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Students challenge policy, investments Protestors aim to deliver message to Zilber, voice concerns

By Jenny Whidden

jennifer.whidden@marquette.edu

At 11 a.m. Monday morning, Marquette students chanted as they walked along Wisconsin Avenue with signs that read “Marquette divest,” “Hear your students” and “Marquette cannot silence dissent.”

For the second time in the past week, the group was heading for Zilber Hall.

While climate strikes large and small took place across the world Friday, the Marquette students held an initial protest outside Zilber Hall. They advocated for climate change awareness and spoke out against Marquette’s demonstration policy and certain university investments.

The students joined the global movement of climate change demonstrations in more than 150 countries, whose messages were in anticipation of a United Nations climate summit that began Monday. The group of students also attended the Milwaukee Climate Strike earlier Friday, congregating at Milwaukee City Hall and marching the three miles to North Point Park before making its way back to campus around 2 p.m.

Once the students reached Zilber Hall, the university’s demonstration policy became a point of protest. The administration are currently revising the policy after unclear wording confused members of the university community.

The policy provides guidelines for student, staff and faculty demonstrations on campus.

One of the policy guidelines

requires organizers to receive university approval for demonstrations in most campus buildings, including Zilber Hall.

Neither Friday’s nor Monday’s student protests adhered to the official process.

The group, determined to deliver a letter of demands to university leaders, entered Zilber Hall without prior approval Friday.

After a desk receptionist told the students no administrators were in the building, the group resolved to return Monday.

When the students entered the hall Monday morning, Catie Petralia, one of the protest organizers and a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences, approached the information desk.

She asked to speak with University President Michael Lovell or acting provost Kimo Ah Yun. Once again, the receptionist informed the group that both leaders were out of the building. The students waited for 45 minutes in the Zilber Hall lobby before Dean of Students Stephanie Quade came downstairs to meet with them.

“We feel like there’s a severe disconnect between the people in this building and the rest of the campus,” Andrew Himmelberg, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences, said to Quade. Himmelberg spoke on behalf of the group.

Quade pointed out that the group was in violation of the university’s demonstration policy, and asked the students to move to a “designated area,” specifically the Alumni Memorial Union or a public space.

“We’ve identified spaces on campus for public protest. This space is not one of them,” Quade said to Himmelberg.

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Dozens participate, express urgency of climate situation

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campus, shouting.

“Hey hey, ho ho! Fossil fuels have got to go!” Laura Schmit, co-president of Students for an Environmentally Active Campus and a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences,

joined the chants of dozens of other marchers as she walked with fellow club members in the Milwaukee Climate Strike.

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College discusses future Friday forum allows conversation about potential merge

By Alexa Jurado

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Students in the College of Education met Friday to discuss the future of the college and to take things into their own hands.

Juniors in the College of Education Brooke McArdle and Jonathan Jimenez organized the forum, which they hosted in

Schroeder Complex.

Seniors in the College of Education Alyssa Goodwillie and Elizabeth Killian said they received a “cryptic” email the first week of school announcing that “changes are being made (to the college).”

They said they also received an email from the dean of the College of Education William Henk, saying the college would do its best to keep students informed.

The emails refer to structural shifts and a possible merge with another college.

“When we heard about this I was

really angry,” Jimenez said. “I’m going to do something, I’m not just going to take a slap in the face like this lying down. Brooke was just as angry, if not more angry.”

During the forum, students and faculty discussed some of the inconsistencies among the reasons university administration gave for the restructuring of the college, such as cost management and demographic changes.

Jimenez said he doesn’t agree

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COLLEGE: Possible change threatens identity Continued from page 1 with the possible changes and believes it doesn’t make sense for the university “in any capacity.”

“All the justifications brought by the administration equally don’t make sense,” Jimenez said. “If it did make sense for us to be downgraded to a school, to a department, I think that’s one thing, but there is no benefit here to not be a College of Education, affecting students, staff and faculty negatively. I think it actually affects the reputation of Marquette if they were to go through with this.”

Students said that while the university claimed nothing would change if the College of Education became a school rather than a college, many students expressed their disagreement.

“I don’t necessarily believe that if we become a school our programs will stay the same,” Killian said.

The group discussed the $1 million deficit the university informed the College of Education faculty of in a Sept. 13 meeting. The students talked about not only discrepancies in the numbers but also how

cutting the college would not end up paying for the deficit.

Some students suggested allocating for the college instead, as the college is not endowed the way the Colleges of Communication or Business Administration are.

Some of the students voiced their concerns regarding their ability to double major or to complete their degrees in four years. McArdle said she is able to triple major and minor in four years because the College of Education is its own college.

Many students also said eliminating the college would go against Jesuit values.

“The Jesuits and St. Ignatius were founded off of a cornerstone of education. Education is one of the major standpoints that a Jesuit takes,” Killian said. “We can’t just take it away if it’s part of our foundation.”

Others mentioned the possible effects on Marquette’s relationship with the Milwaukee community. The College of Education has connections with Milwaukee Public Schools and the Hartman Literacy and Learning Center which

provides tutoring Milwaukee children.

After the forum, the Dean of the College of Education William Henk told the Marquette Wire the Hartman Center is endowed, and will not be affected.

Most of all, those in attendance talked about the loss of identity they would feel if the college was absorbed by the College of Arts & Sciences or Communication.

“I would definitely lose part of my identity on campus. I am so proud to be in the College of Education,” Killian said. “Everyone who knows me knows I love being in the College of Education. I love the fact that I’m an elementary education major.”

Killian said it would be strange to say she is a part of the College of Arts & Sciences or Communication, because it is not what she is passionate about.

“I’m passionate about teaching, I’m passionate about children, I’m passionate about working with students and building them up,” she said.

Goodwillie said the College of Education formed her into the

person she is today.

“I wouldn’t have been as confident in myself, in my ability to teach and my ability to go out and feel comfortable with students,” Goodwillie said. “I’m comfortable with students. I’m comfortable in my knowledge that I have from the College of Education and I’m confident in my ability to even ‘wing’ something if I need to, which I wouldn’t get if (the College of Education) wasn’t a college.”

Goodwillie said the relationships formed among education majors is special, something she said other people don’t have. She said being able to take so many classes with other education majors has allowed her to meet some of her best friends.

“I know this might not affect us right now but our experience at Marquette and the College of Education would look tremendously different,” she said.

Jimenez said he doesn’t think he would have as many friends or professional connections without the College of Education.

“There really is an identity of being a student of the College of

Education, and I take solace in the fact that other students go through as many highs as I do but also as many lows,” Jimenez said. “We are such a unique program, in how it really sets us up to be future leaders and teachers of America and across the world, and so if this wasn’t like this in the first place, I don’t think I would’ve looked here, truth be told.”

Students also talked about how the loss of the college might affect their job opportunities in the future.

“It’s just so sad to know that I worked so hard for this degree,” Killian said. “If I go to apply for a job and they look back and say ‘This place doesn’t exist,’ the credibility must go down. And even if it doesn’t, there is an implicit bias that you might have … that ‘Oh, you went here and now it doesn’t exist, that means it can’t be good.’ But my education was so good here.”

“It may not directly affect the way employers see my degree,” Jimenez said, “(but) this would devalue (my degree) because I couldn’t take pride in Marquette, knowing they did this to all of us.”

From there, Quade said she would respond in a reasonable amount of time with an approval or a rejection.

“At this point, I’m going to direct you to leave and to reassemble,” Quade said after explaining the policy. “What I need you to understand is — again, per the policy — is that if you choose not to do that, the possible next steps would be the possibility of the matter being referred for student conduct … or MUPD, so possible citations.”

The group conceded, leaving Zilber Hall at around 1 p.m. Monday.

Before they left, Quade said the group that she delivered the students’ letter of demands to the offices of Lovell and Ah Yun. The letter asks Marquette to halt its investments in oil extraction and a hedge fund that owns sales tax bonds of Puerto Rico’s debt.

The hedge fund, called the Baupost Group, owns $1 billion in the sales tax bonds. Tax documents show the university gained more than $1.2 million in total revenue from its Baupost investments from July 1, 2014, to June 30, 2017.

“We are here today because we believe that Marquette University has failed to uphold its proclaimed Jesuit values, and the values of higher education,” the letter to Marquette administrators reads.

“Nonviolent demonstration is an important feature of fighting for a more just world, and the new demonstration policy is in direct

contradiction to that principle.”

The letter asks the university to pledge to complete a list of specific actions.

“We ask that the university pledge … to fully divest from dirty investments that contradict the Jesuit mission of Marquette University such as the Baupost group, oil extraction, and coal mining,” the letter says.

Petralia cited the university’s public tax forms as evidence of its investments, saying the university should invest in renewable energy as an alternative.

“Part of the Jesuit mission is fighting for a more just world and just planet,” Petralia said. “Having money in companies that are doing oil and fossil fuel extraction — that’s not good for the environment. That’s not good for the workers who are doing that work.”

Group member Liz Regier, a graduate research assistant who attended both protests, said she is fighting climate change for those who are most affected by it.

“Frankly, (climate change) affects poor people more than rich people,” Regier said. “I think the university’s lack of action on climate change really goes against their Jesuit values.”

Maria Bunczak, a senior in the College of Nursing, was at Friday’s protest. She said the university has failed to respond to previous calls for divestment.

“Last year, we were protesting with the Puerto Rican debt relief

fund because of Marquette being invested in Baupost,” Bunczak said. “We had a protest, petitions were signed, there were meetings and nothing has come of it. Marquette is still invested in Baupost.”

Bunczak pointed out that the University of California schools recently divested from fossil fuels. “(Divesting) is possible, and we want Marquette to follow their Jesuit values,” Bunczak said. “Follow those Jesuit values over capitalist greed, and listen to the students that are attending the university.”

Petralia said the group protested the university’s demonstration policy because it does not foster free speech on campus or promote genuine debate.

“It really seems to me that they’re trying to silence the other side, but they need to hear every side,” Petralia said. “They need to hear the people — what the people want and need.”

Regier echoed Petralia in that she does not approve of the university’s updated demonstration policy, and she added that she does not agree with the university’s process for revising the policy. Ah Yun previously told the Marquette Wire that representatives from the Office of the Provost, the Office of Finance, the Office of General Counsel and the Department of Human Resources reviewed and approved the policy. He said the process ensured “collaboration” and “consistency in university

policy development.”

“They didn’t really consult anyone about it outside of their own little circles, and we think that that’s pretty much an attempt for them to not have to listen to us,” Regier said.

Regier said she does not think a demonstration policy is necessary at all, and said the regular code of conduct is sufficient.

The handful of student protestors is not unified under an organization name, but they are considering it moving forward.

“I think we should all agree that this is the start of a bigger movement,” Petralia said.

The group said it will work together to determine their next steps in the coming days.

“We need to get more people involved and more people aware,” Miriam Schwabe, a freshman in the College of Arts & Sciences who attended the protests, said.

Before the students parted ways at the steps of Zilber Hall Monday afternoon, Mary Claire Burkhardt, one of the protest organizers and a senior in the College of Education, said to the group that change does not happen overnight.

“This is going to be a long process,” Burkhardt said.

“We’re not done.”

Editor’s note: Andrew Himmelberg previously worked for the Marquette Wire. Himmelberg did not play any role in the reporting of this story.

POLICY: Delivered letter demands divestment Continued from page 1 After Himmelberg declined to leave the space, saying he did not consent to the policy, Quade said that by choosing to come to Marquette, students agree to abide by all university policies.

Quade cited language from the “Community Expectations” section of the university’s student conduct code in an email to the Marquette Wire.

“When students choose to accept admission to Marquette University, they accept the rights and responsibilities of membership in the university’s academic and social community,” the code reads.

“As members of the university community, students are expected to uphold its values by maintaining a high standard of conduct.”

After her initial discussion with students, Quade returned to her office upstairs in Zilber Hall to “have some consultations,” and upon returning, she clarified the demonstration policy to the group.

“The policy is that there are approved spaces for demonstrations.

Those include the public spaces in the union, the green spaces in front of the union and any place that’s not owned by the university,” Quade said. “If you want to be here in this building, you have to actually ask me for permission.”

Under the policy, Quade said the group would have to email her the time, place and manner of their proposed demonstration.

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Continued from page 1 The crowd, filling multiple blocks, congregated at Milwaukee City Hall before it began its three-mile walk to North Point Park.

The marchers in Milwaukee were not alone. Millions of protesters in towns and cities across the world gathered Friday for the Global Climate Strike, a movement started by young people angry with their politicians’ inaction on the current climate crisis.

“This is an issue that affects us all,” Schmit said as she waved a poster that read “Fight for our future!” She and other SEAC members made posters during their weekly meeting a few days prior to prepare for the protest.

Karaline Black, a co-president of SEAC and a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences, said the issue of climate change is a threat to future generations.

“I want the people that come after us to not have to deal with the repercussions of what we let happen,” she said.

One of the youngest groups present was a third grade class from Greenfield Bilingual School. As the students sat on the fountain at North Point Park, they held up their manilla folders and chanted the message written on them: “Save our future.”

Marion Lewandowski, a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences, said it was powerful to see the third graders making themselves present and known. She said she came out to the climate strike to support younger generations like that class.

“I wanted to stand in solidarity with my fellow youth in hopes to send a greater message to our politicians and older adults about climate change being a real issue that people my age and younger care about,” Lewandowski said.

Joseph Miscimarra, a member of SEAC and a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences, said he came to the protest because he is passionate about environmental justice.

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Hundreds of individuals took part in and voiced concerns during Milwaukee’s local Climate Strike Friday.

“Environmental justice really overlaps with tons of social justice issues that we’ve seen around the world,” he said.

Miscimarra said he witnessed some of those injustices on a recent trip to Panama City, Florida, in May of this year, eight months after Hurricane Michael hit the area. He said the category five storm greatly damaged communities and nature in the Florida Panhandle.

Miscimarra echoed what many at

the strike agreed on: the climate crisis is being perpetuated by the fossil fuel industry. He said investing in the fossil fuel industry is not sustainable and is a major issue at bigger institutions like Marquette.

“Marquette hasn’t announced that they’ve divested from fossil fuels, which likely indicates that they are invested in fossil fuels,” he said.

“They are indirectly contributing to the fossil fuels industry, which means that they are contributing to

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MUPD REPORTS SEPTEMBER 21 MUPD responded to Mashuda Hall for a reported odor of marijuana. An MU student admitted to possession of marijuana. MUPD confiscated the marijuana and cited the student.

SEPTEMBER 20 MU staff received phone calls from a known subject who had been advised not to contact the university. MUPD attempted to contact the individual.

MUPD cited a non-MU subject for trespassing at Cobeen Hall.

SEPTEMBER 18 An unknown subject battered an MU student in front of Marquette Hall. The student was not injured. The subject left the area and MUPD was unable to locate them.

the climate crisis.”

Miscimarra joined a group of students after the strike to take the demonstration to campus. He and other students stood outside Zilber Hall, holding signs and chanting to raise awareness for climate change.

The group demanded that the university divest from industries like fossil fuels and also repeal its demonstration policy, which has been a recent subject of debate on campus.

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Hartman Center supports Third cluster hire Milwaukee elementary kids announced for fall Space offers afterschool tutoring for children in city

By Kate Hyland

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Senior Ashley Dorlack, in the College of Education, spent hours on Pinterest looking for inspiration to decorate her first real classroom. She decided on a mountain theme.

Dorlack, along with other Marquette seniors in the Teaching Elementary Level Reading Practicum class are trained to tutor elementary school students who come to the Hartman Literacy and Learning Center for an hour after school, two

professor of literacy and interim director, said that the center works with partnership schools to identify students who are struggling with reading skills like word recognition, comprehension and fluency. Then, they assess those students and eventually bring them into program with no cost to families. Additionally, they get buses to transport the students to and from campus.

“The intent is that we select as many of the students who fit within that category of struggling in those aspects of reading,” Walker-Dalhouse said.

Some of the schools the center has worked with are Milwaukee College Prep, Messmer Saint Rose, Saint Mary’s, Notre Dame School of Milwaukee, Saint Anthony’s and Stellar

recognition and a small amount of writing and vocabulary skills. They also use children’s literature to tutor including fiction, nonfiction, biographies and autobiographies.

“They have a lot of classics … that are still around, but I’m excited to also find some new ones,” Dorlack said.

The center has become more parent oriented over the years, WalkerDalhouse said. One of the center’s requirements is to have students take home books to read with parents, family members or other caregivers.

This allows them to practice their reading skills and further develop their enjoyment of reading, WalkerDalhouse said.

“There’s always that greater emphasis on communicating with

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The Hartman Literacy and Learning Center allows education students to tutor Milwaukee school children.

days a week.

According to Marquette’s website, the center, housed by the College of Education is “a teaching, research and service site … designed to improve the quality of literacy instruction provided by teachers and the literacy acquisition of urban children.”

The dean of College of Education, William Henk, said the Hartman Center will not be affected by any potential reorganization or merge.

“The Hartman Literacy and Learning Center is endowed, so a reorganization should not impact its operation,” Henk said. “The Center Director is drawn from the faculty, and there is one staff member, both on permanent funding.”

Doris Walker-Dalhouse, a

Collegiate, Walker-Dalhouse, said.

“I think back to my own experience and you remember those classrooms where you’re like ‘Sick, this is awesome!’” Dorlack said. “It just makes you feel better, especially because these are students who aren’t necessarily confident in reading … that can be a really daunting task to go somewhere new with people they don’t know and a teacher they don’t know.”

The tutors do not have to follow a structured curriculum, the interim director added.

The students are placed in different groups based on their skill level, Dorlack said. From there tutors can teach them reading skills such as finding key words, word

parents and that is a continued goal,” Walker-Dalhouse said.

The center also has a summer program to prevent children from going a long period of time without reading, Walker-Dalhouse said.

The “Wade’s World Foundation,” founded by Marquette alumnus Dwayne Wade funds this summer program along with other community based education programs, according to the website.

“Having the opportunity to see the positives that cultural linguistics the students bring and the background knowledge … can be channeled to help them to be successful,” WalkerDalhouse said.

Race, Ethnic and Indigenous Studies adds eight faculty

By Annie Mattea

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Marquette University announced its third cluster hire to bolster the Race, Ethnic and Indigenous Studies Program July 22 in a university news release.

The university hired eight faculty for the 2019-’20 academic year, acting provost Kimo Ah Yun said.

The hire is a collaboration between the Office of the Provost, the College of Arts & Sciences, the College of Communication, the College of Business Administration, the College of Engineering and the College of Nursing.

Hires were made to multiple departments across campus, including economics and psychology. Additional positions were also added to engineering and nursing.

Cluster hiring involves recruiting multiple people into one or more departments with similar research interests, according to the news release. The hiring will help establish REIS and advance faculty diversity, a priority in the university’s strategic plan.

“Knowing that national demographic changes have and will continue to shift, it is imperative that Marquette shape their faculty to align more closely with the diverse student body that will be attending Marquette in future years,” Ah Yun said in an email.

Grant Silva, coordinator of REIS and associate professor of philosophy, said in light of the recent budget tightening, hiring with a focus on diversity is particularly important.

He said with the demographics changes expected in the near future — meaning fewer college bound students entering universities in 2026 — the program could attract students who may otherwise be uninterested in Marquette.

Silva said Marquette should be putting more effort towards finding

students that differ from the predominantly white institution.

“Marquette should be doing more to not just reach out to a variety of perspectives that may differ (from) historical groupings that have populated this institution, but also really promote inclusion,” Silva said.

Ah Yun said the university also did a cluster hire for the 2018-’19 academic year, hiring six faculty in various departments. Eight additional faculty are being recruited to begin during the 2020-’21 academic year.

Although REIS began hiring last year, Silva said they had begun working on it during the 2017-’18 year.

“Cluster hiring put the program into action very quickly,” Louise Cainkar, an associate professor of social and cultural sciences, said.

Cainkar said the program now offers more courses than it would have been able to without the hiring.

Silva said Marquette is an institution that lacks diversity, affecting student growth.

“Marquette remains a rather monochromatic institution in the sense that it is predominantly a white institution, and oftentimes we will prepare our students for engaging in a diverse world,” Silva said.

He said programs like REIS can help bridge that gap.

According to the REIS’s website, it offers one major and five minors.

The program offers a major and a minor in Africana Studies, while the other minors are Latinx Studies, Arab and Muslim Studies, Literature of Diverse Cultures, and Culture, Health and Illness.

The College of Arts & Sciences houses the program and currently offers 28 courses within different fields.

“It’s meant to provide the infrastructure and act as an academic counterpart to different areas on campus where students may get cultural support or a variety of means of support addressing questions connected to race, ethnicity (and) indigeneity in non-academic settings,” Silva said.

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Grant Silva is the coordinator for the REIS program at Marquette.

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Wildfire app warns campus of potential dangers Social network allows users to send safety messages

By Andrew Amouzou

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Although Marquette University Police Department is dedicated to maintaining a safe environment on campus, a new app has been created with a similar purpose.

Wildfire is an app that allows people on and near campus to send messages to group, which are categorized by college or university. These messages can range from someone spotting a celebrity to class cancellations and to places people should avoid for the time being because of apparent unsafe situations, according to the website.

“The app was created after one of the founders was nearly mugged outside a library on University of California-Berkeley’s campus in 2015,” according to Wildfire’s website.

Along with CEO and founder of Wildfire Hriday Kemburu, a group of UC graduates keep the app running.

According to its website, people

have “no effective way to spread or hear real-time information with their local community. Existing social networks are limited to their network of friends and family.”

Wildfire allows people to communicate with people efficiently, according to the website.

Angel Mora, freshman in the College of Arts & Sciences, said she feels Wildfire is better than using other social media apps for updates, although she does not use the app.

“I would rather use Wildfire,” Mora said. “On Snapchat, a lot of people can make stuff up and do stuff to try to get a reaction from the student body.”

Roma Shah, a freshman in the College of Health Sciences, uses the app.

“Twitter, Facebook and other social media have a lot of humor content,” Shah said. “For Wildfire, the main purpose is to know what’s happening around campus.”

The company stated on its website that it is “currently focused on launching Wildfire at colleges but plan on expanding to cities soon.”

Liam Parpan, a freshman in the College of Nursing, said he found out about Wildfire early in the school year.

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The Wildfire app allows students to message about safety concerns.

“I heard about Wildfire through friends during my first week here at Marquette,” Parpan said in an email. “I was told that we would get instant updates on anything pertaining to campus safety or news. I thought this would be a fun way to get information because they are posted by students rather than an official administrator.”

Jeff Kranz, assistant chief of

MUPD, said Marquette and Wildfire are not affiliated.

“It is wholly owned and operated by an independent company, with which the university has no relationship,” Kranz said in an email.

“MUPD and 911 are always good sources, but (Wildfire) is just an easier way to contact the entire student body,” Mora said.

Although the app is made to keep

students safe and aware of their surroundings, the company urges users to not use the app as a replacement for calling 911.

“If you are in or witness an emergency situation, we ask you to call 911 first before posting to Wildfire,” according to the website.

Parpan said the app is resourceful but also has its flaws.

“I think that there are definitely some benefits from using the app,” Parpan said in an email. “Many students post actual safety alerts like when there are arrests or robberies, but students often post comical things or jokes just to get a laugh which is not as beneficial, even though it is funny.”

With or without Wildfire, Parpan said he believes students are safe on campus and that being aware of your surroundings is always important.

“I think that the campus is very safe, but the surrounding area is not,” Parpan said. “When walking around campus, just stick to the main routes, and you should be fine.”

Students can download the app for iPhone and Android through the App Store or Google Play store.

Institute offers research, grant opportunities New organization empowers women, people of color

By Beck Salgado

beck.salgado@marquette.edu

The Institute for Women’s Leadership will host its kickoff event at the 707 Hub Oct. 3. The new organization comes after receiving a $5 million donation from the Thomas J. Rolfs Family Foundation in January 2019.

According to the institute’s website, the organization’s mission is to advance women’s leadership locally and globally through pioneering research, innovative programming and collaborative engagement.

“The Institute for Women’s Leadership is basically expanding the work that I started with (Women’s Innovation Network) by developing research opportunities and grant opportunities, ” Sasha Parsons Waters, a member of the institute and founder of the Women’s Innovation Network at Marquette, said.

Parsons Waters said WIN was not fully formed when she began at Marquette.

“When I was hired, WIN didn’t really exist. It was just an idea they had, and I developed the idea into actual programming,” Parsons Waters said.

Parsons Waters, when

speaking about the creation of WIN, said when University President Michael Lovell came to campus he wanted to focus on innovation, so he started a lot of new initiatives such as the Office of Research and Innovation and the 707 Hub. Shortly after, Claire Rolfs funded WIN. Parsons Waters created WIN based on information gathered from focus groups held before she was hired to ask students, faculty, staff and the community what they thought WIN should be.

Parsons Waters said she materializes change through her work with WIN, which empowers people through three types of programming: inspirational, professional and social.

She said social programming is important because often a student can be the only woman or only person of color in a class, which can be isolating.

Jean Grow, the co-director for the institute said her vision for the group is of intersectional inclusivity and gender equity.

“As advocates for justice, we will engage, inspire and transform students, faculty and community leaders,” Grow said.

She said she emphasized inclusivity in conjunction with women’s empowerment.

On the basis of the $5 million endowment, Grow said WIN was initially funded by the Rolfs family, Claire Rolfs in particular. Once

the funders saw the work that Parsons Waters was doing with WIN, they were compelled to make the commitment to the Institute for Women’s Leadership.

Grow also said the institute plans to hold more student events in the future, which she encourages students of all genders to attend.

Andrea Schneider, co-director for the institute, said the organization will promote change through three concentric circles.

“One is campus and what we can do on campus for students, staff, and faculty to make sure that everyone feels equipped to lead,” Schneider said. “Then there is Milwaukee and what we can do to ‘Be The Difference’ in Milwaukee, how can we partner with corporations, nonprofits and the government in promoting women’s leadership and supporting nonprofits that focus on women.”

Schneider said the third circle is to be a model of how to put research into action at the national level.

Schneider said the institute will use the Rolfs’ donation to support research and programming.

“As we implement the mission and the vision … we expect that there will likely be additional fundraising as we expand our programming out into the community,” she said.

Jennica Webster, another institute co-director, said her goals are to create the space and support

structures to foster an interdisciplinary research culture focusing on gender-related issues.

“By interdisciplinary, I mean we have some great people doing great research across our campus in the natural and social sciences, arts, humanities, health, engineering, communication, business and education,” Webster said.

According to the institute’s website, there will be food and refreshments at the Oct. 3 event, and Grow, Parsons Waters and Schneider all said they encourage any student to come to the 707 Hub and participate in the kickoff event.

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Forbes honors MU senior Zoya Shams awarded for work at summer leadership camp

By Jack Aler

jack.aler@marquette.edu

Zoya Shams, a senior in the College of Health Sciences, is a 2019 Forbes 30 under 30 Scholar.

Forbes 30 Under 30 Summit, which is Oct. 27-30 in Detroit, is described as the world’s greatest summit for young leaders by the Forbes’ website.

The summit is where leaders, creators and founders spend four days learning, building, teaching and connecting. There will be panels and demos from A-list leaders in tech, business and entertainment.

Shams is being acknowledged for her mentorship in a leadership program she was involved with at University of California-Los Angeles, Cullinan said.

Shams found out about the summit through a yearly summer camp she attends. One of her mentor’s companies is also on the 30 under 30 list.

Shams said one of her mentors is Bill Dorfman, who is the director and founder of the leadership camp at UCLA. One of her mentor’s companies is also on the

Forbes 30 under 30 list.

“I think Shams’ engaging nature as a student as well as her level of service nationally and internationally contributed to her selection for this prestigious honor,” William Cullinan, professor and dean of the College of Health Sciences, said.

Shams coaches a leadership camp every summer held at UCLA. “It’s where we develop and motivate individuals aged 15-25,” Shams said. “A big part of that is speaking, so I’ll speak to like 400 students about time management, job interview skills and a lot of other things.”

Cullinan said he believes it is an honor for Shams to receive this award.

“I think it is a tremendous honor for Zoya, as well as a point of distinction for the entire university, that a Marquette student has received a Forbes 30 under 30 award,” Cullinan said.

Shams said there will be a lot of CEOs from different companies there.

“People like Richard Branson have come before, Ashton Kutcher has been there, cool people that are successful in their companies,” Shams said. “This year Kevin Durant, the tech lead of Google and the CEO of Target (will be in attendance), so this should be a

great opportunity to network with people,” Shams said.

Shams was selected as one of approximately 700 students from all over the world to attend.

Shams clarified that she is not on the actual 30 Under 30 list. That list is composed of companies and people that are high achieving in their fields. She was simply selected to attend the summit to represent Marquette among the other students representing.

The actual Forbes 30 Under 30 list is composed of 30 honorees among 20 categories chosen to lead the event. Some of the highest achieving of these this year include Serena Williams and 21 Savage, according to the Forbes website.

Shams said she is most looking forward to investor pitching as she has an innovation she would like to pitch. She said she is not comfortable sharing the innovation yet because she has not made progress on it yet.

Shams said she also believes the summit will help her learn how to run a business.

“I am pre-dental and a big regret I have is not minoring in business administration. So I want to learn how to run my own business, and this summit should help me with that, too,” Shams said.

Photo courtesy of Zoya Shams

Senior Zoya Shams will be attending the Forbes 30 Under 30 Summit, which is Oct. 27-30 in Detroit.

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MIC promotes Initiatives break ‘bubble’ student growth, Near West Side promotes instills confidence Partners inclusion, community

Johnston Hall public speaking tool encourages practice

Huening said. “And we’ll start broad, with a topic like Chicago for example. Then we’ll make categories within that like food or activities to help them organize their thoughts.”

By Margaret Cahill Huening said in addition to margaret.cahill@marquette.edu content, a big part of what she Marquette University’s writ- does is help students with their ing center offers students valu- actual speaking skills. able help with their essays and “Some students have a tendenpapers for class, according to cy to move around a lot or get its website. But for students nervous, so we remind them of struggling with public speaking ways to stay confident and still projects, the university has a re- when they speak,” Huening said. source for them, too.

Jason Hanselman, a senior in The MIC, which came to cam- the College of Communication, pus last year, is a public speak- said he also specializes in helping help center for students. ing students with their delivery Located on the fifth floor of while speaking.

Johnston Hall, the center is “You want to make sure that available to all Marquette stu- it’s fluent and that you’re not dents by appointusing note ment, and is open cards to an Monday through Friinordinate day. degree,” At the MIC, stuHanseldents can practice man said. every step of public Hanselspeaking, from outman said lining to speaking he finds strategies, Audrey many stuMeyersiek, a sedents need nior in the College to adjust of Communication to writing and instructor at the a speech Jason Hanselman i n s t e a d MIC, said.

Senior of a pa“It really helps stuCollege of Communication dents grow in their per, and skills and become the MIC more confident,” Meyersiek can help students transition to said. “It’s very rewarding to see speech writing. students progress so much in Hanselman said writing a their abilities and confidence.” speech and writing a paper have The MIC opened last spring, substantive differences. During and it currently employs six a speech, there is a larger degree student instructors and is look- of repetition, but that is less aping to hire more. propriate for an essay. He said Tracey Sturgal, the fac- that is why the MIC is important ulty director, helped many to have on campus. of the students get the But the students at the MIC organization started. aren’t just helping other students Olivia Huening, a junior in with their speaking. They themthe College of Communication, selves also benefit from this resaid Sturgal helped her get in- source, Meyersiek said. volved as a student instructor.

“I feel like even my own conHuening said she and oth- fidence in public speaking has er student instructors help improved since working at the students develop ideas for MIC,” Meyersiek said. “It’s their speeches. helpful in a lot of ways.”

“When we write an outline for a speech, I usually tell them to write about things they know,”

“

You want to make sure that it’s fluent, and that you’re not using note cards to an inordinate degree”

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By Beck Salgado

beck.salgado@marquette.edu

Four years ago, five anchor institutions — Aurora Health Care, Harley-Davidson, Marquette University, MillerCoors and Potawatomi Business Development Corporation — came together to establish the nonprofit organization Near West Side Partners.

NWSP is putting on multiple events this month around Marquette’s campus, according to the Center for Peacemaking’s website.

One of the more notable events that Marquette and the Near West Side Partners, along with local businesses, are hosting this month is Rev-Up MKE. Kelsey Otero, Marquette’s associate director for social innovation, said Rev-up MKE is a “Shark Tank”–style event that will be held Sept. 24 and will be open to anyone in the community. Contestants will receive training, support and mentoring as needed before pitching their business ideas to a panel of investors, who will judge the businesses and eventually choose one winner. Among previous winners is Pete’s Pops, a popsicle startup at 3809 W. Vliet Street.

Otero said the past winners of this event have combined to create 27 jobs in total for the Near West Side community.

She said she believes in the power of entrepreneurship.

“Entrepreneurship is an excellent tool to empower a community and fight against factors that may cause displacement,” Otero said.

Elizabeth Killian, a student body representative for Near West Side Partners and cofounder of student organization CAMPus Impact, said Marquette is in a “bubble,” isolated from other parts of Milwaukee.

“Ever since freshman year, I’ve always heard, ‘Don’t go past 21st or 22nd Street — it’s unsafe, and you should stay on campus,’” Killian said.

She said she believes this idea prevents a lot of Marquette students from embracing the communities around them.

Killian said that statistics pertaining to the socioeconomic outlook of Milwaukee certainly point to a problem that is complex and that she believes Marquette wants to help, but there is always more to do.

“The goal of Near West Side Partners is to unite and help the community while also trying to

Photo courtesy of Jennifer Janviere

Finalists from the 2018 Rev-Up MKE contest competed for a startup grant.

pop the Marquette bubble and encourage students to get out and explore the Near West Side,” Killian said.

Patrick Kennelly is the director of Marquette’s Center for Peacemaking and serving principal investigator for the Near West Side Partners’ Promoting Assets, Reducing Crime initiative.

“I am really impressed with how Marquette, the other anchor institutions and the residents are working together. I don’t know of any other community where this type of collaboration is taking place, and it’s great that Marquette serves as a co-leader in this effort,” Kennelly said.

He said he thinks it is

important to try and cultivate an environment that is a great place for everyone to live, not just students and not just residents.

“We listen to neighbors and help build the type of community people describe,” Kennelly said.

He also said for this community to be realized, student involvement is a must.

Students can get involved with NWSP this month through several events. There is the Rev-Up MKE Live Pitch Event today, the Near West Side Farmers Market Sept. 26 and Doors Open MKE Sept. 28-29.

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‘WEST SIDE STORY’ highlights raw life truths Musical portrays prejudice, forbidden love, gang violence

By Kelli Arseneau

kelli.arseneau@marquette.edu

A take on Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” that tells a tale of racial tensions between rival gangs — the Jets and the Sharks — in 1950s New York and the tragic whirlwind romance between star-crossed lovers from each side, “West Side Story” will run at the Quadracci Powerhouse stage at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater until Oct. 27.

When “West Side Story” first debuted in 1957, it was revolutionary.

Prior to the musical’s release, musical theater was essentially considered “comedic escapism,” cast member Gilberto Saenz, who plays Indigo, a member of the Sharks, said during the pre-show discussion. “West Side Story” was radical, groundbreaking and politically-charged, Saenz explained. It gave actors and actresses of color a role on the Broadway stage unlike anything that had ever been done before.

Now decades later, “West Side Story” has come to be a theatrical classic, beloved by many generations, and is currently having a bit of a resurgence. Steven Spielberg’s film remake starring Ansel Elgort (Baby Driver, The Fault in Our Stars) and newcomer Rachel Zegler — alongside various Broadway stars — is set to come out in December 2020, while a modernized Broadway revival is set to open in early 2020. A handful of Broadway performers have booked gigs in both productions.

Among the cast of the Rep’s production is Nick Parrott, a 2019 Marquette graduate from the College of Communication. Parrott plays Snowboy, a member of the Jets.

He said themes of “West Side Story” relate to modern society, particularly impulsive decisions rooted in fear, causing the show to still strongly resonate with audiences more than 60 years since its conception.

For patrons that arrive at the Rep early, a pre-show discussion is led by a cast member each night. The opening night discussion was led by Saenz, who provided information on the history of “West Side Story” and on the Rep’s production specifically.

The “West Side Story” production team includes artistic director Mark Clements, associate artist Dan Kazemi, scenic designer Todd Edward Ivins, costume designer Alexander B. Tecoma, lighting

designer Yael Lubetzky, sound designers Danny Erdberg and Megan B. Henninger and music supervisor Jon Tanner.

With a book by Arthur Laurents, music

by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and original choreography by Jerome Robbins, “West Side Story” has for a long time been viewed as “untouchable” and “the perfect musical,” Saenz said.

But Saenz said the Rep sought to see how it could reimagine this classic story. One of the ways it accomplishes this is through dance.

The Rep hired Jon Rua to choreograph this production. Rua is a Broadway actor known for various roles, including Photo by Michael Brosilow The musical’s company includes, listed from left to right, Alex Hatcher, Clay Roberts, Jacob Burns, Devin Charles Lee in the original Richey, Alex Hayden Miller and Marquette College of Communication alumnus Nick Parrott. cast of “Hamilton.” He is also founder of the Grit collective in specific movements. lighting design emphasize the leader of the Jets; Hope Endrenyi New York City.

“I had to create movement so emotional effect of moments like as Anybodys, the street-savvy The Grit, according to Rua’s strong that the only reason the this throughout the show. The adolescent girl trying to establish her website, is “a dance collective that movement existed was to represent gymnasium’s backdrop of colorful place as one of the Jets; and Jonathan unites storytelling, hip-hop styles what we were doing physically, party streamers falls away in dim Wainwright as Lt. Schrank, the and raw emotion for the stage and what we were sharing emotionally,” lighting to starry lights strung racist, hardened police officer. film, transcending the landscape Rua said. “And I felt like I did that around the stage, and Tony and At risk of providing too many of today’s dance world.” In other in a way that was accessible to the Maria make their way toward spoilers, the most powerful parts words, Saenz said, Rua’s dance style demographic, was accessible to the each other through actors moving of this production lie in the details seeks to “trigger authentic human heart of the time, was accessible to in slow motion. A similar dream- that make it stand out from other emotion” through creating a form of what those kids might have been like dance and captivating use of versions of “West Side Story”: a dance that encapsulates the “angst, able to do, and then again what they lighting returns in Act Two during symbolic old woman at the start and joy, passion and love, confrontation wished they could do.” the “Ballet Sequence.” finish of the show, whose meaning is and fighting” of the characters and Rua’s choreography, with The lead actors’ chemistry is only understood by the audience at additionally combines dance styles the intimacy of the Quadracci powerful. Jeffrey Kringer’s Tony the very end; a brief, solemn scene of the past and today.

Powerhouse and outstanding acting, is simultaneously charismatic and at the start of Act Two as the bodies “The process of working with brought a realism to this production able to hold his own among the of Riff and Bernardo are carried Jon Rua is very unique. It is, I think, of “West Side Story” that I have Jets, yet childlike, young and (at away juxtaposed with the start of some of the most focused I’ve ever not seen in other renditions of the times comedically) head-over- “I Feel Pretty”; the dark tone of the been in a room,” Saenz said. “There classic musical. heels in love. Leisl Collazo’s Maria comedic Act Two song “Gee, Officer is intention behind everything.”

The unique choreography is best exemplifies naivety and innocence. Krupke”; and raw, unromanticized Working in his studio in New exemplified in “The Dance at the Both provide powerful vocals and portrayals of death and grief. Every York, Rua said the show took him Gym,” when the Sharks and the Jets extraordinary acting to melt even the aspect of blocking, choreography, seven months to choreograph, engage in an intense dance battle hardest heart in the audience. lighting and set design had distinct from February to August. The Rep just before the main characters Another phenomenal dynamic intention behind it. I was pulled into performers learned the show in Tony and Maria first meet. The in the show is Collazo’s Maria and the world of “West Side Story” — 16-and-a-half days. dancing was breathtaking. Rua Courtney Arango’s Anita. Arango and judging by the audible gasps Because many of the cast succeeded in keeping the heart of portrays the sassy, confident and sniffles of nearby audience members had never worked with Robbins’s original choreography girlfriend of Bernardo and close members, I wasn’t the only one.

Rua’s style of choreography, while breathing new life into the friend and sister-figure to Maria.

Parrott said the Rep’s production Saenz said some of them spent movements. As Saenz pointed Arango is a true triple-threat aims to bring more reality to the two weeks prior to learning out before the show, each gang’s performer, with powerful dancing, classic “West Side Story” that the the show in a dance intensive movements have a different shape: vocals and acting, and she provided world already knows and to show getting them adjusted to Rua’s The Jets’ movements are “angular” a strong balance to Maria’s youthful the audience the tale’s “ugly truths.” style. Learning the choreography and “sharp” while the Sharks’ innocence. The duo’s relationship In my opinion, the show more than was “one long, magical, sweaty movements are more “curvy” and is best exemplified in “A Boy Like accomplished this. process,” Saenz said. “unpredictable.” The contrast in That/I Have a Love.”

The best words I can use to describe I unexpectedly ran into Rua after styles further emphasizes the gangs’ Other standout cast members the Rep’s production of “West Side the show. He said it was a strange clashing lives. included José-Luis Lopez, Jr. as Story” is raw and real. Like the title experience to sit back and watch The intense dancing is halted Bernardo, Maria’s older brother of Rua’s dance collective, it’s gritty. his choreography on stage after when Tony and Maria lock eyes and leader of the Sharks; Jacob spending months working on the from across the room. Set and Burns as Riff, Tony’s best friend and

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Key to the city: MKE opens doors Sept. 28-29 Event provides opportunities to explore community

By Ariana Madson

ariana.madson@marquette.edu

Ever wondered if the pool on top of the Catholic Financial Life building was real? What is the purpose of the 707 Hub? Why is the 310W Building bright blue? These questions will be answered during Historic Milwaukee, Inc.’s Doors Open Milwaukee event Sept. 28-29.

Grace Fuhr, events director of Historic Milwaukee, said the organization encourages the public to visit spaces it could not normally have access to and to appreciate the architecture, heritage and neighborhood.

Fuhr said the event started when a Historic Milwaukee volunteer visited similar events in both Toronto and Denver. At the time, those were the only two places in North America to host such open door events.

Last year the Milwaukee event had over 170 buildings open and about 31,000 people attend different sites. Every year, Doors Open Milwaukee also highlights a specific neighborhood. This year it is putting its focus on Avenues West, including buildings on or near Marquette’s campus such as the 707 Hub and Catholic Financial life.

Keeley Hayden, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences, said she plans to attend Doors Open Milwaukee with her dad.

“There are a lot of buildings you drive (past) that aren’t usually open to the public, so it’ll be a good opportunity to go see (those) places,” Hayden said.

Hayden and her dad tried going together last year but he had to work.

Instead, they made it their mission to go this year.

With so many places open to the public, Doors Open is a great opportunity to get off campus, experience the historic side of Milwaukee and appreciate the city.

Below are a few places that students can go and explore.

Catholic Financial Life: A visit to the Catholic Financial Life building will include a tour of the All Saints private chapel and the rooftop, which is home to the city’s only rooftop pool and deck. John Borgen, senior vice president of Catholic Financial Life and a Marquette alumnus, said the building’s rooftop provides a unique opportunity to see an unobstructed panoramic view of the city from the Hoan Bridge to the spires of the Church of the Gesu.

Catholic Financial Life has office space, but it also houses studios and one-bedroom apartments which are especially popular with Marquette graduate students.

707 Hub: The 707 Hub makes this list due to the regular questions about the building’s function from people who drive past on a daily basis.

Kelsey Otero, the associate director for social innovation at Marquette, said the 707 Hub used to be an old bank but is now an innovative area for students. It provides resources, mentoring, funding and a creative space for students to get plugged into, whether they have an interest in social change or entrepreneurship.

There will be self-guided tours where the public can learn about innovation resources available at Marquette as well as how the university helps students develop entrepreneurial skill sets.

St. George Melkite Greek

Catholic Church: For those interested in architecture, the St. George Melkite Greek Catholic Church is the place to visit. The building features Milwaukee Cream City brick and onion domes. Architect Erhard Brielmaier designed the church to fit Milwaukee’s landscape while thinking of the founding Syrian and Lebanese families in the community. There will be an exhibit where Milwaukee community members can learn about the story that brought the Melkites, a religious community, to Milwaukee.

Tower Theater and Mobile Design Box: Gustave Dick and Alex Bauer designed both this building and the Oriental Theatre for Saxe Amusement Enterprises in the 1920s.

Melissa Muller, the art curator for the Mobile Design Box, said those who attend will get to see the actual movie theater, which is typically closed to the public. They can also see the exhibit “Evicted,” which is based off Matthew Desmond’s Pulitzer prize winning book titled Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. It is the exhibit’s last weekend in Milwaukee.

310W Building: The structure is one of the newer buildings in the area, completed in 1983. It is 14 stories high and cobalt blue, and includes amenities such as a skylight, fitness center and communal game area. Doors Open also hosts a photo contest with this building. In order to enter, a photo of the participant must be taken in the atrium of the building, tagged with the hashtags #310W and #doorsopenmke for a chance to win a $200 gift certificate to the Capital Grille, as well as the opportunity to take a selfie in the allwhite 310W ball pit.

88Nine Radio Milwaukee: Visitors will get a behind the scenes tour of the building’s green roof, recording studios and the performance area where local and national bands perform.

Adventure Rock Milwaukee: During Doors Open Milwaukee, Adventure Rock Milwaukee will let people come see its unique structure for the climbing walls as well as a peek behind the walls.

People can also learn about the sport of rock climbing and try it for free themselves.

Ambassador Hotel: The Ambassador Hotel is a Milwaukee favorite for weddings due to its extravagant interior, which includes marble floors and bronze elevators.

The rooms were reconfigured for more space and new bathrooms were put in during the ’90s. Most of the original architecture and design elements were kept. During the event, historical presentations on the building will be available from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Black Cat Alley: A destination full of street art, this location has about 25 murals created

refreshing take on the classic.

“It was different but it was also really funny, so I felt like I was seeing the movie for the first time,” Lafond said.

Lafond said Ariel of “The Little Mermaid” was her favorite Disney princess as a child.

She said the colors in “The Little Mermaid” mesmerized her, and to this day it is still her favorite Disney movie.

Lafond said she is excited for the live-action version of the movie, which will star singer and actress Halle Bailey and is rumored to begin filming early next year.

Bailey Lewis, a sophomore in the College of Nursing, has also seen Aladdin. She said that the remakes of Disney movies simultaneously keep the audience on its toes and bring something new to the table.

“I like them because they’re changing it up a little bit,” Lewis said.

“The ‘Aladdin’ (movie) particularly, the ending is a little different … so I think it’s cool to see the different

spin on it.”

Lewis said her favorite classic Disney movie is “Mulan,” which will also have a live-action remake coming out in 2020.

“I love ‘Mulan,’ (and) the song ‘I’ll Make a Man Out of You,’” Lewis said. “I just think that’s the coolest song, and I would watch it all of the time when I was little. I still watch it.”

Lafond said she thinks Disney is brilliant for remaking these movies.

“It’s bringing all of the movies back around, so they’re never really out of style,” Lafond said.

Delanie Davia, a sophomore in the College of Nursing, said she has seen the new “Aladdin” movie many times. She went to see it with her family when it came out in the movie theaters because it was a favorite while she was growing up.

After the theater showing, Davia said she waited to buy the movie online so she could watch it again with her dad, then again with her family and once more with her friends.

Although Davia said she loved While Schmaus admitted that “Aladdin,” she said she was not some people might think the classic a fan of the “Cinderella” remake, Disney movies are better and despite Cinderella being her favorite should not be remade, she said Disney princess growing up. she personally thinks the Disney Natalie Schmaus, a junior in the remakes are fantastic.

College of Arts & Sciences, said she “I think for a lot of people, has never seen the original version especially our age, it’s really fun of “Aladdin” but recently went to for us to be able to see a live-action see the remake at the Varsity Theatre remake of the classics that we grew with friends. up watching,” Schmaus said.

“One of my friends suggested Should students need a Disney that we go see it, but then, of movie fix, the Varsity Theatre will course, they all freaked out show “Toy Story 4” Sept. 27-28. when they heard I hadn’t even watched the original animated v e r s i o n , ” Schmaus said.

She said she thought it was a really good movie, and the song “Friend Like Me” was stuck in her head Photo by Claire Gallagher claire.gallagher@marquette.edu The Varsity Theatre provides weekly movie showings. after the show.

Photo by Jordan Johnson jordan.d.johnson@marquette.edu

Access to exclusive buildings will be available throughout the weekend.

by about 20 different artists.

During the event there will be food trucks, performances and more to celebrate the three-year anniversary of the alley.

Firehouse Station 1: This is the oldest company in the Milwaukee Fire Department. Visitors can expect a tour of the building and a chance to talk to some of the firefighters. They can also see pictures of old crews and fire engines.

Grain Exchange Room at the Mackie Building: With its high ceilings and painted frescoes, there is an Italian-style architecture design to this building. It is said to be linked with the early commercial history of Milwaukee in which the city, for a short time, was big in the wheat marketing industry.

The full list of Doors Open Milwaukee locations can be found on the Historic Milwaukee, Inc. website under the “Doors Open” tab.

Some buildings may have restricted hours, but the general open times run from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Disney remakes create nostalgia, new memories Company resurrects classics, adds modern twists

By Grace Schneider

grace.schneider@marquette.edu

Disney has been reimagining its classic animated movies such as “The Lion King,” “Cinderella” and “Beauty and the Beast” into live-action and computer-generated imagery films.

These live-action remakes bring students back to their childhood.

One of these remakes, “Aladdin,” recently had a showing at the Varsity Theatre.

Sarah Lafond, a junior in the College of Business Administration, went to see the live-action version of “Aladdin” at the Varsity Theatre when it was shown in early September.

She said she thinks “Aladdin” is great and that the film stayed true to the characters, while still being a

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College of Education changes could hinder student success

In anticipation of demographic changes in higher education, Marquette administrators are laying off staff members and restructuring sectors of the university.

One of the areas targeted by administrators is the College of Education, which acting provost Kimo Ah Yun claimed has incurred a $1 million deficit over the past five years. Faculty members in the college are forming an internal committee to investigate the deficit, of which they had not been informed prior to this academic year.

It’s clear that the university hopes to cut costs in the College of Education. Whether that means merging it with another college on campus or curtailing certain programs, the future of students’ Marquette education is at stake.

The potential reorganization will undoubtedly hurt students in the college, regardless of the determination and dedication of their professors. They could lose access to resources, the college’s close-knit education community and specialized courses, which prove vital to students’ post-graduation careers.

Not only this, but reorganization could lead to redundancies in the college’s current state, leading to more employee layoffs. With fewer staff members to guide and support them during their time at Marquette, students will miss out on valuable lessons from mentors.

Structural changes, such as making the College of Education a department or school within the College of Communication or Arts & Sciences, will damage the identity and reputation of the College of Education. Students would likely be forced to take courses required by their new colleges, which could add workload without applicability.

Before the School of Education graduated to college status in 2008, education students were a part of the

College of Communication or Arts & Sciences.

While this allowed them to engage with students of different majors, there was less of a unified identity for education students.

Students in the School of Education did not feel the same sense of pride that came with being a part of a college.

In a 2008 Marquette Wire article, one student recalls confusion among education students at their freshman convocation because they were unsure of which college to identify with.

Back then, education students also had to declare education as their secondary majors, which made assigning advisers and communicating requirements difficult.

Additionally, degree completion often took more than four years as students had to fulfill the university core, a primary major and School of Education requirements. For some students who took an extra semester, graduating in December rather than May, this meant ill timing for entering the job market.

The university should not revert to old ways. The college’s previous structure left Marquette education graduates at a disadvantage.

Moreover, the university’s decision to reorganize the College of Education contradicts one of its principle Jesuit values: service.

A significant part of education students’ requirements is the completion of field experience and student teaching.

The relationship the College of Education has with the Milwaukee Public School system allows students to complete this requirement by getting hands-on experience in the classroom and developing relationships with students.

Students pursuing elementary education degrees also have to fulfill requirements for their teaching certifications at the

Hartman Literacy and Learning Center, a service site in the College of Education that provides tutoring to inner-city children.

Structural changes could jeopardize this aspect of an education student’s experience. The university should maintain its commitment to giving back to the community through its College of Education.

Milwaukee Public School students could suffer from a loss of student teachers, and Marquette students could miss out on firsthand classroom experience, depriving both groups of resources essential to their success.

Education is a historical and fundamental part of the Jesuit mission. The university cannot continue to front pursuance of Jesuit values while taking action that conflicts with those values.

With the looming possibility of losing the College of Education’s specialized programming and resources, the university cannot expect to attract prospective education students and effectively combat the anticipated decline in enrollment.

While Marquette is taking proactive steps to prevent overwhelming financial strain approaching the higher education community, it must not lose its crucial investments in students’ educational experience.

Now is the time for Marquette to invest in its colleges and programs to compete with other universities.

It is not time to scale down these resources, hurting current students and deterring future ones.

It is the university’s responsibility to ensure that education students receive a competitive Jesuit education. The university must make it possible for education students to maintain their identities and engage with the Milwaukee community while developing the necessary skills and knowledge to become educators.

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Trump threatens freedom of press Aminah Beg

It was Jan. 20, 1969, when President Richard Nixon was sworn into office and officially began his time in the White House. He was the 37th president of the United States of America. Nixon felt all sorts of ways about entering the presidency role but most of all he felt deceived.

He felt cheated out of the position eight years earlier when he lost to President John F. Kennedy.

Nixon believed the system, especially the media, was against him after losing to Kennedy, Mark Feldstein, a professor at the University of Maryland, said. The media was Nixon’s number one target. He put reporters on an “enemy list” to have their tax returns audited.

“At one point, his staff even plotted to assassinate his most vexing investigative reporter and critic,” Feldstein said.

Nixon’s presidency was cut short due to his resignation in the midst of serious impeachment charges.

Nixon was a problematic, dishonest and corrupt president, as seen by his reputation as chief of state for incidences like Watergate.

Now, the 45th president of the United States carries on those same attributes. Trump’s recent call of investigations for large news corporations is one critical example.

According to a report posted Sept. 3 by Axios, an American news website, Donald Trump and his GOP political allies are hoping to raise $2 million before the 2020 election. If acquired, this $2 million will be spent investigating members of major media outlets such as The New York Times and The Washington Post.

This is not the first time Trump has attacked journalists for exercising their civic rights in America, supposedly democratic society with a free press.

Any time large media agencies comment on concerns about the changes in the economy, such as a possible recession, Trump claims that it is all “fake news.” He believes that the media makes these statements to do everything they can to ensure Trump does not get reelected in 2020.

Political allies of Trump and his administration play into his excessive comments about “fake news.”

In a speech to the Detroit Economic Club Aug. 19, Vice President Mike Pence said the economic

outlook is strong “despite the irresponsible rhetoric of many in the mainstream media.”

Trump and his administration will blame any shortcomings in this country on the fault of “corrupt” journalism and apparent “fake news.”

After two mass shootings the weekend of Aug. 3, Trump said in a tweet that “fake news has contributed greatly to the anger and rage that has built up over many years.”

He claimed mass shootings will increase if the media does not change its ways. Instead of focusing on the root problem of mass shootings in this country, Trump will do anything to blame his go-to scapegoat: the media.

Trump wants his followers to see the media as an enemy of the people rather than a public servant of the people. These investigations are just another ploy to perpetuate the stigma against journalists so he can continue to deflect the blame from himself.

One of America’s founding values, according to the Bill of Rights, is freedom of the press. Now, Trump and his allies plan to scrutinize that right because the media is reporting the truth and carrying out its duty of being a government watchdog.

It is a clear violation of the independent press, an autonomous entity under no governmental control, which is vital to democracy.

These investigations are a step toward a fascist regime. A characteristic of fascist regimes is a controlled mass media. Trump believes he can use his presidential power to make American citizens blame the media rather than trying to enact substantial and effective policies for social and economic betterment.

As a journalist, the possibility of encountering these investigations feels like a direct attack on what my peers and I believe in. I empathize with those being investigated because they are using their platforms to inform the public, and the president is revoking that right. One of the greatest privileges in America is the ability to speak freely and share our opinions and ideas, especially those that criticize the government.

Journalists use this privilege with great care to share the truth with the public. Trump cannot take that away from us, and we should not let him.

Aminah Beg is a junior studying public relations and cognitive science. She can be reached at aminah.beg@marquette.edu

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Streaming services beat Milwaukee must declare climate out cable, satellite emergency, take immediate action Sheila Fogarty

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Broadcast organizations like NBC are creating their own streaming services to compete with companies like Hulu and Netflix.

Kevin Schablin As more and more popular shows switch from streaming services like Hulu and Netflix to new platforms such as Disney+, NBC Peacock and HBO Max, it becomes clear to television stations that streaming is the future. Cable channels feel that they need to create their own streaming platforms to keep a sense of ownership of their shows.

Networks like CBS and NBC have decided to establish their own streaming services in an effort to regain control of their shows’ popularity, that major streaming services have taken.

In 2018, “The Office” was the most streamed show on Netflix and is many people’s favorite show. In 2021, “The Office” will have a new home at Peacock, a $500 million five-year investment from NBC that is likely to cement Peacock in homes around the country.

While many popular streamed shows still air on traditional networks like TBS and Comedy Central, teens and millennials are choosing to stream because it gives them the freedom of choosing what, when, and where to watch. Traditional television This separates the past from the future; entertainment preferences are in the hands of the people.

Traditional broadcast channels, however, do not give the viewer power. To make this worse, streaming services like Hulu Live and Sling allow users to choose which channels they want and pay for as well as watch live TV. Major satellite companies like DIRECTV and Dish were able to lure customers in with their massive channel packages. However, according to Nielson.com, the average adult pays for over 200+ channels while only visiting about 20 channels.

These oversized and unnegotiable channel packages are unnecessary and expensive. When I had DIRECTV, my family was paying upwards of $70 a month

which included hundreds of unvisited channels.

Since I was headed off to college, this summer we switched to Hulu Live which costs roughly $45 a month, and it allows us to livestream our favorite channels on our phones and computers instead of needing a cable box and satellite dish.

Now I’m able to watch TV on my family’s plan, which has my favorite channels, instead of trying to get basic cable in my dorm room. The change was incredible because it allowed us to do so much more for so much less.

If the country changes its television provider preference at the pace it is projected to, satellite and cable’s reign as the head of the television oligopoly will most likely come to an end soon, as we’ve seen from major networks like CBS and NBC creating their own streaming services.

Streaming provides many benefits to the consumer, and television stations are taking notice.

If traditional broadcast channels do not change their strategies of viewer engagement and keep pace with streaming services, they will be left behind.

Kevin Schablin is a freshman studying biological sciences. He can be reached at kevin.schablin@marquette.edu

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I opened Instagram last week to a video of a line of cars floating in rushing waters. My friend posted this video of a flood in her hometown located in dry southern Spain. The flood, recorded as the worst flood in Eastern Spain in 140 years, has forced thousands to evacuate, closed schools and killed eight people so far. My friend was also affected: her family’s music shop sustained damage.

I was soon thinking about other natural catastrophes that were worsened by human activity that have happened this past month: Hurricane Dorian, tropical storm Imelda, Hurricane Barry and the recent wildfires in Indonesia. Each of these examples has forced those living in the local areas to alter their lifestyles and adapt to the damage.

These natural disasters are becoming too common and too frequent-- they can occur anywhere and affect anyone. While watching individual behavior or curbing wasteful habits is great, the demand for climate action is so pressing that it requires legislation and support from the federal government. However, as the battle to convince the federal government to declare a climate emergency continues, local governments must take matters into their own hands by declaring a climate emergency and formulating a plan of action in the meantime.

Milwaukee should declare a climate emergency because the human influence on the environment has created consistent global devastation. Climate change is a global issue and should, therefore, be addressed across the globe.

Moreover, the subtler yet equally catastrophic effects on Milwaukee demand action, including the transition to 100% renewable energy within the decade.

The American Lung Association gave the MilwaukeeRacine-Waukesha area an F in terms of ozone levels. Ozone (molecularly composed of three instead of oxygen’s two molecules) has chemical properties

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that enable it to react with the human body, so it is dangerous to human health. Those most affected include citizens living in poverty and those with asthma, diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and cardiovascular diseases. Children and adults over 65 years old are also at high risk.

Transitioning to 100% renewable energy is in the best interest of citizens in southeastern Wisconsin. Whether one identifies with one of these mentioned groups, living in an F-graded area can trigger significant health problems for otherwise healthy individuals.

Midwestern scientists predict that climate change will cause increased flooding in Milwaukee and the Great Lakes area. Great Lake states are warming faster than any state in the country, according to an Environmental Law and Policy Center report. This warming increases precipitation, which will lead to increased flooding without the appropriate infrastructure to manage the stormw a t e r runoff.

An increase in runoff can cause the growth of algae blooms, w h i c h damages the Great Lakes and produces toxins that can cause disease in humans and wildlife. Lake Erie has already started s u ff e r i n g the consequences of algae growth.

This poses a threat to wildlife and contaminates Lake Erie’s water, forcing the citizens of Toledo, Ohio to cut their water supply.

Milwaukee citizens’ health will also be affected by the irregular climate. Rising temperatures can have fatal effects on Milwaukee citizens, especially those who do not have access to air conditioning in their homes or places of work. According to a 2016 Environmental Protection Agency report, Milwaukee County heatwaves have killed a

Ignoring the climate crisis is not only ignoring the well-being of Milwaukee citizens but also ignoring the fact that people of color ... will be most affected by future catastrophic events.”

total of 102 people between the years of 1995 and 1999.

Milwaukee also needs to acknowledge and address the disproportionate effect that climate change has on communities of color. Fifty-six percent of Milwaukee’s population are people of color.

Nationally, 78% of African Americans live within 30 miles of a plant or factory that produces toxic emissions. According to the executive director of the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, over 80% of Latinos in the United States as of 2011 live in counties that violated federal air pollution regulations. This is environmental racism.

Ignoring the climate crisis is not only ignoring the wellbeing of Milwaukee citizens but also ignoring the fact that people of color — the majority of Milwaukee’s population — will be most affected by future catastrophic events.

Declaring a climate emergency and switching to 100% renewable energy within the decade will put Milwaukee on the necessary path to a healthier environment. The quickest way to get the city, local and state government to take action is to take action yourself.

Participate in activities and events held by local climate activist groups, such as 350 MKE and Students for an Environmentally Active Campus, a Marquette organization that promotes environmental action.

Write to Governor Tony Evers or mayor Tom Barrett or submit a comment online urging him to declare an emergency.

In the meantime, watch your habits and explore ways to minimize your own waste. Switch to bar soaps, get into the habit of taking public transit or walking, carry around a reusable water bottle or avoid buying things with plastic packaging.

One hundred fifty-three million people are predicted to die by the end of the decade after two degrees of warming from air pollution alone. This climate emergency is not geographically biased and demands unified action.

We can no longer rely on the federal government to respond to the climate emergency. We must urge the city of Milwaukee and the state of Wisconsin to declare and combat the climate emergency before the damage becomes irreversible.

Sheila Fogarty is a freshman studying anthropology and Spanish. She can be reached at sheila.fogarty@marquette.edu

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Freshman’s upbringing results in quick impact

Photo by Katerina Pourliakas katerina.pourliakas@marquette.edu

Freshman midfielder/defender Josie Kelderman dribbles against a pair of Colorado State players in Marquette’s 2-1 comeback win over the Rams Sunday at Valley Fields.

Daughter of UWM coach brings early offensive production

By John Leuzzi

john.leuzzi@marquette.edu

It was almost destiny for the Glendale, Wisconsin native to follow in her family’s footsteps when it came to playing Division I soccer.

Her mom and dad both played at the University of Virginia, her older brother plays at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and her dad is in his seventh season as the head coach at UWM. “All we talk about at my house is soccer,” freshman Josie Kelderman said. “Pretty much every night there is a soccer game up on the TV, so it is something I grew up with. … My brother and I would play pickup (games) a lot (and get in) lots of arguments and fighting but it was fun. It helped me in the long run.”

She said it was a childhood

dream of hers to play at the same college as her brother. But when the time came to make her decision, the defender made her own choice.

“That whole Kelderman type of thing would have been awesome, but as I got older, I just felt like I wanted to do something different from him and my dad,” Kelderman said. “I wanted to create my own path, make my name known somewhere else but still be closer to them.”

Fast forward to September 2019, and she is now a part of the crosstown rivalry as her brother Jake and her dad play and coach at UWM, respectively.

Along with seeing her brother and dad take on Marquette in the past, Kelderman’s high school was just 15 minutes away from Marquette, so it was an easy decision.

“It had everything I wanted: small school, big sports, huge family atmosphere,” Kelderman said.

The relationship between the coaches during

the recruiting process was another thing that influenced Kelderman’s decision.

“Right off the bat, Markus (Roeders) and Nick (Vorberg) … had something different from the other coaches I had talked to,” Kelderman said. “They are super outgoing and wanted to make me feel (like) I was at home,” Kelderman said.

Marquette had some advantages when scouting the midfielder/ defender: Marquette assistant coach Ashley Bares also coaches on Kelderman’s club team, North Shore United. “(Ashley) was able to see Josie play a lot and see her grow,” Vorberg said. “She is versatile. We knew what we were getting. She is special.”

Vorberg said she is at “another level” of speed and athleticism and can play several different positions. Kelderman has already started six of the team’s first eight games this season.

Kelderman and Vorberg attributed the marketing major’s strong start to her preparedness for the

rigors of college soccer.

“I do think with my dad being a college coach helped,” Kelderman said. “I (was) able to understand the process that really goes with his team ever since I was about 12 years old. So I kinda knew what I had to come in and do and go my hardest.”

Another thing that prepared her according to Vorberg was the rigorous preseason they go through.

“We are able to see what players can do, can’t do, see their weaknesses and strengthens,” Vorberg said. “Another part of it had to do with the number of seniors we lost last year, so there were a lot of opportunities left for these players that are on our team.”

Kelderman has made a muchneeded impact on offense. In the team’s road game vs. Minnesota, she made a memory that she won’t ever forget: scoring her first collegiate goal.

“Well, I didn’t think it was going to happen at first, but the ball just got flicked to my feet, (I) took a touch and smashed it,”

Kelderman said. “I remember seeing it curve right underneath the goal post and just remember screaming. (I) almost blacked out for a second. It was just like a feeling I don’t think I will ever forget.”

Kelderman’s goal is one of just four goals of the season for the Golden Eagles.

Emily Hess, Macey Shock and Kylie Sprecher are the other Golden Eagles who have scored this year.

Prior to coming to Marquette, Kelderman won six Wisconsin club soccer championships with North Shore United. The 5-foot-6 freshman plans to bring that winning experience from Glendale to Marquette.

“Winning those six times, I knew what it was like to win in Wisconsin,” Kelderman said.

“That is something that I really wanted to bring in and try to do the same thing. … If we all have our mentalities, togetherness, connectedness we can really do it.”

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CLUB SPORTS

Field hockey has big goals for first full year as MU sport Student starts club team after increased interest from peers

By Bryan Geenen

bryan.geenen@marquette.edu

For Marquette students like Annie Stelter who played field hockey in high school, continuing to play in college was never a possibility.

However, in the last two years, students have begun to bring the sport to Marquette with the creation of the campus’ own club field hockey team.

Stelter, a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences and club president, said she noticed the lack of a team and high demand for one during her freshman year. She started the process of creating a club field hockey team the following summer with funds from Marquette and 4Winners Sports, a sports apparel company.

“Coming into freshman year, I realized that a lot of girls that go here are from the Chicago suburbs and had played field hockey,” Stelter said.

Grace Goebbert, a junior in the College of Nursing and treasurer for the team, had an interest in the team after growing up playing the sport.

“I’ve been playing since fifth grade, so we were talking about a team freshman year, and we never really got it started,” Goebbert said. “(Stelter’s) the one who really spearheaded everything and reached out to get it all started. There’s a lot that goes into starting a new club.”

Schedules, funding, uniforms, equipment, tournaments and games were among the variables needed for the groundwork of creating a new club. Stelter said the team wasn’t able to take off quite like it had hoped in its first year.

“Last year, it was a club at the beginning, but we weren’t able to do anything until second semester so it was kind of unorganized,” Samantha Kuebler, a sophomore in the College of Health Sciences, said. “But this year, we have an (executive board). We’re trying to create more structure and run better practices. So we’ve definitely pulled it together.”

Stelter said it took until March of 2019 to have the club fully established in the Marquette community.

However, the change for Stelter came this year as students arrived for fall semester.

“We really got things going right away. We have an E-board, we have a lot of people committed to the club now,” Stelter said.

“We want to get as many girls as possible who are wanting to be committed so in the future with those new girls, they can lead the club and start making it more competitive against other teams in the Midwest and even the nation.”

Stelter said scheduling competitions has been one of the biggest tasks for starting a new club. Last year, the team had one scrimmage against Division III competitor Concordia University, but she has plans to travel a bit to compete against more teams.

“Finally, this semester we have official tournaments happening,” Stelter said.

According to Stelter, the team will travel to UW-Madison and Northwestern for their first two tournaments as a club.

Stelter said her goal for the year is not to be the best team but just to keep the players engaged and to enjoy field hockey with one another.

“One of the biggest goals is to also be known on campus,” Stelter said. “We had girls coming up to O-Fest and saying, ‘Woah, I didn’t know we had a club team here,’ and the reason why is we haven’t be able to advertise it.”

Marnie O’Malley, a sophomore in the College of Communication and vice president of social media and marketing for

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The Marquette club hockey team poses in the Valley Fields dome.

the club, also has a list of goals to accomplish for the 2019-’20 academic year.

“My goal is to make it fun and to grow the sport and the club size in general,” O’Malley said.

“We want to keep adding more girls and making the sport as big as it can be at Marquette.”

For Riley Moore, a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences and the club vice president, the

key to adding popularity on campus is building the club members’ chemistry together.

“I really want us to bond. I want people to get close, and I want the team dynamic to flow easily,” Moore said. “We all come from different parts of the United States, so I think finding that middle ground where we can all play together and be successful is important for this team.”

TENNIS

PREVIEW: Men’s, women’s teams begin fall schedules ment, and it’s important that we show up and enjoy playing but to also be there as a team,” Eggink said. “There are a lot of good teams at these tournaments. …

Playing these games will give us a lot of experience and help us a lot in the upcoming season.”

Popovic makes program history at opening tournament

By M’Laya Sago

mlaya.sago@marquette.edu

WOMEN’S As Marquette women’s tennis starts its season, the team is already making history.

For the first time in program history, a women’s tennis player has won the consolation draw in the 44th annual Milwaukee Tennis Classic.

After dropping the opening singles match, Natalija Popovic went on to win five consecutive straight-set matches in two days against opponents from Northwestern, University of Arizona, Eastern Illinois University, University of Louisiana-Monroe and Xavier.

With the Hoosier Classic at Indiana University starting Sept.

27, Marquette has had a long offseason to improve its strength and conditioning.

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Senior tennis player Fleur Eggink follows through on a backhand.

Head coach Jodi Bronson and assistant director of sports performance Stu Roche prepared a variety of drills for the team to train during the summer with the hopes of strengthening game play.

“Stu kept sending (the athletes) workouts to do back home, and when they came back, we could tell that they did that offseason work so they could get ready for the fall,” Bronson said.

The Golden Eagles’ dedication showed in the 2018-’19 season,

advancing to the BIG EAST Tournament quarterfinals. They lost 4-3 to No. 6 Villanova after battling a day of rain and game delays. They finished their season 12-10 overall.

Senior Fleur Eggink said the team has been preparing well during the last few months for the classic and other upcoming fall events. She said the team is working really hard and focusing on the Hoosier Classic in practice.

“It’s a really exciting tourna-

After Marquette defeated DePaul for the conference crown in 2018, they fell 4-3 in last season’s BIG EAST Championship to St. John’s. This year the Golden Eagles are looking to take back the BIG EAST trophy.

The team lost its fifth BIG EAST title appearance last season, senior Luke Smrek said this year the team is focusing on one part of the program’s culture in particular.

“We have a culture in our program that has been built in by the players from previous years which we will always have, but this year specifically, I think we are holding each other accountable and pushing one another in every practice,” Smrek said in an email. “When we step on court,

we are not individuals out there — we are a team and come together as one.”

Having just finished the Milwaukee Tennis Classic, the Golden Eagles had a chance to put their drive, cohesion and accountability to the test before their dual match season starts in January.

In addition to the MTC, the men will attend the Norte Dame Fall Invitational, Purdue Fall Invitational, MSU Invite, ITA Midwest Regional, Drake Invitational, Illinois State Invitational and the Gopher Invitational before their official 2019-’20 season begins this spring.

Smrek said he believes these events are good preparation not only for regular season matches but for the BIG EAST victory.

“We get to play many matches … against high-level players, which will ultimately benefit us come spring season,” Smrek said in an email. “Our goal is to win the BIG EAST Tournament, and I know every guy is working towards that come spring season.”

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Bennett employs Q3 philosophy on warm-up jerseys

Photo by John Steppe john.steppe@marquette.edu

Senior forward Connor Alba has contributed to just over 40% of Marquette’s goal production in the 2019 season with two goals and one assist.

Longtime soccer coach pulls ideas from past mentors

By Tyler Peters

tyler.peters@marquette.edu

Quality, quickness and quantity.

It’s called Q3. It can be seen on the Marquette men’s soccer team’s warm-up jerseys before each game at Valley Fields.

The motto has been in head coach Louis Bennett’s repertoire for a long time, including while

he was the head coach at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, but it came to fruition here at Marquette.

“When I came to Marquette, I had a chance to review everything I did,” Bennett said. “I could keep the things that I thought might be applicable, even if it meant not being immediately successful.”

Each element of Q3 has its own process.

“We’ve got to start with quality,” Bennett said. “Then when we can get good quality, can we do things quickly? Can we erase people from the equation by playing with quality and (quickness)?”

If Bennett sees a player lacking in one of the three Qs, he said he doesn’t hesitate to call a player out for it.

“When the guys come to practice, I (occasionally) wave to them to play quicker or with more quality,” Bennett said. “I say ‘C’mon man, it’s right there on your chest!’”

Bennett said many people throughout his life have inspired his coaching philosophies. His biggest inspiration, however, came from his soccer coach when he was just 17 years old.

“I found an old notebook and saw some of the philosophies he had,” Bennett said. “Subliminally, I had taken some of (those

philosophies) on board. Even though it wasn’t verbatim, it was definitely a feel.”

Q3 is currently on the front of their warm-up jerseys. It was previously on other parts of the team’s gear. Bennett’s inspiration to make the decision came from a professional soccer team in the Premier League.

“The ‘O2’ on the Arsenal Jersey gave it a little bit of flavor,”

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I found an old notebook and saw some of the philosophies he had. ... Even though it wasn’t verbatim, it was definitely a feel.”

LOUIS BENNETT Head coach, Marquette men’s soccer

Bennett said. “For us, it’s only on our practice and warm-up jerseys, but it’s a nice little thing, and it’s a nice little reminder (for the players).”

Bennett said quantity has been the most difficult “Q” for players to attain throughout his coaching career.

“You get days where you’ve got quality, and you get the days where you can do things really quickly,” Bennett said. “But then you get the next day, and it’s like, ‘Whoa, I’ve got to work a lot harder to do it every single time.’”

Senior forwards Josh Coan and Connor Alba said they each embrace quality the most and agreed quantity can be quite difficult.

“The one I try to focus on the most is quality,” Coan said. “Doing it well is something I consistently strive to improve the most.”

“The hardest progression is quantity,” Alba said. “That’s probably the hardest thing to do in soccer.”

Coan said he was introduced to the concept of Q3 quickly after he transferred from Pittsburgh to Marquette, but it didn’t quite resonate with him right away.

“Initially when I first showed up, I thought it meant Qdoba,” Coan said.

“Once I understood what it stood for, it made a lot more sense than just Qdoba.”

For Coan, Q3 has helped him generate a career year so far in 2019.

His three goals on the season already match his total from last season.

“As a forward, I try to think of it in terms of goal scoring or creating chances,” Coan said. “In practice, you do a lot of repetition on those types of things. The work that you put in with the three Qs correlates right into games.”

The head coach said every realm of soccer has its own excellent players who exemplify Q3. Bennett labeled senior midfielder Luka Prpa as Marquette’s own example of what Q3 is all about.

“When you look at Luka Prpa turning out of pressure, it’s a thing of beauty,” Bennett said. “You can say, ‘Wow, he did that with great quality but also quick. That’s what Q3 is.”

The Q3 process is different for everyone, but Bennett said he knows the philosophy is worth the players’ time and effort.

“When you’re at Marquette, you have to buy into what we’re doing,” Bennett said. “I don’t hammer anything home that I don’t think is worthy of (the players’) attention or my attention.”

One of the most unique aspects of Q3isitsabilitytobeappliedbeyondthe soccer field.

“You can take it into any profession you go into,” Alba said. “You always want to do things with quality, and that speaks volumes with what we’re trying to do here at Marquette.”

Bennett said he is not expecting the Q3 motto to go away any time soon.

“Maybe I should copyright it,” Bennett said. “We’ve got a big law school, maybe they can help.”

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VOLLEYBALL

Family closely watches success of Martha Konovodoff Libero finds fit at Marquette after time with intense club

By Zoe Comerford

isabel.comerford@marquette.edu

When Marquette junior libero Martha Konovodoff was younger, her older brother Andrew used to rub it in Martha’s face that he was a national champion and Martha wasn’t.

“It’s actually disgusting how competitive we are,” Abby Konovodoff, Martha’s older sister, said.

“It’s really nice because we’re all athletes. … I know my brothers went through the recruitment process, so it was nice to know that they’ve been there before.

From my perspective, I can help Martha through things because I’ve done the college volleyball thing before.”

But that same family has also watched closely as Martha has won national club championships, and they watch now as she competes on the No. 10 Golden Eagles.

“Anytime anybody’s game is broadcasted, we tune in,” Abby said. “Even though we’re all over the place these days as we grow older, we still do find the time to support each other in our sports.”

The idea of watching Martha compete from a distance is not a new concept for the Konovodoff family. The first time Martha went out of the country was when she was a junior in high school and traveled to Japan with Sports Performance Volleyball Club to train with Japan’s national team. The following year her club sent her to train in China.

When she was a senior in 2016, she won a national championship with Sports Performance Volleyball Club in Orlando, Florida. Right after that game, her club team traveled to the Dominican Republic and won a world championship.

Head coach Ryan Theis initially began recruiting Martha during her junior year of high school.

Besides going to Catholic school, Martha said she wanted a competitive program that had more of a focus on her as a person than club volleyball. “(I wanted) an environment that saw me as more of a human than a volleyball player and just respected me as a person,” Martha said. “Ryan promised me that the first day, and he’s done nothing but fulfill that.”

She benefitted from that environment on and off the court since then.

“I couldn’t be more grateful for that because I don’t think I would be as good as I am (without Marquette),” Martha said. “Mentally, the fact (that) they view all of us as people and humans that need love and care and nurturing … has helped me view my life differently outside of volleyball.”

Since 2017, Martha has been a solid presence in the back line for Theis’ program, starting in every game of her collegiate career. She even has a chance to be the all-time digs record holder for the Golden Eagles. Theis said he has seen Martha make tremendous growth over the three years he’s worked with her.

“She came from a program where they believe in constant movement of the feet. We’ve worked toward the opposite where we’re stopped and in balanced positions any time a person is attacking the ball,” Theis said.

As a freshman, Theis and the coaching staff didn’t address the positioning of her feet until spring 2018. Ever since, she’s been working on being set and balanced.

“She’s actually been on a threeyear evolution of moving less and less defensively,” Theis said.

“When she’s balanced and in good position, she does really well, so she’s learned a lot.”

Theis said her vision and quickness make her efficient in getting to the ball and saving it when one wouldn’t think it was humanly possible.

“She’s incredibly fast twitched and has great quad strength, so she can press off her toe and cover an

Photo courtesy of Martha Konovodoff

The Konovodoff family poses with Martha. Front row: Andrew, Peter.

Back row: Mary Ann, Abby, Martha, Grace, Andy, Sarah.

Photo courtesy of Martha Konovodoff

Martha won a national championship in 2016 with her club team, Sports Performance, in Orlando, Florida.

extra two to three feet and get a hand under the ball,” Theis said.

Theis said she has quite the sense of humor, regularly entertaining her teammates and coaches.

“This preseason, the microphone was on one day, and as every player walked into the gym, she would do this raspy-guy voice and she’d be like, ‘Entering the building from Muskego, Wisconsin,’” Theis said. “Anyone who walked in the building, she was making up funny things about them.”

Martha said her teammates have inspired her while she’s been at Marquette.

“Those are the girls that I look up to the most,” Martha said. “Not physically looking up to them because I’m so short compared to Allie Barber, but we are all around each other every single day.”

As her younger sister Sarah goes through the recruiting process, Martha is trying to mentor her. But her older sisters Grace and Abby also look up to her in the volleyball realm.

“She has been a bigger (volleyball role model) for me,” Grace said. “She’s always been that competitive Type A athlete. …

I’m her biggest fan, and I tell her that all the time. I go to a lot of her college games. She definitely is a role model for me because she’s so strong. She does a lot on the court and doesn’t always get that recognition.”

Martha’s family has also described her as determined, compassionate, caring, loyal, charismatic, empathetic, phenomenal, strong and a team player.

One weekend when the Konovodoffs were headed to a lake house in Wisconsin, Martha hurt her leg, and Andy said on the drive she was whimpering in the back.

Everyone told her she’d get over it.

When her parents took her to the doctor, it turned out she broke her foot. The whole time

she had been hiding the fact she was in pain due to her high pain tolerance, just another way she’s determined to fight through things.

“She was a trooper the whole way,” Andy said. “It really started bothering her, like, seven hours later.”

Even now, if she gets a bruise or is bleeding, she said she just covers it up and keeps going. Even though it hurts, Martha said her favorite part of volleyball is being on the floor diving for balls.

“That’s where I’ve always belonged. … Where good things happen is when I’m on the floor,” Martha said. “I like to do crazy things that not a lot of people see coming. I like when people make the comment after games, like, ‘You’re a Superwoman.’ … I’ll look at videos and I’m like, ‘Yeah. I didn’t know I could do that.’”

Since Martha tends to be all over the court, throwing her body to dig the ball, she has been injured many times. But she always fights through them.

“She’s had a lot of minor injuries, she’s had major injuries, but she still perseveres,” Grace said. “Whether it’s her family or her teammates, she always does her job, but she also will fight for you.”

Though Martha never imagined she would be such a crucial part of a top 10 program, Grace and Abby did.

“I’ve watched her play a lot of games, and watching her go from elite team to club to high school to national championships and winning them, I figured she would be a key role,” Grace said. “I’m glad she’s getting the outcome that she wants.”

That confidence isn’t exclusive to Grace.

“Without a doubt in my mind,” Abby said. “Whereas I struggled to finally get my footing and roll-

erblade down the street, Martha strapped them on and just went for it. … Even from when she was younger, she’s just been so athletic and able bodied and so sure of herself when she did compete.”

Theis’ goal for Martha in the next two seasons is for her to be an All-American again after she was previously an honorable mention. He said if she achieves more than honorable mention “we’d be thrilled for that for her, but that position can be tough to crack.”

Though Martha’s goal for the team is to win conference and compete farther than last season, she said she just wants to enjoy the experience.

“Especially when I’m getting older, I forget the opportunity that I am presented here with: the fact that I get to play a sport in college, and it’s something that I love to do. … Not everyone gets to have that opportunity,” Martha said. “Just to live through the game.”

In each of Martha’s last five years of her club career, she has competed for a national championship: winning once, taking second twice and placing third and fifth. However, one of Martha’s goals when considering college was wanting to help a university team improve and compete for that championship.

“She fits in, and I think she’s almost reached her goal,” Andy said.

“I (didn’t) want to go to a school that was already No. 1. I want to go to a school that I can help get up there,” Martha said. “The fact that we’re (No. 10) really just makes me really happy and even more proud of myself that I made the decision that I did. When I first came in, we were 30, 35 or something, then we were 25, then we were 16, and now we’re (No. 10). To be a top 10 team is crazy.”

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Sports

The Marquette Tribune

Tuesday, September 24, 2019

VOLLEYBALL

Schoessow embraces unusual role with Golden Eagles Sophomore DS rotates in, out as part of Theis’ offense

By Dan Avington

daniel.avington@marquette.edu

From the time she was in sixth grade, sophomore Katie Schoessow said she knew she wanted to don the blue and gold.

“Marquette’s always been my dream school,” Schoessow said.

Schoessow was one of the earliest commitments in the country in the 2018 class, announcing her choice of Marquette as a high school sophomore.

Once head coach Ryan Theis saw her play at a clinic, he said he knew he wanted the Mukwonago, Wisconsin, native in his program.

“She really impressed us with her mentality, wanting to learn, some of her skills and strength at that age,” Theis said. “She really wanted to stay close to home, so for her it was kind of a dream come true.”

For the No. 10 Golden Eagles, Schoessow plays a unique role.

Most college volleyball teams only use one defensive specialist as its libero, who remains in the game at all times in the back row, not limited by the same rotation as the rest of the squad. Marquette’s starting libero is junior Martha Konovodoff, a reigning Honorable Mention All-American.

But Schoessow is a DS who acts as a substitution in the back row every set. She normally plays for three rotations until she needs to move to the front row, when a front-row player substitutes back in for her.

“If using a sub, we get

marginally better (at some aspect).

Whether it’s serve receive or middle-back defense, I’m going to use that sub to the greatest advantage I can,” Theis said. “Katie puts us in a position to be better at a position.”

The role of a defensive specialist can sometimes go unnoticed among viewers, but Schoessow said she loves her position.

“Being able to get the first touch of the ball and know that you made the first play happen (is the best),” Schoessow said. “It’s not always recognized by other people — the dig or pass is pretty much the last thing that people notice — but I think it’s pretty important.”

Schoessow said she practices positive self-talk so she can perform better.

“I tend to freak myself out when (I get in games). That happened a lot of times freshman year,” Schoessow said. “I know now that the ball is usually going to come to me and just staying relaxed really helps.”

As a player who hails from Wisconsin, the 5-foot-6 defensive specialist relished the opportunity to play against and beat the Badgers earlier this season.

“I just had to play with the mindset that a lot of people are going to come and watch,” Schoessow said.

“I just have to let my nerves go and play volleyball.”

Schoessow has a special tie to the rivalry since her sister is a recent Wisconsin graduate.

“My sister was at the game, and whenever we play Madison, she always says, ‘This is the only time of the year when I’ll cheer for Marquette vs. Madison,’” Schoessow said. “So it was pretty cool.”

Theis said one of his favorite characteristics of Schoessow is

Photo courtesy of Marquette Athetics

Sophomore Katie Schoessow digs the ball in the Golden Eagles’ 3-0 loss to then-No. 17 Baylor University.

her animation.

“Throughout many times at practice, she’s a bit of comic relief,” Theis said. “She’ll pursue a ball like crazy, it’ll take a funny hop and hit her in the neck, and as it’s hitting her in the neck, she’ll scream. We just all kind of chuckle.”

Off the court, Theis said he adores Schoessow’s sense of humor and free-speaking nature.

“She’s really funny. She kind of says whatever she’s thinking,” Theis said. “She lacks a little bit of a filter, which is awesome. She’s learning to be a little bit more (filtered), but we all like the part of her that isn’t.”

“I’m not afraid to say what I want to say, and sometimes I don’t even think about what I say,” Schoessow said. “My team’s

really cool about understanding that’s how I am.”

Theis said she still has areas to improve even though she has made big strides in her time on campus.

While Schoessow played 48 of Marquette’s 115 sets last season, this year she’s already made an appearance in 40 of the Golden Eagles’ 46 sets.

“First-step efficiency is something we talk about with her,” Theis said. “Often times if she takes a bad first step, she ends up diving or fully extending, whereas if she had taken a better first step, she could keep on her feet.”

Since the nonconference slate wrapped up last weekend, Schoessow has her sights set on a grueling BIG EAST schedule, but said she is trying to keep a positive mindset.

“It’s a long season regardless of whether we win or lose in the preseason. Conference play and postseason is when it really knocks in,” Schoessow said. “It’s a series of ups and downs every game, so it’s not going to be the best volleyball every game. You just have to keep rolling.”

As she begins her second BIG EAST schedule at Marquette, Schoessow said she has found a home as a Golden Eagle.

“I just love how cohesive Marquette is,” Schoessow said. “I love how the whole athlete community is so close and everybody is friends with everybody. We’re able to get a chance to go to everybody’s games and support all the other athletes.”

Photo by Elena Fiegen elena.fiegen@marquette.edu

Schoessow hits a ball during warmups before Marquette’s 3-0 sweep over Saint Louis University Saturday.