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Volume 98, Number 53
Straz Tower to host first co-ed floor on campus
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Tuesday, April 15, 2014
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By Matt Barbato
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Marquette will host its firstever co-ed residence floor next fall, reserved for sophomores in the Dorothy Day program located in David Straz Tower. James McMahon, dean of residence life who leads the Dorothy Day program, said the decision to consolidate participants into one floor was made because the program, which is entering its fifth year, could not attract the amount of students it has in years past. Next fall will house 24 students in the program, which is considerably lower than the targeted population of 44. “We make a commitment with these living-learning programs that nobody who is not apart of the program will live on the floor,” McMahon said. “It has become harder to fill those spaces and we’ve got a number of open spaces this year. We need to work hard to make sure that we fill those rooms because we cannot afford to have empty spaces across the system.” McMahon said it was unrealistic to cut down applicants and house them on separate floors because it secludes the students in the program who are supposed to be part of a livinglearning community. “If we split them between two floors, then we have at least half of a floor on each of those with people that aren’t part of the program and that doesn’t work well,” McMahon said. He also said Straz makes the most sense for co-ed floor because of its design. “I think it’s a very doable solution for us,” McMahon said. “It works in Straz because each of the rooms have a private bath and the floors are divided pretty nicely into two wings.” The decision to create the co-ed floor was mainly McMahon’s, but he said the administration did not bring up any resistance to the situation. McMahon said he thinks this new style of residence life will work because of the type of students who will inhabit the floor. “These are all sophomore See Straz, Page 4
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Gov. Scott Walker is flanked by state lawmakers Alberta Darling (left of Walker) and Dale Kooyenga (behind Walker), both of whom authored a bill that grants DPS police powers. Walker joined campus leaders and police Monday morning in a signing ceremony in the Alumni Memorial Union ballrooms.
DPS may attain arrest capabilities pending action from the school By Joe Kvartunas
joseph.kvartunas@marquette.edu
Gov. Scott Walker signed a bill into law giving the Department
Columbia,” Walker said. “In the end, I believe that it will provide tremendous value to students and the faculty and the staff, but also the community.” Walker spoke briefly before signing the bill, and thanked school administrators, Milwaukee police, Rep. Gwen Moore (D), and state legislators Sen. Alberta Darling (R) and Rep. Dale Kooyenga (R), among others. Darling
and Kooyenga were the primary authors of the legislation. Interim University President the Rev. Robert A. Wild stressed that this law only gives the university the option of establishing a police force, and no official decision to actually implement one has been reached. If the university decides to take that See DPS, Page 4
MU fraternities investigated for crimes Hazing, sexual assault under review by Student Affairs, IFC By Matt Kulling
matthew.kulling@marquette.edu
The Department of Student Affairs and the Interfraternity Council are investigating a reported sexual assault at the Triangle Fraternity from April and a hazing incident at a fraternity reported Thursday. Although there are no additional details available on the sexual assault, the hazing incident may
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of Public Safety police powers at a ceremony Monday morning in the Alumni Memorial Union, but no decision whether to act on the new law has been made by the university. “This legislation, once it becomes law, will open the door for Marquette University to have the ability that private colleges and universities have in 21 other states and the District of
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lead to disciplinary action, such as suspension for the unnamed fraternity. The alleged incident was reported by an employee to have taken place some time between Jan. 1 and April 9. Russell Shaw, the interim director for Department of Public Safety, said hazing is a serious offense. “Hazing is actually classified as a crime … but there are different factors to every hazing situation,” Shaw said. “They usually have to deal with alcohol or something that could become dangerous or involves dangerous activities. In most cases, I guess you could say the victims don’t come forward to us, we usually get them from student affairs.”
Before suspension, fraternities have the ability to appeal the decisions. Suspension and probation are outcomes that could occur from a student conduct hearing, but specific incidents and violations are not made public because student conduct hearings are confidential. In February of 2012, six fraternities were placed on probation through the fall 2012 semester for alcohol-related violations. The fraternities were placed under social probation, meaning the fraternities could have no social events involving alcohol. Alex Landry, the president of IFC at Marquette, said in an email both Marquette and IFC do
not tolerate hazing. “The relationship statement between IFC and Marquette University has a zero-tolerance policy on any kind of activity involving hazing, sexual harassment or abuse,” Landry said. According to Marquette’s Greek Life risk management policy, all house parties must be registered with the IFC judicial vice presidents when a number of conditions are present. These conditions include if two or more chapters host or sponsor the event, if alcohol is present, and if information about the event was distributed through chapter communication methods.
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