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Former Miami of Ohio coach takes reins

By Tyler Peters

tyler.peters@marquette.edu

“The Marquette Way.” It’s the philosophy new head coach Megan Duffy is instilling in the Marquette women’s basketball team.

It embodies what Duffy is all about as she enters her first year with the Golden Eagles.

The era began April 10, 2019, the day vice president and director of athletics Bill Scholl named Duffy the program’s sixth head coach.

Duffy’s head coaching career began in 2017 when she won 20 games with the Miami University Redhawks and became just one of four rookie head coaches in

all of NCAA women’s basketball to accomplish the feat.

Overall, Duffy finished with a 44-20 record in her two years with the RedHawks, making her the winningest active coach in the Mid-American Conference.

Duffy inherited a Marquette roster that lost all five of its starters from last season to graduation. The team now has to replace Natisha Hiedeman, Allazia Blockton, Danielle King, Erika Davenport and Amani Wilborn, all of whom were 1,000-point scorers.

The Golden Eagles have a long way to go to reach the same level of success that former head coach Carolyn Kieger and her legacy achieved.

Under Kieger, the program won its first-ever BIG EAST title at the Al McGuire Center in 2017 and earned a program-best fifth seed in the NCAA Tournament.

“I’m not really concerned about the win total. I’m not really concerned about what everybody else on the outside is saying,” Duffy said. “I’m just really excited to see them every day and have the growth that we’re going to keep moving forward and find this next championship-level team.”

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program when we were rebuilding, and that’s not an easy position to be in.”

Howard’s new challenge will be running the offense without the Hauser brothers, two of the team’s top three scorers and two of the team’s best perimeter shooters last season.

Neptune credited much of M a r q u e t t e ’s previous success to how well-rounded the team’s offense has been.

“One of their biggest things has been they’re very well-balanced,” Neptune said.

Without the Hausers, Howard said he is looking for others to take the scoring pressure off of him.

Wojciechowski singled out four players he expects to step up in this season’s offense.

“If you think of

Almost 11 months after senior Markus Howard’s record-breaking 45-point performance against Kansas State, Wildcats’ head coach Bruce Weber vividly remembers Howard picking apart his defense.

“We really didn’t have any answers for him. He got going. He got on some runs.

He made some tough shots,” Weber, Kansas State University head coach, said. “Obviously, there were a lot of fouls called in that game and he got a lot of free throws (19 of 21), but that’s to his credit.”

Howard’s decision to stay at Marquette for his senior year gives coaches like Weber one more year of game-planning against the robust player.

“He’s one of the best shooters we’ve had in this league, really,” Villanova University assistant coach Kyle Neptune said. “He never stops moving, and he can do it so many different ways. He can come off screens, he can isolate, he can get to the basket (and) obviously he shoots threes.”

Golden Eagle play won’t be the same this year, though. Players Sam and Joey Hauser transferred to the University of Virginia and Michigan State University, respectively, leaving Howard with a larger leadership role this year.

“Markus is one of the faces of college basketball,” head coach Steve Wojciechowski said. “He decided to come to our See CHANCE page 2B

Memo urges MU to reconsider office closure Committee outlines concerns regarding ombuds position

By Annie Mattea

anne.mattea@marquette.edu

The Committee on Diversity and Equity issued a memorandum Oct. 17 urging university leadership to reconsider its decision on the

closing of the ombuds office.

The ombuds office, where faculty and staff could receive confidential support and connections to multiple resources, was closed as part of the university’s cost management process in which 2.5% of staff were laid off Sept. 5. The office contained one part-time position.

The CDE is a committee that ensures and promotes diversity and equity opportunities and works with the Academic Senate and

provost among other campus bodies, according to its website. CDE details its concerns regarding the office’s closure within the memo.

Monica Adya, CDE chair and Department of Management chair, said CDE met the day following the office’s closure.

Adya said multiple members wanted to reflect the faculty’s voice in a formal memo to the provost and president.

“Sentiments around this are very

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high,” Adya said. “There were a good number of faculty who were very upset about the loss of this resource. They were upset there was not clear communication around this decision.”

The memo said that the ombud’s position was created as part of a task force on gender equity in 2001.

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process,” the memo said.

Kali Murray, a professor of law and member of CDE, said one of the reasons the position was introduced was because female faculty were in a significantly disadvantaged position.

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Misrepresentation impacts Native Americans Marquette seal reflects larger appropriation phenomenon, discourse

By Emily Rouse

emily.rouse@marquette.edu

While Marquette’s former warrior mascot was replaced in 1994, a controversy over Native American representation continues to exist in another university trademark: the seal.

The seal was first implemented in the early 1900s. The image of Father Marquette is based off a William Lamprecht painting titled “Pere Marquette and the Indians.”

The artwork depicts a “romantic vision of reciprocity and dialogue among members of the Illini and Miami tribes and Father Marquette,” according to the university’s website. The painting shows Fr. Marquette and a group of Native Americans deliberating a direction to move toward overlooking the Mississippi River.

However, the seal does not contain the entire image of the painting, which changes the meaning, said Lynne Shumow, curator for academic engagement at the Haggerty Museum of Art. “The controversy is the way in which it’s cropped, (which) totally alters the narrative,” Shumow said.

“It looks like Father Marquette is the one saying, ‘This is where you go,’ so it really changes this whole power structure.”

A historical record also suggested that the seal depicted a less than reciprocal relationship.

“The lower half represents Father Marquette pointing to the Mississippi river which he discovered.

Numen Flumenque means ‘God and the River’ — indicating that Marquette made known the Deity to the Indians and the Mississippi to the White Man,” according to a Marquette University News Bureau statement found in the Department of Special Collections and University Archives.

Emilia Layden, curator of collections and exhibitions at the Haggerty Museum of Art, said while she believes there was no intentional malice, the cropping of the image does erase some of the “nuance and complexity” of the original.

The cropping highlights a larger conversation of cultural appropriation among Native Americans.

The Cambridge Dictionary defines cultural appropriation as “the act of taking or using things from a culture that is not your own, especially without showing that you understand or respect this culture.”

“We have different nations across the Americas, and they are very diverse,” Mark Powless, manager at Southeastern Oneida Tribal Services in Milwaukee and member of the Oneida Tribe, said. “So to slap some kind of image on a helmet or a jersey and say that that’s ‘Indian,’ for one, is just completely irresponsible and inaccurate.”

In May 2019, Maine became the first state to pass an act barring the use of Native American mascots in public schools. Maine Gov. Janet Mills said in a statement that she signed the bill into effect after hearing from local Native American communities how those mascots were a “source of pain and anguish.” Rep. Benjamin Collings of Portland, Maine, said he was “grateful” Mills passed the act, as Native Americans “are people, not mascots.”

Powless said mascots create false perceptions of cultural meanings.

“If you spoke to an individual who was not educated in what a chief is, they would probably provide a very stereotypical answer,” Powless said. “Each tribe has a different understanding of what a chief is. Within our tribe, the word that we have basically translates to being a good man.”

Powless said while indigenous peoples are prone to appropriation by mascots, this is not always the case for other racial or ethnic groups.

“Americans would never do this with any other race. There’s the baseball team the Cleveland Indians. … (If the team) said, ‘We’re going to change it to the Cleveland Blacks,’ that would be completely unacceptable.” Powless said.

“There would be a huge outroar … and everybody would understand how inappropriate that is — or most people would.”

Beyond misrepresentation, there are other consequential social issues facing Native Americans.

A study by the National Center for Health Statistics observed suicide rates for ethnic groups from 1999 to 2017. They found that the suicide rate for Native American or Alaska Native females in the United States increased by 139%, the highest of any racial or ethnic group, according to a study by the National Center for Health Statistics. For males of the same ethnicity, the suicide rate increased by 71%. The average rate increase for females and males of all ethnicities together in the United States amounted to 53% and 26%, respectively.

Powless said that although one definitive reason cannot be named for the trend, it is likely related to historical trauma.

“Attempted ethnic cleansing and genocide sort of ripped the soul and fire out of our people,” Powless said. “This was delivered to us over and over and over again in painful ways over the course of centuries.”

More than four in five Native American and Alaska Native women will encounter violence in their lifetimes, and these women are 1.7 times more likely to be physically injured than non-Hispanic white women, according to the National Congress of American Indians.

NCAI also reported 56.1% of Native American women experience sexual violence, with 96% of survivors experiencing this violence at least once at the hands of a nonNative American perpetrator.

Samantha Majhor, an assistant professor of English at Marquette with a focus in Native American literature and member of the Yankton Dakota and Assiniboine tribes, said that along with other factors, such as the gap between jurisdiction of federal, state and tribal law enforcement agencies, sexualization of Native American women in the media is one of the contributing factors to this violence.

“Especially in Disney, we get that sort of romanticization of John Smith and Pocahontas,” Majhor said. “Part of that portrayal is of the Native woman as available.”

Representation of Native Americans in the media of primetime television and popular movies ranges from zero to 0.4% of characters, with less than 1% of children’s cartoon characters and 0.09% of video game characters being Native American, according to a 2015 study by the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.

Most of these characters depict indigenous peoples as historical 18th or 19th century figures.

Majhor said contemporary representation of Native Americans in the media often isn’t done by Native Americans themselves.

“In today’s portrayals, we have a lot more Native media speaking back, but again, it is difficult

for Native people to get a seat at the table,” Majhor said. “Even before contact, there was this imaginary ‘other,’ this imaginary ‘Indian,’ and that became the label for (all tribes).”

She added that the best thing to do is use the name that each tribe uses for itself when speaking of them.

Majhor said along with a need for distinction between tribes, there is a need to draw a line between authentic and costume jewelry.

“I think buying beautiful artwork from Native people is a fabulous thing to do. I wouldn’t consider that appropriation,” Majhor said. “I think wearing a fake headdress on Halloween is very much appropriation.”

Before the contemporary representations of Native Americans came to be, boarding schools attempted to strip Native Americans of their cultures.

Thousands of Native Americans attended federal boarding schools from the 1890s to 1980s, according to the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition. At these schools, administrators and teachers punished Native Americans for speaking their indigenous languages or wearing any traditional clothing. The schools were also a site of physical, sexual and spiritual abuse.

Powless said his family has a personal connection to this era of boarding schools: his great-grandfather was enrolled.

Powless said his

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great-grandfather did not talk much about the experience likely because of all the pain it caused, but the effects were still evident. “(My great-grandfather’s) mother died while he was at boarding school,” Powless said. “His family tried to contact him to inform him … and the school was not giving my great-grandfather those letters, but because there were students who were coming from the reservation, he was hearing from them.

So he was never informed that his mother died — he was not allowed to attend her funeral.”

Powless said the schools also contributed toward many Native Americans inflicting self-harm. “(Survivors) started drinking as a coping mechanism because of the pain they experienced,” he said.

“They also had been taught not to love themselves because of their language, their culture, their identity. They were pretty much told that (their culture) was of no value and that they had to adopt American values.”

The effects of the boarding schools still linger today, Powless said.

“When I was a child, all of the elders in my community spoke the language,” Powless said.

“Now, out of a population of about 17,000 tribal members, we have about five that speak (the Oneida language) fluently.”

The misrepresentation of Native Americans in the classroom today contributes to the myth that Native Americans no longer exist, Majhor said.

“But it’s all really wrapped up into one ball of not fully understanding that Native people are still here,” Majhor said. “And there’s a whole lot of history — intertwined history — that when we don’t understand the full complexity of it, we continue to perpetuate some of these deeper problems.”

Powless said the repeated suppression of culture continues to affect the way Native Americans feel internally.

“What you’re looking at is a population of survivors, but also a population that has really been demoralized,” Powless said. “If you have no self-worth, no self-value and you don’t have any values or any of those beautiful things to really cling to in your being, in your culture, it really leaves an individual empty.”

Powless said one way for society to move toward a more accurate representation of Native Americans is through the education system.

“A lot of schools and colleges use Native mascots, and these are institutions of education,” Powless said. “Native history is not taught in schools, and Native history is American history.”

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MEMO: University details alternative resources for faculty issues, conflicts Continued from page 1A members,” Murray said.

The memo said although some of the issues in the 2001 taskforce have seen mitigation in the past decade, recent work climate studies reinforce many deficits addressed in the 2001 taskforce.

“In light of these climate and trust issues, the Ombud’s office is necessary to provide a confidential and neutral resource for Marquette faculty and staff,” the memo said.

Murray said the position ensured more equity on campus.

“Taking away this avenue where incidents that do not raise to Title IX violations or incidents that are based on other forms of discrimination like racial and religious discrimination, we are in essence taking away a safety valve that helps parties navigate equitable relationships on campus,” Murray said.

Acting Provost Kimo Ah Yun said there are other resources in place for faculty. However, the memo said specific resources do not engage in the same way as the ombuds office.

“Many of the alternatives suggested are not viewed as ‘neutral’ or approachable by faculty and staff, nor do they have the same professional scope as an Ombud,” the memo said.

A resource suggested by Ah Yun during the Sept. 16 Academic Senate meeting was the Employee Assistance Program, a third-party program offered through Aurora Health Care that works on a broad array of faculty issues, such as providing support to faculty.

According to the memo, third-party programs are not tailored to the university and do not understand its inner workings, creating hesitancy among faculty and staff to reach out to third-party counselors.

The memo also said internal

units, such as the Title IX coordinator and the Office of Diversity, Equity, Mission and Ministry are not suitable. It said that these programs are focused on delivering services to students and are severely understaffed.

“The Ombud served the unique needs of faculty and staff and mitigated the demand on services of these other student-oriented units,” the memo said.

It said that Marquette University Police Department is also not an acceptable alternative, as it is a law enforcement unit that must conform to state and federal laws.

“Involving MUPD may be viewed as an escalation of conflict, where an Ombud serves the purpose of de-escalation,” the memo said.

It also outlined that the Office of Faculty Affairs, which is an office to provide guidance to faculty, does not provide the same support as an ombuds office. The memo said that the office primarily focuses on professional development and has a formal reporting structure to the Office of the Provost.

The memo outlined three points based on the feedback of faculty and staff. First, the university had not formally communicated with faculty about the closure to the date of the memo’s release. Second, the closing of the ombuds office underscores the necessary nature of diversity planning.

“We remain concerned that the university fails to fully appreciate the institutional history and context in diversity planning on campus and continues to underappreciate the difficult task of planning for diversity in a strategic and holistic manner,” the memo said.

The third point was that the president’s office should have provided greater transparency around the decision.

The memo concludes that

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The memo was discussed at the Academic Senate meeting Oct. 21.

members of CDE are willing to meet to further discuss rationale for the request.

Adya met with Ah Yun following the Oct. 21 Academic Senate meeting, during which the memo was discussed.

During the Oct. 21 meeting, faculty raised concerns regarding the office. Brittany Pladek, an assistant professor of English, had concerns regarding the financial position of the office. She raised questions about whether the decision to close the office effectively lowered costs.

Murray brought up the power dynamic between non-tenured, or junior faculty, and more senior faculty at the meeting.

Kim Factor, an associate professor of mathematics and statistical science, said she was concerned about scenarios involving senior level faculty as well.

Factor said a possible scenario could be a non-tenured faculty member being concerned whether they have to participate in specific activities to get tenure. She said in this scenario it would be crucial to have confidentiality in order to

ensure that administrators did not think the non-tenured faculty was not putting in the effort.

Factor said the decision to remove the position and office was not transparent. The CDE was notified that the ombud was no longer with the university because the position was a non-voting member of CDE. However, Factor found out because she saw the ombud moving out of their office — Factor’s office is on the third floor of Cudahy Hall, and the ombud was on the fourth.

Factor said that she did not think faculty were consulted, despite the office being an asset for them.

“Faculty and staff had no say-so in this at all,” Factor said.

She also said she is curious why the university has stood strong in this decision, despite faculty concerns.

“I think their minds are made up, and I want to know why,” Factor said. “Why, no matter what the people who used it say, are they so against (reinstating it)?”

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Poll reports sentiments regarding impeachment Public opinion changes evident post-Mueller Report

By Alexa Jurado

alexa.jurado@marquette.edu

The Marquette University Law School shared the results of their monthly poll Oct. 23 at “On the Issues with Mike Gousha.”

“On the Issues,” is a series at the Law School that explores public policy.

Polling was done Oct. 13-17, with 799 Wisconsin voters, 60% of whom were interviewed by cellphone, and 40% by landline.

The October poll explores issues like President Donald Trump’s tentative impeachment, Trump’s job approval and candidates for the 2020 Presidential Election.

The poll revealed a 17 percentage point increase in those who believe there is enough evidence to impeach Trump since April. Of Wisconsin voters, 46% say there is enough cause for impeachment, 49% say there’s not enough cause and 5% say they don’t know.

Poll director Charles Franklin said

opinion has changed substantially after the anticipation of the Mueller Report in January and some of the results of the report in April.

In January, 33% said there was enough cause for impeachment. In April, 29% said there was enough cause.

Paul Nolette, an associate professor of political science, said the uptick suggests there is something about the president asking Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden’s son that seems to have influenced more people than the Mueller Report, which was a bigger investigation.

Despite the increase, this is still below the national average of voters who say there’s enough case for impeachment, which is around 50%, Franklin said.

“At least for Wisconsin voters, (the) majority are not there yet,” Franklin said.

The poll also explored opinions on Trump’s job approval. The survey showed the president’s overall job approval rate has 46% approval, 51% disapproval and 2% who don’t know. Approval has gone up and disapproval has gone down, though these developments were slight. While approval numbers have changed, Franklin said he’s not

convinced there is any kind of trend.

“This would most likely be statistical noise,” he said. This doesn’t necessarily speak to election as a whole.

However, Trump’s overall job approval were not necessarily reflected in other aspects of the poll.

“A potential area of weakness we see is the handling of foreign policy, and whether or not people approve,” Gousha, who is a distinguished fellow in law and public policy, said.

Despite Trump’s overall job approval, only 37% approve of his handling of foreign policy and 59% disapprove, with 4% who say they don’t know. Franklin called this a “substantial drop” from the last poll, citing recent events as the cause, including incidents with Ukraine.

“I think we have a couple of issues that are getting a lot of attention right now, most of which were apparently in the president’s control, so there’s a direct connection to his actions,” Franklin said.

When asked if Trump’s foreign policies have helped or hurt the U.S.’s standing in the world, 32% said the policies have helped and 58% said they have hurt, while 2% said the policies have not had an effect and 6% said they didn’t know.

Franklin said it was a split decision

on whether or not voters believed Trump has kept his campaign promises. Of those who responded, 47% believe he is keeping his campaign promises while 46% believe he is not. There has been little movement in this regard, staying relatively the same when looking at the four polls conducted since June 2017 all of which asked the same question.

The survey also looked into whether voters agreed that the statement “Trump cares about people like me” is something that describes the president. It’s what Gousha called the “empathy question.” 40% said it did describe him, while 57% said it did not describe him.

It then asked if the phrase “Trump is someone who is honest” described the president. Only 30% of respondents said it described Trump, while 65% said it did not describe him.

Franklin said these have been weaker areas for Trump, showing a range of perceptions of the president.

“While there’s not much of a trend over time with these (questions), there are variations in the way people react to the president that differ by the dimension you’re asking about,” he said.

The poll also investigated voters’ preferences for the 2020 presidential

election. When pitted against Trump, former Vice President Joe Biden is favored at 50% and Trump at 44%.

Meanwhile, 3% said they would not support either candidate and 3% said they didn’t know.

Of the Democratic Party presidential primary candidates, Biden was also the first choice of many, with 31% saying they would vote for him.

Elizabeth Warren received 24%, Bernie Sanders received 17% and Pete Buttigieg received 7%. Other candidates received 5% or less.

However, Warren was found to be a very significant second choice.

Nolette said that in an election like this, there can be a lot of movement, so it shows Wisconsin is very much considering Warren as a candidate.

Franklin said the top three Democratic candidates are rated very favorably.

“In a general election, it’s rare to have people feel positively about more than one candidate,” he said.

The poll also asked respondents about state and national issues, including gun policy, healthcare, the economy, deer hunting and dairy farms.

“What (the poll) shows is that Wisconsin is as polarized as ever,” Nolette said.

Marquette accepts donation Threatening video results in arrest Purdue Pharma cited with lawsuits over opioid crisis

By Matt Harte

matthew.harte@marquette.edu

Marquette University accepted $65,000 in donations from a foundation associated with the Sacklers, a family currently facing lawsuits from cities, states and counties around the nation for their alleged role in contributing to the opioid crisis.

The Sackler family owns Purdue Pharma, manufacturer of the prescription opioid pain reliever Oxycontin. From 1999 to 2017, almost 218,000 people died in the United States from overdoses related to prescription opioids, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Marquette accepted a $50,000 gift and a $15,000 gift from the Bouncer Foundation in 2016, according to Senior Director of University Communication Lynn Griffith. The Bouncer Foundation listed Jonathan Sackler as the nonprofit’s director and president in tax documents from 2016.

Jonathan Sackler is a former board member of Purdue Pharma and son of Raymond Sackler, one of the founders of Purdue, according to the Wall Street Journal.

“Philanthropic contributions to Marquette are reviewed to

ensure they are in alignment with our Catholic, Jesuit mission, based on the information available at the time the gift is made,” Griffith said in an email.

Griffith said both gifts went toward the College of Education’s Institute for the Transformation of Learning.

The Institute creates programs to reform K-12 education, especially for low-income students, according to

“

Philanthropic contributions ... are reviewed to ensure they are in alignment with our Catholic, Jesuit mission.”

Lynn Griffith Senior Director, University Communication

Marquette’s website.

In the late 1990s, pharmaceutical companies assured the medical community that patients would not become addicted to prescription opioid pain relievers, and healthcare providers began to prescribe them at greater rates, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

The institute states this assurance led to widespread prescription and

misuse of these medications before it became clear that the medications could, in fact, be highly addictive.

Purdue Pharma pleaded guilty to charges of misleading doctors and the public about the safety of Oxycontin and paid a $635 million fine in 2007, according to the Washington Post. In 2018, states and counties around the nation began filing lawsuits against the Sackler Family.

Wisconsin sued Purdue Pharma and former Purdue Pharma chairman Richard Sackler in May 2019 for alleged misconduct in the marketing and sales of opioids that contributed to the opioid epidemic, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Eric Boos, a political science professor at Marquette, said he believes the university should donate that amount, or close to that amount, to a rehab facility, to uphold ethical integrity.

Marquette was one of at least two dozen universities who received gifts from the Sackler family and its affiliated foundations since 2015, according to the Associated Press. The AP also reported that Cornell University, who received more than $5 million in donations from Sackler foundations, has made a formal decision to reject future funding from the family.

Media representatives from Cornell declined to comment on this story.

Sophomore appears in Snapchat post, faces possible criminal consequences

By Alexa Jurado and Sarah Lipo

alexa.jurado@marquette.edu sarah.lipo@marquette.edu

Marquette University Police Department arrested a student Friday afternoon who held rifle magazines and made a threatening comment in a Snapchat video, which was posted that same day.

On Monday, Acting MUPD chief Jeff Kranz said the case has been referred to the district attorney’s office.

The student is a sophomore in the College of Education.

The student, who held the magazines in Schroeder Hall, was arrested just minutes after MUPD was made aware of the Snapchat post, according to a news release sent via email to the university community Friday. The video was posted by the student’s roommate, who MUPD also took into custody in The Commons dining hall.

“MUPD was notified of the Snapchat video by a Marquette residence hall director, who was notified by a student who saw the Snapchat post,” university

spokesperson Lynn Griffith said in an email. “The case will be referred to the District Attorney’s office, and the student conduct process will be initiated. Since this is an ongoing investigation, the university cannot comment further.”

The magazines in the video are training magazines, which do not hold live ammunition.

MUPD did not find any weapon in the student’s possession, and there is no active threat to campus, according to the release.

When there is a call involving weapons, Kranz said all resources are dedicated to that call.

The department said the students involved may face student conduct and criminal consequences for their actions.

“MUPD and Marquette University take any implied threat to campus extremely seriously,” the release said.

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‘Pride Prom’ premieres, part Neighborhood Kitchen to launch of Film Festival program Program aims to reallocate extra food, serve meals

Former student’s short shows past event challenges

By Matthew Choate

matthew.choate@marquette.edu

By Beck Salgado

beck.salgado@marquette.edu

The short film “Pride Prom,” which runs about 12 minutes, premiered Oct. 23 at 9:45 p.m. as part of the Milwaukee Film Festival’s GenreQueer Shorts program.

Robyn Di Giacinto, a former Marquette College of Communication student, started producing the short film “Pride Prom” during the fall semester of her sophomore year.

The short film is based around the obstacles participants and organizers faced around the time of Marquette’s first annual Pride Prom.

Among the obstacles was a petition started by Tradition Family Property Student Action formed to resist, in the realm of ideas, the liberal, socialist and communist trends of the times, according to its website.

This petition accumulated approximately 18,700 signatures from Marquette community members as well as people not affiliated with the university. It demanded that the Pride Prom be cancelled.

Di Giacinto said around this time, she felt like the coverage of the situation was misrepresented by media. She said she set out to make a film that would accurately depict the situation.

“The film is meant to be told through a queer perspective,” Di Giacinto said.

Di Giacinto said this perspective is why there are no Marquette faculty members featured in the story.

Di Giacinto also said that there was a lot of pressure when making the short film, especially as she was so close to the subject matter.

“Making a documentary is something you can’t take lightly, you are displaying somebody’s story and they are trusting you with that,” Di Giacinto said.

Nick Ansay, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences and attendee of the first Pride Prom, said that as a person who identifies with the LGBTQ+ community, he thinks Marquette does not feel very accepting.

“There are a lot of people on campus who stare at you if you don’t look like you fit it,” Ansay said. “I feel, especially with the religious aspect of Marquette,

Photo courtesy of Robyn di Giacinto

Di Giacinto started the film during fall semester of her sophomore year.

that many students are not accepting towards people in the LGBTQ+ community, especially our transgender brothers and sisters.”

The press would continually stop in for interviews during the controversy and that was very uncomfortable for a lot of people, Ansay said.

Ansay said he didn’t feel any backlash after Pride Prom, but he could not speak for those who planned it.

Ansay said Pride Prom was a symbol that the LGBTQ+ community on campus will not be silenced nor will it go away.

“Even though we got pushback from the school, even though Marquette might say they didn’t push back, we wanted to show the school and the whole Milwaukee community that we were and still are determined to be a fully inclusive space for all folks,” Ansay said.

Ansay said he thinks Marquette is not doing enough for the LGBTQ+ community at Marquette. He feels that they have put LGBTQ+ priorities on the back burner.

He said there has not been a lot of support from the top of the ladder. Overall, he said that more needs to be done and neither the LGBTQ+ Resource Center nor the LGBTQ+ community at Marquette will stop until these

injustices are fixed.

E. Tejada III worked for Marquette as the Founding Coordinator for the LBGTQ+ Resource Center.

They said Pride Prom had over 35 co-sponsors and supporters from organizations and offices both on and off-campus. Pride Prom’s motto was “Be Proud. Be You. Pride Prom 2018.”

Tejada III said Pride Prom was a statement from those who supported and attended, saying that they wanted people to show up as their authentic self.

Tejada III said Di Giacino’s film was more about their own story and journey in making Pride Prom 2018 a reality. They said it portrayed Marquette can be hard and feel lonely and unsupportive – whether a student or a staff member – if you have any minority identities. While they said the work at the LGBTQ+ Resource Center was often an uphill battle, Tejada III said they hope they affected people in a positive way.

“For those I interacted with, and those I didn’t, I hope the work I did for 2.5 years at the LGBTQ+ Resource Center really made hope possible and overall a little less lonely,” Tejada III said.

From October 2003 to nearly two years ago, Campus Kitchens has helped serve the community by providing meals to people in need.

However, the program is being revived at Marquette under the name Marquette Neighborhood Kitchen.

Rick Arcuri, supervisor of Marquette Neighborhood Kitchen, said that because Campus Kitchens no longer exists, Marquette has decided to continue the program on its own. Arcuri said the goal of the program is to provide a much needed service in the Marquette community.

Christine Little, kitchen coordinator for the program, said the program has three goals. First, to recover food that might go to waste.

Second, to provide hunger relief for people in need. Finally, to get Marquette students involved in service and help students to realize how much food goes to waste. Little said the program will be operated out of the kitchen at Mashuda Hall.

“We are excited to be reopening and are fortunate to have Sharon Hope working as our main chef,” Arcuri said.

Hope said the program is very important for the Milwaukee community, as there are specifically high rates of food hardships in Milwaukee. Food hardship is defined as the inability of American households to afford adequate food by the Food & Research Action Center.

Little said Milwaukee has a food hardship rate of 23% compared to the national average of 14%.

Hope is currently working for Sodexo at Straz Tower and has been with the program since it first began as Campus Kitchens. She said she began working at the program because she wanted to try to help the community. Hope also

said she likes the program because it helps give student volunteers an outlook on people who are less fortunate. In addition, she said volunteers can gain knowledge about food and nutrition.

Little said the program will provide food to the community with a combination of leftover campus food, donated food and food from organizations like Feeding America, a nationwide network of food banks. She said the program will try to provide balanced meals including protein, carbohydrates, vegetables and sometimes dessert.

Hope said the program will do its best to make good food with what they can work with. They will also do their best to tend to people’s special eating needs such as diabetes or religious beliefs that prevent them from eating certain foods.

Currently, the program includes Arcuri, Little, Hope and volunteers.

Little said they are currently working to start a team that will help recover food, prep the meals and deliver the food.

The program will provide food to the Benedict Center, which helps women who are currently in the justice system, Little said. She also said they will be working with community centers to get food out to the community and that it will be important for them to cultivate the relationships they had previously held as Campus Kitchens.

Hope emphasized the salience of the program for children in need, as eating healthy is critical at young ages. Hope said she hopes she can relieve stress and worry related to food.

Arcuri said the program helps meet the mission of Marquette by caring for the community and providing the volunteers with an enriching experience. Little said students can email her if they are interested in volunteering at christine. little@marquette.edu.

“One bagel can be the difference between someone eating and someone not eating,” Hope said.

Photo by Zach Bukowski zachary.bukowski@marquette.edu

Neighborhood Kitchen aims to provide hunger relief to those in need.

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Team overcomes challenges, earns $500k grant Group dynamic encourages handson experience

By Andrew Amouzou

andrew.amouzou@marquette.edu

When he first got the news that his team won a $500,000 grant from the Department of Energy, College of Engineering graduate student Matthew Hughes, who was heading to class, thought he was in big trouble.

Hughes vividly described how assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, Nathan Weise, broke the news.

“I was a TA, and I had to leave for office hours because I did not want to be late,” Hughes said. “Then, I got a text from one of our previous teammates who was in the room (with Dr. Weise) and said that Dr. Weise was upset that I left and that I needed to come back. So I came back and everyone was quiet; I knew something was not right. He eventually said, ‘now that Matt has decided to join us, congratulations, we got BREAKERS.” The grant is part a program called BREAKERS, or Building Reliable

Electronics to Achieve Kilovolt Effective Ratings Safely, according to an Oct. 22 university news release. The program is offered by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, a U.S. government agency under the federal Department of Energy.

Along with Hughes, graduate students Waqar Khan, Armin Ebranhimian and MD Rakib Rahman, worked alongside Weise to construct their project, “Ultra-Fast Resonant DC Breaker.” According to the release, BREAKERS seeks to develop new medium-voltage, and DC works to better manage power by eliminating electrical faults.

The Marquette team was faced with tough competition, Khan said.

“We were competing against some heavy hitters … ABB, Eaton, NC State, Georgia Tech and others, so even just being amongst those awardees is always a huge deal for us.”

Going into the competition, the group wanted to create a system using direct current, according to Weise.

“DC systems provide a significant amount of benefits compared to AC (alternating current) systems,” Weise said. “(They offer) more resiliency

and stability and DC has now become more favorable.”

Hughes said one of the biggest parts of the project was designing a new type of breaker for DC current.

“We are on the edge of this and we are asking industries to come up with designs and equipment that do not exist,” Hughes said. “We are pushing the boundaries of everything.”

Hughes said during the times of Edison versus Tesla, AC systems were more popular since they could transfer power at a longer distance.

With the growth of technology over the years, DC systems have been in high demand since many technological devices such as solar powers, laptops, cellphones and batteries run off of it.

The lab did come with challenges, however, which was coming up with ways to protect DC systems against faults.

“Faults may include a tree falling on an electrical line to a squirrel chewing on a transformer to natural disasters,” Weise said. “When those happen, large amounts of current flows and that can cause fires, so you always try to put in protection devices that sense those faults in order to not have additional failure and more damage.”

Khan said Weise is one of the best people he has worked with.

“He has a great intellect and he is the guy we go to if we have any problems. He has a really strong work ethic and he has been there for us until two in the morning at times and has helped us push the project to where it is at,” Khan said.

Ebranhimian said he believes Weise’s thought process is unique, and it helped them become more of a team.

“I have understood that (Weise) looks at issues from different specs,” Ebranhimian said. “His thinking was something new (to me) and I really like that. He is challenging and that is really good because it will help us succeed. We are completely a team here.”

Weise said students in the lab work hard on everything they are doing.

“They are all self-motivated and are excited. If you like what you are doing, it doesn’t become a job, but it becomes more fun. Overall it has been a great experience,” Weise said.

Being involved with the project, allows students to get hands on experience with top-notch equipment, but also gives them the opportunity to add to their respective portfolios in their achievements, Ebranhimian

and Khan said.

“The fact that we are working and dealing with things that are top of the line is very important,” Ebranhimian said.

Khan said Weise is not afraid to put in money, especially for his labs.

“He has top notch equipment, work stations that are industry standards. It makes me happy because whatever we learn here will also be in the industry,” Khan said.

Khan and Hughes expressed their gratitude and excitement in being part of the experience of working with Dr. Weise and being able to utilize efficient and reliable technology.

“It’s a big deal being with this lab,” Khan said. “I thank Weise for giving me this opportunity.”

“I am excited to be here,” Hughes said. “I’m excited to put in the work and I am glad to have the opportunity to do so.”

Motivated by the student engagement in the lab, Weise said the students are fun to work with.

“These students are awesome,” Weise said. “I can pretty much tell that they are excited because they come and ask questions everyday.”

Visit MUEnergylabs.com to learn more about the students and professors that helped construct the lab.

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Forum points to race, mental health intersection Speakers advocate for importance of self-care, therapy

By Kate Hyland

katherine.hyland@marquette.edu

Guest speakers Charlamagne Tha God and Chrishaunda Lee Perez visited Marquette Oct. 27 to have a conversation about black emotional wellness at the Varsity Theatre.

Charlamagne is the co-host of the iHeartRadio program “The Breakfast Club,” where he talks about topics such as race, hip-hop, society and politics. He also talks about mental health in America and shares his experiences with anxiety and depression, according to Marquette’s website.

Milwaukee-native writer and film producer Perez moderated the conversation, according to Marquette’s website.

MUSG, BSC, the Marquette Forum, the Near West Side Partners, the Social Development Commission, Rent College Pads and the Office of Community Engagement sponsored the event. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and V100 (WKKV-FM

radio) were the media co-sponsors, according to Marquette’s website.

“It’s just something that I think has been a conversation on campus and now we’re bringing in a broader and more engaging scope to it,” Madison Hicks, Marquette University Student Government programs vice president and senior in the College of Communication, said.

Hicks said that Dan Bergen, Office of Community Engagement executive director, and Jessica Burkart, coordinator for campus programs, were the ones to initially get in contact with the speakers, organized the event.

From there, Bergen, Burkart and Hicks, along with Breanna Flowers, Black Student Council president and junior in the College of Arts & Sciences, participated in a few conference calls with Charlamagne to determine logistics such as dates and content.

“This was an opportunity that came up, and we tried to include as many outlets on campus that we could just to get engagement and involvement,” Hicks said.

BSC also held events throughout October that led up to the forum, Flowers said.

The student organization named October “Black Mental Health

Photo by Claire Gallagher claire.gallagher@marquette.edu

The speakers emphasized emotional health in the black community.

Matters Month” and held different gatherings. At one, they had facials, made face masks and bath bombs, practiced yoga and meditation and said positive affirmations. They also held an empowerment session, Flowers said.

Flowers said the forum was important because in the black community, suicide is one of the highest causes of death in ages 18-24.

According to a study by the Journal of Community Health, “suicide rates among black girls ages 13-19 nearly doubled from 2001 to 2017.

For black boys in the same age group, over the same period, rates rose 60 percent.”

“When you see college students and the mental health rates are skyrocketing … it’s something that needs to happen on campus, and we need to try and get as many people to break the stigma as possible,” Flowers said.

The forum was free and open to Marquette students as well as the surrounding Milwaukee community, Hicks said.

Artie Dunn, who attended the forum, said he drove to Milwaukee from Madison to hear Charlamagne speak after he heard the co-host talk about the forum on his podcast.

“I believe that emotional wellness is a key to black excellence … I feel

like everyone should just come and be a part of anything that’s mutually going to prepare you to be better in life,” Dunn said.

At the forum, Charlamagne talked about his personal struggles with anxiety and depression and how going to therapy has impacted his life in a positive way. He encouraged everyone to see a therapist if they need it, especially black men.

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health, “the death rate from suicide for African American men was more than four times greater than for African American women, in 2017.”

Charlamagne said he grew up in a small rural town in South Carolina, and he was surrounded by toxic masculinity, which he points to as one factor that discourages black men from seeking help.

“It was bringing a speaker that understood and could speak to the Marquette students … but also that the community could come into this event and see … how Marquette is playing into it, and also have access to this incredible speaking event for free and be part of this greater conversation,” Hicks said.

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Holiday celebrates tasty treats, spooky sweets Shops around city sell caramel apples with signature styles

By Kelli Arseneau

kelli.arseneau@marquette.edu

Many look forward to Halloween for months. Children travel door to door in pursuit of candy while college students neglect their homework for the weekend to dress in costumes and attend house parties.

Though it garners high anticipation and excitement, the holiday shares the final day of October with another celebration that lovers of sweet treats and all things autumn can appreciate: National Caramel Apple Day. The popular origin story of caramel apples, according to food website Chowhound, states that they were invented in the 1950s when a Kraft Foods employee experimented with dipping apples in melted leftover candy from Halloween. However, the concept of dipping apples in sweet gooey sugars existed decades prior to that, with “candied” apples — apples dipped in melted cinnamon candy that hardened to create a bright red, rock hard coating — dating back at least as early as 1908. And varieties of sugar-coated fruits can be traced back for centuries.

Emily Haag, a sophomore in the College of Engineering, said she typically treats herself to a caramel apple once or twice a fall season.

Earlier this month, Haag purchased a caramel apple while visiting Apple Holler, an orchard in Sturtevant, Wisconsin, with fellow members of the Marquette Band.

Haag said she avoids the potential mess that comes with eating caramel apples by cutting them up and eating them in pieces. And despite the wide array of caramel apples flavors, for her, simple is best.

“Personally, I just like the plain caramel apples,” Haag said.

For those looking to indulge in the seasonal favorite, various stores and locations across the Milwaukee area offer caramel apples: Burke Candy: 3840 N. Fratney St., Milwaukee, WI 53233 Burke Candy is a family-owned company that has been around for four generations, since 1929. The company is celebrating its 90th anniversary this year, employee Katie Feverson said.

Burke Candy began in Illinois before moving to Milwaukee 20 years ago, Feverson said.

The company has just one location, but its products are also available online and at both locations of specialty store and restaurant Beans & Barley, as well as at various floral shops and the Sendik’s Food Market in Brookfield, Wisconsin, she said.

While some shops and restaurants boast elaborate gourmet caramel apples, Burke Candy only makes classic apples dipped in caramel without any extra toppings.

“We use our caramel recipe that

we’ve been using for 90 years, and we just dip the apples in the caramel, and then that’s it, we don’t do nuts or sprinkles or anything on the apples,” Feverson said.

The caramel apples are a seasonal treat at the store, Feverson said.

Burke Candy began selling them in late September and will likely stop in late November around Thanksgiving.

The company recently switched to Granny Smith apples from Honeycrisp apples as they are now becoming out of season.

Burke Candy’s classic apples are one of the store’s popular items, Feverson said. Other popular yearround treats offered include toffees and sea salt caramels.

Feverson said all the candy is made on-site, at the store’s attached factory. Customers can look through windows inside the store to see how the candy is made.

While Burke Candy makes fresh apples every day, it does sell out.

Feverson said customers looking to purchase five or more caramel apples should call ahead.

Apples of Eden: 5612 Broad St., Greendale, WI 53129 Apples of Eden is a candy store that specializes in gourmet candy apples. The shop also sells hand-dipped chocolates, gifts and retro “nostalgia candy,” which is reminiscent of products that would be sold at candy shops decades ago.

Owner Beth Parkansky said the 20-year-old business just completed an expansion this past weekend, making

the shop twice its original size.

While Apples of Eden sells the same assortment of apples all year long — aside from a monthly flavor — Parkansky said the caramel apples are especially popular in the fall. She said some of the shop’s most popular apples are pecan and cashew-topped apples and caramel apples with chocolate drizzle.

“The majority of our sales are from people who walk through the door, which I think is interesting,” Parkansky said. “You know now with everything being so online, we have a good customer base that keeps us pretty busy here.”

Everything sold at the shop is made in its on-site kitchen, which customers can see when they visit the shop. Popular items beyond apples are toffee, fairy food and critters, which are similar to Turtles — or chocolate and caramel-covered nut clusters — Parkansky said.

Kilwins Milwaukee-Bayshore: 5756 N. Bayshore Drive, Glendale, WI 53217 Kilwins is a chain of candy and ice cream shops across the country.

Kilwins Milwaukee-Bayshore is locally-owned and opened five years ago, owner B.J. Gruling said.

The shop sells caramel apples yearround, with caramel made in-store.

The process is “very old school,” Gruling said. Kilwins’ caramel is made in copper kettles and handstirred for an hour and a half before Granny Smith apples are dipped.

A variety of gourmet caramel apple

flavors are available at the shop, including peanut toppings, pecan toppings, M&M toppings, dark chocolate sea salt, milk chocolate sea salt, toffee and an apple pie caramel apple, which has white chocolate, cinnamon and sugar. Some flavors vary depending on the season.

Gruling said the store’s most popular flavor is the peanut caramel apple.

“I think people look at that as kind of a classic caramel apple,” he said.

Kilwins does not just reserve caramel apples for the autumn months. Every Tuesday throughout the year is Caramel Apple Day, when apples are buy one, get one half off.

The shop also offers caramel apple punch cards. After a customer buys nine caramel apples, they get one free.

Kilwins has similar punch cards for quarts of ice cream and waffle cones.

Gruling said a lot of Kilwin Milwaukee-Bayshore’s products are made on-site, including caramel corn, nut brittle, hot fudge, caramel sauce and waffle cones. All treats, even those not made in the store, are Kilwins products.

The chain is well-known for its chocolate and ice cream, and all the ice cream and many of the chocolate are kosher, Gruling said.

For students who are unable to go off campus to celebrate National Caramel Apple Day, packaged caramel apples and caramel apple dip can also be found at the campus Sendik’s Food Market and other local grocery stores.

Photo courtesy of Beth Parkansky

Caramel apples, which can be covered with various drizzles, toppings and candies, are celebrated for National Caramel Apple Day. Halloween falls on the same day, making this the perfect treat.

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MKE prepares Halloween-themed festivities Music, candy, parties abundant throughout week

By Ariana Madson

ariana.madson@marquette.edu

With Halloween fast approaching, Marquette and the Milwaukee community are offering events for people of all ages, ranging from spooky cemetery tours to handing out candy for kids.

Forest Home Halloween Tour: Historic Milwaukee, an organization that focuses on bringing attention to Milwaukee’s history, is hosting its sixth annual tour of the Forest Home Cemetery Thursday from 5-7 p.m.

“The purpose (of the tour) is to educate people about the famous residents of Forest Home Cemetery including the Beer Barons (Pabst, Schlitz and Blatz), notable politicians and business families,” Julia Griffith, a program director for Historic Milwaukee, said in an email.

The event is held at the Forest Home Cemetery, 2405 W. Forest Home Ave., and tickets are $50, or $30 for Historic Milwaukee members. More information can be found on the Historic Milwaukee website. The event is also a fundraiser for Historic Milwaukee and Forest Home Cemetery.

All Hallows Eve Party at the Pabst: The Pabst Brewery and Taproom will host a Halloween event Thursday at 1037 W. Juneau Ave. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the show starts at 8 p.m.

According to the description on Eventbrite, the event will have live music consisting of unique genres, which include surf sounds, pickled punk sounds and art rock.

One of the bands performing, Mechanical Life Vein, is an art rock band that uses video game music in a tribute to classic games, according to their Facebook page.

The Pabst highly encourages costumes and the best costume, which is chosen by the band, will win a Pabst swag package. General admission tickets are $8. More information and registration can be found on the Eventbrite website.

Halloween Party at Alumni Memorial Union: This event is being put on by Late Night Marquette with help Bass-Schuler Entertainment. Chris King, a sophomore in the College of Education and program assistant for Late Night Marquette, said the event will take place in the AMU ballrooms at 9:00 p.m., where people will arrive, sign in and get an envelope containing their identity and other information. They will then head into the ballrooms which will be set up with round tables. King said the

event is slightly vague to keep an air of mystery to the event and the scenarios presented. There will also be food “like meatballs, sandwiches and basic little snicky-snacks, that’s what I call them,” King said. He also said costumes are encouraged.

Family-Friendly Halloween: JB’s on 41, a bowling alley in Milwaukee, is hosting an allages Halloween event Thursday.

According to the Facebook page for the event, it runs from 12 p.m. to 12 a.m. and have a multitude of events.

Anyone in costume can play two free arcade games. There is also an hour of unlimited of arcade-playing for $8 a person. Along with arcade games, there is a happy hour with appetizer and drink deals from 4-6 p.m. and glow bowling starting at 10 p.m. JB’s is located on 4040 S. 27th St. More information can be found on its website.

Halloween Concert at the Milwaukee Art Museum: The Milwaukee Art Museum will host the String Academy of Wisconsin at University of Milwaukee-Wisconsin’s Halloween concert Nov. 2 at 11 a.m. The String Academy is an after-school program for students age 4 to 18.

Darcy Drexler, the director of the String Academy of Wisconsin, said this is the String Academy’s 30th year. To celebrate, it reached out to the Milwaukee Art Museum.

The concert will include music

from “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star,” Halloween-themed pieces as well as a variety of classical tunes. Different age groups will be performing as well.

“They’ll play as a group starting with our newest beginners, so this is their big first concert,” Drexler said.

The students will be dressed in Halloween costumes for the performance and it is free to the public.

Mando’s Haunted House: The Miramar Theatre is hosting DJay Mando’s Haunted House Thursday leading into Nov. 1, which is an evening of music from DJ’s like DJay Mando and Riptide.

According to the Facebook event page, there will be costume contests.

Cost is $10 with student ID. Tickets are on sale online and can be found on the Facebook page or the Eventbrite website, along with additional information.

Silent Disco Costume party: Vitucci’s, a cocktail bar located on 1832 N. Ave., will host a Silent Disco Costume Party for those 21 years or older. A silent disco is a dance party where everyone wears wireless headphones rather than listening to the music out loud. According to the Eventbrite website, headsets will be provided and there will be three channels to choose from including electronic dance music/hits, hip-hop/ Latin and throwbacks. Costumes are recommended, according to the

Eventbrite website. Tickets are $13 online and $15 at the door. More information can be found on the Eventbrite website.

RHA HALLoween: Marquette’s Residence Hall Association is putting on this event on Wednesday from 3-7 p.m. The event kids from around the Milwaukee area to come to Marquette’s campus and trick-or-treat.

“The event is called HALLoween which is kind of a play on words and is one of the most popular traditions we put on as RHA for the Milwaukee community,” Luiz Navarrete, a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences, as well as the vice president of marketing for RHA, said.

Navarrete said HALLoween began in 2014. Students in dorms who are not involved with RHA can volunteer to be candy hander-outers or gHosts, which means they walk the kids around campus.

Because there is a radius limitation for where the kids can trick-or-treat, Straz, Mashuda and O’Donnell residence halls can’t participate.

Navarrete said there will also be a small carnival in the AMU for the families who arrive early and are waiting to trick-or-treat.

Each residence hall will have a table with representatives from its community program council to run games such as inflatable bowling and ring toss.

is the United States tour “Philip” cast. There are currently seven productions of “Hamilton” playing around the world: a second U.S. tour “Angelica” cast, which is currently in Philadelphia, and productions in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, London and Australia.

“Hamilton” illustrates the story of colonial America through an untraditional lens. The show “blends hip-hop, jazz, blues, rap, R&B and Broadway,” according to the Marcus Center’s website.

Going into “Hamilton,” I knew little to nothing about the show.

I was aware that it was about the story of Alexander Hamilton and that many of my friends who enjoy musicals knew every word to every song. I was extremely excited to experience this masterpiece for myself, and I intentionally did no research beforehand so I could take it in at face value.

Once the lights flickered and dimmed, my excitement peaked.

I could not wait to see if Hamilton would live up to the hype.

For the opening act, I was expecting something to blow me off my feet with the first note, but I was pleasantly surprised that they eased the audience into the excitement with inviting music that introduced the characters and set the scene.

Aaron Burr, played by Nik Walker, began the action with an

opening number that literally set the stage for the rest of the musical.

When it came time to introduce his character, he says, “I’m the d--- fool that shot him,” the “him” referring to Hamilton. Again, knowing nothing about the show and without being a history buff, this detail initially felt like a spoiler. How could they tell us the ending within the first number?

I soon forgot that detail when the entire ensemble’s vocals blew me away.

Joseph Morales, who plays Alexander Hamilton, did a wonderful job of playing a character that knows he has a lot more to learn in life and refuses to give up on his dreams. Hamilton’s growth within the story also draws parallels to the growth of America and democracy.

The set also literally grows, further representing the country’s creation and expansion. Hamilton’s character develops as he helps George Washington, played by Marcus Choi, fight the Revolutionary War in Act One, and becomes a key founding member of the United States in Act Two. Other aspects of the show I enjoyed include Hamilton participating in two rap battles at the Constitutional Convention, the heartwarming relationship between Angelica and Eliza and the aspects of reallife conflicts that are incorporated into each character. “Hamilton”

is not a perfect story of America.

It illustrates challenges within domestic life, such as temptation, cheating and grief, as well as the struggle of creating a healthy worklife balance.

Even though many of the songs in “Hamilton” are rapped, I was blown away by the quality of the sung vocals – specifically, the Schuyler Sisters, Angelica, Eliza and Peggy, played by Ta’rea Campbell, Erin Clemons and Nyla Sostre, respectively. Their vocals perfectly mixed a lyrical style with sass, and their voices blended so well yet were each distinguishable and strong.

The Schuyler Sisters each have voices that define their characters.

Angelica has a rich, strong voice representing her character as a confident older sister. Eliza, on the other hand, has a more lyrical voice that is representative of her trusting and kind personality, as described

by Angelica. Peggy, as the youngest, has a light and silly but still beautiful voice. Together, the songs they sing are fabulous.

One thing I wish I would have done was listen to the soundtrack beforehand. My goal was to go in with an open mind, but because many of the songs in “Hamilton” are rapped at a quick pace, I found it hard to understand many of the lyrics. Coming in with a fresh mind

didn’t take away from the overall experience, but listening to the songs ahead of time may have enhanced it.

My favorite aspect of the set design, without giving too much away, is that the inner circle of the stage rotates. At the start of the show, I was convinced my eyes were playing tricks on me, but the stage does have the ability to move, and it adds a lot of depth to the performance. For example, while Hamilton is listening to Angelica and Eliza talk about their love for him, he is stagnant on the stage while the sisters rotate around him.

I was blown away by the musical and left the theater feeling a little more educated on American history.

While the show was incredible, I wish I would have gone to an earlier showing because after nearly three hours of excitement, I was exhausted.

However, nearly a week later I cannot stop thinking about it. The songs are still stuck in my head, and I cannot wait for my next opportunity to see this masterpiece.

“Hamilton” will be in Milwaukee through late November and offers a lottery ticket opportunity. For each performance, there will be 40 lottery tickets available at $10 each. Patrons can visit the Marcus Center’s website to enter and for more information. Regular tickets start at about $100.

‘Hamilton’ entertains, conveys raw US history Musical utilizes song, sound for unique retelling

By Grace Schneider

grace.schneider@marquette.edu

The 2016 Tony Award-winning musical and national phenomenon “Hamilton” is playing at the Marcus Center until Nov. 17. “Hamilton” tells the story of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington’s right-hand man during the Revolutionary War, and the birth of America, through hip-hop and contemporary music.

Written and created by LinManuel Miranda, who also performed as the titular character in the original Broadway cast from 2015-’16, “Hamilton” was inspired by the biography “Alexander Hamilton” by author Ron Chernow. Miranda worked on the Broadway production with director Thomas Kail and co-arranger and music director Alex Lacamoire. Set designer David Korins created an extrordinary stage to tell the story of “Hamilton.” Combined with incredible choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler, “Hamilton” is a perfect illustration of the birth of America.

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MUPD failed to legitimize missing student case While a student remained missing for nearly five days, Marquette University Police Department and university administration failed to publicly release information about the student and situation.

Rakib Rahman, a doctoral student in electrical and computer engineering, went missing Oct. 18 at 2 p.m. and was reported missing by a family member the day after. The student returned to his family this past Wednesday.

While the department received community tips and other information that aided in its understanding of the case, it should have actively sought community involvement in locating Rahman. His disappearance understandably upset the student’s close friends and family, along with other members of the Marquette community.

University spokesperson Lynn

Griffith said in an email that MUPD determined early on their investigations that the situation was a family matter and was never meant to be public.

Marquette students, staff and faculty were welcomed back from fall break with posters of Rahman all around campus, leaving them with feelings of uneasiness. The matter was not kept private by the students who knew Rahman, so it should not have been kept private by the department investigating his disappearance.

Whether the department felt confident that Rahman was safe, it had an obligation to involve the community.

The department must take every measure to locate a missing person, including sharing their photo and other relevant information with the campus community.

MUPD did not publicly release information about Rahman’s

disappearance because he was not classified as a critical missing person. To meet this classification in Milwaukee, someone must be a military veteran, victim of foul play, under 11 years old, under 18 years old with a minor child in their custody or a person with a disability or medical condition that could harm them.

Griffith said MUPD determined that none of those factors applied to Rahman’s case, and she said the student left on his own without notifying his family. She added that MUPD would release information and photos of a student in the event of a critical missing person’s investigation, Griffith said.

Despite Rahman not being classified as a critical missing person, MUPD and the university should have released a statement addressing the situation. Both entities have the platform and ability to provide legitimacy to an

alleged situation and to alleviate potential panic on campus.

MUPD followed procedures set forth by law, but the department has the ability to go beyond them and show dedication to the Marquette community regarding any missing person case, not just those deemed critical missing.

When Rahman disappeared, a group of engineering students spread the word about the situation while MUPD and the university did not publicly release any pictures or information about Rahman. The university acknowledged the case only when contacted by the Marquette Wire for additional information.

The responsibility to publicize information about missing students should not fall onto the students’ peers alone.

Marquette students, faculty and staff had no information about the situation or any way of knowing

if the posted flyers of Rahman were legitimate, leaving them to speculate the details of the situation and worry about a potential threat to campus.

An MUPD statement to the Marquette community about missing persons could proactively reduce campus stress. If concerned about privacy, the department does not need to release family information and other personal details. Releasing a picture of the student with a statement clarifying that MUPD did not believe the student or campus was in danger would have been sufficient.

Regardless of the differing levels of uncertainty and severity with missing person situations, MUPD and the university have a responsibility to communicate and legitimize such situations for the safety of missing persons and the community.

by intertwining her art and her image with feminist messages.

After just one tour, she has redefined the role of a female artist as someone who uses their profession to educate their audience and emphasize female rights and gender equity.

More female artists need to address the sexualization of women in the music industry by expressing feminist ideals in their art, in their speech and in their image.

Some of the most recently popular female artists sing songs with feminist messages. Lizzo sings about confidence in “Good As Hell,” and one of Kesha’s most popular songs is the feminist anthem “Woman.”

Still, few female artists utilize their influence as a platform to make feminist strides that are as articulate and impacting as Maggie Rogers’.

Other female artists stand up to the sexualization of women by not conforming to

celebrity norms. Billie Eilish, for example, wears baggy clothes to prevent the public from sexualizing her. Her decision to do so is effective and emphasizes her art. By wearing baggy clothing, she shifts the focus from herself to her music. Still, this is not comparable to Rogers’s decisive and relentless incorporation of feminist ideals in her career.

Rogers communicates female rights through merchandise, social media, tour decisions and song content.

Rogers uses her fame as an opportunity to influence others, and she doesn’t avoid talking about sensitive issues to keep fans satisfied — she is honest about her opinions and includes them as part of her identity as an artist.

She has made it clear who she wants her fanbase to include, and has been quoted saying, “If you’re not a feminist, you shouldn’t be here” at one of her concerts. She also has a Planned

Parenthood booth set up at each concert.

Feminism is reflected in every aspect of Rogers’ identity. Her merchandise includes keychains that say, “Maggie Rogers is a witchy feminist Photo via Flickr rockstar,” her Maggie Rogers combats sexism through her work. songs emphasize liberation as she sings about female independence and she opportunity to influence and speaks openly about her con- change public opinion through troversial beliefs on multiple their art, style and persona. They social media platforms, such must be able to hold real converas her being pro-choice. In ev- sations with their fans, be open ery aspect of her platform, in their values and use their stashe engages in activism and tus to promote feminism, especommunicates feminism. cially in the music industry.

By incorporating feminist undertones in all areas of her profession, Maggie Rogers is Sheila Fogarty is a freshman creating an example for her studying anthropology and Spanish. fans and other artists to follow.

She can be reached at sheila. fogarty@marquette.edu Female musicians are given the

Maggie Rogers communicates, embodies feminism best

Sheila Fogarty Indie singer-songwriter Maggie Rogers’ acoustic cover of her hit song “Alaska” was interrupted at her Oct. 20 concert in Austin, Texas, when two men catcalled, “Take your top off” and “You cute though.”

Rogers immediately responded to the situation, both on stage and on social media, tweeting and posting to Instagram that she was “stunned. furious. fuming. confused”.

“I’ve been writing and producing music for 10 years — my body is my greatest tool for communicating that work,” Rogers posted on Instagram. “I want to use this moment to be very clear.

There is no space for harassment of any kind at my show. Be kind to each other out there.”

This response is representative of Rogers’s purpose as a musician: to influence her audience

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Global awareness necessary for Kashmir conflict

Aminah Beg

I would like to preface this piece by saying that the conflict between Pakistan and India is much larger than I will be able to explain here. I would urge everyone to do research and find out more to become educated on this important issue.

Since the founding of Pakistan and India, the two countries have been in constant disagreement with one another due to religious and political differences. Sometimes the divisions do not escalate into conflict. Other times, the disagreements become heightened, resulting in violence and the deaths of innocent civilians as seen through various historical conflicts, such as the India-Pakistan War of 1965 and a cross-border conflict in 2018.

The latter is happening right now.

The tension between India and Pakistan is at such a high state that innocent civilians’ lives are being disrupted. India is oppressing the people of Kashmir, a geographical region in the northernmost region of Pakistan and India. It is a historically disputed territory that has faced problems due to the disagreement about the region’s independence.

On Aug. 5, India repealed Article 370 of the Indian Constitution. The article granted Kashmiris the right to self-governance and was served as a source of stability in an unstable region. Article 370 was in effect since the inception of India in 1947, but Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi revoked it to bring perceived equality with India. In reality, the

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Citizens protest India’s militarization of Kashmir, a disputed territory between India and Pakistan.

action brought about a new wave of suppression for many Kashmiris.India is currently occupying the region after 900,000 Indian troops deployed to invade and occupy Kashmir Aug. 5. Political leaders and freedom activists are being suppressed and arrested. Women are being raped.

Young boys have been kidnapped.

Schools, hospitals and places of worship have been all forcefully shut down. A curfew is in place, restricting people from leaving their own homes.

Global awareness of this situation is especially critical to help the innocent Kashmiri civilians, but their voices are currently completely silenced after Indian occupying forces cut off phone networks and Internet connections. Because of this, families are not able to know if their relatives are safe and sick people have no way of being treated or accessing medicine.

People need to pay attention to the overwhelming number of people who could suffer from violence under increased army occupation from either side. The two countries both fall in the global top six of countries when ranked by population. India’s population is 17.35% of the entire world’s population while Pakistan holds 2.59%. Combined, that is 1,448,180,000 individuals.

We must remember to have empathy when others are being suppressed by a larger force. Too many people are at risk of dying, and it is our duty as human beings to care for one another’s basic rights. Although these two countries are halfway around the world, it is pertinent that the people of the United States still care and raise awareness of the conflict. Furthermore, an escalated conflict between Pakistan and India can have potentially damaging effects on every person on Earth. Pakistan

and India both possess nuclear forces — each has 140 to 150 weapons combined. Although the explosions would be localized to either country if the weapons were used, it would have climate ramifications to countries close to both and eventually the entire globe. An estimated 20% to 50% of the ozone layer would be eliminated, and the Earth’s surface temperature would drop for years, according to an American Geophysical Union study. This could result in a global nuclear famine, causing direct losses in crops and fish.

The radioactive chemicals from the debris of a nuclear explosion could stretch for hundreds of miles, resulting in many more people being harmed than intended. Nuclear attacks also have the possibility of placing surrounding structures on fire especially in an urbanized, industrial area such as densely populated cities like Mumbai or Karachi. The spread

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of fire would result in a firestorm, tearing down everything in its path and creating effects just as terrible as the original explosion. The copious amounts of smoke would stay in the atmosphere for decades and eventually rise to the stratosphere. The smoke aerosols would spread across the globe and burn the ozone layer.

The Earth would be much more susceptible to radiation from the sun and make the population more susceptible to the disease. Economic impacts could also take place since India is such a huge trade market.

Those who trade with the country will experience high raw material prices and higher costs of goods.

Companies with outsourced departments in the countries would suffer exponentially.

These are just some of the harmful effects that would result in a war between two nuclear weapon-holding countries. More people must be aware of what is occurring beyond their national borders and help those in need. Humans must show empathy for others in distress no matter how it could eventually affect them.

If this does not happen, situations like the one in Kashmir will bring catastrophic results for all.

Kashmir continues to be in a state of unrest, and many innocent people have died fighting for their basic human rights. We must continue to spread the story for those who cannot.

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

College student-athlete compensation fair, justified

Kevin Schablin

This past month, California passed the Fair Pay to Play Act, making it the first law in the country to allow college athletes to receive compensation for playing collegiate sports.

Currently, any kind of payment to college athletes is prohibited under NCAA rules, but with California signing this law and with other states like Florida and New York drafting their own versions, the NCAA will have to change how it views athletic compensation.

According to NCAA rules, student-athletes aren’t allowed to accept compensation from pictures of themselves or from use of their name or likeness. Student-athletes are also not allowed to hire agents or receive endorsements.

California’s new law, however, allows student-athletes to receive endorsements and promote commercial products. This allows athletes, mainly the top ones, to profit off of their own likeness. The law gives them the control over the NCAA. The Fair Pay to Play Act is not about directly paying these

athletes. It simply allows them to profit from their likeness as the video game would have. It allows college athletes to endorse products while attending school.

Major college athletes have the power to endorse and affect product sales with small actions.

For example, Zion Williamson, the Duke University star and 2019 first overall NBA draft pick, is seen by many as a-once-in-a-decade level athlete.

During the Duke-North Carolina game in February 2019, Williamson’s Nike shoe split in half while he was playing, causing a sprained knee. The next day, Nike’s stock dropped about 1% which is estimated at over $1 billion in damages. At the time, Williamson was not even affiliated with Nike, yet the public saw it as Nike’s fault. Williamson later officially signed with Jordan, a subsidiary of Nike, a month after being drafted.

Yet the NCAA argues that paying college athletes will ruin the integrity of the sports while compromising the athletes’ education through extra distractions. Some fans against paying student-athletes propose that it could influence where the studentathletes choose to attend college.

This creates long-lasting dynasties that dominate their competition.

However, this is not a valid argument. When looking at the way the NCAA is currently structured, championship dynasties already exist and tend to ruin the competitive aspect of the games. For example, the national championship for football has been Clemson-Alabama three out of four times since 2015, with just Alabama in the fourth game.

Universities with these levels of athletics already allow for sports dynasties by attracting students with the strong possibility of a championship. Paying students would not change this; it might even help to disrupt this by allowing smaller teams to attract students with more individualized incentives, such as brand endorsements.

While the NCAA prohibits athletes from profiting off of their own likeness, the NCAA has no problem using the athletes’ likenesses for their own profit as the NCAA makes over $1 billion in revenue annually.

From 1993-2013, EA Sports, the video game manufacturer behind Madden and other sports video games, distributed their NCAA

football video game. What made EA Sports’ NCAA Football unique was the lack of credit to players. Each player’s appearance, abilities and numbers were all displayed with no name attribution on the back of their jerseys. This eventually led to the Supreme Court class action lawsuit, O’Bannon v. NCAA, with a $60 million settlement awarded to the plaintiffs led by former UCLA basketball star, Ed O’Bannon. This case caused EA Sports to stop producing NCAA Football after 2013.

With the Fair Pay to Play Act, college athletes will be able to endorse products and hire agents so that their likeness, such as video game characters, can be appropriately profited from. This new law, as well as similar ones being developed in other states, such as Florida and New York, will only benefit college athletes.

Only 2% of college athletes go professional, so letting studentathletes receive endorsements and promote products will allow those who aren’t lucky enough to play professionally to make a little money while doing what they love.

College athletics is a privilege to participate in, but it also comes with lots of work that does not always

lead to the greatest payoffs. With the possibility of major injuries, large restricting schedules and a minuscule chance at becoming professional, allowing student-athletes to profit off of their likeness helps to balance out the negatives.

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

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Marotta becomes vocal presence Mequon native does everything from viral videos to voracious rebounding

By Dan Avington

daniel.avington@marquette.edu

With six seniors graduating, a new head coach and an entirely new starting lineup, the Golden Eagles were left without any obvious emotionally supportive leaders heading into the year.

Sophomore forward Chloe Marotta is looking to fill that void.

“Chloe is the hype man of the team,” freshman guard Taylor Valladay said. “If we’re down or not having a good practice, Chloe is always there to pick us up and let us know that it’ll be okay.”

Marotta said it’s the responsibility of all of the returning players to pick up the vocality for this year.

“As returners, all five of us have really stepped up our leadership roles,” Marotta said. “It comes naturally to me, but I also try my best to be the leader on the floor.”

Last year, the Mequon, Wisconsin native appeared in 25 games,

averaging 7.4 minutes, 2.6 points and 2.3 rebounds per game.

While Marotta was not a consistent crunch-time player a season ago, head coach Megan Duffy said her versatility will be an important asset this year.

“Chloe is our utility man,” Duffy said. “She’s hard-nosed, she can play inside, she can play that guard position.”

Duffy said one of her favorite aspects of the 6-foot-1 sophomore is Marotta’s willingness to put her body on the line for the team’s sake.

“She’s the kid that’s going to be throwing her body and her ponytail all over the place,” Duffy said. “She’s somebody the fans are really going to love because of her hustle.”

Some players strive to put the ball in the basket as much as possible, but those aren’t Marotta’s goals when she checks into games.

“On the floor, I want to be the re-

bounder, the person that plays the hardest (and) always brings that energy,” Marotta said.

Marquette was primarily a team of guards last season, with Danielle King, Natisha Hiedeman, Amani Wilborn and Allazia Blockton pacing the squad.

This year, Marotta said the Golden Eagles will switch up the personnel and run with two post players for a majority of the game, alternating between tandems of Marotta, senior Altia Anderson, redshirt junior Lauren Van Kleunen and freshman Camryn Taylor.

“Working with that two post is good this year. It’s a little different, but that’s our strength (this season),” Marotta said. “We’re going to play a little two-man game, getting into some ball screen action.”

With the graduations of so many guards, Marquette’s run-and-gun strategies are bound to change.

“This year, we’re just young and have to slow it down a little bit

more,” Marotta said. “We’re still going to try to get up the floor a lot, but our two bigs will definitely be more of a presence.”

Marotta’s uplifting spirit was evident on the first day of practice when she and junior guard Selena Lott combined their basketball skills with some dance moves, making national headlines.

The video, which the NCAA women’s basketball account tweeted, featured the two doing a viral dance challenge and was capped off with a halfcourt shot by Lott.

Marotta said the video was taken on the first try.

“When we got on the court, that was the first take, and Selena happened to hit the shot,” Marotta said.

Lakers forward Kyle Kuzma and Atlanta Hawks guard Trae Young tweeted at Marotta and Lott. While Marotta knew it was going to be popular, she did not expect it to go viral.

Marotta comes from a Marquette

basketball family. Her dad Marc was a member of the men’s basketball team in the 1980s. Her older brother Cam, a 2018 Marquette graduate, was a men’s team walkon for four years. Her grandfather and great-grandfather were Golden Eagle basketball players, too.

Teammates said Chloe’s dedication to the Marquette program is clear every time she enters the game.

“When Chloe gets on the floor, she’s going to do whatever it takes for us to win,” Van Kleunen said.

Heading into the season, MU is projected ninth out of 10 in the BIG EAST, and Marotta said the team will play with a chip on its shoulder all year.

“Every day, we’re going to have to come in and have positive energy and work hard,” Marotta said. “We still have a passion and drive to be the best this year.”

Lott needed on offense Junior serves as only returning starter from BIG EAST regular season championship team

By Bryan Geenen

bryan.geenen@marquette.edu

With the 2019-’20 season looming, Marquette women’s basketball is preparing with new leaders, one of whom will be junior guard Selena Lott.

After averaging 7.1 points per game with the second-best field goal percentage of the team last year, Lott’s role offensively is going to play a major part in Marquette’s season.

“It’s really crazy. I don’t think this young woman has reached close to her potential,” head coach Megan Duffy said of Lott.

“You saw glimpses of it last year when she could come in and drop 17, 18 points, and she’s always been known as a defensive stopper and hustle kid and can guard the best player.”

Assistant coach Scott Merritt echoed Duffy’s comments on how much of an impact Lott can have with the ball in

her hand. He has seen her development since she stepped foot on campus.

“She’s going to have to take a little bit more of an onus offensively and be more aggressive.

She has the capability to really, really score and be dominant on offense and be confident in herself to do that,” Merritt said.

As the team’s only returning starter, Lott has a lot of offensive responsibilities.

“I’m really looking forward to building (her potential) and having those conversations off the court and helping her mature in that way as a lead player in our team and our offense,” Duffy said.

Merritt said he expects Lott to adapt when defenders challenge her.

“She’s a great passer,” Merritt said. “She’s played with great players before, so she knows how to make plays and finding

that balance of, ‘When do I need to be aggressive and score, and when do I need to make a play for a teammate?’ That will be vital for her growth as a player this year.”

Lott is the team’s only returning starter from last season, and Merritt said he envisions her being a leader both on and off the court.

“She’s got to show these young kids how to win. She knows how to win,” Merritt said. “We’ve been very successful in the past, and she knows what it takes.

She was in it every day, she was in the fire and she’s got to show these youngsters how to work and how to win.”

Merritt said Lott’s experience allows her to give pieces of advice to lead by example in the classroom.

She said she understands the challenges of this year’s season, but Lott said she’s ready for it.

“It’s taking a little bit, but it’s all about hard work, commitment and effort,” Lott said. “I’m kind of more of a leader, more of a vocal leader.

I’m just getting our freshmen on board.”

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Isabelle Spingola, Altia Anderson mentor freshmen, primed to see more playing time

By Zoe Comerford

isabel.comerford@marquette.edu

Not only are seniors Altia Anderson and Isabelle Spingola adjusting to new roles on the court this season, but they are taking on heightened responsibilities in the locker room.

“They’ve really led me as much as I’m trying to lead them,” head coach Megan Duffy said. “It’s fun to be able to talk about them in these new roles.”

As veterans, the duo has been deputized to mentor a new coach and seven teammates.

Besides losing former BIG EAST Co-Coach of the Year Carolyn Kieger to Penn State April 3, Anderson and Spingola lost six mentors after 2019 graduation: Allazia Blockton, Natisha Hiedeman, Erika Davenport, Amani Wilborn, Danielle King and Sandra Dahling.

“They always could obviously (have) somebody else creating for them, whether it was Hiedeman or Blockton, and now they’re the ones that have to create with the ball in their hands,” Duffy said. “That’s going to take some time. They’re embracing that, and it’s not perfect right now.”

Blockton, a two-time BIG EAST Scholar Athlete of the Year, is the program’s all-time leading scorer.

Hiedeman was the 2018 BIG EAST Player of the Year who played in the WNBA Finals with the Connecticut Sun three weeks ago. Davenport was a three-time BIG EAST Second Team honoree, Wilborn was a BIG EAST All-Tournament member, King started for four years and Dahling was team captain.

“They’re like my sisters so … we’re close,” Anderson said. “That hurt my heart, but they’re on to bigger and better things, and we’re learning and we’re growing as a team.”

Spingola said everybody has had to step into new roles which the team has been improving on at every practice. However, the transition has not been easy as Spingola said she misses giving the former seniors the ball and letting them score.

“This year on offense, we’re going to have to work more as a unit,” Spingola said. “It’s going to be more passing to set up a teammate versus one-on-one.”

Both Anderson and Spingola have helped Duffy acclimate to the Marquette culture.

“They’ve been just really honest with me,” Duffy said. “We’ve had great conversations with not only their roles but, you know, why they were so successful in the past. … They have a lot on their shoulders being seniors, gotta love them.

They’re doing a great job.”

Duffy said Anderson and Spingola have been crucial for teaching her the identity of Marquette women’s

basketball as well.

“As much as I might have some different philosophies from the past, I love hearing about the ones who won those rings and what it was like and what they fought through,” Duffy said. “I’m open to hearing their thoughts on what do they think this team can do different than maybe the previous seasons and how do we deal with all the young players.”

Having six freshmen and a transfer, Duffy said she has done more teaching than in seasons past.

“Being in BIG EAST championships, being a part of a winning culture, we know what hard work is,” Spingola said. “So just showing the freshmen what hard work is and how to come every day to practice ready to learn.”

For Anderson, sharing the floor with players like Blockton and Hiedeman helped her advance in her basketball knowledge.

“I just try to give (younger players) the experience they gave me and the advice they gave me,” Anderson said.

In addition to senior leadership, Anderson and Spingola won’t be coming off the bench anymore.

Last season Spingola was the only junior to start at least one game. The 6-foot guard played 34 games, averaging 14.7 minutes and 5.3 points per game.

She was known as a sharpshooter, never missing a free throw and finishing the season with a 40% shooting percentage. Her 38.7% from beyond the arc ranked ninth in the BIG EAST. “Izzy’s always been known as one of the best shooters in the conference,” Duffy said. “What we’re really challenging her to do now is finding different ways to score. We’re going to bring her off some screens, we’re going to have the ball in her hands a little bit more.”

Duffy plans on having Spingola be the “quarterback” this season, handling the flow and pace of the team.

“She’s such a steady kid in a lot of ways so just making sure that she knows her role isn’t just to knock down those three-balls. She has other things she can really help us with,” Duffy said. “Can you lead the huddles? Can you be the IQ player that can contribute? Maybe if your outside shot isn’t falling, what else can you bring to our team whether that’s rebounding or just keeping us together and keeping that composure.”

In regard to personal goals, Spingola said she wants to be an allaround player and has worked in the offseason to expand her game, especially working on some of her weaknesses like one-on-one defense, ballhandling and her pull-up jumper.

Meanwhile, Anderson played in just 30 games last season,

contributing 5.9 minutes and 2.1 rebounds per game. Despite only scoring 0.9 points per game, Anderson held a defensive presence, accumulating 13 blocks and six steals.

“You’ve seen in the past how athletic she is and how she can rebound the basketball, and those will be her staples. But we’re really trying to get her a little bit more in a scoring position, in a scoring role,” Duffy said.

“She’s able to shoot it from the outside. She’s been pretty good inside. I know it’s really her focus to continue to finish at a high level.”

The team’s depth last season only allowed Anderson to play for a few minutes or to go in when the team already held a substantial lead. Despite Anderson’s lack of experience, Duffy said she wants her to feel more comfortable scoring.

“The thing about Tia is she just needs the game minutes,” Duffy said. “If she misses a shot or she makes a mistake, we’re not pulling you. You have to play through it and continue to embrace that new role.”

In terms of who should receive more minutes, Duffy said Anderson should be that person. In her collegiate career, the 6-foot-2 forward has yet to start a game as a Golden Eagle.

“She deserves it more than anybody, as a senior, to get that final o p p o r t u n i t y, ” Duffy said. “She’s worked so hard for three years. I’m trying to make her have a little more fun with this.”

Spingola said the current squad wants to be known for its competitiveness, cohesiveness and work ethic.

The team was ranked ninth of 10 in the preseason poll, Spingola said it doesn’t put any pressure on the team to live up to last year’s expectations.

“Nobody really knows what team we’re going to be,” Spingola said. “It’s going to be fun just to prove (to) everyone every day how good we are.”

Duffy said she only has one requirement for Anderson and

Spingola in their last season.

“Your senior year you want to have a lot of fun and you want to do it the right way,” Duffy said. “I know they’ve had so much success. But I want them to have some success in their new roles and understand the impact they have everyday on this team with their

voice and their leadership. Have just the mentality of, whatever happens we’re going to have a whole lot of fun doing it.”

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Van Kleunen brings post experience Seasoned big learns from filling in for Erika Davenport

By Dan Avington

daniel.avington@marquette.edu

When Erika Davenport tore her ACL Feb. 22, redshirt junior Lauren Van Kleunen was forced into action. After being the backup forward for almost all of the regular season, Van Kleunen became the team’s main presence in the paint for the postseason.

Now that Davenport and the other five seniors graduated, Van Kleunen will take over as the team’s most experienced post player.

A season ago, Van Kleunen averaged 4.5 points and 3.7 rebounds in 34 games and was an important force in the postseason against centers like Rice University’s 6-foot-9 Nancy Mulkey and Texas A&M University’s 6-foot-4 Ciera Johnson.

But this year, Van Kleunen will not only be looked to for scoring — she will need to make a difference in all parts of the stats sheet.

“It depends on what they need me to do,” Van Kleunen said. “If it’s rebounds, I’ll rebound. If they need me

to pass, I’ll pass. Any given night, any one of us can be a scorer.”

First-year head coach Megan Duffy has already taken notice of Van Kleunen’s wide array of skills.

“I really love Lauren’s versatility,” Duffy said. “We’ve been able to move her inside and outside. She’s got a really nice hook shot with both hands.”

During the offseason, the 6-foot-2 forward said she built up her body to prepare for the long season ahead.

“I understand I’m not the fastest or the strongest, so (I’ve been working on) my strength and my speed,” Van Kleunen said. “I’ve really been working on understanding my body and how I can use it to be as successful as possible.”

Even though Van Kleunen has worked hard to improve her skill set, she said she still wants to get better each day.

“Coach talks about relentless growth. Every day, it’s a focus on one thing each day — learn from it and move on,” Van Kleunen said.

“That’s really what I’m trying to work on, being as consistent as possible every day.”

Last year, one of Marquette’s biggest strengths was its ability to move in transition and outrun others. The style of play might change

this season.

“It might be a little different. We’ll probably play a two bigs style,” Van Kleunen said. “But we’re getting up and down, we’re still flying around with that Marquette speed that we’ve always had in the past. We’re going to continue that in the future.”

Van Kleunen said Duffy has done a great job of taking the team’s strengths and building around them.

“The thing I really liked about Coach was she is understanding our games and putting the offense in that way,” Van Kleunen said. “She’s understanding how we play and mimicking around our skill.”

Without a crew of veteran guards, the team will likely need more from the forward positions, and Van Kleunen is set to spearhead that effort.

“The post group, we really want to have a lot of energy, a lot of effort,” Van Kleunen said. “ W e want to be the core of this team.”

While Van Kleunen is an integral part of the team’s success on the floor, she also impacts her

teammates off the court.

“Lauren just brings that presence and veteran leadership,” Duffy said.

“We really like where she is.”

Freshman guard Taylor Valladay said Van Kleunen has already helped as a veteran voice.

“Lauren does a great job of being that leader, being that voice,” Valladay said. “If I don’t know something, I’ll go to LVK or I’ll go to (junior guard) Selena (Lott).

They’re very open and there to be that holding hand and pick me up to let me

know that it’s going to be okay.”

Van Kleunen said she’s looking forward to seeing the impact of the freshmen.

“We’ve got a good group. They’re young, but we’ve definitely got a lot of fighters and a lot of girls that are willing to buy into what coach is saying,” Van Kleunen said. “Every one of them is going to bring something. You’re going to see a very fun group.”

Coaches around the league do not have a ton of confidence in the Golden Eagles, ranking them ninth out of 10 in the preseason poll, but Van Kleunen said that doesn’t matter to the Marquette players.

“Last year we were picked first, this year we were picked a little bit lower than that,” Van Kleunen said. “It’s all how you see it, and regardless of what we’re picked, we’re going to work as hard as if we were picked first. It’s just an identity that we have.”

DUFFY: ‘The Marquette Way’ Continued from page 1A Marquette fans have seen the past several years. She said it is her goal to discover that new championshipcaliber team.

“If anybody knows me and my background, I think I’ve put pressure on myself for as early as I can remember,” Duffy said. “The greatest coaches and players are the ones that put it right on their shoulders and take accountability.

I’ve felt pressure ever since I’ve been in this business. It’s a great thing — it motivates me.”

MU’s roster features seven newcomers, including six freshmen and one transfer.

Jordan King, who coaches voted as BIG EAST Preseason Freshman of the Year, leads the freshman class along with Camryn Taylor and Taylor Valladay. Among those three, Duffy said she sees the most potential with Taylor.

“She just has a presence about her,” Duffy said. “She’s probably been the most efficient player we have with minutes per shooting percentage, per rebounds, all those little statistics.”

One of the biggest tests the Golden Eagles will have to face this season is finding a consistent option at point guard. Duffy said the team is going to play multiple guards rather than having a true

point guard, and freshman Taylor Valladay is working her way into that role.

Senior guard Isabelle Spingola said the one aspect of Duffy’s coaching style that impresses her the most is her energy during practice.

“She’s always talking to someone and encouraging them. She’s very active,” Spingola said. “Seeing where everybody started in the beginning of the summer to now, everybody has drastically improved. It’s going to be fun, and I’m really looking forward to it.”

The BIG EAST Preseason Coaches’ Poll ranked Marquette ninth of 10 in the conference a year after it was picked to finish first.

Many players see the ranking as a huge motivator heading into the season.

“I want to be picked last,” sophomore forward Chloe Marotta said. “Having a chip on our shoulder is better for this team this year.”

Valladay said everything happens for a reason.

“We got to prove that we’re better than that,” Valladay said.

Duffy’s basketball career began long before becoming a coach. She

was a four-year point guard for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, leading the program to two Sweet 16 berths, was a two-time All-BIG EAST First Team honoree and is one of four players recording at least 1,000 points, 500 assists and 200 steals.

In 2006, Duffy won the Frances

Pomeroy Naismith Award and the BIG EAST/Aeropostale Scholar Athlete of the Year award.

Duffy’s other accomplishments accumulated during her basketball-playing career include winning a gold medal for Team USA in 2005, receiving All-American selections and playing in the WNBA in New York and Minnesota.

Duffy’s success as a player has immediately translated into results as a head coach at Marquette, beating Winona State Saturday afternoon in the exhibition game by 46 points.

“The teaching part is at the core of what we do,” Duffy said. “Success comes with it. I go home every night and watch the film. I have an obsession of trying to get the team better. It’s going to be (about) patience.”

The key to success for Marquette this season will be how it establishes a reinvented culture implemented by Duffy, as team cultures can shift with the addition of a new coach.

“The big thing with our culture is, ‘How hard can we work every day?’” Duffy said. “We have to be the team with the identity of diving on the floor for the loose balls, taking the charges, doing the little things.”

Despite the challenges of a transition, Duffy has the same standards as years past.

“We want to win, we want to do it the right way. It’ll be fun to shape this team as the season goes on,” Duffy said.

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New coach seeks ‘lead guards’ First-year athletes look to replace production from alumna Danielle King

By John Leuzzi

john.leuzzi@marquette.edu

For the first time in four years, Marquette women’s basketball will enter the season without a definitive starting point guard.

Danielle King called that role hers in her four years playing on Wisconsin Avenue, but she has now graduated after making 124 of 128 possible starts and finishing just shy of 1,400 career points.

As a former point guard, head coach Megan Duffy understands the difficulty of changing starting point guards.

“It is challenging. We will do this a lot by committee,” Duffy said. “We have some combo guards who might not be a true point guard. Coach Skeete, Coach Scott (Merritt), Coach Justine (Raterman) and myself are all trying to give any knowledge that we have on running a team and being patient.”

Duffy was a four-year starter at point guard for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. She is one of four players in Notre Dame history to total at least 1,000 points, 500 assists and 200 steals. She was also awarded the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award in 2006, which is given to the country’s top point guard under 5-foot-8.

In her first season back in the BIG EAST since 2012, the John Wooden Award finalist envisions the use of lead guards this season instead of a definitive starting point guard.

“There is this new way of craze where, i n stead o f b e ing a point guard, you are a lead guard,” Duffy said. “So we are going to have a lot of lead guards like (freshman) Jordan King, we will throw (junior guard) Selena (Lott) at the point a little bit, who are comfortable with the ball in their hand but they are still scorers.”

Aside from shifting Lott, there are two potential replacements for Danielle’s old spot: freshmen guards Jordan King and Taylor Valladay.

Jordan is a 5-foot-11 guard out of Rockton, Illinois, and is the BIG EAST Preseason Freshman of the Year. But Jordan said she doesn’t let that pressure get to her.

“This really means nothing.

I have to go out and play hard

during the season,” Jordan said. “Right now, I am just really focused on working hard to improve my game and help my teammates in any way possible.”

Duffy said Jordan’s high school experience shows her potential for success in the NCAA. “She had a tremendous high school career and also did it on a national scene on the Nike circuit,” Duffy said. “She is up there as one of the next upcoming stars in the food chain.”

Not only is Marquette a new atmosphere for the back-to-back Beloit Daily News All-Area Player of the Year, but so is the point guard position. During her high school and AAU days, Jordan spent most of her time on the court at the wing position.

However, she said the position switch is not slowing her down by any means. Instead, it has motivated her to prove she deserves the spot.

“I just have been doing what the coaches have been asking in me and whatever that takes, the hard work and dedication every day in practice,” Jordan said. “As a young player, I think that is all you can do along with buying in and listening to the coaches.”

Duffy’s offense accentuates Jordan’s role as a facilitator.

“I think I do a good job working with my teammates and trying to keep everyone calm and composed,” Jordan said. “Right now, I am just trying to help my teammates get open shots and running things and make sure everyone is under control and communicating.”

The other main option to seize the starting point guard spot is Valladay, another freshman guard from Illinois. She considers her vocal leadership as a strength.

“I like to bring that voice out on and off the court,” Valladay said.

“If I am not in, I am always talking it up on the sideline or talking up other things that I know.

Just trying to get everyone in the right position on offense and move my feet on defense.”

As it was for Jordan, Valladay is trying to embrace her head coach’s plan for 2019-’20. “(I’m) just trying to buy into what Coach is talking about,” Valladay said. “Just by doing the little extra things on and off the court to show the coaches that I

can be that freshman leader.”

The Chicago native sees her adjustment to Duffy’s offense as a work in progress.

“College is different, period.

The pace is different, faster and more upbeat. I think I am adjusting well,” Valladay said. “When coach asks something of me, I am very open to doing what is asked of me. Adjusting to college from high school is tough, but at the end of the day, I know I am capable of doing it.”

Valladay said she sees every day as time to improve her game.

“Every single day I have something to get better at… Everyone does,” Valladay said. “There are things in my game that can be better, but (I’m) taking it day by day.”

Valladay is still recovering from an ACL injury from last year, but Duffy and Valladay each said the rehab is on track.

“Rehab is going good,” Valladay said. “I am just waiting for my name to be called and doing what I know I can do best.”

Despite coming off a major injury, she is still in the mix for the point guard spot.

“I am hungry for it. I am doing what I can,” Valladay said. “I am buying into everything I need to do: getting stronger, getting bigger and just being the Taylor Valladay that I know I can bring to the team.”

King and Valladay both attribute their quick adjustment and acclimation to the kind of coach Duffy is.

“She is always trying to get the best out of us,” Jordan said. “As a player, you look for a coach that cares and wants you to improve day in and day out.”

“She knows we are a young group. Everyone knows we are a young group, so the fact she believes in us stands out to me,” Valladay said. “Just her making the effort to be the best coach she can be for us is really helpful.”

Uncertainty aside, Duffy said she has optimism for her lead guards.

“We will find as we move forward what is the best combination, the best ingredients,” Duffy said. “I am not sure if I have the total right answer right now, but we will keep improving on it.”

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Bring back the bigs Wojciechowski looks to Johnson, Morrow, John, goes against small-ball trend

By Daniel Macias

daniel.macias@marquette.edu

Head coach Steve Wojciechowski said the Golden Eagles’ identity starts with defense and rebounding.

“We have really good athletes that can play very good individual defense,” Wojciechowski said. “We have experience so they should understand the concept of team defense. We’re big and physical pretty much at every position. So we have to be a really good rebounding team as well. That has to be our identity.”

Marquette will have the luxury of increased depth in two positions that have the biggest impact on defense and rebounding: power forward and center.

Junior Theo John, graduate senior Jayce Johnson and redshirt senior Ed Morrow are all set to play significant roles in the post this season.

“Ed, Jayce and Theo are all really good college basketball players,” Wojciechowski said.

“When the game comes, you play the lineups that give you the best chance to win. If two of those guys on the floor at one time are giving us the best chance to win that game, they’re going to play a lot.”

That means going against the basketball trend of using two big men to playing with more guards, which typically allows for more spacing, quicker pace and more 3-pointers. The upside of having more post players is often higher-percentage shots, better rebounding and more sound defense.

“You could have a guy take four threes in one possession just because we are trying to get every offensive rebound,” John said. “(When) you have 7-foot, 6-foot-9, 6-foot-7 (players), your chance of getting an offensive rebound goes up.”

Wojciechowski said the number of minutes the two bigs will be on the floor depends

on the quality of basketball they’re producing.

The team works to make sure playing more post players doesn’t create any spacing issues.

“The way we play it doesn’t actually affect our spacing that much,” redshirt sophomore Greg Elliott said. “Coach harps on it a lot: spacing, spacing, spacing, being in the right spot. So that’s really second nature to us.

We’re always adding something to where we can still have space even though there’s two bigs out there on the court.”

John said spacing is only a problem when someone is in the wrong spot.

“Spacing is important,” assistant coach Jake Presutti said.

“Those guys have done a good job so far in practice, they know where they need to be. Whether one is screening, the other is spacing out in the dunkers spot on the baseline, those guys are understanding that they have to move as one.”

Spacing often involves playing one post player higher on the key and one lower on the key, a highlow strategy.

Redshirt senior Ed Morrow’s willingness to take a shot outside of his range could help playing high-low. While Morrow played close to the rim last season, he said he is comfortable anywhere on the court. But ultimately he said he prefers playing within 15 feet of the basket.

“That’s my money area,” Morrow said. “If I need to take a shot outside of my range, I’m willing to take it and I’m willing to make it. It’s just wherever coach wants to put me.”

Morrow is not the only one willing to expand his range.

John said he attempted at least 200 3-pointers a week in the offseason. While not his specialty, John said he won’t be reluctant to take the shot.

“If I’m left wide open, I’m not going to hesitate,” John said.

If spacing does become a

problem the Golden Eagles can’t overcome, it could mean scoring fewer points. However, Presutti said he doesn’t think Marquette will sacrifice points playing with two bigs, partly because the they can score in the post.

“They’re going to be great screeners for our guards. They are going to be great ball movers. They can roll, pop, hit and chase … keep the ball hitting multiple sides on the offense,” Presutti said. “I think the more movement we create, the more opportunities there will be for everyone.

Unlike many stereotypes about post-heavy teams, Wojciechowski intends to keep a quick tempo.

“We want to push the pace,” Wojciechowski said. “One of the things we need to do collectively is get in better shape. When you’re going five-on-five, the tendency is to conserve. What you want to do is create habits that will be there during the game. We’ll be a transition team, but I think we will be more in the half-court as well.”

John, who said he loves running up and down the court, said all of Marquette’s bigs have no problem running i n

transition. Morrow sees opportunity with running the floor. “(We are) guys that rebound the ball at a high level, especially out of Jayce, Theo and myself, and just being able to spread the floor and defend multiple positions (will help),” he said.

“That’s something obviously we won’t be able to show until we start playing.”

The post players are hoping to force mismatches with smaller teams across the country.

“Not a lot of teams do play a two-big lineup, so it’ll be good for us,” Johnson said. “On defense I know we can lock down on guard. As long as we can, were going to get those advantages on the offensive end with two bigs.”

A quick guard could be a nightmare for a slow big, but John isn’t worried about that.

“Our bigs move our feet very well,” John said. “That was probably one of our main focuses all summer. The second thing is, they still have to get to the hoop and put a shot up. With all that extra length, it’s going to be even harder to do.”

On the defensive end, more zone defenses are a possibility.

“(The) last couple of years, we have not played a lot of zone,” Presutti said. “With two bigs, there is potential that we can play more zone this year. We can look at potentially a two-three zone where we keep that rim protector in the paint. Those guys are mobile enough that they can play the fours in the zones. It’s also a potential to keep teams off balance coming out of timeouts with a zone as well.”

If a guard gets past star guard Markus Howard, who is 5-foot11, there’s a backup plan now.

John said having two rim protectors gives the team room for mistakes.

“The (guards) know that we have their back if they get driven (on) or shook,” Johnson said. “We’re there to block the shot and help and then they can help us.”

While Wojciechowski has a game plan with two bigs on the floor, he said he is ready to adapt in game.

“As Mike Tyson said, everybody’s got a plan until you get punched in the mouth,” Wojciechowski said.

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Seven-footer transfers to Golden Eagles with help of Stan Johnson

By Zoe Comerford

isabel.comerford@marquette.edu

Graduate transfer and men’s basketball center Jayce Johnson’s path to Marquette started with associate head coach Stan Johnson.

“When Stan Johnson was at ASU, that was one school I was really wanting to go after,” Jayce said. “(When) he left, my dad has always had a good relationship with him, and when I was opened up to recruitment, we started talking again.”

While the adjustment to Marquette’s style of play hasn’t been seamless, Jayce is expected to play a crucial role at post for head coach Steve Wojciechowksi’s roster.

“At first it was a struggle,” Jayce said. “But I’ve been getting in the gym running, working hard. It’s a little different dynamic in the way that (we) play and

how fast (we) play, but all the running we’ve been doing, I’ve been catching up.”

Wojciechowski said his plan this season is to play two bigs, switching between Jayce, Ed Morrow and Theo John.

Jayce is excited to play this throwback style of play.

“They’re both great players,” Jayce said. “The fact that they’re actually implementing it and playing a power game is amazing.”

The Mission Viejo, California, native transferred to Marquette after graduating in 2019 with a degree in psychology and a minor in health from the University of Utah.

He began his collegiate career with Utah as a redshirt and sitting on the bench. While he only averaged four points and 4.3 rebounds and recorded 20 blocks in 32 games as a redshirt

freshman, he greatly improved in the 2018-’19 season. In his last year as a Ute, he started in 24 of the 28 games he played and av-

“They’re pushing me every day,” Jayce said. “Just to see this team and how hard they work, it’s put me on another level from my last team.”

Jayce said he is especially satisfied with his chemistry with senior guard Markus Howard.

Jayce said he’s already gotten timing down for setting screens for him.

“Markus is a great player and just being able to play with him and him coming back has just been amazing,” Jayce said.

Although he’s only been part of Wojciechowski’s squad for a few months, Jayce said the rest of the team has made him feel at home.

“I feel like I’ve been here all my years,” Jayce said.

eraged seven points and 7.5 rebounds per game while shooting 59% from the floor.

Jayce doesn’t shoot too often from 15 feet around the rim. He said his strengths are offensive rebounding and distributing the ball to his teammates.

“I can move the ball around, play in the high post, get the ball, swing it,” Jayce said. “Being a big post, offensive rebounds, blocked shots, good defense, just finishing around the rim. That’s my thing.”

Free throws were a challenge for Johnson in 2018-’19 with the Utes, posting only a 40% free throw percentage.

“I’m sure you know about my last school,” Jayce said. “Stan has got me in the gym everyday shooting a ton of them. … My form’s getting better (and) smoother.”

After playing with the team over the last few months, Jayce said being a Golden Eagle has exceeded his expectations.

stretches in the weight room, stuff like that,” McEwen said. “He’s a great leader in that aspect.”

McEwen said Howard is also a fun player to share the court with.

“He makes the game a lot easier for everybody else. He provides a lot of space for everyone because he can shoot,” McEwen said. “He’s really fast, so we play up-tempo when he’s on the floor. His ability to get into the paint and create shots for others is good, too.”

Redshirt senior Ed Morrow said playing with Howard is a “blessing.”

“I know the things that he has been through, I know how hard he works, and being able to see him on the floor and things to work out and come in his favor is probably the most exciting thing,” Morrow said.

McEwen added that Howard’s leadership extends off the court through engaging with his teammates.

He initiates fun bonding experiences like having breakfast at his house or just going to eat with them.

Howard is looking to build off an impressive season in 2018-’19, where he finished as the unanimous BIG EAST Player of the Year. He led the conference with 25 points per game and set the program record for 851 points in a season.

He also had 24 20-plus scoring nights, and he scored 30 or more points 10 times.

“He’s tough to stop. Obviously, coach gives him a lot of freedom,” Weber said. “And then he gets into those heat-check games, feeling good and confident and makes a lot of tough shots. That’s what I kind of admire about him.”

While many top players across the country in Howard’s class either entered the NBA Draft or saw their chances of being drafted before returning to finish school, the Associated Press Second Team AllAmerican player decided shortly after last season to complete his senior year at Marquette.

Howard said he prayed about the decision a lot and talked with his coaching staff and family. Those in his corner were completely honest with him, he said.

“At the end of the day, it was truly a family decision. … I knew me coming back to get my degree first and foremost was extremely important to me,” Howard said. “Completing my commitment to Marquette was something that really was important to me. Also just another year to grow as a player and impact the community off the court as well as on.”

Howard is 30 points short of becoming the program’s all-time leading scorer as he enters the season and is 45 points away from becoming the

first 2,000-point scorer in Marquette men’s basketball history.

“To even be in contention with names like that, like Jerel (McNeal), Dwayne (Wade), Travis (Diener), Steve (Novak) … it’s truly a blessing in itself. You can do nothing in this life alone,” Howard said. “To be in conversations with those people is something as a kid you can only dream about.

To possibly put those into realization was definitely something that’s always been a dream of mine.”

THEO JOHN As the seaJunior forward son gets started, Howard is looking forward to one more chance to play against teams like Kansas State and Villanova in the blue and gold.

“It’s been an amazing ride, and I’m looking forward to just having one more go around,” Howard said.

In the meantime, coaches like Weber are still searching for a way to stop him.

“We have to figure out who can stop him. I don’t know, we’ll see how their other guys progress,” Weber said. “They had a lot of weapons last year, which also helped him out because you had to spread your defense.”

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When Stan Johnson was at ASU, that was one school I was really wanting to go after.”

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Continued from from page 1A Markus and Sacar (Anim), and you add Koby (McEwen) and Greg (Elliott), you have four experienced playmakers that can put pressure on the defense in multiple ways off the dribble drive or their ability to knock down shots,” Wojciechowski said.

Many of these players did not previously hold major offensive roles for the Golden Eagles. McEwen is coming off a redshirt season, and Elliott missed last season with a thumb injury.

Elliott played in 35 games in 2017, averaging 18.3 minutes, 4.5 points and 2.3 rebounds per game.

The Detroit native shot 50.5% and 36.7% from beyond the 3-point line.

When McEwen was at Utah State, he won Mountain West Freshman of the Year in 2016-’17 and then was named Third Team All-Mountain West after averaging 15.6 points per game and leading the Aggies with 5.4 rebounds per game in 2017-’18.

The offensive changes may force the team to embrace a more defense-first attitude.

“We’re going to focus on the defensive end first and let the offensive game come to us,” Anim said.

“As the season continues to go on, we’re going to continue building that identity.”

Neptune said he remains confident the loss of the Hausers will not significantly affect Howard’s production.

“They’ve got a bunch of other guys that are really good players that were budding stars in their own right,” Neptune said. “I think they’ll

be a different team, but they’ll be just as good or better.”

Teammates like junior Theo John said they embrace Howard as the team’s main leader going into the season.

“Ever since I got on campus, he’s made sure I know I’m good, checking in on us,” John said.

H o w a r d ’s leadership is something McEwen, a redshirt junior, noticed when he arrived on campus last season.

“He brings the same positive attitude every day.

In terms of just leading practice,

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Ever since I got on campus, he’s made sure I know I’m good, checking in on us.”

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Former walk-on transitions to coach

Marotta continues family legacy as program assistant

By Zoe Comerford

isabel.comerford@marquette.edu

While March 9, 2019, was Cam Marotta’s last time suiting up for the Golden Eagles, he soon returned to Fiserv Forum to assume a very different role: program assistant.

Thus far, Marotta said it has been a seamless transition.

“I still get to be around our guys, but obviously I’m on a little bit of a different side of things with our coaching staff now, helping them get stuff ready for practice, get stuff ready for recruiting and everything,” Marotta said. “It’s good to see both sides of the game of basketball.”

Some may say the Mequon, Wisconsin, native was destined to be a Golden Eagle. His greatgrandfather, grandfather and late father all played Marquette basketball, and his mom was an MU cheerleader.

“Seeing him on the coaching staff now is amazing and a blessing,” redshirt senior Ed Morrow said. “Just knowing how committed he is and how he wears that blue and gold, especially with his father (having played) and his mother being here.”

For four years, Marotta donned his father’s No. 52 under head coach Steve Wojciechowski. As a walk-on, he played in 28 career games.

He graduated with a degree in marketing in 2019 and is now pursuing a master’s degree in management at Marquette.

“He’s the type of person that we hope all our guys grow into being,” Wojciechowski said.

“He adds a fresh and youthful perspective to our staff, and our players really get along with him. He’s going to be a great coach.”

Marotta said competing with players like current seniors Markus Howard and Sacar Anim and redshirt sophomore Greg Elliott in past seasons helped him gain a level of respect from them.

“They understand what I’m telling them comes from a good place. I like to just try to help them get better on a day-to-day basis,” Marotta said.

Although he was a walkon and didn’t play as much as other players, Marotta took on a leadership role for younger players.

“He always felt like a coach because he was always out here telling us what to do — not what to do, but the right things to do,” Elliott said. “(To) see him

from a coach’s perspective, it’s not really that much of a difference. It’s just I know he’s not running with us any more, that’s really it.”

In 2016, Marotta received Marquette’s Dwyane Wade Legacy of Leadership Award and in 2019, he was presented with the Father William Kelly Team Morale Award.

“As a walk-on, especially as I got to my junior and senior year, I tried to become more of a player-coach,” Marotta said. “I do have a lot of similar roles as I did as a walk-on, I just don’t have to run as many lines now.”

For Anim, Howard and John, having a former teammate on the coaching staff is “weird.”

“There’s definitely some questions where you’re like, ‘I don’t know if I should go to him about that,’” John said. “But then at the same time … he’s still our guy.”

Howard said it’s fun to see Marotta develop as a player and now as a coach.

“It’s definitely a position that he’s perfectly fit for,” Howard said. “But I’m just so used to being on the same team as Cam.” Regardless of Marotta’s title, his former teammates said they are happy for him.

“I’m so proud of him just to see where he comes from. I know that was one of his dreams,” Anim said. “At first to put the jersey on, but now to be able to coach for a great university that he loves. I respect him, and I’m glad to have him on staff.”

Around Fiserv, Marotta is now known as “Coach Cam.” Players say the moniker is more a joke than anything. “(I) call him ‘Coach Cam’ a lot

just to mess with him,” Morrow said. “Give him that extra little jolt to make him feel like he’s somebody. … At the end of the day I look at him as a brother.

He’ll always be Cam to me.”

Meanwhile, Marotta’s younger sister Chloe joined the family’s Marquette legacy in 2018, as a forward for the women’s basketball team. She said she and Cam are extremely close.

“We’re best friends,” Chloe said. “When I wanted to commit here, that was definitely one of the factors that I looked at.”

Even now, Chloe said she can spend just as much time with Cam as when he was playing. She said they still eat dinner together in the training table room, which they did last year.

But Chloe said her favorite part about having her brother still around is that Cam keeps an eye on her progress.

“There’s sometimes when I’m working out in Kasten and he’s up in his office, and they have a camera on the Kasten Gym (practice facility),” Chloe said. “Every single time he comments on what kind of moves I’m making, how my shot looks, just cause he’s watching from the office.”

With five years and counting at Marquette, Cam said he is lucky to still be with the program. “(I’m) very thankful to Coach Wojo for keeping me on as a staff member now,” Cam said.

“It’s really been a home for me for life.”

Although Cam and Chloe’s late father Marc, the only threetime First Team Academic AllAmerican selection in program history, died from a heart attack in April 2015, Cam said his dad would be proud — a sentiment that Chloe echoes.

“My dad would be very, very proud, especially of Cameron,” Chloe said. “He has had coaches’ knowledge from the time he was little. My dad would know that he would be a coach right now, and I think he does know, but he would be really proud of him as well.”

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McEwen, Elliott among players eyeing backcourt minutes

By Matt Yeazel

matthew.yeazel@marquette.edu

As Marquette begins the 2019-’20 season, Markus Howard will have a surplus of guards by his side.

Both Koby McEwen and Greg Elliott were a part of Marquette’s program last year, with McEwen redshirting after transferring from Utah State, and Elliott redshirting because of an injury. The pair joins freshmen Symir Torrence and Dexter Akanno and senior veterans Sacar Anim and Markus Howard in a crowded backcourt.

In 2018, Howard took on most of the pressure handling, passing and shooting in the backcourt. This season, there’s confidence around the team that redshirt junior Koby McEwen can take some of that pressure.

“Koby’s a dynamic player,” head coach Steve Wojciechowski said. “He compliments our perimeter players really well, he’s a really good passer, terrific driver, and makes open shots.”

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Wojciechowski said McEwen is comfortable running a team himself and making decisions or playing off the ball.

McEwen spent all of last season on the scout team for Marquette, helping Marquette prepare for other teams’ star players. Howard saw how McEwen fit with the team once he stepped on the court.

“I am extremely ecstatic to play with a guy like Koby,” Howard said.

“He’s so versatile, he can drive into the lane, make plays for others and score for himself. I’m looking forward to be able to have different areas we can attack from.”

Howard said he believes both him and McEwen can play well on- or off-the-ball, so they can both attack the defense as a facilitator or capitalize on scoring opportunities for themselves.

“Playing with Markus makes the game easier for everybody,” McEwen said. “He’s an uptempo guard, runs the floor and he’s improving as a decision maker and passer. I look for him a lot because I know he’s going to make the shot and get me an assist.”

In addition to McEwen’s game complementing Howard’s, Wojciechowski said he loves McEwen’s competitive spirit and the “edginess” he brings to the floor.

Meanwhile, Elliott missed all of last season with a thumb injury.

“It’s really good to see Greg back out on the court,” Wojciechowski said.

“He’s a high IQ player, really easy to play with, makes the people around him better, and he’s a great teammate.”

With Elliott being healthy and back at practice, he is also competing for minutes.

“Competition is always going to be good amongst the guards,” Elliott said.

“It’s good that we’re going at each other because iron sharpens iron, so the more we compete in practice, the more we’ll be prepared for the season.”

McEwen said Elliott “looks like the old Greg,” and he

will be a big help as another ball handler.

“My role is to do whatever my team needs me to do so we can win,” Elliott said. “I’m not just an offensive scorer or a defensive stopper, I can do both. I pride myself on that.”

The two newcomers to the group are Torrence, a 6-foot3 guard from Syracuse, New York, and Akanno, a 6-foot-4 guard from Valencia, California.

With all the guards on the team, Wojciechowski said the team will “look at all options” when it comes to potentially redshirting one of these freshmen, but he wants them to attack each day like they’re competing for a starting role.

“Dexter has great size, he’s a tremendous athlete and he’s shown flashes of who we think he can be,” Wojciechowski said.

“Symir is a true point guard, pass first guy, potential to be a great leader down the road and he makes the right plays, which you don’t always see from young guards.”

With the young guards coming in, some of the more experienced guards have done their part to integrate them and help with the transition.

“I’m always there for them.

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they know they can just ask me,” Elliott said.

Elliott described Torrence as a “floor general” with great passing skills and the ability to knock down open shots. Elliott said Akanno is built like a running back, and he’s a blur in the open floor with the ability to get to the basket whenever he wants.

“I try to challenge myself everyday,” Torrence said. “There’s nothing but competitiveness with the guards. We’re going at each other every single day, and we all just want to win.”

Torrence said he believes the offense will look different between this season and last year, and that right now they are a guard-dominant team. Although they have tremendous power forwards and centers, and the guards need to be able to get downhill so the big men can get open.

“All of our newcomers are guys who can come in and help us,” Wojciechowski said. “They will not only be able to help Markus, but really our entire group, and they’ll help us get easier baskets due to their playmaking abilities.”

New year, new opportunities Cain, Bailey hope to play larger roles at forward positions

By Jackson Gross

jackson.gross@marquette.edu

Junior Jamal Cain said his expectations for himself are a lot like his vertical: high and getting higher. “(Fans) can expect a better level, a higher flyer, always going to the rim, making better plays and always being a threat,” Cain said.

Every year, college teams lose players to graduation, transfers and other reasons. With those spots open, it is up to returning players who stay to pick up the slack and help the team produce results.

This is especially true for the Marquette men’s basketball team, who lost four players from the 2018-’19 squad.

Besides the four incoming freshmen who are expected to fill those spots, there are two players the team hopes to lean on and bolster this season: Cain and sophomore Brendan Bailey.

Head coach Steve

Wojciechowski said both have an opportunity to carve out a significant role on the team.

The pair has the size to play either forward position while also scoring from beyond the arc.

“That’s different than the rest of our roster because we have three really good traditional bigs,” Wojciechowski said. “If they evolve to the level we believe they can, they give us (the) kind of player that can crossover between doing some things that a post player does and having the skills of a perimeter player.”

One of the causes for the excitement around the two players is their versatility, length, athleticism and speed, assistant coach Dwayne Killings said.

“It’s a big year for both of them because it’s a chance to show their growth,” Killings said. “There is a great opportunity for them to play a lot of minutes on the floor this year.

They’ve worked their tails off this summer, so now they have a chance to show what they can do. In reality, they can be a pivotal part of our success

this season.”

Bailey, a 6-foot-8 forward from Salt Lake City, said he felt it was a good summer for him training at home. He said over the summer he practiced with a lot of friends. “(I) was involved with a lot of great pick-up games working on my shot, trying to be more consistent and definitely being stronger so I can be more versatile,” Bailey said.

The sophomore averaged 3.2 points and 1.8 rebounds last season, which was seventh and ninth-best, respectively, on the team. He said he is aiming to assist his team however he can and “to be more consistent on offense and defense.”

Cain, however, averaged 1.7 points and 2.1 rebounds in his sophomore year, which was ninth and eighth-best respectively on the team.

He said he will continue to direct his energy toward building confidence, ball handling and getting stronger.

With Cain’s new status as a junior, Killings is expecting him to assume more of a leadership role, emphasizing his

magnetic persona.

“One of the things about Jamal is that he’s got a great personality. (He) walks in the gym, you gravitate towards him,” Killings said. “He’s got great energy, so just be that same guy every day, bring that energy, and then I think it becomes infectious for our team and it makes us better.”

With the season just around the corner, Cain is looking forward to Nov. 5.

“I don’t have one game that I’m looking forward to, but to be that corny guy, I’ll say the first one,” Cain said.