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Volume 98, Number 45
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Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Pilarz to lead Georgetown Prep
MU turnout for student government above norm By Joe Kvartunas
joseph.kvartunas@marquette.edu
“People never knew about it.” Keane said he paid about $10,000 out of pocket to advertise the program for Marquette, but it ultimately was not enough. The few students the program was able to engage were spreading their courses over several years, which Keane said made for a different experience than the intensive one he initially envisioned. Mark Eppli, interim dean of the College of Business Administration at Marquette, said in an email that “in order to be mindful of and strategic about budget decisions, it made good sense for us to sunset that program at that time.”
Although past voting trends suggest only a small number of the student body will vote to select the Marquette Student Government president March 26, Marquette actually ranks well above the national average for turnout in student elections. Last year, voter turnout reached a five-year low of 22.4 percent when the MUSG election was disrupted by delays and campaign violations. 2012’s 36.4 percent turnout was the highest in an MUSG presidential election since the Office of Student Development started consistently tracking election results in 2000, according to Matt Lengen, the coordinator for student organizations and leadership. It was also the only time in the last four years that more than a third of students voted in the MUSG presidential elections. In 2011, only 29 percent of students voted, and in 2010 turnout was just 24.8 percent. The 2009 election was the only other time in the last five years that more than one third of the student body voted in the MUSG presidential election with 35 percent of students casting ballots. These numbers, although low, are well above national averages. In 2012, Jennifer Miles of the University of Arkansas, Michael Miller of the University of Arkansas and Daniel Nadler of Eastern Illinois University published a study on student participation in student government elections. Using data from 2009, they found the average voter turnout for student government elections at private doctoral universities is 20.2 percent. Boston College, which has an enrollment of 13,903, had a voter turnout of 28.5 percent. Duke University, which has a similar enrollment size, had a voter turnout of 20 percent. In the year the study was conducted, and every year since, Marquette had voter turnout higher than the national average. However, though
See Keane, Page 4
See Turnout, Page 4
Photo by Rebecca Rebholz/rebecca.rebholz@marquette.edu
The Rev. Scott Pilarz explained his departure in a Sept. 25 letter to Marquette, stating his desire to “do more teaching, research and writing” as a Jesuit.
Despite justifications for departure, Pilarz accepts presidency By Joe Kaiser
joseph.kaiser@marquette.edu
A week after Georgetown Preparatory School in Maryland announced that former Marquette University President the Rev. Scott Pilarz will take over as its next
president, the school’s board of trustees is not commenting on whether it communicated with Marquette about Pilarz’ departure. Pilarz will take the helm as Georgetown Prep president July 1, following the board’s unanimous vote after a nine-month search. “At this time, Georgetown Prep kindly declines to discuss our past presidential search,” said Patrick Coyle, Georgetown Prep’s director of marketing & communications, in an email. Five days after it was announced
that Pilarz was leaving Marquette, though, he told the Marquette community in an email that he wished to pursue other opportunities in his work as a Jesuit outside of being a president. “For example, I desire to do more pastoral work than I have been able to do as a president,” Pilarz said in the Sept. 25 letter. “I also want to do more teaching, research and writing.” Pilarz also said in the email that he believes “Marquette needs a president who is willing to com-
mit to working wholeheartedly on a comprehensive capital campaign over a five to seven year period. Given my other hopes and desires, I am not in a position to do that now.” The Georgetown Prep presidential job description, however, said the candidate should “excel at and enjoy the role of fundraiser — including entertaining and traveling to cultivate distant members of the Prep community.” The preferred application date for the See Pilarz, Page 4
Budget challenges push out grad program MU entrepreneur in residence to take program to Carroll By Benjamin Lockwood
benjamin.lockwood@marquette.edu
Tim Keane, Marquette’s entrepreneur in residence, plans to take his graduate entrepreneurship program to Carroll University, in light of budget challenges at Marquette. “Marquette is my first love,” Keane said, “but given all the recent changes, it just isn’t prepared to do this program.” The entrepreneurship program is an intensive, 15-credit course
aimed at serious entrepreneurial considered for the program. candidates looking for a more Twenty-four candidates will be hands-on approach to studying selected for the program and enterprise, and will be taught Keane said that within the first by six estabmonth, Carroll lished business already received professionals that many appliand expert encations. trepreneurs. The Keane said he program will be tried to keep the held in the Water program at MarCouncil’s Global quette, but was Water Center ultimately unin downtown successful. Milwaukee, in“It never stead of at Carcaught on, never roll’s campus in gained any tracWaukesha. tion,” he said, Tim Keane “You have attributing a to have a lack of interest real passion for entrepreneur- on the fact that very little advership,” Keane said, in order to be tising had gone into the program.
INDEX
CALENDAR...........................2 DPS REPORTS......................2 CLASSIFIEDS........................5
MARQUEE...................6 VIEWPOINTS..............8 SPORTS.......................10
NEWS
VIEWPOINTS
SPORTS
DPS
Doyle
Leary
Lawmakers vote to grant DPS police powers. PAGE 4
Commencement speeches bring college experiences full-circle. PAGE 8
The Marquette men did not deserve a place in the NIT. PAGE 11