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Volume 103, Number 15
Tuesday, January 22, 2019
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Shutdown impacts Les Aspin Interns on Capitol Hill experience effects firsthand By Emma Tomsich
emma.tomsich@marquette.edu
The effects of the longest government shutdown in history are being seen and felt nationwide. But as most Americans receive updates from Capitol Hill through social media, newspapers and television, students in the Les Aspin program in Washington D.C. are experiencing the shutdown firsthand. The shutdown, which is the 21st in history, began Dec. 22, 2018 after Congress and President Donald Trump failed to agree on a budget for the new fiscal year. While the shutdown has become a learning experience, some Les Aspin students said it has also been an inconvenience in their daily lives, some said as they have been forced to reschedule plans, trek through snow banks and have lost communication with certain internship sites due to certain employees being out of office due to the shutdown.
Christopher Murray, visiting instructor and coordinator of student programs at the Les Aspin Center for Government, said students are not interning in offices that are shut down. The program is affected by the closing of public museums, monuments and some federal buildings, Murray said. Visiting museums and monuments is a part of the curriculum for a course students take called Arts and the Democratic Society, he added. Since the students have not been able to visit the sites, class has been modified to find other private museums and organizations to visit, Murray said. For example, instead of visiting the Smithsonian or National Gallery of Art, students have had to visit the Newseum, the Museum of the Bible and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum instead, Lily Dysart, a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences, said. Dysart is working at the National Parks Conservation Association as a policy intern. She said she has not yet been affected by the government shutdown because the NPCA is a nonprofit. However, her work could be indirectly affected by
Photo courtesy of Lily Dysart
Students (left to right) Lily Dysart, Linnea Stanton, Nicole Tetzlaff and Lina Habib visit the Washington Monument during their time as Les Aspin interns for the spring 2019 semester in Washington D.C.
Photo courtesy of Eric Rorholm
Photo courtesy of Eric Rorholm
Part of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial is not cleaned off for viewing.
Historical monuments throughout D.C. are covered in snow.
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LGBTQ+ director MUSG plans for new year Assistant to begin in February as center lacks head position By Alexa Jurado
alexa.jurado@marquette.edu
The LGBTQ+ Resource Center at Marquette University recently hired a new assistant director, Dr.
Elizabeth J. Stigler who will begin her new role Feb. 25. The center had been without an assistant director since the end of the 2017-’18 school year. Interviews for the position were conducted last semester. Dani Del Conte, a sophomore in the College of Engineering and a volunteer at the center, said when the center had a director, the See LGBTQ page 3
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Visitation policies, contraceptives to top list of priorities By Margaret Cahill
margaret.cahill@marquette.edu
Marquette University Student Government is kicking off second semester with new initiatives aimed to bridge the gap between students and administration.
President Meredith Gillespie said MUSG has three main goals for the semester: provide more services for lower-income first generation students, reevaluate Title IX resources and continue diversity and inclusion efforts. Legislative Vice President Dan Brophy said he hopes to accomplish more concrete initiatives in the coming months. He said he specifically wants to focus on finding out what students want to see from
their representatives. “We need to brainstorm, as an organization, ways to get hard data on what students actually want,” Brophy said. “There’s a gap between what we do and what students want, and we need to be able to fill that gap and that’s an ongoing process.” Brophy said senators may try tabling or attending Community Programming Council meetings to get a See MUSG page 5
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