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Marquette University’s custodial staff ratified a new contract this past month allowing for changes and clarifications regarding wages, benefits and consistency in language, Liz Sides, director of employment and employee relations at Marquette, said.

The old contract with the custodial staff was set to expire this year, and bargaining for the new agreement began in July.

“In September, they voted overwhelmingly to ratify the contract, and that is what is currently in effect,” Nick Desideri, Service Employees International Union Local 1 spokesperson, said. SEIU Local 1 is a union that represents Marquette’s custodial staff.

Desideri said an important

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A 19-year-old man is being charged with shooting another man twice Tuesday outside the Milwaukee County Courthouse, near 9th and Wells Streets.

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Christopher Bartolone said the contract was the result of collaboration.

Marcel Romeo Vanlandingham is charged with first-degree reckless injury after opening his car trunk, pulling out a rifle and shooting another 19-year-old man in his upper right thigh and left wrist area, according to the criminal complaint. The victim was hospitalized with non-lifethreatening injuries.

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A shooting occurred on 9th Street and Wisconsin Avenue Tuesday.

MU alumnus George Lardner Jr. dies at 85 Friends remember journalist’s passion, unique reporting

By Jenny Whidden

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Jim Sankovitz had many positive remarks for his freshman year roommate George Lardner Jr., but he put special emphasis on one.

“He was a good man,” Sankovitz said.

Lardner, a 1956 Marquette journalism graduate, passed

away last Saturday. He died at a hospice center in Aldie, Virginia, at 85. He is survived by a sister, two grandchildren and four children: Helen, Edmund, Charles and Richard Lardner.

The Marquette graduate was editor of the Marquette Tribune from 1955-’56 and went on to become a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.

He earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism at Marquette. He wrote at the Miami Herald, eventually settling at The Washington Post for four decades before retiring in 2004.

Lardner won the 1993 Pulitzer

Prize in feature writing “for his unflinching examination of his daughter’s murder by a violent man who had slipped through the criminal justice system,” according to the Pulitzer website.

During a visit to Marquette for the 2014 O’Brien Fellowship Conference, Lardner reflected on the award.

“It was a great honor, but it also gave me the opportunity to talk about what happened to my daughter, Kristin,” Lardner said.

Kristin was killed in 1992 at 21 years old. Six months later, The Washington Post published Lard-

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ner’s 9,000-word investigation of the murder, titled “The Stalking of Kristin.” In 1995, Lardner expanded the piece into a book, “The Stalking of Kristin: A Father Investigates the Murder of His Daughter.”

“He never really recovered fully from Kristin’s death,” Sankovitz said. “It changed him dramatically, and it was indeed his investigative skills and drive that led him to write the book.”

At the O’Brien Fellowship Conference, Lardner reflected on his time studying journalism at Marquette.

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“It taught me how to go out and just get a story,” Lardner said.

“There was one class where they would just tell you to go down to the courthouse.”

Sankovitz laughed as he remembered Lardner bringing a miniscule typewriter to campus. He said the students were surprised, having been used to the behemoth typewriters that were more common in the early 1950s.

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CONTRACT: LARDNER: ‘He SEIU spurs change was a good man’ Continued from page 1 aspect of the new contract is that all custodians are now making $15 an hour or more, which he said is important for a working family to be able to pay bills or put food on the table. He said SEIU Local 1 is a “strong supporter” of the fight for a $15 minimum wage because that is what the federal government deems a living wage in today’s economy.

Desideri said contracts with unionized custodians have traditionally been three-year agreements. Sides said all custodial staff members who work in academic and residence halls are unionized.

“The employment terms for our custodial staff are governed by their union contract. That contract, which was in place for three years, was set to expire,” Sides said. “The university, representatives from the SEIU and union leadership met to negotiate the new contract. This same process will repeat in another three years.”

Along with wages and benefits, the new contract also governs employment policies such as scheduling, posting for new positions and requesting time off.

Desideri said the contract also addresses annual wage increases, protects health care costs, protects holiday overtime pay and shifts differential pay for those working night shifts, all of which he said “will help support their families.”

“Overall it’s a strong new contract for 120 custodians. It was a tough negotiation, but they came together, showed Marquette that their work is valuable, and they came out stronger for it,” Desideri said.

“It’s a big victory with this contract,” he said.

Desideri said the bargaining process for the contract consisted of a negotiation team made up of university custodial staff members who sat down with administration to “hammer out” the things that were important to them. He said the process is to make sure the contract allows for the custodial staff to do the best job they can do and to take care of their families.

“Anytime you enter negotiations, there are concessions made by both parties,” Sides said. “I feel both parties negotiated in good faith and were creative with different ideas that allowed us to come to an agreement on a contract that benefits both parties.”

“Bargaining is always ups and downs, but custodians stuck together,” Desideri said. “They were very clear in their demands, and they walked away with a strong contract. That’s a big victory in itself.”

Assistant director for facilities Christopher Bartolone said both sides of the negotiation collaborated well to come to an agreement.

“Marquette’s custodial workers do a great job keeping our campus clean and healthy for our students, faculty, staff and countless visitors,” Bartolone said. “We value their service and dedication to the university. We are pleased that we were able to come to an agreement that provides our valued custodial workers guaranteed annual raises, holiday overtime pay and health care benefits.”

“After coming together, we fought for and won the raises and better benefits we need to lift communities across Milwaukee,” SEIU Local 1 custodian Vanessa Henderson said in a press release.

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Janitors are paid at least $15 an hour as a result of the new contract.

Continued from page 1 Sankovitz said. “He could bat out stories on that thing faster than anybody could do on a regular upright (typewriter).”

After rooming together, Sankovitz and Lardner’s relationship

greatest stories of the ’60s into the ’70s, including the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the Watergate scandal.

“George was a great and good friend,” Sullivan said. “My Marquette experience was marvelous, and George was part of that.”

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George Lardner Jr. was editor of the Marquette Tribune from 1955-’56.

bloomed into a lifelong friendship.

Sankovitz worked with Lardner at the Marquette Tribune as the photography editor, graduating with a journalism degree in 1957.

He went on to work for Marquette for 33 years as the vice president of government relations.

Sankovitz said Lardner’s personality made it easy to work and get along with him. As a reporter and editor, he said Lardner had skills unlike others.

“He could run down a story and dig deeper and more heavily into its background, which is a skill that he honed at the Miami Herald and then later at The Washington Post,” Sankovitz said.

Jack Sullivan, a 1957 Marquette journalism graduate, said he followed in Lardner’s footsteps to pursue his master’s degree at Marquette.

“He was really one of the most stellar graduates Marquette ever had,” Sullivan said.

Sullivan worked with Lardner on the editorial board of the Marquette Tribune, and he was also the editor of the Marquette Journal. The two both went on to live in Washington D.C., where they kept in touch.

Sullivan eventually became Kristin Lardner’s godfather.

“He really did good work here in Washington,” Sullivan said.

The fellow Marquette graduate said Lardner covered some of the

Bill Burleigh, a 1957 Marquette journalism graduate, also worked with Lardner at the Tribune, succeeding him as editor. Burleigh retired as president and CEO of the E.W. Scripps Company in 2000.

“He was serious, he was passionate about his craft and he was an excellent writer,” Burleigh said.

Lardner’s hard work, late nights and coverage of tough stories set the standard at the Tribune, Burleigh said.

“He was fair, prized accuracy and was absolutely dogged in his determination to chase a story,” Burleigh said. “He was very thorough and always wanted to get to the bottom of things.”

Burleigh said a good university newspaper should be covering the administration, and the Tribune under Lardner was no exception.

“We were always fighting the administration, and George never flinched. He called them as he saw them,” Burleigh said. “George was quiet. He didn’t go looking for a fight, but his values were just terrific.”

Burleigh said the values that took Lardner to his success at The Washington Post were always there, even as an undergraduate.

“He was born great,” Burleigh said. “He was born a Pulitzer Prize winner.”

CRIME: Threats incite violence Continued from page 1 The victim was at the courthouse for a hearing on Tuesday afternoon. A commotion arose in the hallway involving the victim, the mother of the victim’s child and Vanlandingham. Eventually they all walked outside, congregating near the fountain outside the courthouse.

While the victim and the child’s mother argued, Vanlandingham held the child. He then handed the child to the mother and said he would “take care of this,” according to the criminal complaint.

That’s when Vanlandingham threatened to shoot the victim.

The victim followed Vanlandingham as the suspect walked to his car, which was parked near 9th and Wells Streets.

After getting the gun out of his trunk, Vanlandingham stepped onto the sidewalk and shot the victim twice. He then fled the scene in his car.

Vanlandingham told police that the victim and the victim’s brother were giving threats to the suspect and his girlfriend.

He said he told the victim that he had a gun, but that the victim and his brother said, “You’re not going to shoot, we are going to beat your a–!”

The suspect admitted to police that he shot the victim twice with his gun.

Marquette students received a safety alert Tuesday afternoon around 4:15 p.m. about the shooting, which took place near the east side of campus. Students in Straz Tower residence hall, located on 9th Street and Wisconsin Avenue, were told to go in their rooms and lock the doors.

If convicted, Vanlandingham faces up to 25 years in the Wisconsin prison system and a fine of up to $100,000. His use of a dangerous weapon in the alleged crime can add up to five years to the prison sentence.

Vanlandingham’s preliminary hearing is scheduled for Oct. 7 at the Milwaukee County Courthouse.

The suspect has a previous conviction for disorderly conduct related to a March 19 incident. He was sentenced to 30 days in the House of Corrections, one year of probation and community service hours, according to online court records.

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University dissolves ombuds office

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The university dissolved the ombuds office as a part of the cost management process in which 2.5% of staff were laid off Sept. 5.

An ombuds office is an office where faculty and staff could receive confidential support and connections to multiple resources when experiencing issues or concerns, acting provost Kimo Ah Yun said.

He said the decision was made because the university needed to “find efficiencies” and there were other resources in place for employees.

The university did not give a formal notification about the dissolution of the office.

The ombuds office consisted of a single part time position.

Ah Yun and Claudia Paetsch, vice president for human resources, both said two alternative resources for faculty include the Employee Assistance Program and the Office of Faculty Affairs.

EAP is a third-party program offered through Aurora Healthcare that is 100% confidential and works with a broad array of faculty issues, Paetsch said.

Christopher Stockdale, associate professor and assistant department chair of physics, said it does not do the same thing as ombuds did.

Stockdale said EAP, because it is a third-party resource and not directly Marquette affiliated, it “won’t know every option available at the university.”

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Acting provost Ah Yun said the university did not give formal notification about the dissolution of the office.

was dissolved.

“To my knowledge of people I have talked to in multiple colleges, nobody had any idea the position was going to be eliminated or was being considered to be eliminated,” Stockdale said.

Stockdale said the office was particularly important to nontenured faculty. “(It was) most important to faculty and staff who don’t have tenure yet, who might be worried about raising an accusation or charge that one of the senior people in the department or somewhere in the university had done something wrong,” Stockdale said.

The ombuds office was brought up at the last academic senate meeting Sept. 16 as part of Ah Yun’s provost report.

Multiple faculty voiced their concerns at the meeting, including Brittany Pladek, an assistant professor of English, who

questioned if removing the ombuds office would actually reduce costs.

Pladek referenced an article published by the Marquette Law Review in 2012.

The article states “an ombudsman conserves an organization’s resources because an ombudsman is much less costly than hiring outside counsel to investigate a dispute within the organization.”

“The rationale for why the ombuds office was closed was trying to consolidate resources … but the financial argument just doesn’t make any sense,” Pladek said.

Stockdale and Pladek both said the dissolution reflected on the university’s recent lack of transparency.

“This is an active effort to shut down transparency, to keep us from seeing what’s going on,” Pladek said.

Stockdale said the position was not discussed with any faculty he knew.

“A group of people in Zilber Hall made a decision … and eliminated it as a cost-cutting position,” Stockdale said.

Pladek said that though university emphasizes shared governance, it goes against that idea with this move to dissolve the office.

Monica Adya, department chair of management, said she knows the university is trying to put transparency in place, but it can be difficult when sensitive issues occur.

“We have a lot of work to do when it comes to difficult situations like the round of layoffs that have occurred,” Adya said.

Adya said she hopes the issue is brought up again during the next academic senate meeting Oct. 21 in the Alumni Memorial Union ballrooms.

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Film depicts forgotten stories ‘Remembering Bronzeville’ to premiere in October

By Kate Hyland

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“You always wonder, ‘Are you going to be able to pull it off?’”

Karen Slattery, Marquette professor of journalism and media studies, said.

Slattery, along with co-producer and husband Mark Doremus, “pulled off” a documentary called “Remembering Bronzeville,” which will premiere for the first time publicly on the Milwaukee Public Broadcasting Service’s channel Oct. 31.

The documentary focuses on the first African American neighborhood in Milwaukee, known as Bronzeville. African Americans lived there because they weren’t allowed to live in other parts of the city in the 1930s because of housing segregation. It had some of the oldest, most run down housing and structures in the city.

However, in 1948, the city began to tear down parts of Bronzeville and build new public housing, according to a website that focuses on Bronzeville.

Today, none of the original infrastructure exists, Doremus said.

According to the website, “What’s left are the memories.”

Marquette University provided a $50,000 innovation grant in 2016 to fund the project. That money primarily went towards licensing historical pictures and

post-production work.

‘Remembering Bronzeville’ brings the story to life with interviews and rare archival film and images.

The duo first came up with the idea to make the film from Milwaukee playwright Sheri Williams Pannell, who started a play called “Welcome to Bronzeville.”

Pannell mentioned it to Doremus, and he and Slattery sat in on the interviews with the people who used to live in Bronzeville. Doremus said they thought they could make a documentary on the information that didn’t fit in the play.

Doremus and Slattery said that Pannell gave them access to the community through the interviews, and they followed the breadcrumbs from there.

To obtain pictures to use for the film, the duo reached out to Milwaukee County Historical Society, Milwaukee Public Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee archives, Housing Authority of the city of Milwaukee and the people interviewed.

The documentary also features familiar faces around Marquette.

Don Hertz, technical services manager at the College of Communication, did the animation for the film. Additionally, Sheena Carey, internship coordinator and lecturer, was the narrator.

Carey did more than voiceovers — she appeared on camera as well. Carey has a history of doing voiceovers for videos and f0r announcing at graduations and new student convocations. However, she said she was used to having a piece of paper to read, so the idea of being unscripted at times on

camera was scary.

“It will be a long time before I do something like that again,” Carey said. “I’m really glad for the experience.”

Carey, Slattery and Doremus said they agree that their favorite part about working on the documentary was talking to people and learning about the history of Milwaukee. Slattery specifically said she enjoyed having conversations with people she wouldn’t normally get the chance to talk to.

Carey said it was great for her to learn about the rich history of the Bronzeville community.

Carey said it a feel-good story in some instances, because it shows the resilience of a community making do with what they had and thriving.

In total, the documentary took around three-and-a-half years to complete. Slattery said anytime there is a project of this magnitude, there are all kinds of unexpected twists and turns.

“A documentary is kind of like doing a jigsaw puzzle, except not all of the parts actually fit,” Doremus said.

Doremus also said they started by compiling transcripts from two- to four-hour interviews and looked for themes and patterns.

It was a process of taking pieces and seeing how they fit together, so that one person’s story flowed naturally into the next.

“This isn’t our show,” Doremus said. “This is their show. This is their story. What we felt our role was, was to simply be a vehicle so that these folks could tell their story about what they thought was important.”

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MU professor Karen Slattery and her husband Mark Doremus spent three-and-a-half years producing a documentary about Milwaukee’s Bronzeville neighborhood. The film is set to premiere Oct. 31.

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Lovell co-teaches fall Broad Realization class President says he missed personal, one-on-one time

By John Steppe and Margaret Cahill

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For Josh Schneider, a “super senior” in the College of Engineering, there’s something different about his class Broad Realization and who teaches it.

One of the co-professors happens to be the president of the university.

For the first time since arriving at Marquette University in 2014, University President Michael Lovell is back in the classroom. The class meets Mondays from 5-7 p.m.

“I’m really enjoying the course and being back with the students,” Lovell said. “Even though people look at me as a president or administrator … the thing I miss the most is actually being in the classroom and having that one-on-one personal interaction with the students.”

As Lovell balances being president of the university with teaching, he has some help. Lovell

co-teaches the class with Alex Francis, a senior engineer at Milwaukee-based manufacturing company Rexnord and an adjunct professor at UWM and Marquette.

The class is a mix of engineering and communication students and has “an entrepreneurial nature.”

“We’re trying to help students in the innovation process,” Lovell said.

“It’s very important for them when they graduate to be creative and be innovative.”

Lovell said he worked with Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to see what they’re doing to develop the innovation process.

Lovell said the students in the class develop a real product sponsored by a corporation.

“It’s not only learning the process, but it’s also doing hands-on experiential learning with it as well,” Lovell said.

Students work in groups to develop and market products. Schneider’s group is developing a water filtration product for showers with AO Smith that is more “aesthetically pleasing.”

The class also welcomes people from the industry. James McKenna is an industry adviser for the class

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University President Michael Lovell is co-teaching a night class this year.

and works at HUSCO International.

He will attend the class four times per semester but calls in weekly with one of the groups that’s developing a guarding system for HUSCO’s test stand.

McKenna said Lovell approached HUSCO about being one of the customers for the class.

“We were really interested in seeing the collaborative atmosphere that was going to be fostered in this class,” McKenna said. “We’re really excited to see what the students can bring forward in terms of

creative ideas.”

The concept of this class was nothing new to Lovell. He started teaching this class in 2001 while working as an associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh, but he stopped teaching when he became chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2011.

Lovell said his return to the classroom is important to better connect with students and get a greater understanding of changes in how students learn.

“I use a lot of the things I teach in

the course in the way I run the university,” Lovell said.

Schneider said it’s evident that Lovell cares about his students, which makes the class more enjoyable.

The class is not new to Francis.

He took the class as a student at UWM and then experienced it as a sponsor, teaching assistant and now co-professor.

“We teach the students in the class really how to unlock that creative mindset,” Francis said. “That applies to engineers. That applies to communication students and art and business.”

Schneider said it has been cool to see other spaces on campus that he might not otherwise see as a mechanical engineering major, like Johnston Hall or the 707 Hub, and work with people he usually wouldn’t work with.

“Normally I’m used to only working with engineers,” Schneider said. “And now I’m with a bunch of communications (and) marketing students, which is really neat and different.”

Lovell said he “definitely plans on teaching again in the future,” but the decision is made on a semester-bysemester basis.

MU counselor, diversity coordinator honored Advocate named one of most powerful Latinos in Wisconsin

By Nick Magrone

nicholas.magrone@marquette.edu

Marquette University mental health counselor and diversity coordinator Marla Delgado-Guerrero was named one of the most powerful Latinos in Wisconsin.

She is among 34 recipients of the Sí Se Puede 2019 honor.

Madison365 highlights all of the recipients, noting the profound impact that Guerrero has on campus.

Among all the positions she holds, Delgado-Guerrero is also an integral part of Marquette’s First Generation College Student Network.

“In addition to working one on one with college students, Delgado-Guerrero serves on various university committees that focus on policies to help underrepresented students. She helped create the Undocumented Student Task Force, which supports undocumented students,” according to a university news release.

When asked what inspires her in regard to her profession, Delgado-Guerrero said she appreciates when clients recognize it is okay to reach out for help. She said she remembered when she was a teen and needed help adjusting to

college. She said she is inspired to see an increase of young adults working to decrease the stigma of seeking counseling.

“The stigma is still there, however,” Delgado-Guerrero said. “I am inspired when my clients start sharing their mental health challenges with their support systems and then receive both validation and support to sustain the work I do with my clients.”

The Sí Se Puede 2019 honor encompasses many different professions of powerful Latinos in the state, with titles such as executive director of wealth development, director of diversity counsel and strategic partnerships director.

Delgado-Guerrero was also the recipient of the 2014 Outstanding Woman of Color Award and finished second for the American Association for Hispanics in Higher Education 2018 Outstanding Dissertation Award. She earned the latter award due to her work exploring mentoring relationships for Latinx college students.

Xavier Cole, vice president of Student Affairs, talked about his favorite memory working with Delgado-Guerrero.

“I enjoy experiencing the passion Dr. Guerrero has for supporting undocumented students through the work on the Task Force,” Cole said in an email. “Her voice is critical to improving the retention and support of a vulnerable student population for our campus. Her

proactive work with MU administration keeps our diversity and inclusion initiatives in the forethought of university leaders and moving positively forward. I congratulate her on her recent recognition!”

Delgado-Guerrero herself was very open when describing what the Sí Se Puede honor means to her.

“This is truly a tremendous honor … and this is still sinking in,” Delgado-Guerrero said. “This list exists to recognize the work of Latino professionals throughout the state of Wisconsin who are working to make a positive difference in both the Latinx community as well as the larger community in Wisconsin. So to be named to this particular list means that my roles at Marquette and the broader state of Wisconsin are important and matter.”

Delgado-Guerrero’s efforts and successes are not only noticed in Wisconsin. Esmeralda Nungaray, a Marquette alumna who is an English teacher currently living in South Korea, has known DelgadoGuerrero for four years.

Nungaray had a direct relationship with Delgado-Guerrero when she was a student. In an email she talked about the impact DelgadoGuerrero has had on campus.

“Dr. Guerrero has sparked a conversation of mental health within minorities at Marquette, which expands to our families as well,”

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Delgado-Guerrero is a mental health counselor and diversity coordinator.

Nungaray said. “Mental health is still a taboo subject in some of our communities, so for her to inform us and be a support, she is not only breaking barriers within students at Marquette, but our families and communities.”

In recognition of her accomplishment, the Marquette Counseling Center Facebook page wrote a post congratulating her.

“We are so proud of our own Dr. Marla Delgado-Guerrero to be named as one of the most

powerful Latinx professionals in Wisconsin!” the Facebook post said.

After winning this award, Delgado-Guerrero said in a university news release that she is looking forward to eventually being in a senior administrative position to make sure she can use her skills to further ensure that underrepresented students have the resources to excel at Marquette.

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$1 million grant to empower women in STEM National Science Foundation furthers ADVANCE initiative

By Matthew Choate

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Marquette University recently received a $1 million grant as an opportunity to improve its diversity.

According to a Sept. 19 Marquette University news release, the National Science Program gave the university the grant as part of its ADVANCE program.

ADVANCE programs are expected to use “intersectional approaches that recognize how gender, race, ethnicity and other social identities interact to affect the experience of individuals in the workplace.”

William Welburn, the vice President for inclusive excellence for Marquette’s Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion, said that the ADVANCE program is “a long-standing initiative of the National Science Foundation and a priority of theirs since 2001.”

Jeanne Hossenlopp, vice

president for research and innovation at Marquette, said that the grant will “help to promote faculty success.” Hossenlopp said the National Science Foundation has been giving out the grant for over ten years.

The grant was first used to only recognize individual women for their success, but now the grant helps an entire institution.

Andrea Schneider, a professor of law at Marquette, said the goal of the program is it advance women in STEM as students and faculty.

Hossenlopp also said that though the grant has a focus on women faculty, it can benefit all the faculty and will focus on diversity factors like race.

Hossenlopp said Marquette previously applied for the grant, but it was not selected. The university formed a committee and looked at past mistakes it had made when it previously applied. The committee also looked at what other universities had done to receive the grant.

Schneider said the committee did a climate study, and the resulting data was reviewed by Jennica Webster, an associate professor of management.

Photo by Zach Bukowski zachary.bukowski@marquette.edu

Jeanne Hossenlopp is the vice president for research and innovation.

She added that the committee found women were getting less money for lab start-ups nationwide and female faculty were more likely to leave Marquette.

Once Marquette begins using the grant money, they will have to stay within certain parameters set

by NSF on how they can spend the money, Schneider said.

“The university will have to achieve the goals of the grant by

doing things like helping promote faculty diversity at Marquette,” she said.

An example of this is looking at what faculty are recruited to work at Marquette.

Since the money is meant to be used to help advance the NSF’s goal of creating more diversity within universities, Hossenlopp said Marquette will likely be using the money on resources such

as workshops for faculty, travel funds to recruit faculty and other ways to try to create opportunities for faculty to grow.

“I believe that the NSF is very clear in its goals to create and advance initiatives that support the professional development of women in STEM disciplines at Marquette and draw participation from their male colleagues in fostering a climate of equity,” Welburn said.

Hossenlopp said the university is excited about getting the opportunity.

Schneider believes the grant will give Marquette the opportunity to create an inclusive and diverse campus for everyone.

Hossenlopp said they will begin planning how to disperse the grant money in October.

Schneider said they will look at how other universities used the grant, create measures for success and work with search committees to recruit faculty. According the the news release, Marquette has an exciting opportunity that will help contribute to the development of a more diverse science and engineering workforce.

Sodexo aims to make healthy produce priority Farmers market sells fresh food last Wednesday afternoon

By Andrew Amouzou

andrew.amouzou@marquette.edu

Sodexo hosted a fresh market last Wednesday from 12-3 p.m. outside the Alumni Memorial Union for students, staff and faculty looking to purchase fresh produce.

“Sodexo has continued to provide the opportunity for students and staff to buy fresh vegetables,” Rick Arcuri, executive director of university business operations & auxiliary services, said. “This has been going on for years. … In any given year, there are between three and five farmers markets depending on what is available and what the weather is like.”

Arcuri said the farmers markets are largely local.

The markets began years ago as a partnership between Sodexo and Marquette University Student Government. Sodexo became responsible for keeping the farmers markets alive due to connections they had with farmers, Arcuri said.

Marketing manager of Sodexo Alex Abendschein and general manager of campus Donato Guida emphasized the

Photo by Jordan Johnson jordan.d.johnson@marquette.edu

A farmers market and a Meijer food trunk were outside the Alumni Memorial Union last Wednesday.

importance of the event.

“Students are settled in, so we want be able to offer them fresh produce on campus to lower the cost,” Guida said. “Everything is in season. So, you get the peak of apples and peak of other produce, so it’s easier to sell.”

Abendschein said last week was national Healthy Campus Week.

At college campuses across the country, Sodexo took advantage of the week by doing 70 different markets.

Kelsie Kroll, a sophomore in the College of Business Administration, explained she first heard of the event through an email. “(It is important) because it

keeps our school healthy and it gives us more options of fresh produce,” Kroll said.

Taylor Haddox, a senior in the College of Business Administration and intern for Sodexo, said it is hard for students to get fresh produce because there are not many options available.

“The reason why farmers

markets are held in the fall is because the growing season is in the summer, and the produce oavailable is in the fall,” Arcuri said. “If you watch what is at farmers markets as you get closer to the colder season, it changes.”

Guida explained what the process is like to offer events like the farmers markets, with many people volunteering and everybody working the event being either management or student interns.

Guida said the produce featured in the market came from dining halls and retail locations on campus.

All the produce in the market, from fruits and vegetables to cakes and drinks, are from the university’s food provider, meaning that the campus will distribute any produce that did not sell, Guida said.

Abendschein said that having a farmers market on campus could be a learning experience for students.

“As an educational aspect, we do not sell fresh produce every day, but there are places that students can go and buy fresh produce, so it is also an introduction to students to different produce that they can buy,” Abendschein said. “It gives students a snapshot of the products we use every day, so it is really to get them informed.”

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Vaping crisis affects students, clinic offers help Hospitalization cases in Wisconsin result of e-cigarette habit

By Beck Salgado

beck.salgado@marquette.edu

In the wake of an Aug. 28 Milwaukee Health Department statement urging residents to stop vaping, the executive director of the Marquette Medical Clinic Kelli Wollmer echoed the recommendation.

The statements came amid 16 cases in Wisconsin where individuals had been hospitalized with severe chemical pneumonitis due to vaping. The condition is inflammation of the lungs due to aspiration or inhalation of irritants.

The Center of Disease Control reported Sept. 27 805 lung injury cases and 12 deaths in which all patients reported vaping.

“Vaping is extremely dangerous,” Wollmer said. “The specific chemical exposures causing lung injuries associated with e-cigarette product use, or vaping, remains unknown at this time. The aerosol from vaping contains harmful substances including nicotine, THC, heavy metals like lead,

volatile organic compounds and cancer-causing agents.”

Wollmer said there has been an increase in vaping related cases at the Marquette Medical Clinic this semester, but suggested this might be due to the increased awareness surrounding vaping and its effects.

Wollmer explained some of the most prevalent symptoms.

“The most dangerous symptoms are cough, shortness of breath or chest pain after vaping,” Wollmer said. “Some also may get nausea, vomiting or diarrhea.”

According to statements made by the Milwaukee Health Department, the number of vaping-related illnesses increased to 34 from 16 in just one week since the Aug. 28 statement.

They are currently working with the Milwaukee Police Department to crack down on illegal THC. THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol, is the chemical responsible for most of marijuana’s psychological effects, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. It acts much like the cannabinoid chemicals made naturally by the body.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration also stated that during their ongoing investigation of vaping, many samples tested by states or by the FDA have been identified as

vaping products containing THC, according to its website.

Most of these samples with THC also contained significant amounts of vitamin E acetate. While the FDA does not have enough data presently to conclude that vitamin E acetate is the cause of the lung illness that has sent many vape-users to the hospital, the agency believes it is prudent to avoid inhaling this substance.

Emily Cribbin, a sophomore in the College of Health Sciences, said that she started vaping when she was a senior in high school. She now finds herself vaping all day, and she is struggling to stop.

“I’ve tried to stop a few times, but it seems like every time I try something goes wrong, and I get stressed out and then I need it again,” she said. “The longest I think I’ve gone recently without vaping is one week.”

Cribbin also said she tried cutting back to vaping exclusively on the weekends, but that did not last very long. She said if she could go back to before she started vaping and stop herself, she would.

Cribbin said her home state of Illinois has started to ban certain flavors of e-cigarettes.

This has had an effect on her vaping habits.

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Photo by Elena Fiegen elena.fiegen@marquette.edu

The Marquette Medical Clinic warns students about vaping’s effects.

“In Illinois, they did ban the mango-flavored Juul pods that I used to use, so I’ve just been using mint. But menthol isn’t that bad, and if I had to use tobacco, I would get used to it,” Cribbin said.

The recent influx of hospitalizations related to vaping in Milwaukee and the country, as documented

by Center for Disease Control, have certainly scared her. Early, even with the lack of research surrounding the side effects of vaping, Cribbin said she always knew there might be consequences.

When asked how much he vaped, Mark Hengel, a sophomore in the College of Business Administration,

said he had only vaped once before but only as a joke.

“It was just to make my friends laugh, but it was not enjoyable. I started coughing immediately after, and I even started to get a headache that night,” Hengel said.

Hengel said he never really felt the desire to vape and that he has never felt pressured or left out because he does not vape. He said he does not believe that the risk of vaping is worth it.

“I have a friend from high school who was hospitalized and had to have his lung replaced. Apparently he was vaping one pod a day,” Hengel said.

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Concert moves to indoor venue at Fiserv Alessia Cara, lovelytheband to play MKE arena

By Matthew Martinez

matthew.martinez@marquette.edu

This year’s Homecoming concert features Alessia Cara and lovelytheband Oct. 5 at Fiserv Forum, unlike previous years when the concert was held at Central Mall.

Cara will headline the Homecoming concert, fresh off her EP “This Summer,” which came out in September.

Cara is responsible for hits such as “Stay,” “Scars To Your Beautiful” and “Here.”

Cara’s powerhouse vocal set will once again enjoy the bellowing acoustics of Fiserv Forum, as she played there most recently June 25 with Shawn Mendes.

Relatability remains a mainstay of Cara’s music and lyrics. On the biography of her website, Cara claims to be “a regular person who makes songs.

There’s nothing glamorous about (her).” Her voice, however, is anything but ordinary. Cara’s set should bring raw talent and power to the stage.

The 23-year-old will be continuing her The Pains of Growing Tour with a show at University of Illinois’ campus in Urbana-Champaign Oct. 8.

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Indie pop trio lovelytheband will also take the stage Oct. 5, bringing its repertoire of high-powered synths and emotion-driven songwriting.

The band, headed up by lead singer Mitchy Collins and flanked by guitarist Jordan Greenwald and drummer Sam Price, came together in 2017.

Since then, they’ve made short work of turning dense and complex emotional ballads into electric works of art.

The band’s loveliest hit, “broken,” reached a billion listeners by October 2018 after its single release in April 2017, according to Rolling Stone.

Statistically, that means singalong participation should rock Fiserv for that track alone. lovelytheband’s upcoming shows will take the group across the Atlantic until the end of November, so stateside superfans might want to jump at the opportunity to see it live here.

Haley Wasserman, a senior in the College of Health Sciences, said that she loved to see more alternative acts in the lineup.

“I love lovelytheband,” Wasserman said. “I’m looking forward to good, fun energy.”

Wasserman also said she was suprised that Homecoming was able to land Alessia Cara, and she is looking forward to seeing the two genres merge.

Though a senior, Wasserman

said she hopes the university continues to inject more variety into the artists they get, pondering a potential R&B or hip-hop show.

Wasserman also said she is excited to see the way the concert will utilize its new space.

“It’ll be interesting to see if they can make it Homecomingesque rather than an arena concert,” Wasserman said.

The Central Mall, where the concert was held in years prior, is the emerald quadrangle that flanks most of the university’s academic buildings. With a Marquette Wire stock photo dreary forecast on the horizon for Oct. 5, Marquette appears The performance previously took place at Central Mall in the heart of campus. to have made the right decision running is not an exaggeration concert might be deprived of a to move the concert indoors.

— in that situation, everything moment like that, fellow Guitar What decisions would the either needs to be covered Center employee Jason Hagberg tech crews for Alessia Cara and by a tarp or transported said it was probably for the best. lovelytheband have had to make back to somewhere dry as “You can catch a charge if they were playing beneath the quick as possible. and electrocute yourself,” great megadome known as the “Make sure you have Hagberg said of playing during sky rather than in the snuggly everything covered,” Hawes thunderstorms. confines of Fiserv Forum? To said. “And then hope that the Hagberg himself recalled a find out, the Marquette Wire wind doesn’t blow right onto Halloween gig where his band went to one of the only places your equipment.” had to deal with rain mixed where musicians with gigging The “hope and pray” option with snow. experience can be reliably comes with high risk and high “We just made sure everything found: the Guitar Center in reward. Hawes recalled a was covered and under a Brookfield, Wisconsin. coworker telling him a story balcony,” Hagberg said. “Our Guitar Center employee about how his metal band, Band hands hurt, but we wore layers.”

Mason Hawes said two main Needed, was playing a song For Guitar Center’s Brian strategies come to mind when it during a brief thunderstorm Fischer, it’s not even a debate. starts raining during a gig. which lined up to a song “You’ve just gotta deal with “You either grab and run or containing the lyrics, “as the it,” Fischer said. “It’s just part of hope and pray,” Hawes said. thunder rolls.” the job.”

Hawes went on to say that While the Homecoming

EVENT SCHEDULE

TUESDAY

• Men’s soccer vs.

SLU • Ignatian yoga • Tuesday night Mass

WEDNESDAY

• Stuff the Truck • Glow BINGO

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

• Institute for Women’s Leadership Launch Celebration • Women’s soccer vs. Providence • MU Spotlight

• Innovators on Tap • Bed Races • Young Alumni Association Homecoming gathering • The Rosary at Homecoming • Marquette University chorus performance: Chant Them Home • Madness Street Fair • Men’s soccer vs.

St. John’s • Marquette Madness • Late Night Breakfast

• Men’s and women’s basketball open practice • Explore Marquette • Marquette University Student Government 100th Anniversary Reunion • Block Party • Fan experience: men’s and women’s basketball teams • MU Alumni Bash • Alessia Cara and lovelytheband concert

• University challenge: Milwaukee Lakefront Marathon 5K • Marquette men’s golf Intercollegiate at Erin Hills • Women’s soccer vs. Creighton • Marquette theater performance: “Peter and the Starcatcher” • Homecoming Mass

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Annual marathon inspires university competition

Local schools to vie for regional triumph

By Ariana Madson

ariana.madson@marquette.edu

As part of its Homecoming festivities, students can represent Marquette in a 5K challenge against students from other universities in the area at 8:30 a.m. Sunday. The event is part of the Milwaukee Lakefront Marathon, hosted by Wisconsin’s largest running club, the Badgerland Striders.

While there has been a university challenge for the 26.2 mile race for the past seven years, the 5K university challenge is in its inaugural year.

To participate in the university challenge, runners have the option to enroll with a university team when registering, Sean Daley, this year’s 5K race director, said.

University challenge participants’ times are pooled with those of other students at their university to determine a winner. Marquette won the university challenge at the marathon last year.

Participants will race alongside students from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee School of Engineering, Concordia University Wisconsin and Cardinal Stritch University.

The Milwaukee Lakefront

Marathon’s university challenge program is in its eighth year, according to a UWM press release.

The race has also had a 5K option for the past three years, according to the Badgerland Striders’ website.

Barb Jewell, finance chair of the Badgerland Striders and team coordinator for Marquette, said Marquette was supportive of adding the 5K challenge this year.

“I’m excited that Marquette contacted the Badgerland Striders and asked us to consider adding the (university) challenge to the 5K, which opens the race up to more people,” Jewell said.

According to the marathon’s website, the marathon has been a certified Boston Marathon qualifier for the past 38 years. It starts in a suburb north of Milwaukee at Grafton High School and ends at the Summerfest grounds.

The 5K will begin and end at the Summerfest grounds. There is a post-race celebration specific for the university challenge.

“We’ll have a separate area for the university challenge in the 5K area where people can congregate and celebrate,” Daley said.

Daley has participated in the marathon previously, running it seven straight years.

What separates this race from any other is the friendly competition.

The challenge — people from different universities racing against each other — allows people to meet

fellow runners or walkers and offers the winning team bragging rights.

“I think the idea of the team challenge (has) two goals: the team can bond together, and people from other schools can meet people they didn’t know and have friendly competition with other schools,” Jewell said.

A little camaraderie while representing Marquette is a component to why Emily Haag, a sophomore in the College of Engineering, said she hopes to participate in the run.

“I mean, it’s against other schools which seems interesting to me, and it’s a way to compete with Marquette,” Haag said.

Rachael Daniel, captain for UWM’s team, said she thinks those who have participated in the team races in the past have had a good time.

“It’s a great way to show school spirit for the great universities in Milwaukee,” Daniel said.

Daley said there has been a number of Marquette students who have signed up for both the 5K and the marathon challenge this year.

Haag said she likes the idea of a 5K run along the lakefront as well the fact that the race revenue is going to the Girls on the Run Program in Southeast Wisconsin.

Girls on the Run empowers girls through running activities and other interactive programs culminating to a celebratory 5K

Photo courtesy of Barbara Jewell

Preceding winners hand the trophy off to new victors each year.

at the end of the program.

There are some unique amenities that come along with doing the 5K, such as finisher medals and shirts, post-race foods and refreshments, age group awards and awards for the top three male and female finishers.

The last day to sign up online is Oct. 5 at 11:59 p.m. for $25.

Runners can also register on race day for $35 at the exposition on UWM’s campus in the student union, located at 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Bed races staple of Homecoming weekend Tradition pits students against each other in unconventional match

By Hannah Van Der Karr

hannah.vanderkarr@marquette.edu

In 1966, a small group in the United Kingdom called the Knaresborough Round Table sought to hold a unique charity event for its newly formed society — and no simple 5K or tug of war would do. After a lot of brainstorming, the idea of a bed race was born, according to the Knaresborough Bed Race website. Ever since then, the tradition has lived on in the Round Table’s hometown and has spread to many different regions and countries, including right here on Marquette’s campus.

The Marquette Bed Races have been a Homecoming tradition since 2016, when Homecoming found its way back onto Marquette’s calendar after a 23-year absence.

Every Friday of Homecoming week, participants, spectators and commentators alike gather in front of the Al McGuire Center for one central purpose: to watch teams push full-size beds as fast as they can across the finish line.

Each bed race team is composed of five people: four people pushing the bed and one person in the bed, all wearing themed costumes unique to each team. While the original race consisted of 2.4 miles of sharp turns, steep hills and even a 20-yard river crossing, the Marquette version is merely a straight shot on 12th Street between Wisconsin and Wells.

The competition starts with coordinators placing each team in a bracket. The teams are then gradually eliminated until one team remains on top. There are awards for the top three team finishers and the best team costume.

Mady Marko, a senior in the College of Nursing, was a member of the winning bed race team in 2017. Last year, Marko was a part of University President Michael Lovell’s second-place team, which lost narrowly to the Student Athlete Advisory Committee.

Each year, Lovell’s bed race team dons matching Marquette varsity letter sweaters.

Marko is a track and field athlete and was placed on Lovell’s team through her connections in athletics.

“I met him in an airport right after I committed to Marquette,” Marko said. “When I was on his team for bed races, I told him, and

he remembered me.” was also great to be among the “It is just not something you see Marko said bed races helped camaraderie of Marquette students, every day — it is a different kind her build a personal connection staff, alumni and supporters.” of activity,” Hoss said. “You get with Lovell.

Although a large number of the competition level that comes “When I see him on campus, I’ll people participate in the race, with having a race, but it is also say hi,” she said. the event also boasts a large just fun to watch people run down The event is not exclusive to number of spectators. Maddie 12th in beds.” current Marquette students, either. Hoss, a senior in the College of The 2019 Homecoming Bed Katie Korek, a 2018 graduate from Business Administration, served Races will take place Friday at 4 the College of Arts & Sciences, as a Homecoming intern in 2017. p.m. outside the Al McGuire Center. participated last year on the United Hoss said Bed Races is fun to just Performing Arts Fund team. come and watch.

“Bed races were brought up in a meeting between members of our UPAF team and Marquette staff,” Korek said. “We have a lot of Marquette alumni in the office so we thought bed races would be a great way to promote our organization and have a fun bonding afternoon.”

The UPAF team wore costumes representing different sectors of the performing arts that the members work with. While they did not win, Korek said the team had a blast.

“It was an afternoon full of laughs and a great Marquette Wire stock photo opportunity to bond as a team,” Korek said. “It Teams race down lanes separated by cones from one end of 12th Street to the other.

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STAFF EDITORIAL

Expansion of MUPD alerts essential for campus safety, protocol needed

Communication is vital for making informed decisions.

Marquette University Police Department must reconsider its current communication practices to better serve and protect the community.

Many Marquette students are turning to GroupMe, the new Wildfire App and their parents’ Facebook group pages to receive vital campus safety updates that MUPD fails to share with them.

With inconsistent updates about student safety, it is difficult for students to rely on MUPD for adequate information.

MUPD Assistant Chief Jeff Kranz said every situation is different. MUPD evaluates the potential for an “ongoing threat” to campus before sending out a safety alert, he said. The term refers to a situation that poses a danger to Marquette’s campus.

Because all situations are unique and can evolve differently, Kranz said it is difficult to apply the same protocol for each. He said MUPD verifies a situation’s legitimacy, nature, proximity to campus and involved persons before sending out a safety alert.

But trusting officials to solely communicate “ongoing threats” to campus can put Marquette community members in danger. Even if a crime has been resolved, students, staff and faculty should still know about it. Those instances of crime are just as crucial for the Marquette community to be aware of so that it can better take precaution.

While officials should consider varying elements of cases, they should also develop a standardized protocol for which kinds of crimes and incidents to share in safety alerts.

These alerts should extend past incidents that are ongoing threats.

Marquette students, staff and faculty should not rely on the subjective will of individual MUPD officials to express prudence. Community members should feel empowered to make informed decisions while navigating campus. Although a flux in safety alerts might increase feelings of fear among students, staff and

Photo by Sydney Czyzon sydney.czyzon@marquette.edu

MUPD officers respond to a shooting at 9th Street and Wisconsin Avenue.

faculty, it will equip them with helpful information to maneuver campus safely. Transparency is more important than false feelings of safety.

MUPD has demonstrated inconsistency in the distribution of crucial information, and as a result, the department needs to have a baseline standard for when to communicate safety alerts to the community.

There are crime incidents chronicled in the department’s online log system that are not openly conveyed to students via the alert system.

On Sept. 23, the log says an unknown male sexually assaulted and made sexual comments to a Marquette student in the Wehr Life Sciences building. MUPD located the suspect later and arrested him.

On Sept. 18, the log says an unknown subject battered a Marquette student outside Marquette Hall, and MUPD did not locate the subject.

On Sept. 5, the log says a subject battered, kidnapped, sexually assaulted and robbed a non-Marquette affiliated victim near 16th Street and Wisconsin Avenue. The victim was transported to a local hospital and the subject was arrested.

These incidents and others like them are kept out of open view of Marquette community members.

These are situations that could potentially pose threats to people in the area, but nevertheless, the department does not publicize them.

The Marquette community knows MUPD is committed to student, faculty and staff safety. The department demonstrated this in the robust

response and safety alerts during last Tuesday’s shooting near 9th Street and Wisconsin Avenue.

MUPD must build upon that dedication by revising its safety alert protocol to break barriers between itself and community members.

MUPD has made efforts in the past to engage students in campus safety, such as encouraging students to sign up for safety alert messages and launching the EagleEye safety app last semester.

While these efforts may promote more awareness of safety precautions on campus, the department’s communication is not enough.

The EagleEye app does not have a campus safety alerts function, and it is not providing additional resources that compensate for the general lack of communication from the department.

Students, staff and faculty want to know what is happening on campus, regardless of whether the situation is classified by a certain official as an “ongoing threat.”

Withholding information from students, staff and faculty not only weakens their trust in MUPD, but neglects their well-being and safety.

MUPD needs to establish a reasonable norm for communicating incidents to community members.

These guidelines must go beyond subjective definitions of “ongoing threat” and encompass a broader range of dangerous events.

Trying to maintain the erroneous view of safety in the “Marquette bubble” is not the solution.

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Reinvest in Marquette’s College of Education, don’t dismantle it By the College of Education Faculty

The call that Marquette’s education graduates answer to “be the difference” may be silenced by a proposed dismantling of the College of Education.

As reported in the Marquette Wire, Marquette administration has proposed the reorganization of the College of Education. Although university administrators assert a commitment to maintaining programs, they also argue that we cannot ignore the reality of declining enrollments and fiscal losses.

We agree: we cannot ignore this reality. It is precisely the reality warned about when Act 10 was passed in 2011, a move then lauded as “dropping the bomb” on public education by eliminating union rights for public employees. Since Act 10, we’ve seen an exodus of teachers from the profession, a decrease in teachers’ salaries, and increased teacher turn-over. Teachers feel burned out, underpaid and disrespected. As one social media meme recently joked, “There isn’t a ‘teacher shortage’; there is a ‘master’s-level professionals who will work for $35,000 shortage.’”

It’s no wonder, then, that Wisconsin’s teacher preparation programs are facing an extreme shortfall of students.

So the administration is right: We cannot ignore this reality. The children of Wisconsin need us to advocate and enact change on their behalf.

A Jesuit university, Marquette is well positioned to lead this charge.

Its central work is the formation of young adults who will uphold the Jesuit commitment to serving the marginalized and realizing justice, and to doing that through education and community partnerships.

Jesuits have historically responded to the dire need for education in the most marginalized communities by opening schools, building social projects and nurturing the hearts and minds of students who would not otherwise have access to education. Who better to advocate on behalf of Wisconsin’s students and educators than an institution that carries this Jesuit mantle?

And yet, Marquette University has not been immune to the kind of corporate-minded leadership that has shaped higher and K-12 education. Marquette administrators were quick to remind COED

faculty at a recent meeting, “The bottom line is the university is a business,” despite our nonprofit and Catholic status, and that other units on campus should not have to “subsidize” our work. However, education is a public and social good, the full value of which cannot be contained in isolated financial metrics.

Its measure must include the cadres of well-trained and justice-minded practitioners who have found a home in the College of Education and who serve youth in Milwaukee and across the country — even across Marquette’s campus.

The administration assures us that losing the status of a college will have no bearing on our work, but in light of recent layoffs, predictions of a university-wide enrollment crisis, and a growing national trend of universities terminating even tenured faculty, it’s hard not to see the end of the College of Education as a step in this direction. It’s also hard not to see the dismantling of the College of Education as part of the broader dismantling of education in the state of Wisconsin.

If education matters to us as a Jesuit institution, then what we should be doing is engaging in advocacy: advocacy for higher pay, professional dignity, laws that strengthen education and funding for the full spectrum of counselors, art teachers, support staff that make schools work. Advocacy should involve helping young people feel called to teach, attracting a teaching force as diverse as our students and reimagining schooling beyond standardized tests. Advocacy should involve making education affordable for those who want to become teachers and linking our education programs to both our Hispanic-serving institution initiative and our growing STEM programs. Advocacy must also be for colleges of education — meaningful, empowered, highly visible programs integral to all these elements.

Advocacy is all of this, but it is certainly not dismantling the College of Education.

Education needs a champion.

Rather than back away from this challenge, Marquette has an opportunity to “be the difference” for students in Wisconsin and beyond by reinvesting in its College of Education.

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Trump’s impeachment Young activists’ voices crucial justified, removal from Oval Office unlikely Aminah Beg

Kevin Schablin Only two presidents have been impeached in United States history: Andrew Johnson in 1868 for removing cabinet members without Congressional approval and Bill Clinton in 1998 for lying under oath about his affair with Monica Lewinsky.

Now, it could happen again.

The House of Representatives announced Sept. 24 that it would officially begin the impeachment process of President Donald Trump.

The announcement came after a whistleblower filed an official complaint against the president for appearing to ask for Ukrainian interference in the upcoming 2020 election.

In the call, Trump asked Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to launch an investigation against the frontrunner for the 2020 presidential election and former Vice President Joe Biden. The investigation would aim to find proof that during his time as vice president, Biden had a conflict of interest with Ukrainian officials who were seen as corrupt in the eyes of the United States and European Union governments.

The problem with Trump’s request is the withdrawal of millions of dollars worth of anti-tank rocket launchers that Ukraine had requested for defense against Russia.

To those arguing for impeachment, this was seen as the President using his powers to essentially blackmail a foreign government into assisting in interference with a presidential election.

The House of Representatives decided this was enough evidence to begin an impeachment process. This is also not the first time Trump has been accused of seeking foreign aid in an election. In the Robert Mueller investigation, the president was accused of receiving Russian help to get elected, and while this report did not find anything criminal, it did not exonerate the president.

Despite this blatant abuse of presidential power, many Republican Congress members, including House minority leader Kevin McCarthy said they believe impeachment is too harsh of a punishment.

Yet these accusations are at, if not exceeding, the levels of criminality that previous impeachment cases have had.

This violation of presidential power has similarities with the Watergate scandal in the level of election interference that it suggests, seeing as how it involves using illegal methods to try to damage the reputation of a sitting president’s election opponent.

In 1972, a group of men from

president Richard Nixon’s campaign team broke into the Democratic National Convention’s headquarters to find evidence that could be used to tarnish the reputation of George McGovern, the Democrat nominee for the 1972 election, a reputation which would guarantee Nixon another presidential term.

Both Nixon and Trump were accused of using illegal methods to find information that would hurt the reputation of their opponents during a presidential election. Nixon resigned before he could be impeached, but the scandal was still enough to remove the president from office.

Nixon’s impeachment and removal were essentially guaranteed, but in the political climate today, Trump’s removal will be much harder. Since almost every member of Congress will vote along with their party, it’s like that very few Republicans will vote for impeachment and almost every Democrat will vote to impeach and remove.

Although Johnson and Clinton were impeached, neither was removed from office. Their violations were not classified as “high crimes and misdemeanors,” which is the criteria for impeachment outlined in the U.S. Constitution.

From what I’ve seen and the information that has been released so far regarding Trump’s possible impeachment, I would classify his actions as impeachable. But with a Republican majority in the Senate and a two-thirds majority needed for removal, politicians will vote with their parties, and those who decide to go against their parties will likely have a harder time getting reelected.

Unless anything extremely significant comes out of any of the impeachment inquiry, the impeachment of Trump will most likely end in an impeachment without removal.

If this prediction comes true, all it will do is confirm the hypocrisy in current politics that members of Congress vote based on their own reelection rather than the betterment of the country. If members of Congress truly cared about these events, the president’s actions would most likely result in removal, too.

If political parties were reversed and a Democratic president acted as Trump did, the parties would just do the opposite of what they are doing now. Political ideologies wouldn’t matter—the only thing that would matter is the president’s removal from office.

Kevin Schablin is a freshman studying biological sciences. He can be reached at kevin.schablin@marquette.edu

Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old Swedish environmental activist, has become the face of the climate change movement, drastically impacting the world’s perception of what action needs to be taken to heal this planet and sustain its livelihood.

I first heard about Thunberg from her attendance at the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York City, her involvement in leading climate strikes and her testimonies to the United States Congress.

She embarked on a 15-day journey beginning from Plymouth to reach the summit, United Kingdom, in an emission-free racing yacht powered by solar panels and underwater turbines. By sailing instead of flying, Thunberg omitted airplane carbon emissions.

Thunberg’s turn of phrase certainly follows through to her actions as seen by the strategies she consistently employs to live as green as possible. She ensures that the entire world recognizes that.

Shortly after Thunberg led a global climate change strike Sept.

20, she spoke at the United Nations Climate Action Summit. Thunberg gave her impassioned speech in New York and was met with praise and admiration from climate researchers. Social media users who are passionate about stopping the climate change crisis resonated with Thunberg’s heartfelt words.

Throughout Thunberg’s environmental activist efforts in the United States and Sweden, climate change deniers and political right spokespeople continue to attack her, criticizing her appearance, age and abilities. They dismiss and belittle Thunberg because she is 16 years old. In reality, Thunberg and other youth activists like her have been the only ones making a serious effort to advocate for this planet.

Meanwhile, CEOs and world leaders are choosing to focus on the detrimental economic effects that might stem from choosing to be environmentally conscious.

Emmanuel Macron, President of France, said that Thunberg’s stance was “radical” and was “depressing a generation” after the activist called out France for its inaction to prevent global warming. Trump also decided to demean her in a sarcastic tweet after her UN speech by saying that “she seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future.

So nice to see!” Fox News guest Michael Knowles called Thunberg “mentally ill” and someone who is “being exploited by her parents.”

Knowles’ comment was especially offensive due to the fact that Thunberg has Asperger’s Syndrome. Yet, real adults and

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Greta Thunberg leads climate strike in Paris, France, Feb. 22, 2019.

opposers of her movement choose to continue to mock her.

This is ironic because Thunberg has done more to advocate for change and a healthier planet in these past two years as a teenager than Trump has done in three years.

This is not the first time that children have been at the forefront of social justice movements. In 1903, 100 child textile workers marched from Philadelphia to New York City to fight for improved legislation for child protection. In 1963, thousands of brave African American children marched in Birmingham, Alabama to protest immoral segregation. In 2018, teenagers across the country protested for greater gun control during the March for Our Lives.

Although this is not the first time children have been involved in social issues, it is a first for this kind of derisive rhetoric in American political discourse. With the increased political divide in this country and the normalization of blatantly disrespectful remark from both sides, people have now made it acceptable to also speak in this manner about children.

“There used to be a constraint upon criticizing children, generally,” said Lawrence Prelli, a University of New Hampshire professor who studies political discourse, in an article for The Washington Post.

“These vile attacks now are a sign of the times.”

The current American political climate encourages and perpetuates verbal and disgusting verbal abuse against children and teenagers who are exercising their first amendment rights. Teenage and youth activists sacrifice the innocence of their childhoods to fight for the betterment of the world through their continued activism. One should not be expected to take on such a heavy responsibility during their youth, but people like Thunberg have taken it upon themselves to do so. This is due to their sheer passion and strongly held belief in what they fight for. Now, to repay their efforts, adults all over the world will dismiss and disgustingly mock young activists with no consequences.

David Hogg, one of the teenage leaders during the March for

Our Lives protest, was called “a special kind of stupid” by Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Emma Gonzalez, another activist for the March for Our Lives, was named “a skinhead lesbian” by Leslie Gibson, a Republican candidate for the House of Representatives in Maine.

These are just some examples of what these leaders and other activists have been forced to face.

Young activists work tirelessly and passionately to fight for what is right. Those who hold opposing beliefs purposefully ignore their calls for help because they do not believe kids are smart enough to make mature and qualified decisions. Young activists have protested and tweeted enough. They should not have to prove their credibility simply because of their age.

It is now the responsibility of those in power to listen to the voices of the future generation. World leaders and high-ranking officials cannot deny their responsibility in the deterioration of today’s current state.

They need to listen. And they need to listen now. Thunberg’s claims are backed by reliable scientific evidence. If adults continue to dismiss her, the state of the environment will be in serious danger.

Aminah Beg is a junior studying public relations and cognitive science. She can be reached at aminah.beg@marquette.edu

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Macey, Addie Shock find home at Valley Fields

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Freshman Addie Shock kicks the ball in Marquette’s 5-1 loss to the Utah State Aggies.

Head coach Markus Roeders adds duo of sisters from Ohio

By John Leuzzi

john.leuzzi@marquette.edu

Most siblings grow up playing everything together — from backyard tag to hide-and-seek to sports. But up until now, Macey and Addie Shock had never been on the same team.

Macey, a sophomore forward, and Addie, a freshman defender, now play together contributing to the Marquette women’s soccer team. Head coach Markus Roeders said their close relationship is evident.

“They have a great connection. They lean on and push each other at times,” Roeders said.

“When Macey found out that Ad-

die committed here to Marquette, it gave her some extra excitement and spark.”

However, when Addie was going through the recruitment process, Macey said she tried not to influence her.

“We never talked about (playing together) because we never wanted to get too ahead of ourselves,” Macey said. “We both just wanted to give each other the experience of figuring (out) the whole decision-making thing individually.”

The idea of sisters playing together is not new to Roeders, but he said the Shock sisters have quickly stood out.

“In regard to having sisters in our program throughout the years, they fall in line with some of the best,” Roeders said. “It speaks a lot about them as (people).”

While the Shocks joins a team full of sister-like relationships,

Photo by John Steppe john.steppe@marquette.edu

Sophomore Macey Shock races to the ball against a Northern Illinois University defender.

Roeders said the two still have their biological tie.

The family atmosphere Roeders has established within the team made Marquette an easy choice for Macey, she said.

“From my first visit, I knew I wanted to come (here),” Macey said. “I just wanted to be committed to this program from the first time I came here. It had everything I wanted.”

Despite feeling at home at MU, there was still something missing for Macey: her younger sister.

“We went to this really small (high) school together. Both of our graduating classes had 60 people in it,” Macey said. “We would see each other in the halls, have lunch together. We are so close, not just in age. Not only is she my sister, but she is also my best friend.”

Fast forward to September 2019, and the two are now back together.

Roeders said their sisterly competition pushes them to make each other better.

Macey said that mentality is something they cultivated from

“

When Macey found out that Addie committed here to Marquette, it gave her some extra excitement and spark.”

MARKUS ROEDERS Head coach, Marquette women’s soccer

their practices, training and workouts together for their

hometown club team Ohio Premier.

“She was always my competition in practice,” Macey said. “We know how to play against each other and how hard we can be on each other.”

The sisters play different positions, but Roeders said they’re a perfect fit.

“Macey has more of that attacking mindset, more of the drive to go towards the net, take on players and create opportunities to score,” Roeders said. “Addie is more of a defensive-minded player. Physically she is taller (than Macey).

She has this ability to play the ball out either in her range of passing or balls in the air.”

Even though she’s a freshman, Addie has started in all but one game so far.

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Booster club starts ‘Just One’ initiative for fall, winter Thomson finds ways for team to give back to MKE community

By Dan Avington

daniel.avington@marquette.edu

Marquette men’s lacrosse kicked off its year by giving back to the community with its first fundraiser of 2019-‘20.

At this year’s welcome-back barbecue over Family Weekend, they chose to do more than just come together and eat.

“Because there were so many individuals coming — over 140 of us here — we decided to reach out to a local community homeless shelter, the Milwaukee (Rescue) Mission,” men’s lacrosse booster club co-chair Amanda Thomson said. “We asked them if they

needed anything.”

The answer was a strange request: underwear. But regardless, Thomson, the mother of junior midfielder Keaton Thomson and recent MU graduate Tanner Thomson, obliged.

“We decided to call our efforts Just One. Just one pair of underwear, such a simple thing,” Thomson said. “It’s not going to benefit us, except for the fact that all of the kids are always going to be giving back.”

Building off the results of this event, the program’s objective for the year will be Just One. Throughout the year, the team will expand on the Just One event and host Just One Coat and Just One Driveway to help Milwaukee residents in need of help during the colder months.

“We have (an event) coming up in November, and we’re going to donate Just One Coat to

(the homeless),” Thomson said.

“We have other little ones that we are looking at, like Just One Driveway. Just shovel one driveway, do one lawn, do someone’s garbage, just one thing.”

“

We decided to call our efforts Just One. Just one pair of underwear, such a simple thing.”

Milwaukee that need it that we don’t know about,” Thomson said. “So many hands can do such an amazing thing. Most of our team is from all over North America, so asking them to do just one little thing is appropriate.”

Members of the team said the new initiative demonstrates the team’s culture.

“A big motto for us is being a part of something greater than yourself,” redshirt sophomore Jordan Schmid said. “All of us fight for each other on the

field and in the weight room and classroom, but then being able to reach out to the Milwaukee community and make a difference is huge for our team and what we believe in.”

“Our culture is based on ‘lead’: being leaders in the community, classroom, on campus,” senior Connor McClelland said.

“This is one step in becoming a leader in the future for a lot of the younger guys and older guys going into the workplace.”

AMANDA THOMSON Co-chair, Marquette men’s lacrosse booster club Thomson has high hopes for the Just One initiative.

“The Just One program will help so many little places in

CROSS COUNTRY

Runners embrace Birren’s change in practice techniques Differences in prep coincides with success from seniors

By Jackson Gross

jackson.gross@marquette.edu

When Marquette cross country finished its first meet of the season, the team didn’t go right back to Milwaukee like it might have done in previous years.

Interim head coach Sean Birren took the team to Bay Beach instead.

The team was celebrating a win at Phoenix 2019 in Green Bay on Aug. 31.

“Our team camaraderie as a unit of men’s and women’s is by far closer than ever in the four-anda-half years I have been here,” redshirt senior Brad Eagan said.

The Bay Beach example is just one example of how the team has embraced Birren’s changes as interim head coach.

Eagan said Birren took “more of a scientific approach” to the training schedule, doing heavier runs earlier in the week.

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Junior Danny Peterson runs in the Loyola Lakefront race in Chicago Sept. 28. The men’s team finished third.

“It’s gotten to a point where we’re pushing harder on the hard days and easier on the easy days,” junior Danny Peterson said.

“It breaks down our body there, but we have so much more rest throughout the week to do base runs or recovery runs,” Eagan said.

The new schedule has resulted in plenty of success on the cross

country course. At the Phoenix Open in Green Bay, the men’s team had the top 20 finishers. The women’s team had 14 of the top 15 finishers.

This past weekend, the teams competed in the Loyola Lakefront Invitational in Chicago with the men’s team placing third and the women’s taking fifth. Senior Daniel Pederson finished first

place overall out of 125 runners with a time of 24:56.39, which is the second-best of his career. Senior Caitlin McGauley paced the Golden Eagles on the women’s side, finishing 25th overall with a time of 18:26.25.

Peterson finished 24th at the Illinois State Invitational Sept.

13 and beat his personal record by more than 10 seconds.

Eagan finished 5th overall and led the Golden Eagles with a time of 24:51.97.

The practices are also earlier in the day so that the whole team can practice together. In the past, the team was divided into two practice groups. Sophomore Kendall Pfrimmer said she is happy with the change.

“I like running with the whole team instead of having (just) a few people to run with,” Pfrimmer said.

McGauley said the locations for practice have also changed.

“We have been doing a lot more interval work on soft ground as opposed to concrete, and we’ve been working on our speed,” McGauley said. “Soft ground mimics our race course and what we’re usually racing on a little bit more compared to hard concrete, (giving) a little bit more strength and stability in our ankles and knees.”

Birren has added some activities through the year for the team, but overall the structure of practices is no different.

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VOLLEYBALL

Theis’ squad sweeps Seton Hall

No. 10 Marquette beats St. John’s 3-1 Volleyball recovers after dropping first set in BIG EAST play

By Dan Avington

daniel.avington@marquette.edu

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Senior Allie Barber led with 13 kills against Butler.

Junior libero Martha Konovodoff attempts a dig.

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Senior Madeline Mosher tries a one-handed pass in MU’s 3-0 victory over Butler Wednesday afternoon.

Barber leads team in kills in three-set victory on Kids Day

By Zoe Comerford

isabel.comerford@marquette.edu

The No. 10 Golden Eagles defeated the Seton Hall Pirates (25-19, 25-17, 25-13) Friday night in the team’s seventh sweep of 2019.

Marquette didn’t have any trouble in the first set, going on multiple scoring runs for a 9-4 lead and 16-10 lead before winning the opening set 25-19.

While Marquette combined for a .256 clip, the team’s four blocks held Seton Hall to a .163 hitting percentage.

“A couple of plays here and there we got in better positions,” head coach Ryan Theis said.

“Their hitters maybe made a couple more mistakes.”

MU’s defense was more efficient in the second frame,

recording two blocks in the first three points. Once the Golden Eagles’ offense got going, Marquette went on a 5-0 scoring run to gain an 18-9 advantage.

Although the Pirates fought off three set points, Marquette fended them off to win the set 25-17.

After the second set Hannah Vanden Berg was over .500 efficiency and by the end of the third set, senior outside hitter Allie Barber had gotten there as well.

“When one hitter can get hot at different times and score three straight, it puts a lot of pressure on the other team,” Theis said.

It was Golden Eagle domination once again in the final set.

Vanden Berg’s three consecutive kills helped propel Marquette to a 10-4 lead early in the third.

The Golden Eagles’ offense didn’t stop there, going on a 6-1 scoring run for an advantage of 23-11, eventually taking the third set 25-13.

It was Vanden Berg’s first

career start in BIG EAST play.

The freshman finished with nine kills, three service aces, six digs, an assist and a block.

“It was exciting. A little nerve-racking,” Vanden Berg said. “Everyone was super supportive so it’s hard not to have confidence.” “(Hannah’s) a freshman still learning and we’re playing her in every different position to try and get her as comfortable as possible at all of them,” Theis said. “Because she can do that, she’s a pretty special kid.”

Barber led all hitters with 16 kills. Junior outside hitter Kaitlyn Lines recorded eight kills, nine digs, three blocks and two aces, while senior setter Lauren Speckman notched a doubledouble with a match-high 25 assists and 14 digs. Credited for four of the team’s seven blocks was middle blocker Sandy Mohr.

No Seton Hall player had more than seven kills.

No. 10 Marquette took down the St. John’s Red Storm (22-25, 26-24, 25-23, 25-18) in an important BIG EAST matchup Saturday.

The Golden Eagles are the projected BIG EAST champions, but the Johnnies received the third-most votes in the preseason poll behind the Creighton Bluejays. Despite being so early in the season, this match may have postseason implications.

“We had our ups and downs,” junior libero Martha Konovodoff said. “This was the first time in conference that we’ve been pushed a little bit, but it was good for us to witness this now rather than later.”

The Golden Eagles did not have a favorable start. The Red Storm took advantage of seven MU errors and won the frame 25-22. “(St. John’s) killed it, and we didn’t (in the first),” head coach Ryan Theis said. “They were really clean on first and second touches, they’d get a bad dig, then a secondary set would come flying in. They were all-worldly.”

Prior to Saturday, Marquette had not lost a set since last week against Northern Iowa.

The second set was close from the beginning, but the Golden Eagles gained momentum toward the end and walked away with a 26-24 victory.

MU was trailing 17-10 in the third frame but stormed back after a timeout and won the set 25-23.

“We all just looked at each other and said, ‘Oh, we’re down 17-10. We didn’t know it was this bad,’” Konovodoff said.

“We just had to do the simple things that we know how to do, and that was the game plan.”

The fourth and final set was all Marquette from the start. The Golden Eagles cruised to a 2518 win over a BIG EAST foe.

Senior Allie Barber led Marquette with 16 kills. Junior Kaitlyn Lines added eight kills, and junior Hope Werch had six kills and 16 digs. Senior Gwyn Jones totaled five kills and six blocks, senior Lauren Speckman put up 22 assists and Konovodoff had 12 digs.

“Those girls are strong. I felt bad for my setters because I was digging them so high,” Konovodoff said. “At the end of the day, I told my blockers to just funnel it to me, and it worked out.”

For St. John’s, Klara Mikelova put up 15 kills, and Efrosini Alexakou and Rachele Rastelli each had 14.

The Johnnies also had setter Erica Di Maulo total 38 assists and 14 digs, and libero Amanda Sanabia contributed 16 digs.

No. 10 Marquette (13-2) will head to Cincinnati to take on Xavier Wednesday at 11 a.m.

Central Standard Time. “(Xavier) runs it a little bit fast,” Theis said. “They have hitters moving all around along the net. It truly is a different style than anyone else we’ve played.”

Photo by Elena Fiegen elena.fiegen@marquette.edu

Junior KJ Lines hits a ball right into the hands of St. John’s blockers.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Baldwin Jr. among Wojciechowski’s targets in 2021 class Golden Eagles look to replace Cain, John, McEwen

By John Steppe

john.steppe@marquette.edu

As Marquette conducts official visits with many of its prized 2020 recruiting targets, the staff is also heavily seeking many of the top prospects in the 2021 class, including four of the top six players in recruiting site 247Sports’ rankings.

Here’s a breakdown of some of the players to earn a scholarship offer from head coach Steve Wojciechowski and his staff: PATRICK BALDWIN JR. — One of the top recruits in the country goes to school less than 30 minutes from campus, and Wojciechowski’s staff has taken notice. The staff has consistently watched Phenom University, Baldwin’s summer basketball team.

Marquette also has scholarship offers to teammates Jamari Sibley and Desmond Polk and often hosts several Phenom players at one time for unofficial visits.

The rest of college basketball has taken notice of 247Sports’ second-ranked player, too. Traditional blue-bloods like Duke, Kansas and Kentucky are pursuing Baldwin along with nearby programs like Wisconsin and Northwestern.

CHET Holmgren est-touted is looking

HOLMGREN — is one of the highrecruits Marquette at in the 2021 class.

247Sports, Rivals and ESPN all rank the 7-foot center fourth in the country.

There’s no shortage of schools interested in the Minneapolis prospect. Gonzaga, Kansas, Iowa, Florida and Florida State are among the 29 schools to offer Holmgren, per Rivals.

Wojciechowski’s staff has frequently watched Holmgren, who plays on the same high school team as 2020 recruiting target Jalen Suggs.

KENDALL BROWN — Brown picked up an offer from Marquette June 15 — the first day the NCAA allows coaches to personally reach out to prospects in the 2021 recruiting class. 247Sports ranks Brown 21st out of all 2021 recruits in the country.

Other schools to offer a scholarship to Brown include Minnesota, Nebraska, Creighton, Texas and Kansas.

MICHAEL FOSTER — Foster, 247Sports’ sixth-ranked recruit in the 2021 class, spent his first two years of high school playing for Milwaukee Washington, less than 15 minutes by car from campus. Now he plays for Hillcrest Prep in Arizona.

Arizona State, Arizona, Georgia, UCLA and Kansas are a few of the teams to offer Foster.

CARTER WHITT — Whitt, a 6-foot-3 point guard from Raleigh, North Carolina, is 57th in 247Sports’ rankings. Like Brown, Whitt picked up an offer on the first day Marquette was allowed to make personal contact

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Head coach Steve Wojciechoski and his staff prepare to lose at least six players by the 2021-’22 season.

with him.

Virginia, Virginia Tech and Indiana are among a litany of high-major programs also vying for Whitt.

TREVOR KEELS — Keels, a 6-foot-5 guard from Fairfax, Virginia, ranks 36th nationally in 247Sports’ rankings.

Wojciechowski will have plenty of competition from BIG EAST schools. Villanova, Butler and Seton Hall have already offered him, and Georgetown has expressed interest.

QUINCY ALLEN — Allen, who 247Sports ranks 27th nationally and eighth among small forwards, has offers from half a dozen Atlantic Coast Conference schools. He picked up an offer from MU in June.

LANGSTON LOVE — Love picked up an offer from Marquette July 1 and also has scholarship offers from Baylor, Arkansas, Villanova and others. The 6-foot-4 guard attends Montverde Academy in Montverde, Florida, the same school as former MU player Jamail Jones.

FEDONTA “J.B.” WHITE — Like Love, White earned an

offer July 1 from the Golden Eagles. 247Sports ranks the 6-foot7 prospect 64th in the country and 14th among small forwards.

He also has offers from Utah and New Mexico.

HARRISON INGRAM — Ingram, 247Sports’ 17th-ranked prospect, has held an offer from Marquette since the last week in June. The 6-foot-7 small forward from Dallas already has offers from seven Division I programs in his home state.

JONATHAN KUMINGA — Kuminga, a 6-foot-8 post player from the Democratic Republic of Congo, is the top player in 247Sports’ rankings and already boasts offers from blueblood programs like Kentucky and Duke.

Marquette offered Kuminga in May.

is yet to earn a ranking from 247Sports or Rivals, but he has certainly captivated some interest among college coaches. Kansas, Indiana, Oklahoma, Maryland and Texas A&M headline a lengthy list of schools to offer him a scholarship.

Marquette joined that group with an offer Aug. 5. BrownFerguson specifically mentioned Marquette assistant coach Dwayne Killings as a key part of his recruitment in an interview with ZagsBlog.com.

CALEB FURST – Furst, ranked 32nd in Rivals’ rankings, received a scholarship offer from Wojciechowski’s staff June 29.

He also holds offers from Butler, California, Indiana, Ohio State and Virginia, among others.

ADAMA SANOGO — Sanogo, a 6-foot-9 center from Mali, has played high school and sumDARON HOLMES — mer travel basketball in the New Holmes, a 6-foot-8 power for- York area and quickly attracted ward from Goodyear, Arizona, attention from college coaches. is 119th in 247Sports’ rankings Oregon, Arizona State, Creighton but 27th in Rivals’ rankings. Ari- and UConn are among schools to zona, Kansas and California are offer him a scholarship. some of the schools to offer the post player.

MICAWBER ETIENNE — Etienne, the 67th-best overall JAVONTE BROWN-FER- player and 11th-best center in GUSON — Brown-Ferguson 247Sports’ rankings, picked up an offer from Marquette June 15. Other schools recruiting him include Pitt, UConn, Iowa and Arizona State. The 6-foot10 center lives less than an hour from UConn.

NNANNA NJOKU — Njoku, the 17th-best center in 247Sports’ rankings, holds offers from Villanova, Virginia Tech, Providence, Pitt and other high-major programs. He’s held an offer from MU since late June.

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Coan leads Marquette with most goals in final season Bennett’s ‘tick tock’ mantra resonates with senior forward

By Daniel Macias

daniel.macias@marquette.edu

With a trip to the BIG EAST Championship on the line last year, it came down to penalty kicks in two overtime periods between Marquette and Creighton, the regular season conference champion. A miss meant at least one more round.

Ten rounds after then-junior forward Josh Coan missed his first attempt, his goal sent the Golden Eagles to their first BIG EAST Championship in five years.

“That was just a super special moment for me to score that penalty after missing one,” Coan said.

He said it’s probably his favorite moment of his soccer career.

Coan has had his best year at Marquette, leading the Golden Eagles with four goals and is tied for fifth in the nation with shots on goal per game as of Sept. 30.

He attributed some of his success to his offseason regimen, which was aimed at improving his shot accuracy.

“Just a lot of repetition, taking shots from areas that I find myself in the game a lot,” Coan said.

During the summer, Coan and senior forward Connor Alba spent a lot of time at Valley Fields together practicing finishing drills.

Coan and Alba are similar players playing opposite each other and bouncing ideas off each other, Coan said.

He said the two were living in or around Milwaukee but were playing for a team in Chicago. They drove about 90 minutes south every day to train but said they wanted more time on the field than what the Chicago team scheduled.

“We felt like we wanted more repetition and more practice too, so we would come down to Valley all the time, early morning or late night and (practice) finishing,” Coan said.

According to Coan, the practices with Alba have paid off.

Coan has already scored more goals this year than in all of last

season. Along with leading the team in goals, he is one of five players with at least one assist so far.

Bennett said the ability to get himself free from the defender and get in the right place on the field with enough time to score has been more important than the improved shot accuracy. This comes through either ball movement, change of pace or a shift in direction.

“He played well last year,” head coach Louis Bennett said. “I think this year he’s managed to be a little bit more assertive. … If he gets that separation, the defender is in trouble.”

When Coan is at his best, Bennett said he is elusive.

“He’s almost like a ghost,” Bennett said. “You know he’s there, but you don’t know where he is — if you believe in ghosts.”

The forward attributes creating space and picking the right target to his goal-scoring ability.

“Whether it’s curling it into the far post, cutting inside or smashing it across the keeper if I go left … just kind of picking your spot,” Coan said. “Coach B. has a saying:

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Senior Josh Coan attempts a shot in Marquette’s 2-1 loss at UWM.

‘Tick tock.’”

Bennett’s “tick tock” theory is analogous for how golfers have a swing when they hit the ball. They wind the club up over their shoulders at a certain speed and swing the club down at a specific speed.

The saying is also applied to a player’s shot motion in soccer.

Everyone swings back their leg and swings it forward at a certain

speed. Bennett refers to this as internal tempo.

“Shooting the ball is not just about your leg strength — it’s about the transferring of weight,” Bennett said. “If you keep your internal tempo, that’s that the ‘tick tock.’”

Men’s soccer will return to Valley Fields Tuesday against Saint Louis at 7 p.m.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

SHOCK: Sisters compete together for first time in life Continued from page 12 “I was definitely surprised (about the starts),” Addie said. “I worked really hard preseason to get here, and I think it was stressful in the beginning, but now I am feeling more comfortable. I figured out my role on the team.”

Addie and the rest of the back line have been the strength of the team so far, which she said she at-

tributes to the leadership of senior goalie Maddy Henry, graduate student defender Bri Jaeger and senior defender Emily Hess.

The engineering major sees all her time as one of the two center backs on the line. Jaeger, the other center back, said she has seen a lot of positives in Addie so far.

“She adds some height and physicality,” Jaeger said. “She has really great long balls and

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Sophomore forward/midfielder Macey Shock (9) leads MU with two goals but has only played three games.

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Freshman Addie Shock has started in nine of 10 games this season.

is accurate.”

While her sister started right away, Macey didn’t see game action until nine games into the season, mainly due to her ankle injury.

“It has definitely been a grind,” Macey said. “When I got my chance, I just wanted to show myself, my family, my team, my coaches that I am capable of playing at this level and want to impact this team and win.”

Although she didn’t see the time right away, Roeders said he is happy with what he has seen from his forward.

“I really applaud her for staying positive during all of this,” Roeders said. “She has practiced really

well the past two weeks. Her efforts, mindset and demeanor all got rewarded.”

In her first appearance, Macey made an immediate impact Sept. 20, pushing through a cluster of Northern Illinois University defenders on a set-piece and tying the game up on her first career goal.

Against Colorado State Sept.

22, she found the back of the net for her second game-tying goal.

“It meant a lot more than people might think,” Macey said. “It felt really good just because of everything that has been going on behind the scenes. It felt good to see all of that come around and see the

full picture of all that hard work.”

For both Roeders and Macey, they said they hope the spark of offense this past weekend can carry over into the rest of the BIG EAST season.

“We have been successful the past two games now,” Roeders said. “Now we open up BIG EAST and it is a different animal. No game should be taken lightly. We are now playing for points. I hope we can use this as a stepping stone.”

Their next opponent is Providence College Oct. 3 at Valley Fields.