeing the pandemic firsthand and who it has impacted is terrifying. I had one patient cry to me one day and tell me that she wouldn’t wish this illness on anyone. It has been incredibly disheartening to see my peers and people I don’t know across the country doing the opposite of what is asked of them right now,” Ward said. Starting Jan. 25, Wisconsin seniors over the age of 65 are now eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. “We’re moving in the right direction now that the vaccine is SARAH CALONDER rolling out,” Sarah Calonder, a Clinical instructor in the College clinical instructor in the College of Nursing of Nursing, said. “But, I think we have a while before things get “We’re going to need more back to normal and I think when we get there our normal won’t vaccines. That’s the bottom line Continued from from page 1
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We’re moving in the right direction now that the vaccine is rolling out. But, I think we have a while before things get back to normal,”
if we want to continue to move our state forward,” Evers said in an interview with the Washington Post Jan. 22. However, getting people to actually accept the vaccine may be a larger issue than the number of vaccines available. “It’s easy to see why some people would be apprehensive to take a vaccine that was developed so quickly. I think the important thing to keep in mind is that a majority of research for drugs takes years because a lot of it requires struggling for funding, with this vaccine, they had all the access they needed,” Ward said. Schroeder attests that there are many people working to speed up the process of vaccine distribution. “Many people and groups are working on these critical issues, to speed up the availability of vaccines to all who want and need it. This will certainly be happening across the spring,” Schroeder said. Throughout the pandemic the importance of healthcare and nursing professionals has been emphasized. Medical
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professionals have been called upon to take care of COVID-19 patients throughout the semester. “I believe I have seen the best of colleagues — their expertise, commitment, and tenacity — throughout this experience. I believe the community has again recognized the incredible contributions of nurses and other health care team members during these days,” Schroeder said. On Marquette’s campus, students will be expected to follow similar COVID-19 guidelines such as mask-wearing and physical distancing. “The biggest thing that I would say is that this pandemic has asked all of us to make some sort of sacrifice. Until it is under control, it is our responsibility to one another to do our part,” Ward said. Most college students are currently not eligible for either COVID-19 vaccine in Wisconsin. It’s unclear as to when the vaccine will be available for all members of the Marquette campus community.
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Social gatherings continue amid pandemic
Winter weather may lead to indoor events, risks persist By Julia Abuzzahab
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Because of the cold Wisconsin winter, gatherings are more likely to occur inside this semester rather than out. Partying on campus persisted last semester, and it is possible that it will continue, but move inside due to the cold. Marquette University Police Department has dealt with indoor partying and large gatherings for years, so Assistant Chief Jeff Kranz said the department is comfortable handling these types of events. “The change COVID-19 brings is the additional threat of the virus at these gatherings,” Kranz said. “This threat necessitates MUPD be stricter enforcing violations that occur related to parties.” Most often parties are brought to MUPD’s attention by a neighbor calling it in. In addition to parties disrupting people around
them, officers look for “locations on campus attended parties for with higher than normal foot traf- New Year’s Eve. fic, loud music, people lined up at the door and groups gathered outside drinking.” Due to sporting events, watch parties, spontaneous gatherings, etc., it can be difficult for MUPD to predict campus trends. Kranz said MUPD is always prepared to respond no matter the circumstance. This spring semester MUPD plans to continue with local ordinances related to the violations their officers witness. Over the holiday break some Marquette students chose to stay in their apartments on or near campus. This lead to an increased risk of New Year’s Eve parties and other holiday parties during the season. Due to many students leaving campus for the holidays, COVID-19 cases dropped significantly on Marquette’s campus according to Marquette’s LILY HAUGEN Coronavirus Dashboard. Sophomore in the College Lily Haugen, a sophomore in of Education the College of Education, did not stay in her apartment over winter “I did see many people postbreak, but noticed via social meing pictures of NYE parties on dia that many people that stayed
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I did see many people posting pictures of NYE parties on social media. It seemed like at least half of the people I knew had some sort of large gathering,”
social media. It seemed like at least half of the people I knew had some sort of large gathering,” Haugen said. Although parties were occurring New Years Eve, Capt. Kranz addressed that MUPD did not receive any calls. “I worked on New Year’s Eve and even that was quiet. During the month of December and so far in January we responded to no party violation calls,” Kranz said. Winter weather has forced students to gather indoors while still remaining socially distanced and following all COVID-19 guidelines. Although this heightens the risk of COVID-19 being spread, some students are uncertain if numbers will increase by much next semester, as students did not always follow COVID-19 guidelines during the fall semester. “I am worried that numbers will go up, but I can’t say for certain if the numbers will be worse,” Piper McCaffrey, a junior in the College of Communication, said. “Even though gatherings were outside in the fall, I still didn’t see a ton of people wearing masks.” While COVID-19 continues
to be a prevalent issue around the world and on Marquette’s campus, Haugen and Madeline Sporina, a junior in the College of Health Sciences, said they take extra measures to prevent the spread. Sporina explained how she and her roommates developed a plan to quarantine if one of them were to be exposed to COVID-19. They established their plan in the beginning of last semester. Sporina said her and her roommates’ main accord is: “understanding that each person’s actions have consequences to not only themselves, but their roommates as well.” To keep her and her roommates safe, Haugen ensures that she wears a mask in all common areas and limits guests from coming over to prevent herself from spreading anything. Throughout second semester, Kranz hopes that Marquette students play it safe so they do not see an increase in party-related activity and to ultimately slow the spread of COVID-19.
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Tradition remains amid pandemic, riots on Capitol By Benjamin Wells
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Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. officially took the oath of office in the nation’s capital Jan. 20, making him the 46th president of the United States. Alongside him, Kamala Harris made history as the first woman and Black person of South Asian descent to hold the position of vice president. But while the two swore to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States surrounded by friends and family, the ceremony was also witnessed by over 25,000 members of the National Guard. Following the insurrection on the Capitol by former President Donald Trump supporters Jan. 6, the increased security allowed the tradition of the presidential inauguration to continue as peacefully as possible. However, not all traditions of the inauguration were met this year. Trump did not show up to the inauguration, the first time the inauguration has been missed by the leaving president since Andrew Johnson skipped the ceremony for Ulysses S. Grant in 1869. Despite the claims of voter fraud Trump made against his opponent, President Biden did not mention Trump at all in his address, and instead called for unity. “Today, on this January
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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were sworn in Jan. 20. Kamala Harris is the first woman and Black person of South Asian descent to be vice president.
day, my whole soul is in this: bringing America together, uniting our people and uniting our nation,” Biden said. “This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge, and unity is the path forward.” Associate professor of political science Paul Nolette said that this inauguration runs parallel with
continuing calls for racial justice and COVID-19’s impact on both American lives and the economy. “This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge, and unity is the path forward,” Nolette said. “Given the various crises, it is unlike most inaugurations.” As Biden approaches his first full week as president, Rob
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Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol in Washington.
Miller, chair of Marquette Democrats and a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences, said he is looking forward to a sense of unity coming back to the executive office. “With the many conversations I’ve had with people ... there was a common theme or concern,” Miller said. “Partisanship has been to the detriment of America ... the people I’ve spoken to have given greater importance to the vision and mission of (America) and not so much their own party. I think in Washington, that mentality has to be restored and I think Joe Biden has what it takes to move America in the right direction.” Biden spoke of this unity a multitude of times during his inaugural address. “The presidency is not a oneperson job,” Miller said. “It’s rather a collective effort.” In response to the Capitol riots that left multiple dead, Miller said the insurrection does not reflect the values of the Republican Party. As a result, Trump’s invitation to the violence is what lead to the overrunning that day. “The vast majority of Republicans are good people,” Miller said. “It was unfortunate that ... President (Trump) has brought out the bad in us.” On the other side of the political spectrum, Miranda Spindt,
chairperson of Marquette’s Chapter of Young Americans for Freedom and junior in the College of Arts & Sciences, said she is “more curious than anything” about a Biden presidency, especially after Georgia senators John Ossoff and Raphael Warnock were sworn in, shifting the power of the Senate over to the Democrats. “I just can’t even imagine the type of fighting this is going to cause (in the Senate,) ... and how much more divisive it’s going to be,” Spindt said. “Republicans did really well down the ballot in Georgia ... I was kind of expecting people to reject Trump and not the GOP platform.” But Spindt said she had some concerns about there being a potential divide in the Republican party between pro-Trump and anti-Trump Republicans, especially after the insurrection at the Capitol, which she said could have damaged Trump’s legacy. “I was so upset to see (the events at the capital),” Spindt said. “These crazy people decided to break windows and take over the Capitol and break windows was just ridiculous.” Both Marquette Democrats and Republicans posted releases on Instagram that condemned the riots, and Spindt said that YAF also agrees with these statements.
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Campus reacts to 2022 fiscal year budget By end of fiscal year, 225 positions are to be eliminated By Megan Woolard
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Marquette University released its budget for the 2022 fiscal year Dec. 7, 2020. Since the release, many community groups and faculty groups have expressed their views on the budget. “There are student groups on campus that are angry about this. There are faculty groups that are angry about this, because it is going to affect everything at the university, 225 terminations,” Chris Gooding, a visiting professor of theology and member of the Marquette Academic Workers Union, said. The budget details a plan to eliminate the positions of 225 faculty and staff members by the end of the fiscal year. However,
the budget also shows the university planning to operate on a $12.1 million operating surplus, which amounts to about a 3% budget increase. Throughout last semester many students and faculty protested the potential of faculty layoffs. Brooke McArdle, recent graduate of the College of Arts & Sciences, was a primary student leader in these protests. “Clearly, the university makes choices when they decide on a budget. This budget reflects their own biases and intentions to move Marquette away from its core values,” McArdle said. “This budget demonstrates that the university is not as fiscally unsound as administration has previously insisted.” Gooding agreed that the operating surplus of the budget indicates that layoffs aren’t monetarily necessary. In addition to the $12 million operating surplus, the university has an $8 million contingency fund that will remain untapped through
the fiscal year. “Running 20 million over budget and treating this like an extinction event and laying off 225 people in the midst of it, that was the thing that struck me the most about it,” Gooding said. For Gerry Canavan, the secretary and treasurer of Marquette’s chapter of American Association of University Professors and associate professor of English, the operating surplus isn’t the issue that’s raising concerns over the budget. “I don’t think this is a bad idea in the abstract; Marquette has had a tendency to spend every dollar it takes in and thinking a bit about reigning in spending seems like a wise move, especially when COVID-19 has provided such a vivid demonstration of the sorts of shocks that are possibly in the industry,” Canavan said in an email. While the operating surplus may not be a bad idea in Canavan’s mind, he believes that now is not the right time.
“This is the wrong year to begin this program, for reasons that are obvious — at a time when Marquette is reeling from such a massive disruption and talking about laying off large numbers of loyal faculty and staff into a pandemic and severe economic recession, we should not be making deeper cuts than we absolutely need to in the name of a rainy day fund,” Canavan said in an email. The faculty layoffs began Jan. 21, when the university laid off 39 employees. In response, Our Marquette, a group of tenured and tenure-track faculty, released a statement condemning the layoffs. “The budget names an aggressive headcount reduction target without details or even guiding principles; that’s all to be named later, ostensibly as a result of the ongoing economic planning process we’ve been enduring this academic year,” Canavan said in an email. As the secretary/treasurer of
Marquette’s chapter of AAUP, Canavan detailed the three things the organization believes the budget hasn’t had enough time to properly address. First, they want the university to spend more time looking for other opportunities for revenue growth and restructuring. Secondly, they want a better idea of what higher education look like in a post-COVID world. And third, the university needs to exercise every option possible to avoid eliminating faculty positions. As of Jan. 25, the university has only laid off 39 employees. If the budget continues to go according to plan, 186 more employees will be laid off by the end of fiscal year 2022. “I worry that we are making large, permanent changes too rashly, and without the proper level of long-term planning,” Canavan said in email.
Red Watch Band absent in fall semester Training program to occur in spring instead of autumn By Rashad Alexander
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Upon returning to the Marquette campus for the fall 2020 semester, the university had put plans in place that made the fall semester noticeably different from previous years. One change was the absence of the mandatory Red Watch Band training. According to Student Wellness at Marquette, Red Watch Band “is a bystander program that teaches students about the signs and symptoms of intoxication and how to approach the issue and seek help.” The program initially started in 2015 after a $10,000 grant was offered to support alcohol prevention work. In previous years the training consisted of four parts: bystander theory, alcohol 101 and how to intervene. The training is usually an hour long and students receive a red wristband and a T-shirt after completion of the training. But with COVID-19 came a change in the training program for the year. Sara Smith, the director of alcohol and education programs, explained how the pandemic delayed the training for first-years and sophomores at Marquette. “Due to the social distancing and capacity limits due to COVID-19 we tabled Red Watch Band training and Bringing in the Bystander training to second
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Red Watch Band training normally occurs in the fall semester, but this year it was pushed to spring due to the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on students.
semester,” Smith said. “However, due to current conditions, we have decided to move the training to a virtual format, and both Red Watch Band training and Bringing in the Bystander training will be offered virtually during the month of February 2021.” Smith also said that Red Watch Band’s wellness and prevention peer educators will be leading the virtual training. Smith has been at Marquette since 2011 and moved into her current role in 2015. She said she is proud of what the program has been able to teach, which includes the preven-
tion of sexual violence and even has taught students about preventing acts of racism. The program has shown to be very impactful for first-year students at Marquette. Katie Clancy, a senior in the College of Business Administration, a wellness and prevention educator on campus, told a story about how her training with the Red Watch Band program helped save an intoxicated peer. “I called MUPD and the appropriate authority figures in the building and saved her life in the process,” Clancy said. “It was necessary for me to go through this training my
first year to identify when there is a life-or-death situation.” With the practice of social distancing, she said it makes it difficult for students to get the full experience of alcohol and violence training. But Clancy said she hopes that despite this pause within the program’s plans, students are making the right decisions. “I understand that it is hard to limit social interactions, but I am hopeful that the sooner we can come together to stay apart, the sooner we can be together again,” Clancy said. But despite the surging COVID-19 cases, Andrew Workman, a
graduate assistant for the Student Wellness Center, said he is still happy about what the students on the Marquette campus have been able to do during these challenging times. “I am proud of them. The way that they have come together to show that they care about the Marquette community and student body during these changing and unforeseen times has been amazing to see,” Workman said. Workman still encouraged students to continue safe practices as the spring semester beings.
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Academic Senate holds first meeting of semester Attendees discussed topics such as shared governance By Julia Abuzzahab
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The university’s Academic Senate met to discuss a number of important topics and issues on campus Monday. The first important matter discussed was the budget and action update on Fiscal Year 2022 by Provost Kimo Ah Yun. He addressed Marquette’s $45 million shortfall in their budget in the beginning of fiscal year 2022. Ah Yun said the shortfall had nothing to due with the COVID-19 pandemic. “It’s where Marquette is sitting today,” Ah Yun said. “And where we sit today we know there are a variety of things that have happened that is going to result in this challenge, and so some people have talked about how come we haven’t adjusted the number. Because the number stays somewhat constant and what our potential challenges are.” The challenges Marquette faces include low student enrollment. Ah Yun said there are about 350 fewer first-years than in years prior. It is predicted to stay this way for four years. The university also had to increase their discount rate in order to attract new students due to the increasingly competitive market. Ah Yun also said Marquette
has been extremely aggressive in increasing tuition rate in past years, and they understand that it cannot continue if they want to attract new students, so they held their tuition flat this fiscal year. In terms of long-term planning, Marquette has six main areas they want to fulfill: to reduce administration, evaluate shared services, review endowment agreements, decrease office expenses, suspend, close, or restructure select graduate programs, and select programs in consultation with its deans and other stakeholders, develop action plans to increase revenue and/or reduce costs. “We looked at five actions that we were to take of things already happening on campus,” Ah Yun said. “We cut operating budgets and academic affairs by 22% which is reflective of what we’ve done across the university.” Ah Yun mentioned the enhanced tenure buyout program. This allowed for some who were previously ineligible to participate. Those who were thinking about retirement would have financial incentive to do so. He said some staff took up this opportunity, which opened up positions the university did not have to refill. “We swept open lines that existed, and that way we didn’t need to worry about saying goodbye to as many people,” Ah Yun said. “We really think about how we use our endowments and our deans were very creative to look at their endowment categories and determine what
they could do in order to shift positions around to include them on endowment dollars.” Ah Yun also acknowledged the 39 positions eliminated due to budget shortfalls. Eight of the 39 positions came from colleges and schools. Four out of eight colleges and schools had no staff reductions. The Academic Senate also articulated the consensual relationships policy. Kristen Kreple, the Title IX coordinator, discussed Marquette’s policy objectives which include, aligning with their mission and guiding values and those of the Association of Jesuit Colleges peers, preventing conflicts of interest, favoritism, bias, and exploitation, preserving integrity of working and learning environments, and protecting
and providing clarity for those in or considering relationships. “There was no case that prompted this,” Kreple said. “I’ve been at Marquette for about two years and I was previously at Stanford and one of the policies that I worked with was their consensual relationship policy. So when I got to Marquette I thought that we needed to have one and I poked around and I thought, ‘yeah this is a good idea’.” The final topic of discussion was the proposed resolution of shared governance at Marquette. Before holding a blind vote on the topic, there was room for senators to discuss it. “This resolution does not say that the work that we’ve done in the fall semester gets thrown out. I will say that I know that
faculty and staff across the university worked in good faith to come up,” Amber Wichowsky, professor in political science, said. She said the resolution focused on two things. “One, what comes next. Where we are today gets us part of the way to meeting the target,” Wichowsky said. “The second piece is one in which is a very short term piece of the resolution. The long term is about what comes down the pipe so we’re not in this situation again.” The amended resolution was then tabled to be discussed further at the senate’s next meeting.
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Chairperson Sumana Chattopadhyay introduced the first academic senate meeting of the spring semester.
Sophomores concerned about housing situations Apartment feels safer to some than residence halls By Claire Driscol
claire.driscol@marquette.edu
Amid the beginning of spring semester, student concerns regarding residence life have heightened. Lily Kate Rogers, a sophomore in the College of Business Administration and resident of Schroeder Hall, expresses her frustration about residence hall life amid the pandemic. “It is especially frustrating considering the lack of availability of off-campus housing for sophomores this semester,” Rogers said. “I would feel much better being able to live in an apartment or house, not with 300+ students I
can’t control.” Rogers’ concerns come after the university’s residency requirement was reinstated, prohibiting sophomores from living off campus if they had yet to take advantage of the opportunity to do so in the fall. “Sophomore students who did not take advantage of moving out of the residence halls this summer are no longer eligible for that option,” Mary Janz, Executive Director of Housing and Residence Life, said. Rogers goes on to express the conflicting feelings she has about returning to campus. “While I’m excited to be back on campus and get back into the swing of things, the increase of COVID-19 cases, specifically in Milwaukee, has me nervous for the health and safety of all residents,” Rogers said. “The dorms are practically a petri dish.”
Janz also clarifies that firstyear students were not offered the same option sophomores were in the fall. Janz addressed some concerns in addressing options for students in residence halls who are no longer comfortable living in close proximity with others. “Students may request a single room if one is available,” Janz said. “There is a one week room freeze after the start of the semester so we can determine if there are students who do not return and did not notify the university.” However, Holly Holman, a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences and resident of Schroeder Hall, claims that living in a single room is not a proactive step in containing the virus. “I am living in a single, and I found myself still having to be around people at times due
to the fact that I have to share a bathroom, laundry room and dining room with almost the whole building.” Holman said. “Because of this, I still ended up getting COVID-19.” Holman urges the university to reverse its residency requirement this semester. “Students should have the opportunity to move into an apartment, even if they have a roommate,” Holman said. “You are going to have better control over your exposure and it might help students save money.” To mitigate the university’s loss in revenue from housing, Holman proposes more flexibility with meal plans. “If the university is worried about losing money from housing, maybe they could offer a new meal plan where students can pay for either unlimited or limited meal swipes but have the comfort of their own place,”
Holman said. Precautions to ensure a safe move-in process within residence halls have been put in place similar to last semester, however, this process looks different among returning students and those who have spent the fall semester at home. All students had to sign up for a move-in time prior to arriving on campus. However, Janz explains that returning students would allowed a 50-minute move-in window with no helpers whereas last semester new students were allowed a 90 minute move-in window with two helpers in the summer. “We are doing this to ensure that there are not long elevator lines, and all can socially distance as required during the pandemic,” Janz said.
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LYNCH: Music industry sees growth in December LYNCH “Whole Lotta Red,” “Wonder,” “That’s What They Say” By Ryan Lynch
ryan.p.lynch@marquette.edu
Though 2020 was a big year for music, December may have been the biggest month of it all. From Taylor Swift dropping her second album of the year with “evermore,” to Playboi Carti finally releasing his longanticipated “Whole Lotta Red,” December was jam-packed with tons of big-name releases, so it only figures to talk about some of the most significant it had to offer. “evermore” – Taylor Swift Taylor Swift dropped “evermore” only a few short months after her previous album “folklore,” creating a lot of hype for the sister album. And for the most part, it seems as though she fully delivered. With “evermore” scoring yet another number one album on the Billboard Hot 200, Taylor Swift seems to be continuing on the route of completely reinventing herself, one that began with “folklore.” “evermore” is an album that returns Taylor Swift to her country roots while also incorporating a lot of folk-rock influence. Many of the songs, such as “‘tis the damn season“ and “champagne problems” bank on Swift singing vignettes that bring nostalgia for an easier time in life, and Swift really sells the passion in each song. Her voice manages to convey a multitude of emotions and makes the sound very personal, even when she is not singing about herself. One of the biggest problems Taylor Swift’s music has is how wrapped up in her own ego Swift can get by only speaking of her problems under the guise of being a celebrity that has already conquered the world. But on
“evermore,” the stripped down acoustics and piano shed every layer of ego to create something that’s truly touching, a refreshing change of pace from the bombast presented on “Lover,” the album that was released prior to “folklore.” Though it is yet to be seen whether her days of explosive arena pop are truly behind her, it is great to see where Swift is right now. “Whole Lotta Red” – Playboi Carti “Whole Lotta Red” by Playboi Carti was possibly the most highly anticipated rap album of 2020. Since its announcement over two years ago, fans have been clamoring for “Whole Lotta Red” to release. Christmas 2020, Carti finally provided the complete album with 24 tracks, which earned him his first number one album. On first impression, “Whole Lotta Red” sounds like a mess, with frenetic production and nonexistent lyricism from Carti as well as a crushingly long record length, which may be why initial fan reactions to the album were polarized. However, upon several listens, it becomes clear that this is exactly what Carti intended. “Whole Lotta Red” is an album of anarchy, and its songs bring to mind visions of Mad Max-esque imagery of skinheads driving metal monster trucks belching flames, brought to life by Playboi Carti himself. On the album, Carti fancies himself as a higher being than all. However, Carti doesn’t go so far as to say he is Jesus, but acts more as a radicalistic leader for chaos. The album’s production is a symphony of havoc, and Carti is its conductor. However, there is a method to Carti’s madness. On songs like “Stop Breathing,” where Carti uses his ragged and wild voice to amplify his fractured and disorganized delivery, and on “Vamp Anthem,” Carti samples Johann Bach’s famous piece “Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor” to create a very strange but incredibly enjoyable track. What may seem like ramshackled beats with inane delivery is, upon deeper inspection, actually a carefully cultivated project that builds on each song to create a real experience. If there were to be a criticism of the project, it would be that its tiresome length
and sheer amount of songs can be exhausting, and there were definitely a few tracks that could have been cut. Songs like “Slay3r” and “Punk Monk,” which, while good, don’t add much to the overall project, and instead serve to pad an already lengthy track listing. Overall though, “Whole Lotta Red” is a pandemonious experience that, by the end, leaves you feeling breathless but still wanting more from Carti. “Wonder” – Shawn Mendes “Wonder,” Shawn Mendes’ fourth studio album, was released Dec. 4, and is dedicated to Camila Cabello, which is incidentally the prevailing problem with the album. On almost every song, Mendes repeatedly sings lavish praises upon some unnamed girl, to the point where the girl seems almost godlike, which is both somewhat terrifying and deeply annoying. If you don’t care about celebrity relationships or even other people’s relationships in general, “Wonder” will be an exceptionally unpleasant listen, because it is quite literally the only thing Mendes sings about. And given that the project is 40 minutes long, the subject matter wears thin by the third track. Mendes’ performance is also pretty poor on this album, due to his watery singing voice that ends up being swallowed up on songs that are way overproduced to the point where they are needlessly pummeling you with instrumentation. The length of the album is also something to note, because while not exceptionally long, it’s an arduous listen. With the continual worshiping of Camila Cabello, the album just feels longer and longer. “Wonder” was supposed to be a grand romantic gesture on the part of Mendes, but one could probably find more substance in a Hallmark Valentine’s Day card. “Man on the Moon III: The Chosen” – Kid Cudi Out of the artists who had a big 2020, one who flew under the radar was definitely Kid Cudi. Cudi collaborated with Travis Scott and Eminem, as well as released a solo single, yet it failed to make a real impact on the music scene of 2020. That all changed with “Man on the Moon III.” Serving as the
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“Man On The Moon III: The Chosen” was the final part of the trilogy.
final installment in his “Man on the Moon” trilogy, “Man on the Moon III” is Kid Cudi showing that even after 12 years of making music, he can still put out stellar work. Cudi’s music has always delved deep into the themes of depression, substance abuse and mental and spiritual salvation, and on “Man on the Moon III,” Cudi takes it to another level. From the anguish at his own mental chaos on “Solo Dolo, pt. III” to the soaring embracing of his own issues on “The Void,” “Man on the Moon III” allows you to experience Cudi’s pain while also being able to relate it to your own. Cudi floats over every beat and gives the album a very unique energy as he ventures into new avenues of music, such as the trap-style flow of “She Knows This,” to bringing Pop Smoke and British rapper Skepta for the drill track “Show Out.” “Man on the Moon III,” more than anything, is a journey that you take with Cudi as you explore the fraught complexities of Cudi’s mental state while also being able to gain a deeper appreciation for the mind in general, as Cudi really dives into his frenzied emotional state. “Man on the Moon III” was the perfect conclusion to the “Man on the Moon” saga, and promises that Cudi has no intention of going away anytime soon. “That’s What They Say” – Jack Harlow In a year where TikTok reigned
supreme over the musical consciousness, with no one listening to radio while cooped up inside their own homes, Jack Harlow was one of the artists who thrived the most. When his song “What’s Poppin” went viral on TikTok, Harlow quickly capitalized by releasing “That’s What They All Say,” his debut album Dec. 11. Though the merits of his blowup may be debated, his quality as a musician is a different story. On “That’s What They Say,” Harlow tries for some lyrical depth, and actually has some pretty solid beats on his tracks, but his failure is that he sounds the exact same on every single song in terms of tone and inflection. Unfortunately, that tone is pretty boring and quite lifeless. Harlow also banks on “What’s Poppin” to carry the album, as he includes not only the original version, but the remix with Tory Lanez, DaBaby and Lil Wayne, even though both songs had been around for several months at the point of release. Overall, Harlow simply plays it too safe and seems artistically stagnate on most of the tracks. On the project where he should’ve been hungriest to prove himself, Harlow unfortunately sounds content with what he’s accomplished and rests on his laurels, which doesn’t make for great listening.
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Heated outdoor dining restaurants around Milwaukee The Wicked Hop, Zócalo Food Truck Park among places By Quinn Faeth
quinlan.faeth@marquette.edu
With temperatures falling, there are some restaurants near Marquette cranking up the heat in their outdoor dining spaces to limit the spread of COVID-19. The whole idea behind this is to provide a sort of bubble for you and your friends while you venture out to different restaurants. The pandemic has forced a lot of businesses to adjust their safety protocols in order to comply
with state and federal health regulations. The food industry has seen significant changes here in Milwaukee, which has been hit hard by the virus. But here are some local restaurants that are providing customers with warm outdoor spaces for enjoying your favorite food. All reservations to these places can be made online with the exception of The Wicked Hop. Cafe Benelux This is one of the most popular restaurants for students. Located in the Third Ward next to the Public Market, Cafe Benelux is a typical spot to go to when your parents come to visit. During the winter, they have six well-heated domes
on the rooftop patio. Each dome can seat up to six people and can be enjoyed for 90 minutes alongside a select menu of some festive drinks and bites of your choosing. Everyone in the party also receives a complimentary “Lux Domes” mug as part of your reservation. It is a fun, safe option for students that is just a mile or two away. The Wicked Hop Go right across the street from Cafe Benelux and you will find another restaurant with outdoor seating. The Wicked Hop has tables on their patio with heaters above to keep customers warm. They are known for their weekend brunch menu but also have options for lunch, dinner and Friday fish fry. If
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Cafe Benelux is located in the Third Ward and has six well-heated domes on their rooftop patio.
you venture over to their website, you’ll see that they have the “best bloody mary in Milwaukee,” according to On Milwaukee and the Shepherd Express. Both Cafe Benelux and the Wicked Hop aren’t too expensive and have options that are more affordable for students. Tre Rivali This restaurant is located on the first floor of the Outsider Hotel, which is completely inside. But for dinner, they move to the top of the hotel and onto the rooftop patio. There they have firepits, socially distanced tables and breathtaking views of the Milwaukee skyline. It’s a little further south of Cafe Benelux and the Wicked Hop, but is still located in the Historic Third Ward. Tre Rivali is definitely on the pricier side, but the views and good food can be worth it. Zócalo Food Truck Park Zócalo Food Truck Park is a fun option if you are looking for a more casual dining experience. Zócalo has a variety of food trucks, including Mazorca Tacos to Modern Maki. You can try them for takeout, or reserve one of their 10 heated greenhouses that seats up to six people. This spot is located on the south side of the city, just past the Harley-Davidson Museum and the Iron Horse Hotel. It’s only a five-minute drive by car, and less than a 20-minute bus ride.
Kegel’s Beer Garden Known in the summer as “Kegel’s Beer Garden,” this restaurant has now transformed into “Kegel’s Brrr Garden” in response to their safe, outdoor dining. Here you can reserve one of their yurts, which is a large circular hut that seats anywhere from six to 12 people. It is a great spot to go with a group of friends, while also being socially distant from others. Kegel’s is located in West Allis, only 10 minutes west of campus by car and 25 minutes by bus. They have several cheap food options as part of their “under $12” menu. All of these restaurants require masks upon entry and exit, and if you get up to use the bathroom. If you plan on attending, remember to always be aware of how you are feeling. Do not attend if you or anyone else you plan on going with is sick. However, all locations may be fun and safe places to enjoy a meal out with your friends.
Students reflect on past year, create new resolutions Some goals include exercise, eating healthy, meditating By Ariana Madson
ariana.madson@marquette.edu
The turn of the new year is often associated with a fresh start. It allows people to reflect on the past and make resolutions for the future. Sean Hergenrother, a junior in the College of Health Sciences, started making resolutions towards the end of middle school and high school. He started taking his new year’s resolutions more seriously towards the end of high school and college. “In the past usually I’ve tried to do one thing that I was noticing
towards the end of the year … like in the past I’ve said ‘hey I want to drink more water or read a book every month,’” Hergenrother said. Hergenrother explained how he and his friend made a resolution last year to try to listen to an album every single day. Though it didn’t last for long, Hergenrother said it diversified his music tastes as he tried to listen to music he wouldn’t normally pick. He listened to albums such as “The Wall” by Pink Floyd and “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” by Lauryn Hill. “It lasted about March … but it definitely did leave an impact on me,” Hergenrother said. Hergenrother said that as he began his journey studying for the Medical College Admissions Test, the test required for students to take in order to be accepted into medical school this year, he decided to focus more on academics for his resolution in 2021. “I really want to try this year to be more intentional with my learning and learn for the sake of learning and mastering instead of working to get a grade on a test,” Hergenrother said.
Like Hergenrother, Andrew Pytlak, a junior in the College of Business Administration, also came into the new year with new resolutions. “This new year I kind of want to start eating healthier and I’ve been doing that … and then something that I’m trying to do is frame things in a positive way,” Pytlak said. Pytlak said mental health is important to him and by putting things in a more optimistic way, he can be a more positive person. “By taking care of myself and by trying to do these positive activities, I feel like I’m bettering myself and helping myself out,” Pytlak said. Pytlak said some of these activities include exercise, meditating and eating healthy. Pytlak said he thinks that resolutions are a good way to start the year. He holds the “new year, new me” perspective. Emily Hammons, a junior in the College of Health Sciences, holds a similar view, saying that she thinks resolutions are good, especially for those trying to accomplish something big that year. Hammons has a big goal for 2021.
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New Year’s celebrations bring many opportunities for change.
“Even this year I’ve been kind of thinking about it more because I’m hoping to apply to physician assistant school this coming April so I really kind of set a goal of just, like, really pursuing that and putting my whole heart and work into that,” Hammons said. Hammons said she does not necessarily write down or make specific resolutions, but she does have general goals going into the year. “Every year I kind of go into hoping I’m going maintain what I can … and achieve something in the year, whether that be like
something socially, academically, personally or something like that,” Hammons said. Though resolutions can be helpful, they also can be hard to keep up with, Pytlak said. Despite this difficulty, he explained how he will try to maintain his resolutions. “I think I just need to keep things relative, so with that being said … I have to give myself a break every once and a while and I can’t be super strict because that’s when you get burnt out.” Pytlak said.
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STAFF EDITORIAL
University’s COVID-19 plan for spring 2021 needs improvements Marquette University’s campus planning for the spring 2021 semester, while consisting of several improvements compared to the fall 2020 semester, is still not aggressive enough to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 on campus. In addition to providing on-campus COVID-19 testing for students with symptoms, the university will also begin “surveillance testing,” according to a Jan. 8 news release. Each week, up to 500 undergraduate, graduate and professional students will be selected for random testing, regardless of if they have symptoms or if they have been recently vaccinated. Students living on or near campus will be notified the Sunday before the designated week of testing by email, according to a Jan. 21 news release. Surveillance testing will run throughout the 16 weeks of the spring semester and students may be selected more than once for random testing.
The email will instruct students to make an appointment for COVID-19 testing during the week. Students who fail to schedule or attend an appointment during their designated week of testing will be charged a $50 fine and lose access to several campus spaces like the Raynor Memorial Library and the Rec Center. Further failures to get tested on campus would result in a student conduct hearing, according to the university. This change to the university’s COVID-19 planning significantly increases the number of students who will be tested, as well as increases accountability for students. However, this is not enough. While Marquette is improving by testing once students are already on campus, it should have required students to get tested and disclose a negative result before coming back to campus for the spring semester, as the increase of students returning to Milwaukee could potentially put
community members at a higher risk for contracting COVID-19. The University of WisconsinMadison required students returning to campus on or after Jan. 25 to get tested on campus and receive a negative result within eight days, according to a university news release. In addition, UW-Madison announced it would increase testing at multiple testing sites, and they also launched “Safer Badgers,” an app similar to Marquette’s COVID Cheq system. However, rather than filling out a voluntary symptom questionnaire, the Safer Badgers app also requires the user to have a negative COVID-19 test within the past 8 days before turning green, according to a Jan. 8 university news release. Additionally, the Safer Badgers app provides “anonymous, secure notifications to anyone who has been in proximity to another participating app user who has tested positive for COVID-19.” Marquette should consider
officers who proved to be ill-prepared for the situation. There are multiple videos of officers politely stepping aside and assisting in making efforts easier for the terrorists. Because of this, the Capitol building was breached as the terrorists ran through the halls, destructing federal property and taking pictures. There were even officers taking pictures during the terrorist attack, which was unhelpful in diffusing the situation and securing the Capitol building. After this attack on the Capitol, which resulted in five fatal incidents and dozens of other injuries, most Americans, especially Black, Indigenous and citizens of color, compared this situation to the Black Live Matter protests held summer 2020. A similar-sized crowd to that of the Capitol storming gathered outside of the White House June 1. This was a diverse group of citizens protesting George Floyd’s murder to call for the end of police brutality and racial injustice. Though they were peacefully protesting, protestors were hit with rubber bullets and were forced to run from tear gas. Trump’s response to his mob, which was made largely of white supremacists, was gentle, with words of love and support. Trump released a prerecorded video
telling his supporters to “go home” but that “we love them and are very special.” If anyone was surprised that Trump would be gentle to some of the worst people in the nation, you have not been paying attention these past four years. Being kind to them is being kind to himself — seeing as he holds the same racist and anti-Semitic views. Unfortunately, it is not surprising that law enforcement handled the two situations in opposite ways. There is a deep-rooted notion that Black, Indigenous and citizens of color, especially when protesting for their rights, are inherently violent and threatening. Even if they are unarmed and protest peacefully, law enforcement often views this display of strength as their lives being endangered. As the Capitol storming proved, the same endangerment cannot be said for domestic terrorists, especially when they are predominately white. Eventually, the mob of Trump supporters were met with tear gas and rubber bullets, but only when they had been inside the Capitol building for an extensive amount of time. This highlights the weaponization of law enforcement against citizens of color and how white citizens have the privilege of being
developing a similar way to increase contact tracing on campus. Moreover, the university should make sure to test students who can be predicted to come to campus more frequently, such as students who live on campus and who have in-person classes. For example, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will be testing all students who live in residence halls on a weekly basis, and students who come to campus once a week will be tested every other week, according to a Jan. 20 university news release. Another change in Marquette’s plan from last semester is that instructors will be able to see whether or not students have completed their COVID Cheqs before coming to in-person classes, according to a Jan. 20 news release. While this may provide instructors with more insight into student participation in COVID Cheqs, they do not have direct access to the results of the COVID Cheqs, which
doesn’t show them if a student is experiencing COVID-19 symptoms or not. Moreover, one way Marquette could have also been proactive in its COVID-19 planning is if it moved the first two weeks of classes for the spring semester online, so all students could self-quarantine. Moving forward, the university should make necessary and aggressive changes to its COVID-19 plan to prioritize the health and safety of both the Marquette and Milwaukee communities. Despite the amount of COVID-19 vaccinations increasing, students’ access to those vaccinations is still uncertain for the near future. The pandemic is still ongoing and cases are still increasing; On campus there have been nearly 995 confirmed COVID-19 cases since Aug. 21, according to the COVID-19 Dashboard. Marquette must ensure it is doing everything to protect students, faculty and staff.
Lacking police brutality at Capitol raid shows stark difference
Hope Moses America is a place where domestic terrorists are greeted with gentleness and met with less force than peaceful protesters — especially if those protesting are Black, Indigenous or people of color. A recent example of this is the Jan. 6 storming of the United States Capitol. What started out as a normal day ended with a domestic terrorist attack on the Capitol — the first Capitol building breach since the War of 1812. Complete chaos imploded at the Capitol due to former President Donald Trump’s doubt about the validity of President Joe Biden’s presidential win. Thousands of Trump supporters rushed to the Capitol as a desperate attempt to stop the validation of the election results. This was never meant to be a peaceful protest, and this is apparent with the method of arrival of Trump supporters at the Capitol. The mob forcefully pushed past Capitol police to remove barricades and hop walls in order to make their way closer to the building. At this point, the only thing that stood between the terrorists and the Capitol building were law enforcement
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Armed police officers stand at a BLM protest in Seattle May 2020.
greeted with gentleness and met with less force, even in stressful situations. That would have never happened to Black Lives Matter protestors because to be Black, Indigenous and a citizen of color and do this means you are not going home afterwards. To do this as a BIPOC is to sign your name in blood to the long list of people that have been killed by the police. Citizens of color do not have the privilege of being a part of a terrorist attack in the afternoon and make home for dinner. This is, unfortunately, the America that we live in, but the state of our nation can get better. President Biden, while he is not magician by
any means, does hold the power to make change, specifically with in the federal law enforcement, in a major way. Biden can introduce police transparency and a use-of-force guidelines at the federal level. This will help to build trust with the general public and allow for tactics like chokeholds and no-knock warrants to be banned nationally. President Biden taking initiative will be crucial to healing what is, right now, a lost nation. Hope Moses is a first-year student studying journalism. She can be reached at hope.moses@marquette.edu
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Trump lost Republican loyalty toward end of presidency Max Pickart President Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election. No fraud. No illegality. No wrongdoings in the election process. Biden won the election, fair and square. In other words, former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election. No fraud. No illegality. No wrongdoings in the election process. Trump lost the election, fair and square. Yet Trump refused to acknowledge this result, and called upon his supporters to march to the Capitol and stop the certification of the election results, ultimately prompting supporters to riot and act with violence. After the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, Trump’s legacy was coined a disaster by Illinois Representative Adam Kinzinger, one of many Republicans who pledged loyalty to Trump over the last four years. Kinzinger critiqued Trump after the insurrection. It took four years and an insurrection for
many leaders of the Republican Party to recognize the immense damage to democracy brought on by Trump. Republican Senator Mitt Romney, who also supported Trump during his presidency, explained the events at the Capitol were a direct result of a “selfish man’s injured pride and the outrage of his supporters whom he has deliberately misinformed … What happened (Jan. 6) was an insurrection, incited by the president of the United States.” Four years was long enough. Trump is divisive, simply put. His supporters at the Capitol are individuals who have backed him and his nonsense for four years. Elected Republicans had a duty to the values and democracy of the U.S. to denounce Trump and his effort to stop the certification of the election results. Republicans must continue to take a stand against Trump and uphold the American values we should stand for. It is necessary to democracy and the future of our country. House minority leader Kevin McCarthy, who is and has been an ally of Trump for the past four years, pleaded
for Trump to “accept his share of responsibility” for inciting his supporters to break into the Capitol. He also explained that Trump handled the riot poorly and should have immediately denounced the mob at the Capitol. In addition to McCarthy, the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, stood firmly against Trump in the days following the insurrection at the Capitol. At the certification of the election results, McConnell pleaded that the Senate had no liable reason to overrule the voters, as it would ultimately damage the American society and its government. McConnell clearly understood that the election results were equitable, fair and just, not up for debate or questioning. He also explained that Trump fed the mob lies and provoked the violence at the Capitol. Trump incited domestic terrorism at the Capitol of his very own country, and he has made baseless claims that the election was “rigged” against him. McConnell is currently pushing for Trump’s second impeachment trial to be delayed; However, current Republicans in Congress have
suggested that McConnell wants Trump gone. McConnell must be held accountable for allowing Trump to continue his election fraud claims, as McConnell offered legitimacy towards Trump’s falsities after the election results in early November. It is too little, too late. The Capitol insurrection was a direct and violent attack on democracy, equity and truth. Republican leaders such as McConnell and McCarthy have been complacent over the past four years of Trump’s presidency. They, too, are to blame for the unjust violence at the Capitol. Republicans who have recently took a stand against Trump should be acknowledged; However, their injustices towards democracy over the past four years will not be easily forgiven and cannot be forgotten. The next four years under the Biden-Harris administration present America with a unique opportunity to restore unity and to restore democracy. Truth, honesty and a sense of the common good must be at the forefront of all communication. Then, and
only then, a willingness to collaborate with individuals of opposing parties can be practiced, which prompts America to function as a democracy. It is our duty, as the United States of America, to pledge loyalty toward this nation and our values, not an individual who we necessarily agree with politically. We must uphold democracy and denounce any person or any group of people who attack it. Let the attack of the Capitol be an example of this. Unity, the common good and democracy must always prevail. We must hold our elected officials to this standard for the next four years and beyond. Democracy is what shapes America. As Biden said in his inaugural address Jan. 20, “democracy is fragile. And at this hour, my friends, democracy has prevailed ... That’s America. The right to dissent peaceably, within the guardrails of our republic, is perhaps our nation’s greatest strength.” Max Pickart is a first-year student studying accounting. He can be reached at max.pickart@marquette.edu
‘Alt-right’ supporters will persist after Trump era Lucia Ruffolo Former President Donald Trump may have left office Jan. 20, but it is important to understand that his fanatical base, which includes many members of the “alt-right,” will remain. The “alt-right,” also known as the alternative right or far-right, consists of people with strong right-wing ideological leanings, most notably ones that include white nationalism, chauvinism and nativism. Far-right ideologies are not just American-centric nor something particularly new, as far-right wing nationalism has been growing across Europe after experiencing mass immigration. However, the proliferation of “alt-right” ideas on social media, which grew particularly notable in 2016, have propelled a somewhat fringe movement into the mainstream. Alt-right ideas are spread through platforms like 4-chan, an image-based messaging board forum, as well as Reddit, YouTube and Twitter. It’s also propagated through meme culture that often includes innocuous pictures and memes and transforms them into grand messages of hatred. The alt-right is careful and effective in gaining new ad-
herents, and it sells itself particularly well to frustrated people who feel alienated and disadvantaged in today’s society, most often young white men. It is thought that hyper-capitalism breeds angry white men, who feel both a victim to their employer and to the mainstream media that characterizes them as boorish and ignorant. The storming of the Capitol Jan. 6, in which armed Trump supporters looted, occupied and vandalized parts of the building after bypassing and assaulting Capitol police, was evidence that “alt-right” frustrations had reached a breaking point. The goal was to protest what they believed was a “stolen election,” with claims of electoral fraud. Some “alt-right” organizations include the “Proud Boys,” a group of self-described Western chauvinists who believe Western ways of life — most often American-centric — are superior to those that are non-Western. The “Proud Boys” are know for their extreme anti-immigration views and hardcore Islamophobia. In addition to groups like the “Proud Boys”, there has also been an influx of conspiracy theorists, who, with their strong level of government distrust, often blend their ideals seamlessly into the “alt-right.” One of the most popular conspiracy theorists is Alex Jones, known for his show “Infowars.” The most
popular conspiracy theory is the theory Hollywood and top Democrats are pedophiles, which is known under the umbrella term of QAnon. According to those who subscribe to this belief, Trump was recruited to break up and destroy this ring of sextraffickers. While the theories are often bizarre and fantastical, it does reveal the deep mistrust and repulsion of corporate Democrats, such as the Clintons, and the increasingly skeptical attitudes toward Hollywood elites. The “alt-right” differs from traditional neo-conservatism of Republicanism; it is often populist. It calls out a lot of corruption and evilness that exists in today’s America, such as corporate establishments’ stronghold on politics and society and recognizes the pain and anguish present in so many of America’s rural areas. It tells them their struggles are not their fault. People are tired of phoniness. Time and time again politicians have made empty promises, focused solely on capital and the well-being of their wealthy cohorts instead of their constituents. The unfortunate reality is that the “alt-right” has come into power because they are correct about many of the ills of American life. However, their reasons for why and their solutions to fix these issues are often both erroneous and egregious. They tell poor, white
Americans that their poverty comes not from corporate greed, but from those who look different from them. Instead of promoting general welfare and social harmony, they seek to bring out the worst in people, to use society’s most vulnerable as scapegoats in order to ease the hurt of the few. But one of the biggest hindrances of the “altright” is they blame those who often have nothing to do with the hurt of the poor. There is no real message of progress in the “altright,” but one of extreme racial hatred and destructive violence. In order to attempt to prevent alt-right ideologies from growing, it is important to try to stop the hurt and desperation that leads to people turning to it. The pandemic has heightened people’s suffering and their economic desperation. The Biden administration must address this hurt by continuing to enact policies that directly relieve people stifled by economic burdens. Among the most important of these is enacting COVID-19 stimulus packages, raising the minimum wage, creating “Medicare for All” and strengthening labor laws. In addition, Biden must stand up to corporations and monopolies by limiting their power, taxing them heavily and overseeing the ethical treatment of their employees. It is important to mend the disastrous effects corporate food giants and failed
industry has left rural Americans increasingly more economically unstable. To prevent individuals from feeling so desperate and hopeless that they feel the need to entangle themselves in a world of nihilism and cynicism, the government must make a real effort to improve the quality of citizens’ lives. Because when tough economic issues persists, the “alt-right” continues to dwell; benefiting from human suffering, they will persuade more and more people into fighting for and subscribing to their hateful rhetoric. Lucia Ruffolo is a first-year student and is undecided. She can be reached at lucia.ruffolo@marquette.edu
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Milwaukee mourns loss of Hank Aaron
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Hank Aaron gave the speech at Marquette University’s 2012 Commencement ceremony. He was a former Milwaukee Brewer who sits second on the all-time home runs list with 755 in his career.
MLB legend gave MU Commencement speech in 2012 By Matt Yeazel
matthew.yeazel@marquette.edu
Major League Baseball lost one of its icons Jan. 22 when Hall of Fame slugger Henry ‘Hank’ Aaron died at the age of 86. According to the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office Jan. 25, Aaron died from natural causes. Aaron, from Mobile, Alabama, was a legend in baseball and in all sports. In Milwaukee specifically, his jersey number, 44, has been retired and hung up in the Milwaukee Brewers stadium since 1976. He began his baseball career when he was 18 years old, helping the Negro Leagues’ Indianapolis Clowns to the World Series championship in 1952. In that same year, he signed a major league contract with the Milwaukee Braves. The first 12 years of his career
were in Milwaukee, then the next nine years were in Atlanta after the Braves relocated. He then spent the final two years of his career as a Milwaukee Brewer. The stats Aaron accumulated throughout his career form a resume that make him one of baseball’s all-time greatest. Most notably, Aaron was the all-time home run king, with 755, before Barry Bonds broke his record. However, Aaron is still second on the all-time home run list, though many people still consider him to be the king due to the use of steroids circulating around Bonds’ name. Aaron said he was disgusted with the use of steroids, but he did tell Today back in February 2020 that he thinks Bonds deserves to be in the Hall of Fame. Aaron made it to the All-Star Game 25 times in his career — the most of all time. He did so in just 23 seasons due to there being two All-Star Games in a three-year stretch from 1959-1961. The only seasons he did not make any AllStar Games was his first, where he
still won Rookie of the Year, and his final season, where he played in just 85 games. He finished top three in MVP voting seven times, winning the award in his fourth season in 1957. He also won a Gold Glove Award three consecutive years, from 1958 to 1960. He is also the all-time leader in both runs batted in and total bases. He played in back-to-back World Series with the Braves in 1957 and 1958, winning in 1957. He had a batting average of nearly .400 in that series with three home runs and seven RBI’s. Aaron was also special in the Marquette community, as he gave the commencement speech in 2012 for the university’s graduating class. His speech has been named one of the best commencement speeches ever by National Public Radio. “What you do with your life and how you do it is not only a reflection on you, but on your family and all of those institutions that have helped to make you who you are,”
Aaron said in his speech. What cannot be overlooked in the remembrance of Aaron is the racism and discrimination he endured throughout his life and his professional career. Aaron said to the New York Times that during his career he had to have a police escort with him at all times due to receiving thousands of letters with threats toward him and his family, mostly when he was close to breaking the home run record that was held by Babe Ruth at the time. He said that the threats “carved a piece of (his) heart away,” but he kept most of those letters for a long time to remind him of how far society still has to go in the fight against racism and bigotry. After breaking that record and retiring from baseball, Aaron went on to become the Atlanta Braves’ vice president of player development in 1989. He was one of the first Black men to be in an upper-management position in Major League Baseball, and he served in that role up until his passing.
He also established the “Chasing the Dream” foundation in 1995 in order to help children between the ages of nine and 12 realize their dreams, as he did. Primarily through Boys & Girls Clubs, the foundation has given financial assistance to hundreds of children and families in need. In 2001, a statue was built outside of Miller Park called “The Aaron Monument.” It was unveiled one day before Miller Park hosted its first official major league game, as the Brewers moved from County Stadium to Miller Park. He also has statues at Atlanta’s stadium and in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, where he played for the Eau Claire Bears in 1952. Brewers Hall of Fame shortstop and outfielder Robin Yount, who played with Aaron, said in a statement that he was the greatest player of all time. “Hank was the biggest influence on my career,” Yount said. “He was a great man and his friendship will be sorely missed.”
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ATHLETICS
All 14 sports occur during spring, without fans Volleyball, soccer programs restart campaigns in 2021 By Zoe Comerford
isabel.comerford@marquette.edu
For the first time in the 105-year history of Marquette Athletics, all 14 of the Golden Eagles’ varsity sports will be occurring during the same season. In 2021 fashion, things will be much different than in previous seasons as there will continue to be no in-person fan attendance. “Schedules and championship information is subject to change based on local COVID-19 developments. All Marquette home competitions will continue to be held without fans until further notice in accordance with state and local guidelines. MU is working with health officials to evaluate a potential return for fans in some capacity this season,” Marquette Athletics released in a statement. After the NCAA pushed back the start of the 2020-21 men’s and women’s basketball seasons due to the coronavirus pandemic, Marquette men’s basketball was able to start Nov. 25 and the women’s team began Nov. 29. Despite both programs being in quarantine Oct. 21, the men’s team has not had another incident of
COVID-19 within the program. The Golden Eagles’ games against Villanova Jan. 8 and Georgetown Jan. 20 were both postponed due to positive cases in the other teams’ programs. Meanwhile, the women’s basketball team was stopped a second time on New Year’s Day due to a positive case within the program as three of MU’s games — against DePaul, at Creighton and against Villanova — had to be postponed due to the stoppage in play. In mid-August 2020, the BIG EAST canceled all fall sports and eventually pushed their seasons to the spring. This change mainly affected volleyball, men’s and women’s soccer as well as both cross country programs. Golf, tennis and lacrosse also had their fall competition seasons canceled. The No. 20-ranked Marquette women’s volleyball team began its 2020-21 campaign Jan. 22-23, hosting Illinois State in back-to-back matches at the Al McGuire Center. The Golden Eagles will now go on a four-game road trip to University of Northern Iowa, Drake University and Creighton University, and will face the Bluejays both Feb. 5 and Feb. 6. MU finishes out its nonconference slate hosting Saint Louis University and Iowa State at the Al McGuire Center. Both soccer teams begin their respective schedules next week. The
men’s team hosts Loyola University Chicago for its season opener Feb. 3 and the women’s team welcomes Chicago State University Feb. 5 inside the Valley Fields dome. “We’re very thankful to get the opportunity to play this spring,” men’s soccer head coach Louis Bennett said in a statement. “Our staff and administration worked extremely hard to put together this schedule and we’re set to play five nonconference teams who are going to challenge us in a number of different ways.” Following BIG EAST precautions, Marquette plays home-andhome games against selected teams, the western division — which consists of Butler, Creighton, DePaul and Xavier. Then the top two teams from the west and east divisions advance to the conference semifinals, which are slated for April 14 for the women’s side and April 17 for the men’s. “Being able to have a nonconference season is such a gift because so many people do not have that ability,” women’s soccer head coach Frank Pelaez said in a statement. “In BIG EAST competition, we (may) have to play people back-to-back, and maybe the same team four times in a row in order to get into a conference tournament championship. I think everybody right now is willing to do whatever it takes.” Meanwhile, both lacrosse
programs are back in action beginning mid-February. The men’s team hosts Cleveland State University for Marquette’s opener Feb. 13. Conference play starts Feb. 20 as the program hosts University of Denver, and for the first time, the Golden Eagles will face the BIG EAST teams twice — at home and away. “We are pleased to announce our 2021 schedule a little over 10 months after the abrupt end to our 2020 campaign,” men’s lacrosse head coach Andrew Stimmel said in a statement. “The road back to competition has been an arduous journey that has been embraced by our entire program. ... (We) will continue to be vigilant in our precautions against the spread of the COVID-19 virus.” The women’s lacrosse team travels to Cincinnati Feb. 14 to face the Bearcats for Marquette’s 2021 regular season opener. BIG EAST games will be different this year for the Golden Eagles, as there will be backto-back games in the same weekend. March 19 and 21 the team hosts University of Connecticut, March 26 and 28 MU travels to Villanova, April 9 and 11 they are at Georgetown, April 16 and 18 Marquette hosts University of Denver and finishes out by traveling to Indianapolis to play Butler April 23 and 25. “Putting together this year’s schedule was very challenging for a number of reasons,” women’s
lacrosse head coach Meredith Black said in a statement. “It’s going to be a new experience but an exciting one. There’s a lot of emotion going into those conference games, and whether you win or lose the first game, we’ll get the opportunity to play each team again right away.” Golf tees off its season with BIG EAST Match Play in Belleair, Florida, Jan. 31 to Feb. 2. Head coach Steve Bailey and his squad head to The Prestige Feb. 14-16, Valspar Collegiate March 14-16, CalUSA Invite April 3-6 and Hawkeye Invitational April 16-18 before the postseason — with BIG EAST Championship on April 29 to May 2 and the NCAA Regionals beginning May 16-19. Track and field has yet to release a schedule. Tennis programs made their return to the court Jan. 22 for the men’s side and Jan. 24 for the women’s team. The Golden Eagles haven’t been in action since March 10, 2020 for the women’s team and March 12, 2020 for the men’s team due to COVID-19 cutting the 2019-20 season short and canceling fall 2020 competition. “It’s been a long few months and there is still plenty of work to do, but our (players) are extremely excited to get back on the court,” Steve Rodecap, director of tennis, said in a statement.
MEN’S BASKETBALL
Coaches, players remain optimistic amid pandemic Wojciechowski, Garcia taking season day-by-day By Nick Galle
nicholas.galle@marquette.edu
In February of 1895, Hamline University played the University of Minnesota Agriculture School in the basement of a campus building using peach baskets as hoops. For the modern college basketball fan, that image is hard to picture. But 126 years ago, the thought of a global pandemic altering the game of college basketball every single day was probably pretty hard to imagine, too. Over 130 men’s college basketball games have been canceled or postponed so far this season. Some programs — like Chicago State — elected to not even compete, and the Ivy League canceled the 202021 season completely. The Marquette men’s basketball team has had two games postponed, both of which were conference matchups. The Golden Eagles were scheduled to play Villanova Jan. 8, but positive tests within the
Wildcats’ program forced them to enter a 10-day quarantine. MU also had a game slated for Jan. 20 against Georgetown that had to be postponed due to COVID-19 related issues within the Hoyas’ program. Meanwhile, DePaul missed its first 10 games due to positive cases within both their and opponents’ programs. Players, coaches and support staff have had to expect the unexpected. For first-year forward Dawson Garcia, taking things day by day has been the key to staying focused. Garcia said that just staying in the present and not worrying about the past or future is how the team has stayed mentally fit and prepared to play. After a grueling first half of the season, all players in the program were able to go home to see their families. In a year where seeing family and friends has been limited, the 6-foot-11 forward from Prior Lake, Minnesota said it was good to be back for the holidays. “It was definitely nice to get home (and) see some family and friends,” Garcia said. As players attempt to navigate the unconventional season, coaching staff members have also been trying
to find ways to keep players focused. Head coach Steve Wojciechowski said the pandemic has made things harder on a daily basis. “The uncertainty that we’re all living in and how different it is from normal operating procedures make it a daily challenge to keep guys present and doing what we’re able to do today, because tomorrow’s not promised,” Wojciechowski said in a postgame press conference Jan. 12. “If I was to tell you that that’s easy every day, it would be a lie.” Despite the challenges, Wojciechowski said his players have been handling things well. “I think our guys have done a
really good job of trying to embrace the things that we’ve asked them to embrace in terms of being safe, and being mindful, and having a good attitude each and every day,” Wojciechowski said in the Jan. 12 press conference. Due to social distancing protocols, the team has had to find new ways to spend spare time when they are not playing, practicing or traveling. “It’s a lot of time to yourself,” Garcia said. “But we’re all in the same hotel, so we do find ways to watch a game while social distancing and whatnot, and we’ll play Uno and just kind of do all types of things.”
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Marquette men’s basketball celebrates during a game against EIU Nov. 27.
When the team is together, they have also been vocal about how they are feeling regarding the pandemic. The coaching staff has made sure to orchestrate conversations that go beyond basketball. “They’re (coaches) open to a lot of conversations where we can just speak our mind,” Garcia said. “We also have … different activities as a team where we eat together and what not — we can just kind of say how we’re feeling and talk to each other.” The Golden Eagles have nine games left on their schedule. Makeup dates for the postponed games against Villanova and Georgetown have yet to be announced. The BIG EAST Tournament is also scheduled to begin March 10 at Madison Square Garden and March Madness is slated to start March 18. Although basketball has been able to offer somewhat of an escape from the virus that has taken the lives of over 400,000 Americans, Wojciechowski said the pandemic is not something to look past. “It’s a daily challenge,” Wojciechowski said in the Jan. 12 press conference. “It’s a big thing, it’s not a little thing, and again, we’re not the only team going through it.”
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WOMEN’S SOCCER
PREVIEW: Pelaez’s squad returns to Valley Fields dome Veterans look to lead underdog team back to its winning ways By John Leuzzi
john.leuzzi@marquette.edu
It is a new era in the Marquette women’s soccer program for the first time in nearly two and a half decades. After ending 2019 with back-toback losing seasons, the program’s longest-tenured head coach, Markus Roeders, stepped down after 24 seasons. The team is also without the program’s all-time saves leader Maddy Henry for the first time in four years. However, senior defender Maddie Monticello said that last season remained on the back of her mind in preparation for this season. “Last year was obviously one of the lows of my four years here when it comes to our record and losing season,” Monticello said. “It kind of lights more fire under me to do better because we have so much more to prove.” Instead, Monticello said the Golden Eagles are using the feeling of being seen as an underdog as extra motivation to turn the season around. “Everyone is like, ‘oh Marquette had a losing season. Well, they’ll be on the back of the radar,’” Monticello said. “So I think that kind of gives us an incredible opportunity to prove everyone wrong. I love that because I love that pressure, I love that feeling on your shoulders to be like ‘we can prove
everyone wrong.’” Now there’s a new leader at the helm: Frank Pelaez. He previously spent 19 years as an assistant coach at MU from 1996-2014. Unlike in past seasons, both Pelaez and Monticello said the theme and message for this season is taking things one day at a time. With the pandemic forcing the BIG EAST to cancel the fall season and the NCAA to move fall sports to the spring, these words have a whole new meaning. “The message is, appreciate what you got because it can go away,” Pelaez said. “It’s a great message to teach in life because I’ve always lived that way where I am trying to absorb everything I can every day and don’t take any days for granted (but) it’s easier said than done.” As the Golden Eagles returned to practice Jan. 18 following the twomonth winter break, Monticello said Pelaez has done a great job honing that very same message he preaches to his players. “Frank has done an awesome job leading our team to really making the most of every minute during practice with every single exercise we do,” Monticello said. Monticello went on further to say she believes that the mentality that comes out of the way Pelaez runs his practices — fast-paced, crisp and constantly moving — will translate onto the field for both games and the way the season will go this year. The Chicago native mentioned she is thankful for the opportunity to play her senior season. “There have been so many ups and downs with COVID, some people getting to have their season and
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some people not,” Monticello said. “With that being said, it’s so exciting for me because it has been a long year for everyone. To think my college career could end with not getting a season was really scary, so I’m so excited.” Marquette’s slate of BIG EAST opponents will look different this year, as the conference split up its 11 teams into two regional divisions to help reduce the amount of travel required. The Golden Eagles will compete in the Midwest Division and play twice against Butler, Creighton, DePaul and Xavier. “It’s going to be different,” Pelaez said. “Any message you want to get across right now is that we just want to play the safest way possible. Anytime you play a team twice in a matter of time period, you get to absorb things a little more, you have time to discover a little bit more and look at your own team and look at their team, knowing that the next time you play could be a little bit different. I think it’s going to be fun.” Forwards The most experience comes from the offensive front, where three veteran players headline the front line: senior Kylie Sprecher and juniors Alyssa Bombacino and Macey Shock. Bombacino picked up All-BIG EAST Second Team honors last year and returns as the Golden Eagles’ leading scorer and pointsholder with seven and 15, respectively. In addition, the Naperville, Illinois native became the first player in program history to record hat tricks in back-to-back games. Sophomore Shelby Fountain and senior Elaina Eckert are two other members on the offense that are
expected to fight for time off the bench due to losing Abby Hess for this season. Midfielders Junior Katrina Wetherell returns to the midfield after starting 17 of 18 matches last season while posting two goals and two assists for six points. Sophomore Alex Campana also returns to the unit. Campana told the Marquette Wire in August she spent the summer working on changing her pace from receiving the ball to attacking and taking on players. Redshirt first-year Maddie Tabor mentioned she has embraced the new coaching staff’s clean slate mentality in her preparation for this season as she competes to find a spot in the rotation. “For me, as a midfielder, fitness is the big thing,” Tabor said. “Being able to run up the field and then also be able to get back on defense. One way that I’ve tried to stand out is just to kind of having good fitness and being able to always be that person that’s never giving up and going hard on everything.” Sophomore Hailey Block joins the midfield unit. The Southeast Missouri State transfer earned Ohio Valley Conference Freshman of the Year honors last year while scoring eight goals and adding an assist for the Redhawks. “I am hoping that as an underclassman, I can still have a big kind of leadership role in this team, directing in the middle and being a huge defensive and offensive threat as well,” Block said. The Golden Eagles also have senior Maggie Lena, redshirt juniors Meredith McGuire and Rachel Johnson and redshirt sophomore
Sammi Bugay returning among the midfielders who will look to get time. Defenders/Goalkeepers Despite losing star senior defenders Emily Hess and Bri Jaeger and Henry in the net, Marquette will have four experienced returners to the defensive third of the field: Monticello, junior Madison Burrier and sophomores Josie Kelderman and Addie Shock. Burrier and Kelderman both provide the Golden Eagles with the ability to use them on the backline and midfield, as they split time between both units last season. “They’re both good soccer players and good ambassadors of what we’re trying to do,” Pelaez said. “But I want the whole team to be that way so I’m looking at all of them to be adaptable because that’s what we have to deal with every day.” Redshirt sophomore Madeline Warren, redshirt sophomore Bonnie Lacey and redshirt first-year Katie Smith are all expected to compete for time in the outside back positions as well. Sophomore Mel McNamara, redshirt first-year Mikki Easter and first-year Lauren Schill are competing to start in the net for the Golden Eagles. McNamara played one-half in net last season in MU’s 2-1 loss to Northern Illinois Sept. 20, 2019. When asked how surreal it might feel getting closer to coaching his first game as a head coach at Valley Fields, Pelaez said he hasn’t gotten there just yet. “I just am enjoying everything I can with the girls that I have on this team and knowing that any point, anything can change,” Pelaez said.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Marotta makes big impact as upperclassman for Duffy Junior forward has career-best afternoon against Georgetown By Sam Arco
samuel.arco@marquette.edu
In a season filled with uncertainty, one thing that remains clear is that Marquette women’s basketball junior forward Chloe Marotta is on track for a career-best season. In the games that the team has been able to play in the 2020-21 season, Marotta has been putting up some of her best numbers during her time in a Marquette uniform. She is averaging career-highs in points, rebounds and assists per game with half of the regular season schedule still to be played. Marotta has attributed her success this season to the extra work she
has been putting in with her teammates, going all the way back to last summer. “We’re constantly in the gym with each other, and I think that’s a great attribution to the success we’ve had on the court,” Marotta said. “As you get older and become an upperclassman you start to feel more confident on the court and you understand your reads a little bit more, so I think I’ve seen myself as a player grow in that aspect as well.” As the only junior and one of three upperclassmen on the roster, Marotta has developed a bigger leadership role this season to help mentor the younger players on the team. “As you become older, you’re expected for a lot more and I take leadership pridefully as I love to lead and want to be looked at as a leader in our program,” Marotta said. “I’ve also learned a lot from our seniors in Selena Lott and Lauren Van Kleunen
when it comes to leadership as we’re a very player-led team.” Head coach Megan Duffy also attests to seeing Marotta grow as leader, not only on the court, but also in the locker room. “Chloe wants to be impactful for her team with her voice and with her actions,” Duffy said. “She’s motivated to be that voice and be the example for her teammates. The great thing I also love about Chloe is that I think there’s a lot of room for her to develop on the court and in her leadership role because I know she’s hungry to do that.” Coming off her best performance of the season against St. John’s with 11 points, 14 rebounds and seven assists in a 72-61 win, Marotta followed up with a career-high 21 points along with seven rebounds and four assists in Marquette’s 72-40 win against Georgetown Jan. 20. Marotta’s impact in the paint has
been key when it comes to rebounding opportunities and turning them into scoring during fast breaks. Since Duffy has been in charge, Marquette has won the rebounding battle in 39 out of 42 games, and Marotta is averaging a career-high of 7.6 rebounds per game this season. Marotta’s hard work and dedication has been paying off, with her influence on the court both defensively and offensively. “I think Chloe Marotta is probably one of our hardest working players in our program,” Duffy said. “She really took it upon herself after our season was cut a little short last year to really dive into improving her versatility and I think she’s always been a player who’s been able to contribute in different ways, and she’s really stepped things up in every statistical category so far this season.” Many may think that having a breakthrough season when no
fans are allowed in person can be tough, but Marotta is still thankful to be sharing the court with her teammates. “Being together is the most important thing,” Marotta said. “You don’t play a lot this season, but when we’re on the court together and doing what we love together, that’s the best part.” As for the remainder of the season, Marotta and the Golden Eagles are looking to improve their 5-1 BIG EAST record and compete for a BIG EAST title. “We want to become the best team that we can possibly be,” Marotta said. “We always have team goals to get to that BIG EAST championship game, but I think this year is important that we take every day one day a time and see where we can go because nothing is guaranteed this season.”
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WOMEN’S SOCCER
City mandates provide uncertainty, challenges on pitch Block, Monticello react to possibility of masks all year By Bryan Geenen
bryan.geenen@marquette.edu
Masks are now a necessary part of daily life. For individuals, wearing a mask at work and at the grocery store have both become a common theme. One factor that is still debated is whether or not masks should be worn during exercise. The World Health Organization says on their website that “masks should not be worn during vigorous physical activity because of the risk of reducing breathing capacity.” The Center for Disease Control also states on their website that “if you are unable to wear a mask because of difficulty breathing during high-intensity activities, choose a location with greater ventilation and air exchange.” The NCAA does not require any masks to be worn during competition as they could get wet or even present physical difficulties for athletes during activities when there is contact to the head or face or when intense exercise is involved. However, the Marquette women’s soccer team has been diligent in using masks during training, conditioning and lifting
during the first semester and over winter break. With the WHO, CDC and NCAA suggesting that masks can be difficult to wear during highintensity activities, the women’s soccer team has been training as if they will wear them during games. That being said, Maddie Monticello, a senior defender, said the team is planning on wearing masks during competition. “We were told originally that we didn’t have to wear masks during games but they were just saying the City of Milwaukee might be requiring the masks for games so they keep on going back and forth,” Monticello said. “We don’t have a definite, as far as I know, but we’re preparing to wear them because we might as well be ready for it.” “I have some friends on the east coast like Seton Hall and Georgetown were they’ve been wearing masks and what I’ve heard, they still don’t know about games but practices, they all wear the masks,” Monticello said. Head coach Frank Pelaez said that he recently heard they would be playing in them. “It’s a touchy subject because it depends on where you live,” Pelaez said. “Marquette is governed by what the city (of Milwaukee) protocols are. Everything changes so quickly so as of last week, it was suggested we were more than likely going to play in masks. Then a couple of days ago,
it was more than likely we are not going to play in masks. As of today, and I’ve been saying that six months, it seems like no masks at games.” With the City of Milwaukee’s protocol for women’s soccer still unclear, the Marquette women’s team is starting to adapt to the new normal of wearing masks during practice and conditioning. Although the NCAA states it could present a physical challenge during activities, the soccer team is starting to overcome those restrictions. Monticello said wearing the mask during conditioning was a new challenge when it first started, but she has become more acclimated to the challenge. “I would definitely say when I started the conditioning, it was tough,” Monticello said. “I’m from Chicago and last summer when masks were heavily mandated in Chicago, I actually did all of my training with the mask before I came back to school so I was pretty acclimated but it’s weird. It’s sliding down, it’s sweaty and you’re breathing heavily into it so it definitely is very uncomfortable. But I think everyone’s done a good job adjusting to it because it’s just the new reality.” Redshirt first-year midfielder Maddie Tabor also said wearing the mask while playing is new territory, but not impossible. “In the beginning, it was definitely different,” Tabor said. “At
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Women’s soccer played an intersquad scrimmage Jan. 24 at Valley Fields.
home, I wasn’t necessarily working out with a mask on and now I’m transitioning back into breathing heavily into a mask. I think it’s an adjustment we all have to get used to and honestly, I feel like the second day I was pretty used to it but we’ll see what it’s like to play a 90-minute game with the mask on.” Sophomore midfielder Hailey Block said the idea of wearing a mask throughout a 90-minute match is a daunting task. “At first, it definitely sounds scary just because we’ve been used to our lives playing without masks but we’ve been constantly wearing them around campus and during training and we’re getting used to them because we know
that if we have to wear masks to play, we will do it as long as we get the chance to play on the field,” Block said. Pelaez preached the idea that they will do whatever possible to have a season and take it one day at a time. “I’m trying to tell them that every day is a great day and we got to take it to its fullest,” Pelaez said. “People are suffering, jobs are being lost, lives are being taken and with the political unrest and all of this other (stuff), if we have the opportunity to play a game and have the heart of a little girl but play like a woman and take that opportunity then go with it because it’s once in a lifetime.”
VOLLEYBALL
Five members of Theis’ roster depart, Wolf joins Konovodoff, Mohr graduate early, Rose battles Ewing Sarcoma By Jackson Gross
jackson.gross@marquette.edu
During the winter break, the Marquette volleyball team added senior transfer Taylor Wolf, from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, to the roster. The Waconia, Minnesota native was an All-American and a backto-back Horizon League Offensive Player of the Year as a setter and right-side hitter on the Green Bay Phoenix squad. Wolf’s decision to transfer to Marquette was based off of both academics and athletics, as she was preparing to graduate from UWGB. “I still wanted to use my last year of eligibility ... but academically ... I have taken most of the biology and psychology courses at Green Bay, so I was ready for the next step in my academic career
too, and Marquette is an excellent school academically and athletically, which was super exciting to me and why I was so interested in pursuing this opportunity with Marquette.” Wolf said. Head coach Ryan Theis said in a press release that Wolf’s versatility gives the team many different lineup options. Wolf echoed those sentiments and is “excited to see what works best for the team,” along with where she fits for the Golden Eagles. In the midst of this addition, the team will be without four other seniors, and one graduate student. Martha Konovodoff and Sandy Mohr left due to early graduation in December and Gabbi Martinez is deferring her senior season to focus on academics with goals to pursue more schooling to become a physician assistant. Elizabeth Orf, the blocks leader for 2019 and a three time Big-East all academic player, transferred to the University of Memphis Dec. 16. Sarah Rose is departing due to a diagnosis of Ewing Sarcoma, a rare form of cancer that occurs in the bones
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Marquette volleyball huddles before the team’s sweep over ISU Jan. 22.
or the soft tissue around the bones. Theis said that since Rose’s diagnosis, they have been in weekly communication about how she is doing. “We are pulling for her, she’s doing great, kicking butt, several months into her nine month treatment process … it’s actually the highlight of my week and it is incredibly motivating just as a person in a fight like she is and to pick up a FaceTime call with her coach and to have a big smile on her face and to tell me what’s going on,” Theis said. “She’s one of the strongest
people I know.” Meanwhile, Martinez emphasized her love and appreciation for the coaching staff, trainers and the team and how she will miss seeing them in the gym every day. “I’ve always loved our coaching staff and I’ve always loved all of our athletic trainers, and strength and conditioning coaches and all the experiences that our coaches put together for us, but luckily the coaches have been nothing but helpful and supportive of my decision,” Martinez said. While Martinez is leaving the
program, she still is very much “part of the family” in more ways than one. “I stay in contact with them (the coaches),” Martinez said. “I watch (assistant coach) Megan Keck’s dog sometimes … and I still see the girls as much as possible, whenever (it is) safe. I’m still very much a part of the family.” Despite the departures, the expectation for the team going into this season has not changed. Theis said there are also expectations for other players to step up, not only in their play, but their leadership as well. “Hope Werch and Elizabeth Orf (now with University of Memphis) have been here since the beginning and are still in it to win it, Savannah (Rennie) has some leadership qualities but obviously she’s new to the program ... but Hope Werch wants to be a collegiate volleyball coach, so she’s getting training on leadership and she’s gonna be a big part of what we’re doing both maturitywise and team chemistry-wise and on the court as well.” Theis said.
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Tuesday, January 26, 2021
MEN’S SOCCER
Bennett, Sunesson prepare for BIG EAST action Golden Eagles open Feb. 3, first conference matchup Feb. 20 By Matt Yeazel
matthew.yeazel@marquette.edu
The Marquette men’s soccer program is preparing for their first official spring season, as their usual fall season was postponed due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. After not playing in a game
since Nov. 9, 2019, the BIG EAST has officially released their new schedule. The Golden Eagles will play their first game Feb. 3 against Loyola. Their schedule consists of 13 games — five nonconference and eight in-conference. They will be playing half of the BIG EAST opponents. They will have two games each against Creighton, Butler, DePaul and Xavier. This will all lead up to the BIG EAST semifinals and the BIG EAST finals in the middle of April. “Considering the circumstanc-
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Then-sophomore Lukas Sunesson (9) celebrates after scoring a goal.
es, (the BIG EAST) have done well,” head coach Louis Bennett said. “They’ve put something together that is feasible in terms of practicality, financials and travel.” Marquette students have been away from campus since just before Thanksgiving, but junior forward Lukas Sunesson said that the athletes came back at the start of the new year. Over winter break they were able to go home to their families and stayed conditioned by doing workouts at home. “We mostly had to exercise on our own and do personal practice with a ball,” Sunesson said. “Since we’ve been back, though, we’ve worked together everyday.” With just over a week left until their first game, coach Bennett said that his team is at various levels of fitness — being cautious, but aggressive, with their training. “We’ve tried to estimate how much workload they can handle and what is required of them in order to ramp them up towards playing shape,” Bennett said. “In soccer though, a lot is about
reacting. You can’t be soccer-fit unless you play soccer.” Last semester the team trained for about eight weeks prior to winter break and did many Zoom calls during the summer in order to build rapport within the new roster. Sunesson thinks their training from the fall in addition to their pre-season work now will have them ready to go for the regular season. “We’ve been playing scrimmages, trying to make it as much like a game as possible,” Sunesson said. “Once we’re on the field it’s going to be just like any other season.” Sunesson added that he has a personal goal to lead the team in goals scored this season, with hopes of having double digits. The junior had five goals in his first year and three goals his sophomore season. In 2018, he was second behind Luka Prpa and last season he was in a four-way tie for second-highest amount goals scored. Despite the training they did in the fall and over the break, coach Bennett said that he is expecting most, if not all, available players on the roster to
play, and that nobody is going to play all 90 minutes in a game right away. Given the circumstances, his confidence in his team has not faltered. “I’m confident we are going to be able to play the game and create something that looks like Marquette soccer,” Bennett said. “Is it going to be Marquette soccer at its best? I don’t know, but I am confident that we’ll put something on the field that we’re proud of.” With a brand new roster full of first-years and transfers and the limited contact and ability to be together in person due to COVID-19 restrictions, the team has been trying to do the most that they can remotely to help with team chemistry. Sunesson said that he is confident they are ready to go. “Team chemistry is there for sure. We all know each other very well and love to get to work together,” Sunesson said. “We are beyond excited to finally play some games and I’m super confident that we’ll do great this semester.”