The Marquette Tribune | Oct. 30, 2012

Since 1916

Men’s soccer ends regular season with draw

EDITORIAL: Erase the R-word from your personal vocabulary

Community fights cancer through fashion

PAGE 10

PAGE 12

PAGE 3

SPJ’s 2010 Best All-Around Non-Daily Student Newspaper

Volume 97, Number 18

Marquette campus host to haunted histories

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

www.marquettetribune.org

Law school hosts final senate debate

By Jacob Born

jacob.born@marquette.edu

October at Marquette means more than just one weekend of Halloween costumes, candy, and scary movies – stories of hauntings across campus are told throughout the month. For some students, the tales of ghosts and demons are far eature too real.

Some of tory M a r q u e t t e ’s many ghost stories are rooted in historical events, and some have been passed through the rumor mill for many years. This year, in addition to the usual ghost stories, Marquette’s campus has been visited by some new ghosts in Schroeder Hall.

F S

Schroeder Hall The first ghost allegedly lives on the south wing of the ninth floor of Schroeder Hall.

This ghost, who does not have a name, makes its presence known when residents are not living on the floor.

Billy Sweet, a resident assistant in Schroeder Hall and a senior in See Haunted, page 8

See page 7 Photo by Rebecca Rebholz/rebecca.rebholz@marquette.edu

Senate candidates Tommy Thompson and Tammy Baldwin share a rare laugh with moderator Mike Gousha in what has been a mostly negative race.

East Coast shuts down as Hurricane Sandy strikes Milwaukee and the Midwest have also seen some effects from the massive East Coast storm.

Paul Joseph, former chief meterologist for WTMJ-TV and a lecturer for the Marquette physics department, said the city will likely have wind gusts ranging from 25 to 40 miles per hour today, a result of the extremely low pressure center to the east.

Joseph said the eastern storm was noticeable in Milwaukee on Monday in the form of the high, icy clouds to the city’s east and relatively clear skies to the west.

He said any rain Milwaukee experiences during the course of the storm would likely be lake effect rain rather than a direct result of Sandy.

Joseph also explained the difference between Sandy, the so-

Streets are flooded under the Manhattan Bridge in Brooklyn Monday.

Hurricane Sandy made landfall on the northern East Coast Monday and brought much of the region to a standstill as the region was hit by what has now been dubbed a “superstorm” by various national experts and media outlets.

The storm made landfall at 8 p.m. EDT Monday, bringing with it life-threatening flooding and sustained wind gusts of up to 90 mph. Fourteen were reported dead and more than 5 million were without power as of the

early hours of Tuesday morning.

Sandy, which originated as a tropical storm and has been followed by meteorologists since last week, killed 69 people in the Caribbean and led to orders from officials to evacuate parts of New York City, New Jersey, Connecticut and nearby areas.

Even before making landfall, Sandy grounded flights, led to the closing of public transportation and closed various government offices. In addition to the various agencies, the New York Stock Exchange, the NFL front offices and public and private schools were also closed throughout the area. Federal government offices in Washington, D.C., also shut down Monday, and President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney suspended campaign stops and issued statements.

INDEX

NEWS

VIEWPOINTS

SPORTS

Apartment

CAMPBELL

LOCICERO

‘Superstorm’ causes evacuations in numerous states

By Pat Simonaitis

patrick.simonaitis@marquette.edu

Photo by Bebeto Matthews/Associated Press

DPS REPORTS.....................2 CALENDAR.......................2 STUDY BREAK.....................5

VIEWPOINTS......................10 SPORTS..........................12 CLASSIFIEDS..................14

A class project developed into a south side building complex.

PAGE 4

The scents and sounds of childhood Halloweens live on.

PAGE 10

See Hurricane, page 7

The NBA’s return means another season of basketball disparity.

PAGE 12

News

2 Tribune

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

DPS Reports

News in Brief Obama, Romney cancel stops Campaign stops to Wisconsin scheduled for this week have been canceled due to Hurricane Sandy, the Green Bay Press Gazette is reporting.

President Barack Obama canceled his visit to Green Bay Tuesday and will instead stay in Washington to monitor the storm.

Republican presidential nominee Gov. Mitt Romney also canceled his appearance in West Allis Monday in addition to all of his events scheduled for Tuesday.

His running mate, Paul Ryan canceled appearances for Monday and Tuesday but is still scheduled to visit Green Bay Wednesday.

Google announces new phone, tablets

Google announced a new Nexus phone, tablet and Android operating system Monday in a blog post following the cancellation of a press conference due to Hurricane Sandy.

The Nexus 4 phone, Nexus 10 tablet and updated Nexus 7 tablet will all go on sale Nov. 13. Google follows Microsoft and Apple in announcing new fall products.

The Nexus 4, the new Google smartphone, comes with the latest version of Google Now, an app that provides users information such as the weather, traffic and sports scores. The phone costs $299 without a two-year contract.

Google also announced a new tablet, the Nexus 10. The tablet boasts a 10-inch screen with 300 pixels per inch, the highest resolution any tablet on the market. The 16 GB tablet costs $399.

The Nexus 7 tablet, originally announced in June, received an update, giving it access to cellular data services. The Android software also

received minor updates including a new 360-degree photo-taking app and wireless streaming support.

Woman arrested for talking too long After exceeding her threeminute amount of speaking time at a California council meeting, 60-year-old Karen Wright was arrested and cited with disrupting a public meeting.

“Can you see my wrists? You’re pulling and jerking on my wrists!”

Wright said in a video of the event.

“I cannot get up without putting my hands down!”

The meeting took place in Riverside, Cal. Mayor Ron Loveridge and other council members denied that they ordered the arrest.

Wright was talking about a local sludge-hauling contract when her time expired and she was escorted off the stage by a police officer. As she was being escorted from the stage she said she wanted the police harassment to stop.

In the background of the video, someone shouted that this was shaping the legacy of the mayor.

Loveridge said in his 32 years of public service, he had never heard of a speaker being arrested at a council meeting. He then said police officers wouldn’t be allowed to make arrests unless asked by the council chair.

Wis. senate race a muddy one In an election year marked by political mudslinging, the Wisconsin senate race between Tammy Baldwin and Tommy Thompson is the dirtiest in the nation, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is reporting.

According to data collected

by Kantar Media’s CMAG, 99 percent of ads broadcast in the state in the past month have been “negative,” or focused primarily on attacking the opposing candidate. Baldwin has been depicted as an unpatriotic, radical liberal, while Thompson has been portrayed as a lobbyist who has made millions representing corporate interests.

Earlier in the campaign, during the 30-day period from Aug. 19 to Sept. 17, 95 percent of the 7,477 ads aired by Baldwin and her supporters were negative, while all 465 of those supporting Thompson were positive.

Following a poor showing in the polls, Thompson and his allies responded with the negative ad blitz that can be seen today.

Syrian airstrikes kill 500 Syrian warplanes launched 60 airstrikes against rebels Monday, marking the most intense air raids since the country’s uprising began 19 months ago.

Anti-regime activists said that at least 500 people were killed over a four-day period ending yesterday that was supposed to feature a U.N.-backed ceasefire to coincide with the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.

Government officials said a car bomb in a Damascus suburb killed 10 to 15 people and injured 41 more, contributing to the death toll.

The Syrian army had warned Sunday night that it would strike “remnants of terrorists with an iron fist.”

About 150 members of the Syrian opposition met in Turkey Monday to plan for the possibility of a post-Bashar Assad regime.

Bank accused of racial biases Discrimination a ‘systematic’ practice for bank, groups say

By Monique Collins

monique.collins@marquette.edu

The Metropolitan Milwaukee Fair Housing Council and other fair housing groups from around the country filed a complaint on Oct. 23 against Bank of America, accusing the bank of housing discrimination.

The complaintants observed 45 Bank of America real estateowned properties. Thirty of the properties were located in predominatly black neighborhoods, nine were in predominatly nonwhite neighborhoods and six in predominatly white neighborhoods, according to the complaint.

The complaint followed an undercover investigation which found that the bank maintains and markets foreclosed homes in white neighborhoods better than in black and Hispanic neighborhoods in Chicago, Indianapolis and Milwaukee, according the National Fair Housing Alliance’s website.

The MMFHC filed the complaint with the U.S.

Department of Housing and Urban Development. It is part of an amended complaint NFHA and seven other agencies filed earlier this month about how Bank of American differently maintains and markets properties of white, black and Hispanic neighborhoods across the country, according to the organization’s website.

The official complaint issued by NFHA accused Bank of American of having “a systematic and particularized practice of engaging in differential treatment in maintaining and/or marketing its (real estate-owned) properties on the basis of race, color and/or national origin.”

In Milwaukee, the investigation found that 51 percent of Bank of America-owned homes in communities of color had more than five maintenance or marketing problems. Eighty seven percent did not have a “for sale” sign, according to the complaint.

“Good neighbors are considerate: they take care of their yards, pick up their trash and care for their neighborhoods,” said Shanna Smith, president and CEO of the National Fair Housing Alliance, in the NFHA press release. “Bank of America is not a good neighbor in communities of color.”

William Tisdale, president and CEO of the Metropolitan Milwaukee Fair Housing Council, said the maintenance of these homes has rested largely on other residents in the area.

“Neighbors living near Bank of America properties in African-American and Latino neighborhoods often report having to mow the lawn of the bank-owned home or clean up trash that has spilled onto nearby properties,” Tisdale said in the press release.

“Without the intervention of these responsible neighbors, we can only venture to guess how much worse the bank-owned homes would look.”

Tisdale said the lack of curb appeal hurts not only the foreclosed homes but other neighbors.

Bank of America officials could not be reached for comment.

Tisdale said the MMFHC and other complaintants are not demanding changes in state law regarding banks’ relationships to their properties because there are already several laws in place to prevent housing discrimination.

State budget cuts have limited the resources officials can use to investigate housing discrimination cases, but the City of Milwaukee is trying to hold the

Oct. 25 At 9:35 a.m. an employee reported that unknown person(s) removed secured university property estimated at $200 from the Marquette University School of Dentistry’s Dental Clinic North.

Oct. 26 At 11:09 a.m. an unidentified subject pulled a monitor cable from a wall in Engineering Hall, causing damage.

Estimated damage is unknown at this time

Oct. 27 At 11:14 p.m. two students battered another student in the 1700 block of W. Kilbourn Ave. and injured the student.

The student victim received medical attention for his injuries. MPD took the two student suspects into custody.

Oct. 28 At 12:44 a.m. four underage students in the 800 block of North 17th St. admitted to consuming alcohol and were cited by the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office.

At 1:12 a.m. an unidentified subject vandalized university property in Schroeder Hall, causing an estimated $125 in damage.

At 2:32 a.m. a student reported that unknown person(s) vandalized her unsecured, unattended property in Schroeder Hall, causing an estimated $800 in damage.

At 6:20 a.m. unknown person(s) vandalized university property in McCormick Hall, causing an estimated $200 in damage. Facilities Services was contacted.

Events Calendar OCTOBER 2012

S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

Tuesday 30 Black America, The State of Political Power, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 7 p.m.

Women’s Volleyball at Milwaukee, Klotsche Center, 7 p.m.

Wednesday 31 Great Pumpkin Festival, Old Schoolhouse Park, 6 p.m.

Men’s soccer vs. Cincinnati, Valley Fields, 7:05 p.m.

Paul Rodgers, Potawatomi Bingo Casino, 8 p.m.

Contact Us and Corrections The Marquette Tribune welcomes questions, comments, suggestions and notification of errors that appear in the newspaper. Contact us at (414) 288-5610 or editor@marquettetribune.org.

The Marquette Tribune EDITORIAL

Editor-in-Chief Andrew Phillips (414) 288-7246 Managing Editor Maria Tsikalas (414) 288-6969 NEWS (414) 288-5610 News Editor Pat Simonaitis Projects Editor Allison Kruschke Assistant Editors Sarah Hauer, Joe Kaiser, Matt Gozun Investigative Reporter Jenny Zahn Administration Melanie Lawder Business Emily Fischer, Claudia Brokish College Life Elise Angelopulos Crime/DPS Nick Biggi Metro Monique Collins MUSG/Student Orgs. Ben Greene Politics Alexandra Whittaker Religion & Social Justice Seamus Doyle Science & Health Eric Oliver General Assignment Jacob Born VIEWPOINTS (414) 288-7940 Viewpoints Editor Tessa Fox Editorial Writers Katie Doherty, Tessa Fox Columnists Carlie Campbell, Brooke Goodman, Tony Manno MARQUEE (414) 288-3976 Marquee Editor Matt Mueller Assistant Editor Erin Heffernan Reporters Claire Nowak, Peter Setter, Eva Sotomayor SPORTS (414) 288-6964 Sports Editor Michael LoCicero Assistant Editor Trey Killian Reporters Chris Chavez, Kyle Doubrava, Patrick Leary, Matt Trebby Sports Columnists Mike LoCicero, Matt Trebby COPY Copy Chief Alec Brooks Copy Editors Jacob Born, Claudia Brokish, Patrick Leary, Ashley Nickel

owners and lenders of these vacant houses accountable through city ordinances.

“Within 30 days, lenders and homeowners have to register a vacant building so the city can check up on it,” Tisdale said.

“The number of these houses it just overwhelming, though.”

Tisdale said housing discrimination has a direct link to segregation in Milwaukee.

“If you can’t get a mortgage based on your race ... those are

VISUAL CONTENT Visual Content Editor Rob Gebelhoff News Designer A. Martina Ibanez-Baldor Sports Designers Haley Fry, Taylor Lee Marquee Designer Maddy Kennedy Photographers Danny Alfonzo, Valeria Cardenas, Rebecca Rebholz ----

STUDENT MEDIA INTERACTIVE

Director Erin Caughey Content Manager Alex Busbee Technical Manager Michael Andre Reporters Stephanie Graham, Victor Jacobo, Brynne Ramella, Eric Ricafrente, Ben Sheehan Designer Eric Ricafrente Programmers Jake Tarnow, Jon Gunter Study Abroad Blogger Andrea Anderson ----

ADVERTISING

(414) 288-1738 Advertising Director Anthony Virgilio Sales Manager Jonathan Ducett Creative Director Joe Buzzelli Classified Manager Grace Linden

THE MARQUETTE TRIBUNE is a wholly

owned property of Marquette University, the publisher. THE TRIBUNE serves as a student voice for the university and gives students publishing experience and practice in journalism, advertising, and management and allied disciplines. THE TRIBUNE is written, edited, produced and operated solely by students with the encouragement and advice of the advisor and business manager, who are university employees.

The banner typeface, Ingleby, is designed by David Engelby and is available at dafont.com. David Engelby has the creative, intellectual ownership of the original design of Ingleby.

THE TRIBUNE is normally published Tuesdays and Thursdays, except holidays, during the academic year by Marquette Student Media, P.O. Box 1881, Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881. First copy of paper is free; additional copies are $1 each. Subscription rate: $50 annually. Phone: (414) 288-7246. Fax: (414) 2883998.

the types of things that restrain a person’s free choice of housing,” he said.

Tisdale said action taken against housing discrimination will help property values and community self-worth in the long run.

“If they’re all (maintained and marketed) equally, there’s a greater likelihood that there will be a higher demand for homes in non-white neighborhoods,” he said.

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

News

Tribune 3

Grand Avenue sold; comeback possible for mall Stores remain open as ownership transfers to Bank of America fund

By Emily Fischer

emily.fischer@marquette.edu

The Shops of Grand Avenue, located at 275 W. Wis. Ave., is being sold to a subsidiary of the lender, 275 West Wisconsin Holdings LLC. The lender offered the only bid for the mall at a foreclosure auction last Monday. Wells Fargo, acting as a trustee for a Bank of America commercial mortgage trust, bid $8.5 million for the mall.

In 2005, the mall was purchased for $31.7 million by New York-based Ashkenazy Acquisition Corp. In 2010, Five Mile Capital took control of the property after Ashkenazy defaulted in $10 million in mezzanine debt.

Mezzanine debt refers to unsecured, higher yielding loans that rank above equity but are subordinate to bank and secure loans.

Mark Eppli, interim dean of the College of Business Administration, compared this process to buying a house.

“When I buy a house, I buy it on the ability to pay my mortgage,” Eppli said. “I continue to pay mortgage to buy a boat or pay for my child’s education, and if I lose my job or my income goes down, I default. It becomes the right of the lender to take that property, and they have every right to do that.”

He added that Bank of America will hopefully add value to the property before selling it later.

“When the default happens, the second loan has the opportunity to pay off the first loan,” he said.

“If they won’t want to do that, they give up the property. Bank of America had a foreclosure

sale to another investor. There were no credible bids, so they will retain ownership and work to increase value, work on property and sell it at a later date.”

The mall spans three city blocks and features Milwaukee’s largest food court. Its website says more than 5.5 million people visit the mall each year. In January 2011, the mall reported a 63 percent occupancy rate to The Business Journal, meaning 63 percent of the space in the mall was filled with businesses.

“When you look at how malls operate, two or three anchor tenants create a draw,” Eppli said. “In 1998, Macy’s pulled out of Grand Avenue, and Borders took its place. When Borders left, Planet Fitness occupied the space. Macy’s brought a lot of traffic, Border’s brought some traffic and Planet Fitness

isn’t really bringing much traffic to the space.”

The Shops of Grand Avenue mall is familiar to many Marquette students.

“Last weekend I went to T.J. Maxx, but I didn’t visit any of the other stores at the mall because I was searching for a specific item,” said Kate Anderson, a freshman in the College of Arts & Sciences. “As a college student, I am looking for inexpensive items of a specific nature, and most of the stores there didn’t offer that.”

Some argue the mall could benefit from taking advantage of the many college aged students in the area. Within a five-mile radius of the mall, there are 15 colleges and universities, including Marquette, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design

and Milwaukee School of Engineering. These universities total a student population of more than 100,000.

“That mall would definitely do better if it was geared toward college students, but I feel like it definitely isn’t,” Anderson said.

“They have a wide variety of shops but not a lot that I would necessarily shop at. They don’t really call to our generation.”

The mall’s spokesperson was unable to comment when contacted for a statement regarding a change in ownership.

Anderson offered ideas of stores she’d like to see at the Shops at Grand Avenue.

“A Bed, Bath and Beyondtype store that sells appliances and things that college students forget to ask their parents for at the beginning of the year,” she said. “The mall is conveniently

located for the entire campus. It’s easy to get to, especially during the winter. I’d want to see places that sell inexpensive but quality clothing, and maybe a grocery store. And a Target! That would be amazing.”

Eppli said adaptive reuse, or filling the empty space in the mall with services and other nontraditional uses, could help the mall begin a rebuilding process.

“If they get the price down to a low enough point, so the rent can be paid by smaller occupants, they can begin the rebuilding process,” Eppli said. “The mall has been working with local entrepreneurs, including Sprinkler, a startup company that fosters entrepreneurial startups at very low rents. If the companies start taking off, they can start paying more rent and bring more traffic to the mall.”

Photo by Danny Alfonzo/daniel.alfonzo@marquette.edu

The Shops of Grand Avenue was sold to an investment firm, Ashkenanzy Acquisition Corp, in 2005. In 2010, Five Mile Capital took control of the mall.

Annual show supports breast cancer efforts abroad Fundraiser proceeds go to non-profit working in Africa

By Melanie Lawder

melanie.lawder@marquette.edu

The Courage to Dare foundation hosted its third annual fashion fundraiser Sunday in Marquette’s Weasler Auditorium to raise awareness and increase education about breast cancer in West Africa and among the African American community in Wisconsin.

About 70 people attended the event, and proceeds from the night went to the Courage to Dare foundation. The organization aims to dispel myths that categorize breast cancer as a death sentence and misrepresent it as a sexually transmitted disease.

The gala included two fashion shows, a dance performance

by Marquette’s hip hop group, Hype, a skit and several African praise dances, along with informational presentations about the disease and the foundation. The fashion shows featured mostly women’s clothing and jewelry from designers Chibuzo Aguwa, Wafrique Craft, Ella 1278 and May Vora Jewelry.

Bonnie Anderson, the program manager at Milwaukee Catholic Home, is a breast cancer survivor and mentor for Courage to Dare. She spoke at the gala and stressed that, despite the media’s glamorization of the breast cancer during October, it is an invasive disease that can be prevented if detected early.

“As a breast cancer survivor, there is nothing pretty or pink about breast cancer,” Anderson said.

Anderson advised all women to use clinical exams offered by their physicians. She also advocated for the use of preventive techniques such as monthly self-exams.

“You can survive breast cancer, ladies, if you are in tune with your body and make a point to remember that October is breast cancer awareness month, but we have these breasts every day of the year,” said Anderson.

Assistant Dean for the College of Communication Chioma Ugochukwu sits on the board of directors of Courage to Dare and served as one of the event’s MCs. She said she was very happy about the event’s turnout and hopes to continue education efforts for women.

“This is a very young organization, and we are trying to raise awareness – not only about breast cancer, but about the

organization and what the organization is doing,” Ugochukwu said. “We are happy people actually showing their support, and hopefully we can continue with the mission of the organization.”

Juliet Aguawa, president of

Courage to Dare, founded the organization to increase education efforts about the disease among women in West Africa and the African American community in Wisconsin. She was diagnosed with stage-three

breast cancer at age 34.

“We can stand together to raise our voices and see that no woman has to think of this as a death sentence without trying,” Aguawa said.

Photo by Rebecca Rebholz/rebecca.rebholz@marquette.edu

The Oct. 28 event in the Weasler featured fashion shows, a dance performance and traditional African music.

News

4 Tribune

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Graduates open South side apartment complex Two business school almunae spent three years on project

By Ben Greene

benjamin.greene@marquette.edu

Two Marquette graduates recently made a class project about housing development become a reality with the grand opening of the Mitchell Street Market Lofts on Milwaukee’s south side.

Sherry Terrell-Webb and Tina Anderson began work on the housing complex while enrolled in Marquette’s Associates in Commercial Real Estate program from 2008 to 2009. TerrellWebb, a 1995 Law School graduate, said the pair was assigned the task of researching and pitching a housing development from start to finish.

“We actually had to pick an area in the city and come up with a development plan,” Terrell-Webb said. “We had to do everything you would have to

do if you were going to actually build it. That’s talking to architects, talking to people at the city, figuring out who owns it, environmental issues, everything that’s actually involved in doing a development.”

Anderson, a 2008 alumna of the Graduate School of Management, said the program concluded with each group giving a presentation on their development. The two women put their research and work on display for the program’s instructor, Bob Lemke, and many of the city

Photo by Vale Cardenas/valeria.cardenas@marquette.edu

The Mitchell Street Market Lofts began as a class project in 2009, broke ground last year and opened Oct.12.

Drunk driving tests DPS’ limit Public Safety response limited to monitoring, referral to MKE police

By Nick Biggi

nicholas.biggi@marquette.edu

Over the course of the fall drunk driving cases have spiked around campus, though none have been Marquette students or have been affiliated with the university.

Although Department of Public Safety officers have been able to track down a few intoxicated drivers over the past two months, they are actually unable to pull over those they suspect are drunk.

Instead, they must get the license plate, call the Milwaukee Police Department and follow the driver until MPD arrives.

“We observe and advise MPD,” said Department of Public Safety’s Captain Russell Shaw. “If they pull over on their own accord, then we will certainly approach them and ... talk to them to see what their condition may be.”

DPS has primarily seen people pass out at the steering wheel

while at a stoplight. When the driver fails to proceed despite a green light, the officers pick up a cue that something is wrong.

“At that time is when we would call Milwaukee Police Department, and it becomes a safety issue for not only the community, but the drivers themselves at that point,” Shaw said.

Alexandra Lombardo, a junior in the College of Communication who has a car on campus, expressed her gratitude for the DPS officers being able to catch the intoxicated drivers.

“It makes me feel a lot safer because I know that they are doing everything that they can to protect all of us,” Lombardo said. “I don’t hesitate to drive my car as much now.”

Katherine Murray, a freshman in the College of Communication, explained how living on a campus in an urban environment can heighten the issue of drunk driving, especially for students who walk often.

“One of the downsides of going to a school in an urban environment is that community members of the Milwaukee area travel frequently through the

campus’s roads,” Murray said.

“Living in McCormick and being a communication student who walks all the way to Johnston Hall sometimes can be tough, and I would like feeling safe when I walk so much.”

According to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Wisconsin has the highest rate of drunk driving in the U.S. In a nationwide study released in 2006, 26.4 percent of Wisconsin adults admitted to driving while drunk.

In 2010, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation reported that there were 44,000 convictions for drunk driving.

Despite these statistics, Shaw said that Marquette does not usually face this problem. He said that occurrences like these are pretty rare on campus.

“Honestly, we don’t get a lot of this,” Shaw said. “The fact that we are out there on the street patrolling, they could have just easily happened just blocks west of us or east of us. It’s good that we are finding them because you don’t know what safety issues can happen when someone’s driving impaired.”

States with the highest rate of adults who drove under the influence of alcohol in 2006 Nebraska

Wisconsin #1 26.4%

#4 22.9%

Minnesota #3 23.5%

South Dakota

North Dakota

#5 21.6%

#2 24.9%

Source: National Survey on Drug Use and Health Infographic by A. Martina Ibanez-Baldor/angela.ibanez-baldor@marquette.edu

officials they had been in contact with throughout the year.

“The feedback that we got back from that presentation was so positive, and it was so encouraging that they felt as though, if this was a real project, this was something that was feasible,” Anderson said.

“It wasn’t just a classroom thing; this was something that could really go forth.”

As Anderson and Terrell-Webb began creating their project in the real world, they quickly realized that, although much of the background research had already been conducted during the course, there was still a lot of work to be done. With Lemke’s help, the two women were able to fill in the holes and complete the project.

“Not only was (Lemke) a business partner, but he was a mentor,” Anderson said. “Keeping in mind this is our first experience, there were some things that we came across that we didn’t expect, and even the classroom was not able to teach us. So (Lemke)

really held our hand, so to speak, and walked us through that entire process, while respecting that we’re not just students anymore; we’re actually business partners in this venture.”

After spending two years obtaining tax credits and financing the development, the project broke ground in September 2011, and on Oct. 12, the 24-unit building at 1948 W. Mitchell St. had its ribbon-cutting ceremony. Terrell-Webb said the completion of the project was a moment of pride for her, after devoting more than three years to its development.

“It was very exciting,” she said.

“It’s always great to see something that started as a project grow into an actual building. We got to spend time with the tenants, and they told us how much they appreciated the building.

They told us that they were looking for a quality place to live, and we put it there.”

Students converse their way to fluency La Tertulia offers leaners opportunity to practice Spanish

By Elise Angelopulos

elise.angelopulos@marquette.edu

Students have an opportunity to learn Spanish in a new way through La Tertulia, which means “the discussion group” in Spanish. The group, which is sponsored by the Spanish Honor Society Sigma Delta Pi, holds discussions to encourage students to casually converse in Spanish, advance their level of fluency and better grasp their speaking capabilities.

Tamara Agger, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences and the head of La Tertulia, said the discussions can help students gain confidence while attempting to learn a new language.

Agger said La Tertulia is not completely new to campus. It was restarted after she returned from her semester abroad in Chile to find that the discussions had fallen off the radar. The discussions started up again in the Office of International Education on Sept. 20.

“I proposed to my fellow Sigma Delta Pi members that it would be a good idea to start it up again,” Agger said. “They agreed, and since then, it’s become both a pet project and a passion of mine.”

Agger said as a former La Tertulia student, the lessons provided great preparation for her studies in Chile.

“At the end of the day, La Tertulia is about making connections with other Spanish speakers, creating a space for intercultural exchange and fostering the use and practice of the Spanish language on Marquette’s campus,” Agger said.

Agger said La Tertulia students must identify themselves as beginner, intermediate or advanced so speakers with equal conversational abilities can gather and have conversations at their own pace.

Agger said the guidelines for

discussions are never forced or strictly adhered to.

“I believe that the best discussions are often the organic, unplanned ones,” Agger said.

“That’s kind of an ideal, though, especially when you’re a nonnative speaker.”

Jesse Mark, a senior in the College of Health Sciences and the head of public relations for Sigma Delta Pi, said La Tertulia is intended to improve already practicing Spanish speakers but is open to all Marquette students, regardless of language experience. She said native speakers are encouraged to join, as they provide valuable help for nonnative speakers.

Mark said each La Tertulia session is organized around topics for discussion and conversation prompts that members prepare but which allow the discussion to flow wherever seems comfortable.

“The discussions are organized so that students can speak to other students who are at a similar level of Spanish,” Mark said. “We try to switch it up every week, and the topics can be anything from pets to travel or even politics.”

Mark said students’ abilities greatly increase after regularly attending discussions.

“The nice thing about La Tertulia is that there is no pressure; we all understand that we are learning a new language, so don’t be afraid to make mistakes,” Mark said.

La Tertulia hosts about 10 to 15 students at each weekly session.

Sean Mahon, a senior in the College of Business Administration and treasurer of Sigma Delta Pi, said the central idea of La Tertulia is the relaxed atmosphere.

“It’s not like a classroom,” Mahon said. “You’re not being graded but simply working on the language for your own proficiency.”

Mahon said he believes there is an extensive Spanish-speaking contingent across campus and that recruiting such individuals is paramount. He said the turnout some weeks is good while other weeks’ turnout is lacking, and he said the discussions are a work in progress.

Study Break S Tuesday, October 30, 2012 PAGE 5

tudy Break

The Marquette Tribune Tribune 5

Tuesday October 30, 2012

sudoku Sudoku Puzzle - Hard Sudoku Puzzle - Hard

Sudoku Puzzle - Medium Sudoku Puzzle - Medium

SudokuPuzzle Puzzle- -Hard Hard Sudoku

SudokuPuzzle Puzzle- -Easy Easy Sudoku

www.sudoku-puzzles.net www.sudoku-puzzles.net

www.sudoku-puzzles.net www.sudoku-puzzles.net

www.sudoku-puzzles.net www.sudoku-puzzles.net

www.sudoku-puzzles.net www.sudoku-puzzles.net

Sudoku Puzzle - Easy Sudoku Puzzle - Easy

Sudoku Puzzle - Hard Sudoku Puzzle - Hard

Sudoku Puzzle - Hard Sudoku Puzzle - Hard

Sudoku Puzzle - Medium Sudoku Puzzle - Medium

www.sudoku-puzzles.net www.sudoku-puzzles.net

www.sudoku-puzzles.net www.sudoku-puzzles.net

Sudoku Puzzle - Easy Sudoku Puzzle - Easy

Sudoku Puzzle - Medium Sudoku Puzzle - Medium

www.sudoku-puzzles.net www.sudoku-puzzles.net Sudoku Puzzle - Easy Sudoku Puzzle - Easy

www.sudoku-puzzles.net www.sudoku-puzzles.net Sudoku Puzzle - Easy Sudoku Puzzle - Easy

Watch

channel 99 in the dorms or http://mutv.mu.edu

Apply what you read. www.sudoku-puzzles.net www.sudoku-puzzles.net

www.sudoku-puzzles.net www.sudoku-puzzles.net

www.sudoku-puzzles.net www.sudoku-puzzles.net

More Puzzles: More Puzzles: www.sudoku-puzzles.net www.sudoku-puzzles.net

Marquette Tribune

Endless possibilities.

More Puzzles: More Puzzles: www.sudoku-puzzles.net www.sudoku-puzzles.net

www.sudoku-puzzles.net www.sudoku-puzzles.net

6 Tribune Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Study B reak STUDY BREAK

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Tribune 6

crossword

Marquette Tribune 11/1/12 Crossword

Tell It Like It Is Across

1

2

PuzzleJunction.com

3

4

6

8

9

10

21

29

25

26

30

22

36

38

39 44

32

40

41

61

50

52 56

53 57

64

63

60

47

49

62

34

42

46

48

55

33

28

37

45

51

13

23

27 31

35

43

12

19

18

24

11

16

20

54

7

15

14 17

1 Ground grain 5 Tablelands 10 Perlman of Cheers 14 Bunsen burner 15 Fragrance 16 Stagecoach actor Tim or publisher Henry 17 Phrase to a recent winner 19 Assortment 20 Escargot starter 21 Family member 23 Starchy tuber 24 Dire fate 27 Manicurist’s concern 29 Phrase to an underling 32 Space shooter 35 Milne bear 36 Wool weight 37 Range 38 Painting 39 Ancient Greek theater 42 Beer barrel 43 Tops 46 Botanist Gray 47 Sawbucks 48 Fancy tie 49 Phrase of helplessness 51 Valentine symbol 53 Buckeye State 54 Egg cells 56 Alliance acronym

5

58 65

59

66

67

68

69

70

71

72

Copyright ©2012 PuzzleJunction.com

58 Like some lingerie 62 Well (It.) 64 Phrase of encouragement 67 Tolkien creatures 68 Afr. antelope 69 Trick 70 Baby blues 71 Store events 72 Expires Down 1 Computer memory, for short 2 Collar type 3 Dwarf buffalo 4 Phrase that could mean, “Big deal!”

5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 18 22 25 26 28 29 30 31 33 34

Jacket type Go wrong Miso starter Quantity Steam bath Pi follower Phrase of excitement Lamb alias Energy source Play disaster Nervous twitches Director Preminger State of mind Auction offering Tender spots “No way!” phrase Utopian Happening Lambs

35 Sunscreen ingredient 40 Norse capital 41 The Turtle poet 44 Foot part 45 Baseball’s Musial 47 Dropout’s phrase 49 Number one Hun 50 Enumerate 52 Storms 54 Bassoon relative 55 Exceedingly 57 Elliptical 59 Ornamental purse 60 Gaelic 61 Bar selections 63 Double curve 65 Compass pt.

66 Psyches

News

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1:

Hurricane: Student and alumnae share experiences called “superstorm,” and Hurricane Irene, which struck the East Coast in August 2011.

“The big difference is that (Sandy) is changing form as we speak,” Joseph said Monday afternoon. “This storm is unique in that it’s transforming from a tropical storm – a storm that develops over the tropical ocean, with warm water – to an extra-tropical storm – like a storm in the Midwest, with rain, thunderstorms and snow.”

Joseph said this transformation will likely cause the storm to move more slowly across the east than a typical hurricane or tropical storm.

The hurricane has also had a direct impact on current and former Marquette students. Sarah Milnar, a professional studies graduate student and 2010 Marquette alumna, was in New York for a wedding this weekend and planned to fly out of LaGuardia Airport Monday. She said her flight was cancelled and rescheduled to Wednesday, leaving her and her family stranded in a hotel two hours north of the city in Pougkeepsie, N.Y. New York City was expected to continue taking especially heavy damage from the storm, and some estimates projected $10 to $20 billion dollars in total damage from Sandy.

“It’s not that bad yet,” Milnar said Monday afternoon. “It’s been raining all day and the wind is starting to pick up, though.”

Jen Michalski, a 2012 alumna,

said she lost power on Monday around 3 p.m. CDT after high winds and steady rain throughout the day near her home in Worchester, Mass., about an hour away from Boston.

“I’m lucky, being about an hour from the coast,” Michalski said.

She said she hoped for a break in the storm before Thursday, when she is scheduled to fly to Milwaukee.

In Washington, D.C., near Capitol Hill, Katie Kovach, a 2010 alumna, said Monday afternoon that the storm was starting to pick up.

“It’s not pleasant out here,” Kovach said. “Right now there’s lots of rain and the wind is starting to pick up and get freaky-sounding.”

Kovach said local news in the area began reporting on the storm during the middle of last week.

She said she hadn’t left her apartment, which still had power Monday afternoon, all through Sunday and Monday.

“I didn’t go crazy stocking up,” she said. “But I did get some basic provisions.”

Kovach said she also didn’t lose power during Hurricane Irene and she expected the storm wouldn’t strike the Capital area the worst.

“I feel bad for people in New Jersey,” she said.

Kovach, a Chicago native, also said she was still getting used to living near the ocean.

“I never had a ‘hurricane day’ until I moved out here,” she said.

“Right now, I’m just hanging out.”

Tribune 7

Campaign enters final lap Candidates spar over previous statements, legislative records

By Alexandra Whittaker

alexandra.whittaker@marquette.edu

Tommy Thompson and Tammy Baldwin went head to head for a final debate on Friday in what has been a vicious struggle for the Wisconsin senate seat currently occupied by retiring Sen. Herbert Kohl.

The debate, hosted in Marquette Law School’s Eckstein Hall, put on full display the incredible negativity surrounding the campaign from both the candidates and their supporters.

Baldwin and Thompson spent much of the debate clashing over a Thompson attack ad criticizing Baldwin for voting against a 2006 resolution honoring 9/11 victims.

Baldwin said she voted nine other times for resolutions honoring the victims and worked on passing a bill to give aid to first responders.

“I am outraged that Tommy Thompson would question my patriotism,” Baldwin said.

Thompson talked about his experience at ground zero after the attacks and said he wasn’t questioning Baldwin’s patriotism but “questioned her judgment.”

While the remarks resonated with the audience, Netanya Mintz, a student in the Law School, criticized what she saw as Thompson’s decision to use 9/11 for political gain.

“I was really turned off by Tommy Thompson’s approach to 9/11 – it really struck a nerve with me,” Mintz said. “I don’t think you should ever politicize 9/11. I think Tammy Baldwin

Photo by Rebecca Rebholz/rebecca.rebholz@marquette.edu

Attack ads and responses to them played a major role in Friday’s debate.

believed in the same thing, and I appreciated that genuinely.”

After debate moderator Mike Gousha asked Thompson about comments he made about ending Medicare, the former governor backed away from his previous statements and emphasized his willingness to promote bipartisanship.

“I’ve always been a moderate conservative,” he said, saying that in his 14 years as governor, he often worked closely with Democrats in addition to Republicans.

Outside of Eckstein Hall, fifteen Thompson supporters waved signs in support for the candidate. One of them, Brittany Brzenk, disagreed with the idea that the Thompson campaign had crossed the line in its attacks on Baldwin.

“I’m here to support Tommy because Tommy has been loyal to Wisconsin throughout his governorship,” Brzenk said.

“We’re lucky enough that he’s

willing to run for Wisconsin again – that’s just how loyal he is. (During his) fourteen years as governor, he has done such great things for the state.”

The picketers held their demonstration before and after the debate without incident until a conversation between two war veterans, one supporting Baldwin and one supporting Thompson, escalated into a heated argument that ended with both walking off angrily.

The hostility between the two sides reflected the mannerisms displayed by the candidates during the debate. Thompson and Baldwin barely referred to each other by name, often settling simply for “my opponent” or “he” or “she.” The event concluded with a handshake made without any eye contact.

Getting the candidates to even stand near each other was a challenge, with Gousha having to ask the two to come closer together before the start of the debate.

A JOINT EFFORT FROM:

STOP BY THE AMU 11 AM - 1 PM TO SHARE YOUR OPINIONS

News

8 Tribune

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1:

Haunted: Dorms rumored to carry ghostly echoes of past residents

Photo courtesy of Sean Owens

Many Marquette buildings have their own legends of nighttime hauntings, exorcisms and paranormal activity.

the College of Arts & Sciences, has lived on the floor for the last three years and encountered the ghost numerous times.

Sweet’s first encounter with the ninth floor ghost came during RA training his sophomore year. Schroeder Hall was completely empty except for the RAs who stayed there for training.

Sweet left his room unlocked to go to a meeting, and when he returned, his electronics were unplugged, furniture had been moved around, and Christmas lights he had hung up were on the floor and smashed. Believing it was other RAs pulling a prank, Sweet brushed it off.

The next day he left his room to go to another meeting, this time locking his room. When he returned, his room was unlocked, furniture was moved around, and a roll of tape was taken from his RA box. Later that night, when all of the doors in unoccupied rooms were locked, Sweet heard a door slam down the hall. Sweet, along with two other RAs, decided to check all the doors to make sure everything was locked. Room 925 was unlocked, even though it was locked the next day. Room 913 was locked, but the lights were on.

Sweet tried to open room 906, but the key would not unlock the door, even though the same key had locked the room before summer break. The master key also wouldn’t open the door.

The hall director came up to the floor and tried her master key, a key that should open every door in the building, but it would not open room 906. The Department of Public Safety was contacted, and its key would not work.

DPS decided to sweep the whole building to make sure there was

no one living on the floor. But no one was there who was not supposed to be.

After that night, Sweet started experiencing odd dreams and could not fall asleep before 3 a.m.

Sweet said he felt uncomfortable in his room.

“I felt like there was something in my room,” Sweet said.

“But I didn’t give it a lot of credibility. I thought I was making this up in my head because all of this was going on.”

During RA training before second semester, every RA went on an RA retreat. There was no one living in Schroeder during this retreat. When they returned, all of the posters Sweet had put up on the walls on the side nearest to room 906 were taken off the wall and were neatly stacked in a pile. The tape for the posters were still hanging on the wall.

DPS checked the tapes from that night to see if anyone had come through the first floor or the ninth floor but saw nothing.

Two nights before residents returned, Sweet was in his room with other RAs when they heard a gust of wind come through the wing.

Doors rattled and posters fluttered.

“I can’t describe what the feeling was sitting in my room after hearing that - (I was) creeped out as all hell,” Sweet said.

But when the residents moved back in for the second semester, the activity stopped. Sweet, however, still felt something abnormal in his room.

“Even when residents moved back in, I still couldn’t fall asleep until 3 a.m. for a couple nights,” Sweet said. “But everything else stopped. All the other creepy feelings stopped, and my key worked in 906.”

Noah Leigh, founder of the Paranormal Investigators of Milwaukee, founded the “ghost hunting group” to try to explain paranormal activity in the Milwaukee area.

“The paranormal are unusual phenomena that can’t be explained scientifically,” Leigh said.

The Schroeder ghost is known as an intelligent ghost, meaning it reacts and is affected by the presence of people, Leigh said.

“An intelligent ghost has consciousness,” Leigh said. “I can ask it a question and it can answer back. We can set up an experience and set up trigger objects to try to get it to interact with us.”

Leigh said ghosts are normally affected by the presence of people.

“There are reports that something is there, and we go in,” Leigh said. “There is no proof that it actually matters (if we’re there), but there may be something that we do that they react to.”

After returning from winter break, the residents of room 906 checked the ceiling tiles,which can be pushed up, and found a roll of tape. Sweet claims it was the same roll of tape that had been taken from his room the year before.

“I don’t know how that happened,” Sweet said. “It was definitely my roll of tape, and it was in their ceiling. It was creepy.”

Sweet has also witnessed some creepy activity this semester. He and the other RA on the ninth floor, Zach Caldwell, a sophomore in the College of Business Administration, were checking rooms until they got to room 906, which was unlocked when it should have been locked and had its lights on and windows open. The next day, Sweet and

Caldwell were walking down the south wing of ninth floor. Room 925 was unlocked, despite having been locked the day before. Later that night, Sweet and a few RAs thought they heard something in the wing and went to check it out.

Nothing was out of the ordinary, except for room 906 being unlocked once again.

“At that point, my biggest concern was that I was having really weird feelings, odd dreams; things were just creepy on (the) wing,” Sweet said.

The next day, Caldwell and Sweet were walking down the wing again. As they passed a certain point, room 939’s door would rattle. They went down the rest of the wing and came back. As they hit the same point, the door would rattle. The two tested it a total of four times, and every time they would pass a certain point, the door would rattle. When they keyed into the room, there was nothing wrong.

“I walked in, and there was nothing,” Sweet said. “The windows were closed, the lights were off. The room was fine.”

“We were both spooked,” Caldwell said. “I thought it was going to be a board by the door that when we stepped on it, it would hit the door or something.

But that wasn’t the case.”

Later that night, Sweet went into the first floor bathroom of Schroeder, and he latched the stall door. As he turned around, the door started opening.

“I know I latched that door,” Sweet said. “You have to pull those closed on the guy’s first floor stall, and it didn’t just open a little bit, it opened the entire way.

And that’s when I got the most intense feeling of somebody being there with me I’ve ever had.”

Sweet immediately left the bathroom and went up back to his room to grab his rosary. He had left his room locked, but when he returned, his room was unlocked, the light he always leaves on was turned off, and his rosary was in the middle of the room on the floor.

“As I reached for my rosary, I felt a pressure on the right side of my foot and my ankle broke,” Sweet said. “As I was reaching for my rosary, I felt something from the right side of my foot, push it in, and my ankle broke … I honestly felt a hostile force break my ankle.”

To try to stop what has been happening on the ninth floor of Schroeder, Sweet and Caldwell contacted a Jesuit to come to the wing.

The priest blessed three rooms on the ninth floor: Caldwell’s room, Sweet’s room and room 906. And since those blessings have happened, there has not been any paranormal activity.

Jose Nieves, sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences and a resident of room 906, has not experienced anything in his room but has not tried to interact with the ghost.

Leigh said this sort of experience is very rare. Normally, ghosts do not attack those they haunt, but with the onset of paranormal investigating shows, in which nearly everything is shown as a demon, it has become the first conclusion people jump to. Leigh also said he believes the blessing should help stop the haunting.

The ghost of Schroeder Hall is the first and only report in which the ghost is believed to have harmed a student. But there are plenty of other ghosts said to inhabit Marquette buildings.

Other campus hauntings, new and old

Other paranormal rumors on campus include hauntings in Humphrey Hall, an old children’s hospital, the Varsity Theatre, Johnston Hall, Mashuda Hall, Straz Tower and Carpenter Hall.

Some of these hauntings are less severe than others. Johnston Hall is rumored to be home to two Jesuit ghosts. These Jesuits supposedly jumped off the building and are rumored to haunt the fifth floor. The Varsity Theatre is allegedly home to a former projector operator who likes to turn things on and off and lock and unlock doors.

Carpenter Hall is reportedly haunted by a boy named Jeremy, who died in a fire at the dorm.

Jeremy has allegedly been seen in some windows of the dorm and has even caused unplugged electronics to turn on.

Others have had more of an effect on residents. Cobeen Hall is most known for being haunted by an art critic. Rumors say the art critic likes to take the posters off of residents’ walls.

Kaitlyn Farmer, a sophomore in the College of Communication who lived in room 509 of Cobeen Hall, had an experience with a ghost other than the critic. When she was sleeping one night, she woke up to see a girl dressed in white sitting at the edge of her bed.

“I went to go reach for her, and she actually reached back,” Farmer said. “I hid under my covers the whole night and I just wanted to cry.”

Whenever she was alone in her room from that point on, Farmer would hear weird noises, and her roommate told Farmer that she started hearing the same things.

Farmer had never heard of any girl dressed in white haunting Cobeen before her experience.

Mashuda Hall is rumored to have a room where a girl was a part of an exorcism. This room has not experienced any paranormal activity since the exorcism, but it is rumored that the former resident who participated in the exorcism was haunted by a girl who committed suicide in the room.

Straz Tower, a converted YMCA, is said to be home to a boy named Willie. Willie drowned when he was a child and is said to haunt the pool area of Straz. Reports have said that when students open the pool for the morning, they will see a small amount of water moving, as if someone was swimming. Some have even heard someone say their name when they swim early in the morning.

Paul Lisy, a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences, lives in Humphrey Hall and heard rumors about a ghost girl that lives on the first floor of the hall. He said residents sometimes hear a girl playing with a ball or running down the hall. However, when residents investigate the noise, no one is there. Residents have also said they have a feeling someone is watching them when they are on the floor.

Lisy does not feel threatened by the reports of ghosts living in the dorm.

“It doesn’t bother me,” Lisy said. “I grew up in a house that (was) haunted. I’ve been around paranormal things since I’ve been a child, so it’s nothing new to me.”

News

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Tribune 9

Haunted Halls Schroeder

Mashuda

Cobeen

The room has not experienced any activity since the exorcism.

I went to go reach for her, and she actually reached back.“ 12 St.

16 St.

17 St.

18 St.

19 St.

Kaitlyn, FarmerSophomore, College of Communication

10 St.

Wells St.

Wisconsin Ave.

Varsity Theatre

Carpenter

Straz

Humphrey When residents investigate the noise, no one is there.

Johnston Scan this code or go to marquettetribune.org for an interactive version of this graphic.

Infogrqaphic by A. Martina Ibanez-Baldor/angela.ibanez-baldor@marquette.edu Photos by Danny Alfonzo/daniel.alfonzo@marquette.edu

et tweet twe

@mutrib

@mutribune

Viewpoints

The Marquette Tribune

PAGE 10

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

The Marquette Tribune Editorial Board:

Tessa Fox, Viewpoints Editor and Editorial Writer Katie Doherty, Editorial Writer Andrew Phillips, Editor-in-Chief Maria Tsikalas, Managing Editor Pat Simonaitis, News Editor Allison Kruschke, Projects Editor

ROll call

Matt Mueller, Marquee Editor Mike LoCicero, Sports Editor Alec Brooks, Copy Chief Rob Gebelhoff, Visual Content Editor

STAFF EDITORIAL

Continue the shift away from the R-word

Thumbs Up

Thumbs Down

-Mother Nature -Engaging class discussions -The band the Smashing Pumpkins -People who had awesome costumes -The #MUBB “class noggins” video

-Hurricane Sandy -Seemingly pointless homework -Hoodlums smashing pumpkins - People who didn’t read our last editorial -Never being in the university’s website photos

COLUMN

Remembering the ghosts of Halloweens past Photo by Kyle Cassidy

Conservative author Ann Coulter ignited controversy after using the R-word in a tweet Oct. 22.

If you’ve even glanced at the Viewpoints section this semester, you would know we think this election is pretty important.

But as Nov. 6 approaches, we are growing more and more disappointed with how politics is making some people act.

One of the most upsetting remarks this election season occurred at the end of the third presidential debate when conservative commentator Ann Coulter called the president of the United States a “retard” on Twitter.

Many people of our generation may have grown up using the R-word as kids, but as we got older, we’ve realized how objectionable it is. Unfortunately, Ann Coulter cannot say the same thing.

Last Friday on Piers Morgan Tonight, Coulter defended herself, saying she’s “had it with the language police.” She said she was not referring to anyone with Down syndrome and that the word is “a synonym for loser.” She denied that the word has ever been linked to those with mental disabilities and said she would continue to use the word in the future.

It’s hard to believe that an author and political commentator, someone who should be hypersensitive to the implications of language, would claim ignorance on such a delicate subject, one that has been in the national spotlight in recent years.

After Coulter’s now infamous tweet stating, “I highly approve of Romney’s decision to be kind and gentle to the retard,” she received a passionate message herself. This time it was from someone whom she directly offended, and we’re not talking about Obama.

We’re talking about John Franklin Stephens.

Stephens is an athlete and global messenger for the Special Olympics and has spoken and written many times about the use of the R-word.

We couldn’t be happier about Stephens’

letter and the attention it is receiving. Here is a 30-year-old man with Down syndrome standing up to bullies like Coulter for himself and thousands of others.

In his letter, Stephens says he feels alienated and alone by the use of the R-word and would like to see it stopped. So would we.

Luckily, we’re starting to head in the right direction.

In 2010, Congress banned the use of the words “retard” and “retardation” in federal health, education and labor laws. The American Psychiatric Association also plans to replace the term “mental retardation” with “intellectual development disorder” in the 2013 edition of The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

But it’s not just government changing the ways policies are written; it’s everyday people changing their everyday speech.

Perhaps the most interesting thing about this situation is the overwhelming amount of criticism and negative reactions Coulter received. This is because the sentiment surrounding mental disorders has changed dramatically and will continue to do so.

So many people have posted, tweeted and talked about Stephens’ response to Coulter.

The story made headlines across the country.

The use of the R-word is changing.

Campaigns like Spread the Word to End the Word are working. Coulter’s statement is drawing attention to this issue, and thus attention to our language.

We encourage you to continue helping the movement. Call out the people you know who continue to use the R-word. If you are someone who still lets the word occasionally slip, be more cognizant of that.

Of course there are other harmful words out there that should not be used. We can think of quite a few that bother us, and you probably can, too. So embrace Marquette’s mottos: Be a man or woman for others. Care for the whole person, no matter who he or she is. And don’t hesitate to be the difference.

STATEMENT OF OPINION POLICY

The weather was always cool enough to justify a fire in the fireplace but pleasant enough that the Halloween festivities of the evening were hardly ever dampened by rain. The leaves of my childhood would have recently changed color, crisped and started to fall.

It was always a good day when we didn’t have to wear our uniforms to school and always a welcome distraction to the school day to see what costumes our classmates had dreamed up.

There was always at least one person who wore regular clothes and claimed to be dressed up as a “public school kid.”

Teachers were usually generous enough to assign minimal homework, but even that was done hurriedly after school. Math problems were left without double-checks; vocabulary worksheets never even saw an open dictionary.

For my sister and me, the wait for our parents to return home from work felt especially long each year on Oct. 31. The pumpkins had been carved the night before, and the candy bowl was hidden somewhere we couldn’t find (or at least couldn’t reach). The house was full of the spicy, delicious smell of chili, which stewed in the crockpot all day long.

When our parents finally did get home, it was all we could do to keep from bombarding them with with questions and requests before they reached the back door. “Will you help me with my costume?” “I can’t find my trick-or-treat bag!” “What time are people coming over?” “Do I get to go trickor-treating without adults this year?”

The answer to the last question was almost invariably “no” to begin with, but the rules would slacken as the night wore on. Parents who were tired of walking up and down every block would wait on the corner for us to ensure we had received the

“

caroline.campbell@marquette.edu

MEMORIES OF OUR LIVES, OF OF OUR WORK AND OUR DEEDS WILL CONTINUE IN OTHERS.

”

-ROSA PARKS

The opinions expressed on the Viewpoints page reflect the opinions of the Viewpoints staff. The editorials do not represent the opinions of Marquette University nor its administrators, but those of the editorial board.

THE MARQUETTE TRIBUNE prints guest submissions at its discretion. THE TRIBUNE strives to give all sides of an issue an equal voice over the course of a reasonable time period. An author’s contribution will not be published more than once in a four-week period. Submissions with obvious relevance to the Marquette community will be given priority consideration.

Full Viewpoint submissions should be limited to 500 words. Letters to the editor should be between 50 to 150 words. THE TRIBUNE reserves the right to edit submissions for length and content.

Please e-mail submissions to: viewpoints@marquettetribune.org. If you are a current student, include the college in which you are enrolled and your year in school. If not, please note any affliations to Marquette or your current city of residence.

Caroline Campbell

most candy possible from each and every street. As we grew older, they would let us venture onto streets close to home on our own. By the time I was in high school and most of my friends were behind the wheel, we’d collect canned goods for local charities early in the evening and get into a little teenage trouble later in the night.

As the sun began to set, Dad always made sure there was a roaring fire in the fireplace, and the smell of apple cider on the stove mixed with the chili for a quintessential autumn aroma. Family and friends arrived at our house in a steady stream, some stopping by on their candy collection route for a bowl of chili and to warm up by the fire.

“It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” and other Halloween classics like “Hocus Pocus” and “The Nightmare Before Christmas” played all night in the background.

After my friends and I had sufficiently canvassed the neighborhood and our pillowcases were almost too heavy to carry from all the candy, we returned home and sat in front of the fire to warm up, and then the highlight of the evening began – counting the candy.

It wasn’t a simple process. Candy had to be organized and categorized – chocolate on one side, everything else on the other. Everything was stacked in neat piles according to brand; Skittles, Hershey bars and Reese’s were always the most valuable. Once all the really good stuff was in its proper place, a small pile of raisin boxes, jaw-breakers and stale gum remained in the middle of the room.

Then, of course, the living room became a stock exchange of sugar. A Reese’s was the most coveted currency, followed by other chocolate standards, as well as Tootsie-pop ghosts (depending on the flavor), and a lot of sweets were up for negotiation. How many Hershey Kisses was a single Reese’s worth?

Was a popcorn ball for a bag of candy corn a fair trade? It was a complex system.

When it was all done and costumes were swapped for pajamas, many a Halloween ended with kids asleep on the carpet with a movie playing and a dying fire occasionally crackling. The candy was transferred to plastic bags or bowls that would last until a few weeks before Christmas, the stale gum and jawbreakers the final touches on many a homemade gingerbread house.

Viewpoints

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Tribune 11

COLUMN

The ‘superstorm’ of social media

Brooke Goodman Social media is a double-edged sword.

It’s beneficial in that it allows people to maintain contact across the world, and it has completely transformed the speed and ways in which information and news are relayed to society.

On the other hand, social media provides a forum in which people no longer have to worry about the things they say, as they’re momentarily hidden behind a phone or computer screen. Some tweets, statuses and comments would certainly never be

spoken aloud, which proves that social media serves as a means for comments that can, at times, be somewhat disturbing.

Here are just a few examples in relation to the storm that is currently sweeping the East Coast. These are all public tweets, easily found by simply searching #Sandy or #HurricaneSandy. “#HurricaneSandy changed course, missed NYC & is now devastating the Jersey Shore. Maybe there is a God after all.”

“What if Gangnam Style was actually just a giant rain dance and we brought this hurricane on ourselves? #Sandy” And a personal favorite...

“QUICK, LOCK TIM TEBOW INTO THE CROWN OF THE STATUE OF LIBERTY AS A GIFT TO THE ANGRY SEA GODS. #Sandy” For the most part, these tweets are funny and totally acceptable. If used correctly, humor is a coping mechanism and helps to lighten the gravity of a situation.

Some of the tweets I’ve seen on my own Twitter feed, however, have not been

humorous. The number of people who are not currently on the East Coast, yet still have plenty of sarcastic and insensitive things to say about what could turn into a pretty significant disaster, is disheartening.

Please correct me if I’m wrong, but the last time I checked, water levels 11 feet above normal tide, the possibility of 60 million people being affected, mass evacuations and a potential “superstorm” composed of snow, flash floods and power outages is kind of a big deal.

I’m not going to say I’m some sort of expert on what is currently happening on the East Coast, because I’m certainly not.

In fact, I had to ask multiple people if this topic was even something I should be writing about, as I myself am struggling to understand the full impact it will have.

My point is not about the severity of the storm but the severity of using social media as a “get out of jail free” card for insensitivity.

Whether it’s in relation to natural disasters, politics or “scandals” occurring on

our very own campus, some thought needs to be put in to the 140 characters that make up a tweet or the statuses and comments that get plastered all over Facebook walls.

If you wouldn’t say it aloud, it’s probably not something to be put on social media. And if you’re using social media when overly emotional, it’s probably best to just step away from the computer completely. Trust me. I have personal experience with that one.

So in the upcoming days, think before you post. Remember that there are people on this campus who are from the East Coast, spending the semester studying there or have family in that area dealing with this uncertain time.

And regardless of the outcome of this storm, remember that going forward, it doesn’t matter if your accounts are protected or not. Your tweets and comments will be seen. You never know who might be reading them and whom they could affect. brooke.goodman@marquette.edu

COLUMN

Don’t let Sandy’s distance dampen your empathy

Tony Manno It takes a lot to stop a city that never sleeps, so once I heard about the closing of the New York subway system Sunday evening, I started paying attention to Sandy.

Deeper into last night, outrageous TV footage began to fly in. With quick winds and rain, flooded homes, hanging cranes, power outages, mandatory curfews, water-locked residents, school and office closings, falling trees and floating cars, Hurricane Sandy is causing more damage by the minute.

What really got me was a hand-painted sign created from boarded up windows and a can of spray paint: “Shove it, Sandy.”

To brace a city like New York in a couple days, let alone the entire coast, is something of an undertaking. And amidst all the effort and mess, one reporter made a good point: during storms of the past, it’s often other coastal states who offer support to each other when a state’s own resources are inaccessible.

But Sandy’s scope of impact is uncharacteristically large, from states up the coast from North Carolina through Connecticut and beyond. It goes without saying that this is a time when neighboring states’

resources can’t withstand the trauma alone.

Only through a shared effort, then, can the coast get through the so-called Frankenstorm. That means cooperation from East Coast residents and communities, aid through local governments and FEMA. And it also means help from you and from me.

After all, you’re affected, too. For me, all the coverage has kept me especially alert, as my brother lives in Long Island.

I watched one reporter standing on the dilapidated boardwalk in Asbury Park, N.J., where I visited last year. Flight restrictions due to the hurricane have even postponed a debate on our own campus between Howard Dean and Liz Cheney.

It’s easy to sit idly by watching a hurricane happen through a screen. But try to make some sort of connection so you can do something to fix the damage in the coming weeks — whether it’s chipping in a few bucks or taking a trip to Maryland.

Many in the coastal states have been through this before, most recently with Hurricane Irene in 2011, so they know the precautions to take. But preparation is only the first step in a storm like this – after come weeks of restoring resources and months of rebuilding.

For now, keep updated and stay in contact with those you may know in the middle of the storm. FEMA recommended that those in the path of Sandy use Twitter and other social media to stay connected because of the instability of phone lines. In the next few weeks, keep your eyes open for opportunities to donate or help out.

And further on, listen to what East coasters need to rebuild and restore — you might find it’s something you can offer, even all the way from Milwaukee.

(And to Sandy: “you ought to quit this scene, too.”) anthony.manno@marquette.edu

GOT OPINIONS? WE WANT THEM. Please send your reader submissions to viewpoints@ marquettetribune.org.

Songs you’re too cool to like (but do anyway)

By Erin Heffernan

erin.heffernan@marquette.edu

Ask any audiophile about her or his musical “guilty pleasures,” and you will likely get some spiel about how they never feel guilty about music, even if it’s not cool.

Cue eyeroll. It’s come to the point where accepting a term like “guilty pleasure” is just admitting the fact that you are subject to the musical influences of society (AKA “the man”).

To these people I offer a test: have a song from “The Music Man” come up on shuffle at a party and just TRY not to be embarrassed. It’s impossible. The situation will inevitably cause trouble – with a capital T and that rhymes with P and and that stands for pool! (shout-out to my musical nerds.) It embarrasses us due to the simple fact that most of us want others to approve of our music.

So while I agree that you shouldn’t be made to feel guilty about whatever it is that makes you happy in music, I am also realistic that you will anyway. Most of us experience moments when our actual, gut-level musical tastes venture outside these socially acceptable spheres.

To make things more confusing, there is yet another factor in this equation – the ever growing role of irony. Songs that were once banished to the Land of the Lame are now reclaimed and enjoyed for the very quirk and novelty they found there. It can get to the point when it’s hard to tell where the layers of irony end and true enjoyment begins.

I have often even agreed with someone’s “ironic” enthusiasm with “actual” praise for music, only to be met with an awkward moment when you realize that the other person doesn’t actually like the song. Rather they are just mocking the sort of person who would (i.e. you) and say something like-,“Wait, you ACTUALLY like Hall & Oates??”

So, to be clear: Here is a list of songs I love from genres that 1. I do admit might be slightly embarrassing to enjoy in public. Let’s just say, if I play them in my car,

my windows are probably rolled up. And 2.

Despite this fact, I still like the songs without a shred of irony. These three of my personal picks for songs are from genres that, though they may not be considered hip, can still beg to be repeated again and again.

Artists: Dolly Parton and Kenny Loggins Song: Islands in the Stream Embarrassment Genre: Full Cheese Country Glam Yes, it’s sentimental. Yes, Dolly might have the big hair and rhinestones of a country diva. On top of this, Kenny Loggins is at the apex of his hokey bearded glory. But despite all these possible points for judgement, this song has an undeniably beautiful melody.

And you know what – I unabashedly love all things Dolly Parton. (There I said it!)

File with: John Denver, Neil Diamond Artist: Dave Matthews Band Song: Ants Marching Embarrassment Genre: Bro Jams The first concert I ever went to was a DMB show in sixth grade. And though I rarely listen to them anymore, I will always cheer up listening to this song. Through all of Dave’s scrunchy-faced signing and past the fiddlejams, this band has made some solid tunes that I might just turn on during long road trips and still remember every lyric.

File with: Jack Johnson, Sublime Artist: Psy Song: Gagnam Style Embarrassment genre: K-pop/Undeniable Danceability A lot of people feel no guilt about this one, but I’m including it because it is the best recent example of the kind of “guilty pleasure” song that – even if you claim to hate – can still access your dance-gene and make you want to move. You might as well follow its creator’s motto: “dress classy, dance cheesy.”

Just one piece of advice: avoid this.

File with: Flo Rida’s “Low,” Missy Elliot’s “Lose Control” and all things Soulja Boy

Sports

The Marquette Tribune

PAGE 12

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

MEN’S SOCCER

COLUMN

Draw won’t define season

National Basketball Apathy tips off Michael LoCicero

Photo courtesy of Marquette Athletics

Redshirt freshman defender Axel Sjoberg gave Marquette the lead in the 29th minute with a second effort goal.

1-1 tie dissapoints but finishes monumental regular season for MU

By Matthew Trebby

matthew.trebby@marquette.edu

Marquette’s regular season did not finish ideally, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t a successful one.

With its 1-1 draw against Notre Dame this past Saturday night, it finished in a tie for third place in the Blue Division of the Big East and was seeded fourth in the division for the conference tournament. If it had won, it would’ve avoided playing on Wednesday, but now it hosts the Cincinnati Bearcats that night at Valley Fields.

The Golden Eagles were leading most of the game on Saturday against the Fighting Irish after redshirt freshman defender Axel Sjoberg’s 29th minute goal. Then, in the 88th minute, Notre Dame senior Ryan Finley scored his 17th goal of the season to tie the game.

After being two minutes and 58 seconds away from another Blue Division championship, Marquette was understandably disappointed following the match. Coach Louis Bennett said this season was a great one for the program.

“I don’t think this (year) has

been a failure, or (that) we’ve underachieved,” Bennett said. “I would have loved to give these fans and the alumni and all the supporters the opportunity to celebrate another Big East title.

When you look at the big picture, we came up a little bit short.”

“This is such an exciting time, and it is bittersweet, but we have to put things into perspective,” he added. “We have a very good team and a very difficult team to play against.”

Although there is no Big East trophy for Marquette this season, this fall has been a memorable campaign for the team. Its 14 wins are the most under Bennett, and its top five ranking throughout the season has signaled a complete turnaround.

Something the team will likely have this fall is a bid to the NCAA Tournament. Last season’s non-conference season kept Marquette out, but that will not be the case this season, junior defender Paul Dillon said.

“Knowing that we’re pretty much guaranteed a spot in the NCAA Tournament and we still have games to play in the NCAA Tournament, it’s a huge relief from last year when we were sitting in the locker room watching the selection show and having that disappointing feeling when our name didn’t pop up,” Dillon said.

A win on Saturday would have meant the team would get a bye

to the quarterfinals of the Big East Tournament and would only have needed one win to get to the semifinals, which will be held at the home of the MLS’ New York Red Bulls, the Red Bull Arena in Harrison, N.J. That is definitely something the team is working toward and is one of its goals from the start of the season. Sjoberg has played in huge club stadiums before in his native Sweden. He said it would be a memorable opportunity.

“I’ve done it in the past back in Europe two or three times,” Sjoberg said. “But it’s an awesome experience to play at a great arena like that. All the guys are really looking forward to that, and we’re going to do our best to get to Red Bull.”

There have been two crowds of more than 1,000 at Valley Fields this season, and 920 were on hand to watch the match Saturday night. The students have packed the “Bird Cage” and Bennett is very appreciative of that.

“The atmosphere of the student fans that are now following us is now indicative of what type of brand and quality we have,” Bennett said. “I’m very proud of the students for following us and the players for showing that beneath that gold shirt is a big heart, a lot of talent and some extreme determination.”

So apparently the NBA season starts tonight. And wouldn’t you know it: it’s a doubleheader of Heat-Celtics and Mavericks-Lakers on TNT. It was such a wonderful break not having to hear about where LeBron ate lunch or what puppy he rescued from a tree every day, but alas, sports fans, that’s where we are again.

From now until June, the only teams playing any games in the Association will be the Heat, Celtics, Lakers, Bulls, Knicks and Nets (until the latter’s shine of moving to Brooklyn wears off).

We’ll get to hear a detailed account of every second of D-Rose’s knee rehab, all the way down to what his personal trainer is eating for breakfast.

Don’t forget (and I’m not sure how you could seeing as it’s all ESPN has talked about the last week) that Steve Nash and Dwight Howard were traded to the Lakers in the offseason.

Actually, let’s make a drinking game out of it, shall we? Watch the Lakers game tonight and after every reference to one of the trades, take a shot (if you’re 21 or older). You’ll be bombed by the time Kobe hits double digits.

Oh, and let’s not forget that Ray Allen switched allegiances.

He went from the dark side to the darker side when he signed with the

three-ring circus from South Beach in the offseason.

Hey, if you throw in a shot for every Allen reference, you’ll be hammered before LeBron throws his baby powder into the air.

My point in all this is that while I’m not fond of the NBA (if you couldn’t tell already), it’d be nice if a few other teams got some recognition once in awhile.

I’m not asking for any Bucks coverage whatsoever. The fact that they are on ESPN even once this year (a Dec. 19 contest at Memphis) is borderline laughable.

It’s just gotten to the point where the only reason I watch the NBA is to see one of six teams – those ESPN has anointed as champions before a game has been played – lose.

People are saying the Derrick Rose Adidas commercials are “awesome” and “get your blood pumping.” Please. The only thing I notice about those commercials is those kids letting the fire hydrant run and not jumping around in it. I know how hot it was in the Midwest this summer. No way that would happen!

In case you missed it (again, not sure how you could have) the Heat won it all last year and gave LeBron James his first title. Now he’s only five behind MJ and four behind Kobe.

Yes, the excitement of Dwyane Wade winning his second NBA title was undermined because he won it with LeBron. Anything that happens with LeBron should come with an asterisk. The guy isn’t “The King,” and he never will be.

I asked my dad the other day if he was excited that the NBA was starting again. He told me he watched a See Apathy, page 15

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Quarterfinal woes a thing of the past

Photo courtesy of Marquette Athletics

Senior forward Rachael Sloan scored in the Golden Eagles’ 4-1 romp over the Huskies, helping the team advance to the Big East semis.

Marquette advances after second chance against Connecticut

By Michael LoCicero

michael.locicero@marquette.edu

The Marquette women’s soccer team erased some unpleasant memories of losing in the

quarterfinals of the Big East Tournament last year with a 4-1 rout of Connecticut Sunday.

Last season, when the Golden Eagles were on a tear, winning their previous 10 games, they bowed out to Notre Dame, 1-0, at Valley Fields in the quarterfinals.

Marquette’s body of work was enough to earn a home match with MAC champion Toledo in See Quarterfinals, page 12

Sports

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Tribune 13

Sports Calendar

TRIBUNE Game of the Week

Tuesday 30

Women’s Volleyball at Milwaukee - 7 p.m.

Wed.

31

Men’s Soccer vs.

Cincinnati - 7:05 p.m.

Sat.

Women’s Soccer vs. Notre Dame

Friday 2

Women’s Soccer vs.

Notre Dame - 3 p.m.

Fri.

2 Women’s Volleyball vs.

Connecticut - 7 p.m.

3

Women’s Basketball vs.

Winona State - 7 p.m.

Sun.

Fri.

2

Men’s Tennis at Texas Fall Invitational - all day

4

Women’s Volleyball vs.

St. John’s - 2 p.m.

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12:

Quarterfinals: Final four finish a big step for team the NCAA Tournament, but its season ended with a 4-1 loss to Penn State the following week.

This time, the team advanced to the Big East semifinals, where it will once again see the Fighting Irish on Friday in Storrs, Conn.

“In some ways, it was a good thing to have a chance at UConn again because I think the girls felt there was some unfinished business,” coach Markus Roeders said.

The Huskies prevented Marquette from going undefeated in Big East play, earning a 1-1 draw on Oct. 7. This time, the Golden Eagles never gave Connecticut a chance. The four goals Marquette scored were the most the Huskies allowed since a 4-0 defeat against Notre Dame on Sept. 30.

“I think if someone would have said ‘Hey we’re going to beat them 4-1,’ I would have said, ‘We’d take that result any day of the week,’” Roeders said.

One of the more encouraging signs was seeing senior forward Rachael Sloan score her fifth goal of the season, but her first since a 3-0 win over St. John’s on Oct. 12. Before that game, Sloan hadn’t scored since Sept. 21.

“It was nice scoring a goal, but it doesn’t matter as long as we’re winning games,” Sloan said. “It’s always nice seeing other people score.”

When the Golden Eagles scored their final goal of the match in the 67th minute, it gave Roeders

3:00 p.m. - Storrs, Conn.

a chance to bring in little-used players like sophomore defender Haley Fritzlen, sophomore midfielder Elizabeth Bollinger and freshman midfielder Ann Marie Lynch.

Redshirt sophomore goalkeeper Sofie Schunk also saw time in net for the first time since an Oct. 5 match against Providence.

The Golden Eagles now advance to the final four of the Big East. The last time the team made it this far was in 2010, when it lost a heartbreaker to South Florida.

Despite its regular season success, Marquette hasn’t been to the finals of the Big East Tournament since becoming a member of the conference in 2005. It has lost to Notre Dame in the semifinals three times since 2005.

On the other side of the bracket, Georgetown beat DePaul, 1-0, and South Florida advanced, 4-3, on penalty kicks over Louisville, meaning the conference’s top four seeds all advanced to Storrs.

Senior defender Megan Jaskowiak was happy to see the team back in the semifinals, especially after last year’s disappointing finish.

“We kind of had some unanswered prayers last year,” Jaskowiak said. “We really wanted to get there and it didn’t happen. Going back to the semifinals this year is what we aim for, and hopefully we can go all the way this year.”

Sun.

4 Women’s Basketball vs.

UW-Parkside - 7 p.m.

THE FACTS: The Golden Eagles will take on the Fighting Irish in their first trip to Big East final four. Marquette hasn’t faced Notre Dame this year, and it will no doubt be the stiffest in-conference competition the Golden Eagles have faced so far. The Fighting Irish have compiled a 134-2 regular season and went 8-1-1 in Big East play. Notre Dame has outscored its opponents 39-14 thanks to a very balanced offensive attack. While Crystal Thomas leads the team with eight goals, Lauren Bohaboy, Elizabeth Tucker, Cari Roccaro and Anna Gilbertson each have scored five times this season.

VOLLEYBALL

Two road wins help right ship Victories over Hoyas, ‘Nova propel MU to 10-1 in Big East play

By Patrick Leary

patrick.leary@marquette.edu

The Marquette women’s volleyball team got its Big East title hopes back on track last weekend with two road wins.

On Friday, Marquette won a close four-set match at Georgetown (2624, 23-25, 31-29, 25-18) before sweeping away Villanova (25-13, 25-16, 25-23) on Sunday. The Golden Eagles improved to 20-4 overall and 10-1 in the Big East with the victories.

Senior middle hitter Danielle Carlson led the Marquette attack in both matches. She recorded 4.14 kills per set (hitting .519) and 1.43 blocks per set in the two matches on her way to being named Big East Player of the Week Monday.

“It was the physical advantage that I had,” Carlson said. “Especially with Georgetown; they’re a smaller team, and they don’t have really impressive blockers … but also, ‘Bisky’ (junior setter Elizabeth Koberstein) was giving me great sets, and I really appreciate that.”

Coach Bond Shymansky said Carlson, who improved her Big East-leading hitting percentage to .385 over the weekend, showed up when her team needed her the most.

“It’s exactly what you hope for as a coach that when you go on the

road, that your captains are going to step up and have the best performance,” Shymansky said. “They’re the ones that are the most tried and true in those moments, and they have the most experience in those situations.”

Even with Carlson’s stellar performances, the team came out a bit flat against Georgetown and had to grind out some very close sets to win in four. Junior libero Julie Jeziorowski said that Marquette didn’t have a winning mentality before Friday’s match, as opposed to Sunday’s.

“Both teams were equally as good,” Jeziorowksi said. “With Georgetown, we had a different mindset. Going into it, we thought we had it in the bag. We can’t take any team like that. Any team, at the bottom or the top, can take us into four sets.”

Shymansky echoed Jeziorowski and said Marquette’s play picked up noticeably on Sunday following the close Friday win.

“I thought we played OK against Georgetown,” he said. “At times we just looked kind of unmotivated and unfocused, a little bit undisciplined.

We were really hungry and really sharp against Villanova.”

Even though Marquette claimed two more road victories, Villanova (5-6 in the Big East) and Georgetown (1-10) aren’t exactly the cream of the crop in the Big East.

However, Shymansky stressed the importance of relatively low-caliber wins.

“It’s about keeping pace and staying at the top of the league,”

Shymansky said. “We need to be able to win on the road against Georgetown and Villanova so that we can protect our conference standings and protect our RPI.” Marquette’s next task will be a rematch with crosstown rival Wisconsin-Milwaukee tonight. Carlson is excited to get one more shot at the Panthers before she graduates.

“It’s always fun to play them,” he said. “I know a lot of the girls, I’ve played a lot of the girls, and I’ve played with the girls in my past. It means a lot to say we’re the best team in Milwaukee and Wisconsin, and that’s always sort of up for grabs when we play them.”

Even though Milwaukee is Marquette’s clear in-state rival, taking such a quick break from Big East play could cause focus issues for the team. Shymansky isn’t worried about that.

“Our team never overlooks UW-Milwaukee because they’re the hometown rival,” he said. “It doesn’t take a lot of extra motivation to get our team zeroed in on wanting to compete and beat UWMilwaukee.”

Having just played two East Coast road games in five days and already beaten Milwaukee in 2012, Marquette might see Tuesday night’s game as a bit of a rest match.

Shymansky said his team cannot let that happen if it wants to win.

“We cannot allow that to get into the lexicon of our team psyche,” he said. “We’re going to go over there and give everything we have to beat them.”

GOLF

McKinney returns to Milwaukee from Maryville Sophomore making most of opportunity to play close to home

By Trey Killian

robert.killian@marquette.edu

For sophomore Jack McKinney, the 2012-13 golf season is a homecoming of sorts.

McKinney graduated from Marquette University High School, where he helped the Hilltoppers capture three conference championships and three sectional titles.

McKinney shares the Marquette High single-round scoring record with a 68.

He had an impressive junior

career as well, winning the 2011 WSGA Junior Championship and finishing runner-up at the Wisconsin PGA Junior Championship in June 2011.

The Big Bend, Wis., native spent his freshman season about 390 miles south at Maryville University in St. Louis, where he led the Saints in scoring average. During his one-season stint, he set Maryville’s single-round scoring record with a 7-under-par 64 in the final round of the 2011 Maryville Fall Invitational.

McKinney said he always had wanted to come back and play at Marquette, and over last Christmas break, coach Steve Bailey gave him that opportunity.

“I wouldn’t say I expected to be in St. Louis all four years,” McKinney said. “I’m very happy that

Coach (Glen) Paulus gave me an opportunity to play, and I don’t regret the experience at all.”

“The guys at Maryville were great, but they’re even better here.

One of Coach Bailey’s core values is positive energy and I think we’ve done a pretty good job of showing that on and off the course.”

Due to NCAA rules prohibiting coaches from speaking with players from other programs, Bailey said it was McKinney who contacted him with interest in joining the Golden Eagles.

“He had an interest to come back, and we’re fortunate to have him,” Bailey said. “He had a pretty impressive freshman season and felt he was someone who could help us out.”

McKinney’s Midwest roots give

him an advantage dealing with Milwaukee’s climate and weather as he’s grown used to playing in adverse conditions.

“With high school golf in the spring here in Wisconsin, we were never blessed with the best of weather,” McKinney said, “so you learn to acclimate to the conditions and accept them. It gives you an edge in the competition.”

McKinney was in the first lineup the team put forth this season, finishing in a tie for 63rd on the individual leaderboard with a score of 225 at the McLaughlin in Bethpage, N.Y. Though McKinney hasn’t qualified for the team’s lineup since the Golden Eagle’s first event in New York, he said the increased competition was expected.

Over the winter break, he is hoping to work on his driving ability with his swing coach in Madison.

McKinney admits he hasn’t been as straight off the tee as he would like this fall and wants to find more comfort in his swing.

But while the rest of the team has often struggled with its short game, Bailey said it was an area at which McKinney excels.

“It’s really just consistency for him that needs work,” Bailey said.

“He has a really good short game and plays really well around the greens. He’s got a great competitive drive, and once he’s able to bring his tee game and iron play to that level, he should be able to get a spot in the lineup.”

HOUSING

14 Tribune HOUSING ACT NOW!! JUNE 2013

HOUSING

Classifieds HOUSING

5 bdrm- 1.5 bath

Located b/w MONTE CRISTO 15th/16th (ACROSS FROM DOG HAUS) near State JUST 1 AMAZING 5 bdrm1.5 w/4.5 bath ACT NOW!! JUNE 2013 Fenced yard 5-BEDROOM LEFT!!

Located b/w FREE parking spots MONTE CRISTO **$500 Internet Credit** 15th/16th (ACROSS-BALCONY FROM DOG HAUS) $380/student near State -CENTRAL AIR JUST 1 AMAZING Recently Remodeled!

-PARKING Fenced yard w/4.5 5-BEDROOM LEFT!!

Contact Mike -HUGE BEDROOMS! FREE parking spots **$500 Internet Credit** CALL: (414) 933-1211 262-989-0372 -BALCONY $380/student www.schulhofproperties.com -CENTRAL AIR Recently Remodeled!

-PARKING St James Court The Reeves Contact Mike -HUGE BEDROOMS! Historic Apartments 14th & Kilbourn CALL: (414) 933-1211 2 Bedrooms www.schulhofproperties.com

2001 W. Michigan Ave The ReevesStudios 1 Bdrms & Deluxe Available June 2013 14th836 & N. Kilbourn 20th

2 Bedrooms Studios 2001 W. Michigan Ave Available January 2013 1 Bdrms & Studios 1 Bdrms & Deluxe Studios Available June 2013 836 N. 20th Call Brutus Investments: Studios (414) 771-1086 Available January 2013 1 Bdrms & Studios Available June 2013 Place an Ad! Call Brutus Investments: (414) 288-6757 (414) 771-1086

Place an Ad! (414) 288-6757

HOUSING

J ohnston hMISC. all 026 1131 W. W isconsin a venue Tuesday, October 30, 2012 (414)288-6757

HOUSING

Ardmore 711 N. 16th St.

Alpha Phiesta!

Ardmore ACT NOW!!

711 N. 16th St.

$5 all you can eat tacos!

November 10th 5-8PM $5 all you can eat Next to Bookmarq tacos!

Questions?

November 10th mary.c.carlson@mu.edu 5-8PM Next to Bookmarq

AMAZING Studio or 1-2 Bedroom!

AVAILABLE FOR JUNE 2013

AMAZING Studio or - Best Location 1-2 Bedroom!

- Heat Included -Huge Apts.

- Tons

Windows ACTofNOW!!

AVAILABLE FOR933-1211 JUNE 2013 CALL: (414) www.schulhofproperties.com - Best Location

- Heat IncludedCOSTUMES -Huge Apts.

HALLOWEEN

70-80% off on two floors - Tons of Windows One store has it all- vintage, wigs, DIY, & costumes CALL: packaged (414) 933-1211 Open 12-8 www.schulhofproperties.com 1000 E. North Ave (1 Block W. of Humboldt) (414) 265- 1950

262-989-0372 831 W. Wisconsin Ave. 2 & 3 Bedrooms HALLOWEEN COSTUMES 70-80% off on two floors St James Court Heat/Water/Gas Included One store has it all- vintage, wigs, DIY, & Internet/Cable Included CAMPUS COMMUNITY Historic Apartments packaged costumes Open 12-8 APARTMENTS 831 W. Wisconsin Ave. Call Matt 414.467.9638 1000 E. North Ave (1 Block W. of Humboldt) (414) 2651950& 2013 *Available Now 2 & 3 Bedrooms www.hennessygroup.net *All Unit Sizes Eff to 4BR Heat/Water/Gas Included *Many Buildings & Locations Internet/Cable Included CAMPUS COMMUNITY BestAPARTMENTS Deal on Mu Campus!

MCall U Matt C l a414.467.9638 ssifieds *Available Now &Internet 2013 www.hennessygroup.net *Free High Speed Find Us! Johnston Hall 026

M U W.CWisconsin l a s s i f i Ave. eds 1131 Find Us! Johnston Hall 026 1131 W. Wisconsin Ave.

MISC.

*All Unit Sizes Eff to 4BR *In-Unit Washer/Dryer *Many*Air Buildings & Locations Conditioning *Abundant Parking Best Deal on Mu Campus!

414-342-0120 *Free High Speed Internet WWW.MURENTALS.COM *In-Unit Washer/Dryer *Air Conditioning *Abundant Parking 414-342-0120 WWW.MURENTALS.COM

Alpha Phiesta!

Questions?

Marquette University mary.c.carlson@mu.edu

Student Media Johnston Hall 026 1131 W. Wisconsin Ave. Milwaukee, S t u d e n t WI M e53233 dia Johnston Hall 026 1131 W. Wisconsin Ave. Milwaukee, WI 53233 muclassified@gmail.com

Marquette University

Email us!

Call us!

Email us!

(414) 288-6757

muclassified@gmail.com

Call us!

(414) 288-6757

Sports

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

w

?

ere h W A re Th ey o N Natalie Kulla Class of 2012

Natalie Kulla is the best goalkeeper in Marquette women’s soccer history and one of the best in college soccer history as well.

Kulla graduated last season and finished her tenure as probably the most decorated female athlete in Marquette history.

Kulla is a two-time Big East Goalkeeper of the Year and AllBig East First Team player and was called up to the under-23 U.S. women’s national team.

The all-time shutouts leader at Marquette with 43, Kulla is also second all-time in wins (58) and fourth in saves (220),

and she has the best goals against average in program history, conceding 0.74 per match.

She made 84 starts as a Golden Eagle and started 69 in a row to end her career.

Kulla was at Valley Fields last Sunday to see the Golden Eagles play for the first time this season. She’s found time tough to come by nowadays. The St. Louis native is now working back in her hometown for Boeing as a civil engineer.

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 15:

TENNIS

matthew.trebby@marquette.edu

Tribune 15

CROSS COUNTRY

Teams finish season in N.Y. Hanson finishes first for women’s side, Hackett for men

By Christopher Chavez

christopher.chavez@marquette.edu

Last Friday was a perfect day for running in the Bronx as Marquette’s cross country team lined up for the Big East Cross-Country Championship at Van Cortlandt Park.

The women’s side notched its highest finish in the standings since 2008 by placing seventh.

Surprise performances by Kellie Greenwood and Rebbecca Pachuta locked up the finish against national powerhouses like Villanova, Providence, Georgetown and Connecticut.

“The conference is interesting this year, because there’s quite the disparity between the top teams and the bottom teams,” Nelson said. “We’re basically in the middle. We could’ve run a lot better or a lot worse and gotten seventh.”

Greenwood was seen around campus last week with a boot on her foot to treat an injury to her strained Achilles, but she looked to be back in full form on Friday

as she finished second on the team with a time of 22:53. She was the team’s second finisher at the Alumni Run, but that does not necessarily surprise Nelson.

“I knew that if Kellie (Greenwood) was healthy, she could really contribute to the team’s success,” Nelson said. “They were really bunched in there and anyone could have been our number two, but it was just Kellie’s day, and she had a good one.”

Pachuta put together one of the more surprising finishes, as she went from being in the back end of the team pack in previous meets to finishing third.

Freshman Molly Hanson was the team’s top finisher for the fourth straight meet. At the Great Lakes Regional, she will be running her third 6,000-meter race of her career, but she believes the increase in distance is no longer an issue.

“I think the adjustment to 5,000-meters was tougher for me than 6,000 meters,” Hanson said. “I just learned to go out a little slower and conserve energy for later on in the race. I haven’t minded it as much as I thought I would.”

The men’s team placed eighth, a bit lower than its projected seventh-place finish. When senior Patrick Maag went down during

the race, it put the pressure on the rest of the team to pick up the pace if it wanted to beat Cincinnati. In the end, it was too little and too late, as the extra effort was not enough.

Maag was the team leader after the first mile, but he was forced to drop out of the race after the 2,000-meter marker after re-aggravating an ankle injury. That same ankle sidelined him for several weeks earlier in the season. His status for the Great Lakes Regional is uncertain.

Senior Jack Hackett was the top Marquette finisher and realized that when Maag pulled out of the race, it was time to give it his all.

“When I saw Maag standing on the side, that’s when I thought, ‘Oh no!’” Hackett said. “At that moment we knew we had to do something to score some extra points. It gave us some extra motivation, but it was more panic than anything.”

Making the NCAA National Championship appears to be out of reach for the men’s side, and individually qualifying would take the race of their lives at Wisconsin on Nov. 9. The focus shifts to ending the season on a high note and possibly playing the role of spoiler by making other teams’ NCAA aspirations tougher.

Apathy: Six Wildcat Invite provides nice rebound Golden Eagles show teams run improvement from the show Spartan Invitational total of two quarters of pro ball last year.

I remember going to 10 to 15 Bucks games per year with him when The Big Three was a game away from the NBA Finals.

Now he tells me he hasn’t watched a full game in more than a year. I’ll admit to turning on the Bucks once in a while just to see how far they’ve fallen. How Scott Skiles is still their coach is beyond me, but I digress.

The apathy of fans who don’t have allegiances to one of ESPN’s six favorites is what interests me the most. I may have been alone in defending Lance Armstrong last week, but I know I’m not alone in this.

The biggest thing that gets to me is the bandwagoning. You were not a Heat fan before LeBron came to town. Yes, you support Dwyane Wade as a Marquette student, and that’s great. So do I. But once Mr. “I’ve decided to take my talents to South Beach” ripped the heart and soul out of Cleveland to join the bikini models and $25 cover charges in Miami, that’s when you all became Heat fans.

I’ll give you Bulls fans one thing, though. The bandwagoning isn’t as bad as what you do when the Blackhawks make the playoffs. That stuff is just wrong.

So go ahead, settle in tonight and watch KG and Paul Pierce take on the Big Three and see Kobe, Nash and Howard (the Bigger Three?) duke it out with Dirk and the Mavs.

Just know that in a month, maybe even less than that, you’ll be sitting there saying, “Only a few more weeks until pitchers and catchers report.” michael.locicero@marquette.edu

By Kyle Doubrava

kyle.doubrava@marquette.edu

Marquette men’s tennis coach Steve Rodecap wanted to see improvement after a disappointing output at Michigan State two weekends ago.

He asked, and he sure did receive.

Junior Dan Mamalat and sophomore Vukasin Teofanovic both went 3-0 in singles play this past weekend at the Wildcat Invite at Northwestern.

The two had their struggles at the Spartan Invitational the week prior, and Rodecap was delighted to see both players step up.

“They did a nice job,” Rodecap said. “I felt like their performances were better, and it was probably our best result of the fall.”

Mamalat, who was battling injuries earlier in the year, was expected to make gradual progress in his game. The Philadelphia native showed the coaches he didn’t need much time to get back to his old self.

“I just kept working,” Mamalat said. “I made sure to work very hard in practice and do a little extra work with the coaches on the side.”

Mamalat gives Rodecap and his coaching staff credit for giving him the morale boost he needed heading to Evanston.

“I lost a little of my confidence the other weekend, and Coach has been telling me to stay positive and keep trying and I’d eventually come back,” Mamalat said. “I started playing a lot better throughout the tournament, and I got better as each match progressed, so it felt good.”

In addition, Mamalat and Teofanovic were slated to play in the Flight A Doubles title match, but

Photo courtesy of Marquette Athletics

Junior Dan Mamalat put up an impressive performance in Evanston, going 3-0 in singles play at the Wildcat Invite.

the match was never played. The Golden Eagles faced players from Western Michigan, Arkansas, Toledo and Iowa, among others.

Rodecap, who said this was one of the more challenging tournaments of the fall, was impressed with how the newcomers fared, a promising sign for when Marquette opens its season at Notre Dame in January.

Sophomore James Stark and freshmen Gleb Sklyr and Javier Varela Hernani each recorded singles victories.

“The other group that went, I think they’re still trying to find their comfort zone,” Rodecap said.

“Both freshmen played much better this weekend and actually did a much better job in doubles. It was

good to see them starting to turn the corner a little bit.”

For the freshmen, their fall season comes to a satisfying close.

They can now begin their training regimen for the truly meaningful matches that begin in January. Mamalat gave them praise and said they’ve developed nicely over the semester.

“In the beginning they were having some difficulties because they weren’t used to playing in the environment we play in,” Mamalat said.

“They’re more used to the pressure situations. It was really nice to see them improve as the fall went on.”

Mamalat and Teofanovic will be tagging along with teammates junior Logon Collins and sophomore Cameron Tehrani to Austin, Texas,

this weekend to participate in the final tournament of the fall.

“It’s a very high-level tournament, which is good,” Rodecap said. “We need that. We’ll have to transition a little bit going back outside because we haven’t been outside for a while. There’s going to be a lot of good competition and good expectations for these guys going into the weekend.”

In preparation for the fall finale, Mamalat is preparing to head into the winter on a good note.

“Just keep on improving my game, especially my serving and my forehand and getting adjusted to the outdoor conditions,” Mamalat said. “Just being prepared mentally and physically for more of a grind this weekend.”

16 Tribune

Tuesday, October 30, 2012