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The 2020 presidential election is less than 30 days away, and the state of Wisconsin is one of the battleground states that could decide the election.

The 2016 election saw President Donald Trump carrying Wisconsin by a less than one percent margin. A Republican president hadn’t won Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes since President Ronald Reagan in 1984. For the past three elections, the candidate who won Wisconsin went on to be elected to the presidency.

The most recent Marquette Law School poll showed Democratic nominee Joe Biden leading seven points ahead of Trump in the dairy state, but at the same time four years ago, another Marquette Law School poll showed Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton with a five-point lead ahead of Trump in the state of Wisconsin.

But nationwide, college-age voters are supposedly one of the deciding factors in this election. A letter from Vote America founder Debra Cleaver said that there is an expectation to have a record-shattering debut of young voters for the 2020 election compared to the 2018 election, where 47% of the voting-eligible population participated.

“I knew that it was important for me already to vote,” Morgan

After more than 41 years of working in dining services at Marquette, Leola Walker has retired. Her last day was Sept. 30.

Marquette looked a lot different when Walker started working at the university in 1979. She began working in Cobeen Hall and then McCormick Hall, before moving on to work in the then newly built Alumni Memorial Union in 1990.

Since then, Walker has become a familiar face at Marquette Place, most recently at Einstein Bros. Bagels.

Walker said she loved her time at each of the dining halls.

“I’m a people person, I love people,” Walker said. “And the students were awesome, I love the students.

And I think the students loved me.”

Even so, she said it was her time to retire following her birthday in September, after her sons begged her to. She said it was bittersweet.

“I gave Marquette my best,” Walker said. “And now I’m gonna take the rest for me. ... It’s my time now.”

Shirley Roberts worked with Walker for 28 years at Marquette Place. “(Leola) was like a second mother to me,” Roberts said.

Roberts described the way Walker knew all of the students by name.

Calvin McLillian has worked with Walker for six years in the AMU. When he began working at

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Faculty said they feel discouraged and the university does not include them in crucial decisions.

Professors disheartened by potential layoffs Marquette to face $45 million shortfall in fiscal year 2022

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At the beginning of every class they taught, Jones*, a professor in the College of Arts & Sciences, told their students one thing: “I have the greatest job in the world.”

Jones stopped saying that this year.

Jones* is a professor at Marquette University. Jones’ request to remain anonymous was granted due to the sensitive nature of this article and the risk of losing their job.

Along with numerous tenured and nontenured track professors,

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Jones found themself disheartened and demoralized by the announcement of 225 to 300-plus potential layoffs in the wake of an anticipated 45 million dollar budget deficit extending to the fiscal year 2022 and beyond. Roughly one-fifth of all campus faculty and academic staff could be cut.

“The entire reason we became professors is for the students,” Jones said. “I get to do what I love, and work with students to do that.”

But Jones said they do not love what they do anymore because of Marquette.

The shortfall Marquette is facing is based on known and ex-

acerbated losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic, along with an enrollment decline, Provost Kimo Ah Yun relayed in an email to the Marquette Wire.

“We are making these decisions precisely because the future of higher education is at an inflection point,” Ah Yun said in an email.

“The demographic projections have prepared us for that and the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated some of the issues we were already preparing for.”

Ah Yun stressed that no decisions on faculty and academic staff reductions have yet

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But faculty and academic staff expressed anxieties regarding the utilization of demographic models that could be blind to change, a potential hollowing of the humanities and a conspicuous absence of transparency from the administration resulting from suppressed unionization efforts.

“These are 400 human beings.

If you kick them out of academia, you’re kicking them out of a way of life,” Jones said. “The president speaks of sacrifice, which to me reeks of paternalism. There’s been no talk of the individuals they are cutting, the families whose lives are affected, and to me that’s so disturbing.”

This is not the first time the Marquette administration has grappled with the issue of long-term financial sustainability. In a campuswide letter penned by University President Michae Lovell in 2019, Marquette announced it would lay off 24 employees — its first workplace reduction since the mid-1990s. Citing an anticipated decline of 15 to 25% of collegeaged students by 2026, Lovell appeared to present Wisconsin and the broader Midwest as groundzero for enrollment depreciation.

The model utilized by the administration to project this demographic downturn comes from economist Nathan Grawe, of Carleton College in Minnesota. In his book, “Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education,” Grawe tracks the drop in birthrate due to the 2008 fiscal recession.

Grawe’s grim forecast model, and Marquette’s implementation of the model to guide budget cuts, has been scrutinized for its alleged prioritization of white, upper-class families. As universities and colleges — both elite and non-elite — seek to alter their historic enrollment patterns, there has been a concerted effort to attract first-generation students, minority students and adults. But some say that, with these cuts, these diversifying efforts may be consequently annulled.

“The assumption is that uppermiddle class and wealthy white students are the only people that the administration seems to think of as viable students for the future,” Doe*, a professor in the College of Arts & Sciences, said.

“The entire focus on racial equity is in jeopardy.”

Doe has also been provided anonymity to protect their identity.

In a 2018 interview with Inside Higher Ed, Grawe addressed these concerns.

“I hope that schools respond to the information in the model with better retention policy or new recruitment strategies and so survive or thrive despite demographic hurdles,” he said. “This would

make the forecasts look wrong by putting them to good use.”

Grawe argues that closing the achievement gap across student groups remains a moral necessity for universities, citing that Hispanic Americans now attend college at a rate equivalent to the national average — a 15 percentage point increase in the last two decades. However, he mentions it may not be enough to substantially offset the imminent enrollment slump.

“Still, a 15-point increase for a subpopulation accounting for about 15 percent of the population represents an attendance increase of less than 2.5 percent for the country as a whole,” Grawe wrote in a 2019 Higher Ed Jobs article.

In 2016, Marquette launched its initiative to become a HispanicServing Institution, a designation granted to two-year and four-year institutions that enroll low-income students and have an undergraduate Hispanic population of at least 25%.

Once an institution achieves HSI status, it is eligible for federal Title V funds. Marquette is currently ineligible for Title V funding because its undergraduate Hispanic population, as of the 2019 fall semester, is at 12%. Title V-funded training and research remains the only federal program to address social, behavioral and financial barriers faced by underserved mothers and children.

“Now, it suddenly seems like we’re being told that that can never be. That if Marquette changes its demographic, it can’t survive,” Gerry Canavan, associate professor of English, said.

Grawe insists that schools must look beyond admissions to amend this institutional and demographic tension. Canavan, however, expressed confusion at Marquette’s unwillingness to even consider new recruitment and investment strategies.

“I don’t understand why we think Marquette can’t adapt to the changing demographics of America,” Canavan said. “What is it that we think we can’t do? Is it that we can’t raise money for scholarships, we can’t find ways to make ourselves less dependent on (tuition and housing) money? We can’t draw in more students from Milwaukee?”

Net tuition revenue accounts for 73% of the university’s unrestricted revenue, with room and board attributing 12.2%, according to a breakdown from 2015. The total of these two components, 85.2%, depicts an institutional dependency on enrollment to support annual operations.

In the spring of 2020, Marquette issued 150 million dollars in taxable fixed rate bonds, at 1-4% interest over the next thirty years. In these bonds, Canavan identified a potential alternative

route forward.

“We could use some of those bonds to get us through the emergency now and make the structural changes we need to make over a longer, more deliberate timetable,” Canavan wrote in a followup email. “I’m not sure what the annual payment would be or what the terms are precisely, but the point is that it’s an option we can use that we’re not talking about, and it seems to my eye a lot safer than trying to cut 10% of the budget in one go.”

In accordance with the Marquette Faculty Handbook, notennured track faculty are to be cut before those who are tenured, and among the tenured, those with

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My education is going to be significantly depreciated.

I wish I felt that students had more of a voice,” BROOKE MCARDLE Senior in the College of Arts & Sciences

lesser seniority will be the first ousted. Because women and professors of color are among the most recently hired, professors worry layoffs could lead to an institutional whitening.

“According to the Faculty Handbook, they should be the first fired, which will undo all the work that we’ve done to make Marquette a more equitable place,” Doe said.

Ah Yun said that the Faculty Handbook provides guidance on how to move forward, but he is also working with the Faculty Senate.

“We are absolutely sensitive to this concern, and will take great care to ensure measures we take do not have the least impact on what we have invested in and worked so hard to build,” he said in an email to the Marquette Wire.

Although Ah Yun declined to reveal which departments or programs would be primarily affected in the coming layoffs, an emphasis on consolidation and profitability left some professors alarmed for both the future of the humanities and the remaining tenured professors who will be expected to pick up the slack.

“I am concerned, as somebody who is in a humanities department at a Jesuit university, that we will be targeted,” Timothy

McMahon, associate professor of history, said.

A consolidation or evisceration of the humanities would spell certain disaster for undergraduate and graduate students, Brooke McArdle, a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences, said. McArdle is double majoring in classics and history; classics is the study of ancient languages, literatures, histories and cultures.

“I don’t know where I would be without these humanities professors. They are intrinsically related to my academic success and my future. I’m incredibly grateful for them,” McArdle said. “I would really challenge Marquette to put the human element back in academia. They have the choice to be a leader in faculty appreciation, rather than … treating them as disposable.”

Almost as soon as she declared her classics major, McArdle came to a dismaying conclusion: with only one professor and one adjunct in the program, she would not be fully supported in her academic trajectory.

“Despite the talent that those professors have, being in contact with only two professors is really detrimental to academic diversity in the sense of being able to grow and take in different pedagogies,” McArdle said.

Assistant visiting professors and adjuncts have been the most influential in her experience at Marquette, McArdle said. With far fewer professors capable of providing humanistic, Jesuit pedagogy on campus, she worries students will receive poorer quality courses and scant individualized attention. Faculty layoffs are certain to impose a strain on already labor-laden professors, extending their attention far beyond the average workday.

The preliminary findings of a study conducted at Boise State University — a public doctoral institution — revealed that, on average, faculty work 61 hours a week, more than 50% more than the typical 40-hour work week. That time is primarily spent teaching, although a heightened insistence on administrative duties also accounts for a sizable stretch of time.

“It seems likely you’ll have less time for individual classes.

That means more multiple choice assessments and less written assignments. It’s gonna mean less personalized work with students, it’s gonna mean you recycle lectures from previous semesters, it’s gonna mean you will update reading lists less often,” Barrett McCormick, professor of political science, said.

Nontenure track faculty and graduate students at Marquette began organizing a union in the fall semester of 2018. Hefty administrative salaries compared to other employees — Marquette

University pays its administrators 80% more than the average fouryear institution — and a lack of health care coverage for graduate students kindled a coalition that included months of petitions, sitins and other forms of protest.

Unions on college campuses predominantly protect nontenure track faculty, who work and live by renewable one-year contracts, Jones said. Constituencies organize for multivalent reasons — all pressing — ranging from better pay, job security and greater administrative transparency. The latter has become particularly pertinent in the layoff debate.

“There’s a principle called shared governance, that we are supposed to be part of these decision-making processes,” Canavan said. “It’s not simply supposed to be that faculty are presented with a plan.”

But that is exactly what the administration has done; professors contend the decision has been predetermined.

“It’s like when a parent tells their three-year-old, ‘You can choose what to wear. You can wear the red outfit, or the blue outfit.’ The choices are made — the kid isn’t going to be wearing polka dots or stripes,” Doe said. “The parents have already limited the choices, and created an illusion of control.”

The unionization movement has not been formally recognized

by Marquette, leaving nontenure track faculty and graduate students without the ability to bargain with the administration, McMahon said.

An unwillingness to meet with organizers “has implications for both quality of work and the quality of the workplace, and, frankly … prevents us from having a collective voice,” McMahon said.

Lovell seems to see faculty and employees as workers that need to be controlled, Doe said.

Morale among his colleagues has hit a low, Jones said. Because the academic job market has shrunk, it would most likely be challenging for laid-off faculty and academic staff to find new, favorable positions.

“I’m between incredibly angry, and incredibly forlorn. I’ve gone to the point where I’ve created a LinkedIn profile, I’ve tried to look for other jobs,” Jones divulged. “(But) once you’re cut, you’re most likely leaving academia. It’s not even dire, it’s cataclysmic right now.”

McArdle, as a tuition-paying member of the community, wished for a way to hold the administration accountable.

“My education is going to be significantly depreciated. I wish I felt that students had more of a voice,” McArdle said. “We need to be doing everything we can to help our professors right now.”

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Einstein Bros. Bagels in the AMU, McLillian said she showed him the ropes.

“Miss Leola is one of the sweetest people in the world,” McLillian said.

“One of the easiest people to work with.”

McLillian said he was sad when he found out Walker was retiring, but hopes she gets to enjoy herself.

Joe Ruskiewicz said he worked with Walker for almost eight years at Marquette Place.

“She was always cheerful,” Ruskiewicz said.

Ruskiewicz described some of Walker’s random acts of kindness. He recalled one time when she brought in a loaf of banana bread for everyone, which he said was “really delicious.”

He said he hopes Walker can do all the things that she loves in retirement.

Tyhesha Jackson, who worked with Walker for 11 years at Marquette Place, said Walker was the “mother of Marquette.”

“It was a great experience working with her,” Photos by Joceline Helmbreck joceline.helmbreck@marquette.edu Jackson said. She deJohn Su, vice provost for academic affairs, explains the university’s considerations for spring break. scribed Walker as an encourager — Jackson said Walker helped her readjust when she switched to working at Einstein’s Photo courtesy of Alex Abendschein from being a cashier at Leola Walker worked in dining halls across campus since 1979. She most recently worked at Einstein Bros. Bagels.

Marquette Place. in retirement.”

“I want to wish her well and I just some of her free time for one of her Alex Abendschein, marKendra Klamm, a senior in the want to thank her ... for being a smil- favorite hobbies: fishing. keting manager of university dining “You best believe I’m going to be services, said Walker often learned College of Business Administration, ing face,” Klamm said.

Now that she is retired, Walker out there by the end of the week,” students’ names and bagel orders, said she met Walker her first year said she crochets and sews to keep Walker said. and said many students were sad to at Marquette.

“She always remembered my herself busy. She takes a Spanish Walker said she misses her “crew” see her go.

“Marquette Dining Services name, always remembered my or- class online and is involved with but keeps in contact with them. She thanks her for her unmatched con- der, always smiled at me, which was her church as well. Once the pan- said she “hasn’t missed a call yet.”

“I worked with some awesome tributions to the Marquette com- a really great feeling,” Klamm said. demic is over, she said she’s planning on traveling — specifically to people,” Walker said. “I miss it almunity,” Abendschein said in an “It meant the world to me.”

Klamm said she’s happy for the Bahamas. ready.” email. “She will be greatly missed She said she is also going to take and we wish her the absolute best Walker and her retirement.

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Panzenhagen, a sophomore in the College of Communication and member of the Marquette College Democrats, said. “But in a ‘normal’ election ... I don’t think I would have been so adamant about making sure I was registered to vote ... but I place a lot of importance on it.”

Panzenhagen also said she has encouraged other people her age to vote in the upcoming election since it’s “especially important this year” due to the pandemic and racial justice movements across the country.

“The fact that I’m an adult now and I do understand the implications of who is president and what that means for me and other people, means this is a big deal,” Panzenhagen said. “There’s a lot riding on who gets elected this November.”

This year there have been large campaigns, like the “When We All Vote” campaign, throughout the United States to get people information not only on how to register to vote but instructions on how to fill out and turn in absentee ballots.

“I think after 2016 people started to think maybe things would’ve gone differently if we had a higher voter turnout,” Brian Hendricks, a third year Marquette law student , said. “But I still think (this year) it’s going to be neck-and-neck.”

Hendricks said the 2020 election year can be the year that shows the country that young people “deserve a seat at the table.”

Two main issues are on people’s minds this year, Hendricks said: the COVID-19 pandemic and the economy’s downfall as a result.

“Both of these issues feed into a more overarching concern ... security,” Hendricks said. “Both young people and the rest of the U.S. population are missing a sense of security right now, both in (the coronavirus pandemic) and a financial sense.”

In terms of the economy, closing small businesses and the increased instablitiy in job markets for recent graduates can serve as sense of urgency for younger people, he said.

“I think this is the most important election in recent history,” Hendricks said.

Besides voting, younger people also have the opportunity to actively participate in the election through becoming “poll watchers.”

According to the National Conference of State Legislature’s website, partisan poll watchers serve the purpose to ensure that their party has a fair chance of winning the election through reporting any issues to polling places or party officials.

Miranda Spindt, a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences and chairperson for Young Americans for Freedom, has participated in being a poll watcher and encourages other students to make sure their votes are being counted. Spindt will also be voting in person to ensure that her vote is counted.

Young Americans for Freedom

is a conservative ideological group made up of young people who focus on the ideas of individual freedoms, a strong free market, and traditional American values.

Another important thing that young people can do during the election is stay informed, Spindt said.

“I’m always doing tons of research and reading the news,” Spindt said. “Every issue is way more complicated than the little information you can get off of Instagram or Twitter ... read the news, from both sides of the aisle.”

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Marquette is encouraging students to vote in numerous ways, such as signs around the campus.

Faculty provide support to quarantined students Phone calls, outdoor outings provide relief for those isolating

By Natalija Mileusnic

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Marquette faculty are using their personal cellphone numbers to connect with students and ensure they have someone to talk to while they are in quarantine. Some students previously were quarantined in Schroeder Hall and some are currently quarantined in Cobeen Hall.

Jennifer Finn, a professor in the College of Arts & Sciences, said that the conversations she participated in varied depending on the student.

“Those with whom I did speak (with) were very grateful to talk to someone and our conversations would range from the dorm food, to the classes they were taking, to travels they had done in prior years, to what they were hoping to do once they were released from quarantine,” Finn

said in an email.

Carl Wainscott, assistant dean of Marquette’s graduate school, said a majority of the conversations he held were positive and that students were grateful for the conversation.

“The students are appreciative of the call,” Wainscott said in an email. “We talk about how they are doing mentally, if they are aware of resources to get some time outside, and mental health resources. I received some feedback from students, such as wanting some more food variety, that I passed along, but all calls were positive.”

Joya Crear, assistant vice president for student affairs, said interactions were beneficial for both students and staff.

“Students are the heartbeat of campus and it was important for faculty and staff to continue to maintain that sense of community in a new and creative way,” Crear said in an email. “Students were reassured that the larger community were concerned about their mental, spiritual and physical health and this outreach was one way to address wellness. It allowed both parties to

extend their network and get to know one another that they may not have met otherwise.”

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Students are the heartbeat of campus and it was important for faculty and staff to continue to maintain that sense of community in a new and creative way,” JOYA CREAR Assistant vice president for student affairs

Finn agreed that she believes reaching out to students has helped them mentally

and academically.

“Without taking care of the mental health of our students, we can’t expect them to be happy or to perform well in school,” Finn said in an email. “It is important for all of us to hold each other up in times like this.”

Wainscott said that he wanted to make sure that students knew they were not alone during these difficult times.

Crear later mentioned that faculty in different departments have become interested in this opportunity to interact with students.

“An email went to numerous lists and departments and the response was great,” Crear said in an email. “Approximately, 80 faculty and staff members volunteered to support students.”

If dorms continue to get quarantined across campus, Crear said that faculty will continue to support those that need it.

“For the foreseeable future, students quarantined and isolated on campus will continue to receive care, communication, and outreach,” Crear said in an email.

Along with faculty and staff

reaching out by phone call, the university provided a safe outdoor gathering for quarantined students and is providing entertainment such as music from the pep band and a barbecue served

by Marquette administration on Saturday for Cobeen Hall residents.

“They’re playing a band for us and serving some really good food. I like being outside and it’s good to get out of the building and everyone’s pretty happy,” Ella Ugland, a first-year in the College of Health Sciences and Cobeen resident, said.

In addition to faculty, the Office of Residence Life has been helping with providing support to students in Schroeder.

“With the large number of residents in Schroeder the Office of Residence Life (ORL) requested support from the MU community,” Crear said in an email. “Routinely, ORL staff have been reaching out to students in quarantine and isolation on campus but the large number required more staff to maintain this outreach.”

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LIMO services alter amid pandemic restrictions New route, safety patrol program brought back

By Megan Woolard

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In order to adhere to COVID-19 guidelines, Marquette University’s LIMO services on campus have changed.

Previously, students were able to call a LIMO from anywhere on campus and be dropped off right at their destination. The typical LIMO vans are no longer in service but have been replaced

by GoRiteWay buses to continue to provide for student safety and transportation around campus.

“Due to COVID-19 guidelines, LIMO van service has been replaced by the use of GoRiteWay coach buses. The LIMO vans can accommodate one to two passengers dependent upon the size of the van. The buses can accommodate 15 passengers,” Marquette University Police Department Chief Edith Hudson said. Currently there are two buses operating on campus.

LIMOs offer their services from 5 p.m. to 3 a.m.

While Marquette was in the process of reopening for the fall semester, MUPD and campus safety needed a new way to safely transport students.

MUPD Assistant Chief Jeff Kranz was a member of the COVID-19 Response Team. He said the team knew they had to address transportation issues on campus.

“We knew that we couldn’t do it in the old traditional LIMO form, so we had to come up with something new to be able to move students safely around on campus,” Kranz said.

According to a university news

release, to ride a LIMO bus, each passenger must wear a face covering, social distance and show a cleared COVID Cheq. In addition, the service will be documenting when students get on and off the bus to assist in contact tracing.

A COVID Cheq is asked of each student to fill out every day in order to maintain the spread of the coronavirus. Students are asked questions about who they have been in contact with and if they have any symptoms. If given a green check, they are able to attend in-person classes and go out on campus. If students to do not pass, they are asked to stay home, self-isolate and call the Marquette Medical Clinic to discuss next steps.

Students are not the only ones who must follow these guidelines.

“Drivers are required to abide by the same requirements as the passengers.

They must wear masks and remain socially distanced from others,” Hudson said.

The buses provide a COVID-19 approved alternative to campus transportation.

However, they aren’t able to offer the same services that they have offered in the past.

“We used to be able to drive around and go door to door.

Now, we’re not

able to go door to door, unless you’re going off campus or back onto campus,” Johannah Lee, a student campus safety supervisor and senior in the College of Arts & Sciences, said.

Students can no longer call and have a LIMO come right to them.

They must catch the bus at one of the stops on the bus’s fixed route. In addition, they also must get off at one of the stops on the bus’s route.

From north to south, the fixed route extends from W. Clybourn St. to W. Kilbourn Ave. From east to west, the bus goes to N. 8th St. to N. 24th St. There are nine shuttle stops, which include stops at Raynor Library, Straz Tower, The Commons, the Marq, Mashuda, O’Donnell, Humphrey, Abbotsford/Schroder, Cobeen/Carpenter.

The LIMO stops at the street corner nearest each building.

Since LIMOs are no longer able to provide door to door service, campus safety has brought back their safety patrol program. The safety patrol is a service that enhances student safety. Campus Safety employees travel in pairs in yellow jackets and can walk students to any destination on campus within the LIMO boundaries. To request a safety patrol, students can call the LIMO phone number, 414-288-6363, or ask any safety patrol pair on campus to walk them to their destination.

Kranz said the program was running a few years ago, but said it was not getting much use due to the door-to-door service that the LIMOs provided. Kranz said MUPD brought it back because

the LIMO route has changed. “(Student employees) are out in pairs and they also have a radio that links them to our dispatch so if something were to happen or if they were to see something, they can call into our dispatch and get a squad right away,” Kranz said.

Though students cannot call and have a LIMO come directly to them, there are still other services available.

“If you want somebody to walk you, call and we’ll make a call for them to go over and walk you.

And if you want to catch the bus, call and let us know and we’ll tell the bus that you’re waiting there so they’ll be sure to look out for you,” Lee said.

Graphic by Grace Pionek grace.pionek@marquette.edu

Cobeen Hall residents confront lockdown Announcement came after morning of COVID-19 testing

By Charlie Pineda

charles.pineda@marquette.edu

Cobeen Hall is the second residence hall to quarantine under the instruction of Marquette University and the Milwaukee Health Department, and many students have not left their rooms in a week.

Cobeen Hall was directed to quarantine Sept. 25. The announcement came one week into Schroeder Hall’s quarantine, the first residence hall to undergo self-isolation due to a rise in cluster cases Sept. 14.

From the announcement to the start of quarantine, residents in Cobeen Hall had three hours to get everything they needed from stores, like groceries and personal care items.

Alex Molenda, a first-year in the College of Engineering, said there was talk that the hall might shut down before it did.

“Thursday night there were some cases on the fifth floor and we were kind of aware that something was going on, but we weren’t sure if we were going to be shut down,” Molenda said.

“It all happened so fast in those 48 hours.”

The morning of Cobeen’s quarantine instruction, the university set up a testing facility center outside of the hall to test students. The residents were

informed of their results within six hours of the initial tests, Molenda said.

Cobeen residents who live on floors four, five and eight were all tested for COVID-19 throughout the day after a number of cases were confirmed on those floors.

Students that decided to stay in Cobeen for the duration of quarantine said it has been hard.

“Quarantine has been tough,” Leo Borgonzi, a first-year in the College of Business Administration, said. “A few positives about life right now is that I’ve been able to focus on my schoolwork and become close with my roommates.”

John Donahue, a first-year in the College of Engineering, said he misses his friends. “(Cobeen) is completely

empty, it is honestly really depressing to look at,” Donahue said. “People don’t really talk to you; everybody is just waiting for something interesting to happen.”

But for Molenda, he said his schoolwork, particularly labs, have been difficult to do not only online, but at home as well.

“It is tougher. It is harder to focus and understand what is going on,” Molenda said.

Odessa Sonn, a first-year in the College of Communication, is not new to the experience of quarantining. Her roommate tested positive for COVID-19 recently and had to quarantine for two weeks, before everyone in Cobeen Hall had to quarantine.

“I’m kind of use to doing my work at home. The only hard part

was transitioning from school to home and my Wi-Fi was bad the first two weeks,” Sonn said, who is quarantining at home.

Zach Molczyk, a first-year in the College of Engineering, said that even though they are stuck, residents have to make the best of it. He said he keeps busy with his video games and homework.

“Life stuck in Cobeen has been interesting, but overall, it’s not too bad. We have video games, schoolwork we need to do, but thankfully we have each other,” Molczyk said. “We can talk to each other and we have our own little personal space.

Some kids are alone on their rooms, which is really bad.”

Matthew Valente contributed to this report.

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McNair, EOP provide skills for careers Participants can learn of graduate school opportunities

By Natalija Mileusnic

nataljia.mileusnic@marquette.edu

The Ronald E. McNair PostBaccalaurate Achievement Program, part of Marquette’s Educational Opportunity Program, provides incoming sophomores, juniors and seniors in college with the necessary skills needed to have successful undergraduate and graduate academic careers.

The students selected to participate in the program come from lower-income families or are first-generation college students.

Donte McFadden, director of the McNair program, said it was named after the late astronaut Ronald E. McNair who died in

the Challenger space mission shuttle explosion in January 1986. He said that there are over 160 McNair programs nationwide, and they are funded by the U.S Department of Education. The McNair program is in other schools around Wisconsin such as University of Wisconsin Madison and UW-Oshkosh.

McFadden added that students will gain skills in the program that will be utilized later in their academic careers.

“It will help them with the graduate school application process to immerse them in intense research. They have the preparation to successfully apply and enter graduate school and the masters or a doctoral program,” McFadden said.

Sonia Garcia, the Marquette program coordinator, said that the skills she’s learned throughout her years of participating in the program have helped her immensely in graduate school.

“As a McNair alumna, I find myself using the skills and knowledge I gained when I went through the program in my job and in my graduate education,” she said.

Garcia also said that every new school year, the program selects a certain amount of applicants.

“Each cohort of students is around 21, so we currently have 21 scholars and will be recruiting to fill about 21 spots,” Garcia said in an email.

Ricardo Vega, a part-time instructor for the program, said that the program is beneficial to have on campus because it gives students who may come from a lower-income family a chance at having an education.

“It’s valuable for Marquette to have this program because it helps present some sort of equity towards this demographic that’s underrepresented on campus,” Vega said. “They’re often not given the information

they need to succeed and that’s often neglected.”

Garcia added that this program is important to have at Marquette because it creates diversity within Marquette’s campus.

“Our goal is to increase the diversity in faculty and academia in general, in order to have people who are producers of knowledge that represent the diversity of lived experience that our communities offer,” Garcia said in an email. “We support lowincome, first-generation and underrepresented students to gain exposure to intensive undergraduate research, professional development opportunities, and ultimately guidance on graduate school applications.”

The program made its debut on Marquette’s campus in 1990 and has seen great success among applicants that have participated.

“We have over 40 McNair graduates who have obtained their PhD’s,” Garcia said in

an email.

Vega explained what students are required to do if they are selected to participate in the program.

“The program presents undergraduate students with the opportunity to conduct research in whatever field they want and with whatever mentor they want,” Vega said. “We also provide them with a stipend for their research and we provide them with the necessary resources they need to get the information required to effectively apply to graduate programs.”

McFadden added that there is a summer portion of the program that is associated with the research that students conducted during the school year.

“We have the students submit a research proposal by the end of the semester and students carry out their research they proposed in that summer,” McFadden said.

Flu shots to be given by appointment only Nursing students help Medical Clinic administer vaccine

By Megan Woolard

megan.woolard@marquette.eduw

Flu shots will be made available for free this year to undergraduate students and employees on campus who have MU medical insurance. The College of Nursing is continuing to provide the service and is putting in place extra safety measures to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. Flu shots will be administered in the Alumni Memorial Union in the Lunda Room or the Helfaer Rec Center tennis courts at various times throughout each week up until Nov. 10.

Flu shots were made available Sept. 22.

“We have partnered with the College of Nursing who provide us with juniors and senior students to assist in the vaccine administration,” Lynda Connor, a staff nurse, said.

Due to COVID-19, the medical clinic has had to make some changes to their normal operations in order to maintain student safety.

“I would say the spacing and protective equipment are the big changes. We also decreased crowds because this year, they’re all by appointment only,” Christie Shaw, an associate professor in the College of Nursing, said.

Students who would like a flu

shot can sign up to schedule an appointment online through the Medical Clinic website by clicking the day they would like to schedule their shot on.

“There are probably at least 10 to 12 feet between each station and all of the nursing students who were administering the flu shots had a level 3 mask, which is hospitable grade and they all had face shields. They all wash their hands in between every single one,” Shaw said.

Shaw is responsible for scheduling nursing students to administer the vaccinations. Nursing students and the Medical Clinic have been taking precautions to preserve the health and safety of all students throughout the vaccination process.

With flu season approaching and the COVID-19 pandemic still prevalent, the medical clinic stresses the importance of getting a flu shot.

“The flu kills tens of thousands of people in the US each year. When coupled with the effects of COVID-19, the Marquette Medical Clinic cannot stress enough the importance for each member of our community to get a flu shot,” Connor said.

In an effort to stop the spread of any infection, the College of Nursing is requiring its students and faculty to take protective measures.

“Our students and nursing faculty are required to get flu shots every year,” Sandi Van Heuvel, the assistant dean for undergraduate programs in the College of Nursing, said.

Even though there is a possibility of the spread of COVID-19, nursing students are still signing up to give flu shots.

“The students understand good protective behaviors and there is no hesitancy with our nursing students at all about signing up. They have been amazing,” Shaw said.

Not only have nursing students been signing up, but there have actually been too many nursing students willing to provide the service, Shaw said.

“The notice went out to the students on a Sunday night by 10 p.m., that’s when our director of student services sent it out. When I checked it at 6 a.m.

Monday morning, they were all filled. I have at least 40 students on a waitlist who want to give injections who weren’t able to sign up,” Shaw said.

Shaw explained how other students in the College of Nursing are contributing their part, even if they are not administering vaccinations.

“The more junior nursing students, the ones that are freshman and sophomore and people who have not been in clinical yet, we have them taking temperatures and checking people in, collecting paperwork and things like that,” Shaw said.

The College of Nursing and the Marquette Medical Clinic want students and faculty to understand the importance of getting a flu shot this year.

“As COVID-19 continues to threaten our health, anything we can do to lessen the chance of

adding another infection into the mix is critical. So if you don’t usually get a flu shot, now’s a good time to start. And if flu vaccination is a normal annual practice for you, you can feel good knowing that your healthy choice has even more value this year,” Connor said.

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Academic Workers Union shares concerns Conference discusses proposed plan, losing staff members

By Alexa Jurado

alexa.jurado@marquette.edu

Members of the Marquette Academic Workers Union and Marquette University Faculty United held a press conference Sept. 30 in front of Zilber Hall in response to the university’s potential faculty and staff cuts.

Sarah Kizuk, a graduate student worker, presented a statement from the union.

“Marquette is no longer an educational institution. It has become a hedge fund with a tuition revenue stream,” Kizuk said.

Kizuk said that the Lovell administration proposed a plan that could result in cutting 450 jobs, 275 of which come from academics. These numbers are not concrete, Kizuk said, as there have been different sets of numbers presented at the Sept. 21 Academic Senate meeting, the Sept. 28 Town Hall and Provost Kimo Ah Yun’s coffee chat Sept. 29, ranging from 250 to 450 job cuts.

“These cuts will primarily impact the most vulnerable academic staff

at the university: our nontenure track instructors and graduate lecturers,” Kizuk said.

The group is organizing around one principle: No one gets fired. Furthermore, they have three demands: a pledge to use the university’s endowment to forestall cuts, equal representation of faculty and staff in producing Marquette’s budget and assurance that Marquette will open its books to scrutiny to ensure the budget process is democratic.

“We will not accept mockery of our vocation any longer,” Kizuk said.

Chris Gooding, a visiting assistant professor of theology, has been at Marquette for nine years.

He said he sees these proposed cuts as part of a pattern, citing the 2019 unionization efforts. “(Many) individuals who teach at this institution are seen, by and large, as disposable,” Gooding said.

“This proposed set of cuts is the culmination of a long process, COVID is simply exacerbating a process that was already in motion.”

Thomas Hansberger, a graduate instructor, said he’s been at the university for several years teaching for below-poverty wages and no health care coverage or job security. After seeing the way administration has

responded to faculty input, he said it is clear there is not shared governance on Marquette’s campus.

Shared governance refers to the idea that faculty should have input on university decisions.

“The Board of Trustees and President Lovell make unilateral decisions, directly in contradiction to what faculty, staff and students need,” Hansberger said.

Hansberger called for recognition of the union.

Sonia Barnes, an associate professor of Spanish, said that something tenure-track and nontenure track faculty have in common is their long-term commitment to the university. During her seven years at Marquette she said she has seen two presidents, three provosts and three deans of the College of Arts & Sciences.

“Some of these people have made unilateral changes that have negatively impacted our programs and then they have left,” Barnes said.

“They have left us to deal with the mess, with the aftermath of those decisions. This is why faculty need a real seat at the table.”

She said losing faculty and programs is the worst case scenario, not using the endowment.

Brittany Pladek, an assistant

professor of English, said the administration’s willingness to let nontenure track faculty shows it does not v a l u e them.

“That’s a great shame because they are what makes Marquette M a r quette,” Pladek s a i d .

“My colleagues represent the heart of Marq u e t t e ’s teaching.”

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Students reflect on virtual Homecoming events

Photo by Joceline Helmbreck joceline.helmbreck@marquette.edu

Marquette’s Office of Engagement and Inclusion collaborated with campus partners such as Marquette Student Government and the Residence Hall Association for Homecoming.

Programs included Aux Wars, Disney trivia, online concert

By Ariana Madson

ariana.madson@marquette.edu

During a regular academic year, early October is the time for students to participate in Marquette Homecoming traditions. Though this year is different, Marquette’s Office of Engagement and Inclusion hosted a Homecoming in collaboration with other campus partners like Marquette University Student Government and the Residence Hall Association from Oct. 1 to Oct. 4, called MU Homecoming House Party, The Virtual Remix. There was a mix of inperson and virtual events and a Marquette Homecoming court with Homecoming royalty which was based on votes from the student body.

Among the events was Late Night Disney Trivia and comedian Darren Brand, along with virtual events like a Homecoming court Q&A to get to know the contestants and Aux Wars, which was a virtual student DJ competition.

Riley Lade, a junior in the College of Communication, was able to participate in a few events this year, as she has been involved in past Homecoming events.

“I just specifically remember freshmen year, like, me and my brand new freshman-year roommate went out and did all the activities, and it was the year you could drop from, like, two stories and you’d jump onto this big blow-up thing,” Lade said.

Like in previous years, Lade said she tried to participate as much as she could, including taking part in the Aux Wars as well as applying and making it onto Marquette Homecoming court, where students would then vote for two participants on the Homecoming court to become the Homecoming royalty.

Lade explained that in the Aux Wars, they had seven contestants who got paired up against one another. They were given a specific genre and about an hour to pick six songs with the opportunity to play three to beat the other person. Those who logged on to watch and participate were able to vote and the winners received cash prizes and other items. Lade said one of the rounds had a cash prize of $50 and other rounds had hoodies

and T-shirts.

Lade said along with the Aux Wars, she was able to participate in Homecoming court.

“I just got an email, and I told all my friends to fill out an application, and none of my friends filled it out, and then I got an email saying that I was on good standing and ‘we liked your application,’” Lade said.

Ben Jackson, a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences, also decided to apply for homecoming court just to run and see what happened. He also applied because he wanted to be a role model on campus.

“The reason I applied to run for Homecoming royalty is to be a role model for the Marquette community and in particular for the Black students on campus … the main reason why I do all these activities is to be a positive role model and portray Black men in a positive light,” Jackson said.

Jackson attended the comedy event that took place Friday night, a comedy show performed by comedian Darren Brand.

The Homecoming royalty was announced that evening. The two students voted to be the Homecoming royalty were September Melody McDonald

and Katie Olson.

One of the events, Late Night Disney Trivia, was held in person Thursday night in the AMU ballrooms.

Megan Collier, a junior in

especially with the Disney theme.

Precautions were in place with one person per table as well as clean pens and paper at the tables.

She said she was sure there were a lot of first-year students, but she also noticed the amount of seniors.

“We had a good handful of seniors … it’s really fun to hear that they’re still participating as much as they could and getting the most out of the college experience,” Collier said.

Though some of the events have already occurred, there is also book drive put on by RHA and MUSG that will continue into next week.

Miracle Faller, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences as well as the president of the Residence Hall Association, explained that the book drive donations will go toward the Reach Out and Read program.

“We’ve extended it to last until next week to the 11th so that students have more time to gather books. They (MUSG) have a box BEN JACKSON in their office and faculty can Junior in the College of be involved too … it’s for the Arts & Sciences Reach Out and Read program,” the College of Communication, Faller said. helped create the Late Night Other donation bins can be event. She hoped to draw in found in the residence halls as a good amount of people, well as in the MUSG office.

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The reason I applied to run for Homecoming royalty is to be a role model for the Marquette community and in particular for the Black students on campus,”

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Apple’s iOS 14 update inspires creative home screens New feature allows users to personalize icons on iPhone

By Ryan Lynch

ryan.p.lynch@marquette.edu

As Generation Z slowly ages into adulthood, there is one thing that continues to age along with us: the iPhone. Apple released its iOS 14 update, offering new additions like new home screen customization, alert features with Siri and widgets, which has caused

Photo by Katerina Pourliakas katerina.pourliakas@marquette.edu

Students use widgets to customize and organize apps and information.

an internet storm due to their customization capabilities.

Widgets are one of the newest features from Apple that allow a user to shortcut to apps through a stylized application on the home screen rather than scrolling through their home screens searching for it.

These shortcuts allow a user to insert their own images and replace icons on an app.

“I customized mine in the theme of Wii Sports, and I think the new update has really let me have fun and personalize my home screen, which is nice,” Catherine Mostert, a first-year in the College of Arts & Sciences, said.

Although it can be time consuming, she said she has seen many others being creative with their home screens, including themes like Star Wars, Kanye West and more.

Mostert said it took her about two hours to make the Wii Sports theme on her phone.

However, this new update hasn’t just been popular because of its new ability for customization.

Jordan Mewhorter, a first-year in the College of Health Sciences, said he found the update useful for organizing a cluttered home screen.

“One of my widgets has a picture of my schedule on it, so I can always see what class I have next by just looking at my phone,” Mewhorter said. “Not only do I think my phone is more organized, I think my life is more organized as well.”

The iOS 14 also comes as an especially welcomed update given that, in the past, people would be forced to jailbreak their phones in order to gain any sort of customization features, which would then void the warranty on the phone.

“It was a big update that everyone had been waiting on for a while because everyone wanted the ability to customize their home screen,” Mewhorter said.

The new update also came with its own set of pre-designed widgets that have proved to also be useful for some students, such as some that show your battery percentage or

allow you to adjust certain settings on your phone without having to enter into apps.

“I don’t really use the widget feature outside of the weather app, but with that being said, it’s still really useful that I don’t have to go into the app to look at weather, anymore, but just look at my home screen,” Henry Binder, a first-year in the College of Arts & Sciences, said.

Although this update has brought many changes, some are still waiting to see how Apple can improve upon this widget idea in the future.

“I’m excited to see how the widget feature evolves over time so that hopefully even more organizational methods are implemented in newer versions,” Mewhorter said.

With this new update providing a new way to organize and customize our iPhones, Apple is now giving us promising advancements for future use of our everyday technology.

Places to celebrate spooky season in Milwaukee Locations include Milwaukee County Zoo, Lindner Farm

By Tommy Shaffer

d.shaffer@marquette.edu

Fall is now upon us, and with the change of seasons comes a variety of fall festivities, such as thrilling haunted house experiences and pumpkin picking. Here are some spooky events happening in Milwaukee this month that you may want to check out.

The Hill Has Eyes Milwaukee Haunted Houses Every Friday through Sunday in October | 15 minute drive.

If you enjoy fear-induced heart attacks, then you might want to consider visiting The Hill Has Eyes Milwaukee Haunted Houses, which is hosting four different haunted experiences every Friday to Sunday throughout the month of October.

This year they are offering a “four haunts for the price of one” deal ranging from $35 to $39, depending on the time of your

visit. The four different haunted houses are named “Carnivore,” “Contained and Led to Slaughter,” “Failed Escape” and “Hunger Hollow.” Just to highlight one of the experiences, Hunger Hollow is a haunted woods experience themed around cannibalistic mutants. Entering the woods means you will either become the hunter or the hunted.

Milwaukee County Zoo: “Boo at the Zoo” Oct. 22-25, 5:30 to 9 p.m. | 15 minute drive.

Take a trip over to the Milwaukee County Zoo for their “Boo at the Zoo” drive-thru, where visitors can take a tour of the Halloweenthemed zoo from their own vehicles. The trip consists of light shows and takes you through sites such as the candy corn garden and pumpkin patch. The full route can be found online.

General visitors pay $55 per car to embark on a 30-minute, 1.5-mile journey around the zoo. There is a speed limit of 4 mph, and passing other vehicles is not allowed.

Riverside Theater Ghost Tours Fridays and Saturdays from Oct. 9 to Oct.31, and Thursday Oct.29 | 5 minute drive.

The Riverside Theater Ghost Tours at the Riverside Theater are centered around true paranormal activity that have been reported in the past. The theater, located just a mile from campus in the Third Ward, is home to a historic amount of ghost sightings and other

scary experiences.

For $25, you can accept your fate and take part in a 60-minute tour involving tales from the haunted historians of Riverside Theater, as well as listen to unexplainable electronic voice phenomena from past ghost hunts. For $150, you can take part in a 3-hour investigation involving an experienced spiritual medium, access to exclusive ghost hunting equipment and the opportunity to explore paranormal hot spots with some seasoned veterans in the field.

Avalon Atmospheric Theater Oct. 7 and 8 at 6:45 p.m. | 10

minute drive.

A movie experience with a wild twist, Avalon is showing a romantic comedy and science fiction movie titled “Save Yourselves!” on Oct. 7 and 8 at 6:45 p.m. This will be a 4K presentation of a humorous relationship involving a couple who venture out to a cabin in the woods to escape technology for a little while, only to experience an alien invasion. If you want to have a laugh while watching a movie in very high quality, consider hopping on a bus and venturing to the Avalon, located just off of Kinnickinnic Ave.

Lindner Farm Pumpkin Patch Open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. now until Oct. 31 | 20 minute drive.

The Lindner Pumpkin Patch, located in New Berlin, can be a great day trip and a fun way to get into the Halloween spirit. The farm offers a wide variety of pumpkins, gourds and fall decorations, as well as a petting zoo with goats, mini pigs, bunnies and more.

While you are there, check out the Olde Tyme Playground, Corn Maze and Scarecrow Speedway pedal tractor racetrack as well.

Photo by Claire Gallagher claire.gallagher@marquette.edu

The Avalon Atmospheric Theater is showing the movie “Save Yourselves!” on Oct. 7 and 8 at 6:45 p.m.

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AROUND THE WORLD Alexandra Garner, Executive Opinions Editor Aminah Beg, Assistant Opinions Editor

Editor’s Note: The stories in this edition are part of the “Around the World” series.

They focus on current events and issues occurring in the international community.

Nigeria’s mental health crisis urgent, reform necessary Hope Moses The willful neglect of mental health in Nigeria emphasizes the urgent need to reform mental health laws in the nation.

Nigeria is a country located off the western coast of Africa and is home to over 200 million citizens. Despite this, there are fewer than 300 psychiatrists in the entire nation, and they are mostly positioned in urban areas.

This only allows one-eighth of the population to have access to mental health care. This inaccessibility to health care is why close to 80% of Nigerians are forced to battle mental health issues in silence.

In fact, the inaccessibility to health care is only a small part of the mental health crisis Nigeria is facing. There is a misconception in Nigeria that if an individual is mentally ill, then it was caused by evil spirits or supernatural forces. This misunderstanding of mental illness is what leads to citizens seeking religious or traditional healing places before seeking professional help. Though religious

or traditional healing places can be helpful, it should be an addition, not a replacement, to psychiatric help.

Changing the narrative and abandoning traditional and harmful thoughts surrounding mental health is a crucial part of the reform process. But unfortunately, there is more to Nigeria’s deep-rooted problem with the mental health crisis: There is also a dire need to address the nation’s method of chaining.

Chaining is a global human rights issue in which people are restricted to the wall in chains in the rooms they are confined in. This abusive technique has been used in numerous countries including Indonesia, Ghana, Somaliland and most recently Nigeria.

People are chained for a multitude of reasons: When they behave outside what is considered “the norm,” go through trauma or grief and they can even get chained just for getting upset. People spend years, sometimes decades, in institutions because Nigeria lacks adequate services to support them in the community.

In all but one of the facilities Human

Rights Watch visited, people were not allowed to leave or to challenge detention after being chained.

Nigeria’s failure to repeal the Nigerian Lunacy Act of 1958, which allows the detaining of people with mental health conditions in institutions even without providing medical or therapeutic treatment, is why chaining practices have continued for so long.

The abuse does not stop at chaining. Citizens placed in Nigeria’s rehabilitation centers are abused in numerous ways — including flogging, starvation and sexual assault by the rehabilitators. The torture and abuse that citizens are facing can cause psychological distress which furthers the mental strain patients are under. This contributes to the crisis because citizens are placed in these rehabilitation centers.

The government’s failure to address the nation’s health care crisis has led to the formation of organizations like Mentally Aware Nigeria Initiative, which is a non-profit organization that focuses on raising awareness of mental health and

illnesses, as well as connecting service users to mental health professionals. One of their main services offered is the suicide/distress hotline, which provides suicide intervention as well as mental health first aid to callers, all of whom are subsequently referred to appropriate quarters for specialized care.

People who use MANI’s services include, but are not limited to, individuals coping with mental illness, family members of service users and individuals who feel some concern for their mental state. MANI is the largest and most active organization that offers a specialized community where no one is discriminated against for their illness and where citizens of Nigeria can speak freely.

MANI was created by Dr. Victor Ugo in 2016 after the depression he faced in Nigeria as a result of the lack of access to health care. The organization proves to be effective because it was founded by a person who understands firsthand what the citizens of Nigeria are going through. Unlike MANI, the Nigerian government has

not made a genuine effort to address the crisis happening in the nation.

It is apparent that there is an urgent need to reform and reframe mental health in Nigeria. The repeal of the Lunacy Act of 1958 is a perfect place to start.

From there, banning all chaining practices and creating strict laws to ensure chaining is not being used is an important next step. Along with this, providing proper mental health care and services to citizens rescued from abusive rehabilitation centers is essential.

Lastly, training government health workers, mental health professionals and staff in faith-based and traditional healing centers about the rights and needs of people with mental health conditions is what all countries can do to reform and reframe the narrative surrounding mental health in their respective communities.

Hope Moses is a first-year student studying journalism. She can be reached at hope.moses@marquette.edu

Developing nations must prioritize education amid COVID-19 Lucia Ruffolo The world must pay attention to the humanitarian risks facing certain South Asian and African countries that have resulted due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Education is one of the most important factors in determining a country’s human development index, a summary of achievement in education, healthy life and decent standard of living, and it is correlated with levels of poverty and measurements of gender equality.

As schools close around the world to limit the spread of the coronavirus, citizens struggle.

After recently surveying 158 countries about their reopening plans, UNICEF found that one in four countries have not put a date out for allowing children to come back to the classroom.

In countries without widely accessible internet connection or computers, remote learning is not a possibility. Without education, children have turned to work in

order to help their families who may need the extra income.

Beyond education, schools provide children with vital health, immunization and nutrition services, in addition to a safe and supportive environment.

This safety net collapses when they are out of school. They are exposed to more physical and emotional violence, which affects their mental health and makes them more susceptible to child labor and sexual abuse. When children are not in school, they are exposed to the perils of the adult world and thus forced to mature quickly.

The work they do is often unpleasant and dangerous, in addition to being illegal. In India, children may rummage through trash with little protective equipment for only a few cents an hour. In Kenya, they may turn to sand mining, the extradition of sand through an open pit. Education setbacks can be detrimental to countries that have just begun to make progress in regards to education.

In the beginning of the pandemic, India’s laborers, such as street

peddlers or field workers, were unable to properly adhere to social distancing guidelines. They faced starvation as police used force against those caught violating lockdown laws. Hunger waged more fear in citizens than the virus itself.

According to UNICEF’s Children in India Report, extreme poverty in India has been reduced to 21%, the infant mortality rate has decreased by more than half, 80% of women now deliver babies in a health facility and two million fewer children are out of school. These advancements can become compromised as financial and educational instability arise.

In Afghanistan, primary school enrollment increased from nearly 21% in 2001 to 104% in 2018, according to UNESCO. But in 2020, the coronavirus pandemic pushed millions of Afghans into poverty due to the health care system becoming overwhelmed and the country experiencing an economic recession.

Developing countries cannot afford for the pandemic to undo a decade’s worth of progress. The

world already experiences vast inequality between countries and the gap will only become wider if increasing poverty goes unaddressed.

While COVID-19 restrictions are necessary, it is important to recognize that the world’s most disadvantaged will struggle the greatest as a result, especially countries that have a history of political instability. Even in the middle of a pandemic, we must not lose sight of developing humanitarian crises.

Governments must come up with creative ways to keep children learning. In Senegal, schools have spaced out classrooms and chairs.

Some schools have shifted to learning outdoors. At home, children can continue to learn through magazines, books and radio.

The United States had only delivered $11.5 million in international disaster aid directly to private groups as of June 2020, with little humanitarian assistance reaching those on the front lines of the crisis.

Education must be prioritized and labor exploitation concerns must be addressed. These issues should be of worldwide concern. Developed

countries should continue to offer medical and economic aid to countries in need. All countries have a moral duty to help humans who struggle, and countries able to offer aid in times of need should do so.

Lucia Ruffolo is a first-year student and is undecided. She can be reached at lucia.ruffolo@marquette.edu

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U.S. should follow global feminist movements’ examples Jenna Koch Feminists in the United States must learn from feminists in other countries. While there are issues that pertain to specific countries, feminists from the U.S. need to collaborate with other countries’ movements to improve our own.

For example, South Korean feminism has grown in numbers in recent years and has increasingly radical ideas.

In 2016, South Korean women were shaken by the “Gangnam murder,” in which a woman was stabbed to death in a gender-neutral bathroom. The perpetrator, Kim Sungmin, explained that he “did it because women have always ignored (him).” The government refused to acknowledge his misogynistic motives in the attack.

Women, not just feminists, took to the streets in huge numbers to protest. According to the Feminist Current, many women who attended did not consider themselves feminists before this act of misogyny.

This type of violence is not exclusive to this one instance. Kim’s reasoning behind his attack is eerily similar to the arguments given by incels, self described “involuntary celibates.” These men have been linked to white supremacy and their internet forums are ridden with violent misogyny.

Every time women gain more independence, a group of men tend to

retaliate tenfold. Incels begin as insecure, awkward “nice guys” looking for a date, and quickly become radicalized into the “alt-right,” a farright political ideology with a basis in white supremacy.

In May 2020, a mass shooter in Arizona targeted couples to express his anger over not having a partner.

53 deaths have resulted from incel violence. What counts as incel violence includes any attacks in which the attacker self identified as an incel or if there was evidence to show he’d subscribed to incel beliefs. Alek Minassian, who killed 10 people with his van, stated in a Facebook post prior to his attack that “The Incel Rebellion has already begun!”

Incels are not just a problem within the U.S., they exist in many societies. It’s so important to be aware of feminist issues in other countries so we can notice these trends. By looking at misogyny beyond borders, we can better understand what makes certain behavior cross-cultural. Incels, for instance, tend to show up in more industrialized societies where women have more freedom in choosing their partners. From there, we can consider different solutions.

In addition to collaborating with other feminists, we must express our anger in a more external way. In a country where shootings and genderbased violence are all too common, we have become desensitized to attacks such as Minassian’s. In my research, I found no protests against shootings such as his.

On Valentine’s Day 2020,

Mexican women took to the streets in outcry over the 4,000 femicides that occurred in 2019. Femicide isn’t just the killing of a woman, but a murder motivated by misogyny.

It’s a statistic that the U.S. does not count. Hate crimes are counted, but gender-based violence is not specified in those statistics.

The difference is that South Korean and Mexican feminists alike tend to have more radical ideas and tactics compared to the U.S. South Korean feminism specifically is closely linked to lesbian feminism, which is a sect of feminism that is unfortunately forgotten in U.S. feminism. Lesbian feminism was founded by queer feminists in the 60s, and has its basis on community building and separatism from men.

Unfortunately, as it rose in popularity, so did the concept of being a “political lesbian,” or a straight woman who does not have relationships with men. This is harmful because it paints lesbianism as a political identity rather than a sexual orientation. Today, these women would be called female separatists rather than lesbians.

While lesbian feminism has a controversial past, the main themes of female power and community are ones that should be followed. Additionally, lesbian feminist first introduced the idea that heterosexuality is not just a sexual orientation, but an enforced part of a patriarchal society. By existing in spaces outside of heterosexuality, they argued, women

could further liberate themselves.

The lesbian feminists of 70s America would be thrilled with the work the South Korean movement is doing today. They advocate for four major principles: Don’t marry men, have sex with men, date men or become pregnant. It’s called the 4B movement and has about 50,000 followers.

The movement also includes the slogan “Take off the corset,” the “corset” being commercially feminine standards. From 2017 to 2018, South Korean women spent 53.5 billion Korean won less on beauty products compared to the year prior.

It’s not about removing femininity altogether, but instead challenging beauty standards that determine women’s worth in society.

This movement is reminiscent of second-wave American feminism from the 1970s. Women turned up in large numbers for protests on everything from abortion rights to Black women’s issues to more representation in government. They even had a National Women’s Conference in 1977, which 14,000 women attended.

Ultimately, however, the women’s movement lost momentum after conflicts over more radical ideas such as LGBTQ rights, and the incoming conservative Reagan administration didn’t help their cause either. The movement has not seen such momentum since.

A lot of people seem to think we’ve progressed so far in the U.S to the point where feminism

isn’t needed. Yet, the Equal Rights Amendment — the very amendment the convention was pushing for — is still unratified in the federal government. 38 states have ratified the amendment that would guarantee equal legal rights for all, regardless of sex. We act as if we’ve made so much progress, yet women still die everyday due to misogyny, and our government can’t even acknowledge it.

People will say that men’s attitudes have changed — but with each man attempting to unlearn misogyny, another one is browsing incel forums, abusing his girlfriend or creating anti-abortion propaganda.

Feminists in the U.S. need to take inspiration from feminists’ movements around the globe as well as our own past. Recent news, such as Trump’s anti-abortion Christian fundamentalist Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, shows just how much trouble American women are in.

Radical feminism is only “radical” and “extreme” in comparison to the patriarchy. Extreme misogyny requires extreme measures against it.

Feminism is not just about protests and American women must educate each other on this fact, rally together and adapt our lifestyles to disrupt the patriarchy. Women all over the world have already started.

Jenna Koch is a first-year student studying journalism. She can be reached at jenna.koch@marquette.edu

Myanmar, all countries must protect the planet Max Pickart Myanmar’s human population, as well as the environment and the jade gemstone, exist together in inverse value. Jade’s profitability and wealth, created for the Myanmar government, ultimately prove to be more valuable than the well-being of its citizens and its environment.

It is the responsibility of the international community to reverse this unfortunate reality and hold Myanmar’s government is responsible for their blatant destruction of the lives of their citizens and the environment they rely on.

The amount of jade in the country is worth an estimated $31 billion and accounts for nearly half of the country’s gross domestic product, which is the total value of goods and services provided in a country during a year. The detrimental impacts on the environment, as well as Myanmar’s citizens, however, cannot be labeled with a price tag. The profitability of jade is nowhere near the reward for the loss of life, land and violence that come because of it.

Bit by bit, the land of Myanmar

is becoming plots of company land, a scheme to produce more wealth and greater economic prosperity at no expense. While Myanmar’s jade mines produce great wealth, what follows is a long, seemingly irreversible trail of setbacks.

Myanmar’s government, as well as other international organizations, must act now in order to attempt to reverse the tragedy that mining permits.

A series of tragic downfalls, mostly to the environment, followed after years of intense mining in Myanmar. Streams and rivers were clean and clear, allowing people to harvest freshwater oysters, especially in the Uru Stream.

Mountains turned to valleys and valleys to mountains. Mining disasters, as well as former mining sites, plague the country. They allow for deadly landslides and further environmental disasters. Flooding in residential areas due to excavated mining pits is common, causing permanent damage to water sources due because of sediment buildup.

Jade mining in Myanmar is directly and indirectly destroying the land and the lives of so many people.

Myanmar experiences landslides almost every year. While the

government attempts to close mining sites during monsoon season, scavengers desperate to make some sort of a living continue to mine in hopes of finding jade.

Though the government attempts to blame the scavengers, who are often the victims of deadly landslides, it is important to highlight the immense amount of conflict and secrecy of the mining business in Myanmar between the government, Myanmar’s national armed forces, local armed groups and the citizens of Myanmar.

This is just one clear example of the government of Myanmar’s inability to truly fulfill their duties to their people. International environmental experts and organizations must take action against these injustices for the sake of the people of Myanmar, as well as the environment.

Companies linked to the Myanmar military control a vast amount of the wealth and money generated from jade mining. Furthermore, local armed groups who believe they should be allowed to self-govern also hold a great amount of power in the jade market, often smuggling a great amount of jade to China, one of the gem’s most frequent buyers. The conflict between both

groups has displaced over 100,000 citizens of Myanmar and will most likely continue to do so.

Myanmar’s government often evades responsibility for the landslides and damage to the environment, blaming scavengers.

Despite this attempt, it is clear the government — as well as these local armed forces — are to blame, as much of the jade mining business in Myanmar is off-limits to the public. Thus, it is clear that the victims of the landslides, or ‘scavengers,’ are not to blame for these landslides. Rather, Myanmar’s government and companies are ultimately to be held accountable.

Human lives and environmental health must be put above materialistic and fiscal objectives and gain.

The government of Myanmar’s failure to care for its people is evident beyond jade mining. More importantly, the government of Myanmar must take actions against the genocide of Rohingya Muslims in their country. The military of Myanmar must be punished for the brutal acts of violence done against the Rohingya Muslims, and the government must also be punished and held accountable for the lives of hundreds of thousands of their own people.

The international community must vow to hold the country of Myanmar accountable, both in their treatment of the environment and the treatment of Rohingya Muslims, in order to be proactive for the common well-being of the Earth and the people of Myanmar.

The government of Myanmar must be held fully accountable for the destruction of the environment, increase in violence between armed groups and the lost lives due to extremely deadly landslides caused by mining. More than ever before, it is essential for companies, as well as the Myanmar government, to cease all mining operations in order to give the smallest glimpse of hope for environmental recovery.

Environmental issues are rampant across all governments in the international community. As caretakers of this Earth, it is our responsibility to hold international governments accountable and make progress environmentally, in an attempt to slow climate change.

Our time is running out, action is beyond necessary. The time is now.

Max Pickart is a first-year student studying accounting. He can be reached at max.pickart@marquette.edu

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Alyssa Bombacino (15) attempts to kick the ball in Marquette’s 5-1 loss against Utah State Sept. 8, 2019. She became the first player in program history to have back-to-back hat tricks.

Madigan, Powell, Madden reflect on milestones, wins

By Bryan Geenen and Kristin Parisi

bryan.geenen@marquette.edu kristin.parisi@marquette.edu

Throughout the years, the Marquette women’s soccer program has seen many shocking upsets, game wins and milestones since the team’s first season in 1993.

Check out the list below for some of the best games over the past 15 years.

September 29, 2005: Upset reigning NCAA Champions No. 5 Notre Dame The No. 18 Marquette Golden Eagles were set to face off against the defending national champions — No. 5 Notre Dame

Fighting Irish. Down at Valley Fields, packed to full capacity, the crowd was eager to watch the contest.

Twenty minutes into the game, the Fighting Irish struck first, but the Golden Eagles would soon respond with a goal by forward Meghan Connolly. After the tying goal, Marquette took control of the game with help from junior forward Alison Loughrin, who scored two goals for the Golden Eagles. Marquette went on to stun the defending champs by a score of 4-1, and for Loughrin and the rest of the team, it was a game they would never forget.

Loughrin said that the victory over Notre Dame helped prove to the women and the fans that they were capable of playing with the best teams in the country.

Loughrin, who battled ACL injuries her senior year of high

school and had to ultimately walk on to the team her sophomore year, meaning she needed to tryout to be on the team, said that this game was one that will touch her heart forever.

Loughrin also mentioned that this game was a once-in-a-lifetime experience that she will never forget because she was able to help her team achieve such a big milestone. She said the team was extremely happy that they played such a competitive game to give the fans an entertaining night that they will never forget.

October 5, 2007: Program’s 100th win at Valley Fields The No. 24 Marquette Golden Eagles beat the Villanova Wildcats 1-0 to give the program their 100th win at Valley Fields.

Not only did the Golden Eagles achieve this special milestone, but they also handed Villanova their first loss of the season.

Both teams could not find the back of the net in the first half, but in the 66th minute, sophomore forward Anna Sawicki scored the go-ahead goal, which would eventually be the difference. Senior goalkeeper Laura Boyer made an amazing save in the final minutes of the contest to secure the win in the 10th shutout of her career.

November 2, 2010: Marquette advances to semifinals of BIG EAST Tournament with 3-0 win over DePaul Marquette, the two-time BIG EAST American Division champion, went up against DePaul Nov. 2, 2010 at Valley Fields.

The win expanded Marquette’s win streak to 12, the fourth best winning streak in the nation at the time.

Marquette’s head coach at the time, Markus Roeders, talked about the Blue Demons’ defense

after the 3-0 win.

“Give DePaul credit, their defense was outstanding for a majority of the game,” Roeders said after the game. “But we were able to break through in the first half and added a few at the end.”

The Golden Eagles were not to be denied, even with strong defense from the Blue Demons, as they scored their first goal in the 30th minute on a cross.

The Marquette Wire’s Michael LoCicero reported that Rachel Brown’s 30th minute goal off a perfect cross from senior forward Ashley Bares was Marquette’s first goal in a first half since a 4-0 win against Cincinnati Oct. 15.

Marquette added two goals in the second half to advance to the semifinal round of the BIG EAST Tournament.

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MEN’S SOCCER

BIG EAST Championship, city cup among best matches Alums, Louis Bennett elaborate on unforgettable games

By Nick Galle and Sam Arco nicholas.galle@marquette.edu samuel.arco@marquette.edu

Over the past 20 years, the Marquette men’s soccer team has had its highs and lows. From winning seasons in the late 1990s and early 2000s, to the struggles through the latter half of the 2000s, to a rebirth just years later, the program has had its journey written through the years in order to obtain the status it currently holds.

Here are 10 of the best soccer matches in recent history for the Golden Eagles.

September 1, 2000: Marquette at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee W, 5-1 The Golden Eagles marched their way into Engelmann Field for the Milwaukee Cup Game and got off to a hot start with two goals in the 12th and 14th minute. At halftime, Marquette had a 3-0 lead and never looked back, defeating the Panthers by four goals.

This was the first match of the season for the Golden Eagles and it set the tone for the rest of the year, as Marquette would go on to finish the season with a 9-3 record. It was also the third year in a row where MU took down the Panthers.

October 27, 2007: Marquette at UCONN L, 1-2 OT Trailing 1-0 in the final minutes of regulation during the BIG EAST Tournament, sophomore forward Nick Kay found the back of the net for Marquette in the 87th minute against the No. 2 ranked team in the nation. Playing at one of the hardest road venues in the country, the game went into overtime where UCONN would ultimately prevail.

“For me … that was just a massive game,” former Marquette goalkeeper Matt Pyzdrowski said. “We got totally outplayed but somehow we took them to overtime.”

Pyzdrowski, who went on to have a professional career after his time at Marquette, said he made, perhaps, the most memorable save of his entire career in that match against the Huskies.

September 26, 2008: Marquette at Louisville T, 1-1 2OT Losing forward Michael Greene and midfielder/forward Anthony Colaizzi put the Golden Eagles down two men, but the squad still hung with No. 20

Louisville to force a 1-1 draw.

Marquette played with nine men for the final two minutes of regulation and both overtime periods.

“It was a pretty memorable game because I think that was the most shots that any team had in a couple years in the BIG EAST,” Pyzdrowski said. “I played particularly well, so that game stands out.”

Finishing the game with six saves, Pyzdrowski also said the game was memorable because the team was able to survive despite playing without two players. Head coach Louis Bennett also recognized the mental strength it took to keep things close.

“We were down two men and our guys were fighting,” Bennett said. “In terms of heart and determination, that was one of the turning points.”

November 3, 2010: Marquette at St. Johns W, 3-1 Thanks to a brace from junior Callum Mallace, the Golden Eagles upset the defending BIG EAST champion No. 3 St. Johns in the first round of the BIG EAST Tournament. This was the first time the program had beaten St. John’s and was also Marquette’s first postseason win since joining the BIG EAST in 2005.

“We’d never won there. We’d never won,” Bennett said. “It was one of the more significant games … We held on at times but we really, really showed that we could play, and I was really, really happy about that. That was a good game.”

August 24, 2012: Marquette vs. University of WisconsinMilwaukee W, 3-2 In a back and forth game which saw Marquette trailing until the last 10 minutes, the Golden Eagles came out victorious against their Milwaukee neighbors. It was a stunning finish, as the match ended on a game-winning goal as time expired from midfielder Sebastian Jansson. After a game that was scoreless at half, the Golden Eagles scored three times in the last 30 minutes to reclaim the Milwaukee Cup. October 26, 2012: Marquette vs. Notre Dame T, 1-1 After a first half goal from Marquette defender Axel Sjoberg put the Golden Eagles up 1-0 for most of the game, No. 8 Notre Dame equalized in the 88th minute thanks to a strike at the top of the box by forward Ryan Finley.

An interesting scenario arose in the game when Marquette had a disallowed goal that would have been the difference-maker, allowing MU to win the match.

Bennett said that the buzzer had

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The Golden Eagles celebrate after defeating Providence College in the BIG EAST Tournament final in 2013.

gone off for a substitution, but a referee had said to play on, so the Golden Eagles did. Bennett said Notre Dame defenders went back in position, but the Fighting Irish protested, eventually forcing the goal to get called back.

November 15, 2013: Marquette vs. Butler (BIG EAST Semifinal) W, 1-0 OT After 98 minutes of play, Adam Lysak’s game-winning goal sent Marquette to the final game of the BIG EAST Tournament at PPL Park in Chester, Pennsylvania. The Golden Eagles outshot the Bulldogs 23 to 17 and MU goalkeeper Charlie Lyon made eight saves in net.

November 17, 2013: Marquette vs. Providence (BIG EAST Final) W, 3-2 Just two days after the semifinal victory, the Golden Eagles defeated the Providence Friars and were crowned as BIG EAST champions for the first time in program history. After three unanswered goals by Marquette, the Friars would score goals in the 66th and 87th minute, but did not have enough time to complete the comeback. The win gave them an automatic bid to the NCAA Division I Men’s Soccer Championship, where

they would later fall to No. 8 Virginia in the third round of the tournament.

November 24, 2013: Marquette vs. Akron W, 1-0 OT Marquette secured their first ever NCAA Tournament victory thanks to a last-minute goal from first-year Coco Navarro.

With 25 seconds left in overtime, Navarro found the back of the net thanks to a long cross from senior teammate Paul Dillon, which advanced the Golden Eagles to their first-ever round 16.

Akron was one of the top teams in the country and had recently won a NCAA championship in 2010.

In freezing conditions, Bennett said he thought that the referees were going to deem the field unplayable. Sure enough, the Golden Eagles played, and they gave the fans who were bundled up something to celebrate.

“We started off and we held our feet better than them, and it was a back and fourth game,” Bennett said. “They didn’t believe anyone would press them, and we pressed them. So, in that press, it was really important because most people sat back at Akron cause they were so good with the ball, but we kind of

fancied ourselves with the ball.”

November 7, 2018: Marquette at Creighton (BIG EAST Semifinal) W, 1-1 & MU advances on PK’s 10-9 The Golden Eagles advanced to the BIG EAST Tournament final after knocking off top-seeded Creighton in penalty kicks in the semifinal. Marquette came back from an early 1-0 deficit in the first half thanks to a Luka Prpa equalizer, while the defense held Creighton’s attack in check the rest of the game.

“To beat them in Omaha in front of thousands of people, in penalties as well, was just a crazy experience,” former Marquette forward Josh Coan said.

“I think that was just a game that really stands out.”

Prpa, a former Marquette midfielder, said his game-tying goal was one that he will not forget.

“At the moment I was happy to score for us and bring us back into the game, but we still weren’t winning so I was in my win-now mode and told all my teammates we have to keep fighting,” Prpa said. “Looking back at it now, that was probably one of the biggest goals I’ve scored in a Marquette uniform.”

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Rundown of Ryan Theis’ memorable tenure as coach Highlights include historic upsets, postseason runs

By Jackson Gross

jackson.gross@marquette.edu

Head women’s volleyball coach Ryan Theis is entering his seventh season with the Golden Eagles, and in those seven seasons, he has had his fair share of success. In the current span, Theis is already second in program history in wins, with 147. He is trailing Tat Shiely, who has 380.

Sitting at 73.5%, Theis also has the highest winning percentage of any volleyball head coach.

Here are the top 10 games of his head coaching career with the Golden Eagles: September 9, 2016: Marquette beats Kentucky 3-1 Starting off the list is the second game of the 2016 Bluegrass Battle between Marquette and Kentucky.

Then-redshirt sophomore Taylor Louis had an excellent day as she recorded her third double-double of the season with a season-best 20 kills and 16 digs, which matched a career high. Then-redshirt senior Meghan Niemann was also stellar offensively with 11 kills and four blocks.

Theis remembered the match as a “hot mess,” but not in the way that most would think.

“They had no air conditioning in that building, so playing in Kentucky in September, there is sweat all over Tera Flex (and) there’s towel wiping going on. I remember it being a tough match,” Theis said. “The biggest memory for me was that we were wearing championship blue and everyone was absolutely gross, covered in sweat.”

August 25, 2017: Golden Eagles upset No. 20 Hawaii The Golden Eagles were able to take down the Rainbow Wahine in five sets. Then-sophomore outside hitter Allie Barber led the team with 22 kills, then-sophomore setter Lauren Speckman had a career-high 50 assists. Then-redshirt junior middle blocker Jenna Rosenthal contributed 10 kills and nine blocks.

Theis said the match was enjoyable because the squad had nine new players in the program and the environment of the match was memorable. “(Hawaii) essentially sell out every game and they scheduled us first because we were probably the most beatable team in their opinion there,” Theis said. “It was their new head coach’s first game and she’s a legendary player at Hawaii, Robin Ah Mow. ... We were off to a pretty big lead in game one and then everyone freaked out. We were losing bad in game four.”

Since the team was losing set four, Theis wanted to get then-junior Abby Julian a serve, so if she served

in game five she wouldn’t be as nervous. However, Julian had barely played in her first two years.

After scoring six straight points in game five, Julian would help the Golden Eagles seal the win with three consecutive points as Rosenthal and Barber earned the matchwinning point with a block.

Speckman, who was a sophomore at the time, said that this game was the ‘scariest’ moment for her at Marquette, citing her new role on the team.

December 6, 2019: Team sweeps Dayton in first round of NCAA Tournament The most recent tournament win for Theis is next on the list. It was

record for Marquette women’s volleyball with her first kill of the night.

Barber would go on to add 21 more kills, Speckman contributed with 33 assists and Martha Konovodoff added 16 digs.

Theis remembers trying to get Barber the first kill of the match after she had tied the record at DePaul.

He said he spoke with the official and then-Georgetown head coach Toby Rens, and had said to hold the whistle after Barber’s first kill of the evening, in order for the crowd and her teammates to celebrate the accomplishment. However, according to Theis, things did not go according to plan.

“We start the game and Allie

specifically, but I do recall a sense of pride following a hard fought victory,” Rosenthal said in an email.

“The prize of playing Minnesota (in the next game), a team with a lot of players I often tried to imitate, was really awesome.”

August 26, 2016: Marquette beats No. 7 University of Southern California In the first match of Barber’s career at Marquette she contributed six kills. After the team dropped the first set, the Golden Eagles won the next three to upset No. 7 USC on their home court. It would be the first of back-to-back years where Theis’ squad beat a top-25 team on opening day.

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Allie Barber (10) attempts a block against Seton Hall Sept. 27, 2019. She is the program’s all-time kills leader.

another tournament sweep for the Golden Eagles, as they beat the Flyers by scores of 25-23, 25-19 and 25-22.

Barber led the team with 17 kills and junior Hope Werch connected on 11 kills. Speckman dished out 24 assists and then-junior Sarah Rose added 15 assists of her own.

Speckman was glad that her last win at Marquette was a “good, clean win.”

“That was a great game in the sense that it was my last win at Marquette,” Speckman said. “We were on a roll and I remember feeling like we were gonna get that Sweet 16 again. If we played the way we did against Dayton against Purdue, I feel that we could have done it.”

October 19, 2019: Barber breaks all-time kill record against Georgetown While this game was not close, with Marquette winning in four sets, this game was still a historic one in the Theis era.

Barber broke the all-time kill

hits the ball 20 feet out of bounds.

She looks over at me and she’s like, ‘oh man.’ So then something happens and she hits another one out of bounds, and I think it took three points for her to finally get a kill,” Theis said. “The ref forgot, and real quick she catches herself and blows the whistle again and stops play so we can acknowledge Allie’s achievement.”

September 4, 2015: MUVB survives against Northern Iowa to move to second round of NCAA Tournament The first NCAA Tournament win for Theis came in his second year, against the Northern Iowa Panthers in five sets. Then-redshirt junior Sara Blasier set a school record in the NCAA Tournament with 51 assists and added in 11 digs. Louis led the way with 26 kills.

While Rosenthal does not remember everything about this match, she remembers how she felt after taking home the win.

“I don’t remember this one so

A first-year at the time, Speckman remembers this being one of the scariest but best moments in her time at Marquette.

“That USC game was my second scariest moment playing at Marquette just because of how new I was,” Speckman said. “Being from California, my dad is a UCLA grad so we aren’t necessarily the biggest USC fans, so it was (a) good welcome into the program.”

September 19, 2014: Marquette tops No. 7 Florida in Gainesville The Golden Eagles won in Gainesville, Florida in five sets, winning the last set 15-13. A Niemann kill gave the Golden Eagles the victory in the fifth set. MU trailed 10-9 in the fifth before three straight points gave the Golden Eagles the cushion they would need to finish off the Gators.

While she did not play, Rosenthal remembers that moment fondly.

“All I remember was a court rush after the final ball fell. I was redshirted that year, so I did all I could to cheer the team on from the

sidelines,” Rosenthal said. “I remember thinking something along the lines of, ‘oh man, I’ve found a special place where we can make waves with the big guys.’”

August 31, 2019: Golden Eagles beat No. 9 BYU on the road In arguably the toughest environment to play in, Theis’ squad picked a big win early in the 2019 season against BYU. It was the third win against a top 10 team in program history, all of which have come under Theis. Barber led the way with 19 kills, then-junior Kaitlyn Lines had 17 and Werch added 11.

Speckman described the atmosphere in Provo.

“Their fans were insane. They had all these spinning things that they would spin around and it looked like you were going into a hypostasis kind of a thing,” Speckman said.

“It was loud, it was amazing.”

September 1, 2018: Volleyball advances to first Sweet 16 in program history Not only did the Golden Eagles sweep the Bearcats in three sets, they got to host a NCAA Tournament game at the Al McGuire Center. Barber led with a match-high 18 kills, while Werch connected for eight kills. Speckman handed out 21 assists to lead the Golden Eagles. Rosenthal had a team-high 11 blocks.

“Being able to have two more home games in my senior season was an invaluable gift. This game was also a ton of fun because they had Jordan Thompson, a super highlevel opposite, and a strong contender to represent USA in the upcoming Olympic Games,” Rosenthal said.

“Taking care of a high-level player and taking the victory together as a team was so special, and the feeling was indescribable moving into the Sweet 16.”

September 5, 2019: MU upsets in-state rival No. 4 Wisconsin in Madison After beating BYU the previous Saturday, Marquette went into the UW Field House and won in a five set comeback against the highest ranked team that any of Theis’ squads had ever beaten. It also marked the first time Marquette had ever beat Wisconsin in program history.

After falling behind 2-0 in the match, Marquette fought hard in the third and fourth frames, fending off multiple match point attempts from the Badgers. Marquette then trailed 4-1 in the fifth set, but closed out the match on a 14-5 run.

Theis said the team was motivated to beat Wisconsin, and it took a lot of determination to do so.

“We play them in the spring, we play them in the fall, we played them in the NCAA Tournament to try to advance in rounds and every time, Wisconsin had gotten the slight advantage over us,” Theis said. “We were itching to get a win in the fall … It was a fun, long match.”

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WOMEN’S SOCCER

WSOC: Former players discuss significant achievements Continued from page 12 November 13, 2011: Marquette beats Toledo to advance to second round of NCAA Championships with OT winner Marquette advanced to the second round of the NCAA Championships Nov. 13, 2011. They took down Toledo in a closely contested game.

Marquette won the match 1-0 after a goal from sophomore midfielder/forward Taylor Madigan in the first period of overtime.

Sophomore midfielder/forward Maegan Kelly played a deep ball to Lisa Philbin, who flicked it forward to Madigan. She put the shot near the post, which ended up being the golden goal for the Golden Eagles.

Toledo’s keeper, Vicki Traven, saved seven of eight shots, but was unable to block the shot that would send the Rockets home.

The Golden Eagles, who were 18-3-0 at the time, outshot the

defense proved to be a brick wall, as they only allowed Georgetown to take three shots, and first-year goalkeeper Amanda Engel had two saves.

Madigan said she was ecstatic to help deliver this special win because the team had put in the work necessary to get to that point.

“Amazing, exciting,” Madigan said. “We worked so hard to become the best team in the BIG EAST and it certainly paid off.”

Madigan said she was so proud of her team for staying composed throughout the entirety of the game.

“We just never quit. The whole team worked together,” Madigan said. “We were always supporting each other. Being the hardest working team wins championships.”

October 13, 2013: Golden Eagles upset No. 6 Georgetown and snap their 13-game winning streak The Golden Eagles shocked the No. 6 Georgetown Hoyas with a 4-0

out there. We were so determined and such a competitive team that winning these championships really meant a lot to us. They are some of my greatest memories at Marquette.”

August 22, 2014: Powell sets MU record for shortest elapsed time between two goals in 2014 season opener In Marquette’s season opener in 2014, sophomore forward Darian Powell connected on two goals, the second just 34 seconds after the first. The two strikes gave Powell the record for shortest elapsed time between goals in Marquette women’s soccer history, a record that she still holds today.

The Golden Eagles beat Loyola Chicago at Valley Fields to open the season. However, the goals did not come until after 80 minutes of action. Sophomore forward Ashley Handwork scored in the 81st minute before Powell expanded the lead with two goals in the 89th minute.

Powell spoke about the game and why she remembers it

was so meaningful to me,” Powell said. “It was just a lot of happiness that day.”

November 4, 2016: Carrie Madden’s bicycle game-winner against St. John’s in overtime The Golden Eagles faced off against the St. John’s Red Storm at Shaw Field in the nation’s capital Nov. 4, 2016.

St. John’s struck first in the 28th minute, but not long after, redshirt sophomore forward Carrie Madden evened up the score. The rest of the game was played closely, with both goalies making a stand, as there was no scoring for the rest of regulation.

Overtime was also played until the 96th minute when Madden scored on a bicycle kick to give the Golden Eagles the overtime win. It was Madden’s second goal of the game and it sent Marquette to the BIG EAST Tournament championship game.

“I think the first feeling I had was shock that it was actually a goal,” Madden said. “It’s moments like that that athletes live for. It’s the

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Katie Hishmeh (8) and Taylor Madigan (11) fight for the ball against Louisville Oct. 17, 2010 at Valley Fields. The Golden Eagles won 4-3 in overtime.

Rockets 14-3 and held the 8-1 advantage in shots on goal. The strike marked Madigan’s eighth of the season and her second overtime win, the first coming against Notre Dame earlier that season. Marquette advanced to the second round, where they would face No. 4 Penn State.

November 4, 2012: Golden Eagles win first BIG EAST title The Marquette women’s soccer program won its first-ever BIG EAST title Nov. 4, 2012, defeating Georgetown 1-0. The winning goal came from junior forward Taylor Madigan in the 81st minute off an assist from senior forward Rachael Sloan. This secured the victory.

The game was closely played by both teams throughout the entirety of the contest until Madigan broke the tie. The Golden Eagles’

shoutout in the grand opening of the new stadium at Valley Fields Oct. 13, 2013. With the win, Marquette snapped a 13-game win streak and expanded their own win streak to seven games.

The Golden Eagles’ defense was stellar, allowing just six shots, four of which were saved by sophomore goalkeeper Amanda Engel. Senior forward Taylor Madigan proved to be the driving force in the win for the Golden Eagles, scoring the winning goal and tallying one assist.

Madigan said she was happy to not only have another game-winner, but to also secure another win against Georgetown.

“So happy and excited! We worked as a team to be the best in the BIG EAST and showed everyone who Marquette was,” Madigan said. “Nothing feels better than being one of the best teams

so well.

“That’s actually one of the best memories I have at Marquette.

I was hurt my first two years and this was my very first game back.

I scored one goal which was awesome, and then somehow I ended up scoring another goal,” Powell said. “It was obviously really meaningful for me because I had went through so much hardship (and) heartbreak those first two years, so to score two goals my first game back was like the best feeling in the world.”

Powell also remembers the reaction from her teammates as well.

“Tears, hugs, after the game I have a picture of everybody storming to me and hugging me.

Markus (Roeders) and I shared a good moment too. Just hugging, and I was crying because it really

reason why I fell in love with the sport. It’s a feeling of complete happiness that I’ll never forget.”

Madden went down with a leg injury at the end of regulation, but pushed through because she knew that was what she had to do.

“In that scenario I knew it wasn’t a serious enough injury for me to stop playing, so I just pushed the pain to the back of my mind and focused on my teammates who were counting on me to finish the game,” Madden said.

October 12, 2019: Macey Shock delivers game-winning goal in double overtime to complete comeback and stun St. John’s Sophomore forward/midfielder Macey Shock scored the game-winning goal in double overtime to complete a comeback

against the St. John’s Red Storm Oct. 12, 2019.

The Golden Eagles had to overcome an early setback, as they were trailing 2-0 at the half. The Red Storm had everything going right on both ends of the ball until Marquette first-year midfielder/forward Alex Campana scored in the 61st minute to cut the lead to just one.

Then junior forward Kylie Sprecher tied the game for the Golden Eagles with a goal in the 83rd minute.

It wasn’t until the 101st minute, but Macey Shock would go on to deliver the final goal of the game to seal the deal. Shock said this was the turnaround the team needed because she knew they were capable of more.

“We all just knew that the way we were playing wasn’t a representation of us or how we play,” Shock said. “We really wanted to turn the game around and not give up and fight for a result.”

The sophomore forward said the moment meant a lot to her because she was able to prove that she deserved to be on the field and play in those big moments.

“It meant a lot for me because in the beginning of the season I wasn’t seeing the playing time I wanted,” Shock said. “So, I pushed myself in practice every day to get better and every time I stepped on the field I tried to make an impact.”

October 20, 2019: Alyssa Bombacino making program history by scoring back-to-back hat tricks On Oct. 20, 2019, junior forward Alyssa Bombacino made Marquette women’s soccer program history by becoming the first player to ever score a hat trick in back-toback games.

The Golden Eagles defeated Villanova 3-1, their first win against the Wildcats since 2016. Not only did she make program history, but she also helped give the program it’s 100th win in the BIG EAST. Bombacino said being in the Marquette record books meant everything to her.

“I was really excited to be included as part of Marquette’s history and to leave a mark on the program,” Bombacino said. “I was excited to have more achievements at the college level that I could continue building on.”

Bombacino also touched on the importance of helping to deliver the 100th BIG EAST win for the Golden Eagles.

“It’s always nice to be rewarded for hard work, so I know our team and coaches were excited to have an achievement to represent the hard work they all put in,” Bombacino said. “I was glad I could help play a role in our team’s success because of how much the team means to me.”

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Ticketholders hopeful to attend action in-person Fan capacity of Fiserv Forum could be cut down to 25%

By Matt Yeazel

matthew.yeazel@marquette.edu

Many questions still surround the upcoming 2020-21 NCAA men’s basketball season. One of the biggest is whether fans will be in the stands or not when the season tips off Nov. 25.

For Marquette and NCAA programs all across the country, it is a question that will not be easily resolved. Brian Morgan, an assistant athletic director in the ticket sales & strategy department, said, there are 2,000 questions and about two answers.

“I’m a big planner by nature, all of us in the industry are planners, but this year you can output a bunch of plans and scenarios in place and the next day everything changes,” Morgan said.

It is safe to assume that we will not be seeing a sold out Fiserv Forum this year for Marquette men’s basketball, but the possibility of fans being at games still remains. The question then is: What is the capacity and who will be given priority when it comes to getting tickets?

Morgan noted that selling tickets for collegiate games is completely different than the professional level because there are three separate demographics: students, season ticket holders and the general public,

with the process of selling tickets to those three groups differing greatly.

“Our highest-level season ticket holders, our donors and, of course, our students are a huge part of our gameday experience in creating that environment,” Morgan said. “Until we can get more of a definition of what we’ll be allowed to have, it’s hard to have a plan for that.”

The capacity of Fiserv Forum is 17,341. If the program allowed 25% of the stadium’s capacity, similar to what Major League Baseball is doing for its NLCS and World Series, the capacity would be 4,335. Morgan said that it is less about the percentages and more about how they can follow the social distancing guidelines that will be put in place.

“It’s a lot harder to work with, say, 1,000, than it is for 5,000,” Morgan said. “We’ll rely on public health officials on campus and at Fiserv Forum, but we aren’t expecting final decisions soon.”

For the season ticket holders in particular, the process for them is comparable to what some professional teams are doing. There is a refund policy in place where if people commit money now and games are cancelled, they can get a full refund, push the money to next year or donate the money to the school.

“I don’t feel worried at all about putting money into tickets right now,” Scott D’Urso, communication studies department chair who has been a season ticket holder since the 2006-07 season, said.

D’Urso said that the Green Bay

Packers are doing a system in which season ticket holders can “opt-out” of the season if they are not comfortable going to games and open the limited seating for others. He thinks Marquette doing the same would be a step toward helping them with allowing more in each group of students and season ticket holders.

“You can divide up who wants to go to the games and try to get people to as many games as possible given how many are allowed in,” D’Urso said. “A lot of people still want to attend, and if there’s a safe way to do it, then they should be looking into that.”

D’Urso also suggested that a similar process could be used for student tickets, but with a system that prioritizes seniors who want to go and then go down from there with juniors, sophomores and first-years.

Among the many possibilities Marquette has, they could all become moot if the BIG EAST as a conference sets their own rules as to how their teams will operate this season. The BIG EAST has not yet made any final decisions, and no school in the conference has made any final decisions or commitments, but this is why during the COVID-19 pandemic, communication between the schools has been more frequent.

“We haven’t heard any decisions from the BIG EAST, but one thing this pandemic has done has brought the ticket offices in the conference closer together,” Morgan said. “We’ve never had monthly

dialogue before, and it’s been helpful for idea sharing and seeing what’s working well and what’s not.”

In an interview with NBC10 in New England, Bob Driscoll, the athletic director at Providence University, said that he does not anticipate the Providence basketball team to be able to play in the Dunkin’ Donuts Center, where they play their home games. He said even if they are eventually able to play there, he does not expect fans to be allowed into the games.

No schools in the conference have made any definitive statements regarding fan attendance.

Ultimately what may be the deciding factor for fan attendance is the current state of the coronavirus pandemic. For Marquette, the campus is currently at a “moderate” alert level, but cases are on the rise and Sept. 25 a second student residence hall went into quarantine.

D’Urso, who as a professor is currently away on research sabbatical until next semester, said he is more concerned about the health and safety of his family than going to basketball games.

“I would love to go, but I have two young children and the safety and health of my family takes precedence,” D’Urso said. “It would be disappointing not to be there in person, but if they can play safely, I can cheer safely from home and enjoy that just fine.”

If health and safety concerns do take over and no fans are allowed at games this year, then Marquette will have to endure even

more financial losses than they already have.

“Obviously men’s basketball ticket sales is a huge revenue piece for us in athletics,” Morgan said.

“We would need to get creative in how we do things, but every challenge presents an opportunity for new things, particularly with increasing fan engagement.”

For many college basketball fans, the start of the season can not come soon enough. For those making the decisions behind the scenes and in charge of executing a safe plan for college basketball students, coaches and fans; a lot of unanswered questions remain with just over seven weeks until the tentative Nov. 25th start date of the season.

“In order to move forward we have to rely on our relationships, learn from each other and connect with one another to make the best decision for our fans,” Morgan said. “At the end of the day we want to accommodate all our fans in some way.”

Regardless of whether fans are in the stands or not, longtime fans of the team like D’Urso are excited to have Marquette basketball back in their lives.

“I’ve seen how the NBA has done their model with no fans and as long as the games are televised, we’ll be fine,” D’Urso said. “This is something we’ve missed since March. It’ll be a different environment but watching games will have the element of feeling normal, if there is such a thing anymore.”

WOMEN’S TENNIS

Ferdman, Rodecap develop unique relationship off court Tennis director serves as mentor for sophomore athlete

By Matthew Valente

matthew.valente@marquette.edu

In college, important relationships develop everywhere, from student to student and teacher to student. They are also built between athletes and their coaches.

This athlete-coach relationship is often significant, and can last far beyond a game or match.

The relationship between sophomore tennis player Elizabeth Ferdman or known on the team as “Ferddie” and men’s and women’s tennis head coach Steve Rodecap is not just an athlete-coach relation, it is much more.

While Jody Bronson was the head coach of the women’s tennis team last spring, Rodecap still showed up at team practices and matches. Ferdman was very happy that he did, and

felt it was one of his special qualities.

“He is a great mentor (and) good person to go to,” Ferdman said.

“He makes me feel comfortable and safe.”

Even though she has only known Rodecap for a short period of time, he has already created a unique bond between the two, and Ferdman sees Rodecap as a mentor.

Ferdman has had a long history in the sport of tennis. She started playing at a very young age.

“I started when I was five and it was because my dad loved tennis,” Ferdman said.

This led Ferdman to become a four-year letterwinner at Adlai E. Stevenson High School. When it came to looking at colleges, Marquette was on that list.

In her first year at Marquette, Ferdman said she had a lot of nerves.

“I was shaking a lot,” Ferdman said. “But seeing teammates on courts next to me made me less nervous.”

Ferdman played two matches, two singles and two doubles with her partner Lesley Foe. Ferdman won all

four matches ending the season with a 4-0 record.

Rodecap enjoys Ferdman’s personality and noticed it the very first time he met her.

“She brings an element to the team,” Rodecap said. “She is booming with excitement and has a spark that ignites the team.”

Rodecap also enjoys the attitude and uniqueness Ferdman brings to the court. Even during tough times, Ferdman can change the attitude on the court.

“She has a spark and dynamic that is special. She has a genuine spirit that is unique about her,” Rodecap said. “She can lighten the mood and bring smiles to faces during tough times.”

Rodecap always puts his players before himself and wants to be there when they need him. He wants his players to know he is not just their coach, he is more than that. Ferdman loves this quality about him.

“His door is always open. You can talk to him about everyday life and situations, not just tennis,” Ferdman said. “He treats the team like family.”

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Elizabeth Ferdman hits a forehand in November 2019 at the Rec Center.

While on the court, Ferdman knows that Rodecap wants to see his players succeed.

“He just wants the best with all his players,” Ferdman said. “He wants you to do the best we can and be very competitive.”

In the short time Rodecap and Ferdman have known each other, the relationship between the two has already become =unique and special.

Ferdman sees Rodecap as more than a coach. She sees him as someone she hopes to be in the future as she aims to become a coach. Rodecap has shown a great example on what a coach does. Ferdman loves this about him wanting to become a coach in the future.

“I would love to be a coach like Rodecap,” Ferdman said.