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Burst pipe floods Jesuit Residence building

By Rob Gebelhoff

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

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MARDI GRAS loses its funding SOF funding for MARDI GRAS since 2010:

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A pipe burst in the southwest corner of the fourth floor in the Jesuit Residence on Wisconsin Avenue Sunday at approximately 11:30 p.m., flooding the fourth floor and rooms in all the levels beneath it with about 2 inches of water.

Three Jesuits were displaced from their apartments, with three offices and a large TV room in the basement also flooded as a result of the incident.

The Rev. Gerald Goetz, minister and facilities manager at the Jesuit Residence, said the burst pipe is fixed, but repairs to the building may take several weeks or months to complete.

“First, they’ve got to move everything out of the apartments,” Goetz said. “They’ve got to take out the carpet and rip up the wood floor underneath because water got between the concrete and the wood and it would mold.”

Goetz said pipes have burst in the 97-year-old building a few times before. Many of the old-style pipes rusted through, although none of the earlier incidents produced as much damage as this.

“This is the worst case we’ve ever had,” Goetz said. “When you have a one inch water pipe spewing forth water under normal pressure for more than a half hour, you have a lot of water.”

The building, the second oldest on campus, was so flooded that water seeped outside onto the sidewalk on Wisconsin Avenue.

“It was a gusher!” said the Rev. Joe Mueller, a professor of theology.

Damage estimates are not yet known, but the Rev. Jeffrey LaBelle, assistant professor of education and rector at the Jesuit Residence, said it will be costly.

“It will put a big hit in our funds,” LaBelle said, “But we knew things like this can happen in a building this old.”

Although Marquette owns the building, located at 1404 W. Wisconsin Ave., the Society of Jesus is responsible for the costs See Flood, Page 3

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Total SOF budget since 2010:

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Source: Cole Johnson, MUSG financial vice president Infographic by Maddy Kennedy/madeline.kennedy@marquette.edu

The Marquette Student Government SOF Committee, chaired by Executive Vice President Zach Bowman, cut funding for MARDI GRAS Thursday.

MUSG committee denies SOF funding request to service trip

By Joe Kvartunas

joseph.kvartunas@marquette.edu

Marquette Student Government’s Student Organization Funding Committee decided

MUSG Executive Vice President and SOF Committee Chair Zach Bowman, a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences.

“We’ve been very supportive of MARDI GRAS throughout their entire time as a recognized student organization, but as we look forward we noticed that they will continue to ask us for money in perpetuity unless at some point we say that we

think we could be spending this money somewhere better.”

MARDI GRAS was founded in 2006 as a service organization to help clear out homes in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. As the area was rebuilt and changed, so has the program’s work. The group’s See MUSG, Page 2

Wild releases university reorganization Office of the Provost gains greater control of MU operations

By Caroline Roers

caroline.roers@marquette.edu

Interim President the Rev. Robert A. Wild announced Monday that the university is reorganizing to better align with the “strong provost” structure of governance.

In the new structure, the Office of Student Affairs, led by Vice President Chris Miller, will begin reporting to Interim Provost Margaret Callahan. This allows her to take advantage

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Thursday against granting a $10,000 funding request for the MARDI GRAS spring trip.

The committee cited the group’s significant previous allocations and minimal fundraising as reasons for not allocating any funds to the service organization.

“Just that specific event is the most funded student org event in SOF history,” said

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of new synergies involving the university life and student experience responsibilities of the Provost’s Office, according to a University News Brief.

“This close alignment of student and academic affairs is common at many universities and will help us work in a highly coordinated way to ensure our students a transformative Marquette educational experience,” Wild said in an news brief.

In the “strong provost” model, the provost becomes the secondranking member of the university administration, thus eliminating the vacant executive vice president position. The responsibilities of the Office of the Executive Vice President will be absorbed

by other administrative areas.

Callahan said different institutions define and set up the strong provost model slightly differently, but the main point of having the provost as the chief academic officer and the second-ranking member of university leadership after the president remains the same.

“Given the increasingly complex nature of operating a university and the amount of time a president has to spend on external relations – namely fundraising, lobbying and board relations – the strong provost model gives the Office of the Provost greater control over internal university operations, with the purpose of advancing academic excellence

and the student experience,” Callahan said.

Other offices directly under the provost now include the deans of all colleges and the library, the dean of admissions and enrollment planning, the vice president of student affairs, the vice provost for research and the dean of the graduate school, and the vice provost for undergraduate programs and teaching.

The provost, vice president for financing; planning; advancement; athletics; general counsel; and mission and ministry will report directly to Wild.

The vice presidents for marketing and communications;

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Investment group seeks buyer for 2040s Campus apartment building up for sale at estimated $34 million

By Matt Barbato

matthew.barbato@marquette.edu

The ASB Real Estate Investments firm is seeking a buyer for the 2040 Lofts on the 2000 block of W. Wisconsin Ave., estimated at $33.9 million, as part of six properties bundled in a sale.

A representative at ASB was unable to provide any details about a sale or any potential buyers, due to company policy, but did confirm that this type of sale is common among real estate investment firms.

“Due to value increases across our residential portfolio over the last few years, we are looking to rebalance our multifamily/student housing concentration to bring it back in line with our long-term target weighting for residential assets,” representatives from ASB said in a press release to the real estate service firm CBRE. CBRE, the real-estate developer, is in charge of coordinating the sale of ASB’s apartment package.

ASB reached out to CBRE and its National Student Housing Group to be the exclusive agent for the sale of the 2040 Lofts and the other five student housing buildings.

According to the press

release from CBRE, the package totals 1,374 units and 3,057 beds in four states. The other complexes included in the sale are affiliated with the campuses of the University of South Florida, Illinois Institute of Art, University of Illinois, Chicago and Indiana University.

The 2040 Lofts is the third largest building in the package in terms of rentable space, but has the lowest occupancy rate with just 80 percent of its rooms occupied. This rate is substantially less than the 93.8 percent occupancy average amongst the six buildings. The 2040 Lofts is also the second-oldest building in the package, but was renovated most recently.

Jaclyn Fitts, Director with CBRE said in the press release that this package ASB is offering could be a beneficial one for upstart equity groups who are looking to get involved in student housing development.

“As many new equity groups are looking to build a platform in the student housing space, current owners are looking to take advantage of this unprecedented demand by marketing portfolio offerings,” Fitts said.

“Traditionally, student housing has been a bifurcated segment of the industry, and groups have had a difficult time building a sizable portfolio. The portfolio offerings currently on the market should help entrants looking to build a platform.”

Photo by Amy Elliot-Meisel/amy.elliot-meisel@marquette.edu

The 2040 Lofts, located on W. Wisconsin Aveune, has an 80 percent occupany rate, the lowest of all the buildings included in CBRE’s package.

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MUSG: Student reps slash most funded student group

work evolved from gutting destroyed homes to rebuilding houses. One of the projects includes the construction of a grocery store in New Orleans. The organization claims an active member email list of more than 500 names and routinely sends more than 250 students to Louisiana during different service trips throughout the year.

MARDI GRAS routinely received significant funding allocations from MUSG. Last year, MARDI GRAS accounted for 21.7 percent of all non-club sports SOF allocations, according to Financial

Vice President and SOF Committee member Cole Johnson, a junior in the College of Business Administration.

“For the fiscal years 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date 2014, MARDI GRAS has utilized 11.9 percent of the total budget reserved for nonclub sports in these years,” Johnson said in an email.

This year’s funding request was for the group’s winter break trip, which will send 98 students in 14 vans to New Orleans to continue their work. MARDI GRAS still plans for all 98 spots to be filled, despite the funding

setback. MARDI GRAS President John Cupkovic, a senior in the College of Business Administration, said he is confident this recent setback will not negatively affect the organization or any of its members.

“I am expecting that with this decision, we can move forward with a lot of our fundraising efforts to help drive down the costs of running our winter trip,” Cupkovic said. “The money we typically receive usually goes toward driving down the cost of the trip for participants as well as some of the necessary investments needed in

DPS Reports Oct. 24 At 3:21 p.m. a student reported that an unidentified subject videotaped the student without the student’s permission or knowledge in Cudahy Hall. The subject left the scene when confronted by the student. MPD was contacted.

Oct. 25 At 4:34 p.m. a student reported that unknown person(s) attempted to remove his secured, unattended vehicle in the 2100 block of W. Michigan St. and removed property estimated at $200 from the vehicle. Estimated damage to the vehicle is unknown at this time. MPD was contacted.

Oct. 26 At 2:41 a.m. DPS observed a student smoking a controlled substance in the rear of a building in the 900 block of N. 15th St. MPD was contacted and took the student into custody. The student

was cited and released.

At 11:15 a.m. a person not affiliated with Marquette reported that unknown person(s) removed her secured, unattended vehicle in the 500 block of N. 17th St. Estimated loss unknown at this time. MPD was contacted.

Oct. 27 Between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. a student reported being sexually assaulted by another student at an on campus location. MPD was contacted.

At 2:58 a.m., a fire alarm sounded for McCormick Hall. MFD was contacted and the building was evacuated. Upon investigation, it was determined that unknown person(s) activated a pull station without cause. The alarm was reset and the building reopened.

At 3:31 a.m. DPS observed an

order to work on our projects.”

MARDI GRAS leaders met last week with Bowman and Matt Lengen, coordinator of student organizations and leadership in the Office of Student Development, to discuss the reasons behind the SOF Committee’s decision not to fund the trip. Both sides said the meeting was productive, with Bowman saying that the choice not to allocate funds this time does not mean that MARDI GRAS will not be funded at later times. Cupkovic said the organization will continue to apply for funds for future trips.

Events Calendar intoxicated student asleep at the wheel of a parked vehicle with its motor running in the 1800 block of W. Wisconsin Ave. MPD was contacted.

Between 3 a.m. and 6 a.m. two students reported that unknown person(s) removed their property from their unsecured residence in the 2100 block of W. Michigan St. estimated combined loss is $4,130. MPD was contacted.

At 2:00 p.m. a student reported that unknown person(s) removed her unsecured, unattended property estimated at $3 from the 1900 block of W. Kilbourn Ave. At 6:15 p.m. a student reported that unknown person(s) removed his unsecured, unattended property estimated at $957 from Olin Engineering. MPD was contacted.

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Gesu concludes sessions preparing for 2014 Synod Parishioners call for MKE Achdiocese to promote the church

By Natalie Wickman

natalie.wickman@marquette.edu

Church of the Gesu parishioners discussed Catholic stewardship and final preparation plans for the months leading up to the Archdiocese of Milwaukee’s 2014 synod in June by holding its second and final parish reflection session Sunday.

The synod, the first held by the Archdiocese since 1987, will be “an assembly where the faithful deliberate on the pastoral needs of the diocese,” according to the archdiocese’s website. Upon completion, it will map out archdiocese reform set to occur over the next 10 to 15 years.

An estimated 37 parishioners participated in the reflection and broke into small groups to discuss creative ways to deepen Catholic faith and reach out to individuals not actively involved in the parish. Their ideas will be reviewed by Archbishop of Milwaukee, Jerome E. Listecki, during the synod.

Marge Melton, a session attendee and member of the Gesu choir, said she understands people may feel reluctant to join

the Catholic church after the priorities and initiatives identiarchdiocese’s bankruptcy and fied at the Parish Reflection Sessexual abuse scandals that oc- sions,” according to the archdicurred over the past two years. ocese’s website.

“There’s a lot to be done, not The synod will be held June only at Gesu but also in the 7-8 at the Archbishop Cousarchdiocese to welcome more ins Catholic Center. Gesu papeople back into the Catholic rishioner JoAnne Baez will religion,” Melton said. “Not attend as the Church of the to force it on them but to say Gesu’s sole representative. ‘come with me,’” “The week after (the synod), The attendees proposed that I would like to sit down with the archdiocese our representareach out beyond tive and hear its traditional her thoughts on boundaries, form what happened,” human concerns Heimbach said. groups and in“I know that troduce personal archbishop Litways of promotsteki is going to ing the church hear all of this via mail. Those information and propositions then respond to were brought what he’s heard, up in order to not just verbally increase Gesu’s Matt McDonald, graduate student, but also in imemphasis on School of Dentistry plementing difCatholic stewferent programs ardship. around the archdiocese.”

Mike Heimbach, the facilitaBefore stepping down from tor of Sunday’s proceedings and the papacy last February, a Gesu parishioner, said the last Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI major step of synod preparation called for a Year of Faith. In is the District Gathering held response to his call, ArchMarch 22 at the Cathedral of bishop Listecki wrote a pasSt. John the Evangelist. Twelve toral letter titled “Who do you Gesu representatives, including say that I am?” that was the the Rev. Eddie Mathie, will at- basis of discussion between tend the meeting “to pray, dia- reflection session attendees. logue and further discern the For Matt McDonald, second

It’s nice to see people who are so passionate about their love of Christ and (who are) willing to take that out in the world.”

MU awarded $844,000 grant National Science Foundation targets computer education

By Caroline Roers

caroline.roers@marquette.edu

The National Science Foundation granted Marquette $844,000 to lead an ambitious $1 million, three-year collaboration to increase computer science courses in high schools throughout Wisconsin.

The goals of the collaboration are to double the number of computer science teachers and increase the number of 9th and 10th grade introductory computer science courses. The collaboration includes the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction and the Wisconsin–Dairyland chapter of the Computer Science Teacher Association.

Gary Krenz, professor and department chairman of mathematics, statistics and computer science, said he believes aiding in the development of high schools’ computer science curriculums and helping teachers become certified to teach computer science courses are instrumental practices to increase the number of computer science students.

“If high school students have a chance to learn about computer science via an engaging curriculum, then they may view computer science as an interesting and exciting field of study,” Krenz said. “Hopefully, these students will continue to pursue an interest in computer science beyond high school.”

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the next decade

will see a projected 1.4 million new jobs related to computer science. Nationally, two- and four-year colleges are on track to produce an estimated 400,000 graduates from appropriate degree programs, leaving a million jobs unfilled nationally.

At Marquette, the number of computer science majors remained between 35 and 48 students between 2008 and 2013, according to the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment.

Dennis Brylow, associate professor of mathematics, statistics and computer sciences and grant collaborator, said this is largely because people simply do not realize what computer science is.

“They think it is just like surfing the web but somehow more,” Brylow said. “There are students entering college who think it must require playing a lot of video games, or that it will mean sitting in a basement with a bunch of pale males wearing pocket protectors and trading Star Trek quotes. They don’t think of it as a rewarding and rapidly growing field that allows you to shape the technology that is remolding our society. They don’t think of it as integral to curing cancer, exploring space or changing the way everyone lives and works.”

Brylow continued to explain that although technology has greatly advanced, the school system has not evolved with it.

“In the past decade and a half, the explosion of the Internet, smartphones and embedded computer systems now means that everyone has piles of business data and websites and computer models and safety-critical software,” he said. “But our education system from middle school on through college has not really adapted to this situation at all.”

The collaboration project hopes to change these stereotypes and create more opportunities for students to learn about computer science.

“When computer scientists are big, high tech employers are surveyed, the large majority indicate that they first got interested in the field of computer science in high school or earlier,” Brylow said. “The overwhelming majority of high school students currently don’t even get the opportunity to see an ‘on ramp’ for the best-paying jobs in one of the fastest growing segments of our new economy.”

In Wisconsin, 85 percent of high schools have no computer sciences courses. In Milwaukee Public Schools specifically, only one in 26 high schools has an advanced placement computer science course.

Part of the grant money will go directly toward supporting teachers who want to earn computer sciences teaching licenses or are simply interested in taking a few courses.

Another part of the project is for high school teachers in other fields like math, science, business and English to learn about teaching a new course called “Exploring Computer Science.” The course is designed as an introduction for students who have never taken computer science before.

“It has been launched in several other larger cities, but Marquette would be leading the way to getting it into schools here in Wisconsin,” Brylow said. “(I) hope students will get a better understanding of what careers are possible in computing and a clearer idea of how computing relates to many other sciences, technology and engineering fields.”

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

Mike Heimbach facilitates a discussion at the Sunday session that aimed to prepare for the 2014 Synod with Gesu parishioners in the lower church.

year graduate student in the School of Dentistry, attending the Gesu’s reflection session was very beneficial.

“I’ve learned that there’s a great love of Christ out there in

the world and in our community especially,” McDonald said.

“It’s nice to see people who are so passionate about their love of Christ and (who are) willing to take that out in the world.”

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Flood: 3 Jesuits displaced following pipe incident

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

The office of the Rev. Jeffrey LaBelle on the ground floor of the Jesuit Residence was flooded with almost two inches of water Sunday night.

to maintain it, according to LaBelle. He said an emergency fund was prepared for unexpected incidents like this one .

LaBelle said a few residents are upset about the situation, because a lot of property in their rooms was damaged. Goetz said hundreds of books and manuscripts in the apartments of the Rev. Tad Burch and the Rev. Roland Teske have been lost due to water damage.

LaBelle added that he thinks the building’s most expensive items were able to be saved, because they were able to get the computers out of the flooded rooms quickly.

While the flooded rooms

are repaired, displaced Jesuits will live in open the available rooms in the building, according to LaBelle.

More than 50 Jesuits live in the building, which was bought by Marquette in 1962. After renovations, the building became the Jesuit Residence in 1973.

LaBelle was also displaced from his office in the southwest corner of the ground floor. Ceiling tiles crashed to the floor Sunday night, and it took the maintenance crew all night to remove the water from the building.

“The good thing is no one was hurt,” LaBelle said, standing on the damp carpet in his near-empty office space.

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public affairs; and administration will report to Tom Ganey, vice president of planning and university architect. Vice president of human resources will report to Cindy Bauer, vice president and general counsel.

Wild first announced the university would be moving to the “strong provost” structure of governance Wednesday in a letter to faculty and staff.

Shared governance, the previous model originally introduced by Wild in 2007, will continue to be a priority in the strong provost model.

“As we adopt this new approach, we will do so in the

framework of our strategic plan to ensure we continue to complete in tomorrow’s competitive higher education marketplace,” Wild said. “We must assess, evaluate and transform university operations to increase our efficiencies and effectiveness, a priority highlighted in our strategic plan. I am confident that this reorganization will move us in the direction and is the most suitable leadership structure to move Marquette forward as we prepare for a new president.”

The new organizational structure can be found on the university leadership web page.

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In the Brew Bayou, 3 drawers hold more than meets the eye

By Andrew Dawson

andrew.dawson@marquette.edu

To this day, I haven’t purchased a single item from the Brew, yet I often find myself studying there for the smell and warm environment.

But one day, as I procrastinated studying for midterms, I opened a drawer in one of the front tables to find a trove of Marquette secrets, advice, stories and jokes.

I discovered inside three unassuming drawers in the campus coffee house, years of students’ anonymous handwritten notes, left for the people like me to find.

The locations are a part of the PostSecret community art project, started by Frank Warren, who spoke at Marquette in 2011.

The project encourages participants to leave notes in hidden locations around the country. The notes can then be uploaded to the PostSecret blog for the site’s fans or more than 1.2 million Facebook followers.

Some Marquette students take advantage of this outlet as a way to disclose secrets, but the drawers on campus have taken on a life of their own. With less submissions matching the blog’s confessional-style notecards, the majority of folded up papers instead contain inspirational quotes or goals for the future. There are hundreds of notes stuffed in the drawers, along with written or carved messages on the tables themselves.

The quotes come from movies and famous people like Selena Gomez or Mother Teresa.

On one table, a “poet” of sorts

provided some words of wisdom for passersby: “Today, you are you/that’s truer than true./ And no one can be/ youer than you,” from Dr. Suess. The note continues on the back quoting rapper T.I., “With the spirit of a hustler and the swagger of a college kid.”

If I am ever need a pep talk, these drawers will be my Vince Lombardi.

Many of the notes are less serious or inspirational, but still provide a distraction from the hectic college lifestyle. One note written on a ripped gum package that reads, “I hate people with bad breath,” had me laughing hysterically while people across the Brew stared in my direction.

These drawers are havens for students with an artistic side.

They may not be Michelangelo’s, but the notes can come with a Gary Larson brand of humor.

One picture of an elderly gentleman in a suit with a beard, bow tie, cane, sunglasses and Charlie Chaplin hat reads, “Excuse me young lady, care to go on a date with an ol’ timer like me? Screw studying,” is my personal favorite.

There are also more serious notes which express sorrow, tell a short story and speak to readers who might be having a bad day. Something as simple as

Photos by Amy Elliot-Meisel/amy.elliot-meisel@marquette.edu

Three secret note locations are hidden in tables in the Brew Bayou located in the Alumni Memorial Union.

a smile can brighten someone’s mood, and so can a note in the Brew that says, “It gets better.”

Now the inspirational words can touch emotions and many of the authors’ struggles are relatable, but some of best finds are the few love notes.

They can be as basic as, “Catering girl is an attractive girl,” and, “Juan Anderson stole my heart.” Others are more deep and specific.

“I cheated on my boyfriend with my best friend,” reads a note signed, hopefully + horrible. “Oh! I forgot to mention the fact that I fell in love with this friend.”

Whether or not you agree with the situation, reading the page long story is gripping enough to make you want to dig deeper and solve the mystery of this scandalous endeavor.

Finally in the drawer, there are the secrets, following PostSecret’s initial misson.

Though there aren’t many, they’re there if you search.

Some that say, “I hate my sorority,” and, “I peed my bed … twice. That’s how much fun I had,” are as bad as it gets for most of the secrets. But hidden among the piles of light confessions, there are a few juicy one’s I’ll let you search for yourself.

Though many students have still not discovered the drawers of secrets, reading and writing the messages has become a hobby for some on campus.

Alex Whalen, a senior in the College of Communication who frequents the Brew, has discovered special meaning in reading the letters.

“They’re funny, they’re sad, they’re meaningful,” Whalen said. “Basically they’re a college student in a letter.”

Lauren Dewitt, a sophomore in the College of Health Sciences, also recently discovered the drawers and is quickly becoming

a big fan.

“Well I just found out about them a couple weeks ago, but they’re always entertaining,” Dewitt said. “I always try to sit at one of (the tables) because it’s just a nice study break. It’s kind of fun to read; some people write really weird and abstract things that make absolutely no sense.”

Whatever the motive, whatever the reason, people will continue to fill these drawers with notes that bring together different walks of life. They are more than just slips of paper with gibberish on them. They can make you smile, chuckle or feel warm and fuzzy and all that other emotional fluff.

So next time you’re in the Brew, discover what those who came before have left, leave something of your own, or just avoid studying. Just know that a bit of Marquette student history is close at hand.

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Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Remembering Lou Reed: Rock’s street poet

Erin Heffernan It was fitting I heard about Lou Reed’s death in the car.

When I got news of the 71-yearold musician’s passing, I remembered the moment I first heard his voice in a compact sedan my freshman year of high school, the car of a much older and more sophisticated person who already appreciated Lou Reed’s deep, deep cool.

Like much of the country, the song that introduced me to Lou was his only commercial hit, 1972’s “Walk on the Wild Side,” a beguiling take on life of transgender people who flocked to Andy Warhol’s Factory and the prostitution and drugs that came with it.

His dark, dryly funny and risque lyrics over the song’s light chorus of do-dee-doo-dee-doo-do-do-dos, sounded like nothing I’d ever heard.

It was immediately memorable, dark, yet fun and sounded brand new, but could have been around for a generation.

It was so striking in fact, I wrote the name of the song on my hand so I would remember to look it up when I got home. Later that day somebody in school asked me if “take a walk on the wild side” was my mantra or something. I said yes.

At that point in my 15-year-old Ohioan lifestyle, it couldn’t have been farther from the truth. Reed’s songs of the grimy, street-smart New York art class were as close to my life as the story of Beowolf I was reading in English class at the time, though I found Lou’s battles much more interesting.

But hearing that song and the months of Lou Reed admiration that followed taught me an appreciation for the “wild side” of music.

It became a rite of passage; one step in a transformation of what I would listen to from that age on.

Lou Reed’s work was a game

changer for me—simultaneously egalitarian, centered on the bottom of the heap, while also pretentious and distant with its poetic depth and a sense of humor, so cool it burns.

Lou Reed brought me into a whole new world of music, leading me to some other deep-voiced literary artists I would come to love like Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen and Nick Cave.

I think his music had a similar effect on so many other people as he pushed the boundaries of music and “polite” society. And since Sunday afternoon’s news, the legions of us who have album posters on our walls and lyrics memorized have come together to collectively mourn the loss.

What became clear was that asking most alternative musicians over the past 20 years if they’ve heard of Reed’s band, The Velvet Underground, is like questioning if they know how to read.

The influence of the late 1960s outfit is so great and unquestionable; they are credited as the roots of punk, glam and even the greater phenomenon of alternative rock.

The band’s legendary story goes

like this: it was initially a commercial flop, celebrated only by followers of “producer” Andy Warhol. But the few (about 30,000) listeners the band did reach all went on to start bands of their own and credit their success back to the VU source, covering the songs and singing, sometimes literally, the band’s praises.

The VU legend grew from there and, along with members Lou Reed and John Cale’s accomplished solo careers, the Velvet Underground gained a devoted following—including this sheltered Ohio girl from 2006 onward.

I continued to love Lou’s music on the great VU albums, the “banana album” with Nico and the band’s self-titled release from 1968 became my most revisited. But his solo work is equally brilliant with classics like “Transformer,” (his breakout success in 1972) “Berlin” (stemming from his beautiful rockopera period) and the renewed Velvet Underground sound on 1988’s “New York.”

Lou wasn’t afraid to get weird, to experiment. He created as many gritty, poetic takes on sex, drugs and rock and roll (“Heroin,” “Waves of

Fear,” “Vicious”) as he did heartbreakingly sad moments (“Pale Blue Eyes,” “Kids”).

But Lou didn’t make unmitigated admiration easy, and even a loyal fan like me was often confused or alienated by some of the swerves in his unconventional career and music.

Being his fan was as frustrating and challenging as it was inspiring.

But with infamous moves into neoclassical, the poems of Edgar Allen Poe and a baffling collaboration with Metallica, Lou Reed continuously dared everyone to shut up and go to hell if they didn’t like what he was doing.

That was part of the package. Lou also had a sharp tongue, temperamental nature and deeply damaged soul. He would never hesitate to eviscerate any heckler, journalist or collaborator that he thought needed a telling-off. He was arrogant and acted with a thorough knowledge of the legend he had become, almost becoming a caricature of himself.

As he once said, “no one does Lou Reed, like Lou Reed.”

But his apparent hubris, difficulty and overall grouchiness was perhaps an offshoot of the troubled mind, stubborn individuality and strong sense of mission that fueled some of his greatest work.

“All through this, I’ve always thought that if you thought of all of it as a book then you have the Great American Novel, every record as a chapter,” Reed said in a 1987 Rolling Stone interview. “They’re all in chronological order. You take the whole thing, stack it and listen to it in order, there’s my Great American Novel.”

Now it seems the novel has come to an end. I haven’t listened to Reed’s more than 25 albums in a row yet, instead selecting chapters at random and making connections in retrospect. But now I feel his work is lying out there like one last musical challenge sure to change the way I think about music, life and his legendary brand of cool.

Erin Heffernan is a senior studying writing intensive English and political science. Email her with comments or suggestions at erin.heffernan@marquette. edu.

Lou Reed Essentials “Walk on the Wild Side” Lou’s one and only hit, a timeless look at transgender exploits in Andy Warhol’s Factory.

“Heroin” (with the Velvet Underground) One of the most evocative songs ever. This will make you feel like you’ve just had a trip.

“Pale Blue Eyes” (with the Velvet Underground) Heartbreaking. Our favorite Lou Reed song.

“Street Hassle” An epic with powerful images, strings and a cameo from The Boss.

“Dirty Blvd.”

A perfect testament to Lou’s role as rock’s New York “street poet.”

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Schools should reserve right to stop twerking

STAFF EDITORIAL

Too soon for city to cash in on gun buyback program

Photo by Mel Evans/Associate Press

Our view: Buy backs may contribute to drops in gun violence, but it’s very early to tell if there’s a causal relationship and too soon for the city to commit funds.

A group of Milwaukee pastors called for the city to include $50,000 in its 2014 budget for a one-time gun buyback program to help get guns off the streets this month.

The program would offer $100 to $200 in gift cards for guns brought to the buyback location on a no-questions-asked basis. Smaller amounts would be offered for handguns and rifles, while assault weapons could be traded for larger sums. The proposal would be carried out at churches in ZIP codes with high rates of gun violence.

The city’s proposed 2014 budget does not include a $50,000 match for the association of pastors trying to buy guns off the street. However, as noted in an Oct. 14 article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the group intends to go ahead with a buyback regardless of city participation.

According to the Journal Sentinel, the mayor’s office and police department favored the idea, but needed to find funding for it. Since the city is set to adopt a budget Friday, an amendment would have to be made before then to include the provision.

It looks unlikely that it will be added to the city’s budget. The city is right to deny the $50,000 funding match for a speculated decrease in gun violence when it’s struggling to maintain operating costs.

Similar programs have been tried across the United States, from Camden, N.J. to San Francisco, Calif. Many have been secular governmental proposals from police departments and city councils, unlike the religious proposition here in Milwaukee.

Camden authorities collected 1,137 firearms Dec. 14 last year at two church locations. A Star-Ledger article noted its popularity was most likely compounded by the Newtown, Conn. shootings that took place that day, as buyback programs are historically prompted by mass shootings. As of March, the state of New Jersey bought about 7,000 weapons with $900,000 acquired in police activity, such as drug raids. The guns were then melted down.

Their components were used to make steel beams or car doors. The program was considered a success by state authorities and lauded by the Milwaukee pastors.

Although the correlation between the buyback programs and gun violence is not definitive, Camden police recorded an 18.8 percent drop in all homicides, 11.4 percent drop in robberies with firearms and a 7.4 percent drop in assaults with guns from

2012 to 2013. The Milwaukee pastors would argue this points directly to the success of the buyback programs getting several hundred guns off the streets.

While buy backs may contribute to drops in violent crime, there’s no causal relationship between the programs and crime reduction. As a 2007 Harvard study suggested, there’s no way to link gun control and reduced violent crimes. More importantly, there’s no way to tell if a gun buyback program will be effective in Milwaukee, specifically. There are many social, economic and political factors at play in crime rates – most notably education and income disparity.

Los Angeles began hosting an annual gun buyback program in 2009 and the causal relationship between buying guns back from residents and gun violence rates are inconclusive. There has been a 33 percent drop in violent crimes during that period, but L.A. crime rates have also dropped for at least a decade, incluing five years before the buyback programs began.

The premise is also flawed and could backfire. In Cleveland it prompted “private gun collectors” to buy guns at a higher rate than city police across the street from the buyback, which the Plain Dealer posited were then turned for a profit on the street instead of given to authorities. That only promoted more violent gun use.

The idea isn’t that expensive – $50,000 is less than 1 percent of the city budget – but the city should wait for more data from cities like Camden or L.A. There are so many factors that could affect violent crime reduction, including a boom in the economy.

If the churches go ahead with the buyback without city funding as stated, it would be a good pilot program within our city’s specific socioeconomic conditions.

Putting up any government money without clear information whether they are contributing to lower gun violence isn’t worth the cost. Plus, the money for the Milwaukee plan would come directly from the budget, not from confiscated police money like in New Jersey.

Most importantly, buying back guns doesn’t solve issues at the heart of violent crimes, like a prevelant lack of education and poverty. Only solving these root issues will truly make a dent in the numbers of firearm-related crime rates.

Milwaukee still has one of the lowest achieving public school systems in the country and a huge disparity between rich and poor. No buyback program will change that.

Helen Hillis With homecoming dance season approaching, a high school in Maryland required students and parents to sign a contract banning grinding, making out and ... twerking at all school functions.

Contracts such as these are not unheard of. In fact, many of my friends informed me they signed similar documents before high school dances. Yet somehow, the addition of “twerking” to this contract has caught national attention. There is no doubt that twerking is a grotesquely sexual form of “dance.” However, twerking is the new form of an equally horrendous dance style, one that anyone who graduated high school within the past few years is probably familiar with – grinding.

Grinding is just as bad, and no one seems to mention it.

All of a sudden, because Miley Cyrus took to the stage in a nude latex body suit and twerked on Robin Thicke, we seem to notice how disturbing American dance styles can be among younger crowds. We are horrified by the way Miley danced on national television, yet high school girls have been doing something similar for years.

Despite my all-girl Catholic high school’s demand that we “leave room for Jesus,” nearly every one of my high school dances set the stage for some sort of gross grinding session. Girls danced with their

backs towards their dates, hips circling around, all sorts of unpleasant and awkward rubbing going on. I remember that it made a lot of my friends uncomfortable, but we did it nonetheless. It was cool. It was the norm. It was accepted.

But it shouldn’t be.

When you really stop to think about what grinding is, what it does and what it implies. The dance is one of the most demeaning things a teenage girl can do, especially at a homecoming dance. Rubbing against your date while standing in a circle of friends, who are all doing the same, is a frightening image. When you think about what’s really going on, especially on the guy’s part, it’s disgusting.

I generally oppose behavioral contracts required by high schools. Limiting the freedom of teenagers does not always teach them what is right and wrong, it teaches obedience. Telling them a behavior is unacceptable, but not explaining why, does nothing to further their maturity and moral understanding.

Should high schools ban grinding and twerking? Absolutely. It is disgusting and only promotes the idea that women are pawns in a sexual game. Teenage girls, and I would imagine even guys, feel uncomfortable with the way they are expected to dance. Grinding continues because high schoolers, and sometimes even college students, see it as a norm.

To change this, schools and parents should explain why these ways of dancing are not acceptable. Signing a piece of paper does nothing to address the actual problem of how students view grinding as the norm. An actual explanation might even make a contract unnecessary.

Helen Hillis is a senior studying international affairs and Spanish. Email Helen at helen.hillis@marquette. edu with any comments or suggestions.

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“On the nights when I can’t sleep I go for runs at 1 or 2 in the morning.

I run from Marquette to the lake or even to the East Side.”

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Parking tickets profit city, penalize residents

Eric Oliver My summer was filled with music, food, a vacation to Colorado and above all else, an abundance of parking tickets.

Naturally, I was less than thrilled.

One or two of the tickets were, admittedly, my fault, but most of them were because of unclear signs or insignificant technicalities.

The City of Milwaukee is ticket happy.

Milwaukee gives more tickets per capita

than New York City. Milwaukee handed out just more than 743,000 parking tickets in 2012, or about 1.2 per resident.

In comparison, New York City, known for it’s hideous ticketing practices, gave out just more than 9,000,000 tickets, or about 1.08 per resident.

A TMJ4 article said when the Milwaukee Police Department was responsible for tickets in 1995, it issued $9.2 million worth of tickets. In 2010, under the Department of Public Works, which took over ticketing responsibility in 2000, more than $25 million in tickets were issued.

That is a ludicrous jump. The DPW is a lean mean ticketing machine, and unfortunately for those who commute to the City of Milwaukee, that means if you’re parked illegally, it will most likely result in a ticket.

The most interesting aspect of the DPW taking over is that it generated some $255 million for the city. So while

we may have an absolutely excessive amount of parking tickets being issued, the city is undeniably profiting.

A 2010 Journal Sentinel article gave our wonderful campus a glamorous distinction – the most ticketed campus in the city. We had more than 7,800 tickets issued in just one year. In the 11 blocks that make up Marquette’s campus, DPW practically painted a bullseye, targeting students who have no where to park beside the costly parking structures.

Much of the increase in ticketing leads back to budget problems the city has experienced. Yet these tickets disproportionately affect lower income residents who don’t have access to driveways and have to resort to parking on streets with confusing parking restrictions – overnight parking restrictions being only one of them.

The city needs a new source of income that does not disproportionately affect one group. If the advertising legislation

that I wrote about in an earlier column passes, I think that could help create income for the city.

Milwaukee has to find a way to be more efficient. Whether it’s in staffing or spending, the city isn’t operating at its point of equilibrium, and it needs to find it.

The city issues an absurd amount of tickets, and many of them are unfounded. With many accounts of people challenging tickets and eventually having them overturned, there is an excessive amount of unnecessary spending. If Milwaukee can introduce new technology to streamline the ticketing process, the city could avoid disputing unwarranted tickets and its residents could steer clear of those pesky parking fees.

Eric Oliver is a senior studying journalism and writing intensive English. Email Eric with any comments or suggestions at eric.oliver@marquette.edu.

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Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Women complete five-peat

Photos by Valeria Cardenas/valeria.cardenas@marquette.edu

Senior forward Maegan Kelly scored two fantastic goals in the 6-0 Big East clinching win over Providence. Kelly has won the regular season crown all four of her years at Marquette.

Golden Eagles dismantle Providence for regular season title

By Kyle Doubrava

kyle.doubrava@marquette.edu

Marquette women’s soccer coach Markus Roeders gathered his players at midfield shortly after their 6-0 trouncing of Providence Sunday. Locking hands, the team marched toward the fans and gracefully took a bow.

The Big East regular season champions are familiar with the routine.

The Golden Eagles claimed their fifth straight first-place finish in the conference, and its first in the new, single-table format. No. 17 Marquette already earned itself a first-round bye in the Big East Tournament, which will be hosted at Valley Fields next week.

“Everybody who has been a

part of this program in the past has all done their part for us to be where we are now,” Roeders said. “For us to be in this position in the new Big East, with the way it’s structured now ... it never gets old. You play for that. You play for winning games.”

Senior midfielder Maegan Kelly, who scored two goals in the game, only knows conference titles in her collegiate career. For her, the journey has been somewhat surreal.

“I never thought this would happen to me,” Kelly said. “It’s a pretty cool experience overall.”

Marquette received additional scores from Mady Vicker, Ashley Handwork, Alex Heffron and Shalese Miller.

Vicker scored in the 13th minute on a combined assist from Cara Jacobson and Taylor Madigan. A goal by Handwork in the 41st minute shifted the Golden Eagles into the next gear.

Kelly nailed a penalty kick in

the 49th minute to extend the margin to three and scored again seven minutes later when she beat the goalie to the near post and tapped the ball in the net.

Heffron’s corner kick in the 77th minute ricocheted off the post and rolled out of the reach of Providence’s keeper, one of Marquette’s more peculiar goals of the season. Miller tallied her goal with two seconds remaining to help Marquette earn its most lopsided victory this fall.

Providence, which dropped to 2-6 in the Big East, was powerless all afternoon. Marquette’s defenders smothered its front line, not allowing a shot on goal and continuing its shutout streak, which stands at 491 consecutive minutes. The Golden Eagles held a 16-0 shots on goal advantage.

“For us, everybody has to attack and everybody has to defend,” Roeders said. “We try to put the puzzle pieces together and at the end of the day, like today, we

Freshman forward Ashley Handwork jostles with an opponent in Marquette’s 6-0 win Sunday at Valley Fields.

can claim a championship, which is pretty sweet.”

There will be a fair share of celebration for the achievement, but there is still work to be completed.

Senior night is Saturday against Butler, and the underclassmen would like to return to work soon to ensure Saturday’s match is a memorable one for veterans.

“We’re going to have fun,” Vicker said. “We’re going to have a lot of fun. Senior Night is coming up, so that’s going to be fun, and we can’t wait to play for our

seniors. It’ll be great.”

Attention is now on the upcoming conference tournament. The bye will benefit Marquette’s practice regiment but competing at Valley Fields, where it is 44-3-5 in the last four years, appears to be the true advantage.

“That’s a huge treat,” Vicker said. “It makes a huge difference playing at home versus traveling.

It’s always nice to play in front of your fans on your field and kind of protect the house. It gives a little extra motivation.”

Mary Luba, Ashley Handwork and a Providence player go for the ball.

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

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Hockey win pair against Iowa Team bounces back from Arkansas series with 10-1, 5-4 wins

By Jacob Born

jacob.born@marquette.edu

Down 4-3 with just under two minutes remaining in the game, Marquette was desperate. The men’s club hockey team led Iowa 3-1 with 15 minutes left in the game, but surrendered three straight goals in the third.

Sam Nader came out of the penalty box after serving a tripping penalty and immediately jumped into the play. Nader got the puck at the top of the right circle and rifled a shot over the goaltenders glove to tie

the game at four with 1:30 left in the game.

Just one minute later, Dominic Zanfardino caused a turnover in the neutral zone and took on a defender one-onone. He put the puck between the defender’s legs, got around him and took a shot on net. The goalie saved the puck, but the rebound bounced up into the air, where Zanfardino batted it into the net for the go-ahead goal. The lead held, and Marquette stole a win from Iowa to sweep the weekend.

“We were just trying to push it because we didn’t know what was going to go on,” assistant coach Chris Frantz said. “It was kind of a sloppy game … it was really stressful.”

“It was relieving,” Zanfardino said. “We came out and won

10-1 the night before against a team we should clearly beat.

Losing this game is a lot bigger than winning this game.”

Marquette started the weekend determined to get a win after the tough Arkansas series, and Nader powered the Golden Eagles to an opening victory.

Nader opened his scoring with an absolute snipe from the slot.

He beat the Iowa goaltender clean on the high glove side, and scored goals like that all weekend. In the third period of Game 1, Nader scored two more goals for his hat trick and scored another just for good measure. Of his four goals, three of them were scored on the high glove side, including his third that snuck in off the underside of the bar.

Nader scored two more goals in Game 2, and scored his first high blocker side before going back to the glove side for his second. His six goals in one weekend is the most for any skater for Marquette this season, moving him into third on Marquette’s season scoring list.

“I think (Nader) really stepped it up,” Frantz said.

“From last weekend, being hurt, and coming back, he really stepped it up.”

“I had an injury last weekend, so coming back, it felt great to get out there and give a little bit of effort,” Nader said.

Marquette defeated Iowa 10-1 in the opening game, taking a total of 42 shots. A breakout third period saw five Marquette goals and a chased Iowa goaltender. A majority of the goals scored in Game 1 were to the high glove side, which Marquette attacked in the second game. However, Iowa’s goaltender kept the game close with some big saves and blocked shots by his defenders. In the 5-4 victory in Game 2, Marquette shot the puck 50 times.

Iowa didn’t reach 50 shots in the two games combined.

The Golden Eagles head into Halloween weekend with a pair of home games against Robert Morris – Black. Game 1 is Friday at 7:30 p.m., and Game 2 is Saturday at 1:00 p.m.

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The NFL is great, but is fantasy football ruining it?

Patrick Leary In the third inning of my intramural championship softball game Sunday night, the first base umpire turned to our first baseman and said the magic words.

“Aaron Rodgers to Jordy Nelson for a 76-yard touchdown.”

Immediately, our first baseman turned to the outfield and, gloating, relayed the news to our centerfielder who groaned in disgust. But was one a Packers fan and the other a Vikings fan? Nope. The two were playing each other in fantasy football this week, and the first baseman had Jordy Nelson on his team.

Scenarios like this one are necessary realities of the 2013 NFL experience. According to the Fantasy Sports Trade Association, 33,559,990 people play fantasy sports in the United States in 2013.

Of those, 69.4 percent said their favorite fantasy sport was football.

The magnitude of fantasy football cannot be denied. Heck, even my softball team, Team Priest, gets its name from one of the best fantasy football running backs of all time, Priest Holmes. But what effect does this fantasy obsession have on the way football fans watch games?

Personally, I find myself caring less about the outcomes of games than how players involved in my fantasy matchups perform. Sunday night, I watched the tail end of the Packers-Vikings game while flipping back-and-forth between game four of the World Series, even though the football game was very much in the bag for the Packers.

I also had Nelson (and Vikings’ tight end Kyle Rudolph) starting for my fantasy football team, and trailed my roommate by only five points when I got home from my softball game.

In that way, playing fantasy football fundamentally altered my viewing choices as a sports fan. I love baseball, but the competition against my roommate drew me to

watch a game that the Packers led by 17 in the fourth quarter. I cheer for the Packers in a matchup between those two teams, but would never watch that game instead of the World Series under normal circumstances. I felt selfish and dirty about it, but I had to know if Nelson would carry me to victory.

Many people, especially purist sports fans, would say fantasy football ruins the way people watch the nation’s most popular sport. Even the athletes themselves have offered opinions on the nationwide obsession.

New York Giants running back Brandon Jacobs said at least one person threatened to kill him if he didn’t play last Monday against the Vikings.

“That’s all people ever talk about,” Jacobs said. “You sit down at a restaurant to eat and people say, I have you on my fantasy team, you have to do something for me this week.”

Even the players feel the impacts of fans’ shuffled priorities.

Death threats aside, fantasy football enhances the way fans watch the NFL. Would I ordinarily have cared about a game between the Lions and Cowboys, despite the game’s exciting ending? Not really, no. But since Calvin Johnson was going for the second-best receiving game in NFL history, I wanted to see how many fantasy points he would score.

Not only does fantasy football make the NFL more interesting, it creates rivalries between my friends that wouldn’t normally be possible.

Every time the Seahawks play the Packers from now until eternity, Green Bay fans will start whining about the Fail Mary and how bad of a person Golden Tate is. However, this feud only takes place about once every two seasons. With fantasy football, I can live these rivalries every time I play a cheesehead in my weekly matchup.

Ultimately, there’s no doubt fantasy football completely changed the way fans consume the NFL. But with all of the interest and good-natured rivalries fantasy football creates, it is undoubtedly good for fans and the game they love.

Patrick Leary is a junior majoring in journalism. Email him at patrick.leary@ marquette.edu. Follow him on Twitter @Patrickkleary.

Men come up short in Austin Doubles pairing of Tehrani, Trukov makes quarterfinals

By Andrew Dawson

andrew.dawson@marquette.edu

The Marquette men’s tennis team completed its fall season this weekend at the Texas Invitational in Austin, Texas.

The weekend started off with singles play, where Marquette struggled. Only two out of Marquette’s five singles players made it past the first round.

Junior Cameron Tehrani had a bye in the round of 64 and made it past his round of 32

match, defeating Lucas Anderson 4-6, 6-2, 6-1 in the Men’s Open Singles A Draw bracket.

His success did not carry on in singles play and he was defeated in the round of 16 by Josh Hagar 6-1, 6-3.

In the Men’s Open Singles B Draw, again only one player would be successful in the opening rounds. Sophomore Gleb Sklyr defeated Trey Seymour of UT-Tyler 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 in a close round of 32 contest, but Sklyr lost later in the day in the round of 16 by Notre Dame’s Matt Dooley.

Players who lost in singles went on to play in consolation matches, where they were again unsuccessful. The only player who performed well in consolation was senior Logon Collins, who won two consolation

matches before being defeated in the third round.

Doubles play continued its fall success with great performances from the tandem of Tehrani and freshman Kristiyan Trukov.

The duo battled its way to the quarterfinals in the Men’s Open Doubles bracket. They would fall to the eventual runners-up, Maxime Hinnissdaels and Hugo Dojas of Texas Tech. Collins and Dykema opened doubles play in the round of 64 and won before falling to a semifinalist.

With the fall season in the books, Marquette has a long break before returning to the court Jan. 18 against Lipscomb.

The team will have a significant amount of work to do in preparation for a grueling spring season.

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Georgetown halts men’s momentum in overtime

Photos by Valeria Cardenas/valeria.cardenas@marquette.edu

Redshirt sophomore C. Nortey dribbles between two Georgetown defenders in Saturday night’s 1-0 loss. Marquette failed to score for the second straigh match despite 17 total shots.

Hoyas gain inside track to regular season title in 1-0 win

By Ben Greene

benjamin.greene@marquette.edu

The Marquette men’s soccer team suffered a tough 1-0 overtime loss to the Georgetown Hoyas at Valley Fields Saturday night.

Senior Georgetown defender Ted Helfrich scored the game winner – his first goal of the season – in extra time to give Georgetown the win. The decisive score was set up by senior forward Steve Neumann’s corner kick, which Helfrich headed home from about six yards out.

This loss is the Golden Eagles’ first in Big East conference play and it also snapped their five-game winning streak. They are now in a first-place tie with Georgetown, who has beaten Marquette in each of their last five match ups, including a 2-1 double-over-

time victory in last year’s Big East Tournament semifinals.

“Congratulations to Georgetown, they came with a good game plan and executed it,” coach Louis Bennett said. “I still thought we really put our stamps on the game.

It’s disappointing but we’ve put ourselves in a position to at least have a share of the title.”

Although Marquette tallied 17 shots compared to Georgetown’s 13, the Hoyas put six of their shots on goal, while the Golden Eagles could only muster five. Senior defender Eric Pothast said it was a tale of two halves in terms of each team’s scoring chances.

“We didn’t play our best soccer in the first half,” Pothast said. “We wanted to step it up defensively in the second half. Wanted to have more energy and go after it a little more and as you could see we kind of took over the game more in the second half.”

The Golden Eagles had plenty of clean looks in the final 45 minutes, but they just could not find the back of the net. Freshman forward Coco Navarro initiated Marquette’s attack when he sent a shot over the crossbar in the 74th

minute, but the team kept its foot on the gas. Unfortunately, Lysak had his third shot of the day saved and redshirt sophomore forward C. Nortey suffered two near misses in the next 10 minutes.

Marquette has not scored a goal since Louis Bennett II’s gamewinning score in the 73rd minute against Providence 10 days ago. Following that game, the Golden Eagles drew 0-0 against Saint John’s before their most recent matchup with the Hoyas.

However, Bennett said he is not panicking after his team’s most recent setback.

“This loss isn’t the last game we’re going to play, so we can learn from it,” Bennett said. “I think the university has a good group of guys, very talented group and a brand of soccer that you can stick behind. Playing this way, we’re going to win more than we lose.”

Marquette will host Seton Hall Saturday, Nov. 2 at Valley Fields.

Senior Bryan Ciesiulka said he is excited for the senior night game.

“I’m looking forward to getting us back on the winning track,” Ciesiulka said.

Redshirt junior goalkeeper Charlie Lyon played well in net again Saturday.

Volleyball sweeps three in dominating weekend

Team goes nine sets up, nine sets down

By Patrick Leary

patrick.leary@marquette.edu

The Marquette women’s volleyball team powered its way to first place in the Big East with a trio of home sweeps over the weekend.

The Golden Eagles defeated Creighton 25-22, 25-18, 25-13 Friday, Villanova 25-23, 25-21, 27-25 Saturday and Georgetown 25-14, 25-18, 29-27 Sunday at the Al McGuire Center.

“This was a great weekend for us,” coach Bond Shymansky said.

“With first place at stake in the conference, there was so much opportunity that existed for us on Friday night. We took care of that opportunity in a huge way. The confidence of our team and the

preparation was fantastic. And then for us to back it up on Saturday and Sunday, that was the hardest part.”

Friday, Marquette notched its biggest win of the 2013 season, sweeping archrival Creighton in convincing fashion. The win came just 12 days after the Blue Jays embarrassed the Golden Eagles in Omaha, Neb., and less than a year after they knocked Marquette out of the 2012 NCAA Tournament.

Shymansky said the budding rivalry with another Big East contender made the victory all the sweeter.

“Creighton has become a nemesis for us, which is actually fun,” Shymansky said. “We want to have that feeling.”

Freshman outside hitters Autumn Bailey and Nele Barber led the Golden Eagles with 13 and 12 kills, respectively, while freshman middle hitter Teal Schnurr added a career-high seven. Both captains

also chipped in solid numbers, with senior setter Elizabeth Koberstein tallying 36 assists and Julie Jeziorowski racking up 18 digs.

“We prepared all week for Creighton,” Koberstein said. “To come out and really execute our game plan, we had such good focused energy. That just set the tone for the whole weekend.”

The Golden Eagles experienced a bit of an emotional hangover Saturday, and battled to sweep Villanova. They didn’t win any set by more than four points.

“I would say it was kind of a mental hangover,” Koberstein said.

“We were ready to play again, but we weren’t focused on the things we needed to be doing. Our blocking wasn’t very good, I don’t think we passed very well and I don’t think we served very tough.”

Bailey led the Marquette offense again with an impressive double-

double (12 kills, 15 digs). Redshirt freshman middle hitter Meghan Niemann delivered 11 kills in support and Koberstein had another 36-assist evening.

Marquette clinched its fourth consecutive sweep Sunday in a brutal third set against Georgetown. After falling behind 24-21, the Golden Eagles fought off set point after set point before finally prevailing 29-27. Bailey had her best performance of the weekend with 18 kills and her third straight double-double. She closed the three-game stretch with 41 kills, and was named Big East freshman of the week Monday.

“Autumn has been very terminal,” Shymansky said. “She has been a really steady player for us for the most part. She’s been leading us to big kills and her jump serve has been phenomenal.”

Shymansky expects such im-

pressive games from his star freshman, who averages 4.07 kills per set, good for second place in the Big East.

“Pretty soon we’ll start saying she’s doing a great job for a freshman, because pretty much she’s just doing a great job,” Shymansky said.

Now atop the conference, Marquette has no time to sit on its laurels. The Golden Eagles embark on their most difficult road trip of the season next week as they take on Butler Friday and Xavier Saturday.

Shymansky said he knows Marquette’s opponents will be gunning for the top spot.

“Xavier and Butler are new in our league and they are about to also become our nemeses,” he said.

“They are both doing a really good job, and I know they are going to be licking their chops for us to come in there this weekend.”