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When hard work doesn’t pay Unpaid internships spark legal, ethical debate on campus By Erin Heffernan
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Max Hess began work at midnight for the local news station, WTMJ-TV, during the fall semester of his sophomore year. Every Wednesday from 12 a.m. to 9 a.m., Hess would tweak graphics, write stories and assist with live shots and other odd jobs for producers. After working all night, Hess would come home and crash into bed just two hours before class started. And he did it all for free. Hess, now a senior in the College of Communication, was an intern—one thousands eature of across the countory try working without pay to gain experience, contacts and the start of a career. Hess had five unpaid internships in broadcast media during his time at Marquette, receiving academic credit in lieu of pay for each one.
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Fight between WTMJ and Time Warner International students Cable leaves football fans in the dark increase 5 percent in 2013 Proposed agreements accomplish little to mend station feud By Matt Barbato
matthew.barbato@marquette.edu
Discussions between Time Warner Cable and Journal Broadcast Group spilled into a second month of deliberations following a contract lapse, continuing the blackout of Milwaukee’s WTMJ-TV (Channel 4). The two sides are still quarreling about fees paid by Time Warner Cable to WTMJ and other channels owned by Journal Broadcast Group. Once an agreement is made, the transmission of the station’s programming will continue. Time Warner is the cable provider for a majority of Marquette
students on campus. WTMJ, which also broadcasts NBC’s national programs, has been blacked out for Time Warner customers in the Milwaukee area since July 25. Both sides are in negotiations, but Mike Hogan, a spokesman at Time Warner Cable, said these prior meetings have not indicated much progress. “Journal (Broadcast Group) continues to propose deals that are not best in the interest of our customers,” Hogan said in an email. “We continue to take a firm stand for our customers against a media company like Journal who uses all its TV stations, radio outlets and newspapers to confuse customers and distort this dispute.” Although he couldn’t reveal any details on the negotiations, Hogan said viewers are unhappy with Journal Broadcast Group for withholding programming. He said that Time
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Warner Cable tried to solve this problem by providing free antennas and primetime on demand, along with other strategies. Hogan said Time Warner Cable will not give in to Journal Broadcast Group’s demands because of what it could mean for other cable providers in the future. “If we give into Journal (Brodcast Group) and its outrageous increase, other stations will look for the same and even more,” Hogan said. “These dramatic increases have to stop. If Journal got its way, the next station would ask for more.” Since the Time Warner and Journal Broadcast Group feud, two new cable channels emerged. Fox Sports 1, which launched on Aug. 17, is Fox’s national answer to ESPN and NBC Sports. FXX, which developed as a brother channel to See WTMJ, Page 4
Chinese students among largest group seeking U.S. degrees By Kelly Meyerhofer
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Preliminary data reveals a five percent increase in international students for this year’s freshman class, according to Michael Groen, assistant director of the Office of International Education. The class of 2017 includes 610 non-immigrant students, meaning they are not a U.S. citizen or permanent resident. Most have either a F1 visa (student visa) or a J1 visa (exchange visa). Numbers from past years indicate an upward trend in international students on campus. In 2011, 546 students came from
abroad. In 2012, the number increased to 582. The 610 international students for 2013 represent approximately 35 countries. Groen said Chinese students make up the largest single group. “There’s a strong interest in studying in America for Chinese students,” Groen said. “The U.S. is generally recognized as having the best higher education system.” A degree from a foreign university has more weight than Chinese universities, according to Daniel Meissner, a Marquette history professor knowledgeable in Chinese culture. Meissner also said studying abroad in the U.S. eliminates the need to complete the Gaokao, a nine-hour college entrance exam required to gain admission to China’s universities. “Many Chinese parents encourage See Abroad, Page 2
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DPS Chief retires after 21 years at MU Retirement ceremony to be held Sept. 13 for public safety director By Matthew Kulling
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After 21 years of service to the Marquette community, Department of Public Safety Chief and Director Larry Rickard will be retiring from Marquette and moving on to Lynn University in Florida. During his tenure, Rickard led 80 professional and 100 student staff members who make up the department, which is staffed year-round, 24 hours a day. He installed 600 cameras and 200 blue light phones for emergencies around campus and also professionalized the force through improved training and hiring practices. “It was a real honor back in 2000 to be selected to be the chief,” Rickard said. “It’s such a prestigious university, and I really loved it.” A retirement ceremony will be held Friday, Sept. 13, at 3 p.m. in the AMU Ballrooms with a reception afterward at the Union Sports Annex. Before joining DPS, Rickard attended the West Point Preparatory Academy in New Jersey and was later recruited by UW-Whitewater to play football. He then served in the United States Army for 22 years. After getting out of the military, Rickard decided to go into public service by applying to DPS at Marquette. Rickard started his career with DPS working the night shift. He worked as a life safety officer to improve the university’s evacuation plans and was later promoted to lieutenant shift commander and associate director before being named chief in 2000. Rickard noted a broad ideology that led him throughout his career at DPS. “I believe that if you work hard and that you’re kind to people and that you care about people, then amazing things can happen in your career,” Rickard said. “I really believe that, and it’s hap-
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DPS Chief Larry Rickard plans to move on to Lynn University in Florida after retiring from Marquette University.
pened to me.” Vice President of Student Affairs Chris Miller said that he admired Rickard’s leadership. “In my entire professional career, which expands over 25 years, I’ve never had the opportunity to meet or work with any chief of campus police or chief of public safety that is so committed to student development on so many levels,” Miller said. Although Rickard said that there were a lot of things that the department did well in his time as chief, he said that not everything ran smoothly, but that’s where triumph comes from. “You have a lot of moving parts with a department of this size in an urban campus, and I really believe that over my 30 years of being in leadership positions, it re-
ally matters where you stand in times of controversy – not in moments of comfort,” Rickard said. “(That) demonstrates real leadership.” Despite his role at the forefront of DPS, Rickard said the sustained safety of campus required a team effort. Rickard said students did their part by talking advantage of Student Safety programs, such as the LIMOs, and using the advice DPS has given, such as walking in groups and asking for help from Public Safety officers if needed. “(The department) worked as a team,” Rickard said. “And I think it’s important that the students were a part of that team.” DPS Sergeant Jill Weisensel said that Rickard has instilled
a foundation of moral value for the department. “Chief Rickard has proven that it is possible for an entire organization to put moral values into action,” Weisensel said. “Through his vision and mission, he led this department to becoming one of the best Jesuit Public safety departments in the country. He instilled in his officers his ‘five imperatives’: quality customer service, visibility, teamwork, safety and security, and above all else, professionalism.” In keeping with “Marquette’s mission to serve others,” Rickard plans to volunteer in his free time. He said that he “would like to thank everyone (at Marquette) for their support, friendship and love.”
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Abroad: Chinese population up at MU their child to study abroad,” Meissner said. “It relieves them from the pressure-cooker environment of the Gaokao and frees up their time to study English.” The number of Chinese students taking the Gaokao has fallen for the past five years while the number of Chinese students studying abroad has spiked. In the U.S. alone, there has been a 23 percent increase in Chinese students, according to Global Post. Mengting Zhuang, a sophomore in the College of Business Administration from Suzhou, China, knew she wanted to study in America to become fluent in English. For Wenbin Tang, a freshman in the College of Business Administration from China’s Hunan province, Marquette stood out against other colleges
across the nation because of its business program. “America is (the) business center of (the) world,” Tang said. “(Marquette) has a strong business program, so as a business major, this was good.” It is not just academics drawing Chinese students halfway across the world to Wisconsin. Zhuang and Tang said scholarships, basketball and even the Midwestern weather were reasons they decided to attend Marquette. The Office of International Education also tries to emphasize the Jesuit environment on campus. Groen said the office highlights cura personalis, the Core of Common Studies and a strong liberal arts program to prospective students during the international recruiting process. Groen also said international
recruiters keep a list of contacts at key high schools that are determined by reputation and professional networks. Groen and others send out mailing lists and have current international students talk with prospective students. “In a way, the international recruiting process is similar to the domestic process, only we compete internationally,” Groen said. Sometimes, though, the recruiting process is a little less formal. Meissner said he talks to prospective students and hands out “We are Marquette” signs when he happens to meet them while leading study abroad trips. The Tribune will publish more information about the rise of international students when official data is released in early October.
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Saturday 14 “Monsters University”, Varsity Theater, 8 p.m. Brewers vs. Reds, Miller Park,0 12:05 p.m.
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Colleges Against Cancer Blood Drive, AMU, 9:30 p.m.
One Dime at a Time benefitting Groundwork Milwaukee, Whole Foods Market, 8 a.m.
Teddy Geiger Unplugged concert performance, Westowne Square, 8:30 p.m.
Brewers vs. Reds, Miller Park, 1:10 p.m.
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The aMUzing Race, AMU, 8 p.m.
Shattering Stereotypes: Julian Bradley, AMU 157, 9 p.m.
Annex Acoustic Night featuring Sarah Lauer, Union Sports Annex, 9 p.m.
Brewers vs. Cubs, Miller Park, 7:10 p.m.
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MUSG committee approves 18 funding requests Student organization funding disbursement begins amid debate By Joe Kvartunas
joseph.kvartunas@marquette.edu
The Marquette Student Government Student Organization Funding Committee held its first meeting of the semester Saturday and approved all 18 reimbursement requests it received. The approval of funds comes a semester after efforts were made to amend the SOF process, which remains a source of contention between MUSG and student organizations. “I think it’s the only legitimate way to distribute the funds that MUSG has available to student organizations,” said Zach Bowman, executive vice president and a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences. Student organizations seeking help with funding an event can file a reimbursement request with the MUSG SOF Committee. The committee’s seven members are comprised of four senators, Program Board Assistant Emily Wulfkuhle, a junior in the College of Education; Financial Vice President Cole Johnson, a junior in the College of Business Administration; and EVP Bowman. The committee reviews each request and decides which ones merit funding. Johnson said they favor requests for events on campus, since MUSG surveys have continually shown that students want SOF funds to be allocated for events that will benefit the whole campus community. MUSG annually allocates 30 percent of the funds it receives
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MUSG Executive Vice President Zach Bowman chairs the SOF Committee, which distributes funds to student organizations on Marquette’s campus.
from the $30 student activity fee for SOF, for a total of $36,719.81 this year. The 30 percent minimum is required by the MUSG constitution, and often faces criticism because the SOF Committee usually does not to allocate all the money that it sets aside. Any unreimbursed funds are put into the MUSG reserve fund, which accrued $93,476 during the past three years. “Maybe the 30 percent is actually a hindrance to our ability to provide those funds to students,” Johnson said. An amendment proposed by
Bowman last year would have removed the 30 percent mandatory minimum from the constitution and allowed MUSG to budget SOF at a lower level. While the amendment was voted down amid concerns that it would take funding away from students, Johnson argued that the freed funds would be used to benefit students in other areas. Steve Lehocky, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences who dealt with SOF in his former role as the treasurer of the The Naturals, a student a capella group, believes that removing
the minimum is not necessary, and that other changes could be made to SOF. “I feel like the event requirements for funding approval are entirely too strict,” Lehocky said. “I’ve found that the difference between getting funded for an event and then getting turned down for the exact same event the next year boils down to wording.” Members of MUSG disagree, saying that the problem is in finding the right groups for funding. “We face a challenge in finding a significant
number of organizations who plan to host events on campus,” Johnson said. MUSG plans to continue outreach to the student community on how to get funding. They will host an event Sunday at the Student Organization Leadership Institute, to which all student organizations will send up to three members. Lehocky said he’s been pleased with the efforts that MUSG has made to simplify the application. “The process itself is not a broken process,” Johnson said. “It’s just not an easy thing to do.”
MU alumna launches broadcast network in MKE TouchVision news stream emphasizes non-biased education By Natalie Wickman
natalie.wickman@marquette.edu
Kathryn Janicek, a 1998 Marquette alumna and Emmy-award winning journalist, is looking to reinvent the traditional broadcast news model through her work at TouchVision. The new video broadcast news network will provide a 24/7 news stream, complete with background music and graphics for a cinematic feel. The news service launched Sept. 3 in Milwaukee and will be rolling out nationwide in the coming months. Janicek said some students she spoke with expressed the belief that certain news organizations are too biased and lack credibility, issues she hopes to remedy with TouchVision. “I feel like (the news) can say whatever it wants and nobody really cares,” said Jacob Simmons, a freshman in the College of Arts & Sciences. “That could be because we don’t pay attention to the news as much as we used to, but I wish that we’d hold (news reporters) more responsible and that they’d stick
to the facts more often.” Janicek said she’s trying to avoid that sentiment by using TouchVision to emphasize news as education. “We cut out all of the bias that might come with having reporters and anchors doing it,” Janicek said. “(The goal is) to give people the news right down the middle, no bias, and to educate and inform.” Part of that education will involve explaining why certain stories are in the news. Madeline Makhlouf, a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences, said she finds it problematic when she can’t get every side of a story from one news source, especially since she expects most to be partisan. “I don’t want to have to search through 10 websites to find the truth,” Makhlouf said. Janicek said she is using TouchVision to tackle this problem as well, placing importance on debriefing audiences with background information for each story. “I want to make sure that we are the only option if people want the whole story,” she said. “People are very smart. If anything, they need more information on the stories out there.” In addition to improved ethics, Janicek said she is using TouchVision to reconstruct the
traditional news model from the ground up. She aims to revolutionize news by creating “news movies,” which include vivid graphics, movie clips and mood-matching background music in every video. “We know that (the extra components) will supplement each story,” Janicek said. “We’re composing news movies and you’ll remember the news better this way.” Reflecting on her time as
a journalism student at Marquette, Janicek said she had Jesuit values in mind while creating TouchVision. She said she specifically remembers the Jesuit educational principle ‘Cura personalis,’ which translates to “care for the entire person” in Latin. “(TouchVision) is about the whole person. I think about what everyone needs to get through their day,” she said. TouchVision chose to start
its launch in Milwaukee due to its strategic relationship with Weigel Broadcasting and the sizable, diverse market. TouchVision is available through five platforms, a free app (for Apple and Android products), its website, Weigel’s Milwaukee station, WDJT-58.4,Time Warner Cable channel 984 and Charter Cable channel 966. TouchVision has yet to determine an official nationwide launch date.
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Building renovations to lead toward renewability University seeking LEED certification for historic structures By Caroline Roers
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Sensenbrenner, Johnston and Marquette halls are among the buildings that the university hopes to become Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certified by the U.S. Green Building Council. Engineering Hall received LEEDgold certification this summer for its use of green design and construction, joining three other buildings on campus that are already certified. LEED is a nationally recognized certification system that measures the environmental impacts of a building’s design,
construction, operation and management. Some of the renovations being incorporated into the buildings include cooling and heating methods to conserve energy, sustain infrastructure and use environmentally responsible construction materials. “We are always looking to build buildings for the long term,” said Tom Ganey, vice president of planning and university architect. “The buildings here aren’t going to last for just 30 years, they are going to last for hundreds of years. Marquette has always been using green methods, these buildings are just an extension of it.” Engineering Hall, which opened in fall 2011, received an award for multiple aspects of their construction and design. Elements include many LED lights, the use of
natural light, polished concrete floors, an experimental green roof, solar panels and water retention system. “The engineering faculty is teaching about fresh water systems and sustainable construction, so we wanted to practice what we preach, and this is exactly what we did with Engineering Hall,” Graney said. “One of our main goals with the Hall was to become LEED certified; every step of the way we were thinking of ways to be green and efficient.” Robert H. Bishop, dean of the College of Engineering, said that the design and features of the building “support Marquette and the college’s commitment to addressing global issues.” Other Marquette projects that have been recognized as LEED certified include the renovations of McCabe Hall, and
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Engineering Hall achieved LEED-gold certification after opening in 2011.
the construction of Zilber and Eckstein Halls. Renovations of Sensenbrenner, Johnston and Marquette Halls are also
receiving sustainable design renovations in hopes of receiving LEED certification, according to Ganey.
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WTMJ: Students displeased with ongoing Time Warner disagreement FX, debuted Sept. 2 and televises original FX shows such as “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” and “The League.” However, the basic television package provided to Marquette students living in residence halls and off-campus locations does not include these two channels. The only way to receive the channels on campus is to upgrade the cable bundle. While FXX focuses on televising popular comedies and dramas, Fox Sports 1 is more connected to Marquette. The network and the
reformed Big East conference agreed on a 12-year contract in March that is slated to televise more than 100 men’s college basketball games this season. Marquette’s men’s basketball team will play on the channel 21 times this season and the women’s team just once. Fox Sports 1 also possesses the rights to the Big East men’s and women’s tournaments. In addition to being displeased with Time Warner Cable and Journal Broadcast Group’s dispute, D.J. Vogt, a junior in the College of Communication, said he is just as upset
that Fox Sports 1 is not part of campus programming yet. “I feel it takes away from our ability to be fanatics,” Vogt said. “We don’t have the option to keep up with the teams around the conference, which is especially frustrating because there are many new teams that we don’t know much about.” Questions regarding the brand new networks at Marquette remain, but Time Warner Cable and Journal Broadcast Group are making progress in ending the blackout. “We are in active discussions
with Journal (Broadcast Group), and we’re working hard to reach a fair agreement to restore its stations to our lineups,” Hogan said. “In fact, we met for the very first time last week with actual Journal employees, instead of only their third party consultants.” Hogan said Time Warner Cable maintains that its first priority is its customers. “We want this to be resolved and restore NBC programming for our customers, but it has to be a fair deal,” Hogan said. “Asking for the
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Court battles place internships under extra scrutiny of similar lawsuits emerged from unpaid interns, largely in the en“I go into internships that are un- tertainment and media industries. paid knowing that they are unpaid, Notable names faced with legal not looking for any compensa- battles include the gossip site Gawker, fashion tion,” Hess said. house Donna “My compenKaren Internasation is more tional, talk show educational than host Charlie anything else. Rose, publisher You can’t put a of the “New value on that sort Yorker” Condé of experience.” Nast and rapper According to a P. Diddy’s Boy 2010 survey, 72 Entertainment. percent of MarPaul Secunda, quette’s seniors a professor at reported comM a r q u e t t e ’s pleting a practilaw school cum, internship, Max Hess with an experfield experience, tise in labor law, said the essence co-op or clinical assignment. At the national level, the Na- of these cases focused on defintional Association of Colleges & ing what the role of an intern is Employers reported that 63 percent at for-profit firms. “Basically what (the cases have) of graduating seniors in 2013 had internship experience, the highest focused on is whether or not percentage in the survey’s six year you are doing work as an intern run. Of these internships, nearly that a regular employee would be doing,” Secunda said. half were unpaid. Under the Fair Labor Standards In recent months, unpaid internships, particularly in the for-profit Act, all employees must be paid for sector, have sparked a heated de- their time through a salary or hourly bate among companies and univer- wage. Companies have avoided this sities about the legality, morality provision by classifying interns as and advantages of allowing stu- volunteers or trainees. To specify what constitutes a dents to work for free. trainee, the Department of Labor set six standards for a position to be THE LEGAL QUESTIONS This June, Federal District Court legally unpaid at for-profit compaJudge William H. Pauley III ruled nies—with an exemption for public in favor of two interns seeking pay institutions and non-profits. According to the Department of for their work on the film “Black Swan.” Pauley’s ruling found Labor, an unpaid internship must that the production company, Fox resemble an educational environSearchlight Pictures, violated the ment, be for the benefit of the inFair Labor Standards Act’s mini- tern and cannot include a prommum wage provision in its refusal ised permanent position upon completion. The intern must also to pay its interns. In the wake of the ruling, a rush not displace a regular employee CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1:
or do work that will immediately benefit the employer. According to the National Association of Colleges and Employers, about 48 percent of internships were unpaid for the national class of 2013. A little more than one third of these positions took place in the private, for-profit sector and were therefore subject to the trainee standards. The recent ruling has brought a renewed focus on whether these positions can legally remain unpaid. “I would think that this is a shot across the bow for other companies, what happened to Fox in these lawsuits,” Secunda said. “They better think about what the job description is and make sure they are within the perimeters with their interns. If nothing else, it will slow them down.” UNPAID INTERNSHIPS AT MARQUETTE Marquette’s colleges of Arts & Sciences, Communication, Engineering and Business Administration all offer internships for credit. During the 2012-2013 academic year, more than 580 students took an internship, based on enrollment in classes marked as internships or containing the word internship in the title. This number does not include co-ops, nursing clinicals or student teaching assignments required by the Colleges of Engineering, Health Sciences and Education, which so far have not come under the same legal scrutiny as unpaid internships nationally. Marquette is responsible for overseeing that internships have an academic component in
order to be awarded credit, ac- & Sciences are overseen by indicording to Andrew Brodzeller, vidual departments within the colassociate director of university lege, and data for the entire school communication at Marquette. is not available regarding compen“It is up to the organization that sation rates. provides the internship to assure Oftentimes companies require that the opportunity does not vio- unpaid interns to take academic late labor laws, including require- credit for the position in order to ments of the Fair lend their program Labor Standards the educational leAct,” Brodzeller gitimacy required said in an email. by the Department Brodzeller of Labor. said Marquette For example, ensures interntwo internship opships are eduportunities listed cational by reon the College of quiring a certain Communication’s workload and website read “all contact hours for applicants must be each position. of 3rd year status Many colleges Max Hess, senior, and able to receive also require stuCollege of Communication college credit for dents to turn in the internship” and written assign“this internship is ments to demonstrate the value of unpaid, but may be eligible their work. for college credits.” These dis“Each college is responsible for claimers are typical in students’ approving whether an internship search for internships. experience meets these expectaThough the majority of univertions,” Brodzeller said. sities still offer credit for unpaid About 15 percent of internships positions, some institutions have sponsored by the College of Busi- refused to participate in the pracness Administration were unpaid tice. The Marquette Law School, last year, according to Karen Rine- for example, does not award acahart, faculty advisor at Marquette’s demic credit to unpaid internships Business Career Center. with for-profit firms. In the College of Communica“If you’re talking about fortion, about half of the internships profit law firms, you’re talking for credit were compensated ac- about companies that are basicording to the college’s internship cally looking for employees,” coordinator, Sheena Carey. Carey said Secunda. “So in those cassaid the number of paid internships es it’s inappropriate to set up in the College of Communication an academic internship.” is up from about ten percent in reBoth the Colleges of Busicent years. ness Administration and Internships in the College of Arts Communication confirmed they
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do not screen for compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act and allow both paid and unpaid internships at for-profit companies. Both colleges do, however, ensure that internships meet the schools’ standards by checking student task reports. “To get credit students have to actually do work in an educational environment. They can’t simply be filing or making phone calls, though that can be part of it,” said Carey who was responsible for overseeing more than 200 communication internships last academic year. “They have to be doing something else as well that can make it an educational environment.”
ETHICAL AND MORAL DEBATE Along with the legal and financial concerns, unpaid internships have sparked protest on ethical grounds. For example, interns categorized as volunteers are not protected by federal law from workplace discrimination and sexual harassment. Those Fair Labor Standards Act protections, like minimum wage law, apply only to official employees. James Scotton, a former dean of Marquette’s College of Communication and associate professor of media law, said unpaid internships also raise concerns that industries will favor people from wealthy families, imTHE PRICE OF AN pacting diversity in areas like UNPAID INTERNSHIP journalism and entertainment, The practice of requiring interns hurting economic mobility. to get academic credit raises con“If you’re struggling with moncerns that students will, in effect, ey, you cannot afford to take an have to pay tuition to work for unpaid internship,” Scotton said. free—in many cases paying the “Someone else who comes from same tuition rate as classes taught a family that has enough money to by a full-time professor. For under- supply the student with spending graduates at Marquette, for exam- money can afford that internship. ple, a three-credit internship this They don’t need that money to past summer cost $2,115 at full stay in school.” summer tuition. Scotton also voiced concerns In order to alleviate the cost of that unpaid internships have taken internships, the the place of paid College of Comentry-level posimunication oftions formerly fers students the available to recent option of a zerograduates. credit internship “Why should I that will allow hire someone if them to be covI can get you for ered under the free?” Scotton sponsorship of said. “Students are the school, withfinding out that out paying tuition. at some places, The school does, they’re not willhowever, require ing to hire their Andrew Brodzeller, unpaid interns.” both public relaAssociate director of tions and adverDespite these university communcation tising majors to ethical claims, take three credits, or 180 work some students consider internships hours, of a for-credit internship in the best way to prepare students for order to graduate. the working world and are wary of In the College of Business Ad- limiting opportunities for students ministration, most internships to learn. are three credits, while there is a “I think having an internship is one-credit option used mostly for important,” said Sarah McClaunderclassmen who did not take nahan, a junior in the College of the required prerequisites. In the Communication, who took an unCollege of Arts & Sciences, one to paid public relations internship to three credit internships are offered fulfill a three-credit requirement in the English, history, theology for her major. and multidisciplinary social sci“It’s a good way to prevent ences departments. kids from being sent out into While some students may not the work force with nothing on like the added cost, others appre- their resume and having an overciate the opportunity to get credit whelming experience,” McClanafor internships. Alice Ogles, a se- han said. “I know my internships nior in the College of Business helped me a lot.” Administration, said she valued Kristin Adler, assistant dithe opportunity to receive credit rector of Marquette’s Career through her internship at J.P. Services Center, finds internships Morgan this summer. and similar learning “It’s really nice in the sense that experiences I don’t have to take another class and honestly I learned more in the internship than any class could have taught me,” Ogles said. “It’s also kind of nice to have a little lighter class load this semester from getting credit this summer.” Universities across the country have made efforts to offer students the opportunity to enter competitive fields while avoiding financially burdening or exploiting students. The University of Richmond, for example, subsidizes its unpaid internships by granting 300 fellowships a year averaging $3,700 a piece to students who accept noncompensated positions at forprofit organizations.
It is up to the organization that provides the internship to assure that the opportunity does not violate labor laws.”
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Marquette’s Career Services advertise the internships offered to students in Wisconsin on a map in their office.
to be a valuable part of preparing for the job market. “As a career services center we would hope that all of our students could get paid for a job opportunity simply because our time is worth money,” Adler said. “But we know that some fields are not going to be able to pay.” Adler recalled taking an unpaid internship when she was in college studying advertising at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. “I knew I needed experience, so I was able to have a job on the side to make a little bit of money and financially I kind of just figured it out,” Adler said. “You know, my husband works in radio. Radio people are not going to get paid. So is that OK? You know, we’re not here to judge.” Though the Career Services Center does not screen its internship opportunities for Department of Labor guidelines, the center does check for legitimacy from each listing. “If we refused to post unpaid positions, we could be limiting student choice for gaining careerrelated experience,” Adler said in an email. “However,
I won’t assist a for-profit organization getting an intern. I don’t believe in it.” James Scotton, professor in the College of Communication we are advocates of experience for pay and coach employers to offer equitable pay to our students.” AN UNRESOLVED DISPUTE Though the debate continues over the proper role of unpaid internships at universities and in business, many students still consider an internship essential to compete in today’s job market. “Honestly if you don’t have an internship people won’t take
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you seriously or consider you in the job market,” said Ogles. “You have to put yourself out there because it’s really competitive right now, and you might have a hard time ever finding a job without experience.” Still, others remain firm against students working without pay. “I won’t assist a for-profit organization getting an intern,” Scotton said. “I don’t believe in it.”
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Dino fashion rawrs into MKE garbage?’” Westbrook said. The results of Westbrook’s initial thesis are stunning. Using only a loom, hand stitching and a manual sewing machine, Westbrook is able to create everything from flattering trench By Maddy Kennedy coats to stylish evening dresses madeline.kennedy@marquette.edu using items that many would have once considered trash. After the new materials are “Project Runway” host Heidi Klum always says, “In fashion, created, Westbrook crafts them one day you’re in and the next into new garments that showcase day you’re out.” For local de- his unique sense of style. “If Alexander McQueen, Tim signer Timothy Westbook, the day came sooner than he would Burton and Pixar Animation Studios got together, went on have hoped. After he was eliminated from a roller coaster and threw up, that would be me,” Project RunWestbrook said. way’s current Museum in the dinosaur exhibit. We s t b r o o k ’s 12th season, “This is super exciting and suclever combination per flattering because it’s an exthe Milwaukee of playful humor tremely progressive project. It’s resident returned and fairy-tale el- totally different than any gala home to continue egance are the first they’ve done before,” Westbrook production on his things one will no- said. Instead of the traditional eco-friendly, ditice in “Paleontol- runway setup, “Paleontology nosaur-inspired ogy of a Woman”, of a Woman” will be more free collection, “Paa project that West- form performance art. leontology of a brook has been Woman” a group “Every single model will be working on since out at once in the space and movof garments inTimothy Westbrook his junior year at ing around, which makes it look tent on proving that style and sustainability are far Syracuse University. The collec- like there’s all these dinosaurs tion consists of 15 from extinct. moving through Westbrook’s innovative de- looks, 12 created different layers sign aesthetic, which he refers by Westbrook and and periods,” to as sustainability design, re- three by another Westbrook said. designer, cently gained national attention local In addition to on “Project Runway” and is Laura Meyer. their garments, Every garment what he hopes will make “Palethree models the ontology of a Woman” impress represents will also wear at the collections’ upcoming prehistoric theme, Triceratops upcoming debut event. The sus- but also embodies masks. Westtainability process focuses on the larger theme brook says that repurposing used and discarded of the year 1887. the masks add exmaterials such as fabric scraps Westbrook an element of (some from the set of “Project plained that 1887 playfulness to a Timothy Westbrook heavy topic. Runway”), vintage dresses, cur- was the year the tains, cassette tapes and even first Triceratops “The perforfossil was found, the first year mance is so important. It’s going garbage bags. Westbrook describes himself a calculator was patented and to be really fun and wild,” Westas a “sustainability driven fiber the year the Helen Keller began brook said. artist,” and refers to his style as her education. In the future, Westbrook plans “It was a remarkable year for to continue practicing sustaina “parody of luxury.” “When I started doing sustain- science, history, education and ability design and wants to ability design, I asked myself, imagination,” Westbrook said. produce at least two more colThe event is set for Saturday, lections in the next year. The ‘How do I sell garbage to people without them thinking it’s Sept. 21 at the Milwaukee Public next, Westbrook explained, will
Former ‘Project Runway’ designer debuts new collection
If Alexander McQueen, Tim Burton and Pixar Animation Studios got together, went on a roller coaster and threw up, that would be me.”
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Westbrook alters a piece from ‘Paleontology of a Woman’ in his studio.
be something along the lines of “figure skating meets the surrealism of Dalí.” The final unicorn-themed collection of this series will be released in late 2014. The subject, as avid “Project Runway” viewers know, is something that Westbrook holds very close to his heart. “Unicorns, to me, are a parallel to religion,” Westbrook said, “My realization is that fantasy and mythology take place in the natural spaces of the world, and somehow fantasy is
accidentally equated with nature, and if fantasy does not exist therefore nature does not exist, and if nature doesn’t exist then it’s not something tangible that we can protect. What I’m trying to do is put that on top of itself and say, ‘Now, moving forward, we have to save the forest to protect the unicorns.’” Although he may not have made it big on “Project Runway,” there may be much larger and more magical things in store for the Milwaukee designer with dinosaur-sized dreams.
New Arctic Monkeys album ‘AM’ dials up sound British rock group’s release their best yet By Brian Keogh
brian.keogh@marquette.edu
Arctic Monkeys blew up in 2006 with its debut album “Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not.” The band rode a wave of hype that many thought could only crash in the ruins of Brit-rock forgone, a la Oasis. But with the band’s newest album, “AM,” officially released Tuesday, fans will only keep coming back for more, giving the band’s wave of success new momentum. Arctic Monkeys fifth studio album, “AM,” continues the evolution of the band’s sound and features some of its best songs to date, with standouts like “Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High” and “Do I Wanna Know.” While
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the group’s previous album “Suck It and See” was devoid of memorable singles, but a gem as a whole, “AM” is both a great album with hits to boot. At this point in the band’s career it would be a misrepresentation to continue to call Arctic Monkeys an indie band. “AM” continues the trend started by its riff-heavy third album “Humbug,” produced by Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme, who also makes a guest
appearance on “AM.” This album instead moves away from the band’s gruff indie Brit-rock sound and solidifies the group’s psychedelic sound. A downbeat groove dominates the album, with falsetto harmonies and choruses coming from drummer Matt Helders and bassist Nick O’Malley. Synthesizers figure prominently in many of the songs and complement the new falsetto harmonies. Still, the Arctic Monkeys’ sound is familiar and builds upon the changes they’ve made during the past seven years, making “AM” a definite high point, if not the pinnacle of the band’s run. The album channels decades of rock’ n’ roll, reaching back into the ’60s and ’70s while managing to sound fresh. “Arabella” instantly brings to mind Black Sabbath’s album
“Paranoid,” using a riff straight from Tony Iommi’s playbook. “Mad Sounds” is inspired by a Velvet Underground Lou Reed circa 1967 – the album’s title is even inspired by The Velvet Underground’s record “VU.” “No. 1 Party Anthem” is a David Bowie inspired piece if there ever was one, giving the album a healthy dose of glam. Remember those falsetto lyrics? They play nicely throughout, becoming a comfortable part of the scenery. “AM” even manages to blend hip-hop into the mix with the single “Why’d You Only Call Me When
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You’re High.” Frontman Alex Turner takes a Dr. Dre beat and manages to make a hit out of a song shaming booty calls. It recalls his earlier songs and their equally wry lyrics, examining the club scene and despite of the title “AM” manages to be a more mature creation. Turner’s lyrics are, as always, clever and precise, setting the scene with each word like carefully chosen poetry. The scene is a familiar, a late night or “three in the morning” with someone on the mind. Nostalgia has often been a theme for the group and is featured prominently on “AM.” Turner is especially poignant on singles “R U Mine” and “Do I Wanna Know,” which beg to be played on repeat. While many of the Arctic Monkeys’ contemporaries have struggled to evolve and change their sound to create this effect (see our review of Franz Ferdinand’s latest), “AM” continues the band’s progress, making one of its best albums to date.
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The Marquette Tribune Editorial Board:
Seamus Doyle,Viewpoints Editor Kara Chiuchiarelli, Assistant Editor Tessa Fox, Editor-in-Chief Sarah Hauer, Managing Editor Patrick Leary, Sports Editor Joe Kaiser, News Editor Alec Brooks, Copy Chief Rob Gebelhoff, Projects Editor Maddy Kennedy, Visual Content Editor Erin Heffernan, Marquee Editor Rebecca Rebholz, Photo Editor
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Time to stop playing ‘Who Has More Money?’
STAFF EDITORIAL
MU should confront exploitation of unpaid interns Eric Oliver
Graphic information courtesy of The NACE 2013 Internship and Co-op survey Illustration by Ellery Fry/Ellery.Fry@marquette.edu
Our view: Marquette should address the issue of unpaid internships with for-profit companies by offering free credits for internships. A recent Marquette Tribune investigation found that some unpaid student internships accepted for credit by the university do not meet the Department of Labor’s legal standards. The legality of these internships comes into question when the Department of Labor’s six standards for what qualifies as a legal unpaid internship with for-profit companies are applied. The standards include: training is similar to coursework and the experience is beneficial to the intern; the intern does not replace regular employees but works under close supervision; the company “derives no immediate advantage” from the intern’s work “and on occasion its operations may actually be impeded;” the intern is not entitled to a job afterward and both parties understand the intern is not entitled to wages. The Department of Labor standards do not apply to internships with the government or nonprofit organizations. According to the National Association of Colleges and Employers 2013 Internship and Co-op survey, a record 63 percent of 2013 graduates had internships or co-ops– the experience is clearly a valued piece of higher education. Of the 47.8 percent of students who worked as an unpaid intern, about one third worked for forprofit companies, which are subject to the six DOL criteria. The standard stating interns should not produce work that immediately benefits the company is the most concerning. If an intern is completing work worth doing and learning from, it should immediately benefit their employer. For that reason and others, interns at for-profit companies should be paid. Unfortunately, some for-profit companies are able to pay interns are not doing so. Instead the companies employ interns as unpaid entry-level employees. This creates a slew of problems and few “perfect” solutions for interns, universities and employers. Yes, some companies cannot afford pay their interns, especially with the current economy. Oftentimes the solution is a credit exchange with a student’s university in lieu of a paycheck. But there is a slight problem with this model—the student often ends up
paying the university to take the credits and therefore pays to go to work every day. America’s internship system exacerbates socioeconomic disparities, limiting opportunities to those who can afford unpaid internships. The problems also point to a much larger conversation about the costs of an education. There is no magical cost-benefit equation that will work in every case—each student comes from different economic, professional, academic and social circumstances that all contribute to students’ decision to look for an internship or not and whether to accept a paid or unpaid position. Most students choose to pursue an internship experience in order to prepare for postgraduation life. According to NACE, 63.1 percent of students with a paid internship received at least one job offer before graduation. In contrast, only 37 percent of the former unpaid interns could say the same—only 1.8 percentage points more than students who had never interned. Using this data, it seems that having an unpaid internship only offers a slight advantage for job offers over not having an internship at all. The system may be broken, but clearly paid internships are more valuable than any other option. Making sure interns at forprofit companies are paid is a start to fixing the system. It’s basic economics of supply and demand. If there is a great enough need for interns to work, and interns refuse to work for free, paid internships will be offered. There will most likely be fewer, albeit more valuable internships offered, but that is the nature of the market. When you are a paid employee just like everyone else at your company, your coworkers may value your work more than the work of an unpaid intern who can fetch coffee. For-profit companies should be held to the Department of Labor standards with interns, just like they would with any regular employees. Ultimately, it will be up to the Department of Labor to ensure for-profit companies are complying with paid and unpaid labor standards. What Marquette can do right now is set an example for other universities and offer students full-credit unpaid internships for which they don’t have to pay tuition. The Tribune welcomes continued campus discussion and encourages students, faculty and administrators alike to weigh in on this issue.
This weekend the NFL officially returned, and I don’t know about you, but I spend all summer looking forward to the beginning of each season. As soon as the Super Bowl is over, I start thinking about how long it is until next season begins. Sunday morning was wonderful. I watched football, did homework and was ready to enjoy some evening football. Oh wait, we didn’t get the Sunday night game because NBC is still blacked out. Journal Broadcast Group stopped airing its programming on Time Warner Cable July 25. Since then the cities of Milwaukee, Green Bay, Palm Springs, Calf. and Lincoln, Neb., have been without programming. Since the beginning of the blackout, Journal Broadcast Group and Time Warner Cable have been playing a game of “Who Has More Money?” Each week it seems that there are more commercials trying to convince the other party to fold and come to the negotiating table. Then they go to negotiate, decide that there is nothing they can agree on and make more commercials. It is a vicious cycle that is never ending, and until something is done to change the system, blackouts are going to continue to be a semiregular part of our seasonal programming. Journal Broadcast Group has seen its stocks fall a whopping 23.3 percent, while Time Warner Cable has attempted to offer a plethora of options, most embarrassingly the Tennis Channel and the Game Show Network. These inadequate substitutes for our regular programming are disgraceful. No offense to tennis fans, but tennis just doesn’t have the following that football does. It is almost like a bad cold I can’t shake. Throughout the entire blackout, people speculated what it would take to get the networks back on air. First it was fall primetime programming. Then it was the Packers preseason. Now it is the NFL regular season. Surprise nothing has worked. More than a week ago, Time Warner
Cable and Journal Broadcast Group representatives met in an attempt to get the channel back on air. “We are encouraged that, for the first time, we had the opportunity to meet directly with Journal leadership to try and resolve this issue,” Michael Pedelty, a spokesperson for Time Warner Cable said in an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “We are hopeful that we can come to an understanding soon, but any deal has to be in the customers’ best interest.” Here we are a week later, still not any closer to having TMJ4, Milwaukee’s NBC affiliate, back on the air. If Time Warner Cable really cared about the customers, it would settle this contract dispute, and put WTMJ-TV back on the air. The worst thing about the blackout is that the student body does not have a voice in the matter. Students in a dorm or a university apartment that provides cable, are not in control of their cable subscriptions. You can’t even call Time Warner or Journal Broadcast Group if you’re not an account holder. Milwaukee is by no means a small city, we may be a smaller market than Chicago or New York, but we are the biggest city in Wisconsin. If there was more of a public outcry, this issue would’ve been solved already. Yes, people have threatened to switch service providers, but Time Warner’s latest commercial is correct – switching providers is futile because there is nothing stopping the other providers from blacking out channels in the future. Neither side is right, and the biggest problem is that there is no real way to change this. We are all just cogs in a machine that is on the last legs of its life. Until it is truly broken, nothing will change with our cable service providers and their channels. Nobody wants to be ignored, but the public currently is. If you pay for these programs you should have some sort of voice, but when we try to ask questions or demand some sort of negotiation, we’re given some free channels to hold us over until the adults sort out the problems. As Journal Broadcast Group stock continues to plummet, as people start to leave Time Warner, the companies will be forced to sit down at the negotiation table and come to terms on a contract to hold us over until the next blackout. But until Journal Broadcast Group and Time Warner come to that agreement, I know what I won’t be watching: Sunday Night Football, and that’s a damn shame. Eric Oliver is a senior studying journalism and writing intensive English. Email Eric with any comments or suggestions at eric.oliver@marquette.edu.
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Tennis seasons open in MKE Men’s and women’s teams both bringing back experience By Jacob Born
jacob.born@marquette.edu
Both the Marquette men’s and women’s tennis teams will open their respective seasons this weekend, as Marquette hosts the Milwaukee Tennis Classic. The men will take on Wisconsin-Madison, Air Force and Ball State, while the women will battle Colorado State, Florida International and Western Michigan. The men finished off the 2012-13 season just above .500 with a 14-13 record and placed fourth in the Big East Championship. The team graduated just one senior last season and will bring back plenty of experienced talent. Senior Dan Mamalat was named to the All-Big East Conference team last year, and is one of two seniors on the team. Logon Collins is the other senior, and was strong in doubles play throughout the Big East Championship. Vukasin Teofanovic is coming off a career season, where he had 24 wins, the highest on the team. Cameron Tehrani also had 24 wins last season, his second straight year with 20-plus wins. The women enter the 2013-14 season with the exact same team as last season, just with an extra year of experience. The team finished 13-13 overall, but just a 1-5 record in Big East play. Rocio Diaz is the only senior on the team and was named to the All-Big East Academic team. Vanessa Folinger will look to add to her impressive sophomore year. Folinger posted a 12-3 record in singles and a 9-3 record in doubles, the second and first highest winning
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Vukasin Teofanovic (above) and Cameron Tehrani led the team last season with 24 wins. Both players are positioned for a successful junior season.
percentages on the team, respectively. Erin Gebes had the best winning percentage, going 11-2 in singles play as a freshman. Men’s singles will play Ball State on Friday, Air Force on Saturday and Wisconsin on Sunday, while doubles will play Wisconsin on Friday, Ball State on Saturday and Air Force on Sunday. Women’s singles will play Florida International on Friday, Western Michigan on Saturday and Colorado State on Sunday, while doubles will play Colorado State on Friday, Florida international on Saturday and Western Michigan on Sunday.
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Rocio Diaz (above) is the only senior on the team and will provide valuable experience to the underclassmen.
Golf committed to capturing conference crown Team to stress unity, short game in prep for upcoming season By Trey Killian
robert.killian@marquette.edu
The word “committed” adorns the backs of the Marquette men’s golf team’s new workout shirts, representing the squad’s overarching theme for the 2013-14 season. Sophomore Nick Nelson said that the team’s commitment will focus on capturing a Big East Tournament title, a feat last accomplished by the Golden Eagles in 2008. “Commitment can mean a range of things, but in our case it means everything we do, even if it’s just little things,”
Nelson said. “Winning the (Big East) has only been done once as far as Marquette history goes, so we’d really like to accomplish that. We think it’s a reachable goal.” The campaign begins this weekend as the Golden Eagles travel to Farmingdale, N.Y., for the Doc Gimmler tournament at Bethpage Red Golf Course. Marquette assembled its opening five-man roster based on a series of qualifiers made up of six and a half rounds of golf over two weeks. Several rounds were played at Erin Hills, the future site of the 2017 U.S. Open. Coach Steve Bailey described the Erin Hills experience as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and viewed it as a retreat with an emphasis on unity. “We’re trying to incorporate this team concept where (new players) haven’t done that,”
Bailey said. “It’s kind of counKlongland will make his Marter-intuitive to what these guys quette debut at the Doc Gimare used to as junior players. mler along with junior Brandon They get here Cloete, a transto Marquette fer from Arizona and we’re State. Senior Corey bringing them Konieczki, Swift in as a group and sophomore Pat and having Sanchez round out them buy into Marquette’s squad, a system.” while Nelson will Bailey said compete as an indithe play of vidual. freshman Bailey, enterHenry Klonging his fourth year land stood out as head coach, to him. The consistently Nick Nelson, Sophomore has Stoughton, stressed improveWis., native ment in his team’s won the first short game and that series of qualifiers thanks in won’t change this season. part to an even-par round at Erin “You watch these PGA tour Hills from 7400 yards. Sopho- events on the weekends, and it’s more CJ Swift also impressed, a pretty common theme that the winning the second qualifier guy holding up the check at the coming off a redshirt year. end made his putts that week,”
Commitment can mean a range of things, but in our case it means everything we do, even if it’s just the little things.”
Bailey said. “Even on days when you’re not hitting so well, you can turn that 76 into a 74. It might not seem like much, but those two shots could lead to a victory over another team.” While conference realignment hasn’t affected Marquette’s regular season schedule, Bailey said each tournament will ultimately prepare the Golden Eagles for the Big East Championship. With that goal in mind, Bailey believes success will come from remaining committed on a day-to-day basis. “The other phrase we use is to ‘win the day,’” Bailey said. “For us to be successful as a program, we need to make a commitment and focus our efforts on doing that every day in everything from workouts to performance in the classroom.”
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Colgate to be another tough test for MU Women’s soccer looking to protect home winning streak By Kyle Doubrava
kyle.doubrava@marquette.edu
After two hard-nosed wins this weekend on home territory, the Marquette women’s soccer team will attempt to keep its undefeated run at Valley Fields alive when it hosts Colgate Friday night. The Golden Eagles have not lost at home in 13 consecutive matches, but the Raiders have the necessary credentials to put the streak in jeopardy. Colgate enters the match 2-1 on the road and 4-1 overall. In its three away games, the Raiders have allowed only one goal. An NCAA Tournament participant last fall, Colgate will be Marquette’s first true home test of the season. “You have a team who just got started probably a little later with their overall schedule,” Marquette coach Markus
Roeders said. “They will be solid. It’s a type of team you can’t take lightly.” Colgate’s lone loss of the season thus far was a 1-0 defeat at Syracuse. Marquette hopes to take advantage of the Raiders’ trend of scoring most of its goals in the first half. Colgate has netted eight of its nine scores before halftime, while the Golden Eagles have amassed six of their 14 goals in the second half. Regardless of the statistics, Roeders and the team will approach this opponent with the same mentality as they do with other foes. “We’ll study them and prepare ourselves, but a lot of the focus has to be really on us and us getting better,” Roeders said. “That’s got to be the main thing. I really feel comfortable with this squad. If we take care of our business, then we can have an opportunity to play any team that we face.” Marquette moved higher in the national poll this week, rising to No. 22. Senior midfielder Taylor Madigan, who scored three goals in last weekend’s matches, believes the preparation for the team has, and
always will, start with getting players on the same page in order to keep the team in the top 25. “I think we’re going to just focus on the little details and keep gelling together,”
Madigan said. “We have a good future ahead of us.” The match is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. Friday at Valley Fields.
Suh’s fine a result of reputation
Trey Killian
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With a win over Colgate, No. 22 Marquette could be ranked even higher.
Detroit Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh is associated with an NFL record, but one that inspires disdain rather than acclaim. The NFL fined Suh $100,000 Tuesday, the largest fine for an on-field violation in NFL history, for his unnecessary roughness penalty Sunday. During an interception return, Suh attempted to block Minnesota Vikings’ John Sullivan by diving at his knees from the left side, sending center tumbling forward. Sullivan grabbed his knee afterwards, but he wasn’t seriously injured. Suh announced he will appeal the fine, labeling it excessive, and based on the NFL’s 2011 fine schedule he would appear to have a case. The schedule denotes the minimum fines for low blocks at $7,500 and $15,000 for first- and second-time offenses respectively. Furthermore, the fine amounts to about three game day paychecks and an income that most American households don’t make in a year. To put that into perspective, however, Suh recently restructured his contract and will earn a $630,000 salary for 2013 along with a $11.5 million signing bonus. But many who follow the NFL, especially Packer fans, know this is not Suh’s first, second or even third instance of dirty play. Two Thanksgivings ago, Suh stomped on Green Bay offensive lineman Evan Dietrich-Smith. Last season he kicked Houston Texans quarterback Matt Schaub in the groin. He’s now been fined or suspended (or both) six times, and the NFL has taken increasingly harsher steps towards punishing him. In the Schaub and now Sullivan cases, Suh’s intent to injure has been called into question. Sullivan had offseason microfracture surgery on the same knee affected in the collision, adding to the seriousness of Suh’s action. Sullivan stated he didn’t believe Suh was trying to hurt him, but recognized a need for “consequences when guys don’t respect the careers of other players.” The facts that Suh’s block took place while the ball was live and in play, and with the intent to keep a potential tackler away from his teammate also play into the equation. Suh’s reputation has made it difficult to grant him the benefit of the doubt, however. When considering the goal of dissuading repeat offenders like Suh, one must wonder whether the punishment fits the crime. While a universal system of penalties could help make fines and suspensions fair, the NFL tends to look at these occurrences on a case-by-case basis. Under that standard, Suh’s historically hefty punishment makes sense, but are five and now six-figure punishments ultimately enough to deter multi-millionaires? The remainder of Suh’s time in the NFL should provide an answer to that question. This could be the pinnacle of the punitive measures against him, or another step down a destructive career path. Trey Killian is a senior majoring in journalism from Tampa, Fla. Email him at robert.killian@marquette.edu.
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Volleyball faces stiff competition in Fort Myers Golden Eagles hope for first win against ranked opponent By Patrick Leary
patrick.leary@marquette.edu
The Marquette women’s volleyball team started its season rather predictably. It posted a 2-2 record, defeated two unranked teams and fell to two ranked ones. While the missed opportunities against then No. 13 BYU and then No. 3 USC frustrated coach Bond Shymansky and his team, another opportunity for a landmark win will present itself Friday afternoon. The Golden Eagles will head down south for three matches Friday and Saturday at the Hilton Garden Inn/Homewood Suites Airport Volleyball Classic on the campus of Florida Gulf Coast University. Marquette faces No. 3 Penn State Friday at 1 p.m., the hosts Florida Gulf Coast Friday night at 6 p.m. and Central Arkansas at 2 p.m. Saturday. Marquette vs. No. 3 Penn State, Friday, Sept. 13, 1 p.m., Alico Arena The Nittany Lions started 2013 3-1, only falling to No. 2 Texas in five sets on the road last weekend. In its most recent match, the team smashed No. 5 Florida, Marquette’s next ranked opponent, in straight sets. That tournament was called the Nike Volleyball Big Four Classic for a reason; it was contested by whom Nike viewed as the four best programs in the nation. Who could blame Nike for including PSU in that tourney? Coach Russ Rose began his 34th
season in Happy Valley this fall and has five NCAA titles to his name. The Nittany Lions most recently won the whole shebang in 2010. Player to Watch: Micha Hancock, junior, setter, Edmond, Okla. Hancock is the starting setter for PSU, and is averaging 9.86 assists per set so far this season. That’s actually very average; Marquette setter Elizabeth Koberstein is averaging nearly two assists more per set. But Hancock really shines from the service line. She averages an impressive 1.14 aces per set, which leads the nation in 2013. In her sophomore season, she was named an American Volleyball Coaches Association first team All-American and she was the Big Ten Freshman of the Year in 2011.
Player to Watch: Kaitlin Holm, senior, outside hitter, Fort Myers, Fla. Holm goes to school and plays volleyball in her hometown, and has put together a nice career for the Eagles. She transferred from Marshall after her freshman season, and by her junior year, was a unanimous selection to the Atlantic Sun Conference first team. She leads FGCU with 3.22 kills per set in 2013. Fun Fact: Dunk City. If the volleyball team flies as high as the basketball team did in the
2013 NCAA Tournament, Marquette is in trouble. Prediction: Marquette in three Marquette vs. Central Arkansas, Saturday, Sept. 14, 2 p.m., Alico Arena The name Central Arkansas doesn’t inspire much initial fear, but the Sugar Bears, great mascot, are 6-1 with a four-game winning streak heading into this weekend. UCA won the regular season and conference tournament championship in the Southland in 2012, and advanced to their first NCAA Tournament.
Player to Watch: Marissa Collins, senior, setter, Pearland, Texas. Collins stands out this year because of her absurd assists, averaging 12.06 per set. She is also a two-time Southland Conference Setter of the year. Her average from 2012 is even higher than it is so far this year, at 12.42 assists per set. Fun Fact: Besides the Sugar Bear thing, they have players named Fulani, Scout and Kyle. Prediction: Marquette in five
Fun Fact: Redshirt freshman outside hitter Paulina Prieto Cerame, PSU’s leading hitter in 2013, hails from San Juan, Puerto Rico. Prediction: Penn State in four sets Marquette vs. Florida Gulf Coast, Friday, Sept. 13, 6 p.m., Alico Arena The Eagles have started slow in 2013, opening 1-6 in the nonconference season. However, their list of losses doesn’t have many slouches on it, and includes Ohio State and Florida State. Former Big East member USF played FGCU in the Eagles’ home opener and beat them in four sets. FGCU won the Atlantic Sun in 2012.
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The Golden Eagles will have the opportunity for a signature win in non-conference play this weekend.
Freshmen playing significant role for men’s soccer Big East/Big Ten challenge presents first tough test By Andrew Dawson
andrew.dawson@marquette.edu
Freshman are not often capable of making an impact early on in a season, but the Marquette men’s soccer team has four who are already solidifying themselves as key players. These freshmen—midfielder Louis Bennett II, defender Jake Taylor, and forward Coco Navarro—are three of the top four scorers on the squad. Navarro leads the pack with six points, 2 goals, 2 assists, while Bennett, and Taylor each have 2 goals, 1 assist, for five points. Since committing, Navarro received high praise from his peers as Marquette’s highest recruit in history. Despite a slow start in the season opener, he’s established himself as a solid option parallel to redshirt sophomore forward C. Nortey. Coming in, Navarro did not expect to play as much as he has, but quickly adapted to the Marquette system and is capitalizing on opportunities. “My thoughts were I had to work hard; adapt to a system really quick because college seasons
are really fast and short,” Navarro said. “I got the chance and I just can’t let it slip now.” Bennett jumped on the opportunity for extra playing time after senior midfielder Bryan Ciesiulka suffered a concussion earlier this season, leaving the midfield missing a key piece. He has not disappointed, scoring twice in the past two games and securing a position for the future once Ciesiulka graduates. No matter the circumstance, Bennett says he’s worked hard and now has the chance to prove himself. “If you work hard you’ll always get an opportunity,” Bennett said. “It’s just about taking your opportunity and using it to your advantage.” The most surprising freshmen to make an immediate impact on the offensive side of the ball is Taylor, who plays as the backup for senior defender Paul Dillon. Taylor made a splash in his debut match against UW-Green Bay with two goals and has since added an assist. He may not be leading the team, but he’s tied for second in points with Bennett. For a denfender, Taylor’s numbers are unusual. The situation is similar to redshirt-sophomore defender Axel Sjoberg’s performance a season ago. Freshman forward Nick Parionos has made a silent contribution
to the team. Parionos played an average of 20.3 minutes through three games. Though he has yet to record his first point, Parionos thinks it’s more important to help team get wins than to boost his personal stats. “For me, it’s more important about the team, so as long as the team succeeds then I’ll be happy,” Parianos said. The real challenge for the freshman, and the team, will come this weekend at the Big East/Big Ten challenge. This year the Big East/Big Ten challenge will include former Big East and now Atlantic Coastal Conference member, No. 4 Notre Dame. Marquette will not face the Fighting Irish, but will face Big Ten members Michigan and Michigan State. Though unranked, Michigan poses the biggest threat so far this season. Michigan started the season with a 5-0 win over LoyolaChicago, but has since struggled drawing the last two games against South Florida and Bowling Green, who Marquette beat 3-0 last Friday. Michigan State is the defending Big Ten tournament champion and has since been a national headliner. An advantage for Marquette will be playing them early on in the season, when the Spartans are known to struggle. Nevertheless, Michigan State should not be overlooked.
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Freshman Jake Taylor’s season is being compared to Axel Sjoberg’s (above) previous season, where both defenders were offensively minded.