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Memorial stirs conversation
Pro-life display returns after last year’s vandalism By Caroline White
caroline.white@marquette.edu
The student organization Marquette for Life hosts a week’s worth of events every year advocating for the pro-life movement on campus. The events entail cupcake sales, speakers, a candlelit vigil and a “Memorial of the Unborn” in the Central Mall.
In past years, the memorial has been a subject of controversy, and last year it was protested and vandalized in an incident rumored to be associated with Marquette Empowerment, an intersectional feminist club focused on alleviating oppression and prejudice facing a variety of minority groups. The vandalism was done by individuals who were not involved with Empowerment, but members of Empowerment acting as independent citizens, said Tess Bridges, Empowerment executive board member and senior in
the College of Arts & Sciences. Empowerment is looking to do things differently this year by challenging the event in nonphysical ways. The two advocacy groups are attempting to work together and hunt for ways to avoid the controversy that has plagued the event in years prior. “This year we decided instead of knocking things down and doing a physical demonstration, that we (explain) we want dialogue, we want to change this, this is our mission, and this is why it’s wrong,” Emmy Heeney, an executive board member of
Empowerment and senior in the College of Nursing, said. One of the group’s forms of protest was encouraging parents to call the university about the memorial, namely the things about the memorial that they feel could be potentially damaging to students. Members of the Marquette for Life executive board, however, said they feel that those personally affected by abortion can benefit from the public display. “The purpose of the memorial is to bring attention to the magnitude of the tragedy of abortion
within our culture and provide healing for all those individuals who have been personally affected by abortion,” a statement from Marquette for Life executive board members said. “For those of us that may be saddened or uncomfortable because of this memorial, Marquette for Life has worked diligently to provide contact information for postabortive support, counseling and healing resources.” Steve Blaha, Marquette for See RAMIFICATIONS page 2
Mixed opinions on Foxconn in Law School poll Milwaukee has most negative responses in southeastern WI By Sydney Czyzon
sydney.czyzon@marquette.edu
Residents of the Milwaukee area are divided on perceived impacts of Foxconn Technology Group’s impending Racine County plant, according to a recent poll by Marquette University Law School. While 54 percent of
tremendously if they get engineering jobs at the plant,” Franklin said. “But unemployed people up the street might not benefit, depending on whether Foxconn is hiring the kinds of jobs that less-skilled workers can get.” Across the board, the city of Milwaukee had more negative responses than any other region: 50 percent said Foxconn will not substantially improve the economy. “(One reason for this is) certainly the economic differences between the wealthier subur-
respondents in five Milwaukee area regions – Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Racine, Washington and Waukesha counties – said they believe Foxconn will substantially improve the area’s economy, 48 percent said Foxconn is not worth the $3 billion received in state aid. “I don’t see these two as necessarily contradictory,” said Charles Franklin, director of the Law School Poll and professor of law and public policy. “It seems to me you can certainly believe that this very large plant
is going to help the region’s economy and yet, at the same time, believe that the returns to the state government over time will not be worth the $3 billion that we’re paying for it.” The poll also reported that 65 percent of respondents said neither themselves nor their families will personally benefit from the new Foxconn plant. In the city of Milwaukee specifically, that number jumped to 72 percent. “Some of Marquette’s engineering graduates might benefit
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ban regions, where it seems there’s a lot of optimism about Foxconn, versus the more economically stressed areas of the city,” Franklin said. Franklin added that partisan differences between the city and suburbs could explain the divide. “A perfectly plausible alternative is that it’s less people’s financial situations and financial impact and more just our goodold-fashioned partisan polarization in views,” he said. See FOXCONN page 2
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