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Wilson announces transfer

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Redshirt junior Duane Wilson carries the ball against Providence. He’s the third player to transfer from Marquette this year, joining guards Sandy Cohen and Traci Carter.

Graduate transfer can play at new school immediately

By Jack Goods

jack.goods@marquette.edu

Marquette announced Monday guard Duane Wilson is

transferring from the program.

Wilson personally announced his decision earlier in the afternoon on his Snapchat through a screenshotted statement, but quickly deleted it.

He posted an amended statement minutes after the official announcement on his Twitter.

“Memories. Thankful for 4

years full of memories I will never forget,” Wilson wrote.

“Thank you Marquette for everything!!! With that being said, I will be transferring for my graduate year. I would like to thank the coaching staff for everything they have done for me & allowing me to be a part of this team. Also, thank you

to the players for accepting me for who I am, always having my back and picking me up whenever I was down … just know we are brothers 4 life. I’ve built lifelong friendships with all of you.

“Growing up in Milwaukee I always wanted to play for the hometown team and be

the hometown kid. I love you Marquette from the bottom of my heart!”

Wilson redshirted during his freshman year, allowing him to graduate in four years, transfer and play immediately as a graduate student. Wilson See WILSON page12

Eye to eye: Renters’ silence spawns issues Off campus, landlords say tenants should speak up

By Maredithe Meyer

maredithe.meyer@marquette.edu

When the ceiling of 821 N. 17th St. collapsed into

its kitchen, flooding the first floor, alumni Andrew Lehtinen was standing close enough to watch it crumble.

“It started as a small leak from the ceiling in the kitchen, and then it all came down,” Lehtinen said. “There was something wrong with a pipe installed when they put

in the new bathtub.”

The incident occurred in fall 2015, soon after plumbers installed a new bathtub in the bathroom directly above the kitchen.

Lehtinen assumed the incident was the reason he and his six roommates faced deductions or withholdings on

their $500 security deposits on top of maintenance and cleaning fees upon moveout. Lehtinen said they expected a rent discount due to the incident, though they never expressed that to their landlord, Dave Hoffman.

“We anticipated something fishy,” Lehtinen said.

“But we didn’t think we would get charged on top of our deposits.”

Lehtinen’s experience might sound familiar to first-time renters who have complaints about landlords, property conditions and rent

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Diary of public service: MARDI GRAS MU service group travels to Louisiana helping poverty

By Madison Marx

madison.marx@marquette.edu

I didn’t expect to be reminded of home 1,100 miles away from campus, but after traveling to New Orleans for spring break, that’s exactly what happened.

As I packed my duffel bag into the back of a minivan and found a seat amongst six strangers, I was curious about the service work to be done over the week with MARDI GRAS, an organization at Marquette that aims to raise awareness about the needs of a post-Katrina New Orleans.

One homey reminder was a sign hanging above the checkout line in Burnell’s Grocery reading, “If you don’t see it, ask for it.”

Burnell Colton, a resident of the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans, restored a building into the grocery store by

himself after Hurricane Katrina so residents would have a place to buy food.

The neighborhood has a sense of abandonment from the rest of New Orleans, because public services and rebuilding assistance have been slow to return to the neighborhood since the 2005 hurricane. However, the Lower Ninth Ward being neglected by city officials inspired an activist spirit for many residents, including Colton.

From the sign that hangs in Burnell’s Grocery to a hug from a random stranger, it is evident that cultural and family roots run deep in New Orleans. The Lower Ninth’s history of high rates of homeownership and multiple generations of families residing near one another makes for a friendly, tight-knit community that still faces many challenges on the road to recovery.

Each day my small group and I arrived at our construction site where we helped fix the exterior of a home. After working all day, we visited former homeowners that

Photo by Madison Marx madison.marx@marquette.edu

The Lower Ninth Ward has slowly been built up by Burnell Colton.

Marquette MARDI GRAS student and as a human being works with. We heard their to be a voice for those who do stories, as well as helped with not have the resources or opany tasks around their home portunities to fight for themthat needed to be done. selves alone.”

Every homeowner I visited Colton not only created a at the end of each work day grocery store for his commutalked about how connected nity, but a barber shop, a launthey felt to the Marquette fam- dromat and a children’s playily. Colton said he believes ground. His next project is an Marquette has been the most internet cafe. consistent school to help with “I was taken aback by how the recovery of New Orleans. humble Burnell is,” Hannah When Colton thinks of the Seeman, a sophomore in the recovery of his city, he large- College of Communication, ly thinks of said.

“He his family at doesn’t take Marquette. anything for “This is the granted and only grocery I think that store (in the is inspiring.” area),” Colton Colton resaid.

“I’ve serves a wall put in my enfor Martire life savquette stuings. A lot of dents to sign blood, sweat after they and tears. But visit. Howthe people ever, Colton that are still allowed a here are apnon-Marpreciative quette stuand grateful. dent to sign I want the BURNELL COLTON the wall Feb. Ninth Ward to WritNew Orleans Lower 25. come back. If Ninth Ward Resident ten on the I have to build wall in Burthe city back nell’s Gromyself one cery, Facebusiness at a time, I am going book CEO Mark Zuckerberg to do it.” wrote, “Burnell, you’re doColton’s dedication to ing an amazing thing here. his community inspired Thank you for nourishing many Marquette students the Ninth Ward.” Zuckerberg on the trip. had been following Colton’s “The biggest thing I brought story for two years. back with me from New OrA common theme emerged leans is the responsibility to from interacting with each be an advocate for those in homeowner in New Orneed,” Maddy Philip, a soph- leans: home. Homeowners omore in the College of Arts taught Marquette students & Sciences, said. “There are to build homes, not houspeople in Milwaukee (with) es, whether it be in New as great of a need as those Orleans or Milwaukee. in New Orleans and I have a responsibility as a Marquette

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I want the Ninth Ward to come back. If I have to build the city back myself one business at a time, I am going to do it.”

MUPD REPORTS MARCH 20 An employee at Cedar Square reported that a subject forcibly entered a storage room in the apartment building in the 900 block of N. 14th Street and removed property between Thursday, March 16 at 4 p.m. and Friday, March 17 at 8 a.m. The investigation is ongoing.

MARCH 13 A person not affiliated with Marquette attempted to drive a vehicle down walkway stairs near the 1300 block of W. Clybourn Street causing damage to the stairs Sunday, March 12 at 3:01 a.m. No injuries

person(s) removed her secured, unattended scooter outside of McCabe Hall Wednesday, March 8 between 7:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Estimated loss is $300.

A person not affiliated with Marquette reported that another person not affiliated with Marquette presented fraudulent papers claiming to be Marquette affiliated when applying to rent an apartment in the 700 block of N. 21st Street Monday, March 6 between 12:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m.

MARCH 8 A student reported that his secured, unattended bicycle was removed in Structure One between Wednesday, Feb. 22 at 8 a.m. and Monday, March 6 at 7 p.m. Estimated loss is $600.

MARCH 9 A student reported that unknown

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reported. MUPD took the subject into custody for an active warrant and transported him to the Milwaukee County Criminal Justice Facility.

A student reported being touched in an indecent manner by an unknown subject outside the Helfaer Recreation Center Tuesday, March 7 at 2:22 p.m.

MARCH 20 Parkinson’s group exercise class 2-3 p.m., Cramer Hall 100 MARCH 21 Business Leaders Forum Luncheon 11:45 a.m-2:45 p.m., Alumni Memorial Union MARCH 22 Mindfulness for Youth and Adults Noon-1 p.m., AMU Sneak Peek at the Haggerty Museum of Art 3:30-5 p.m.

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Landlord: ‘It all comes down to student responsibility’ Good Neighbor Designated Properties

Source: http://musg.mu.edu/good-neighbor/

Infographic by Maredithe Meyer & Devi Shastri maredithe.meyer@marquette.edu

Thirty properties on and off Marquette’s campus have been designated “Good Neighbors” by MUSG. Owners must meet 23 standard criteria to qualify for the title.

prices as they pay around $500 to $800 per month for a 100-year-old property after signing an often-confusing lease agreement.

On the surface of some of these complaints and stories, it looks like Marquette’s offcampus properties are falling apart at the hands of unreliable landlords. The Marquette Wire spoke with 13 offcampus renters about their housing troubles and all but Lehtinen refused to go on the record for fear of negative reactions from their landlords.

Hoffman, owner and operator of University Investments 2000 LLC, owns four off-campus properties near Marquette and multiple other properties around Milwaukee and leased the 17th Street property to Lehtinen and his roommates. Hoffman said he takes full responsibility for the 2015 incident.

“That was my problem,” he said. “(The tenants) had nothing to do with the pipe breaking. Pipes break, it happens.”

The property’s water was turned off for a day, plumbers fixed the pipe in a week and contractors eventually repaired the ceiling and

installed new lights.

Hoffman said the ceiling incident was not why the tenants faced withholdings and additional fees. He charged the tenants for lease violations and property damage occurring throughout the leasing period. The violations included cigarette smoke damage, failure to clean the stove and refrigerator, remaining garbage in the house and late move-out.

According to Wisconsin state law, landlords cannot withhold security deposits for “any costs related to ‘normal wear and tear.’” While a landlord cannot charge tenants for maintenance items like carpet cleaning or painting, Hoffman said he considered the violations and damage to the 17th Street property to be beyond that level, prompting the withholdings and fees.

“We had 50 hours worth of cleaning in that property, and that is not normal,” Hoffman said.

He also said security deposit return is based on the individual tenant and the condition of his or her personal living space. When there are deductions, some tenants owe

more money than others, and some owe nothing at all.

Lehtinen moved out of the property almost a year ago but said he still disagrees with the charges.

“We cleaned the house pretty well,” Lehtinen said. “He charged us for some things, and I suppose he had the right to, but that should’ve gone to our security deposits, not an additional charge.”

Marquette’s Office of University Apartments & OffCampus Student Services estimates receiving less than 10 complaints per year about offcampus housing. The office oversees both on-campus and off-campus housing to help students develop relationships with landlords, decipher lease agreements and find other tenant resources.

Lehtinen did not voice his complaints or seek consultation with UAOCSS at all during his leasing period.

He said he was not aware the university has an office that assists with off-campus housing issues.

“We want to increase our visibility so students know we are here,” Kelsey Stockton, UAOCSS’s assistant director,

said. “It’s helpful for us to know of significant concerns with properties so that we can be informed in our communication with owners and managers and advocate for neighborhood improvements and positive tenant experiences.”

Landlord accountability The Good Neighbor Designation Program, implemented by Marquette University Student Government in 2015, is another way the university aims to hold its off-campus property management companies accountable. The designation focuses on landlord responsibility and setting higher property standards for landlords.

Receiving the optional, year-long designation means a property aligns with university-approved levels of safety, security and maintenance.

Landlords who apply for the designation must meet the program’s 23 criteria, which include a live-in tenant manager for properties housing over 20 tenants; at least one fire extinguisher on each floor; functioning smoke alarms, a fire alarm system, fire extinguishers and carbon monoxide detectors; no

graffiti anywhere on the property; a maintenance request system available 24 hours per day; full compliance with City of Milwaukee property codes and regulations; completion of the city’s Landlord Training; and a copy of the lease on file with Marquette.

A total of seven property management companies and 30 properties currently hold the designation, which is in its third year. They include Marquette I & II Apartments, nine properties operated by Cedar Square, ten properties operated by Tristan Estates, one property operated by Select Property Group, Marquette’s five off-campus apartments, The Ivy on Fourteenth, The Marq and Saint James Court.

“I don’t know if students pay attention to (the Good Neighbor Designation), but if they do, we want to be on that list,” Sal Bando, co-owner of Cedar Square LLC, said.

“However, (the designation) does not require anything out of the ordinary for what we already do.”

The initiative is simply raising the bar for off-campus housing.

“With the Good Neighbor

Tuesday, March 21, 2017 Designation, certain properties have set students’ expectations higher when choosing a place to live,” Hannah Thiry, Marquette University Student Government Outreach Vice President, said.

The Good Neighbor Designation focuses on landlord accountability, but another MUSG program indicates the burden is not solely on the landlord.

More than one side Good Tenant Training is an educational program that addresses the do’s and don’ts of property leasing. The program ran two sessions at the beginning of the fall semester that covered topics from lease agreements to neighborhood safety. Fifty-three students attended the September training, Thiry said.

“Students don’t always understand everything in the lease,” Thiry said. “It is important to understand what you are being legally bound to.”

Thiry believes lease confusion is a major issue for students living off-campus. She’s not alone in her opinion.

“It takes seven pages of legal paper to tell the tenant that as long as they pay rent and don’t trash the place, they are fine,” Bando said.

Tristan Estates LLC, another off-campus property management company, involves students’ parents during the signing process.

“We often email unsigned leases to parents so they can feel secure in reviewing the state-approved and Marquette-approved

documents,” Julia Herro, the company’s financial manager, said. “We will then walk the student through all the documents that are signed, their ramifications, the student’s responsibilities and our responsibilities.”

Bando, Hoffman and Herro said they review the lease’s main points with new tenants before their signing, but the agreement also requires tenant responsibility – and that is what MUSG is trying to promote.

Strained landlord-tenant communication UAOCSS recommends students address conflicts with their landlords first, and landlords don’t disagree.

“Complaints are very specific to the individual and must be tailored to the individual,” Herro said. “I find consistent, honest communication to be the best way to handle issues, regardless of if they are with Tristan Estates or not.”

The property management company is available by phone 24 hours a day, but Herro said tenants sometimes just don’t reach out when there is an issue, like when there was a running toilet that kept a tenant awake at night and increased the water bill for two months.

Bando also prefers tenants first present the issue with Cedar Square.

“If students have complaints, we encourage them to speak to us first and foremost,” Bando said. “There is nothing that we can’t handle or address.”

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The company operates 280 off-campus units and works with over 500 tenants. Bando owns properties as new as the new Modern Living apartments being constructed on 15th Street and Kilbourn Avenue and as old as Row House Apartments on 14th Street and Kilbourn Avenue, built in the late 1800s.

Bando said he informs tenants moving into older homes with minor property issues.

These issues, like drafty windows, come with the territory.

Rushing to rent Thiry said MUSG created both 2015 programs partly to motivate students to slow the housing search and signing process — another problem when transitioning into offcampus housing.

Stockton agreed.

“The rush to find housing is the toughest thing we will always compete against,” Stockton said. “Students feel like they need to start searching even as a freshman.”

The fast-paced signing process starts at the beginning of students’ sophomore and junior years, and sometimes before.

“When I was looking for housing in September, I was told that I literally needed to find a place before the end of September to be guaranteed a place to live for junior year,” Jenn Potocek, a sophomore in the College of Nursing, said.

“Every year it seems to be more and more rushed.”

Potocek and her roommates signed the lease agreement and made a down payment

The Marquette Tribune for their apartment the same day they toured the property.

She said she felt pressure to sign immediately because she didn’t know if other students were also looking at the place.

Students signing lease agreements before they are completely ready may be another cause for complaints and negative property experiences later in their leasing periods.

By the end of this school year, MUSG plans to launch and oversee Marquette Renter Reviews, a student-run property review website that will candidly inform potential tenants about drafty windows or aged kitchen appliances sometimes found in campus properties. The platform will allow students to share their renting experiences and choose properties based on peer reviews.

Ideally, it could be used in tandem with

RentCollegePads.com, a site that Marquette recommends for finding off-campus property information and connecting with landlords. Students would search for properties using Rent College Pads while seeing other renters’ opinions on the new review site, Thiry said.

But despite a growing number of resources and strategies, the onus remains on tenants to understand their rights and advocate for themselves.

Hoffman said that a functional group of tenants have designated chores for which everyone is responsible.

Without such a system, the property can fall apart.

“It all comes down to student responsibility,” Hoffman said. “It is not my job to keep the garbage area clean.”

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The bathtub in 821 N. 17th St. sank through the floor due to pipe problems. Andrew Lehtinen and his roommates were shocked when they thought they were charged for the incident.

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MU joins #YouAreWelcomeHere movement Solidarity, support for international students in video

By Eliana Reed

eliana.reed@marquette.edu

When the Office of International Education made a new video contributing to the #YouAreWelcomeHere campaign, a message was sent to students from all over the globe.

Following President Donald Trump’s first executive order that would temporarily ban citizens of Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Yemen and Somalia from entering the U.S., OIE released a statement expressing its support for all students.

The office wrote, “As the central hub for international students and internationalization at Marquette, the Office of International Education supports all international students and stands in solidarity with those impacted.” Shortly after releasing this statement, the OIE shared the video, putting Marquette’s hand in the campaign originally started by Temple University.

According to the campaign’s website, #YouAreWelcomeHere is an invitation from higher education

Photo via Office of Internstional Education

Universities across the nation are making videos to show they are safe for international students.

institutions to international students all across the world.

It is made to show that participating institutions are diverse and safe environments.

So far, colleges and universities have shared their commitment to the campaign with a variety of photos, videos and

events that feature students, faculty and staff.

Lauren Burke, executive producer for the Office of Marketing and Communication, produced and edited the video. According to Burke, the video was shot over the course of two days on

campus. OIE’s International Day, hosted in the Alumni Memorial Union, took place during the video’s filming, allowing Burke to capture a variety of students. After filming, Burke edited the video and added some existing shots of campus, leaving everyone

with the finished product.

Karen Hess, OIE’s international communications and marketing coordinator, said in an email, “Marquette University is proud to welcome nearly 700 international students from countries around the world, including students from countries impacted by two recent executive orders.

We want to stand in solidarity with our international students and want to be clear that Marquette is a welcoming environment for all students.”

The reactions to the video were positive, Hess said. So far, the video has over 13,000 views on Facebook and 120 likes on Twitter. Hess said OIE is happy with the attention the video is receiving. “We are excited to share Marquette’s inclusive environment with students considering Marquette for their studies,” she said.

Students are responding to the video as well. Rebecca Gasper, sophomore in the College of Health Sciences who is currently studying abroad in Thailand, said she was impacted by the video’s message.

“It was really nice to know Marquette is going to accept everyone, because Thailand has accepted me, so it’s nice to know the school that sent me here is doing the same thing.”

Science professor awarded over $500,000 grant Grant set to help develop new solar energy conversion

By Camille Paul

camille.paul@marquette.edu

Assistant chemistry professor Jier Huang was awarded a $555,636 grant from the National Science Foundation for her work in solar energy conversion.

Huang’s studies focus on developing new materials that can create energy from sunlight.

“I am very excited about being awarded a NSF CAREER grant,” Huang said. “It’s a very important grant to support the research in my group and my early career. ” Huang currently works in conjunction with Tianquan Lian, a professor at

Emory University, as well as undergraduate and graduate students at Marquette.

Huang joined Marquette’s staff in 2013.

“I really enjoy the research,” Brian Pattengale, a third-year chemistry graduate student said. “She has a really good vision for the project and has good ideas on how to improve solar energy conversion.”

Pattengale worked with Huang for the past three years in the chemistry department working with physical and material chemistry.

“I found her research on the Marquette website and was really interested,” he said.

According to Pattengale, the research will be spent solely on furthering research and possibly supporting graduate students who are helping with the project.

“I enjoy doing the fundamental stuff,” he said.

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“It’s interesting to see how the zeolitic framework interacts with light for solar energy conversion.”

Huang and her team primarily study on Marquette’s campus. A few times during the year, her team will perform week-long experiments at the Argonne National Lab at the University of Chicago.

Pattengale added that the experiments focus on using X-ray absorption to study the fundamental properties of the materials being created and used.

“The goal is to use solar energy to generate hydrogen fuel,” he said. ” Also to provide a clean source of energy that will be able to solve the problems of pollution.”

BRIAN PATTENGALE Sizhou Yang, a physical Third Year chemistry graduate student, Chemistry student has worked with Huang for the past two and a half years. Yang said the grant

We want to replace the newer, less expensive materials for expensive ones and be able to compete with fossil fuels.”

is well deserved.

“I think she is a helpful person and a hard worker,” Yang said.”Her research is relevant and helpful.”

Marquette currently has solar panel research in the works but Huang’s team is attempting to create cheaper materials to replace them.

“Silicon cells themselves aren’t very expensive, but their upkeep is,” Pattengale said. “We want to replace the newer less expensive materials for expensive ones and be able to compete with fossil fuels.”

Huang and her team have seen promise in using the new material.

“Solar energy is one of the best solutions to meet future energy demands,” Huang said.

“There is a growing desire for conversion of solar energy into a usable energy format.”

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Extensive MUPD investigation comes to close committed crimes in all of these jurisdictions, and through our investigation, we’ve been able to connect him,” Kranz said.

MUPD connected the susBy Clara Janzen pect to multiple crimes was clara.janzen@marquette.edu after someone reported a retail The Marquette University theft at the Walgreens on camPolice Department arrested a pus. Kranz said when the ofMilwaukee man connecting ficers approached Walgreens, him with two months of mul- they saw him run out of the store and tiple crimes, recognized including car him. The ofthefts and robficers ran his beries in the license plate area. when he Exact details jumped into are not bea car and ing released, found the including his car had been name, until he stolen. is officially Kranz said charged by they have the District good eviAttorney. dence on the “We’ve been suspect. One looking for a of the ways guy for about JEFF KRANZ t h e y ’ v e two months in Captain, Marquette University worked on relation to a lot Police Department connectof criminal acing him to tivity that’s hapcrimes is pened on the fringe of campus and has led us through a num- through fingerprinting and ber of jurisdictions outside of DNA recovered in the stolen campus,” MUPD Captain Jeff vehicles and on other objects.

Kranz said. “Anything from Kranz gave the example of car break-ins all the way up to the van recovered on campus armed robbery, and that’s how a few months ago. “We colhe ended up getting arrested.” lected 41 different items of A few months ago, the Wire evidence from it,” he said.

Much of the evidence colreported on the increase in thefts from motor vehicles lected were ID cards. “We on campus, and the suspect would find ID cards and take is believed to be involved it to the person (ID holder) in many of those crimes, according to MUPD. He was originally arrested for a burglary about a year ago. “Because it was a property crime, he wasn’t held; he was given bail and got out,” Kranz said.

The suspect was arrested again in January for attempting to break into a car near campus, but again received bail.

Since his original arrest, the suspect has been involved in a multitude of crimes: an armed robbery, multiple vehicle thefts, theft from motor vehicles, identity theft and personal property theft.

MUPD worked with additional police departments in the jurisdictions where other crimes have been committed, including: Veterans Affairs Police Department, Milwaukee Police Department, West Milwaukee Police Department, West Allis Police Department and Franklin Police Department. “He has

Police department works to connect crimes across city

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He has committed crimes in all of these jurisdictions, and through our investigation, we’ve been able to connect him.”

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An official charge about the crimes is expected to be announced soon from the District Attorney’s office.

and find out they were a victim of a crime like the VA, for example,” Kranz said. “So then the officers would go to the VA and get camera footage and say, ‘It’s him again.’”

The use of camera footage has been vital to linking these crimes. “We recovered one of the stolen cars and found a parking receipt from a downtown hotel, and using the date and time of the parking receipt, we found out there were five vehicle break-ins in their garage at that time, so we get camera footage from

them,” Kranz said.

They have also used footage from the campus Starbucks.

Kranz said local businesses and other police departments have been very helpful in aiding the investigation.

MPD is still working on the case. Kranz said there is a lot of new evidence still being turned up, and various jurisdictions are at different places in the investigation.

“When you get a case like this, there’s so much involved in it. … What the District Attorney will usually do is

charge him with the big crime, and so if they connect him solidly to the armed robbery, they’ll charge him with that,” Kranz said. “Because the suspect will then only be technically charged with the most serious offense, the DA will be able to do a read in which is “… where they make the judge aware of all the other criminal activity, but they don’t put charges on it, they just read it in at sentencing.”

An official charge and hearing should come soon.

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Music’s element of surprise

Following trends, Drake drops album without warning

By Mac Vogel

mackane.vogel@marquette.edu

Craving new music for months, or even years, before a release date builds anticipation for many music fans.

But what if when refreshing Spotify, a brand new 22song album was there by surprise? This is what Drake fans experienced March 17.

Drake refers to his latest release, “More Life,” as a playlist rather than an album. His fans have been gifted surprise music before, and they are not alone. Plenty of artists have latched onto the idea of surprise releases while others stick to the traditional format of announcing a release date and slowly releasing singles as the date approaches.

Nikki Svabek, a freshman

in the College of Communication, said when release dates are too far away, she tends to forget about them.

“Logging into Spotify and seeing brand new tracks gets me really hyped,” Svabek said.

Beyoncé’s self titled album, released in 2013, was the first surprise drop to set the trend, according to an article in GQ. From putting free music on every Apple device, like U2 did in 2014, to popularizing a new streaming platform like Beyonce did in 2016, the spontaneous release has gotten mostly positive reactions from students.

Svabek listed Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” as one of her favorite surprise releases, saying it was “a true blessing.”

Blessings are exactly what Atlanta-born rapper, Future, had in mind for his fans this year. Within a span of two weeks, Future released not one, but two surprise albums,

each 17 songs long.

Rajiv Kalyanaraman, a freshman in the College of Business Administration,

albums, only two of them feature other artists.

Artists of all genres have toyed around with surprise versus planned releases. Flume, an electronic artist, sh mix of albums and singles.

Besides the rapper, Kalyanaraman expressed love for some of electronic artist Flume’s previous releases, both surprise and planned work.

“No matter what is going on in my life, I can always turn to Flume for his ecstatic drops and jungle feels,” Kalyanaraman said.

One band that has had great success with planned releases is The 1975. The band uses their social Nikki Svabek media accounts to give Freshman in the College of small hints to fans.

Their last album came out Communication summer 2016 with a longpraised Future for his albums awaited release date. While saying that they are some of they had a planned date for the rapper’s best work. Be- the new record, they left certween the 34 songs on both tain song release dates up in

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Logging into Spotify and seeing brand new tracks gets me really hyped.”

the air. Late 2016, the band tweeted there would be new music in 2017, but revealed no further details.

Other bands, such as the Lumineers, use this technique to keep themselves relevant in the music world, putting new songs out to lead up to the day of the album release.

Sara Riegler, a freshman in the College of Arts & Sciences, waited for the arrival of one of her favorite albums, “Cleopatra,” by the Lumineers.

“We waited years for it, but it was so worth it,” she said, showing just how satisfying the wait for a much anticipated album can be.

However, Riegler admitted she does not favor one release style to another.

“Surprise albums can be awesome too,” Riegler said. “They are sort of like a surprise gift from your favorite band.”

Surprise Albums Through the Years

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No need to Switch from old gaming systems Nintendo Switch is versatile, but needs variety of options

By Dennis Tracy

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For decades, gamers have faced one dilemma across all platforms: having to save and exit a game if they wanted to leave the house. The advent of handheld devices solved some frustrations for habitual players, but Nintendo attempts to change the game with its latest release.

The Nintendo Switch is the first system that allows players to go from sitting in the comfort of their home on a console to playing on the go without restriction.

The Switch lets gamers play

on their home TV, like the Wii, and on the go, like the DS. When in portable mode, it can connect with up to eight different devices for multiplayer games like “Bomberman” and the upcoming “Mario Kart 8” remaster. In TV mode, up to eight Joy-Con controllers can connect to one system.

The system comes boxed with two Joy-Cons, a docking station, an HDMI cable, wrist straps, an AC adapter and a grip to place on the Joy-Cons to form one big controller.

Inside each Joy-Con is an “HD Rumble” feature that makes players feel like they are experiencing what’s on the screen. There is a stage in Fast RMX, a racing game where players drive through a desert storm. The Joy-Cons rumble as if the ground was shaking. To me, it felt like

a huge upgrade to the motion controls that Nintendo created for the Wii. It worked out for the most part. But when I was playing “Zelda: Breath of the Wild,” the left Joy-Con had issues staying connected to the system, making it difficult to move Link. Even with a patch update, I was still experiencing problems.

As of right now, there are only a handful of games available for the system. Many of them, including “Shovel Knight,” “Binding of Issac” and “I Am Setsuna” are available on other platforms. For games exclusively available on the Switch, I played “Snipperclips” and “Super Bomberman R.” I played “Snipperclips” with my younger siblings and it was well worth $20. It’s an adorable game where players

are paper creatures completing various tasks like getting a ball into a hoop, cutting out shapes or putting a pencil into a sharpener. There is also versus mode where players can play hockey, basketball or try to be the last man standing by cutting players into tiny bits of paper with up to four players.

The Joy-Cons have a long battery life with roughly 20 hours of usage. Additional Joy-Cons are available for $50 a piece, or come in twopacks that have left and right controllers for $80. As for the tablet, battery life depends on the games you are running. For “Zelda,” the battery drained quickly, giving me three hours of handheld time, but for “Bomberman,” I went six hours without needing to plug in.

So is the Nintendo Switch

worth getting right now? The simple answer is no. The only reason somebody should pick up a Switch now is if they missed out on the Wii U and the games released with the system. Right now there aren’t many games out for the new system, but games like “Mario Kart 8,” “Splatoon 2” and “Arms” will be released by the end of the year. None of the video streaming services like Hulu or Netflix are out for download, and as somebody who uses a gaming system to watch movies and television, that frustrates me greatly. I am excited to see what Nintendo does with this system, but as of right now it’s better to hold off getting a Switch until more features are added and more games are released.

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Pearls of wisdom from common procedure Extracting humor from students’ tales of tooth removal

By Katie Hauger

katherine.hauger@marquette.edu

The reality of crying in the car with cotton balls stuffed in one’s cheeks or singing pop songs after coming out of anesthesia isn’t unusual content for a viral video.

Reactions to wisdom teeth surgery are popular on Facebook timelines, Twitter feeds and Snapchat stories.

Marquette students have stories of their own, as many have made the nerve-wracking, one-time trek to the oral surgeon’s office to have their wisdom teeth removed.

Some, like Elizabeth Young, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences, took precautions to calm nerves during surgery. She prepared for being partially conscious by making a calming playlist.

“I borrowed my brother’s iPod and loaded it up with a calming playlist I could listen to to distract me from the surgery,” Young said.

“I only remembered to play it when I was leaning back in the chair and they were starting to work on me, so I blindly pressed play.”

In her rush, Young ended up playing an entire Iron Maiden album and giggled her jitters away.

It can be comforting to those expecting to undergo the surgery that the average wisdom tooth removal typically lasts less than an hour. The full sedation used for complicated surgeries like heart and brain isn’t often used for wisdom tooth extraction, though the mild anesthesia can produce zany stories as patients take time to become alert.

Mark Gotthelf, a senior in the College of Engineering, had an unusual reaction

when he became conscious after his tooth extraction.

“In high school, I had what most people would call a jewfro, and for whatever reason, my mom was never a fan,” Gotthelf said. “She joked that she was going to cut off my hair while I was out for the surgery.”

Gotthelf’s mother is a dentist and was in the room for the surgery. Her threat was entirely possible, but to his relief, one she didn’t act on.

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“The first thing I did when I came to was touch my hair,” Gotthelf said. His wisdom teeth may have disappeared, but his hair did not.

Andrea Matsudaira, a sophomore in the College of Business Administration, was left with a funny, if not a little scarring, story from her experience.

“After I came home from the procedure, my brother and I were left with my two younger siblings while my

mother went out to buy us soft foods. She made us smoothies right before she left, and I drank it while I had my gauze in my mouth. I don’t remember fully what happened, but I thought for a while that I had drank my lip and started crying,” she said.

Aside from that, recovery was easy, especially since Matsudaira suffered through it with her brother who had his teeth taken out on the same day.

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University must protect student tenants from problem landlords “Eye to eye: Renters’ silence spawns issues” published today tells the alarming account of a recent alumnus who, after having his bathtub sink through the floor in his off-campus house, struggled with his landlord about his security deposit and additional fees.

Perhaps even more troubling is the fact that 13 other student renters who spoke to Wire reporters refused to go on the record when talking about their housing horror stories, fearing negative reactions from their landlords.

Testaments from the alumnus and landlords quoted in the story reveal a need for students living in off-campus houses and apartments to gain knowledge of their renters’ rights and communicate openly with landlords. But a lack of information and communication is not the only problem here, and the blame is not solely on students.

Oftentimes, landlords fail to maintain these old, run-down, offcampus properties, and first-time renting students, who prioritize affordability above all else, are

vulnerable tenants.

To protect the rights of upperclassmen living off-campus and hold problem landlords accountable, the university should implement new programs to acknowledge the issues and take increased action.

An official university service that directly addresses problem landlords renting to Marquette students in the surrounding neighborhood is needed.The ideal program would keep tabs on the properties where students live, oversee lease agreements and intervene to provide legal counsel when necessary.

University-owned apartments like Campus Town are one option for upperclassmen, but only for a limited amount of students.

Otherwise, upperclassmen live in privately owned apartments and houses in the surrounding blocks.

The Office of Residence Life boasts “a landlord you can trust” as one of the benefits of renting a university-owned apartment, but this should not be a privilege guaranteed only to students lucky enough to be placed there.

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Students in off-campus properties often run into landlord issues.

In the small area walking distance from campus, there are only so many affordable living options. No matter how old, neglected and overpriced some of these properties are, there will always be student demand, so there’s little incentive for landlords to improve or maintain them. Stories of broken pipes, sinking floors, mice and poor heating are common complaints among student renters.

Like “Eye to eye” explains, Marquette’s Office of University Apartments & Off-campus Student Services offers a service that provides mediation between student tenants and their landlords, but few students take advantage of it. The office’s website also refers students to the Marquette Volunteer Legal Clinic or the Department of Consumer Protection to file a complaint.

Clearly, current approaches neither prevent problems from happening nor provide solutions when they do. An assertive, hands-on system that incentivizes good landlord behaviors and punishes bad ones would greatly improve the housing situations of thousands of students.

As long as students require affordable housing in the blocks surrounding campus, many landlords will take advantage of them, and the university should be aggressive in acknowledging the reality of the situation.

Marquette is investing majorly in improving underclassmen student life with the new residence hall going up on Wells Street. As campus continues to grow and develop over the next several years, upperclassmen living a few blocks away should not be neglected.

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Am I a bad feminist if I listen to Drake?

Morgan Hughes My grandparents are the kind of in-love that makes people want to believe in soulmates. I lived with them for a while during middle school, and a lot of my nights were spent grinning at the two of them.

With the cassette player whirring in the background, my grandpa would take my grandma by the hand and lead her into a dance across the kitchen tile. Sometimes they would invite me to dance with them, and we’d move ourselves in a triangle back and forth. Other times, I was content to just watch; they were magic, and their happiness was intoxicating from the other end of the small kitchen.

On a recent wave of nostalgia, I decided to go back through my grandpa’s cassette tapes and find their digital equivalents so as to always have them with me in my back pocket. Unfortunately, some of the songs I thought so bright and wonderful as a child didn’t hold up. One of my grandpa’s favorite songs is called “Standing on the Corner.” The titular lyric goes, “Standing on the corner watching all the girls, watching all the girls, watching all the girls go by.”

Even here, hidden in the purest of my childhood memories is the idea of woman as object. While the song played a part in one of my life’s formative experiences, is it the memory or the content of the

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song that had the largest impact, and does it matter either way if the song is oppressive?

Where else do these subliminal messages lay, and am I a bad feminist for enjoying the music in which they exist?

Music has a dramatic impact on us all. There’s a reason I know all the words to half of Taylor Swift’s discography despite loathing her as a musician. Popular culture, music specifically, is pervasive. While I don’t think content should be censored because I find it offensive, we should pay closer attention to the themes being communicated through the music our society champions.

It’s not just music that rewards hyper-masculinity and patriarchal ideals. Casey Affleck, who is facing sexual harassment allegations, recently won an Oscar, despite those allegations. Chris Brown, who physically assaulted Rihanna in 2009, is releasing a documentary about his life and already profiting from an upcoming album. Drake, whom I love but who is notorious for condemning sex-positive women in his lyrics, has faced little to no backlash for his sexist music career.

I think Affleck is a great actor, I really like Brown’s music and Drake is maybe my second favorite celebrity of all time. But aren’t I perpetuating the problem by supporting the work of men who often characterize the very behavior that I claim to combat as a feminist?

There are a lot of things that might qualify me as a “bad feminist,” and though I try to champion equality and fairness, I fail as often as I succeed. If I’m being honest, I’m not going to stop listening to Drake. I haven’t fully reconciled what that means to my moral fiber or my feminist punch card. I know I should be able to provide a more insightful, provoking answer, but in the words of Roxane Gay, “I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all.”

Morgan Hughes is a junior studying journalism and political science. She can be reached at morgan.hughes@marquette.edu

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‘Evicted’ highlights King forgets Irish immigrant ails MKE housing crisis Caroline Kaufman For book-lovers, spring break is the perfect time to cast aside readings for classes and finally start that book you’ve been meaning to read for months. For me, that book was “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City” by Matthew Desmond.

Desmond, a Harvard sociologist, has spent nearly a decade researching the relationship between poverty and eviction in Milwaukee. I was initially drawn to ‘Evicted’ because it tells the stories of families in Milwaukee struggling to keep a roof over their heads. It was eerie being able to recognize street names and Milwaukee landmarks mentioned throughout the book, and heartbreaking to hear the disparities present between the individuals’ renting experiences in Milwaukee and my own.

In 2008 and ’09, Desmond lived alongside these families, witnessing first-hand the systemic racism and housing discrimination that plagues these individuals, and the effects of the lack of consistent housing on their mental and physical well-being.

For example, among Milwaukee renters, over one in five black women report having been evicted, compared to one in 12 Hispanic women and one in 15 white women.This sobering finding was one of Desmond’s motivations behind this book. Many people are familiar with the fact Milwaukee is home to an area with the world’s highest incarceration rate for black males, however, what I was unaware of is that housing discrimination — especially eviction — is a serious issue for black women. As Desmond puts it, “Poor black men are locked up; poor black women are locked out.”

What surprised me even more than the statistics, though, was that I had been living on the same streets where Desmond came to these realizations, and for three years. It’s hard for us students sometimes to understand the problems that exist beyond our

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campus sidewalks.

The stories ‘Evicted’ tells opened my eyes to this serious issue happening here in Milwaukee, but this book’s impact stretches far beyond our city.

I learned just how far-reaching the affordable-housing crisis is in this country. Desmond urges his readers to recognize this vicious cycle and push for policy change to ensure affordable housing is a basic right for all Americans.

The most foreign perspective for me to understand throughout the book was that of the wealthy landlords in these impoverished areas. Being one of these Milwaukee landlords is actually extremely lucrative because when tenants can’t pay rent, they’re evicted, forced to pay the security deposit and the landlord can move on to the next family desperately seeking a place to stay.

With 20 percent of all renting families spending over half of their income on housing, the affordable housing crisis can no longer be ignored. Desmond argues, “public initiatives that provide low-income families decent housing are the most effective anti-poverty programs in the United States.” These initiatives, such as a more expansive housing voucher program and new policies set in place to protect impoverished tenants from being taking advantage of by landlords, would allow everyone the basic right of affordable housing that is reiterated by Desmond throughout this book.

As I read ‘Evicted,’ Desmond’s extensive fieldwork allowed me to step into the shoes of both the impoverished tenants and the wealthy landlords. He helped me recognize this harsh reality happening in Milwaukee and provoked within me not only a knowledge of the issue, but a desire for change.

It’s hard for us students sometimes to understand the problems that exist beyond our campus sidewalks.”

Caroline Kaufman is a junior studying corporate communication and writing-intensive English.

She can be reached at caroline. kaufman@marquette.edu

Ryan McCarthy It seems fitting Representative Steve King’s (R-IA) racist tweet regarding immigrants came during a week when so many Irish Americans reflect on their cultural heritage.

If you’re out of the loop, King retweeted Dutch right-wing politician Geert Wilders’ political cartoon about Muslim refugees, adding the caption, “Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies.”

Putting aside the question of what it means to restore Western civilization, or whether it indeed needs restoring, King’s statement is far from a simple denouncement of birthright citizenship. It is xenophobic and racist.

You would think as a Catholic and descendant of Irish immigrants, Rep. King would remember all too well how his relatives were treated when they immigrated to America. During the mid-19th century, the aptly named Know Nothing Party, the original home for American nativist hate and bigotry, removed Irish immigrants from state jobs and attacked Catholics on their way to the polls. In New England, they even burned a Catholic Church and tarred and feathered a Catholic priest.

Even after the Know Nothing Party receded into history, the Klu Klux Klan would take its nativist and anti-Catholic rhetoric to new heights. Now, this nativist sentiment has found a new home in the members of the Republican party like King who demonize immigrants while ignoring their own immigrant past.

I have no problem calling these people racists.

I think there is a sense from people on the right that liberals cry racism as a tactic to remove opposing points of view. Maybe that’s a legitimate complaint in some cases, but not this one.

King’s statements are racist, and not because troglodytes like David Duke agree with them.

It’s because they’re based in this false reality where America is a white ethno-state.

King has a history. You can’t ignore his ardent support of racial profiling, his dog-whistle comments about Obama’s middle name and the fact he keeps the confederate flag on his desk (despite Iowa siding with the union).

If you are unable to express your “tough on immigration” beliefs without resorting to racist comments, maybe rethink

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This 1920s cartoon shows the Ku Klux Klan chasing the Catholic Church, personified as St. Patrick, from the shores of the U.S.

how you arrived at those beliefs. Are you trying to protect your country from Mexicans with “calves the size of cantaloupes because they’re hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert,” (Yes, King actually said that) or is that just an excuse for something more sinister?

If King had any shame, he would resign, but I suspect he’ll blame the outrage on the culture of political correctness rather than hold himself accountable for his irresponsible and reprehensible comments. Republicans like Paul Ryan and Jeb Bush are willing to condemn his statements, but the party will continue to fund his reelection. Ultimately, it’s on his constituents to decide whether to vote him out. Given that he’s been in Congress 14 years, perhaps these comments also reflect their views.

I don’t think these sentiments

from descendants of Irish immigrants are isolated to Iowa. A few years ago, at a pre-St. Patrick’s Day party at a friend’s house in Maryland, an Irish American approached us, pointed at his Pakistani neighbors in the yard beside us and said something to the effect of, “Well, they’re all terrorists to me.”

Now that St. Patrick’s day is over and our thoughts turn away from our heritage again, try to reflect on your own immigrant story. Remember very few of us came over on the Mayflower and many groups of foreign immigrants and religious outcasts have faced the same prejudice some of us now perpetrate. Without them, you probably wouldn’t even be here.

Ryan McCarthy is a senior studying journalism. He can be reached at ryan.w.mccarthy@marquette.edu

Women’s basketball’s unpredictable season came to end in South Beach

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MUBB players celebrate after Villanova (left). Players huddle against Creighton (top right). A fan celebrates during Marquette’s NCAA Tournament game (bottom right).

Tournament bid, Villanova victory highlight ‘16-’17

By Jack Goods

jack.goods@marquette.edu

It was nearly impossible to reach a consensus when it came to expectations for men’s basketball at the start of the year.

There was certainly talent there, but losing star big man Henry Ellenson to the NBA Draft left an enormous hole. Would the newcomers, transfers Andrew Rowsey and Katin Reinhardt and freshmen Markus Howard and Sam Hauser, be able to not only make up for Ellenson’s loss, but also help take Marquette to the next level?

The BIG EAST’s coaches weren’t sold and placed Marquette seventh in the preseason poll. Head coach Steve Wojciechowski wouldn’t pick where the team would finish in the BIG EAST Conference standings publicly, but he emitted an aura of positivity.

“I’m optimistic,” Wojciechowski said at the team’s media day

in October. “I feel like this is the best team we’ve had since we’ve been here.”

His expectations were spot on.

The 2016-’17 season came to a conclusion in Greenville, South Carolina Friday, a week later in the season than the past two years.

Marquette made an appearance in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2013 and the first time under Wojciechowski.

It’s one of a handful of accomplishments this season will be remembered for.

“When I took the job, we had to reboot the program,” Wojciechowski said. “And in a few short years we’re back into the NCAA Tournament where we want to be consistently.”

If the 2016-’17 season won’t be cherished for Marquette’s return to the tournament, it will be for the greatest regular season victory in program history. Jan. 24, Hauser grabbed the rebound after a final attempt by No. 1 Villanova to seal Marquette’s first regular season win against a No. 1 ranked opponent in program history.

Add in a handful of additional victories against the top of a talented BIG EAST Conference,

sweeping Xavier and Creighton, and Marquette fans had plenty to celebrate.

That doesn’t mean the road was easy. Marquette opened the season with a dominant victory against Vanderbilt but fell flat at the 2K Classic, getting manhandled by Michigan and blowing a lead against Pittsburgh. The Golden Eagles had no answer for Wisconsin’s Ethan Happ as the Badgers pulled away from Marquette in the second half.

The roster was still in flux as Wojciechowski tried to piece together a lineup featuring many new parts. Rowsey, one of the team’s top talents by the end of the season, barely played in the first few games. Reinhardt, who was instrumental in the Villanova win, went through a huge slump before it was revealed he was dealing with an injury.

Two players left the program during non-conference play.

Sandy Cohen, one of the team’s best defenders, transferred to UW-Green Bay. Traci Carter, last year’s starting point guard and the best passer among the point guard trio, left for La Salle, citing a wish to be closer to home.

Even after it seemed Marquette had figured things out and was in the fast lane to the tournament, a handful of crushing losses following the Villanova game likely took some years off fans’ lifespans. The team fell to Providence at home and then to St. John’s on the road.

The adversity never sunk Marquette too far, as the newcomers meshed together well. Howard and Hauser started nearly the entire season and weren’t overwhelmed, with Howard shooting nearly 55 percent from 3-point range and Hauser serving as a reliable defender, spot-up shooter and the team’s leader in minutes.

On certain nights, Rowsey and Reinhardt were each the most valuable player.

After the losses to Providence and St. John’s, Marquette still got to its goal of ten conference wins, the mark the team felt they needed to hit to make the big dance. That meant ending the season with victories at Xavier and home against Creighton.

“I give our guys a lot of credit,” Wojciechowki said. “There are different times over the course of the year where if we didn’t

respond we wouldn’t be in this position.”

“A lot of people counted us out this year,” Reinhardt said. “Nobody thought we would come out and do what we did this year. That’s the reason I came to Marquette. I felt we could do something special.”

Now, the focus turns toward the future and building on the success the team has experienced.

The team loses three seniors with vital roles, Luke Fischer, Jajuan Johnson and Katin Reinhardt, but another year of Rowsey and continuation of the maturation process for Howard and Hauser leave room for plenty more optimism from Wojciechowski.

Harry Froling, who transferred from SMU, came overseas from Australia with high expectations, and he’s already trimmed down working with Marquette trainer Todd Smith. Wojciechowski brings in a solid three-man recruiting class in Jamal Cain, Theo John and Ike Eke. “This is definitely not the last you’ll see of anyone,” Fischer said.

WILSON from page 1

Wilson’s departure cuts program’s final ties with Buzz Williams is the third player to transfer from the program this season, joining Sandy Cohen and Traci Carter. The transfer gives Marquette three scholarship openings for next season.

“We want to thank Duane for his contributions to the program and wish him the best of luck in the future,” head

coach Steve Wojciechowski said in a statement. “We respect his decision to explore other opportunities and will be completely supportive throughout the process.”

Wilson, who was the last Marquette player on the roster recruited by Buzz Williams, took a diminished role with the

Golden Eagles in his third season. Wilson played a defensive role off the bench this season, though he was originally a volume shooter as an underclassman. He went from playing 28 minutes per game as a freshman and sophomore to 16 a game as a junior.

Wilson scored 4.8 points

per game, 1.8 rebounds and 1.6 assists per game this season. He started 51 games and played in 95 during his Marquette career. He played 23 minutes and scored four points in his final game as a Golden Eagle Friday, his first NCAA Tournament appearance.

“It’s just been great being

a part of this, making it to the tournament, even though we wanted to win games we can say we made it here,” Wilson said following Marquette’s loss to South Carolina Friday. “We had a great season. We’ve just got to bounce back and finish back off this. … We’ll be back.

Trust me.”

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DeLuca keeps memory of father alive through lax

Sophomore found home with MU club lacrosse team

By Nathan Desutter

nathan.desutter@marquette.edu

Matt DeLuca considers himself a wise old man. He might only be a sophomore on the men’s club lacrosse team and lacking the traditional long, white beard, but his world looks much different than a typical 19-year-old’s.

Life has come at him hard and fast, and he figured out long ago that no matter how hard one tries, time doesn’t stop for anybody.

The world will always keep moving.

When DeLuca was nine, doctors had to explain to him that there was an extra cell in his blood, and its name was leukemia.

At that moment, DeLuca didn’t have to come face-to-face with his diagnosis, but it left him with a lasting impact: a blood disorder and an enlarged spleen.

It limited DeLuca. Football, the biggest sport at his high school, was out of the question, but it might have been a blessing in disguise. It made him closer to the two things he loves in life: lacrosse and his dad, Paul.

Paul DeLuca was an avid lacrosse fan and an extremely successful coach on the middle school level, where he won two championships over 14 years. He divorced when his kids were still young, and before he met Matt’s eventual stepmom, lacrosse filled the missing piece in the family. It tied him and Matt together in an inseparable bond.

“It’s who I am, and it’s a part of who I became with my dad,” Matt said. “When he was still coaching, he would always be

on the sideline, and I would come off the field to chat with him about the plays. It resembled our relationship.”

When he heard the doctor’s diagnosis of his son, Paul was more terrified than Matt. He knew what leukemia meant, and he knew the impact it had on families. Once Matt was cleared, Paul thought it wasn’t enough to feel blessed.

Instead, he vowed to make a difference.

Since 1994, America’s Most Beautiful Bike Ride, a course that circumnavigates Lake Tahoe and skids across the side of the Sierra Nevada in California, has partnered with the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society to raise over $94 million. Paul DeLuca rode the 100-mile course from 2006 to 2008. It meant everything to him.

But no matter how fast or far he rode, Paul couldn’t escape the cause he was riding for. In May of 2015, he was diagnosed with CNS Primary Lymphoma, and he passed away in October.

That same fall, Matt began his freshman year at Marquette.

“Transitioning into college was hard. Real hard,” Matt said.

“Moving here and leaving him behind, although I knew he never would have wanted me to stay, it’s a part of growing up realizing that you have to put some things in front of others.”

Through the mire of grief and endless wandering thoughts that fall, there was one thing that kept Matt sane: lacrosse. When he got to Marquette, the first thing he did was find the club lacrosse team at Marquette and sign up. It reminded him of his dad, and even if he was no longer there, he could still picture him standing on the sideline waiting for his son to jog over and talk about the game.

“I made the conscious decision that I wouldn’t just isolate myself

Photo courtesy of Matt DeLuca

Sophomore Matt DeLuca cradles the ball for club lacrosse in a game against the Wisconsin Badgers.

and study,” Matt said. “Instead, I focused on friendships and finding groups on campus that were good for me.”

Matt said he’s past the mourning. He focuses on the positive aspects of his dad and lessons he learned, both on and off the field.

As a coach, his dad was always organized, and as Matt put it, “always had his ducks in a row.” So, it isn’t surprising Matt already holds a leadership position on his team. As the social chair on the team’s board of directors, he’s trying to make a difference.

This February, in an attempt to continue the efforts of his dad, he approached his teammates with the idea of a fundraiser. His stepmom, Renee, started a Man of the Year campaign in memory of Paul and the passions so close to his heart, and Matt knew he wanted to bring his dad’s cause right here to Marquette.

His teammates have embraced it with open arms.

“As a team, we like to do more than just play the game on the field,” club lacrosse president Tim Hefferon said. “It goes to show that the bonds that we create on

MARQUETTE SPORTS CALENDAR SATURDAY 3/25 Men’s lacrosse at Georgetown 11 a.m.

Women’s lacrosse at Temple 12 p.m.

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SUNDAY 3/26 Men’s tennis vs. Wrigley Satet 11 a.m.

BIG EAST STANDINGS MEN’S LACROSSE (Overall, BIG EAST)

WOMEN’S LACROSSE (Overall, BIG EAST)

Denver 5-2, 0-0 Providence 4-3, 0-0 Marquette 3-2, 0-0 Villanova 3-4, 0-0 Georgetown 2-5, 0-0 St. John’s 1-6, 0-0

Denver 1-0, 7-1 Florida 1-0, 7-1 Vanderbilt 1-0, 4-2 Georgetown 1-0, 3-5 Marquette 1-0, 3-6 Temple 0-1, 7-2 Cincinnati 0-1, 3-5 UConn 0-1, 3-5 Villanova 0-1, 1-6 Butler 0-1, 1-8

the field extend off as well and our guys are really eager to get involved in this, especially since it is supporting one of our own.”

Matt hopes to get team helmet stickers or some small token of remembrance, but more

than money, he wants to raise awareness for cancer, spread the story of Paul and give the advice his father left him, “Try your hardest, and if you fail, you can never feel bad about yourself.”

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Up-and-down WBB season ends in South Beach BIG EAST Champs’ year unpredictable from start to finish

By Brian Boyle

brian.boyle@marquette.edu

Just a couple miles away from the Watsco Center at The University of Miami, where the Marquette women’s basketball team saw their season come to an unexpected conclusion, lies South Beach.

As far as American vacation destinations go, the premier seedy college student spring break hotspot is more emblematic of the women’s basketball team than perhaps any other. It’s fast, frantic, fun, loose, entirely overwhelming and a touch unpredictable: all the best and worst parts of year three of head coach Carolyn Kieger’s Golden Eagle reign.

“When you watch us play, I would not want to be an assistant coach for another team, because what are they running?” Kieger said. “Sometimes I don’t even know what we’re running, but they do a fantastic job of reading and playing

off each other, and I think that’s one thing that where we really evolved last year is eliminating our dribbles, and our passing has improved drastically.”

The highs were going 6-0 against top-25 ranked teams, winning the BIG EAST Tournament and getting asked to the Big Dance. The lows, a couple trap game losses, an early season wake up call courtesy of Green Bay, a Creighton-shaped regular season roadblock and an unfortunate clunker for a season finale against 12th-seeded Quinnipiac, were close to faceplant-in-thesand levels of low.

But like any trip to South Beach, it’s entirely impossible for everyone involved to walk away from this season with anything but a huge smile across their face and lifelong memories dancing through their minds.

“I’m really, really proud of our whole entire program. We’ve come a long way in three years, and I’m glad we’ve got to have this experience here at the NCAA Tournament, because we’ve worked really hard for it,” Kieger said following their first-round NCAA Tournament game. “We

know we’re just getting started.

We talked about in the locker room. We have to remember this pain. We have to remember what this feels like and use it for motivation.”

The season ended on such a sour note, which masks what was otherwise as successful a season as possible. In spring break terms, the Golden Eagles are experiencing the headache and the hangover, but the downswing wasn’t possible without the wild moments that came before. And that’s exactly what the Golden Eagles had all season long.

A three-game non conference homestand to kick off the season was capped off by a victory over then-No. 18 Arizona State. Immediately following the name-making win, Marquette made a West Coast road trip and downed Oregon State for its second victory over top-25 ranked opponents.

It was just a couple weeks later, however, when the well-respected Green Bay traveled to the Al McGuire Center and reminded onlookers that the Golden Eagles were still a young, sophomoreheavy squad via a 78-63 blowout.

But the party didn’t stop for

Photo by Brian Georgeson brian.georgeson@marquette.edu

Women’s basketball starters await lineup before tipoff in Miami.

long. Midway through conference play, Marquette traveled down to DePaul and downed the then-undefeated Blue Demons in an overtime thriller. When DePaul made the trip up to Milwaukee at the end of conference season, Marquette defeated the Blue Demons again, grabbing its fourth victory over top-25 ranked opponents.

When the Golden Eagles squared up against a newly ranked Creighton squad in the BIG EAST Tournament semifinals, the top-25 win streak was extended to five. A night later in the BIG EAST Tournament

Championship game, Marquette triumphed over DePaul for a third time, bringing home an elusive conference title and extending their top-25 record to a perfect 6-0.

The dream season came to a screeching stop Saturday, as Quinnipiac completed the infamous No. 12/No. 5 seed upset.

But losing in the first round is a small price to pay for a team many didn’t even expect to be there, let alone secure an automatic bid with a conference championship.

MUBB recruits react to first NCAA bid since 2013 2017 commit Ike Eke picked MU to win tournament

By John Steppe

john.steppe@marquette.edu

As Marquette gathered on Selection Sunday to learn its NCAA fate at the Union Sports Annex, another important group of people watched closely, but under significantly different circumstances.

That group wasn’t donning team-issued Jordan gear or awaiting in a packed sports restaurant. There weren’t television cameras ready to capture their reactions.

That group, spanning geographically from California to New York, were Marquette’s recruits. “(I had) no reaction,” Class of 2018 target Jarvis Thomas, a power forward from Orono, Minnesota, said. “I knew they were making it.”

“It’s cool to see a few of the teams that are recruiting me in the tournament and that I could be playing in the tournament in the next few years,” said fellow Class of 2018 target Race Thompson, a power forward from Plymouth, Minnesota.

Class of 2017 signee Ike Eke’s excitement went a bit further.

“Marquette making the tournament was what I was hoping

for,” Eke said. “It was such a good feeling to the fact that I prayed about it.”

Recruits’ expectations for Marquette varied from winning one game to winning the entire tournament.

“I think I had them in round two in my bracket,” Thomas said. “But they could’ve made it to the Sweet 16.”

Eke had much higher expectations.

“My expectation was for them to win it all, because I think they can do it,” Eke said.

“They have the talent and guys who can do it.”

Eke tweeted a link to his bracket a few days before the tournament, where he had Marquette upsetting Kansas to win the tournament.

Even though Marquette’s early exit from the tournament was not what Eke was expecting, he thought the team played “very well.”

Thomas was also optimistic, describing the game as a “good fight, but Markus Howard could’ve stepped up more.”

Howard finished the game with a career-high six turnovers.

For Thomas and Thompson, Marquette’s performance in the tournament hardly impacted their odds of choosing the blue and gold.

“Everything remains the same,” Thomas said.

“It doesn’t really mat-

ter,” Thompson echoed. “I just want to feel at home and comfortable.”

Thomas told the Wire last month that Marquette and Arizona State have recruited him the most.

Thompson, an AAU teammate of Thomas, listed Iowa State, Minnesota, Creighton, Marquette and Baylor as schools showing the most interest.

Thompson said that he does

not have any visits planned and will make a decision after AAU season. His team, D1 Minnesota, is scheduled to finish its last tournament July 30.

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McBride transitions from walk-on to track leader Hammer thrower earned scholarship before senior year

By Brendan Ploen

brendan.ploen@marquette.edu

Deep in the heart of the old Marquette Gymnasium rings a phrase that the men’s track and field team, particularly the throwers, have been constantly saying the past month: “11 points.”

The phrase is posted all over the locker room, in the weight room and in the practice facility. The saying references the amount of points that separated the Golden Eagles from winning the Men’s 2017 BIG EAST Indoor Championship. At the center of it all, leading the phrase in every facet and workout, is senior captain Joel McBride, whose specialty is the weight and hammer throw.

Despite his captaincy title, McBride was not offered a scholarship when he came to Marquette.

In high school, he did track and field to help him on the football field. He never qualified for the state meet. He was accepted into Marquette as a student, and then

talked to head coach Bert Rogers and throwers coach Mike Koenning about joining the team.

Despite his lack of athletic accolades, the coaches saw potential and gave him the opportunity to walk on.

“I just kept working hard and tried to prove myself every day,” McBride said. “Freshman year and sophomore year it was about adjusting, but once I became an upperclassman, I knew what I had to do, and kept proving myself and kept being available for the throwers and other teammates.”

His freshman year, McBride was surrounded by the two top throwers in Marquette history, as Will Koeck and Bret Hardin showed him the ropes. The duo inspired McBride to push himself and motivate his team.

“I definitely would not be anywhere close to where I am today if it was without Will and Brent,” McBride said. “They were both team captains and I was able to see how they lead the team. I took little pieces from both of them… Once I saw how they did it, I knew that I wanted to be a team captain.”

“We had a large influx of

Photo courtesy of Maggie Bean Marquette Athletics

Senior Joel McBride competes in the hammer throw in Madison.

freshmen to the throws group and he took a leadership role to help them along,” Koenning said.

“That’s been a huge help for me as a coach.”

His junior year, he continued to get better at his craft. He was named to the All-BIG EAST team in the hammer throw, as he placed third at the conference meet. He recorded the seventhbest throw in Marquette history, a throw of 17.52 meters. His effort in the weight room and at the old Marquette Gymnasium paid off, as he finished the season with a second place finish at the BIG EAST Outdoor

Championships in the hammer throw and entered into the top-10 all-time in program history.

Entering this past summer, the Marquette coaches noticed he came into practice early every day ready to work and improve, and head coach Bert Rogers offered McBride a scholarship for the 2016-’17 school year. On top of the scholarship, McBride was also named team captain, an honor that he had dreamed about since joining the program.

“If you were to ask me freshman year if I were to become team captain, I would have told

you, ‘I really want to, with all my heart I really want to, but I don’t know if I can make it,’” McBride said. “To actually go and make it and become the team captain and be able to show these other guys how to lead and how to be more than about yourself, and put the team first, I have been so grateful for this opportunity.”

“It means a lot to me, too,” Koenning said. “(He) had to prove himself to stay on the team his freshman year. He showed some progress as a freshman, but also had a few rocky stretches too.

He learned from those experiences and grew into a great leader.”

Since being named captain, McBride deals with more than just his throwing teammates, but the entire men’s track and field program. Although his role has adjusted slightly, McBride is still keeping his eye on the prize of erasing the 11 points motto that hangs in the locker room.

“We want to let people know that 11 points is nothing,” McBride said. “We are going to wipe the floor and we are coming back with vengeance. That’s heart right there, 11 points.”

Location gave South Carolina unearned advantage Jack Goods When the euphoria of Marquette’s announcement in the men’s basketball NCAA Tournament wore off, the reality sunk in.

Wait, Marquette has to play South Carolina in South Carolina?

Fans tried bargaining with themselves. I was sure some Marquette supporters will travel, and maybe the Duke fans leftover from the prior game will stick around to cheer on Marquette head coach and former Duke guard Steve Wojciechowski.

That wasn’t the case. The crowd was electric and booming, and it gave South Carolina an unfair advantage from the start. The absurdity of the decision intensified for South Carolina’s second-round game, where the Gamecocks held a home court advantage against the second-seeded Duke Blue Devils. TNT commentator Chris Webber said during the broadcast that the crowd was about 90 percent red for that game.

“That’s just the way the NCAA Tournament goes sometimes,” Wojciechowski said stoically when he met with the media following the Selection Sunday special.

But really, it isn’t. Playing in

your home state is typically an advantage a team earns by locking up a high seed in the field. Only two other times since 2010 has a team worse than a six seed played in its home state — 11th-seeded Dayton in 2015 and 12th-seeded California in 2013. Dayton was also a unique case, as the Flyers were in the last four in that season.

Marquette was uncharacteristically sloppy with the ball, turning it over 18 times despite averaging 12 turnovers a game. Twelve of

the Golden Eagles’ turnovers Friday came in the second half when the crowd volume was augmented. When South Carolina started a run, it was difficult to stop when each turnover and dunk raised the noise more.

“It was just like a regular BIG EAST road game for us at Villanova,” Duane Wilson said after Marquette’s loss. “We fought hard, but I think they fed off their fans at times.”

“It helped the momentum when

PJ (Dozier) got those couple fast break dunks, and the atmosphere went crazy,” South Carolina’s Sindarius Thornwell said. “It just gave us the confidence we needed to get over the edge and push through the final minutes of the game.”

The advantage has led to success, as all three of the teams below a six seed that played their first round game in their home state since 2010 won. Sunday night, a 10-loss South Carolina

team, which ended the regular season by losing five of its last seven games, beat a Duke team which easily could have been a one seed.

“It’s just a blessing to be able to play in front of our fans,” Dozier said.

You can say that again.

Jack Goods is a senior studying journalism. He can be reached at jack.goods@marquette.edu

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The Marquette Tribune

Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Wojciechowski successful in third season at MU Grant Becker With no postseason tournament action in two years at a high major basketball school like Marquette, a head coach can feel the temperature of his seat start to rise. By no means was Steve Wojciechowski on the hot seat entering the 2016-’17 season, but there was a chance he would be come March.

It’s March, and to the delight of Wojciechowski and Marquette fans alike, there are no doubts about his job security.

When the Golden Eagles saw their blue and gold MU logo flash onto the TV screen Selection Sunday with no suprise, many members of the #FireWojo community donned new hats and maybe even gave the floor a little slap.

This arbitrary measure, fitting into an ever-changing, noisy, disagreeable group of 68 teams on a Sunday afternoon in mid-March, is what many nationwide will judge Wojciechowski by. Many who follow the program will use it as a measuring stick, mostly because it’s black and white.

Either you make it or you don’t, and this year, for the first time as a head coach, Wojciechowski made it.

We shouldn’t just declare this season a success because the former Duke assistant got his team dancing. We shouldn’t even declare it a success because his team was vastly improved. We should declare it a success because he finally had a team that was mostly his, and it looked remarkably different and astonishingly better than his first two teams.

In Wojciechowski’s first season, he had just one player he recruited, graduate transfer Matt Carlino. The lefty carried a thin roster that finished the season with just eight scholarship players to a forgettable 13-19 (4-14 BIG EAST) record. But hey, what could Wojciechowski do without 75 percent of the previous season’s scoring and no time to recruit?

Wojciechowski’s second season was a massive step forward, if only in terms of optics, with NBA talent Henry Ellenson in the fold. The team won 20 games starting three freshman and no seniors, but by every metric, they were far from a tournament team.

It was progress, but nowhere near enough.

Though the roster at season’s end had six Wojciechowski players on it compared to four Buzz Williams players, it was still decisively not a Wojciechowski team.

Of the ten active scholarship players on the roster, the rotation

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We should declare it a success because he finally had a team that was mostly his, and it looked remarkably different and astonishingly better.” only included seven players. Of those seven players, only three were Wojciechowski’s guys – and all three were freshmen.

In 2016-’17 the roster was at last primarily Wojciechowski’s.

After the first semester departures of role players Sandy Cohen and Traci Carter, Wojciechowski used all nine of his active scholarship players in the rotation. Six of the nine were handpicked by him, including five of the top seven in terms of minutes.

Though the team was flawed, ranking 166th in the nation in defense, it ranked more than 60 spots higher overall in KenPom than the previous two seasons.

It also had the best offensive rating of any Marquette team in the KenPom era (since 2002), including the 2003 Final Four team that finished with the best offensive rating in the nation.

This season, Wojciechowski let the team he put together play to its own strengths. The result, a vastly improved team, showed he’s more than capable of leading Marquette forward.

Both of Wojciechowski’s recruiting classes have been smash hits with Ellenson and Cheatham highlighting his first class and cornerstone players in Markus Howard and Sam Hauser forming a spectacular two-man class this season. Additionally, he’s proven to be thrifty in the transfer market, snagging Andrew

Rowsey for two years and getting Carlino and Katin Reinhardt for their final seasons.

His team has questions to answer going forward, especially on the defensive end, but perhaps Wojciechowski’s answer lies in his stretchy, athletic incoming recruiting class and maturation of what was still a young side in 2016-’17.

As it stands today, next season’s roster has 10 players on it and all 10 are Wojciechowski’s. For the first time as a head coach, the roster will be entirely his.

Landing a 10 seed and bowing out in the first round of the NCAA Tournament isn’t the gold standard for Marquette men’s basketball, but doing it in year three with plenty of promise for future improvement bodes well for Wojciechowski.

You don’t have to think Wojciechowski has suddenly arrived as one of the best young coaches in the nation, but all things considered, it’s hard to call this season anything but a success and a massive step forward.

Grant Becker is a senior studying journalism. He can be reached at grant.becker@marquette.edu

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