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Alum embraces ‘Jump Around’ Pack it up, pack it in, let him begin, he came to win By Peter Fiorentino
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You might not think much of an environmental engineer who spends most of his day in a threestory office in Brookfield. What you don’t know is once or twice a week for about four months, he helps bring tens of thousands of fans to their feet at the BMO Harris Bradley Center. His name is Rick Smith, but you probably know him by his nickname, the “Jump Around Guy.” Smith, 65, has had season tickets to Marquette basketball games since 1971, his sophomore year at Marquette. He had no clue he would later become an icon of the fan base. “It’s humorous to a certain extent,” Smith said. “Of course, at See JUMP AROUND, page 13
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Rick Smith, Engineering ‘73 and ‘82, jumps to the hit House of Pain song “Jump Around,” in the second half of every home basketball game.
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Personal finance management lessons given to students By Alex Groth
alexandria.groth@marquette.edu
In response to the Office of the Bursar’s observation that students lack personal finance understanding, MU Money Matters created a financial literacy program to teach students about managing personal finances. The program focuses on budgeting, banking, credit, investing and scams. It utilizes pop-culture
videos, a medium blog, websites, presentations and game nights to teach the lessons. Tamara Tyrrell, accounts receivable manager at the Office of the Bursar, said some students receive financial literacy education through guardians or high school classes but most students know little about personal finance. “There is a lack of understanding of how much this impacts students, especially those that kind of have their parents taking care of things right now,” Tyrrell said. “This is really important to them in the future and can impact See FINANCE, page 7
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other Jesuit schools By Rebecca Carballo
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Marquette Student Government and the Residence Hall Association are considering the possibility of implementing coed floors in residence halls. Allie Bitz, a senator on the Business and Administration Committee and sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences, said they are currently in the research phase. MUSG has a list of 27 Jesuit institutions they are calling to discuss protocol on coed floors. NEWS
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Bitz said MUSG started to look at coed floors as an option in order to give students another housing option. She said when she first came to Marquette, the absence of coed floors was something she noticed. However, Bitz also noted it could be a sensitive issue and needs to be handled carefully. “It’s a drastic change if this is to be implemented,” Bitz said. “We just want to get a feeling of what other schools are doing and see if this is a possibility.” During these phone interviews, MUSG and RHA ask how universities handle visitation hours, reactions from parents and Campus Ministry, and how resident assistants and bathrooms are set up.
Lauren Jones, RHA vice president and a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences, saidcoed floors have been on students’ minds for a while, but it is still too early in the process to tell when or if the floors will be implemented. “Its part of the college experience, and it’s a good way to meet new people,” Jones said. “Guys and girls already are together in classes.” MUSG and RHA also discussed which residence halls have the best structure for coed floors, ultimately deciding that halls with community bathrooms would be ruled out. They would have to be in halls with a bathroom See COED, page 6
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Thursday, February 25, 2016
Arts & Sciences to add new majors, minors
9 fields of study will come to college during fall 2016 By Gary Leverton
gary.leverton@marquette.edu
The College of Arts & Sciences will add four majors and five minors at the beginning of fall 2016. The new majors are Bioinformatics, Data Science, Latin American Studies and Environmental Studies. The new minors are Arabic Language Studies and Culture, Latin American Studies, Environmental Studies, Culture, Health and Illness and Law & Society. Richard Holz, dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, believes providing these majors and minors will better serve students. Holz said the additions will help position Marquette and the college as a place for innovative degree programs. “(The majors/minors) should be attractive academic options for both prospective and current students,” Holz said in an email. “It helps to increase student learning by engaging students and helping them develop knowledge, insights, problem-solving skills and a passion for learning.” Holz said it is vitally important to offer majors that students find interesting and allows
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Lalumiere Language Hall in Central Mall is home to many of the professors and classes in the College of Arts & Sciences.
flexibility. He said the more areas available, the more students can study in a variety of different subjects and possibly double major in many of them. The changes coming to the college will also include building on interdisciplinary work within the college. “Many new and exciting areas are emerging at the crossroads of traditional disciplines,” Holz said. “We are continually looking for ways to bring
faculty together from different disciplines to be able to offer students educational opportunities at the forefront of emerging disciplines.” Rosemary Stuart, associate dean for planning in the College of Arts & Sciences, said student input and the current employment trend sparked the change. Stuart worked with faculty at different stages to help develop the new majors and minors. She said this included
working on the program development, the colleges review process and the submission of the proposal to the Provost’s office for approval. Stuart said all of these majors were added with careful consideration. She said Data Science and Latin America Studies are both emerging interdisciplinary fields. Environmental Studies has some of the fastest employment growth while Bioinformatics is central to fields such
as healthcare, pharmacogenomics and personalized medicine. “The College of Arts & Sciences is continually seeking to provide innovative and transformative educational experiences for our students,” Stuart said in an email. “These new programs also represent areas of our faculty expertise, scholarship and research and thus as a college we are poised to deliver very high-quality programs.”
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Reactions to Pope’s Zika comment Theology professor, Jesuit agree with birth control remark By Lydia Slattery
lydia.slattery@marquette.edu
Pope Francis’ comments last week about contraceptives being the “lesser evil” in contrast to abortion for limiting the effects of the Zika virus drew a lot of criticism. However, members of Marquette’s religious departments believe the comment, though traditionally opposed by the Catholic Church, is valid. During a flight from Mexico to Rome, Pope Francis approved the use of contraceptives as acceptable for pregnant women fearing the birth defects caused by the Zika virus. This made headlines since the Catholic Chuch usually advises its followers to constantly avoid birth control. “Pope Francis is responding to a crisis,” said the Rev. Kent Beausoleil, associate dean of student development. “He is not changing (Catholic) Church doctrine on contraceptives.” The Zika virus was small scale until it reached Latin America and was found to cause birth defects including microcephaly, which
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Pope Francis approved using contraceptives to fight the Zika virus.
causes a baby’s head to be smaller than expected due to an underdeveloped brain. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advised that pregnant women should not travel to countries heavily affected by the Zika virus or have sex with recent travelers to affected countries to avoid the risk of birth defects. The Catholic Church openly bans abortion since it believes that life begins at conception and Pope Francis said he would not condone abortion in any situation. Conor Kelly, an assistant theology professor in the College of Arts & Sciences who
specializes in theological ethics, sexual ethics and health ethics, said she doesn’t consider the comment a big deal when it comes to context. “Pope Benedict XVI suggested that condoms could be used to combat sexually transmitted diseases from sexual assault in Africa,” she said. “It was a bigger deal when Pope Benedict made comments about contraceptives than Pope Francis. Pope Francis implied that birth control can be acceptable. He didn’t outright say it was acceptable.” The Zika virus is rampant in Latin America, particularly Brazil. There is no vaccine for the Zika virus yet. The CDC says to avoid
mosquito bites to prevent bloodborne infection of the virus, which is nearly impossible in rural areas of Latin America. The Zika virus can also be transmitted sexually. “(Pope Francis) is responding from a place of love and mercy,” Beausoleil said. “He is taking a proactive stance against the damaging effects of the virus. He is not saying contraceptives must happen.” Women in countries affected by the virus are being asked to avoid pregnancy, but this poses a problem since there is limited access to contraceptives in these countries. The virus is new, and there is little information on how to prevent it from spreading. Latin American countries are primarily Catholic; therefore, the Pope’s comments about contraceptives could have an impact on how the countries will handle the spread of the virus. “I think Pope Francis’ comments will start a conversation about using contraceptives to combat the virus,” Kelly said. According to the CDC, common symptoms of the virus include rash, fever and joint pain. People rarely die from Zika or even go to the hospital. Many people are unaware that they are infected.
New club promotes free speech Young Americans for Liberty aims to increase group size By Tricia Lindsey
patricia.lindsey@marquette.edu
The Young Americans for Liberty club is hoping to establish an increased presence of free speech at Marquette after being ranked as one of the worst colleges for free speech by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. Chris Czarnecki, a freshman in the College of Arts & Sciences and president of the Young Americans for Liberty on campus, said the group hopes to grow its presence on campus this semester while bringing attention to the issue of free speech. For the second year in a row, Marquette was put on the “10 Worst Colleges for Free Speech” list published on Huffington Post. Other
schools on the list include Northwestern University and the University of California, San Diego. “If all goes according to plan, Marquette will not be on the Huffington Post’s ’10 Worst Colleges for Free Speech’ list next year, or ever again,” Czarnecki said. FIRE said it included Marquette on the list because of its response to political science professor John McAdams’ role in a controversy that provoked the Westboro Baptist Church to picket campus. McAdams is suspended and waiting to see if he’ll be fired for his blog post about a conversation about gay marriage between a teaching assistant and student. Kevin Selwa, a senior in the College of Communication and vice president of The Young Americans for Liberty, said the McAdams controversy brings a feeling of paranoia for teachers when speaking with students. “What McAdams did was his
CORRECTIONS FEBRUARY 18
Feb. 18’s “Bennett’s European trip lands 3 recruits” graphic of a map of Europe was mislabeled. Finland was highlighted instead of Norway, and Crete was highlighted instead of Cyprus.
A student admitted to MUPD during an interview that he obtained and sold drugs during the 2015 fall semester.
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participated in the Wisconsin Young Americans for Liberty State Convention at UW-Milwaukee Feb. 20. They learned how to recruit new students and how to resolve problems on campus if they were to arise. “We are still small, but we would like to expand into something bigger,” Selwa said. “Our main goal is to get more people involved and have voices heard.” Marquette’s chapter plans on expanding their presence on campus by sponsoring activities for students. The club is in the process of organizing a Freedom Ball event where students can write instances where they felt the university restricted their rights to free speech on an inflatable ball. “We plan on organizing a number of activism events that will bring to light the issue of free speech,” Czarnecki said. “I think that these will be events that a majority of the student body will be able to support and enjoy.”
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Feb. 18’s “Professors bolster social media” incorrectly spelled Tim Cigelske’s last name as “Cigelski.” In addition, Scott D’Urso’s last name was spelled incorrectly as “D’Ursa,” and he was incorrectly titled an assistant professor for the College of Communication instead of an associate professor.
Feb. 18’s “MUSG to catalog study spaces on campus,” incorrectly said Ricky Krajewski is a junior in the College of Business Administration. He is a junior in the College of Health Sciences.
right and I think he should be allowed to come back,” Selwa said. She said people don’t realize issues of free speech until those issues impact them directly. “These (are) weird coincidences as a private university limiting the free speech of everyone under it, whether it comes from us trying to establish ourselves on campus, McAdams or whether it’s students expressing themselves however they want,” Selwa said. The group was recently recognized by Marquette as a legitimate student organization, but only after having to overcome many hurdles to establish themselves on campus. “We went through the library and were told we could not hold meetings here,” Selwa said. “They asked us what organization we were with and after questioning us, we were told that we need paperwork just to have a meeting in one of the conference rooms.” The club’s Marquette chapter
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An unknown person forcibly removed a cell phone from a student in the 2000 block of W. Wisconsin Ave. at 6:45 p.m. The student was not injured. Estimated
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An unknown person removed property from a business in the 1600 block of W. Wisconsin Ave. at 10:26 a.m.
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Group reflects on protesting in state capitol Students joined 14,000 people in Madison for protest By Lydia Slattery
lydia.slattery@marquette.edu
Students in the Marquette chapter of Youth Empowered in the Struggle are reflecting on a protest at the Capitol building in Madison that they were a part of last week. The protest was called “A Day Without Latinos and Immigrants” and YES joined thousands of other protesters to rally against legislation they believe is anti-immigration. The two pieces of legislation, AB 450 and SB 533, are expected to pass in Wisconsin. “The protest was very moving,” said Parisa Shirazi, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences. “There were all age ranges there from kids to adults. While it was mostly Hispanics, there were Caucasians, as well as a group of African Americans from South Africa.” AB 450 would end sanctuary cities in Wisconsin that do not
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Miguel Sanchez organized and participated in YES’ trip to join anti-immiagration law protests in Madison.
allow local police to inquire about immigration statuses. All cities within Milwaukee County and the cities of Madison and Racine are all sanctuary cities. SB 533 aims to prevent the government from issuing IDs to undocumented immigrants. Miguel Sanchez, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences, organized and participated
in the YES trip to Madison to for the protest. “YES focuses on social justice, especially with immigrants,” Sanchez said. “We want to build solidarity and community. AB 450 would specifically affect Milwaukee, and would allow police to racially profile immigrants.” The protesters in Madison
voiced struggles of immigrants, who can face hatred from communities because of stereotypes. They said they want to be recognized by the government for the positive economic and social impact they can have in the U.S. “I went to the protest because I’m very passionate about immigration,” Shirazi said. “My
parents are immigrants from the Middle East so I understand the struggles of being an immigrant in this country.” According to CNN, 14,000 people from across Wisconsin showed up to stand in solidarity with Latinos and immigrants and chanted, “Walker, escucha, estamos en la lucha.” Which translates to “Walker, listen, we are in the fight” – an address to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. “It definitely felt like a community, a statewide community,” Shirazi said. “People were shouting where they were from. It was a collective passion for immigrant rights from the whole state of Wisconsin.” The protest was organized by Voces De La Frontera, a non-profit organization in Wisconsin that works with immigrants and low-wage workers. The group advocates for immigrants’ rights. “We had to park miles away because so many people showed up,” Sanchez said. “There were a lot of allies, which was great to see.”
MUPD detectives examine campus cases Investigators assist with incidents that need extra follow-up By Ryan Patterson
ryan.patterson@marquette.edu
In addition to its staff of officers, the Marquette Police Department has two full-time detectives. Billy Ball and Robert Krystowiak have been detectives for MUPD since its inception. They assist the department by thoroughly examining open cases – mainly burglaries, assaults and thefts. The Milwaukee Police
Department investigates most shootings, as those cases may have connections outside of MUPD’s patrol area. “There are going to be some cases that require a little more follow-up, a little more looking into, and that’s what we’re here for – cases where there’s a little more behind the scenes,” Krystowiak said. If it takes longer than the time of one patrol shift to follow up on a case, Ball and Krystowiak inspect it more closely so patrol officers can focus on their dayto-day responsibilities. “It’s important to have detectives in a police department
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to conduct the more complicated follow-up,” said MUPD Chief Paul Mascari. For example, when a burglary happens, the detectives show up, take fingerprints and photos and try to track down property. The time frame varies for detective cases. Ball and Krystowiak work on immediate crimes but also cases that occurred several months ago. The two detectives come from very different law enforcement backgrounds, but believe they are able to complement each other because of those differences. “(Krystowiak) really knows the university operations, the university personnel that we work with regularly, and Detective Ball brings an amazing amount of experience,” Mascari said. Krystowiak has been part of the Marquette community for almost 20 years. His time at Marquette began as a student in 1996. Near the end of his undergraduate career, Krystowiak worked in residence halls for public safety. After graduation, he became a public safety officer, mainly patrolling the streets during third shift. Several years later, Krystowiak was promoted to public safety investigator and named detective when MUPD formed. Krystowiak said he originally wanted to become a police officer to help the community. “Even before we were a police department, I really enjoyed helping out this community, so I decided to stick around,” Krystowiak said. He added that he likes the mental challenge each unique
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Robert Krystowiak (left) and Billy Ball (right) are MUPD’s detectives.
case presents and loves the job because every day is something different. Ball has 27 years of experience in law enforcement, including 20 years as a detective, mainly with MPD. His time with MPD included assisting in 2014 with the high-profile recovery of a 300-year-old Stradivarius violin valued around $6 million. The main reason Ball became a detective was because he likes “to see the story through,” beginning with the crime and ending with an arrest. Ball accepted his retirement last year from MPD, then moved directly to MUPD. “Having as much experience as I had in law enforcement, seeing Marquette becoming a brand new police department, I thought I had something that I could … help them to grow and become more of a viable police department in the community,” Ball said.
The detectives work close together and “bounce ideas off each other all the time,” Krystowiak said. Mascari said he trusts the detectives to evenly divide the work evenly on their own. “They do a really good job of coordinating and managing their workload between the two of them,” Mascari said. Additionally, the two often work in accord with MPD on felony cases. Ball’s lengthy experience in the department benefits this positive working relationship. Despite their different backgrounds and Krystowiak being a relatively new detective, Mascari said he is very pleased with Ball and Krystowiak’s work thus far. “I think the two of them together make an excellent team,” Mascari said.
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Jesuit Commons CEO highlights service Mary McFarland speaks to clergy at campus conference By Jennifer Walter
jennifer.walter@marquette.edu
From jetting to refugee camps all around the globe to presenting on the TED stage in 2013, Mary McFarland is actively involved in making a difference in the availability of education for those who have limited access to it. McFarland, the founder and CEO of the online education program Jesuit Commons: Higher Education at the Margins, spoke at this past weekend’s HeartlandDelta conference, a meeting for Jesuit educators in the Midwest. This year’s conference was held on Marquette’s campus. Marquette has been specifically involved with JC:HEM, and as it continues to grow, more faculty members are being drawn to help instruct and design courses as well as read application essays. During her days as a dean at Gonzaga University, McFarland created online degree programs
for distance learning. It was there that the problem of uneducated refugees across the globe came to McFarland and her husband’s attention. Having worked in education, both were captured by the issue and wanted to find a way to help. After conferring with The Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, the idea for JC:HEM took off. “It was the deans of professional studies who said, ‘how can we bring about online learning out to the world where people can’t get an education otherwise?’” McFarland said. “The idea just kept going, we got a grant, we asked Jesuit Refugee Service if they would be our partner and we work with them on-site.” Jon Pray, associate vice provost for education and technology, has known McFarland for almost 20 years. He recalled the early days of creating a Jesuit distance education group with McFarland, known as “JesuitNet,” in the 1990s. In response to McFarland’s presentation on Saturday at the Heartland Conference, Pray said it was inspirational and moving. “People are drawn to Mary’s
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Mary McFarland aims to improve availability and access to education.
genuine sense of service,” Pray wrote in an email. “She does not do a sales pitch so much as she explains the enormity of need in the world and the small piece(s) of help we all can offer.” McFarland has personally visited every refugee site that JC:HEM educates, except for Afghanistan. She said a visit is
theoretically on the list, but once the country is in a better state. She also participates in the application process via Skype. “There’s all kinds of ways to do it without being there, just as long as they’re connected,” McFarland said. “That’s very much our Jesuit network at play there.” Heidi Schweizer is Marquette’s
liaison for JC:HEM and has known McFarland for five years. “She is a most humble, gracious and grateful individual who has the capacity to convince people of the honor of joining her in her effort to provide education to refugees around the world,” Schweizer wrote in an email. Schweizer recently worked with an instructional design team to create an international course – one that will connect students from all over the world in a single, online classroom. According to Schweizer, the course could include students from as many as 10 different countries, cultures, languages and ethnicities. The course will be offered for the first time later this year. When asked how Marquette students could help in their communities, McFarland remarked that involvement is the key. “College students, I think, underestimate how important it is to groups when you just show up, including even volunteering in a school,” McFarland said. “(Also) for people to not get guilt-laden, (thinking) ‘oh there’s so much out there and I’m not doing it’. Three or four hours here and there can make a difference.”
Business study abroad thrives 24 years later Studying in Rome, Belgium allows for cultural competency By Dana Warren
dana.warren@marquette.edu
The College of Business Administration began offering its students summer study abroad trips in 1992 and the interest in and success of the programs continue to climb. The first study abroad trip was to Antwerp, Belgium and then a Strasbourg, France program was offered partially because of high enrollment. Eventually, Strasbourg was replaced by the current Rome program and the Antwerp program is still running. The cost of each program includes money for hotels, tours and other logistics.
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“We started Rome in 2012 instead of Strasbourg partly because our Jesuit, Catholic identity led a lot of students to want to go to Rome,” said Joseph Terrian, assistant dean of undergraduate programs in the College of Business Administration. Creating the Rome program proved to be more of a challenge as Marquette is one of a few universities that has a faculty-led business program there. Although the program is primarily a business-focused trip, non-business students are also able to attend, whereas the Antwerp program is exclusively for business students. The highest enrollment in the Antwerp program to date was 47 students in 2002, according to the program’s evaluation documents. Over the past few years, the Antwerp program’s
attendance fluctuated between 29 and 41 students. Attendance for the Rome program started at 20 students and has grown to 31 students who went in 2015. “The purpose of the programs is to allow students to gain international experience, live in a different environment, experience diversity and understand how business functions differ culturally in each organization,” Terrian said. The length of each program – three weeks for Antwerp and two weeks for Rome – has been a draw for students. Maura Boyce, a junior in the College of Business Administration, went on the Rome trip and said it was the first time she left the country. “Learning so much about a different culture in such a short period of time was really interesting, especially since we
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Theology students study in art museum, lab
Grant allows for $3,000 stipend, innovative learning By Alex Groth
alexandria.groth@marquette.edu
The College of Engineering and the Center for Teaching and Learning awarded Associate Theology Professor Deirdre Dempsey and Lynne Shumow, curator of education at the Haggerty Museum of Art, a grant to use the Marquette Visualization Lab (MARVL) as a teaching tool for Theology 2310: Explorations in Christian Theology; Theology and the Visual Arts. The class visits the Haggerty three times during the semester, two of which are paired with visits to MARVL. The students study Salvador Dali’s “The Madonna of Port Lligat” and “The Book of Hours,” a medieval prayer book in the Haggerty. Students then view an enlarged, 3-D version of the painting and book in MARVL. CTL Director Shaun Longstreet said MARVL is an important teaching tool. “(CTL) is trying to encourage and support faculty as they do more innovative type things,” Longstreet said. “(The use of MARVL with art) is to increase student’s visual literacy, but also
to recognize that there is a variety of theological expression in art.” The grant allows for a $3,000 stipend for faculty, 40 hours of technical support from MARVL and access to the MARVL space during the semester. Dempsey said the grant is important for innovative teaching and learning. “(The grant) gives incentive, in terms of spending time working on this kind of integration,” Dempsey said. “It is also going to fund some of the things I am going to need if I do a more in-depth job – travel to the art institute to do more work on medieval manuscripts.” Located in Engineering Hall, MARVL is an immersive technology that allows students to view life-size projected images with 3-D glasses. Christopher Larkee, a visual technology specialist in the College of Engineering, said to view “The Madonna of Port Lligat” in MARVL, he had to first use Photoshop. “It started off as a high-resolution source image, and I took it into Photoshop and just broke apart the image into multiple layers and spread them out threedimensionally,” Larkee said. “So when you look at it from the front, everything is in the same place, but when you look
Photo by Ben Erickson benjamin.a.erickson@marquette.edu
The Marquette Visualization Lab, located in Engineering Hall, allows students to view life-size images.
at it, if your position shifts to the side, you still get a little bit of a perspective effect to create a depth illusion.” Viewing “The Madonna of Port Lligat” and “The Book of Hours” in MARVL allows students to better analyze each piece. “(“The Madonna of Port Lligat”) is surrealist,” Dempsey said. “You can look at it and say, ‘That’s kind of random. Why in this madonna and child do they
have fish over here? Why are there three lemons here? What’s with the shell and the egg hanging above?’ We can, because of what they’ve done with the lab, pull those apart and talk more about the symbolism.” “The Madonna of Port Lligat” is rooted in Christian symbolism but also draws on Dali’s personal purpose. Dali used his wife as the model of the painting as a cultural statement.
Shumow said student feedback has been positive. “(Students) were so excited because it is a very different way of learning, so for me, it is really important that something isn’t just, ‘Oh, it’s fun, and it looks cool,’ but that it has some learning outcomes,” Shumow said. “We saw that some of the learning outcomes are that you can see it in a way that you can’t see it in a museum setting.”
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Residence halls with communal bathrooms ruled out
for each room. Bitz said Mashuda may be a good candidate because genders could separate among the different wings. “We have to be careful about the way we approach it,” Bitz said. “We have to make sure it’s in accordance with everything (the university) believes in. The goal is to expand housing options but not make (students) feel uncomfortable about it.” Faith Konetzke, a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences, said it would not bother her if there were coed floors
on campus, but she does not see the need for it. MUSG and RHA considered the gender breakdown of the floors. One possibility is to have 40 percent males and 40 percent females, leaving the extra 20 percent to be filled with any displaced student that needs housing. The conversation of coed floors elicited varying reactions from students. Allie Arnston, a sophomore in the College of Health Sciences, said she would prefer to live on a coed floor.
“It would be a good change because I think that it’s intimidating to go on an all-guys floor and meet new friends,” Arnston said. “If there were a mixture of guys and girls on a floor, I feel like it would form a stronger community. Plus, it’s hard to deal with all girls all the time.” It took more than 60 years for coed residence halls to be implemented. Marquette accepted women students in 1909, but it was not until 1972 when Schroeder and Carpenter became the first coed residence halls.
Photo by Meredith Gillespie meredith.gillespie@marquette.edu
Some students think coed floors would be a nice addition to campus.
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Professor receives $415k Program combating alcohol overdoses
Money going toward research on healing spinal cord injuries
Facilitators aim to train 85 percent of Greek Life students
By Gary Leverton
gary.leverton@marquette.edu
Biomedical sciences professor Murray Blackmore received a $415,000 grant to work on spinal cord injuries by genetically modifying neurons to regrow nerves, specifically looking into whether cancer genes can help the regrowth. The grant will last two years and focus on axonal growth in the spinal cord. Blackmore said there is a cell body in the brain that connects to a long fiber called the axon that runs down the spinal cord. A spinal cord injury occurs when the axon is severed. “There is a definite link between cancer genes and nerve growth,” Blackmore said. Blackmore said Marquette is the perfect place to conduct his research because its lab is well-funded, there are already techniques in place that allow for rapid testing of genes and it has a brand new technology called CRISPR. Ben Callif, a graduate student who will work with Blackmore, said CRISPR has the ability to target deletion of specific genes, knocking down certain cancer-preventing genes and finding ones that can mimic growth in the brain. However, since neurons in the brain can’t divide, cancer is prevented and the growth is maximized to help regrow the axon in spinal cord injuries. Callif said he is excited to work with the new technology. He believes this is something that could be helpful in the near future. “The innovation of this new technology is something that has never been done before,” Callif said. “The results here could be translated to humans quickly. Usually in science, things happen very slowly, but this kind of treatment could
By Maredithe Meyer
maredithe.meyer@marquette.edu
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The grant will fund a focus on axonal growth and regrowing nerves.
be available within the next five to 10 years.” Math, statistics and computer science professor Serdar Bozdag will join in the research and bring a different element to the lab. While Blackmore will focus on testing individual genes, Bozdag’s work will apply computational methods to find which groups of genes work together. “There can be thousands of gene combinations, it is not feasible to test each of them experimentally,” Bozdag said. “Using computational tools, we could make predictions on which groups are potentially biologically relevant. My job is to say these are
the potential drivers.” Bozdag is also looking to find the transcription factors, or genes, whose role is to regulate positive and negative growth. He said the goal will then be to induce the ones that help growth, get rid of the ones that don’t, and lead to a positive effect. Blackmore believes the research will bring new discoveries that can help scientists learn more about healing spinal cord injuries. “I think we’re going to discover completely new genes,” Blackmore said. “And these will represent new therapeutic targets.”
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Loans, financial aid discussed
whether they can buy a house, buy a car, get a loan (or) if they want to start a business.” The program is administered to each academic class individually. Freshman presentations, which happen at programs such as Preview and New Student Orientation, aim to educate them on loans, financial aid and general finance. Other grades receive programming focused more on loan repayment options. Presentations can be formal or informal with Jeopardy!-style game nights. They’re given to residence halls, student groups including the Educational Opportunity Program, Urban Scholars, transfer students, Office of Disability Services and Upward Bound. Katie Meinel, the coordinator of student loan accounts at the Office of the Bursar, said educating students about financial literacy
can be difficult. “It’s challenging to get students to become interested in their student loans early on,” Meinel said in an email. “We’d like to be able to reach every single student with loans but with all the media hype about the student loan debt, it’s my perception that students are scared to think about it.” Alex Mohs, a junior in the College of Nursing, admitted that her guardian previously controlled her finances and she is now starting to understand them as an upperclassman. “I think that (Marquette students) are at the point in life right now where we kind of need to make the shift and become more aware of what’s going on and, prior to graduation, how we are going to deal with (finances),” Mohs said. Tess Bridges, a sophomore
in the College of Arts & Sciences and peer educator at the Office of Bursar, said students can transition away from dependency by participating in the financial literacy program. “College students are in a time of transition so you have to have someone (…) to kinda walk you through, like okay, ‘this is how essentially to be an adult,’” Bridges said. The Financial Literary Office plans to make more personal finance pop culture videos and an Instagram account. The program is also planning a campus rummage sale to promote student savings and money earning. Student groups can request a financial literacy presentation by contacting the Financial Literacy Office.
The Red Watch Band program, a national organization combating alcohol-related deaths on college campuses, opens all its student training sessions with the same statistic: 1,825 college students ages 18 to 24 die annually from alcohol-related, unintentional injuries. The program trains college students in preventing and reacting to alcohol overdoses. Since Marquette’s program started in November, program facilitators trained almost 300 students from Greek Life, the Office of Residence Life and other student organizations. “We can start by training the individual, and the individual can help the group that they are in,” said Megan Rapacz, a junior in the College of Health Sciences and Red Watch Band student facilitator. “Peer-topeer facilitation is really important.” MillerCoors Foundation awarded Marquette the one-year $10,000 Great Place grant in July to start the program on campus. The Red Watch Band program was originally founded in 2009 after Michael Sunshine, a freshman at Northwestern University, died from an alcohol overdose. The original program gave participants red wristwatches after completing the training session, but Marquette gives its participants red lanyard wristbands. The red symbolizes danger, the original watch symbolizes participants’ responsibility to watch over their peers and the band symbolizes the program’s united effort. During the discussion-based training sessions, facilitators review Marquette’s alcohol policies and basic alcohol information. Facilitators then teach students the warning signs of an alcohol overdose – inability to wake up, vomiting while sleeping, slow breathing and cold or clammy skin – and how to intervene. Students act out scenarios at the end of the session to demonstrate correct ways to handle an alcohol emergency.
“Being trained is basically saying that you’ll step up, watch out for one another and support one another,” said Sara Johnson, the director for Alcohol and Other Drug Program Prevention at Marquette. After students are trained, they are eligible to complete a CPR certification for free. Participants also complete a pre-assessment and two post-assessments about alcohol and alcohol-related injuries to measure the program’s progress. “We hope that those results gauge whether or not we could get more funding for this program in the future,” said Jenny Wysocky, graduate assistant for prevention and education programs. Marquette has not handled an alcohol-related student death in past years. Wysocky said the Red Watch Band program will help Marquette maintain its safe environment. “We’re here to take care of one another, which is important anywhere, but especially here at Marquette,” Wysocky said. “That is part of the mission … being there for one another.” Program facilitators aim to train 85 percent of students involved in Greek Life this semester. Wysocky said that statistically, Greek organizations are high-risk yet bonded populations, so they have the potential to make a positive change on campus and community drinking culture. Katie Wylly, a senior in the College of Health Sciences and former president of Sigma Kappa, said her chapter is proud to complete the training because Greek Life is often assumed to be part of the drinking problem rather than the drinking solution. “The program has empowered our own members to intervene in situations as they see fit,” Wylly said in an email. “Many of our members expressed that they wish they had learned all of this information sooner in their collegiate careers because situations like this are happening all around us.” Students can sign up for weekly training running throughout February and March. The last two sessions are this Friday, Feb. 26, and next Friday, March 4, at 2 p.m.
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Helfaer cast takes on multiple roles in Shakespeare show By Aly Prouty
Alyssa.prouty@marquette.edu
Helfaer Theater’s new show, “As You Like It,” aims to bring joy and laughter to audiences through Shakespearian language. The show opens Feb. 25 and runs through March 6. “As You Like It,” follows Rosalind, who was banished from the court and is now living in the Forest of Arden with her cousin Celia. Rosalind disguises herself as a boy while in hiding. Orlando, who also leaves the kingdom, falls in love with Rosalind. In the very end, Rosalind reveals her identity and in good Shakespeare fashion, everyone ends up where they are supposed to. Rosalind is often credited as being one of Shakespeare’s strongest leading female characters. Mackenzie Possage, a senior in the College of Communication, plays Rosalind in this production. “She is independent and she knows what she wants and she goes for it,” Possage said. “Sometimes she is a little over the top and doesn’t think before she does something, but she has so much drive to do whatever she wants to do.” Other actors, like Daniel Callahan, a senior in the College of Communication, have two roles. Callahan will play Charles the Wrestler and Jacques, a more demanding and prominent role. In order to keep the two distinct, Callahan said he thinks about every detail of his characters. They each have distinct pitches and tones, personalities, and even walk and move differently. Callahan’s talent is not limited to performance. He has played a major role in helping design and construct the sets as a scene shop assistant. He also contributed to lighting and sound elements of the production. The set is deliberately made to accent the thematic elements of the show. There are scenic details that look like stain glass and
were hand painted by students. “(The set is) in a sense an art piece,” Callahan said. “It’s a larger than life kind of ultra beautiful place.” While Callahan works behind the scenes for preparation, some students, like Jessica Szuminski, a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences, have the unique opportunity to be included in the cast while working technical elements of the production onstage. Szuminski was cast as a musician, providing all of the sound effects onstage. This is vital to the show running smoothly since there is no soundboard. This is Szuminski’s first main stage show with Marquette Theater. She was nervous for auditions but said once they got started, it was an overall pleasant experience. Actors were required to memorize a Shakespearian monologue and sing for auditions. After auditions, some actors were called back to do sides, or reading snippets of the script with potential cast members. Callbacks are important to see how people portray certain characters and if they have strong chemistry with certain people. “A lot of people think when you audition for a show, if you’re perfect for the role, you’ll get it,” Possage said. “It’s primarily about who looks good together, who can act together and who has a chemistry.” Having good chemistry with cast members is important in all shows, but especially in “As You Like It’ because of the dominant theme of love, which is shown in many forms, including romantic, familiarity and friendship. “Love is a huge driving force for this show,” Possage said. Aside from connecting with each other, the cast also has to connect with the audience. This has been difficult for this show since Shakespeare is not our natural vernacular.
In order to connect with the audience, it is important for the actors to understand their c h a r a c t e r ’s motivations and intentions. For this reason, the cast was tasked with paraphrasing their lines during the start of rehearsals. If they know what drives them, they can focus on communicating that to get messages across where language may fall short. Despite potential barriers in communication, Callahan said that it is critical to have e v ery word memorized verbatim. Audiences know what Shakespeare wrote and what the characters are supposed to say and it is important to stay true to the original. While everyone involved with the production has worked tirelessly to perfect every detail, the show has been condensed. Each act was shortened to create a more reasonable run time. However, many do not think this has changed the meaning of the
show or even altered the plot. Admist all of the late nights and hectic rehearsal schedules, Callahan, Possage and Szuminski are all ecstatic to start performing the show for audiences. Szuminski said the only frustration she’s had with the production is having to wait to actually perform. “I’m so excited to actually present the show, that it’s almost frustrating that we’re not there yet,” Szuminski said.
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Brewing heritage celebrated in new exhibit Thousands of beer artifacts on display in unique collection By Dennis Tracy
dennis.tracy@marquette.edu
The Milwaukee County Historical Society recently launched Brew City MKE, an exhibit dedicated to celebrating how the city became the beer capital of the U.S. The exhibit is on display until April 30. Brew City MKE includes a collection of artifacts, featuring archive videos of the Pabst brewery, various beer bottles from Miller Brewing Company, as well history of the various corporations and how they have expanded nationwide. Admission is $7 per person, and children under the age of 12 can get in for free. Ben Barbera, associate curator of the Society, said this is one of the best collections the museum has offered. The exhibit features over 60,000 items. “The biggest challenge was where to stop telling the story,” Barbera said. There was a lot of information available on the different families that brewed their own products in town, and the curators didn’t want to alienate visitors from understanding the complex history of brewery products. “When you’re talking about the brewing families and how they all sort of intermarried, it
can get very complicated, and you can write a whole book about that,” Barbera said. The first floor of the exhibit contains the former bank vault that was housed before the Society moved in the building and turned it into a beer cave replica. In the past, beer caves were used to store beer and other products to keep it cold. Multiple products from the Pabst and Miller companies, as well as the various histories of the families that brewed in the city, are displayed on the second floor. There are multiple events coming up to complement the exhibit, such as “Evolution to Revolution” on March 10, which features a panel discussion about how brewing has grown from a hobby into a leading job. The event will be moderated by well-known beer experts like Mark Garthwaite, executive director for the Wisconsin Brewers Guild. The exhibit has received a positive response. Since its opening in early Janurary, 750 people have visited. Mame McCully, executive director of the Milwaukee County Historical Society, said travelers have come from as far as six to seven hours outside of the city to see all of the different items and artifacts. The Society reached out to friends to obtain artifacts that show off the rich history of brewing. Kevin Abing, the Society’s archivist, said that he wishes
there were more photos and records that could have been added to the collection. “There was a lot of material that didn’t come to us, unfortunately,”Abing said. He suspects that as the breweries were closing up shop, employees took some of the records, photos or other memorabilia for personal use. In the past, the Society displayed exhibits like World War II, a circus theme and one for the various festivals that have gone on in town. “We love to see more pieces come out,” McCully said. “That’s why we rotate through the exhibits, so we can show a lot of our collections o v e r time.”
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Many products from the Pabst and Miller companies, along with some smaller brands, are on display.
Filmmaker talks journalism ethics at MU ‘A Fragile Trust’ explores 2003 New York Times scandal By Thomas Southall
thomas.southall@marquette.edu
Yale and UC Berkeley alumna Samantha Grant will speak at the Weasler Auditorium Feb. 29 about her documentary “A Fragile Trust.” The 75-minute documentary is about the 2003 scandal surrounding Jayson Blair, a reporter caught plagiarizing multiple articles while writing for The New York Times. The impact of the scandal turned the journalism world on its head, forcing it to take a good hard look at itself. The idea came to Grant when she had to choose a topic for her thesis at UC Berkeley and she realized that no documentaries about the Blair scandal existed. At the time she was taking a class in law ethics and the light bulb went on. “It was the perfect story,” Grant said. But not everyone thought so. Grant said it took years for
many people to get on board with her idea because nobody wanted to talk about the scandal. Fellow classmates helped put the film together, but participation from those involved in the scandal, mostly from Blair himself, took time. After a year of persistence, he agreed to be a part of the documentary. The topic was controversial because it showed the dark side of journalism. Blair was found guilty of taking advantage of new technology of the early 2000s to consistently plagiarize works from across the country. “Not everybody was up to speed with the technology,” Grant said. Blair’s editors were unaware of the “copy-and-paste” culture arising due to the rapid integration of the computer into the workplace. The title, “A Fragile Trust” is a term coined by American journalist Macarena Hernandez, one of the first reporters to notice Blair’s work looking similar to her own. The title is also a play on words as The New York Times is sometimes referred to as “the public trust.”
That trust is important to maintain because, as Grant said, journalism is “important for a functioning democracy.” Although she is an independent journalist, Grant said in her lecture she plans to discuss the importance of large news organizations in finding the truth and defending themselves from large corporations. “Now, more than ever, we need news gathering institutions,” Grant said. “We need large institutions (because) independents journalists can’t take on big institutions such as the government, lobbyists, the NRA.” Grant also created a video game as a companion piece to the documentary. “Decisions on Deadlines” is an online and tablet game in which the user plays as a journalist. The game presents ethical dilemmas relevant to the real world of journalism, such as deciding whether to name a minor in your article or pay sources. Grant said the main goal of the game is to teach people who have not received formal journalism training.
For her upcoming event on campus, Grant will talk about the way the media is
perceived after the Blair scandal and what it means for the future of journalism.
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Republicans could win millennial votes
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Marquette shouldn’t be on FIRE’s list of worst colleges for free speech Last week, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education presented its list of the worst schools for free speech. The 2016 list marks the second year in a row in which Marquette makes the list, but the reasoning remains exactly the same as last year, with “its ongoing campaign to strip the tenure of political science professor John McAdams based on the writings on his personal blog.” FIRE’s criticism of Marquette is outdated and its explanation is extremely saturated to match national perceptions of the incident. Last year, Marquette was embroiled in controversy after McAdams was suspended from campus in November 2014 when he wrote a post on his blog, the Marquette Warrior. The post criticized the way former teaching assistant Cheryl Abbate handled a disagreement in class with a student concerning gay marriage in a Theory of Ethics philosophy class. However, McAdams wasn’t suspended for simply sharing his sentiments on the former teaching assistant’s decision not to engage a conversation, rather it was because of the content he wrote about Abbate. McAdams used his personal blog to demean a student. Abbate may have been a teaching assistant, but she was still a student equally
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The millennial generation is becoming the dominant public view.
Ryan Murphy
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Marquette takes great strides to protect free speech on campus.
deserving of the right to free speech, whether she chose to engage in the disagreement or not. As a professor, McAdams is expected to help create a safe environment for students to express their opinions without fear of retaliation. McAdams failed to do this in every way possible. In addition, he was not in Abbate’s classroom when the original disagreement occurred, and Abbate did not teach in his department. McAdams has written skeptically about Marquette’s administration, other professors and various organizations on his blog. But when he publicly shamed Abbate, he stopped working to create an educational environment. After McAdams’ post, Abbate received threats against her life and eventually left Marquette
because of the intense criticism. For Marquette to make FIRE’s list solely for the McAdams controversy is an unfair representation of the university. In placing Marquette on this list, FIRE overlooked the university’s several efforts over the past year to foster freedom of speech. For example, Nov. 12, 2015, Marquette students held a silent protest standing in solidarity with University of Missouri students outside of Raynor Library. The protest happened shortly after Missouri’s president Tim Wolfe resigned when he mishandled racial controversy on campus. Faculty and administration here at Marquette, including University President Michael Lovell, stood in solidarity with the students. Additionally, on Dec. 8, 2014, a Black Lives Matter ‘die-in’ took place on the second floor of the Alumni Memorial Union with no interference from the university. Marquette continues to make strides that protect the rights of free speech for all university affiliates. For FIRE to judge the university’s free speech access based on one professor who condemned a student online is not representative of Marquette. The First Amendment gives everyone equal right to freedom of speech, but that does not mean freedom from consequence. Marquette’s guiding values include being men and women for and with others, and the university reacted to a student who was put in danger, demonstrating its commitment to protect its students, which has also been illustrated in various instances such as on-campus protests. Critiquing Marquette’s history of free speech on the basis of one incident that gained national attention does not earn Marquette a spot on FIRE’s list of worst free speech universities.
If Bernie Sanders has come to symbolize anything, it is the leftward lurch of the millennials. In Iowa and New Hampshire, he received over 80 percent of millennial support, according to the Wall Street Journal. It should be obvious that the Democratic Party drifted left with the millennials, but what about the Republicans? How is the Grand Old Party responding to this demographic change, and how should it? With millennials matching baby boomers as 31 percent of the electorate, a response is absolutely necessary. Even if they don’t turn out in droves for this election (young people are typically less politically engaged), they will have a dramatic impact on politics in the long run. First, the facts: Millennials are the most liberal generation. The Pew Research Center reports that 41 percent are “mostly or consistently liberal,” only 15 percent are “mostly or consistently conservative” and 44 percent have mixed views. Even the millennials who are Republican or lean that way are less conservative. While 59 percent of millennial Democrats are “mostly or consistently liberal,” only 31 percent of millennial Republicans are “mostly or consistently conservative” and 51 percent of millennial Republicans have mixed views. The GOP should be aware of the large percentage of millennials – in or out of the party – who are politically moderate. They should work to retain and win that block of voters. And once primary season is over, candidates’ rhetoric usually shifts toward the middle anyway. The most obvious thing the GOP can do is shift its focus away from social issues, where it is most out of step with millennial views.
“I kind of hate to say it, but the millennial generation is now important. Their views are becoming the dominant public views. Their attitudes about gay marriage and social tolerance are radically different than the previous generations, and they are restructuring our views,” Bill McInturff, a GOP pollster, said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. The Pew Research Center confirms the point: Millennials are less religious, less likely to be married and more ethnically diverse. They are also more accepting of homosexuality and immigration. It wouldn’t be the first time a right-of-center party moved toward the middle on social policy. Angela Merkel, leader of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany, welcomed Syrian refugees to the nation. David Cameron’s Conservative Party was able to pass gay marriage in Britain – a far cry from Ted Cruz who called the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges “some of the darkest 24 hours in our nation’s history.” On other points, the GOP has great potential to connect with millennials. Lenny Alcivar, client strategy director at Targeted Victory, said in an interview with CNBC, “Millennials tend to be more fiscally conservative than other generations due to pressing issues like student loan debt and finding quality jobs that match their education levels.” The Republicans have long advocated for greater fiscal responsibility. If they can also harness their libertarian streak to take a more moderate – dare I say less Puritanical – stance on social issues, they may have a better shot at winning millennials. Ryan Murphy is a junior studying Business Economics and WritingIntensive English. He is reachable by email at ryan.p.murphy@marquette.edu
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Do not police my thoughts or beliefs Morgan Hughes How about a fun little anecdote not at all rooted in reality. Once upon a time, at a fictitious Midwestern university, there was a strongly opinionated professor – let’s call this professor Professor X, a very smart but painfully confrontational teacher. During a particularly philosophical lecture, Professor X made the decision to call anyone who doesn’t believe in God “laughable.” When an equally confrontational student of Professor X’s questioned if he misunderstood the statement, Professor X spent 25 minutes reiterating the initial offensive statement. Now, I’ve had some really excellent professors at Marquette. In fact, when approached with the classic ice-breaker question of “what do you like best about the university?” I consistently say that the faculty is my number one reason for being a loyal Golden Eagle. I’ve had some professors who I haven’t agreed with and professors who weren’t particularly exciting. I can’t even say that any of the three professors who have tried to teach me the elements of statistics were bad (it turns out I’m just bad at math). So, I wouldn’t call any professor I’ve encountered a poor educator. That said, I think there are professors who need to desmudge the line between lecturing on what to think and how to think. That distinction between “what” and “how” needs to be made, because it’s the difference between saying, “Donald Trump is a good candidate” and asking, “Here are the facts about Donald Trump’s candidacy. Do you think he would make a good president?” The problem is that we are conditioned to trust authority throughout our lives, and for good reason. We listen to our parents when the stove is hot because they don’t want us to get hurt. We listen to policemen because when they say not to run a red light, it’s because another car might speed through the intersection and we will get hurt. So, when an authority figure, like Professor X, tells us something without making the distinction between what and how, we tend to take his or her word on it. My biggest gripe about political partisanship is that oftentimes, party loyalty stems from loyalty to authority. Our parents believed one thing because their parents believed it, and now so do we because we were taught what to think, and not how to think for ourselves.
Of course, this isn’t always the case, and I’m not accusing everyone of not knowing why they believe what they do. However, I think we can all think of at least one person we know who cannot support his or her beliefs. When Professor X told me that people who don’t believe in God are laughable, it feels like I’m being told that I should agree with him rather than telling me how to come to my own conclusion about the topic. As a clarification, I’m not upset that Professor X believes in God. I’m upset that he told a classroom full of people that to disagree with him would make them a joke. Was Professor X trying to push some evangelical agenda? I don’t think so. But I do think that somewhere in the subconscious, he or she was convinced that I wasn’t capable of coming to the conclusion by myself. So maybe the issue isn’t that Professor X was telling me what to think, but rather that he didn’t have faith that I would be able to think on my own. I know that somewhere in the universe people exist who are physically pained by the fact that my vote counts as much as theirs. I know there are people who don’t think I am capable of thinking rationally for myself, perhaps because of my age, my political affiliation, my socioeconomic background or something entirely different. Despite those people’s opinions, I am capable of forming thoughts rooted in logic and critical thinking. Give me the facts, tell me how to form an argument that represents the entire picture, show me what a well-rounded opinion looks like, but don’t hand me your pre-approved ideas, giftwrapped and ready to consume. George Orwell warned us about the thought police. “1984” may have been sciencefiction, but if we don’t teach people how to come to their own conclusions, then we’re going to set ourselves up for a Big Brother kind of world. If you really think you’re right, and you teach me how to think for myself, then you should be confident enough in your own opinion that I’ll come to the same one. And after careful consideration on my part, if we find ourselves with different ideas that might just mean the issue wasn’t as black and white as we thought. We grow as individuals by having intelligent, logical discussions about things we disagree on. Don’t stunt my growth by not giving me the opportunity to think for myself.
Morgan Hughes is a sophomore studying Journalism and Political Science. She is reachable by email at morgan.hughes@marquette.edu
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Pre-employment drug testing in an age of marijuana legalization
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In many cases, pre-employment drug testing requires devoting time and gas money to getting tested.
Caroline Comstock For those who haven’t had the pleasure of undergoing a preemployment drug screen, there’s a strong chance you might. Drug testing in the workplace has gone up an estimated 277% since 1987 according to the American Civil Liberties Union. In my case, I have been tested twice for private sector business positions. Degradation and principles set aside, I wasn’t thrilled to have to drive to a Concentra testing center an hour away from my house without compensation for gas money to pee in a cup. Nonetheless, I followed the instructions while a nurse stood outside, “put all your belongings in this cubby, here’s the cup, don’t flush.” I already felt like I was doing something wrong despite just being offered an internship position. Pre-employment and workforce drug testing is not viewed favorably among those who claim it is in violation of the Fourth Amendment that protects against unreasonable searches. Considering urine cannot only detect drug use but also pre-existing conditions, pregnancy and legal drug use, the legal waters are undeniably murky. Are people not entitled to privacy of their own bodily functions? Apparently not when a position entails operating machinery or a high security clearance, particularly within public sector jobs. The massive increase since 1987 likely correlates with President Reagan’s 1988 Drug-Free Workplace Act, that required federal contractors to be tested and for private firms receiving funding to at least implement a drug-free policy. Interestingly, this act did not require these firms to start drug testing, only to develop a policy and protocol for when drug abuse is suspected or reported. So the Drug-Free Workplace Act may have served as catalyst for mass implementation of drug testing policies, but financial factors are likely more at play here. In Wisconsin, firms can reduce their worker’s compensation costs as well as health insurance group rates
by drug testing candidates and current employees. According to drug testing companies like Quest, drug users are more likely to land the company a medical or injury bill. To those who will inevitably fire back at the opposition and say drug users aren’t serious about getting a job, you might be right, but that’s not really addressing the correct question. Whether drug use is right or not doesn’t get at the entire issue: under what circumstances is a blatant violation of privacy permissible? Who has the authority to determine that? The issue has become particularly glaring with marijuana legalization. The question of how an employee could be terminated for use of a legal substance has yet to be definitively answered. Some states have cited employment-at-will. In other words, they can choose to fire someone without needing to give a reason. There would of course be exceptions on the basis of disability, race or religion, but medical marijuana is not included in the Americans with Disabilities Act. Marijuana use is also against federal law meaning it would trump state law in this case. An employee in Colorado couldn’t be prosecuted for using the drug, but the employer must abide by both state and federal labor laws, and marijuana is classified as a schedule 1 drug. Schedule 1 meaning it has no currently accepted medical use and potentially severe psychological or physical dependence. It’s worthy to note that marijuana is classified in the same category as heroin and ecstasy, and considered more dangerous than schedule 2 drugs including cocaine, methamphetamine and oxycodone. Obviously many states and District of Columbia disagree. Still, marijuana will potentially show up on a urine drug screen over thirty days after use while cocaine and methamphetamine will be out of the system in as little as three days. While I’m aware I’m preaching to the choir of marijuana legalization advocates, these facts certainly call the effectiveness of pre-employment, post-accident, or random drug testing in the workplace. Are methamphetamine users less likely to miss work or have a health issue
than an occasional marijuana user? I think most would say no, but the drug testing system seems to give a pass to some. Is it either ethical or legal for a quadriplegic to be fired from his job for legal marijuana use? I view workplace drug testing as a policy that violates the most basic tenants of decency and rights to individual privacies. It looks like these policies will be continue to be challenged as we move into a global workplace that will simply be less tolerant of such invasive procedures. In the meantime, drink lots of water.
Caroline Comstock is a senior studying Marketing. She is reachable by email at caroline.comstock@marquette.edu
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Full-court press key to success MU leads BIG EAST in steals, forced turnovers By Andrew Goldstein
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Marquette guard Allazia Blockton sinks a free throw and the Providence Friars get set to inbound the ball. Then, the call comes from point guard Danielle King: “Three up! Three up!” Instead of running back on defense, three Golden Eagles stay on Providence’s side, prowling like hyenas roughly halfway between the baseline and center court. As soon as the inbounds pass is thrown to a player on the left side of the court, Blockton and forward Erika Davenport swarm the ball handler, using their sizable wingspans to force her against the sideline. It takes a second for the Friar ball handler to slip out of the trap and heave a pass up the court ... and straight into the waiting hands of King. This starts a 25-foot fast break, ending in an easy Davenport layup and two Marquette points. This is the ideal outcome of Marquette’s pressure scheme. Many teams play aggressive defense, but the Golden Eagles take that commitment to an extreme. They play either threequarters court press or fullcourt press – tactics that most other teams reserve for end-ofgame situations – after nearly every single made basket. “Everything we do (on defense) is predicated on getting the ball back on offense,” head coach Carolyn Kieger said. “For me, coming and taking this job, I already knew that was going to be my style of play.” The vast majority of defensive possessions do not end with a forced turnover. However, Marquette leads the BIG EAST in both steals (8.8 per game) and forced turnovers (16 per game). Both numbers are much better than last year, when the Golden Eagles only averaged 14 forced turnovers and under seven steals per game. “They’re really good at
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While the full-court press is a focal point for head coach Carolyn Kieger’s defense, her team still gives up a massive 77.1 points per game.
ball-hawking and picking the ball up at 90 feet and really containing their girl one-on-one,” Kieger said about her players. Backcourt pressure defense may appear to the average fan as a full-on attack against the player dribbling the basketball. In actuality, the press is about clogging the passing lanes between the dribbler and front court. The dribbler must be harassed with the right amount of gusto; enough to prevent a breakthrough with an open lane to the hoop, but not so much that the referee calls a foul. “At first, it was kind of hard for us to keep our hands off and try not to make contact,” King said. “But in conference (play) the refs are a little more lenient with the contact and we’ve
learned to keep our hands up and play the passing lanes.” Running a press comes with risks. Putting two or more defenders in the backcourt leaves the Golden Eagles shorthanded on the other side. If the opposing team manages to break the press before Marquette can retreat into its half-court defense, someone on the other team is usually left uncovered with an easy shot. Kieger says she calls this the “here we go” scenario: a full-fledged pursuit of the ball from behind, forcing a mistake from the opponent. “A lot of times, it’s not about the steal,” she said. “It’s about forcing the other team into a rushed shot or forcing them into a shot they don’t want to take.” The strategy’s logic makes
sense, but one cannot help but wonder how well it works in game situations. For all the turnovers the Golden Eagles have forced, they still give up 77.1 points per game, the eighth-worst figure in the country and barely an improvement over last year’s dismal defense. Opponents make nearly half of their two-point shots against Marquette as well. Any criticism of Marquette’s defense should come with an asterisk, though. The active roster is only comprised of 10 players, and just seven of those players see more than a quarter of court time per game. Running such an aggressive scheme with a short rotation places a lot of conditioning demands on the players. This is a problem
Kieger hopes to remedy with four new recruits next year. “As we evolve as a program and get more fresh bodies and we don’t have as many injuries, it’s really going to evolve into something people don’t want to play against,” she said. With every game, Marquette becomes more and more committed to the press: a frenetic, in-your-face defense with equally high risks and rewards. Whether or not it can be a viable strategy in the long term remains up for debate, but it neatly captures the mindset of this young, plucky team. “I really love it a lot,” King said. “I’m able to run around a lot. I like to go fast and get in the passing lanes, so I’ve always liked the press defense.”
Attackman Gately named to Tewaaraton list One of 50 men’s finalists for DI lax’s top award By Jack Goods
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Men’s lacrosse attackman Conor Gately was named to the Tewaaraton Award watch list
Tuesday for the second year in a row. The award is given annually to the most valuable player in Division I. “This just further emphasizes the fact that people think Conor is one of the better players in the country and we certainly feel the same way,” Marquette head coach Joe Amplo told GoMarquette.com. “He’s one of our leaders on offense and
deserves this recognition. I truly believe that he could compete for this award if we have a good season and he continues to play the way we know that he can.” Gately, Marquette’s alltime point leader, is the only player in program history to earn this honor. He scored a career-high 25 goals and 14 assists last season and had two goals and an assist in Saturday’s
season-opening victory against Bellarmine. Additions will be made to the 50-man list as needed on March 17 and April 7 before it is cut to 25 players April 28. Five finalists will be announced May 12, with a final ceremony held June 2 to announce the winner. There are 13 players on the list that Marquette will play this season: Trevor Baptiste
(Denver) Craig Berge (Georgetown), Christian Burgdorf (Denver), Connor Cannizzaro (Denver), Deemer Class (Duke), Peter Conley (Georgetown), Robby Haus (Ohio State), Myles Jones (Duke), Matt Kavanagh (Notre Dame), Matt Landis (Notre Dame), Zach Miller (Denver), Tyler Pace (Denver) and Sergio Perkovic (Notre Dame).
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JUMP AROUND, from page 1
Iconic fan started craze at Villanova game in 2007 the time, no one had any idea or even would fathom that this would happen.” In the second half of every Marquette home game since 2007, Smith has risen to his feet and jumped with the students to House of Pain’s 1992 hit “Jump Around.” The first time Smith jumped was February 2007 in a game against Villanova. “They were playing the song, and the students were jumping up and down,” Smith explained. “I was sitting next to friends, and we were in business suits. I’m looking at the students and kind of rocking my head (to the beat). This had been going on for years at the time, and so I said, you know, ‘Why are the students the only ones who get up and cheer?’ Finally, one of the individuals next to me says, ‘Well, Rick, what’s holding you back?’” Smith stood up and joined the students. Both ESPN and the Bradley Center cameras focused on Smith for his first of many cameos. The crowd and the students were ecstatic, and Smith proudly sat down at the end of the song, having conquered the friendly challenge. “We went home, we had a good time and Marquette ended up winning against Villanova,” he said. “The next home game, the song’s playing, and the people around me are telling me, ‘Hey, you gotta get up!’ And I said ‘get up for what?’” The Marquette student body was pointing their fingers at Smith, clamoring for more jumping. “As soon as I got up and started jumping, the camera got on me and the students went wild,” Smith said. “It’s been going on for nine years ever since. I don’t know why.”
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Smith isn’t just a popular guy around at the arena, though. “I’m recognized frequently wherever I go,” he said. “Chicago, New York, Florida … it’s a little bit embarrassing because I’ll be at a restaurant and people will be looking at me, and I’m wondering why because of course I don’t know them. Some people continue to look, but eventually most of them will come up to me and say ‘I’m sorry, I don’t want to bother you, but you look familiar, do you do anything with Marquette University?’” Smith has lived in Wisconsin his whole life. He grew up in Greenfield and attended St. Mary’s Parish School in Hales Corners before graduating from Marquette University High School in 1969. He then enrolled at Marquette University, where he graduated with an undergraduate degree in engineering, followed by a graduate degree in environmental engineering in 1982. “I was at the time designing waste-water treatment plants,” Smith said. “It was a very exciting time for me to graduate from Marquette. There was a great opportunity, and Marquette had a good opportunity for their environmental services.” To earn money to help pay for his education, Smith cleaned the campus bars at Marquette, coming in to work in the early hours of the morning. “I came in after the bars were closed, so I had to start cleaning bars at four in the morning and for a long time never wanted to go to a bar because I had to clean them,” he said. He moved closer to campus
during his junior year and lived in a house on 27th Street with seven of his friends, but the stay didn’t last very long. “That lasted for a limited period of time, because it was just too many parties and not enough emphasis on academics,” Smith said. The focus on academics has paid off for Smith, who now sits on Marquette’s Civil Engineering Alumni Advisory Board. Marquette didn’t just provide him a wealth of academic knowledge, it also allowed him to meet his wife Joan, who is now a math teacher in the Milwaukee Public School system. “She was born and raised in Milwaukee as well, and she attended Pius (XI) High School, which is a very strong rival of (Marquette High),” Smith said. “I didn’t start dating her until college, and I ran into her at (Marquette).” She and Smith were both basketball fans, and a mutual friend told Joan that Rick had tickets to the upcoming Marquette vs. Notre Dame game in South Bend – except he didn’t. “Every time she would be looking for me, I would see her coming, and I would run away, because I didn’t have the tickets,” Smith said. The two fell out of contact for the next few years before Smith decided to try asking her out one more time. “I called her up just on a whim and invited her out to Summerfest, which I did have tickets for,” Smith said jokingly. “That was our first date. We went to Summerfest, and we watched Sly and the Family Stone.”
Women’s Lacrosse vs. California, 5 p.m. SATURDAY 2/27 Track and Field BIG EAST Championships, All day Men’s Lacrosse at Richmond, 12 p.m.
Villanova 24-4, 13-2 Xavier 25-3, 13-3 Seton Hall 19-7, 9-5 Creighton 17-11, 8-7 Providence 19-8, 7-7 Butler 18-9, 7-8 Marquette 18-10, 7-8 Georgetown 14-14, 7-8 DePaul 8-18, 2-12 St. John’s 8-20, 1-14
pride in his employees and the company, which was awarded one of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel’s 2015 Top 100 Workplaces. R.A. Smith National is responsible for building projects such as the Marquette Law School, Titletown District in Green Bay, Pabst Farms in Oconomowoc and Marcus Majestic Cinema in Brookfield. Even with all the accolades and accomplishments, though, Smith values his education and time much more. “The university embraced the students,” he said. “It wasn’t enough just to go to school, it was a lot of discussion of, ‘What do you want to be?’ And not only what you want to be, but, ‘How can you help society?’ It isn’t about you; it’s about how you can impact the world.” To watch the full interview with Rick Smith visit marquettewire.org.
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Men’s Basketball vs. Villanova, 1 p.m.
Women’s Lacrosse vs. Colorado, 1 p.m.
Women’s Basketball vs. DePaul, 5 p.m.
TUESDAY 3/1 Men’s Basketball vs. Georgetown, 8 p.m.
Men’s Tennis at Wisconsin, 6 p.m. SUNDAY 2/28 Women’s Tennis at Indiana, 10 a.m.
WEDNESDAY 3/2 Men’s Tennis vs. NIU, 6 p.m.
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Two years later, they were married on campus at the Church of the Gesu. Even 42 years later, Joan continues to support him – especially at home games. “People always approach my wife and say, ‘You must be embarrassed,’ and she says, ‘No, I actually like to see him jump!’” Smith said. “And if I’m not in the mood, having a bad day or aching or whatever it is, she usually prods me, and I say, ‘I don’t feel like it!’ She says, ‘You got to get up!’ The only time it gets to be overwhelming and exhausting is when they play the song during a TV timeout. That’s four minutes (of jumping).” Today, Smith is the president and owner of the engineering consulting firm R.A. Smith National, which has three offices in Wisconsin, and one in Illinois, Pennsylvania and California. He’s takes great
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Rick Smith used his two engineering degrees to start his own firm.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL (Overall, BIG EAST) DePaul 23-7, 15-2 Seton Hall 20-7, 10-6 St. John’s 19-8, 10-6 Villanova 17-10, 10-6 Marquette 14-14, 9-8 Xavier 17-10, 8-8 Georgetown 14-12, 7-9 Creighton 13-15, 7-9 Butler 9-18, 4-12 Providence 5-21, 1-15
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Florida 3-0, 0-0 UConn 2-0, 0-0 Temple 2-0, 0-0 Vanderbilt 2-1, 0-0 Cincinnati 1-1, 0-0 Georgetown 0-2, 0-0 Marquette 0-3, 0-0 Villanova 0-3, 0-0
Denver 2-0, 0-0 Marquette 1-0, 0-0 Providence 1-2, 0-0 Georgetown 0-1, 0-0 Villanova 0-1, 0-0 St. John’s 0-3, 0-0
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Championships preview Track teams hope to avenge last year’s Nova losses daniel.reiner@marquette.edu
The workhorses Three Marquette athletes – junior Joel Swanberg, sophomore Will Eggers and freshman Monique Felix – will all compete in a staggering nine events over the two days. Swanberg is looking to repeat as heptathlon champion while adding 60-meter hurdles and pole vault to his workload. “In his career, he has won all three of those at various stops,” Rogers said. “It’s one of those instances where we hope Joel’s going to have a good meet because if he does, that’s going to be a big boost.” Felix, meanwhile, heads into her first conference championships determined to score big for Marquette. While she’s a favorite in the pentathlon, she also ranks in the top five in the long jump, triple jump and 60-meter hurdles. Rogers said there will be times Felix will need to leave her pentathlon event to go compete in the open long jump or open hurdles prelims. “I think we tapered at the right time and that everything we have done at practice has gotten me ready to do the best I can,” Felix said in an email. “Luckily, I’ve completed one pentathlon before this so I have a better gauge of how I will feel physically …
On my stint with brief Twitter fame Jamey Schilling
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On a table behind Bert Rogers’ desk, there are four tall, black trophies topped with silver plaques with the BIG EAST logo. Toward the base of each trophy reads the inscription: “SECOND PLACE.” After both the men’s and women’s teams finished second to Villanova at the indoor and outdoor championships last year, Rogers’ teams look to finally capture their first BIG EAST title this weekend at the indoor championships in Staten Island, New York. “We’re a lot deeper this year,” Rogers said. “I’m feeling confident about where we’re at and hopefully we go in there and get the job done.” In total, 70 Marquette athletes will travel to compete at the brand new Ocean Breeze Track & Field Complex. The Golden Eagles will need everyone to contribute if they hope to take down national powerhouses Villanova and Georgetown. Rogers said St. John’s also appears to be a favorite on paper for the women. When the top eight performers score and conference pride is on the line, every millisecond and centimeter matters. “Our big focus as a team is to score a ton in the field events and we’re much improved in the sprints, so that’s what our identity is,” Rogers said. “We want to be strong in those power event areas, and I feel like we’ve shown improvement in the distance races. If we can start chipping away points out of those events, that’s probably what can put us over.”
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Photos courtesy of Maggie Bean (top) and Becca Heinen (bottom) Marquette Athletics
Joel Swanberg (top) and Maya Marion (bottom) are BIG EAST favorites.
Also, knowing where I’m at in terms of fitness, I know it’s more mental than anything.”
Marion, coming off a season-best of 56-feet in the weight throw last weekend, should place well.
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Last year, DePaul and Georgetown dominated the sprint events on the men’s side at the indoor championships. Senior Anton Rice finished seventh in the 500 meters, though he was just 2.34 seconds behind the first-place finisher. The 500 is an event run solely on the east coast (Midwest meets either runs the 400 or 600), so it takes a certain mindset to find a balanced attack. “I truly treat it as a 400 where you go all out the entire way,” Rice said in an email. “The key is to get out fast and hold nothing back. If you get out too slow it’s too late to make up that ground because the race is so short; as compared to the (600) where you start a tad conservative. As I’ve always said, ‘run it like a (400) and hold with everything you got left on the extra 100 meters.’” Running just one open event and the 1600-meter relay, Rice won’t be expected to carry the load alone. Rogers thinks junior Nick Ebert could surprise some people in the 400 meters. On the infield, freshman Killion McGinnis is a dark horse in the high jump and sophomore Max Bullard, who ranks in the top three in both shot put and weight throw, should have a solid performance. On the women’s side, sophomore standout Cassy Goodrich is expected to throw down with the top sprinters from St. John’s and DePaul. Sophomore Maya
Since moving to the BIG EAST in 2005, Marquette has always been second-tier to Georgetown and Villanova on the men’s side and Providence, Georgetown and Villanova on the women’s side. Rogers is hoping his teams can steal some points in the distance events this year, an area that was their downfall last year. Senior Nicole Ethier sits on the cusp of the top-eight in the 800 meters, while Rogers is hoping junior Brittney Feivor can return from injury with a vengeance in the 5,000 meters. For the men, sophomore twins Alec and Aric Miller are favored to place in the 1,000 and 800 meters, respectively. Rogers also noted senior William Hennessy as someone who could surprise because he “seems to run his best races at the end of the year.”
I’ve always been a proud heckler. Whether it was yelling at opposing players during football games in high school or yelling at the top of my lungs at a certain Providence guard, I’ve always enjoyed the idea that I have my own personal impact on the game. But my most recent “heckle” got a little more attention than I expected. Here’s the short version of my brief stint of Internet relevance: On Feb. 10, Marquette’s men’s basketball team was in the midst of a back and forth battle with Providence. With under a minute left in the game, senior guard Kris Dunn was about to attempt two critical free throws that could have sealed a win for the Friars. As he prepared to shoot, I yelled “I will literally give you 10 dollars if you miss this shot” from my seat in the student section. Dunn missed the shot, so I decided I had a commitment to keep. I promptly went home after the game and wrote a check for 10 dollars to send to Rhode Island the next day. I took a picture of the check as well and the letter I included with it, and like any attention-seeking millennial, I posted it on Twitter. Initially, I thought the tweet would only reach a limited audience – friends, family, maybe a few strangers via retweets. Not in my wildest dreams did I expect it to receive more than 100 likes, but it did. It eventually climbed the ranks of 1,000-plus retweets and 1,500 favorites. Before I knew it, several online news sources including USA Today, Sports Illustrated and Sporting News had written articles about me, which all generated thousands more interactions. I was in disbelief; never did I expect such a roaring reaction. While I enjoyed every minute of my sudden “fame,” I knew from the
very start that my time in the spotlight was limited. Thus is the nature of social media – relevant today, old news tomorrow. Soon my life as a regular student would resume, and I was okay with that. That made everything all the more special to me. This unique series of events allowed me to appreciate every moment of the excitement. At the same time though, my realization allowed me to keep my ego in check. I was after all, as Yahoo Sports described, just “an obnoxious voice in a crowd,” no different than any other loudmouthed college hoops fanatic. I wasn’t changing lives here. I was just a student who should’ve been studying, but elected to go to a basketball game instead and got into the moment. About a week after the tweet had reached its peak, I found myself thinking a lot about a quote that I’d heard in a high school Theology class from deceased Archbishop Oscar Romero, who preached, “It helps, now and then, to step back and take a long view.” After everything died down, I was able to finally step back and come to an interesting conclusion: life is best treated like a brief brush with social media relevance. Much like sudden social recognition, life is extremely finite, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t enjoy and appreciate every day you have. It’s almost impossible to anticipate anything in life; don’t take for granted something you find special, no matter how big or small. So whether it be lunch with a friend, a walk to class on a beautiful crisp winter day or even heckling at a sporting event, I urge you to appreciate every moment you’re presented with in this life. Unique moments have a tendency to act a lot like viral social media post; quickly becoming a thing of the past. Jamey Schilling is a sophomore from Omaha, Nebraska studying marketing. Email him at andrew.schilling@mu.edu
Eyes on the prize There are a ton of moving parts at track and field meets and strategy goes into every event. If all the pieces fall into place, the Golden Eagles could return to Milwaukee with some bigger hardware. “Hopefully our trophy notches up a spot,” Rogers said. “I don’t know if they’re much different, but it’d be nice if it read ‘champion.’”
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Schilling’s tweet received over 1,000 retweets and national coverage.
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Throwback: MU upset Orange to keep streak Gardner, Mayo led frantic second half comeback By Dan Reiner
daniel.reiner@marquette.edu
This is part of a series of stories celebrating the 100year anniversary of The Marquette Tribune. There was a time not long ago when Marquette fans would fill the BMO Harris Bradley Center to watch a then-nationally relevant men’s basketball team take on top-notch opponents. On this date three years ago, the 22ndranked Golden Eagles upset No. 12 Syracuse, 74-71, en route to a BIG EAST regular season title. On a chilly Monday night, more than 16,000 fans filed into the arena to watch ESPN’s “Big Monday” matchup between the two teams tied with Louisville atop the BIG EAST. Marquette was coming off a loss at Villanova but riding a 23-game home winning streak, second longest in the country at the time. The Orange, then 22-5, were led by future NBA draft picks Michael Carter-Williams, Rakeem Christmas and Jerami Grant. Center Davante Gardner was coming off a terrible
performance against Villanova in which he scored just two points in 11 minutes. “I know I didn’t play well against Villanova,” Gardner said. “I decided I’d play my best against Syracuse and try to get my team a win.” He played his best and then some. Gardner, who always garnered an “automatic” chant from the student section, dropped a career-high 26 points on 7-for-7 shooting and was 12-for-13 from the free-throw line. The Golden Eagles collectively went to the free-throw line a whopping 35 times, converting 29 attempts. The Orange shot just seven free throws all game. Marquette also out-rebounded Syracuse, 33-27, including 15 offensive boards. “We scored enough points tonight, I just think our defense wasn’t good enough, especially our rebounding,” Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim said. These were different times for Marquette basketball. The oncourt product was better, having been to four consecutive NCAA Tournaments, which led to greater investment from the fanbase. “I think there was more energy and hope throughout the season compared to now,” said Alli Borisek, a senior in the College of Business Administration. “It was more of a culture. If you didn’t go to the game, that was unheard
of. Now if you’re not going, people just shrug it off.” The crowd reached its apex with 1:24 left in the first half. After trailing by as much as 11, guard Jake Thomas received a pass in the corner from point guard Junior Cadougan. The Bradley Center erupted, according to the 2013 Marquette Tribune game story, as Thomas nailed the three-pointer and was fouled by Grant. Thomas converted the four-point play, perhaps the crux of Marquette’s season, for his first points since Dec. 22, 2012. “The student section went crazy,” said Mary Kate Ontaneda, a senior in the College of Communication. “I remember standing next to someone I didn’t know and we hugged because we were so excited. That one play made all of Marquette fall in love with Jake Thomas.” It took the Golden Eagles until 5:05 left in the game to take their first lead. Behind Gardner and two colossal three-pointers by guard Todd Mayo, the team used a 15-2 run to grow its lead as high as eight with 1:30 left. Despite a late Orange push, Marquette held on for a much-needed victory. “Can we win without Jake’s shot?” former head coach Buzz Williams asked afterward. “Can we win without Todd’s shots and
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The cover emphasized the raucous crowd for a win over No. 12 Syracuse.
steal? Can we win without Davante’s great offensive rebounds and free-throw makes, without Steve (Taylor)’s offensive rebounds and steals? It’s a collection; it’s a conglomeration.” Marquette went on to win its next three games to clinch a share of the BIG EAST title, its first in
school history. The Golden Eagles were given a 3-seed in the NCAA Tournament, with which they reached the Elite Eight for the first time since 2003. They were knocked out by none other than Syracuse in a defensive slugfest and have yet to return to a postseason tournament.
Melillo thriving with new supporting cast NJIT transfer won 69 percent of draws in debut By Jack Goods
jack.goods@marquette.edu
Sophomore face-off specialist Zack Melillo walked off the field with a huge smile after Marquette’s 9-7 win against Bellarmine Saturday. The game was a long time coming for the sophomore transfer, who waited a year to get his first collegiate victory. Melillo transferred to Marquette from NJIT, a program that has struggled in its infancy. The Highlanders went 0-12 last year, their first season as a Division I program. They managed to hang with some teams, only losing by a handful of goals to Monmouth, Manhattan and Dartmouth but still lost five games by 10 or more goals. “You face a lot of adversity,” Melillo said. “It really tests your character and patience ... Statistics don’t show effort.” The season wasn’t without benefits for Melillo, who said the experience helped him mature as a player. “Coming in with a chip on my shoulder, not having a win under my college belt, becoming a part of Marquette just gritty and blue collar,” he said. “I think that was helpful in building my character.” It’s no mystery why Melillo found Marquette an attractive landing spot once he decided to transfer. He could immediately sense the family mentality that’s helped the Golden Eagles build a nationally
respected program in four years. During Melillo’s visit, Marquette head coach Joe Amplo took the whole team to Bro-Yo following an inter-squad scrimmage. He went out to dinner with other players, who all placed their phones on the center of the table in order to focus on each other. “It’s a trickle-down effect,” Melillo said. “It starts directly with Amplo, Coach (Andrew) Stimmel, Coach (Stephen) Brundage, (Jason Pereles), all of them. They definitely show and lead.” Marquette has had plenty of talent
on the team the past three years, but face-off has never been consistent. Melillo had a higher win percentage than the Marquette unit as a whole last season despite playing with inferior talent at the wings. He said he could picture himself as that missing piece when looking at Marquette, but Amplo wasn’t promising him anything. “He told me right away, ‘Listen, there are talented guys here,’” Mellilo said. “’Do we think you can contribute? Yes. But is the spot given to you? No.’ It’s been a competition every day in practice.”
He’s fought alongside Marquette’s other face-off specialists since coming to campus: Owen Weselak, Gryphin Kelly and Brett Molina. It’s a nice change of pace from NJIT, where he was the team’s only face-off specialist. He had no one to practice with and was treated like any other midfielder. Now he works on his craft every practice, bouncing ideas off his teammates. The work paid off in his Marquette debut. Melillo had an enormous impact, going 11-for-16 at the face-off X and changing the tide after Bellarmine scored the first
three goals. His style is known as pinch-and-pop, where he clamps the ball down and gets it forward. He won multiple draws like this as clean as anyone could. Despite the hot start, Amplo still isn’t promising Melillo that starting role for this weekend’s game against Richmond, a team he had issues with last season. He went 9-for-25 in a 21-3 NJIT loss. “This is a big challenge for Zack this week,” Amplo said. “If Zack can’t beat this kid, then we’re going to need someone else to.”
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Soccodato benefits from Italian national play Freshman played in 2015 European Championships
By Thomas Salinas
thomas.salinas@marquette.edu
When the women’s lacrosse team arrived in Milwaukee to begin workouts for the 2016 season, one freshman was already in top playing shape. Cate Soccodato, an Italian-American from New York, played for Italy in the 2015 Women’s Lacrosse European Championships this past summer. Soccodato was the youngest player on the 24-player roster and one of only six Italian-Americans selected to play for the team. She was the only player out of high school selected to play for the Italian team.
Many of her teammates were 5 to 10 years older than her. Head coach Meredith Black said what Soccodato did was remarkable. “It’s huge, the fact that she got to play at the absolute highest level, before even getting to college. You can’t describe how great that is,” Black said. Tryouts for the team were held the summer before the tournament in New Jersey. Italian-Americans from all over the country traveled to participate in hopes of making the roster. Soccodato said around 150 girls were at the tryouts and coaches notified her in February she earned a spot on the team. The 18-team tournament was held in Nymburk, Czech Republic, from Aug. 6-15, with England taking the trophy. Soccodato and her teammates played the likes of Israel, Wales, Netherlands, Finland,
Austria and Switzerland. Soccodato helped team Italy to a 4-2 record, scoring 12 goals and one assist, earning a ninth-place finish in the tournament. She said her time with the Italian national team helped her prepare for playing at Marquette. “It was definitely a lot different than high school,” Soccodato said. “It was a big transition. The speed is really quick, I wasn’t used to it. I think the tournament really helped me before I got here.” Soccodato said she learned a lot
playing with the five other ItalianAmericans, who all had successful careers playing for colleges such as Boston University, Duke, UPenn, Virginia and St. Mary’s. Black said she could tell there was a difference in the way Soccodato came into the team last August. “As a freshman she’s been able to step up into a role and play great,” Black said. “She’s very composed and confident. She has those tools to be a successful Division I athlete.” Soccodato has played in
Marquette’s first three games, scoring two goals and one assist. She says she feels no added pressure to score goals. “I’m still a freshman, so I’m not sure how much they can expect from me,” Soccodato said. Soccodato keeps in touch with many of her Italian teammates through Facebook. She plans on attending another tryout when the Italian national team prepares for the 2017 World Cup in Surrey, England.
Player of the Week Ryan McNamara Ryan McNamara tied his career-high of four goals in Marquette’s 9-7 victory against Bellarmine Saturday. His first goal was the first of the 2016 Marquette campaign, starting the Golden Eagles’ comeback from a 3-0 deficit. The Eagan, Minnesota, native was named to the BIG EAST Conference Weekly Honor Roll for the second time in his career.
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Soccodato (left) had 12 goals and one assist in six games with Italy.
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