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Volume 98, Number 39

Club hockey still without fan buses for next season

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Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Alumni release ‘Untucked’ film ESPN documentary focuses on evolution of MUBB uniforms

By Matt Barbato

matthew.barbato@marquette.edu

By Matt Kulling

matthew.kulling@marquette.edu

Despite the club hockey team gaining busing services for its final game, transportation has yet to be secured for the team’s 2014-15 season. Marquette’s Department of Recreational Sports mandated stricter policies for fan use of the buses, allowing the bus driver’s discretion to determine if a student is out of control. The decision follows an Oct. 25 incident in which students were found consuming illicit drugs on one of the buses on its return to campus after a game. As a result of the incident, the contract with Lamer’s Bus Services Inc. ended, causing fan attendance to plummet. Freshman goalie Alejandro Anderson said, prior to the contract ending, hundreds of students traveled to the team’s home games 13 miles away at The Ponds of Brookfield Ice Arena. “Everyone loves coming and the team loves that the fans are there,” Anderson told the Tribune Jan.21. “It’s just a great environment, and now it’s like 20 people and mostly parents.” Ryan Zanon, captain and president of the club hockey team, said that after the buses were taken away, he met with Scott Anderegg, the Department of Recreational Sport’s assistant director for the Rec Center. “After the buses were taken away from us, Scott and I from Rec Sports explored a few other options as to how we could get the buses back,” Zanon said in an email. “ However, his bosses told him that we were no longer to have any buses. I took it upon myself this winter break to create a petition regarding the situation in hopes of getting the buses back for both the team and the fans.” In mid-January, the team set up a table in the Alumni Memorial Union, encouraging students to sign the petition to reinstate transportation services. Zanon said after the petition caught the attention of the Rec Sports staff, he and Anderegg had another meeting. “After a few of our team’s See Hockey, Page 4

Bo Ellis, power forward for the 1977 Marquette national championship team, sat down in his Schroeder Hall dorm one night during his junior year, and instead of watching film or thinking about the next game, he broke out colored pencils and drew a new uniform design. Ellis’ uniform design would later inspire another Marquette alum with a fascination for uniforms to direct and produce an ESPN “30 for 30” documentary more than 30 years later. Danny Pudi, a 2001 Marquette graduate and the star of NBC’s “Community,” visited with Ellis at their alma mater Friday evening to premiere their ESPN “30 for 30” documentary titled “Untucked.” The documentary made its debut at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah and will appear on Grantland.com in March. The film goes through the evolution of Marquette basketball uniforms, with a special focus on the jerseys Ellis designed for the 1977 season. Ellis was given his opportunity to design the uniforms at the beginning of the 1975-76 season, when one night his roommate, former point guard Lloyd Walton, suggested to head coach Al McGuire that Ellis create the uniforms for the upcoming season. See Untucked, Page 4

Bo Ellis, a power forward for the 1977 Marquette national championship team, interviews with the Tribune to discuss the premiere of an ESPN “30 for 30” film focusing on his revolutionary untucked uniform design.

Fugees miss MUSG funding by one vote Improv group lacked needed supermajority for $6,000 request By Joe Kvartunas

joseph.kvartunas@marquette.edu

When the Studio 13 Refugees applied for $6,000 in student organization funding earlier this month, a majority of Marquette Student Government’s Student Organization Funding Committee voted in favor of the request. MUSG’s constitution, however, still prevented the group from receiving the funds.

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Photo by Xidan Zhang/xidan.zhang@marquette.edu

MARQUEE...................6 VIEWPOINTS..............8 SPORTS.......................10

MUSG Executive Vice President Zach Bowman, a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences, said the SOF Committee voted 4-to-3 in favor, but MUSG financial policies stipulate that an allocation over $2,500 must have five votes in favor to pass, so the request was denied outright. Fugees Co-President Cassidy Wilson, a senior in the College of Education, said the group is working to bring the Upright Citizens Brigade – an improvisational comedy theater based in New York City and Los Angeles – to campus for an improv show for a couple years. Because the Fugees are not their own group, but rather a

subset of a larger group, they had to apply through their parent organization, the Marquette University Players Society. The Fugees, under the MUPS name, are appealing the funding decision and will include a pricing quote from UCB, who Wilson said is taking $1,000 off its normal price. “It’s a constitutional policy, and unfortunately in this circumstance, we did not have enough support behind the decision to make it go through,” said Cole Johnson, former MUSG Financial Vice President and a junior in the College of Business Administration, who was serving at the time of the vote.

Johnson said it is relatively rare that a situation arises, and it only occurred “a handful of times” while he was FVP. He also said it is impossible for the SOF Committee to allocate less money to a group when the situation arises because the decision would be completely arbitrary. Although MUPS applies for funding regularly, the Fugees as a subset of that group did not apply for funding in at least the last four years, Wilson said. When the Fugees decided to apply for funding this year, MUSG Program Vice President Tyler Tucky, a junior in

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