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Helfaer’s accessibility problem
By Devi Shastri
devi.shastri@marquette.edu
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
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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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Some buildings on campus not entirely handicap-accessible
IT Services misplaces midterm Scantrons
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