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Volume 98, Number 36
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Thursday, February 6, 2014
MU in top 50 for drug arrests
MU wages cyber war on Internet hackers
Wisconsin schools in the top 50 for illicit drug arrests per 1,000 students
By Erin Heffernan
erin.heffernan@marquette.edu
5. UW-Oshkosh
This university is constantly under attack. The prize at stake: the identity of its students. Justin Webb, Marquette’s information security officer, has overseen Marquette’s cyber security since 2010. “We haven’t had ‘the breach’ yet at Marquette,” Webb said. “But our network is attacked 24 hours a day by anybody and everybody — and by attack I mean it’s being scanned. People are trying to nvestigative break into eport things. So that’s where all our defense mechanisms come into play.” University data centers are treasure troves for hackers. They hold thousands of pieces of private information like social security numbers, financial records and intellectual property as well as in-process credit card transactions, a potential jackpot for cyber thieves if they can identify and exploit a vulnerability in any stage of the process. Protecting this information is becoming a central concern for universities as institutions increasingly come under attack, facing millions of threats weekly. The constant barrage is typical, especially for large research institutions. The University of Wisconsin-Madison reported receiving 90,000-100,000 cyber-attacks a day in 2013, primarily from Chinese IP addresses. At least 3 million people had personal information that could be used for identity theft exposed through an educational institution last year, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center, which records publicly announced data breaches. That number may be a low estimate as schools that have breaches often do not report the number of people affected and many breaches are never detected. Two exceptionally large breaches at universities stand out. In 2010, a breach at Ohio State University exposed 750,000 names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth and addresses. Photo IDs of 60,000 former student with Social Security numbers and names were hacked from the University of
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Source: rehabs.com
Report follows recent rash of drug-related instances on campus By Matt Kulling
matthew.kulling@marquette.edu
Following two weeks of an abnormally high number of drug violations on campus, Marquette is making national news for another unsavory reason.
Infographic by Maddy Kennedy/madeline.kennedy@marquette.edu
A study released by Rehabs. com ranked the top 50 colleges in terms of drug and alcohol arrests per 1,000 students using 2011 data. Five of the top 20 schools, in a combination of drug and alcohol arrests are in the University of Wisconsin system, including the top three rankings. Marquette comes in at number 46 on the list of top 50 for drug arrests. Arrests are defined in the study as any drug- or alcohol-related arrest, citation or summons that takes place in “any building or
(on any) property owned or controlled by an institution within the same reasonably contiguous geographic area,” including residence halls. Russell Shaw, the interim director for the Department of Public Safety, said he thinks two factors can explain why Marquette makes the list. “It’s twofold, some people can think that we have all these kids that do drugs on this campus,” Shaw said. “I don’t have all those numbers, but in all my years work-
ing here, kids certainly experiment (with drugs.) On the second hand, do I think our staff at Marquette is good? Yes. I think that other universities are much more lax with their policies.” Shaw added that he thinks other universities’ safety departments are not as thorough as DPS. “(Drugs) are always a concern,” Shaw said. “I worry just as much that a student is going to get so intoxicated that they pass out See Drugs, Page 4
Former MU music director remembered The late Contorno held the position for more than 20 years By Benjamin Lockwood
benjamin.lockwood@marquette.edu
Former Marquette Director of Music Nick Contorno, 75, died Sunday in Arizona. Contorno, who was director of music from 1983-2006, won the 2013 Lifetime Achievement in Music Award from the Civic Music Association. Erik Janners, Marquette’s current director of music, spoke highly of the late music director. “Nick was very welcoming, extremely positive, warm and gracious,” Janners said.
Janners met Contorno in 2007, in New Orleans. His legacy didn’t end at Marwhen Contorno helped him during his first few years as director. quette, however, as Contorno was also a dedicated Contorno retired professional mua year earlier in sician outside of 2006, after 23 years the university. He in the position. played with the MilContorno’s career waukee Symphony in teaching began Orchestra and the in Glendale, where Ringling Bros. and he received his first Barnum & Bailey teaching position as Circus band, among an instrumental mumany others. He sic instructor. He then even accompanied moved on to serve Sonny and Cher as director of bands for a performance. in Whitefish Bay. Nick Contorno Most recently, a He was appointed as director of music at Marquette in 1983. The school was dedicated in his name band under his direction played in Gonaïves, Haiti in 2011. The at the first Marquette Big East school is called, “Ecole de MuConference Tournament, and sique Nick Contorno des Gonahe also directed the band in the ïves.” The idea for the dedication Superdome at the 2003 Final Four came from Contorno’s former
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student Tayna Schmid. Schmid started a small charity organization in 2010, called Musical Haiti, which focused on providing musical education to Haitians after the disastrous earthquake in 2010. After meeting with Contorno, or “Dr. C,” as all of his students knew him, she chose to name the school she was trying to build after him when he decided to donate extensive amounts of sheet music to the cause. “I cannot imagine a better example for these children,” Schmid said. Contorno won the Michael George Distinguished Music Educators award in 2007. “He was one of the absolute best people that I ever knew,” Janners said.
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