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Jesuit Residence lands new gift

Schultz to explain veto of reserve fund cap

By Joe Kvartunas

joseph.kvartunas@marquette.edu

Oregon following closely behind with $9.10 per hour, though smaller municipalities within a state can mandate a wage requirement. For example, while California’s minimum wage is set at $8 each hour, the city of San Francisco recently increased its minimum wage to $10.55, making it the highest in the country.

The minimum wage debate drifted back into the spotlight when President Barack Obama announced his support of any congressional effort to raise the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour and to automatically adjust it with inflation in his 2013 State of the Union address. This February, the president issued an executive order increasing

Marquette Student Government President Sam Schultz will address the Senate in its weekly meeting Thursday evening to provide reasoning for his veto of the amendment that would cap the prior reserve fund at 50 percent of its total operating budget.

Legislative Vice President Kyle Whelton will recognize a motion to override the president’s veto. If that motion is seconded, Schultz will have four minutes to provide his rationale. Overturning the veto would require a three-fourths vote of the Senate, or 24 of the 31 seated senators. The Senate originally unanimously voted March 7 to pass the bill, known as Amendment 8.

Schultz has not yet provided details about his veto to the Tribune, only that he “has concerns with the legislation.”

“Me and the other cosponsors of the bill are looking forward to continuing the democratic process,” said Nathan Craft, the senator who authored the amendment. “We think we have a high level of support from both the student body and the administration.”

Craft, a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences, would not comment on whether there will be enough votes to override the veto when it returns to the floor Wednesday night. He did say, however, that he does not see a reason why any of the senators who voted in favor of it before would change their minds.

The reserve fund is a bank account into which MUSG puts all its unused budgeted funds from the previous fiscal year. A large contributor to the reserve fund is unused funds from the MUSG-controlled Student Organization Funding budget line. Any funds added to the reserve fund remain there until the Senate accesses it, which it can do for “capital goods” or “to solely sponsor or to subsidize the sponsorship of a qualifying student service,” according to the student government financial policies.

Under the cap, if the reserve fund grew to 50 percent of MUSG’s yearly operating budget, it would be capped and no additional funds could be added. Any unused funds from the previous year that would have been put in the fund would then be put in a holdings account

See Wages, Page 4

See Veto, Page 3

Photo courtesy of Lynn Sheka

The new Jesuit Residence will increase green space on campus and sit between Schroeder Hall and the Alumni Memorial Union.

Eckstein’s $5 million donation to go toward campus renovation

By Benjamin Lockwood

benjamin.lockwood@marquette.edu

A $5 million gift to the university from Ray and Kay Eckstein’s charitable trust will be used toward

the construction of the new Jesuit Residence, Interim University President the Rev. Robert A. Wild announced in his State of the University address Tuesday.

This donation will be added to the $7.5 million the university received by an anonymous donor earlier this year. Only $2.5 million is now needed to complete the funding necessary to begin construction, which is currently set at

$15 million.

Margaret Callahan, interim provost and dean of the College of Nursing, said in an email that the steady influx of charitable donations is “remarkable.”

“The speed with which Father Wild and our University Advancement team were able to raise these funds is a powerful statement for just how integral our Jesuit community is to the mission and iden-

tity of Marquette,” Callahan said.

Wild said in the address that the Jesuit building is being funded completely through donations.

The building, which will be constructed between Schroeder Hall and the Alumni Memorial Union, is planned to be environmentally friendly, will “emphasize the Jesuit commitment to higher education” See Donation, Page 3

Minimum wage concerns reach students Student employee wages range from $7.25 to $15 per hour

By Melanie Lawder

melanie.lawder@marquette.edu

For Rebecca Doyle, the wage she is paid by the university as a desk receptionist does not come close to covering all of her bills.

“I know, personally, the amount hours I could get per week as a DR was not enough on the minimum wage,” Doyle explained. “So I had to get a second job.”

Doyle, a sophomore in the College of Communication, is among one of the many students employed by the

university who receives just above the federal minimum wage of $7.25 for each hour of work. Andrew Brodzeller, associate director of university communication, said the university does not have total numbers of students receiving minimum wage.

“Each college, division and office determines the pay rate for individual student positions with the majority of the positions beginning at minimum wage,” Brodzeller said.

Responsible for paying for her own tuition and next year’s rent, Doyle had to take another job at Sobelman’s restaurant on campus to ensure she could cover all her expenses.

“Its just wasn’t enough to make ends meet,” Doyle said about working solely

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as a desk receptionist about seven hours per week.

MINIMUM WAGE IN THE U.S. Doyle’s situation is not unusual in Wisconsin and the 28 other states where the the federal level of $7.25 per hour sets the minimum wage for the state.

This means that the federal rate applies regardless if the state does not have any minimum wage law or if the minimum wage is set lower.

The remaining 21 states — including Wisconsin’s neighboring states of Illinois and Michigan — all have wages set above the federal mandate.

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DPS chief search ongoing after 6 months Interim leaders say they are ‘confident’ in current DPS positions

By Matt Kulling

matthew.kulling@marquette.edu

The search to find the next Department of Public Safety chief is in its sixth month, but the interim leaders who stepped in are comfortable in their new positions.

Interim Director for DPS Russell Shaw served under Larry Rickard, former DPS chief, as the assistant director and head of operations. Shaw now handles the duties of the chief and said he adjusted well to role. Shaw took over for Rickard in September after the latter retired.

“Being the right-hand man for the last 14 years put me in a

position many times where the chief was either here or on vacation or just counted on me to do certain tasks,” Shaw said. “I felt very confident that once he left that I would be able to do the job here the way it had been handled prior.”

Andrew Brodzeller, the associate director of university communication, said the DPS chief search committee has no deadline for the search, which will continue until a candidate is identified.

Until that candidate is selected, Shaw said he will continue making the most of his time as interim director.

“I feel very comfortable,” Shaw said. “When you have a good staff surrounding you, I think any good leader will tell you that the people that surround you are what make you good.”

He added that the interim

associate director of operations for DPS, Paul Mascari, is instrumental in the success of the department, along with the operations staff and foot officers.

Shaw and Mascari have a combined 33 years of experience serving DPS and work with more than 80 professional and 100 student staff members to lead the department.

When the DPS chief search started in October, Sgt. Jill Weisensel said she had some criteria for what she would like to see in the next head of DPS. “As far as hiring a new chief, I’d like to see someone with both a high level of education and previous experience in campus policing, who adheres to principles such as transparency, accountability, teamwork and professionalism,” Weisensel said.

Shaw also said candidates for the position might be

attracted to the job since the Wisconsin Legislature recently passed a bill allowing Marquette to commission a full police department.

Even without a deadline to find that candidate, Shaw said he is confident in Mascari’s and his temporary leadership.

“Institutionally, I know what the university wants, I know the neighborhood very well, our relationship with MPD has never been better,” Shaw said. “I think you put that all together, and it’s been a very smooth transition period for me.”

The university is also searching for a permanent president, provost, business dean and athletic director.

Tom Ganey, the vice president of planning, leads the DPS search committee, but could not be reached for comment.

MUSG candidates focus on SOF reform Executive VP hopefuls seek to bring fresh perspectives, ideas

By Joe Kvartunas

joseph.kvartunas@marquette.edu

One of the primary responsibilities of the Marquette Student Government executive vice president is to lead the Student Organization Allocations Committee, the group of senators and vice presidents responsible for distributing student organization funding to campus groups.

The Student Organization Allocations Committee, more commonly referred to as the SOF Committee, is an important topic around MUSG this year. Because all students pay $60 each year in a student activity fee, MUSG is responsible to allocate those funds to student organizations.

This spring, the three EVP candidates are eager to bring their own vision to the SOF process.

Rosie De Luca, a junior in the College of Business Administration, will be running for executive vice president alongside current Programs Vice President Tyler Tucky, a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences. De Luca holds the unique status of being the only EVP candidate with no previous affiliation to MUSG. Even though she was never being involved in MUSG or with SOF, De Luca held leadership positions within other organizations, most notably hunger clean-up.

Her lack of direct involvement with SOF, however, does not mean she lacks opinion about how it runs. So far, she thinks the process works — “but only to a certain degree.”

“If you are just satisfied with it floating by (then it works),” De Luca said. “I think that SOF can be a lot better. I think that students as leaders and members of organizations are a little bit frustrated by it a lot of the time, and that’s not the point of SOF and that isn’t the point of student government.”

Natalie Pinkney, a junior in the

DPS Reports March 14 At 1:53 a.m., a student vandalized university property in McCormick Hall causing an estimated $250 in damage.

March 15 At 12:04 a.m., DPS observed a person not affiliated with Marquette prowling outside of Olin Engineering. MPD was contacted and took the subject into custody.

March 17 At 1:30 p.m., an employee was found to have used a university credit card to

make non-MU related purchases.

Between March 17 at 9:45 p.m. and March 18 at 1:20 a.m., a student reported that unknown person(s) removed her unsecured, unattended property estimated at $2,312 from a business in the 700 block of N. 16th St. MPD was contacted.

March 15 At 12:34 a.m., an underage student was in possession of alcohol in McCormick Hall.

College of Arts & Sciences, is the running mate of Legislative Vice President Kyle Whelton, a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences. Pinkney served as a senator from Cobeen Hall her freshman year. Though she was not directly involved with SOF in her role as senator, she said she did deal with it a bit in her role on the Student Organizations Committee.

“There has been so much frustration from student organizations,” Pinkney said. “It’s time for a new outlook on it. It’s time for a new set of eyes.”

Pinkney said she understands the frustration of the student organizations that are not familiar with the process. She said some of the implied requirements for the SOF application — like requiring groups to know all the details of an event months in advance — can make the application challenging.

Pinkney also stressed an interest in working with all student organizations that applied for funding in the past on the changes that will be made to SOF by the ad hoc review committee.

Marguerite Biagi, a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences, will be the running mate of this year’s Executive Vice President Zach Bowman, also a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences. She served as the elections coordinator for MUSG last semester.

Biagi is open about her limited experience with SOF. She was never directly in charge of it for an organization, but has assisted in the application process.

“I believe that the funding should be distributed in full to Marquette student organizations,” Biagi said in an email.

“Therefore, it would be my main purpose as chair to ensure that the money that all students pay into (with their student activity fee) is being distributed and utilized to student organizations.”

Biagi also said she wants to increase the consistency regarding SOF decisions. Consistency became an issue this year after the SOF Committee deviated in its reasoning when allocating money to MARDI GRAS.

Events Calendar MARCH 2014

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Thursday 20 BSO Bake Sale, Lalumiere Hall, 10 a.m.

Night of Chocolate: Tour de Chocolate, AMU Ballrooms, 7 p.m.

Acoustic Blu, Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, 7:30 p.m.

Cheech & Chong and WAR, The Riverside Theater, 7 p.m.

Friday 21 Colores Cultural Show, Weasler Auditorium, 6 p.m.

Childish Gambino, The Rave, 8 p.m.

Milwaukee Repertory Theater presents

Saturday 22 Jim Jeffries, Pabst Theater, 7 p.m.

Billy Currington, The Rave, 8 p.m.

Sunday 23 Harmony for Hope, Weasler Auditorium, 6 p.m.

Billy Currington, The Rave, 8 p.m.

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MKE bus ridership lags behind national numbers Student passengers still utilizing city’s public transportation

By Matt Barbato

matthew.barbato@marquette.edu

Milwaukee County buses saw a decrease of more than 1 million riders since last year, but that decline isn’t affecting the amount of Marquette students using their UPASSes. According to a ridership report by the American Public Transportation Association at the end of last month, 43 million people rode buses in 2013, which is a decrease of about 2 percent from 2012 and 8 million fewer trips than in 2007.

The study also said national bus ridership only declined by .1 percent, which contrasts with the large decrease in Milwaukee.

These numbers do not seem to affect student ridership, which stayed relatively consistent over the years, said Andrew Brodzeller, associate director of university communication.

“All full-time undergraduate students have access to the

UPASS program,” Brodzeller said in an email. “We have not seen a change in the number of full-time undergraduate students who pick up their UPASS, which has hovered around 70 percent.”

Undergraduate students may pick up a UPASS, which is one of students’ required fees, at Union Station in the AMU every semester. The UPASS allows them to ride any Milwaukee County bus at any hour of the day.

D.J. Vogt, a junior in the College of Communication, said he uses his bus pass about twice a month.

He said he finds the UPASS to be a valuable resource for getting around Milwaukee.

“The buses take you pretty much anywhere you want to go,” Vogt said in an email.

“The limo doesn’t go down to places like Water Street so it’s more convenient.”

Although Vogt finds the value in having a UPASS, he admits that there are some downsides to taking the bus, such as timeliness and safety.

“The scheduled bus route times are often off by a significant amount of time,” Vogt said. “The late night route is usually tough to predict and seems unsafe.”

Brian Corbett, a junior in the

College of Communication, however, said he hasn’t picked up his bus pass since his freshman year.

“I’ve felt that if I need a bus pass, one of my friends will have one for me to borrow,” Corbett said.

“It just takes up space in my wallet if I get one.”

Corbett said he usually goes off campus about four or five times a week to go to Marquette basketball games, go downtown or buy groceries.

“Sometimes, my friends and I will take a cab, if we’re going downtown to the Bradley Center or some other venue,” Corbett said. “But for the most part I try to find someone with a car. If all else fails, I’ll try to find someone with a bus pass I can borrow, but that’s the last option.”

Brodzeller said about 1,100 24-hour parking passes are given out by Parking Services and an additional 900 commuter passes annually. This total represents about 17 percent of the 11,700 undergraduate, graduate, full-time and part-time students on Marquette’s campus.

Corbett said he doesn’t use the UPASS just because he has easy access to a car, but also because he hasn’t had great experiences on the Milwaukee County buses.

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Donation: Contribution follows an anonymous $10 million gift in January

Photo by J. Matthew Serafin/matthew.serafin@marquette.edu

Interim University President the Rev. Robert Wild announces the financial gift at the State of the Union address Tuesday.

and will underscore “the university’s identity and tradition as a Catholic, Jesuit institution.”

Callahan said the university “stands on the doorstep of a milestone that will ensure the future of our Jesuits, who have such a profound spiritual, educational and transformational effect on our students and

our Marquette community.”

The Ecksteins, through their charitable trust, have a history of donating to Marquette, not least of which was their $51 million gift to the university in 2007, which at the time was the largest donation to a Wisconsin college or university, according to the university news release. It was

topped only by the $175 million donation to the Fund for Wisconsin Scholars from Tashia and John Morgridge, which went to the University of Wisconsin system in late 2007, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Lynn Sheka, associate director of university communication, said in an email that the charitable trust set up by the Ecksteins is not specifically for donating to Marquette, though, “the Ecksteins have long prioritized giving to the Jesuit community because of their experiences with Jesuit education.” Both Ecksteins attended Marquette, and Ray attended the Champion Jesuit High School in Prairie du Chien, Wis. “We have always prioritized the Jesuits in our giving by supporting the Wisconsin Province, Marquette University and Jesuit priests,” Ray Eckstein told the university. “We were inspired by the initial lead gift to build a new Jesuit Residence at Marquette, and this was an opportunity to do something extraordinary to honor the Jesuits and their important work.”

Construction of the new Jesuit Residence was announced in January.

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Veto: Cosponsors of dismissed bill seek necessary Senate votes to override veto established by the Office of the Comptroller. At the beginning of the next fall semester, student organizations would have the opportunity to offer proposals to the MUSG Budget Committee for the use of the funds. The committee is then tasked with creating an “Unanticipated Funds Proposal” based on its discretion as to how the funds should be allocated.

Earlier this year, the reserve fund held $254,493.36, amounting to 54 percent of MUSG’s total

Me and the other cosponsors of the bill are looking forward to continuing the democratic process.”

Nathan Craft, Junior, College of Arts & Sciences budget. The university comptroller removed $42,000 from the fund, bringing the reserve to $212,000, or 45 percent of this MUSG’s operating budget this year.

The cap would only come into

effect once the reserve fund crossed the 50 percent margin. If the reserve fund fell beneath that mark, the cap will be lifted. The cap will be reinstituted once the reserve fund crosses the margin again.

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Despite a decrease in one million riders, students still collect the UPASS, which can be used on any Milwaukee County bus.

“I never seem to have a normal bus ride,” Corbett said.

“There seems to be some sort of commotion, someone not paying or it’s crowded. This hasn’t prevented me from taking the bus if I need to, but I prefer to get a ride from a friend I know rather than take the bus alone.”

Corbett added that he isn’t sure of the bus schedules and was frustrated by lengthy wait times.

He also doesn’t like the frequent stops made by some buses every couple of blocks.

“I’ve waited 25 minutes before the bus I need to take actually shows up to my stop,” Corbett said. “Usually, if I’m downtown on Wisconsin (Avenue), I’ll walk back before I take the bus just because it seems quicker.”

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Wages: Pay increase could affect university budget

the minimum wage of federal Duane Swank, a professor of government workers to $10.10 political science who specialduring his 2014 State of the izes in labor policy, said chancUnion address. es of a federal minimum wage Obama’s executive order fol- increase are “greater now than lows 13 states that raised their they are in past years,” due to minimum wage requirement at rising income inequality. Howthe beginning of this year. ever, he said he doubts it will The wage of $10.10, which happen during the Obama adwould also be indexed to infla- ministration, unless the Demotion, is the goal for most pro- crats gain the majority in both ponents of increasing the fed- houses in the 2016 elections. eral minimum wage because, Likewise in Wisconsin, according to a Feb. 18 study Swank said he does not exfrom the Congressional Budget pect any sweeping legislation Office, this new wage would anytime soon. increase the income of 16.5 “I don’t see a political scemillion people and lift 900,000 nario that would shift in the people above the poverty thresh- next one to two years,” Swank old. The CBO said. With a also predicted Republican the $10.10 wage in the goverwould cost nor’s office the economy and a Repub500,000 jobs. lican majorThe last time ity in both the federal minithe State Asmum saw an sembly and increase was in State Sen2009, when the ate, a minifederal governmum wage ment set the increase by wage at $7.25.

Rebecca Doyle, Cobeen Hall the state is desk receptionist far more unBut despite this new attenlikely in Wistion on minimum labor wages, consin than in Congress. it is not likely to gain any feaIn Wisconsin, public opinsible traction in Congress. The ion polls are mixed, deRepublican majority in the U.S. pending on the institution House of Representatives will that conducted it. likely strike down any legislaAccording to a Marquette tion that would hike wages.

Law Poll, 62 of Wisconsin votMultiple bills were introduced ers percent favor an increase in the House on the subject, but in the minimum wage with 35 all were stalled in the House percent opposing the increase.

Committee on Education and However, after the respondents the Workforce. Most recently, were reminded the minimum Rep. Tim Bishop (D-N.Y.) filed wage was set at $7.25, 25 pera petition to discharge the Fair cent said it should remain where Minimum Wage Act of 2013 it is, 33 percent said it should be from the committee, which increased to about $9 per hour, amassed 196 cosponsors. The 25 percent said it should be Senate counterpart, written by around $10 per hour, 5 percent Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), was said about $11 per hour and 10 referred to the Committee on percent said it should be $12 or Health, Education, Labor and more per hour.

Pensions, where it awaits furA study from the Wisconsin ther action.

Manufacturers & Commerce

It’s a great job, there are a lot of perks to it. But for the hoops we have to jump through to get it, there isnt enough compensation.”

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Breakdown of the wages of common jobs on campus* Jobs Residence Dining Hall jobs

Residence Dining Retail

Catering jobs

Union Sports Annex

Department of Recreational Sports/Rec Cetner

Wages Residence dining employee: $7.75/hour Residence dining shift leader: $8.50/hour Residence dining shift manager: $9/hour

Office of Residence Life Student Educational Services

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

Donato Guida, director of residence dining

Donato Guida, director of residence dining

Catering employee (general): $8/hour Catering table server: $6/hour, plus additional tips Catering prep cook: $8.25/hour Catering shift leader: $8.60/hour Catering shift manager: $9/hour

10 to 35 cents

Donato Guida, director of residence dining

Union Sports Annex general labor: $8/hour Union Sports Annex server: $4/hour, plus tips Union Sports Annex bartender: $5.90/hour, plus tips Union Sports Annex host: $8/hour Union Sports Annex shift leader: $8.60/hour Union Sports Annex shift manager: $9.40/hour

10 to 35 cents

Donato Guida, director of residence dining

Service Staff: $7.50/hour Certified group fitness instructors: $10.15/hour

1 percent to 4 percent

Debbie Swanson, associate director of recreational sports

Not disclosed

Adam LaRock, advancement officer

10 to 15 cents

Sgt. Daniel Kolosovsky, Student Safety Programs

LIMO drivers: $9/hour (after probationary period) Barista: $8/hour

Renee Georgiev, supervisor of Brew Cafes

15 cents

Desk receptionist: $7.35/hour

Undergraduate tutors: $7.70/hour Graduate tutors: $9/hour

Not disclosed

Rick Arcuri, Office of Resident Life associate dean for administration

25 cents

Dawn Barrett, associate director of tutorial program

*The Alumni Memorial Union, the Office of Admissions for tour guides and the Raynor Memorial Library did not respond to the Tribune’s request for student salaries.

Infographic by Maddy Kennedy/madeline.kennedy@marquette.edu

yielded different results. This February, a poll among Wisconsin voters found that if respondents were informed of job losses that would result from a minimum wage raise, they were less likely to support it. With that, 51 percent were against a raise and 39 percent were in favor.

Minimum wage at the state level will most likely get attention in this year’s governor election, as Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke publicly supported a $10.10 requirement.

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Rebecca Doyle, a Cobeen desk receptionist, had to get a second job at Sobelman’s because her student wages do not suffice.

10 to 35 cents

10 to 35 cents

Phonathan callers: $8.50/hour, plus

Brew Cafes

Sources

Retail employee: $8/hour Retail shift leader: $8.50/hour Retail shift manager: $9/hour

Marquette University additional opportunities for Phonathan bi-weekly bonuses Department of Public Saftey

Average increase in salary

For Marquette students — and other college students in Wisconsin — student wages can be expected to stay roughly the same. But what would happen at Marquette if the federal minimum wage was raised to $9 or $10.10 as suggested by its proponents?

As of now, Brodzeller said the university’s budget planning process includes forecasting models for student employee wages. The forecasts are updated regularly and allow the university to plan for potential increases.

“Suggestions to change the minimum wage have been raised at the state and national level, but they are only proposals and it is unclear when they will be considered,” Brodzeller said in an email. “The proposals indicate the earliest any change would go into effect is July 1, 2016. The university will continue to monitor the topic.”

Swank said if Wisconsin was hit with a minimum wage increase, however, Marquette

I don’t see a political scenario that would shift in the next one to two years.”

Duane Swank., professor of political science would likely feel some “modest” effects from the hike. He suggested the university may try to absorb the costs through raising tuition and potentially reducing the number of student jobs available.

At Marquette, student employees can be paid anywhere from $7.25 to $15 per hour depending on the qualifications and skills needed for a specific job. Starting wages at Marquette are broken down into five grade levels, with the lowest-skilled jobs that require no prior experience starting from $7.25 to $8.25 per hour and the highest paying jobs starting from $8.20 to 15.00 per hour. Jobs paying at this highest level require a high level of competence, special skills and sometimes independent research, undergraduate education and previous technical training, according to the Marquette Central website Among the students who get paid the federal minimum or slightly higher include the university tutors, desk receptionists and service staff at the Rec Center. Student jobs with the highest-paying starting salaries include Department of Public Safety LIMO drivers with a starting wage of $9 per hour, Phonathan callers at $8.50 per hour, university dining shift managers at $9 per hour and the Rec Center’s certified group fitness experts at $10.15 per hour.

The Tribune also reached out

to both Raynor Library, the Office of Admissions and the Alumni Memorial Union, but did not receive a response for an inquiry about student salaries by press time.

For students like Doyle employed in the lower pay grades, the low wages combined with the university’s limit on the number of hours a student can work translates into the reality that one university job is not enough for students to financially support themselves. Even if Doyle worked all 20 hours — which she said is a rarity for student desk receptionists — she would still be making less than $150 each week.

It is Marquette’s policy that students employees work no more than 20 hours during the academic year, according to Marquette Central’s website. Though the school makes exceptions, during academic breaks, where students can work up to 37.5 hours, overtime hours are not allowed.

Doyle said this was one of the reasons she will not be returning to her job as a desk receptionist next year.

“It’s a great job, there are a lot of perks to it,” Doyle said. “But for the hoops we have to jump through to get it, there isn’t enough compensation.”

With the rising costs of tuition, she said she needs a job with a wage that will rise with it.

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MUSG event serves chocolate treats of international origins

By Brian Keogh

brian.keogh@marquette.edu

The annual Night of Chocolate is one of Marquette Student Government’s most anticipated events. Traditionally, the Night of Chocolate was held in February as one of Marquette’s biggest Valentine’s Day activities, complete with chocolate binging and the holiday’s ubiquitous pink boxes.

However, this year’s installment moved to March, so MUSG put a different spin on everyone’s favorite sugar fest. Marquette’s first Tour de Chocolate will be held at 7 p.m. in the AMU Ballrooms Thursday.

Now distanced from Valentine’s Day, this year might not be as romantic, but the Tour de Chocolate will feature various forms of the addictive treat from across the world.

The tour will feature chocolate from various countries including Belgium, France, Switzerland and the United States. Guests can expect other international treats like Swiss hot chocolate, Belgian waffles and crepes with Nutella. Some treats aren’t so familiar to American palettes. One from India consists of a curry spice chocolate and from Australia, a chocolate truffle rice crispy ball.

“We were happy to move it away from (the traditional date in February), we had a lot of people say that they had other plans for Valentine’s Day every year making it difficult to go to this,” said Tyler Tucky, a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences and program vice president.

“So this way, with it in March, we are giving people a separate option to an event they look forward to every year.”

Making sure people are available to come is especially important because the event is one of MUSG’s bigger events.

“Night of Chocolate is by far one of the largest events we throw each year,” Tucky, a MUSG presidential candidate, said, “and it’s one of the most expensive events we throw

each year.”

Organizers worked with a budget of $6,000 to cover catering and the publicity surrounding the event. With such a large price tag, the $5 entry fee is used to cover the operating expenses of the event.

Attendees were required to dress in formal attire for the Valentine’sthemed event of past years. Although there is no dress code this year, grabbing your nicer threads is still recommended.

“We recommend dressing up,” Tucky said. “We won’t kick you out if you’re not, but this is a fun event to dress up for.”

Trevor Thiess, a senior in the College of Engineering, remembers getting halfheartedly dressed up to go the event his sophomore year and meeting his future girlfriend.

“Everyone got really dressed up for it,” Thiess said, “and I went with like six girls and wanted to walk there. It was slightly snowing, but they were all wearing heels except for one girl who was wearing flats and agreed to walk over there with me.”

It was a sign of things to come.

“We got there and there was all

this chocolate everywhere,” Thiess reminisced. “I was having a crazy time shoving huge amounts of chocolate into my mouth, but these girls were sitting there carefully eating it with forks and knives and I looked over and (the girl I walked over with) was also just using her hands to eat all of the chocolate.

That’s when I knew I was going to ask her out.”

Like all good things, the idea for this year’s Night of Chocolate theme was no individual person’s brain child.

“We brainstormed as a program board to come up with a fun new idea for this year” said Mary Maruggi, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences and MUSG programs commissioner.

The people supplying the chocolate were instrumental in the committee’s decision to go with a Tour de Chocolate.

“It’s an event that we do every year,” Maruggi said. “It’s a really fun event and we work closely with catering to get fun new ideas.”

A little over a month since the last large chocolate holiday, this event is the ideal way for students to submit themselves to a little harmless indulgence on a Thursday night.

Tickets will be available at the door although those looking to avoid lines would be wise to purchase them ahead at the Brooks Lounge.

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With a $5 ticket, students get access to all-you-can-eat chocolate desserts.

Charles M. Schulz

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Theater group hosts event to show power of poetry Poetry slam, film screening remembers iconic poet Ginsberg

By Hannah Byron Special to the Tribune

Poetry may seem like an art form of the past, but this neglected and under-appreciated art will be celebrated in Milwaukee Thursday night.

Live poetry performances and a screening of Rob Epstein’s film “HOWL” will be presented

by SkylightENSEMBLE and NEWaukee at the Marcus Theater, located in the lower level of Grand Avenue Mall. “HOWL” follows the life of the iconic poet Allen Ginsberg (James Franco) as he struggles to write the poem for which the film is named.

Members of Pyramid Rising Enterprises will begin the poetry readings at 7 p.m. with the film following at 7:30 p.m.

Emily Vitrano, the audience development manager at the Skylight Music Theatre, said the “HOWL” screening and poetry event is a conjunction with Skylight Music Theatre’s production of “Hydrogen Jukebox,” a play featuring the music of Philip Glass and poetry from Allen Ginsberg. The incorporation of Ginsberg’s work from the 1950s through the 1980s

inspired the event.

“Since ‘HOWL,’ being one of Ginsberg’s most recognized pieces, is a part of (Skylight Music Theatre’s) production, we thought it would be fun to screen the movie,” Vitrano said, “and then invite everyone from the screening back to Skylight to see the production of ‘Hydrogen Jukebox.’”

Vitrano said the SkylightENSEMBLE event will help attendees better understand Ginsberg’s work, familiarize themselves with live poetry readings and witness the powerful impact of the spoken word.

“I think Allen Ginsberg is a huge cultural icon, but I think in some respects he might be forgotten or might not be known by a younger generation,” she said.

“So I think students should be excited to come and experience something out of the box and get to know Allen Ginsberg a little bit better. He’s a fantastic poet, but was also a huge icon in terms of freedom of speech and revolution in a number of different ways.”

Vitrano said she is most looking forward to the live poetry performances, an art form she thinks is not covered as much as other cultural expressions.

“We have live poetry events at the performance as well,” Vitrano said. “The theater only holds like 40 people so, it’s going to be a really tight knit group of people who are going

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Attendees will see a screening of “HOWL,” starring James Franco, after live poetry readings at the Marcus Theater.

to see these live poetry performances and that isn’t done so much anymore. So, I’m pumped to see that live performance and watch the movie and share this great experience with people who are also interested in this subject matter.”

SkylightENSEMBLE is a group of performers age 21 to 45 who work directly with Skylight Music Theatre. Its goal is to reach out to younger audiences in hopes of getting more viewers interested in Skylight

and attending its productions.

“It’s basically access events, that’s how I would describe (SkylightENSEMBLE),” Vitrano said. “It’s a way to get to know Skylight without necessarily having to come and see a show first and kind of get to know us, get to know who we are. Then, they might be more willing to come and see a production.”

Students interested in attending can register online through Newaukee or Skylight Music Theatre. Tickets are $5. Early registration is recommended due to limited seating.

California’s film industry needs tax breaks to survive

Claire Nowak I had a few general expectations when I visited Los Angeles for the first time. The beaches would be crowded, the temperature would never fall below 55 degrees and the undeniable haze of smog would cover the sky.

But I was not expecting to fall in love, especially as a 12-year-old.

During that two-week vacation, I became increasingly attached to the people and environment of Southern California. But what captivated me the most was being so close to Hollywood, the entertainment capital of the world.

Just 10 minutes away down U.S. Highway 101, directors were shouting “Action!” on the set of their latest blockbusters, creating movie magic that I so desperately wanted to be part of. I nearly cried when our flight home eventually left LAX for General Mitchell International Airport.

For more than a century, filmmakers have been equally smitten with the Golden State. In 1911, Nestor Studios became the first movie studio located in Hollywood. More companies eager to embrace Hollywood’s

year-round temperate climate followed suit. By the 1950s, there were eight major film studios in Hollywood with no worthy competitor anywhere else in the country.

But over the past 15 years, California is slowly losing its title as the hot spot for film production as film crews move to other locations. Los Angeles alone lost almost 60 percent of its film production in that time. According to a Variety article released earlier this month, only one of the 41 “big-budget feature films”shot in 2012 and 2013 was filmed entirely in California.

Even films set in California aren’t being shot on location.

Some are taken to a different continent altogether, like “San Andreas,” an upcoming film in which a helicopter pilot saves his daughter from a 10.0 earthquake in San Francisco. Shooting starts in four weeks, but the crew will only spend six days in San Francisco. The rest will be shot in Australia.

There’s no personal motive in this migration; it’s just business.

California’s current tax incentive program allocates $100 million a year for movie and TV production. Considering states like New York offer more than $400 million in tax credits, it’s not nearly tempting enough to keep people working on the West Coast.

In February, California Assemblyman Raul Bocanegra (D) proposed a bill that would increase film and television tax credits well beyond what they are now. If California wants to stay a frontrunner in film production, it needs to step up to the

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Southern California held a monopoly on American film production for decades because of Hollywood film studios.

plate and implement these tax breaks. Otherwise, it will continue to lose money, jobs and its historic reputation.

Hollywood no longer has the monopoly on film production it once had in the early 20th century. Like any other private business, production companies are first and foremost looking to make a profit. If Vancouver offers a more competitive tax incentive to producers shooting a movie set in L.A., economics overtakes authenticity.

In a recent article from The Hollywood Reporter, former California Assemblyman Bob Blumenfield said the state would need to raise its tax incentive

program to somewhere between $500 million and $1 billion a year for the next several years to make up for the emigration of the industry. It’s a large jump, but even increasing it to $400 million would make it more competitive with other budding film sites.

It would also grow the local economy and bring back desperately needed jobs. The Daily Caller recently reported that “every job lost in the film industry results in a loss of $112,000 in spending in the local economy.”

Nearly 10,000 jobs in one-hour television program production were lost over the last decade. Based on those numbers, a properly allocated tax incen-

tive could have saved over one billion dollars.

And why stop there? Right now, the state is just giving tax breaks as necessary under threat of companies taking their business elsewhere. If such a hightaxing state needs to doll out $1 billion incentives, what could be done if taxes were reduced across the board?

But that’s a topic for another column.

Claire Nowak is a sophomore studying journalism and writing-intensive English.

Contact Claire at claire.nowak@marquette. edu or @TheClaireNowak with comments.

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Tony Manno,Viewpoints Editor Elena Fransen, Assistant Editor Tessa Fox, Editor-in-Chief Sarah Hauer, Managing Editor Patrick Leary, Sports Editor Joe Kaiser, News Editor Alec Brooks, Copy Chief Rob Gebelhoff, Projects Editor Maddy Kennedy, Visual Content Editor Claire Nowak, Marquee Editor Rebecca Rebholz, Photo Editor

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Bitcoin, an online currency doomed to fail

STAFF EDITORIAL

MUSG amendment fails to plan for use of excess funds Eric Oliver

Illustration by Ellery Fry/ellery.fry@marquette.edu

Our view: The MUSG amendment to cap its reserve fund has noticable shortcomings that need to be addressed before it can be put into action.

Marquette Student Government President Sam Schultz vetoed an amendment Tuesday that would limit the growth of student government’s reserve fund by placing a cap at 50 percent of MUSG’s total operating budget.

The Senate passed the amendment unanimously, making Schultz the only official opponent within student government.

Schultz told the Tribune that while he does not believe the Senate drafted a bad amendment, he vetoed the bill hoping his additional concerns could be discussed during MUSG’s meeting Thursday night. We hope Schultz shares some of the Tribune’s own concerns about the amendment.

It is great MUSG is finally taking the initiative to handle inefficient rules that dictate how money is placed into the much-too-inflated reserve fund, but this draft of the bill does not adequately resolve the issues with the reserve fund.

MUSG should not pass legislation to cap the reserve fund without first coming up with a plan to spend the money already in place.

Without tackling the sheer size of the reserve fund before setting a cap, MUSG is setting itself up for future problems.

The current version of the amendment fails to address the massive amount of cash already sitting in the reserve fund — more than $212,000 — that should be used in part to fund initiatives for students who are already on campus. It seems the amendment was drafted by MUSG with only partial consideration of the problems with the fund in the first place.

An amendment establishing the cap should only be passed once MUSG addresses the allocation of a higher percentage of the reserve.

The majority of those funds come from students – through student activity fees – and students have a right to see them come back in their interest.

And while student government should work to prevent the reserve from growing, keeping 50 percent in reserve is too much.

This year, the reserve fund was reduced from $254,493.36 to $212,000, after the comptroller removed about $42,000 this semester. This places the current reserve at 45 percent of the operating budget – below the proposed cap and still with some more room to grow.

The amendment does set a reasonable standard for the money that flows over the cap: It is to be allocated for spending the following academic year. This year’s graduates will not see their money spent, though. As the Tribune stated in an editorial Jan. 23, this money should be spent based on an open forum with student input and, considering the size of the reserve, MUSG needs to plan how to spend it before the cap is set.

MUSG should only consider alterations to the current reserve fund once all the ramifications have been considered. The amendment the Senate voted on does not account for the massive fund that 50 percent of MUSG’s operating budget could create — and the one that already exists.

If MUSG does not draft a comprehensive amendment addressing the issues facing the reserve fund, it only sets the stage for more problems for future MUSG administrations and allows the reserve fund to remain bloated.

Hopefully, Thursday’s discussion will send the amendment in the right direction before it comes around for another vote.

Bitcoin used to be the future of Internet currency. I predict the popular cryptocurrency is on its way out after the collapse of one of its largest exchanges.

When its biggest exchange, MtGox, closed its doors and filed for bankruptcy last week after the loss of slightly less than 750,000 Bitcoins valued at $350 million. The future of the cryptocurrency was left up in the air.

Bitcoin started operating on the Internet in 2009 for a few cents a coin. Today, its value is in a state of constant fluctuation, but is trading around $600 per Bitcoin. Until recently the coins could only be spent online, but a minuscule number of retailers and food establishments have begun to accept the virtual coin as payment. To buy Bitcoins, you operate through an exchange, an online marketplace where you can buy and sell the coins using the currency of your choice. A Bitcoin ATM and various Bitcoin vaults to store your virtual currency in the safety and security of a physical building have also been established.

The coins themselves are an alternative to physical currency but, unlike the American dollar, are currently unbacked and loosely regulated.

Both of these circumstances could be disastrous in the long run.

MtGox, originally set up as a market exchange for the game “Magic the Gathering,” was one of the largest traders of Bitcoins. Right before it shut down, the currency was trading above $1,000, and afterward it dropped to around $500.

The big problem here was that MtGox was uninsured. So unless governments and financial institutions deem

otherwise, $350 million is missing, and there is nothing the owners can do about it. The most unnerving part is that the team at MtGox has no idea where the money is. As investigators explore the idea that MtGox’s collapse was caused by hackers trying to make a quick buck, the cryptocurrency is going to plummet.

As for the future of the cryptocurrency, I don’t think there should be one. Bitcoin is an interesting idea, but unless it can secure some sort of monetary backing, likely from the Fed, it will never work.

That is an unlikely possibility as the U.S. government believes online currency is associated with the sale of illegal drugs.

The market is fluctuating too rampantly, causing wide price discrepancies. Also, exchanges are not secure, with hackers frequently stealing massive quantities of the currency and getting off scot-free.

Another big problem is the lack of market adaptation in the economy.

If Bitcoin were more than an online, niche currency, the market would’ve adapted to suit it. Sure, some places, like a Subway in Pennsylvania and various charities, take it as payment, but if you walked into a Target or a McDonald’s and tried to pay with a Bitcoin, you would just receive blank stares. If Bitcoin were taken seriously, a larger part of the market would adopt it.

I don’t see the market expanding to accommodate Bitcoin. No regulators are stepping forward to back it, and stable growth and a sustainable economic model for its control and regulation are nonexistent. My money definitely won’t go toward supporting it in its current form.

The only thing I see is a very active Reddit community talking about the plummeting price of Bitcoin as the market panics and investors sell off their coins. If Bitcoin wants to be taken seriously, its exchanges have to meet in some sort of constitutional convention and regulation needs to be figured out.

The current model clearly isn’t working.

Unless these issues are addressed, expect to see Bitcoin in the footnotes of an economics textbook in a chapter about failed currencies.

Eric Oliver is a senior studying journalism and writing-intensive English. Email Eric at eric.oliver@ marquette.edu with any comments or suggestions.

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Pistorius’ story goes beyond recent allegations

Nick Biggi One day, South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius is an international hero. The next, he is reviled as a killer.

Pistorius, otherwise known as the “Blade Runner” as a result of his legs being amputated from the knee down at age 11, won gold six times in the Paralympic games. He

is most well known though for sprinting in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where he was the first amputee runner in Olympic history. During the closing ceremonies, he was chosen to carry the South African flag, signifying the mark he left over the two-week competition.

Six months after the Olympics, Reeva Steencamp, girlfriend of Pistorius, was found dead in the Blade Runner’s home as a result of gunshot. Pistorius admitted to firing the shots that killed Steencamp, but claims he thought his girlfriend was an intruder.

What Pistorius achieved athletically is unbelievable; he is an amazing voice for those with disabilities. But the man who was once referred to as “Superman” wiped out practically every image the world previously had of him.

The value that we place on athletes extends to off the court, field, pool or track. Because we place so much significance on the abilities of those we most likely do not know, there is a denial that they have any faults at all.

Sure, I have my role models. Growing up, I wanted to be tennis great Andre Agassi. He rarely ever missed the ball, but also maintained flair at Wimbledon no one else was willing to expose. And then, following his retirement, Agassi published an autobiography detailing crystal meth use during his career.

He even went so far as to say he always hated the sport of tennis.

Following the admission, I thought to myself: ‘Do I like tennis?’ Is Andre really a role model?’ To this day, I still have a Nike shoe signed by the eight-time grand slam champion, but I found it more important to follow Agassi’s tennis skill rather than his moral code.

The truth is that athletes are people just like us; they just happen to be gifted in a way different than most. We need to value an athlete for their sport, an actor for their performance or a singer for their voice – not for what they do outside of their craft.

The Pistorius defense team is in now a pickle, to say the least. During Wednesday’s

trial, a police ballistics expert revealed that Steencamp was standing in front of the closed bathroom door and was hit in the hip after the first shot was fired. Therefore, the defense’s witness says Pistorius would have heard her screams before the following three gunshots.

Pistorius has a large tattoo on his left shoulder blade, part of which reads “I execute each strike with intent.” It’s an unlikely argument for prosecution to take, but the ink is ironic in the case of a man claiming to have accidentally killed his girlfriend.

I am no lawyer, but the idea that Pistorius did not know what going on that night is a little far-fetched. It makes me wonder why I ever thought Pistorius was remarkable was for competing in the London games. In fact, I could not wait to see where the games in Rio took him. Pistorius is an incredible athlete, but he just may not be an incredible person.

Nick Biggi is a sophomore studying advertising.

Email Nick at nicholas.biggi@marquette.edu with any comments or suggestions.

Science funding raises questions about motivations

Tony Manno If you haven’t caught the first two episodes of “Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey,” I can’t recommend it enough. Neil deGrasse Tyson’s series is proving a worthy successor to Carl Sagan’s original, taking advantage of updated scientific information and state-of-the-art animation to narrate his story of the universe.

The series takes on the same goal of the original: to educate the public about the big mysteries of science by looking to history and into the future in a way that is accessible to both children and adults. It’s fantastic.

Since 2009, President Obama made himself a proponent of science too. His push for young people to get interested in science zeroed in on universities. He highlights the importance of science, technology,

engineering and mathematics (STEM) majors and the research those students do with his “Educate to Innovate” campaign, which aims to encourage 10 million more students to pursue STEM studies within the next decade. He even introduced the new “Cosmos” when it premiered on a whopping 10 Fox network channels and in 181 countries a couple weeks ago.

But when hearing these words from the president – from any modern politician or corporate bureaucrat, for that matter – we have to look for the strings attached.

According to the National Science Foundation, $3 billion is sent from the Pentagon every year and funneled directly into universities for what they call “research and development.” About $1 billion more goes to schools through corporate middlemen via closely tied university professors and consultants. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology alone pulls in around $750 million in research funding every year from the Department of Defense.

In total, the Department of Defense spends about $10 billion more in adjusted dollars on research and development than was spent in the mid-1980s, a few years after Sagan’s “Cosmos” series aired.

Science has a dark side, and this money funds it. It replaces exploration with destruction. It’s the side that leads to the creation

of napalm, nukes, ICBMs or weaponized drones – almost all of which hide under the veil of ‘defense’ and ‘national security.’ This is not science; and yet, how many of those 10 million new STEM majors will end up supporting it with their work?

It’s a shame, because I think science is special. It is a catch-all area of study that floats in a balance between technological advancement and the humanities. As humans, it allows us to wonder about the big questions: our place in the universe, where we came from, if we’re alone. To me, it’s spiritual. It’s everything.

But the science that contributes to military endeavors fights against all that science stands for, making a mockery of the university as a space for critical thinking and research that helps humanity progress. It’s astounding: the military-industrial-academic complex can take so many great minds away from real science and channel them into the science that funds warfare and destruction.

In its purest form, science is meant to satisfy the curiosity we all have about our place in the universe. This has thus far been the aim of both “Cosmos” series. We should take the advice and focus on science, but the advice shouldn’t come from a politician.

We should take it from Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse Tyson. We should take it from scientists who are trying to end the scourge of

cancers and diseases. We should take it from many university professors who are dedicated to building this world rather than crippling it. We should take it from BICEP2 researchers, who on Monday announced evidence of the very first gravitational waves emitted by the Big Bang, one of the most significant astronomical discoveries in recent history.

Sagan’s original “Cosmos” was an international phenomenon. Since its premiere on PBS in 1980 amid the escalation of the Cold War, over 500 million people have watched it. In its thirteenth and final episode, Sagan opened a conversation with viewers about the threat posed by stockpiled nuclear weapons.

“The world impoverishes itself by spending half a trillion dollars a year in preparations for war and by employing perhaps half the scientists and high technologists on the planet in military endeavors …We have heard the rationales offered by the superpowers. We know who speaks for the nations; but who speaks for the human species? Who speaks for Earth?”

He makes an important argument. Take the advice – just be careful who you hear it from.

Tony Manno is a senior studying writing-intensive English. Email Tony with any comments or suggestions at anthony.manno@marquette.edu.

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Thursday, March 20, 2014

Lacrosse opens Big East play

Photo by Maggie Bean/Marquette Images

Villanova may not have a high-powered offenese, but its defense has prove to be stellar. Redshirt junior Ben Dvorak (above) will be part of the Marquette attack to break that defense.

Match versus ‘Nova will be the program’s first Big East game

By Andrew Dawson

andrew.dawson@marquette.edu

The men’s lacrosse team will welcome Villanova to Uihlein Park Saturday for its first Big East home game in program history.

Last year, the team played as an independent before joining the Big East this summer alongside lacrosse-only member Denver.

Because the two teams joined the conference, they both have the chance to earn an automatic qualifier for the NCAA Tournament if either one wins the Big East Tournament.

“The most important thing for us that coach (Joe Amplo) has said throughout the year is Big

East play is huge for us,” redshirt senior defenseman Jerry Nobile said. “It’s a chance to get in the NCAA Tournament. If we can chalk some people to get in the tournament who knows what could happen.”

The first opponent in league play is Villanova. The Wildcats (1-5) were a preseason favorite but have since fallen out of the Warrior Media Poll Top 20 and enter Saturday on a four game losing streak.

Aside from Villanova’s 14-6 loss to Princeton Tuesday, all of its results were one or two goal differences, but the Wildcats have not come out on the right side of most of the decisions this season.

Villanova’s offense, which ranks 43rd in the nation for scoring is the source of the problem.

A lack of offensive production comes from a lack of weapons. The scoring is spread out,

and though it is nice to have season, so gaining possession many contributors, not having a between the lines is crucial. With lone threat does no draw many the big performances by Marslides, thus not quette’s defense allowing playand faceoff speers to get open cialists in the last as easily. game, both look Faceoffs are to keep building also an issue, on the momennot only for the tum.

Wildcats, but “We found for Marquette as out who we are well. With Maras a team durquette’s redshirt ing the spring senior faceoff break trip, so it’s specialist Cullen good knowing Cassidy out with Jerry Nobile, that heading into an injury, sophoredshirt senior defenseman this weekend,” more Paul RiNobile said. portella has takWhat keeps Villanova alive in en on a hefty workload but proved its games is the defense. The ofa viable replacement. Riportella fense may not score a lot, but the earned a program record 20 fa- defense can play with the best. ceoff wins during last weekend’s Turnovers plagued the Marquette win against Detroit. offense this season, most of them Both teams are below 50 unforced. The team will have to percent at the faceoff X this tighten up significantly before

The most important thing for us that coach (Joe Amplo) has said throughout the year is Big East play is huge for us.”

Saturday, as Villanova is ranked fifth in caused turnovers per game this season.

Wildcat defenseman John LoCascio is one of the best long poles in the country. He is fifth in the nation in caused turnovers with 2.60 per game with his two supporting defensemen also in the top 12. LoCascio will most likely draw Marquette’s leading scorer this weekend, redshirt senior attackman Tyler Melnyk, who has 14 points in the last three games.

“I’m expecting it to be very intense,” freshman midfielder Ryan McNamara said. “The Big East is what it’s all about.

These are must win games and its going to be a good game this weekend.“ Faceoff is set for this weekend at 1 p.m. as Marquette begins its quest for the Big East Tournament.

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Men’s, women’s tennis teams go winless on road trip 2 ranked teams prove to be too much for the Golden Eagles

By Hayley Keith

Special to the Tribune

The men and women’s tennis teams headed to sunny Las Vegas for spring break, but returned to Wisconsin winless.

The men lost to No. 53 Utah 4-3 Friday in a hard fought match. Marquette was unable to secure the doubles point, putting Utah up one to start the match. Junior Vukasin Teofanovic (No. 2 singles), freshman Nick Dykema (No. 4 singles) and junior Cameron Tehrani (No. 5 singles) brought in the three points for Marquette during singles play.

Two days later, the men’s team fell to the Nevada - Las Vegas, Photo via Marquette Images 5-2. Doubles partners senior Sophomore Gleb Skylr managed to get the only two points for the Golden Eagles in Sunday’s matchup against the University of Nevada - Las Vegas.

Logon Collins and sophomore Gleb Sklyr won at second dou- won at No. 4 singles, giving nationally ranked at No. 70. The ping a 5-2 to start off its spring The women then went on bles, but the team was unable to Marquette it’s second and final team’s next match will be in break. Sophomore Erin Gebes to be swept by No. 56 ranked pull out another doubles win for point of the day. went undefeated for the day Ohio State at every position; Idaho Friday against Montana. a point. Sklyr brought in 1 point Regardless of their shaky The women’s team faced the winning at No. 3 singles and the final score was 7-0. Junior at No. 6 singles while Dykema spring break, the men are still same fate against UNLV, drop- at second doubles with partner Ana Pimienta was the only senior Rocio Diaz. Gebes and player to win a set against the Diaz were the only doubles tough Buckeyes team.

The women’s next match will team to win for Marquette and UNLV claimed the doubles be a doubleheader hosted at point. Sophomore Laia Her- home against Illinois State and nandez-Soler scored Marquette IUPUI on Friday, March 21. The its last point by winning at first match against Illinois State is scheduled to start at 1 p.m.

No. 5 singles.

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Trey Killian For Marquette fans still recovering from the pain of Selection Sunday, the rest of the week will feel pretty awkward. This student body has truly been set apart, as it faces a low not experienced in more than 10 years.

Watching Wisconsin fans invade Milwaukee to cheer on the Badgers in the NCAA Second Round only further dampens the melancholy Marquette aficionados’ spirits.

The Golden Eagles’ postseason absence leaves a sizable void, but it can be filled with the tourney’s plentiful variety of teams, storylines and bandwagons to climb on.

So who can Marquette fans pull for once the Madness fully begins?

Anyone who plays Wisconsin and attempts to keep Bo Ryan’s squad from that elusive deep NCAA run is a start. As a two-seed, the Badgers look ready to break the mold this season, but they have plenty of room to fail.

Wisconsin should handle American University in Thursday’s early matchup, but the Eagles boast a top10 scoring defense that could disrupt the Badger’s shooting rhythm.

The chances of an early exit for Bucky increase in the third round against either Oregon or BYU, but an upset loss in front of a very red Bradley Center seems unlikely. It’s always fun to hope, however.

Pulling for fellow conference teams to succeed is another possibility.

Realignment has called the power of the new Big East into question, but having a team like Villanova or Creighton reach the Final Four would do big things for the conference’s perceived legitimacy.

It’d also make Marquette’s losses to the Wildcats and Bluejays look a lot better.

“Dougie McBuckets” will be fun to watch on his own if he continues to put on grand scoring shows on the biggest stage. Xavier already disappointed with a loss in the First Four against NC State, but there’s still the potential for Providence to ride its Big East title momentum to an upset of the Tar Heels in the second round. Good showings all around would leave the Big East with a solid case against its skeptics, and have an effect on Marquette’s chances of being selected next year.

As other storylines go, just pick one.

There’s Wichita State hoping to prove its salt in the face of what could be considered a “region of death” in the Midwest. The topseeded Shockers would receive high praise if they simply repeated last season’s run, but advancing and even winning the title game would forever change the way the NCAA views mid-majors. The best stories have yet to unfold, as undoubtedly someone will pull off that headturning upset and become 2014’s Cinderella. When that happens Marquette fans can join the rest of the nation in cheering an underdog without the fear of losing to it at some point.

Trey Killian is a senior from Tampa, Fla., majoring in journalism. Email him at robert.killian@marquette.edu.

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Bradley Center to host four NCAA tourney games Wisconsin, BYU should bring in noticeable crowds

By Kyle Doubrava

kyle.doubrava@marquette.edu

Game 1: No. 2 Wisconsin vs.

No. 15 American University Wisconsin qualified for its 16th consecutive NCAA Tournament, and its 13th under coach Bo Ryan. The Badgers can hope that by playing in Milwaukee they will increase their chances of advancing to the Elite Eight, which they have not accomplished since 2005. The last time Wisconsin was a No. 2 seed (2007), it was eliminated in the second round.

The Badgers have vastly improved since their uncharacteristically shaky play in January in which they lost five of six games during one stretch.

Using a multitude of scoring

options (five players average nine points per game or more), Wisconsin should be able to coast against an inexperienced American program.

The Eagles’ Princeton-style offense consequently does not lead to much scoring (63.9 ppg, 316th nationally), but it does allow it to take the shots it wants (49.5 FG percent, 7th nationally). Wisconsin, which also runs a deliberate offense, simply has too many weapons for American to handle.

Game 2: No. 7 Oregon vs.

No. 10 Brigham Young This game will be the second meeting of the year between the two schools, with Oregon pulling ahead at home in a 100-96 overtime win in December.

Brigham Young has been carried all season by junior guard Tyler Haws, who averages 23.4 points and shoots 88 percent from the foul line. He’ll need to up his game even more in the absence of BYU’s second-leading

scorer, Kyle Collinsworth, who suffered an ACL tear last week.

Collinsworth played a crucial part in the the team’s inside game, and it will be intriguing to see how BYU responds under the circumstance.

Both squads had their respective low points this season; BYU endured a four-game losing streak and Oregon went through a five-game slide. The Ducks prove to be efficient from the perimeter, shooting at a 39.2 percent clip from the three-point line.

Expect Wisconsinites to attend and show their support for BYU freshman Luke Worthington, a native of Mequon.

Game 3: No. 2 Michigan vs.

No. 15 Wofford Wofford received an automatic bid after winning the Southern Conference Tournament. This will be the Terriers’ third time in the Big Dance, although they have yet to advance past the second round. Mike Young’s feisty

group was perhaps written off prematurely when it started the year 7-10, but the Terriers come to Milwaukee 20-12. Wofford allows only 62.4 points per game, which can be explained by its low amount of possessions per game (63.5, 334th nationally).

Michigan hasn’t exactly eased up on the accelerator since last year’s national championship appearance. The Wolverines won the Big Ten regular season title and had one of the most difficult schedules in the country.

Despite this, Michigan compiled a 10-5 record against the RPI Top 50, and its only questionable losses came against Charlotte and Indiana. Sophomore Nik Stauskas averages 17.5 points this season. After playing in the shadows of Trey Burke and Tim Hardaway, Jr. last season, Stauskas appears more ready to lead the team when it counts.

Game 4: No. 7 Texas vs. No. 10 Arizona State

better had it not been for its roller coaster ending to the season.

The Longhorns are 5-6 in their last 11 games and have alternated wins and losses in the last six.

They still ended at a respectable 11-7 in a brutal Big 12 field. The Longhorns crash the boards like mad, grabbing 41.8 rebounds per game, 15 of which came on the offensive glass. This can be attributed to its mediocre shot selection and execution; Texas shoots 43 percent overall and 32 percent from long range.

Arizona State returns to March Madness for the first time in five years. The Sun Devils earned an at-large bid due to its strength of schedule and its wins over Arizona, Oregon and then-No. 25 Marquette, despite the shellacking it suffered to Stanford in its first Pac-12 Tournament game. Behind the defensive anchor Jordan Bachynski (11.1 ppg, 8.3 reb. 4.1 blk), Arizona State may be the Midwest region’s dark horse.

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Golden Eagles falter in Black’s return to alma mater A 6-0 second half run

by Notre Dame proves too much to overcome

By Deny Gallagher Special to the Tribune

The Marquette women’s lacrosse team fell 12-5 to No. 6 Notre Dame in coach Meredith Black’s return to her alma mater Wednesday night in South Bend.

Before Black became the first ever coach of the Marquette women’s lacrosse program, she was a standout player who led the Fighting Irish to their first NCAA championship game appearance. After a brief stint at Towson, Black returned to South Bend as an assistant coach, where she once again was instrumental in the team reaching the title game three more times. A year ago, the Golden Eagles season ended at Arrlota Stadium, as the Fighting Irish won 14-5.

“It’s always great to go back to Notre Dame,” Black said. “ We’re getting better, and they’re a really good team, so it’s really exciting.”

In Wednesday’s contest, the Irish jumped out to an early 3-0 lead until freshman Amanda Bochniak scored to cut the deficit to two. The Irish kept Marquette on its back foot for most of the the first half. In the first 20 minutes alone, goalie Sarah Priem made six saves on 15 shots. She finished with nine saves on the night. Her play kept Marquette within striking distance, as the Irish took a 5-1 advantage into halftime.

The second half was less than kind to the Golden Eagles, as Notre Dame began the half on a 6-0 run to make the score 11-1.

However, Marquette answered as Bochniak found the back of the cage again to make it 11-2.

The Fallson, Md., native would earn her third point on the assist of sophomore Kenzie Brown’s goal late in the game bringing, the freshman’s point total to 21 through eight games.

Photo by Maggie Bean/Marquette Images

Despite the loss to Notre Dame, sophomore Kenzie Brown continues to be a scoring threat, as she has 21 points in only eight games.

Boachniak’s goal sparked a rally for the Golden Eagles, as sophomores Hayley Baas and Clare Costanza would each score

before Brown’s goal to make the score 11-5. Brown’s goal was her sixth consecutive game finding the back of the cage. The Irish

added one more before the final whistle blew to give them the 12-5 victory against Marquette.

The Golden Eagles look for

their fourth victory of the year Sunday at noon when they welcome Winthrop to Valley Fields.