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Law school markets perfect bar passage rates despite lack of testing Photo by Ben Erickson benjamin.a.erickson@marquette.edu
Marquette University Law School students study in the Eckstein Hall Reading Room. Marquette and Madison’s law schools are unique in that most students don’t take the bar.
By Alexander Montesantos alexander.montesantos@marquette.edu
Many recent Marquette and University of Wisconsin-Madison law school graduates will find themselves in a unique position this month. While some law graduates throughout the rest of the country feverishly
prepare for the grueling February Multistate Bar Examination, Wisconsin law graduates get to sit back and breathe easy knowing a Wisconsin Supreme Court rule from the 1800s allows many of them to practice law without ever taking the test. Because of this, Marquette
advertises a 100 percent bar passage rate without taking into account the passage rates of the students who have to take the test. Bar passage rates are often seen as one testament among several to the quality of a law school’s education, and Marquette is posing as the greatest in the nation in this regard
despite coming in at 105th in US News and World Report’s official law school rankings. The Whole Truth? Diploma privilege – the Wisconsin Supreme Court rule that allows graduates of Marquette’s and the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s law schools
to practice law in Wisconsin without taking the bar if they meet certain requirements set by the state – is definitely something of a drawing point. While it may sound too sweet to pass up, MULS graduates increasingly choose to See LAW, page 8
Additional fees Teaching abroad at home Jesuit Commons being considered brings online classes Three colleges could tack on an extra lab technology payment By Gary Leverton
gary.leverton@marquette.edu
A new technology fee for classes with a lab component may be added in the colleges of Arts & Sciences, Engineering and Communication, leaving some students unhappy. The colleges’ deans said all possibilities are being considered and nothing has been
decided for sure. This fee would cover increasing costs in the specific colleges, which could include lab equipment and upgrades for technology, including software updates. Focus groups conducted in some of the colleges have considered the fee a onetime cost before the semester, not for each class that students have to take. This fee would not be included in the tuition increase. “There are conversations going on between deans, colleges See FEES, page 2 INDEX
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to developing places By Jennifer Walter
jennifer.walter@marquette.edu
Choosing education over a day’s worth of meals isn’t something many Marquette students think about. For students in developing countries, however, education is so valuable that some are willing to sacrifice for the opportunity to learn. Jesuit Commons: Higher Education at the Margins is a global organization that digitally networks universities and institutions to people in
developing countries who struggle to access higher education. The organization operates in a number of countries all around the globe, including Syria, Afghanistan and the Philippines. Since it began in 2010, the organization enrolled more than 1,966 students. Mary McFarland, the founder and director of the commons, will visit Marquette to speak at the Heartland Conference on Feb. 19. “Education is really a longerterm goal, (the students) value it so much,” said Eric Kowalik, instructional designer at Raynor Library. “(McFarland) shared a story once about a student who, when asked if they
would choose education or food for the day, (said) they would choose education.” Kowalik read a Conversation on Higher Education article in 2011 that McFarland wrote about the commons. He then contacted Heidi Schweizer, director of e-learning in the Center for Teaching and Learning. She was enthusiastic about the initiative and became Marquette’s liaison for it. “We recently had developed The History of Africa course for online delivery with Chima Korieh (and) we contacted (the commons) and offered that course to them,” Schweizer said See COMMONS, page 4
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Many students opposed to possible new technology fees
and (the) provost,” said Kristina Ropella, dean of the College of Engineering. “Nothing has been decided in terms of a specific fee implementation. There are a number of options if fees were to be implemented.” Ropella added that the College of Engineering wants to offer the best equipment possible, but the money has to come from somewhere. Elise Hahn, a junior in the College of Engineering, said she is not a fan of an extra lab fee. “They’re already jacking up tuition cost,” Hahn said. “I’m required to take some classes and buy books for them. I don’t want to pay an extra fee.” Liam Jonas, a sophomore in the College of Engineering, said he enjoys the engineering equipment available now. “I value labs more because it would have a direct monetary Photo by Mike Carpenter michael.carpenter@marquette.edu cost,” Jonas said. “Still, I would probably oppose it. College is The Wakerly Center in Johnston Hall, the College of Communication building, contains a wealth of technology for students to use for free. expensive as it is.” Grace Lejman, a sophomore in “There is no time table.” of Arts & Sciences, said he would the College of Engineering, said Natalie Lah, a senior in the probably be opposed to she would be upset if she had to College of Communication, said an extra lab fee. pay an extra lab fee. she thinks an extra fee is unfair. “I am always against increasing “I already pay thousands of “Technically, we wouldn’t cost to students,” Anderson said. dollars to go to this school,” even be buying the equipment “That being said, somebody has Lejmen said. “It would be a that these fees would go to- to pay for it. As long as students ridiculous charge for a class ward,” Lah said. “I already pay are happy with the equipment and that they make for books and experiments, they shouldn’t have you take.” tuition. I think to pay more.” Ana Garner, the equipment Similar to the College of Cominterim dean of is great. I don’t munication, the College of Arts the College of think upgrades & Sciences is hosting focus Communicaare necessary.” groups. Richard Holz, dean of tion, said the Joel Burfeind, the College of Arts & Sciences, college is cona sophomore in said he wants to ensure that studucting focus the College of dents receive the best equipment, groups with stuC o m m u n i c a - undergraduate lab assistants and Photo by Mike Carpenter michael.carpenter@marquette.edu dents about the tion, similarly science labs. possibility of did not sup“While many institu- Many students think their colleges already have enough technology that is up-to-date and that new fees aren’t necessary. charging a new KRISTINA ROPELLA port the idea tions across the country have Dean of the College of of additional small lab fees, we have not fee of $50 per “We are simply at the stage of the university used to pay for Engineering fees. semester. The made a decision at this point, trying to determine if we should other lab expenses, but has possibility of “Some stu- as we are continuing our access a small fee for lab cours- since ceased to do so. “Lab procedures used to be implementing dents are forced assessment,” Holz said. es,” Holz said. “The details for the fees at the beginning of the to take labs,” Burfeind said. A specific fee amount was not how much and for which classes free on D2L,” Florendo said. fall 2016 semester was thrown “They would essentially be mak- discussed in those focus groups, the fee would be assessed are yet “Now we have to pay for that. It doesn’t seem fair for the uniaround. ing you pay again. It would be which Holz said should finish in to be determined.” “The Diederich College will extremely unfair.” the next couple weeks. If fees Francesca Florendo, a versity to consider charging us not be charging lab fees anytime James Anderson, a were to be implemented, he said sophomore in the College again for labs.” soon,” Garner said in an email. biology professor in the College they would be modest. of Health and Sciences, said
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Team snaps for Father Marquette Students, staff run Snapchat account for MU namesake
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By Alex Groth
alexandria.groth@marquette.edu
Despite approaching his 380th birthday this spring, Father Marquette remains current through his Snapchat, which is run by the Office of Marketing and Communication. Sarah Eslyn, the social media and communications coordinator at the College of Business Administration, said the Father Marquette Snapchat is a team effort involving the comedic style of staff and student social media interns. There are two Father Marquette figures OMC uses for the snaps – a life-size cutout and a smaller statue. While the lifesize cutout sometimes appears on the Snapchat, the office tries to remain consistent by mainly using the smaller statue. “We have to be authentic with our humor when Father Marquette is Snapchatting,” Eslyn said in an email. “If we try too hard, the story will not connect with students.” In an effort to remain authentic, there is little strategy to construct the Snapchats. “(The process) is more just Photos courtesy of Father Marquette on Snapchat like what we feel like doing Father Marquette’s snap stories often relate to pop culture or typical student experiences on campus. that day,” said Rose Littlefair, a senior in the College of my friends to follow (it,) just Communication and a social studying, sleep deprivation students and alumni. “Whenever we got feedback because my friends were just and the weather. media intern.“We run around it was like, ‘Hey, you guys like, ‘Ah, I don’t want to folThe small statue has been with him to various events are doing a good job, it’s relow him, that’s stupid.’” through hardship during its around campus and kind of ally funny. We want more of Kennedy Furnace, a freshtime on Snapchat. integrate him into that.” this’” Barrett said. “Really man in the College of Arts & “(Previous social media inDan Barrett, a junior in the never negative.” Sciences, said Father Marterns) lost the statue at graduCollege of Communication and Kennedy Perkins, a freshman quette is important on campus, ation, so this is another one,” a former social media intern, in the College of Communicabut she has not looked him Littlefair said. said making up on Snapchat. tion, heard about the Father “The previous content was a “I haven’t really felt the statue before Marquette Snapchat from the bit like going urge to, and I probably university’s home page and that had the on adventures won’t,” she said. now follows the account. head fall off.” with Father But this has not deterred Fa“I think it’s funny and creD e s p i t e Marquette. ther Marquette from going on ative,” Perkins said. Father MarSome of Eshis next adventure. There are some, howquette’s struglyn’s favorite The exact amount of followgles, his Snap- ever, who are still hesitant moments have ers for the Father Marquette about whether to follow chat received been when FaSnapchat account is unknown, the account or not. p r i m a r i l y ther Marquette although it is estimated to be “I begged all my friends to positive feedrelates to SARAH ESLYN around 1,500 to 2,000 people. follow the Father Marquette back from common stuCollege of Business both current Snapchat,” Littlefair said. dent frustraAdministration social media and communications coordinator M a r q u e t t e “(But) it was really hard to get tions, such as
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MUPD REPORTS JANUARY 28
A student reported that unknown person(s) removed her secured, unattended bicycle outside of Mashuda Hall. Estimated loss is $202. MUPD stopped a driver not affiliated with Marquette for a traffic violation in the 1800 block of W. Wells St. and transported him to the Milwaukee County Criminal Justice Facility for an outstanding warrant at 6:50 a.m.
JANUARY 29
An employee reported that unknown person(s) removed secured, unattended university property estimated at $15 in Haggerty Hall.
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Unknown person(s) vandalized university property in Schroeder Hall causing an estimated $40 in damage at 1:20 p.m.
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A vehicle driven by an unknown driver struck a vehicle driven by a student in the 1700 block of W. Clybourn St. and left the scene at 8:05 a.m. The student’s vehicle sustained moderate damage. No injuries were reported.
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A person not affiliated with Marquette trespassed in the lobby of a building in the 2000 block of W. Wisconsin Ave. MUPD took the subject into custody and transported him to the Milwaukee County Criminal Justice Facility for an outstanding warrant at 9:59 p.m.
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Alumnus making Milwaukee eco-friendlier
Work focuses on environmental sustainability By Brittany Carloni
brittany.carloni@marquette.edu
Marquette alumnus Erick Shambarger has had an interest in environmental sustainability since his parents got him and his brother out in nature at an early age. It wasn’t until he traveled around Europe that he found inspiration to make Milwaukee a world-class eco-city. “When I was in Europe I was able to see some of the connections between Milwaukee and European cities,” Shambarger said. “(Characteristics of European cities were) really a lot to build on, and I got kind of inspired to want to see (Milwaukee) embrace that kind of ethic even more.” Shambarger is the sustainability director of the City of Milwaukee’s Environmental Collaboration Office. Mayor Tom Barrett created the office in 2006. It was formerly known as the Office of Environmental Sustainability. Shambarger said ECO’s mission to make Milwaukee an ecocity involves developing and running programs to reduce the city’s environmental footprint. Shambarger was the deputy director of sustainability for ECO before being appointed sustainability director in June 2015. “We directly run programs
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Alumnus Erick Shambarger wants to keep working on environmental sustainability with Marquette.
and I work with other city departments to try and help them make their operations more sustainable,” Shambarger said. “We also implement the city’s ReFresh Milwaukee sustainability plan, which outlines all the actions we plan to take on for sustainability.” Shambarger works primarily on ECO’s energy efficiency programs including Milwaukee Energy Efficiency and the Milwaukee Better Buildings Challenge. Uriel Carrillo, a senior in the College of Business Administration, works with ECO
and Shambarger as an intern on green procurement. This involves making sure goods and services are as environmentally friendly as possible. Carrillo is also working with ECO to develop an environmentally friendly process for obtaining the city’s goods and services for the city. “Working with ECO has helped me see what environmental and sustainability issues we are facing in Milwaukee and how the city is working to address these issues,” Carrillo said in an email. “It is
satisfying to be a part of ECO, even if I myself have not really made an impact yet.” While many of ECO’s programs apply to homeowners and businesses, Shambarger hopes to continue working with Marquette and its students. “One of the things we can do is find ways to be smarter about how we do water policy in the city and continue to find nextgeneration technology that can help us preserve our precious water resources and ultimately create new industries that we can export around the world,”
Shambarger said. Carmela Ruffolo, associate vice president for Research and Innovation in the Office of the Provost, worked with Shambarger and other community partners to submit a report on water to the White House’s Activities and Actions to Build a Sustainable Water Future. “I think it’s a really great situation where we do have the city that is wanting to work with us on different projects within sustainability,” Ruffolo said. “I think it’s a good partnership.” Shambarger, a Nebraska native, graduated from Marquette in 2000 with a double major in social philosophy and writing intensive English. While on campus, he was a resident assistant in O’Donnell Hall, member of the wrestling team and participant in community service work. After graduating, Shambarger attended UW-Madison for graduate school where he received a master’s degree in public affairs with a specialization in energy policy. “I’d like to invite all Marquette students to think about living in the city of Milwaukee upon graduation,” Shambarger said. “Milwaukee is a great city to live in and I want to continue to build that community of MU grads who continue to live here and choose to help build the city for the future.”
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45-credit degrees available through MU, Jesuit Commons
in an email. “And it snowballed from there.” The program offers diplomas in liberal studies and community service learning tracks, which focus on fields such as health, education and English as a second language. Students can earn a 45-credit undergraduate degree. Another Marquette course offered through the commons is Logic and Critical Thinking, designed by Stephen Plecnik, a graduate philosophy student.
Colleagues in the philosophy department introduced Plecnik to the program. In addition to developing the course, he also teaches it. “It is a lot different but we do have assignments, quizzes – different things to try to keep those students engaged continuously,” Plecnik said. “It’s tough, but we try to keep them doing something every day.” To combat the lack of access to the proper technology, the commons takes extensive
measures to ensure that students have access to a computer lab. “Before the program was offered in Kenya, the commons had to erect satellite towers so a signal could be transmitted to the computer lab in Kakuma, Kenya,” Schweizer said. “Just imagine the vision needed to say, ‘provide higher education to folks living totally on the margins of society and then go about erecting towers for Internet access as the first step.’” Plecnik said he’s thrilled to
see the impact his course has since he gets positive responses from his students. He cited a brief from the Marquette Global newsletter in which Muzabel Welongo, a commons student from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, said “the logic course changed (my) reasoning, as it had changed many of (my) fellow colleagues.”
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Students involved in selecting VP of affairs Seeking employee with interest in campus community By Gary Leverton
gary.leverton@marquette.edu
About 15 Marquette students attended a forum hosted Feb. 1 by Anne Deahl, associate vice provost for academic support programs and retention, sharing their opinions on the selection process for the next Vice President of Student Affairs. The Vice President of Student Affairs is responsible for campus cocurricular initiatives in conjunction with student academic, personal,
and professional development. Josh Miles, a sophomore in the College of Communication and one of the forum supervisors, said it’s important to engage students in the process. He generated discussion by asking students what they want in the next Vice President of Student Affairs. “I anticipate the new vice president should have a very active role at Marquette,” said Courtney Guc, a junior in the College of Business Administration. “I don’t want them to come in with excuses on issues.” Amanda Stolz, a junior in the College of Education, said she hopes to see the new vice president around campus when they are hired.
“They should make themselves visible to the students,” Stolz said. Anna Goldstein, a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences, said the candidate should be involved with the student body. “Taking students’ input into account is very important,” Goldstein said. “They should make their presence felt at the university.” The former Vice President of Student Affairs, L. Christopher Miller, resigned in May 2015. Marya Leatherwood, vice provost for strategic and academic planning, is filling the position on an interim basis until a permanent candidate is selected. Deahl supervised the meeting
alongside Miles and Sabrina Singh, an employee of Isaacson, Miller, the company that working as an independent third party to assist Marquette with the search. “We are here to help get the word out, help potential candidates take a closer look at the position and spread the word,” Singh said. Singh asked questions throughout the night to gauge what students think is important in a potential candidate. The questions ranged from what pitch will get them to Marquette and how to get the candidates here. She also gave students a chance to voice their ideas on certain offices the vice president would work with including the
counseling center, medical center and residence life. Singh said, although Isaacson, Miller, will help selecting potential candidates, the closed search committee will make the final decision. Deahl added that the committee is staying closed because they want to respect potential candidates’ interest in the job without exposing them to their respective universities, including Marquette. Deahl said the committee will include student input as well, possibly through Marquette Student Government. She said interviews should start and end in May, and the candidate will officially be brought in July 1.
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MUPD Advisory Board adjusting to campus Group prepares for its first meeting of new semester
By Ryan Patterson
ryan.patterson@marquette.edu
As the Marquette Police Department approaches its third advisory board meeting next week, members are getting a feel of where their role fits in at the university. Thomas Hammer, associate law professor and the board’s chairman, will be in the chairman position for at least three years. He said next week’s meeting will mainly cover additional MUPD policies and procedures. The board was formed last November after MUPD was commissioned in April 2015. The board first met Nov. 10 and again on Dec. 8. They plan to meet twice per semester, but will also convene if something notable involving MUPD occurs. In addition to teaching at Marquette and serving as a Milwaukee County Assistant District Attorney from 1975-’81, Hammer spent nearly 10 years as president of the North Shore Fire Commission, which oversaw the combined fire department of the seven communities north of Milwaukee. Prior to that, Hammer was a member of the Shorewood Police and Fire Commission for 10 years. Herbert Lowe, vice chairman of the board and journalism professor, said the board is “more in the review stage than scrutiny stage” of advising MUPD. He said they
mostly asked questions in the first two meetings so they could better understand how MUPD operates. The board has no operational authority over MUPD. Its main purpose is to bring the respective interests of the groups it represents to MUPD. Those groups include the Marquette faculty, staff and student body, as well as the Milwaukee communities surrounding campus. Hammer said getting input from the surrounding communities and someone not directly affiliated with Marquette is important. “MUPD serves an area surrounding the campus that is on the Near West Side, and so we thought it would be valuable to have a community member … bring the perspective of the community to the deliberations of the board,” Hammer said. Keith Stanley is the board’s community representative and the executive director of Avenues West neighborhood and the Near West Side Partners. Hammer complimented Stanley for the job he has done in bringing community issues to the board’s attention. “(Stanley) has become very much the face of the Near West Side and Avenues West,” Hammer said. Overall, Hammer said the early effects from MUPD have been positive. “As good an operation as (the Department of Public Safety) was, now the MUPD is able to deliver an even higher level of service to the campus and the area immediately surrounding (it),”
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An employee works in the Marquette Police Department office. The force has been around since April.
Hammer said. “The early indicators are that the way that MUPD is doing its business is having an impact on the amount of crime that is committed.” University President Michael Lovell announced at his January Presidential Address that since MUPD was commissioned, there has been a 26 percent decrease in overall campus crime and a 34 percent decrease in campus robberies. Hammer mentioned that access to various channels of police communication and police databases are helpful tools that MUPD utilizes. The board has the option to have a closed session if necessary, but Hammer said transparency is a
priority and closed meetings will likely be few and far between. “We intend to do as much business as we can in open session, but because we’re dealing with a police department, there could be times when the subject matter is not appropriate for public discussion at the moment,” Hammer said. “It might be with respect to some type of crime-fighting strategy, or it might involve (police) personnel or a student who has certain privacy rights.” Similarly, Lowe said the board is “available and accessible to anyone who has anything to say or learn about the department.” As discussed during the board’s December meeting, MUPD is looking into the future use of
tasers to subdue criminal suspects. There will be taser training sessions for MUPD officers next week, led by MUPD Captain Jeff Kranz. There are two separate eight-hour training sessions, one Thursday and one Saturday. The anticipated date for possible taser implementation is unclear, as MUPD is at an early stage of research. In the board’s first two meetings, they established and discussed its university-approved charter and went over MUPD policies and procedures, including fair and impartial policing. The third meeting will take place Feb. 9 at 3:30 p.m. in room 157 of the Alumni Memorial Union. It is open to the public.
Lovell prepared to make McAdams decision Faculty committee finished report on professor’s future By Natalie Wickman
natalie.wickman@marquette.edu
A decision report regarding tenured political science professor John McAdam’s status at Marquette University was recently sent to University President Michael Lovell. A Faculty Hearing Committee previously assembled to generate the report to determine if McAdams should be terminated after his role in a widely-publicized controversy. Bruce Boyden, associate law professor and chair of the committee, confirmed that the report is finished and under Lovell’s consideration. That information was also announced at a University Academic Senate meeting last week. Lovell will use the report to decide if McAdams will be terminated or continue working at Marquette. The report is not public due to academic statues, but Boyden said it should be available when Lovell makes his final decision. Cheryl Maranto, the College of Business Administration’s Department of Management chair and University Academic Senate
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member, said Lovell didn’t provide a timeline that he’ll follow for making his decision. “All the timelines in the University Academic Statutes relating to faculty appeals end with the delivery of the report of the Faculty Council to the president,” Maranto said in an email. “So there are no formal deadlines, at least that
I’m aware of, for (Lovell’s) decision and response.” McAdams said last September that if Marquette fires him, he will sue the university. McAdams said on the Vicki McKenna Show on Newstalk 1310 WIBA. “If (the committee) say(s) Marquette can fire me, it will be easier for Marquette — although not terribly easy, because that would create
a huge amount of bad publicity for Marquette and they have essentially been promised a lawsuit from my lawyers.” The committee met for a week last September and had around 90 days to finish its report. The controversy at hand started in November 2014 when McAdams wrote a post on his blog, “Marquette Warrior,” criticizing the way former teaching assistant Cheryl Abbate handled a disagreement with her student about gay marriage. In the post, McAdams described the disagreement, which happened in a Theory of Ethics philosophy class. The disagreement occurred when Abbate discussed philosopher John Rawl’s equal liberty principle, which states that every person has an equal right to the most extensive liberties. “(Abbate) listed some issues on the board, and came to ‘gay rights,’” McAdams said in the post. “She then airily said that ‘everybody agrees on this, and there is no need to discuss it.’” An unnamed student met with Abbate after class to say he disagreed with her and that he wanted to discuss his views that oppose gay marriage. McAdams said Abbate declined to have that conversation in her class. McAdams said the unnamed student gave him the incident information. In the time
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following the post’s publication, many people refuted or falsified parts of it. The story was picked up by Inside Higher Education and gained national attention. It provoked the Westboro Baptist Church to picket campus in December 2014. Abbate received harassing emails, some which included death threats, and transferred to the University of Colorado-Boulder. Weeks after the picket, the university suspended McAdams with pay and banned him from campus. A College of Arts & Sciences review of the incident was conducted during his suspension. McAdams then blogged Feb. 4, 2015 about being notified that Marquette began the process to remove him from the university, which led to the committee’s meetings.
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Business changes aim to increase success
Class order shift increases student preparedness By Dana Warren
dana.warren@marquette.edu
Students and faculty in the College of Business Administration are beginning to see the effects of the curriculum changes put in place two years ago, where students are seeking internships in their college careers. “We have basically made a curriculum shift of moving our business courses literally in sequence one year earlier” said Joseph Terrian, assistant dean of the College of Business Administration. In previous years, students who began in the College of Business Administration as freshmen would start with courses such as finite math, history, theology or sociology. Now freshmen typically take financial accounting, one of two calculus courses and several other business leadership-based classes their first semester. This provides students the opportunity to take courses that used to be considered upper-level, such as marketing and supply chain management, their sophomore year. In addition to moving
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Students in the lounge of David Straz Jr. Hall, home to the College of Business Administration.
introduction business classes earlier in the curriculum and suggesting that students take university core classes as upperclassmen, the College of Business Administration implemented new and redesigned classes such as Business Day 1. This class is designed to give students an overview of all the majors and resources of the college. They also restructured some of the aspects of the leadership education & development (LEAD 1001) sequence of courses. “Now students are internshipready sophomore year instead of junior year,” Terrian said.
The changes in the curriculum resulted from employers offering jobs to business students prior to the start of senior year. “We need to prepare students earlier and employers keep telling us that they want students with more work experience,” Terrian said. “What is driving this more than anything is employers wanting access to our students and to be competitive with other universities or students that are applying, they want more work experience.” Additionally, professors within the College of Business Administration took steps to adopt more applied learning
experiences into their curriculum. Students gain additional experience in their fields of interest and stand out when it comes to finding future employment. “Applied learning is crucial to business education, particularly in a competitive job market and a world with expanding technology,” said Jodi Gissel, assistant professor of accounting, in an email. “While this has always been important, students are often now competing in a global market due to the internet and social media as well as video conferencing.” Students noticed and
appreciated the curriculum changes, particularly since some core business classes were moved to their first semester at Marquette, allowing them to consider different majors sooner. “I never really thought that I would want to do accounting, but I did well in that class and they talked to me about being an accounting major and it has made me think about it,” said Ryan Febus, a freshman in the College of Business Administration. Having students try these courses at the beginning of their academic career allows them to narrow their interests and focus on specific fields earlier. “I have so many more opportunities and I feel that I am really far ahead in the curriculum itself,” said Nathan Anderson, a sophomore in the College of Business Administration. “That opens up a lot more doors a lot earlier.” The relationship that the College of Business Administration developed with employers was one of the key components for changing the curriculum as well as redesigning some courses. “I think it was a whole combination of things,” Terrian said. “I think it’s this constant listening to what employers want and doing the best we can to prepare students for the work force.”
Title IX survey results to model future work Questions cover sexual assault, university inclusion By Jennifer Walter
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A voluntary Title IX survey hoping to aid in amending sexual assault prevention and education programs, is receiving a significant amount of responses from students. The content of the survey ranges from questions about how
inclusive students feel on campus to questions regarding sexual assault. It was jointly administered by Emily Schumacher-Novak, coordinator of Advocacy Services and Sexual Violence Prevention and Education and Title IX Coordinator Christine Harris Taylor. “The more students who participate, the more we will learn that can help us take on this issue in a meaningful way,” said Schumacher-Novak, in the email containing the survey. Though it is referred to as a “Climate Survey” in the email that
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sexual violence.” Though the total count of students surveyed has not yet been tallied, Taylor said the initial response was good. “Assessment and data gathering is a critical part of that and we have always sought student input in a variety of ways,” Taylor said. “This is just another avenue for gathering that input.” Schumacher-Novak said the survey and time window for participating in it was determined through approval from a university review board. There was also strategy behind making the survey voluntary. “We were hoping that students would feel freedom to respond openly and honestly if there was no compulsory element to it,” Schumacher-Novak said. “Additionally, to incentivize the survey by Thomas Southall
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MUSG slows work on Take Back the Yak Some students say they don’t use the app as much lately By Rebecca Carballo
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After the “Take Back the Yak” initiative was launched in the fall, students and Marquette Student Government reacted to current usage of the app. Yik Yak was cited as a “divisive force” on campus in the Climate Study. In response, MUSG launched the “Take Back the Yak” initiative in the fall. The initiative was meant to combat hateful and otherwise derogatory speech on the app. Some students expressed their experiences and frustrations with Yik Yak. “I haven’t used Yik Yak in a while,” said Jack Puhr, a sophomore in the College of Communication. “It’s always the same old stuff.” Kaelyn Whiteside, a freshman in the College of Communication, said, “I had the app but deleted it because there was too much negativity.” MUSG said on its website the purpose of the “Take Back the Yak” initiative is to keep the posts positive. “Through this partnership, members of MUSG and other student organizations are collaborating with Yik Yak representatives to ensure the app continues to be a fun, positive and community-building outlet
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The Marquette community has had a mixed response to Yik Yak. It was cited as a “divisive force” in last year’s campus Climate Study.
for students,” reads the website. If students see hateful or offensive yaks they can report them to an email TakeB a c k T h e Ya k M U @ g m a i l . com. The email is run by a group of students from various MUSG organizations. Emily Gorz, Communication Vice President, said the campaign has not stopped, but she has not looked at the email
since returning from break. Other students see benefits of using the app, but think it is decreasing in popularity. They see it as a good way to see what people on campus are talking about. “I think it gauges interests of people,” said Zack Wiurschem, a sophomore in the College of Business Administration. “It’s a real way of engaging the world,
but it has its trade-offs.” Clare Danielson, a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences, said she uses the app because she finds it funny and entertaining. “I go on Yik Yak, but I definitely use it less. It was a lot more popular last year” Danielson said. Glibert Vaquero, a senior in the College of Communication
and Yik Yak campus representative, said the usage has remained consistent, but Yik Yak is not focused on finding more users. He said people use the app as a resource to find out what is happening on campus. “Instead of focusing on upping usage we are focusing on feedback” Vaquero said. “Our big goal is to know what the community wants.”
New strategic theme focuses on inclusion Change comes after Climate Survey results show concern By Maredithe Meyer
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Marquette recently added a “Culture of Inclusion” theme to Beyond Boundaries, the university’s Strategic Plan, to encourage more diversity on campus. University President Michael Lovell announced the change in his Presidential Address Jan. 20. He said it tackles many of the concerns found in the campus Climate Survey results. “It is important to be sure that we have put the type of measures in place to create that welcoming and inviting community that will allow our students to feel that they are a part of it,” said Marya Leatherwood, vice provost for strategic and academic planning. Starting in the fall, Leatherwood and William Welburn, executive director for Institutional Diversity and Inclusion, directed the new theme’s development and discussed it with the Board of Trustees and other organizations such as Marquette Student Government and the
President’s Task Force on Eq- strides that other universities uity and Inclusion. are not,” said Anna Goldstein, a “It has always been our fo- member of the President’s Task cus that every student has the Force on Equity and Inclusion best experience possible here,” and junior in the College of Arts MUSG President Zack Wallace & Sciences. said about the theme’s goal. Lovell started the commitWallace said he is happy to tee after his election in 2014 see that an emphasis on diver- to address students’ concerns sity and acceptance is now in- about diversity. For the past cluded in the Strategic Plan. year, students, faculty and staff Leatherwood said the univer- on the committee have worked sity is aiming specifically for with Lovell and Leatherwood to greater racial, ethnic, gender, develop the new theme and imgeographical and religious di- prove the campus climate. versity on campus. However, the committee did “Our values really speak to not need a survey to understand creating a climate of respect that minority students did not and dignity where everyone is always feel welcome on camvalued,” she said. pus, according to Goldstein. Leatherwood has also helped “The making of the comdevelop an online “dashboard” mittee was very reactionary to for the Marhow students quette commuwere feelnity to voice its ing,” Goldopinions and to stein said. measure the uni“We knew versity’s Stratethat diversity gic Plan progwas a probress. Lovell said lem before at his address the climate that this tool will survey was soon be availtaken.” able to students. Goldstein, “We still have a Jewish a while to go but student at as a Jesuit, CathMarquette, MARYA LEATHERWOOD said she has olic school, we Vice provost for strategic and are making huge academic planning experienced
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minority exclusion firsthand. Being on the committee has given her a voice to represent students of all backgrounds, she said. The “Culture of Inclusion” is one of six themes in the university’s Strategic Plan. It includes
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practice law in states outside of Wisconsin. For these graduates, passing the bar is imperative in their pursuit to be legally admitted to practice law. Kathleen Pagel, MULS Assistant Director of Academic Success and Bar Preparation, hypothesized that this increasing departure of graduates may be due in part to the increasing number of out-of-state residents enrolled at the law school. “Over the past dozen years, as I understand it, we have gone from just over one-third of the first-year class being out-of-state residents to more than one-half this year,” Pagel said in an email. Upon an initial search of the various ABA-required disclosures MULS submits every year, these particular bar passage rates cannot be found. Instead, the standard 509 Information Report of 2015 reads that the bar passage rates for both tests in 2014 was 99.50 percent, while the passage rates for both tests in 2013 and 2012 were a perfect 100 percent. In fact, a quick look at certain websites like U.S. News and World Report, that rank law schools based on different criteria, will show both MULS and UW-Madison Law School top even the best law schools in the country for bar passage rates – with 100 percent. It should be noted that U.S. News’s bar passage rates lie behind a paywall, but other sites like StartClass do not. Both institutions can report perfect numbers because, given the continued extension of diploma privilege by the Wisconsin Supreme Court, technically
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every student who graduates “passes” the bar, even though they are not required to take it at any point – assuming they meet the certifications and remain within state lines while practicing law. It isn’t clear, however, whether this 100 percent passage rate includes all students, or only those who wish to practice in Wisconsin and take advantage of the diploma privilege. After examining dozens of other law schools’ ABA-required disclosures, most list the bar
passage rates of several states where students most often take the exam. Marquette lists only one: Wisconsin. After contacting both the Illinois and Minnesota State Bar Associations – two states where many graduates choose to venture upon graduation – representatives from both institutions gave almost the same response: As a private institution, Marquette is not obligated to present that information to private individuals.
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The Directors of the Board of Admissions to the Bar and the Board of Law Examiners of each of these states, as well as Wisconsin, corroborated this roadblock: This data is compiled but cannot be released to private individuals. Yet, the data is reported to the law schools and then reported to the ABA. A final inquiry to Erica Moeser, president and CEO of the National Conference of Bar Examiners, left all roads pointing in the same direction: “Concerning the data you are looking for, Marquette law school would be the only one to have that, if anyone.” However, Pagel said, “We do not compile this data.” Lowering the Bar One troubling aspect of this is the overall decline in bar passage rates nationwide. If law schools across the country are struggling with passage rates more than in the past, it is difficult to assume Marquette would be immune to this if most students did have to take the exam. Nationwide, scores on the MBE dropped to a mean score of 141.7 in 2014 – nearly three points lower than the national mean for the July 2013 exam. This marked the single biggest year-to-year drop since the start of the MBE. July 2014’s score was the lowest national mean MBE score in 10 years. Some fear this is only the beginning of a more disturbing trend. Just a year later, the average score on the multiplechoice portion of the July 2015 test was 139.9, down 1.6 points from 141.5 in July 2014; its lowest level since 1988, according to data provided to Bloomberg by the National Conference of Bar Examiners. But because Marquette and UW-Madison law
Enrollment hasn’t caught up, and some students are at a greater risk of not passing.” Erica Moeser President, CEO of NCBE
students don’t have to take the bar, it remains a mystery how they might have fared. Closing the Gap A major reason law graduates struggle to pass the bar is because law schools are accepting students with lower qualifications than past years in order to keep enrollment numbers up. Over the past decade, the number of students applying to law school decreased significantly. This decrease was most pronounced in 2011-’12, when the weak legal market and law school dishonesty came to the forefront of national news. According to prospective student data by admissions cycle and for ABA-approved schools since the 2002-’03 academic year, the number of applicants dropped by almost half, from 99,500 applicants to only 55,702 applicants in 2014-’15. Consequently, the gap between the number of applicants and those accepted narrowed noticeably. While 56,800 applicants were admitted to law school in 2002-’03 compared to 43,500 in 2013-’14, 42,700 applicants were not admitted to law school in 2002-’03 whereas only 12,200 applicants were not in 2013-’14. This means getting into law school become easier over time, specifically over the
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Marquette Law School does not compile data regarding bar passage rates for students who take the bar for another state, despite students’ increased interest in doing so.
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number of MULS students who will take another jurisdiction’s bar exam.” Pagel also teaches a class focused on developing and enhancing students’ skills in order for them to be more successful on the essay portion of the bar examination. Additionally, Pagel is working to develop a bar preparation program that will support students during the summer after they have completed law school as they prepare for the exam. “I plan to schedule several workshops and mock bar exams over the summer to help prepare MULS students for the MBE and performance test portions of bar examinations,” Pagel said. When asked if students have seemed to struggle with the bar exam lately, Pagel responded, “It’s hard for me to say.” She also said she doesn’t think the diploma privilege undermines the quality of practicing lawyers in Wisconsin. “We believe that in continuing the diploma privilege over time, the Wisconsin Supreme Court has shown great confidence in MULS’s ability to adequately prepare its students for the practice of law in Wisconsin,” Pagel said in the email. “We commonly hear from the lawyers who employ our graduates that our students are ‘practice ready’ and contribute to the success of the firm from the time they join the practice.”
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Cost of streaming divides users Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu among leading competitors By Dennis Tracy
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When Netflix first aired “House of Cards” in 2013, no one guessed that they would become a film industry giant. Now the company intends to launch 600 hours of programming this year, and competitors like Amazon and Hulu are trying to launch their own original series. As other networks like HBO and Showtime join the digital game, it’s obvious the industry is rapidly changing. With so many diverse networks, it’s tempting to subscribe to them all. But at what cost? Each network has its strengths. You want HBO content? It’s on Amazon Prime. How about “Friends,” “Mad Men” or “Breaking Bad?” They’re on Netflix. For movie buffs, the Criterion Collection has an exclusive deal with Netflix to distribute future titles. Joe Brown, a digital media professor in the College of Communication, also pointed out that Netflix is home to a variety of different documentaries. Each of the three main streaming networks previously mentioned comes with a price. For $9.99, a subscription to Netflix will get you an HD viewing along with the option to share your account with one other person simultaneously. Hulu finally brought back their commercial-free option in the summer for $11.99 a month, but you can also add a Showtime subscription for a total of $20 a month. With all of the subscriptions offered, prices can add up quickly. Amanda Keeler, a digital media professor in the College of Communication, has a subscription to all three of the major streaming networks since
each one of them has something special that interests her. “It’s not like you go to Hulu because that’s where all the sci-fi is, (or) Amazon Prime because that’s where all the X Y or Z shows are,” Keeler said. Keeler also said she understands that it’s not entirely feasible to have them all. “Back in college, $12 was, ‘Do I eat tomorrow, or get Hulu for a month?’” Keeler said. The upscale is Hulu offers next-day viewing of many of the shows airing on ABC, CBS, NBC, CW and FOX, so in case people missed the episode as it aired, they can still stream it legally. Meanwhile Amazon Prime offers a onetime flat rate of $50 a year for college students or $100 for non students. It comes with more than just free shipping. Music services and Cloud Photo services are also offered, but rarely advertised. Ben Dombrowski, a sophomore in the College of Communication, said he’s so used to the Netflix that he does not see the value in getting a Hulu subscription. “They don’t really promote their shows that much,” Dombrowski said. Amazon advertises its Fire Stick and other services regularly, but rarely any ads for their programming will appear. In addition, Amazon has started offering add-on subscriptions to their services, most of which have flown under the radar. Now you can add a Starz, Showtime, a Comedy Central service and a few major film company add-ons like a Sundance Documentary and the Tribeca shortlist for various different costs a month. Then, there are networks like HBO, Showtime and Starz, which rely heavily on cable subscribers, as their networks are an add-on bonus. For a
long time, the only way to get a subscription to them was to go through your cable provider and pay an extra $15-20 a month to have the service. Now, HBO, Showtime and Starz have a way to reach out to others with the need of a cable subscription. HBO Now and Showtime Anytime are stand alone subscriptions allowing access to their library of movies and original programming for $14.99 and $10 a month, respectively. Starz can be added on to Amazon for a subscription of $8.99 a month. Each of these subscriptions allow for a free trial period so viewers can decide if it’s worth the cost in the end. Liam Mason, a sophomore in the College of Communication, said that he enjoys HBO and Showtime services. Mason likes HBO for its movie catalog and Showtime for original series like “Homeland” and “Billions,” which just launched a couple of weeks ago. “While we sort of celebrate all these new distribution platforms, we are now at a point where no human can possibly consume all of the new television that is coming out,” Keeler said. With all current options, it seems like we might get more in the future. NBC Universal recently launched Seeso, a comedy
subscription service that offers all of “Saturday Night Live,” as well as episodes of “Parks and Recreation” and “30 Rock” along with original series like the popular “Cyanide and Happiness” web series. “In the beginning with TV, you had a couple of broadcast channels,” Brown said. “And then you got cable and then you had 40 channels and then 100 channels,” Brown said. We may see streaming networks expand at a fast rate as TV did. Eventually, the industry may reach a point when a different network will be created for each individual interest, whether it’s documentaries or independent films. On the other hand, it may become harder and harder to maintain a subscription to everything. “I think we are going to see this happening with streaming services, where some networks are going to start branding content,” Brown said.
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Bay View home to charming community Cream City Swirl, Luv Unlimited are some local favorites By Brian Boyle & Mark Jessen
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Just south of the Historic Third Ward lies peaceful Bay View. Filled with restaurants, bars and cafes, this neighborhood’s small-business setting offers an ideal attraction for someone looking to explore Milwaukee without the urban blitz and tall buildings. Kinnickinnic Avenue forms the backbone of the neighborhood and the hub of most activity. Cream City Swirl, a frozen treats and dessert shop at 2663 S. Kinnickinnic Ave., near perfectly epitomizes this trendy southside neighborhood. The shop offers a variety of desserts such as handmade sweet and savory crepes, soft serve ice cream, sorbet, milkshakes and warm beverages for cold winter days. Susan Nolan, 54, has owned Cream City Swirl since 2011 and has lived in Bay View for 30 years. Kinnickinnic Avenue, or just “KK,” houses the several-block
stretch of locally-owned bars, restaurants, diners, cafes, shops and stores. Right next to Cream City Swirl is The Vanguard, a popular brat and sausage restaurant-bar. Just down the street is a mom-and-pop gym, and the entire street is dotted with used record stores, bars and cafes. A couple miles off campus, and just south of the Third Ward, KK and Bay View make for a worthy alternative to the usual downtown fare for students looking to burst out of the Marquette bubble. “Downtown is definitely stretching south,” Nolan said. “We’re trying to offer a lot, and (the college) age group is perfect for Bay View. There are bus routes, and you can Uber here. It’s very easy.” Even on a winter afternoon, most of KK feels alive. However, like the rest of Milwaukee, Bay View shines brightest in the summer according to residents. “You got your weekend bar scene,” Jason Crummer, 26, said. “In the summer, you got Chill on the Hill at Humboldt Park. They play live music and screen movies and things like that. There are a lot more crafty people down here, and things like that make a really cool
feeling. No offense, but the college thing – love it or hate it – on the East Side, you get a bit too much of that. So coming down here is refreshing.” Dan Dehling, 55, owns the Luv Unlimited, a record store on 2649 S. Kinnickinnic Ave. They have had four different locations since 1987. This store features roughly 4,000 records dating from 1950 to the present from artists such as Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. Dehling believes that Bay View is becoming “more cultural.” He said one of its unique qualities is that in summer, people come by boat on Lake Michigan. Bay View can expect to see more success in the near future. “There’s a lot of small businesses, and we have a lot of potential.” Nolan said. “There’s still more to come. I think in the next five years, it’ll be double. Mark my words.”
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Cream City Swirl offers frozen yogurt, crepes and adult coloring book nights on Sundays and Tuesdays.
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MU printers encourage innovation
3-D technology offers rare platform for art, science By Thomas Southall
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The concept sounds like something out of a science fiction movie: pressing a button and any image becomes materialized. 3-D printing is a process of manufacturing that has recently caught the public’s
interest. It’s giving a fresh face to science by showing how mathematical and technical formulas can create concrete objects we can hold and touch. Fortunately, Marquette’s College of Engineering houses three 3-D printers. Here’s an exclusive glimpse into the history, process and future of manufacturing. 3-D printing has become a modern luxury, but its origins go back to the early 1980s. At that time, the 3-D printing was given the term Rapid Prototyping technology. Only around the year 2007 were 3-D printers being built for the mainstream society and acquired by Marquette. In the Discovery Learning Laboratory, tucked away behind a handful of glass doors are the three printers. The College of Engineering bought its first printer in 2006 and the second two in 2010, all from the company Stratasys. Two of them are big enough to tower over someone 5 feet 7 inches and the smaller one is placed on a nearby shelf. To begin creating, you need to get permission from “gatekeeper” Tom Silman.
Silman is the Operations Engineer for the College of Engineering. An alum of Marquette for undergraduate and postgraduate studies, he decides who can or cannot use the printers. If a project’s parameters are acceptable, Silman gives the green light. Silman said he has seen the printer being used for an array of projects. “You name it, we’ve made it,” said Silman as students from all over the college have made bracelets, iPhone holders, geometric forms and electrical housing. The material used is called acrylonitrile butadiene styrene. This type of hard plastic can be found in Lego building blocks and keycaps on keyboards. This material is expensive because Marquette buys high quality ABS for around $250, making Silman’s job especially important. He makes sure Marquette doesn’t spend unnecessary amounts of money to supply the printers. There are many ways to 3-D print, but Marquette uses Fused Deposition Modeling. The FDM method takes the ABS, which comes in a big
spool, and feeds it through a hot funnel, similar to how a baker applies frosting to a cake. It’s a slow process -- a block the size of one’s thumb can take about an hour to complete. For now, the main purpose of 3-D printing is for prototyping. It allows the engineers to see a tangible result of their theories and formulas. In the context of commercial manufacturing, the people who create the product have a clear idea of what they’re making before they go produce it in bulk. Jacob Krakauer, a junior in the College of Engineering and member of Marquette University Spacecraft Engineering Club, is one of the many students who have used the printers in the past for the club’s rockets. The technology is only improving, and the process is becoming more accessible and cheaper. Tony Bowman, a mechanical engineer researcher professor and Marquette Alumni said of 3-D printers: “the more people who use them, the more ideas are generated. More minds equal more innovation.”
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Students use these printers to generate objects including bracelets, iPhone holders and geometric forms.
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Ticketmaster Foley honored on HBO celebrates life, holds monopoly Film work of Marquette alumnus, journalist on music scene By Rachel Kubik
rachel.kubik@marquette.edu
By Ryan McCarthy
ryan.w.mccarthy@marquette.edu
With the rise of streaming services like Spotify and TIDAL, artists increasingly rely on touring and merchandising to support themselves financially. Last week, New York University songwriting professor and singer-songwriter Mike Errico wrote an opinion piece in The New York Times declaring that touring is not a viable business strategy in the digital age. While his article mainly criticizes new contract stipulations allowing record labels a greater share of profits from artist’s performances, Errico lays the blame for these changes directly on dropping sales of physical album releases. He is certainly not wrong; Rihanna’s much anticipated album “ANTI” sold less than 1,000 copies in its opening week, in part because of her decision to release it on TIDAL and a partnership with Samsung that gave a million copies to fans for free. Errico argues that artists take on a larger risk by touring. He wrote that the physical stress and lack of recourse for artists with vocal or other injuries places them in a delicate position. Sure, there are the outliers like Bruce Springsteen who at 66 still plays 32-song concerts without a break, but the majority of musicians do not enjoy such longevity. Errico ultimately suggests that by unionizing, musicians can reclaim a fair share of the profits and make touring a viable business strategy as it has been for centuries. Right now, an album release acts as an advertisement for a band rather than an actual product. Sure, popular musicians can earn seven figures from streaming, but the majority of artists do not really make money unless someone streaming their album also buys a ticket or a T-shirt. Rather than arguing over who gets a greater share of the profits, artists and record labels alike should work together to increase overall ticket sales. This can be most easily achieved by breaking the monopoly Ticketmaster holds over venues and concertgoers. There are many issues with Ticketmaster’s current model, from the virtual legal monopoly they currently
enjoy to the nonsensical fees and price gouging and the inability to buy tickets because of scalpers and bots. The rise of Ticketmaster in the early 21st century has led to higher ticket prices than ever before. Ticketmaster obtained a virtual monopoly through a process called networking. Basically, Ticketmaster buys the right to sell tickets for popular music venues, often for many years in advance. As more venues join the network, the pressure for other venues to join increases. While Ticketmaster cannot be blamed for its facility fee, there are at least three other ways they nickel and dime concertgoers. First, they collect expenses off the face value of the ticket. This in part can lead to an increased ticket price. On top of that, they charge a convenience or service fee per ticket that also supposedly covers the expense in processing tickets. Perhaps most ridiculous is the resell fee. If fans want to resell tickets that they already purchased from Ticketmaster and already paid fees on, the next purchaser pays an additional fee on the price for which the ticket sells. None of these fees matter if you cannot even purchase a ticket. The rise of ticket purchasing bots has allowed scalpers to buy and resell tickets at massive price increases. Musicians and record labels do not see profits from these, and in fact, it hurts them in the long run by driving down the number of concerts the average fan attends. An exceptionally insulting part of this system is that Ticketmaster’s website states the fees allow the company to provide customers with an access and distribution network. This is basically the same as saying, “We only charge absurd fees so we can continue to charge you absurd fees.” The solution will be difficult. However, if artists and labels truly wish to embrace touring as the primary source of income, they need to make it easier and cheaper for fans to attend concerts and support their art.
James Foley was a Marquette alumnus, whose life, death and legacy is depicted in the new documentary, “Jim: The James Foley Story.” He was a dedicated freelance war correspondent who was captured in Syria in 2012 and beheaded by ISIS in 2014. This emotional and moving documentary, told by family members, friends and other prisoners focuses on what inspired him to become a journalist and how he got involved in the conflict with Syria. HBO will premiere the film Saturday, Feb 6 at 8 p.m. The network won the Audience Award in the Sundance Film Festival’s U.S. Documentary Competition. Thomas Durkin, an English professor at Marquette and Marquette alumnus, is featured in the documentary. He was friends with James Foley since the two were freshmen at Marquette in 1992. “We clicked right away from probably about the first or second week when we entered Marquette as freshmen,” Durkin said. There wasn’t a moment when the two grew apart or failed to remain close friends. Foley
and Durkin traveled around the country after college. “Neither one of us took a traditional 9 to 5 type path,” Durkin said. “Jim was doing Teach for America in Phoenix; I was doing graduate school in Idaho.” They traveled back and forth in between the states to meet up with each other. Foley was in Massachusetts at one point and Durkin, Chicago, but they’d still connect. They both lived in Chicago for a while as well, where Durkin helped Foley find a job. “We’ve both had a lot of freedom based on our career paths,” Durkin said. Durkin is also friends with Brian Oakes, the director of “Jim: The James Foley Story.” Oakes flew to Milwaukee with his team over the past summer and interviewed Durkin at Wolski’s Tavern on the East Side. “I made this film to carry on the stories that Jim needed us to know,” Oakes said in a press release. “It’s important that we understand the significant role of today’s conflict journalists and why they risk their lives to tell the world how bad it can be.” Oakes had known Jim since they were seven years old. “I’ve known the Foley family pretty much my entire life as well. So (the film is) a very personal story for me,” Oakes said in a press release. Oakes and Foley had a very
open, honest relationship and Oakes supported Foley, but at the same time was curious as to why Foley made the decisions he did in regards to his conflict journalism. “I think what we have to understand is that when Jim went into Syria, we knew it was dangerous, but ISIS didn’t even exist,” Oakes said in a press release. “ISIS was nowhere on anyone’s radar at that time.” Durkin attended the Sundance Film Festival last weekend and saw the premiere of the documentary. Durkin said it features him speaking for several different segments about “things we did and how I knew (Foley), and what my feelings were in terms of him going into journalism.” Durkin discusses his own fears about the field Foley worked in and difficult areas in Foley’s life in the documentary. The opening scene shows Jim giving a speech at Marquette after his release from Libya. Durkin said that he thinks it’s a story Marquette students should to pay attention to. “This is a guy who is one of them: he is the epitome of what it means to be a Marquette student, to live for others and live the ideals of a Marquette education,” Durkin said. “I would really hope that the students would invest the two hours it takes to find out more about a (former student).”
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Marquette’s legal education needs to raise the bar and be more truthful
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Law students at Marquette’s law school spend a great amount of time preparing for their future careers.
The decision to attend law school is not one that should be taken lightly. In this post-recession legal market, it’s well-known that there are more struggling graduates searching for legal jobs than there are positions to be filled. So deciding to spend $100,000 or more on a law studies education is often risky, and should be made with sufficient clarity. Factors to consider include the likelihood of getting a job as a lawyer after graduation, tuition, costs and scholarships and the quality of the education itself. So how does one weigh the costs and benefits of attending a certain institution over another? A common method is to check the rankings on websites like U.S. News and World Report, or to view a school’s ABArequired disclosures. These outlets give potential applicants the necessary information needed to make such life-changing decisions. Marquette’s law school needs to attract potential applicants to survive. As a lower-tiered law school – U.S. News ranks it 105th best law school in the country – Marquette can’t compete with certain higher ranked schools that advertise median private starting salaries in the six figures, and offer sterling employment opportunities after graduation. What it can offer is the Diploma Privilege, which is unique to Wisconsin law schools and allows
graduates of the state’s only two law schools – University of Wisconsin-Madison and Marquette – to practice law in Wisconsin without sitting for the Wisconsin Bar Exam. This strategy makes sense from a business perspective: Students with lower LSAT scores and undergraduate GPAs might be more willing to apply to Marquette if the university can guarantee students will “pass the bar.” Less qualified students get to be lawyers, and Marquette gets to keep enrollment up. Everyone wins. Except that isn’t entirely true. Marquette advertises itself as a school with a 100 percent bar passage rate, but this passage rate is only for students who practice in Wisconsin, and who overwhelmingly avail themselves of the Diploma Privilege. The students who wish to practice in a different state – which is increasingly becoming the case as can be seen by the law school’s hiring of Kathleen Pagel who is in charge of bar preparation and student success – are not reflected in
those required disclosures. So we don’t really know how well the students are doing on bar exams. Student success on the bar exam is a major indication of the quality of a legal education, and Marquette is willfully withholding that crucial information. While the overwhelming majority of other law schools compile the data that details bar success rates of students taking the exam in different jurisdictions, Marquette seems to be either willfully ignorant of the passage rates, or purposefully withholding that information. As a Catholic, Jesuit university that preaches ethics as often as possible, it seems ironic and deceptive to withhold such important information that could affect an applicant’s decision to attend Marquette. Marquette should, in a sense, practice what it preaches and release that information to the public to allow applicants a more realistic sense of Marquette’s legal education.
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Your voice and vote make a difference Morgan Hughes
Pop quiz: Who is your state’s governor? Okay, I guess that’s an easy one. What about your state senators? Your district representative? Do you even know what district you are a part of? Maybe you know the answers to all of those questions. Maybe I shouldn’t assume that most people wouldn’t know. But if you weren’t able to answer all of those questions, do you just not care? It’s no secret that local elections see fewer votes than the presidential elections. It even makes sense; people care more about who is going to be the next most powerful person in the world than they do about who’s going to get to hold big scissors at the town’s next ribbon cutting photo-op. While I understand the logic behind caring more about a national election than a local election, I think the logic is wrong. President Obama doesn’t care about Milwaukee. He doesn’t think about Milwaukee’s job situation or the city’s drinking water might be harmful. Even the governor doesn’t focus solely on our small city trials and tribulations. The people who can actually make an immediate and specific impact on our day-to-day civil lives are the ones whose names are either forgotten or never learned. Your city’s mayoral and district representative elections should be just as important to you as the race for the White House, if not more so. I understand that it’s easy to be apathetic about local politics when you’re a college student who will likely leave the city in a few years. But what if you
get an awesome job opportunity and decide to stay? What about the people who won’t be leaving? In Wisconsin, students are allowed to vote in state and local elections as long as they have proof of residency. So, if you get mail sent to your dorm room, you’re allowed to register as a Wisconsin voter. Of course, if you think that your vote would be more useful in your hometown, you can vote there instead, you just need to fill out an absentee voter form. Frankly, if you don’t vote, you shouldn’t get an opinion. If you choose not to use your voice in the most protected way offered to you, then maybe you shouldn’t use it at all. If you’re upset about the way an election turned out but didn’t vote, what did you expect? If you are angry that Scott Walker won the last election, but you didn’t vote, I don’t want to hear what you think even if I agree with you. Harsh? Maybe, but at what point do we stop whining about the political affairs of our local governments and actually start trying to do something about it? Politics and government are complex. It can be confusing and time consuming to make educated decisions about elections, but it’s important that we spend the time and energy to do so. Someone who you disagree with is going to vote for a candidate you don’t like. Victors of local elections can be determined by a difference of a handful of votes. If you want changes made in your city and state, you need to start by stacking the local government in your favor.
Morgan Hughes is a sophomore studying Journalism and Political Science. She is reachable by email at morgan.hughes@marquette.edu
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Tuition increased by 3.5 percent Stepping outside the for services we may not receive comfort of campus Caroline Comstock
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A tuition rate that remains consistent all four years would make financial planning easier for families.
Ryan Murphy Last week, I opened my email to the same disappointing news as everyone else: tuition increases for the next academic year. “We know that the investment you’re making in their future involves a significant financial commitment, and we’re ever mindful of the sacrifices you make on their behalf,” University President Michael Lovell said. We were assured that “Marquette’s tuition continues to rank in the bottom half of all Jesuit colleges and universities, and below the national average for all private colleges and universities,” and that “the 3.5 percent tuition increase is the same as 2015-’16 (increase) and matches the lowest percentage increase in the past five years.” At a glance, 3.5 percent does seem modest. But the inflation rate for 2015 was only 0.7 percent. To put that in perspective, tuition rose at a rate five times that of inflation. Wages and salaries – ours and our parents’ means of contributing to our education – have not grown so quickly, either. In 2015, compensation in the U.S. grew by only 2 percent. If you were awarded a scholarship upon acceptance, that amount has increased 0 percent. So what gives? John C. Lamb, Marquette’s vice president for finance and treasurer, explained in a statement, “Tuition increases are determined as part of the budgeting process and are not tied to inflation. As you probably know, inflation rates are at near-historic lows right now, however, expenses are not.” No kidding.
The greatest portion of our tuition expenses undoubtedly go to instructors and professors. But in 2015, their pay increased at roughly the same 2 percent of other civilian workers across the country. Lamb also mentioned “keeping facilities properly maintained and developing new initiatives. Some of those recent new initiatives include the Strategic Innovation Fund, which allows for reinvestment across campus, and the Marquette University Police Department.” In other words: We are paying 3.5 percent more for the same services and for services that won’t be offered
of growth sustainable? Terry Hartle, senior vice president of the American Council on Education, told Time that he thinks not. “Economic theory suggests prices cannot continue rising faster than incomes. At some point, tuition will outstrip individuals’ ability to pay for it.” So what can (or should) Marquette do to keep tuition feasible? It doesn’t seem fair that the rate you sign on to as a freshman should be allowed to increase every year. It would make planning more certain for families if they knew what to expect every year from the very beginning. As modest as 3.5 percent might
In other words: We are paying 3.5 percent more for the same services and for services that won’t be offered until after we’ve graduated.” Ryan Murphy, Junior, College of Business Administration
until after we’ve graduated. As the Wire reported in December, there is no guarantee that any of us will even be able to find work to pay off student loans. The article reads, “In 2014, only 55 percent of graduates were employed full-time at the time of graduation.” I am sure President Lovell is sincere when he claims to understand the “investment” and “sacrifices” our parents make for us to attend this fine university; it is telling that in 2015 the financial aid budget only increased 1.19 percent. We all know that increasing tuition rates are not unique to Marquette. “If you look at the long-term trend, (college tuition) has been rising almost 6 percent above the rate of inflation,” Ray Franke, a professor of education at the University of Massachusetts, told CNBC. Is that kind
be, there is no guarantee that it will be as modest in the future – and the national trends suggest it probably won’t be. But if that idea is unpalatable to the administration, they might also consider raising students’ scholarships in proportion to the tuition increases each year. And surely, more financial aid should be set aside. With only 2 percent of tuition going towards administrative expenses, our administrators have proven themselves responsible, capable and conservative. For that reason, I trust they will continue to seek ways to keep Marquette accessible to as many people as possible.
The other night, I received an email alerting me that someone had posted about a robbery in a Marquette forum that had parents up in arms. Apparently, USPS has been redirecting packages to “USPS access points” when the customer isn’t home to sign. These access points allow pickup at any time during the day as opposed to USPS’ specific afternoon hours. For Marquette students, your packages will likely be redirected to Pick & Choose Grocery on the north side of State Street. As any freshman can tell you, across State Street is somewhere you just don’t go. No questions asked. So naturally, I was not happy when I got a “Sorry we missed you!” post-it on my door. Not only did my package bear zero need for a signature, but it meant I would have to go to Pick & Choose when I got out of my night class. A kneejerk reaction, I mentioned it to my mom on the phone to which she more or less responded, “And?” I felt stupid afterwards. In my four years on this campus, I have never been threatened or robbed on the streets of Milwaukee. In fact, the only time I was robbed was when another student took my entire basket of laundry from the Straz Tower laundry room. Yet many (not all) of us have developed this convoluted image of Avenues West and Marquette’s campus as somewhere that isn’t safe, and we aren’t really to blame. From the very beginning of our college careers at Marquette, we are told to never walk alone at night, not to flash (or hold) iPhones in plain sight and of course, never go past State Street. The fear has been consistently spoon-fed to us from resident assistants, parents and peers. Unfortunately, the fear has evolved into a reputation.
“Isn’t Marquette in a rough area?” prospective Marquette parents ask. It’s as if us suburban college students were shocked to arrive in Milwaukee and find out it is, in fact, a city. In a city, you learn a whole new set of sense rules. You become aware of your surroundings, and learn to be more independent. While common sense says you should catch a LIMO instead of walking, or leave your laptop at home if possible, we should realize that these tips are not unique to Milwaukee or anywhere in the world. We should fight the inclination to be on the defense the minute we step out of the door, and I sometimes have to remind myself of that. Maybe that requires some reflection on why Marquette is situated where it is (as opposed to a small college town) and the Jesuit principles behind the decision. Maybe it takes questioning the stark contrast between Marquette’s campus and huge southern state schools with lazy rivers and resort-like dorm buildings. What do we want from a college experience: a four-year break from reality, or invaluable lessons on how to be a better citizen and person? Crimes happen on campus; no one is denying that. They happen on every college campus. Bring a large group of people together in one area, and well, that’s what happens. We deserve to feel safe on campus, but at some point, we have to learn to be responsible adults too. Challenging a perception is perhaps harder than challenging an actual threat, but the neighborhood needs us to rise to that challenge. Perception has the power to shut out local businesses and create a bubble that makes us all the more vulnerable. I picked up my package. Believe it or not, I was greeted with a smile.
Caroline Comstock is a senior studying Marketing. She is reachable by email at caroline.comstock@marquette.edu
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Blockton blossoming into star
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Guard Allazia Blockton is third in the BIG EAST in scoring and fourth in rebounds, averaging 18.4 points and 7.6 boards per game, leading Marquette’s charge in the standings.
Freshman leader finds inspiration in late brother By Andrew Goldstein
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Down by two, six seconds left in the game, inbounding the ball from mid-court, season on the line. Do you want the ball? What would you do if you got it? Perhaps you don’t have a ready-made answer, but freshman shooting guard Allazia Blockton sure does. “Of course I always want to take the last shot. I’m very confident I could knock it down,” Blockton said. “If I couldn’t get to the rim – ideally I’d like to get to the rim for the and-one – I’d go to my pull-up jumper. If the other team is putting two (defenders) on me, I’d try to kick it out to whoever’s open. I trust my teammates to knock down the shot.” All of those options are very much on the table for Blockton, who is quickly becoming one of the BIG EAST’s best players. She draws fouls so well that she leads the conference in free throw attempts. Her offensive repertoire is so expansive that she is shooting 46 percent from the field. And her passing is good
enough that her coach trusts her to bring the ball up the floor at any time. “She’s so well-rounded that she’s capable with the ball in her hands and she feels comfortable from any spot,” head coach Carolyn Kieger said. Blockton has proved her coach right with her performance this season, which has been nothing short of tremendous. She averages a shade under 19 points per game and pulls down over seven rebounds per game. The BIG EAST Conference has awarded her a commendation — either Freshman of the Week or Honor Roll — every week since the season began. You would never guess what kind of a player she is by talking to her. She speaks not with the self-assuredness of a marquee player, but with the eagerness of a 10th woman trying to get minutes. “Now I’m on the radar and people are starting to realize what type of player I am, so that’s just motivation to work even harder and become better,” Blockton said. Work ethic has been one of the major catalysts for Blockton’s success this season, but that did not develop overnight. Blockton recalls not being able to persevere through fatigue at the beginning of her college career. “When you first come in from
high school, you don’t really know how to push yourself,” she said. “When you get tired, you’re like ‘Oh, I’m tired, I want to stop.’ As the season has progressed, I’ve learned how to push
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I feel like I’m living not only for me but for him too. I’ve always wanted to make him proud...”
Allazia Blockton Marquette women’s basketball Freshman Guard
myself more so that when I’m tired, I do have an extra level and I can keep going.” That determination won over Kieger, who touts Blockton’s work ethic as the attribute that she has improved on the most. Kieger also said she’s noticed positive changes in other areas of her star guard’s game, like her help defense, which was a
struggle early in the season. “I think in help-side (defense) ... she’s now understanding one pass away and where to be, versus just when the situation occurs,” Kieger said. “She’s seeing it in advance, which is the whole thing about help side. You need to be one pass ahead of the (opposing) offense, and she’s definitely getting there.” The improvements in Blockton’s game also rub off on the rest of the team. Fellow freshman guard Amani Wilborn, who played with Blockton in AAU, says their on-court chemistry has grown since coming to college. Wilborn attributes this to the vastly increased level of competition in Division I basketball. “In high school it was sometimes a little easier, so (our chemistry) didn’t have to be as good as it is now,” Wilborn said. “Now we have to be successful with each other to play better.” There is more to life than just basketball for Blockton, who is as industrious in the classroom as she is in the weight room. She majors in biomedical sciences and wants to study the human brain, which is a decision she made after suffering a loss far greater than any basketball game. “My brother died of brain cancer when he was seven and I was nine,” Blockton said. “Ever since then, I’ve always wanted to go into the
medical field and do something with brain research. Maybe become a neurosurgeon and try to find a cure to cancer.” Therein lies one of the major reasons for her seemingly limitless diligence. If it seems like Blockton works hard enough or dreams big enough for two people, it’s because that’s exactly what she feels she has to do. “I feel like I’m living not only for me but for him too,” Blockton said. “I’ve always wanted to make him proud because I know he’s watching over me and he’s with me every step of the way.” Recently, yet another person entered Blockton’s life: her baby sister Azari, who is four months old. The life of a DI athlete does not include an excess of free time, but Blockton hangs out with her sister every chance she gets. “She just started smiling recently. I’m hoping she’ll be a little me when she grows up. I’m kind of raising her to be just like me” Blockton said, flashing a wide grin. A menace on the court, an aspiring surgeon in the classroom and a devoted older sister at home. Allazia Blockton leads three lives, all of them requiring attentiveness, persistence and a clear vision. Based on what Marquette fans have seen of her, none of those traits are lacking in the slightest.
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Senior class setting example Women’s lacrosse opens season against Louisville
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Hayley Baas is one of 13 seniors who represent the first four-year class in Marquette’s program history.
“Confidence and experience has had a really big impact on where we are today.” The team hopes to carry that confidence into the regular season. Kenzie Brown, a senior midfielder and attacker, said for the first time the Golden Eagles collectively has no doubt it will be a tough obstacle for opposing teams. “This year it’s going to be different,” Brown said. “We know we can match up with the competition now, it used to be just a learning experience every game but now we’re finally here to compete.”
Baas said the team’s success this year will depend on its mentality and that it’s the seniors’ jobs to set the tone. “We want to show the underclassmen the work ethic it takes to win,” she said. “If they believe they can do it, we have the tools and ability to do what we want to do.” Nicole Lankford, a senior midfielder and attacker, said it has been great to see the growth of the team since her freshman year. She wants the senior class to leave on a high note. “Our senior class is a very unique and special group,”
Lankford said. “I think this year we are very committed to making this year a great one.” Senior captain Kayce Haverstick believes the program now has an identity. “When we came in we leaned a lot on coaches and depended on them to show us what to do,” Haverstick said. “Now as we grow up we know how things work, and we really learned a lot about ourselves. I think this year it will be amazing to see us connect on the field, to win more games and make the BIG EAST tournament.”
MARQUETTE SPORTS CALENDAR
FRIDAY 2/05 Track and Field Meyo Invitational, All day
Men’s Lacrosse at High Point (scrimmage) 8 a.m.
Women’s Basketball at Georgetown, 6:05 p.m.
Men’s Tennis at Bethune-Cookman 10 a.m.
SUNDAY 2/07 Men’s Tennis at Florida Gulf Coast 11 a.m.
Men’s Basketball at Xavier, 11 a.m.
Women’s Basketball at Villanova, 12 p.m.
Women’s Lacrosse at Louisville, 1 p.m.
Women’s Tennis at Iowa, 12 p.m.
Men’s Hockey vs. Butler, 1 p.m.
WEDNESDAY 2/10 Men’s Basketball vs. Providence, 6 p.m.
Men’s Hockey vs. Butler, 7:30 p.m. SATURDAY 2/06 Track and Field UW-Panther Classic, All Day Track and Field Meyo Invitational, All Day
MEN’S BASKETBALL (Overall, BIG EAST)
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Overall, BIG EAST) DePaul 17-7, 9-2 Seton Hall 17-5, 7-4 St. John’s 16-6, 7-4 Villanova 14-8, 7-4 Xavier 15-6, 6-4
Women’s Tennis at Eastern Michigan, 1 p.m.
BIG EAST STANDINGS
Villanova 19-3, 9-1 Xavier 20-2, 8-2 Providence 18-5, 6-4 Seton Hall 16-6, 6-4 Georgetown 13-10, 6-4 Creighton 14-9, 5-5 Marquette 15-8, 4-6 Butler 15-7, 4-6 DePaul 8-14, 2-8 St. John’s 7-16, 0-10
Coach K deserves attention Peter Fiorentino
By Thomas Salinas
For the first time in Marquette women’s lacrosse history, 13 seniors will start their fourth year on the team when the season begins Saturday at Louisville. Not knowing what to expect when they arrived on campus freshman year, the 13 women have come a long way since the team’s inaugural season in 2013, when the Golden Eagles went 2-15. “We used to get killed by everybody the first year,” senior midfielder Hayley Baas said. “But now we are competing with these teams and beating some of the teams that beat us in years past.” The seniors remember the tough times of not having older role models to look up to. Emma Salter, a senior goalie, said they try to help the freshmen and sophomores in any way possible. “We didn’t have people to talk to, someone who understood what they’re going through now,” Salter said. “So we try to help (the underclassmen) in everything from academics to the weight room and on the field.” Allison Lane, a sophomore midfielder, said as a freshman the current senior class helped her feel welcomed and comfortable. “They are such a strong class,” Lane said. “Their individuality is amazing. It makes the team feel like a family.” Now that the program has established itself, the seniors have noted the rise in confidence around the clubhouse. “Back then, we couldn’t really catch a ball without being nervous about it,” Salter said.
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(Women’s Basketball cont.) Marquette 11-11, 6-5 Georgetown 12-9, 5-6 Creighton 11-12, 5-6 Butler 7-14, 2-8 Providence 4-17, 0-11 HOCKEY ACHA Division III Pacific Region (Overall, points) Colorado State 20-6-1, 41 pts Marquette 19-4-2, 40 pts MSU Denver 19-4-1, 39 pts Iowa State 19-1, 38 pts Bradley 18-9-2, 38 pts Colorado “Mines” 18-5-1, 37 pts Santa Rosa 17-7, 34 pts Northern Illinois 16-8-2, 34 pts Aurora-Blue 15-2-2, 32 pts McKendree 16-10, 32 pts
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Should the winningest team always warrant a coach of the year award? For perennial winning programs like Connecticut and Notre Dame, what percentage of winning should be credited to a coach, rather than the talent of the players? Marquette women’s basketball head coach Carolyn Kieger won’t be the winningest head coach in basketball this year and doesn’t have the best talent. She has a borderline NIT team and a prayer of earning a ticket to the big dance, but she deserves to be in the National Coach of the Year conversation. Last season, UConn head coach Geno Auriemma recruited Katie Lou Samuelson, the top recruit in the country, and a pair of McDonald’s All-Americans in Napheesa Collier and De’Janae Boykin. It begs the question, does that make Geno the best coach, or best recruiter? Kieger, with only one season under her belt, watched three of her freshmen transfer and four seniors graduate, leaving her with two players. How can a coach be expected to improve a 4-14 conference record with two players? You can recruit like Auriemma. Kieger brought in six freshmen who play regularly, four in ESPN’s Top 100. She also recruited three international players, giving her a total of nine newcomers on the roster. Despite the great recruiting class, the BIG EAST coaches predicted a ninth place finish in the preseason poll, five of seven Wire reporters picked them eigth or worse and Anonymous Eagle said, “I think it’s something of an accomplishment that they weren’t a unanimous choice to finish last.” The difference between the two coaches? Kieger develops her players like no coach I’ve ever seen. Auriemma begins and ends the year with the best players. Kieger started with “average” talent and has worked to make Marquette relevant in the BIG EAST. Her team is riding a five-game win streak and sits at .500 for the first time in nearly two years. Freshman Allazia Blockton is third in the BIG EAST in scoring and fourth in rebounding, freshman Erika Davenport leads the league in field goal percentage and junior McKayla Yentz is first with 55 three-pointers made. The only area where Kieger’s team has struggled this year is on the road, with eight losses. The only bad loss, a 31-point defeat at Seton Hall, is especially notable considering the Golden Eagles beat them 28 days later by seven points. Additionally, seven of Marquette’s 11 losses are by only seven points or less. Recruiting? Check. Development? Check. Winning record? On her way. You may disagree that Carolyn Kieger has earned a spot in the conversation as coach of the year, but one thing is certain: There’s a new Coach K pacing the sidelines. Peter Fiorentino is a senior from Santa Ana, California studying broadcast. Email him at peter.fiorentino@mu.edu
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Thursday, February 4, 2016
Pirates blast MU in second half
Late 16-4 run gives Seton Hall season sweep By Dan Reiner
daniel.reiner@marquette.edu
Marquette’s roller coaster season took another downward turn Wednesday night with a 79-62 loss to Seton Hall. After trailing by just three points at halftime, the Golden Eagles had another epic second half collapse. A 16-4 Pirates run, including four threepointers in five possessions, capped the onslaught. Seton Hall forward Angel Delgado notched his second double-double in as many games against the Golden Eagles this season, following up his 11 point, 11 rebound performance Dec. 30 with 19 points and 13 rebounds Wednesday night. Guard Isaiah Whitehead added a game-high 21 points with eight assists and six rebounds. Henry Ellenson recorded his 14th double-double of the season with 10 points and 10 rebounds, though he shot just 3-for-9 from the field and was locked down by Seton Hall’s Ismael Sanogo for much of the game. It was a disappointing turnaround from his 32-point, 10-rebound and
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six-block performance Saturday against Butler. The Golden Eagles shot just 40.7 percent from the field and 26.3 percent from three-point range after shooting 52.2 percent and 58.8 percent in those respective categories last game. Luke Fischer had a nice bounce-back from a scoreless performance against Butler. He had 11 points and four rebounds in the first half, taking advantage of the smaller Delgado in the paint. Fischer’s hook shot has noticeably improved from earlier in the season as he’s grown confident in the shot. He finished with 16 points, six rebounds and two blocks. Seton Hall held a slim lead at halftime due in part to a close 20-19 rebound advantage in their favor. It was still a threepoint Pirates lead with 10:30 left to play in regulation before they went on the three-point shooting barrage. Noted Marquette basketball blog Paint Touches pointed out that Seton Hall outscored Marquette 27-13 in the final 10:30 of the Dec. 30 matchup. On Wednesday, the Pirates closed on a 28-13 run in that same timeframe. Wednesday’s disappointing result means the Golden Eagles have little wiggle room for the remainder of the season. The team can ill afford to lose more than two games the rest of the season with games against
Photo courtesy of Maggie Bean Marquette Athletics
Seton Hall’s staunch defense held Henry Ellenson to just 10 points in a 79-62 victory Wednesday night.
Xavier, Villanova and Georgetown left on the schedule. Saturday’s game at No. 6 Xavier may be an opportunity to steal an unexpected victory. The Musketeers were taken to the wire by conference bottomfeeder St. John’s Wednesday
night at home, winning 90-83. Marquette kept Xavier within double-digits in a Jan. 16 matchup in Milwaukee. If the Golden Eagles can catch Xavier on their heels, they could carry serious momentum into another matchup against a ranked team
– Providence – on Wednesday. Not to mention, the Jan. 5 game in Rhode Island was a sign that the Henry Ellenson versus Kris Dunn rematch is a must-watch.
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Player of the Week Allazia Blockton
Allazia Blockton earned herself two major accolades this week, as she was voted the U.S. Basketball Writers Association Women’s National Freshman of the Week for the second time this season and BIG EAST Freshman of the Week for the sixth time, making the honor roll for the 10th time. She averaged 18 points, 7.5 rebounds and 4 assists as Marquette defeated St. John’s and Seton Hall. Her 21-point game against the Pirates launched her into first place on Marquette’s alltime freshman scoring list, with 416 and counting. Angel Robinson previously held the record with 399, which she set in 2007-’08. Photo by Doug Peters/douglas.peters@marquette.edu
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Height no issue for speedy Desalvo Forward leads team in freshman scoring, assists By Jamey Schilling
andrew.schilling@marquette.edu
Michael Desalvo was hardly on head coach Will Jurgensen’s radar at hockey tryouts in September. The team had a record turnout for players trying to make one of the best teams in the Midwest and Desalvo, in his 5-foot-6 frame, struggled to separate himself from the pack. “I was one of the players that was selected to come back for the second day and I really wasn’t expecting to make the team,” Desalvo said. Now with two games left in the regular season, the freshman from Arlington Heights, Illinois, is third on the team in points with 14 goals and 15 assists. In his last four games, he’s tallied four goals and five assists. “I don’t think anyone wanted to make the team more than he did,” said freshman defenseman Colin Redman. “I barely knew Mike or what kind of player he would be, but he quickly proved to all of the players that he deserved to be on the team as much as anyone did.” He played three and a half years of varsity hockey at
Buffalo Grove High School. He earned the role of captain his senior year, was an All-State selection and made the Team Illinois showcase. He eventually chose Marquette and decided to try out for the club hockey team. Going from being the team captain to fighting for survival at tryouts is difficult for any athlete, but Desalvo gave it his all. His game style is fast-paced, both on his skates and with his hands. Despite his small stature, his speed ended up being one of the biggest reasons why he earned a spot on the team. “Being quick is a big part of Mike’s game and our thought was that he would bring a lot of speed to our offense,” said head coach Will Jurgensen. To earn a spot on an already talented offense, Desalvo had to work harder than he ever had before. He placed added emphasis on practice and workouts off the ice. “High school was competitive, but not like this is,” Desalvo said. “(It’s hard) being a little bit on the smaller side. Some of these guys are pretty big.” The added effort finally paid off when he had his first breakout performance of the year against Northwestern in October. He scored two goals and added four assists in a 12-0 rout of the Wildcats. In January, he
Photo by Jamey Schilling andrew.schilling@mu.edu
Freshman Michael Desalvo notched his first career hat trick in a January road contest against Bradley.
had his first hat trick against Bradley. “He’s one of those guys you trust being out there in critical situations,” graduate student Christian Leathley said. “He’s the fastest skater on the team, and he has a knack for the net that puts him and his linemates in great positions to score.” He credits some of his offensive production to his strong puck possession, but also to being put on the same lines as Brian Kennedy, Lee Barnes
and Johnny Stillman. “Having such good players to work with really helps to get me the puck and get me better opportunities,” Desalvo said. “Since they’re the leading scorers people tend to go to them, so it gives me better opportunities.” The tallest player on the team, Stillman, has almost an entire foot on Desalvo at 6-foot-5. Redman, who has become one of Desalvo’s closest friends, is the second tallest player at
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6-foot-4. Desalvo doesn’t let the disparities stand in the way of his ambitions. “A lot of my hockey career, people said I wasn’t going to go anywhere,” Desalvo said. “That I was a good hockey player, but my height was going to restrict me. What’s important is not letting anything restrict what you can do, and not to letting anyone tell you that you can’t do something.”
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The Marquette Tribune
Thursday, February 4, 2016
Transfer Anderson adjusting on fly
Waiver allows freshman to play at MU right away By John Hand
john.hand@marquette.edu
When the men’s tennis team ended their warmups before the first match of the season, freshman transfer Greg Anderson realized something. He had no clue where to go next. He leaned over to his teammate Andre Romanello and asked when and where lineups would be introduced. For the majority of the team, the lineup introductions are an afterthought, but for Anderson it represents one more thing he has had to learn since coming to Marquette at the beginning of this semester from Texas Christian University. Anderson’s work ethic and competitive drive has already impressed his teammates and coaches in the few weeks he has spent at Marquette. “He is a really hard worker,” senior Daniel Fernandez said. “I was really impressed with his commitment.” For Anderson, competing and giving his all is nothing new. Marquette brings a newfound appreciation. At first, TCU seemed like the perfect fit for Anderson. He would be able to play tennis in the Big 12, one of the best
tennis conferences in the country and play for David Roditi, whom he has known since he was 12 years old. He came to realize that TCU might have been the wrong choice for him. Last September, TCU signed two top recruits, and Anderson saw his playing time decrease, diminishing the thrill of competition he thrives on. NCAA rules allow tennis players to transfer after a semester but they are only allowed to play for one team during an academic year unless an exception waiver is accepted. For Anderson, transferring was a risk — no waiver meant having to sit out the entire spring season. Making matters even more complicated, he had just under a month to take his official visits and make a life-altering decision. Marquette head coach Steve Rodecap had seen Anderson play during summer 2015 and has a long-standing friendship with Roditi, allowing him to get trustworthy analysis of Anderson’s play. Anderson had played in several tournaments in Michigan and Illinois and thought the Midwest might be a good place to go to school. He also considered Purdue and Xavier. After finishing finals at TCU, Anderson began his tour of official visits. “I think I traveled for around fifteen hours in total,” Anderson said. “It was a lot. My flight schedule was absurd.”
When he was finally home, the Arizona native spent the next three days on the couch doing some much needed relaxing before weighing his options with his parents and close friends. “My mom and dad gave me the best advice,” Anderson said. “They stressed that this was my decision and that in the end I would choose what is best for me because I know what is best for me.” During his visit to Marquette, Anderson fell in love with Milwaukee and Marquette’s location in the city. “To be honest I wasn’t sure I was making the right decision,” Anderson said. “I did a lot of research on the schools and I knew Marquette had a really good business school and that was really important to me. In addition, they have a really good (tennis) program here.” When Anderson arrived on campus, he was welcomed with open arms. “You are a bit of an outsider when you come in (mid-year),” said Mackenzie Stearns, the last Marquette tennis player to transfer mid-year. “I’ve tried to be welcoming and let him know the ropes.” As Anderson began to adjust to life at Marquette, his playing fate still hung in the balance. The waiver had been filed to the NCAA to let him play, but it was still uncertain if it would pass. Jan. 21 brought good news — he would be eligible to play this season.
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Greg Anderson had to decide on his transfer decision within weeks.
“Transferring mid-year, I knew there was a small chance I could play,” Anderson said. “The fact that I got it was pretty cool.” In Marquette’s match last Friday against South Dakota State, Anderson got his first action and win of the season 7-5, 6-1. “Greg is going to be a big help to us this year,” Rodecap said after the match.
Just a few weeks into the semester, it is clear to Anderson that he made the right choice. “I love it here. I would not have been mad if I decided to go here as a freshman,” he said. “I like it way more than TCU. I have to appreciate every day because the fact that I am here is pretty special.”
Hughes and Mroz join men’s soccer staff Bode out after eight years as assistant coach By Jack Goods
jack.goods@marquette.edu
There will be two new faces on the men’s soccer sidelines when the team returns for the spring season this month. The Golden Eagles have hired Sean Hughes and Jon Mroz as assistant coaches. Steven Bode, who spent eight years as an assistant coach with the team, is no longer on GoMarquette.com’s roster page. Hughes joins the Golden Eagles after one season as the head coach of Division II Maryville. The Saints set a new program record for wins at the DII level (seven) and shutouts (seven). Prior to Maryville, Hughes was an assistant Quincy University, where he made a DII Final Four appearance. “I’ve lived in Milwaukee for a couple of years, so I obviously knew the tradition of the program and the school,” Hughes said. “When the position opened up it was an opportunity that was really too good for me to turn my nose at.” Hughes already knew head coach Louis Bennett from playing against Marquette at
Cardinal Stritch University and through coaching clinics in the area. Knowing Bennett’s style and the type of players he likes was another motivating factor to take the job. Despite spending only one year at Maryville, Hughes believes head coaching experience will help him going forward. “It opens up a whole new realm of responsibilities as a head coach,” Hughes said. “At the Division II level, you really have to do everything as a head coach to an extent. You don’t have the resources. I’ve opened up the door to quite a few parts of the job. Now it’s more focusing on a few parts of it, but at a more specific level.” Mroz is a volunteer assistant who will work with Marquette’s goalkeepers. He replaces Nick Vorberg, who moved to the women’s team on a full-time basis. He was also familiar with Bennett, as the two coached together at UW-Milwaukee. “I’ve known Louis Bennett for 25 years,” Mroz said. “I’ve lived in the area my entire life, so I know a bit about the program. I’ve definitely followed a bit closer since Louis came over here.” Mroz spent 20 years as the boys’ varsity soccer coach for Brookfield Central High School. He played goalkeeper at UWM, where he holds school
records for victories and shutouts in a season. Like Vorberg, Mroz has an indoor soccer background. He played professionally with the Milwaukee Wave and Milwaukee Rampage, so he fits right into Bennett’s mold of agile keepers. “Distribution is number one,” Mroz said. “Every training session we do, every analysis piece I do starts with what the goalie does with the ball. As far as goalkeepers go, they’re not just shot blockers. They’re soccer players that have the advantage of using their hands.” While the spring semester is usually a time for players to get adjusted to new roles or incoming freshmen to get their first run with the team, this time it will be a bit of training for the coaches too. “I’m really excited for the first game,” Hughes said. “It gives us a few weeks to prepare. We’ll see where we’re at. It’s exciting for me personally, but more importantly I think the group is excited to respond from what I know their ambitions were from last year (when) they were a little disappointed.” It’s also a chance for Mroz to get acquainted with last year’s starting goalie Luis Barraza, who he hadn’t seen play before accepting the job. “This is a huge opportunity for me to get to know the
goalkeepers and everyone else on the team just to get a feel for how everything fits together,” Mroz said. Marcelo Santos, a current assistant, accepted the head coaching position with Kokomo Mantis FC, an expansion franchise in the Premier Development League. The PDL is a 65team league for players under
23-years-old. Since the games run in the summer Santos is still able to coach Kokomo in addition to staying at Marquette. Santos played and coached in the PDL with the Thunder Bay Chill. He was a Chill assistant from 2006 to 2009, winning the PDL title in 2008.
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