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Slow response time of LIMOs cause concerns on campus Transportation service hindered by lack of workers, high demand

By Phoebe Goebel and Megan Woolard

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Every single time a safety alert is sent out to the Marquette community, it’s followed by a notice from the Marquette University

Police department reminding students to take the LIMO. Amy Oltendorf, a police sergeant for MUPD and the manager of Campus Safety, said that there is a higher demand for LIMO rides currently. Oltendorf said there is a recent delay in response time of

LIMOs due to staffing issues.

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Joan of Arc Prepped for Patronage Chapel reopens for prayer and mass after restoration efforts

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After about 16 months of repairs the St. Joan of Arc Chapel is opening its doors again for patrons. Members of the Marquette community have said they couldn’t be more excited.

Multiple issues were fixed within the chapel, and the outside, including the steps and paving, have been updated. The interior has also been renovated with improvements to the heated floor and ventilation systems.

Kurt Young Binter, the project manager for Facilities Planning and Management, worked on the chapel along with project members to get the improvements that were needed without losing the authenticity of the chapel.

“It all came together. If you squint it’s the same but if you look closely, we have made some significant moves that improve the space which will improve one’s worship experience,” Young Binter said.

Young Binter is especially proud with how the roof turned out. The roof dates back 400 years ago, when the building was originally constructed.

Most of the roof had degraded, Young Binter said, and finding Photo by Isabel Bonebrake isabel.bonebrake@marquette.edu

The first official Wisconsin case of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 was reported Dec. 4 after the first case in the United States was detected in California Dec. 1.

The variant was first identified in Europe, a week before cases were reported Nov. 24 in South Africa.

“I honestly was not surprised. I feel as if we’re in a never-ending cycle of new variants and strains,” Elysa Roldan, a senior in the College of Health Sciences, said. “It gets scary to think of it never ending anytime soon.”

The Omicron variant has been labeled “a variant of concern” by the World Health Organization saying it poses a “very high” global risk of infection and has been confirmed in more than 30 countries.

The Milwaukee Health Department issued a mask advisory for Milwaukee County Nov. 30, which provides notice that all individuals, regardless of vaccination status or past COVID-19 infection, are recommended to wear a mask at all times when indoors in a public setting.

DePaul University announced Dec. 3 it would be returning to online learning for the first two weeks of the winter quarter amid concerns of a potential surge in COVID-19 cases due to the Omicron variant.

“I think Marquette could go back online, but honestly if we keep up our vaccine practices I have hope we won’t,” Maggie Timmerman, a See STRAIN page 2

The St. Joan of Arc Chapel was re-opened for Mass last Tuesday night. Many members of the Marquette community attended.

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Recently students have had to wait longer for LIMOs. Campus Safety has said this is has been due to a lack of student drivers.

sometimes it is not the most ideal job,” Oltendorf said in an email.

“The current students that are employed with DCS are truly passionate about providing safety to the community and they enjoy the job, as it can be a fun place to

work, but sometimes that is not always enough.”

Because Campus Safety is in need of LIMO drivers, they are now offering a $250 bonus to new hires. Oltendorf said she is hoping this will encourage more students

to drive LIMOs. Oltendorf also blamed the delayed response time on students not properly calling to cancel their request for the LIMO if they no longer need one.

“At Campus Safety, we also

experience many ‘no shows’ at times. This will ultimately cause a delay in a LIMO getting to someone else in need of a safe ride,” Oltendorf said in an email.

Lucia Pechloff, a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences, said that while she hasn’t called a LIMO herself, her friends said that it can take a while for the LIMO to arrive.

“It feels a little unsafe, especially waiting alone,” Lucia Pechloff said. “I’d be nervous to stay and wait for them (the LIMO) to arrive.”

Alauna Rupert, a sophomore in the College of Health Sciences, said that she could be on hold for the LIMO sometimes 10 minutes at a time.

As someone who takes the LIMO around four times a week, Rupert finds it frustrating to have to wait for so long.

“I just feel like Marquette needs to hire a third-party service for this again,” Rupert said. “For example, last weekend I had to order a Uber for a location that was three blocks away because the LIMO wasn’t answering.”

Due to social distancing pro-

tocols last year, the university continued offering campus transportation with GoRiteWay buses, temporarily replacing the LIMO vans.

Golden isn’t as concerned about the recent safety issues on campus but is more focused on the declining Milwaukee weather conditions. Temperatures are beginning to fluctuate and are consistently below freezing, so Golden hopes that LIMOs will become more accessible in these cold conditions.

Oltendorf said that Campus Safety is dealing with recent crime reports by “remaining diligent in their work”.

“The Department of Campus Safety has one main goal right now, and that is to hire more LIMO drivers to meet the demand on campus,” Oltendorf said in an email. “The Department of Campus Safety is committed to the safety of the Marquette community and hiring and training new employees is our key component to success right now.”

Alexandra Garner contributed to this report.

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sophomore in the College of Business Administration, said.

Marquette announced Nov. 30 that due to Marquette’s status as a federal contractor, Marquette University employees are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19

by Jan. 18, 2022.

As of Dec. 6, 94% of Marquette students and 93% of faculty and staff have submitted proof of COVID-19 vaccination.

Marquette announced Dec. 2 that the indoor mask requirement in public spaces and quarantine and isolation protocols will remain in place for next semester.

“Marquette has been strong in allowing students to still come to class and stay healthy,” Abby Willner, a sophomore in the College of Communication, said. “I think they will give students the option to come and attend in person or online and that’s a good thing to do.”

WHO said this variant has been detected at faster rates compared to previous surges in infection and more than 30 mutations have been identified in the spike protein, the part of the virus that binds to human cells, making this variant the most heavily-mutated version of the virus so far.

The organization also reported milder symptoms regarding this particular variant. Many say they have experienced fever, cough and shortness of breath, however, those diagnosed with Omicron have not reported a significant loss of taste or smell.

WHO said milder symptoms

could help the virus spread because people may not know they have the virus.

The Omicron variant has been detected in 17 U.S. states, as of Monday.

The Biden administration imposed travel bans Nov. 30 on arrivals from eight nations in southern Africa: Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe in response to the new variant.

All international travelers to the United States, including Americans, must take a COVID-19 test no more than one day before travel, regardless of vaccination status, as of Dec. 2.

Federal mask requirements on all public transportation have also been extended until March 18, the third extension since the mandate was first implemented Feb. 1.

There is currently no evidence that the Omicron variant is associated with more transmission or more risk of evading vaccines and the variant is still detectable by current COVID-19 tests. Dr. Anthony Fauci, America’s top infectious diseases expert, called the variant “a bit encouraging regarding the severity.”

“We are continuing to monitor the information regarding the Omicron variant as it becomes available. Much is yet to be learned,” Keli Wollmer, executive director of the Marquette University Medical Clinic, said.

Twenty-seven COVID-19 variants have been tracked by WHO since the beginning of the COV-

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94% of Marquette students and 93% of faculty and staff have submitted proof of COVID-19 vaccination.

ID-19 pandemic but WHO has only classified five variants of concern.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the Delta variant continues to be the predominant circulating variant.

“The best way to protect yourself from all COVID-19 variants is to continue to wear a mask indoors, get

vaccinated and get a booster dose when eligible. Follow CDC travel guidance if traveling domestically or internationally,” Wollmer said.

COVID-19 booster shots are available for everyone ages 18 and older. The CDC recommends getting a booster at least two months after completing your primary

COVID-19 vaccination if you received the single dose of Johnson & Johnson and at least six months if you received both doses of Pfizer or Moderna.

Marquette’s University’s COVID-19 alert level is moderate, as of Dec. 6, with 91 confirmed positive COVID-19 cases in the last 30 days.

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The project to restore the St. Joan of Arc Chapel started in spring of 2020. 40 seats were available inside for the re-opening Mass

materials that blend beautifully into the roof is no small feat.

Renovations on the St. Joan of Arc Chapel started in spring 2020.

Vince Micha, project architect for the Kubala Washatko Architect Inc., worked with Young Binter and is delighted with the result of their labor.

“I think Kurt should be pointed out for really holding on to the specialness of the space and not losing the deep sense of history, the story and the character of the building,” Micha said, “One could have easily made it all brand new and that would’ve been really inappropriate. In the end, it’s still a beautiful chapel.”

For some students, like Clyde Hollister, a senior in the College of Engineering, the feeling of coming back to the place he’s cherished since his first year at Marquette is incredible.

“It’s so refreshing to be back.

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been. To finally see it open, see that beautiful stained glass, it’s very exciting,” Hollister said.

For the reopening Mass, 40 seats were available inside of the chapel for students, accompanied by musicians. Campus Ministry expected a large number of students to attend the 10 p.m. Mass.

An array of seats were also available outside for students and the rest of the Marquette community.

Volunteers like Hollister anticipated a good event with many happy faces.

Hollister said he was in attendance during one of the final Masses at Joan of Arc Chapel and he is thankful to be back in attendance now that it has come back.

“Having it back open reminds me of my freshman year, before COVID, it just brings a sense of normalcy back to Marquette,” Hollister said.

Marquette alums were also in attendance and said they couldn’t pass up the chance to miss the

first Mass back on the grounds.

Elizabeth Killian, Marquette alum, frequented the chapel quite often in her days as a student and was happy to see it back.

“It’s really nice to be back and see old friends. I’m coming back to a place that I’ve spent a lot of time in, I’ve prayed a lot and always loved coming to everyday,” Killian said.

Cara Fries, a first-year in the College of Communication, remembers walking past the chapel when she took a tour last year and was excited to finally attend a Mass on campus. Fries appreciated the heated floors and she was especially impressed with how the grotto came out.

The Grotto of the Virgin Mary is located behind the chapel and is free-standing and designed to blend with the surrounding greenery.

The chapel was originally constructed in the early 15th century and used as a place of worship

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in Chasse, France. During the time of the French Revolution it was in a state of decay. It was in the 1920s that architect Jacques Coelle completed a record in the hopes of restoring it back to its best, he writes about the chapel’s absolute uniqueness.

The village of Chasse sold it to Coelle who then sold it to Gertrude Hill Gavin, daughter of a railroad man, who brought the chapel over to her estate in Long Island, New York. Gavin was a devotee of Joan of Arc and dedicated the chapel in her name after she was canonized as a saint in 1920.

Gavin also added an altar, stained glass and the Joan of Arc stone, which was kissed by St. Joan of Arc and is believed to be cooler than all the other stones in the building. Gavin eventually sold it to Marc and Lillian Rojtman when the chapel miraculously survived a fire.

The Rojtman family then offered the chapel to Marquette University as a gift under the condition it was continued to be used for worship. In 1965 the transportation of the chapel from Long Island to Milwaukee began and reconstruction took place until it was finished in 1966.

To celebrate the chapel doors being opened, Marquette held a pageant where participants dressed up in 15th century clothing in dedication to Joan of Arc. Nowadays the chapel is a staple of Marquette’s campus.

“It’s the literal and spiritual centerpiece of campus that welcomes all – from students, faculty and staff to alumni and visitors — inviting them to prayerful reflection or simply to enjoy respite from the world outside. It’s a worldwide historical treasure that graces Marquette and Milwaukee,” University President Michael Lovell said.

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An unknown subject discharged a handgun into the air several times in the 700 block North 23rd Street. The incident was witnessed by a non-MU subject. The subject was unable to be located after fleeing the area.

MUPD was contacted by Wells Hall staff about a student in possession of marijuana. The student has been referred to student conduct and MUPD has seized the marijuana.

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Jewish Student Union holds Hanukkah party

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Haunnukah, also known as the Festival of Lights, is an eight day celebration typically held during the holday months. This year, the holiday was Nov. 28 to Dec. 6. Some students were unable to go home for the holiday.

Holiday of Lights celebrated Nov. 28 to Dec. 6 in 2021

By Clara Lebrón

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The Jewish Student Union lit their menorah as they celebrated Hanukkah at Straz Tower “I think it’s important to offer events to Jewish students on campus during holidays like this because it allows us a chance to connect both in a religious and social sense. As a small group on campus, sharing our common traditions helps us build a strong community,” Michaela Brooke, a junior in the College of Health Sciences and the vice president of JSU, said.

The holiday was instated after Israel (then Judea) came into the

power of Antiochus IV Epiphanes, who outlawed the Jewish religion and massacred thousands; it is seen as a celebration of the resistance of Jewish people in that time. Most of the traditions that take place in the holiday are an homage to Jewish history and spirit.

“We followed the traditional customs of lighting the Hanukkah candles and saying the blessings, playing a game called a dreidel, and eating fried potato pancakes called latkes. We mostly wanted to provide an environment for everyone to come and have a good time together,” Brooke said.

The blessings said while lighting the Hanukah candles are all thanking God for helping their ancestors and letting them come together to celebrate.

Playing dreidel, another common Hanukkah tradition, was a way for

Jewish people to study the Torah while it was illegal.

Eating latkes (potato pancakes) is also very significant to the times of Antiochus, Brooke claims.

“In part of the story of Hanukkah, the Jewish people wanted to light the traditional oil lamps in the temple but they only had enough oil to last one night. But miraculously the oil lasted for eight nights, long enough for someone to make the long journey to get more oil. To celebrate this miracle, we eat foods fried in oil on Hanukkah such as potato latkes and sufganiyot (jelly donuts),” Brooke said in an email.

The celebration was hosted by the JSU but was organized with the help of Hillel Milwaukee.

“Hillel Milwaukee strives to create a dynamic, warm and celebratory Jewish environment for Milwaukee’s university students and young

adults where they can explore and express their Jewish identities and gain a sense of belonging within the Jewish community,” Anna Goldstein, assistant director of Hillel Milwaukee and Marquette alumn, said.

The organization (a branch of Hillel International, a Jewish organization with over 500 branches on campuses worldwide) helps the JSU and other clubs in the Milwaukee area.

“We offer holiday and cultural programs, Shabbat dinners, leadership opportunities, social action projects, Israel programs, outdoor activities, and social gatherings. We welcome Jewish young adults from all backgrounds, including religious, secular, and interfaith. We are also open to all local students who have a sincere desire to learn more about Judaism,” said Goldstein.

Although most students might not have the time or resources to cel-

ebrate Hanukkah with their families, the JSU tries to bring tradition to campus.

“We’re a small club, but we try to do as much as possible on campus”, Jordan Pajeau, a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences and the president of the JSU, said.

All the work put into these celebrations, and most of what the JSU and Hillel Milwaukee do is to help young Jewish adults celebrate their traditions away from home.

“It is important for Jewish students to be able to celebrate Jewish holidays on campus because many of them are celebrating these holidays away from their families for the first time. Being able to celebrate holidays like Hanukkah together with their Jewish friends and also share it with people who have never celebrated is very meaningful,” Goldstein said.

before the tournament and continued to accept them until the day of the tournament.

“All the fundraising money comes prior to the actual competition day,” Jimmy Chen, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences, said. “It comes from just us as individual competitors, just reaching out to people.”

Tap Cancer Out is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization that fundraises money for cancer research through jiu-jitsu competitions that they hold in various cities across the nation. Since their start in 2011, Tap Cancer Out has donated over $2,250,000 to various organizations including Alex’s Lemonade Stand, the American Cancer Society, Breast Cancer Society and more.

Tap Cancer Out organizes their tournaments as a round-robin style for the kids, juniors and teens divisions, but the adult category is single elimination only.

The competitors go up against a range of opponents and battle

until they lose and are knocked out of the competition.

At the end of the tournament the four competitors, including Chen, all managed to place within the top five in their categories.

The Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Club started a few years ago and came under the direction of coach Chris Martin. Martin is a 2001 Marquette alum who began coaching the team, he said, as a way to give back to his university. He began his career in jiujitsu to get back into shape but it then became much more than that. Additionally, Martin coowns the company Nova Gyms, a martial arts gym in the Oak Creek area. The gym also sends out coaches to teach the Marquette Jiu-Jitsu Club.

“Brazilian jiujitsu was almost my role model, father, blueprint to follow to become more confident, more aware, and just become more of a man,” Martin said.

Martin wants to inspire the

team and give them the same experience he had with the sport.

Not only does it help the individual but it allows the group to grow as a whole and learn about themselves.

“What I believe is different … is that it’s a team thing, you’re not just there for yourself,” Martin said. “You have all these people around you and they’re all there to help support you and help you get better and helping to push you, so you build this comradery.”

Recently the group has been growing in popularity and is gaining members. The executive board of the club spreads their information to get into contact with those who might be interested by attending events such as Organization Fest.

Chen explained how they had around 30 people sign up to join the club this year. He also mentioned how each practice averages around 20 participants.

The members range from having years of experience to

beginners. Matt Dupasquier, a senior in the College of Engineering, is returning for his third year with the club and he placed fourth in his category at the tournament. The path to fourth was full of pitfalls and losses, but those ultimately made him better.

“You have to keep losing until you realize your mistakes and keep moving up,” Dupasquier said. “I didn’t realize how much progress I had made until this year when we started back up.”

Martin and the executive board were pleased with their showing at the Tap Cancer Out competition, and they plan to compete more, such as at the tournament held by Grappling Industries.

They also plan on hosting scrimmages against other groups in the area.

Overall, the club is dedicated to their work and their sport.

They form hardworking team with a passionate spirit. To stay up to date with the BJJ Club’s season you can follow them on Instagram, @Marquette_BJJ.

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Club raises funds for cancer Mix of fighting styles comes to campus, used as learning tool

By Izzy Fonfara Drewel

isabella.fonfaradrewel@marquette.edu

Monday and Thursday nights the Marquette gymnasium is filled with athletes practicing Brazilian jiu-jitsu. Twice a week the club meets to teach and practice the combat style.

Brazilian jiu-jitsu is a fighting style derived from Japanese judo and Japanese jujutsu which focuses on ground fighting and grappling. This martial art is meant to help people defend themselves when attacked by greater adversaries.

Recently, the Marquette Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Club worked in collaboration with the charity Tap Cancer Out, and they managed to fundraise a total of $1,738 for cancer research. The competitors began gathering donations weeks

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Sophomores required to make up ‘Bringing in the Bystander’ training Hold placed on student account until completion of course

By TJ Dysart

theodore.dysart@marquette.edu

Students will have until Dec. 10 to make up the “Bringing in the Bystander” training if they have not done so already and if they do not complete the training by that date a registration hold will be placed on their account.

Students who did not complete the training at the beginning of the fall semester received an email about the make up training.

A registration hold is an electronic stop that can be placed on a Marquette University student’s account for a number of reasons including financial, disciplinary or relating to training. When registering for classes, students who have a registration hold on their account were not able to enroll in spring classes until their hold was resolved.

The intervention program “intends to teach students about sexual assault, how to intervene, and how to seek help.”

While the makeup session is still available, Kaitlyn Clancy, a secondyear law student and peer educator for the Bringing in the Bystander program, noted the feedback from students who already completed the training in August.

“Our students were receptive to the program. In the nine presentations I personally delivered, engagement was tremendous,” Clancy said.

While Clancy noted that the feedback has been mostly good, some students have suggested ways to better engage the community.

“The course was held on a late night on the top floor of Straz. I spent what I believe was an hour just getting lectured,” Christian Golden, a sophomore in the College of Communication, said. “I feel as if it could have been much more effective if it was held in a smaller group or if it wasn’t held so late in the day. The energy was low because nobody wanted to be there, and on top of that it was forced.”

Some students have noted that they feel more comfortable with peer educators presenting on these issues.

“Having someone who is similar in age as you definitely makes it easier to have those tough conversations,” Nate Moodie, a sophomore in the College of Business Administration, said. “I think at the

end of the day it’s about educating students, but also it is equally as important that they feel comfortable talking about those matters.”

Along with the bystander training, first-year students and transfer students will soon participate in a Red Watch Band lesson which is a beginner and basic training program that students participate in during the spring semester. This training will set first-year students up for a deeper dive during the fall semester of next year when they will then participate in the Bringing in the Bystander training.

Because the feedback has been “receptive” a third training program is in the works.

“We are in the process of implementing a third-year student program on advocacy 101. This would probably be the final lesson after Red Watch Band and Bringing in the Bystander training.” The Advocacy 101 training would involve training about where to find confidential help and support on campus.

Earlier in the semester, some students had questions regarding why only sophomores participate in the training and not the entire student population. However, Clancy mentioned that each training program fits each grade and as students get older they will end up participating in all three programs.

“As students mature, so does the intensity of the training they receive. We will continue to have these training to embrace ‘cura personalis’ and positively support our peers on and off-campus. We’re a resource so nobody should feel alone through anything they may be experiencing,” Clancy said.

Some say that given the topics discussed in the training, a hold is what will motivate students to participate.

“I mean yeah, obviously nobody wants to see a hold on their account,” Moodie said. “But I think the hold shows just how important that training is. If you don’t take it seriously and don’t complete the training you should have a hold on your account.”

As the first semester comes to a close, Clancy noted that she is happy with the way the training is going.

“We are a resource so no one should feel alone through anything they may be experiencing. We are more than happy to support fellow students however they may need.

Educating is the first step to fostering a safe and healthy environment for our students,” Clancy said.

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Dance Inc. showcases moves Semesterly performance returns after COVID-19 hiatus

Dance Inc. held its fall showcase this Sunday. The dance group was founded in the late 1990s.

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By Bailey Striepling

bailey.striepling@marquette.edu

Dance Inc. Marquette, a studentrun, student-choreographed dance group, held their annual fall showcase Sunday, Dec. 5 in Weasler Auditorium, featuring 11 dances and two guest performances.

The dance group, founded in 1999, works to incorporate many different styles of dance into their showcases, typically including lyrical, tap, jazz, hip hop, ballet and musical theater, making it the most versatile dance group on campus.

This semester, the group added some new styles to their showcase along with guest performances from Marquette University’s premier allmale a cappella group, The Naturals and Irish dancers.

“We had some very unique dances that we haven’t had in the past,” Taylor Wicklund, president of Dance Inc. and a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences, said. “This semester, we also had a line dance, ballet and Irish dancing.”

This year’s showcase theme was “Together we stand.”

“We talked about an idea that meant bringing us back together,” Wicklund said. “After being on pause for so long, we wanted something to make us feel reunited again as a group.”

Dance Inc. holds two shows per school year, one at the end of each

semester. However, this was the first showcase the group has been able to hold since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic three semesters ago.

“I am excited to show our audience the hard work that all of our members have put into this show, especially since this is the first time we are performing in two years,” Briana Discipio, vice president of Dance Inc. and a senior in the College of Health Sciences, said.

Emily Ditsch, a physical therapy graduate student, returned to Dance Inc. to choreograph after COVID-19 canceled the showcase last year.

“I haven’t been able to dance since COVID-19, so it’s been great being able to see and work with everyone,” Ditsch said. “I love how the piece turned out and am so grateful for all the hard work my dancers put in.”

Morgan Guetschow, social chair for Dance Inc. and a senior in the College of Health Sciences, said the best part about Dance Inc. is the supportive environment.

“In every rehearsal, we are always bouncing ideas off of each other and are open to trying new things that any member suggests,” Guetschow said.

“Dance Inc. also offers any member the option to choreograph their own dance, so it allows me to explore the choreographer side of dance while being a dancer at the same time.”

Dance Inc. welcomes all dancers, regardless of background or

experience. Members of the group also have the option to choreograph and/or dance.

Every student who auditions is guaranteed to be in at least one show, according to Wicklund.

“We pride ourselves in being an inclusive group of dancers, welcoming all dancers with open arms, regardless of their experience and abilities,” Guetschow said. “The only requirement is that they love to dance.”

The dance group offers several different styles of dance along with different difficulty levels as well.

“Dance Inc. is a group that fulfills the need for dance while understanding the commitments of a college student,” Discipio said.

The group currently has 35 members.

Mackenzie Culver, secretary of Dance Inc. and a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences, said her favorite thing about being a member of Dance Inc. is the people.

“This is my third year in the club and every single show, I have made many friends that I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to meet at Marquette otherwise,” Culver said.

Dance Inc. holds auditions every semester for both choreographing and dancing. Their next showcase will be held during the spring 2022 semester.

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Campus a cappella groups perform holiday classics for charity ‘Hope for the Holidays’ concert in Marquette Hall

By Phoebe Goebel

phoebe.goebel@marquette.edu

With the holiday break just around the corner, groups on campus are getting into the festive spirit through their holiday traditions. One of these traditions is bringing people together through music, and in this case through the form of a cappella singing. A cappella is a musical performance in which the group creates instruments through their own voices with no sort of accompaniment.

Three of Marquette University’s a cappella groups performed holiday carols in their annual holiday concert “Hope for the Holidays” Saturday, Dec. 4. The groups included The Meladies, The Gold’n Blues and The Marquette Naturals, and each performed in Marquette Hall.

The a cappella groups created a performance to raise money through donations for Mardi Gras.

Marquette Mardi Gras is a student-run charity that focuses on disaster relief in southern states. They provide services

such as rebuilding homes and volunteering at food pantries and sends students five times a year for these services over break.

Charlie Dennert, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences, is the vice president for The Marquette Naturals, an all-male a cappella group. Dennert helped organize the event and said that he was excited to spread some holiday cheer. He has been in the group since his first year as a Marquette student, and it has become one of his favorite parts of his college experience. “(A capella) it’s very personal, it’s very about the social kind of side. It’s just about you and your friends making music together.

It’s just you, and that’s what’s awesome about it,” Dennert said.

One of the other groups, The Gold’n Blues, performed the carols “O Holy Night,” “That’s Christmas to Me” and “Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays.” The president of the group, Brendan Wilke, a senior in the College of Engineering, said that the quick turnover from their recent fall concert pushed them to practice hard.

“It’s kind of a packed time for us but also relaxed because they are fun songs,” Wilke said.

“In times like these with the pandemic going on, the holiday

Photos by Alex DeBuhr alex.debuhr@marquette.edu

The Meladies, Naturals and Gold n’ Blues a capella groups all performed using only their voices.

season is special because we get to share and bring together people through music.”

At the concert, Kamila Cwanek, a senior in the College of Health Sciences and president of The Meladies, announced this concert was the last performance for Emma Knotts, a senior in the College of Communication.

“It’s so happy because this has

been one of my favorite things, if not my favorite thing, here on campus just because of the people. The people in this group are my best friends,” Knott said.

Knott and Cwanek both auditioned for The Meladies their first years at Marquette and now have been a part of the group for the past four years of college. Knott said that through

performing together, their friendship has grown and will never end.

Cwanek said that the best part about singing with Knott was her strong and powerful presence on stage.

“She is someone that I’ve always looked up to. She’s been a really wonderful performer her entire life,” Cwanek said.

Vocational discernment makes its way to classrooms New courses emphasize service after college life

By Julia Abuzzahab

julia.abuzzahab@marquette.edu

Honors and graduate students at Marquette University have the opportunity to enroll in classes that focus on vocational discernment to prepare them for life after university.

Melissa Shew, a visiting associate professor of philosophy, said in an email that she defines vocational discernment as “an activity that most people undertake at some point in their lives when they really reflect on what they want and need to do in their time on earth. It addresses the ways in which we are called to meet the world’s needs, use our strengths and bring our passion to what we do.”

Shew co-teaches Core 4929 and said although discernment may or may not be about a particular job, the goal of her class is to amplify the ways people understand work to be purposeful.

“Vocational discernment thus entails thinking through our values, commitments and worldviews,” Shew said in an email.

At Marquette University, there

are two classes that currently focus on vocational discernment: Honors Core 4929 and English 6820 for graduate students.

Shew and Jennifer Henery, visiting assistant professor of Theology, currently teach Core 4929 together.

Henery said as opposed to only meeting on Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays — students meet in small groups on Mondays, all together on Wednesdays and then throughout the course of the semester, three times together on a single day retreat on the weekends.

“The class is about vocational discernment and meaningful work,” Shew said in an email. “It’s unique because it’s a semi-retreat model, which means that three times throughout the semester, students have the privilege of spending five hours together on Saturdays around different topics and themes that Dr. Henery and I put together with other people.”

In one retreat that the class took, Henery said they coordinated with the Department of Service Learning to develop a workshop model for students to think about how to continue their service learning throughout their future careers without the support systems at Marquette.

Service learning is an academic

approach where a student can learn concepts within the classroom and while volunteering — typically for a non-profit or social service group according to Elmhurst University, where they participate in activities to articulate their understanding of what is being taught in the class.

“Once that framework isn’t there for them and they move into their professional lives, how do they continue that service learning engagement?” Henery said.

The class has also had a retreat where they used vocational discernment as storytelling — which both Henery and Shew said was their personal favorite retreat they had this semester.

“We do this whole retreat with storytelling, with students, helping them to articulate what their vocation is through the medium of storytelling,” Henery said.

“The vocational discernment story is really this day that students and faculty alike get to just come together and really do a lot of processing and storytelling and it lets students open up who they are and share with each other.”

Similar to Core 4929, English 6820, Studies in Modern Critical Theory and Practice: Publicfacing Humanities, also focuses on vocational discernment and is currently taught by Elizabeth

Angeli, associate professor of English.

Angeli said the graduate program was hearing a lot from students about wanting more exposure to career fields outside of tenuretrack jobs to explore all possible career options.”

“So I just designed this class and really with the support of the department and the feedback of our previous and current graduate students to really get students to think about, why are you pursuing a graduate degree? What are your values that brought you here? What do you want your life to look like, not just your career … and how can a degree in English help you get there? Because it can,” Angeli said.

Serina Jamison, a graduate student in College of Arts & Sciences, is taking English 6820 this semester and said she always gets the question, “why English?

“I’ve always answered that question from a place of justification,” Jamison said. “In going through this course and really going into the discernment process and understanding that way of answering the question is not really promoting myself good [or] my passions, it’s putting a lot of energy into a response in which I need to do a lot of inner work and spiritual work there.”

Jamison said the most beneficial

part of this class is not making decisions immediately, but instead, taking time to think.

One of the activities Angeli had the students do was design a “discernment map” as a way for students to understand how the decisions they have made in the past got them to the point they are at currently.

“So the students — I gave them the license to do whatever they wanted in terms of how to creatively represent their own discernment process,” Angeli said.

“So they had to sit with, ‘how do I make decisions, whose voices influence my decisions?’”

This spring, Angeli said Marquette is opening a class for undergraduates that focuses on vocational discernment for the first time: English 4224. As of right now, English 4224 is going to be called Radical Writing; however, Angeli said she wants to change the title to include “career confused.”

Throughout the years, Angeli said students have come to faculty and said they don’t necessarily know what to do with their lives.

“They don’t know how to say no, they sometimes don’t know how to say yes and they don’t know what their own voice sounds like. So the undergrad version of this class is really dedicated to that.”

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Blood donations in high demand, campus gives Event collects over 8 gallons, sponsored by Red Cross

By Connor Baldwin

connor.baldwin@marquette.edu

Navy Reserve Officers’ Training Corps hosted their blood drive in the Marquette Gymnasium Dec. 3. The blood drive is hosted every semester in collaboration with Red Cross and aims to get people donating to save lives.

Because of the increase in trauma cases there has been a high demand for blood donations in the nation.

Compared to 2019 the demand for blood donations has increased by 10%. This in turn is resulting in delayed surgeries and insufficient support for hemorrhaging patients in certain cases.

Senior in the College of Nursing Sara Larghe was at the helm of the event. Larghe set up a table in the Alumni Memorial Union in an effort to attract attention from students and campus visitors and was pleased to see the donors that signed up.

“It [the drive] went really well … we had a really good turnout. This is a great opportunity,” Larghe said.

The event started around 10 a.m. and The Red Cross and Marquette Navy Reserve Officers’ Training Corps aimed to bring a positive experience throughout the process.

Volunteers surrounded tables supporting other students and once donors had finished there was a snack

Photos by Alex DeBuhr alex.debuhr@marquette.edu

The American Red Cross helped sponsor the blood drive.

table accompanied with juice and an exclusive Green Bay Packers fidget spinner.

Larghe said that she donates blood quite often and she helped out the morning of the drive, as well as other members of NROTC. When the donation happens, donors give one unit (a pint) of their blood which can be used to save multiple lives.

One in three people will need a blood transfusion in their life, whether it’s for a serious injury, child delivery or cancer treatment.

Anyone above the age of 17 is eligible to donate and the appointments take about half an hour or less.

In total the drive saw 74 donors come to the event which resulted in approximately eight gallons of blood donated. Volunteers have a variety of donations they can make.

Most likely, donors give a whole blood donation. But donations of power red where donors give a

concentrated donation of red cells, palette donation — which helps clot blood — or plasma donation were also options available.

Because of the trying times of the world, donor turnout is down 10% from August and the Red Cross blood supply has reached the lowest it has been since 2015. Currently there aren’t any accepted blood alternatives in America so there is a special demand for the resource. Donations are perishable, so there is an importance in consistently donating.

“It’s a great opportunity, it’s pretty easy. I think the benefits outweigh the cost and I think there is a blood shortage right now, I get calls everyday to donate blood. Just know you’re possibly saving someone’s life,” Grace Bell, a sophomore in the College of Nursing, said.

Bell said she helped run the snack table before she eventually went and donated blood herself.

“I’m excited, I haven’t donated blood in like two years, since high school. It makes me feel good to contribute to something … everyone seems really happy to be here, there is music playing, it’s a good vibe,” Bell said.

Kaia Lui, a first-year in the College of Nursing, donated blood in high school and with the Red Cross separately, but on campus it went especially well for her.

“My donation went really well, it went kinda slowly but it ended up being successful,” Lui said.

Lui encourages all students and people to try and donate. She described the process as easy and relatively painless.

Dominic Vaccaro, a senior in the College of Health Sciences, said he was happy to be attending the drive and see others doing the same. Vaccaro was glad to help out and encouraged others to donate as well.

“If I can do it, anyone can,” Vaccaro said.

On average, the human body has about 12 pints of blood in it.

When the donation is finished, it takes somewhere from four to eight weeks to replenish blood, but only 48 hours to replenish plasma.

When the drive is done, all the donations are processed and distributed to people who are in need of blood. But only specific blood types can be given to specific individuals.

Depending on which blood type the receiver has their bodies can only accept a certain blood type.

O Negative is the universal blood type which can be given to all blood types. Other blood types include,

A, AB and B which can be positive or negative.

Vaccaro is A Positive which means he can give to his own blood type as well as AB Positive.

He can also receive blood from both positive and negative A and O blood types.

The blood drive will be back next semester through the Army and Naval ROTC. Larghe said both programs are in “kind of a competition” with one another to see who can get the larger turnout for donors.

Group supports women and gender researchers Institute of Women’s Leadership brings financial education

By Hannah Hernandez

hannah.hernandez@marquette.edu

The Institue for Women’s Leadership works to complete its vision of intersectional inclusivity and gender equity through pioneering research, innovative programming and collaborative engagement, and its mission to advance women’s leadership.

Director of the Institute for Women’s Leadership and professor of law Andrea Schneider said that IWL was created to better support women and gender researchers.

“We’re really trying to support research and researchers whether it’s students, staff or faculty. We’re trying to create a network and to build connections so that everybody knows one another and feels part of this community of research-

ers that are working together to advance women’s leadership. We’re really working in the community and building those connections,” Schneider said.

Sarah Camp, the coordinator for IWL, said that one of her jobs is to help coordinate with community partners and administer research.

“Not only are we just trying to advance women’s leadership, we’re trying to do it and strategically by not only using what we already know but also continuing to push research to be more intersectional, to support researchers to find those connections,” Camp said.

IWL is working with community partners, such as the Sojourner Family Peace Center and the Milwaukee County Circuit Court.

Through this partnership, they are working to “improve services of survivors during the pandemic, enhance court processes, and to guide best practices in advising workplaces on how to respond to Intimate Partner Violence.”

Camp said IWL is encouraging people to expand research to

find how things affect women because for a long time research was predominantly focused on white males and did not consider women or people of color.

A three-part webinar series, Women & Money, created by IWL focuses on financial freedom, investments and financial intelligence. Schneider said that women are underrepresented as investors.

“Often women have been shielded from historically, whether it’s the right to vote, having power over your own money, or being able to grow your own assets and create generational wealth as a woman,” Camp said.

Many forget that not even 40 years ago, women couldn’t have their own credit card or a bank account without the signature of their male next of kin, Camp said.

“This was part of our partnering with the community. There are lots of professional organizations in town that support women.

We, as an educational institution can really provide expertise and try to bring very smart people together as part of that educational

mission. What is new and different and how do we support that?”

Schneider said.

Madi Daleiden, a senior in the College of Business Administration, works as an intern for the IWL’s Women & Money series.

As an intern, Daleiden said that she sat in planning meetings, complied with third-party sources for the topics and created a summary of information sheets about the sessions.

“I’ve especially enjoyed learning about the community members we’ve brought in as panelists for the Women & Money sessions.

It’s fascinating to hear about their work as they face these issues every day. IWL creates an incredible environment for mindshare and dialogue to learn from experts in their fields,” Daleiden said.

Daleiden said that IWL is important for the Marquette community because it reflects Marquette’s mission and Jesuit ideals of justice.

“IWL is important for the Marquette community since it operates as a central, interdisciplinary forum to engage, inspire, and transform

key gender and social justice issues facing women. It creates a space for dialogue, problem-solving, and awareness while amplifying community members who are at the forefront of innovation and action,” Daleiden said.

By working with a program out of the Office of Research and Innovation, IWL is trying to improve work culture so that women are better supported and men are allies, Camp said.

“We have a pretty diverse group and we’re always welcoming people, but we also are making sure that it is a brave safe space for women to continue to grow and non-binary people to continue to be able to take steps in advance.”

Professional organizations in the Milwaukee community have united with IWL to empower women.

“I want them to have the confidence and the tools to think differently and to feel that they are better equipped to make the world the place they want it to be. Go pursue your dreams and we can help you, connect you in the community with tools,” Schneider said.

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Allie Fritsch’s clear cut passion for stained glass Check out her work at Marquette Market Dec. 9 in the AMU

By Kim Cook

kimberly.cook@marquette.edu

Allie Fritsch, a senior in the College of Communication, has discovered her passion. Creator of coolAFglass, a stained glass business, Fritsch said her love for glass and the pieces that she creates pretty much fell into her lap when she was in high school.

“My high school offered an art class that was stained glass and I ended up taking it because I had taken all of the other art classes,” Fritsch said. “I was the kid that filled my schedule with art classes, so I took it. I fell in love with it.”

After graduating from Dominican High School in Whitefish Bay in 2017, Fritsch stopped doing work with stained glass. She said that the main cause of her break from the craft came from a lack of accessibility to the space and materials needed to work with glass.

“I just stopped because I didn’t have the supplies anymore or the space. Plus I was super busy,” Fritsch said.

But, like most people, the COVID-19 pandemic ended Fritsch’s busy schedule and left her with nothing to do.

“I was stuck in my studio apartment on campus dying of boredom, so I was like ‘I gotta find something to put all this energy into, so I’m gonna get the supplies and start it back up,’” Fritsch said. And this time, she said, it was more for the fun of it.

As Fritsch started to post on her social media accounts featuring the pieces she made during quarantine, she started to receive a lot of praise and questions about her work.

“I kind of realized that I had a business opportunity here and that I could use social media to really expand it, so I said ‘let’s do it,’” Fritsch said.

And that day, Aug. 5, 2020, coolAFglass was officially born.

Now a week away from graduating from Marquette, Fritsch is one of the featured student business owners at the Marquette Market that will take place Thursday, Dec. 9, from 3

to 7 p.m., on the second floor of the Alumni Memorial Union.

“Ever since I found out I was going to be in the market, probably like three to four weeks ago, I’ve been in full production mode,” Fritsch said.

With the company of her trusty cat companion, Tarmac, Fritsch said that she has been working in her studio constantly and into the late hours of the night. She hopes that the 30 pieces that she will have completed by the time the market comes around will interest students and help them complete a bit of their holiday shopping.

“I have a lot of holiday pieces, and a lot of Marquette pieces, and some other fun décor pieces,” Fritsch said.

Fritsch hopes that the Marquette Market will be a space for her to put her name out into the Marquette community.

“I want to do more in-person business, and get used to that a little more because I’ve done all of this e-commerce behind my phone on Instagram,” Fritsch said. “I’m excited to get out there and talk with customers and put my face to the name.”

But even having done most of her sales online up until this point, Fritsch has still managed to find her way to Marquette’s student population. Elizabeth Hardner, a senior in the College of Arts &

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The love and passion for the art form kind of pushes me to keep doing it and I use glass as a kind of escape.”

ALLIE FRITSCH Senior in the College of Communication

Sciences, has purchased multiple coolAFglass pieces.

“After following her for a bit, I decided that I wanted some custom pieces for me and for a friend’s birthday,” Hardner said

in an Instagram private message.

“Allie’s (Fritsch) pieces are so cool, and I love how different all of the pieces are. That made it extra exciting to ask her about custom pieces.”

Fritsch said that having to balance everything in regard

to her business with her last semester of college has been incredibly difficult at times, but the love she has for her work has kept her grounded.

“The love and passion for the art form kind of pushes me to keep doing it and I use glass as a kind of escape.

It’s a relaxing thing for me to do when I am sick of writing a paper or something,” Fritsch said.

And that love and passion show to the people who are the closest to her. Fritsch’s boyfriend, Evan Knueppel, a senior in the College of Education, said that he has seen Fritsch’s appreciation for the art form in places that he didn’t expect, one being during the fall senior bar crawl.

“We were at a bar, and I thought Allie was next to me, but she wasn’t,” Knueppel said in a text message. “I looked around and found her in the corner staring at the stained glass windows. Our vacations have begun to revolve around stained glass exhibits and stores.

It’s everywhere every day.”

All jokes aside, Knueppel said that he sees how hard Fritsch works on her art.

“A huge part of stained glass that people don’t realize is the planning process. When she (Fritsch) is drawing and designing new pieces, she spends a lot of time sketching

multiple ideas and fine tuning her final design,” Knueppel said.

“It’s cool to see all that work come together.”

“Glass was there for me when I was going through a rough time, so it was just one of those things where I knew it was always there for me,” Fritsch said. “It sounds really cliché to say I did find

my passion, but it’s helped me so much and I love it for that.

I could never see myself stop doing it.”

You can see more of Allie Fritsch and coolAFglass at the Marquette Market.

She can also be found on Instagram @coolafglass.

Photos by Allie Fritsch (@coolafglass on Instagram)

Fritsch began creating stained glass artwork in high school.

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Students celebrate Hanukkah on campus during classes The Festival of Lights occurred while the University was open

By Izzy Fonfara Drewel

isabella.fonfaradrewel@marquette.edu

As 2021 comes to an end, the holiday season moves into full swing. Among those holidays is Hanukkah, a Jewish holiday celebrated sometime between late November to the middle of December depending on the year.

This year the Jewish Festival of Lights began at sundown Nov. 28 and lasted until sundown Dec. 6.

“We normally refer to Hanukkah as the ‘Festival of Lights’ and it’s an eight-day holiday that celebrates the story of the Maccabees,” Ben Abrams, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences, sad. “There was light in the temple that [the Jewish people] had to keep on at all times … so they filled it but it seemed like they only had enough oil for one day, but it lasted for eight days.”

Hanukkah follows the Jewish calendar and occurs on the 25th day of Kislev, the ninth month of that Hebrew calendar. However, the Jewish calendar is a lunar calendar whereas America follows

the Gregorian calendar, which is solar. This means that Hanukkah tends to shift dates, and therefore Jewish students must be at college during the holiday this year.

Normally when students aren’t on campus, they celebrate with their families and exchange presents with each other.

“My family will have a little Hanukkah party where we eat traditional Jewish food,” Abrams said. “Every day, when I’m home, we’ll light the candles for whatever day it is, and we’ll open one present each.”

Completing assignments and preparing for finals make the celebration more difficult for Jewish students. Abrams mentioned that it can be hard to find people to celebrate with and build a connection with others.

“I could do things with friends, but I don’t know many other Jewish people on campus, so it’s not really easy to talk to other people about Hanukkah,” Abrams said. “I know it’s Hanukkah, and I’m thinking about that, but it’s not really something I can effectively celebrate.”

Abrams also mentioned he sometimes feel overshadowed by the prevalence of Christmas on campus.

“I know it’s not a large

Photo by Alex Debuhr alexander.debuhr@marquette.edu

The Festival of Lights was from sundown Nov. 28 until sundown Dec. 6.

population of campus [that is Jewish] but it does sting when … I walk into Raynor Library and there’s a giant Christmas tree and there’s a bunch of Christmas decorations, and I don’t really feel represented by that,” Abrams said.

Aside from a small display in the Alumni Memorial Union during the holiday, there were little to no Hanukkah decorations on campus.

Overall, Jewish students feel underrepresented and overlooked.

Ben Lash, a senior in the College of Communication, wishes that the university would do more to help everyone of different denominations feel more welcome and accepted.

“In terms of acknowledging other cultures, especially Hanukkah and religious holidays during this time of year that aren’t just Christmas, I’m sure there’s more that could be done,” Lash said. “For a school that takes so much pride in being diverse, I would like to see [Marquette] show that more, rather than just say it.”

While celebrating Hanukkah on campus can be difficult, students have found ways to make things feel a little more tolerable. Lash described how he celebrated with his family on the first night. While he was there his parents gave him his presents for the rest of

the week. Each night he opened a different present along with his prayers and lighting the menorah.

“It’s been a source of connection when I’m away from home,” Lash said.

Throughout these struggles, students have at least had their memories to help them. Lash explained a fun story from his childhood about Hanukkah.

When he was a child, Lash’s parents would light the candles on the menorah, but they also had a tapestry of a menorah that they would hang on the wall during Hanukkah. Each night Lash would go up to the menorah tapestry and stick little fabric flames onto each candle as his way of participating in the holiday.

While the rest of campus can go home in a week to celebrate their respective holidays, some Jewish students weren’t afforded the same opportunity.

Arts & Entertainment’s favorite holiday songs, movies Films include “It’s A Wonderful Life,” “The Polar Express”

By Rashad Alexander

rashad.alexander@marquette.edu

With the fall semester coming to an end, the darkness coming sooner, and the new year approaching, the holiday season is in full effect. And regardless of whatever winter holiday you celebrate, there’s a song or movie that anyone can enjoy.

So if you need something to watch or listen to, we got you covered! Here are the Arts & Entertainment desk’s favorite holiday songs and movies.

Rashad Alexander, A&E Assistant Editor A few years ago, I discovered that the pop group *NSYNC had released a Christmas album back in 1998, “Home for Christmas.”

I was familiar with the group’s music, so I knew I had some catching up to do when I found their Christmas album. “Home for Christmas” just has that great 90s vibe and will for sure be on repeat for me this holiday season.

Photo by Randi Haseman randi.haseman@marquette.edu

Check out the playlist on Spotify @marquetteuniversityradio. Songs like “Last Christmas” by Wham! are featured.

I suggest checking out “The Only Gift” and “All I Want is You (This Christmas)” on the project.

One of my favorite Christmas movies growing up was “Elf.” Looking back on it, Will Ferrell being a grown man and playing as an elf is actually hilarious. The film is silly, but it is definitely a great Christmas comedy and just brings out the kid in me whenever I watch it. However, the scene where Buddy is eating spaghetti with candy in it disgusts me to this day.

Randi Haseman, A&E Executive Editor One of Randi’s favorite Christmas movies are the “Santa Clause” movies.

“I liked the Santa Clause movies, especially the one about Jack Frost because it’s so fun and it’s a cool concept,” Randi said.

Another Christmas movie she enjoys is “Grandma Got Ran Over By a Reindeer.” “(The movie) is so funny for no reason. There’s such a big emphasis on hating fruitcake in Christmas movies, which is funny because I’ve never had fruitcake and I wouldn’t even know where to buy one,” Randi said.

Randi’s favorite Christmas song is “There’s No Place Like (Home for the Holidays).”

“I have a pretty big family but we always have a family Christmas before actual Christmas. I get to see a ton of my cousins and aunts and uncles that I don’t really see when I’m at school and this song reminds me of that,” Randi said.

Patrick Curran, A&E Assistant TV Producer Patrick’s favorite Christmas song is “Underneath The Tree” by Kelly

Clarkson. His favorite Christmas movie is “Home Alone.”

“Not only is it my favorite Christmas movie, but it is my favorite movie of all time,” Patrick said.

Kim Cook, A&E Assistant Editor Kim’s Christmas tradition is watching “The Polar Express” with her family.

“While the animation is weird and sometimes a little creepy, I have always enjoyed taking the time to relax and spent quality time with my mom and sister,” Kim said. “The movie has always been special to us. And no matter how busy each of our schedules get, we always have that one night together.”

Kim’s favorite Christmas song is Wham!’s “Last Christmas.”

“This song is a perfect classic

and while it may not be the happiest Christmas song, it has still made its way to the top of my personal Christmas playlist for no reason other than the fact that it is just that good,” Kim said.

Ryan Hagan, A&E Executive TV Producer Ryan’s Christmas tradition is watching “It’s A Wonderful Life” on Christmas Eve. “It’s special because we (his family) have a shared love of it.

And to us, it’s like a summary of life as a series of events you need to recognize as beautiful, even in hard times. It’s a great way to cap off the season,” Ryan said.

Izzy Fonfara Drewel, A&E Reporter Izzy’s favorite Christmas movie is “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.”

“My mom and I always argue which version of this movie is the best, and I’m a firm believer that the live action version is the best one,” Izzy said.

Izzy’s favorite Christmas song is “Carol of the Bells” by the TransSiberian Orchestra.

“The music is insane, and it reminds me of all the Christmas light shows I’ve seen while growing up,” Izzy said.

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Editorial Board

Alexandra Garner, Executive Opinions Editor Hope Moses, Assistant Opinions Editor Aimee Galaszewski, Executive Director Benjamin Wells, Managing Editor of The Marquette Tribune Skyler Chun, Managing Editor of The Marquette Journal

Megan Woolard, News Executive John Leuzzi, Sports Executive Randi Haseman, A&E Executive Lelah Byron, Projects Editor

Eleanor McCaughey, Copy Chief Grace Pionek, Design Chief Izzy Bonebrake, Executive Photo Editor Kate Hyland, Social Media Executive

Andrew Amouzou, Station Manager of MUTV Reese Seberg, Station Manager of MURadio Alex Rivera Grant, Editor of Diversity and Inclusion

STAFF EDITORIAL

MU community should foster inclusive community for student-athletes

While student-athletes are often known around Marquette University’s campus for playing on the field or court, they are still students first.

The Marquette community must work to change the campus culture and create a more inclusive environment for student-athletes in the student body.

The culture of sports often calls for athletes to spend a lot of time with their teammates, whether that is living together, eating together or spending time together outside of practice and games.

While spending the majority of time together can improve team chemistry, students, faculty and staff should work to make sure studentathletes feel they can be part of the Marquette community beyond playing sports.

Many student-athletes are often glorified and praised by the rest of the student population. While these interactions are positive, they may create a divide between the student-

Krisha Patel When COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization in March 2020, everyone was advised to stay at home to prevent the spread of the life-threatening virus. That is, everyone except for essential workers, such as health care workers, protective service workers and grocery store workers.

Health care workers, specifically nurses, reported being “overworked” and “exhausted” during the pandemic. However, despite all their hard work, the current salary nurses

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athletes and students.

Students can work to break down the barriers with student-athletes by making efforts to talk to them in classrooms and on campus, as well as inviting them to participate in or join student organizations. Students can also attend outreach events hosted around Marquette.

The Marquette men’s basketball team has always hosted several lunches this semester for students who are season ticket holders for the Marquette men’s basketball team.

The Marquette men’s basketball team also invited season ticket holders to watch a preseason practice in Fiserv Forum in October.

While hosting these types of events work to bridge gaps between student-athletes and student ticket holders, there should also be efforts to engage students who are non-ticket holders as well.

An example of this was the 5K fun run hosted by student-athletes in November to support University

President Michael Lovell through his diagnosis with sarcoma. Another example was when the head coaches of the men’s basketball team and the women’s basketball team, Shaka Smart and Megan Duffy joined Marquette University President Michael Lovell and Sendik’s Fresh2Go owner Ted Balistreri to hand out donated breakfasts to students on the first day of classes for the fall 2021 semester.

A couple other examples of more engagement with non-student-athletes were the block party hosted by Marquette University Athletics in July, and the Rally the Valley event hosted by the Marquette men’s lacrosse team in April 2019.

Hosting more events like this can not only increase the visibility of student-athletes and coaches on campus, but it can also create more opportunities for engagement with other members of the Marquette community.

Another way to engage Mar-

quette students with student-athletes is through outreach with the Milwaukee community.

This September, the Marquette women’s basketball team partnered with the University of WisconsinMilwaukee women’s basketball team and the Milwaukee Police Department to host a free basketball clinic at North Side Washington Park.

The Marquette men’s basketball team also hosted a Haunted Hoops event this October, where it played an intersquad scrimmage in front of fans who could also participate in a costume contest and trick-or-treat.

The men’s basketball team also went to the Salvation Army in Waukesha last month to help prepare and serve dinner on Thanksgiving, and donated gifts to the team’s adopted class at St. Catherine’s School.

Marquette’s campus should explore more ways that studentathletes and non-student-athletes can engage and serve in the Milwaukee community.

An example of this occurred last September, when Marquette studentathletes joined students, coaches, faculty and staff in a march for social inequality and injustice from the Athletic and Human Performance Research Center to Valley Fields.

Creating more connections across campus, especially between studentathletes and non-student-athletes, as well as with the Milwaukee community is important to fostering more unity, as well as encouraging more understanding and meaningful relationships. It is important that everyone part of the Marquette community does their part to uphold “cura personalis,” and care for studentathletes beyond the field and court.

While progress has been made, there is a clear divide between student-athletes and non-student-athletes on Marquette’s campus. This gap can be bridged if all students, faculty and staff make intentional efforts to engage across campus and the Milwaukee community.

get doesn’t reflect all the work they put in to save people’s lives. Even in a pandemic, their salary has barely gone up. There has only been an increase of 6.2% in salary, or $6,730, according to Nurse Journal.

Furthermore, there is a current shortage of nurses, further worsened by the pandemic. Data shows that due to the severity of the pandemic, 18% of health careworkers have quit their job. There is always a shortage and many nurses actually report quitting due to unfair wages that don’t reflect all the work they put in and lives that they have helped to save.

The role of a nurse is to be at the patient’s bedside upon admission to the hospital to even after the patient

leaves. Nurses often perform a medical background history and physical exams, monitor changes to the patient’s body, administer medications and treatments and collaborate with a team for proper care. They even provide care for the family of the patient with counseling, support and education. Marquette University’s mission statement provided by the College of Nursing states that, “nurse leaders to promote health, healing and social justice for all people through clinical practice and development of nursing knowledge.”

Nurses work on average 40 hours a week, with shifts as long as 12 hours. The starting salary for nurses is $75,000. Certain specialties within the field of nursing can make more, such as critical care nurses as they are on the frontline and the patients have sudden, life-threatening injuries.

During the pandemic, nurses have to work at least 10 hours overtime with shift changes and more sick patients as a result of the high transmission rate of COVID-19. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 1.2 million people have been hospitalized with COVID-19 through the year 2020.

While nurses deserve a pay raise, it doesn’t accurately reflect just how important they are, especially during 2020. They have continued to

deal with understaffing, a lack of personal protective equipment, excessive numbers of patients, increase in deaths and putting their lives at risk everyday.

Other medical professions have experienced the same thing in terms of raises during the pandemic. Physician salaries went up $6,000, or about 3%, which doesn’t accurately reflect the work that they are putting in during this time.

Nurses go to school for three to four years to become registered.

During those years, the coursework is often fast-paced and rigorous, followed by many hours spent at clinical sites to perfect their skills.

Some examples included classes heavily based on anatomy, disease processes, drug classes and priority nursing interventions.

Without pursuing additional education, such as graduate or medical school to become a health care provider, nurses will only make a minimum raise of $12 more during their career, which potentially won’t even reach six figures.

Additionally, the lower pay mostly affects female nurses. In the field, 87% of nurses are female. With the shortage of male nurses and to attract more males into the profession, they are given a significant wage increase of $6,000.

Nurses make up an integral part of the health care team. Without an adequate amount of nurses, many other members of the medical staff would not be able to do their job. While doctors diagnose and prescribe, nurses carry out the orders of health care providers such as identify the complications of the disease or injury, administer medications, change wound dressings, and care for the overall wellbeing of the patient. Doctors would not be able to treat their patients around the clock, surgeries wouldn’t take place and hidden complications may be overlooked in patients resulting in often fatal results.

Increasing wages will have more benefits to nursing beyond improving their financial situations. It will make nurses feel more valued for their role as part of the health care team as well as in patient and family lives. It ensures stronger job security which is crucial after going through the COVID-19 pandemic, having more nurses employed will help keep any potential disease outbreaks under control. Nurses are an important factor to why the COVID-19 pandemic is almost over and it’s imperative that they get the appreciation for all that they’ve done.

Nurses deserve higher pay

A sign shows appreciation for health care workers during the pandemic.

Krisha Patel is a junior studying nursing and Spanish for the health professions. She can be reached at krisha.patel@marquette.edu

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News outlets must realize the impact of their words Laura Niezgoda Amidst the loss, tragedy, illness and devastation of the past 22 months, mental health has been negatively affected by the overwhelming presence of the media Another variant of COVID-19, Omicron, was reported to the World Health Organization Nov. 24. Since then, it is now the latest COVID-19 topic to report on, dominating pages of media outlets. Headlines such as “We won’t know how bad Omicron is for another month” and “Omicron will likely ‘dominate and overwhelm’ the world in the next 3-6 months, doctor says” insight uncertainty and danger of a new variant of COVID-19.

After the Waukesha tragedy of two weeks ago, the media quickly reported on the disaster, with some headlines sympathizing with the accused killer. These articles said he feels as if he is being treated like a “monster” and report that his mother said this incident was caused by a “lack of mental health services.” Another incident happened Nov.30 at Oxford High School in Michigan where a 15-year-old boy shot 11 people.

While there seems to be an increase in recent tragic events across the country, their impact on us may be more severe due to the sensationalization and exploitation from the media.

In the 1970s, Dr. George Gerbner, a professor of communication at the University of Pennsylvania, theorized that humans begin to develop a cognitive bias where they start to see the world more dangerous than it actually is due to overexposure to media-related violence, more commonly known as the “mean world syndrome.” Mean world syndrome leads people to have heightened anxiety, fear, general pessimism and heightened alertness. Many studies have supported this, most notably the idea that violent video games increase aggressive behaviors.

Crime rates have dropped dramatically since the 1990s, but public perception of crime has risen as 60% of surveyed U.S. adults say that crime has increased in the past years, according to a 2020 Pew Research Center survey.

The mean world syndrome offers an explanation for why people believe the world is more dangerous than it actually may be. The media that people consume directly impacts how they view and interact with the world around them.

In 2020, the FBI reported a 5.6%

increase in violent crimes from the previous year while property crimes declined for the 18th consecutive year across the country.

2020 was not a good year. From COVID-19 to police brutality to the 2020 presidential election, news outlets appeared to have a terrible report every day.

This increase of hostile media led to “doomscrolling,” a phenomenon where users continuously scroll through news that is disheartening and depressing without the ability to pull themselves back.

Today, people often have a dependency on their cell phones and the ability to have any information at the touch of their fingertips. According to a Pew Research Study, 86% of surveyed Americans say that they receive their news from a smartphone, tablet or computer.

People receive news quicker than ever before with the increased use of social media, connecting them with every area of the world. While the ability to have information at their demand can create a more informed and aware society, it may also bring the world into a perpetual state of despair due to the overwhelming amount of negative information regarding current events.

This is not always the public’s fault. News outlets know how to engage readers.

Fear sells. Violence sells. Out-

rage sells.

All of the headlines ranging from the Omicron variant, the Waukesha tragedy and the Michigan school shooting compete with other news sources and attempt to gain the most readers. To do so, some media outlets must gain the reader’s

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Staying informed and staying educated is crucial to our progress as a nation.” attention with preposterous headlines such as inciting the fear of COVID-19, sympathizing with an accused killer and infantilizing a school shooter.

The United States media coverage is highly scrutinized. The media does not attempt to sensationalize itself, the business model must do that. In order to stay relevant, privatized news outlets are under

financial pressure to deliver what their audiences want to read. It is a marketing tactic for media outlets to use emotional pulls to engage their audience.

Staying informed and staying educated is crucial to our development of society. Still, feeling as though there is a threat due to the influx of overwhelming media we consume does not move us in a positive direction as a society.

News can become overwhelming, and the responsibility is on people to protect their mental health in the wake of a global pandemic and further tragedies.

Obtain your information from news outlets that provide balance in your news feed; this balance serves as a buffer between the positive and negative news. People could also take a break from their phones to avoid scrolling through depressing media.

News outlets that resort to sensationalization need to revise how they develop stories. These outlets need ethical headlines that don’t exploit tragedies for the pursuit of profit. The news must understand the impact their words have on their audiences.

Laura Niezgoda is a sophomore studying communication studies and criminology and law studies.

She can be reached at laura.niezgoda@marquette.edu

Be mindful of eating disorders during holidays Grace Cady Gathering, cooking and connecting with family through food is often a way to spend quality time together during the holiday season in America. For Americans who struggle with eating disorders, however, it may be difficult, especially in a country that often emphasizes overindulgence.

Approximately 28.8 million Americans struggle with eating disorders in their lifetimes. For many people who endure struggles with eating, the holidays can be a very triggering and difficult time. Between holidays that have become centered around food and inherent pressure from family, it is important that people are more mindful of how people could be struggling with their eating disorders and not make comments about body image or the amount someone is eating.

According to the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders, second to opioid addictions, eating disorders are among the most deadly mental illnesses. Sometimes it can be difficult to detect eating disorders because someone with an eating disorder may not be technically underweight; and it can be even more difficult to acknowledge them because loved ones may not know what to say or do, but there are some notable warning signs.

According to the Mayo Clinic, somebody who struggles with anorexia nervosa may experience dizziness, insomnia and develop a fear of gaining weight. Other common

ing the holiday season. Food plays a central role in holidays, such as Thanksgiving or Christmas; this can be troublesome for an individual with anorexia who wants to restrict

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eating disorders include bulimia, binge eating disorder and rumination disorder. Rumination disorder is a condition where a person will spit up undigested food and either swallow it or spit it out again. These eating disorders can include purging behaviors, eating large amounts of food rapidly and restricting one’s food intake.

It has become normal to fixate on eating large amounts of food dur-

how much they eat and can also be difficult for an individual with binge eating disorder and can result in feelings of guilt or shame.

Families often gather during the holiday season. Sometimes, the family presence itself can be difficult for people who struggle with eating. Simple comments from family regarding their weight or mentioning how much or little they are eating can really cause negative ef-

fects on the psyche of people with eating disorders.

Especially for women and girls, there is a lot of emphasis on physical appearance, and thinness has been a long-standing symbol of attractiveness; because of this, it is easy to take what may seem to be innocent comments to heart because we are so fixated on our body image.

On top of this, sometimes the people enduring the eating disorder are careful not to worry their family.

“I hated holidays when I was in my eating disorder. I felt like I was in a minefield of panic,” Robyn Cruze and Espra Andrus, writers for the National Eating Disorder Association blog, in 2017 said. “I would tiptoe through the eating disorder detonators only to have to deal with a worried family.”

People must be mindful of what they say about eating habits during the holidays. If people know others who have eating disorders they should strive for empathy and refrain from making comments about what they eat.

There is a common phrase that says “be kind, you never know what someone else is going through,” and that is especially true for those who struggle with mental illness. Eating disorders are not a choice, they are not selfish or for attention, they are nothing other than a mental health issue that millions of people face every day.

Nobody deserves to live in the fear of food, fear of their bodies or the fear of a lack of control; but the reality is, many people do. Many

people endure eating disorders in silence and that silence does not lessen the severity of their struggle.

If there is one thing we should all keep in mind, it is that we are better off to air on the side of being considerate than putting somebody in an uncomfortable situation that may trigger them or their disorder.

It is important that people consider what they say to someone about their body image or how much food they are eating, especially during the holidays, because it could be very harmful regardless of the intention. In order for us to be sensitive to other people’s struggles, we must always have empathy.

Grace Cady is a sophomore studying journalism. She can be be reached at grace.cady@marquette.edu

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Sophomore forward Liza Karlen (32) looks to make a pass in Marquette women’s basketball’s 59-45 victory over the Butler Bulldogs Dec. 5 at the Al McGuire Center.

Forward averaging 7.4 points and 7.1 rebounds per game

By Jackson Gross

jackson.gross@marquette.edu

Despite having grown up in St. Paul, Minnesota, sophomore forward Liza Karlen said she felt right at home when she decided to commit to head coach Megan Duffy and the Marquette women’s basketball program.

“Marquette was always one of my top schools in high school just because I felt so at home,” Karlen said. “My mom went here, my uncle went here, I have a lot of family in Milwaukee so growing up I’ve always kind of been around the campus and Milwaukee,” Karlen said.

Assistant coach Justine Raterman knew even during the recruiting process that Karlen would be a good fit for the program.

“She’s an incredibly hard worker, she’s so driven, so even

in the recruiting process and then getting to coach her last year I always knew she had it in her to be a really big part of our program,” Raterman said.

Last season, Karlen averaged four points and three rebounds per game while shooting 39% from beyond the arc in her first season with the Golden Eagles.

Even with having to deal with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Karlen said she was just happy to be part of the team last season.

“It was definitely a weird year

with COVID, but I also had nothing to compare it to because I didn’t know what a normal college season is like,” Karlen said.

“I thought it was a good year, we had an incredible team and great season last year, so it was exciting. COVID or no COVID, I was happy to be there.”

Karlen said one of the close friendships she made last season was with senior forward Chloe Marotta.

Marotta said outside of watching basketball together, they can talk about pretty much anything.

“We talk a lot about life stuff,” Marotta said. “She’s really into her family as well so we talk about our families a lot. I was able to visit Liza in Minnesota during her freshman year summer, so it was cool to see where she is from and meet some of her friends out there.”

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CLUB SPORTS

Club rugby creates memories of a lifetime in Knoxville Squad finished No. 4 in nation after two lossess in nationals

By Hannah Freireich

hannah.freireich@marquette.edu

If you asked the Marquette women’s club rugby team before the season whether they thought they would be ranked third in the country playing in the championships, the answer probably would be no.

“None of us thought that we would be here, none of us thought we would be competing nationally, we have to be ready to go out there and play our game,” Evelyn Mitchell said.

The team, which consists of 42 girls ranging from first-year students to upper-level students, went undefeated and shutout every team they faced this season.

“We showed up to our first game scared, we thought we were going to lose and we ended up defeating LaCrosse and that was the only regular season game that we got scored on,” Evelyn Mitchell, senior in the College of Health and Sciences, said. “Then we got into playoffs which was tougher competition and we had to change our game up and work as a team and figure out where our strengths were.”

This past weekend the team competed in the National Collegiate Rugby tournament in Knoxville, Tennessee. Marquette finished 4th in the nation out of over 50 teams “It was a pretty tough

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Women’s club rugby team at the National Collegiate Rugby League Nationals in Knoxville, Tennessee. Team competes in the Great Waters Conference.

tournament but it was a crazy opportunity with some stellar competition,” Mitchell said.

Mitchell said during practices leading up to this weekend, the team worked diligently to improve their offense and holding possession of the ball.

“We got our rugby down, we know how to play rugby but now we are setting up a new offense to make sure we are ready for that competition in Tennessee because there are going to be good teams,” Mitchell said.

The team had a tough loss to Life University Saturday 96-0 in its first match of the Final Four

Tournament. With the loss the team then faced No. 6 seed Notre Dame on Sunday, and fell short loosing 42-14.

Andrews said those on the team, including herself, looked forward to the travel to Tennessee as they have not traveled this far for any competition before.

“I’m looking forward to playing really good competition and spending time with my team,” Angela Andrews, a senior in the College of Health Sciences, said. “In our regular season we had a bunch of blowouts so the farther we get, the better competition we’re going to play will make us better as a whole.”

Andrews said the lead up to competing in nationals has been full of memories and emotions from incredibly huge wins to tough and long practices.

Overall, Mitchell said the team has put an emphasis on making sure to build the team for future seasons of rugby.

“We need to grow our team and make sure that our young players get involved and get minutes in the games so they know how to play rugby and play it well,” Mitchell said.

Their goal to make a mark in nationals is to just play the game, and have trust in the offense and in each

other,” Andrews said.

Mitchell said from being on the team, everyone has been able to create everlasting bonds with each other have pushed each other to work hard both on and off the field while while dealing with the challenges of being overlooked.

“In relation to school, rugby has pushed me to work harder. We don’t get the support from the school the way a D1 (student) athlete at Marquette does,” Mitchell said. “The work gets put in because we love the sport and push ourselves for opportunities like this one, to go play in the national finals.”

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Second half woes lead to loss to in-state rival Wisconsin Badgers shoot 70.4% from the field in final 20 minutes

By John Leuzzi

john.leuzzi@marquette.edu

MADISON, Wis. — Coming off their seventh win of the season to Jackson State, Marquette traveled to its in-state foe No. 23 Wisconsin Saturday. The Badgers handed the Golden Eagles their second loss of the season by a score of 89-76 at the Kohl Center.

“Thought they (Wisconsin) were just a more aggressive, tougher team, particularly in the second half but even late in the first half,” Marquette head coach Shaka Smart said. “This game for our team is a really valuable lesson about how tough-minded you got to be on the defensive end.”

The contest was tight throughout the entire first half with 11 lead changes and four ties but a 9-2 run to end the half by the

Badgers sent them into halftime with a 34-31 lead.

Redshirt first-year forward Oso Ighodaro went 5-for-5 from the field in the first 20 minutes but would be held scoreless in the entire second half.

“We were better in the ball screens,” Wisconsin head coach Greg Gard said. “He was a recipient of the role when we were not as good as we needed to be in the ball screens.”

The second half started with both teams trading basket for basket, keeping the score tied 38-38 at the 17:26 mark of the half.

Then Wisconsin took over hitting each of their next four field goals to reclaim a 43-40 advantage.

“We just weren’t locked in defensively,” Marquette redshirt firstyear guard Tyler Kolek said. “I mean in the first half, we were up maybe five and they (Wisconsin) went on a 5-0 run on me personally. That kind of of really turned the game right there.”

The Badgers took over from there as they never relinquished

that lead, as they led by as much as 23 at one point at the 3:03 mark of the second half.

Wisconsin shot 70.4% from the field in the second half alone, helping them to a 89-76 victory and a 7-1 start to the season.

“Obviously we made 70% of our shots, but really, I think it was the defensive side of the ball,” Wisconsin fifth-year guard Brad Davison said. “That’s what we were talking about at halftime and then after the first media timeout, just really trying to put our foot down, be assertive on that end and then you can get better looks on the offensive end.”

Marquette was led in scoring by redshirt first-year forward Justin Lewis, who finished with 14 points, shooting 5-for-11 from the field, while adding four rebounds and three assists.

Including Lewis’s 14 points, two other Golden Eagles finished in double-figures. Graduate student guard Darryl Morsell and Ighodaro added 11 points each.

Meanwhile for Wisconsin, they

were led by sophomore guard Johnny Davis who put together a dominant performance. He finished with 25 points on 9-for-14 shooting from the field and 2-for3 from beyond the arc, along with five rebounds, an assist and a steal.

“He’s turbocharged, he’s got a quick first two hand that makes him really, really tough to deal with,” Smart said. “He can score in different ways.”

In addition to Davison’s 20 points, first-year guard Chucky Hepburn and first-year forward Steven Crowl added 15 points each.

Compare to previous games, Marquette struggled to score in the half court offense Saturday. Kolek said the struggles came from the team not flowing with the offense.

“We were kind of getting stagnant at points just looking around for the next guy to score and that’s not us,” Kolek said. “We don’t have that one guy who can go out and give us 25. We’ve got to play together and play team basketball.”

For the third straight game,

Marquette received 30 or more points from its bench winning the advantage 40-9 off the bench.

Smart also started first-year guard Kam Jones for the second straight game.

Smart said he is still looking for the correct combinations of guys to play.

“Some of these guys (are) stilling learning each other,” Smart said. “The challenge that we have right now is we’ve got to figure out what our best defensive lineup is.

And we’ve got to figure out ‘okay, who are these five guys that we can really, really depend on to stop the other team from scoring’, we did not find that today. So that’s something that we’ve got to figure out moving forward.”

The Badgers now have a 69-59 lead in the all-time series that dates back to 1917 after Saturday’s win.

Marquette (7-2) will look to rebound from its second loss of the season against Kansas State in the BIG EAST-BIG 12 Battle Wednesday at 7 p.m. CST in Manhattan, Kansas.

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Oso Ighorado (13) went 5-for-5 from the field in the first half.

Guard Darryl Morsell (32) attempts a jumper in 89-76 loss to Wisconsin.

Redshirt first-year guard Tyler Kolek (22) pulls up first-year guard Kam Jones (1) in Marquette’s 89-76 loss Dec. 4.

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Van Kleunen ties Robinson’s all-time games record King finishes with fifth straight 10 or more point performance

By Ben Schultz

benjamin.a.schultz@marquette.edu

Marquette women’s basketball earned its second straight win in BIG EAST play Sunday afternoon, defeating the Butler Bulldogs 59-45 at the Al McGuire Center.

“Thrilled to finish up the weekend getting a win against Butler. It was a very difficult challenge and just a hard nosed, grinded out type of game,” Marquette head coach Megan Duffy said. “On a day where maybe we didn’t play our best, we handled ourselves in a way where we were able to make enough plays down the stretch.”

Graduate student forward Lauren Van Kleunen tied Marquette’s all-time mark for career games played with 134, tying Angel Robinson who played from 2007-11.

“She’s won us a lot of games,” Duffy said. “Just her longevity here and who she is as a young woman on and off the court, we’re so proud of her and I know she’s got a lot of great games ahead of her.”

Despite a poor and slow performance offensively by Marquette to open the game, the Golden Eagles used a prolific 6-for-7 showing from the charity stripe and defense to finish the first quarter with a 14-10 lead. Butler shot 5-for-12 from the field in the frame while Marquette shot 4-for-12.

The Golden Eagles’ defense continued to come alive in the second, as they held the

Bulldogs to 22% from the field and forced six turnovers.

Graduate student guard Karissa McLaughlin hit two 3-pointers off the fast break in a span of 1:09 to put Marquette up 23-12.

A 20-point second quarter sent Marquette into halftime with a 34-23 lead.

Butler put together a 7-0 run out of the gate in the second half, forcing Duffy to call a timeout.

Coming out of the timeout, the Bulldogs continued with a 4-0 run to tie the game at 3434. Marquette would then finish the third quarter with a 9-0 run of their own to take the lead into the fourth.

“I just thought we didn’t have quite the balance we needed to,” Duffy said. “I probably should’ve called that timeout a little bit earlier and get them back locked in, but I thought the positive of that we brought some people off the bench to bring a little bit more energy.”

Marquette narrowly outscored Butler 16-11 in the final quarter and walked away with a 5945 win to remain undefeated in conference play.

Sunday’s game was a defensive battle from the Golden Eagles as they forced 26 turnovers on the afternoon. Marquette committed just four turnovers, which was the first time since the 2018-19 season that they had less than five turnovers in a game.

“That was really a big focus for us this entire past week,” King said. “We knew that was something that had kind of been hurting us in the past couple games.”

Van Kleunen led the way with 15 points, shooting 5-for-17 from the field, while adding nine rebounds and a steal.

King finished with 12 points, a career-high six steals, four

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Graduate student guard Karissa McLaughlin (12) looks to make a pass in women’s basketball‘s 59-45 win Dec. 5.

assists and four rebounds on the afternoon.

“Jordan’s been working extremely hard to be in moments like this where we kind of need a little bit of everything,” Duffy said.

McLaughlin was the third player to finish in double digits as she finished with 15 points, three assists and a rebound. Marquette (6-2, 2-0 BIG EAST) will travel to the Klotsche Center

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Sophomore guard Danyel Middleon dives for the ball in women’s basketball’s 59-45 win over Butler Dec. 5.

Wednesday to face cross-town rival University of WisconsinMilwaukee at 7 p.m. CST. After losing to the Panthers last year, King said she is excited to get another shot against Milwaukee.

“We’re definitely ready,” King said. “I know that some of us experienced that last year and that’s definitely a game that we’ve been looking forward to.”

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Van Kleunen (42) attempts a free-throw shot in 59-45 win over Butler.

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Tuesday, December 7, 2021

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

KARLEN: Minnesotta native brings balance to team Continued from page 12 also putting up six blocks and 10 steals.

Marotta said Karlen has grown in many ways from her first year to her sophomore year on the

court including her play in the paint and rebounding.

“She’s been a great rebounder but now with the more minutes she’s playing and that higher role of needing to be that rebounder for us she’s definitely

grabbed a lot more boards for us this year which is great to see.”

Marotta said.

Outside of her on court skills, Marotta has seen a change in Karlen’s confidence as well.

Beyond her stats improving,

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Karlen recorded her first career double-double Dec. 3 against Xavier with 14 points and 11 rebounds.

Raterman said that Karlen has shown a commitment to the little things.

“So far this season what she has shown is just her commitment to get better with all the little things,” Raterman said.

“Obviously she came in with a lot of talent, a lot of versatility in our forward position but she’s really bought into just the little plays that she has to make.”

Karlen said, for herself, it has been allowing the game to slow down for her.

“I’m a lot more familiar with our style of play, I’m a lot more familiar with what college basketball really looks like,” Karlen said. “I think that has really helped me out a lot is just slowing my own game down.”

While the scoring and rebounding numbers are up from last year, Karlen has started out slow from beyond the arc, starting the season 0-for-18.

Karlen said she isn’t worried about the cold start from 3-point land to begin the season.

“I feel like everyone gets in a slump sometimes, obviously I have started the season off a little rough with the 3-pointer, but my role on this team is to shoot the ball so that’s what I’m going

to continue to do,” Karlen said.

Raterman said that she has also started seeing the game slow down for Karlen.

“Yes, it’s definitely slowing down for her, and you can see that in the way she’s playing you know just her pace, able to understand what’s going on in the game and make adjustments and that’s something she’ll continue to get better at as she gets more experience,” Raterman said.

A testament to Karlen’s growth from last season has been evident early on this season as Karlen recorded her first career double-double Dec. 3 in Marquette’s 76-48 win over Xavier, finishing with 14 points and 11 rebounds.

She said while she has improved her game, her mentality for the rest of the season is “always room to improve.”

“I’m hoping to get better on my perimeter defense, I feel like I’ve made pretty good improvements on my post defense and you know in the BIG EAST, there’s gonna be a lot of bigger players and even bigger guards that I’m gonna have to match up with so I really want to be able to defensively shut them down” Karlen said.

Graphic by Kayla Nickerson