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Volume 98, Number 10
Thursday, September 26, 2013
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Students main factor in LIMO inefficiency By Claudia Brokish
claudia.brokish@marquette.edu
A vote will be held in the next two weeks to decide whether or not to start the expansion process. If the vote passes, an expansion committee will be established to review applica-
tions from National Interfraternity Council members who wish to establish a chapter at Marquette. The committee will
It’s 9:30 p.m. Students scream “Ring Out Ahoya” after a Friday night basketball game while zipping down Wisconsin Avenue in a LIMO. The LIMO’s driver, Beth Esmay, maps out a route to make sure students, singing or not, get to their destinations. This is a typical LIMO shift for Esmay, eature which can last up to ten tory hours. “I’ve had a lot of drunken conversations with people,” Esmay said, sharing the crazy moments of her job. “You’ll get vans full of people singing at the top of their lungs. That and Halloween, just Halloween in general. It’s a little bit terrifying.” Esmay, a junior in the College of Health Sciences, is just one of many student LIMO drivers who together served about 300,000 students last year. This high amount of traffic can seem surprising, considering the common opinion of students that LIMOs are slow. “I don’t utilize the LIMO service as often as I would like to because when it comes to a choice between getting home late without having to worry about my surroundings and getting home quickly, but having to be alert, I’m going to chose to get home as soon as I can,” said Anne Marie Matelski, a sophomore in the College of Health Sciences. “And I feel that LIMOs simply can’t provide that.” Sgt. Daniel Kolosovsky, manager of student safety programs, said this perception of LIMOs being unreasonably slow is incorrect. “What a lot of people don’t understand is that there are several things over which we have no control: the weather, traffic, events and the users of the program,” Kolosovsky said. “Ironically, of the ones I mentioned, the biggest drag is (students) who don’t know how to use the program correctly.” Ben Fate, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences, has been a LIMO driver since March 2013. He said he believes students
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University President the Rev. Scott Pilarz (left) receives the university mace during his inauguration in September 2011 from then University President the Rev. Robert A. Wild. Following his resignation, Pilarz announced to the university Wednesday that Wild will act as interim president effective Oct. 16.
Expansion policy altered for fraternities Proposed rule change makes it easier to establish new chapter By Joe Kvartunas
joseph.kvartunas@marquette.edu
The Marquette University Interfraternity Council unanimously voted Wednesday night to change the expansion policy for bringing new social fraternities to campus. The new policy proposes changing the vote total necessary to open for expansion from a two-thirds vote to a simple majority. IFC Vice President of Judicial Affairs Pat Doyle, a senior in the College of Engineering, wrote the policy change in an effort to update the rules made in 1988. “I didn’t like sort of the way it flowed and the way it was
organized, so I just decided to change it,” Doyle said. “It’s basically just a reorganization of the old policy.” Wednesday’s vote was prompted when three students approached IFC with interest in bringing a new fraternity to campus. Jason Kurtyka, a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences; Thomas Schick, a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences; and Matthew Walker, a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences; first approached IFC last spring about expansion. “This is something that we feel very strongly about,” Schick said. “This is something that we are very excited about, not just for what this organization will do to enrich us as gentlemen personally, but the fact that we could have a hand in bringing something to Marquette’s campus that could continually mold strong gentlemen for decades to come, potentially.”
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DPS REPORTS......................2 CALENDAR...........................2 CLASSIFIEDS........................4
MARQUEE....................10 VIEWPOINTS...............12 SPORTS.......................14
Photo by J. Matthew Serafin/matthew.serafin@marquette.edu
Nora Heiderscheidt, a junior the College of Health Sciences and a member of Pi Beta Phi, speaks at the Interfraternatiy Council Wednesday.
Census data indicates onethird of MKE in poverty. PAGE 5
In dire straits, the city needs new ways to earn dough. PAGE 13
While rewarding Penn State, the NCAA must never forget. PAGE 13