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Volume 98, Number 51
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Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Award to Ryan stirs criticism
MU layoffs follow years of admin. staff growth By Kelly Meyerhofer
kelly.meyerhofer@marquette.edu
The group posted a petition on its website in response to the luncheon, calling for Marquette to donate its ticket-sale money to the poor instead of accepting it. “It’s one thing to recognize an elected official’s public service and invite him to speak,” the petition read, “but it’s quite
Rhetoric surrounding this year’s layoffs and budget cuts echoed a common theme: Growth in administration at Marquette over the past decade is unsustainable, and leaders are taking action. “We had added about 300 people over the past 10 ribune years and an o rg a n i z a t i o n roject can’t just continue to add,” said interim University President the Rev. Robert A. Wild in his State of the University address. “You have to take a look and see whether we can operate more efficiently.” The bloat in administrative positions follows national trends, adding to skyrocketing tuition costs across the country. The size of Marquette’s non-academic administrative and professional employees increased 43 percent from 1993 to 2011, according to the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. Newly released cost breakdowns for Fiscal Year 2015, however, show that administrative expenditures will take up a slightly smaller percentage of total university costs next year. With 25 staff members
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House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) presides over a markup session where House Republicans are pressing ahead with a slashing plan to balance the budget within 10 years. Ryan was honored by Marquette for his contributions to the Les Aspin Center, for which the school faced criticism.
Online group petitions MU’s recognition of Wisconsin lawmaker By Natalie Wickman
natalie.wickman@marquette.edu
Backlash arose late last week concerning Marquette’s
presentation of the Les Aspin Public Service Award to Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), who recently proposed his budget for fiscal year 2015. The Les Aspin Center for Government in Washington D.C. held a luncheon Friday to recognize Ryan’s contributions to the center and raise money from entrance tickets, priced at $150 per person, for
Student dies after battle with cancer Memorial services held for Andrew Zint after 5-year fight By Joe Kaiser
joseph.kaiser@marquette.edu
Memorial services were held this weekend in the Chicago area for Andrew Zint, a freshman in the College of Engineering who died April 1. Zint, 19, battled pediatric brain cancer for nearly five years. According to the Daily Herald, Andrew was diagnosed with a medulloblastoma, which accounts for 15 to 20 percent of pediatric brain
tumors, during his sophomore year at Buffalo Grove High School in Buffalo Grove, Ill. He tried five different clinical trials since then, including one last fall that forced him to withdraw midway through the semester. In lieu of flowers, his family is asking for donations to the MakeA-Wish Foundation, Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation or the Neuro-oncology Research Fund. In October 2011, the MakeA-Wish Foundation arranged a trip to Rome for the Zint family, during which Andrew received a personal blessing by Pope Benedict XVI in St. Peter’s Square. He is survived by his mother, Susan, father, Anthony, and his sister Emily.
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Marquette’s Les Aspin program. Faithful America, an online community of Christians doing social justice work, saw the luncheon as an endorsement of Ryan. Faithful America vocally expressed its views against Ryan’s proposed budget, which detractors criticize for proposing cuts to Pell Grants and student loans, among other programs.
UWM students file for appeal in dissolved government suit
Two former members of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee’s now-defunct student government filed a notice of appeal to the Milwaukee County Court Monday, asking it to reconsider a previous ruling recognizing UWM’s new student government as legal. The two appellants, Taylor Scott and Samir Siddique, allege the previous student government was illegally
dissolved by UWM administrators, including Marquette’s presidentelect and present UWM chancellor, Michael Lovell. Scott said in an email that while many of the legal issues surrounding UWM’s student government did not directly include Lovell, he still has reservations about Lovell’s role in the affair. “I am not giving him plausible deniability,” Scott said. “He just hasn’t been largely involved in student affairs.” UWM’s media contact did not return comment in time for this story, but Marquette’s director of communication Brian Dorrington said in an email that Lovell expressed his “deep commitment” to Marquette students.
“In his news conference last week, he shared how he is looking forward to improving and enhancing the already strong student experience at Marquette,” Dorrington said. “He expressed his excitement to build on our tradition and provide our students a campus experience that is second to none.” Scott provided The Marquette Tribune with a raw audio recording of a May 5, 2013 meeting that took place at UWM between Lovell and Vice-Chancellor Michael Laliberte, as well as two students from the defunct student government, Tereza Pelicaric and Anthony DeWees. In the audio, Lovell is heard asking the students if there was a way to
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Appellate exhibits Lovell’s involvment in dissolution decision
By Benjamin Lockwood
benjamin.lockwood@marquette.edu
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The EU is progressive on roaming and net neutrality. PAGE 9
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