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MU layoffs follow years of admin. staff growth By Kelly Meyerhofer
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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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Panelists discuss infant mortality in MKE Experts point to racial segregation as major cause of disparities By Matt Kulling
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Bevan Baker, the Milwaukee commissioner of health, pleaded with a crowd in the Alumni Memorial Union ballrooms Monday to address the issue of infant mortality in the city. “If we never talk about it, if we don’t wash dirty linen, no one is going to be clean,” Baker said of the problem. “This is our dirty linen.” Four experts on health and infant mortality discussed the consequences of Milwaukee’s high infant mortality rate at the College of Nursing’s 2014 health forum Monday, moderated by “On the Issues” host Mike Gousha. The 2013 Fetal Infant Mortality Review showed the extent of the problem in Milwaukee, especially in the 53233 area code, which encompasses Marquette’s campus. Overall, Milwaukee’s infant mortality rate dropped six years in a row, but still remains at critical levels, the report said. More than 10 infants died per 1,000 live births from 2009 through 2011. The problem is especially acute for African-American babies, who die at nearly three times the rate of white babies in Milwaukee. The panelists at the forum included Baker; Mary C. Mazul, director of population health management for Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare; Nicole Angresano, the vice president of community impact for the United Way of Greater Milwaukee; and Kathlyn Albert, the service director of the Marquette Neighborhood Health Center. Baker started out the panel by saying much of the reason the 53233 area code has such a high infant mortality rate is due to institutional racism and segregation that has plagued Milwaukee for decades. “We can’t consistently be one of the most segregated cities in America and not have byproducts of that,” Baker said.
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He added that Milwaukee looks the other way when it comes to infant mortality, but with media coverage the issue became more prevalent. Baker said certain groups are not as aware of the problem as they might be if the city was less segregated. “It’s easy to drive by disparities that are in this community, we have to deal with this notion that we can’t live together,” Baker said. Albert said education needs to be the key to lowering the rate of infant mortality. She noted that the Marquette Neighborhood Health Center uses a technique where women go to doctor’s appointments and other events during the gestational period in groups as opposed to going alone. “We’ve been using this model of care for 18 months, we’ve had 52 full term births and no primary cesarean sections,” Albert said. Mazul added that the city needs to have a culture shift if
DPS Reports April 3 Between 4 and 4:15 a.m., a student reported that an acquaintance not affiliated with Marquette removed the student’s unsecured, unattended property estimated at $1,000 in a residence in the 500 block of N. 20th St. MPD was contacted. At 5:35 p.m., a student reported that unknown person(s) removed his secured, unattended bicycle estimated at $320 in Lot R. At 9:13 p.m., two people not affiliated with Marquette acted in a disorderly manner toward each other in the 700 block of W. Wisconsin Ave. and one of the subjects displayed a knife. MPD was contacted and took the subjects into custody. The subjects were later transported to Detox. April 4 At 10:56 a.m., a person not affiliated with Marquette was aggressively panhandling in the 1600 block of W. Wisconsin Ave. and will be cited by MPD.
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At 11:36 a.m., an employee reported that between March 25 at 8 p.m. and March 26 at 6 a.m., unknown person(s) removed secured, unattended university property estimated at $900 in the Al McGuire Center. MPD was contacted. At 11: 36 a.m., an employee reported that between 8 p.m. on April 3 and 4:30 a.m. on April 4, unknown person(s) removed secured, unattended university property estimated at $900 in the Al McGuire Center. MPD was contacted. April 5 At 1 a.m., unknown person(s) vandalized university property in O’Donnell Hall causing an estimated $5 in damage. Facilities Services was contacted. At 1:16 a.m., a fire alarm sounded for McCormick Hall. MFD was contacted and the building evacuated. Upon investigation, it was determined that a student discharged a fire extinguisher without cause which activated the alarm. The alarm was reset. MPD was contacted and cited the student.
the infant mortality rate is going to go down. Angresano said part of the culture change needs to be a fundamental misunderstanding of why infants die prematurely. “People think babies are dying because of co-sleeping,” Agresano said. “Babies are dying because they are born too small, too soon.” Angresano said one of the misconceptions of infant mortality is that infant mortality occurs only with low-income, uneducated teenage mothers who sleep with their babies, but this is not true. Sixty percent of infant mortality deaths have to do with infants being born prematurely, not co-sleeping. Angresano also said AfricanAmerican mothers with graduate degrees have a higher rate of infant mortality than white women who are high school dropouts. When compared globally, Milwaukee’s infant mortality rate is worse than 77 other developing countries and the city has a worse black infant mortality rate than cities with similar
racial makeups such as New York City, Louisville and Memphis. Yet Milwaukee’s white infant mortality rate is lower than the national average. Wisconsin is ranked 49th in the last decade for public health care financing, and Milwaukee is in the top six counties in the country when it comes to high infant mortality rate. Steven Thompson, a sophomore in the College of Engineering who attended the event, said students especially in the Marquette community are unaware of the problem. “To fix this, Marquette can do what they do best and educate the community by holding info sessions that are open to the community, like this one, and can educate students in that regard,” Thompson said. “I feel that people are aware of what infant mortality is but not the actual statistics and their correlation to the cities that are producing the statistics.”
Events Calendar At 2:01 a.m., a student reported being touched in an indecent manner by an unidentified subject in a business in the 1600 block of W. Wells St. MPD was contacted. Between April 5 at 2:17 a.m. and April 6 at 9 p.m., a student reported being harassed by a student-employee in the Raynor Library. MPD was contacted. Between 3 and 3:30 a.m., a student reported being sexually assaulted by another student in the Triangle Fraternity. MPD was contacted. At 2:57 p.m., two students were in possession of drug paraphernalia in McCormick Hall and were taken into custody by MPD. The students were cited and released. April 6 At 12:06 a.m., an unattended container with a controlled substance was found on the floor of the dining hall in McCormick Hall. The property was turned over to MPD.
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Professor receives $2.6 million Bloggers condemn grant to research moral self MUSG allocations Religion trust awards largest humanities grant in MU history By Matt Barbato
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Ten new research projects and three interdisciplinary conferences will be among the results of the largest humanities grant in university history. Nancy Snow, professor of philosophy, was award a $2.6 million grant by the Templeton Religion Trust last week that will go toward funding a research project led by her and Darcia Narvaez, a psychology professor at the University of Notre Dame. Their project will officially begin Sept. 1. The research study titled “The Self, Motivation and Virtue” focuses on learning more about the human character and how to be moral beings. “We are going to be spending the money to fund 10 research projects,” Snow said. “People will present their own research project to be funded by the money we receive, and those researchers will consist of teams of one scientist and one humanist.” There will be three conferences, two of which to be hosted by Marquette and the other by Notre
Dame, where finalists will present their ideas to what Snow calls the “core project team.” Snow said one of the crucial elements of the project criteria is that each study analyzes a different topic in a wide range of morality questions. “What we’re looking for is to have people from a couple of disciplines who look at issues related to the self, virtue and motivation to look at developmental issues and to how virtue is measured,” Snow said. Once the teams are chosen and the grants are awarded, the researchers will have a little less than a year to conduct their studies, which will be presented at an interdisciplinary moral forum at Marquette next March. Snow also said the studies will be stored electronically on a Raynor Memorial Libraries database. Although there will be plenty of research and theory involved in the study, Snow said the aim of these 10 projects is to find functional solutions to some of the world’s most puzzling moral dilemmas, such as bullying. “What we’re looking at is research that’s foundational to dealing with those more practical questions in our society,” Snow said. “We’re looking for very practical and tangible results down the line from this research.” Narvaez echoed her colleague’s statement and said research alone isn’t enough to create
a moral society. “My interests are on the practical everyday level: How we can help children develop into ethical people and how adults maintain ethical cultures and societies?” Narvaez said in an email. “Keeping research in the ivory tower is not helpful. So I hope that the projects we fund will bear in mind practical application.” Narvaez said she is also releasing a book this summer that correlates with the core themes of the research study. She added that her role in this study is something that enhances her passion for solving issues of morality. “It’s exciting to have a role in pressing for interdisciplinary research in the domain of morality,” Narvaez said. “It’s my own love since I have degrees and careers in the humanities. I think that truth is interdisciplinary and cannot be found in one discipline.” In the end, Snow said she hopes this research can further explain the overall character of humanity and how to create a better world. “Our overall goal is to advance research and knowledge on the nature of the self, motivation and virtue,” Snow said. “We want to get more knowledge and more insight into how we can raise good people and how we can use the results of our research to make moral education and character education better.”
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Ryan: Les Aspin luncheon honoring congressman draws debate on budget another to trade on Paul Ry- Ryan’s proposed budget, but an’s popularity with the super- the way (its petition) portrayed wealthy to raise hundreds of Marquette as holding a camthousands of dollars.” paign or fundraiser for Ryan Zachary Henderson, a senior couldn’t be farther from the in the College of Arts & Scienc- truth,” Henderson said. “Faithes, is in the Washington D.C. ful America may have been tryLes Aspin proing to find a way gram and attendto criticize Ryed last week’s an’s budget and luncheon. the Les Aspin “Most of the luncheon fell in people at the their lap.” luncheon were AJCU also representing orexpressed its ganizations that opposition toalready donate ward Ryan’s a lot of money proposed budget to colleges and in a letter the universities,” group sent him Henderson said. April 1 to state Other groups Zachary Henderson, senior, its concerns. College of Arts & Sciences with positive “Congressman relationships Ryan wanted to with the Les Aspin Center like take out funding from the manPrice-Waterhouse Cooper and datory side of government and the Association of Jesuit Col- pressure Pell Grants to only leges and Universities also receive money from the disattended the luncheon. cretional side of the budget,” “I can see where Faithful said Cyndy Littlefield, AJCU America’s frustrations lie in vice president for federal relaterms of their views against tions. “What that means is an
Faithful America may have been trying to find a way to criticize Ryan’s budget and the Les Aspin luncheon fell in their lap.”
estimated $100 billion, over a period of 10 years, would occur to the Pell Grant program.” Ryan’s budget also proposes students pay interest rates on their subsidized loans while they’re still in college, as well as denying Pell Grants to students from the higher end of lower class incomes such as $40,000. AJCU addressed those points in its letter. Littlefield, however, said the letter and the Les Aspin luncheon are completely separate issues. “It may appear that there is a difference of opinion on this front, but not so,” Littlefield said. “AJCU acknowledges our institution’s efforts to network with members of Congress and attending the luncheon was their effort to do so; they were only focusing on Ryan’s efforts with the Les Aspin Center.” Andrew Brodzeller, associate director of university communication, said alumni, donors and supporters of the center were invited to the event with Ryan, by mail and email.
MUSG funds for pro-Palestine group garnishes criticism
sponsorship of the event. Both Miller and McAdams were skeptical of MUSG’s funding of travel for Theodosius, likening this financing to university sponsorship of the event. “I think readers would ask, By Joe Kvartunas ‘How can you not be a sponjoseph.kvartunas@marquette.edu sor, yet sponsor the travel of Marquette Student Government is one of the speakers?’” Miller often criticized for their Student Or- said Monday afternoon. ganization Funding decisions – but Miller also made it clear that his not normally from groups unaffili- interest in raising these concerns ated with the university. rest in his belief that students should MUSG is currently drawing heat have a say in the sponsorship of a from conservative bloggers for its controversial events. Feb. 6 approval of a $5,000 SOF alMUSG President Kyle Whellocation to the student organization, ton, a junior in the College of Students for Justice in Palestine, for Arts & Sciences, said the SOF its “Israeli Apartheid Week.” process is not an endorsement SOF is financed by the $30 stu- of organization’s views. dent activity fee paid by Marquette “The organization funding prostudents, meaning the money al- cess is not an endorsement by located to SJP was student money, MUSG on any content, no matter not university money. MUSG is what comes forward,” Whelton solely responsible for allocating the said. “For us it is, ‘Is it available student activity fee to qualifying to every single student?’, ‘Are you student organizations, which they a qualifying student organization?’ do through the SOF process. and ‘Is it worth the student activity SJP organized events from March fee?’ With the number of students 24 to 28. During that time they getting involved in foreign affairs screened the film, “The Stones Cry issues at Marquette, I think this is Out,” and held a panel discussion a good week for both the Jewish about the Israel-Palestine conflict. Student Union (which will be hostThey also hosted a speech from ing Israeli Peace Week next week) the Archbishop and Students for of the Orthodox Justice in Palestine.” Church of JeruDespite the consalem, Theodotention surrounding sius (Hanna) of the events, SJP PresSebaste, who is ident Muhammad also a frequent Ayesh, a senior in critic of the Israethe College of Engili government. neering, said he felt Marquette and the week succeeded MUSG officials, in accomplishing its alike, said they three goals: to edudid not sponsor cate students about the views of the what is going on in events’ speakers. Palestine, to inform Kyle Whelton, MUSG President them that it is not However on April 3, Right a religious conflict Wisconsin published a Watchdog. involving only Muslims and Jews, org article by Paul Miller, who and to start a conversation about condemned the university and Palestine on campus. MUSG for sponsoring the event. “There are Christians involved Miller said he was first exposed to and Christians are standing side by the issue after the blog Marquette side with Muslim Palestinians in Warrior – run by John McAdams, wanting justice and wanting equala professor of political science ity for everyone who lives in Palat Marquette – published an ar- estine – Muslims, Christians and ticle highly critical of Marquette’s Jews,” Ayesh said.
The organization funding process is not an endorsement by MUSG on any content no matter what comes forward.”
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UWM: Whelton expresses concern over UWM case distance themselves from the students causing trouble for the administration. “So what I wanted to ask you was, is there a way we can minimize people who may be trying to just inflame the relationship and not have them be a part of this?” Lovell asked in the recording. This “relationship” Lovell alludes to is the one between school administrators and students upset about the dissolution of student government. In the conversation’s full context, Lovell clearly asks if there were any means to keep these students from participating in the new student government. Members of the former student government were then barred from taking part in the 2013-14 student elections. “I think, at best, it speaks volumes for a disregard and lack of respect for the concept of shared governance and, at worst, for a lack of respect in the diverse
interest of students,” Scott said. “I don’t think anyone ever was trying to ‘inflame the relationship’ between administration and students.” UWM has a system of “sharedgovernance,” in which both the administration and the student government share legally recognized authority in certain areas. In this case where both parties have equal authority, an impasse is possible, according to the 1995 ruling in Spoto v. Board of Regents. Kyle Whelton, president of Marquette Student Government, said from his point of view, there was “a great deal of concern over the fairness and validity of the elections,” at UWM, but that Lovell’s arrival at Marquette is not cause for concern that MUSG will be dissolved. “I have absolutely no fear that Dr. Lovell will try to dissolve MUSG,” Whelton said. “He’s expressed excitement to work with our student government.”
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MU adds 510 non-academic positions in 2 decades CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1: laid off from the university and another 80 positions expected to be absorbed through retirements or not filling open positions, university officials made reducing staff costs a budgetary priority. “Marquette has responsibly managed its budget and has operated with a positive margin the past 16 years,” said Vice President of Finance John Lamb in an email. “We fully expect that will be the case for the current fiscal year, as well as future years, because of the proactive steps university leadership has made.” Still, some remain skeptical of the effectiveness of costcutting measures. Richard Vedder, an economist and director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, cautioned students
about taking administrative statements at face-value. “There’s a lot of rhetoric — a lot of huffing and puffing about savings,” Vedder said. “They’ll brag about efforts to cut costs by switching to cheaper light bulbs yet staff lines will continue to rise.” MU’S ADMINISTRATION In all, Marquette added almost 450 full-time positions and more than 60 part-time positions between 1993 and 2011 – the most recent academic year for which comparable figures are available. These
numbers include any staff other than instructional faculty or graduate assistants. Following rhetoric from university leaders about administration jumps, it might be expected to see a large increase in the IPEDS category of “executive/administrative and managerial.” However, Marquette’s staff size remained about the same from 116 full-time employees in 1993 to 112 employees in 2011. Similarly, other categories like “skilled crafts” and “clerical” did not change much. Technical positions increased marginally as expected with the increased use of technology in higher education. The category of “other professionals,” on the other hand, saw a 122 percent increase in full-time positions, from 313 people in 1993 to 697 in 2011. According to the IPEDS website, “other professionals” is an umbrella term to “classify persons employed for the primary purpose of performing academic support, student service and institutional support.” Included in this category are employees holding a range of titles including business operations specialists, h u m a n
resources, meeting and convention planners, accountants and auditors. “(Those positions) do nothing related to research or students,” said John McAdams, a professor who joined Marquette’s political science department in 1997. “They hold a lot of meetings and do a lot of planning.” McAdams expresses an attitude found among many vocal critics of Marquette’s administrative structure, and of higher education as a whole. “It’s bureaucracy run amok,” Vedder said According to staff and faculty figures from the Office of Institutional Research and Analysis, there are almost twice as many non-academic employees as there are instructional positions at Marquette. It is important to note, however, this ratio has not changed much since 2004, the latest data available.
claim they face so many demands,” McAdams said. “But most of the stuff they do is their own initiative.” McAdams used the example of strategic planning, an extensive process colleges endure to receive accreditation. “There’s no demand for this but we (Marquette) have to do it because other schools do,” he said. “It’s an excuse for a bigger bureaucracy.” Andrew Brodzeller, assistant director of university communication, however, said the administrative positions “represent and support Marquette’s mission.” “Directly or indirectly, Marquette employees help support the education of our students,” Brodzeller said in an email. A HISTORY OF MU’S ADMINISTRATION
The data from IPEDS has a few faulty years, but this can be attributed to different definitions among schools. Adding services beyond teach“Some schools may see a standing and research fuels the growth out year where people might be reof campus payrolls. Lamb said 65 classifying staffers into different percent of the university’s budget categories,” Vedder explained. is personnel costs, including salary To reduce this ambiguity, IPEDS and benefits. will increase its number of categoThroughout the nation, most ries from nine to 18, said Alexanuniversities’ fundraising and mar- dra Riley, director of the OIRA. keting departments pay for them- Even though the data was colselves. Several others created only lected by different departments recently, such as those focusing on in the past and some years may sustainability, gender and sexual- throw off the trend, Marquette’s ity issues and diadministration is versity, cost the growing. university a large To verify this, chunk of change, the Tribune anaVedder said. lyzed phone diIn addition, Verectories dating dder said univerback to the 1960’s sities blame the and compared the increased departnumber of emments and hiring ployees within on government each department regulations. Fithroughout five nancial aid alone decades. has a slew of For example, John McAdams, mandates for acin the 1956-57 professor of political science credited instituschool year the tions so each uniOffice of Acaversity has at least one person, or demic Affairs was comprised of in some cases, whole office staff, two people: the vice president and dedicated to this task. assistant to the vice president. Ten “But the numbers seem incon- years later this office included a sistent with the idea that external vice president, associate academic mandates have been driving ad- vice president, assistant vice presiministrative growth at America’s dent, administrative assistant and institutions of higher education,” two administrative secretaries. said Benjamin Ginsberg, a po- This office was discontinued in litical science professor at Johns 2002 and many departments were Hopkins University, in his 2011 transferred to the Office of the Probook, “The Fall of the Fac- vost. Today, this office houses the ulty: The Rise of the All- provost, a special assistant to the Administrative University provost, an executive administraand Why It Matters.” tive assistant, two vice provosts, Nationally, universities one vice president, four associate cite demands from stu- provosts, three administrative asdents and families as ratio- sistants, and two directors. nale behind their swelling The Office of Continuing Edustaff numbers. Students cation displays a similar trend. recently started to receive In the 1960s, this office was run services like remedial by six people – a director, three education, advising and assistant directors and two assismental-health counseling. tants. Like the Office of Academic “(Universities) will Affairs, it received restructuring BEHIND THE INCREASE IN STAFF SIZE
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Marquette’s 990 tax form. “There’s so many assistant-this and associate-that,” Vedder said. “We don’t really know what those words mean and what those people do let alone what it has to do with teaching kids.” Regardless of the efficiency of the positions, however, the cost of bureaucracy is a ongoing concern for students. “How much are these new positions benefitting students?” asked Christina Hoehn, a freshman in the College of Health Sciences. “If they’re not benefitting us, then why are we paying for them?”
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Milwaukee rock band debuts EP ‘Knockin’’ with dynamic sound By Brian Keogh
brian.keogh@marquette.edu
The answer to the most commonly asked questions college graduates receive – “So, where are you working after graduation?” – usually involves a 9-to-5 desk job. But for the members of Milwaukee rock band, The Living Statues, what they do after 5 p.m. is top priority. The three-piece band includes Marquette graduates Chris Morales, 2012, on drums and Alex Thornburg, 2013, on bass and University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate Tommy Shears as lead singer and guitarist. All three have daytime jobs, but use their free time to pursue their music industry dreams. “Aside from the whole music thing, we all have big boy jobs,” said Morales, who works in a laboratory doing research with rodents. “It’s not necessarily glamorous, but (we) need to get something to pay off the loans for this damn school.” “I’m a traffic engineer by day and rock star and all that other garbage by night,” Thornburg said. “Almost like Batman, but not close enough.” While being a rock star and “all that other garbage” may seem like a hobby to some, it’s just as important to the musicians as their livelihoods. “It’s like having two full time jobs, isn’t it?” Shears asked. “All
my free time, my lunch hours, I spend working on music, and I have a soundproof room in our office, a video studio no one uses over lunch ... Not much room for sleep, but I wouldn’t call it a problem at all.” The band started with Morales and Shears, who played together and worked on music while shuttling back and forth between Madison and Milwaukee. When they brought in Thornburg for a rehearsal, The Living Statues was born. “The chemistry was just combusting,” Morales said. “It was amazing ... so really since the beginning of 2012, we have been the three-piece band known as The Living Statues.” “We have two hometowns pretty much,” Shears said. “They showed me Milwaukee, and I showed them Madison.” Since then, the trio worked to the release of its first EP, “Knockin’,” which comes out Tuesday. The group started playing small venues and built up a reputation before grabbing the attention of professional managers. “For a Madison musician, you start at the bars with open mics,” Shears explained. “You move up, you know. It’s like levels of guitar hero, and The Majestic is the top one, where we opened (for Mayer Hawthorne) ... And after (The Majestic), Mayer Hawthorne’s management contacted me and said, ‘We’ve been hearing great things. When are you playing next?’ and flew out two weeks later to watch us play some shitty bar show and loved us. (Then he) flew us out to L.A. over the summer.” After that, the group traveled to New York to record its EP at
Converse Rubber Track Studios in Brooklyn, where it received free recording time. “We really hit it hard and did it as fast as we could but without hitting any corners,” Thornburg said. “It was nice to collaborate with the sound engineer. You want conflict between people to get to a final product.” Thornburg said the EP’s sound is “energetic, gritty and raw.” “There’s a clean cut to it but ... you don’t want to be just a bunch of working stiffs on stage,” he said. “You wanna get girls to dance.” In traditional rock fashion, the EP also gets loud. To avoid noise complaints, the band travels out to the suburbs for rehearsals.
“We actually rehearse at my parent’s place about 45 minutes out of Milwaukee so we don’t get the cops called on us,” Shears said. “(My parents) are 100 percent supportive of us.” For the band, the “big boy jobs” are the means to a musical end – a full-time music career that starts with the release of “Knockin’.” The ambitions to make it big and go on tour actually inspired Shears to come up with the band’s name. “Well, you know, statues are made of dead heroes, and we are going to hit that level of glory, but we’re not dead yet, but when we pass on, we’ll be carved into stone,” Shears said. It may come across as bravado, but to Shears, it represents the
level of commitment he and his fellow members have to the band. “If you’re not shooting for the stars, like, why are you doing it at all?” he said. “If you don’t want to be the best at what you do, why are you wasting your time?” The band members said they are ready to go on tour and push their EP as far as it will take them. “At some point, hopefully in the next year, we will have to say goodbye to those big boy jobs in pursuit of something bigger, grander, that we really love doing,” Morales said. The Living Statues’ release show for “Knockin’” is at The Exclusive Company at 7 p.m. Saturday.
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The Living Statues played a private show in Johnston Hall Saturday. The group’s next Milwaukee performance will be April 12 at The Exclusive Company, 1669 N. Farwell Ave.
‘Three Views’ offers new perspective on life, death Next Act Theatre tackles issues not normally put onstage By Hannah Byron Special to the Tribune
The concept of death is difficult to understand, especially for college students whose primary focus is passing their hardest classes. However, Next Act Theatre’s production of “Three Views of the Same Object,” directed by Shawn Douglass and running until April 27, shows the weighty issue in a touching, relatable way. The premise of playwright Henry Murray’s work surrounds an elderly couple who have made a suicide pact should one of them become ill or unable to care for the other, but the play is not really about death. Instead, it focuses on life, said Becky Moder, marketing and public relations manager at Next Act Theatre.
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Next Act Theatre’s newest show involves an elderly couple’s suicide pact.
“When you hear the basis of the story, you think it’s going to be all about death,” Moder said. “But it’s not. It’s really all about living and how we choose to live our lives and how we communicate with our loved ones.” The plot of the production resonated on a personal level with producing artistic director David Cecsarini. A storyline like
“Three Views of the Same Object” is not shared in the theater world often, he said. “The matter of (the) play is unusual, I think, to be depicted on stage,” Cecsarini said. “That is the kind of stuff that does not get discussed in theater form. The way the story is told is with such understanding about long-term relationships and the expression of so
much compassion and empathy and love for the people in love. It just seemed like such (an) amazing piece that needed to be done here.” Moder said “Three Views of the Same Object” is a production that represents what Next Act Theatre is about. “We like to do productive theater that definitely leaves you thinking at the end of the play, and it’s not always wrapped up in a neat little bow,” she said. “So it’s very much the work we generally do.” Cecsarini said one of the play’s strongest attributes is its cast, featuring Jim Pickering, John Kishline, Laurie Birmingham, Susan Sweeney, Flora Coker and Jenny Wanasek. “The characters are in their 60s, and we needed six people like that,” Cecsarini said. “So I have a veteran Milwaukee cast of friends that I have known for years and colleagues, and it’s pretty cool to have that much fire power in the room. As actors get older, they typically get more efficient and more
focused, and their work becomes more visible and yet sublime.” “It’s an all-star cast,” Moder said. “You don’t normally see all six of them on stage at once.” The way these actors bring the intense script to life is what makes the performance relatable, Cecsarini said, especially since it addresses issues everyone must one day face. “Even though the subject matter may be with this suicide pact that they made, what the play really takes us toward is asking us how do we live our lives?” Cecsarini said. “How do we connect with our significant other? How do we care for one another? It asks all those questions about how one lives a life and will one be satisfied with living that life with the choices we’ve made.” Tickets can be ordered online at www.nextact.org or by calling 414-278-5930. Students can receive a $5 discount with a valid student ID. Tickets will also be 50 percent off a half hour prior to a performance with a student ID.
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MU needs to hear all student groups’ voices well, in my opinion...
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Our view: Even when student groups put on debatable events like “Israeli Apartheid Week,” the university needs to stand for student freedom rather than backing away. In distancing itself from Students for Justice in Palestine during the group’s “Israeli Apartheid Week,” the university forced a wedge into its relationship with students and their right to free speech and open discourse. The event was dedicated to discussing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the perspective of Palestinians. Among several other activities, students in the group hosted speakers, discussed Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories and passed around a petition for the Milwaukee Common Council to support a decrease in military aid to Israel. In response to Students for Justice in Palestine’s event, Marquette’s Jewish Student Union is hosting “Israel Peace Week” April 7 to 11 after meeting with the Office of Student Affairs and Students for Justice in Palestine. The conflict has divided supporters of Israel and Palestine for decades. And when contentious student groups like Students for Justice for Palestine have the potential to draw negative attention, Marquette administrators panic. The student group drew backlash from the university after officials asked the group to remove the word “apartheid” from the event’s title, which was borrowed from the week-long event of the same name that has been held around the world for a decade. University officials verbally distanced themselves from the event, saying it was sponsored solely by students and Marquette Student Government. MUSG allocated $5,000 through student organization funding to host speakers for the event, including Archbishop Theodosius (Hanna) of Sebastia, a member of the Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem from the West Bank. The plans were also arranged in part by the Office of International Education and Intercultural Engagement in the Office of Student Development. In its self-protective response to
“Israeli Apartheid Week,” Marquette turned its back on students who were simply doing what enrollment in a university should allow them to do: debate with each other, propose hard questions and search for answers. Students have the choice to attend these events. They have the option to agree or disagree with everything they hear. Those conversations do not have to reflect the views of the university, and if they do not, it does not mean the university needs to distance itself. Marquette should actively defend its commitment to students’ freedom of speech on campus instead of leaving students out to dry. If student groups conduct themselves respectfully, then this freedom of speech can only complement the learning process, whether students agree or disagree with what is being said. In these cases, the university needs to offer its support. This also means the Jewish Student Union is just as entitled to hold this week’s event on campus, to host speakers and to defend the Israeli cause. Despite their opposing views, the groups’ responses to one another reflect how discourse is supposed to function in an academic setting. The university needs to remember this: Students involved in proper dialogue do not create these potential controversies. The university’s role as a place where free speech is welcome should come before it defends its public image. Student groups are willing to voice their opinions, and it is the university’s responsibility to offer them a forum to do so. A student is free to choose whether he or she wants to become involved in this discourse. The university simply is not a place for limiting free speech. Its entire structure is based on the idea that students will disagree with professors, professors will disagree with students, students will challenge each other and so on. This tension is what makes learning possible, and Marquette cannot relinquish its commitment to free speech just to avoid low-potential controversy when the arguments come.
Eric Oliver We elect lawmakers in the United States to represent our needs and fight for what we want. But after seeing what happened in Europe this week, I’m not so sure it’s working anymore. The European Union passed two controversial measures in a move I find incredibly bold. Instead of favoring big business, the governing body choose to side with the consumers by abolishing all roaming charges. I’m sure everyone has heard a story of an ill-advised friend who took his or her cell phone abroad and came back with a phone bill equivalent to an international plane ticket. Well, Europeans soon won’t need to worry about roaming charges in the European Union because, by 2015, carriers will no longer be able to charge additional fees. If the entire EU can adopt that measure, why can’t the United States? The impact is undeniable. We shouldn’t have to pay more for roaming data when our cell phone plan already costs so much. The only reason we can’t roll it out now is because the telecommunications lobby is too strong and too greedy. It’s the American capitalist’s dream: more, more, MORE. In an even greater surprise, the EU decided to protect net neutrality and not force websites such as Netflix or Google for the amount of data they transmit through their sites. All data usage will be anonymous, and sites that use more bandwidth will not be charged extra money, effectively cutting down the money tree growing in the offices of European broadband providers. Major telecommunications companies
wrote to the EU condemning the bill. This shows broadband providers and cell phone companies are in a position with far too much power. What the EU did for its citizens is nothing short of tremendous, and to uphold its decision is possibly even more amazing. Legislation that sides with the consumer shouldn’t make me scratch my head, but it does. I’m shocked these measures passed, and I can’t believe that they are for the entire EU, not just select countries. But why can’t that happen in here? We elect our legislators with the idea they will represent us and our needs. I certainly don’t want to pay roaming charges in this country or when I’m abroad, and the net neutrality bill discussion is a joke. We shouldn’t be forced to pay more for the Internet we use. The more I read into it, the more I realize American politics is a joke, and we, the citizens, are the punchline. You can almost compare it to high school. Let me take you back to the lunchroom. Picture those awful collapsible tables, trash everywhere, everyone screaming to be heard over the constant chatter. Pretty great, right? Now add more people. Find the geekiest kids at lunch and sit down. That’s where we are as citizens. Then find the rich, cool kids, I’m sure you remember them. They’re big business. They have money to spend and their word becomes law. Then there are your best friends, those who make up the legislative branch. You want them to come sit with you, but they have an invite to sit with the cool kids today. They’re taken in, love the experience and soon they forget about you, geek – I mean, average citizen. But enough is enough. I want to be the geek who takes back my best friends from the cool kids’ table. I want to see our government officials work alongside the consumers, not the big businesses they work for now. Eric Oliver is a senior studying journalism and writing intensive English. Email Eric at eric.oliver@marquette. edu with any comments or suggestions.
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MARQ MY WORDS “It is a promise that we have an ability to make. Net cost to the state, zero. Net impact on our future, priceless.” -Tennessee Governor William Haslam, who recently proposed a plan to use lottery revenues to fund two years of community college or technical school for high school graduates. Photo via Erik Schelzig/Associated Press
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Men beat St. John’s in 2 OTs DeMichiei scores first collegiate goal to secure 11-10 win By Andrew Dawson
andrew.dawson@marquette.edu
In double overtime, freshman attackman Andy DeMichiei received a pass and without pause ripped a shot to the far top corner, lifting the Marquette men’s lacrosse team to an 11-10 win over St. John’s Sunday. With the win, Marquette (47, 2-1) moves up to third in the Big East standings and remains in contention for the Big East Tournament. Both of the team’s conference wins came on the road. With all four remaining games against conference teams, winning is essential. “For most of the game, it was the best performance of the year for us,” coach Joe Amplo said. “Credit to our kids. It’s just another example of the character of this team and the resiliency of this team to find a way to win.” Marquette jumped out to an early 2-0 lead on goals by sophomore midfielder Kyle Whitlow and sophomore attackman Conor Gately. Scoring was scarce in the first half but picked up in the second. Marquette converted on four of its 11 shots and spent a lot of time on offense, keeping possession away from St. John’s. Sophomore faceoff specialist Paul Riportella contributed to the third quarter success by going six for seven on faceoffs. The success was short lived as the Red Storm rallied. Both teams traded a pair of goals but St. John’s crawled back into the game scoring three unanswered goals. The game was tied at 10 with 3:10 remaining. St. John’s made 19 shots in the fourth quarter but freshman goalkeeper
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Redshirt sophomore Liam Byrnes and Marquette held off a late charge from the Red Storm and won their fourth game of the season in overtime.
Jimmy Danaher made five of his 10 saves to keep the Golden Eagles in the game. When neither team found the back of the net in the closing moments, the game headed to overtime. The first overtime produced nothing. The Golden Eagles outshot St. John’s 5-1 but failed to score and the game headed to a second overtime period. Two minutes into double
overtime, DeMichiei received a pass from redshirt senior Tyler Melnyk and netted his first collegiate goal. The team stormed the field to celebrate the win. “It’s a big win for us,” DeMichiei said. “We’ve been working towards the Big East so I think that win will help us get into the tournament. It’s a great feeling to get that first goal off my back.” For his effort, DeMichiei, who assistant coach Steve Brundage
believes has a candy addiction, earned a Nerds Rope. As Amplo said, “Andy got his candy.” Whitlow and sophomore defender B.J. Grill were named the Big East offensive and defensive players of the week, respectively. Whitlow contributed a five point effort (3G, 2A) while Grill held one of the nation’s top scorers, Kieran McArdle, scoreless for the first time this season “We need to win this conference
game in order to get the upper hand,” Grill said. “It was an honor to cover (McArdle). It was good that coach trusted me to guard him. He’s a very smooth player but I feel like I did my job and more importantly we got the win.” Another midweek battle at home awaits Amplo’s squad as they play No. 8 Notre Dame at Uihlein Park Tuesday at 4 p.m.
Track team wins 17 individual titles at dual meet Krzyszkowski sets program record with longest javelin throw By Ryan Patterson Special to the Tribune
The Marquette men’s and women’s track & field teams competed in cold, windy weather at the Marquette Duals Friday at Valley Fields winning 17 individual titles, including a school record from Jon Krzyszkowski in the javelin throw. On the sprint side, senior Katie Kemmerer won the women’s 200-meter dash in 25.22 seconds, and classmate Gretchen Homan was runner-up with a time of 25.37 seconds. Freshman Brandon Bell finished runner-up in the men’s 200 meter dash in 22.58 seconds.
Freshman Anna Strong won the women’s 400-meter dash in a time of 56.31 seconds, while senior Kate Hein was second in 56.84 seconds. Junior Brendan Franz also placed third in the men’s 400-meter hurdles with a time of 1:00.66. Senior Carlye Schuh won three titles. Schuh won the women’s 100-meter dash in 12.33 seconds, and freshman Arra Strong took third in 12.74 seconds. Schuh also won the long jump with a distance of 19 feet, 9.75 inches, and the triple jump with a jump of 37 feet, 1 inch. In middle distance, freshman Alison Parker won the women’s 800-meter run with a time of 2:20.74, and sophomore Nicole Ethier placed third in 2:22.88. Sophomore Kayla Spencer finished second in the women’s 1500-meter run with a time of 4:58.42. Senior Spencer Agnew finished third in the men’s
1500-meter run with a time of 4:08.26. In the long distance events, junior Rebecca Pachuta won the women’s 3000-meter run with a time of 10:27.57, and freshman Brittney Feivor finished second in 10:34.36. Sophomore Cody Haberkorn took second in the men’s 3000-meter run in 9:08.04. It was an immensely successful day for the field athletes, who took home 10 individual titles, capped off by a school record. Freshman Omo Tseumah leaped to victory in the women’s high jump with a height of 5 feet, 5 inches, and freshman Bridget Bodee was runner-up, also with a jump of 5 feet, 5 inches. Senior Michael Saindon won the men’s long jump with a leap of 22 feet, 2.50 inches, and took third in the high jump with a height of 6 feet, 6.75 inches.
Sophomore Brett Tobin won the men’s triple jump with a jump of 43 feet, 9.75 inches. It was a sweep on both sides of the pole vault, as freshman Nicole Jaffke won with a vault of 11 feet, 0.25 inches on the women’s side. Junior Abby Croft placed second with the same height of 11 feet, 0.25 inches, and sophomore Lindsay Smoljan was third with a height of 9 feet, 0.50 inches. On the men’s side, three sophomores swept the event. Vinny Martello claimed first with a height of 13 feet, 11.75 inches, John Kaplan took second with a vault of 15 feet, 5.75 inches, and Jordan Smith was third with a height of 9 feet, 0.50 inches. Junior Samantha Kennedy won the women’s hammer throw with a 182 feet, 4 inch throw, while senior Kristen Gaffey took third with a distance of 154 feet, 5 inches. Kennedy also won the
javelin with a throw of 94 feet, 11 inches, and sophomore Tatyana Pashibin took second with a distance of 93 feet. Gaffey won the discus throw with a toss of 133 feet, 9 inches, and the shot put with 43 feet, 6.50 inches. Junior William Koeck took first in the men’s hammer throw with a distance of 181 feet, 4 inches, while senior Bret Hardin placed second with a toss of 179 feet, 5 inches. Koeck was also runner-up in the discus throw with a distance of 138 feet, 11 inches. Krzyszkowski placed first and set a school record in the men’s javelin throw with a distance of 207 feet, 9 inches. Senior Patrick Stuart finished second in the men’s shot put with a put of 48 feet, 2.50 inches. The Golden Eagles next meet is April 11-12 at the Lee Calhoun Invitational, hosted by Western Illinois in Macomb, Ill.
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Tuesday, April 8, 2014
MLB sees sudden spike in Tommy John surgeries
Patrick Leary Nothing is more damaging to a Major League Baseball pitcher’s career than the words “Tommy John surgery.” In the past few weeks, far too many young pitchers heard that devastating phrase and had their promising futures put on hold. Baseball fans across the country winced as alerts about career-altering injuries fly to their phones at a record pace. The operation dates back to 1974, when Dr. Frank Jobe, who passed away in March, saved the career of Dodgers’ pitcher Tommy John by implanting a tendon from his nonthrowing right forearm into the elbow of his dominant left arm. John pitched for 14 years after the surgery. Since that seminal moment, nearly 200 major league baseball players had their careers salvaged by the revolutionary treatment. The injury the surgery addresses, a torn ulnar collateral ligament in the elbow, is perhaps the most serious play-related injury a pitcher can sustain, and the recovery timeline usually falls between 12-18 months. Its frequency varies year-to-year, with as many as 46 players receiving the surgery in 2012 and just 23 needing the operation in 2013. Most of those injuries are diagnosed during the heart of the season. However, the 2014 season is just a week old, and 12 players are already grappling with UCL injuries. Padres’ pitcher Cory Luebke, who would’ve made the team’s rotation, was the first Tommy John
domino to fall back in February. Nine players suffered UCL injuries in March alone, and several, including Braves’ pitchers Kris Medlen and Brandon Beachy, Athletics’ ace Jarrod Parker and Diamondbacks young star Patrick Corbin, would have played huge roles for their teams in 2014. Even Twins’ top hitting prospect Miguel Sano couldn’t avoid the Tommy John bug. That all led up to Sunday, when it was announced that both Mets’ reliever Bobby Parnell and Pirates’ top pitching prospect Jameson Taillon needed the operation. Such a rash of surgeries this early in the season is unprecedented. Even in 2012, only five players needed Tommy John before April 10. The injuries usually occur from the wear and tear of the long MLB season, not from Spring Training games. The mismanagement of young pitchers could play a role in the increase of preseason UCL surgeries. Many teams, especially those with limited payrolls and a desire to win right away, rush their top prospects through the system, overtaxing their arms from an early age. That could explain why roughly half of the 12 players needing Tommy John are under the age of 25 and why none are older than 30. Whatever the reason, the spike in operations is terrible for baseball. As young stars drop like flies, the question on fans’ minds is no longer “who’s the next big star,” but “who’s the next big star to get hurt?” More and more, baseball organizations must keep their best players healthy as they fight for pennants and relevance against the NFL and NBA.
Patrick Leary is a junior in the College of Communication. Email him at patrick. leary@marquette.edu. Follow him on Twitter @patrickkleary.
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Wojo faces early challenges New coach must build staff, retain 2014 recruiting class By Trey Killian
robert.killian@marquette.edu
One week after his hiring, Marquette basketball coach Steve Wojciechowski is focused on building solid relationships with Marquette’s current roster and recruits. Wojciechowski reiterated on the Bill Michaels Sports podcast Friday that his priority “has been taking care of the guys here on campus and the recruits.” He added that he’s currently traveling, recruiting and working on filling out his coaching staff. “That’s where my head and my heart are at, to make sure these guys are all in a good place,” Wojciechowski said. “I think it’s a process, and I’ve been overwhelmed by the response of the players.” “I’m very sensitive to the fact of what these kids went through having played the game,” he said. “If I put myself in their shoes and somebody would’ve said Coach K left me while I was playing at Duke, that would’ve caused me a wide range of emotions. So, what I want to do is build a fresh start, really try to build a bridge looking at the future and that starts with building relationships in an atmosphere of trust and truth.” According to Racine Journal Times columnist Gery Woelfel, Wojciechowski already reached out to Robert Stone, father of local prep star Diamond Stone. Marquette commit and Augusta, Ga., native Ahmed Hill spoke to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Friday regarding his recruitment. “I’m going to wait until I talk to the coach before I think about anything,” Hill said. “I just want to talk to him on the phone, see what kind of person he is really and see what he talks about. I will probably stay with Marquette unless I hear something I don’t like.” According to Mark Miller of Wisconsin Basketball, Green Bay’s Sandy Cohen will remain a part of Marquette’s 2014 recruiting class after positive interactions with Wojciechowski. Four star class of 2015 recruit Nick Noskowiak reopened his recruiting process Wednesday and still expresses interest in joining the Golden Eagles, according
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Coach Steve Wojciechowski was introduced to the media last Tuesday.
to Madison.com. “(Wojciechowski) has never seen me play, so I’d like him to be interested in me, and I’d be really excited if he would like to recruit me,” Noskowiak said. “I fell in love with Marquette when Buzz Williams was there, last April. So I kind of just felt like I had to start over, start the recruiting process over. “I really like him,” Noskowiak said. “(I like) everything I’ve heard about him. I like the direction that he’s going to put Marquette in.” Keeping Marquette’s 2014 signees, who form the nation’s 20th best recruiting class according to Rivals.com, is one of Wojciechowski’s top goals. Recruiting website 247sports.com ranks him 20th in the nation and fourth in the Big East as a recruiter. “In the recruiting process it’s my job to understand where the recruits are, especially the ones
who committed to the previous staff, lay out the expectations of what I see and then talk about the decision maturely,” Wojciechowski said. “I’m a pretty simple guy from a simple background. I just like to put the cards on the table and talk about things honestly and then make the decision from there.” Wojciechowski said he wants to move quickly but be smart while adding new members to his coaching staff. He held true to his word when he hired former Duke assistant and player Chris Carrawell Monday. “There’s no one who respects what the players and coaches of the past have done to put Marquette basketball in this position,” Wojciechowski said. “I feel great responsibility to the guys who’ve worn the uniform in the past and the present, and I want a staff that can give them their best every day.”
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Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Hoyas knock surging MU down a peg in 12-5 win Team shuts down in the second half, yields seven straight goals
By Deny Gallagher Special to the Tribune
After an impressive Big East opener against Cincinnati, the Marquette women’s lacrosse team dropped its first conference away game to No. 19 Georgetown 12-5 Saturday in Washington D.C. The game was a tale of two halves, as the Golden Eagles took advantage of several Georgetown mistakes to keep the score tied. For the third consecutive game, Marquette started strong before eventually falling behind 5-3 late in the half. With 4:32 remaining in the first half, Big East Offensive Player of Week and sophomore Claire Costanza found freshman attacker Amanda Bochniak in front of the cage to make it a 5-4 game. Two minutes later, junior Nicole Gleason scored her first of two goals to level the score after 30 minutes of play. Gleason’s equalizer tied the game for the third time in the first half. “(Costanza and Bochniak) have both stepped up as leaders when needed,” coach Meredith Black said. “They feed off each other, help each other and both lead the offense.” The second half did not favor the Golden Eagles, as the Hoyas went on a 7-0 run to end the game. The offensive explosion from Georgetown was due
largely to its 19-2 advantage in shots during that time. The home team was also perfect on clear attempts in the last 30 minutes. Georgetown held a 2517 advantage on ground balls and a 12-7 advantage on draw controls for the game. On defense, sophomore goalkeeper Sarah Priem stood out. Priem tied her career best with 14 saves, keeping Marquette in the game deep into the second half. The goalkeeper also won a career-high six ground balls. “Fourteen saves against a team of (that) caliber is unbelievable,” Black said. “Her leadership in the game was really positive. I know she was keeping the team pumped up and motivated even when they went on a couple goal run.” For the Hoyas, attacker Kelyn Freedman caused havoc for the Marquette defense. Georgetown’s leading scorer found the back of the cage six times on 10 shots. The senior was disruptive in the middle of the field, causing countless turnovers. One of the main deciding factors was the Hoyas’ Adrianne Devine, who won five draw controls. In the two games prior, where Marquette had found success on offense, the team held an advantage on the draw. “We’re also going to work to push their speed of play at practice to a higher level,” Black said. “When we get on the field in a tight game they are able to perform before because they’re used to it from practice.” Marquette returns to the east coast this weekend to take on Big East foes Rutgers and Connecticut.
Photo by Marquette Images/Maggie Casey
Sophomore attacker Kenzie Brown and Marquette did not score in the second half after a 5-5 opening frame.
Wojo tabs Carrawell as first assistant hire 2000 ACC PoY played with Wojciechowski at Duke for two years By Jacob Born
jacob.born@marquette.edu
Photo coutresy of Marquette Athletics
Chris Carrawell spent 2012-14 as an assistant coach in the NBADL.
Men’s basketball coach Steve Wojciechowski hired former Duke player Chris Carrawell as his assistant coach, Marquette announced Monday evening. “I have a tremendous amount of respect for Chris and couldn’t be more excited about him joining the Marquette family,” Wojciechowski said in a Marquette athletics news release. “I have obviously had the chance to play and coach with him and have remained in constant contact and followed his career after his departure from Duke.” Wojciechowski is referring to late 1990s, when the two were at Duke together. For the first two years of Carrawell’s career, the two were teammates. Wojciechowski became an assistant coach in 1999 while Carrawell was a starter. Carawell was the 2000 ACC Player of the Year and was a first-team All-American
selection his senior year. He is 30th on the all-time scoring list for the team and has the second-most conference wins in program history. After departing Duke, Carrawell was selected by the San Antonio Spurs and played overseas until 2007. From 2008-10, Carrawell was a team manager at Duke, and in 2010-11, he was the assistant video coordinator and assistant strength and conditioning coach. He then went on to be an assistant coach for the Springfield Armor, the NBA Developmental League affiliate for the Brooklyn Nets. Wojciechowski said his past experience with Carrawell will greatly benefit his staff and team during this coaching transition. “Chris has a great understanding of the game of basketball and his personality will allow him to develop great relationships with our players,” Wojciechowski said. “We are going to focus on player skill development at Marquette, and Chris’ coaching and playing experience make him a valuable addition to the staff and a vital piece to our on-court instruction.”