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Volume 98, Number 55
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Tuesday, April 29, 2014
MUSG passes budget for 2015
Global prize goes to MU students’ phone app
Legislation reduces funds for After Dark, makes film events free By Joe Kvartunas
joseph.kvartunas@marquette.edu
Marquette Student Government unanimously passed a $475,850 budget for Fiscal Year 2015 at their Senate meeting Thursday night, a measure that features a reduction in After Dark programs and free admission to movies at the Varsity ribune Theater. roject MUSG follows a balanced budget philosophy, meaning it plans to spend all of the money it expects to receive in total revenues. The budget was built primarily by the MUSG budget committee, which was made up of former president Sam Schultz, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences; Financial Vice President Nick Ciccone, a junior in the College of Business Administration; former Programs Vice President Tyler Tucky, a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences; current Programs Vice President Ryan Twaddle, a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences; off-campus Senator Nathan Craft, a junior
By Andrew Dawson
andrew.dawson@marquette.edu
be super sexual, and sexualized, in addition to being the sexual activity gatekeeper,” Hlavka said. “How you balance that is beyond me - it’s physically impossible. When girls do have sexual encounters, they’re labeled as ‘sluts’ by their peers.” If a female victim tries to report sexual violence, her peers often “victim blame” or “slut shame” to make her feel guilty for the actions of her assaulter. Hlavka found girls criticize one another for not avoiding aggressive male behavior, and also downplay sexual assault to each other as not a “big deal,” in order to prevent victims from reporting it. “They grab you, touch your butt and try to, like, touch you in the front, and run away, but it’s okay,” said one 13-year-old girl interviewed in the study. “I mean … I never think it’s
a big thing because they do it to everyone.” Though the study focuses on girls ages 11-17, Hlavka also talked with males from the same age group and individuals of both genders ages 3-10, finding that men experience the same type of sexual assault and shaming as women. Those results will be published in a separate study. “Sexual assault to males by females was similarly disregarded, since men thought they should always want sex, all of the time,” Hlavka said. “And that they were lucky to get sex no matter what.” The study also contains instances of homosexual sexual assault with adolescent victims who were often questioning their sexuality, in addition
A student start-up is looking to build off its success after it took home $53,000 in winnings at the Rice Business Competition for its business plan April 7. The plan focuses around a phone application, focalCast, which streams PowerPoints from mobile devices to a display device using Intel’s Wireless Direct technology. Users can write, draw and annotate on the presentations while using the app. The Rice Business Competition, one of the world’s largest and most renowned business plan competition, draws competitiors from around the globe. This year, focalCast competed against 42 teams from institutions such as Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Devin Turner and Charlie Beckwith, both seniors in the College of Engineering and co-founders of focalCast, created the application last summer. They pitched the idea to Marquette and were granted access to make the project part of a senior design class as well as receive guidance from university faculty. Although the application is still very new, it has already made great strides toward success. Prior to the competition, the business plan won multiple contests including the Marquette Business Plan Competition earlier this month. “It was the most fast-paced and intense three days I have ever experienced, but staying up all night working on something that you love made it fly by,” Beckwith said. “It was incredibly rewarding for me to see other people using something that I created from the ground up.” Nick Winninger, business director of focalCast, said the team was hesitant to enter the competition. It knew experts had to critique its plan, but was also under pressure to find potential investors. In the end, the focalCast group won the $50,000
See Study, Page 6
See focalCast, Page 6
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Photo by Rebecca Rebholz/rebecca.rebholz@marquette.edu
Financial Vice President Nick Ciccone (left) speaks with MUSG President Kyle Whelton (right). Both Ciccone and Whelton were part of the budget committee that drafted the legislation to allocate $475,850.
Study on sexual violence gains attention MU professor’s study looks at experiences of young girls ages 10-17 By Natalie Wickman
natalie.wickman@marquette.edu
Two weeks after sexual misconduct allegations in Marquette’s fraternities surfaced on campus, a professor’s study on adolescent girls’ views on sexual assault is getting media attention. The 10-year study, conducted by Heather Hlavka, an assistant professor of social and cultural sciences, was titled “Normalizing Sexual Violence” and drew results from a sample population drawn from a forensic child advocacy center in the Midwest. It was published online Feb. 28,
and will appear in the June issue of Gender & Society journal. Hlavka was interviewed on MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry Show April 20 to discuss her findings. The sample population investigated occurrences of sexual assault on school buses, playgrounds, hallways and generally within school peer groups. “We’re using traditional sexual scripts to talk about gender,” Hlavka said. “We say ‘boys will be boys and they can’t help themselves,’ and then the girls are supposed to be the gatekeepers of sexual activity.” According to Hlavka’s study, those traditional sexual scripts create a double standard, one that girls cannot easily avoid, which can lead to mental manipulation from peers. “Today, girls are in a strange double-bind where they have to
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DPS REPORTS......................2 CALENDAR...........................2 CLASSIFIEDS........................7
MARQUEE......................8 VIEWPOINTS...............10 SPORTS.......................12
Marquette is recognized as a green campus yet again. PAGE 2
MU has room to broaden its conversation on sexual assault. PAGE 11
Marquette sports wrap up a transitional coaching year. PAGE 12