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By Devi Shastri
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Brielle Richmond, a freshman in the College of Communication, did not have the option to start her freshman year on solid footing. Last semester, the theatre arts major managed to get through orientation week – on crutches, and with much difficulty.
Several of Marquette’s aging facilities pose accessibility challenges, despite every building on campus technically being in compliance with the Americans with Disability Act’s requirements. For example, the Marquette gym does not have an elevator, and in the counseling center, located in Holthusen Hall, a few steps prevent people from getting into the waiting room. These buildings are less accessible, leaving students, faculty and visitors to wrestle with the simple question: How do we get around? For Richmond, the answer
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eventually became clear: Don’t even try. “It made me not want to go to class,” she said. Early in the semester, her grades suffered. She skipped classes to avoid dealing with the struggle of getting to class in addition to her pain, she said. Many other days, she was late because it took too long to get around. Simply going down one floor required going outside and following the sidewalk in a large circle in front of the theater and up a paved ramp on the See HELFAER, page 6
See EXAMS, page 3
Connie Petersen, an assistant professor in the theatre department, struggles with maneuvering every day in the Helfaer Theatre.
Richmond, like many other students, faculty members and patrons of Helfaer Theatre, found herself in a battle to maneuver around the building which houses her major. Helfaer can be difficult to navigate for those not able-bodied. “It’s embarrassing,” said Connie Petersen, an assistant professor of theatre arts who was on crutches most of the fall 2015 semester. “It’s embarrassing for patrons who come who are not part of Marquette, and how shocked they are (at) how much work it takes to get to somewhere (in this building).”
By Brittany Carloni
Chandler Brase, a sophomore in the College of Business Administration, pulled an allnighter studying for his ECON 1104 Principles of Macroeconomics midterm. He studied 15 hours total for the exam, which consisted of 35 questions and was scheduled for March 14 at 9 a.m. He said it went “OK.” “I put in a decent amount of work,” Brase said. “I would have guessed that I would have gotten a solid B on it.” He ended up getting a 100 percent, but not because of his vigorous studying. After spring break, his Associate Economics Professor Heather Kohls informed the 35 students in his class that their exam Scantrons were lost before they could be graded. Marquette’s IT Services Help Desk, which handles Scantron grading, received the completed exams and a required test form in an envelope from Kohls’ teaching assistant on March 14. Kohls said she then received an email from IT Services indicating that her envelope was received. Over spring break, Kohls was on a service learning trip in Guatemala and realized she never received an email from IT Services confirming that the exams were graded, even though she should have gotten it by then. She emailed IT Services to ask why. “That’s when (IT Services) basically told me that they
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IT Services misplaces midterm Scantrons
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MUSG budgets 5 figures for movie events Program Board selects films, price varies by popularity By Dana Warren
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Marquette Student Government has spent $29,700 on films so far this academic year for free Varsity Theatre movies and off-campus movie excursions, according to the Program Board Expenses released this week. MUSG began incorporating movie viewings into its budget since 2007. While last year marked the first year films were free to students, it was previously unknown how MUSG selected movies to play every weekend and for how much. Costs vary for movies. Newer and popular films cost upwards of $1,500 while other films usually fall between $500 and $1,000. MUSG paid $1,426 to show “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” April 29 and 30. Decisions for movie related events come from the MUSG program board. “The program board sits down and picks out potential movies to show on weekends,” said
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Varsity movies are offered to students every Friday at 8 p.m. and Saturday at 8 and 10:30 p.m. for free.
Sarah Graupman, an MUSG program coordinator and a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences, in an email. “We try to pick movies that students will enjoy by picking a variety of movies. We try to pick some new releases and some older movies to reach a larger group of students and because
of budget reasons.” The movie queue for Varsity Theatre is typically planned out at the ned of each semester through a movie distribution company called Swank Motion Pictures. Swank Motion Pictures, a non-theatrical distributor of motion pictures,
licenses out movies for different types of viewings, including college campuses. “They give us a tentative date of when movies will be available for early release which is a lot cheaper than they will be for first release, which is after the movie is in theaters but before it comes out on DVD,” said Sarah
Beattie, a senior in the College of Communication and MUSG programs vice president. Movie selection is also dependent upon availability and may be influenced by ongoing campus events. “We receive a catalog of movies we are allowed to play before their official DVD release date, and so whichever are newish, available and popular, like ‘Creed’ for example, are chosen for students who were unable to venture off-campus to see them in theaters,” said Molly Welch, an MUSG program coordinator and sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences. Though most decisions come from the program board, it does take suggestions from students and groups on campus. “Sometimes we are also approached by student organizations about films they would like to see shown at the Varsity,” Graupman said. “For example, we showed ‘Forrest Gump’ this past week on the suggestion of Active Minds for Mental Health Awareness week. We also try to show kid-friendly movies when events like Lil’ Sibs weekend are happening.”
Get to know new heads of MUSG leadership President, executive vice president were elected last week By Rebecca Carballo
rebecca.carballo@marquette.edu
Marquette Student Government’s 2016-’17 president and executive vice president were inaugurated last week and led their first MUSG Senate meeting this week. The duo won after campaigning against three other candidate pairs for the student vote. ABE, PRESIDENT Ortiz Tapia, a junior in the College of Engineering, described the unveiling of the Marquette Student Government presidential results as a “nerve-racking” experience. Once his win was announced, Ortiz Tapia was overcome by emotion and enthusiasm. “I was tearing up,” Ortiz Tapia said. “It was a really great feeling to know the student body was so supportive.” Ortiz’s passion did not go unnoticed by other members of MUSG. “Abe is just a kind-hearted person who will listen to students and will do a phenomenal job trying to facilitate change on campus,” said Sarah Beattie, programs vice president and senior in the College of Communication. According to Ortiz Tapia, he and his running mate Adam Kouhel will be able to keep their promise because they have set reachable goals. “Everything on (our platform) is attainable, and we have been in conversation with student
organizations,” Ortiz Tapia said. The Sunday after the results were announced Ortiz Tapia and Kouhel met to discuss the first steps they would take in office. They are currently communicating with culture and diversity student organizations to start conversations about the students rights handbook. Ortiz Tapia said input from student organizations will be an important part of the process, as they have all have their own experiences with freedom of speech. “Reaching out is the biggest thing,” Ortiz Tapia said. “Adam and I know we’re not fully educated on these topics, but many of these groups have experience with freedom of speech struggles.” They are hoping to finish the handbook by next semester. Green space activation is another initiative they will begin working on this semester and into the summer. Ortiz Tapia and Kouhel are looking into different ways green space can be used on campus. They have been in contact with the Kohler Center for Entrepreneurship in the 707 Building to speak about how the plot of land can be utilized. They are also starting to create partnerships with different student organizations. Next year they plan to advocate for the Ignacio Ellacuria S.J. Dreamers Scholarship and work on the Ignite Fund. It will be the first MUSG-sponsored fund for student innovations. “It’s time for MUSG to invest in the ideas students have,” Ortiz Tapia said. Initiatives they would like to continue are the Near West Side Initiative, Dialogue Dinners and the Never Have
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From left to right: former MUSG Executive Vice President Aliya Manjee, Ortiz Tapia, Kouhel and former MUSG President Zack Wallace. Ortiz Tapia and Kouhel started in their new roles this week.
I Ever” poster campaign. ADAM, EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Kouhel, a sophomore in the College of Business Administration, transitions from MUSG academic chair to EVP. One of Kouhel’s main responsibilities as the EVP will be to oversee Student Organization Funding. He will also collaborate with Ortiz Tapia on initiatives. Having served on the SOF committee, Kouhel is familiar with the process. Financial Vice President and a junior in the College of Business Administration Cameron Vrana said he is confident in Kouhel’s SOF knowledge and abilities. “Adam is really passionate about MUSG as a whole and especially
the SOF process,” Vrana said. “I trust that he will do a good job. He’s really gotten the hang of it and he has a lot of experience already.” He plans to create the SOF Second Chance program so club leaders have the chance to make corrections to any mistakes on their application and receive funding. He also wants to revamp the SOF application to make it more clear and transparent. “Even for myself when I filled out the application I had some questions, and I sit on the committee,” Kouhel said. However, Kouhel said modifying SOF will be a longer process. They will keep the original application for the rest of the semester, but they will begin modifying the application over the summer and work
with the finance department and student organizations to see what improvement can be made. Another way Kouhel will reach out to student organizations is by doing walkthroughs to evaluate their practice facilities. “The walk-throughs is our first step to connect the administration and student groups who have had concerns about the spaces they are practicing in,” Kouhel said. “We’ll be looking at schedules and resources within these spaces.” Kouhel said he is looking to enhance the student experience on campus, and students can hold him to his promises. “We want students to hold us accountable,” Kouhel said. “We hope to work with more students across campus efficiently and as a team.”
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Exam grading mishap results in perfect scores could not find the exams, they were not panicking and they were hoping that they would show up,” Kohls said. Kohls communicated with IT Services while in Guatemala, and it began looking into the situation. While Kohls was in Guatemala, Amy Connelly, an office associate for economics and marketing, said a student from IT Services stopped by Kohls’ office the Monday or Tuesday of spring break. Connelly said she and the student looked through Kohls’ office for about 15 to 20 minutes for an envelope that might have had the Scantrons but found nothing. When Kohls addressed her Principles of Macroeconomics class the Wednesday after break, she could only share that all the exams were gone and IT Services would locate them. Kohls said students were concerned about how their grades would be affected, and she discussed options with students and other faculty members in the College of Business Administration. She initially planned on adding questions to the final exam and creating an online homework assignment, but after hearing feedback from students, Kohl’s decided to give every student 100 percent on the midterm. “What it does is it takes your curve that was really spread out and kind of smushes it down. It brings the people who were at the bottom part of the curve closer to the people who were at the top of the curve,” Kohls said. “That changed my average grade in the class but not by an outlandish amount. It’s going to work out just fine.” Brase said he appreciated Kohls approach to finding an alternative for the midterm, but he would like to see how he did on the exam. “I used to think it was a dream that somebody would lose a test and now I’m like, I actually put in hard work for this, so its kind of a bummer,” Brase said. “We’ll see how it affects everyone’s grades in the long run.” Kohls said there is a specific process for submitting
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The IT Services Help Desk, which handles Scantron grading, would not further discuss the incident.
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I’d like some reassurance that this is never going to happen again.”
HEATHER KOHLS Associate Economics Professor Scantrons for grading to IT Services. At the beginning of the semester she submits a form called “Form One,” which generates the Scantrons for her classes. “Form Two” is the document Kohls includes with the completed Scantrons when she
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drops exams off at IT Services. This form indicates who is allowed to pick up the exams and how many questions and points are on the exam. Kohls said it is supposed to be a one business day turnaround to scan and grade the exams. After the exams are graded, Kohls said IT Services generates a SharePoint report that communicates results and if there are any missing students where there could be blank Scantrons. Mary Simmons, the senior director for IT Services, said the department would not discuss the missing Scantrons. “At this time, IT Services is still investigating the matter and feel that it would be inappropriate to discuss this outside of the affected departments,” Simmons said in an email. Kohls said she expects to continue using Scantrons because
of the large numbers of students she regularly has in her classes. She also encourages other professors to immediately follow up with IT Services if the department doesn’t contact them within 24 hours after dropping off exams. Ultimately, Kohls accepted the apologies she received from the department, but she would like IT Services to address the situation and how they are changing the procedure moving forward. “What I would still really like to see is an announcement from IT Services talking about how they’re changing their Scantron policies to make sure this doesn’t happen because it worked out OK, but there really ought to be safeguards in place that this can never happen,” Kohls said. “I’d like some reassurance that this is never going to happen again.”
MUPD REPORTS APRIL 6
MUPD stopped a vehicle driven by a person not affiliated with Marquette for a traffic violation in the 1600 block of W. State St. and found that the driver was impaired and in possession of a controlled substance. A passenger in the vehicle also not affiliated with Marquette had an outstanding warrant. MUPD cited the driver and transported the driver and passenger to the Milwaukee County Criminal Justice Facility at 6:29 p.m.
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Unknown person(s) removed a fire extinguisher estimated at $30 in McCabe Hall between 1 a.m. and 1:08 a.m.
APRIL 11
MUPD stopped an intoxicated driver not affiliated with Marquette in the 1000 block of N. 17th St. The driver was cited by MUPD and transported to the Milwaukee County Criminal Justice Facility at 1:03 a.m.
MUPD cited a person not affiliated with Marquette for public drinking in Engineering Hall at 3:33 p.m.
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A person not affiliated with Marquette was prowling near Schroeder Hall and cited by MUPD at 11:58 p.m.
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Brinner with ASSC, 5-7 p.m., under the bridge outside Raynor Memorial Libraries Death by Chocolate, 7-9 p.m., Alumni Memorial Union Ballrooms
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Walk a Mile in Her Shoes, 2-4 p.m., Central Mall Liturgical Choir Spring Concert, 7:30 p.m., Church of the Gesu
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Pure Dance Spring Showcase, 12-1 p.m., Weasler Auditorium Spring Wind Ensemble Concert, 2-3:30 p.m., Varsity Theatre
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Multicultural Fashion Show, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weasler Auditorium
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Controversial mock apartheid wall returns Students for Justice in Palestine brings revamped display By Maredithe Meyer
maredithe.meyer@marquette.edu
After being taken down without warning, Students for Justice in Palestine re-displayed a newly designed mock apartheid wall this week after receiving Office of Student Development approval two weeks ago. The wall was supposed to be re-displayed in Westowne Square outside the Alumni Memorial Union because the preferred AMU space was booked for the rest of the semester. When rain was forecasted for Wednesday, OSD told SJP to set it up in front of the Henke Lounge on the AMU’s second floor. The wall displays symbolic images and statements about the Israeli-Palestine conflict, including “to exist is to resist.” It went up yesterday and remain there until 4 p.m. today. SJP placed posters near the wall to provide background information about the conflict. The lightly trafficked location did not allow for many observers or those passing by. Two signs on the AMU’s second floor were set up to direct people to the display. “I didn’t really think much
about the wall when I saw it,” said Stephanie Jahr, a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences, who was typing on her computer while sitting near it. “It’s off to the side – if it were in the middle of the AMU, more people would notice it.” OSD removed the wall during “Israeli Apartheid Week” in February, saying it violated submission policies that require student organizations to gain OSD’s advanced approval for events, publicity and displays. However, Gadeer Ayesh, SJP president and senior in the College of Health Sciences, said OSD also told SJP that it could not display the wall due to an unnamed person’s conflicting views. “Although I respect OSD and everything they do for this campus, their actions are highly inconsistent,” he said in an email. “Everything we attempt to do is looked at closely under a microscope”. After the wall was removed, SJP consulted Palestine Legal, an organization working to protect free speech of Palestine freedom activist groups. Palestine Legal addressed the conflict in an email to Dean of Students Stephanie Quade, calling the university’s action a violation of SJP’s freedom of speech. “The group recently submitted its display to our Student Affairs department, in accordance
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The wall was located outside of the Henke Lounge on the second floor of the AMU yesterday.
with our policies that cover all student groups, and was granted a space and timeframe for that display,” University Spokesman Brian Dorrington said in an email. In addition, Ayesh said OSD would only approve the wall if SJP placed a sign near it to claim ownership of it. Ayesh said SJP wants the display to show Marquette that it cares about the university and want to share its hardships. “By not giving up and
continuing to fight for the approval of this wall, we want to show everyone that we are here for good and we will not back down,” Ayesh said. Palestine Legal’s electronic letter in March named both Campus Ministry and the Jewish Student Union as “hostile” groups that opposed SJP’s actions. “In allocating this space, administrators communicated some concerns to the students about how other members of
the Marquette community may interpret certain aspects of the group’s display,” Dorrington said about re-displaying the wall. “We understand that other students, specifically students in Marquette’s Jewish community, may share these concerns.” Anna Goldstein, Jewish Student Union president and junior in the College of Arts & Sciences, declined to comment on the wall’s return to campus.
MUPD Chaplain provides support, cookies Police chief pleased with the Rev. Kent Beausoleil’s work By Ryan Patterson
ryan.patterson@marquette.edu
If there are cookies laying around the Marquette Police Department office, there’s a good chance that they came from the Rev. Kent Beausoleil, MUPD’s chaplain. Beausoleil has been at Marquette since fall 2014 and was officially named MUPD chaplain last fall. Being MUPD chaplain doesn’t involve a set schedule, but Beausoleil usually spends 10-15 hours per month at the MUPD offices. This time is spent doing informal visits with officers and supervisors. He also helped create the MUPD Mission and Vision Statements. Overall, Beausoleil’s role involves providing pastoral support and care, in addition to praying for the department every day. MUPD Chief Paul Mascari said Beausoleil is doing an excellent job getting to know officers and supervisors personally. “He’s a very friendly, approachable guy,” Mascari said. “In the event something happens in our department, he is better able to serve us because he’s gotten to know the people within the department.” To stay updated on department
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The Rev. Kent Beausoleil worked numerous jobs before becoming a priest and coming to Marquette.
matters, Beausoleil occasionally meets with the night shift command staff or attends role call at 6 a.m. or 6 p.m. Mascari considers Beausoleil a valuable link between MUPD and the university as a whole. Beausoleil stressed the importance of his role in helping students become fully-realized human beings. “We want to make it not just an academic experience,” he said. “We want you to learn socially, emotionally and spiritually as well.” Joining Marquette was a bit of a homecoming since Beausoleil grew up close by in Waukegan, Illinois. Before
Marquette, Beausoleil’s life took a winding route. After studying political science at Northern Illinois University and not finding a job related to his degree, Beausoleil worked in restaurants for a while. He held a variety of food service positions, including pastry chef, bartender, host, waiter and manager. Since he interacted with many kinds of people as a restaurant employee, Beausoleil said he developed great communication skills, something that comes in handy as a priest. After that, Beausoleil became an assistant village manager
in Palatine, Illinois, and then a budget and risk officer for Rockford, Illinois. He worked with police and fire departments during both jobs. Then Beausoleil worked for the Archdiocese of Chicago for three years as an administrative and financial consultant. He said it was during this time that he “felt called to the priesthood.” He began the process at 32 and decided to join the Society of Jesus because the Jesuit priests he interacted with in Chicago “seemed to have a nice balance between … independence and community.” After 10 years of formation
studies, Beausoleil was ordained. He subsequently worked as an associate pastor at Xavier University’s campus in Cincinnati for eight years before coming to Marquette. He received his Ph.D. in student affairs and higher education from Miami University in Ohio. Apart from MUPD, Beausoleil has a full-time job as associate dean of student development, where he helps with student organizations, programming, vocation promotion, leadership and large events like new student orientation and Late Night Marquette. Beausoleil is also the Jesuitin-residence at Schroeder Hall, a position he relishes. “I love it a lot,” he said. “It’s nice to interact with the students in a different capacity than in the office.” On top of all of his campus responsibilities, Beausoleil assists Campus Ministry at two churches in northeast Milwaukee. Beausoleil said he’s impressed with MUPD’s work. “It’s amazing the amount of work they do for this campus and the professionalism and the service.” He specifically praised the officers. “They’re kind of the unsung heroes of the campus, making sure that students are taken care of and the safety of the university is at hand,” he said. “They’re active in trying to make this whole community a better place, which is great.”
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Humanoid robots to teach at summer camp Programs include CompuGirls, Social Robot Program By Jennifer Walter
jennifer.walter@marquette.edu
Marquette’s Humanoid Engineering & Intelligent Robotics Lab develops educational programs for grade levels below college, including CompuGirls to teach computer programming basics to young girls. The HEIR Lab is working on developing a CompuGirls curriculum, which will come to Marquette from the University of Arizona. It will be taught during a weeklong summer camp for middle and high school girls. CompuGirls will have a robotics aspect, which is exclusive to Marquette, since students will learn how to work with and program humanoid robots from the HEIR Lab. “I think robots are a great teaching tool as opposed to just having the students come in and sit at a laptop and write a code,” Sophia Shanahan, a sophomore in the College of Engineering and lab assistant to HEIR Lab Director Andrew Williams. “They actually see the implementation of what they’re writing.” The program was condensed from its original five-week version at the University of
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The HEIR Lab brought robots on its visit to Discovery World and showed them off to children during National Robotics Week.
Arizona. Shanahan said the task of condensing the massive curriculum into a one-week summer camp was a challenge. “We’ll probably start with having the students learn how to make choreographed programs and then get into some simple Python programming of it later in the week,” Shanahan said. The HEIR Lab is also assembling another project, the Social Robot Program, to get affordable technology into classrooms so young students can work with robots. There are plans launch a prototype this summer.
“Because there’s a lot involved with building (robots) as well as programming them, they’re expensive,” Williams said. “That’s why we’re trying to develop a lower-cost social robot that can be used for kids in school.” As part of National Robotics Week, which occurs the second weekend of every April, students from the Milwaukee Academy of Science saw HEIR Lab’s humanoid robot in action. The week is an official, government-recognized initiative that began in 2011. “I am so excited that you
are here,”a robot announced at the presentation. “Engineering is a very exciting field and I encourage you to give it some thought.” Williams and four of his research assistants also showed off the bots to children and adults at a Discovery World event for National Robotics Week. “Some of (the kids) were scared when the robot would walk to them but others would be like, ‘oh this is so cool, oh my goodness,’” said Olivia Bellatin, presenter and freshman in the College of
Engineering. “Some older kids and adults came up to us and asked how we did this and wanted to see the computer screen and how it all worked.” Williams estimates more than 100 students attended the Discovery World event. “Usually what I see is that very few people have seen a humanoid robot personally do something to interact (socially,)” Williams said. “It’s a new experience for a lot of people still.”
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For years, theatre sought funds for building renovations
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Although many buildings have been updated on Marquette’s campus to be in accordance with ADA regulations, certain older buildings are not required to maintain compliance.
side of the building. “Everything takes longer” Petersen has worked at Marquette for 14 years. In addition to her theatre arts assistant professorship, she serves as the manager and leader of the costume shop. Students see her as an integral member of the theatre and the performing arts program. “With Connie, it’s kind of sad because it’s like the theater is basically her home, and when she can’t have comfort in her home, it’s just frustrating,” said Chloe Hurckes, a sophomore theatre arts major in the College of Communication. “It’s a lot of work … to travel any distance. So a lot of times she’d be huffing and puffing from (her travel). She could have just
easily rolled down the hall if we had another bathroom.” Petersen was in an immobilizing boot following knee surgery over winter break. The doctors said she would need to wear it for eight to 12 weeks, during which time she relied on a knee scooter to get around campus. In a building with no elevator, her access to the Xerox machine, other faculty offices and even the only bathrooms in the building proved excessively difficult. “Everything takes longer,” Petersen said. She rolled up and down the inclined sidewalks outside Helfaer each day to access the resources, carefully monitoring her speed so she wouldn’t fall over and cutting through other buildings to get around
as quickly as possible. To help accommodate her, one of her classes was moved to Lalumiere Hall. She said she relied heavily on help from her students. “It’s easy when I have students to help me, but I have to know when the students are coming in,” Petersen said. “It’s like, ‘OK, I’m going to have to wait until 1 o’clock when this student comes in to help me get something upstairs.” After Richmond was off of her own crutches, she said she made a point to help Petersen as much as possible. She said her experience gave her a new appreciation for her body. “You never know how much you need an arm or a leg until you can’t use it anymore,” Richmond said. “With Connie
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The theatre department has repeatedly asked for funding to update its building, currently to no avail.
… I knew it took a toll on her body. To see her travel back and forth using that same route – I know that’s tiring.” Richmond recalled the added difficulty of being a professor and said that sometimes Petersen’s classes would start late because of the long travel time. “There needs to be something (done),” Richmond said. This is not Petersen’s first time navigating the theater with limited mobility. Eight years prior, she had a similar surgery. She said more attention is being paid to her situation this time around than in the past. College of Communication interim dean Ana Garner and two university architects walked through the building with her in January to better understand the issue. “(The architects) were both shocked,” Petersen recalled. “Like, ‘Whoever designed this building did not think things through.’” Following the guidelines Still, Helfaer is technically compliant with ADA regulations. However, they aren’t up to date with the current codes because it was effectively grandfathered in since it was built in 1977 – before the ADA was implemented. Created in 1990, the ADA promotes greater equality for people with disabilities in employment, state and local government services, public accommodations, commercial facilities, and transportation. One component of this effort is the guidelines for how a building should be constructed or renovated to meet accessibility standards. These regulations were created in 1991 and then updated in 2010. Yet, the law is flexible in what it requires of institutions. Specification of what renovations are required
(The architects) were both shocked. Like, ‘Whoever designed this building did not think things through.’” CONNIE PETERSEN Assistant Professor Theatre Department is outlined in Title III of the law. Alterations to a building requires the institution to ensure the area is accessible “to the maximum extent feasible,” if it is unable to comply fully with the law. “It’s always an ongoing burden to continue to improve, but the ADA doesn’t require places to be in full compliance from the get go,” said Tim Ochnikowski, Milwaukee County’s ADA coordinator. “It was written purposefully not to do that, not to create problems with state and local governments who have very large and very old buildings.” When updating campus buildings, it comes down to priorities, said Stephen HudsonMairet, the chair of Marquette’s digital media and performing arts department. “It’s an ongoing issue within the greater university,” Hudson-Mairet said. “There are always facility needs and from a university standpoint, they need to take a look and see what the priorities are. … Clearly, the university is aware of the issue.” The law’s flexibility and exemptions allow institutions to prioritize where they
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place their resources and determine what modifications are feasible. They also do not require constant updates of facilities. Ochnikowski said universities usually maintain accessible facilities voluntarily, as it helps attract students. “All facilities on our campus are compliant with the ADA standards that were in place at the time of the building’s construction,” said chief university planner and architect, Lora Strigens, in an email. “As we engage in major renovation projects to existing buildings, it is our best practice and a requirement that we bring those facilities up to current ADA guidelines.” A shift in attention Regardless, no one is ever turned away from Helfaer Theatre. Rather, students and faculty go out of their way to accommodate guests as they can. The house manager for each show is given training on how they can help the theater’s (often older) patrons get to their seats with as much ease as possible. Yet, some say that the structural issues are a source of embarrassment for everyone involved, bringing attention to a person’s disability. “None of us would ever complain about having to do more work to get anyone (into the theater), but also when we’re pulled away to help someone navigate something that should be so easy to navigate, it takes us away from the other problems,” Hurckes said. “We don’t want to give people special attention just because they have a disability or a handicap, but it’s like we’re kind of forced to do that because we know they’re not going to be able to get through easily.” Hurckes, who served as house manager for the theater’s production of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” worked with what she says are many embarrassed and upset patrons in her time at the theater and said she even felt embarrassed herself. She
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Brielle Richmond, a freshman in the theatre program, helped physically-disabled patrons find their seats before theater productions.
recalled patrons who told her the paved ramp that serves as an entry was too steep, angled and bumpy for a person to ride up. It took a woman 10 minutes to walk up the steep steps in the lobby with others helping. She said many people just stay in their seats during intermissions. Some patrons even enter the theater from behind the stage. The ease with which people with disabilities should be able to get around hits close to home for Hurckes. Her uncle has multiple sclerosis. While he loves seeing his niece perform (he attended every one of her plays in high school), he will likely never see her on Helfaer’s stage. “It’s sad, because it’s pretty much just me saying, ‘Don’t even bother,’ (even though) it’s something that makes him happy,” Hurckes said. “I’m sure there are many other people who have family members or friends who can’t really come either.” The issue of limited access to certain resources or
experiences also arises in the counseling center, which is not handicap-accessible, said the center’s director Michael Zebrowski. “The counseling center staff is very disappointed that this
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I feel like as a part of the campus, each building should get the same amount of treatment.” BRIELLE RICHMOND Freshman in the College of Communication ADA issue cannot easily be resolved,” Zebrowski said in an email. “We are dedicated to the ideal of universal design and treating all clients equally.” Students who are unable to
get up the stairs outside the center’s waiting room are brought in from a side entrance and are seen in a more accessible room. Zebrowski said the university architect reviewed the space and suggested renovations, “but the cost was prohibitive, and the solution proposed was not acceptable.” He said the center will likely have to be relocated in the future. If any renovations were made to Helfaer or anywhere else on campus, the ADA would require the area to be brought up to date with 2010 accessibility requirements to the best of the university’s ability. Certain exemptions exist, including one that says a building less than three stories high or less than 3,000 square feet per story does not require an elevator, as is the case with the theater. Hudson-Mairet said that in his 16 years working at Marquette, the only modification he has seen in the theater was the re-upholstering of the seats in 2000 – an update too
minor to require an accessibility update by law. He and Petersen said that while renovations are certainly needed, the biggest challenge is cost and university priorities. In line with the university master plan’s recommendations, the Department of Facilities Planning & Management will commission a review of the theater’s facilities that will result in a cost estimate and a plan to improve conditions as much as possible, Strigens said in an email. A major renovation project of the historic core, elevator accessibility work in two residence halls, and bathroom accessibility work in five buildings on campus have made improvements in many areas of campus that serve a large number of people, including the Alumni Memorial Union and Schroeder Hall, Strigens said. “Facilities Planning & Management is constantly looking for ways to increase accessibility,” she said. “Any opportunity is considered against other issues needing correction with the goal of making the most impact with the limited resources we manage.” Even with limited resources and priorities taken into account, many maintain that the time to invest in Helfaer, which will be half a century old next year, has come. “I don’t buy it,” Richmond said. “I feel like as a part of the campus, each building should get the same amount of treatment. Looking at Johnston and all these other buildings in comparison to Helfaer, you see the difference. Helfaer is an old building that has little to no renovations. … I think as a theater, (people) already say that the major isn’t really considered a lot. I think (this) is just another way of showing that we matter, but not as much as (the others).” —Brittany Carloni, general assignment news reporter, contributed to this article.
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GLEFF returns for second year Student-run film festival includes 17 environmental films By Dennis Tracy
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After a successful debut last year, the Great Lakes Environmental Film Festival returns April 21-23 for more movies and panels dedicated to helping nature and the environment. Seventeen different films, from shorts to longer form, will be featured over the course of the festival. GLEFF is student-run and began in 2015 to help spread awareness about the various issues going on around the country and world. Communication graduate student Theresa Soley helped put GLEFF together and serves as a community liaison for the festival. “When I came to Marquette, I saw some posters around for GLEFF and got really excited because the environmental community is pretty small,” Soley said. Soley previously studied at the University of San Francisco where she earned a degree in biology with an emphasis in ecology. Soley said there are a wide range of topics for students to see
and Marquette Hall 100 and 300. Brown said he hopes to eventually expand GLEFF to Varsity Theatre, which can seat 1200 people. He also hopes equipment could be added to places like Varsity Theatre in the future to better accommodate film festivals. One of the films to be screened at GLEFF is “Graveyard of the Great Lakes: A Shipwreck Hunter’s Quest to Discover the Past,” directed by Eric Seals of the Detroit Free Press. The film premiered at Freep Film Festival, a documentary film festival run by the Detroit Free Press, in March 2015 and has since screened in places like Green Bay, Washington D.C., Chicago, Texas and will be heading to Indiana next month. The idea for the movie came in December 2012, when the Free Press sent Seals to get photographs of a sunken ship named “The New York.” Seventy-fouryear-old shipwreck hunter David Trotter discovered the ship at the bottom of Lake Huron. “I do video storytelling, so we got into a topic, about it and he goes, ‘Let me put this
at the festival and hopes they gain something from it. “I hope it will inspire them to go outside and think about conservation, what it means for them and what Earth needs at this point, which seems to be kind of struggling in a lot of ways,” Soley said. Joe Brown, a professional in residence in the College of Communication, is the director of GLEFF. Brown changed the admissions process this year to make sure filmmakers submitted pieces focused on the environment. GLEFF added a $5 submission fee after previously receiving movies that had nothing to do with the environment. The submission fee helped pay for renting out places to screen films. In addition to having a submission process, GLEFF is also changing where its films will be screened. “In our first year, we had our screenings in a variety of venues across campus, and it worked out quite well,” Brown said. “However, this year we have changed up some of the screening venues to be in a more centralized location.” This year, the films will be screened in Johnston Hall 103
DVD in of underwater footage that we have and I’ll show it to you,’” Seals said. The footage Trotter shot was so impressive, it inspired Seals to do more than get photography. “As a journalist, you always want to print stories that you’re curious about or interested in because you can tell them better versus something that you’ve done so many times (where) it’s hard to find a new angle to it,” Seals said. PBS airing the film helped increase its viewership. A pledge drive took place as the “Graveyard of the Great Lakes” aired. Seals talked to people calling into the station at the time. “The business in terms of selling film is all new to us,” Seals said. “This is like a gate gap because we have never really done it, so we are doing it slowly and learning as we go.” After his run, Seals hopes to sell the documentary to a network like Discovery Channel so more people can see his work. Seals is also is working on a documentary about firefighters in the great lakes, and hopes to showcase the history of the work they do. He anticipates to get it out in the next year or year and a half. GLEFF hopes to expand its already existing resources for
next year. Brown said he wants more students to get involved with GLEFF, since making shorts for festivals are a great way to increase viewership. He also plans for GLEFF to become a stop on an environmental film circuit and receive a bigger social media push. “I’ve been toying with the idea of some kind of environmental media center where we produce our own media,” Brown said. This is one of the long-term goals he wishes to see for GLEEF, but the environmental media center is only an idea for now. Brown is also working on his documentary “Operation Wolf Patrol” for which filming is still taking place.
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‘Graveyard of the Great Lakes: A Shipwreck Hunter’s Quest to Discover the Past’ directed by Eric Seals follows shipwreck hunter David Trotter as he explores Lake Huron’s depths.
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Theatre, film fused in experimental show Innovative ‘Romeo and Juliet’ staged at Visualization Lab By Brian Boyle
brian.boyle@marquette.edu
One of theatre’s greatest strengths — and greatest challenges — is building a world through physical, tangible, hand-crafted and meticulously designed scenery and props. But what if scenes could switch location in an instant? What if the stage never has to go dark allowing dozens of bustling hands to transform a throne room into a dungeon, or a city street into a bedroom? Chester Loeffler-Bell, artistic assistant professor of digital media and theatre arts in the College of Communication, along with John LaDisa, associate professor in the College of Engineering and director of the visualization lab, has been asking— and answering— these questions for the past couple years. Utilizing the Engineering Hall’s Visualization Lab (which has been officially dubbed MARVL, though frequent users prefer simply calling it the VisLab), Loeffler-Bell and LaDisa produced a series of productions that blur the lines between theatre and film. Debuting this Friday, and running through the weekend, “RnJ” is his latest VisLab project: an unrehearsed, drastically abridged, comedic three-character take on Shakespeare’s classic romance-tragedy “Romeo and Juliet.” The show will be performed by various local theatre groups Friday April 15 and Saturday April 16 at 6
p.m. and 8 p.m., while Marquette faculty members will take the stage Sunday April 17 at 6 p.m. followed by student performers at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10 to the public and $5 for Marquette students, faculty and alumni, and are being sold at the door and online. Faculty performers include Ana Garner, interim dean in the College of Communication, Kristina Ropella, interim dean in the College of Engineering and Stephen Hudson-Mairet, associate professor and chair of digital media and performing arts in the College of Communication. “(LaDisa) got his dean (Ropella), and that dean roped in our dean (Garner), who then got the last one (Hudson-Mairet) to do it,” LoefflerBell said. “Anna (Garner) is fired up to do it. They were all game.” The VisLab features high-resolution rear projection and 3D capabilities, allowing for immersive and realistic environment creation. The $1.5 million room was created primarily with the engineering school in mind, though Loeffler-Bell jumped at the creative storytelling potential. “I’ve been doing projects with Professor John LaDisa over in the VisLab the last two years, and what we’re trying to do is explore different avenues of how to use the VisLab,” Loeffler-Bell said. “With ‘RnJ,’ we wanted to reach out to the community and invite local groups to come in and see how it works.” The pair used the VisLab to create hyper-realistic sets, producing two previous shows in the past two years exploring the unique possibilities the space provides.
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VisLab creates hyper-realistic sets through virtual reality technology, making it an extremely versatile tool.
Their first show “The Zoo Story” introduced them to the potential of live performances in the VisLab, while in the second, “Bald Soprano,” they took a leap in an entirely new direction— or more accurately, dimension. “We’re not doing 3D for ‘RnJ,’ but we did for ‘Bald Soprano,’” Loeffler-Bell said. The scenery was projected, and the audience wore 3D glasses, like for a 3D movie. The scenery became 3D, but with live actors. It’s kind of a new experience; It was really cool.” For the first show, LoefflerBell and LaDisa brought in local talents, while in the latter, Marquette students took the initiative. For “RnJ,” both local artists and students are helping to get the show off the ground. Loeffler-Bell employed 2015 Marquette theatre arts alum Hannah Klapperich-Mueller and local theatre artist and educator Gracie Lee to act as project managers.
Lee directed “The Zoo Story,” and wrote the first draft for “RnJ.” Mueller acted in “Bald Soprano,” and was tasked with community outreach and promotion for “RnJ.” Mueller will also be performing “RnJ” as a member of local theatre group Summit Players. On the student side, Katie Hauger, a senior in the College of Communication, designed the scenery, while Chris Larkee, VisLab Technology specialist and B.F.A., turned the sets into a virtual reality. “The whole thing has been a very collaborative project,” Mueller said. “We’ve had a very ‘we’ll see, figure it out as we go’ mentality, because it’s an unrehearsed project and not a traditional theater piece. It’s all been very different. We’re using the VisLab to create hyper-realistic sets that you can’t get in a theater. So in that way, it’s like actors are acting in a film, but are still in front of you, and has all the appeal of live theatre. It
crosses some weird boundaries that don’t usually exist.” While the VisLab certainly makes “RnJ” unique, the show’s unrehearsed nature is also a twist on the traditional theatre experience. “One of the coolest things about this particular project is that because it’s unrehearsed, each performance will be different, and every show will be done by a different community group,” Mueller said. Lee, who wrote the script, turned the Bard’s famous soliloquy-soaked tragi-romance into an extemporaneous, unrehearsed on-stage romp. “(The actors) have had their words for a little while, so they can look up what the 400-yearold language means, but they don’t know what the other actors are going to say, outside of a few cues,” Lee said. “It’s become kind of an improv game for the actors out of what Shakespeare wrote 400 years ago.”
Turner Hall Ballroom host MKE Day party Official celebration will feature food, music, local artists By Rachel Kubik
rachel.kubik@marquette.edu
A simple text message from one brother to another started a local celebration that has been a hit for six years now. Milwaukee Day was formed by Brent Gohde and Andy Silverman six years ago, after Silverman’s brother reminded him on April 14, that 4/14 are the same numbers used for the area code of Milwaukee. This realization led to the start of a citywide holiday. “It was a logo and a website that year, a video the next – which got the attention of the local media,” Gohde said. “(It) has taken off from there.” A party celebrating the holiday will be held in the Turner Hall Ballroom. There will be performances by local artists and bands, Hovercraft arts and crafts vendors and tacos for sale. The doors open tonight at 5:30 p.m., and tickets are $10. The first 200 people will receive a free Milwaukee Day coozie. This is the third year that the party has been held at Turner Hall Ballroom. Previously, the MKE Day party was held at Cactus Club, Great Lakes Distillery, Stonefly, which is now Company Brewing, and several other venues. “Eventually maybe we’ll get our
act together and do that parade, a fun run, or a brat-drop on the city from a helicopter,” Gohde said. Gohde said that the best thing about Milwaukee is that “there aren’t many transplants, so we all have this shared history we can draw from and have a ton in common as a community.” He has seen people who have changed residences to other cities such as Boston, New York and Austin, and still have thrown MKE Day parties. All profits from this year’s event will go to TransCenter for Youth’s Escuela Verde. It is a nonprofit charter school that works with students grades 7-12. Gohde said he is most looking forward to assisting its mission. A lot of bands were invited to play at the MKE Day party this year. “It all worked out great, with five bands who would otherwise be headliners all on the same bill,” Gohde said. Some of the performers include Jaill, Def Harmonic, Midnight Reruns, Lex Allen and Space Raft. This will make for a night of rock, pop, rap and R&B. Skai Academy, a youth arts ensemble made up of 11 to 16 year olds, will be the opening act. Kai Simone, director of Skai Academy, said that they are excited to be performing for a worthy cause that will directly benefit some of the band members and students at Escuela Verde and TransCenter.
“We hope that even though the band is comprised of kids and are not full time musicians, that they are learning to play music with a purpose and be entertaining,” Simone said. In continued celebration of MKE Day, there will also be a community clean-up at Escuela Verde and around the Urban Ecology Center from 4-5 p.m. tonight as well. Many local businesses are also in support of MKE Day, offering sales and specials to observe the holiday. Jordan Davis, guitarist, lead vocalist and writer within the band, Space Raft is excited to perform for the MKE Day party. He said that all of the members of the band are originally from different parts of Wisconsin, yet the band as a whole loves Milwaukee and thinks of it as home. “Most of us have been here for a better part of a decade and have no plans on leaving anytime soon,” Davis said. This is the first time Space Raft has ever played at Turner Hall, and the band is eager to keep up the tradition of putting on an amazing show that the many other artists before them have had the privilege of doing. The band is going to play songs that are related to the band members’ experiences in Milwaukee. The main goal of the performance is to bring smiles to MKE Day Party goers, Davis said.
Graham Hunt, guitar player and singer-songwriter of the band Midnight Reruns, has enjoyed playing with his band and is excited to return to playing at Turner Hall. “(Midnight Reruns has) developed into a really nice and reliable creative outlet,” Hunt said. “I get to play music in front of people with some of my best friends who also
happen to be some of the best musicians I know.” All of the band members are from Milwaukee. “Milwaukee isn’t perfect by any means, but every once in a while we need a random excuse to come together and celebrate all the hardworking, generous, and talented people that make our city unique and quirky,” Gohde said.
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Prioritizing needs of Helfaer Theatre in Marquette’s Master Plan In University President Michael Lovell’s first presidential address, he shared his vision of integrating academic, physical and financial priorities into Marquette’s capital projects throughout the next 10 years. The projects are new and innovative for the most part, but are also problematic because there are many amenities at Marquette in need of transformation and renovation. One such example is the Helfaer Theatre. The Helfaer Theatre dates back to 1977 and was built to par with the standards of the time. Many believe it is inconveniently accessible to faculty, students and patrons. Marquette needs to make the theatre a higher priority in its new master plan, especially considering the theatre has requested funds for many years. Marquette made some renovations on the theatre since the authorization of The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1992 including a ramp compliant to ADA standards and reupholstered seats added in 2000. However, even these seats are out of date, considering it is now 2016. As an urban campus, Marquette has many opportunities
to invite the surrounding community to be involved with the university. Helfaer has done so, by welcoming the community to enjoy the performing arts. Unfortunately, this has its issues too. While the theatre wants to accommodate faculty, students and patrons alike, the building is not very accessible, which does not help affirm Marquette’s welcoming image. In addition, Marquette should give the outside community the best experience possible, but an outdated building does not allow for that. Faculty and students who spend their days in Helfaer have expressed embarrassment because of the lack of accessibility. Patrons who visit have to walk up an uneven, unsafe paved ramp. This may be fine for able-bodied patrons, but elderly or disabled people have problems accessing the building in a timely manner. Some faculty and students using crutches or knee scooters have experienced this as well. Anybody experiencing these situations has to go outside and around the building in order to travel from the first to the second floor. Doing this everyday would be agitating, to say the least.
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The Helfaer has requested funds for many years, and time has continued to make their amenities outdated. The negligence is bothersome. Marquette prides itself on caring for the whole person, and yet there is a cohort on campus who feels their priority does not matter. So Marquette, where is this request currently? A counterargument for the updates is that Helfaer Theatre is not a great selling point for the university. Helfaer may not bring in as much money as the men’s basketball team, but it has a history of success. The university takes pride in its former students, such as Danny Pudi and Chris Farley, who are renown for their acting successes. While Marquette may attest that the university’s education shaped these individuals, these former students would likely argue people shaped them more directly than the university. The people who profoundly shaped them were most likely the professors and peers who spent the majority of their time in Helfaer Theatre. Marquette must make the needs of Helfaer a greater priority in the master plan. Now is the time to make changes and transformations, rather than waiting another 30 years. Otherwise, the theatre will not be a welcoming place for the university’s visitors. It will continue to be seen for its lack of accessibility and the individuals who spend their days in the building will be bothered that they are not a priority compared to the new facilities and buildings that are built around them.
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The leak revealed hidden assets of wealthy people around the world.
Ryan McCarthy The release of the Panama Papers earlier this month is perhaps the biggest story in international journalism in years. The scale of the 2.6 terabyte leak took over a year to unravel and sounds like the plot of a James Bond film. The leaker, referred to only as John Doe, claimed that his primary motivation for releasing the documents was the belief that the actions of the Panamanian law firm, Mossack Fonseca, were unethical. While much of the activity is unethical, unfortunately very little of it is actually illegal. Utilizing tax havens and loopholes, although dishonest, is legal. The real consequences will not be dealt in a courtroom, but in the political arena. The Prime Minister of Iceland resigned last week after protests erupted in Iceland’s capital of Reykjavik, following the discovery of his involvement with offshore companies. King Salman of Saudi Arabia, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev, members of the Communist Party of China and officials from organizations like the European Union and FIFA have also been implicated, among many others. More interesting than what countries have been implicated is the one that has been conspicuously absent from the list: the United States. It is easy for Americans to ignore a story like this when there are few Americans implicated in the documents and only one American media corporation, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, is involved in the investigation. In fact, the four Americans found in the leak have all been previously convicted or accused of tax fraud and evasion. There are, however, lessons this crisis can teach us about the power of the media, the people and “leaktivism.”
With an increasing number of media conglomerates consolidating or folding, it is easy to undervalue the impact of the modern press. This story, more than any other in recent memory, demonstrates how the increased ubiquity of the internet has made journalism more interconnected. A story of this size could not have been achieved this quickly a few decades ago. There seems to be cynicism among supporters of populist presidential candidate Bernie Sanders that the political system is rigged for the elite and wealthy. While some look at the Panama Papers as confirmation of this fact, others see the protests in Iceland and across the world as a demonstration of the power of the people. The outrage spawned from the leaks – even in countries like China and Russia with authoritarian governments – proves that it is impossible to censor information in the age of the internet. Information and leaks fuel populist movements. One final lesson to learn from the release of the Panama Papers is that “leaktivism” is finally becoming a legitimate form of public interest journalism. Famous leakers such as Edward Snowden and Julian Assange face prosecution for the dissemination of sensitive information. By spreading the documents across continents to about four hundred journalists, the leaker ensured that no single person could be blamed or punished for releasing the information. With the increasing prevalence of whistleblowers and importance of data journalists, the Panama Papers demonstrate how activists can properly execute a leak with minimal repercussions. While Fonseca’s actions were dishonest, they ultimately demonstrate the value and power of the media, people and whistleblowers toward preserving a strong democracy and weakening authoritarian governments. Ryan McCarthy is a junior studying journalism. He is reachable by email at ryan.w.mccarthy@marquette.edu
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America: Is there need for revolution? Morgan Hughes
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The depiction of the Vietnam War according to the U.S., paints a very one-sided picture of Vietnam.
Caroline Comstock There are some experiences that cannot be adequately described secondhand, the ones which you find yourself telling others: “Just go see it.” Visiting the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam is one of those experiences for me, and I wish other Americans had the opportunity to see it as well. A mere hour was all it took for my perception of my country to be turned on its head. This was a United States I had never seen before. Even mentions of the Vietnam War and its ugly truths are conspicuously missing from U.S. history curricula, among many others. What’s most disturbing is the other international tourists seemed to already know what I was learning for the first time. I’ll admit I was dumbfounded at the rows of displays showing the hundreds of documents pleading with the U.S. to withdraw from Vietnam, accusing them of international war crimes, numerous violations of international law and endangering world peace. One letter in particular denounced such war crimes and was signed by 67 delegations from Asia, Latin America, Australia and Europe, representing some of our closest allies. Another letter written by former President of the World Peace Council John Bernal expressed, “Peoples of the world note with repugnance the U.S. government’s violation of all principles of international law.” While the U.S. suffered an estimated 60,000 casualties, Vietnamese casualties are estimated at three million (from both the North and South sides of the
country), with two million of those being civilians. One of the museum’s most talked-about exhibits only begins to scratch the surface of the atrocities committed against the Vietnamese people. A fully intact storm drain sits on the floor with the following description: “From 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. February 25th, 1969, a group of SEAL Rangers (one of the most selective rangers of U.S. Army) led by Lieutenant Bob Kerrey reached for Hamlet 5, Thanh Phong Village, Thanh Phu District, Ben Tre Province. They cut 66 year-old Bui Van Vat and 62 year-old Luu Thi Canh’s necks and pulled their three grandchildren out from their hiding place in a drain and killed two, disemboweled one. Then, these rangers moved to dugouts of other families, shot dead 15 civilians (including three pregnant women), disemboweled a girl. The only survivor was a 12-year-old girl named Bui Thi Luom who suffered a foot injury. It was not until April 2001 that U.S. Senator Bob Kerrey confessed his crime to the international public.” Former Sen. Kerrey was awarded a Bronze Star for the raid of the Thanh Phong Village. Perhaps the most controversial aspect of the war was the use of Agent Orange, a highly toxic mixture of chemical defoliants sprayed along roads, rivers, canals and military bases throughout the country. The idea was to kill vegetation that enemy troops used to hide and cut off food supply. Of the 19 million gallons of various herbicides sprayed, an estimated 13 million were Agent Orange, the most dangerous the herbicide. Agent Orange contains dioxin, which was later revealed to cause numerous debilitating and life-threatening ailments, including but not limited to
tumors, serious birth defects, multiple types of cancer, muscular dysfunction, skin problems and psychological defects. Almost immediately following the war, 2.4 million U.S. veterans sued the chemical manufacturers, mainly Monsanto and Dow Chemical, after cases of miscarriages, Hodgkin lymphoma, prostate cancer and leukemia became rampant among veterans and their children, even generations later. The case was settled out of court in 1984 for $180 million. Missing from this case were reports of 400,000 Vietnamese people killed, half a million children born with serious defects and two million suffering from cancer or other diseases associated with dioxin. A federal judge rejected a 2004 lawsuit brought on by the Vietnamese against the same chemical companies that settled with U.S. veterans in 2005. Despite the inability of the Vietnamese healthcare system to treat the effects of Agent Orange, the U.S. government had yet to pledge any assistance or responsibility until 2012, and many don’t feel the plan is comprehensive enough. Overcrowded orphanages struggle to support the large influxes of disabled and terminally ill children, with more born every day, generations later. Large “hotspots” in Vietnam are still toxic and will be for decades to come. The images of the millions of victims will haunt anyone who sees them. It’s time a dark part of American history is brought to light. High school history classes should be teaching more than the Revolutionary War. Caroline Comstock is a senior studying Marketing. She is reachable by email at caroline.comstock@marquette.edu
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I see red: tattered red flags, angry red faces, violent red bloodied bodies chanting loudly against an oppressive totalitarian regime. The aforementioned scene is what comes to mind when I hear the word revolution. It’s not a new strategy, using powerful connotative language in political speeches. You say what you have to in order to inspire the masses. But when Donald Trump and Sen. Bernie Sanders talk about their respective revolutions, I don’t think they know what it means. I could, and have, rambled about the reasons I disagree with the policies the two candidates have proposed, but this is not going to be that kind of column. Say what you will about the U.S. government, the facts paint a story of success. The last time this nation experienced a coup was 1775. For centuries the U.S. government has been a sustainable form of leadership for the country. Despite that, this notion of a revolution resonates with a lot of American citizens. Why? Why don’t U.S. citizens trust the government, and why do we feel the need to overthrow the current system? The Les Aspin Center for Government, the Marquette Political Science Department and the Wisconsin Institute for Public Policy and Service recently presented a panel of esteemed scholars and statesmen to discuss the question: “Is Congress still relevant?” I went expecting genuine discourse regarding an important topic. What I got however, was different and quite frankly, better. As a journalism student, I was taught early on that sometimes unbiased is not the same as balanced. I expected the panel to have a balanced discussion on why Congress might be relevant or not. Instead, they discussed why such a frustrating question exists in the first place. It is no secret citizens are dissatisfied with the government. A 2016 Rasmussen report found only 11 percent of citizens think Congress is doing a good job. There are numerous polls and reports saying similar things. But there still exists the question of why, and what can we do about it? Dave Obey, former U.S.
Congressman and panelist, said one of the big issues plaguing Congress is party loyalty. He would know. After serving as a legislator for 42 years, he’s seen the government change first hand. You begin to see stalemated government shutdowns when two sides become so unwilling to cooperate. Another issue is the bad taste the word politician leaves in our mouths. We give a sour connotation to the leaders we elect. Ironic as it is, most people fail to see the irony. This has created an environment where elected civic leaders are forced to try to win the approval of their constituents. They spend half of their time in office campaigning for the subsequent term. It’s a cyclic problem, because even politicians who campaign well and are in good standing with voters will be forced into the practice of spending more time asking for campaign donations than working on legislation. A suggestion made during the Congress panel was to stop allowing huge corporations to fund campaigns, a sentiment that each of the four panelists agreed with and commended Sen. Bernie Sanders for already working to curtail. These huge issues plaguing Congress are relatively new phenomena. New enough at least for Congressman Obey to remember a time when money and party loyalty didn’t rule the country. The truth is we don’t need a political revolution. We need to get back to the way our government was designed to work from the start. I know this is going to break the hearts of all the V for Vendetta fanboys and girls, but the government is not evil. I don’t agree with particular policies and I don’t agree with every politician, but I can’t presume, in good faith, to know better than most of them. We don’t need to “make America great again” and we don’t need a “political revolution.” America is great, and our government was, once upon a time, very effective. All we need is for members of Congress to realize that it’s no longer functioning in the way it is meant to. Send Congress to rehab, but don’t pretend its irrelevant. Morgan Hughes is a sophomore studying Journalism and Political Science. She is reachable by email at morgan.hughes@marquette.edu
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Firestarter: Wilt’s soccer impact MU alum began MLS’ Fire, 5 other franchises By Dan Reiner
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Milwaukee almost had a Major League Soccer team. Just 10 years ago Peter Wilt, a 1982 Marquette journalism graduate, spearheaded a movement to bring a club to the city. He and his group believed they had enough investors and fans to support a franchise. The biggest barrier was funding a stadium to play in, which was the plan’s ultimate downfall. It was an intriguing proposition for Wilt, who historically has had no problem starting teams from scratch. In his career, he has launched three professional soccer teams and restarted three others across four different leagues. “I love startups,” Wilt said. “There’s so much energy and passion and excitement in the beginning of a team. It’s the creative process that I love.” Despite more than 25 years in the soccer business, Wilt got his start with the Milwaukee Admirals. He credits everything he knows – sports marketing, sales, promotions – to his training with the Admirals. When he left them in 1987 for the Milwaukee Wave, the city’s professional indoor soccer team, he was able to hone his craft. “It was really just an opportunity to get a higher-level job running a front office, especially the revenue side of it,” Wilt said. “We had a good group of people, and we grew the attendance from about 2,500 people a game when we were playing at the MECCA (now UW-Milwaukee Panther) Arena to almost 9,000 average when we were playing at the (BMO Harris) Bradley Center four years later.” Wilt bounced around after finding success with the Wave, taking jobs with a Chicago
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Midwest soccer mogul Peter Wilt frequents the Highbury in Bayview to watch the NASL’s Indy Eleven, for whom he’s the general manager.
indoor club and the now-defunct Minnesota Thunder of the United Soccer League. His rise to fame came in 1997, when he became the founding president and general manager of the MLS’ Chicago Fire. “In Minnesota, our front office was two people including me,” Wilt explained. “So the change to Major League Soccer, where you have dozens of employees, was a bit intimidating. It was a different job. Instead of actually doing a lot of the work myself – handling the sponsorship, media relations, ticket sales – I hired other people to do it and gave them the resources to succeed.” After hiring eventual U.S. Men’s National Team head coach Bob Bradley, it took two seasons for the Fire to pull off the “double” MLS Cup and U.S. Open Cup victories in 1998. When Wilt left the Fire in 2005, he made sure to keep leaving his footprint in the Midwest. He became CEO of the Chicago Red Stars, a women’s professional team, before becoming the first president and general manager
of the North American Soccer League’s Indy Eleven in 2013. Wilt, a Whitefish Bay native, has been so centralized in Midwestern cities because he believes there is untapped potential in reaching young adults in markets like Indianapolis, St. Louis and Milwaukee. He said there are three main demographics his team pitches to: millennials, “new” Americans – first and multi-generational – and youth soccer families. “Soccer’s the cool sport. When I was starting in the late ‘80s, it wasn’t,” Wilt said. “It’s got to be edgy … because the main demographic that we market to is millennials – the young, urban adult. That’s what made the sport so popular in markets like Portland, Seattle and Vancouver. If it’s cool with the millennials, it’ll be aspirational for the kids.” That was Wilt’s thinking 10 years ago when he tried to bring a team to Milwaukee. The city’s advanced soccer interest has been rooted in its youth and diversity over the past century. “It’s interesting because
Milwaukee and a market like St. Louis were early adopters in soccer in terms of participating. That’s because of the ethnic makeup of St. Louis and Milwaukee,” Wilt said. “The German population here, the Polish population, Croatian. The surviving ethnic soccer clubs are evidence of that … Milwaukee has always been ahead of the curve in terms of participation. I think from a spectator interest, it gave them a bit of a head start.” Milwaukee’s budding soccer interest is perhaps best represented by the annual Marquette versus UW-Milwaukee derby. Last September’s men’s 1-1 final at UWM drew an Engelmann Stadium record of 4,030 fans in attendance. “What’s wonderful about the college soccer scene here is that it’s not only increasing in popularity, but in passion,” Wilt said. “You see guys like the Milwaukee Barons (supporter group) and what they’re putting together to try to organize a supporters’ culture … They’ve taken their passion and, to a certain extent,
they’re extending that to Marquette and UWM soccer. It’s a great way to grow the sport, to grow the passion and show the potential of the sport professionally in the community.” Wilt is hoping he can find a similar group of passionate supporters as he moves onto his next venture. He’ll soon be leaving his role as general manager of the Eleven to start a new NASL franchise in downtown Chicago. Like Indianapolis and Milwaukee, Wilt wants to target the young, urban adult population that can use public transportation within the city rather than travel to the suburbs to watch the Fire. “He’s the ultimate builder,” said Marquette head coach Louis Bennett, a longtime friend of Wilt from their days with the Wave. “Every franchise he’s gone to has gotten better ... Some would say it’s like being a mercenary. He goes around, gets what he needs done and then moves to the next one.” Jack Goods contributed to this story.
Club volleyball falters at national tournament Team has worst finish in history despite high rank By Robby Cowles
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Women’s club volleyball had its worst finish in history at the NCVF National Championship tournament in Louisville, Kentucky last weekend. Marquette came in 20th place in the 48team Division I bracket, making it to the semi-finals of the silver
bracket before losing to Kansas. The team, which entered the tournament ranked No. 2 in the country, fell flat on the big stage. “Personally, I had such high expectations for this team and the outcome was not what I had planned for,” senior club president Maria De Valk said in an email. De Valk was a member of the 2013 and 2014 national championship teams. The Golden Eagles hadn’t finished lower than fifth since 2009. The team went undefeated on day one of the tournament, but were upset by No. 16 UCLA and No. 5
Michigan State on day two, both to scores of 16-18 in tie-breaking final sets. Senior Colleen Bailey described the performances as “heartbreaking.” “It was really disappointing, especially for the seniors who have given a lot to the program over the years and would do anything for another run at a national championship,” Bailey said in an email. Despite the loss, De Valk believes the team’s returning players gained invaluable experience and will add fuel to the fire for next season. “This tournament definitely
taught the team about resilience and mental toughness,” De Valk said. “Every game at nationals is tough since you are playing the best of the best. We had a very young team this year so having the exposure to a tough tournament this year hopefully will help everyone prepare for next year. I think (the team) can all agree that this year’s outcome will be used as motivation to push us even harder for our goal next year.” Not all was lost on the season. The team finished first or second in every tournament it played and it returned to the
scene as a national threat. The Golden Eagles are losing only four seniors – De Valk, Bailey, Lindsey Gosh and Kathleen Brennan – so the remaining core will likely have high expectations again next year. “Even though we didn’t get the results we wanted, I think we really left it all out on the court and gave everything we had,” Bailey said. “With the talent among the returning players and the leadership of the remaining upperclassmen, I have no doubt that this team will succeed in seasons to come.”
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MLAX can’t pull upset in defensive battle Kavanagh scores game-winner 30 seconds into OT By Jack Goods
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Marquette’s ferocious second half comeback wasn’t enough to land the Golden Eagles their first win over a No. 1 ranked opponent, as Notre Dame attackman Matt Kavanagh scored 30 seconds into overtime to give the Fighting Irish an 8-7 victory. Kavanagh was able to beat B.J. Grill around the outside from X, getting his hands free just long enough to fire a shot into the top of the net. “The game went the way we would have hoped, except for the score,” Marquette head coach Joe Amplo said. “We knew it had to be a tight game, that it had to be a 7-6 or 8-7 game. Look how far we’ve come. There’s no moral victories, and this hurts because we were right there at the end. It was a big one, but I’m just so proud of our kids.” Cole Blazer and the Marquette
defense shut down the dangerous Notre Dame offense through much of the second half, allowing Marquette to erase a 7-5 third quarter deficit. “Credit to our kids for just fighting back and believing in themselves, making some plays down the stretch to get us to overtime,” Amplo said. The teams traded offensive possessions for the final eight minutes of regulation after Ryan McNamara’s tying goal. Marquette had numerous chances to take the lead with time winding down, holding possession for three straight minutes. John Wagner appeared to beat Notre Dame goalie Shane Doss with 1:47 remaining, but the ball hit the side of the net. Zack Melillo had one of his toughest outings of the year. He lost 13 of 18 draws, including the lone faceoff in overtime. Kyran Clarke scored two goals, the only Golden Eagle to score more than once. McNamara, Blaine Fleming, Tanner Thompson, Henry Nelson and Griffin Connor scored the rest of Marquette’s goals. Conor Gately left the game in the first quarter after injuring his leg. He did not return, and Amplo had
no update after the game. Blazer had a bounce back game in net, making nine saves just five days after he was pulled at half with a shin injury against St. John’s. “How about that kid?” Amplo said. “He plays a great game against the No. 1 team in the country, a team he probably grew up watching all his lacrosse life. He stood in there against some of the best shooters in the country and made some huge saves down the stretch to keep it tied.” Marquette returns to Valley Fields for the final home game of the season against Providence, who was receiving votes in last week’s Inside Lacrosse Media Poll. “I expected them to be very good (coming into the season),” Amplo said. “Chris Gabrieli and their assistant, John Galloway, are two of the better coaches we see. They’ve done a great job, and those kids do a really good job. They know who they are. They stick to their plan and they assert their will onto teams.” The Friars may be extra motivated after a surprising 8-5 loss to 2-9 Georgetown. “It’s not a must-win for them, but it certainly is a big game,” Amplo said. “This is going to be
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Kyran Clarke was the only player to score two goals in South Bend.
a rivalry for us for years to come. It started last year, and it’s going to continue this year.” The Golden Eagles are undefeated at home this season, the first time they’ve played all their home games on campus. They’ll honor their 19-man senior class, the largest in the country, before the game. It’s the only group that has
been involved in every practice in the program’s history. “It’s just been great to be on campus and allow our seniors to have that memory in their vault, to say, ‘Our last year we played some games on the field that we practiced on and started to establish a tradition down at Valley Fields,’” Amplo said.
Top runners California bound for elite meets Warm weather, high-level events on tap in LA area By Dan Reiner
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The Marquette track and field team has to go see about some medals when it heads to California this weekend. The 24-person brigade, comprised mostly of the team’s best-performing runners, will compete in four meets in the Los Angeles area over three days. Making the trip to the West Coast should be a drastic change for most of the athletes, who experienced a blistering
wintry mix last weekend at Indiana State (which included one of the team buses breaking down). Despite the wind and cold, sophomore Max Bullard set personal records in all three of his throwing events last weekend and junior Will Ford pole vaulted to a personal best 4.73 (15 feet, 6.25 inches). Senior Wally Ellenson tied his outdoor school record in the high jump, clearing 2.20 meters (7 feet, 2.5 inches) while freshman Monique Felix set the freshman school record, winning the heptathlon with a score of 4513, setting five personal bests. Both athletes were named BIG EAST Field Athletes of the Week. “The weather was really nasty those two days,” head coach Bert Rogers said. “It definitely
MARQUETTE SPORTS CALENDAR THURSDAY 4/14 Track and Field Mt. SAC Relays California State LA Twilight Open Bryan Clay Invitational, All day FRIDAY 4/15 Golf El Macero Classic, All day
All day SATURDAY 4/16 Golf El Macero Classic, All day Track and Field The Beach Invitational, All day Men’s Lacrosse vs. Providence, 11 a.m.
Track and Field Bryan Clay Invitational,
Men’s Tennis vs. Butler, 12 p.m.
Women’s Lacrosse vs. Temple, 1:30 p.m. SUNDAY 4/17 Golf El Macero Classic, All day Women’s Soccer vs. Loyola, 11 a.m. WEDNESDAY 4/20 Women’s Lacrosse vs. Vanderbilt, 1 p.m.
BIG EAST STANDINGS MEN’S LACROSSE (Overall, BIG EAST)
WOMEN’S LACROSSE (Overall, BIG EAST)
GOLF
Denver 9-1, 2-0 Marquette 8-2, 3-1 Providence 7-4, 1-1 Georgetown 2-9, 1-2 Villanova 6-4, 0-2 St. John’s 1-10, 0-2
UConn 10-2, 4-0 Georgetown 3-8, 1-1 Temple 9-4, 1-2 Marquette 4-9, 1-2 Villanova 3-10, 1-2 Vanderbilt 5-8, 1-3 Cincinnati 4-9, 0-3
Georgetown 292.85 Marquette 293.48 Seton Hall 296.54 Xavier 297.32 DePaul 298.62 St. John’s 303.47 Creighton 303.48 Butler 304.57 Villanova 305.40
(Rank based on avg. team score)
affected some of (Monique’s) performances, but overall she ended up putting together a pretty good (heptathlon). That looks good going forward, and we’re hoping that’ll be good enough to get her into the Drake Relays.” As the season progresses, reaching standards for bigger meets will be the focal point for many Marquette athletes. The California trip will be the first taste of high-octane events for most of them this season, beginning with split-squad action at the prestigious Mt. SAC Relays and California State University-Los Angeles Thursday. The team will then travel together for the Bryan Clay Invitational at Azusa Pacific Friday and the Beach Invitational at Long Beach State Saturday.
Rogers noted sophomore Cassy Goodrich in the 400 meters and junior Brittney Feivor in the 10,000 meters as two athletes who, with solid performances, can put themselves in good shape to qualify for regionals. Most of the runners, aside from Feivor and Jon Klaiber in the 10,000 meters at Mt. SAC, will run multiple events over the three days. Ellenson will jump at Cal State-LA as a tune-up before more serious competition at the Beach. While the athletes should consider themselves lucky to leave the Wisconsin cold, they’ll have to adjust quickly to the California sun. The anticipated forecast calls for sunny skies and upper 70-degree weather all weekend. “It’s definitely something we
prepare for,” Rogers said. “We drink a lot of water and try to stay in the shade as much as we can so that we don’t just get wiped out from the heat … When we have stretches of cold like we’re having right now where it’s barely getting above freezing, that doesn’t help. Some years, this time of the year is in the upper 40’s or 50’s, and that’s not as much of a shock. But when it’s like this out, it is (a shock). That’s just something we’ve got to deal with as best we can.” This weekend begins a stretch of important meets every other week for Marquette. The Drake Relays are two weeks away, while the BIG EAST Championships and West Regionals loom in May.
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Reinhardt Q&A with USC writer Interview by Jack Goods
Steve Wojciechowski filled Marquette’s final scholarship slot this weekend, landing graduate transfer G/F Katin Reinhart from Southern California. Ranked as the fifth best transfer available by ESPN, he’ll be another member of Marquette’s improved three-point shooting squad, which includes Andrew Rowsey, Markus Howard and Sam Hauser. We talked to Daily Trojan basketball reporter Keith Demolder about Reinhardt’s game and his time at USC.
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Q: How would you describe his game? A: Reinhardt is an interesting player, but his game is very dissectible. He can shoot the lights out every single game when he gets hot. He is unique in his size. At 6-foot-6, 215 lbs., he is in that gray space between guard and small forward, but surprisingly isn’t that dominant of a rebounder. Looking at his play, he is a guard in every sense of the word. He is a primary scoring threat and can really contribute from the floor when the ball is in his hands, particularly from mid-range to long. He’s definitely not an interior player. I know a reason why he’s leaving USC is potentially because of his role in that he wants to be more instrumental in the offense and distribute more - something he historically hasn’t been the best at. Even in high school he was a shooter, plain and simple. He mainly comes off of screens and designed three-point plays: essentially the ultimate shooting guard. His three-point percentage was overshadowed by Elijah Stewart’s, even though his overall shooting percentage was better than Stewart’s. Q: There aren’t many guards that have his sort of size. Does he utilize that advantage often? A: He doesn’t use his size all that much because he’s typically on the outside. I would say he’s able to take more step-back shots because of his size, but not much else. Q: Would you say he’s a strong facilitator? A: I don’t even know if he even is a strong facilitator. I would say he’s more involved than most – or rather wants to be more involved and I think that’s what frustrated him at SC. The reason why he isn’t as strong of a facilitator as he could be is because of his lack of speed. (Shooting guards Jordan) McLaughlin and (Julian) Jacobs have that first cut that can help distribute inside really well.
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Katin Reinhardt led USC in scoring with 12.5 points per game last year.
Reinhardt doesn’t have that knack. He is a strong dribbler, but he gets scared when he goes inside despite his strength and size. I’ve maybe seen him dunk once or twice this season. Reinhardt is shoot-first. Q: Was his loss anything that USC is worried about, or was he simply going to be a depth player? A: It was a huge loss. Reinhardt wasn’t as much of a sixth man as he was the other shooting guard. In the instances in which Jacobs or McLaughlin would sit, Reinhardt would be in and would take some of the PG responsibilities and play more of a point role. It’s unfortunate he had to go because of his added maturity and experience. They have a couple of guards coming in as freshmen but they could be boom or bust. Also, if Jacobs gets a good draft reception, USC would be in dire need of solid guard play. Q: Would you say this is a good get for Marquette? A: Absolutely. Great three-point shooter and a guy with tournament experience and a great locker room presence and maturity. Honestly, I can see him being NBA-quality.
Louis, Green make US team camp Outside hitters join 34 other players in Indy By Andrew Goldstein
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Taylor Louis and Amanda Green will represent the stars and stripes this summer. Marquette’s
pair of outside hitters has been chosen for USA Volleyball’s Collegiate National Team training program. They were two of the total 36 players selected. “The more experience, the more you see, the more you’ve touched a volleyball, the more you have,” head coach Ryan Theis said. “So for Amanda and Taylor to have an opportunity to do … USA for ten days this summer, it’s just more experience and
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that’s exactly what they need.” The two players are at different stages in their Marquette careers. Louis is well established as the focal point of the Golden Eagle attack. She ranked in the top five in the country in kills per set last year and will likely continue to be one of the nation’s most potent attackers. For Louis, this camp is all about rounding the other parts of her game into form. “Taylor’s got three goals to work on: her touch and middle back defense, her efficiency in attacking and her passing,” Theis said. Green is now at the same place that her high school teammate Louis was in last year, as she is coming off of a redshirt year and preparing for game action. According to Theis, Green had the physical attributes to play right away, but she lacked the innate feel for the game of her more experienced teammates. That’s all beginning to change. “It’s all about what’s going on on the other side of the net and how quickly (she) can process that,” Theis said. “And I think Amanda’s past that in terms of her redshirt season. I think she’s able to process what’s going on on the other side of the net just fine.” Louis and Green will join sophomore Jenna Rosenthal on the team. All three players will play in June, but they are not in the same programs. USA Volleyball named Rosenthal to the 12-player U.S. Collegiate National Team, which will play in China for approximately two weeks. The program that Louis and Green were
selected for is essentially a training camp that takes place in Indianapolis. It is the same camp that Rosenthal attended last year. These camps ensure that all three players will have much busier offseasons than usual. Marquette still has two more spring volleyball scrimmages left this month followed by a team trip to Europe in early June, where they will play against professional teams. That Marquette trip concludes June 9, which leaves Rosenthal with only nine days until her first training day in Los Angeles for the China tour. Green and Louis will have 12 days until the Indianapolis program begins. With so many games and plane rides clustered together, fatigue can become a big problem. Theis admitted that there is some concern about exhausting some of Marquette’s most vital players with a strenuous summer. It is something he says he will take into account when planning the offseason schedule. “We’re allowed to train before we go to Europe, but there will be off days built in,” Theis said. “Our goal is not to just pound out as much practice as we possibly can.” Only four players from BIG EAST schools were chosen for Team USA. The only non-Marquette BIG EAST representative is Creighton’s outside hitter Jaali Winters, who won the conference’s Freshman of the Year award over Louis.
Before the Catholic 7 split from the former BIG EAST, the conference flirted with coast-to-coast expansion to save itself after losing dominant programs to the ACC. The conference tried adding Boise State and San Diego State, but neither came to fruition. Late last month, William Rhoden of the New York Times suggested the conference try again. The idea centers around Gonzaga, located in Spokane, Washington. Rhoden suggests fellow West Coast Conference member St. Mary’s, in Moraga, California, as another addition that makes sense to help boost the conference’s men’s basketball reputation. The obvious criticism is the priciness of expansion. Teams would have to travel cross country for conference games. As Rhoden explains, the conference would split into two divisions, West and East. If the BIG EAST only added the two teams mentioned – Gonzaga and St. Mary’s – the divisions would likely be Villanova, Georgetown, Xavier, Seton Hall and St. John’s in the East and Marquette, Butler, Creighton, DePaul, Gonzaga and St. Mary’s in the West. The two extremes in the West Division, Butler and St. Mary’s, are about 2,300 miles apart. Traveling to Washington and California once a year each wouldn’t be an enormous issue, but Gonzaga and St. Mary’s would have to travel at least half way across the country for every game. The two schools would likely want the conference to add more West Coast programs. This ties into the biggest issue of a coast-to-coast expansion — there aren’t enough West Coast programs outside of power conferences to enhance the BIG EAST brand. BYU would be the most fitting choice. Beyond that, the conference would have schools like Loyola Marymount, San Francisco, UC Irvine or Denver to choose from. Even St. Mary’s is a stretch. St. Mary’s made the tournament five times since 2000, but hasn’t been a single-digit seed since 1989. All these schools have fine programs but are clear midmajors, only prolonging the idea that the BIG EAST isn’t a major conference. It seems any idea of western expansion is just a way to work Gonzaga into the conference. The Bulldogs fit the BIG EAST perfectly. It’s a small, Catholic school where basketball is an important cultural factor. Gonzaga head coach Mark Few built a successful program with national recognition. Unfortunately, Spokane is just too far away to fit the conference’s footprint, and the BIG EAST shouldn’t dilute itself to make it happen. The conference doesn’t need to add teams, and with programs similar to Gonzaga like Wichita State, Dayton and St. Louis within closer proximity, it’s better to leave the conference alone or look elsewhere. Jack Goods is a junior from Buffalo, New York studying journalism. Email him at jack.goods@mu.edu
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Henry EllensOn: stOck watch
There’s no more speculation. Henry Ellenson officially announced he will declare for the NBA draft and hired an agent, ending chances of returning to Marquette. This is a roundup of when NCAA and NBA pundits have him going in June’s draft. ESPN’s Chad Ford (4/7): No. 5 overall to Minnesota Timberwolves DraftExpress (4/8): No. 9 overall to Milwaukee Bucks CBS Sports’ Gary Parrish (3/1): No. 8 overall to Sacramento Kings Sporting News’ Sean Deveney (3/15): No. 12 overall to Phoenix Suns USA Today’s Derek Bodner (4/4): No. 8 overall to Sacramento Kings NBADraft.net (4/2): No. 18 overall to Denver Nuggets Bleacher Report’s Jonathan Wasserman (4/4): No. 9 overall to Toronto Raptors
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BIG EAST Staff Picks No. 17 MLAX vs. Providence WLAX vs. Vanderbilt Picks Record
*Note: Projections of teams are based on different website index formulas.
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The Marquette Tribune
Thursday, April 14, 2016
After slow starts, freshmen leading MTEN Verdu, Anderson Nos. 1 and 2 in wins on team By John Hand
john.hand@marquette.edu
At 10-9 on the season the tennis team has been anything but consistent. However, freshmen Alvaro Verdu and Greg Anderson’s play has remained consistent. With a record of 10-5, Verdu is tied for the team lead in wins during dual action play, while Anderson, with nine wins, is second. “The consistency is what is different (about the freshmen),” head coach Steve Rodecap said. “If you look at our results, if we didn’t have our freshmen right now we would be in a world of hurt.” Although both players are enjoying success now, the paths to prosperity were quite different. Rodecap’s hometown of Anderson, Indiana is named after a Native American chief. When Anderson came to Marquette at the beginning of the semester after transferring from TCU, Rodecap, inspired by his hometown, felt that “Chief” would be the perfect nickname for his new player. “It kind of fits (Greg’s) personality because he is very methodical like a chief,” Rodecap said. “He is going to have that serious side of him and all of his ducks are going to be in a row.” Anderson embraced the nickname, getting “Chief” embroidered on the tongue of his new tennis shoes. Just as Anderson has embraced the nickname, his teammates have embraced him. As a mid-season transfer from TCU, Anderson’s transition hasn’t been perfect, but he has adjusted. “Greg played his first practice set here, and he wasn’t very good in it,” Rodecap said. “I didn’t put any stock in that. Obviously we played it for a reason, but it wasn’t like I thought there was no chance for this guy.
The reason you trust him is because when you put him out in a competitive environment, even when he isn’t playing well, he still wants to compete.” Anderson owned up to his dreadful first day. “When (that match) happened I was pretty discouraged,” Anderson said. “I knew I wasn’t playing good tennis at that time. Once I got acclimated to the indoor courts, the practice schedule and school I got in a good rhythm, and as I got in that rhythm, I played better and better tennis. As the season has gone on I have been able to raise my level.” Verdu wasn’t without a freshman mistake either. He grimaced when Rodecap brought up a match earlier in the season that Verdu should have won easily, but ended up just squeezing out a win in a tiebreak. “It was a 10 point tie-breaker,” Rodecap said. At the No. 2 singles position, Verdu has been called upon to be one of the team’s top performers – a role he is now comfortable in after making a few adjustments to his forehand. “Since the season has been moving forward I have been playing better every day and I can say I am almost at my best level,” Verdu said. “The first half of the season I was struggling with my forehand. If I am feeling my forehand I know I will have a lot of chances to win a match… Since I wasn’t feeling my forehand I was scared to hit it. I wasn’t preparing the shot in the right way. My footwork was a big part of that change.” Although their success has been similar, Verdu and Anderson approach tennis with two different mindsets. “You want me to tell you the difference between these two guys?” Rodecap asked. “If you went out and played a set against (Verdu) right now you would win. If you go out and play (Anderson) in a practice set right now you will get drilled. (Anderson) doesn’t like to lose in anything. (Verdu) has that ability that once
Left: Photo courtesy of Maggie Bean Marquette Athletics, Right: Photo by Ben Erickson benjamin.a.erickson@marquette.edu
Greg Anderson (left) and Alvaro Verdu (right) adjusted their styles of play after coming to Marquette.
he deems what a real match is, he has a different gear that he can play in. What is good about it is that you have two different personalities in the same class that are going to be big contributors. There are going to be guys behind them that are like (Verdu) and guys that are like (Anderson) and you have that balance.” The two have moved past any early-season jitters. All eyes are focused on one thing: winning the BIG EAST Championship. “I need to focus on maintaining a good rhythm and follow my rituals that I like to do on the court,” Anderson said. “He is the Chief,” Rodecap quickly added with a laugh. “I see the tournament as an opportunity to show what the Marquette tennis program is,” Verdu said. “Marquette has never won a BIG EAST Championship so I see that as an opportunity to make history.”
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DON'T BE LATE Player of the Week Andy DeMichiei Andy DeMichiei broke Jordan Greenfield’s Marquette single-game scoring record Saturday, scoring seven goals in the Golden Eagles’ 11-7 victory over St. John’s. Five of his goals came in the second half, helping Marquette come back from a 6-4 score at halftime. His seven goals nearly doubled his season output of four. He was named to the BIG EAST Honor Roll this week, the first conference award of his career.
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