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MUBB attendance down again Student numbers, revenue fall as team continues rebuild By Patrick Thomas
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Even with a National Marquette Day attendance of more than 19,000, floor projections for a new arena and a potential NBA lottery pick on the team, the university couldn’t stop the second straight drop in men’s basketball attendance. Average game attendance fell to 13,308 for the 2015-’16 season, a decrease of 349 fans from last season’s 13,657. The average attendance between the 2006-’07 season and the 2014-’15 season was more than 15,400. “I think we came off a period of success that in the history of our program stands with the consistency we had in the ’70s. We played in arguably the best basketball league ever constructed at that time,” said deputy athletic director Mike Broeker. “Regardless of who was coaching our program in 2014-’15, we were rebuilding. With rebuilding comes a dip in attendance. A lot of times when you have the success we had, you pick up fans who maybe aren’t so closely tied to the program.” Director of Athletics Bill Scholl said it’s possible the decrease comes from the team not making the NCAA Tournament in recent years. “Clearly, the more successful your team is, the easier your ticket sales equation becomes,” Scholl said. Deputy athletic director Brian Hardin said the attendance drop signifies the importance of student fans. Students made up more than half of the decreasing attendance. On average, students accounted for 289 of the 349 fans lost per game on average, for an eight percent drop. Hardin said in no way does he blame the students for not coming to the games, and that it is his job to create an environment where students want to attend. “We need to do a better job of making the game enticing enough for our students to purchase tickets and come to the game,” Hardin See MUBB FINANCES, page 14
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The student section at the BMO Harris Bradley Center was sparce most games, including bouts against No. 20 Providence and Creighton.
McCormick Hall set for demolition Coed residence halls will open for 2018’19 school year Marquette is preparing to say goodbye to the almost 50-yearold McCormick Hall, which will be torn down in 2018 as part of an estimated $96 million residence hall development plan. The plan announced Monday in a university news brief. It was approved by the Board of Trustees and is set to begin in late 2016. It outlines the con-
struction of two connected, coed residence halls that are slated to open for the 2018-’19 academic year. Campus Architect Lora Strigens said it is a priority in the university’s Master Plan, which will outline campus construction for the coming years. The residence halls will be located south of Wells Street and between 17th and 18th Streets and have around 375 beds, each with pod and suitestyle living spaces. They will be connected through the ground floor by dining and campus community spaces. The structure will be designed
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to meet Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification standards, as part of Lovell’s plan to make campus more sustainable. “It will focus on a sense of community,” Strigen said about the construction design. “McCormick Hall’s design is just not where student housing is headed.” Strigens said the Master Plan’s feasibility study on undergraduate housing, completed in April 2015, inspired layout plans for the upcoming construction. The university requested for design teams to submit ideas,
and it is currently searching for an architectural company to break ground later this year. The design of the new dorm will allow for multiple uses, including summer conferences and camps that are part of a campus-wide effort to use buildings more efficiently. “Residence halls provides just one opportunity to do that,” Strigens said. The construction’s funding will come from cash reserves, debt financing and funds from the university’s capital budget, according to the news See MCCORMICK, page 2 MARQUEE
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Strategic plan updates its website President Lovell credits changes to campus leadership By Maredithe Meyer
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Beyond Boundaries, the university’s strategic plan, has an updated interactive website that the Board of Trustees recently endorsed unanimously. The website’s changes include a new home page, the plan’s narrative overview, objective and tactics specific to each theme, slide presentation, downloadable flyer and promotional video. In his announcement, University President Michael Lovell attributed the website’s improvements to campus leadership. “The significant progress we’re making is truly a team effort, and I’m excited to end the academic year on such a high note,” Lovell said. Lovell announced the plan’s new goal theme, A Culture of Inclusion, to promote more diversity on campus. He also introduced online
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Beyond Boundaries added a narrative overview, plan objectives and promotional video to its website.
dashboards to measure the strategic plan’s progress. The updated website includes a dashboard for each goal theme — Academic Excellence, Research in Action, A Culture of Inclusion, Social Responsibility, Formation of Minds and Hearts and Sustainability of Valuable Resources — that allows students to see the respective goals’ data based on students’ academic levels, races and genders. Dashboard metrics for Marquette are then compared to data from 22 other private universities including St. Louis University, Boston University and Tulane University in Louisiana.
“These institutions will be used as aspirant comparisons,” said Marya Leatherwood, vice provost for strategic and academic planning. Dashboard creators — the Strategic Plan Coordinating Team, the Office of Institutional Research and Analysis and the Office of Marketing and Communication — chose institutions that have similar or better data than Marquette’s, according to Leatherwood. Each theme’s page displays a list of objectives that, when clicked on, presents several tactics the university will use to achieve these objectives. “The tactics are what needs to
happen in order for us to make changes that will help us move forward,” Leatherwood said. She also said faculty members and student organizations such as Marquette Student Government and the President’s Task Force on Equity and Inclusion played a role in creating and writing those objective and tactics. “The next step for Beyond Boundaries is educating the university’s new deans on the plan and its objectives and tactics and providing all deans with a set of scorecards to report their college’s progress each year,” Leatherwood said.
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Residence will house nearly 750 students brief. After the new halls are finished, Marquette will have nine open residence halls that house around 3,700 undergraduate students. “We have to think and act differently and embrace new ways of living and learning for our community,” University President Michael Lovell said in the news brief. The decision to remove McCormick comes after a October 2015 Master Plan workshop, where the majority of over 200 Marquette community attendees suggested that the building should be removed in the coming years.
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Student challenges ID replacement Union Station staff working to clarify card repurchasing By Rebecca Carballo
rebecca.carballo@marquette.edu
Cristina Zecena-Hernandez, a Marquette Student Government senator on the Business Administration committee, is collaborating with management at Union Station to clarify the student ID replacement fee policy after her student ID was stolen. “It hits you more when it personally happens to you,” Zecena-Hernandez said. “People can tell you about it but when it personally happens to you, you realize, ‘wow this is a problem.’” Zecena-Hernandez’s wallet, which included her money, student ID and UPass, was taken when she was robbed getting off the bus at 12th St. and
Wisconsin Ave. two weeks ago. “Usually you think you’re going to react in situations like this, but I just kind of stood there,” Zecena-Hernandez said. She reported her stolen wallet to the Marquette Police Department and then went to Union Station to replace her UPass and ID. Zecena-Hernandez said she thought students were entitled to a free ID if proven stolen. To her dismay she had to pay the full $25 even after she showed a police report. It is a common misconception that students can get a free replacement ID if they show a police report and prove it was stolen. “I just had my wallet stolen,” Zecena-Hernandez said. “How was I supposed to pay?” Zecena-Hernandez said she was told by student employees at the Union Station that a new policy was in place and the one she was referring to no longer applied. However, Rob
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Mullens, manager at the Union, said the policy never changed. Mullens said for the fee to be waived it must be proven that the ID was “forcibly taken” from a student. He said students usually file a police report in these cases but one is not required. “We make a decision on a case-by-case basis,” Mullens
said in an email. “In general, if this standard is not met, the card is considered lost and the fee is assessed.” The exact policy for stolen ID replacement fees is not made clear in the terms and conditions for the Marquette Card. It states that students must pay for lost or damaged cards, but no mention is made to fees about stolen student IDs. Zecena-Hernandez plans to collaborate with the Union Station staff to make sure this policy is well communicated among student workers in the union and the student body. She plans to meet with Union Station managers and staff next fall. “At the end of the day it’s a training issue,” Zecena-Hernandez said. “It’s a miscommunication and it’s something students should be more aware of.”
Minority student enrollment on rise MU looking to expand relations for increasing diversity By Alex Groth
alexandria.groth@marquette.edu
The number of multicultural students to enroll at Marquette this fall is predicted to reach a high of 29 percent, the Office of Undergraduate Admissions reported Tuesday. The exact percentage of incoming multicultural students is not yet known since more students may be admitted or decline to enroll over the summer months. However, the amount of multicultural students is expected to increase from years prior. During this academic year, 27.8 percent of incoming Marquette identified as multicultural. The incoming class of 2014 contained 22.3 percent multicultural students. Zuleyka Rios, admissions counselor for multicultural community outreach in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions, said the multicultural label spans a
broad range of diverse students. “Any student that identifies as being Hispanic or Latino, African American, Native, mixed race or mixed identity is kind of what we define as multicultural,” Rios said. Eva Martinez Powless, director of the Center for Intercultural Engagement, said a changing demographic is increasing the percentage of certain multicultural students. “Hispanics and Asians continue to graduate in high numbers from high school while the white and African American populations continue to decline, so that is the trend,” Powless said. “And it is a national trend.” To increase diversity on campus, Marquette has developed relationships with specific organizations and institutions. Those include the Boys & Girls Club of America, Cristo Rey Schools and the National Hispanic Institute. The Office of Admissions also has multicultural outreach counselors and a bilingual counselor that work to recruit multicultural students to Marquette. Rios said a challenge of recruiting multicultural
students is making Marquette appear accessible. “Marquette has a really good reputation in the city, and that’s great, but it also makes it seem out of reach to some people who don’t think they have access to that,” Rios said. “Either because they don’t think they’re good enough or they can’t afford it.” Powless said coming from a diverse background is a positive attribute that someone can bring to Marquette. “I think it is so important that we continue to provide a learning environment at Marquette in the academic area and in the co-curricular where different students are coming together to share their experience,” Powless said. “There is value when a student from a lowincome first-generation background meets a student from an affluent background.” Once multicultural students arrive at Marquette, programs such as the Educational Opportunity Program can work to support and measure individual progress until graduation. “The … programs are not just, ‘Oh, we are bringing in
MUPD REPORTS APRIL 28
A person not affiliated with Marquette acted in a disorderly manner in a business in the 1600 block of W. Wisconsin Ave. at 7:31 p.m. The subject was taken into custody by MUPD, cited, and transported to the Milwaukee County Criminal Justice Facility.
A juvenile not affiliated with Marquette reported being lost after getting separated from her friends at a concert at the Rave. MUPD determined that the juvenile was reported as missing and turned her over to her father at 4:27 a.m.
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MUPD stopped a driver not affiliated with Marquette for a traffic violation in the 2200 block of W. Clybourn St. and determined that the driver was impaired after consuming alcohol at 4:10 p.m. MUPD cited the subject and transported her to the Milwaukee County Criminal Justice Facility.
Two subjects not affiliated with Marquette overdosed on a controlled substance in a business in the 1600 block of W. Wisconsin Ave. and were treated by MUPD and MFD. One of the subjects fled the scene but was located by MUPD. Both subjects were medically cleared at a hospital and transported by MUPD to the Milwaukee County Criminal Justice Facility between 2:08 p.m. and 2:42 p.m.
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A person not affiliated with Marquette was trespassing and loitering near the Alumni Memorial Union. MUPD took the subject into custody and transported him to the Milwaukee County Criminal Justice Facility for an outstanding warrant at 7:09 p.m.
all these students and we are introducing them to Marquette in orientation,’” Powless said. “We are able to assess how well that program is working for that particular community.” Carlos Garces, the senior assistant dean of admissions, said diversity at Marquette assists students after graduation. “Having a more diverse environment prepares students for a diverse world and a diverse work force,” Garces said. Even though Garces said Marquette has impressive retention and graduation rates for multicultural students, Powless said there is still work to do. “What we need to do next is really focus on how do we retain those particular populations as they come through the doors at Marquette,” Powless said. “Really focus on what will be the plan to make sure that those students graduate from Marquette, and that they do not only just graduate with a degree but that they also graduate with a very nice Marquette student experience.”
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A night in the life of an MU LIMO driver Senior Zak Myers enjoys job, rarely has bad passengers By Ryan Patterson
ryan.patterson@marquette.edu
“Thank you.” “Yep, have a good night.” This common refrain, heard every few minutes, was the backdrop of a Friday night with LIMO Driver Zak Myers. Myers, a senior in the College of Education, started working for campus safety in March 2012. He occasionally drives LIMOs, but his main job is to be the student employment coordinator of campus safety. It mainly entails coordinating employee training, scheduling, student-employee evaluations, hiring supervisors and other administrative responsibilities, such as coordinating Student Employee Appreciation Day. He works every Friday from 5 p.m. to 3 a.m. While Myers acknowledged a 10hour shift during the weekend can be grueling, it usually goes by relatively quickly because there is so
much stimulation. Being a LIMO driver is “never a boring job.” “There’s always something that you can do,” Myers said. As Meghan Trainor’s “No” blared on the radio, Myers described the most difficult part of being a LIMO driver. “I think the toughest thing would probably be the multi-tasking,” he said. “You have to listen to the (LIMO radio), you have to know where people are telling you to go, you have to know where the other calls are, you have to think about ‘OK, how am I going to map this?’ Oh and you have to remember how to drive at the same time too.” As the night began, Myers summed up the main tension between students and LIMO service. “A LIMO is designed to get you there safely, not quicker,” he said. He mentioned impatient students sometimes repeatedly call, “Thinking that the LIMO will get there faster.” “The only time you would need to call back is if you possibly missed your LIMO,” Myers said. No-shows, which is when someone calls to be picked up but then
decides not to be picked up, because the longest delays. The driver has to wait for a few minutes, then call dispatch and confirm the no-show. On Friday night, there were six blue vans and two express LIMOs in operation, relatively standard for the weekend. There are nine blue vans and four express LIMOs total. On the busiest nights, Halloween and SnowBall, all 13 vehicles are out on the streets. With all vehicles operating, a staggering amount of students are transported during the busiest nights. “Halloween we’ll drive 4,000 people in a night, no problem,” Myers said. “A really busy night would be about 3,000, a relatively busy night 2,000 … any given night we usually drive about 1,000 people” when school is in session. Myers said LIMOS are busiest during inclement weather, especially when it snows. “No one on this campus can walk outside when it rains,” he joked. Friday was a relatively quiet night due to the decent weather and looming finals. The van was nearly full for about 20 minutes, between 10:20 and 10:40 p.m., but otherwise never had more than four or five people at a time. The training process for becoming a LIMO driver is substantial, according to Myers. Trainees must go through safety patrol training for three nights a week walking around campus. “By walking around, you experience the radio, our procedures, a
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In four years I have had one person who was not a (Marquetteaffiliated person) try to get on my van.” ZAK MYERS LIMO Driver, Senior in the College of Education basic layout of campus,” Myers said. Next, a prospective employee has a test drive during the day with no passengers. If the test drive is passed, drivers need to do at least three, four-hour shifts and a 10hour shift before officially becoming a LIMO driver. Once that is official, most student drivers work two, four-hour shifts per week and a 10-hour shift every other weekend. Myers mentioned LIMO drivers must have a strong knowledge of campus addresses. “You don’t need to know every single one, you just have to know the ones that people call by name” like Maryland Court or the Celeste. Myers said the vast majority of students comply with LIMO rules, such as having their student IDs and wearing seat belts. There are only rare instances when a nonMarquette person tries to get a ride. “My entire time here in four years
I have had one person who was not a (Marquette-affiliated person) try to get on my van.” Fortunately, Myers has only had one experience where someone puked in the van he was driving. Upon hearing this, a student passenger had the unique suggestion that anyone who pukes in a LIMO should be fined 50 dollars. Every LIMO driver has a handheld counter and is required at the top of every hour to call in the number of people they drove. The most people Myers ever drove in one hour was 110. “That was the first Friday back of the (2013) spring semester,” he said. “It was like 20 degrees out and snowing all night, and we (only) had four vans on the road…That was the quickest night but it was also the most stressful I’ve ever had.” That stressful night is an example of the occasional scheduling error. “Saturday was SnowBall, so we made sure that SnowBall was staffed, and inadvertently understaffed Friday,” Myers said. “When I became head of scheduling, I made sure that that Friday was super-staffed too because I remember the horror of that one night a few years ago.” Myers had few complaints when considering the qualities of his job. “You get to listen to your music, it’s a high-paying job, you get to sit and be warm. For the most part, the students are relatively nice. You’ll get a few jerks every once in a while, but it’s not bad at all.”
Spaces now free to use Event management programs to benefit from waived charges
By Brittany Carloni
brittany.carloni@marquette.edu
Marquette will no longer charge university departments and student organizations to use meeting or event spaces, Audio-Visual equipment, non-AV equipment or labor starting June 1. “We’re pleased to know that the university has approved the movement to this new rental rate structure,” said Annette Conrad, associate director of event management. “It really allows for that money to go back into programming, so we’re really excited about that.” University hosted events and non-university events will still pay for AV equipment, non-AV equipment and labor fees. Conrad said rates are applicable to Alumni Memorial Union facilities including meeting spaces in the AMU such as the ballroom, Union Sports Annex, Varsity Theatre, Weasler Auditorium and select outdoor spaces. She believes the new rental rate structure will allow departments and student organizations to plan more programs on campus. “I think there will be more programming, which is really exciting because it goes to the whole purpose of being on campus, to get that out of classroom experience and experience in planning and participating in events,” Conrad said.
Marquette also established a new pricing structure for university hosted events and non-university events and will change the pricing of university events, university hosted events and non-university events beginning this summer. The Office of Student Development considers university-sponsored events as activities that are planned and promoted by recognized student organizations, university employees or departments. University events are also functions that support the university’s mission, are paid for with funds from a student organization and where the majority of attendees are Marquette students. Conrad said examples of these events include Marquette Student Government programs, preview, orientation, open houses and athletic events. OSD considers a universityhosted event to be programs involving a university entity and an outside organization connected to the university, such as the Insight Summit Series conferences through the College of Communication. Non-university events are activities run by organizations not affiliated with Marquette. Conrad said the fees for university hosted events and external events have increased slightly, but the Event Management Office has not raised event prices for close to four or five years. Early last fall, Linda Lee, the Coordinator of Administrative Services in the AMU reached out to comparable universities to see if the Marquette event management rates were competitive and to look
at rate structures for student organizations, internal departments, hosted events and non-university events at other universities. “From there this was a collaborative effort in our department to prepare a draft of guidelines that we thought best suited Marquette – making student organizations and university departments a priority,” Lee said in an email. Lee considers developing the rate structure that eliminates the room, AV and non-AV and labor fees to student organizations when their events support Marquette’s mission to be a big win. “Moving forward the funds that were previously paid to the AMU can be used to support and hopefully enhance their programs,” Lee said. Lee said there should be minimal impact on events held in the AMU. “Student organizations and university departments will continue to be the priority when booking space,” she said. “For university hosted and non-university events we have an attractive space that continues to be competitively priced.” Sarah Beattie, a senior in the College of Communication, said the event management changes will help MUSG focus its spending on student experiences at their programs. “We could put more money towards things at programs that people actually experience, like food, prizes for trivia and decorations versus having to put so much more money aside for operations,” Beattie said.
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Counseling Center struggles with staffing Students affected by lack of access to qualified counselors By Alexander Montesantos
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Over the past four months, Marquette’s Counseling Center has experienced a large turnover in both full and part-time staff, leaving counselors and administrators at the center concerned about availability for new clients. “Two full-time staff (members) were recruited by a local facility and a part-time counselor decided to focus on private practice,” said Michael Zebrowski, director of Marquette’s counseling center, in an email. This unexpected outflow of staff put extra stress on the center’s remaining staff to post open positions and interview qualified candidates—not to mention maintaining the same level of treatment for students. “There is not an easy fix when something like this happens,” Zebrowski said. “We are very
selective about who we hire in order to preserve the quality of service.” In response, new full-time staff members were hired, as well as part-time counselors to fill the gap. The center also hired a second postdoctoral resident for next fall. Zebrowski said he and the counselors believe they were able to provide adequate coverage amidst the turnover, both for first-time appointments and those who have already started counseling. As the semester draws to a close, Zebrowski said the center made it through the period of understaffing with little impact on service provision. The center does not have a set limit on sessions and doesn’t have a waiting list for students to receive counseling. It also offers walk-in crisis management for students who are in a crisis or are at risk to themselves or others. “Decisions regarding how frequently a student is seen are based on our assessment of clinical need and appropriateness, as well as overall demand for Counseling Center services,” said Jodi Blahnik in an email, the director of the Student Affairs Assessment at Marquette.
This level of responsiveness may be due, in part, to both the center’s structure of patient treatment as well as the frequency of treatment different students need. “Many students come in for one or two sessions and then feel they don’t need additional help. It is very rare for students to request sessions more than once a week,” Zebrowski said. If a student has a continued need that is much more urgent or concerning, the center will work to find them a higher level of care than outpatient counseling. But some students feel they may not be receiving the best treatment as a result of this staff overhaul. “I would say availability is low in terms of licensed counselors,” said Sam Kok, a junior in the College of Communication who visited the counseling center in previous semesters. “The Counseling Center has grad students who counsel and there are always some around. Although they do good work, as far as quality, I only ever talked with a grad student so I don’t think I got the best care,” Kok said. “Grad students don’t have the
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Holthusen Hall recently went under a large staff change, and some students have had a difficult time seeing certified counselors.
same experience as licensed counselors do and I think that detracts from what students can take away from their appointments. I wasn’t the only one who didn’t get to see a non-grad student counselor either,” Kok added. Blahnik said the center sometimes has to set limits on the number of times a student can be seen. “In order to remain accessible to
all, there are reasonably limits to the amount of resources we can provide to any one student at any one time,” Blahnik said. “We can describe our services as short-term and we set treatment goals that can be accomplished in roughly a semester’s worth of time.” Looking ahead, it is important that service quality and consistency are maintained, especially if another larger turnover happens again. Blahnik said during the 2014-15 school year, students were seen for an average of 4.5 appointments, a 9.8 percent increase from the previous two years. As this average continues to rise, the center’s resources will have to expand to match the level of necessary care. Although the center doesn’t have a formally outlined contingency plan, there are external resources in place to provide relief. When students first come in, a staff member determines if they fit the services offered or if they would benefit from a referral to an outside provider. Although most of these referrals are for students who need longer-term therapy, medication or a specialist, the center is able to assess initially how and where is best to meet students’ needs. Local counseling providers are often willing to help out temporarily if needed, and the center maintains contact with those who have trained with them in the past if gaps in treatment become problematic. In an urban area like Milwaukee, many easily accessible treatment options outside of the center also exist. The extra post-doctoral trainee hired for the fall will also provide a much-needed cushion of support. As the semester ends, discussions about transitioning to outside providers for the summer are underway, as almost all of the center’s staff have ten-month contracts with just a few providing counseling over the summer. “Like most counseling centers, we could always use more staff. We continually work on striking the right balance of providing counseling and referring to outside resources,” Zebrowski said. To achieve this balance, Zebrowski will be working with the soon-to-be hired VP for Student Affairs on plans to increase counselor retention. “Having good counselors who understand college mental health is a must. It is imperative that we keep working on determining what is attractive to keeping these counselors on staff” Zebrowski said.
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Dental school aids intellectually disabled kids
Children adapt in their homes before going to MU offices By Jennifer Walter
jennifer.walter@marquette.edu
Students from the Special Care Dentistry Association chapter at Marquette attended Special Olympics in Eau Claire April 23. The program, “Special Smiles,” had dental students take participants aside at the event to do dental screenings, put fluoride on their teeth and give them mouth guards. All Marquette dental students were invited to attend the event. All students enrolled in the dental school are required to treat patients for a week with mental and physical disabilities in the Advanced Care clinic on campus. But, some students decide to continue focusing specifically on those patients. The SCDA chapter at Marquette was initiated two years ago and is open to dental students of all grades. Jadwiga Hjertstedt, the Clinical Assistant Professor is the faculty mentor for the entirely student-run chapter which has 35 present members enrolled. “Some students have interest in patients with special needs earlier, even before they come
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Disabled children are underserved when it comes to dentistry and in rooms like those above, Marquette students work to reverse that trend.
to dental school,” Hjertstedt said. “(Often) because they have a family member (or a friend) with special needs.” The chapter allows students to branch out to assist a variety of groups with special needs. Jennifer Jackson, a fourthyear dental student, went to Hjertstedt after being a therapist for Wisconsin Early Autism Project. She proposed the idea for a desensitization program in which dental students do inhome visits with patients on the autism spectrum. The goal
of this project is to get them acquainted with the setting of a dentist office. “(This) made me realize how hard it is for kids who have autism to go to the dentist and how hard it is for their families and for everyone involved,” Jackson said. Two dental students are assigned to each patient during house visits. “They go there, show them booklets, talk to them about the mouth and show them things that might be used,” Hjerstedt
said. “Once the child feels comfortable with them in their own homes, then they come here with the students and the parents to see the actual clinic.” Patients visit the clinic after hours so that they don’t become overwhelmed by its busy atmosphere during the daytime. “I think its good for even the underclassmen to be exposed to working with kids with special needs,” Jackson said. “It’s so important for general dentists to work with that population because it’s a hugely under-served
population. So I think this is a unique way for kids to benefit and for us to benefit.” Mary Cimrmancic, a group leader who works with students in the Advanced Care clinic, says the students she sees join the SCDA chapter are passionate about what they do. “It really comes from the heart,”Cimrmancic said. “I don’t think they can really go through their career and not treat patients with special needs.”
MUPD locks in mission, vision statements With one year as force, campus police find fitting values By Ryan Patterson
ryan.patterson@marquette.edu
After concluding its first year as a police force Sunday, the Marquette Police Department revealed its official mission and vision statements Tuesday.
The mission statement is: “Guided by respect, fairness, and compassion, MUPD fosters a safe environment for Marquette and our neighbors through education, community engagement, and service.” “I think people know what we’re about, but to actually see it on paper is important,” MUPD Chief Paul Mascari said. Mascari acknowledged it took longer than he hoped. “It’s
been a long process because we wanted to get not only input from the staff within the police department, but we also wanted to get input from the outside constituents,” he said. Marya Leatherwood, vice provost for strategic and academic planning, facilitated work groups to gather ideas for the statements. Leatherwood conducted a meeting with the MUPD command staff that lasted about two hours. She split them into groups and asked three questions regarding the mission statement: What is the primary purpose of the organization? Who are the primary constituencies that are served? How are these constituencies served? Leatherwood said the groups had similar suggestions, but “Each group often times adds some piece of unique information that the other groups tend to say, ‘Oh yeah, that’s good,’” she said. “Bringing those together is where that process really works well.” Mascari concurred. “I think the process we used with the help of Dr. Leatherwood was a really good one, and I think it came from the rank-and-file of the department,” he said. “It was input from police officers, dispatchers, public safety officers, administrative staff, everybody had the opportunity to submit input and direction of where they thought the
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MUPD formed its own committees to generate the statements.
department should be going.” Regarding the vision statement, Leatherwood asked the command staff groups to think about, “What they would like to see this organization become in the next five to 10 years. What would they aspire, specifically, to have MUPD known for?” The group input directly impacted the vision statement, Leatherwood said. “There was one group that had noted to become a national model for innovative police practices. The first version was ‘seeking to create an empowered community.’ This one puts those two together I think in a much better way. I was really delighted to see that they went back and included a really lofty,
aspirational goal,” she said. With May 1 as MUPD’s oneyear anniversary, Mascari felt the announcement was fitting. “The timing of this is appropriate,” he said. “We’ve wrapped up our first year, and now we’re looking ahead to year two. We’ve been focusing on our mission this past year, but now it’s time to focus on what our vision is in the department in the years to come.” Leatherwood agreed. “The mission statement says who you are now, what you’re doing, the vision says where you want to be in the future,” she said. “We changed what we are,” Mascari said. “But we really haven’t changed who we are.”
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Surreal ‘Salvage’ explores vices in dark college drama By Brian Boyle brian.boyle@marquette.edu After more than seven months of late-night guerrilla shootings, script writing sessions and meticulous editing, senior filmmaking duo Brian Mohsenian and George Bicknell finally saw their idea become a reality. “Salvage,” the pair’s passion project, turned independent study, debuted online Sunday. “Teenage Wasteland,” the first installment of the seven-part mini-series, is a dark, unsettling, surreal mystery-box of an episode—a pile of puzzle pieces. The show can be viewed on teir Facebook page. It’s a project Mohsenian, a senior in the College of Communication, and Bicknell, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences, devoted all their free time creating something tangible out of their imaginations. It’s difficult
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Many scenes were shot during late-night filming sessions on campus, often lasting from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m.
for Bicknell to get through a whole sentence describing their work without mentioning the “huge scope” they wanted it to have. Now, finally, the two have something to show for it. “It’s surreal but also refreshing. We’ve been so busy over the past two semesters, we really haven’t had much time for other things we’ve potentially wanted to do,” Mohsenian said. “It’s really nice for people to realize ‘Wow, this is what you guys have been working on. This is why you haven’t had any time’.” As big as their ambition has been for the show, their expectations have been even bigger. Outside of their outspoken desires to be the most ambitious project to ever come out of Marquette, the two had a more immediate, measurable objective of reaching 1,000 views on the first episode by the time the series had ended. In three days, it had garnered nearly 800 hits, putting them well on-track to vastly out-perform their initial goals. “When we were writing, we
didn’t think that anyone at Marquette had ever made what is essentially a two-and-a-half hour feature,” Bicknell said. “We wanted to take a step beyond, and push ourselves here. And now, our goal had been 750(views) by the end of the week, and now we hit that in three days.” Filmed on campus and the surrounding Milwaukee area with a cast and crew comprised entirely of members of the Marquette community, “Salvage” aims to explore the seedy underbelly of college vices, with some stylistic tricks pulled right out of the film director David Lynch and “True Detective” playbooks. It’s a tone and mood they love in film, even though they know it’s not for everyone. “I think it’s good we unsettle,” Bicknell said. “The most important thing a filmmaker can do is provoke, make provocative work. I’d rather have people love it or hate it. A bad response is better than no response.” The premiere may have given the pair a chance to gain
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satisfaction, though they spared little time to catch their breath. For now, it’s back to late-night filming sessions—often starting at 11 p.m. and ending around 2 a.m., in order to accommodate the cast and crew’s busy schedule—as well as putting the final post-production touches on the new releases looming within the next few days. Tanner Burke, a Marquette Theater alum, local actor, and close friend and collaborator of Mohsenian and Bicknell, has been perhaps their most vocal proponent since appearing as one of the leads in “Salvage.” “I’ve worked with people ranging from professionals to students, and on so many projects here at Marquette. And I can for sure say what they’re doing is more than I’ve seen any student do. Their ambition and dedication truly plays off on the camera,” Burke said. “You can really tell, from beginning to end, a high level of professionalism. Nine times out of ten, a viewer will say that there’s no way this
came from students.” His empowering advice on set help the two set the tone for production, and his enthusiasm for the project is as grand as his enthusiasm for its creators. “I keep telling them this: ‘you guys are the directors, we’re the actors,” Burke said. “’We don’t look good unless you look good. If there’s something you want to do, it doesn’t matter how long it’s gonna take, every little step is gonna make the image look better’.” With the show finally winding down, Bicknell and Mohsenian are starting to look ahead at future projects. Tired from the mystery genre, the two hope to reunite the crew this summer for a small-scale short film. Until then, the two half-jokingly remarked they would like to win the Marquette Student Film Festival—though with the drive and ambition they have, it’s hard to believe they were joking at all.
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Dance minors showcase talent in final show Mutiple genres will be performed from advanced classes By Aly Prouty
alyssa.prouty@marquette.edu
Dancers across campus are busy preparing for a final, but it has no correlation to a typical Scantron test. They are choreographing and rehearsing a full-length show. Marquette’s dance program will perform its end of the semester showcase, “Celebrate Dance,” Sunday, May 8, at 2 p.m. in Weasler Auditorium. Admission is free. The show will feature multiple pieces from each class offered this semester, including Ballet 2, Modern 2, Dance History and an honors program seminar, Dance History and Cultural Expression. A senior project by Catherine Jensen, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences and dance minor, will also be shown. Performing arts instructors in the College of Communication Cathleen Ott Thompson and Roxanne Kess taught the dance classes this semester. Thompson is this year’s showcase director. Three dance faculty members alternate this role. In the past it was a collaborative effort, but the new format gives the faculty opportunities to individualize the show. “This year I offered to direct it, and Roxy mentioned doing it in rotation, which is a perfect idea for all of us to divvy up the work over the years, but also to individualize it because all of us will highlight different things and take a different take on that year’s work,” Thompson said. “This year I brought the word ‘showing’ into it
rather than ‘recital.’ It’s definitely college-level young adults, and I feel like our work at the university level is really different.” The performance is vital to the dance program, but only put on during spring semesters. Students gain valuable performance experience through the show. Students did some of their own choreography work in some classes such as Ballet 2 and Dance History. Emily Topp, a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences and a dance minor, said she looks forward to performing her solo, which is included in the Dance History lineup. “I’m definitely excited to perform my Martha Graham-inspired solo,” Topp said. “The title of the song is, ‘New Day.’ (Graham) faced a lot of challenges but came back so much stronger, and I used the ‘New Day’ thinking that there’s always a challenge, but you can always come back strong and face any obstacles that are in your way.” Students in Dance History were tasked choreographed and performed a solo inspired by a dance icon of their choice. They wrote papers on their respective icons earlier this semester. “I picked Fred Astaire because I wanted something different,” said Rebecca Stekiel, a senior in the College of Health Sciences and dance minor. “I wanted to challenge myself and broaden the spectrum. I have never choreographed a tap solo before so I thought it’d be fun.” Stekiel also wanted to do a tap solo since she took Tap 1 last semester, but Tap 2 was not offered this semester. Not enough students were enrolled in the class so it was cancelled. The dance program is small and not well known across campus. It is considered a
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Dance seminar rehearses Afro-tap fusion piece to be performed in collaboration with Dance History class.
subcategory of the theatre program. “I do wish we could have an actual dance department that is functioning like some of the other universities,” Kess said. “It would be great to see dance evolve. I would like someone to get really excited about that.” Kess came to Marquette 13 years ago and saw the caliber of students taking dance classes. She wrote a proposal to the university to create a dance minor, but it took quite a few years before it was implemented. “With the kids who are coming here and some of the experience they have, (I thought) it would really be cool for them to have a dance minor,” Kess said. “That person might want to start a dance studio, and I thought they should have that option.”
Students agree that the department needs increased attention. “Because it’s a really small program, there are less things we are able to do,” Topp said. “There’s been conversations about why dance doesn’t count as a performing arts credit. It’s an obstacle to dance minors.” While the program could use some development, it has come a long way, and students minoring in dance enjoy incorporating dance classes into their days. “I chose to minor in dance because I started dancing when I was very very young, and I wanted to continue it in some way, shape or form,” Stekiel said. “It’s a good way to stay active. It’s a good way to get your creative mind thinking.” The Ballet 2 class will perform a
piece titled “Purple Rain” in honor of Prince, a classical ballet piece set to his music. The class will also perform the original piece. “After Prince died, I just had the brainstorm of what if we performed ‘Lilac Fairy’ to ‘Purple Rain,’” Thompson said. In addition to “Purple Rain,” Thompson has incorporated other art forms into her dances, such as Carrie Schneider’s “Reading Women” exhibit. “Basically, (Thompson) had ideas about how she was going to make the exhibit come to life,” said Madeline LaVine, a junior in the College of Business Administration. “We incorporated dance moves to what we thought turning pages would look like.”
The Halal Guys location to open in MKE Middle Eastern resturant started in NYC 25 years ago By Dennis Tracy
dennis.tracy@marquette.edu
After recognizing a demand for halal food among New York cab drivers, three partners with a hot-dog stand in Manhattan set out to make a name for themselves in the Middle Eastern food market. The men began to sell chicken gyros and eventually became a very popular location to pick up halal meals. After 25 years and expanding outwards to a full blown restaurant in New York, The Halal Guys became a chain, with its doors opening in Chicago, Houston, San Francisco, and a few other locations. The Halal Guys will open May 14 on 3133 North Oakland Avenue and there are plans to open a restaurant in Madison as well. Managing partner of the Milwaukee Halal Guys, Ravit Ansal hopes to have the same deal of success as the other venues in
New York and Chicago. “Coming to Milwaukee, I think one of the things that we’ve been doing well is having free food trucks at sites like UWM,” Ansal said. Part of the restaurant’s success is having people promote it on social media. The Facebook page for the Halal Guys has over 50,000 likes while the official Oakland Avenue location has a little more than 1,000. “People talk, they tag others so they know about the brand, and then they tag their friends,” Ansal said. Business partner Dustin LeFebvre met Ansal at the University of Chicago when they were both in business school. LeFebvre hopped on board to help get the Halal Guys to Milwaukee after Ansal offered him a job. “Once I tasted the food, I kind of fell in love and just got excited to be a part of this process and sharing something new, something different for all kinds of different people,” LeFebvre said. Customers have come down to Chicago and New York to try out the food after
learning about the variety. One customer, Rick Eggert, flew out to New York with his wife and family in order to get them to experience the food. “I wanted to try more of it, it was so good,” Eggert said. “I did some research and people on the internet were saying ‘hey there’s this food cart on the corner of 53rd street and 6th avenue and that is the place to go for this food.” Menu options include chicken, gyros, falafels with options for a platter or sandwiches. All of each is served with pita, lettuce and tomatoes. One of the key signature ingredients is a white sauce which has been described as a mayonnaise type paste with various seasonings. “People have tried to replicate it,” Eggert said. “I’ve tried to at home, and I cannot do it.” Ansal and LeFebrve recommend the chicken and gryo combo platter, because it includes rice and hot sauce as a part of the meal. “I think it’s what the whole Halal Guys really is, it’s that combination of gyro and chicken and hot sauce on the
platter,” LeFebrve said. There will be free gifts like water bottles and merchandise, for people who come to the May
14 opening.. The plan is to open more restaurants in Milwaukee depending on how well the Oakland location does.
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Marquette’s visions focus on campus expansion, deserve student voices
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Marquette should consider asking students to opine on necessary campus changes and renovations.
If there’s one thing we’ve learned from the 2015-16 academic year, it’s that Marquette is dreaming big and doing all that it can to expand. We’ve seen this exemplified through Lovell’s leadership and enthusiasm for the Master Plan. Whether discussing the Near West Side project, the new Athletic Performance Research Center or the new residence hall plan, it’s clear Marquette isn’t waiting around for things to happen — it’s working to make things happen. As we look back on the year, there are so many things to be proud of and excited for, but there are still things on this campus that should be acknowledged before Marquette continues its expansion. There are core areas of student life inadequately funded or maintained. While progress has been made for a new recreation and wellness facility, it has been done so by Marquette Student Government and students, not Marquette. The intention of the referendum for the new facility was to gauge student interest based off MUSG’s feasibility study concerning campus recreation in 2010. The average amount of recreational space on college campuses is 10-12 square feet per student throughout the nation, but Marquette’s average is 6.92 square feet. Marquette’s recreational facility standards aren’t even up
to par with the average national standard and yet Marquette continues to promote the Athletic Performance Research Center, which caters to exclusive groups on campus rather than the entire student body. One of the goals in building the new recreational facility is to provide a wellness space which would include increasing the capacity and quality of the Counseling Center. Per this semester, there has been concern about staff turnover and the availability for counselors to see students. It is important for Marquette to address this issue now instead of waiting for a new facility to take care of an obvious need. Considering no student can be treated exactly the same when it comes to individual counseling needs. For some, mental health is not easy to address, but there is still a demand for counseling. Helfaer Theatre continues to request funds for the necessary updates that would make it in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act’s requirements. The university is aware of the issue, but continues to put it on the back burner. Marquette has made great efforts to include students in conversations about the university’s climate. In a similar way, Marquette should ask students about the facilities that are currently available to them. For example, what are students saying about
an athletic performance research center? Or, what parts of campus would students want to see changed or renovated? Marquette administration has the ultimate say in what is done on campus, but do they see campus as students do in all of its idiosyncrasies? At its core, a university is student-centric. The recent announcement of the new residence hall plan shows the university is exemplary of that, but perhaps it is important for Marquette to continue its focus inward on the needs of the university in the coming years. Expansion is great and has its bragging rights, but when other aspects of a campus are not up to the minimum standard, the university will suffer accordingly.
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College is ending, what’s ahead is better Caroline Comstock The move-in process was rough to say the least. My parents were not-so-casually pushing me to check items off the list, find sheets that would fit a twin XL or figure out who would be bringing a mini fridge small enough to fit in a McCormick double. I wasn’t into it, and it was pretty obvious to everyone around me. I never “checked in” mentally, but for the first few weeks, I tried my best to play it off. My roommates and I took turns plugging in our CHI straightening irons, listening to that one Macklemore song and choking down fancy Burnetts’ concoctions. It was the life for those first few hours of the night. Alcohol was flowing, Milwaukee was the perfect kind of humid, and there was an entire class of new kids ready to join in. But it wasn’t long before I started to feel like I was doing something wrong. I’d scroll obsessively through my Facebook feed, seeing high school friends in flowy chiffon dresses and statement necklaces, having the times of their lives at fancy, booze-filled sorority formals. I suddenly felt an overwhelming need to prove something. My friends were moving on, and I needed to prove that I was indeed beginning the “best four years” of my life. Whether it’s through the media, Instagram, or movies, I’m not sure, but the idea that college will be hands-down the best, most carefree, happiest times of our lives has been engrained in our minds from the start. Talking to older relatives going on about some crazy thing their fraternity brothers did at a bar forty years ago, you would think that college graduation was the place where all dreams come to die. From my experiences abroad, it would seem this infatuation with the college experience is uniquely American. Nonetheless, I drank that Kool-Aid. Slowly but surely, I began distancing myself from peers, turning down invitations and going home on the weekends more often. I’d often find myself in corners of hot unfinished basements just watching parties as they happened, and not really feeling there. In rooms full of strangers, I started to obsess over
what might have happened while I was drinking and forgot. I started pouring out my drinks when no one was watching and leaving parties without anyone noticing. This started a dangerous cycle of social isolation. Despite the tenacious efforts of friends to include me, I was despondent and hard-to-reach. Disillusioned by the entire college experience, I became stubbornly pessimistic and a generally unpleasant person to be around. I have a lot of regrets, mostly on opportunities not taken. For the longest time, I hated myself for not living up to the image of the typical college girl, or the girl I had invented in my head. I struggled through classes I couldn’t always handle, often went to parties and stared at my phone clock the entire time to see when it would be socially acceptable to go home, and in many ways, denied the possibility that there were groups of people out there who would be perfectly content with staying home on Thursday nights. I had already met some, yet had written them off. College is not an easy place to feel alone. It’s not an easy place to be when you can count the amount of times you’ve ventured “out” on the weekends on your hands, it’s not an easy place to be when you don’t have a grasp on where you’re going. I can attest to that. It’s hard. You will constantly question why you bother being here when you and everyone else around you understands college to be the end-all-be-all. So I wish I could be writing this slightly embarrassing column with quirky anecdotes about that stupid thing I did at The Dogg Haus at 3 a.m. I wish I could reasonably post a link to the story about McCormick being torn down and talk about how devastated I am. I can’t, and I can’t look back either. In two weeks, I’ll put on that cap and gown. What I can tell you is feeling alone builds an unwavering sense of resilience, and perhaps most importantly, you’re going to be okay, even if it doesn’t seem like it. I have a sense of who I am that simply going through the motions could never have given me. For those of you out there scrambling to put the pieces together, please know that the end of college is only the beginning. Caroline Comstock is a senior studying Marketing. She is reachable by email at caroline.comstock@marquette.edu
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Caroline’s college experience wasn’t typical, but it was formative.
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Passed Jesuit leaves legacy of discomfort
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Daniel Berrigan was considered controversial by the Catholic Church.
Ryan McCarthy Most priests will not be placed on the FBI’s Most Wanted list, featured on the cover of Time magazine or alluded to in a Paul Simon song. Then again, the Rev. Daniel Berrigan, who passed away last Saturday at 94, was unlike any other priest. Berrigan, who became the face of Catholic opposition to the Vietnam War, was an example of pure devotion to an idea. His brand of militant pacifism remains highly controversial inside and outside the Catholic Church. Berrigan became a prominent anti-war leader when he, alongside eight other Catholics, entered the draft board in Catonsville, Maryland, and set fire to hundreds of draft files with homemade napalm. He spent three months on the run from the FBI, and then another 18 in jail for this act of protest. Undeterred by his frequent arrests for demonstrating, Berrigan helped start the anti-nuclear weapon Plowshares movement. In September 1980, he and seven others snuck into a Pennsylvania General Electric Nuclear Weapon facility and damaged a warhead’s nose cone. Another part of his legacy that does not get the attention it deserves are his accomplishments in poetry. With maybe the exception of the Rev. Gerard Manley Hopkins, Berrigan is the greatest Jesuit poet. Among his fans was author Kurt Vonnegut who wrote, “For me, Father Daniel Berrigan is Jesus as a poet. If this be heresy, make the most of it.” I think some react strongly against Berrigan’s actions because they are uncomfortable and inconvenient. It would be much easier to disregard the horrors of war and the
potential for mass annihilation. It is even more difficult to consider our country’s responsibility for these horrors and the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Berrigan tried to reverse America’s desensitization to violence and apathy toward injustice. Although he is often referred to as a radical leftist priest, Berrigan’s tactics do not seem far off from Jesus’s teachings. In the Bible, Jesus rarely makes those he encounters comfortable. He often asks them to make an inconvenient choice or a serious lifestyle change. More importantly, Jesus frequently extols the sacredness of life and the divine within all humans. I believe this inspired Berrigan’s work. He saw God in all people and believed the horrors of war and poverty were a perversion of God’s creation. His deeply held spiritual belief would not allow for him to stand by and say nothing as the slaughter continued. In a 2006 interview with Democracy Now, Berrigan gave an important warning about those who would use religion to justify war. He said that these people are “omitting all the passages that have to do with compassion and love of others, especially love of enemies … All of that gets cut out in favor of, well, a god of vindictiveness, the god of the empire, the god who is a projection of our will to dominate.” In the past decade, the Catholic Church has lost a large amount of its moral authority in America and across the world. Perhaps it is because Catholics are no longer willing to take hard, inconvenient stances or make others uncomfortable in pursuit of their ideals, as Berrigan did. Ryan McCarthy is a junior studying journalism. He is reachable by email at ryan.w.mccarthy@marquette.edu
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Letter to editor on university inclusivity and tolerance The university administration has prioritized the encouragement of diversity and inclusivity. On their face these seem laudable goals, but in actual practice they are less so. The overemphasis of inclusivity can become repressive. The desired goal of diversity is lost when openness to opposing positions is eliminated, leaving a lowest common denominator form of politically correct diversity that is not true diversity at all. True diversity involves some level of conflict. There must be toleration in any diverse environment, but there must also be something left to tolerate. Toleration implies disagreement. We are now being told that certain topics and conversations are not acceptable. The university has even required training by its employees (including all faculty) on these points. It states that even being overheard by a third party discussing certain topics (e.g. gay marriage) constitutes harassment. Such logic is utterly onesided in favor of the agenda of those putting the system in place. In such logic restricting the speech of individuals who are respectfully expressing and discussing views that diverge from the announced agenda of the enforcers is not harassment. It is only harassment when any “protected” parties or interests are violated by such expressions. It is harassment when the powers that be declare said topic to be so, and not harassment for other issues not on their agenda. Welcome to the world of the politically correct. When calls for inclusivity and diversity demand a form of submission, silence and/or repression, we have done a disservice to our community. In the real world people disagree, sometimes on important matters, sometimes on very personal matters with very civil implications, e.g. gay marriage and gender issues. Suggesting that repression of discussion of such matters will advance any real diversity and true toleration is both misguided and offensive. It does not teach our students how to navigate such difficulties in life and society, but only how to compartmentalize them. It does not teach them how to think, or to debate and disagree constructively, but only to accept what they are told – indoctrination rather than education. We are losing our ability as a society to engage in real conversation and to live with and manage conflict. And Marquette University is encouraging rather than remedying that development. This discussion relates, of course, to recent events on our campus. I do not know Professor McAdams. Until recent controversies I knew nothing of his views, blog or activities. Now that I do, I am not always in agreement with him. And I would not always choose to
express myself in the, at times, inflammatory manner he does, but this certainly does not warrant the university’s actions. Those actions have had a chilling effect on many on campus who no longer feel free to engage these issues meaningfully and openly, or to live out their faith commitments with integrity. A professor in the theology department of our Catholic university recently published a book suggesting that we should
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When calls for inclusivity and diversity demand a form of submission, silence and/ or repression, we have done a disservice to our community.” look to a new form of Christianity Without God. A THEOLOGY professor. At a CATHOLIC university. Christianity WITHOUT God. This, oddly, provoked no uproar at the university, no great controversies, no great debate. How is it that, never mind the actual established teaching of the Catholic church on the matter, even the casual discussion of the place of gay marriage in our society and our faith is inappropriate and deemed offensive (harassment), but the published denial of the God at the very heart of the Christian faith (certainly an expression that would be offensive to the lifestyles of many Christians on and off campus) is not? This seems
absurd to me, even as a non-Catholic! Where is the logic in this reality? Where is the acknowledgement of diversity? I am not some kind of rabblerouser; I generally steer clear of debates such as these. Yet these developments disturb me greatly, as they do many others on campus. But to question this agenda openly is literally to risk one’s career (hence the anonymity of this letter). Make no mistake. I am not suggesting that said theology professor be silenced, although I would think common sense alone might suggest whether he remains in the correct department of the university. I would certainly want any who wish to discuss the pros and cons of his proposal, and would not want such a conversation to be declared off limits. I only ask the same for any other number of vital issues on which there are serious disagreements and a diversity of views. This same theology professor actually agrees, and wrote a letter of support for Professor McAdams last year. The inclusivity agenda does not encourage diversity. It is rather an imposed uniformity that chooses which views to silence and which views to embrace. It is also at fundamental odds with the notion of the liberal arts university, and special interests have driven their agenda so far in this regard that some now even argue to change the first amendment. I urge administration and our community as a whole to reconsider our understanding of terms like inclusivity and diversity, and take more caution in how they hope to encourage them. Let us recall what toleration truly means. Sincerely, A Marquette Faculty Member
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From startup to national power How MU landed Amplo, built lacrosse winner By Jack Goods
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Six years ago, lacrosse players in Wisconsin were few and far between, especially on Marquette’s campus. Yet, a group of plucky underdogs who came to the campus on a whim, buying into Marquette’s plan, are on the cusp of a tournament berth. The athletic department started talking about adding a new sport in the summer of 2010. The focus was on finding a sport that the student body could support and the school would be able to recruit kids to play. “We hadn’t changed our sport offerings in a while,” said Mike Broeker, Marquette’s deputy athletic director. “We were trying to be pretty forward-looking, not relative to conference affiliations or things like that. As leadership, you always have an eye towards the horizon.” The department gravitated toward the spring, since Marquette lacked a true spectator spring sport. Golf competed exclusively on the road until recent years, track and field only has one home event and tennis’ facility has limited seating. Lacrosse seemed like the perfect fit, offering a chance to build community after the basketball season ended and a recruitment tool in the Northeast. Broeker had the greatest background in the sport, as he went to school at Siena College, which has a lacrosse program and is right in one of the nation’s lacrosse hotbeds: Syracuse, New York. “I reinforced the data that we had,” Broeker said. “I could at least bring some context, some qualitative to the quantitative that we have about youth participation.” By September of that year, the
addition of men’s and women’s lacrosse was approved by the Board of Trustees. Then, it was time to start building. “We immediately thought, ‘OK, we need to get coaches,’” Broeker said. “Coaches were the key. That was not going to be an easy task, but there was great excitement in the community that we were going to take this on.” Marquette started the process by bringing in Dave Cottle as the school’s resident lacrosse consultant. Cottle has nearly 30 years of Division I lacrosse head coaching experience with teams at the highest level. Cottle’s reputation in the lacrosse community helped put Marquette on the map. Danielle Josetti, Marquette’s associate athletic director, said he instantly boosted the level of coaches that were interested. “It was a great decision,” Josetti said. “I think it gave us credibility that we wouldn’t have had otherwise. It let the candidates know that we were serious about adding lacrosse and adding it to be competitive, not to just to participate.” Broeker, Josetti and Cottle all flew to Baltimore in January 2011 to conduct the coaching interviews since it was a central spot for the coaches to travel to. They interviewed 11 coaches, each for an hour and a half. After a long day of interviews, it came down to two coaches — Hofstra assistant Joe Amplo and Denver assistant Matt Brown. Amplo, a former defenseman at Hofstra, was in his 11th season on his alma mater’s coaching staff. He joined John Danowski’s staff after graduation in 1999 as a graduate assistant. A year later he took an assistant coaching job at Penn, but returned to Hofstra a year later to take an assistant position. “I saw the release actually on Inside Lacrosse in mid-December in 2010,” Amplo said. “It was at a time of year where there wasn’t much going on. It was the end of the semester at Hofstra. I was winding down, getting ready for the holidays. I didn’t give it much
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Head coach Joe Amplo was an assistant coach at Hofstra before accepting the Marquette job in 2011.
thought … and then there was an announcement that Dave Cottle was going to lead the search. I thought to myself, ‘It would be nice to have a phone call from him and have someone show interest.’ About four hours later, he called.” Amplo wasn’t at the top of Marquette’s list at the start of the process, since the athletic department decided it wanted an offensiveminded coach. He made his mark in the interview, showing off his charisma and sincerity. Despite being the first interview of the day, he left an impact. “I remember at the end of the day when we were done with all of the interviews … and Mike said, ‘What do you think?’ and I said, ‘Amplo,’” Josetti said. “He took off his watch and said, ‘Me too.’” Marquette had to sell the program and explain the ideals that Marquette stands behind. Amplo could tell early-on that the school was a good fit for his personality. “When I sat in that interview I got the sense that it was a place that I wanted to be,” Amplo said. Marquette set its sights on Amplo, inviting him and his wife to campus the next week. Josetti said it felt less like an interview and more like a recruiting visit. Amplo, who had spent nearly his entire
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life on Long Island, still needed some convincing to move his family halfway across the country. “I needed this place to be a place where my wife can commit to allowing me to work the hours that I work,” Amplo said. “When (Marquette) said they were interested in moving this along, it was about my wife and I making the decision to move our family to a place that we fell in love with.” Josetti picked him and his wife up from the airport in Chicago to take them to National Marquette Day, one of the most memorable games in recent Marquette basketball history. “I can remember Jae Crowder and Jimmy Butler running around on that gym and saying, ‘Oh, this would be pretty cool to be a part of,’” Amplo said. Marquette was sold, and so was Amplo. He was introduced alongside women’s head coach Meredith Black February 27, 2011. “I have dreamed about the opportunity to lead a Division I lacrosse program and after better understanding, and seeing first-hand, Marquette’s commitment to lacrosse, I realized quickly this was the perfect opportunity to pursue,” Amplo said when named head coach. There are many ways to start a lacrosse program. You can promote your club team to the Division I level, like Michigan did. You can jump right into play, like NJIT. Marquette decided to take things slow, starting from scratch and redshirting all the players the first season to practice on campus for a year before playing a single game. It certainly wasn’t glamorous. “We didn’t even have an office,” Amplo said. “We had no pens, we had no lacrosse balls. My first day on the job, myself, Steve Brundage and John Orsen went to Target and bought laundry detergent because we had to wash the clothes. To me, looking back, that is the most fun I’ve ever had as a coach, just figuring out what to do.” Amplo said it was tough to recruit for a program that had never played a game, especially since the team wouldn’t compete for another year. “You find the kids that can catch the ball and throw the ball to guys
that have the same jersey as they’re wearing,” Amplo said. “It was as simple as that. It was, ‘OK, do you have a pulse and carry the lacrosse stick in the right way?” Just four years later, Marquette has become a household name in lacrosse. After two seasons of growing pains, Marquette burst onto the scene in 2013. The Golden Eagles set a new mark of 10 wins, moving up as high as ninth in the Top 20 poll and earning wins over three Top 20 opponents — Lehigh, Hofstra and Ohio State. Amplo was named the BIG EAST Coach of the Year. The team has played for the BIG EAST regular season championship the past two years, earning the second seed both times in a highly competitive lacrosse conference. This year three Marquette players were selected to play professionally in the Major League Lacrosse Draft — Liam Byrnes, Jake Richard and B.J. Grill. Byrnes and Grill were both in the group that arrived at the very start of the program. Marquette was able to perfectly construct a program that could compete quickly. The department made sure the team had a competitive budget, including plenty of scholarships to attract talent. The year of practice helped set the hardworking tone that Amplo hoped for and helped form a few of those recruits with chips on their shoulders into diamonds in the rough. “The success of this program is from the administration down,” Cottle said. “They were a team, and they worked together. When you find a group of people that work together like that for a common goal, great things happen. Marquette wanted to be good, and they were willing to do the things to be good.” This weekend, Marquette has an opportunity to put the cherry on top of its script by earning the program’s first NCAA Tournament bid with some of the pieces that have been on campus from day one. The Golden Eagles have five players who have been involved in every Marquette lacrosse activity and 19 seniors who have been on the team for every game. “I always joke with Joe and say, ‘If we make the tournament, I can’t wait to see who plays me in the movie,’” Josetti said.
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Determination key factor in Gebes’ career Senior changed tone after talk with head coach By John Hand
john.hand@marquette.edu
The Marquette women’s tennis team had just completed warmups, and all but one member of the team had congregated by the stands waiting for the lineups to be called. Senior Erin Gebes headed out to the middle court at Helfaer Tennis Stadium with a few balls and her racquet. Standing a few feet in from the baseline, she held a ball high above her head before dropping it down to the court. As the ball bounced back up in a quick, swift, graceful motion Gebes smacked the ball over the net. Only she could see her opponent as she visualized the imaginary match she was about to play. The moment epitomized who Gebes has become over the last four years at Marquette: Someone whose internal motivation is so strong she is willing to outwork anyone. Over her career Gebes has amassed 58 career wins, consistently finishing as one of the team’s leaders in that category. Her work ethic has extended beyond the court, as she was named the Most Outstanding Senior in the College of Business Administration. When Gebes was 4-years-old, her mother Denise was thrilled to find out that there was a new fouryear-old soccer league that her hyper daughter, who was already developing a competitive spirit, could participate in. Gebes knew she had the athletic and academic ability to become a collegiate student-athlete. The only problem was that Denver, Gebes’ hometown, was far from the best place for an aspiring tennis player. Poor weather forced her to play inside, but playing against
the best meant traveling quite far. Freshman year of high school, Gebes decided it would be best to attend John Newcombe Tennis Academy in New Braunfels, Texas. Despite feeling motivated to play college tennis, Gebes admits to failing to push herself to put in the extra work. After one year at the Academy, Gebes felt she had gained enough tennis acumen to enroll in D’evelyn High School, one of the best public schools in Colorado. Despite being at a premier school, Gebes still fell back on her natural athletic and academic ability, as she was unwilling to put in the extra work to hone her talents. “A lot of times I would go to play other matches with kids and it would just end up being minitennis,” said Gebes. “With school I wanted to get straight A’s, but if an A was an 89.5, if I could get an 89.5, I was happy enough.” To further her tennis career, Gebes joined the junior circuit, but there were no tournaments in Colorado, which forced her to travel all over the country, and miss as many as 30 school days a year. There was a limited number of coaches who could teach Gebes, so she would often rely on her mother to be her coach. With the weeks spent doing schoolwork, the weekends playing tennis and summers traveling playing in tournaments, Gebes was left with little time to socialize with friends. Gebes was challenged with whether the pursuit of a college scholarship was worth giving up the life of a normal high school teenager. After one particularly rough match, Gebes was ready to give up on tennis and adopt the lifestyle of a typical teenager. On the ride home from the match, Gebes dad, Tom, looked at his daughter. “I’m only going to say this,” he said. “You don’t want to look back and realize you could have been better. Regret is the hardest thing in life.”
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Erin Gebes struggled to find tennis opportunities in Colorado, where she was the No. 1 ranked player.
“That was the best advice I have ever received,” Gebes said. Gebes finished high school as the No. 1 tennis player in Colorado and decided to take her talents to Marquette. Although Gebes had come a long way, when she arrived in Milwaukee, she still wasn’t the hardest worker on the team. One practice during Gebes’ freshman year she was failing to give it her all in practice. Head coach Jody Bronson noticed and pulled her aside and sternly let her know that she needed to be giving a better effort. From that moment on, Gebes hasn’t looked back. “I honestly don’t think I have ever had anybody who has the passion for tennis day in and day out during a long season. Gebes never wavered,” Bronson added. “It was a gift to our program to have someone like that on the team.” Over the course of her career, Gebes has developed into the hardest worker on the team. Bronson and assistant coach Nick Kavelaris both adjusted their schedules because they knew Gebes would stop by either of their
Player of the Week Will Ford Junior Will Ford set the school record in the pole vault Saturday at the UW-Whitewater Drake Alternative meet. His 4.85 meter (15 feet, 11 inches) jump beat the seven-year-old record by two inches and his personal best by four inches. Ford is now tied for first in the BIG EAST in the event with just one meet remaining before the conference championships. Ford’s compatriot, junior Gemma Tedeschi, also broke the women’s pole vault school record at the meet. Tedeschi’s jump broke the eight-year-old record by half an inch. Her mark is 6.5 inches clear of second place in the BIG EAST.
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offices before practice looking to hit extra balls. “She gives everything in practice, no matter what. If she doesn’t feel well she won’t tell you or show it,” said Silvia Ambrosio, Gebes’ doubles partner this year.
Following graduation Gebes will be starting a new chapter in her life by moving to San Jose, California, to work for Pricewaterhouse Coopers. It will be a chapter that begins with no regrets.
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MUBB finances, from page 1
Officials dispel report of significant revenue losses “Everybody understands the importance of the revenue men’s basketball drives to support our other programs, but we don’t budget or plan in a way where there would be a hole if a swing were to occur,” Broeker said. He said a significant revenue drop could theoretically impact the budget for the subsequent year. Scholl declined to comment about the possibility of cutting budgets in other sports because of a revenue drop. The average attendance is not the only thing on the downslope. The Wall Street Journal reported the overall value of the men’s basketball team decreased more than $11 million from last season, from about $71 million to $60 million. The team dropped from 28th to 35th in the overall value rankings. Forbes valued Marquette basketball at $11.4 million and ranked them 20th among all Division I programs. In 2015, Forbes had Marquette ranked 15th and valued at $12.2 million. Broeker called the valuation rankings “junk science” and that it was nothing more than a timely interest piece around the NCAA tournament. Scholl also said he doesn’t put a lot of stock into those numbers. He said there is no lessened value to Marquette athletics. “It doesn’t mean a lot in real terms. It’s not like we are going to be selling our basketball program any time soon,” Broeker said. To Hardin, the value rankings provide a positive. He cited that Marquette is in the top 10 percent of all Division I college basketball teams and is the highest ranked team from a value standpoint that plays in an NBA arena. Hardin said the athletic department took new steps this
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said. “Students bring the energy and enthusiasm to an arena. The more that are there, the louder and more fun the environment is.” Despite the drop, group and single-game purchases were up 3,177, or 18 percent, this year. With a minor decrease in student attendance, it would indicate a more significant loss of season ticket holders. Marquette ranked second in attendance in the BIG EAST behind Creighton. It also ranked 21st in the nation in attendance, marking the 15th straight year landing in the top 25. However, the Golden Eagles play all of their home games at the 12th-largest venue in the NCAA – the BMO Harris Bradley Center – and have a capacity of 18,850. That means the team can easily exceed a team like Duke, which sells out nearly every game but has an arena capacity of just 9,300 fans. Athletic department officials said the attendance drop also means a “slight revenue drop,” but not enough to make any serious impact. Because the athletic department budgets conservatively, Broeker said a drop in revenue will not impact any of the other non-revenue generating sports at Marquette. He said they balance the budget so that the deficit can be made up through conference distribution, bonus incentives, philanthropy and corporate sponsorships. “When it’s all said and done at the end of this fiscal year, we think revenue will be exactly where we predicted it to be,” Broeker said. In the 12 years Broeker has been with the university, he said there has never been a situation in which another sport has been affected by a decline in revenue.
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year to boost attendance numbers. These included the phone light app used for the Villanova and Georgetown games and the floor projections incorporated into the player introductions — a feature only used at Marquette. In an effort to sell more tickets, Hardin helped create a section in the Bradley Center for recent graduates. In October, the department created the Coors Light Corner where recent graduates can buy season tickets and receive a free T-shirt, glass and voucher for a free beer at every game. Athletics had 316 season ticket holders in its debut season, which exceeded the 200-person goal. “We want to get people in the arena earlier and make it more of an event,” Hardin said. “Let’s
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focus on what we can control. Coach (Steve Wojciechowski) and the guys will have a great year next year, and if we put the pieces in place … then the Bradley Center should be rocking.” Broeker said he is “bullish” about the direction the program is headed. He said he thinks the attendance numbers will rebound to where they were several years ago. Much of his optimism lies with the emerging strength of the BIG EAST. He said the league has eight teams projected in KenPom’s top 55. He called the conference one of the best in the country, saying it doesn’t hurt to have a national champion in the conference with Villanova. “Our league doesn’t take second fiddle to any league,” Broeker said. “As we continue to grow
and have success, our revenue will grow alongside it.” In future years, Scholl expects an attendance hike once the new arena is built. He said the Bradley Center was designed for hockey, so most of the best seats are up high — a design that does not suit basketball. The new arena is being designed for basketball games, with better seating in the lower sections nearer to the court. “The way it’s being designed, from the information we received thus far, there are going to be lots more opportunities in the high-end amenities sorts of ways to hopefully monetize the seating in the new building at a more efficient rate than in the Bradley Center,” Scholl said.
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Make MU athletics great again
Dan Reiner Sports Editor
Do you remember when Steve Novak scored 41 points and grabbed 16 rebounds in a victory over No. 2 UConn in 2006? What about when Jimmy Butler nailed the overtime game-winner at St. John’s in 2010? Maybe you do, maybe you don’t. Admittedly, I don’t. Those games occurred during the Marquette men’s basketball renaissance, when the Golden Eagles made eight consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances between 2006 and 2013. However, I was fortunate enough to come to Marquette for what I would call the peak of that success. The team made the Elite 8 for the first time since 2003. When I came here, the Marquette Wire didn’t exist. Student media was still divided. I was actually rejected as a Tribune reporter my freshman year. Can you believe that? Instead, I devoted my time to Marquette Radio, producing games and doing color commentary. The high point of my year – and perhaps my student media career – was calling Vander Blue’s game-winning layup at St. John’s to clinch a share of the BIG EAST regular season title. When I wasn’t doing radio, I was in the student section in my navy morphsuit, yellow tie and white sunglasses. I’ll always remember the raucous crowds at the Wisconsin, Syracuse and Notre Dame games that season. Both soccer teams and the volleyball team also had successful seasons and drew lively crowds. It’s hard to describe the excitement at those games if you aren’t a current senior or older. I can’t say I’ve experienced a game with the same type of atmosphere as games in 2012-’13. Buzz Williams, Terri Mitchell and Bond Shymansky are long gone. Steve Wojciechowski and Carolyn Kieger, as has been well documented, are still rebuilding their respective programs, while Ryan Theis’ volleyball team doesn’t quite have the same flair. Part of that certainly ties into team success. When teams don’t win, fans don’t show up. Still, students only have four years to jump around like maniacs without any judgment. Students can literally rip their shirts off in public and become local heroes. They can write letters to a rival school’s athletic department and become national sensations. This is the only time in a person’s life when the term “fanatic” is unequivocally justifiable. Sure, those moments have come around every now and again over the past three years. But those moments in a half-empty Bradley Center aren’t the same. As I move on from Marquette, I hope to return in years to come to full crowds – where the term “gold out” holds true and the student section spreads into the upper deck on weeknights. We’re all due for some new standout memories. Dan Reiner is a senior from Croton-on-Hudson , New York studying journalism. Email him daniel.reiner@ mu.edu
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Former triathlon president races in Hawaii in Oct. By Robby Cowles
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Every fall, about 2,500 of the best athletes in the world head to Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, to take one of the most challenging races in the world: The Ironman World Championship. Jeff Condit, a recent Marquette graduate, will be part of that elite group. Condit’s graduation came just months after his greatest physical achievement yet, his performance at the Ironman Muskoka (Canada) last August. With a time of 10 hours, one minute, and 35 seconds, Condit had the best times of his 18-24 age division and placed 31st overall. His time qualified him for the 2016 Ironman World Championship. “I broke down in tears once I crossed the finish line,” Condit said. “It was just kind of the emotional exhaustion after 10 hours. It all just kind of came out when I stopped moving after an entire day like that.” Ironmans aren’t for the casual athlete. The world championships’ 2.4-mile open-water swim, 112-mile bike through the Hawaiian desert and 26.2-mile run along the coast is the pinnacle event for any triathlete. The sheer challenge of completing the race will be an even greater test for Condit, who underwent knee surgery in November. “(It was) just too many running miles built up after awhile,” he said. “Things start to hurt, so they went in and cleaned stuff out. (I’ve done) physical training all winter, lots of biking, and just getting back into running now.” That gives him five months to get in full shape for the championship, which takes place October 8. Condit remains optimistic about how his knee and the rest of his body will return to
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Jeff Condit, former Triathlon Team president, topped his age group at the Muskoka Ironman last August.
peak form for his fourth – and most important – triathlon. “At this point, no, (I’m not concerned about my knee),” Condit said. “If it’s another two months and I still can’t run particularly well, then maybe (it will worry me). Going into Muskoka, I was already having knee problems, and I just kind of ran through it anyways.” Thomas Meeker, Condit’s close friend and training partner with Triathlon Team of Marquette and a senior in the College of Business Administration, said the recovery shouldn’t be an issue because there is no parallel for Condit’s work ethic. “You will never hear Jeff complain or end before (his workout) is done,” Meeker said. “However, Jeff knows his limits, and after the surgery
he spent a couple of months slowly easing back into each of the three sports and spending a lot of time in the gym preparing. Being patient, knowing his body and methodically sticking to his gut and his regime has been huge.” His work ethic began early in his career. Condit earned his bachelor’s degree in exercise physiology from Marquette in 2013, then received his master’s in clinical and translational rehabilitation this past December. Early in his undergraduate career, he started training for and competing in regional Ironman triathlons, completing his first in Madison in 2011. He also started volunteering for Milwaukee’s Youth Empowered to Succeed Program – where he now works full-time – teaching
outdoor fitness classes, mountain biking, swimming and other outdoor activities. This summer, Condit will need to balance his job and the 30-plus hours per week of Ironman training required. He’s taking everything one day at a time as his knee recovers. “I’ll do it as best as I can, certainly, that’s my general M.O.,” Condit said. “I would say under 10 hours would be awesome, but at the same time that’d be huge. Honestly, I’ll probably just be happy to be there … I didn’t put any pressure on myself in Canada and did really well, I was just there to have fun, so I guess that will be the strategy for Hawaii as well.”
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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 Jay-Z’s RocNation as his agency, ending chances he’ll return to Marquette. This is a roundup of when NCAA and NBA pundits have him going in June’s draft. ESPN’s Chad Ford (4/26): No. 5 overall to Minnesota Timberwolves CBS Sports’ Sam Vecenie (5/3): No. 9 overall to Toronto Raptors USA Today’s Derek Bodner (5/2): No. 6 overall to New Orleans Pelicans DraftExpress (4/26): No. 9 overall to Toronto Raptors NBADraft.net (5/4): No. 18 overall to Detroit Pistons CBS Sports’ Gary Parrish (5/4): No. 9 overall to Toronto Raptors Sporting News’ Sean Deveney (4/18): No. 12 overall to Utah Jazz Bleacher Report’s Jonathan Wasserman (4/25): No. 9 overall to Toronto Raptors *Note: Projections of teams are based on different website index formulas. Photo by Mike Carpenter michael.carpenter@marquette.edu