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“One year on, the Marquette University and College of Business Administration community are still profoundly impacted by the loss of our leader and friend,” Photo by Claire Gallagher claire.gallagher@marquette.edu Tim Hanley, the interim dean of After BSC met with Marquette University administrators last semester following a summer of protests against racial injustice, the university is the College of Business Adminisbeginning to take steps to change aspects of campus. This includes better representation on academic councils and a new scholarship. tration, said in an email regarding the late Joe Daniels. Marquette University is tak- development of a new Living Yun to discuss concerns about Daniels was selected as dean of ing the steps needed in order Learning Community for Black Marquette’s response to racial the College of Business Administo keep their commitment with students on campus. injustice. Following the meettration in January last year after Black Student Council. In his “Marquette has been stay- ing, the university released a serving as a faculty member in the seventh presidential address, ing true to their efforts about statement to the greater campus college since 1992. Marquette University Presi- the things we discussed. It has community about the steps MarHe died Feb. 11, 2020, after bedent Michael Lovell announced been very encouraging” Breanna quette planned to take to address ing struck by a vehicle crossing new scholarship and fundrais- Flowers, president of BSC, said. By Megan Woolard the intersection of 10th and Wising plans, better representation In September, BSC met with See PROMISES page 2 megan.woolard@marquette.edu consin Ave. He was 60 years old. on academic councils and the Lovell and Provost Kimo Ah A funeral service was held at the Church of the Gesu that next week, as members of the Marquette community filled the chapel, mourning the loss of a father, semester Feb. 15. Marquette overlooking an un- team logo and name due to its husband and friend. Classes in the “Over the last eight months, faced Native American. The problematic nature. College of Business AdministraAlum Amanda Harris start- tion were canceled the day of the our group has been working to- seal highlights Father Marquette ward updating the university pointing and overlooking an un- ed a petition that kickstarted funeral so students, faculty and the discussion to change the staff within the college could atseal,” Karen Parr, art director identifiable Native American. for Marquette University, said at The decision to update the seal. The petition was started tend the service. By Benjamin Wells the meeting. “It’s embedded into seal comes after protests last July 13 and has collected over “He was an excellent scholar benjamin.wells@marquette.edu high profile spots on campus.” summer that called for the 500 signatures. and teacher. He was a passionate The redesigning of the MarKey constituents were con- leader and friend to all, and led his Currently, the university seal country to relook at national quette University seal was dis- is a painting of Father Marquette symbols. The Washington foot- sulted for the redesigning of the life through faith and love for his cussed at the second Academic with a group of Native Ameri- ball team was the first example See IMPACT page 2 See SENATE page 3 Senate meeting of the spring cans. The seal crops Father of such a team changing their
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PROMISES: BSC meets regularly with MUPD Continued from page 1 racial injustice on campus. Part of the statement said that the university would help to conduct meetings between BSC and Marquette University Police Department. “The agreement calls for regular meetings (at least once per semester) between the Black Student Council and the Chief of MUPD and other MUPD officers. MUPD has exceeded the minimum number of meetings with BSC members,” MUPD Sergeant and Diversity Liaison officer Josiah Williams said in an email. Williams stated that the agenda of the meetings have been largely guided by the members of BSC to help address concerns that Marquette community members have. “MUPD is happy to meet with BSC members at any time. We appreciate the opportunity to create space where BSC
members are heard, seen and respected,” Williams said in an email. In addition to having regular meetings with MUPD, the university will officially have a Black LLC this upcoming fall semester. “We’ve named the LLC Umoja: Black Living Learning Community. ‘Umoja’ means ‘unity’ in Swahili,” Tracy Gerth-Antoniewicz, assistant director of Residence Life Education, said. The program will be composed of about 20 first-year students who will apply as part of their housing application for the 2021-22 academic year. The LLC will be located on the 16th floor of Carpenter Tower. While the official plans for the Black LLC are just now being executed, the idea has been tossed around in years prior. “I began two years ago, meeting with about 15-20 Black students at Marquette, asking questions and seeking their input on
what they would be looking for in a living learning community,” Gerth-Antoniewicz said in an email. Gerth-Antoniewicz also developed a committee, which has been meeting monthly, to help figure out how to best implement the new community. “This past year I put together a committee of folks including faculty, students and staff to assist in providing input on how to structure and support the Black LLC,” Gerth-Antoniewicz said in an email. Another part of the agreement between the university and BSC was to have BSC representation on both the Committee of Teaching, which helps plan things such as the Marquette Core Curriculum, and the University Board of Undergraduate Studies. While the Committee of Teaching has been able to acquire BSC representation, UBUS has not been able to, despite being a part of the agreement.
“We were not approached as a committee to add a BSC representative this year, but we would certainly be open to that possibility moving forward,” Joshua Burns, associate dean for academic affairs in the College of Arts & Sciences and faculty chair of UBUS, said. Burns said that the absence of a BSC representative on UBUS has less to do with a lack of interest and more so to do with the priorities of BSC. “It’s my understanding that once the distinctive functions of UBUS and the Committee of Teaching were explained to the students, they decided for this year to focus on the Committee of Teaching,” Burns said. Typically, UBUS deals with more procedural issues, while the Committee of Teaching has a more direct impact of on the day-to-day life of a Marquette student. “The Committee of Teaching is involved with issues that
touch students more directly, issues of pedagogy, accessibility, student success. They take care of, or discuss, issues that touch more directly on the student experience,” Burns said. The university also announced the creation of 40 urban scholarships and a new fundraising program at the Feb. 4 presidential address. This semester, the university has also created a temporary Black cultural center in Humphrey Hall’s rooms 182 and 184 until a more permanent structure can be put in place. “We have more work to do but we believe our partnership with the university has grown and we can see a lot of the changes already happening on campus,” Flowers said. “We are still doing a lot of work behind the scenes but everything is starting to come to fruition but the fight does not stop.”
IMPACT: Building to break ground in fall Continued from from page 1 family,” Hanley said in an email. “He was the definition of a servant leader. So much of who we are as a college today, who countless numbers of our alumni are as men and women for others, and who we will be for years to come is thanks to Joe.” Hanley said that even today, the College of Business Administration continues to hold Daniels’ wife, Lora, and their children, in their prayers. “That grief always lives alongside gratefulness when we stop to reflect on the blessing that Joe was to our community,” Hanley said. Hanley said one of Daniel’s last contributions to the college was his vision for the future home of Marquette business. “He had a vision of the special impact a new facility could have on generations of Marquette students to come, and he was hugely instrumental in making a new home for us a reality,” Hanley said. New plans for a new business building were announced during University President Michael Lovell’s sixth presidential address last year, two weeks before Daniels passed. The new business building will be on the northeast corner of Wisconsin Avenue and 16th Street, where McCormick Hall once stood. The project is expected to break ground this fall. Kevin Conway, a university
spokesperson, said the Marquette community was devastated by the loss of Daniels and continues to offer prayers to Daniels’ friends, family, colleagues and students. “Joe was a fixture on Marquette’s campus for more than 30 years, where he made an indelible impact on the field of economics as a master scholar, taught thousands of students and helped bring Marquette Business to new heights,” Conway said in an email. A memorial scholarship fund was also started in Daniels’ name shortly after he died. This scholarship “will honor future Marquette students,” according to the scholarship website. Zach Madson, a sophomore in the College of Business Administration, recalled learning of the dean’s death last year. “I was really shocked,” Madson said. “It was weird to think that it happened right on campus to someone who had been a part of tons of students’ developments.” “(Our) community is still profoundly impacted by the loss of our leader and friend, Keyes Dean Dr. Joe Daniels,” Hanley said in an email. Recently, the driver involved in the hit-and-run faced charges. Jordan Jones, 21, was charged for a hit-and-run resulting in death and knowingly operating a motor vehicle with a suspended license. If convicted, he could face up to 31 years in prison and up to $110,000 in fines.
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SENATE: Ah Yun praises response Continued from from page 1 seal including Indigenous artist consultants Kristelle M. Ulrich and Emil Her Many Horses and members of the Marquette community, like senior in the College of Arts & Sciences and president of the Native American Student Association Alex Liberato. The new seal plans to “move away” from the representation of Father Marquette above an unfaced Native American, and instead include tribute to the three Indigenous tribes of Milwaukee (Potawatomi, Menominee and Ho-Chunk) and the three rivers in Milwaukee: the Milwaukee, the Menomonee and the Kinnickinnic. The phased implementation of the seal is expected to begin this summer and continue into 2023. The class of 2021 will be the first class to have the new seal on their diplomas if approved. “We want a seal with a sense of history, purpose, pride, and healing that supports the efforts of institutional change, progress,
and reconciliation,” Parr said. A concept design of the new seal has yet to be revealed nor has a date been set. At the virtual Senate meeting, Provost Kimo Ah Yun gave a monthly report on the university’s response to COVID-19. “Things are going well for us this semester,” Ah Yun said. “We learned a lot from the fall semester that we’re rolling into the spring semester.” Ah Yun also praised the new surveillance testing system the university has put into place this semester. This process selects 500 students for weekly random testing. While tests totals remain high, cases at Marquette remain low. “Our positive tests remain low ... all of our ‘gates’ are firmly green right now,” Ah Yun said. There have been 36 positive COVID-19 cases at Marquette in the past 14 days. Over 1,000 tests have been done in the past two weeks, which is already a third of the total amount of tests done last semester.
Currently, Marquette University is a vaccination point, but Ah Yun said vaccines are on pause for the moment until all members of Group 1A have been vaccinated across the state. Group 1A consists of those older than 65 and health care workers. “Our hope is that our fall 2021 semester will look similar to the fall 2019 semester,” Ah Yun said in terms of normalcy. Alix Riley, director of institutional research at Marquette, gave a presentation on the key takeaways from the 2020 fall semester academic instructor survey. According to the research, 80% of the instructors surveyed said that technology was efficient in most classrooms, although “technology challenges” were one of the biggest concerns among instructors. “ITS (Informational Technology Services) received all problems related to technology on campus,” Riley said. “IT heard in the comments that using Teams brought instructors to bring in
two monitors during hybrid instruction so instructors can see both their students and presentations.” ITS will continue to communicate better functionalities to instructors as Microsoft Teams updates. Almost all of instructors also said they had to make “accommodations” for students who were in quarantine. This included adjusting due dates and changing lab dates. Over half of instructors in the survey also said they faced an increased workload along with balancing work and family due to academic changes because of the pandemic. More than half of faculty also said they felt “isolated from their peers at Marquette.” Mental health was a concern among a majority of staff members as well. “It is truly going to take a concerted effort to continue this campus culture of ‘care,’” Janice Welburn, dean of libraries, said. The next Academic Senate meeting will be March 22.
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In Feb. 9’s “Women voice concerns about Marquette issues” and “MU presidential address lacks transparency, inclusivity” we stated that the 39 recent layoffs were both faculty and staff. In fact, the layoffs were only staff. In addition, the editorial stated that Lovell did not acknowledge the layoffs, but he has prior to his address. The Tribune regrets these errors.
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MU receives limited supply of vaccines Some express excitement for life to return to normal By Julianna Abuzzahab
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Marquette University has received a supply of COVID-19 vaccinations that can be administered to frontline health care workers, police personnel and adults of ages 65 and over. This is group 1A and 1B. Janet Krejci, dean of the College of Nursing, said all Marquette students may be able to expect the vaccine sometime this spring. Erin Kill, a first-year student in the College of Arts &
Sciences, said she is excited for the vaccine to come out and to become more popular so life can return to the way it was before COVID-19 pandemic broke out. “I don’t really have any worries about it (the COVID-19 vaccine) just because I’ve heard stories from people who have gotten it, and they don’t so far have any short-term effects,” Kill said. She said she would be worried about it having any long-term effects, but said it is still important to get the vaccine out now so life can return to normalcy. According to the Center of Disease Control and Prevention, common side effects of the COVID-19 vaccine include swelling, pain near the injection site, fever, chills, tiredness and headache, but these will all go away in a few days after the shot.
Lily Haugen, a sophomore in the College of Education, said she does not have any worries about the vaccine. “I’m sure that there are risks to it, and I know the whole thing where you have to stay 50 minutes after to make sure there’s no side effect, but honestly, I think the benefits outweigh the risks,” she said. After being vaccinated some hospitals/clinics make people stay there up to 50 minutes to ensure nobody has any major reactions from the vaccine. Haugen said she would get the vaccine to ensure that everyone around her is protected. “I just think the biggest thing is that I’m not worried about my own health, but it’s who I can pass it to and the people around me who are immunocompromised that I can give it to,” she
said. “I would jump at the chance to get one.” There are two vaccines approved by the CDC to prevent COVID-19. The Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines. The CDC lists that being vaccinated is a key tool to help the world return to normal. Both vaccines are mRNA vaccines, meaning you will need two shots for the most protection against COVID-19. For the Moderna vaccine one would receive their second shot 28 days after their first shot, while for the Pfizer vaccine one would be vaccinated again 21 days after their first shot. Although one should get their second dose as close to these time intervals as possible, the CDC said there is, “no maximum interval between the first and second dose for either vaccine. You should not get
the second dose earlier than the recommended interval.” The CDC also encourages people to get vaccinated once they get the opportunity to because it has shown to be highly effective at preventing COVID-19, and protects others who are at an increased risk for severe illness from COVID-19. Maddie Connell, a first-year in the College of Engineering, said she trusts the vaccine. “I fully trust the medical professionals, so no I don’t have any worries or concerns about the vaccine,” Connell said. There have currently been 607,000 COVID-19 cases in the state of Wisconsin and 6,748 of those 607,000 have died from COVID-19. Here at Marquette there have been 1,055 confirmed cases of COVID-19 on campus.
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ROTC takes precautions Mask mandate COVID-19 forces impacts students Army, Navy programs to change
By Claire Driscol
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Marquette ROTC, a program that trains college students for future service in various branches of the military, continues to push forward despite the unprecedented climate COVID-19 has brought. LTC Ioannis Kiriazis, professor of military science in the Army ROTC program, discussed the barriers COVID-19 has brought on training programs and how his team has chosen to overcome such obstacles. Kiriazis discussed how the Army training program, titled “Advanced Camp,” was canceled due to COVID-19. “The junior cadets are required to go to Fort Knox, Kentucky to go through Advanced Camp,” Kiriazis said. “Every junior to senior cadet goes through this, so in essence, you’re talking about nearly 6,000 that go to Fort Knox every year; Because of COVID, that was cancelled.” Due to this cancellation, Kiriazis discussed the implementation of Operation Agile Leader, a summer training program that took the place of Advanced Camp in summer 2020. “Instead of Knox, we did it (Operation Agile Leader) at Fort McCoy. All the programs in Wisconsin and the Michigan Upper Peninsula, which is seven other school programs, were involved,” Kiriazis said. “We all conglomerated on Fort McCoy, had our junior and senior cadets consolidated there and put them through a ten-day train focused on tactical leadership.” However, in order to participate in Operation Agile Leader, cadets were required to abide by various COVID-19 precautions. “One of the biggest things that we had back then was tracking
cadet progress, they were pushed to do a 14-day self-quarantine and self-diagnosis that they would track daily. That was a required piece of documentation before allowing them to train,” Kiriazis said. Mask enforcement and maintaining similar groups to avoid cross-contamination were also a large part of Operation Agile’s daily precautions, contributing to a record low case count. “From that experience that we did in August — Operation Agile Leader — there was not one single case of COVID-19 that we could have attributed to coming together,” Kiriazis said. Since Operation Agile, students in the Army ROTC program have continued to remain cautious and follow COVID-19 guidelines. Cadet Battalion Commander Brooke Lynn Tickler, a senior in the College of Communication and cadet in the Army ROTC program, stated some of the guidelines that are implemented in day-to-day training. “Social distancing, handwashing, and masks at all times. We have just shy of a hundred people in our program, and obviously, that’s too many people to be in any one room all at once, so we have been trying to do as much training outdoors as possible,” Tickler said. These guidelines have remained relatively effective for the Army ROTC on campus, as positive cases among cadets have remained under 10% since the beginning of the fall semester. “Since the beginning of the year, we have had nine positive cases out of just over a hundred cadets,” Kiriazis said. “I tell my cadets they must conform with the policies of the university and the students have latched onto that.” Tickler said she and fellow cadets are also playing their part in containing the coronavirus while still remaining consistent with
training regimens. “We are doing everything we can to mitigate COVID-19,” Tickler said. “But we haven’t changed our operational tempo at all. We are still getting down the training that we need because the Army doesn’t stop.” Tickler went on to discuss the support system that the Army continues to provide amid the pandemic. “Something that kept me grounded was not only my ROTC friends but my ROTC cadre (a group of leaders in a unit), these are people who are actually in the Army and doing 20+ years and just checking in on us,” Tickler said. “In a lot of programs you don’t have these mentors or leaders who are not only concerned about your success but your overall well-being.” Similar to the Army’s precautions surrounding COVID-19, Veronica Edwards, a sophomore in the College of Nursing and midshipman in the Navy ROTC program, stated that masks and social distancing are a crucial part of training. “We had to shift a lot of normal in-person activities to online,” Edwards said. “We still conduct (physical training) together outside and have our ROTC lab in a classroom but we wear masks and social distance the entire time to ensure we are following guidelines and keeping everyone safe.” Edwards also stated her appreciation for the sense of community she feels within the Navy, and hopes her ROTC unit will continue to prevail despite adversity. “I love the camaraderie and friends I have made so far in ROTC, they feel like my family,” Edwards said. “I know that my fellow midshipmen and I have and will try our hardest to be creative and do the best we can to have a successful ROTC unit.”
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ROTC’s Army program had to cancel their “Advanced Camp” due to COVID-19. Instead, ROTC implemented the Operational Agile Leader summer training program in summer 2020.
Policies to limit spread include mental health days By Karsyn Hartsfield
karsyn.hartsfield@marquette.edu
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Gov. Tony Evers issued a mask mandate that would last until mid-January. Throughout the spread of the coronavirus in the state of Wisconsin, the mask mandate has been extended, debated and even dismantled, as the Wisconsin GOP eliminated the mask mandate Feb 5. Evers quickly reinstated the mask mandate the same day. “It’s very important and I understand why they did (the mask mandate),” Allison Mazukelli, a first-year in the College of Health Sciences, said. “It’s important to keep people healthy and enforce (mask wearing).” Amber Wichowsky, associate professor of political science at Marquette, said there are “three sets of policies” that can be used to approach COVID-19, the first being personal behavior. Mask-wearing and people socially distancing themselves from one another would fall under this category “Wash your hands, (don’t) go out, you know, places where you’re going to be in a gathering, small or large, where you’re going to be putting yourself and others at risk,” Wichowsky said. While the expectation to help others is important, not everyone thinks relying on others is enough. “Without a mandate, people wouldn’t follow wearing masks,” Mazukelli said. The second set of policies Wichowsky says are “policies in terms of providing care for our students.” With the outbreak of COVID-19, Marquette has changed its more traditional plans. One of the most noticeable of these changes is the removal of spring break. In its place, designated mental health days have been added. “I do think Marquette, it’s recognizing the public health challenges. (They have) found a way to try to address them with these mental health days,” Wichowsky said. While the implementation of these days is intended to prevent COVID-19 from spreading and give students rest, some disagree with Marquette’s approach. “I think that they’re nice, but
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I’d prefer spring break because I still worry about school and homework,” Mazukelli said. Samantha DeLeon, a first-year in the College of Education, said she does not feel like she is getting a break. “I can’t go five months without a break from school. It’s going to burn me out,” she said. Even Wichowsky said despite the school’s best intentions, the mental health days are “insufficient.” The last policy is “testing and tracing.” Wichowsky said it’s something people have seen at many other colleges, although the way in which these tests are implemented is different. “Colleges elsewhere do much more frequent testing and surveillance testing of their student and staff and faculty populations,” Wichowsky said. With the new testing policies in place for this semester, there’s some hope that COVID-19 will be more controlled. “It’s a good idea, but it’s a small sample of people so it’s not going to do much. I think testing everyone would be better,” Mazukelli said. DeLeon said the University of Illinois tests their students weekly. “Things like Marquette turning away students because they don’t have enough symptoms for testing, I feel other universities are handling COVID better than Marquette is,” DeLeon said. Marquette’s current testing rules for COVID-19 say that a student is only allowed to get tested if they are showing symptoms, or are selected for the weekly surveillance testing. Wichowsky said she defends Marquette’s limited testing, though. “We were limited in terms of resources, in terms of not having enough tests and not being able to offer that as frequently,” she said. Wichowsky also said Marquette’s original testing plan was best for the campus of Marquette’s size. “We were testing students who were coming in feeling symptomatic, right, and then you would get a test and that’s just too late. We know from public health that, that sort of surveillance testing, we’ve seen it work at other campuses, but it’s hard with the campus our size, with our resource constraints,” she said. With these obstacles in mind, Wichowsky said testing is not the only policy in play at Marquette.
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Sailing executive board consists of only women Gender gap exists in sport, dominated by male presence By Natalija Mileusnic
natalija.mileusnic@marquette.edu
Despite being on Marquette’s campus for more than half a century, the Marquette Sailing Team has never had an allfemale executive board, until this year. Sydney Egar, a ‘20 Marquette graduate and a past member of the sailing team, said “the executive board is a compilation of elected team members that work to organize travel, practice schedules, regattas, social events and much more.” “The positions on the board include captain, regatta chair, treasurer, alumni and fundraising chair, merchandise chair, and the event coordinator,” Egar
said in an email. Frannie Lambie, a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences and member merchandising chair on the sailing team’s executive board said there are 42 members on the team. “There are at least half that is female, maybe 60-65%,” Lambie said. While Marquette does not have an official sailing team recognized by the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association, the association has a balanced amount of male and female teams, with about 30 sailing teams for each gender. However, from a club standpoint, the situation can be different. In a study done by Scuttlebutt Sailing News, 80% of women believed there was some sort of gender gap in the sport of sailing, while 53% of men said there was one as well. 59% of women said they had experienced some sort of discrimination because of their gender.
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I think this gives the sport of sailing a new perspective. Hopefully it will encourage a lot more young females to get into sailing,” FRANNIE LAMBIE Sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences
each other, the study says there is a need to reach out to female sailors, and increase the need to be better outreach.
Egar said having an all-female executive board makes a positive impact on the team. “The greatest thing about being on the executive board is being able to be a part of the progress of the team both on and off the water,” Egar said in an email. “Additionally, as part of the executive board you get to spend more time building friendships with your teammates and building memories that will last a lifetime.” Amy Baudhuin, a member of the sailing team and sophomore in the College of Communication, said that having an all-female executive board will shed a light on the male dominance within the sport. “Having more female voices represented on Marquette’s Team will hopefully facilitate a more inclusive environment for the future of club sailing,” Baudhuin said in an email. Lambie said that she hopes more females at Marquette will
be encouraged to join the team. “I think this gives the sport of sailing a new perspective,” Lambie said. “Hopefully it will encourage a lot more young females to get into sailing, especially at Marquette since it is was very heavily male dominated for a while.” Egar said that the all-female board is making an impact within the team. “The MU Sailing Team has shown so much growth in the team’s success at regattas, sailing skills, and team bonding thanks to the team members and executive boards of the past working hard,” Egar said in an email. “Marquette Sailing Team electing an all-female Executive Board is significant because it shows just how much growth not only the Marquette Sailing Team has had over its years but sailing as a sport in general.”
Quick adjustments made for online learning Help desk prepared to assist with connection issues By Charlie Pineda and Megan Woolard
charlie.pineda@marquette.edu megan.woolard@marquette.edu
While the world was being put on hold due to COVID-19, classes still had to take place. All schools had to quickly transfer from being in person to fully remote learning. Marquette had to transfer everything online in a matter of seven days for students to be able to participate in online classes at home. The tech assistants program was created back in March of last year when Marquette went fully online due to COVID-19. While the program is still very new to Marquette, it is still succeeding as if it has been around for decades. Laurie Panella, chief information officer for developing and implementing the university’s technology, realized that the technology was going to need a fix due to COVID-19. She mentioned how they had to act fast, within seven days, so students would be able to succeed in their classes even though they were at home. They also had to make sure that teachers had the technology they needed in order to be able to teach their classes to their best ability. “Academic excellence and
student success is Marquette’s mission,” Panella said. Teachers who participated in the academic survey sent out at the end of last semester said that “technology issues” were one of their main concerns last semester. This lead to slight hindrance in a learning environment and a need to adjust teaching styles. If you are having trouble with your computer or connection, there is a technology survey you can take to qualify for assistance if you need help. The survey consists of simple questions that shouldn’t take too long to answer. However, not all
problems that students are having can be solved with a hotspot, as it might be their computer or that WiFi in the building is overfilled. “Usually the internet on campus is fast for me. I’ve never had any major issues,” Sophia Trozzolo, a first-year in the College of Education, said. Students also have to make sure that they are on the correct WiFi as well. MU Guest is designated for visitors and guest use and is not the best for students to use for academics. MU Open and secure is typically what most students use for academic based connections. “I would say overall the
connection hasn’t been too bad (on MU Secure). I’ve never had a major connection issue that stopped me from doing something,” Ali Beimborn, a first-year in the College of Health Sciences, said. There are resources designated to help students out. The help desk is there to assist with technological and internet-based problems. “There was a survey in the fall with over 1,200 students filling it out. Of that, eight percent either disagreed or completely disagreed that they had the technology they needed to complete their coursework. When asked what technology they needed
majority answering with network access. The final question was ‘have you reached out to the school asking for help’ and 70% answered with ‘no,’” Panella said. The Marquette help desk said that it’s always there for students if they have any connection problems. The IT help desk is located in Cudahy Hall on the second floor and is open Monday through Thursday from 7:30 A.M. to 8:00 P.M., Friday from 7:30 A.M. to 5:00 P.M., Saturday from 8:00 A.M. to 2:00 P.M. and Sunday from 10:00 A.M. to 2:00 P.M.
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Technological issues were one of the major concerns in transferring classes online during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020.
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New chairperson elected for MU Democrats Sophomore to focus on human experience, stories By Benjamin Wells
benjamin.wells@marquette.edu
Rob Miller loves to wake up early. At least, that’s what the Executive Board of Marquette Democrats will tell you. The sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences has taken over as the chairperson of the campus political group Marquette Democrats and has the endorsement of previous College Democrats chair and Marquette alum Eric Rorholm. “Robert is a good man and a great organizer. He understands that young people can do more than talk about issues,” Rorholm said. “Rob and the whole board are prepared to put in the hard work it will take for young people to make our voices heard more and more.” Miller found himself drawn to government and politics at a young age. Since fifth or sixth grade, Miller said knew he wanted to study politics at a university in Wisconsin or Ohio, two states he proudly calls home. “My calling was to live a life within politics, and Marquette University has assisted me greatly with answering that call,” Miller said in an email. As the chairperson of one of Marquette’s biggest political groups, Miller said there is a lot of pressure, especially being a sophomore. “I am forever grateful to have been given the honor of a lifetime at my age,” Miller said in an email, “From being a member my fresh-
man year, the field organizer during the summer and fall of 2020, to now being chair my sophomore year is a feeling that cannot fully be expressed in words.” The chairperson of Marquette Democrats has been held by some big names in politics, including Jason Rae. Rae, who attended Marquette University, was one of the youngest people ever to be elected to the Democratic National Convention. He currently serves as the secretary of the Democratic National Committee. “While I am the representative for the Democratic Party at Marquette, I would not be able to lead without all those who keep me grounded: my faith, my E-Board
and all the members themselves,” Miller said in an email. “The members in the organization embolden me every day, even without them even realizing it. Although juniors or seniors normally serve on this seat, I am up for the challenges that come from this role during my sophomore year.” Miller said he hopes to focus on the “human experience, with a large emphasis on the story that each person has to tell.” This is something that other members of the Executive Board have felt, including field director and first-year in the College of Arts & Sciences, Tommy Treacy. “I think the biggest thing is that (Rob) has created a commu-
nity where people can voice their opinions. They can see where others might disagree and grow from that,” Treacy said. “I really enjoy working for Rob. He creates a healthy, team-oriented atmosphere for everyone.” This semester, Miller also will be in the same city as the President of the United States next week, when President Joe Biden travels to Milwaukee for a town hall at the Pabst Theater. “We are very honored to have President Biden speak to us from Milwaukee,” Miller said in an email. Biden will address an inviteonly audience that will be live on CNN at 8 P.M. on Tuesday. Miller
said he hopes Biden touches on issues that are currently plaguing our nation, such as the coronavirus pandemic, the opioid crisis, increased rates of depression and adequate funding for health care. This will be President Biden’s first visit to another state outside of the White House since his inauguration Jan. 20. While he was originally supposed to be in Milwaukee for the Democratic National Convention, Biden accepted the nomination from his home state of Delaware due to the pandemic. while the city of Milwaukee remained quiet during what was supposed to be a booming time for the city.
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Rob Miller is only a sophomore, but is currently serving as chairperson of Marquette College Democrats and was endorsed by the previous chair.
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Netflix raises prices, releases new shows this February Includes “To All the Boys: Always and Forever,” “Inception” By Charlotte Ives
charlotte.ives@marquette.edu
The price of standard and premium Netflix subscriptions went up by $1 and $2 respectively in late October. A standard subscription is now $13 a month and a premium subscription is $18. The major streaming service raised these prices with the promise of releasing a variety of new content, and it is on its way to keeping that promise. New releases range from old blockbusters to original love stories to childhood throwbacks. Here are some of the major releases included in the lineup for February. The full list can be found online. Inception A 2010 action-packed blockbuster starring Leonardo DiCaprio, “Inception” is an iconic mind-bender that was released to Netflix Feb. 1. The movie follows Dominic Cobb, an expert in the futuristic art of extraction, the process of retrieving secret information from deep within a person’s subconsciousness while they sleep. Cobb uses this unique expertise to become notoriously skilled at corporate espionage, a career path that makes him a lot of enemies. Having learned the trade from his late wife’s father, Dr. Stephen Miles, Cobb teams up with some of Miles’ former students as he attempts to achieve something that has never been done before: inception. Where extraction involves retrieving information from someone’s subconsciousness, inception involves inserting information instead, a difficult and highly dangerous process. Cobb is hired by one of his former targets to insert an idea into the mind of a rich and powerful CEO. As he carries out his mission, he is forced to grapple with his past as well as an unseen enemy who seems to be able to predict his every move. Malcolm and Marie Written and directed by Sam Levinson, “Malcolm and Marie” is a black-and-white Netflix original film starring Zendaya and John David Washington that released to Netflix Feb. 5. This intense
Photo by Nathan Lampres nathan.lampres@marquette.edu
Last October, a standard Netflix subscription went up from $13 to $14 a month. The premium subscription went up $2 from $16 to $18 a month.
romantic drama follows a director (Washington) and his girlfriend (Zendaya) as they return home from his film premiere and put their relationship to the test with conversations about their lives and the film industry. The movie explores the trauma and insecurities of the two codependent main characters as well as the trying conditions of the film industry. Ending on an ambiguous note, “Malcolm and Marie” was met with mixed reviews, having been criticized by some for its pretentiousness and celebrated by others for its poeticism. Anyone interested in making their own judgement can log onto Netflix and give the movie a watch. iCarly Disney+ is a great streaming service for anyone nostalgic for old Disney shows and movies, but when it comes to old Nickelodeon TV shows, Netflix holds the laurels. After adding shows like “Victorious” and “Avatar: The Last Airbender” to its repertoire, Netflix did us all a favor and released the first two seasons of “iCarly” to its platform Feb. 8. The first episode of “iCarly” aired in 2007, kicking off the
story of Carly Shay, a middle schooler living with her eccentric artist brother, Spencer. The show follows Carly as she starts a webcast called “iCarly” with her two best friends, Sam Puckett and Freddie Benson. Together, the three of them grapple with the everyday trials of adolescence, as well as the not-so-everyday trials of budding internet stars, such as the occasional kidnapping. Anyone feeling nostalgic for the early 2000s may want to give “iCarly” a rewatch on Netflix. But before you become too invested, bear in mind there have been no announcements about when the other four seasons will, if ever, be released to the streaming service. To All the Boys: Always and Forever The third and final installation of Netflix’s hit movie franchise “To All the Boys” was released Feb. 12. The series follows Lara Jean Covey, a desperate romantic, as her love life takes flight after the accidental delivery of the secret love letters she wrote to her various crushes over the years. Upon their delivery, she is forced to grapple with the trials of high school romance, one love triangle at a time. Already, “To
All the Boys: Always and Forever” has been met with mixed reviews. Some consider it a letdown compared to the first film. Other critics, however, have celebrated it as the cherry on top of a sweet and satisfying movie franchise. This final movie tells the story of Lara Jean (Lana Condor) as she braves her senior year of high school and all that it brings, including college applications. Desperate to avoid a long-distance relationship after graduation, she and her boyfriend, Peter (Noah Centineo), both agree to enroll at Stanford University. But when her application is rejected, she must choose between her individual growth and her relationship. A feelgood movie released just in time for Valentine’s Day, “To All the Boys: Always and Forever” could be the perfect romantic comedy to enjoy with a special someone. The Conjuring Yet to be released to Netflix this month is “The Conjuring,” which will be available to subscribers Feb. 21. “The Conjuring” is an iconic 2013 horror movie based on the professional lives of Ed and Lorraine Warren, two paranormal investigators from the 1970s.
The movie follows Carolyn and Roger Perron and their five daughters as they move to a secluded farm house in Rhode Island. Not long after, they begin noticing supernatural behavior in their new home and enlist the help of the Warrens. What follows is a horrifying escalation of events that leaves viewers with little hope for a happy ending. If you give the “The Conjuring” a go and find that you cannot sleep the night after, you may as well make things worse and watch “The Conjuring 2,” which is also released to Netflix Feb 21. If February’s list of Netflix releases does not pique your interest, stay tuned for March. The streaming service has an impressive list of new releases in store for next month. The lineup includes older hits like “Crazy, Stupid, Love.” as well as new Netflix originals such as “Waffles + Mochi,” a children’s show hosted by former first lady Michelle Obama.
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SHAFFER:: Summer music to get you through the winter SHAFFER Songs by Ms. Lauryn Hill, SZA, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, The Beatles By Tommy Shaffer
d.shaffer@marquette.edu
The brutality of winter has hit its peak. The days are short and the nights are long. The one-block walk to my singular in-person class is about the same as a 5K in my head. (I also show up in a full sweat because I am wildly out of shape, and I know that’s somewhat unrelated, but I had to get it off my chest). We power through it, though, by any means necessary. I do it with the help of Spotify. There are some songs that simply get me fired up to brave the cold and attack the day. My enthusiasm for winter as a whole is dwindling. All we can do now is throw on some sunny tunes and wait for spring to roll around. Here are some heaters I’ve been listening to lately that help me forget about the cold and think about warmer days. Everybody Loves The Sunshine – Roy Ayers Ubiquity This song is actually ridiculous. I would be lying if I said I just stumbled upon it myself, though. I was watching an Apple commercial
the other day and this was the song in the background. I immediately whipped out Shazam and tried to figure it out; It was well worth it. My roommate might murder me in cold blood one of these nights because of how many times I have played it out loud in our room recently. The combination of the vocals and the piano make me want to hit up Bradford Beach and do a couple laps in Lake Michigan, thinking about my own “life in the sunshine.” If you have never heard this song, I beg you to stop reading my article right now and go throw it on. It would be cool if you could come back and finish reading it later, though. I am so happy that Apple commercial came into my life when it did. My days are lightyears better because of this absolute banger. I Gotta Find Peace of Mind (Live) – Ms. Lauryn Hill If you don’t know Lauryn Hill, please read up on her. The six-time Grammy winner does wonders on this song, and she is just an absolute icon. I originally found out about this song through an A$AP Rocky song, though. “Purity,” a track off of “Testing,” Rocky’s most recent album, features Frank Ocean as they pay homage to the queen of hip hop by sampling Hill, and I hate to say it, but Rocky’s rendition doesn’t
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“Good Days” by SZA is expected to appear on her second studio album.
hold a candle to the original. The combination of her soothing voice and the light acoustic guitar does absolute wonders for my morale. Whether I am stressed out about class or the walk around campus is getting to me, I throw on this calming tune and convince myself to “find peace of mind.” Please go listen to this song if you need to relax or your mental health is not where it needs to be; You will not regret it. Good Days – SZA SZA is actually the greatest
of all time. She dominates the music industry and everything she puts out is an absolute work of art. I am convinced she does not know how to miss. This song is just another one in a long line of masterpieces she’s made over the years; and I am absolutely here for it. I am not kidding when I say that when I first heard this song, it was the only song I listened to for probably a week straight. I seamlessly transitioned from blasting it in the
car at home to my headphones during my walk to class here, and it simply hits just the same, if not better. Whether I’m having a brutal day or seasonal depression is taking a toll, SZA reminds me to have “good days on my mind,” and if SZA is telling me that, who would I be to argue? A coward? Yes. Sun King – The Beatles Ah, yes. The Beatles make my playlist again. These guys have a song for literally everything, even the brutality of a Milwaukee winter if that’s how you want to look at it. And that’s just what I do. I really could put any Beatles song on this list and argue why it will make your life better, but this song just fits the theme so well. The repeated “here come the sun king” in the song gets me wondering who this character might be. Is it some sun-like man? Some guy who’s weirdly obsessed with sunlight? Perhaps it’s just a guy who goes to school in Milwaukee and can’t wait for it to be a decent temperature again. Any way you look at it, this song will not disappoint. These songs warm up the coldest of days and lighten up the hardest times. I definitely recommend throwing on these winter heaters to get you through your day.
Relational Learning Project brings global connections to MU Students participate through online Zoom meetings, surveys By Ariana Madson
ariana.madson@marquette.edu
Since 2018, Katherine Walsh, a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences, and Pat Kennelly, the director for the Marquette Center for Peacemaking, have been working with Dr. Wee Teck “Hakim” Young on the Relational Learning Project. Dr. Young, a co-founder of the project, explained that the Relational Learning Project seeks to nurture learning through relationships
with the natural world and the human family, connecting everyone and everything. Dr. Young shared how he came to work on this project. “From 2012 to date, the Afghan Peace Volunteers and I have been learning many important things about humanity and the planet from people across the world through conversations in-person or online,” Young said in an email. He also explained that different realities and challenges came alive through authentic connection. “We uncovered realities and challenges we couldn’t find easily in books or on the internet, but which came alive through authentic connections. We wondered why
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The Marquette Center for Peacemaking is located near the AMU.
ordinary people from the U.S., Latin America, Russia, China, Europe, Afghanistan and other countries weren’t connecting more intentionally to learn more from one another,” Young said in an email. “So, in 2018, we co-developed the Relational Learning Project, and started its online work in October 2019.” Young also explained that there are two different components to the Relational Learning Project. “It provides two intentional online platforms: the Relational Learning Survey and the Relational Learning Circles,” Young said in an email. Walsh said participants can participate in both the survey and the circles, though they can choose to do just one or the other. “The survey is just like 50 questions, where there’s like two different statements … that’s just trying to get an idea of how people feel about nonviolence,” Walsh said. The online Relational Learning Circles include a group of three participants with a moderator on a Zoom call in which they discuss questions for about an hour. “It’s a bunch different variety of questions that kind of spark this conversation … you get to hear all the different perspectives,”
Walsh said. Walsh herself is in a group with someone from Luxembourg and someone from Afghanistan who is living in India. When getting involved with the project, Walsh said she sat in on call between Kennelly and Dr. Young, a co-founder of the project, where they discussed working on the project. Kennelly said the project was initiated in 2018 by the Afghan Peace Volunteers in Kabul, Afghanistan. “I serve on the project team that helps lead this initiative. Other organizations involved include the Afghan Peace Volunteers, Global Days of Listening, Metaeducazione Italy, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, Air Amber Singapore and a number of peace and educational organizations,” Kennelly said in an email. Walsh was hired as a student researcher for the Center of Peacemaking. “I’m a student researcher and I was kind of added to a team of people from across the world that are interested in nonviolence tactics and interested in learning more about nonviolence,” Walsh said. Walsh explained how though Dr. Young got the ball rolling, she was
in charge of creating a survey to send out to students with questions containing different statements relating to different categories. “Hakim sent me the first draft and it was like 150-200 questions and … spring 2019 we just really paired it down to get a couple questions relating to each focus, political, economic and social,” Walsh said. Young said he hopes this can encourage learning through participants. “Human beings, the natural world and all of life are connected, and in the face of climate change, imploding inequalities and nuclearrisk wars, project participants can play our small part to build alternative relationships one person at a time,” Young said in an email. Walsh said that anyone can participate in the calls at Marquette and anyone can participate in the survey. “It’d be a cool opportunity for students at Marquette or even just faculty to sit on these video calls with people from different countries as a way to just kind of get perspective,” Walsh said. Kennelly said in an email he hopes it helps create the next generation of peacemakers and practitioners of nonviolence.
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STAFF EDITORIAL
University has responsibility to support students of color
Although Marquette University should be commended for its efforts to address racial inequality on campus, there are still many steps to take to ensure it follows through with its commitments to support students of color on campus. In Marquette University President Michael Lovell’s seventh annual presidential address Feb. 4, he discussed multiple ways in which the university is working to improve the experience of Black students on campus. Lovell announced that in working with Black Student Council, Marquette would be increasing its number of urban scholarships by 40, making changes to the university Core Curriculum to address racism and racial inequality and implementing an online training for faculty and staff to address diversity and
implicit bias. Additionally, he said the university would be launching a fundraising campaign to increase scholarships and housing funds for Black students. Lovell also said Marquette opened a Black cultural center in Humphrey Hall and formed a Committee for Black Student Initiatives at the beginning of this semester. Moreover, Marquette is in the process of hiring a director of Black Student Initiatives and opening a Living Learning Community for Black students. These are all positive steps toward addressing inequalities on campus as well as striving to prioritize Black students’ success. The university has also made other efforts to support Black students on campus this year. Marquette has followed through
with its commitment to the diversity of counselors at the Counseling Center by hiring Shakari “Kari” Lewis at the beginning of the fall 2020 semester, the first counselor and coordinator for Black student support. These university actions come after a June 29 march to a Milwaukee Police station, demonstration led by Black students to protest against racial injustices in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and a sit-in at Zilber Hall where the administration was presented with a list of demands to support Black students on campus Aug. 27, as well as efforts made by Black Student Council last summer to meet with administration to implement changes at Marquette. Marquette must continue to work with Black students to make sure their voices are heard and that their input is taken seriously.
While these changes are improving campus community for Black students, the university must make efforts to support other groups of color on campus, as well. The Native American Student Association held a protest Oct. 20 to call upon the university to support Indigenous students on campus. The organization presented administration with a list of demands, including changing the university seal as well as providing full-tuition scholarships for Indigenous students from Milwaukee Public Schools and the Wisconsin Tribal Nations. Two weeks later, NASA held a sitin Nov. 4 in Zilber Hall to directly speak with Lovell. However, the group was met with other administrative leaders. Additionally, Provost Kimo Ah Yun said during his Sept. 29 Vir-
tual Coffee Chat that being a Hispanic Serving Institution would no longer be part of the university’s strategic plan. Being an HSI would mean that 25% of enrolled undergraduate students would identify as Hispanic or Latinx. Other groups on campus need support from administration. Marquette has a responsibility to follow through on their previous promises while also listening to and supporting the issues of all students of color, and it needs to make a better effort to do so. While Marquette’s recent efforts to support Black students is a positive step, in order to be truly inclusive, the university needs to make sure it takes necessary steps to support all students experiencing struggles on campus.
U.S. government should decriminalize drug use Lucia Ruffolo The United States federal government should consider decriminalizing all drug possession and attempt to mend the damage caused by the “War on Drugs” that has plagued American communities. In the United States, there were more than 1.6 million drug arrests in 2018 and more than 86% of these arrests were for possession only. Oregon became the first U.S. state to decriminalize the possession of hard drugs such as heroin, methamphetamine and oxycodone Feb. 1. Police can no longer arrest someone for containing small amounts of these drugs. Instead of incarceration, those who possess the drugs will face either a $100 fine or a health assessment that could lead to drug addiction counseling. Oregon is one of states that has a more liberal attitude on drugs, as it was one of the first states to decriminalize marijuana use in 1973. Wisconsin, on the other hand, is relatively strict in its drug laws. Less than 200 grams of marijuana possession can land a person up to 3.5 years in prison. Wisconsin also has the highest incarceration rate for Black men, at 13%. Oregon’s decriminalization of hard drugs was a response to the
War on Drugs, a government-led initiative that aimed to stop illegal drug use through tough prison sentences, which began in the 1970s under the Richard Nixon administration. The War on Drugs had a clear racist objective. Instead of lowering the amount of drug use, the War on Drugs led to excessive levels of imprisonment, especially in largely disadvantaged communities of color, through racial discrimination by law enforcement and harsher prison sentences. According to The Sentencing Project, African American adults are 5.9 times more likely to be incarcerated than whites and Hispanics are 3.1 times as likely. In 2015, more than one in four people arrested were Black, despite drug use rates not substantially differing among different ethnic groups. Despite its goals to reduce drug use, the War on Drugs was largely ineffective. Overdoses and use of opioids were four times higher in 2018 than in 1999. The third wave in opioid deaths came in 2013, with increasing use of synthetic opioids, such as fentanyl, increasing by 10% from 2017 to 2018. The states in which opioid use is the highest, such as West Virginia and Ohio, also tend to have strict drug laws even for less potent drugs like marijuana. Opioid use is correlated with untreated psychiatric disorders, current substance abuse and social or familial environments that encourage
use. There are also socioeconomic risk factors for opioid addiction. According to the National Center for Biotechnology Information, at risk groups include people of a lower socioeconomic status, insecure housing and those who did not graduate from high school. It is clear that the solution to drug addiction is not the militarization of the police and tougher penalties for possession. High levels of incarceration have made already marginalized groups more vulnerable, by straining relationships and breaking apart families. A parent in prison leads to financial instability, feelings of shame and poor school performance. Those with a parent in prison are three times more likely to suffer from behavioral problems and twice as likely to have a learning disability, according to the Population Reference Bureau. Drug decriminalization could be beneficial to many states, especially those with high rates of drug abuse, deaths by overdose and drug incarceration, like West Virginia, Ohio, Maryland and even Wisconsin. Decriminalization saves money by reducing prison costs and prioritizing health over punishment, as those who use drugs are more likely to receive help in rehabilitative programs as opposed to prison. The benefits of decriminalization can be seen through other countries. Portugal decriminalized
drug possession 2001, and between 1998 and 2011, the number of people in drug treatment increased by more than 60%.
annually. Instead of strengthening the police force and enforcing tough disciplinary measures, which have been proven to fail,
Graphic by Alexandra Garner alexandra.garner@marquette.edu
The percentage of people behind bars also decreased from 44% to 24%. The Netherlands, where drug use is also decriminalized, has lower rates of addiction and drug use than the U.S. The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world at 724 people per 100,000, second to Russia, costing $182 billion
it is time for states, or better yet the federal government, to follow suit in Oregon’s effort to decriminalize drugs. Lucia Ruffolo is a first-year student and is undecided. She can be reached at lucia.ruffolo@marquette.edu
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New COVID-19 variants necessitate a unified front Max Pickart With new COVID-19 variants already spreading in the United States, it is essential that we all take action to protect others and ourselves against the variant. With three new variants, first identified in the U.K. in December 2020, South Africa in January 2021, and Brazil in January 2021, being linked to higher rates of hospitalization and transmission, it is essential that all Americans, vaccinated or not, do our part. Not only was COVID-19 initially downplayed by U.S. leaders and many citizens, but a year later, we still find ourselves struggling to slow the spread. If anyone doubts the severity of the new variants, it’s important to see how COVID-19 was impacting our world around this time a year ago. An unidentified virus caused the first known death of its kind in China Jan. 11 last year. Marquette University, along with other universities and education institutions in the U.S., were
still fully functioning with students on campus and all classes in person. Soon after, a global health emergency was declared by the World Health Organization Jan. 30. On that exact day, former President Donald Trump explained that America had the coronavirus under control and assured the public that there was little to worry about. The WHO recommended that all gatherings with 50 people or more should discontinue, closing schools, businesses, restaurants and public spaces both in the U.S. and internationally March 15. The U.S. had the most confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the world at this time with over 85,000 confirmed cases, a dramatic change from Donald Trump’s remarks less than two months before. Nearly a year and 30 million confirmed cases later, Americans are left wondering, if the U.S. had taken the coronavirus more seriously, would cases be lower and would we have reached a sense of normalcy again? Would many of our loved ones still be alive?
Clearly, COVID-19 should have never been underestimated. Now, fortunately, there is a glimpse of hope and even redemption. With over 37 million Americans vaccinated and near-
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If we do not take more individual responsibility, this pandemic will continue”
ly 1 million new vaccinations every day, there is definitely hope for normalcy by the end of 2021. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention explains that the three new variants are still detected by the current tests for COVID-19, but can cause more severe health effects and ultimately change the effectiveness of current vaccines. It is essential for Americans to heed the advice of the CDC
and wear two masks in order to most effectively mitigate the spread of the many variants of COVID-19. The CDC further explains that wearing a mask has been the key to slowing the spread of COVID-19, and that with new variants, double-layered masks were proven to be more than 30% more effective at blocking cough particles than a medical mask. In addition, the CDC emphasizes the importance of wearing a mask that actually fits, which ultimately prevents particles from leaking out via the edges of a mask. These instructions are not complicated or difficult to understand. It’s a simple task: wear two masks, one cloth mask and the other a medical mask, or wear a mask that correctly fits, which will significantly decrease the chances of transmitting COVID-19 variants. In communal living spaces, such as the dorms at Marquette or apartment facilities, students must take extra precautions, as it is already proven that 18 to 24-year-olds have the highest positivity rate of COVID-19 when a hotspot is detected.
Furthermore, living in Milwaukee, where only 3% of Black and Hispanic residents have received the vaccine, compared to 10% of white residents, it is even more essential that the Marquette student body does not contribute to the health care and racial disparities that have only worsened amid the pandemic. Marquette must continue to be strict on rules pertaining to social distancing and wearing a mask. Marquette should enforce double-masking, as suggested by the CDC, in order to lessen the spread. We must recognize the severity of COVID-19 and its variants. The vaccine alone does not mean that everything is going to be back to normal. Looking back at 2020, we all believed this would be over by now, which was clearly wrong. If we do not take more individual responsibility, this pandemic will continue much longer than anticipated, even with doublemasks and the vaccine. Max Pickart is a first-year student studying accounting. He can be reached at max.pickart@marquette.edu
Explore religions, don’t culturally appropriate them Jenna Koch People who practice new age spirituality need to be aware of the origins of their practices. By learning the traditions that new age is built upon, they can not only connect better with what they believe but also practice their faith in a way that does not appropriate or harm other religions. New age spirituality began in the late 1960s in the United States and combines many forms of the occult, metaphysical beliefs and modern esotericism. Overall, advocates of the movement attempted to spread “love and light” by means of personal and collective healing. In a more tangible sense, new age practices can be seen in modern times in the use of healing crystals, smoke cleansing, mindfulness and tarot. So essentially, new age is that crazy psychic great-aunt on your mother’s side or that one friend who’s “such a Leo.” I say this with love, as I’m a huge believer in many new age ideas. According to the Pew Research Center, I’m not alone in that. Roughly six out of 10 Americans believe at least one new age idea. This could be a belief in spiritual
energy found in objects, psychics, reincarnation or astrology. Recently, the app TikTok has popularized new age spirituality, bringing in a new generation of witches and spiritualists. However, new age is not all “love and light.” Cultural appropriation has been rampant in communities of new age spiritualists since the beginning of the movement. The movement itself started when western academics such as Alan Watts and Richard Alpert (later renamed Ram Dass) began to learn and write about Eastern practices such as Zen Buddhism, Taoism and Hinduism. After this, Indian Gurus and other spiritual teachers made the trip west to share their beliefs with spiritual youth. The movement took off after that. Americans’ interest in exploring Eastern practices and other cultures grew quickly. This learning, however, quickly turned to picking and choosing which practices they wanted to take from Eastern and Indigenous cultures. Cultural appropriation is not just doing something for the sake of mockery but can also be practicing something without respect for its origins. Now that people have the internet to document practices and share beliefs, it is increasingly plain to see such appropriation take place. An example of this can be seen in the use of white
sage for smudging, or the practice of smoke cleansing to get the negative energy out of a space. For example, according to the United States Department of Agriculture, white sage has traditionally been used by different Indigenous tribes across America. The plant is considered sacred and it is traditionally blessed before use. However, many retail chains have been selling white sage for smudging. Places such as Anthropologie have sold “Home-Blessing Smudge Kit,” and Sephora had plans to create a “Starter Witch Kit,” both of which include a bundle of white sage. However, both products have been discontinued after outrage over appropriation. According to Native Appropriations creator Adrienne Keene, the burning of white sage for Indigenous ceremonies was made illegal in 1892. The “Rules for Indian Courts” said that spiritual leaders who attempted to continue their practices would be attempting to “prevent Indians from abandoning their barbarous rites and customs.” Keene stated that a smudge stick “represents the deep pain sacrifice, resistance and refusal of Native peoples.” Burning certain herbs for cleansing is not a solely Indigenous practice, but white sage has a specific history that makes it unacceptable to use.
A large part of spiritual cultural appropriation comes from commodification. While many natives sell their own white sage, which has been harvested in the traditional way, oftentimes appropriation occurs when money gets involved. At the conception of the new age movement, a bunch of white men listened to eastern teachers. It is no wonder why these teachings got misconstrued and appropriated. However, we can learn something from these men: connecting directly with the people of a culture is the best way to connect with their spiritual ideas. While it’s not realistic for every person interested in a religion or spiritual belief system to visit the origin of that religion, access to the internet makes learning about it virtually free. However, it is important that when people explore different religions that they are mindful about the struggles of colonized and marginalized cultures attached to those spiritual customs. For example, many spiritualists feel attacked when Hindus claim their practices are “whitewashed Hinduism,” or that their smoke cleanses are incredibly disrespectful. They need to understand that people whose culture is being stolen are rightfully angry, considering the constant oppression of their practices. A big theme in modern
spirituality is letting go of the ego. Going forward, a part of that needs to be humbling oneself and owning up to past or present appropriation. It needs to be responding to criticism with an open mind rather than a defensive attitude. Most importantly, modern new age communities need to address worldly issues alongside spiritual ones.
Jenna Koch is a first-year student studying journalism. She can be reached at jenna.koch@marquette.edu
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Seton Hall beats Marquette in New Jersey
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Sophomore guard D.J. Carton (21) puts up a layup against the Seton Hall Pirates’ defense Sunday afternoon. Carton led the Golden Eagles with 16 points on 6-for-10 shooting.
Offensive struggles, turnovers lead to 57-51 loss to Pirates By Nick Galle
nicholas.galle@marquette.edu
For the second time this season, the Marquette Golden Eagles (9-12, 5-10 BIG EAST) were bested by the Seton Hall Pirates (12-8, 9-5 BIG EAST) 5751 Sunday afternoon. The Golden Eagles have now dropped six of their last seven games. Marquette struggled immensely on offense for the entirety of the game. MU went 18-for-60 (30%) from the field and 3-for-25 (12%) from 3-point
range. The Golden Eagles also missed 16 consecutive threes at one point and turned the ball over 14 times. Despite the ice cold shooting performance, the defensive effort allowed Marquette to hang tight with SHU. The Golden Eagles trailed by no more than 11 points and were able to cut the lead down to just three points late in the second half, but were never able to take the upper hand. The Pirates were held to 37% from the field and 27% from deep. “I thought we played well defensively,” head coach Steve Wojciechowski said. “We obviously wanted to make it tough on Mamu (Mamukeleshvili) and I thought for the most part we did that cause he’s such a great key to their team, I thought we had
really good awareness for him. … I thought we made it tough on their other good players. We played well enough defensively to win the game.” MU attacked the paint frequently and drew contact with ease. Seton Hall committed 16 personal fouls and the Golden Eagles converted 12 out of 15 free throws. The Pirates were also without junior center Ike Obiagu for the final three- anda-half minutes after the 7-foot2 tall player picked up his fifth personal. After a 28-point performance against the Villanova Wildcats, first-year forward Dawson Garcia was held scoreless in his 26 minutes on the floor, going 0-for6 from the field. He also did not play for the final four minutes
down the stretch. “Everything’s okay with Dawson,” Wojciechowski said. “He’s a freshman playing against as big a front line as there is in the country and a really good one. … I thought we were having success with a smaller lineup, and so we stayed with that.” Sophomore guard D.J. Carton was Marquette’s leading scorer with 16 points on 6-for10 shooting. Senior forward Theo John added 14 points and seven rebounds. “Theo has gotten better with his back-to-the-basket game, there’s certainly no question of that, and it’s pretty remarkable that he’s able to do what he’s doing in games when he’s not able to practice,” Wojciechowski said. “But it speaks to his work
and improvement.” Seton Hall was led by junior guard/forward Jared Rhoden and senior forward Sandro Mamukelashvili. Rhoden stuffed the stat sheet and had a game-high 20 points, seven rebounds, four assists, two steals and one block. Mamukelashvili had a doubledouble, posting 11 points and 10 rebounds to go along with his three assists. The Golden Eagles will continue their road trip and head out to Indianapolis to face the Butler Bulldogs (7-11, 6-9 BIG EAST) Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. Central Standard Time. Marquette was able to beat Butler 70-67 Feb. 2. The Bulldogs have lost four of their last six games. The game will be televised on FS1.
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WOMEN’S LACROSSE
Black’s squad motivated, ready for season to begin Team loses to Cincinnati Bearcats in home opener By Jackson Gross
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Marquette’s 20-19 loss against the Cincinnati Bearcats Feb. 14 was the Golden Eagles’ first game in 11 months and three days. The ninth season of the program will surely be an interesting one to watch unfold on and off the field as the team must deal with the restrictions that have been put in to place due to COVID-19. Even though the squad was separated and could not be together, head coach Meredith Black credited her team’s ability to stay connected throughout their time apart to stay focused on preparing for the upcoming season during the pandemic. “I am so proud of my team, they’ve been so committed since March ... since that day they’ve been talking about this moment and (being) ready for this moment and they really never faltered from that...” Black said. “they really just controlled the controllables of continuing to work out on their own and stay in shape... another big thing they did was they stayed
connected, even though we were away from each other for so long, as the rest of the world was too, our team stayed connected.” Even with cautions always lurking, including a season potentially without fans and different rules to follow, senior attacker Caroline Steller is still excited to be back on the field to compete once again. “I’m so excited, it’s kind of like a sense of normalcy because we haven’t played a real game,” Steller said. “We had an inter-squad scrimmage with refs, which was the realest we’ve been to a game in a while, and I think everyone is ready to get back out on to the field and compete.” The team is returning all but two players from the 2020 season, including 11 of the team’s top 12 scorers. They also added 10 firstyears to the roster. Black, entering her ninth season as head coach, said it was great to bring back almost the entire team in addition to adding 10 first-year players. Redshirt senior defender Erin Dowdle echoed those sentiments and said she was excited for the depth on the defense. “It’s nice that we have a lot of people coming back because we have those connections already and we do have a lot of depth this year,” Dowdle said. “but hav-
ing that comfortability of already playing together a lot for the most of us is really nice heading (into) the season.” Beyond the defense, the team is also deep in net, spearheaded by the all-time program leader in saves and wins, redshirt senior Julianna Horning. Senior Sophia Leva also adds depth at the position after setting the single season record for save percentage in Marquette women’s lacrosse history last year, with a save percentage of .509. Black said that there is a plan on how to use both goalies this season to make sure they each have a chance to showcase their talents and help the team win. “We are better when Jules (Horning) is playing and we’re better as a team when Sophia is playing, and the stinky part about it is that only one of them can play at once, but they are amazing,” Black said. With the pandemic cutting last season short and the amount of players coming back, the seniors on the team selected a motto to live by: unfinished business. Redshirt senior attacker Megan Menzuber said that those words drove her to come back for her fifth season, thanks to the NCAA allowing athletes an extra year of eligibility.
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The Marquette women’s lacrosse team practices down at Valley Fields.
“It was a bummer and everyone was in the same position that our season got cancelled last year. (I) didn’t think this is what I would be doing this year, but it was too good of an opportunity to pass up and myself and the rest of the team — we just have unfinished business that we want to complete this year,” Menzuber said. In this year’s BIG EAST Women’s Lacrosse Preseason Coaches’ Poll, the Golden Eagles were ranked fifth behind UConn, Villanova, Georgetown and Denver. Denver received all five first place votes in the poll. Coach Black took the poll ranking as extra motivation for
this season. “If we were two or three … maybe even four, probably wouldn’t pay attention to it, but you put us at five (and) it’s gonna motivate us,” Black said. “It’s good, I love being in that position. I’d much rather be ranked five than ranked one heading into a preseason.” With the shortened season, there was one thing that Menzuber did not get to do last year: win the BIG EAST Championship. “I think we’re in the best place that we ever have been, this year, to do that so that’s what we wanna do,” Menzuber said.
WOMEN’S SOCCER
WSOC adapts to Valley Fields dome, indoor conditions Facility allows players to compete away from Wisconsin weather By Bryan Geenen
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Since 2017, Marquette has had the luxury of the “dome,” a giant tent-like structure located at Valley Fields. When it was constructed in 2017, the $3.6 million dollar project became essential for teams at Marquette to practice in during the winter months. Providing shelter from the wind, snow and other cold winter conditions, the dome remains a haven for Marquette’s collegiate, club and intramural teams alike. For Marquette women’s soccer, the season usually ends sometime before the cold fully arrives, but this season has forced them to adapt. The team has played their first two games inside the bubble and has continued to practice there. With temperatures constantly below freezing and an abundant amount of snow, many teams would likely experience much more difficulty with their games and practices without
some type of indoor facility. Head coach Frank Pelaez said the opportunity to not have to bear Wisconsin’s winter is one of the pros of the dome. “We’re down there probably at 6:45 in the morning and it’s a good 50-degree difference in temperature and I get excited,” Pelaez said. “I think it rubs off on the team because I remember being outside in this crap and it’s not easy.” For junior midfielder/forward Meredith McGuire, the ability to stay out of the elements is something that is unique for Marquette. “In most cases, schools are not able to have the opportunity and it’s very limited,” McGuire said. “So even if we’re able to have the five games before the season actually starts, it’s kind of cool to be able to help a team out that doesn’t have that option to get a game in.” For some teams that Marquette has faced so far, like Chicago State or Illinois State, Marquette’s indoor facilities have been able to provide games on their record where they might not have been able to play. Senior midfielder/forward Elaina Eckert said their opportunity to compete and practice indoors is not taken lightly.
“We feel very blessed to have the dome because a lot of schools don’t have that space to train,” Eckert said. “We have a full field; We’re able to play 11 vs. 11 whenever we want. We can train, we can get after it and you can get into game shape and a lot of other schools don’t really have that opportunity.” With practices and home games taking place indoors, the only negative to the dome would be how it affects the team at away games. Pelaez said he does not really think it will affect his squad come time for BIG EAST games. “In March, when BIG EAST play is and all the other teams will be outside, they all have turf. It’ll be cold, I expect to be outside,” Pelaez said. “If we’re going to play DePaul outside in March, then we’re going to have a couple of practices outside. If we have to shovel, we will,” Pelaez said. McGuire also said the lack of training outdoors might have some effect on the squad, but their ability to prepare and compete on a full field was still an advantage. “I would think it affects us to a certain effect but at the same time, in the end, we have so much game readiness and by being able to
scrimmage, doing different tactics and skills throughout practice, I feel like we’ll have an advantage no matter where we go,” McGuire said. Before Eckert’s and McGuire’s time at Marquette, Pelaez said during the spring semester, training was a little harder to come by and they had to be creative. “I remember shoveling snow off the field with the team so we can get in a spring scrimmage,” Pelaez said. “In the past, we would be in a gym or we would be in a basketball court, which we will make the best out of, but what we have now is really special.” McGuire said that while she was not around at the time when the team practiced indoors, she certainly heard from teammates who experienced it. “The seniors and even the juniors at that time were saying how their winters were at old gym and how they have specific, individual sessions, all that stuff,” McGuire said. “I remember (the dome) being a big factor because this was a new resource our university has and it was a huge change. It clearly has been over the past few years.” Pelaez mentioned how the university was able to handle the
scheduling, which was especially difficult because of all the sports that need to practice and play throughout each season. “If it’s scheduling conflicts, I think our facilities people — Greg (Smith) and Aaron Baker in particular — they’ve done such a great job of trying to be flexible with everyone knowing that all sports are going to be in there,” Pelaez said. “During practices and games, the coaching staffs have all been very good about communicating and knowing that we have to get in there.” The unique opportunity to practice indoors on campus also presents some other benefits that may not be taken into consideration. Pelaez said having the dome so close helps the team academically as well. “I know it helps academically for the student-athlete. We’re travelling 10 minutes to get down there by vans at most and then we’re there for an hour and a half and we’re back in a span of two hours,” Pelaez said. “If we were having to travel to practice, you’re looking at probably three hours in total. So you’re taking away from the student-athlete in their academic pursuits. I think, to me, that’s one of the biggest draws to it.”
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TRACK & FIELD
Runners return from 11-month hiatus due to COVID-19 Keys, Johnson, Marchan, Marko among best veterans By Sam Arco
samuel.arco@marquette.edu
The men’s and women’s track and field teams were back in action Feb. 6 at the Parkside Triangular meet for the first time since the BIG EAST Championships all the way back in March 2020. With only about 50-60% of the team physically fit enough to compete due to a limited amount of practices so far, head coach Bert Rogers took Marquette’s first meet of the season as a stepping stone to get everyone back into the swing of things before ramping up the competition in the next couple of weeks. “Overall, I had a lot of positive first impressions from our first meet of the season,” Rogers said. “We haven’t been practicing for that long since we’ve come back for break, so I was happy with what I saw from our team considering the short turnaround.” Despite sending a limited team to compete at Parkside, Marquette still was able to see personal bests from a few ath-
letes. Sophomore distance runner Kate Jochims ran a time of 9:51.47 in the 3000-meter run, winning her heat by a total of 30 seconds. Sophomore hurdler Juru Okwaramoi also posted a personal best in the 55-meter hurdles with a time of 8.70 seconds.
“The plan right now is that we’ll have about a month off after indoor season to get ready for outdoor season, and then we’ll treat outdoors just like normal,” Rogers said. “We’re currently in the process of scheduling our outdoor meets and the BIG EAST
position to make the most out of this season,” Rogers said. With numerous top seniors returning to the track this season for Marquette, the team is expected to make another strong run at the BIG EAST Championships. Here are some of the top Marquette men’s and women’s track and field athletes to look out for this season. Senior Joe Keys
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Sophomore Mitchell Van Vooren hurdles a gate at the Parkside Triangular.
“I expected our team to be a little rusty with barely any practices and not being able to compete in almost a year, so it was very nice to see our athletes compete the way that they did, I was very proud of them,” Rogers said. As for the rest of their season, the team only has three more indoor meets scheduled and has yet to confirm outdoor meets, but those events are close to being scheduled according to Rogers.
Championships, so I’m excited to get the season going.” Despite the shortened season due to COVID-19, Rogers still expects his team to compete to their highest potential. In a typical indoor track season, the team will have around 10 indoor meets to compete in, but this year the team is only scheduled for four. “We just have to be the best we can week in and week out, and then I think we’ll be in a perfect
Marko has been one of Marquette’s most reliable female athletes when it comes to scoring points for the team. Marko has the fourth-best all-time record in school history in the pentathlon, the fifth-best alltime record in the long jump and the sixth-best all-time record in the 60-meter hurdles. Graduate Marchan
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Breanne
Keys is an Indoor All-American in the heptathlon for the Golden Eagles. Keys currently holds the school record in the heptathlon with a total of 5,667 points. Last year, Keys broke his own record by over 300 points. He also qualified for indoor nationals last year before the pandemic ended up canceling the event.
As a prolific sprinter at Marquette, Marchan currently holds the second-best all-time record in school history in the 100-meter dash, the third-best all-time record in the 60-meter dash and the thirdbest all-time record in the indoor 200-meter dash.
Senior Samuel Johnson
Ward transferred from Central Connecticut State University to Marquette last year, where he sat out the season. At CCSU, Ward was a NEC Conference Champion in the indoor high jump and runner-up in the outdoor long jump. His junior year he was also announced as the Northeast Conference Most Outstanding Performer.
Johnson currently holds the school record in the 60-meter dash, where he posted a time of 6.80 seconds his junior year. He also ranks second all-time in school history with an outdoor triple jump of 484.5 feet. Graduate student Madison Marko
Graduate student Marquis Ward
Competing in a variety of events,
MEN’S SOCCER
Hallwood adds depth, experience to goalkeeping unit Redshirt sophomore transfered from Gannon University By Nick Galle
nicholas.galle@marquette.edu
The Marquette men’s soccer team could not have envisioned a much better start to their 2021 spring season. The squad has started out on a high note ever since their first game Feb. 3, winning three games in a row in overtime. The defense has been stellar, the
offense came through when it mattered most and the goalkeeping has posted three clean sheets against Loyola Chicago, Northern Illinois University and St. Louis. These three clean sheets would not have been possible without the contributions of redshirt sophomore goalkeeper Chandler Hallwood. Hallwood transferred from Gannon University, a Division II school in Erie, Pennsylvania. In his one season of play with the Golden Knights, he recorded an 18-3-0 record, the most single-season wins in program history. “At the minute I’m not seeing too
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Chandler Hallwood kicks from goal in a game against Loyola Chicago.
much of a difference with the standard from DI to DII, (because) we had a good setup at my old school,” Hallwood said. “(We) played against some good teams.” In his first three games with the Golden Eagles, Hallwood has recorded seven saves in 219 minutes on the pitch and has allowed zero goals. He said he has noticed a bit of a different style of play during his time at Marquette thus far. “Style of play at my old school was more kick long, we had very big, strong strikers, so we’d kick long a lot, whereas coming up into Marquette the philosophy is to play out the back a lot more,” Hallwood said. “So a bit of a different coaching style here — more technical I’d say, whereas the other one was more kick it long, we’ll just scrap for seconds.” As a native of Halifax, England, one would think the redshirt sophomore keeper had to adjust to a brand new American style of play once he made his way 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean. Hallwood said things have actually not been all that different, and he credits that to head coach Louis Bennett and his staff. “Coming across to the United States, I thought it’d be a big difference, but with … English coaches, I think they’ve brought over the
culture from England … to here,” Hallwood said. “So I don’t see much of a difference to be honest.” Bennett said that the program wanted to add a third goalkeeper that could potentially end up as a first-string keeper. He said the qualities that Hallwood brings to the team are something that the Golden Eagles were missing. “We wanted him to bring something that we may not have, which he’s got,” Bennett said. “He’s good in the air, he’s got height, he’s got a presence about him (and) he can distribute the ball a long way.” Bennett has taken advantage of those attributes, as Hallwood has played the most minutes in-goal so far throughout the first three games. Junior goalkeeper Cedrik Stern, who already possesses two years in the program serving in net, said the goalkeeping unit welcomed the Gannon University transfer with open arms. “We try to help him ease into the program as much as we could,” Stern said. “It’s never easy for transfers to come in, or new guys in general to come in … but as a whole team we try to help to make it easy for all the new guys, especially we as a group of keepers.” Despite the obstacles that COVID-19 brought last semester when
it came to building team chemistry, Hallwood said the hot start to the season has allowed him to mesh with his new teammates. “This year with games especially, it’s building chemistry, getting the two wins, it’s building chemistry within the team,” Hallwood said. “It was a bit of a delay, but this semester we’re definitely … getting some good chemistry.” Stern said there is always pressure to perform during games, but knowing there is depth within the goalkeeper position has been reassuring. “It’s just good to see that we can exchange players without losing too much quality and we get the best out of everyone,” Stern said. “As I mentioned, we can all help win games and ultimately that’s the goal we all have … Seeing that we all help the team and we all can be a part of that — I think is very important to see.” Even though it is just his first season at MU, Hallwood already has big aspirations for himself and the team this season and beyond. “I want to come in and make sure everyone has the best year possible, both on and off the field,” Hallwood said. “Hopefully I have a big, successful year, win the BIG EAST hopefully and get a national ranking.”
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WOMEN’S SOCCER
Despite departures, Pelaez’s backline remains strong McGuire, Monticello, Burrier discuss new look for defense By John Leuzzi
john.leuzzi@marquette.edu
The Marquette women’s soccer defensive backline has received a lot of attention over the last few years. After all, it did consist of two anchors in defenders Emily Hess and Bri Jaeger, who started all but a combined 15 games over their four years at MU. “Those two I think are kind of like the epitome of a Marquette women’s soccer player,” senior defender Maddie Monticello said. “They knew the culture since their freshman year and they were able to share that with everyone else. They just had this mentality that is hard to find in a lot of people and I think that left a big impact on our field.” Junior defender Madison Burrier said it was Hess and Jaeger’s consistency that impacted her the most. “If I wasn’t having my best game, I knew I had Bri and Emily to my left and right,” Burrier said. “You could count on them, you could lean on them, they were consistent across the board every single game.” Despite the subtraction of Hess and Jaeger to graduation, this year’s MU backline still remains one of the more experienced units for first-year head coach Frank Pelaez. Monticello, who started all 17 matches last year, said one factor that attributed to the success of the backline is trust. “With the experience of our backline, and I know we have some freshmen coming in, but whenever
we do defensive drills we all trust each other,” Monticello said. “(We) all like rely on each other to get what you need to get done, build each other up and then taking care of how we feel goes a long way to keep us united.” Redshirt sophomore Bonnie Lacey said the relationships built over time are an advantage of the unit’s consistency. “There’s a level of closeness we all kind of have with each other, where we can come to each other, express how we’re feeling about a certain situation or anything and it brings us together instead of dividing us,” Lacey said. After not seeing the field in her true first-year season, the Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin native made five starts in nine matches last season. “The big lesson I took away from last year is that you can count on your teammates for support with things if it goes right or wrong and that at the end of the day, everyone plays for each other,” Lacey said. “And that the lows are even more important than the highs because you learn so much from a loss versus a win, even.” As MU entered the 2020-21 season with Pelaez as the new leader at the helm, the Golden Eagles also entered with a new defensive coordinator in Steve Bode. Bode, a Milwaukee native and former MU men’s soccer assistant coach, said he hopes to bring a clear, consistent and simplified approach to Marquette’s defensive attack. As it is every season, teams lose and add players, forcing schemes to change. Bode said that remains the same this year as well. Though it has been over a year
since Pelaez, assistant coach Erin Scott and himself have been at MU, Bode said the coaching staff are still doing some players’ evaluations due to COVID-19 taking away normal opportunities. However, that is not taking away the confidence they have in each of the 30 players on the team. “Some have more experience than others but, for us, we’re looking at … what we can do,” Bode said. “For us, it’s ‘hey, listen, we’re looking to try and give more opportunities this spring then not, and see where everyone’s at.’ That’s really important as we continue to build the culture and the program.” Monticello, who is one of the anchors on this year’s backline with Burrier, said she feels like she has everything to lose with it being her last year of playing soccer at Marquette. “I put a lot of that (pressure) on myself because I want everyone around me to succeed and I want the program to succeed,” Monticello said. “So I’m like, how much can I impact that and what can I do whether it’s on the field, off the field, after a game (or) before the game? I think I just see the bigger picture a lot more now that I’m a senior.” Bode said he can see the season meaning a lot through Monticello’s eyes and actions, but it is what she has done so far in her MU career that speaks more. After starting 14 out of 18 matches and serving as a captain in her first season, Burrier saw her role change for the Golden Eagles last season. The journalism major started the first three games of last season off the bench as a midfielder before earning her first start of the season Sept. 8 against Utah State. She
would then start two more games before heading back to a reserve. Then things switched, as Burrier would go on to start the last five games of the season at center back. The change from the attacking third to the defensive third created versatility in the Dublin, Ohio native’s style of play. “It’s nice because we have a lot of midfielders who are very attackingminded,” Burrier said. “So being able to help them out, especially because they are so close to me and knowing that when I was in the midfield how much I appreciated having a center back who was able to lead me and kind of give me positional advice and different things like that, that definitely helps me to see both sides of it.” In addition to Burrier, Bode said there are several players who can play in multiple positions, and in a COVID-19 world where coaches need to take account of the physical demands of the game for a player, it has become more valuable. Burrier, Lacey and Monticello all said they have seen changes and picked up on new things with Bode’s coaching. For Monticello, it is bringing “some accountability, swag and bite to how you play and attack right away.” “Everything is so much faster with pace and I think that’s going to give us a little edge as we go forward now,” Monticello said. “Because instead of sitting back and waiting, we kind of have this confidence to be like, no I’m gonna step first. This whole line is going to be there first and we’re going to clear the ball and do everything we can instead of waiting.” For Lacey, it is the importance of
balancing worrying about your own position and the awareness of where others might be placed while going to win the ball back. Burrier emphasized the importance of positioning as a whole unit when in motion. “It’s like the whole backline just needs to be a unit in general,” Burrier said. “It can’t be one person kind of going off doing their own little thing because if one person strays, it ruins the whole backline as a whole. Just be on the same page and just constantly hammering it in that when you’re back there, you’re working together.” Bode said the biggest strength amongst Burrier, Lacey and Monticello is the fact that the trio is very coachable and wants to grow both as soccer players and defenders. “As a coach, when you work with players like that (it) makes your job easier,” Bode said. “They’re sponges, they’re trying, even if it’s not perfect all the time which it’s not going to be, they’re trying and over time, we believe that we’re going to get it right, more so than not.” When asked who has stood out through the last few weeks, which consisted of two games, Bode sided with a familiar theme/message of the Pelaez era — team-first mentality — mentioning that is what he hopes to continue building within his unit’s culture this season. “If we’re going to have any kind of success this season, it’s going to be because of what we do as a team,” Bode said. “Individually, we do have talent. But the game of soccer is if you’re a team first, you have good chemistry, you’re on the same page, you can win even if you’re not the more talented team. So that for us is the main focus at this point.”
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First-year forward plays crucial role off bench for MU Justin Lewis hits clutch shots, buzzer beater over Badgers By Matt Yeazel
matthew.yeazel@marquette.edu
First-year forward Justin Lewis has started his career at Marquette by proving how valuable he is to the program and to his head coach. The 6-foot-7, 225-pound fourstar prospect out of high school came out of Baltimore Polytechnic Institute in Baltimore, the same city where head coach Steve Wojciechowski attended high school, which was important to Lewis in his recruiting. “It meant a lot,” Lewis said. “Seeing the path he’s taken and the things he’s done in his career, I just want him to help me on my path.”
Lewis has impressed during his short time in college, as he was one of three incoming forwards alongside first-years Dawson Garcia and Oso Ighodaro. Also, when he has been out due to injury, his team has missed his impacts on the court. After missing two consecutive games with a bone bruise injury, Lewis returned against Creighton, but played just eight minutes and was shut down in the second half as a precautionary measure. Lewis then missed the next game against Villanova. Despite the missed games, Lewis is averaging 8.1 points per game with six rebounds and 0.9 assists. He has a shooting percentage of 42.4% from the field, and is second on the team with 0.8 blocks per game. Lewis was leading the team in rebounds off the bench before Garcia recently passed him. Despite this,
Wojciechowski called Lewis “the best rebounder on our team.” “He has a nose for the ball,” Wojciechowski said. “A healthy Justin Lewis helps us a ton in a lot of areas.” That nose for the ball won Marquette its biggest game of the season this year when they hosted then-No. 4 in-state rival Wisconsin. Lewis tipped in a missed free throw at the buzzer to avoid overtime and sent the Badgers home with their first loss of the season. “I knew that I might have the opportunity if I crashed for the rebound, and then my instinct took over,” Lewis said. “We were able to stay calm and confident and I’m just glad we came away with the W.” His coach was very impressed by the play from his new first-year. “It was an incredible play,” Wojciechowski said. “To have
the mindset of playing through the horn and anticipating a miss is incredible for any player, especially a freshman.” He did not just show up for the final play either. Lewis’ 18 points against the Badgers remains his career-high and that game winning putback was his eighth rebound of the game. Before the Wisconsin game, Lewis grabbed a career-high 13 boards in just 22 minutes against Oklahoma State. Since the Wisconsin game, Lewis has grabbed at least six rebounds in seven different games and scored double-digit point totals five times as the team’s sixth man. “I know J is going to fight,” sophomore guard D.J. Carton said. “He’s a big-time player making big-time plays.” Marquette has been in need of the fight that Lewis brings as he has dealt with his injury. In the game
against Creighton where Lewis played just eight minutes, Creighton won the rebounding battle 114. In the first matchup between the two teams, where Lewis played 31 minutes, it was the opposite, with Marquette winning 14-9 and Lewis grabbing four himself. “We’re not going to win games against teams like Creighton giving up that many offensive rebounds,” Wojciechowski said. “Our offense is built around being able to get offensive rebounds.” As a team, the Golden Eagles average over 10 offensive rebounds per game, many of which are collected by Lewis, Garcia and senior forward Theo John. The Golden Eagles will now look for Lewis to come back from his bone bruise injury and provide the rebounding strength down low off the bench that he has often done early in his career.
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‘Rocket League’ Team wins inaugural match of 2021 Fendry-Gill, Greene reflect on successful New York tournament By Jack Lewandowski
jack.lewandowski@marquette.edu
In early July 2015, two video game developing companies, “Psyonix” and “Panic Button Games,” set out to create a better version of their original rocket-car soccer video game — called “Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars” or “SARPBC” for short. While the title of that game may not resonate with many gamers, the name “Rocket League” should. After the October 2008 release of “SARPBC,” the title was considered a self-proclaimed failure despite the game being downloaded on PlayStation 3 two million times. After refining the game and adding muchneeded stabilization features and graphical updates, the new version of “SARPBC” was ready to rerelease under a new name. “Rocket League” would be released for PlayStation 4 and Microsoft Windows in July 2015 with the
Photo courtesy of Joshua Fendry-Gill and the Marquette Gaming and Esports team
Esports team competes in 2019.
ability to play the game on the Xbox One coming seven months later. Over five years later, in September 2020, it was reported that “Rocket League” had been downloaded 75 million times across all playable platforms according to a September Gamesindustry.biz article posted by the market-leading website for news and information about the global video games industry. The game was so popular, in fact, that “Rocket League” tournaments for major cash prizes were picked up and begun by gaming organizations, thus expanding the “Rocket
League” community. In October 2019, the Electronic Gaming Federation announced that it would hold two national collegiate tournaments for competitive Division I Esports teams. One tournament would feature teams from conferences such as the SEC, ACC, Pac 12, Big Ten and Big 12, and the other tournament would consist of teams from only the BIG EAST. One of the teams invited to this tournament was Marquette’s very own “Rocket League” team. Marquette was finally able to attend their first live event in club history since the team’s conception in 2015, as this tournament was held in New York City from Dec. 7-8, 2019. Junior Joshua Fendry-Gill said he was excited at the prospect of representing Marquette on such a large stage of competition in New York. “I’d say I was really excited since EGF had a (Local Area Network) event in New York and the guys at EGF are really top tier at what they do,” Fendry-Gill said as he looked back at his time in New York. Sophomore Nolan Greene said the team had the No. 2 seed going into the tournament and had to overcome
an exhausting day of playing 8-10 best of five series against other teams from the BIG EAST. Unfortunately for the Marquette Gaming and Esports team, their tournament finished on an underwhelming note as the Golden Eagles finished low in the group standings at the end of round-robin play and was sent home. The Marquette “Rocket League” team would bounce back in their spring season, as the team won its first conference championship in team history. Almost an entire year later, in December 2020, the “Rocket League” team would play in a BIG EAST and MAAC “Rocket League” tournament that would be conducted remotely due to COVID-19 restrictions. The team also got a new face on the roster this past November, as sophomore Carson Scarnegie was thrown into the spotlight with little introduction to the team prior to the tournament. Scarnegie has yet to physically meet the team in person because of the pandemic. After going into the tournament “open minded ... we didn’t want to have any expectations holding us back ... we came out pretty strong,” Scarnegie said, who spoke highly
of his “Rocket League” teammates despite being ranked No. 8 before tournament play started. After winning the team’s first three best of three series against highly ranked No. 4 Seton Hall and other BIG EAST and Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference teams such as No. 1 Marist, the Golden Eagles lost their next three games. “We were pretty happy with our performance, we didn’t come out timid … we played with confidence and played our game,” Scarnegie said. The team tied for third at the end of the tournament. As for what is next for Marquette’s “Rocket League” squad, the team started league play for their spring league and already have a win under their belt after sweeping Fairfield in a best of three match. “We’ve definitely improved a lot … there’s always work to be done,” Greene said. Greene also said he is looking forward to improving the team chemistry throughout the spring season. Scarnegie also said that he “wants to meet his teammates more” in the coming months.