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Volume 98, Number 7
Student in custody for DPS assault
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
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MU student hit by car
Maximum of 15 years for alleged substantial battery of DPS officer By Matt Kulling
matthew.kulling@marquette.edu
A student athlete is still in custody after striking two Department of Public Safety officers Saturday and will face District Attorney charges Wednesday, Milwaukee Police Department Lt. Mark Stanmeyer said. Capt. Russell Shaw, assistant director of DPS, said that a DPS officer saw three students in a verbal altercation and, after approaching them, called for further assistance because she was by herself. Shaw said one of the individuals was acting “very erratic” and while the officers were trying to speak to the subject, he ended up striking one DPS officer in the face. Multiple MPD squad cars arrived at the scene, in addition to fire trucks and an ambulance. The officers received medical attention on the scene and were released from the hospital the next morning. “The subject was taken into custody for substantial battery,” Shaw said. “The suspect has not yet been charged.” A student involved in the incident, who chose to remain anonymous, told the Tribune immediately after the incident that the student athlete who struck the DPS officers was under the influence of an unidentified illegal substance. “(This assault is) obviously something of some seriousness because in most cases (MPD) would just give someone a battery citation, and they’d be on their way, but MPD looked at it as substantial battery, and that’s a more serious offense,” the student said. A substantial battery charge carries a penalty of up to a $50,000 and up to 15 years in prison. Shaw said the procedure for dealing with the assault of a DPS officer is the same as the procedure of dealing with a battery of a student. “If anyone else got battered, we can’t treat it any differently,” Shaw said. “It comes down to the arresting agency, MPD, and what they are going to arrest someone for.” Shaw said that whatever the District Attorney decides to do in the criminal case has nothing to do with what Student Affairs decides to do in handling the case.
Photo by Matt Gozun/benjaminmatthew.gozun@marquette.edu
The student was crossing Wisconsin Avenue near the AMU and the Olin Engineering Center Monday afternoon when the accident occured.
Student responsive after being struck on Wisconsin Avenue By Andrew Dawson & Natalie Wickman
andrew.dawson@marquette.edu natalie.wickman@marquette.edu
A female Monday by p.m. while sin Avenue
student was struck a car around 6:30 crossing Wisconnear the Alumni
the vehicle got out of the car and rushed to help her while bystanders joined and called an ambulance. Witnesses checked the victim’s pulse, and said she was breathing while still on the ground. The victim moaned and complained of shoulder pain before she was aided by paramedics. “She was unconscious for about 15 seconds, and then she started trying to get up,” said Kristina Lazzara, a witness to the collision and a freshman in the
College of Communication. Witnesses said the driver of the car did not appear to be driving recklessly at the time of the accident. The crosswalk where the student was hit does not have any traffic lights, and the setting sun reportedly cast a glare on the street. “It’s hard to see in the light so (the driver) probably didn’t see her,” Lazzara said. First responders at the scene declined to comment.
Shootings half a mile from Honors program revokes Les Aspin; no MU injuries sponsorship of FemSex 13 killed after attack in Washington, DC; motive still unknown By Rob Gebelhoff
robert.gebelhoff@marquette.edu
At least 13 people died after a gunman opened fire around 8 a.m. Monday at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., police said. The suspected shooter identified by the FBI as Aaron Alexis, a military contractor who lived in Fort Worth, is among the 13 reported dead.
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Memorial Union and the Olin Engineering Center. She was taken away by paramedics and was reportedly responsive after the accident. Witnesses said the student was walking alone when she was struck at the hip by a westbound red Dodge Charger. The student proceeded to fall onto the windshield and then onto the ground, scraping her forehead and knuckles. After the incident, the driver of
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D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier initially announced authorities were searching for two other suspects dressed in military style-clothing, one of whom was located and cleared shortly after. The other suspect is described by Lanier as a black man in his 40s with gray sideburns, The Washington Post reported. The shootings took place about a half a mile south of Marquette’s Les Aspin Center for Government in D.C. Annie Shuey, a junior in the College of Communication and student at Les Aspin, said she heard about See Shooting, Page 6
Changes to sexuality workshop inadequate for university OK By Joe Kaiser & Tony Manno joseph.kaiser@marquette.edu anthony.manno@marquette.edu
The University Honors Program will no longer sponsor FemSex, a weekly student workshop centered on the discussion of female sexuality and reproduction, despite its recent return to campus. The decision came roughly eight months after the university originally pulled its
support for the program when it was initially sponsored by the Gender and Sexuality Resource Center last semester. The Tribune reported Sept. 10 that the program was returning this semester despite scrutiny from some donors, alumni and faculty. The FemSex syllabus underwent some minor changes for its return, but the changes were not substantial enough for the university to back the workshop, Marquette said in a statement Monday. “As a Catholic, Jesuit university, Marquette supports the educational and intellectual See FemSex, Page 6
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