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Volume 97, Number 45

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Winter storm hits MU

Spurned sex workshop co-founders mull options

By Allison Kruschke

allison.kruschke@marquette.edu

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

From Monday night through Tuesday morning, another winter storm hit Marquette adding to the snow on campus in the days before spring break.

Above, students have a snow ball fight in central mall after classes Tuesday. For more photos of snow on campus, see marquettetribune.org.

Four tickets enter MUSG elections Primaries to be held on March 19 to decide final contenders

By Joe Kvartunas

joseph.kvartunas@marquette.edu

For the first time since spring 2009, a primary election will be necessary in the race for Marquette Student Government president and executive vice president.

Primaries are only held in MUSG elections when more than two tickets, each composed of one presidential candidate and one executive vice presidential candidate, are running.

This year, there are four tickets up for consideration. Before 2009, primaries in the executive election were necessary every year dating back to 2002.

This year’s primary will take place March 19 and will feature four tickets on the same ballot. Voting will be conducted online, and students will only be allowed to select a single ticket. The two tickets with the most votes will move on to the general election.

Junior Senator from the College of Arts & Sciences Samuel Schultz is running for president with sophomore Senator from the College of Arts & Sciences Zach Bowman

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See FemSex, page 5

Students to travel across state borders for service programs Volunteers embark on MAP trips for spring break alternative

By Emily Wright

emily.a.wright@marquette.edu

While most of the Marquette student population will try to unwind during spring break after midterms, some students will travel across the country to give back to those less fortunate.

The Marquette Action Program, known as MAP, is sponsoring 18 trips to 12 different states this spring break. More than 150 students will

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While some questions still remain surrounding specifics of the university’s decision to rescind sponsorship from “FemSex: The Female Sexuality Workshop,” the group’s co-founders said Wednesday that they are seeking to be re-allowed to meet in recently withdrawn Alumni Memorial Union space.

Originally, university sponsorship – which meant the group could meet in the Gender and Sexuality Resource Center in the AMU – was discontinued following a student inquiry to University President the Rev. Scott Pilarz that brought the content of the workshop to his and his staff’s attention. In a letter to the Tribune Tuesday, Pilarz explained that “aspects (of the program) fell outside of (Marquette’s) Catholic, Jesuit identity.”

Pilarz said he has faith that the university will “find a mutually respectful way to authentically explore these tensions so that we can ensure purposeful

See Service, page 5

Photo courtesy of Katelyn Quigley

Students on a service trip last spring help to cultivate a garden.

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Weddings at Gesu

Goodman

Leary

Erin Heffernan explores campus marriage preparations.

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Instead of wild and crazy, spirng break can be relaxing.

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Gonzaga earned its top ranking by default, but it doesn’t matter.

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Corrections A quote in the page one story in Tuesday’s Tribune entitled “‘127 hours’ subject speaks to students” was attributed to the wrong student. The quote, which begins “Aron Ralston was truly inspring...” was misattributed to Lauren Papucci. The quote was in fact said by Mary Maruggi. The Tribune regrets the error.

The page one story in Tuesday’s Tribune entitled “Site names professor among top African-Americans in field” mistakenly identified Andrew Williams as chairman of the department of electrical and computer engineering. The department chairman is in fact Edwin Yaz; Williams is the John P. Raynor, S.J. distinguished chair. The Tribune regrets the error.

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Gil Kerlikowske (right), director of national drug control policy, spoke about the nation’s drug problem with Mike Gouscha Wednesday.

US ‘drug czar’ talks smack at Law School Top US official says marijuana should stay illegal federally

By Jason Kurtyka

jason.kurtyka@marquette.edu

The debate over the war on drugs came to Eckstein Hall Wednesday when Gil Kerlikowske, the White House’s “drug czar,” sat down with Mike Gousha to talk “On the Issues” about the scope of the nation’s drug problem and the legalization of marijuana.

Before being appointed as director of national drug control policy by President Obama in 2009, Kerlikowske was police chief of Seattle. When he left that post, crime in the city reached its lowest point in forty years.

Kerlikowske began the conversation by saying the nation does not have a single drug problem, but rather multiple regional drug problems, with certain drugs used more in different parts of the country but almost unseen in others.

“To give you an example, methamphetamine is a significant problem in the Midwest and West,” Kerlikowske said. “(But it) is virtually unknown on the East Coast.”

Kerlikowske said prescription drug abuse is an epidemic in the country and that about 16,600 people have died in the past year from abuse.

The White House’s focus on regional issues, Kerlikowske said, has led to a large decrease in the country’s prison population, where about 50 percent of those incarcerated have a drug connection.

He also attributed the decrease to the establishment of 2,600 drug courts across the country.

These drug courts, run by local justice systems, were established to help people who have been arrested for drug possession or use to recognize their problem and help put them on a path to recovery. Kerlikowske said the diagnosis and treatment of drug users is now the main focus in defining national drug policy.

“The war on drugs and legalization have made great bumper stickers, but right here in the middle we have a lot of things that work,” Kerlikowske said. “In the last decade we have learned more about drug prevention programs, and we know that drug prevention programs can work.”

After Gousha turned the conversation to the legalization of marijuana in Washington and Colorado, Kerlikowske cited a report by the

Events Calendar MARCH 2013

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

Thursday 7 2013 Sustainability Summit & Exposition, Delta Center, 8 a.m.

Adidas Workers’ Rights Abuses Speaker, AMU, 1 p.m.

SPANK!, Turner Hall Ballroom, 6:30 p.m.

Friday 8 UWM’s 2013 MA/MFA Show, Inova Institute for Visual Arts, 5 p.m.

Bill Burr, The Pabst Theater, 6 p.m.

Jack Hanna’s Into the Wild LIVE, Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, 7 p.m.

Saturday 9 The Ruckus @ The Rock, The Rock Sports Complex, 10 a.m.

St. Patrick’s Day Parade, 3rd Street and Wisconsin Avenue, 12 p.m.

Amy Schumer, The Pabst Theater, 7 p.m.

Sunday 10 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Sports Show, Wisconsin Exposition Center, 10 a.m.

“Pinkalicious the Musical,” Marcus Center Todd Wehr Theater, 1 p.m.

WWE Smackdown Road to Wrestlemania, BMO Harris Bradley Center, 5 p.m.

Rand Corporation that expressed doubts about the government’s ability to collect taxes on marijuana and the notion that legalization prevents violence, especially in Mexico. Kerlikowske went on to say he agreed with President Obama that marijuana should not be federally legalized.

“I think we’re in for a continuing, confusing time,” Kerlikowske said. “We don’t see any of the science and the facts supporting (legalization).”

Should marijuana be legalized, Kerlikowske said the drug should go through all FDA procedures, something he doubts will happen anytime soon.

“I don’t think there is a lot of initiative by the large pharmaceutical companies, because it’s very expensive to bring new products to market,” Kerlikowske said.

Because marijuana is labeled a Schedule 1 drug, it is not considered to have any medical value.

There are only 200 researchers in the country who have a license to study the drug, and so far three derivatives of the drug have been brought to market, two of which can be prescribed in the U.S. “The difference here is that none of these have the properties to get people high,” Kerlikowske said. “If you look at research in

California, the sickest group of people there needing medical marijuana are 30-year-old white males, and I never actually saw them as being a particularly unhealthy group.”

Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn also sat down toward the end of the conversation to answer questions, echoing much of what Kerlikowske said.

“We in the police have learned over the past 20 years that we are not at war with anybody,” Flynn said. “We in Milwaukee have adopted as our mission statement that in partnership with the community we need to develop neighborhoods capable of sustaining civic life.”

A person unaffiliated with Marquette who attended the event compared federal drug policy to the Prohibition era of the 1920s, saying drug-related crime was a side effect of marijuana not being legal.

“Everyone says how bad marijuana would be if it were legalized, but when are we going to realize prohibition is the problem and not the drug itself?” the attendant said. “People aren’t breaking into these houses because they are dope houses or drug houses. They’re breaking into these houses because they know the people (whose houses) they’re going to break into can’t call the police and say, ‘Hey, my drugs were stolen.’”

DPS Reports March 4 At 5:25 p.m. a student was in possession of a false ID in Structure One. March 5 At 3:18 a.m. an employee reported that unknown person(s) wrote graffiti in a restroom in the Alumni Memorial Union.

Facilities Services was contacted.

At 11:13 a.m. a student vandalized a parked, unattended vehicle belonging to a person not affiliated with

Marquette in the 2000 block of W. Michigan St., causing an estimated $499 in damage. MPD will cite the student.

At 12:53 p.m. a student reported that an unidentified subject acted in a disorderly manner toward the student in Todd Wehr Chemistry.

At 7:54 p.m. a person not affiliated with Marquette trespassed in McCabe Hall and was taken into custody by MPD.

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Want A’s? Try medical school system,” Fazio said in an email.

Fazio said the results were similar to a 10-year-old study performed by Alice Speer, a doctor in the department of internal medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch. This study also used a nationwide survey.

By Eric Oliver eric.oliver@marquette.edu Fazio’s study found that 38 percent of students who passed Medical students may be get- an internal medicine clerkting higher grades than they ship should have failed, while deserve because of grade infla- Speer’s study found that 43 pertion, according to a study pub- cent passed. Fazio’s study also lished in the medical journal found that 55 percent of clerkTaylor and Francis in January. ship directors reported grade inSara Fazio, lead author of the flation happened at their institustudy and an associate professor tion. Speer’s study found that 48 at Harvard Medical School, said percent reported inflation. the findings weren’t very surprisA clerkship is the last formal ing to her and her colleagues. training before residencies durThe study was a nationwide ing the third and forth years survey of medical school clerk- of medical school. ship directors, who are primarily Kenneth B. Simons, a professor responsible for determining the at the Medical College of Wismedical students’ grades. Fazio consin and the associate dean for said a follow-up study of detailed graduate medical education and grade distribution in all American accreditation, said the study is a and some Canadian schools is in fairly accurate reflection of how the process of beclerkship direcing analyzed. tors across the Fazio said she country feel. found the stanSimons said dard of grading the fundamenacross the medital problem is cal community that clerkship shocking. directors do not “We were want to hurt stustruck by how dents’ chance at a poorly standardresidency. ized and subjec“It’s very diftive grading was ficult to comin the clerkship, municate (poor and how increas- Kenneth B. Simons, associate dean, grades), and I Medical College of Wisconsin think we need to ingly more and more students do it as educawere receiving grades in the tors,” Simons said. “We need to highest category, and very few give people the grades they acin the lowest, leading essentially tually earned, because at the end in many schools to a ‘two-grade’ of the day it’s the student who

Study: grade inflation common at some US medical programs

Medical educators need to take greater responsibility for the fact that our graduates will be taking care of the public.”

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earned or didn’t earn the grade.”

Simons said the primary way to bring down the rate of inflation in medical schools would take a cultural shift in the medical school community.

“Medical educators need to take greater responsibility for the fact that our graduates will be taking care of the public,” Simons said. “If we keep that in the forefront instead of thinking of the student as our client, and we think about what we are trying to help them do down the road and we make that our focus, we have a greater chance to diminish grade inflation.”

Fazio agreed and added that uniformity in the grading scale would work to eliminate inflation.

“Several of us in the organization have discussed the need to adopt some uniformity of standards across institutions, since students train at one medical school but may go to a residency training program anywhere else in the country,” Fazio said.

Fazio said she was very troubled by the lack of change in grading over the decade she studied.

This study should not discourage personal faith in doctors-to-be, Fazio said. If anything, patients should have more faith in future doctors because of the amount of training they go through.

“They are an incredibly talented and driven group of young people who make us very proud to work with them,” Fazio said. “It does point out the notion, however, that we need to have a better system of assessment that accurately reflects abilities and a better means of remediation for those few students who do need it.”

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MUSG: Four tickets for March 19 primary election as his running mate. season will affect the candidates Michaela Tarpey, a junior in more than anything else. the College of Arts & Sciences, “I think that the primary will is running for president along- make this year’s election more side Schroeder Hall Senator competitive,” said David KueThomas Schick, a sophomore in ster, a senior in the College of the College of Arts & Sciences.

Arts & Sciences and the MUSG Junior in the College of Arts elections coordinator. “Can& Sciences Wildidates will liam Knight is be tested more also running for than ever on president, with their organizaDaniel Bresnational skills (and han, a junior in their) ability to the College of promote their Business Adminrespective platistration, as his forms and conrunning mate. nect with stuNeither Knight dents.” nor Bresnahan Even though have experience there will likely in MUSG. David Kuester, senior, College of be a candidate There are Arts & Sciences with a plurality also two freshof the votes in men running. Zach Dubois the primary, the election offiof the College of Arts & Sci- cials made it clear that it is necences is running for president essary to get a full majority to alongside Estefania “Ely” Eli- win the general election. zondo, who studies in the Col“What you’re not having with lege of Communication. Du- (all four on the same ballot) is bois and Elizondo also have no a majority of campus confirmprior MUSG experience. ing that they want these candiJoe Daufenbach, the current dates,” Daufenbach said. executive vice president and Jon Dooley, senior associa senior in the College of Arts ate dean for the Office of Stu& Sciences, said the number of dent Development, said he betickets on the ballot this year lieves the ticket that wins the seems to represent an increased most support in the primary interest in MUSG participation. will gain a distinct advantage “I don’t know if it’s people in the general election. getting more used to the or“For the two tickets that ganization, or if it’s just us, carry on into the general electhat we’ve been promoting tion, the primary gives them it more,” Daufenbach said. an opportunity to see what levThose in charge of running el of support they have from the election said the addition students,” Dooley said. of the primary to the election

I think that the primary will make this year’s election more competitive.”

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programming that meets student on the participants’ experineeds and is consistent with our ences,” Van Fossen said. “What mission and identity.” occurs during the workshop is The group’s co-founders, not prescribed, so it varies degraduate students Claire Van pendent on what the participants Fossen and Rachel Bruns, said bring from their experiences.” they believed the Bruns and program’s misVan Fossen also sion and greater said they have purpose were received ofnot in conflict fers of support with Jesuit and and sponsorship Catholic idefrom academic als and that the offices within workshop was the university meant to provide and local orgaa safe place for nizations such as discussion. They the Milwaukee also said they LGBT CommuClaire Van Fossen, co-founder, nity Center. did not know FemSex what specific Bruns and Van information the Fossen declined university was given about the to comment on which academworkshop when it initially de- ic offices have reached out to cided to sponsor it. them or offered sponsorship and Now, after a showing of sup- space for the workshop. port from some students, fac“The support has been overulty members and members of whelming,” Van Fossen said. the Milwaukee community, Van “From the broader commuFossen and Bruns said they are nity, from students on campus attempting to have the program and from faculty.” reinstated in the Gender and In regard to how FemSex beSexuality Resource Center. gan at Marquette, Bruns said she “We are in dialogue around had attended a FemSex workpossibilities of restoring our of- shop at a different university and ficial relationship with GSRC found it positive and impactful. in a way that does not compro- She said she felt there was a mise the integrity, mission and need for a safe space to discuss content of FemSex,” they said issues of gender and sexuality in a joint email Wednesday. on Marquette’s campus.

“Our intention is that FemSex “After some challenges at at Marquette will continue to be Marquette around issues of a needed source of hope, safety, gender, I decided to reach out openness and dialogue for all to (GRSC Director) Susannah participants on campus and in (Bartlow) and do something prothe larger community.” active,” Bruns said. “And since Van Fossen and Bruns did I knew that FemSex was so posnot say whether they planned itive in the safety of its space, to make changes to the pro- and that open dialogue and gram’s syllabus, though Pilarz collective learning, I thought wrote Tuesday that the deci- that might be a positive thing sion to end university sponsor- to bring to Marquette.” ship of FemSex was made afShe added that she had conter reviewing the syllabus with versations not only with Bartother administrators. low but also with faculty and “I first learned of the pro- members of the Marquette grammatic details when a cur- community last semester prior rent student emailed me,” Pi- to starting the workshop to dislarz said. “The student asked cern what issues of gender and thoughtful questions and did sexuality were most relevant to not request that I take action. Marquette’s campus.

The student has not spoken “One of the realities named publicly about it, nor sought in these preliminary conversaattention for his views. After tions was the significance of reviewing the specific work- Marquette’s Catholic identity,” shop outline, I consulted with Bruns said. “In response to this university leadership and found reality and in light of the presaspects that fell outside our ence of Catholic and Christian Catholic, Jesuit identity.” cultures at Marquette and in According to the syllabus, Milwaukee, we added a ‘SpiriFemSex is designed as “a 12- tuality and Sexuality’ session to week workshop that aims to explore intersections of these iscreate a mindful, respectful, sues, as well as create space for and open environment for par- dialogue around the ways faith, ticipants to validate their experi- religion, and spirituality may ences, challenge their ideas, and inform, influence, or speak (to) learn with and from others.” our experiences of sexuality, Modeled after similar pro- embodiment, intimacy, vulnergrams at the University of Cal- ability and relationships.” ifornia-Berkeley and Brown Van Fossen said the group University, discussion topics has been received positively by include “Female Health and student participants and that the Anatomy,” “Body Image,” recent media attention has not “Sex, Sexuality, and Desire,” affected the turnout or quality and “Masturbation, Orgasm, of discussion within the group. and Pleasure.”

She declined to give the exact In the workshop on “Mas- number of participants. turbation, Orgasm, and Plea“We have a very comfortable sure,” the syllabus states, “We number of students,” she said. will ask questions, share ex- “It’s exactly in the range of periences, and generate ideas what we look for for the size of for techniques.” the group. We’re almost at what Van Fossen said the group we consider to be our capacattempts to foster discussion ity. Although we discuss topics and does not attempt to teach that may appear controversial, a curriculum or prescribe an we do not prescribe any beideology or morality. havior or morality. We simply “Not every (workshop is) the acknowledge that those issues same (because they are) based exist as part of humanity.”

participate in these trips, taking part fully what makes them feel most in a variety of activities such as alive and most human, so that they working with Habitat for Human- are better able to give themselves ity to rebuild homes, providing wholeheartedly to others,” said Sarmeals in urban homeless shelters or ah Thiry, a senior in the College of helping out in classrooms.

Nursing and a MAP trip facilitator.

Despite limitaThis year, the tions on available MAP sites will sites, there is no correspond to solack of enthusiasm cial justice themes for the unique opincluding educaportunity. More tion, urban or rural than 200 students poverty and huapplied for the man dignity. Stuprograms, acdents will travel cording to Taylor to such diverse Baar, a junior in places as Joplin, the College of Arts Mo., Montgom& Sciences and ery, Ala., and Sarah Thiry, senior, Ivanhoe, Va., to the MAP student College of Nursing do a wide variety coordinator.

These MAP of work. Other trips continue the long-held Mar- students will travel to New Orleans quette tradition and Jesuit ideal of with MARDI GRAS and undergo community service. Last year, Mar- a Border Awareness experience in quette undergraduates spent an es- Texas through Campus Ministry. timated 455,000 hours in service to “We focus on the justice issue, the community each year, accord- and we make sure there are people ing to assessment statistics on the from the community who can come Division of Student Affairs website. in and educate the students,” Baar “I believe community service al- said. “There are quite a few faclows individuals to discover more tors that go into creating a unique

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FemSex: Students respond Service: Popular MARDI GRAS trip sets to university’s decision out to help reconstruct Lower 9th Ward

Not every (workshop is) the same (because they are) based on the participants’ experiences.”

MAP has shown me that relationships are a key component to living an authentic human life.”

MAP site that we think would be great for participants.”

Students said they enjoy the trips and the experiences they gain because they can help others and build relationships.

“The MAP trip I went on changed my outlook on America,” said Claire Hackett, a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences. On her trip she helped clean up a national park in Virginia in 2011.

“MAP has shown me that relationships are a key component to living an authentic human life, so whether you are with your friends eating in a dining hall or pouring milk at a service site, it is always important to be open and present to those you are with, because you can learn something from everyone,” Thiry said.

Baar said the difference between MAP and other types of community service is the reflection component of MAP trips. This gives students the chance to think more deeply on the impact of their work in the community.

“Sometimes without (reflection) you may not understand the importance of (the work),” he said.

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The Marquette Tribune Editorial Board:

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

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Brooke Goodman

Photo by Xidan Zhang/xidan.zhang@marquette.edu

Consistency and clarity can end controversy on FemSex Our view: Emotions on both sides of the FemSex debate are running high, but improved transparency by the university could have settled the backlash.

The university’s now-rescinded sponsorship of the student-led FemSex program has created a buzz around campus and in the Milwaukee community. While many on both sides are outraged over the black and white aspects of the issue, we are not ready to say whether the decision was right or wrong, because neither side has provided clear enough information for us to reach a hard conclusion.

We do, however, believe the process behind rescinding the sponsorship invited some of the backlash, and we are prepared to offer suggestions about how to avoid this kind of hoopla in the future.

Marquette has said sponsorship for FemSex was pulled because the topics and mission did not fit with the university’s Catholic values.

It is, of course, important to know what specifically in the program was against the university’s Catholic mission. Specific examples that factored into the decision could alleviate much of the tension and display a better articulated standard for sponsorship set by the university.

In a letter published in the Tribune Tuesday, University President the Rev. Scott Pilarz and director of the Gender and Sexuality Resource Center Susannah Bartlow said they consulted “university leadership” in making this decision.

While that broad phrase is probably true, it would be far more informative to know who “university leadership” is and how they contributed to the decision.

The university needs to be consistent in its decision-making and set a precedent for what programming will and will not be sponsored by Marquette. Inconsistencies created another similar issue in 2010 when the university rescinded its deanship offer to Jodi O’Brien because

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of writings deemed not to be in line with Marquette’s Jesuit values. Again, however, the backlash faced in this instance could also have been lessened if the university was simply straightforward. This is an institution proud of its Catholic, Jesuit identity, so its students and faculty should know when and why organizations or people do not represent it.

To their credit, in the letter, Pilarz and Bartlow said, “We know that open communication will ensure our center’s success, and we look forward to continued community dialogue.”

We commend them for their proactive rhetoric, but we ask that they lead the way by providing necessary details of the decision to students.

The rescinded sponsorship seems to indicate that the university did not know exactly what it was sponsoring. If the decision was made because the program deviated from the set syllabus and what the university had agreed to sponsor, and if the university had made that clear, the issue would most likely not have garnered as many negative responses as it did. But as it stands now, it seems it is only the word of Pilarz in his letter against the graduate students who ran the program and were interviewed by the Tribune.

Because we have limited information, we cannot offer a clear opinion on the rescinded sponsorship. We believe students should be given more information so they can make informed decisions about Marquette and its sponsorship policies, especially in regard to the newly formed Gender and Sexuality Resource Center.

It is easy for a situation like this to generate hype when there is a lack of information, with two sides claiming to be in the right. It is certain, though, that reactions in situations this serious will be predictably negative regardless of whether the university is right or wrong, if it is not consistent, transparent and specific in setting a standard.

A POPULAR GOVERNMENT WITHOUT POPULAR INFORMATION OR THE MEANS OF ACQUIRING IT, IS BUT A PROLOGUE TO A FARCE, OR A TRAGEDY, -JAMES OR PERHAPS BOTH.

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I’ve had some pretty unique spring break experiences over the years.

A family trip to Florida in the sixth grade consisted of watching “Rocket Power” reruns with my sister and sitting on the beach in sweatpants and coats due to a week of cold and dreary weather.

In eighth grade, the sun and snow in Breckenridge, Colo., got the best of me when my face became so burnt and blistered that I resembled some sort of reptilian monster and consequently didn’t return to school for three extra days.

Park City, Utah, replaced Breckenridge my senior year of high school, but instead of second degree burns, the trip epically concluded with a friend being taken down the mountain on a stretcher.

Freshman year of college I visited my best friend at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. I stayed in his fraternity house and spent most of the time cleaning (for my own sanity) and having Nerf gun battles with the brothers.

And last year I spent the week in Seattle doing yoga, drinking coffee and swearing to myself that I would never move to a place where being drenched 24/7 is the norm.

All of these trips were great experiences overall, and I’m incredibly thankful for the opportunities to have gone on them, but obviously, spring break just isn’t quite my thing.

So when my original agenda to go to graduate school interviews this break got canceled, I didn’t exactly jump to make plans. In fact, I’ve realized that most of the time a quiet week spent at home with family is the best way to refocus, recharge and prepare for the grind

that is the second half of the semester.

Sure, there might be some jealousy upon hearing others’ plans to go to Panama City Beach, abroad or on cross-country road trips, but I’m more than content to spend break in good old Geneva, Ill., with a book, endless supplies of cereal and my dog.

The “college spring break” stereotype can be somewhat overwhelming. Movies and television shows make it seem as if college students are supposed to use all the extra money they have laying around to go somewhere tropical, consume copious amounts of alcohol and participate in wet T-shirt contests.

If those things are appealing and you have the means to do so, then more power to you. But if that’s not your ideal scenario for a week away from school, don’t force it upon yourself.

Spring break is a great time to simply “do you.” If that means going on a crazy vacation, that’s fantastic, and I’ll be jealous of your tan when you return. If you’d rather lie on a couch watching movies, that’s cool, too. If you’re spending your break doing service – whether it is with a Marquetteaffiliated group or not – I commend you for choosing to give a week of your time to others. And if break will consist of job applications and interviews, I wish you the best of luck.

Personally, I plan to exercise, read a lot, spend some quality time with my family, take some day trips to Chicago and re-establish my love affair with The Sims. Maybe I’ll catch up with some old friends, but after almost four years of college, I’ve learned that having a successful break no longer depends on how full my social calendar is.

No matter what you intend to do next week, though, don’t let the pressures of a “college spring break” dictate your plans and attitude. Remember to “do you” and you’ll come back more than ready to finish the semester strong.

Brooke Goodman is a senior studying journalism and political science. Email her at brooke.goodman@ marquette.edu with anything you’d like to see her write about.

-Filibusters

-Not enough people watching C-SPAN

-Snow snakes

-Headless snow gorillas

-Villanova beating Georgetown

-Waiting until Saturday to find out if it matters

-Spring break

-Wait, it’s spring?

-Little homework

-Lots of midterms

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Education prompts social engagement

Caroline Campbell “I tell my students, ‘When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grabbag candy game.’” - Toni Morrison This is one of my all-time favorite quotes. I think, as a Marquette community, we can take something crucial from it, as well. To me, this is what it means to “be the difference.”

We are all intelligent people. Whether

our major is in communication or physics, education or political science, we had the ability to get in to a four-year university, which is something most people in this world cannot boast. No matter where we come from – our family situations, geographic background, financial struggles – we have all been gifted with the opportunity to receive a great education in something.

That can set us free.

As educated individuals, we have a choice. According to Morrison, this is not a choice but something we need to do. We have the ability to use our education to reach out to others in some way and offer freedom to someone who is struggling to be free. Whether this means writing a news story about an issue that has been silenced, creating a device that limits pollution and saves lives, giving someone the gift of a decent education that all people deserve or speaking out to the government for a group that has not been able to find its voice, if we have that ability, it is more

than a shame not to do so: it is a failure.

Many Marquette graduates take this very literally and spend the first few years after college in volunteer positions, working with the poor and powerless throughout the world. This is excellent, but it is time wasted if, after that year or two of service, that person returns to the “real world” and forgets the lessons they learned in service. It takes more than a year to free someone.

As I begin the second half of my final semester here at Marquette, I’ve begun to deeply contemplate what I have learned the past four years and how I can truly use my abilities to help begin the process of being a difference in the world. I haven’t reached any solid conclusions yet, but I hope to carry my experience and education with me for the rest of my life.

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.

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‘First world problems’ cliché skews our worldview “First world problems” has finally gone the way of “That awkward moment when,” “ironic,” “random,” “literally”—expressions which American youth once had a firm grasp on the meaning of, then they became popular, and then we stopped knowing what they even mean.

The expressions turned into interjections to be thrown around when it feels right.

All of these expressions are annoying, but “first world problems” is also sad.

In his 1946 essay, “The Politics of the English Language,” George Orwell warns the reader of how easy it is for expressions to become vague and meaningless while still maintaining the impression of authority on an audience. The essay serves as a great diagnostic for what has occurred with “first world problems”: it once had meaning—pointing out the absurdity in some privileged frustrations—and even humorous value, but it has so saturated Twitter and our speech that it only seems cute because we know it is supposed to be cute.

The casualties of “first world problems’s” descent into obscurity are more far-reaching than its sacrificed humor and meaning. It further removes us from the contrast the joke was intended to indicate—the “third world.” (Many experts dislike the expression, as there is such inequality between the first and third worlds that the implied “second world” may not even exist.) We didn’t know what the hell was going on there in the first place, and we’re maybe even more in the dark now that “first world” doesn’t mean anything.

In my Twitter search for what became of “first world problems,” I found a video made by the non-profit WATERisLIFE that shows Haitians reading a list of “first world problems.” At the end of the video is a plea for the viewer to reframe her or his worldview and donate to provide clean water to Haiti. And it reminded me of “KONY2012.” Not that Invisible Children or WATERisLIFE intended for their causes to become lifelessly viral, but both of these campaigns have given us very one-dimensional views of the developing world: Africa has child soldiers and Haiti has bad water. “First world problems” has done something similar, but only insofar as pointing out what the non-“first world” does not have: iPhones, Wi-Fi, being confused for lying, etc.

It may seem insignificant to pick at this flash-in-the-pan Twitter trend; it probably doesn’t anger people in Africa, as they’re not getting any less aid from America than they were before. But I think “first world problems” potentially has had an impact on our generation’s worldview. It could have been put to decent use (better than the pompous WATERisLIFE campaign), but instead it has just made the mere conversation of the first-/third-world disparity a little hollower. All we can really learn here was best said by Orwell: “(If) one jeers loudly enough, (one can) send some worn out and useless phrase … into the dustbin where it belongs.”

Jonathan Neidorf Senior, College of Arts & Sciences

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Marquette tradition of love lives on at campus landmark

By Erin Heffernan

erin.heffernan@marquette.edu

Marquette’s campus might not always seem romantic. Wisconsin Avenue this time of year is a vision of slush and bundled-up students whipped with sub-freezing winds, but with more than 15 percent of Marquette alumni currently married to another Marquette graduate, campus has been the beginning of many a love story.

While romances have blossomed in the McCormick cafeteria, on strolls to the St. Joan of Arc Chapel and at parties in basements up and down Kilbourn Ave., no place on campus has held as many romantic memories as the iconic Church of Gesu.

Ashley and Jim Packee were one of the many couples that have returned to Marquette for their wedding day last June in Gesu.

The couple first met as undergraduates on campus but didn’t start dating until the summer after they both graduated in 2007. When they ran into each other at a Milwaukee Bucks game, Jim and Ashley began to grow close out of a mutual love of Marquette and basketball.

With time, the two got engaged and immediately knew they

wanted their wedding to bring them back to Marquette.

“Gesu was the only church we would have gotten married in,” Mrs. Packee said. “It was somewhere where we both went throughout college, and we became parishioners in 2007. The church has a feeling to it that you just feel at home. I think we were both so in love with Marquette that it just had to be a part of our wedding.”

Behind the beautiful, traditional Catholic ceremonies there is a team of people who work to help couples create their perfect Gesu wedding.

Michael Heimbach has been the marriage preparation coordinator at Gesu for the past nine years and he is the first person who speaks with couples in beginning the planning process that goes into a Gesu wedding.

Before each wedding, Heimbach helps couples prepare for the commitment of marriage with an engagement enrichment retreat and focus inventory with more than 150 questions on topics like values, communication, parenting and finances.

Mr. Packee remembers his preparation with Heimbach as being a helpful step before his own wedding.

“You get to learn some things about each other that you might not typically talk about on a daily basis,” Mr. Packee said. “They get pretty deep with your spirituality, and you get to spend some time away from the hustle and bustle of

planning the actual wedding. You’re running around all over the place, picking up flowers, picking out a band, picking out the food, the venue for your reception. It’s a nice break from all of that to focus on what’s really important in the whole process, which is the actual ceremony and the marriage.”

Gesu is one of the most popular Catholic churches for weddings in the Milwaukee area with more than 52 weddings a year. Couples who are active parishioners, current Marquette students and Marquette alumni are eligible to get married in the church, but even with these requirements, the dates for weddings fill up quickly.

“Right now I’m booking weddings for 2014,” Heimbach said.

“Just last month I’ve already gotten two inquiries for 2015, though it’s not even available yet.”

The calendar of available dates for Gesu weddings opens the first week in October of the previous year.

“In October of 2012, I had couples just chomping at the bit to call me or email me about 2014,” Heimbach said “I think Gesu is so popular because it really gives you that feel of a church,” said Margi Horner, who has served as the director of liturgy for six and a half years at Gesu. “You get the beautiful stained

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

glass. You get nice organ music for your wedding. For the couples, and especially the brides, who dreamed of that kind of setting for a wedding, it is perfect.”

As the director of liturgy, Horner attends each wedding held in the church to make sure the events run smoothly. Horner also makes sure each couple’s plans fit with Gesu’s Catholic tradition.

Most of the weddings at Gesu are very traditional with all the elements of a Catholic ceremony.

According to Korner, traditional choices like the “Ave Maria” and Pachelbel’s“CanoninD”arefavorites at Gesu weddings.

“I swear, at this point I could probably hum the whole (“Canon in D”) to you,” Horner said. “I’ve heard it a number of times, having done weddings here for six and a half years, and doing two weddings a weekend, you get kind of familiar with that.”

This traditional Catholic ceremony is often part of the draw for

couples that fell in love at Marquette and felt a connection to the University’s atmosphere.

“The Jesuit background of Gesu is something that has kind of been imprinted in me since high school,” Mr. Packee said. “Gesu is somewhat of a beacon of the Jesuit community, and it’s obviously a very beautiful church. We never really pictured ourselves getting married anywhere else.”

Beyond the religious draw, many couples are drawn to Gesu as part of a tradition of Marquette weddings that often continues even within families.

“I’m the youngest of five siblings who went to Marquette,” Mr. Packee said. “My parents both went to Marquette. My uncles went to Marquette (and) my grandparents.

Marquette kind of runs in our family blood. So it was a perfect fit having the whole family there on Marquette’s campus for the biggest day of our lives, so far.”

Photo courtesy of Ashley and Jim Packee

Ashley and Jim Packee were married at the Church of Gesu in June 2012.

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Pentatonix pulls off a pitch-perfect performance A cappella group from ‘The Sing Off’ shows off first-place skills

By Peter Setter

peter.setter@marquette.edu

In “The Sound of Music,” Julie Andrews taught the world about “do re mi.” According to her character, once you know the notes to sing, you can sing almost anything.

On Sunday, the a cappella group Pentatonix gave such a unique musical performance that even Dame Andrews could not have predicted such musicality.

Pentatonix, the season three winners of NBC’s a cappella competition “The Sing-Off,” performed at the Pabst Theatre to a sold-out crowd this past Sunday. The group, originally from Arlington, Texas, comprises lead singer Scott Hoying, beatboxer Kevin Olusola, bassist Avi Kaplan, tenor Mitch Grassi and the lone female member, Kirstie Maldonado.

The name Pentatonix is derived from the pentatonic scale, a musical scale with five notes per octave, and as a five-member band, the group is like a pentatonic scale of its own.

Last Sunday’s performance began with a mash-up of Swedish House Mafia’s “Don’t You Worry Child” and “Save the World,” a perfect opening to set the tone of the evening. It was an energetic song that showcased the impressive vocals and arrangements. The opening

featured precise choreography and electrifying lights that continued throughout the evening.

Following the smashing opener, the show continued with a set list full of original songs, tunes performed on “The Sing-Off” and various covers audiences might have recognized from the band’s popular YouTube channel. From current radio favorite “Thrift Shop” by American rapper Macklemore to the ‘70s hit “Video Killed the Radio Star,” Pentatonix proved that not only can it perform songs from a variety of genres, but it can incorporate its own unique sound – a blend of pop, dubstep, R&B and electronic genres – into any song the group performs.

The members of the group each had an opportunity to seize the stage and showcase their own unique talents throughout the evening. Hoying led the group through most songs, displaying his impressive voice and soulful flair that defines the Pentatonix sound.

Mega tenor Mitch Grassi, sporting a baseball jacket and Ash Ketchum baseball cap, displayed his ridiculously high, ridiculously impressive voice with show-stopping solos, most notably in a cover of Lady Gaga’s “Telephone.” I’ve never heard a person execute that high of a note with such precision, and with Grassi’s diva demeanor, you could almost believe it was Beyoncé up on that stage.

Kevin Olusola, a Yale graduate and fluent speaker of Mandarin Chinese, beatboxed his way through every song. If that was not an impressive enough resume, he gave the rest of the group members

Photo by Peter Setter/peter.setter@marquette.edu

Pentatonix showed off the vocal skills and impressive arrangements that helped them win “The Sing Off.”

an extended break and treated the audience to a cello-beatboxing fusion performance. He may be one of the only people known to play cello and beatbox simultaneously, but Olusola did it so well that the combination of the two vastly different musical styles melded into a cohesive, enjoyable sound.

Olusola was not the only one of the group to indulge the audience in impressive musical skill. Avi Kaplan broke out into a Mongolian throat-song, a type of singing that involves producing two audible pitches at the same time.

And in one of my favorite moments of the night, Kaplan sang the “Song of the Lonely Mountains” from the most recent “Hobbit” film. As a “Lord of the Rings” mega-geek, I felt like I had been transported to Bilbo Baggins’ hobbit hole. Kaplan sounded exactly like a dwarf. With his deep

and impressive voice, I would not have been surprised if he had sprouted a beard right on stage and shrunk a few feet.

Sadly, the only member of the group to not showcase her true talent was Kirstie Maldonado. At the beginning of the show, the group informed the audience that Maldonado was under the weather, which received a rousing standing ovation in support of her. Although she was sick, the performance itself did not suffer, and Maldonado even sang a few brief solos, including a moment in a cover of Nicki Minaj’s “Starships.”

The singing aside, what I was most impressed with was the passionate dedication of the Pentatonix fans. Before the show even started, the audience was cheering for the group to come onstage and continued the fervent appreciation with heartfelt, raucous

congratulations after every song.

Pentatonix returned the gratification with numerous references to how they would not be where they are today without the support of their fans. Kaplan wrote and the group performed “Peaceful World,” a song written in appreciation of the dedication of the fans.

The group continued rewarding their fandom with a picture of the crowd that was plastered all over social media, and in one of the night’s most fun numbers, the group brought an audience member onstage and serenaded her with Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On.” The night was full of high-level musical ability and audience passion. With its impressive take on a cappella music, Pentatonix defies the “do re mi” scale and sings on a musical level all its own.

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Senior capstones serve as final exam, final bow Katie Doyle, Brittany Green to perform in ‘Aftermath’ tonight

By Maddy Kennedy

madeline.kennedy@marquette.edu

It’s midterm season, and while some Marquette students are busy hitting the books, Katie Doyle and Brittany Green will be hitting the stage tonight to perform their Senior Capstone in Theatre Arts projects.

Both seniors in the College of Communication, Doyle and Green have been hard at work on their projects since the beginning of the semester. They will present the finished products in “Aftermath: An Evening of Senior Capstones” tonight with shows at 5 and 7:30 p.m. after having premiered the shows last night.

With the help of about 30 students and faculty members, Doyle and Green will present Eugene O’Neill’s “Before Breakfast” and Sonja Linden’s “I Have Before Me a Remarkable Document Given to me by a Young Lady from Rwanda.”

Each play addresses the struggles of women forced to cope with the outcomes of complex decisions. Because of this, Doyle and Green decided to name their joint effort “Aftermath.”

“Students can expect to see some moving pieces of theatre that will be challenging to convention and maybe even a little disturbing,” Doyle said via email.

For her capstone, Doyle chose

to present “Before Breakfast.”

The play tells the story of the unhappy marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Rowland. Although it has been staged many times since its debut in 1916, Doyle put a personalized visual twist on the classic story.

She decided to incorporate her knowledge from her Broadcast and Electronic Communication background by adding a video element to the production.

“Combining the video and live performance components has been challenging, but when all of the pieces come together, it’s incredibly satisfying,” Doyle said.

Green’s play of choice, “I Have Before Me …” is a more recent story that recaps the experiences of Rwandan refugee Juliette Nyirabeza during the 1994 genocide.

“When people see this production, I hope they take away the story of what happened to the people in Rwanda,” Green said. “I hope to open people’s eyes.”

Despite the excitement of the process, Green said she has also experienced a lot of stress.

“For one, PR’s death (was hard) because she was the director and had everything in her hands,” Green said, referring to the late Phylis Ravel, a theatre arts professor who died in November. “Also having not done a show on my own before, it was kind of weird because I didn’t know what to do – the process, the turnaround time was so fast.”

Doyle and Green also decided to change venues for their shows after rehearsals had begun because they thought it would be better for the plays. Since both

Photo courtesy of Katie Doyle

“Before Breakfast” and “I Have Before Me...” will be performed in Studio 013 in the Helfaer Theatre tonight.

are small productions, they moved the performances from the Helfaer Theatre’s main stage to the dance studio.

With the Helfaer’s most recent production, “A Dollhouse,” just closing Sunday, Doyle and Green had the ability to rehearse more frequently in the studio than on the main stage to better prepare for the performances.

“The most exciting thing about this entire process has been the realization that you have the ability to put up a show as a producer of sorts,” Green said.

What audiences won’t directly see is the amount of work the

students and faculty members have put in over the past few months on the shows.

“Having wonderful, dedicated people to work with is the most valuable asset to have,” Doyle said.

Doyle and Green began the capstone process in the fall by submitting a proposal and assembling a committee of faculty members to assist students design and direct the projects. After the proposals were approved, the production process began.

Doyle and Green put together design teams, cast the shows and began rehearsal.

“The talent and dedication that have gone into producing these projects is incredible, and I think audiences will see that Marquette produces students who can do impressive things,” Doyle said.

For Doyle and Green, the senior capstone project has been a long, stressful process but ultimately enjoyable and educational.

“Daring to succeed at something so incredible seems impossible, but the beauty of the senior capstones is the fostering of an environment in which teamwork, experimentation and even a little failure are all encouraged,” Doyle said.

Shiny Toy Guns all work, no play at MKE concert

Photo by Claire Nowak/claire.nowak@marquette.edu

Last Friday night, the Shiny Toy Guns took The Rave stage for an electrifying show of their high-energy sounds.

Grammy-nominated band defied genres at The Rave last Friday

By Claire Nowak

claire.nowak@marquette.edu

It’s nearly impossible to categorize the music of Shiny Toy Guns into one genre. Its poptechno-rock hybrid sound is distinct and probably not replicable.

Luckily for fans, Shiny Toy Guns captured every aspect of that sound at The Rave Friday night. Listening to the 12-song, 45-minute set was like time-traveling through stages of recent music history from each decade.

The show opened with ‘80s tinted pop number “Carrie,” incorporated classic rock drum solos in “Ghost Town” and later turned more mainstream with the dance hit “Somewhere To Hide,” all within 15 minutes.

As the night went on, the music styles kept changing.

Some songs relied heavily on electronic keyboards and robotic sounds, especially in “Le Disko” and “Speaking Japanese.” Others, like “Ricochet!,” ditched synthesizers altogether and could have been categorized as heavy metal.

The inconsistent styles may spell disaster for some groups, but Shiny Toy Guns has made this lack of a signature sound work to its advantage. Each of

its four albums takes on a distinct style, ranging from electronic to pop to hard rock. The most recent record, “III,” has alluded to more mainstream sounds with pop lyrics and dance beats, yet all have done well by industry standards.

The group’s first album, “We Are Pilots,” was nominated for the Best Electronic/Dance Album at the 2006 Grammy awards, and its cover single of Peter Schilling’s “Major Tom (Coming Home)” has been heard in Lincoln car commercials nationwide. The fact that Shiny Toy Guns can play these varying styles live and still maintain a successful, studiolike quality is a testament to their musical expertise.

Vocalists Chad Petree and Carah Faye Charnow completed that quality with their own unique styles. Charnow’s voice had a clear, almost ethereal tone, which complemented the electronic songs particularly well.

Petree’s strong falsetto may have been downplayed under the electronic keyboards, but it certainly made an impression in the music.

Together, they produced consistently solid harmonies against equally solid instrumentals.

The concert was also visually interesting. An array of colored spotlights lit up the stage during each song and moved with the beats in the music. Softer colored lights accompanied the mainstream pop songs, while hard electronic beats and synths brought red and strobe lights.

Fog machines kept the band clouded by smoke.

Eventually, the clouds spread off the stage and into the audience. Combined with the electronic sounds and Charnow’s vocals, it gave the show a mysterious, otherworldly feel.

There were points when the effects made the musicians hard to see, but fans didn’t seem to mind watching their silhouettes move against a cloud of colored smoke.

The only drawback of the show was a lack of much-needed enthusiasm. Each musician was so focused on playing her or his own instrument – albeit very well – that there was hardly any interaction onstage or with the audience. If fans came prepared for a Shiny Toy Guns performance, they were perhaps disappointed when they were only given a strict playing of the songs.

Some made the best of it and started dancing at the back of the venue. Others took out their cell phones in the middle of a song. Charnow must not have noticed that portion of the crowd when she said, “This is the kind of audience that artists dream of playing for.”

The musicians in Shiny Toy Guns are excellent at making music, and it wouldn’t be surprising if the band earns another Grammy nomination in the near future. If they would just show the passion they put into their music onstage, these solid musicians could turn into true performers.

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The anatomy of a film flop

Matt Mueller I liked “Jack the Giant Slayer,” but it appears very few others did. In fact, it seems very few others even saw the movie.

Warner Bros’s fairy tale flop made $27 million dollars this past weekend, which would be respectable … if the movie didn’t cost $195 million to make.

To put that in perspective, last year’s mega-flop “John Carter” – which was also released in March – made more.

The good news is that everyone involved with “Jack the Giant Slayer” will probably survive its failure (there’s a chance it could make its money back overseas, but with almost no star recognition to tempt foreign audiences, it’s not looking good).

Star Nicholas Hoult proved he could draw audiences earlier this year with “Warm Bodies,” so he should still have roles in the future. He thankfully avoided Taylor Kitsch’s fate of having three flops (“John Carter,” “Battleship” and “Savages”) in a couple months’ span.

Director Bryan Singer is one of the more quietly respected names in Hollywood, thanks to his resume. “The Usual Suspects” is argued to be one of the best movies of the past 25 years, and he helped spur the comic book movie craze with his first two X-Men films.

He’s also signed on to direct the upcoming “X-Men: Days of Future Past.” So yeah, he’ll be fine.

Still, I’m sure everybody

involved would like to avoid this happening again, so in case you ever happen to be in charge of a major movie studio in the future, here are two things to remember.

For one, everyone in Hollywood needs to stop trying to follow the lead of one very strange blockbuster hit: “Alice in Wonderland.” Tim Burton’s 2010 fantasy hit somehow became one of the biggest hits of the year, raking in $334 million and becoming the second highest grossing film of the year – right behind “Toy Story 3.”

Here’s the thing: No one really likes “Alice in Wonderland.” Burton’s hardcore fans may marginally enjoy the film, but the general opinion is that the movie is boring and visually ugly.

The adaptation made a lot of money for reasons that can’t really be duplicated (besides the presence of Johnny Depp).

The big reason is that “Alice in Wonderland” came out right at the end of the 3-D bubble burst.

Burton’s movie was still thriving on the fumes of “Avatar” and the 3-D hype consuming viewers at the time. Everybody wanted to see what the gimmick could do.

As it turns out, not too much.

“Alice in Wonderland’s” 3-D was unspectacular and aided only in making the gaudy visuals look darker and less wondrous. Less than a month later, “Clash of the Titans” would come out and almost singlehandedly murder 3-D, but by then “Alice in Wonderland” had already made its money.

The movies attempting to duplicate Disney’s success with “Alice in Wonderland” are trying to rob a house that just got robbed a week ago: The owners already got swindled, and now they’re ready with their defenses up.

The other thing to remember in order to avoid a flop is to

have confidence in your product – even if it’s a turd.

From the beginning, it seems like Warner Bros. had no idea what to do with “Jack the Giant Slayer.” They switched the title, changing its titular character from a “Giant Killer” to a “Giant Slayer.” The goal may have been to make it seem more family-friendly (which isn’t completely accurate; the film falls awkwardly in the middle of kid fare and “Lord of the Rings”style adult fantasy), but the end result was to make people confused and disinterested.

The same problem happened with Disney when it ditched the title “John Carter of Mars” for the ridiculously generic “John Carter,” which could have just been a prequel to “Coach Carter” for all viewers knew.

Disney was apparently afraid of the reputation of films about red planet-themed movies and their notorious penchant for flopping, but changing the title did the studio no favors.

Give Disney this, at least; the company sold “John Carter” relatively hard. “Jack the Giant Slayer” received minimal ad airtime, and when the film did get commercials out there, they weren’t exactly inspired efforts. It looked like another gritty fairy tale reimagining, though with slightly less impressive effects.

No one had any reason to see “Jack the Giant Slayer,” and as a result, no one did. It’s too bad because it’s not a terrible movie. It’s a fun action adventure that actually feels like an adventure. I enjoyed it quite a bit, though its flaws are many.

It deserves a better legacy than being called the biggest bomb of 2013.

Matt Mueller is a senior broadcast and electronic communication major who reviews movies for OnMilwaukee. com. Email him at matthew.mueller@ marquette.edu.

“Why worry? If you’ve done the very best you can, worrying won’t make it any better.” -Walt Disney

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Movies to see over break...

Oz: The Great and Powerful 3/8 Let’s get this out of the way right now: “Oz: The Great and Powerful” will not be as good as “The Wizard of Oz.” Comparing director Sam Raimi’s prequel to the childhood classic that is almost every child’s first film seems mighty unfair. I see no problem with taking another trip down the yellow brick road ... as long as it’s not as terrifying as “Return to Oz.”

Dead Man Down 3/8 Well, this looks interesting. Colin Farrell, rebounding nicely from his “Daredevil”/“Alexander” flop double feature, and Noomi Rapace – the star of the good “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” movies – star in an action thriller by the director of said “Dragon Tattoo” films. This sounds quite interesting indeed. Wait ... it’s coproduced by the WWE? Nevermind ...

Eva Sotomayor tells the story of storytelling thanks to The Moth.

Erin Heffernan talks to the man behind the snow dragon in MU’s Central Mall.

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MU fights back at Rutgers Second half rally helps Golden Eagles top Scarlet Knights 60-54

By Patrick Leary

patrick.leary@marquette.edu

Trailing its inferior foes for nearly 35 minutes Tuesday night, the road-weary Marquette men’s basketball team was facing yet another momentum-killing loss. On senior night in Piscataway, N.J., Rutgers gave the Golden Eagles all they could handle on both ends of the court.

In the end, however, Vander Blue’s 22 points proved too much for the Scarlet Knights (13-15, 4-13 Big East), as Marquette (22-7, 134) won just its fourth road game of the season 60-54. Marquette led 2-0 but didn’t lead again until Jamil Wilson’s three-pointer put the team up for good with three minutes left.

“I think a lot of people will say that there’s a huge difference between being 13-4 and 4-13, but I think when you are inside of that, you realize how fragile this is and how small the difference is,” Marquette coach Buzz Williams said.

Williams praised Rutgers coach

Mike Rice for coaching a great game and giving the Golden Eagles a run for their money.

“I think Rutgers is good,” Williams said. “I think they’re talented.

I think Coach Rice does really creative things offensively. I think they play extremely hard defensively.”

In the first half, Marquette struggled to find life offensively. The team shot just 35.7 percent from the field, making just one shot from beyond the arc. The Golden Eagles also failed to make a free throw until the 17:30 mark of the second half.

“We turned the ball over eight times in the first half, (and) we had zero free-throw makes,” Williams said. “I thought for sure Rutgers dominated the half on both ends of the floor.”

But Marquette rallied and shot 60 percent from the field in the second half. Jamil Wilson’s second half play saved the Golden Eagles, as he scored all 10 of his points in the final 20 minutes, including the jumper that gave Marquette the lead it did not relinquish.

With Marquette leading by two points and less than a minute to play, Rutgers guard Jerome Seagears dribbled the ball off his foot. Vander Blue scooped it up

and drew a foul at the other end. He sank both free throws to close out the Scarlet Knights.

Rice said he was disheartened by his team’s inability to finish the game.

“I’ve talked about it before, the inability right now to understand how to close games out,” Rice said.

“We are going to get there. We’re going to work on it.”

While on paper Marquette should probably have handled a team like Rutgers, Williams stressed the “anything can happen” nature of the Big East, especially in road games.

“That Rutgers is 4-12 entering the day and that we’re 12-4 and a half a game out of first place has no bearing on the outcome,” Williams said.

Marquette will need to remember Williams’ words of wisdom, as it plays Saturday afternoon at St. Johns and will host a likely inferior opponent in its first game of the Big East tournament. A win Saturday would guarantee the Golden Eagles a share of their first Big East title.

“You have to earn the right to win, whether it’s at home or on the road, and I think on a nightly basis, this league is as good as it is,” Williams said.

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

Senior Trent Lockett’s team-high five rebounds helped Marquette overcome a bad first half, get the win and stay in Big East title contention.

MU fails to get first round bye in Big East Tournament Mitchell’s squad set to face last place Pittsburgh on Friday

By Jacob Born

jacob.born@marquette.edu

With a 7-9 Big East record and a 15-14 overall record for the season, the Marquette women’s basketball team failed to clinch a first round bye in the Big East Tournament this year.

The tournament, which starts Friday, will feature all fifteen teams in the conference. Despite not gaining the first round bye, the Golden Eagles will face the

Catholic 7 to announce July Big East exit today

By Ben Greene

benjamin.greene@marquette.edu

Big East officials and Catholic 7 representatives reached an agreement late Wednesday night to allow Marquette, Georgetown, Villanova, St. John’s, Providence, DePaul and Seton Hall to leave the Big East June 30, 2013 and begin their new conference July 1, according to ESPN’s Brett McMurphy.

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lowest ranked Pittsburgh Panthers on Friday.

In the only meeting of the season between the two clubs, Marquette notched a 74-65 victory in Pittsburgh on Jan. 19. Sophomore Lauren Tibbs led the Golden Eagles with 14 points and played 25 minutes, while junior Katherine Plouffe scored 13 points, grabbed nine rebounds and had eight assists. If Plouffe can have that kind of success against the Panthers, the Golden Eagles should not have a problem.

“We know that at the end of the day we have to go out there and play and fight,” sophomore Arlesia Morse said. “And if we fight like (assistant coach) Tyler

(Summitt) always tells us, the scoreboard will take care of itself.”

Marquette is riding a three game winning streak coming into the tournament. The Golden Eagles defeated Providence and Georgetown on the road before beating Cincinnati on Senior Night Monday. All of these teams are seeded below the Golden Eagles, but Marquette has made it a point to focus on what’s ahead.

“I am just really excited (about) the way we finished out this season, winning three straight, two of them on the road,” coach Terri Mitchell said. “We understand, on Friday, everything is new. Everyone is going to have renewed

hope, but at least we’re going in with some momentum.”

The Panthers are on a 36-game losing streak in Big East play, dating back to the 2010-2011 season. Pittsburgh relies on getting points in the paint, and the Golden Eagles can use their size to out-rebound the Panthers and block out second chance points.

“I think our fight is just incredible on both ends of the court,” Mitchell said. “We’re just understanding how important rebounding and defense are.”

If Marquette beats the Panthers, the team would face No. 7 seed DePaul. The Golden Eagles beat the Blue Demons 7066 when DePaul came to the Al

McGuire Center on Feb. 2. DePaul’s sophomore superstar Brittany Hrynko dropped 35 points on the Golden Eagles. Marquette cannot afford to allow Hrynko to put up those numbers if the teams have a grudge match.

The Golden Eagles squad made plans all season to be competitive not only in the Big East tournament but in national tournaments.

The road to a successful postseason starts with a strong showing at the Big East tournament.

“We set goals for the tournament and going to the postseason,” Plouffe said. “Focusing on those goals and focusing on where our team is going has motivated us for sure.”

Thursday, March 7, 2013

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Men’s lacrosse seeks program’s second win Marquette heads to Jacksonville to start three-game roadtrip

By Ben Greene

benjamin.greene@marquette.edu

The men’s lacrosse team faces a three-game road trip over spring break, beginning with the Jacksonville Dolphins Saturday at noon in Jacksonville, Fla. Coach Joe Amplo said his players face a unique obstacle in their game against Jacksonville since the Golden Eagles are coming off their first victory in program history.

“We’re in it now, and that’s what these guys came here for – to be in the heart of the season and learn how to prepare for each game,” Amplo said. “I think the most challenging thing for us this week is, how do we handle success?

Do we continue to work as

well as we’ve worked up until this point, and how do we respond to the success we had last week in our performance this coming Saturday?”

Jacksonville will enter the game 1-2 with losses to Duke and Ohio State, which were both ranked when they played the Dolphins. Last Saturday, Jacksonville picked up its first win of the season, barely beating a 1-4 High Point team by one goal.

Like Marquette, the Dolphins have a new program, as this is only their fourth season playing in Division I. Despite that youth, Amplo said Jacksonville has talented players who can challenge Marquette on offense and defense.

“I have seen them live and I have watched them on film, and I think they are a very good team,” Amplo said. “I think they have a lot of offensive weapons, and I think their goalie is as good as any goalie that we’re going to see this year.”

Pete DeLuca leads the

Jacksonville defense from between the pipes. The junior goalie has started 30 of his team’s 31 games since the beginning of his freshman year and registered a .570 save percentage in 2012 with nearly 13 saves per game. Although he did not play in the team’s 2013 season opener against Duke, DeLuca held Ohio State and High Point to nine and eight goals, respectively, and tallied a combined 22 saves for a .564 save percentage.

Freshman attackman Henry Nelson said he already knew of DeLuca’s talent because of the goalie’s preseason accolades.

“I know they’ve got a great goaltender; he’s obviously a leader on that team from a defensive standpoint,” Nelson said. “I know he was a preseason first team (All-Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference) pick, so we’ll see how that goes.”

In addition to the opponents, Amplo said the weather may be an obstacle for Marquette to overcome.

“Going down to play in Florida is going to be a little bit of a challenge for us,” Amplo said. “It is going to be warm, and those kids are built for that weather and we’re not.”

Freshman midfielder Phil McFarland, however, said he does not expect the heat to hurt the Golden Eagles. McFarland cited the team’s good performance in adverse conditions last weekend as his main reason not to worry.

“We went to play Air Force at 6,000 feet, and we thought that was going to be the biggest difficulty, but honestly we really didn’t notice it,” McFarland said. “I think that’s going to be the same thing with this heat.

I think a lot of guys are going to prefer it, actually, because it is easier to play in heat than four feet of snow.”

Following their game against Jacksonville, the Golden Eagles will travel to Macon, Ga., to take on Mercer next Tuesday.

Golf team has tough time in Dade City Marquette off to rocky start after first spring tournament at USF

By Trey Killian

robert.killian@marquette.edu

The Marquette golf team didn’t start how it hoped to in Dade City, Fla., where it finished tied for 14th place out of 17 teams Tuesday in the USF Invitational.

While beating out fellow Midwest schools DePaul and Wisconsin, the Golden Eagles struggled to move up the leaderboard due to scattered errors throughout the tournament.

“We made too many mistakes,” Coach Steve Bailey said. “We made too many big numbers, too many doubles and we made a few triples.

It’s so hard to climb back when you make those kinds of

numbers. We just made a lot of bad decisions.

“We didn’t control our golf ball the way we needed too.

Conditions were a little rough; it was a little windy, but there are no excuses at all.”

Despite nice individual rounds, none of the team’s five golfers were able to post consistently good scores through all three rounds.

Sophomore Adam Chester finished in the top spot for the Golden Eagles with an overall score of 225. That placed him in a tie for 34th on the individual leaderboard.

Chester said his play didn’t reflect his scorecards, as he suffered from some little mistakes that made all the difference.

“I felt I hit the ball as good as anyone, (but) unfortunately I didn’t quite capitalize on my chances,” Chester said. “There were just single holes that were very challenging. Even though the course was quite short, there

were a lot of areas where if you hit it just a bit off the line, it would penalize you a lot.”

Freshman Nick Nelson led the Golden Eagles on Sunday with a one-under par 71 but followed it up with a 76 on Monday and an 80 on Tuesday. He would end up finishing second on the team and in a tie for 47th place individually.

“I putted really well the first day and was able to save myself from some pretty bad spots,” Nelson said. “But as I kept going, I kept putting myself in those bad spots, and eventually I couldn’t get myself out.”

Freshman Zach Gaugert went in the opposite direction, shooting a pair of 81s in the first and second rounds but finishing strong with a 74 to lead Marquette in the third round.

“I’m impressed with the way Zach Gaugert came back today after two below-average rounds,” Bailey said.

“He showed some resiliency

(Tuesday), finished two over and had an unfortunate double late.”

Bailey pointed out a few specific holes that gave the Golden Eagles the most trouble and kept them from building and maintaining confidence.

“Number one and number six in particular were the toughest par 4s out there,” Bailey said.

“We had a hard time on number 10, the hole we started on, and weren’t able to get good positioning on it.

“When you aren’t accurate off the tee, you put yourself in bad positions, and especially on number 10, we positioned ourselves for a couple double-bogeys.”

With tournament competition now in full motion, the Golden Eagles will have most of spring break off before heading to Howey-in-the-Hills, Fla., for the Mission Inn Spring Spectacular Saturday March 16.

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‘Zags will have to prove themselves in NCAA’s

Patrick Leary The nation held its collective breath last Tuesday as No. 1 Indiana fell on the road to Minnesota. Poll voters, on the other hand, had a different reaction.

It was something along the lines of: “Do we have to rank Gonzaga No. 1?”

Let me preface this by saying that Gonzaga is an elite college basketball team this season. It has quite possibly the best big man in the nation, Kelly Olynyk, elite shooter Kevin Pangos and a powerful, dynamic switchable in Elias Harris.

Even with the West Coast Conference worse than in years past, going 16-0 in any Division I conference merits recognition.

But trying to compare Gonzaga to teams like Duke, Indiana and Florida is like ranking teams in different European soccer leagues against each other. They rarely play each other (or even mutual opponents), so comparison becomes subjective.

Since Gonzaga doesn’t play a rigorous January and February schedule like the Big Ten teams do, it naturally ascends the rankings as teams in front of it lose to tough opponents.

But should anyone really care?

Sure, the Zags get a shiny little “1” next to their name on the scoreboard next time they play on television, but why does that matter in the grand scheme of things?

Forget the rankings. Gonzaga’s players will have to prove themselves in two weeks when they match up against an eight or a nine seed in the third round of the NCAA tournament. The team will inevitably dispatch its 16th-seeded foe, but imagine if it ran into a current bubble team that ran through its conference tournament in the next round.

Would you trust a team that hasn’t knocked off a high-caliber opponent since December to beat a team that just ran through four in a row?

Ultimately, rankings are stupid.

They are subjective, arbitrary and immensely flawed. Most college basketball fans don’t need a silly little chart to tell them which few teams stand out among the rest.

No kidding, Indiana is a top team.

It has two of the best players in the country (Victor Oladipo and Cody Zeller) on the floor together for 35 minutes a game. That’s what makes it elite, not a single-digit number next to its name.

Getting rid of the rankings wouldn’t help either, since they undoubtedly help fans connect to the game and assess their team’s performance. Rankings also help promote matchups as “a showdown of ranked teams,” which ESPN loves to plug. They provide valuable context for the quality of the game about to unfold.

But putting too much stock in rankings is a slippery slope.

Enjoy No. 1 while it lasts, Gonzaga. You deserve it. Just come ready to back it up come tournament time.

Patrick Leary is a sophomore in the College of Communication. Email him at patrick.leary@marquette.edu.

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By Kyle Doubrava

kyle.doubrava@marquette.edu

Skylar Diggins Senior Guard Notre Dame

Photo by Joe Raymond/Associated Press

Diggins helped the Fighting Irish to a 3-0 week and the No. 1 overall seed in the Big East Tournament. She averaged 27.0 points and 6.3 rebounds per game last week, in addition to 12 steals.

In a critical triple-overtime win

against Connecticut, Diggins had 29 points and 11 rebounds.

She will hope to continue her hot streak this Sunday when Notre Dame plays the winner of the South Florida-Rutgers game on Saturday.

Notre Dame, UConn, Syracuse, Louisville earn double byes Notre Dame and Connecticut finished in first and second place, respectively, but the slight surprise out of the Big East this season was certainly Syracuse. Predicted to finish sixth in the preseason coaches’ poll, the Orange marched to an 11-5 conference record and a probable at-large seeding in the NCAA tournament. Syracuse will be the No. 3 seed in the Big East Tournament this weekend and will likely be playing No. 6 Villanova, provided the Wildcats do not get upset by either No. 14 Providence or No. 11 Georgetown.

Marquette’s winning streak not enough for bye Despite Marquette’s vicious play as of late, the Golden Eagles’

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three-game winning streak was not enough to earn a first-round bye this weekend. Positioned in the 10th slot, Marquette will take on last-place Pittsburgh, which hasn’t won a Big East game since February 2011. The game is scheduled for Friday at 5 p.m. in Storrs, Conn. The winner will battle No. 7 DePaul, and if Marquette is lucky enough to win two games, it will face a daunting UConn team that will be well rested from its double bye.

Junior forward Katherine Plouffe and sophomore guard Arlesia Morse combined for more than 25 points per game this season, and their efforts keyed the Golden Eagles’ recent winning ways. Marquette has been a strong rebounding team (fourth in rebounding margin) and respectable from long range (sixth in 3-pointers), and the team will need to use this to its advantage in the Pittsburgh game and

beyond if it would like to secure an NIT berth.

Georgetown will have long road ahead The Hoyas, picked to finish seventh in the Big East in the preseason, closed out the year in just 11th place and will have a difficult path to the conference finals. Although Georgetown should defeat No. 14 Providence this Friday, it must then face No. 6 Villanova, which has won two in a row. If it squeaks past ‘Nova, the Hoyas will have No. 3 Syracuse waiting for them. Overall, it has been a disappointing season for Georgetown, which finished with a 5-11 league record, including an ongoing threegame losing streak.

The Hoyas ranked 11th in scoring, 13th in free throw percentage, last in assist-to-turnover ratio and last in defensive rebounding percentage.

Big East Championship Game Teams TBD Tuesday, 6 p.m.

Although many experts are predicting the conference championship game to be No. 1 Notre Dame vs. No. 2 UConn, there is still a solid chance a dark horse squad may sneak in. Syracuse has played

exceptionally well all season and has earned its No. 3 seed. Despite Villanova falling to the No. 6 spot after starting 5-0, it has an active two-game winning streak and the capability of pulling off a major

upset. Villanova has shown improvement by proving Big East coaches wrong; the Wildcats claimed the No. 6 seed, although coaches pegged them for 10th.

Track and field: Chavez’s end of season honors Winter, Pashibin earn MVP honor for notable indoor performances

By Christopher Chavez

christopher.chavez@marquette.edu

Last Saturday marked the end of the indoor track and field season for Marquette, so it is time to announce The Marquette Tribune’s season honors.

Men’s MVP: Senior Kyle Winter made his Marquette debut by winning the men’s 500-meter dash at the 2009 Notre Dame Blue and Gold Invitational and running in the men’s 4x400-meter relay.

He ran the same combination to start off his final collegiate indoor season at the same meet. The 2012-2013 season included seven top-five finishes out of his nine individual races. Winter ends his indoor career with school records in the men’s 400 and 800.

Women’s MVP: A freshman

(yes, a freshman) was one of Marquette’s biggest contributors in 2012-2013. Tatyana Pashibin earns the honor in her first collegiate season after winning the Minnesota high school state championship in the high jump as both a junior and a senior. The former All-American gymnast finished her indoor season with the third-best high jump mark in Marquette history. Her personal best of 1.75 meters in the high jump was notched on her first try at the height at the Big East Championship. With that mark, she qualified for USA Track and Field’s Junior National Championship.

Men’s Performance of the Year: In his final opportunity to break Jon Shaffer’s 600-meter record, Winter delivered at Grand Valley State’s Big Meet. All he needed to run was .01 faster than his personal best of 1:19.21. He fell short in his first two chances at Wisconsin and Illinois. Most coaches and runners leave the week before a conference championship as an opportunity to taper and recover.

Just one week before the Big East

Championship, Winter was still determined to run his fastest race of the year. Winter kicked into another gear as he came around the final turn on the track. He clocked 1:19.07 for the record, which led to a collective “finally” from Winter and the coaches afterward.

Women’s Performance of the Year: Hein advanced to the Big East indoor finals with her time of 1:13.48, dropping her personal best by two full seconds in the breakout performance. The performance shattered the Marquette record by almost half a second. The junior’s name is also on three of the ten best Marquette 4x400-meter relay teams.

Men’s Most Improved: Sophomore Brendan Franz went from barely breaking two minutes for the 800 to splitting 1:53 in a relay.

He also set personal bests in the 1,000-meter run and mile in 2013.

After running the mile three times his freshman year, Franz would only get one shot at the Illini Classic, and he dropped his time from 4:27.79 to 4:24.98. His sophomore

season saw a specialization in the middle distances. On the hunt for a Big East qualifier, Franz came through in his final attempt with a time of 1:54.93 in the 800-meter run. He closed the season by placing tenth in the 1,000-meter run at the Big East Indoor Championship.

Also considered: Mitch Lacy and D.T. McDonald for their Big East performances in several relays.

Women’s Most Improved: Junior Katie Kemmerer also set three personal bests in 2013, but her most remarkable was dropping 1.22 seconds in her 400-meter dash time from 59.05 to 57.83.

Kemmerer was not on the school’s all-time list at the start of the season, but she finished the season fifth after her best run at Grand Valley State’s Big Meet. Each time she ran the 200-meter dash, she set a personal best after not running that distance indoors since her freshman year.

Men’s Rookie of the Year: Freshman Anton Rice trained with Winter all season, and the hard work paid off. At the Big East

Championship, Rice snuck into the 800-meter final by running a personal best of 1:53.23. He finished just a second behind Winter in the final for seventh place.

It may be too early to say, but as Rice gets older, he could fill Winter’s shoes and have just as successful a career. He is still learning the 800-meter race, but the future is definitely bright.

Women’s Rookie of the Year: After 13 races at seven meets in a single indoor season and the freshman mile record, this is an easy choice. Molly Hanson came off a long cross-country season and continued to run well indoors. She ran the eighth-best 800-meter race at Iowa State and the seventh-best 1,000-meter race at Notre Dame’s Meyo Invitational. One month later, she returned to the same track and posted the third-best mile time in school history, setting the freshman record. At this point next year, it would not be a surprise if she started to put her name atop more record lists.