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MU pulls FemSex workshop support Administrators stop allowing group to meet in AMU space By Allison Kruschke
allison.kruschke@marquette.edu
After weeks of meetings at Marquette’s Gender and Sexuality Resource Center located in the Alumni Memorial Union, FemSex, a 12-week student workshop focusing on dialogue about female sexuality and reproduction, has moved to an undisclosed location after the university rescinded its initial support for the program in response to complaints from faculty and former students. The reversal of support for the
program has caused a mixed reaction since the University President the Rev. Scott Pilarz and Provost John Pauly pulled support for the program last week and forbade the meetings from being held in the Gender and Sexuality Resource Center. The workshop, which meets weekly to discuss subjects such as female health and identity, body image and sexual desire, was co-founded and facilitated by Marquette graduate students Claire van Fossen and Rachel Bruns. The workshop began with information sessions Jan. 22 and was sponsored by the Gender and Sexuality Resource Center. Senior Communications Specialist Brian Dorrington said in a statement Monday that university See FemSex, page 3
Fake IDs snatched at Bradley Center Photo by Gregorio Borgia/Associated Press
Pope Benedict XVI talks to his personal secretary George Gaenswein as he leaves at the end of his final general audience address in St. Peter’s Square, Wednesday. He is stepping down after eight years in the papal office.
By Nick Biggi and Melanie Lawder
End of pope’s tenure today leaves questions about future Pope Benedict XVI’s successor a topic speculated on locally By Emily Wright
emily.a.wright@marquette.edu
The eyes of the world will turn to the Vatican next week as the conclave to elect the next pope gets underway, after Pope Benedict XVI steps down today following nearly eight years in office. A ceremony was held yesterday morning in which Benedict gave his final public presentation as pope and expressed gratitude. Late last night, he left for his summer residence of
Castel Gandolfo and officially took the title of ‘pope emeritus.’ Pope Benedict announced his resignation two weeks ago and said he wanted to leave the office before he became physically and mentally incapable of performing his duties. The established method to elect the next pope in Catholic canon law normally begins 15 to 20 days after the death of the previous pope. However, Benedict recently amended that rule to allow for an earlier conclave once all the cardinals are gathered. This decision has been viewed as an effort to elect a new pope prior to the Church’s celebration of this year’s Holy Week, which will begin March 24 and culminate with Easter on March 31.
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Arena official says more IDs being taken from underagers nicholas.biggi@marquette.edu melanie.lawder@marquette.edu
Mary-Rose Dukelow was with her father Jim at the MarquettePittsburg men’s basketball game
According to the traditional rules of conclave, once the College of Cardinals is gathered in the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, the actual election begins with secret balloting. Each cardinal writes down his choice for the next pope, and then the ballots are gathered and counted. If the number of ballots matches the number of cardinals, then the ballots are read and the votes are recorded. A candidate must receive a minimum of two-thirds of the vote to be elected. Four elections are held every day until a candidate is chosen. The upcoming conclave procedure has been somewhat shadowed by controversies of sexual abuse in the Church. Most See Pope, page 5
on Feb. 9 when he was asked for identification after ordering a beer at a Bradley Center concession stand. Jim is 54 years old – and looks like it according to his daughter. “He was kind of surprised,” said Dukelow, a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences, adding that it had been awhile since her father was carded when buying alcohol. To some Marquette students, it See Bradley, page 5
Photo by Rebecca Rebholz/rebecca.rebholz@marquette.edu
The BMO Harris Bradley Center and MPD are confiscating more IDs despite unchanged concessions policies from past years.
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127 Hours
Campbell
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Aron Ralston shares his experiences on campus. PAGE 3
A winter storm timeline through a student’s eyes PAGE 6
Jim Boeheim berated media in a way Buzz Willimas wouldn’t. PAGE 12
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$85 billion in cuts loom for government Debate likely to continue beyond Friday deadline
FEBRUARY 2013
Thursday 28 Last Lecture Series featuring Dr. Julius Ruff, Haggerty Museum of Art, 5 p.m. No BODY’s Perfect, Straz Tower, 6 p.m. Aron Ralston, Varsity Theatre, 7:30 p.m.
Friday 1 Men’s Tennis vs. Dartmouth, Helfaer Recreation Center, 6 p.m.
What is
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By Jason Kurtyka
jason.kurtyka@marquette.edu
Barring a last-second deal, $85 billion will be cut from the federal budget starting tomorrow as a result of the failure to reach a budgetary agreement by President Barack Obama and Congress during the last two years. The cuts would take effect over the next seven months and could have a direct impact on Marquette students and Wis. residents. According to the Marquette Office of Public Affairs webpage, 1,567 Marquette students received almost $6.3 million in Pell grants, and 545 students received $1.24 million in Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants funding for the 2011-2012 academic year. If the cuts go into effect, students could lose up to $876 per year in federal aid, according to the Student Aid Alliance. In response, the Office of Public Affairs circulated a petition advocating protection of federal student aid against cuts. In a forum for strategic planning with students last October, University President the Rev. Scott Pilarz expressed his concerns about the potential effects of sequestration on student aid. “It keeps me up at night,” Pilarz said at the time. “Quite honestly, it is one of the things that literally keeps me up at night – worrying about what might happen if Congress starts to roll back federal financial aid.” The White House released a state-by-state breakdown Sunday of exactly where each state would lose federal funding. Wisconsin would find itself among the hardest hit states, potentially losing about $13.5 million in federal funding. Public education would bear the largest share of the cuts, at $8.5 million. According to the report, about 120 teacher and aide jobs are at risk, meaning about 10,000 fewer students could be served. In addition, 550 fewer college students would receive federal aid, and 420 fewer students would receive federal work study. Under the Budget Control Act
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Saturday 2 Milwaukee County Winter Farmers Market, Wisconsin State Fair Park, 8 a.m. National Marquette Day Pregame Party, Union Sports Annex, 10:30 a.m. Men’s Basketball vs. Notre Dame, BMO Harris Bradley Center, 1 p.m. Bucks vs. Raptors, BMO Harris Bradley Center, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday 3 Annual Best Buddies Showcase, AMU Ballrooms, 11 a.m. Women’s Lacrosse vs. Detroit, Valley Fields, 1 p.m. What Would Jesus Brew, Union Sports Annex, 8 p.m.
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of 2011, Federal Pell Grants will remain safe from sequestration. However, according to the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrations, student loan origination fees would increase by 7.6 percent. Origination fees for federal Stafford loans would increase to 1.076 percent. College of Arts & Sciences sophomore Kyle Whelton has followed the proceedings of sequestration closely. “Congress has been behaving extremely irresponsibly in regard to sequestration,” Whelton said. “Especially in terms of federal financial aid, which is imperative for higher education in the United States.” Congress returned to session Monday after a week-long recess, and little progress has been
Corrections The Tuesday, Feb. 26 issue of the Tribune included three photos of Marquette faculty members with the article entitled “MU to honor women at Golden Roses celebration.” These faculty members actually relate to the page 3 article in today’s Tribune titled “Professors receive award for autism course proposal,” not the Golden Roses celebration. The Tribune regrets the error. 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.
made. In opening statements to the House, Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer said a deal must be reached because the country’s well-being depends on it. “House and Senate Democrats have each proposed balanced alternatives that combine smart, targeted cuts in spending and tax expenditures,” Hoyer said. “I would hope the Majority Leader, Mr. Eric Cantor, would bring that to the floor.” Rep. Gwen Moore (D), who represents Milwaukee, is a member of the House Budget and Finance Committee and echoed this sense of urgency. “I am doing everything in my power to avert the sequester, but the Republicans have the ball in their court,” Moore said. “Democrats have made consistent attempts at
bipartisanship and believe that these cuts will be devastating to families across the country. We’re waiting on Republican leadership to act.” Speaker of the House John Boehner reciprocated the blame toward Democrats in a press conference on Monday. “You know, the president proposed the sequester, yet he’s far more interested in holding campaign rallies than he is in urging his Senate Democrats to actually pass a plan,” Boehner said. With little evidence of that Congress will reach a deal before the Friday deadline, President Obama will meet with the top four Republican and Democrat leaders Friday morning to discuss final options to avoid fallout from the deep spending cuts.
DPS Reports Feb. 24 At 1:36 p.m. a person not affiliated with Marquette reported that an unidentified subject acted in a disorderly manner in a business in the 1600 block of W. Wells.
unknown person(s) removed property estimated at $40 from his unsecured, unattended vehicle in an underground parking garage in the 500 block of N. 20th Street.
Feb. 25 At 4:43 p.m. a student was in possession of a false ID in Structure One.
Feb. 27 At 1:00 a.m. unknown person(s) wrote graffiti in a restroom in the Alumni Memorial Union. Facilities Services was contacted.
Feb. 26 At 10:46 a.m. a student reported that
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Inspiration behind ‘127 Hours’ Professors receive to speak tonight on campus award for autism Aron Ralston cut off course proposal own arm to escape canyon in 2003
By Catelyn Roth-Johnson
catelyn.roth-johnson@marquette.edu
Rock climbing and long-distance biking are far from an adventure for Aron Ralston, the man who inspired “127 Hours,” the 2010 film starring James Franco. Stuck in a crevice in a remote Utah canyon in 2003, Ralston had to take drastic measures to escape. He will visit campus and share his story today at 7:30 p.m. in the Varsity Theatre. Alex Lahr, communications vice president for Marquette Student Government and a senior in the College of Communication, oversaw all communication about the event and has been planning for Ralston’s arrival since the summer. “Ralston has such an amazing story, one that we don’t often get to hear at Marquette,” Lahr said in an email. “I think his qualities of leadership – as a former resident assistant, an engineering student and hiker – really tap into the Marquette motto of ‘be the difference.’” MUSG was notified last summer that Ralston would be speaking at universities across the
U.S. and thought inviting him to inspirational story to share campus would be beneficial for with the world.” Ralston will host a question Marquette. Lahr said students and answer sescan expect to sion after the hear an account presentation. of Ralston’s ex“Aron will take perience in the questions, be docanyon during ing a meet and his visit. greet and book “I really besigning after lieve that stuthe event,” Lahr dents will be said. “It will give able to relate to the audience a Ralston, realizing chance to interact that we have the with him after the capacity to do Alex Lahr, communications vice presentation.” anything when president, MUSG McGonegle presented with a said he is lookgreat challenge,” Lahr said. “They will be wowed, ing forward to getting a chance learn more about his story and to meet Ralston in person and what went through his head when learn more about his story. “Aron was nice enough to open he was making this decision.” When Mary Maruggi, pro- up for questions after he is done grams board speakers commis- speaking,” McGonegle said. “I sioner for MUSG and primary challenge anyone to come to this planner of the event, talked to event and not walk out of there a Ralston himself over the phone changed person in some way.” Prior to the event, audience last week, he told her he is members have the chance to excited to come to Marquette. Matt McGonegle, MUSG win Ralston’s book by using programs board vice presi- #AronMU on Twitter. Lahr said he is excited for dent, also spoke with Ralston Ralston’s presentation and over the phone. “Having spoken with him cannot wait to see how stubriefly on the phone, having read dents react and what they take his book and seen the movie, away from his talk. “I have a feeling that many they (the audience) are in for a real treat,” McGonegle said in of his points will resonate with an email. “Aron is amazingly Marquette students for years down to earth and has a truly to come,” he said.
Ralston has such an amazing story, one that we don’t often get to hear at Marquette.”
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FemSex: Former student raises concerns
leadership was initially unaware of the specific subject matter being discussed in the workshop. “The workshop was initially approved by the Gender and Sexuality Resource Center,” the statement reads. “After learning about the contents of the workshop from a student, university leadership reviewed the workshop outline and found that aspects fell outside the center’s stated purpose. Because of this, the Gender and Sexuality Resource Center is no longer sponsoring the student-led workshop.” The FemSex syllabus states that the workshop “provides a safe space for exploration, encourages honest dialogue and facilitates collective learning. It engages and grapples with the social forces that inform individual experiences and seeks to build ally-ship.” The workshop’s founders said the group is not adverse to Catholic values. “We do not believe FemSex to be at odds with the mission of Marquette or the charter of the Gender and Sexuality Resource Center, and we uphold the need for safe student space on campus to seek affirmation of experiences and identities as well as discuss these issues,” Van Fossen said. Susannah Bartlow, director of the Gender and Sexuality Resource Center, said in an email that she was approached by one of the student co-founders in early October and provided support for the students in hope of fostering discussion about sexual health within an appropriate context. She added that the controversy surrounding FemSex should not distract from the
mission of the Gender and Sexuality Resource Center. “This is a brief moment in a much longer (and more interesting) process of building a campus resource center,” she said. Ethan Hollenberger, the former student who emailed university leadership asking for justification about why they sponsored the workshop, said the issue is not whether or not the group can meet, but whether or not the group should have university sponsorship. “I asked why this was happening, whether the university supported it, and if they do, (to) give a defense for it,” Hollenberger said. “I emailed them on a Sunday, and by Wednesday afternoon, Provost Pauly replied saying they had stopped the sponsorship of it.” Hollenberger, who writes on a blog for the Young American’s Foundation, a conservative organization which promotes “individual freedom, a strong national defense, free enterprise and traditional values” according to its mission statement, said his emails were sent with a journalistic purpose. “This isn’t about the students not being able to meet on campus,” Hollenberger said. “It’s about the university endorsing something that not only I, but other students think is controversial.” Marquette associate political science professor John McAdams wrote about the workshop on his personal blog “Marquette Warrior,” saying the content of the group did not serve its purpose in empowering women in their sexuality. “Empowerment is about making your own choices, not
about adhering to the FemSex agenda,” he wrote in the post. “I wonder how a class member who made the liberated choice to abstain from sex would be received in this group.” McAdams added Wednesday in an interview that Marquette should consistently and carefully consider Catholic values when sponsoring controversial programming such as FemSex. He also said that the university is too quick to give into pressure. “I think Marquette would cave in to the politically correct lobby if they make enough noise, and I think they would cave in to alumni and professors if they make enough noise,” he said. “In terms of crediting Marquette with good judgement, I don’t think either side (of the controversy) would do so.” He went on to say that the group should be able to meet, just not with university sponsorship. “If women want to have a feminist ‘hen party’ and talk about sex, that’s their business,” he said. “But the university shouldn’t sponsor it.” Van Fossen said in a statement that FemSex was meant to foster discussion and support. “FemSex at Marquette is intended to create space for conversation, engagement and support around issues of sexuality, embodiment and relationship – issues that are core to our humanity, yet too often shamed, silenced or ignored, frequently to the detriment of individuals and communities,” she said. “The mission of FemSex at Marquette does not push an ideology, teach a curriculum, make prescriptions, generalize experiences or advocate a particular philosophy or morality.”
that one of the appealing factors about our proposal was what we call the ‘silo-busting’ aspect — breaking out of our ivory towers to come together and create a whole that is so much greater than the sum of its parts.” Krueger said she and her colBy Eric Oliver eric.oliver@marquette.edu leagues are excited and honored to collaborate together for the deA proposal for a course on velopment of the course. autism spectrum disorders cre“The three of us will demonated by three Marquette faculty strate first-hand to students the members won the Way Klingler value of a multi-disciplinary Teaching Enhanceapproach to see the ment Award last week. benefits of varied perThe award recognizes spectives and contriteaching that allows butions from each disthe advancement of recipline,” Krueger said. search and scholarship, “Students will experiaccording to the Marence this themselves quette website. through group projects Wendy Krueger, a requiring collaboraclinical instructor in the tion among students Mary Carlson College of Health Scifrom each field.” ences; Mary Carlson, The most important an adjunct instructor thing they hope to acin the College of Educomplish, Krueger cation; and Amy Van said, is preparing stuHecke, an assistant prodents studying educafessor in the College of tion, psychology and Arts & Sciences, are in speech-language pathe process of creating thology to work with the course for spring those who have autism Amy Van Hecke spectrum disorders. semester 2014. Krueger, Carlson Krueger said she and Van Hecke will hopes the Marquette all work on the class community will contitled, “Educating Stutinue to embrace indents about Autism: dividuals within the Putting the Pieces Tostudent body, faculty gether through an Inand staff and Milwautegrated, Experiential kee with ASD and Approach.” The course other differences. will use a multidisciCarlson said now that plinary approach to Wendy Krueger they’ve won the award, teaching and learning an immense amount of from three professors in separate work lies ahead of them. fields along with experiential “The writing process was relearning opportunities. markably easy considering we Winners of the Way Klingler were three people who didn’t Teaching Enhancement Award really know each other,” Carlare selected by the Committee son said. “I am hoping that we on Teaching and approved by the can laugh as much next sumprovost. The committee consists mer creating the course as we of one faculty member from each did writing the proposal.” college or school as well as stuCarlson teaches a course dent representatives from Mar- called, “Teaching Exceptional quette Student Government and Children in the General EducaGraduate Student Association. tion Classroom.” She said she has Gary Meyer, the vice provost had experiences with some stufor undergraduate programs and dents who become so captivated teaching and a member of the by children who are diagnosed Committee on Teaching, said the with special needs that they ofcommittee reten request more ceived four applicoursework recations this year. lating to the sub“This course ject. holds much “This will promise, espehelp to put more cially for stutools in the tool dents in psycholbelts of our preogy, education service teachers, and speech pahelping them thology and audito make every ology but also for learner flourish students in any and be as sucMary Carlson, adjunct instructor, cessful as they field who want College of Education to gain a deeper can be,” Carlson understanding said. of how to work with individuVan Hecke said that she als across the autism spectrum,” is honored and excited to Meyer said. be developing a new course Carlson said she was stunned incorporating her research. and delighted when she heard “My research is on the effects they won the award and that of intervention on the brain in she could share the experience teenagers and young adults with with her colleagues. autism,” Van Hecke said. “We “One of the really great things run a social skills intervention about Marquette is that there in the department of psychology are so many opportunities for and then examine how young faculty to learn with and from people who do well in the inone another and the commu- tervention also show changes nity,” Carlson said. “I suspect in their brain activity.”
Class to be offered in in spring 2014, taught through collaboration
This will help to put more tools in the tool belts of our pre-service teachers, helping them to make every learner flourish.”
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Pope: Next pope to be elected in conclave process in coming weeks recently, Roger Mahony, the former archbishop of Los Angeles, was stripped of all his formal titles within the Church Jan. 31 after documents surfaced showing direct ties to his involvement shielding priests accused of sexually abusing minors from legal prosecution. Mahony was elevated to the position of Cardinal of Santi Quattro Coronati in 1991 by Pope John Paul II and is eligible to participate in the conclave. According to information released by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops regarding the conclave process, “Only cardinals under the age of 80 at the time of the pope’s death are eligible to vote in papal elections (by order of Pope Paul VI in 1970 and reaffirmed by Pope John Paul II in Universi Dominici Gregis).” There are no other restrictions for cardinals other than age and ability to be in the Vatican during the conclave period. Mahony will travel to Rome
to vote for the new pope, although there is already public criticism about his presence there. Several groups dedicated to helping victims and survivors of sexual abuse from Catholic priests have spoken out against Mahony attending. Speculation about the next pope began almost immediately after Benedict announced his resignation. Many believe the next pope will be an Italian because the last non-Italian pope prior to John Paul II lived during the 16th century, while others speculate that a non-European individual may be elected. Possible candidates who have emerged since Benedict’s announcement range from Marc Ouellet, a Canadian cardinal from Quebec, to Timothy Dolan, the American cardinal from New York and former Archbishop of Milwaukee. The top European contender is Cardinal Angelo Scola from Milan and Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, who works in the Roman Curia.
Some people are even making bets on who will be elected. The website Paddy Power is taking odds on the next pontiff. Currently, Scola is tied with Peter Turkson, the cardinal from Ghana, for the lead, with three to one odds. The Rev. Steven Avella, a history professor at Marquette, said there is the possibility that Benedict could indirectly influence the election by suggesting his preferences. Avella said, however, that the College of Cardinals may also want to take a new direction and will not let Benedict impact the vote. “I want a pope who embraces the whole world,” Avella said. “Someone who can reach out to the marginalized and convey to the world the love of Jesus.” Others at Marquette have similar ideas about the characteristics the next pope should possess. “I’d love to see a pope who is not only open to change in the Church but also leads it,” said
Photo by Gregorio Borgia/Associated Press
Pope Benedict XVI gestures during his final general audience address in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Wednesday before he steps down.
Kristen Steinfeld, a junior in the College of Business Administration. Steinfeld is currently studying abroad in San Sebastian, Spain, and identifies as Catholic. “There are many things that I
personally believe the Catholic Church needs to change without allowing our rich tradition to be thrown to the wayside.” Seamus Doyle contributed reporting from Rome.
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Bradley: Students, DPS weigh in on drinking culture at Marquette seems the Bradley Center’s secu“We are not explicitly contractrity has become stricter when it ing them for that the purpose,” comes to alcohol. The Milwau- Dworak said. kee Police Department has been Though there has been a spike noticeably visible at basketball in confiscated fake IDs at the games, and it is not uncommon Bradley Center, it hasn’t necesto see some of the sarily corremore rowdy fans sponded with escorted out of the an increased student section. presence of fake Sergeant Doug IDs on campus Wiorek of the according to Milwaukee Posome. lice Department DPS Capt. was at the Bradley Russell Shaw Center Feb. 25 for said he bethe Marquettelieves most Syracuse game students who and said he saw use fake IDs Student speaking on “a lot of fake IDs” the condition of anonymity use ones they that night. obtained dur“(The Bradley ing high school Center’s) been cracking down on and brought to college. He added fake IDs,” Wiorek said. that fake IDs have been a problem Though Wiorek could not pro- on college campuses across the vide an estimate for the amount country, not just at Marquette. of alcohol-related incidents “I think on many college camMPD has been involved in, the puses there’s a culture that permesergeant said there was “a num- ates the need to have a fake ID, but ber” of cases involving underage I don’t believe there’s any more or alcohol use among students. less of a problem here than in the Brian Dworak, the general manager of the Bradley Center, said that protocol for combating underage drinking has not changed. He noted, however, that there has been an increase in alcoholrelated incidents this year. “There is no different policy or no different procedure in place for this year, “ Dworak said. “We are seeing a higher incidence of fake ID use and (alcohol) handoffs to underage students.” According to Dworak, the Bradley Center has resources to help staff discern between fake and real IDs. “We do have a book in our stands – and have had books in our stands - with information on what a valid ID is,” Dworak said. “And if a stand worker, or someone, sees something that they think is suspicious – they do check and do look for some of the security features for the IDs and verify whether or not it is valid.” Dworak said MPD is on site for 80 percent of all events at the Bradley Center and that the officers are not specifically contracted out for alcohol-related issues – though they do assist security in such matters.
I know many people do not have fakes and do fine with having a fun social life. However, I think having a fake ... can be useful.”
recent years,” Shaw said. “I think the culture for many starts in high school, and they arrive on campus with their fake identification.” Fraudulent identification is plentiful at many campuses nationwide, but some Marquette students argue that Milwaukee’s bar culture promotes having a fake ID more than at other schools. The annual Security and Fire Safety Report released by the Department of Public Safety explained that first-time offenders can get as much as “a $500 fine, mandatory participation in a supervised work program (and) suspension or revocation of the offender’s driver’s license” for being caught with a fake ID. Shaw said there are usually three primary ways DPS finds students with false identification. “Usually they were caught with alcohol in their room and admit to using a fake to purchase the product,” Shaw said. “Also, during alcohol-related medical incidents it’s sometimes discovered that a fake ID was used to buy alcohol, and some weekends we’ll
actually have several students mistakenly try and enter their resident hall using their fake ID.” A student, who like others interviewed for this article spoke on the condition of anonymity, attributed most of their friends having a fake ID to the culture in Milwaukee. “About 85 percent of my friends have fake IDs here,” the student said. “I do think it is essential to campus, because unlike big public schools, Greek life is not as stressed, so people go to the bars.” A student at the University of Arizona explained that fake IDs are not as prevalent on her campus, mainly because of the campus’s Greek culture. “Freshman and sophomore year, as long as one of your friends has one, it’s not necessary, because you only go to fraternity parties, and they supply all your alcohol,” the student said. Another Marquette student said that while most of her friends at Marquette have forms of false identification, there are still other ways for people to have an
enjoyable time on campus. “I would say about 75 percent of my friends at Marquette have fake IDs,” the student said. “Through my experience I know many people do not have fakes and do fine with having a fun social life. However, I think having a fake at Marquette can actually be useful when used appropriately.” The student’s mother attended Marquette when the legal drinking age was 18, and the student said that her time at the university was fun not just because of the bars along Wells Street, but because it provided a place for students to go safely during the weekends. “She loved it not because there was drinking so close to where she lived, but because it created a more inclusive atmosphere where people didn’t have to be invited places,” the student said. “They always had a place to go have fun with friends. So the safety problem that has arisen with drunk driving was much lower, because they had to walk a couple of blocks to get home.”
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Joe Kaiser, Viewpoints Editor and Editorial Writer Katie Doherty, Editorial Writer Andrew Phillips, Editor-in-Chief Maria Tsikalas, Managing Editor Patrick Leary, Sports Editor Pat Simonaitis, News Editor Ashley Nickel, Copy Chief Allison Kruschke, Projects Editor Rob Gebelhoff, Visual Content Editor Matt Mueller, Marquee Editor Rebecca Rebholz, Photo Editor
A flurry of thoughts during MKE snowstorm
STAFF EDITORIAL
Students hungry for sensible, diverse use of campus space sandwich shop
pizza
subs
coming soon:
sub sandwiches
sandwich bar
? vacant
Illustration by Rob Gebelhoff/robert.gebelhoff@marquette.edu
Our view: Potential new businesses on campus should consider both variety in the services they provide and student input as to what services are in demand. Campus Dollar Plus, located at 1616 W. Wisconsin Ave., closed more than a year ago, but nothing has taken its place. The Tribune reported in December that Pita Brothers had expressed interest in the location early last year and could not work out an agreement. To our knowledge, no other tenants have since made a serious push, leaving students to wonder what could possibly come. We hope the university and local businesses involved in these decisions seek to provide a resourceful locale for students on campus rather than merely add to the same sorts of offerings that already exist. This hope is not to say that existing establishments – such as Marquette Gyros, Real Chili, Dogg Haus and others – are useless to students or that they are viewed as such. Their success is proof to the contrary. These businesses are successful, however, largely because they are the only options on campus. The offerings around Marquette’s campus feature redundancies that often have students yearning for variety, and vacant spaces – such as the former Campus Dollar Plus building – are inevitably seen as glimmers of hope that something new will appear on campus. The availability of food sources, both through restaurants and grocery stores, is at the core of the complaints we have heard expressed by fellow students. Right now, in addition to the rather greasy food options on Wells Street, nearby restaurants include a handful of pizza choices and four sub sandwich restaurants all located in a span of about half a mile. This is far from
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variety – unless we take into serious account the different breads at Jimmy John’s, Subway, Cousins Subs and New York City Subs. For groceries, most upperclassmen try to make trips to Pick ‘n Save, but those looking for food on campus are left with Walgreens and 7-Eleven. We understand the reasons a grocery store would face difficulties on campus, as business would likely suffer during the summer months, but we also recognize the legitimate problems resulting in an absence of such a store, as it makes healthy and affordable eating much more difficult, especially for students without access to a car and for those with specific nutritional needs. We hope both student and business needs can be met if student input is taken into consideration in future decisions. Some students recently expressed concern about the potential loss of Sweeney’s College Books when Opus Development Corp. proposed a six-story apartment building at 1400 W. Wells Street, the current location of Sweeney’s, Subway and Kampus Foods. When the university deliberates about bringing new businesses to campus, its leaders should consider an example like Sweeney’s, which has proven so useful to students that it is now a campus staple. Students will continue to spend money at restaurants and convenience stores around campus, but it is out of a lack of variety. The vacant space left by Campus Dollar Plus – which has been vacant for far too long – is one example of an opportunity for something truly innovative and effective. Those responsible for making such decisions should gather student input before all else, as common sense would dictate that financial success would follow. Even if the suggestions are not entirely, initially feasible, a fifth sub shop wouldn’t be either.
IT IS BETTER TO RISK STARVING TO DEATH THAN TO SURRENDER. IF YOU
GIVE UP ON YOUR DREAMS,
WHAT’S LEFT? ”
-Jim Carrey
Caroline Campbell Tuesday – 2:00 p.m. Mom calls and asks if it’s snowing yet. Negative. I dress warmly for my evening activities and head for work. On the way there, at approximately 2:30 p.m., the snow begins. What Weather.com described as “light snow showers” turns out to actually be snow that falls parallel to the ground instead of perpendicular to it. My best estimation would be that we received about three inches of accumulation in four hours. I can only imagine what would have happened had most of the snow not missed the ground entirely. Tuesday – 7:00 p.m. I leave work. I realize the complaints about the wind I heard the last four hours are not exaggerations, and am almost blown off course on the way home. But the weather has not yet weakened my resolve. I will cook dinner and then brave the elements once again for a late meeting. I am convinced it cannot be debilitating. I will not let the weather change my plans. Tuesday – 9:00 p.m. Outside once more. It’s getting worse. But I am not alone in this endeavor, and walking in a group seems to lessen the severity of the situation. Snow is actually quite enjoyable and pretty, isn’t it? I never would have enjoyed so much snow had I attended a more southern school. Tuesday – 11:00 p.m. I have returned home, rather cold and wet. This horizontal snowstorm has yet to cease. I am being a true optimist, and the sliver of hope for a snow day tomorrow shines in the back of my mind. Just in case, I finish my homework and set an early alarm – it’s
always good to be prepared. Plus, how amazing would it be if I wake to find classes cancelled, my work all done and I am able to sleep an extra few hours in the morning? Wednesday – 7:30 a.m. Alarm wakes me up. I peek outside, snow is still falling, and I can barely see my car for the drift of snow. Excitedly, I reach for my computer and open my email, crossing my fingers for the lovely message that will let me go back to sleep and enjoy a day inside. No such luck. I gloomily stare at the ceiling for another five minutes before mustering the resolve to get out of bed, shower, eat breakfast and head out the door for class. Wednesday – 9:40 a.m. After obsessively checking my email throughout my morning routine, just in case, I brave the winter “wonderland” and head to class. On the way there, I discover several things: My front steps have disappeared and now resemble simply a hill covered in snow. Down the street, a pickup truck is stuck in a drift and, despite its valiant, four-wheel-driven efforts to dislodge itself, it remains stuck. Snow isn’t really all that fun anymore. There are large puddles of slush in every crosswalk, making my journey to class all the more unenjoyable. Wednesday – 1:00 p.m. Drenched. I have been drenched with frozen, gray slush from behind by a speeding truck driving down Wisconsin Avenue. To make matters worse, I hear reports that my friends at the University of Missouri have had multiple snow days this week and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee cancelled classes this morning. Bitterness begins to set in. So much for not “enjoying snow at a more southern school,” I guess. Wednesday – 2:15 p.m. I am huddled on my bedroom floor directly in front of my space heater, with a blanket and a pillow. The snow has won. Caroline Campbell is a senior in the College of Communication with a major in journalism and a minor in history. Email her at caroline.campbell@ marquette.edu.
-Snow days
-Marquette not knowing of their existence
-Snowball fights
-Snow down your shirt
-Study abroad
-Writing study abroad application essays
-Beating Syracuse
-Georgetown also winning
-Funny YouTube videos
-Trying to study while watching them
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Thursday, February 28, 2013
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Administration’s FemSex decision misguided It seems Marquette is waging a new the war on women and sexuality. In January, the Gender and Sexuality Resource Center at Marquette agreed to sponsor a student-led, student-facilitated 12-week workshop modeled after longstanding courses at UC-Berkeley and Brown University that engages participants in an exploration of social forces through the lens of female sexuality. FemSex at Marquette’s mission is: “To provide a safe space for exploration, encourage honest dialogue, facilitate collective learning, engage and grapple with the social forces that inform individual experiences, and build allyship.” Now, university president the Rev. Scott Pilarz and Provost John Pauly have withdrawn Marquette’s support of the workshop and forbidden it from being housed under the Gender and Sexuality Resource Center, a space founded after 20 years in the works for “the pursuit of dialogue, growth and empowerment around issues of gender, sex and sexuality,” in an effort to redeem the university’s egregious, poorly thought-out, homophobic actions against Jodi O’Brien. Implicit in the demand that the GSRC pull sponsorship of FemSex is the university’s message to its students that dialogue about gender, sex and sexuality is not welcome among students at the university and that the views of a few right-wing donors trump the interests of the students. FemSex at Marquette first garnered local attention when a Marquette political science professor, John McAdams, published an article on his personal blog entitled the “Marquette Warrior” denouncing FemSex as anti-Catholic and criticizing the university for sponsoring it. The article was full of inaccuracies, as it drew primarily from FemSex on other campuses for its sources
of information, despite that FemSex at Marquette is not affiliated with FemSex at other schools in any official capacity. Additionally, the blog made allegations that FemSex tells women “that men are evil exploiters” when in fact the mission and values inherent to FemSex denounce the use of prescriptive statements in the space and push no political, philosophical or moral agenda. The article further accuses the organizers of FemSex of littering the workshop with “moral judgments,” an allegation made purely based on McAdams’ interpretation of materials from other FemSex workshops around the country. He also expressed that a section of the syllabus entitled “assignments may include” was objectionable because the listings and language were too provocative for the Catholic university setting. The only assignment among those listed in which FemSex at Marquette participants took part was the coloring of anatomical images of vaginas, referred to by a reappropriated feminist term. While the term itself may seem vulgar, to rescind sponsorship of the workshop because of its use is to employ the self-same logic as was used to justify the recent wrongful firing of Jodi O’Brien, whose use of the term in her academic writing constituted the university’s decision to terminate her.
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BUTTING HEADS ON MINIMUM WAGE During the 2012 presidential election cycle, both Gov. Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama agreed that the minimum wage is unsustainable and should be indexed with the Consumer Price Index. Today, a working American with two kids earns $3,400 below the poverty College threshold. The curDemocrats rent minimum wage of $7.25 fails American workers in their pursuit of simple tasks such as paying rent or buying groceries. Thus, the Marquette College Democrats stand by President Obama’s call to raise minimum wage to $9 per hour, which will ease the burden faced by American workers. Putting an upward pressure on wages and increasing consumer demand, raising the minimum wage can benefit the American worker and continue to move our country forward. In the United States, an individual who works full-time should not be struggling to keep her or his head above water. By increasing the minimum wage, businesses will benefit from customers with more money in their wallets, and American workers will be less reliant on government support. As our country provides fair and decent wages to full-time workers, our economy will benefit. We must stand with American workers in order for our country to continue to be able to pride itself on being the land of opportunity, and we can do this by raising the minimum wage. We hope members of both parties can work together toward making it a reality.
In his State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama highlighted some economic proposals. While Obama insisted his goal to raise the minimum wage to $9 per hour will boost employment and help those in poverty, raising the minimum wage accomplishes neither. Economists have proven that raising the minimum wage creates unemployCollege ment, because as the mini- Republicans mum wage gets higher it becomes more expensive for employers to hire entry-level employees. These entry-level jobs are what allow people to gain valuable work experience and build their careers. In a recent survey, less than 50 percent of graduating students felt they were prepared for careers. Think about your campus job. While it would be nice to have $9 per hour, Marquette’s student employees would cost significantly more. Four workers at $7.25 equals three workers at $9. One student job will be eliminated. These jobs are for experience. Do you want your tuition increased to pay for this? Further, unemployment for young people aged 16-24 is nearly 17 percent. Throughout Obama’s presidency this statistic has been the highest in recorded history. The same could be said for impoverished families. As the cost increases to hire employees, companies will lay off or hire fewer. With 23 million Americans unemployed or underemployed, we cannot lose more jobs. Jobs and families should be a focus for Congress and the White House. The best way to do this is with policies that promote job growth while ensuring poverty programs are administered effectively and efficiently. This rapid rise in the minimum wage will slow hiring, and not bring people out of poverty. Watch out – you may lose your campus job.
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Spotlight MKE 2013 MU Radio hands the stage off to local, Marquette bands By Eva Sotomayor
eva.sotomayor@marquette.edu
For listeners and artists alike, breaking into the music scene isn’t an easy task. Many bands often struggle to get the recognition they deserve, and for listeners, finding great local music can be overwhelming. Tomorrow night, Spotlight MKE will make discovering local music a bit easier. The Marquette Radio-sponsored show will bring great Milwaukee and Marquette talent together in one concert. Chelsie Layman, a junior in the College of Communication and Marquette Radio’s music director, is one of the organizers of Spotlight MKE, which will take place at the Union Sports Annex tomorrow at 7 p.m. “I think (Milwaukee’s music scene) is actually growing a lot more, especially compared to my freshman year,” Layman said. “There’s been a big boom in Milwaukee music, which is awesome.” Layman said she took a hands-on approach to the task of choosing the bands performing at the event. She scouted local music venues and clubs and noticed bands that had played recently. She listened to their music
and contacted the bands that caught her attention and that she thought listeners and students would enjoy. “It was a long process of getting a lot of ‘nos’ but also eventually getting ‘yeses,’” Layman said. In the past, Spotlight MKE went under a different name with a battle of the bands-like scenario, but over the past two years, the event has taken a different direction. “Last year, I was the music director’s assistant, and I looked at it like the battle of the bands wasn’t getting a good quality of bands, and people just weren’t coming,” Layman said. “So we changed it into Spotlight MKE and decided to expand the bands to include bands from all the Milwaukee area, and we had a great showing last year.” The acts performing at the event, which include Claire and Ben, The Bastard Malloy, Scott Palahniuk, Eagle Trace and Alchemy, will be competing for a chance to open for twenty one pilots, which will headline the Student Media Concert in April. A panel of judges composed of two Marquette Radio staffers and two DJs from Milwaukee radio stations will judge the bands. While the show may have removed the battle from its name, there is still a sense of competition. Keegan Calmes, the lead singer for Alchemy, said he is looking forward to playing at Spotlight MKE and hopes his band will get the chance to play at Marquette again in April. “The opportunity to open for twenty one pilots is huge,” Calmes said. “I can’t believe it. They’re one of the hottest bands right now.” Calmes is a student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and his band members go to different schools in the UW system. Calmes
Photo via Facebook
Upcoming Milwaukee band Eagle Trace will perform at WUMR’s Spotlight MKE concert this Friday night.
said though Alchemy formed recently, it has enjoyed success and positive reactions from local crowds, including a sold-out show. The members of Alchemy are all classically trained musicians, and when they compose, they try to blend the foundations of classical with a contemporary sound. Calmes said they’d describe their sound as “post-indie rock” and mentioned The Killers and Two Door Cinema Club as influences. Calmes said the band really enjoys live performances and that the best part of performing is “when you feed off the energy and the happiness of the crowd and you smile and the crowd is just singing along.” For Scott Palahniuk, a solo singer-songwriter and a graduate student in
the College of Health Sciences, Spotlight MKE gives the busy student who spends days working and studying in Cramer Hall the opportunity to perform live. “I don’t get to play that many shows because of my time schedule, or play some of my own songs, because at bars I play a lot of covers, because that’s what people want to hear,” Palahniuk said. “I’m excited for my friends and family to come out and see the other bands. I think this is pretty awesome, that we can all get together and play a show across campus.” For Palahniuk, performing live means combining classic singer-songwriter elements and using live-looping and
Photo courtesy of WMUR
This is what we want to do for a living, so we have a good set prepared.” Keegan Calmes, lead singer of Alchemy vocal harmonizers. “I try to make it sound like more than one person when I play,” he said. Palahniuk said he first got into music when he started playing saxophone in middle school and eventually taught himself to play guitar and bass. He played in some other bands and during his time as an undergrad at Marquette has played open mic nights, including shows at the Brew and Mashuda Hall. Layman said Spotlight MKE is much more organized that it has been in past years and that the energy level is very high, with both staff and bands looking forward to featuring all of what Milwaukee has to offer. Calmes agreed. “This is what we want to do for a living, so we have a good set prepared,” Calmes said. “And even though the band itself is new, we’ve been doing this for a really long time. As musicians, we’re excited. I feel like Marquette’s going to be a really good show.”
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Eastside Music Tour to bring beat to Brady Street
Photo courtesy of Josh Evert
The Fatty Acids are just one of the many bands invading Brady Street this Saturday for the Eastside Music Tour.
More than 50 local bands will perform at east side hot spots
By Claire Nowak
claire.nowak@marquette.edu
Milwaukee may have its fair share of summer festivals, including the world’s largest music festival, Summerfest, but this weekend it will try to draw festival crowds out into the cold Wisconsin winter. Local arts advocacy organization ART Milwaukee will host the first Eastside Music Tour this Saturday on Brady Street. Starting at 4 p.m., more than 50 local bands will perform in various shops and restaurants along the route as spectators
take in the sounds of original Milwaukee music. The $15 admission comes with access to every venue, a fanny pack and discounts on food, drinks and shopping. “The goal of the music tour is to showcase Milwaukee’s emerging music scene,” ART Milwaukee president Jeremy Fojut said, “along with driving attention, awareness, and also traffic into the businesses of Brady Street, the boutiques, the coffee shops, the retail stores and the taverns. They see a lot of traffic in the summer, and there’s an opportunity to drive traffic there in the non-summer months.” ART Milwaukee sponsors roughly 150 events every year with the purpose of promoting the arts as an economic and social influence and encouraging young people to be
active in artistic events in Milwaukee. With Eastside Music Tour, the organization hopes to advocate its mission with a new means. “It’s a buy local, live local campaign to spotlight Milwaukee’s vibrant, emerging music scene,” Fojut said. “A lot of great bands are starting to come out of the city. A lot of great things are happening, so (its purpose is) to spotlight it and make sure that people know that Milwaukee is really getting serious about its music.” The idea for the tour first emerged four years ago, but this year, ART Milwaukee took concrete strides to make it a reality. Once Milwaukee businesses like Pabst and the Brady Street Business Improvement District agreed to sponsor the event, Fojut began finalizing the details.
“The steps are really making sure the event is approved, all the businesses are on board and then making sure that all the bands can attend the event,” Fojut said. “It’s actually a pretty daunting task to coordinate 50-plus bands and make sure that everybody is taken care of and scheduled.” Since the performances are all taking place inside Brady Street stores, spectators will be free to walk between venues to see different attractions, much like the multiple stages at Summerfest. “You’ll have a band in the futon store,” Fojut said. “You’ll have something in the doggy social club. You’ll see bands in the coffee shop. You’ll have bands in taverns and restaurants. DJs, singer-songwriters, individual musicians (will play) all day long.” But ART Milwaukee hopes to do more than just promote local musicians and businesses. The organization will donate its earnings from the tour, which are estimated to be around $5,000, to a local elementary school. “(For) every ticket purchased, there will be a donation made to the Cass Street School sculptures to repaint them,” Fojut said. “They haven’t been painted in 15 years or something like that, so the goal is to raise money for the school and make sure they can repaint those sculptures.” For Josh Evert, keyboardist and singer for local band The Fatty Acids, the tour is not only a way to share his music with new fans but also a unique opportunity for his band. “You really don’t see a lot of stuff going on in the winter, as far as a bunch of artists getting together and doing a festival, so it’s cool to see this happening in March,” Evert
said. “It’s also kind of unique because it’s happening at 20 or so different venues all along Brady Street, so it’s gonna be kind of a big event. We’re excited to be a part of it.” Eastside Music Tour can only help Milwaukee’s growing music scene. Lately, more Milwaukee musicians than ever have been recognized nationally, including Field Report and Sat. Nite Duets. “We have some really excellent bands that are going to be recognized on more of a national scale in the next few years, and some already are, which is awesome,” Evert said. “(On) a couple of national outlets I have seen, Wisconsin in general is getting some recognition for its music. I think people are catching on.” If supporting Milwaukee musicians isn’t enough to draw crowds, Evert has a few other reasons why locals, including Marquette students, might want to head over to Brady Street this weekend. “Getting into the late winter times here, everyone could use a walk,” Evert said. “A lot of people might feel like they’ve been in their stuffy dorm rooms or stuffy apartments a little bit too long. It’s a great excuse to walk up and down Brady Street and maybe see some businesses that you didn’t know about, maybe see some artists that you didn’t know about, maybe shed a couple of those ounces from the winter hibernation.” Although the temperature will be much colder than Milwaukee festival-goers might be used to, Evert said he doesn’t think weather will be a factor in the turnout. “It’s hard to say, but you know, Milwaukeeans, they’re tough, and they can handle it,” he said. “Hopefully they’ll get a couple Sprecher ciders in them and brave the weather no matter what happens.”
UWM Drag Show used its glitz for a good cause Drag queens and kings worked the crowd for Project Q By Erin Heffernan
erin.heffernan@marquette.edu
Going from Marquette to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Drag Show is a bit like going from Kansas to Oz. You arrive to an overload of glitter, dancing and colors and realize you’re far, far from home. Though this world of dramaspins, towering wigs and dangerously spiky heels seemed like somewhere over the rainbow, it was just a short bus ride from campus. Last Saturday’s show, sponsored by the UWM LGBT Resource Center and the oStem organization (Out in Science, Technology. Engineering and Mathematics), saw scantily clad and bedazzled queens and bearded drag kings work the runway and strut through the packed crowd. More than 900 people attended the show, filling UWM’s Union Ballroom to capacity and spilling into an extra space where people watched the event on TV. But the night was not just glamour for glamour’s sake. The drag show is primarily a fundraiser for Project Q, an organization that works to
empower lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning and allied young people in Milwaukee. This tie to charity, as well as years of wild and entertaining shows, has made this event the largest of the year for the LGBT Resource Center and a staple in the Milwaukee LGBT community. That popularity became clear long before any of the performers took the stage when an impressively long line wound its way through the student union. Like most of the show, this line was far from ordinary. The mix of Milwaukeans and students – mostly from UWM but with a large group from Marquette – made up a crowd filling every seat and lining walls around the stage. The audience was peppered with fashion statements nearly as bold as the performers. Groups of women sported scrawled-on beards. Men walked through the line with impressive high heels, glitter and makeup. It was an environment where gender roles began to dissolve and the wild and outrageous were the norm. During the performance, audience members were encouraged to bring cash up to the stage to donate to Project Q, and some bolder members of the crowd handed cash directly to performers – sometimes even earning a kiss from the kings and queens. Host Isis – whose alter ego Warren Scherer has worked
with the UWM LGBT Resource Center for many years – took the role of emcee with sassy commentary that encouraged people to donate and introduced acts. “Isis is a hilarious emcee who also educates people who attend the show,” said Nicholas Gutierrez, vice president of Marquette’s Gender and Sexuality Alliance. This is the third year Gutierrez has attended with members of the GSA, which made up a large part of this year’s Marquette presence at the show. “This year’s show was different than years past,” Gutierrez said. “Many of the acts were performing for their first time in the UWM drag show. The past two years had fabulous performances from some of the most well-known and respected queens in the community. Other than that, the show was just as amazing.” One of the night’s standout performances, and a favorite of Gutierrez, was the veteran queen Lady Gia. She has become a crowd favorite after years performing in the show. This year, Lady Gia performed twice, earning huge audience reactions to her graceful and daring act. She strutted in a white billowy dress to “Diamonds” by Rihanna and showed off her dance skills to a mix in the second act, featuring one of the most memorable outfits of the night – memorable mostly by how little fabric was
Photo courtesy of Kat Lau
This year’s UWM Drag Show had an audience of more than 900 people.
actually involved, with just a few key areas covered. The show marked a celebration of the UWM LGBT community that reached into many schools in the area, including Marquette, but members of Marquette’s GSA in attendance said they would like to see some aspects of the event come to Marquette as well. “Unfortunately, I feel that there would be opposition to such (a drag show at Marquette), because there has been push back for other events, as well,”
Gutierrez said. “Marquette hasn’t been at the forefront of inclusion and acceptance like the Wisconsin schools, but that doesn’t mean we have to prolong our progression.” With a click of their heels, Marquette students can return home from the world UWM creates each year. Though Marquette has not yet been home to a show of its own, the spectacle of this yearly favorite reaches into Marquette to provide a fun glimpse into the wild world of drag.
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Bored? A new Sherlock Holmes play is on the case Interactive mystery to revisit legendary literary detectives By Peter Setter
peter.setter@marquette.edu
It is no mystery that Sherlock Holmes has been dazzling readers with uncanny logic and wit for decades. Starting Friday, the legendary detective dazzles new audiences in a new play performed by the Milwaukee Entertainment Group. “Sherlock Holmes and a Most Irregular Tea Party” is an interactive murder mystery set in the world of Sherlock Holmes. Liz Shipe, a writer, director, costumer and actor, wrote the original story, which will run through March 24. The event begins with a halfhour tea time between audiences members and Mrs. Hudson at her home. Then Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson arrive, and the drama ensues, bringing the audience in on the action. With the help of the audience, Holmes and Watson set out to solve the mystery of the evening. The play takes place at the Brumder Mansion, located on 30th Street and Wisconsin Avenue, and costs $35, including admission, food and tea.
Photos courtesy of Liz Shipe
The cast of “Sherlock Holmes and a Most Irregular Tea Party” pose on stage at the Brumder Mansion, where the new mystery play will unfold.
Shipe said the Brumder Mansion is the perfect setting for a Sherlock Holmes story. The mansion was built in 1910, at a time when Sherlock Holmes novels were still being written. Shipe said because of the mansion’s age, there is a lot of period furniture inside that fits well into the play’s story. The mansion’s small space also allows for an intimate setting that allows the actors to acknowledge the audience. “If the audience is going to be that close, you want to engage them,” Shipe said. “Everybody really feels like they are a part of the evening – it is a complete submergence. We get to play off the audience members, which you don’t get to do all that often in theatre, so that’s fun and different.” While the actors engage the audience, Shipe and the other cast members find that some attendees are not as eager to participate in the festivities of the evening. “Most of them are very lighthearted and really want to be
there,” Shipe said. “Every once and a while, you find people who don’t want to be. You can see it on their face as you walk by, the look of, ‘Do not talk to me. Do not engage me. I will not be happy.’” While working as a stage manager at the Brumder, Shipe suggested to the owners of the mansion that a Sherlock Holmes play would draw a large crowd. They immediately asked her to write the play. “I hadn’t had a lot of writing credits to my name yet, but I was very excited at the prospect of trying to put something together,” Shipe said. Because she did not have a lot of writing experience, Shipe looked for help from a few friends. “While I like to write and have done a couple of shows before, that’s not what I went to school for,” Shipe said. “I was very interested in as much help as I could get, because the point was to put on a good show.” Shipe said she was influenced by the original works of Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle while writing the script. She said she particularly likes “A Scandal in Bohemia” because of the characters and “A Study in Scarlet” because, as one of only four fulllength Sherlock Holmes novels, it provided her with more material as opposed to the traditional short story length of most Holmsian works. There are also a few nods to the current BBC series “Sherlock” in the script, because Shipe is a major fan of the show. Shipe said she was also influenced by her relationship with her roommate. “We’re very much Sherlock and Watson, and the script is very much informed by our relationship,” Shipe said. “There are actual fights that we’ve had that are put in there but in Victorian period dialect.” Shipe said she considers the play comedic and lighthearted. However, like any good mystery story, there are a couple moments when the audience gets on edge about what is happening.
“I think the characters are very true to form,” Shipe said. “In the books, Sherlock is a great sportsman, so we felt that was very important to put in. Watson is a kind of ladies’ man, so we added that back in. With the story itself, you can find the bits and pieces of the stories that I liked, but as far as being a faithful adaptation to one story in particular, not so much.” Shipe sent the script to the Sherlock Holmes Society of Washington, D.C., which thought it was clever and followed the source material well. Although the society liked it, Shipe said she doubts Conan Doyle would like it himself. “I think he would be quite angry,” Shipe said. “He’d probably look at it like a really entertaining fan-fiction. I think it has more merit than that, but I assume he would be less positive.” The decision to attend this creative Sherlock Holmes production is, in the words of Holmes himself, quite elementary.
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Cue the ‘Jaws,’ cue the drama KEEP ON SMILING. IT LOOKS GOOD ON YOU.
Matt Mueller For the first time in about half a decade, the Academy Awards did not outrage me. Well, the awards part at least. I could gripe about how “Zero Dark Thirty,” the best movie of the year, came away with half an Oscar, or how Jennifer Lawrence was maybe the third best actress in her category, not the best, but these things were expected. You can’t expect the Oscars to get everything right; you’d go crazy from all the disappointment. Since the awards themselves aren’t particularly commentworthy, let’s talk about the show itself. Namely, the most awkward moment of the entire prolonged evening. It’s probably not what you’re thinking. It wasn’t Seth MacFarlane, who – as I predicted – pretty much bombed. That’s not exactly fair; he just wasn’t Oscars material. His opening monologue was actually fairly amusing, but it was a strange combination of classy material and crude silliness. After that, he only went downhill (save for his “Sound of Music” joke). His type of button-pressing humor just doesn’t fit with the self-important Academy Awards. It’s safe to say he won’t be back, and I think MacFarlane is totally okay with that. But no; that wasn’t the awkward moment I’m thinking of. It wasn’t the post-Oscars anger over the Onion’s profane tweet about nine-year old nominee Quvenzhane Wallis, on which I understand both sides. I understand the satire the publication was going for, but going after the young actress was tricky, and busting out the cword was like using a bazooka to kill an ant.
It wasn’t Jennifer Lawrence’s trip to the stage to accept her Oscar. Seriously, is there a more Jennifer Lawrence moment in the history of Jennifer Lawrence moments? And it wasn’t the rare Oscar tie, announced by Mark Wahlberg (in also the most Mark Wahlberg way possible). No, the most awkward moment of a very awkward evening was the use of the iconic “Jaws” theme to usher the Best Visual Effects winners off the stage. Did you remember this moment? Probably not, but it was the most uncomfortable moment of the night, and its effects are still resonating. For those who didn’t watch the show, the award for Best Visual Effects went to the crew behind “Life of Pi,” and deservedly so. The movie is gorgeous, and the CGI tiger is more impressive than most of “Avatar.” The winners – Bill Westenhofer, Donald R. Elliott, Erik-Jan De Boer and Guillaume Rocheron – went up to the podium to accept their awards and say their thanks. Everything was going as planned. The speech, as often happens at awards shows, was going a bit long (not as long as, say, Anne Hathaway’s, but that’s a rant for another time), so the production starting playing the winners off. However, in a twist going with the show’s theme of music in the movies, the music was the legendarily ominous theme from “Jaws.” At the time, it was pretty amusing, especially since it was the first time that night that the score was used for wrapping up speeches. But then, some unfortunate knowledge came to light. As it turns out, the music and the mic cut off Westenhofer just as he was about to talk about the current plight of visual effects companies. The company behind the Oscar win, Rhythm & Hues, just filed for bankruptcy. So perhaps using the most ominous sounding score in history wasn’t quite the right way to tell a bunch of guys whose company is sinking to shut up and get off the stage. The bigger problem is that
the playoff was considered a massive disrespect to something that’s quietly becoming a serious issue in Hollywood. Rhythm & Hues isn’t some small visual effects company that found success with “Life of Pi.” It previously won Oscars for “Babe” and “The Golden Compass” and worked on big budget films like the X-Men series and “The Hunger Games.” During the Oscars, there was also a protest going on a few blocks away about the economic state of Rhythm & Hues and visual effects studios in general. Obviously, the mic cut-off and the “Jaws” theme were not malicious or planned by the Oscars. It’s just a sad coincidence that points to a bigger problem growing in the industry. Effects people want to get paid. And, frankly, they should. With what Hollywood movies are nowadays, it’s almost impossible to think about modern film without special effects. Could you imagine “The Avengers” without special effects? “Life of Pi”? It’d be close to impossible. A new Tumblr page called Before VFX – a site that collects photos of films before the effects were added in – shows you what that world would look like, and it certainly doesn’t look pretty. It’s hard to imagine people coughing up $10 to see these obviously unfinished films. The fact of the matter is that visual effects people are a crucial part of making a modern film. Even a film like “Zodiac,” which doesn’t feature a single explosion or fantastical universe, used a ton of computer-created imagery. These people are artists, bringing creativity and imagination to the screen. They earned their Oscars this past weekend. There’s no reason why they shouldn’t have earned Hollywood’s and viewers’ respect. Matt Mueller is a senior broadcast and electronic communication major who reviews movies for OnMilwaukee. com. Email him at matthew.mueller@ marquette.edu.
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Notre Dame aims to end streak
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The stakes are high for senior day as Marquette hopes to continue its 24-game winning streak at the Bradley Center and take down the No. 21 ranked Notre Dame Fighting Irish on Saturday.
Golden Eagles must overcome history versus Fighting Irish Saturday By Trey Killian
robert.killian@marquette.edu
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Redshirt junior Jamil WIlson will need to stay hot after scoring 12 points in Monday’s win over Syracuse.
Senior day is usually a time of dedication and fond memorial, but for Buzz Williams’ teams, it has consistently been one of the toughest tests of the year. This Saturday is no different. Notre Dame, one of Marquette’s biggest rivals, visits the Bradley Center having won four of its last five games. The Fighting Irish rebounded from an embarrassing 71-54 road loss to Providence by beating the Panthers in Pittsburgh and knocking off Cincinnati in South Bend. With road wins over the Bearcats and Pittsburgh and a neutral site win over Purdue this season, Notre Dame is fully intent on ending Marquette’s 24-game home win streak, which ranks second in the nation among active streaks. In order to finish the season perfectly at home, the Golden Eagles must overcome the specter of their past. Jae Crowder and Darius Johnson-Odom took a big step toward that last year, winning on their senior day over Georgetown 83-69. It was the first time a Williamsled Marquette squad had won the last home game of the season. The closest Marquette had previously come to securing that elusive win was in 2010, when the Fighting Irish and Luke Harangody broke the Golden Eagles’ hearts in a 6360 overtime loss. Since that game, Marquette is 1-2 against Notre Dame, with its one victory coming the next season at home. The stakes are even higher this season, as Marquette’s chances at a Big East regular season title still hang in the balance with three games to go. A Notre Dame win would bring the Irish record equal with Marquette’s and likely end the Golden Eagles’ hopes of winning the conference for the first (and last) time.
This will be the last time in for the foreseeable future that Marquette will face its Big East Catholic rival, and with so much to be determined, it’s going to be a classic finish. Players to Watch Jack Cooley, senior forward Cooley is a Naismith award candidate this season, as he has been Notre Dame’s clear-cut leader on the court. Averaging 14.4 points this season and pulling down 11 rebounds per game, Cooley has continued Notre Dame’s recent trend of bruising forwards. It will be interesting to see him battle with Davante Gardner or Chris Otule, assuming Williams uses the “jumbo-package” involving both of his big men. Pat Connaughton, sophomore guard The last few Notre Dame-Marquette games have come down to the three-point line. In their win against the Fighting Irish two years ago, the Golden Eagles shot them out of the building with 12 three-pointers. Last season, Notre Dame knocked down 11 threes in a 76-59 upset of then-No. 15 Marquette. Connaughton hit five of those bombs from beyond the arc. This season he leads the Irish with 40 made three-pointers, but he’s been streaky, posting just a .345 shooting percentage from long distance. If Marquette can keep him cold throughout the contest, it would go a long way toward keeping the Fighting Irish from breaking out. Vander Blue, junior guard Blue’s had his moments recently, but his production has been noticeably down, as he scored seven points in the road loss to Villanova and six points in the win over Syracuse. In last season’s loss in South Bend, Blue played what had been the best game of his career, scoring 12 points and keeping Marquette’s transition game going for a good part of the contest. Look for Blue to be a big scoring factor again and get back to his old form against the Irish. His play at both ends of the court will be huge for Marquette.
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MU earns an 81-70 win at Providence Four players score in double-digits in big Golden Eagles victory
By Jacob Born
jacob.born@marquette.edu
The Marquette Golden Eagles (13-14, 5-9) headed east Tuesday to play the Providence Friars (7-20, 2-12) to start the final road trip of their 2012-13 season. The Golden Eagles were looking to get a couple more conference wins before the Big East Tournament starts and succeeded in doing so, beating the Friars 81-70. Marquette’s largest point total of the season derived from four players with double digits in scoring. Junior Katherine Plouffe led the charge with her seventh double-double of the season with 20 points and 12 rebounds. Sophomore Arlesia Morse closely followed with 19 points; redshirt freshman Lauren Tibbs came off the bench to score 14 points; and sophomore Chelsie Butler rounded out the four with 11 points. Associate coach Michelle Nason said the Golden Eagles used their size right from the opening whistle. “We went into that game saying, ‘We’re going to take advantage,’ and we did,” Nason said. Senior Sarina Simmons said the post players did the job right, which contributed to the road win. “We’re very successful when we do things right the first time, and early enough in the game we found a great mismatch on the inside with our post players,” Simmons said. “They carried our team in the first half.” Plouffe, Butler and Morse started for the game, but the bench proved to be vital for the Golden Eagles. Tibbs scored more than half of the bench’s 23 points, which helped Marquette close out the first half on an 8-2 run. The run gave Marquette an 11-point lead to end the half, which helped pad a second half that saw the Friars try for a comeback. Simmons said scoring right before halftime helped the team close out the second. “It was a good momentum push for us going into the second half,” Simmons said. “We just kept
fighting, and we didn’t want to give up or let up.” Plouffe was the only Golden Eagle to record double digit rebounds, but Marquette dominated the glass as a team. Marquette’s rebound differential was plus-28, with nearly half of those being offensive rebounds. The Golden Eagles used their size to grab the rebounds and then get second chances, which accounted for 24 of Marquette’s 81 points. Nason and Simmons said rebounding was emphasized from the very beginning of the game. “One of the things we really try to focus on is winning the battles on the boards,” Nason
said. “That was a focus going into the game, and we knew we had a size advantage.” “We set a goal to out-rebound them by seven, but once we saw we were dominating them … we just felt like ‘don’t let up, don’t let up’,” Simmons said. Turnovers continued to plague the team, as Marquette turned over the ball 29 times, the most in Big East play for the Golden Eagles. Providence was able to convert the 29 turnovers into 27 points, but Marquette limited the damage the turnovers inflicted. Despite the high margin, the Golden Eagles aren’t dwelling on the mistakes and
are focused on doing the good things even better. “We can’t fault the kids for some of the turnovers because they’re trying to make the right passes to their teammates or execute what we’re trying to do,” Nason said. “What we’re really talking to our kids about down the stretch is taking care of the unforced turnovers.” The Golden Eagles will finish their road trip against Georgetown on Saturday before closing out the season at home Monday against Cincinnati. The season finale will give Marquette a chance to avenge its two-point loss against the Bearcats on Feb. 13.
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Redshirt freshman center Lauren Tibbs was one of four Golden Eagles to score double-digits on Tuesday.
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Boeheim’s antics make me love Buzz
Patrick Leary Monday night’s win over Syracuse emphasized what makes going to Marquette special. However, what happened Monday during the post-game press conference reminded me just how lucky I am to attend such a great university. One of the many benefits of this job is getting to hear from the opposing coach after every home conference game. Since I have yet to attend or cover a Marquette loss (knock on wood), I have seen many different coaches react to defeat in many different ways. Last year, Mick Cronin spoke as though he had lost a loved one after his Cincinnati squad fell. This year, Jamie Dixon and Oliver Purnell stood out as polite and complimentary of Marquette’s efforts. All of the coaches accepted defeat honorably and discussed improvements respectfully. All of them, that is, except Syracuse’s Jim Boeheim. When Boeheim sat down in front of the media after Monday’s game, I expected him to be a little angry. His team, which is talented enough to win the national title, has lost two big games in a row to the Big East leaders, after all. But I didn’t expect him to say his team played really well and did almost nothing wrong. I also didn’t expect him to berate the media continuously during the 10-minute presser. When a Syracuse journalist asked whether Boeheim considered switching previously injured forward DaJuan Coleman onto Davante Gardner to stifle Ox’s scoring prowess, Boeheim asked the reporter whether he wanted to tell him how to coach his team.When the room went silent for a moment, Boeheim asked, “Any other coaches out there have questions?” At the end of the presser Boeheim got up, collected himself and told the media to “go win your Pulitzers somewhere else.” Wow. What a jerk. To think I almost went to Syracuse and would have dealt with this guy. Fortunately, I made the decision to attend Marquette, and consequently to cover the kindest and most passionate college basketball coach out there, Buzz Williams. Buzz loves his players. Every postgame interview highlights his passion for the game and the people who play it. Even his jabs at Gardner for his weight and Vander Blue for his jump shots are in good fun. Buzz also knows how to deal with media. He starts every press conference the same way: “go ahead, Mike.” (Mike Hunt, the Journal Sentinel beat writer who travels to every game, always gets the first question.) Other media members, have to wait their turns and even draw a “Where have you been?” from Williams on occasion. On Monday night, as I watched a 37-year veteran of coaching with 912 career wins childishly berate his own traveling media for asking legitimate questions, I realized how lucky I am. Buzz represents Marquette in the fullest and we are all fortunate to have him here. Patrick Leary is a sophomore in the College of Communication. Email him at patrick.leary@marquette.edu.
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Small squad heads off to Notre Dame with big goals Marquette runners, jumpers aim for personal bests at ND By Christopher Chavez
christopher.chavez@marquette.edu
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Kyle Winter is the closest Marquette runner to a Sweet 16 ranking and NCAA Championship berth. He ranks 53rd in the 800-meter run.
Marquette’s track and field team will send four of its best athletes to South Bend this weekend to compete at Notre Dame’s Alex Wilson Invitational. Coach Bert Rogers decided to take a small group to Indiana, as most of the team’s focus shifts outdoors after the Big East Indoor Conference Championship. The meet is one of many across the country with NCAA athletes hoping to hit a qualifying standard that would put them in the top 16 for their respective events. Only the top 16 marks and times will advance to the NCAA Championship at Arkansas. It would take a herculean leap for Marquette to send anyone to the NCAA Indoor Championship in 2013. Kyle Winter is the closest to a Sweet 16 ranking, and he is 53rd in the men’s 800-meter run. His all-time best currently sits at 1:50.62, which was set at Notre Dame’s Meyo Invitational on Feb. 2. In order to stay on the bubble and have a chance at an NCAA qualifier, Winter would need to drop his outdoor personal best from 1:49.84, set during the
2011 outdoor season, to 1:49.03 or faster after this weekend. Instead the focus will be on setting a personal best for Winter and possibly sneaking into an NCAA berth. In practice, Winter has been simulating races and improving his race plan. “We want to come around 52 or 53 for the quarter mile and then push it,” Rogers said. “The idea of the workout is to run that fast through the 400 and push through the 500, because we want to make that time of push before his kick.” Also running this weekend is senior Spencer Agnew in the men’s mile and freshman Molly Hanson in the women’s mile. Both are coming off solid performances at the Big East Championship, and assistant coach Mike Nelson thought they would do well with one more chance at a personal best. The bubble times for the men and women’s mile are 3:59.18 and 4:37.55, respectively. If either Agnew or Hanson were to pull off a surprise race this late in the season and meet those marks, they would hold the fastest mile time in Marquette history. The season has progressively improved for Agnew since he stumbled at the Meyo Invitational. He ran 4:15 for the mile at Grand Valley State’s Big Meet and anchored Marquette’s distance medley relay team at the Big East Championship to an eighth place finish.
Coach Rogers decided to run Agnew, who has been rattled by injuries in the past, at Notre Dame to take advantage of his healthy indoors performance this season. He said he knows how much it would take to make history and move onto the NCAA Championship, but he heads to Notre Dame with his own race plan. “I’m just going in there to run fast and try to set a personal best,” Agnew said. “I’ll just try and get on the train (the pack) is going on and see where it takes me.” Cheldon Brown will be the last competitor for the Golden Eagles on Saturday, as he leads off the day at noon with the men’s high jump. Brown finished eighth at the Big East championship after a tiebreaker with four other jumpers. Teammate Michael Saindon was among those ties but took fourth overall with fewer misses. After the Big East Championship, Brown came away a little disappointed with his performance, which factored into the decision to having him jump this weekend at Notre Dame so he could have one last good outing. The Alex Wilson Invitational will most likely mark the end of the indoor track and field season for Marquette. The first outdoor meet is scheduled for March 14, when the Golden Eagles will travel to Tampa to compete at the USF Bulls Invitational.
Golden Eagles prepare for athletic battle at Air Force Men’s lacrosse team hopes to secure first victory in Colorado By Ben Greene
benjamin.greene@marquette.edu
Following a loss in last weekend’s season opener, the men’s lacrosse team travels to the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado seeking the first win in program history Saturday at 1 p.m. Freshman midfielder Zach Barr said he expects the team to be more calm and relaxed for this weekend’s game since the first game of the season is out of the way, and some of the jitters and anxiety have been alleviated. “I think it’s going to be more comfortable for us to walk into a game rather than going from scrimmages to games because there’s a big difference between the two,” Barr said. “Now that we have one game under our belt, I think it will be a lot easier.” One potential complication freshman midfielder Connor Bernal said he anticipates has to
do with the geographical area in which the game will be played. “It’s going to be a high altitude, so we’re going to need to adjust to that,” Bernal said. “It hopefully won’t make that much of a difference because this week we’re going to be focusing on them a lot.” The Air Force Falcons will demand all of Marquette’s focus Saturday, as they are off to their best start in 16 years with a record of 4-1. Air Force’s only loss came in its season opener against North Carolina, who was ranked No. 4 by the U.S. Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association Coaches poll and No. 7 by the Inside Lacrosse poll at the time. Most recently, Air Force upset Lehigh, ranked No. 12 in the USILA Coaches Poll and No. 8 in the Inside Lacrosse poll, winning 15-10. Coach Joe Amplo talked about the challenges his team will have to face when going up against such a hot team. “(The Falcons) are on a run right now,” Amplo said. “They just beat a very good Lehigh team; they beat a Canisius team that made the NCAA playoffs. So in two days, this Saturday and Sunday, they beat two
NCAA tournament teams.” Although they have not quite cracked into the top 20 rankings, the Falcons are on the edge, as they received votes in both major polls. Amplo said the Falcons’ biggest strength that he has seen on film and heard about from other coaches is their sheer athleticism. “I think they’re unbelievably athletic,” Amplo said. “They are going to dodge hard to the goal so we are going to have to negate their athleticism.” If the Golden Eagles are able to contain Air Force in one-onone situations, the Falcons will likely struggle, as most of their offensive production comes from unassisted plays. Leading the Air Force offense is the two-pronged attack of juniors Mike Crampton and Tommy McKee. Crampton and McKee were first and second on the team in goals last season, with 29 and 23, respectively. This year, the pair has already combined for 27 of the Falcons’ 58 goals. Amplo highlighted the importance of the Golden Eagles bringing intensity to the Air Force Academy Saturday since their opponents will surely play
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Joe Amplo and his team are preparing to take on an Air Force team that has already beaten two NCAA tournament teams this season.
full out for all 60 minutes. “I expect (Air Force) to be prepared, and I expect them to play hard,” Amplo said. “A
service academy is never going to play without effort. Us, being Americans, we are proud of that.”
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By Kyle Doubrava
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Stringer reaches 900 wins Rutgers coach C. Vivian Stringer earned her 900th career victory Tuesday night when the Scarlet Knights upended South Florida 68-56. The fifth time was the charm for Stringer, as Rutgers had dropped its previous four and was out of contention for a firstround bye in the Big East tournament. Stringer is the fourth Division I women’s basketball coach to join the 900 club and the seventh coach overall between men’s and women’s basketball. The next coach on the list aiming for 900 wins is Stanford’s Tara VanDerveer, who has 861. Pitt vs. UConn matchup proves uneventful Pittsburgh, entering Tuesday’s game at UConn 0-13 in conference play, was not expecting to
make a significant impression on the Huskies. And it surely didn’t. The Panthers continued their winless streak and fell to Geno Auriemma’s bunch 76-36. Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis had 19 points and 13 rebounds to set the tone for the Huskies. Pittsburgh actually led 8-7 early, but that advantage did not last long. UConn has more challenging games ahead – this Saturday at a strengthening South Florida club and Monday at No. 2 Notre Dame to close out the season. Officially an improvement year for Marquette With its 81-70 road win at lowly Providence Tuesday night, Marquette picked up its fifth conference victory, an improvement from last year’s 4-14 struggle. The team is still quite young and could use this year’s and last year’s experiences to make a push for 10 league wins next season and a
Big East tournament first round bye. Marquette’s two remaining games are certainly winnable: at 5-9 Georgetown this Saturday and hosting 3-11 Cincinnati on Monday. Highest, lowest attendance figures as season concludes Providence has the lowest average attendance numbers in the Big East. Mullaney Gymnasium at Alumni Hall holds 2,620, but the Friars have brought in just 565 fans per game this season. Their largest crowd of the year so far was 1,278. Compare that to Connecticut, which draws an average of 9,753 fans per contest between the XL Center in Hartford and the Gampel Pavillion in Storrs. The Al McGuire Center, which has a capacity of 3,812, has had 1,715 people at Marquette games on average. Big East women’s basketball games have averaged 2,749 people per game this season.
Connecticut at Notre Dame Monday, 6 p.m.
Notre Dame’s perfect Big East record will be put to the test on Monday when the Fighting Irish host the Huskies in the regular season finale for
both teams. UConn trounced last-place Pittsburgh Tuesday 76-36, and Notre Dame took care of business against Syracuse Tuesday 79-68. Notre
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Dame won the last meeting between the two squads, and it’s quite possible they will meet at the closing stages of the NCAA tournament.
Andrea Smith Senior Guard South Florida
Smith paced the Bulls to two huge victories last week over No. 12 Louisville and No. 21 Syracuse. Smith tied her career high at Louisville with 35 points on 5-of-6 shooting from long range and scored 18 points and had nine boards against Syracuse. South Florida is 8-6 in the Big East but
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has a tall task ahead of it this Saturday when it plays UConn. This week marks Smith’s second Big East Player of the Week nod. Her first was during the week of Jan. 14. In addition, this is just the ninth time in USF history that a Bull has been named Big East Player of the Week.
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