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Thursday, January 26, 2012
Polling begins Pilarz asks ‘big questions’
Findings reveal Wisc. voters split on Gov. Walker recall By Andrea Anderson andrea.anderson@marquette.edu
Marquette’s law school yesterday revealed the first of monthly polls regarding Wisconsin voters’ opinions on the governor race, U.S. presidential race, state policy issues and U.S. Senate race. The polls are in conjunction with Charles Franklin, co-founder of pollster.com and a visiting professor at Marquette from UWMadison. Franklin plans for the monthly survey to have different themes, while repeating some questions to track changes. He said topics on his mind are healthcare and education, but no decision has been made for next month’s poll. The poll released yesterday surveyed 701 random registered and non-registered voters from Jan. 19 to Jan. 22 via landlines and cellphones. People all over Wisconsin of different races, social backgrounds and incomes were surveyed. The results showed just how unified Wisconsinites are on some issues, like the new voter ID law, and how split they are on limiting state employee unions’ ability to bargain over non-wage issues and benefits. Alan Borsuk, senior fellow in law and public policy at Marquette, assisted with the construction of the poll questions and said the poll is coming at a time when Wisconsin is at a historical
political crossroads in terms of elections and public opinion. “We have a (potential) recall, (a) presidential election in which Wisconsin is a battleground and a U.S. Senate seat that is open,” Borusk said. “This is a huge coming together of major political contests this year.” Franklin is eager to see the benefits of the polls after seeing today’s results. “One of the big benefits of doing so many polls is that we don’t have to cram everything into a single poll so we have the whole year,” Franklin said. “(Yesterday’s poll) focused more on the state of the state, how voters are reacting to the last year and looking ahead to a potential recall.” At a state level, the results show Gov. Scott Walker is ahead by 6 to 10 percentage points over four potential Democratic opponents for the possible recall. Walker is ahead of Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett by a 50 percent to 44 percent margin and leads former Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk with a 49 percent to 42 percent margin. Former Congressman David Obey is also behind Walker by 6 percent with a 49 percent to 43 percent margin, while Janesville Democratic State Senator Tim Cullen is 10 percentage points behind Walker at 40 percent to Walker’s 50 percent. The presidential race shows similar results. President Barack Obama leads former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney with 48 percent to Romney’s 40 percent. The majority of interviews for the poll were See Law, page 7
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The Rev. Scott Pilarz emphasizes working in partnership with students in the State of the University speech.
President talks change, strategy in annual address By Katie Doherty kathleen.doherty@marquette.edu
University President the Rev. Scott Pilarz announced plans to improve shared governance and implement a new strategic plan at Marquette during his inaugural State of the University address Tuesday in the Alumni Memorial Union. Pilarz said these decisions, along with changes made to the
athletic director position and faculty budgets, were made in an effort to focus on the “big questions,” including themes of research, teaching, community engagement, diversity, inclusivity, transparency and Catholic and Jesuit identity. He also thanked the university for teaching him about Marquette over his term thus far, and invited the whole community to share in what he has learned and will be learning over future years. “As I see it, the work I do as president is always in dialogue and partnership with you,” Pilarz said. “I know at my core that’s the best way, the only true way, for us to move Marquette forward.”
But while Pilarz may still be growing in knowledge, he has begun implementing changes, which he discussed briefly in the address. He added the Academic Senate chair and vice-chair to his leadership council, to help ensure shared governance. Also, Larry Williams, the new athletic director, will now report directly to Pilarz, a recommendation made by a peer-review of the athletic department that follows trends elsewhere in higher education. And to address a need for a focus on research and scholarship, Pilarz said he had increased the See Pilarz, page 7
University begins offering new voter ID cards voter ID requirements, the law also states that students must present a “Fee Payment Receipt,” which proves the student has paid tuition that semester at their college or university. This is used to verify the student’s enrollment. Marquette has also taken steps to ensure that students can obtain this information, which can be accessed through CheckMarq, said Mary Czech-Mrochinski, Marquette’s director of governmental and community affairs. “Marquette University worked not only to create an MU Voter ID Card to comply with the new law, but with the Bursar’s office to create an ‘Account Activity Report’
Eric Grow, a Senior at UWM, helps junior Jenna Wolf register to vote.
In response to this past year’s changes to Wisconsin’s voter ID laws, Marquette will now be providing specially issued IDs specifically for the purpose of students voting. The IDs are being distributed at Union Station in the Alumni Memorial Union during normal business hours and will include a student’s signature, two-year expiration date and date of
issuance — all elements not included on the traditional Marquette student ID. The cards are being provided because of laws put in place last spring which did not include college IDs as an acceptable form of photo ID for voting in Wisconsin. After some deliberation within the state legislature, the law was changed to allow the use of college IDs only if they included elements such as a photograph, signature, expiration date and current address, which most college IDs do not have. Other accepted voter IDs include Wisconsin driver’s licenses or other Wisconsin governmentissued IDs, military ID cards and U.S. passports. In addition to the changes to
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A local group works to renovate foreclosed homes See, PAGE 3
Urgent action is needed to fight rising tuition rates. See PAGE 8
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Saturday’s Pablove concert is about more than the music. See PAGE 12
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DPS Reports Monday, Jan. 23 At 3:07 p.m., a student reported that an unknown person(s) removed her unsecured, unattended property estimated at $200 from the Helfaer Theatre.
Between 9:30 a.m. and 11:19 a.m., an unidentified suspect removed a student’s unattended property estimated at $60 from the Dental School. MPD was contacted.
Tuesday, Jan. 24 At 10:41 a.m., a student reported that an unknown person(s) removed her unsecured, unattended property estimated at $43 from the Raynor Library.
Between 6:00 p.m. and 6:28 p.m., an unknown person(s) removed a student’s unsecured, unattended property estimated at $500 from the Raynor Library.
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Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing, discusses iBooks textbooks last Thursday.
New interactive iBooks2 app unveiled last week By Ben McCormick benjamin.mccormick@marquette.edu
Apple announced last week they will begin selling interactive textbooks that can be viewed on an iPad, an announcement that could potentially revolutionize the publishing industry. On Jan. 19, the tech giant released iBooks 2, an update to their iBook book shopping application for the iPad that prominently features a new textbook category. In three days 350,000 textbooks were downloaded. The digital textbooks, designed for kindergarten through 12th grade students, are turning heads for their incredibly low prices: $15 or less. Apple has also signed on publishers Pearson, McGrawHill and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as partners to release their academic books on the new iBooks app. “Education is deep in Apple’s DNA and iPad may be our most exciting education product yet,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing, in a press release.
“Now with iBooks 2 for iPad, stu- used any of the other Apple proddents have a more dynamic, en- ucts, it works almost the same,” gaging and truly interactive way he said. However, helping all students to read and learn, using the device gain access to a costly item like they already love.” What separates iBooks from an iPad could be a major obstacle. “If students had access to the other e-readers like the Kindle and Nook is its interactive inter- iPad, yes, I would (use it in a face, allowing students to watch class),” D’Urso said. “I would videos, listen to audio or interact feel hesitant because (not having with diagrams while reading a iPads) would create haves and have-nots in the class. Those that textbook. “I think that’s where the good have access to the really good pornews with books is, is in the in- tion of the content and those that teractive mode versus the elec- didn’t, I can’t say that I would do it right now.” tronic text you D e s p i t e can buy from concerns, the a bookstore,” “I think that’s where the good news iBooks 2 app is said Jon Pray, with books is, is in the interactive showing signs Marquette's as- mode versus the electronic text you of progress, sociate vice can buy from a bookstore.” with the big provost for educational techJon Pray hope being that nology. “The Associate Vice Provost for Educational Tech. these kinds of textbooks befun and the come available power is in this multimedia, multi-touch interac- on devices other than the iPad. “It’s not something I think eitive landscape.” Dr. Scott D’Urso, associate ther (Marquette) or most univerprofessor in the College of Com- sities are going to jump into right munication, said he is considering away," D'Urso said. "We have to writing a textbook for one of his see kind of where the chips fall, classes using iBooks Author, a find a solution that is beneficial to new feature of iBooks 2 that al- students, faculty and everybody’s lows authors to produce and sell pocketbooks. I think it’s the first step.” their own work through iBooks. “Looking at the program over the last week, it’s very interesting, it’s simple to use. If you’ve
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Foreclosures get second chance from group Donations to the Milwaukee Rising initiative of Common Ground Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, US Bank and Wells Fargo
$33.8 million total Housing organizer funding, including Helen Bader Foundation, Greater Milwaukee Foundation and Zilber Ltd.
$485,000 total City of Milwaukee Rehabilitation Program Funding
$2 million Grand Total:
$36.3 million Photo courtesy of Jeff Jordan/St. Marks Episcopal Church
Kathleen Scott, Marquette Alumni, talks about rehab efforts at the renovation of a foreclosed property.
Nonprofit rehabs homes with local banks’ donations By Simone Smith simone.smith@marquette.edu
Milwaukee is about to get a lot more colorful as Common Ground, in partnership with the City of Milwaukee, combats the foreclosure crisis and fixes boarded-up homes. Last fall, local banks gave the Milwaukee nonprofit organization a combined $33.8 million to help the group’s housing initiative, Milwaukee Rising. Last Thursday, the organization led its partners through its fourth rehabbed home to be put on the market, at 2402 N. 46th St. in the Sherman Park neighborhood. So far three of the group’s six
rehabbed houses have been sold, one is scheduled to be razed in February and 21 additional rehabilitations are in the works. The home on 46th Street underwent many dramatic changes, including a new red stucco exterior, a refurbished garage, a new electrical system, new plumbing and fixtures and a completely new kitchen. The tour, attended by Aldermen Willie Hines and Michael Murphy, of the 15th and 10th districts, respectively, gave supporters a look at the newly rehabbed single-family home that as recent as last year had been boarded up. “Common Ground, in partnership with the city of Milwaukee, has done a fantastic job,” Hines said in his remarks. “I couldn’t think of a better neighborhood to invest in.” Hines also commended the banking industry for stepping up to help the initiative.
Construction was done over the summer by Zilber Ltd., and the home has been on the market for one month, according to Kathleen Scott, associate organizer of Common Ground. The 1,821-square foot, four-bedroom, two-bathroom home is listed at $106,900. Scott says the purpose of the tour of the home was to show appreciation to partners and member organizations. “We had a lot of partners, a lot of people we wanted to thank for all of their hard work,” Scott said. Scott said the organization has plans to continue rehabbing homes on a block-by-block basis. The organization’s goal is 25 renovated homes per year over the next four years for a total of 100. Scott compares getting rid of boarded-up foreclosed homes to making a quilt. “We want houses colorful instead of boarded up,” Scott said.
Source: Jan. 18 Common Ground press release Graphic by Zach Hubbard/zachary.hubbard@marquette.edu
She said that there are a few interested people, but no buyers of the home just yet. Also at the tour was a former owner of the home. Peg Tagliavia, a Milwaukee resident who owned the home from 1981-1995 before selling it, called the home where she raised her two daughters a very special place. Tagliavia said when she found out the home had been foreclosed on she was devastated. “I sat in my car across the street and just cried,” Tagliavia said. But she was relieved when she heard that Common Ground had bought it with plans to rehab it and put it back on the market. “I was so grateful that someone saw the heart of this home,” Tagliavia said. Wells Fargo also donated a home to be rehabbed by the organization. Russ Cross, senior vice presi-
dent and regional servicing director for Wells Fargo Home Mortgages, said the bank often donates homes they acquire through the foreclosure process to nonprofit organizations. Cross said in the last two years Wells Fargo has donated over three dozen homes to organizations like Common Ground and the Harambee Housing Project. “We are eager to help organizations like Common Ground that redevelop properties and put them back on the market for resale,” Cross said. Cross said the bank has plans to continue donating homes. “We certainly are going to continue to donate homes to nonprofit organizations in Milwaukee area that express interest in our property,” he said. “Nonprofits are important tools to help neighborhoods rebuild themselves.”
Former Madison AD accused of sexual assualt Student alleges improper contact at Rose Bowl party Associated Press
A University of Wisconsin student alleged that an athletic department official grabbed his crotch at an alcohol-fueled party during the football team’s trip to the Rose Bowl, according to an independent report released by the school on Tuesday night. The report says the student alleges former senior associate athletic director John Chadima put his hand down the student’s pants at the end of a party in Chadima’s suite at a Los Angeles hotel on Dec. 31. The student — identified only as John Doe in the report — said he was “shocked and frightened” and slapped Chadima’s hand away. Chadima was put on administrative leave on Jan. 6 and resigned the same day. He previously had issued an apology for a “lapse in judgment,” and issued another statement through his attorney Tuesday. “I make no excuses and have come to the realization that over the past few months, alcohol had controlled and consumed my
life,” Chadima said. “I am taking steps to correct that problem in my life at this time. I will take full responsibility for my lack of judgment and actions that evening.” The report said its findings were based on interviews with 23 people, including students and professional staff — but they were “not able to arrange an interview” with Badgers football coach Bret Bielema. Three student employees of the athletic department declined to be interviewed. The report also reviewed information from Chadima’s office computer and school-issued cell phone. Chadima declined to speak with the panel. The report said Chadima hosted a bowl game party for staff and student employees for at least the past four years. The most recent party began Dec. 30 and lasted into the early morning hours of Dec. 31, at Chadima’s hotel suite. According to the report, Chadima provided “alcohol, beer and mixers” and guests were invited to serve themselves. Some of the guests were under age 21. Sometime between 1:30 a.m. and 2 a.m., the alleged victim was leaving along with the last few people left at the party when he said Chadima asked him to
“stay here and have a drink with me.” The alleged victim said he and Chadima both had several more drinks and “probably were intoxicated,” but were coherent and in control of their physical movements.
“I make no excuses and have come to the realization that over the past few months, alcohol had controlled and consumed my life.” John Chadima Former Senior Associate AD According to the report, Chadima then said he thought the student was gay, and said some of the other student employees thought he was gay. The student said it made him “uncomfortable and defensive.” The student then said Chadima reached over and removed the student’s belt, putting his hands inside the student’s pants and touching his genitals. The student said he slapped Chadima’s hand away and swore at him. At that point, the student said Chadima said he thought the student liked it, asking “What are you going to do about it?” and saying, “I could have you fired.” The student said he quickly left the room, and Chadima seemed to want to gloss over the incident
as “just joking around.” The report said the student then went to the hotel room of his immediate supervisor, whose name is redacted in the report, and related the incident. The student said at the time he didn’t want to do anything that would jeopardize the team’s Rose Bowl preparations. The student then told a consistent version of the story to three fellow student employees. The report says the student was “pleased and satisfied” with the supportive response he received from the supervisor and fellow students. The student traveled on the team charter flight back to Madison on Jan. 3. According to the report, the two unidentified officials called UW police lieutenant Jason Whitney on the morning of Jan. 4; Whitney had traveled with the team to the Rose Bowl. In a meeting that afternoon, Whitney presented a Dec. 13, 2011, memo from UW-Madison police department chief Susan Riseling which emphasized that any employee witnessing or receiving a report about a sexual assault is required to report it to the Dean of Students office. According to the report, Whitney emphasized the importance of acting promptly. But the report said the unidenti-
fied officials felt “uneasy” about reporting the incident without alerting officials in the athletic department. They described the incident to Holly Weber, the athletic department’s human relations director. Weber said she would discuss it with senior university legal counsel John Dowling, and asked them to wait until she got back to them to contact the dean. That meeting happened Jan. 6, where the unnamed officials who called Whitney were told to stop the athletic department’s investigation of the incident and that the chancellor’s office would decide how to proceed. According to the report, the chancellor and Athletic Director Barry Alvarez determined Chadima would be placed on administrative leave. The chancellor decided to appoint a committee to conduct the investigation. Chadima did not specifically address any of the report’s allegations in his statement. “I have learned a very hard lesson through this process, am paying a difficult price for my actions, and I hope that a lesson can somehow be learned by all from this situation,” he said. “I also hope that my apologies will be accepted, and forgiveness given.”
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Romney plan a ‘fantasy’ Gingrich criticizes self-deportation plan as inhumane By Brian Bakst & Kasie Hunt Associated Press
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich on Wednesday ridiculed rival Mitt Romney’s call for self-deportation of illegal immigrants as an “Obama-level fantasy” that would be inhumane to long-established families living in America. Romney, for his part, accused Gingrich of pandering to a Hispanic audience and said Gingrich himself had supported selfdeportation in the past. Discussing immigration in state where 13 percent of registered voters are Hispanic, the former House speaker criticized Romney’s immigration policy during a forum with the Spanish-language television network Univision, saying the idea of self-deportation would never work. Romney snapped back at him later in the day at the same forum. During a debate earlier this week, Romney said he favors self-deportation over policies that would require the federal government to round up millions of illegal immigrants and send them back to their home countries. Advocates of Romney’s approach argue that illegal immigration can be curbed by denying public benefits to them, prompting them to leave the United States on their own. “You have to live in a world of Swiss bank accounts and Cayman Island accounts and automatically $20 million income for no work to have some fantasy this far from reality,” Gingrich said, alluding to details in Romney’s income tax returns made public Tuesday. “For Romney to believe that somebody’s grandmother is going to be so cut off that she is going to self-deport, I mean this is an Obama-level fantasy.” But Gingrich’s campaign has spoken of the self-deportation policy he ridiculed Wednesday. “I recognize that it’s very tempting to come out to an audience like this and pander to the audience,” Romney said, pointing out that Gingrich has previously
made comments supporting the idea of self-deportation. “I think that was a mistake on his part.” In debates, Gingrich has defended a proposal to allow some illegal immigrants to stay in the U.S. if they’ve lived here for more than 25 years and have a local sponsor. Romney’s campaign directed reporters to past comments by Gingrich spokesman R.C. Hammond, who said that only a small percent of illegal immigrants would likely be allowed to stay in the U.S. under Gingrich’s plan. Hammond went on to say that the vast majority of them would likely “self-deport.” Gingrich also ran into trouble over a radio ad calling Romney “anti-immigrant.” Florida Sen. Marco Rubio called the ad “inaccurate” and “inflammatory.” Romney’s campaign also asked Gingrich in a letter to pull the ad. Hammond, the Gingrich spokesman, confirmed that the ad was pulled but declined to say whether Rubio’s concerns led to the decision. Romney called the anti-immigrant label an “epithet” and “inappropriate.” At the forum, Gingrich spoke instead about other elements of his immigration plan, including controlling the border and establishing a guest-worker program to better manage the influx of immigrants. Gingrich said he favors a path to citizenship for illegal immigrant children who serve in the military but not for simply completing college. Romney defended his opposition to allowing the children of illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition at American universities. He said there are inexpensive options that will allow them to go to college. Gingrich told Univision he believes states should charge instate tuition rates for students who were born in the U.S. to illegal immigrant parents, but that he favors charging out-of-state tuition for children who were brought to this country illegally. Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s support of a Texas policy to allow children of illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition proved to be problematic with conservatives nationwide. Perry dropped out of the race last week.
Gingrich began the interview by speaking a few halting phrases of welcome in Spanish — “Buenos Dias estudiantes” — but begged off when moderator Jorge Ramos pressed him to go further. Romney did not speak any Spanish during his interview. Romney was asked about family members he has living in Mexico. Romney’s father, George Romney, was born in Mexico but moved back to the U.S. as a young child. Ramos asked Romney if he had a claim to being Mexican American. “I don’t think people would think I was being honest with them if I said I was Mexican American but I’d appreciate it if you’d get that word out,” Romney said, smiling. Florida is home to many Hispanics of Puerto Rican or Cuban descent who don’t view immigration as a priority but are more interested in the issue than the general public. Both candidates addressed the future of communist Cuba after their interviews. In a speech on Latin America policy, Gingrich said the U.S. needs to take a more active role in demanding change in Fidel Castro’s Cuba, much like it did to encourage the Arab spring movement that toppled autocratic leaders in north Africa and the Middle East. “I don’t think it’s ever occurred to anyone in the White House to look south and propose a Cuban spring,” Gingrich said. “If (former Egyptian President Hosni) Mubarak was bad, Castro is worse.” Romney, who has significant support from the Cuban-American political establishment in Miami, railed against Castro’s regime in a speech before several hundred Cuban-American democracy activists. “It is time for us to strive for freedom in Cuba, and I will do so as president,” he said. “We must be prepared to support the voices for democracy in Cuba.”
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Kohler Business Plan Competition gears up Mentors guide entrepreneurial efforts by students By Elise Angelopulos elise.angelopulos@marquette.edu
“One idea can change the world,” is the motto of the Kohler Business Plan Competition, a contest encouraging entrepreneurial spirit open to all Marquette students and faculty regardless of academic affiliation or college. The annual competition is divided into two categories: business plan prize and social business plan prize. Individual participants are grouped into teams and matched with an experienced mentor to provide direction in developing a successful and relevant business program. This year, final projects are judged April 16 and 17. According to the Kohler Center for Entrepreneurship website, s i n c e 2001, the “The plan has its competi- own approach, its tion has own template, its launched hundreds own style.” of busiAlex Stewart n e s s Coleman Chair plans and provided numerous students with prize money intended to launch ventures and future projects. One past contestant and College of Communication graduate, Tim Cigelske, said the Kohler Business Program exponentially developed his company and greatly improved his business sense. “We didn’t enter necessarily to win,” Cigelske said. “Instead we got a great background in business and help in training.” Cigelske’s competition idea, TeeCycle, has developed into a niche T-shirt company where environmental-friendliness and reuse are central principles. “I saw a lot of companies out there selling new T-shirts that were very expensive,” Cigelske said. “I didn’t think it was a smart use of resources. I researched, and I didn’t see anyone doing
what I was doing, so I started my own company.” Cigelske’s unique company rummages and searches for used T-shirts which are resold at reasonable prices on his website. 2009 Business Plan Competition winner Chris Hallberg also developed an eco-friendly company, SMUG, which sells reusable coffee mugs. “I entered the competition with an idea and left with a well-defined business model and plan for converting that idea into a viable business,” Hallberg is quoted as saying on the business plan competition page. Cigelske echoed Hallberg’s statement, emphasizing the importance of team mentors in producing their businesses. “One of the biggest helps was getting assigned a mentor,” Cigelske said. “We could talk through the plan, what we envisioned and what we needed help with.” Cigelske said he was one of the only non-business students at competition time, and he was initially uncertain whether he had the necessary background knowledge to compete. “There was some nervousness about that,” he said. “But that’s what we had mentors for. They directed me to things I’m good at like creating narratives and visions for my company.” Alex Stewart, Coleman Chair in Entrepreneurship, said the mentorship program is possibly the most valuable part of the competition. “Many times, competitors come in with their own ideas and they do not necessarily need help with that,” Stewart said. “What they really get help with is the development and writing a business plan.” Stewart says the competition’s namesake is essential and should be a foremost priority for any serious individual entering the business world of production. “The plan has its own approach, its own template, its own style,” Stewart said. “It is something bankers and investors look for.” Stewart mentioned some past winners like Ben Bartling, a 2010 graduate of the College of Business Administration, whose company has also received investors’ interest. “Ben’s company ZoomShift works with scheduling for restaurants and companies. He went through the business plan course and all … He is kind of a star,” Stewart added. Cigelske said his business remains profitable but is still small and developing. He said the company is seeking opportunities with other investors and partnerships. According to Stewart, the most successful part of the Kohler Business Plan Competition is the networking capabilities the College of Business Administration continuously develops. “There is an extensive network here of supportive Marquette alumnus,” Stewart said. The Kohler Business Plan Competition is an opportunity Cigelske believes every interested student should take advantage of. “I would say give it a shot,” Cigelske said. “If you enter you will get some help (and) at the very least you decide this isn’t for you, and you get broad exposure for your company, and learn about the business side of things.”
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Gossip possibly beneficial, study says Talking to friends about peers may relieve stress By Sarah Hauer sarah.hauer@marquette.edu
There may be a new answer to stress — gossiping. A study released Jan. 9 by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley found that gossiping may decrease stress and that people gossip in order to help others. This knowledge could be helpful to the 26.4 percent of Marquette students who reported that stress has affected their academic performance, according to the Marquette Center for Health Education and Promotion. Participants in the study played games in which a cheater unfairly collected points. Researchers found that when the cheater collected their points, the other par-
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ticipants’ heart rates increased. When participants were able to ‘gossip’ about the game, their heart rates lowered. Participants’ heart rates were the lowest when they were trying to warn others of cheating. Although gossip is often viewed as trivial or even anti-social, the study results show gossip can be pro-social and necessary for fairness and cooperation in groups, said study researcher Robb Willer, a social psychologist at UC Berkeley, in a statement. “Spreading information about the person whom they had seen behave badly tended to make people feel better, quieting the frustration that drove their gossip,” Willer said. A 2009 study showed that up to 80 percent of our conversations is gossip, according to the New York Daily News. The study also said only about five percent of all gossip is intended for harm. Students agreed that gossiping is prevalent on Marquette’s campus.
Jasmine Baker, a senior in the Administration, said he thinks College of Arts & Sciences, said people gossip to feel involved. she thinks gossiping can be a “It’s social backup for when stress reliever. people don’t have anything else “Gossiping can be a form of to talk about,” Hoover said. He venting, which can relieve stress,” said people mostly gossip about Baker said. “Gossiping about oth- mistakes others make. ers is negative, but it may make Meghan McNamara, a sophoyou feel better.” more in the College of Nursing, Many students, agreed that gossiping however, feel gosgives people some“They aren’t trying sip only creates more thing to talk about. to be mean. People stress. “When people gosKelly Rasmussen, a just want to know sip they are usually freshman in the Col- what their friends just bored,” McNalege of Communica- are doing and who mara said. She said tion, said she doesn’t people mostly gossip they are doing it think the results of the about others’ love with.” study are true. lives. Chris Hardin “Gossiping creChris Hardin, a Freshman ates stress,” Rasmusfreshman in the Colsen said. “The more lege of Engineering, you gossip, the more said students use gosstress you have, and it always sip as a way to get and spread comes back to you.” news. Students agreed with research“They aren’t trying to be mean,” ers in that gossiping is a social Hardin said. “People just want to activity. know what their friends are doing Charlie Hoover, a sophomore in and who they are doing it with.” the College of Business
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Obama challenges Republicans, promises action President takes strong stance in State of the Union By Donna Cassata Associated Press
President Barack Obama delivered an election-year broadside to Republicans: Game on. The GOP, from Congress to the campaign trail, signaled it’s ready for the fight. In his third State of the Union address, Obama issued a populist call for income equality that echoed the Occupy Wall Street movement. He challenged GOP lawmakers to work with him or move aside so he could use the power of the presidency to produce results for an electorate uncertain whether he deserves another term. Facing a deeply divided Congress, Obama appealed to lawmakers to send him legislation on immigration, clean energy and housing, knowing full well the election-year prospects are bleak but aware that polls show that the independent voters who lifted him to the presidency crave bipartisanship. “I intend to fight obstruction with action,” Obama told a packed chamber and tens of millions of Americans watching in prime time. House Republicans greeted his words with stony silence. The Democratic president’s vision of an activist government broke sharply with Republican demands for less government intervention to allow free enterprise. The stark differences will be evident in the White House’s dealings with Congress and in the presidential campaign over the next 10 months. In the Republican response to the president’s address, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, who once considered a White House bid, railed against the “extremism” of an administration that stifles economic growth. “No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant effort to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others,” Daniels said, speaking from Indianapolis. “As in previous moments of national danger, we Americans are all in the same boat.” Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday the protracted policy fight with Republicans is “not about bad guys and good guys,” but centers on how best to keep the middle class growing
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President Obama addresses the people at his third State of the Union speech Tuesday night.
in America. The administration has worked hard to strike deals with congressional Republicans on a wide array of issues, he said, including steps to rein in the mounting federal deficit. But Biden added that time after time in talks he held with congressional figures in both parties, he was told little could be accomplished because of the wall of opposition from 86 conservative House Republicans. “It’s like the tail is wagging the dog,” the vice president said. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., called the differences between the parties “stark” and said he thought little could be accomplished on the federal debt until the two sides come to grips with the skyrocketing costs of health care and the Medicare program. “I don’t think anyone wants to pay higher taxes,” Cantor said. And he said Washington needs to “get out of the mindset” that the country’s problems can be solved with new programs and accept that small business “is the backbone” of the economy. Campaigning in Florida, GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich rejected Obama’s call for higher taxes on the wealthy. “If he actually meant what he said it would be a disaster of the first order,” said the former House speaker, who called it “the most anti-jobs single step he could take.” In his speech, Obama said
getting a fair shot for all Americans is “the defining issue of our time.” He described an economy on the rebound from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, with more than 3 million jobs created in the last 22 months and U.S. manufacturers hiring. Although unemployment is high at 8.5 percent, home sales and corporate earnings have increased, among other positive economic signs. Republicans say the president’s policies have undermined the economy. Obama “had the opportunity and the responsibility to level with the American people, admit that the policies of the past three years have delivered an underwhelming record of economic growth and job creation, and show an interest in changing direction and uniting, not dividing the nation,” said Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., head of the Republican Policy Committee. “The president failed to meet that responsibility.” There were brief moments of bipartisanship. Republicans and Democrats sat together, continuing a practice begun last year. The arrival of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who survived an assassination attempt, elicited sustained applause and cheering, with chants of “Gabby, Gabby.” Republican Rep. Jeff Flake escorted her into the chamber and Obama greeted her with a hug. The president received loud applause from both sides when
he said: “I’m a Democrat. But I believe what Republican Abraham Lincoln believed: That government should do for people only what they cannot do better by themselves, and no more.” But all that belied a fierce divide. Obama ticked off items on a hefty agenda that he wants from Congress — a path to citizenship for children who come to the United States with their undocumented parents if they complete college, tax credits for clean energy, elimination of red tape for Americans refinancing their mortgages, a measure that bans insider trading by lawmakers and a payroll tax cut. Political reality suggests it was largely wishful thinking on Obama’s part. The payroll tax cut and must-do spending bill are the most likely legislative items to survive the election year. But Obama’s far-reaching list and the hour-plus speech offered a unique opportunity to contrast his record with congressional Republicans and his top presidential rivals, Mitt Romney and Gingrich. “Anyone who tells you America is in decline or that our influence has waned, doesn’t know what they’re talking about,” Obama said — a clear response to the White House hopefuls who have pummeled him for months. In an attack on the nation’s growing income gap, Obama called for a new minimum tax rate of at least 30 percent on
anyone making more than $1 million. Many millionaires — including Romney — pay a rate less than that because they get most of their income from investments, which are taxed at a lower rate. “Now you can call this class warfare all you want,” Obama said. “But asking a billionaire to pay at least as much as his secretary in taxes? Most Americans would call that common sense.” Obama calls this the “Buffett rule,” named for billionaire Warren Buffett, who has said it’s unfair that his secretary pays a higher tax rate than he does. Emphasizing the point, Buffett’s secretary, Debbie Bosanek, attended the address in first lady Michelle Obama’s box. Obama made his appeal on the same day that Romney released some of his tax returns, showing he made more than $20 million in a single year and paid around 14 percent in taxes, largely because his wealth came from investments. In advance of Obama’s speech, Romney said, “Tonight will mark another chapter in the misguided policies of the last three years — and the failed leadership of one man.” Obama highlighted his national security successes — the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, the diminished strength of al-Qaida and the demise of Moammar Gadhafi. In hailing the men and women of the military, the commander in chief contrasted their cooperation and dedication with the divisions and acrimony in Washington. “At a time when too many of our institutions have let us down, they exceed all expectations,” Obama said. “They’re not consumed with personal ambition. They don’t obsess over their differences. They focus on the mission at hand. They work together. Imagine what we could accomplish if we followed their example.” Obama left Washington for a three-day tour of five states crucial to his re-election bid. On Wednesday he’ll visit Iowa and Arizona to promote ideas to boost American manufacturing; on Thursday in Nevada and Colorado he’ll discuss energy; and in Michigan on Friday he’ll talk about college affordability, education and training. He also addresses a conference of House Democrats focused on their own re-election in Cambridge, Md., on Friday.
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Provost John Pauly is working with Pilarz to engineer a series of forums.
faculty travel budget for 2013 by $100,000. Pilarz said one of the main needs for Marquette’s future is to have more focused discussions on the university’s priorities, and then construct and implement a university-wide strategic plan. “The discussions we’ve had to date about Marquette’s future were quite informal and openended by design, but they were, in fact, a very preliminary part of a longer process — the first step in identifying our hopes and aspirations for this university,” Pilarz said. The first step in these conversations will be forums on the “big questions” for each university college. These forums are currently being added to the academic calendar for this semester. Provost John Pauly said the forums, which he has been a part of planning, will be focused discussions on Marquette, looking at what does distinctively well. “In part, that means that while (the forums) will recognize the value of a broad spectrum of academic programs that constitute Marquette as a national
university, the processes and the plan will do this: they will reaffirm the centrality of the Arts & Sciences curriculum, specifically the Core of Common Studies required of all undergraduates,” Pilarz said. Pauly said that while no immediate changes have been planned for the core of common studies, there will be opportunities to evaluate the core in the reaccreditation and reaffirmation process. Pilarz also thanked the Rev. Robert Wild for his leadership at Marquette, adding that the number of admission applications at Marquette rose by 3 percent this year. Pilarz also said Wild rebuilt the university’s endowment. Arica VanBoxtel, a junior in the College of Communication, attended and enjoyed the State of the University address. “He (Pilarz) is really down to earth and it says a lot about his leadership,” VanBoxtel said. “I also think it’s really admirable that in his first year as president he’s teaching a class and becoming part of the community.”
as an acceptable ‘fee payment receipt’ to assist students in the voting process,” Czech-Mrochinski said. According to Todd Vicker, executive director of the Alumni Memorial Union and Auxiliary Services, the University felt that voter IDs needed to be provided despite not having budgeted for them in the previous year. Since the laws were passed after the approval of this year’s budget, the university had to take on extra costs to ensure that all students could vote. “The initial costs of the cards to the university are dependent
upon the number of students who decide to utilize the MU Voter ID Card as an option to vote,” Vicker said. “The university will also incur ongoing costs as new freshmen arrive on campus and then as cards expire after two years and need to be replaced.” Vicker added that the university’s main concern was finding the easiest way possible for all students to vote. “This is most efficient for students who wish to vote using a Marquette Voter ID which contains the required items, rather than reissuing a new Marquette Card to all students,” Vicker said.
“It was important to the Marquette administration to find an acceptable and cost-effective way to provide a Voter ID for students who did not already possess an acceptable form of ID.” Bill Neidhardt, a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences, said while the university has done an excellent job in providing the voter IDs to students, he wishes students would not be in this position to begin with. “I couldn’t be prouder of Marquette for sticking up for the students,” Neidhardt said. “Students deserve the same opportunities to participate in our democracy as much as any other citizen, and the new ID from the university is going to bring us closer to full enfranchisement as voters.” In addition to the voter IDs and Account Activity Reports, Marquette will also take steps to ensure all students know what they need to vote. This will include posters and information sessions aimed at educating student voters. “In the end, we wanted to make it as easy as possible for our students to vote,” Vicker said. “The final solution included a complete response to help register voters, educate them on their options, and to provide a compliant voter ID.”
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Law: Voters divided on conceal-and-carry completed before South Carolina primary results were known Saturday. The South Carolina primary, won by former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, has propelled Gingrich to share frontrunner status in the GOP primary race with Romney. Franklin said this is not a prediction of the general election. “It’s really important to emphasize that we are looking at a snapshot of today at the beginning of the elections, not predicting the outcome,” Franklin said. John McAdams, professor of political science, is not shocked with the state or presidential poll numbers. “At this point in time it’s about name recognition,” McAdams said. “Over time (the importance of) name recognition will decrease. Walker’s advantage is partly name recognition and the ads he has been running … Obama had a sense of exuberance about him in 2008, and that is now wearing off, but that’s not to say he won’t win the election.” Wisconsin’s results vary when it comes to public policy issues that directly affect the state. Among voters, 74 percent are in favor of state workers paying more for pension and health benefits and 22 are percent opposed, while 66 are percent in favor of the state’s voter ID law and 32 percent are opposed. Wisconsin is closely divided when it comes to issues such as the new law
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legalizing the possession of concealed weapons, with 46 percent in favor and 51 percent opposed. McAdams was not surprised by the policy issue results either. “People often go with what is most attractive in regards to their
party,” McAdams said. “It’s not a problem with this poll, it’s a problem with all polls … People often give the plausible answer rather than the opinionated one.”
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The 2012 elections aren’t only about which candidates you are going to vote for, but rather how you are actually going to be able to vote, thanks to a new voter ID law impacting people across Wisconsin. This year, people without a valid Wisconsin driver’s license or identification card, U.S. passport or U.S. military photo ID will be required to have an official voter ID to cast a ballot. This means students will no longer be allowed to use a Marquette ID to vote in Wisconsin. Many people are opposed to this new law, and some find it cumbersome and even unconstitutional. If you are completely against the voter ID law or do not understand it, you may decide to simply not vote. This is potentially the worst political decision you could make. It is your responsibility as a citizen to educate yourself about this new law, not simply ignore it. In fact, this year is the first time the majority of Marquette students will be able to vote in the
presidential election. Why would you not exercise your right to vote just because you “don’t understand the law” or “don’t have time” to get a voter ID? In reality, it is not a very long process to get your new ID. All you have to do is go to Union Station and fill out an application for your MU voter ID card (a process that takes a whopping two minutes). After you pick up your ID, you must bring an Account Activity Report (found on Checkmarq) to voter registration. You must also bring the report to the polls on election day to verify your enrollment at Marquette. Sounds easier than you thought, right? We think so. If you complain about past, current or potential politicians, do what you can to make a difference and voice your opinion. If you do not vote because it seems too complicated, you are adding to the belief that this generation does not care. Do not let this new law deter you from exercising your civic duty.
Opportunity to affect MU finances is one to take Vice President of Finance Chuck Lamb announced Monday that tuition will increase by approximately $1,400 next year, the same amount that tuition has increased each year since 2009. The increased cost of running, maintaining and insuring the university, as well as professor salary increases all contribute to the annual trend of more expensive tuition. The additional money will go toward a 3 percent increase in room and board rates as well as an additional $12 for the annual Student Health Services fee. Unless you’re a freshman or transfer student, you are probably well aware of such tuition increases. If you’re not paying a cent for your college education, you may not care. The truth is, most students do care – a lot. However, if given the chance to voice your opinion on the matter, would you? The revised tuition rates were part of the budget process handled by the new University Finance and Review Committee. Unlike the former University Budget Committee, this new board plans to
provide meeting minutes online in addition to allowing for graduate and undergraduate students to sit on the committee. These changes will make the university’s budget and the process behind it more accessible to Marquette students, a chance for us to finally give opinions, ask questions and — hopefully — get the answers we want regarding the cost of our college education. We must take that chance. We at the Tribune consider the opportunity to impact Marquette’s financial decisions one we cannot neglect. If we let this occasion slip by unnoticed, we will likely never receive a similar chance in the future. No matter how much you complain about the tuition hike to your roommate, significant other or parent, nothing will change unless you address the people who directly influence the decision. The real question is, how many students are willing to put forth the time and effort? Do yourself, and future generations, a favor, and count yourselves among the students numbered in the answer.
Not to sound old, but I remember when college cost less than $30,000 a year. On Monday, a Marquette University News Brief alerted students that next year’s tuition would rise once again — to $32,810, with room and board increasing an additional 3 percent. Meanwhile, President Barack Obama and his speech writers were hard at work on the annual State of the Union address to Congress and the country — an address which took special notice of the expense of higher education. In the speech on Tuesday, President Obama said Americans owe more in tuition debt than credit card debt, student loan interest rates will double in July unless Congress passes a law to prevent it and the number of college work-study jobs must be increased in order to allow more students the opportunity “to earn their way through college.” But, President Obama said, increasing student aid is not enough. If college tuition keeps rising, or “skyrocketing,” as Obama so accurately put it, a college degree will simply be unattainable for many. Already, Marquette is a reach for most students, and the result is a rather elite class of students — at least in terms of our parents’ wealth. The majority of Marquette students are from high to middle-income families, from nice neighborhoods with nice things. Students often complain about the lack of diversity, but with tuition being so expensive, expecting diversity from a socioeconomic perspective seems like a pipedream. In a letter written to parents announcing the additional expense, University President the Rev. Scott Pilarz said, “affordability, accessibility and debt loans among students and parents remain the university’s primary concerns.”
Indeed, more than 90 percent of Marquette students receive some sort of financial assistance. Yet the value of an incoming freshman’s degree is going to be at least $128,000, plus the hundreds of study hours she put in to making her education meaningful. Granted, a Marquette degree is a good one to have, and a university such as this is expensive to operate. Professors deserve good salaries and students deserve nice places to live and learn — not to mention, we demand it. The education and degree Marquette gives in return for our one hundred thousand dollars is probably worth it. That’s what I keep telling myself on my way to graduation, at least. The annual increase, however, is a bit disconcerting. Even though this year’s is only about a 4 percent increase, it translates into more than $1,000— a significant amount of money. Perhaps significant enough to deter some students from accruing such expensive loans. It’s an incredibly frustrating reality both the President of the University and the President of the United States hit us with this week: To obtain valuable higher education, we have to pay the price — an expensive debt which could follow graduates for years. While we’re earning our degrees, we’re also spending thousands more on our education than previous generations. And unless something drastic happens, our children will be spending even more — a frightening thought. Even if Marquette keeps increasing $1,000 annually, in thirty years, it will cost more than $60,000. I just gasped. Obama put colleges on notice: “If you can’t stop tuition from going up, the funding you get from taxpayers will go down. Higher education can’t be a luxury - it’s an economic imperative that every family in America should be able to afford.” President Obama is right. Something needs to be done — or else a college degree will become even more exclusive. Our nation will become less educated and good jobs more difficult to come by. If the cost of college continues to increase, our nation will not prosper — it will flounder. kelly.white@marquette.edu
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Don’t hide behind your principles hand combat with babies because they embrace a principle of avoiding fights, even if they’ll always win because babies don’t know the first thing about cage matches. We access our principles for proper justification, but sometimes we rely on them too much. When that happens, all we have left to defend our position is to say, “It’s the principle of the matter.” Ian Yakob I don’t care that she forgot it was my birthday. It’s the principle of the thing so I We all have personal guidelines, and they want an apology. play a large role in what we do. I don’t care that he won $500 dollars “I don’t drink soda.” and truly wants to split it with me. It’s the “I don’t drink coffee.” principle of the matter, so I can’t accept “I don’t drink bacon fat.” the money. We create these principles because we I don’t care that buying a foreign car like to feel a sense of control, whether we would save me on gas, money and mainstick to them or occasionally falter. tenance. It’s the principle of the thing, so I Of course, you’re buy American. more likely to do things Ego is a stupid thing. around your peers that Most people also refrain from When the principle itself you normally have prin- hand-to-hand combat with babies becomes the reason for ciples against, like eatmaking or not making ing junk food, watching because they embrace a principle a decision, that’s when Teen Mom or cursing. of avoiding fights. we need to wise up. It’s But that’s just an issue just bad logic, like sayof discipline. ing it’s OK to litter beThe principles we cause birds will use the hold strongly are the ones we know are garbage in their nests. just, like not cheating in relationships. If we abandon this principle-principle, we Most people also refrain from hand-to- can escape our self-inflicted headlock. Let
IN THE “Now, you can call this class warfare all you want. But asking a billionaire to pay at least as much as his secretary in taxes? Most Americans would call that common sense.” - President Obama introducing the logic behind the new “Buffett Rule” about taxes
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me demonstrate. with that band too. In 2010 I went downtown to see a band By the time I left, it was so cold that I was I like. Since the band wasn’t very popular freezing my buns off. and I decided to go last Right on cue, a minute, I couldn’t find random girl with anyone to join me. Or so I her boyfriend yells The point is, be safe, but don’t let something cheeky tell myself. Now, a lot of us hold the principles hold you back. If we let to me about the girls social principle to avoid them take over when better sense who were talking to going to events alone beshould, we need to question who the the band and me. cause that’s totally lame. I normally wouldn’t Just ignore it. If this sounds we think we believe ourselves to be. talk to strangers, but like one of Bridget’s colI was on a roll this umns from last semester, night so I said, “Do don’t worry — I’m agreeyou want to give me ing with her. Still, this happened to me long a ride home?” before her story, so I had no idea what I was I also typically don’t get in a stranger’s getting into. car late at night, but I scored a ride straight There I was going alone to that concert, to my apartment. only to defy a few more thwarting princiThe point is, be safe, but don’t let prinples along the way. ciples hold you back. If we let them take The band I came to see was the middle over when better sense should, we need of three acts. I can’t explain how the rest to question who we think we believe ourof the night progressed the way it did, but selves to be. after the opening act finished, I found myThat sounds puzzling, but look, if I walk self hanging out with the band in the back. by an empty bag on the sidewalk and say, When some girls came up to us, we had “I’m not picking it up because that’s somebeen shooting the breeze long enough to the body else’s job,” who do I think I think I point where the bass player started pretend- am? That’s no typo. It’s principles, people. ing I was part of the band. Then sure enough, when the band I came ian.yakob@marquette.edu to see showed up, I was front row. Sure enough (again), I ended up hanging out
“[Leno’s joke] clearly exposes the plaintiff, other Sikhs and their religion to hatred, contempt, ridicule and obloquy because it falsely portrays the holiest place in the Sikh religion as a vacation resort owned by a non-Sikh.” - Lawsuit of Dr. Randeep Dhillon against Jay Leno for a joke about Mitt Romney vacationing at a Sikh temple
“It was pretty overwhelming. He said, ‘John, this is Barack Obama. I’m calling because I have great news for you. Your daughter has been rescued by our military.’” - John Buchanan on the rescue of his daughter Jessica by Navy SEALs in Somalia
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FILL in the BLANK New prints and portraits push the imagination By Heather Ronaldson heather.ronaldson@marquette.edu
Take a break from seeking definitive answers. In the Haggerty Museum of Art’s current exhibitions — Tina Barney’s “The Europeans” and Philip Guston’s “Inevitable Finality” — they don’t exist. That’s the beauty of Barney’s photographs and Guston’s prints — they invite interpretation. Populating the Haggerty’s entire first floor until the end of the semester, these exhibitions challenge students to fill in the blanks. Photographing the subjects in their affluent homes in Austria, Germany, Spain, France and Italy, Barney’s “The Europeans” resembles classic
portraiture in their sumptuousness and are “very painterly,” said Lynne Shumow, curator of education at the Haggerty. Yet each portrait contains a contemporary twist. By displaying subjects in a candid moment or unexpected pose, “there are portraits within portraits,” said Alexandrea Newell, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences and student guard at the Haggerty Museum. Barney, an American photographer, exacerbates the mystery of each portrait by omitting the subjects’ names. Most portraits are titled after an element within the scenery like “The Orchids” or “The Tapestry.” Such scenic elements are as crucial to the photograph as the persons in it. In “The
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“The Tapestry” is one of Tina Barney’s portraits on display at the museum. Her collection of unconventional photographs is titled “The Europeans.”
Orchids,” Barney blurs the floral arrangements to draw attention away from them and back to the men photographed, yet your eye dances between both. The story behind “The Tapestry” is one of the most enigmatic. The woman standing in the photo’s center is stoic and alone. Her eyes gaze to a diagonal corner of the room, while her posture parallels those of the soldiers’ in the tapestry behind her. Now fill in the blank. According to Shumow, both Barney and Guston’s exhibitions require audiences to be critical and analytical lookers. Unlike Barney’s portraits, which possess rich color and texture, Guston’s “Inevitable Finality” lithographic prints are black and white. Lithography is simply a printing process— from drawing on stone to what you see on the walls. Guston was heavily influenced by the Holocaust and Vietnam, Newell said, but those suggestions are never directly expressed. His subject matter is a combination of recognizable objects and abstraction. “East Side” contains the refreshing realism of a light bulb, window frame and side door. It’s a sharp comparison to the combative and anxiety-laden “Sky,” which shows a multitude of overlapping fists holding shields blurred into what looks like a mountain range. “It’s a whole vocabulary of images, but the artist is not exactly telling you what the vocabulary is,” Shumow said. The pictures are about shapes and the actual use of the line, rather than explicit subjects. In one print, “Group,” the images appear to be protruding elbows connected to arms that reach down to metal horseshoes, all positioned in front of wave-like lines — but even that’s not an absolute description. “It’s not one thing or another because it can’t be,” Newell said. “It’s intentionally vague.” Sidney B. Felsen, one of the owners of Gemini G.E.L.
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“East Side” is a lithograph from Philip Guston’s collection “Inevitable Finality,” on display at the Haggerty until the end of the semester.
studio, which facilitated the to today’s digital age. print-making process, took a In layering the two photos series of photographs of Guston to create one face, Shumow in his studio. The photographs said Stezaker is “speaking accompany Guston’s exhibition to the subtleties of gaze and in the Haggerty, giving viewers movement of the face.” a window into his artistic pro“At first I did not like them,” cess. said John Loscuito, a gradu“The artist ate student in the is no longer College of Mani n v i s i b l e , ” “It’s not one thing or another agement and regNewell said. because it can’t be. It’s istrar at the Hag“Most stu- intentionally vague.” gerty Museum. dios don’t “But the more I Alexandrea Newell look at them, they show the Senior, College of Arts & Sciences entire artisreally start to tic process.” wear on me.” Joining these exhibitions Loscuito asks viewers to are nine film portraits en- consider a few questions when titled “Marriage” by John looking at this collection: Stezaker. The British artist Who are the celebrities? Does paired Hollywood celebri- it matter if you know them? ties from the Golden Age, the Are they interchangeable? time between the late ’20s More broadly, do people (in to the early ’60s, and spliced general) start to blend? their faces together to create a Shumow encourages students completely new caricature. to compare the current exhibiStezaker’s execution may tions with older works in the seem simple, but there is art Haggerty’s permanent collecin his process. Stezaker sifted tion, which are also on display. through thousands of pho- Perhaps in this comparison, tographs and meticulously students can build responses chose each one by hand. This to the open-ended questions concept of “slowing down” that seem to define Stezaker, explores the roots of the origi- Guston and Barney’s works. nal process of photography, Shumow said, in comparison
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Cooks hungry to change their lives on ‘Fat Chef’ Careers in food industry make it difficult to stay fit By Leanna Italie Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Paula Deen’s diabetes revelation pretty much sums it up: Kitchen pros at all levels struggle with obesity and its dangerous aftertaste in the high-pressure, high-calorie world of food. The queen of Southern comfort cooking, now a spokeswoman for a diabetes drugmaker’s health initiative, announced last week that she hid her Type 2 diabetes for about three years while continuing to cook up deep-fried cheesecake and bacon-and-egg burgers between doughnuts on TV. Choosing to digest her ill health privately all those years, Deen’s story is familiar to those in chef’s jackets who already had gone public with the question few in their world love to talk about: How do you stay healthy while trying to earn a living making food? On Thursday, a dozen obese chefs, restaurant owners, caterers and others will search for the answer. That’s when the Food Network premieres “Fat Chef,” which follows participants for 16 weeks as they struggle to lose weight and learn a healthier way of life with the help of trainers, nutritionists and therapists. “You have this abundance of
food all around you,” said pastry chef Michael Mignano, who’s one of the dozen. “You’re doing parties, you have weddings. There’s always a lot of food left over. You’re constantly tasting, working late hours, eating late.” Mignano, 36, owns a bakery in Port Washington, N.Y. At 6 foot 2, he weighed about 500 pounds soon after he was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes in 2010, before “Fat Chef” went into production last October. His resolve to do something about his weight grew stronger as the result of a different Food Network show on which he appeared in September, “Sweet Genius.” “I wasn’t nervous about that show, but I was nervous about whether the jacket would fit me,” said Mignano, who now weighs about 400 pounds and has a long road ahead to reach his goal weight of 250. “Watching myself on that show, I was the fat guy. That’s all I saw. I felt almost like a drunk seeing himself on the floor passed out.” Going public with his weight loss journey hasn’t been easy for Mignano and others in similar unhealthy dire straits. As chefs, the constant food stimulation by sight, smell and taste was compounded by personal struggles and family obligations. Art Smith, who doesn’t appear on the show, is a child of fried chicken and other Southern staples like his old pal Deen. Like Deen, he was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes about three years ago. Also 6 foot 2, Smith ballooned to 325 pounds while gorging on
refined sugar, caffeine, PB&Js — anything that gave him an instant energy boost or filled him up at the end of an exhausting day as a chef for Oprah Winfrey. Exercise? He could barely walk a block, until he decided to turn it all around and lost 118 pounds. Now 51, the Jasper, Fla., native, restaurant owner, cookbook author and food TV personality has kept the weight off. Smith has run marathons, eats oatmeal and egg whites for breakfast, drinks plenty of water and has expanded Common Threads, his healthy eating initiative for low-income kids. He declares: “I’ve got my sexy back!” Obviously not all chefs struggle with obesity and serious health threats like diabetes, but most do think about weight and how to hold back the extra pounds. Allison Adato, a senior editor and former food beat writer for People magazine, is out in April with a book, “Smart Chefs Stay Slim,” offering insights and tips from three dozen of the biggest names in the industry. “Paula Deen’s revelation may mark a turning point for some viewers and diners,” Adato said. “My hope is that this moment creates a broader awareness that the way a person eats does have an impact on his or her health. Fortunately, there are a lot of chefs who have already thought about how to balance a healthy lifestyle with enjoying wonderful food.” Surrounded by rich, decadent food and their need to earn a
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Caterer Ally Vitella (right) does modified situps during a workout with health consultant Christine Avanti on “Fat Chef,” Food Network’s newest show.
living from it, Adato’s chefs stay fit by keeping hyper-aware of every calorie. Some balance out their food excesses over a few days, indulging one day, but “eating clean” the next. They know the difference between tasting the food they prepare without gorging on it, and exactly how much dessert to enjoy. As a pastry chef, Mignano said his problem wasn’t so much the chocolate he was surrounded by. It was the junk food he’d slam down before and after work. Ally Vitella, 41, a New York City caterer, discovered she had Type 2 diabetes at the first health check-in for “Fat Chef.” At 5-9, she weighed 345 pounds and was forced to sit guiltily by as her husband and mother-in-law lugged catering ovens and other equipment up and down the
stairs of their Manhattan clients. After a job, “You’re kind of a scavenger. I was eating hors d’oeuvres for lunch and dinner. I would scoop up half a tray of food and eat it. We were ordering pizza and Chinese food at home because we were exhausted all the time,” she said. “We cook things you’re supposed to eat once in a while, but I was eating them every day.” Vitella, who lives in North Caldwell, N.J., dropped from a size 28 to a size 16 during the show, losing nearly 60 pounds. Her goal weight is 190, but the important thing, she said, is she can play again with her 7-yearold son and 9-year-old daughter. “I’ve learn that tasting means tasting, not tasting the same dish five times,” Vitella said.
BAM! POW! Quirky superhero opera hits stage Alchemist, MKE Opera Theatres team up for show By Vanessa Harris vanessa.harris@marquette.edu
It’s 2012, and superheroes are kind of a big deal. Later this year, Hollywood has a few highprofile, action-packed movies set to leap from the pages of comic books onto the silver screen. But if you don’t want to wait that long, fear not. The Alchemist Theatre in Milwaukee’s Bay View neighborhood and the Milwaukee Opera Theatre are keeping audiences occupied with their own twist on the superhero genre:
“Fortuna the Time Bender vs. the Schoolgirls of Doom.” “Fortuna” is a superherothemed opera written by Jason Powell and co-directed by Powell and Jill Anna Ponasik, artistic director of the Milwaukee Opera Theatre. According to the composer’s notes, Powell’s initial ideas for his first opera were leaning towards a more serious and artistic rendition of Greek
mythology or a Native American fable. Somehow, a timebending heroine and her equally strange adversaries became the finished product. Running at the Alchemist since Jan. 15 and playing sold out shows until Jan. 29, “Fortuna” follows the story of a dreamer named Joe, and his quest to find his own supernatural abilities. Joe resides in the town of Anyville, a place where crime has been wiped out thanks to Fortuna,
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“Fortuna the Time Bender vs. the Schoolgirls of Doom” embraces its silliness, making for a fantastic performance.
a spandex-wearing superhero attention. The constant movewith the ability to slow down ment and liveliness from the cast time and literally stop criminals made audiences forget how tiny in their tracks. the stage actually is. All is well until the HeadmasLittle things sprinkled into ter, a very evil and “Fortuna” make the very British master- The cast embraces show clever and mind, decides to bring all the corny eccentric. For inhis reign of terror and stance, the Headmoments and uses diabolical schemes to master turned to quiet Anyville. The them to their a life of crime beHeadmaster is accom- advantage. cause his degree in panied by his Schoolphilosophy couldn’t girls of Doom — three get him a job. equally evil, although slightly less Maybe a bit offensive to phiBritish, ladies in skirts who pack losophy majors, but the audience ray guns in their holsters. seemed to enjoy it. Ignoring the slight concerns Another example is Fortuna’s from Joe’s girlfriend Elizabeth, weakness for the Neapolitan Fortuna takes the slacker under chord, a harmony that leaves her wing in order to defeat the her powerless. Not that farHeadmaster and bring peace to fetched, considering it’s a suAnyville once again. perhero opera, but the chord is “Fortuna” is campy, but that’s still quite an unusual choice for what you should expect when a caped crusader’s flaw. you mix opera and superheSince “Fortuna” is an opera, the roes together. “Fortuna” works music contributes a great amount because it recognizes this and to the story. With simply a piano doesn’t take itself too seri- accompaniment, the cast sings ously. The cast embraces all about 20 different songs. The the corny moments and uses music isn’t as dynamic as a rock them to their advantage. opera like “Rocky Horror Picture The stage in the Alche- Show” or “Tommy,” but it works mist is small, probably perfectly for the small setting and working best for intimate comical acting. All of the cast shows that require a lot members have great voices that of focus from the audi- harmonize and work well with the ence. But superheroes acoustics of the Alchemist. are larger than life, so Overall, “Fortuna” knows it’s a making use of every aspect of little silly, but there are no rules the space becomes an impor- that say a superhero opera has to tant part of the show. There are be dark and serious. “Fortuna” is even times when the actors run a show that can entertain kids and into the crowd or climb up on a adults alike with quirky humor table, keeping the show’s energy and solid music direction. up and holding the audience’s
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Power of music lives past encore
Sarah Elms There is no arguing that music is a powerful thing. It is an avenue for creative expression, it can evoke powerful emotions from both the artist and audience and, most importantly, it brings people together. That is the mantra behind The Pablove Foundation, an organization dedicated to fundraising for pediatric cancer research and advances in treatment. Each year, the foundation hosts the Pablove Benefit Concert at Turner Hall Ballroom to raise money to improve the lives of children with cancer. Clear your calendars, folks, because this year’s show is this Saturday. In 2008, Pablo Thrailkill Castelaz was diagnosed with a bilateral Wilms’ tumor, a rare form of children’s cancer. After a year-long battle, he passed away at just six years old. About one month into his treatment, his father, Jeff Castelaz, a former Marquette student and co-founder of Dangerbird Records in L.A., started The Pablove Foundation in his son’s name. The goal of the organization is to not only raise money for medical research, but to improve the quality of life for children living with cancer through hospital play, music and arts programs, and to work to educate and empower families affected by the disease. Something as routine as a concert has the power to unite individuals all in the name of one very important cause.
This Saturday’s show features 12 different musical acts, the bulk of which hail from Milwaukee. There’s Canopies, Testa Rosa, AUTOMatic, Ragadors, Fatty Acids, El Oso and Herman Astro on tap, with DJ Mad Hatter spinning between each set. The much-anticipated headliner is Butch Walker, an L.A.-based singer-songwriter. Tickets are $20, which isn’t a bad deal even on a college budget. You get to see 12 fantastic bands, hear some amazing life stories and be a part of something that is making an impact far beyond one night of music. Seriously, when is the last time you could do any of those things for $20, much less all of them at once? I promise it will be a night to remember. I went to the first Pablove show at Turner Hall back in 2010, excited to see some Milwaukee favorites like Maritime and Fever Marlene. On the surface, it was just like any other Milwaukee concert: people standing in clusters, bobbing their heads and drinking PBR Tall Boys. In reality, it was much more than that. Everyone had a reason for being there beyond the music, whether it was just to come and support an honest cause or to pay tribute to lost loved ones. The entire night felt like a celebration of life in the name of those who are no longer with us, those still fighting the disease and all the friends and family members coping with its effects. About halfway through the show, Jeff Castelaz took the stage and said a few words to remind everyone why they were there, and share anecdotes from his personal life. When he shared the story of Pablo, and spoke of other children affected by cancer, I found myself tearing up, empathizing with so many families and individuals I’d never seen before that night. It’s funny how music can make you feel truly connected like that. sarah.elms@marquette.edu
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“Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” is based on the novel of the same name by author Jonathan Safran Foer.
Stellar acting makes up for disconnected plot By Liz McGovern elizabeth.mcgovern@marquette.edu
Most stories about 9/11 cover the national tragedy from the perspective of the day it happened. Everyone remembers what happened on that individual day – where they were, what they were doing – because it affected the country as a whole. It is much harder, however, to focus on the colossal aftermath from a personal level. “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,” based on the novel of the same name by Jonathan Safran Foer, makes the attempt, telling an extraordinary 9/11 story from a child’s perspective. But the film’s adaptation to the screen makes it just that — an attempt. The movie is told through the eyes of Oskar Schell (Thomas Horn) a 9-year-old boy. Oskar appears to be borderline-Asperger’s, suffering from crippling anxiety, compulsive tendencies and poor social skills. Only his father, Thomas (Tom Hanks), can successfully tap into his systematic mind. To both bond with his son and force Oskar to interact with others, Thomas creates elaborate stories and challenges around their home city of New York. Those excursions end abruptly the day the towers collapse, claiming Thomas as one of the thousands of 9/11 victims.
A year after his father’s death, Oskar finds a key in his father’s closet, kept in an envelope with the word “Black” written on it. Oskar believes the quest to find the key’s lock is his father’s final adventure left for him to complete, and proceeds to try and track down every person in New York with the last name Black. Oskar’s precocious and hilariously uninhibited personality will make you either love him or hate him. His disregard of social norms, urge to carry a tambourine everywhere and intrusive questions can come across as harsh and creepy or bold and amusing. Horn does an excellent job of bringing the audience inside an autistic child’s complex mind. As an actor, he is hilariously sharp, yet also able to create powerful, emotionally jarring moments that leave the audience weeping along with the characters. And it is the characters who keep the story memorable and interesting. Hanks embodies a loving father, motivated by his ability to think critically and see the world from Oskar’s perspective. Sandra Bullock, who plays Oskar’s mother Linda, effectively portrays the incomprehensible effort it takes to connect to her character’s emotionally-detached child. It is both painfully sad and touching to watch Oskar running around New York, meeting strangers along the way. However, it seemed like most of the strangers Oskar encountered were a little too friendly, defying realistic expectations. Many of them invite Oskar into their homes and appear not to be bothered by his
intrusive, demanding nature, instead choosing to help the boy on his futile quest. The movie glamorizes New York and makes it seem completely safe for a 9-yearold to be wandering around the city by himself, perhaps a testament to the sense of community in New York post-9/11. At the end of the film, Oskar writes letters to all the people with the name “Black” that he met. He thanks them for their help and says he has found peace with his father’s death. A touching sentiment, yet it would have been more effective if the other characters were explored on a deeper level. Oskar visits dozens of people, yet we have no idea who they were. The movie ends with a hopeful notion, begging to promote a universal feeling about New York. It tries to present the idea that the city is completely healed after 9/11, but it does not work. The story is clearly Oskar’s story, and it cannot try to be every New Yorker’s. Fans of the original book may also be disappointed that the movie took the its basic plot and characters and manipulated them like a work of internet fanfiction. A huge part of the book’s perspective comes from Oskar’s grandparents, yet the story of how Oskar’s grandparents dealt with the Dresden bombings – the parallel tragedy of their generation – was missing in the film. The feeling of overcoming tragedy was gone. Expanding the story into the lives of the other characters could have filled the emotional hole that made “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” feel disappointingly empty.
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Golden Eagles look to sweep Wildcats MU claimed 81-77 win over Villanova on New Years Day By Mark Strotman
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Marquette is one of the topscoring offenses in the nation, but its tenacious play on the defensive end is what has helped it to a Big East-best five game win streak. The No. 17/18 Golden Eagles (17-4, 6-2 Big East) will look to continue their run of stellar defensive play when they travel to Villanova (10-11, 3-6 Big East) on Saturday in search of their sixth straight conference victory. Marquette’s 76.3 points per game is second-most in the Big East behind only Syracuse, but Golden Eagle opponents are
averaging just 60.6 points per game during their winning streak. They allowed just 47 points in Tuesday night’s victory over South Florida and scored 20 points off 22 Bulls’ turnovers. “They’re extremely quick, and they get some offense from their defense so you worried about how quick they get to the other side of the court,” South Florida coach Stan Heath said of the Golden Eagles on defense. “But they’re very active, too. They rotate and they cover well for each other.” Marquette has lost on the road to Villanova in each of the last three seasons, including a 75-70 loss last year. All three of those games were played at The Pavilion, Villanova’s on-campus, 6,500 seat arena. It is considered one of the biggest homecourt advantages in the Big East, but Saturday’s contest will take place at the Wells Fargo
Center, which seats over 20,000 fans and is home to the NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers. The two teams last met on New Year’s Day, with senior guard Darius Johnson-Odom scoring a game-high 24 points en route to an 81-77 Marquette victory. The Golden Eagles used an 11-2 run to open the second half and forced 17 turnovers in their Big East opener. Johnson-Odom said playing a team a second time can be difficult, but Marquette will need to continue doing the things it does effectively. “They know what you’re going to do so we’ll have to change it up a little bit,” Johnson-Odom said of the Wildcats. “I’m sure they’re going to change it up a little bit on the offensive end because we try to take them out of the ball screen action, which they’re very good at. We have to be able to guard the
ball. That’s what it comes down to. When we get stops, it helps us on the offensive end.” Luckily for Villanova, it may have the hottest scorer in the Big East to rattle the Marquette defense. Maalik Wayns, who was named the Big East player of the week, is averaging 27.8 points and 4.5 assists in Villanova’s last four games. The junior point guard was held to 12 points on 4-of-13 shooting against Marquette earlier this year but is playing as well as anyone in the Big East entering Saturday’s matchup. Forward JayVaughn Pinkston also earned All-Big East honors last week, being named the Freshman of the Week after recording back-to-back double-doubles in Villanova’s wins over Seton Hall and St. John’s. Both Wayns and Pinkston, along with junior forward
Mouphtaou Yarou (11.6 points, 8.3 rebounds per game), will be difficult covers for the Marquette defense, but coach Buzz Williams said his team is playing as disciplined as it has all year. “You want to have a crescendo with your team that, as the season progresses, guys are improving individually and, collectively, there’s more of a pace and fluidity to what you’re doing, and all that comes down to discipline, and I think that’s happening with our club. “Obviously we’re doing more things defensively to hide our deficiencies, but sometimes doing more things changes the rhythm of the opponent in a good way for us,” Williams said. “And I think (Jamil Wilson’s) versatility, and even the few possessions Juan (Anderson) was able to get in, was really good.”
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Senior forward Jae Crowder (32), junior guard Junior Cadougan (5) and sophomore forward Davante Gardner (54) helped MU win its fifth straight game in a 67-47 win over South Florida on Tuesday.
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Leave Tom Crean alone Matt Trebby
Buzz Williams is in his fourth year as head coach of the men’s basketball team at Marquette, and most are just focusing on the present and how the team is currently tied for second in the Big East. But, on Tuesday night, as I was making my way from the media room at the Bradley Center to press row, I heard three guys in the courtside club talking about how much it annoys them that Indiana is having success under former Marquette head coach Tom Crean. I thought nothing of it, and kept walking. I went back about five minutes later, and they were still talking about it and how they hoped Wisconsin puts a whooping on the Hoosiers tonight. Four years after Crean’s departure, people still think of him in a predominantly negative way. There were many aspects of his exit that bugged people and made
them forget everything he’d done leaving, well, it’s Indiana. It is for the program. one of the top-tier programs in the I’m here to tell you it’s about country. It’s full of rich tradition. time to remember the positive With no prior connections to things Crean did for the pro- Marquette, Indiana could only be gram, and why it wouldn’t be the seen as a promotion. Crean would same without him. have been stupid not to go. At InPeople may be mad his play- diana, he could build a perennial ers heard about his exit on national championship contender. SportsCenter instead of from the Doing that at Marquette is nearly man himself. Crean waited until impossible. Crean did all he could he agreed with Indiana before tell- for Marquette. His stock would ing the team he was considering a never be higher — it was as good departure from of a chance as Marquette. I’m here to tell you it’s about time to ever to leave. But what good Also, think would come remember the positive things Crean about everyfrom informing did for the program, and why it thing he did his team about wouldn’t be the same without him. while here for it and having the program. nothing come Marquette of it? He was was a mediocre right to wait. It was just unfortu- team in Conference-USA when nate the news was leaked before Crean arrived. Then, everything his team knew. changed with his arrival from Also, he had little time to ne- Michigan State, where Crean gotiate with the Hoosiers. Tony served as an assistant coach under Bennett, current coach at Virginia Tom Izzo. (then of Washington State), was The Golden Eagles won just the school’s first choice, but he 14 games in the 1998- ’99 seaturned the job down. Crean was son, Crean’s predecessor Mike option “B,” with Brad Brownell, Deane’s last season in charge. then of Wright State, being third. Four years later they were in the Indiana wouldn’t have wasted Final Four. any time in going to Brownell if Crean built that team, obviously Crean had any hesitation. If you’re mad about him See Crean, page 17
Morse adjusting to life as a guard Freshman played forward for two-time state champion
By Trey Killian
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When the Golden Eagles lost star point guard Angel Robinson to graduation last year, the backcourt suddenly became an area of great uncertainty. So far this season, freshman guard Arlesia Morse has helped quell that uncertainty. The Flint, Mich., native is a former forward and led her high school, Hamady, to two Class C state championships, in 2009 and 2010. A natural scorer, Morse averaged 26 points and 10.3 rebounds per game during her senior season and finished her career as Hamady’s all-time leader in points (1,557). Morse said crossing over into the college game, changing her position and bringing her high scoring mentality with her have been her biggest challenges so far. “The change in competition
has been the biggest surprise to me,” Morse said. “In high school, some teams are good and you can kind of focus on those big games, but when you come to college everybody is good.” Seeing action and starting in all of the team’s first 20 games at shooting guard, Morse currently averages 31.4 minutes per game (third-most on the roster), a hefty workload for a first-year player. Morse hasn’t hesitated to take full advantage of her minutes, picking up 10.1 points per game, second only to sophomore forward Katherine Plouffe in scoring (14.1 points per game). “She’s a great player for us, and she’s really performed well despite changing positions,” Plouffe said. “As someone who changed from guard to forward, I can understand why she struggles sometimes in practice, but so far she’s developed into a really good scorer for us.” Morse has done much of her damage from the perimeter, leading the Golden Eagles in made 3-pointers with 28, as well as at the free throw line, where her 79.2 See Life, page 17
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Jae Crowder
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senior forward Week’s Stats Points per game: 16.5 Steals per game: 3.5 Rebounds per game: 5.0
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the facts Crowder finished tied for second on the team in scoring with 15 points in Marquette’s 67-47 win over South Florida on Tuesday night. The senior also had six steals, four rebounds and three assists in the win. In Saturday’s 79-72 win at Providence, Crowder chipped in 18 points on 7-of-12 shooting and added six rebounds and three assists in 38 minutes of action.
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Life: Ball handling, turnovers still an issue Crean: Don’t boo ex-coach
conversion rate also tops the roster. While making baskets hasn’t been a problem so far for Morse, there are some areas where she admittedly wants to improve. “I’ve really been looking to improve on my point guard skills so I can become more of a combo guard,” Morse said. “I still need to work on ball handling and reading plays, knowing when the posts are open and knowing which plays to run, and also just rebounding more.” As is the case with many young players, Morse’s first taste of Big East basketball has hampered her all-around stats. Her average dropped to 7.0 points per
game in conference action, and she has committed 22 of her 54 turnovers in the Golden Eagles’ last seven games. While sophomore guard Gabi Minix has taken over most of the ball handling responsibility in Robinson’s absence, Morse said her desire to improve on her ball handling would help bring a sense of balance to the backcourt. Her 26 assists to Minix’s 110 displays a staggering discrepancy, and, with a front court full of big bodies, the Golden Eagles need all the ball movement they can get. “Ball handling is really the thing I struggle with the most so I go into the gym 15 minutes a day
before practice to just focus on it,” Morse said. A huge part of Morse’s success has come from Robinson’s efforts to help her former team from the sidelines. Morse said Robinson regularly works with her on ball handling and defense during Morse’s free time. “Angel’s been helping me with everything she learned while she played here,” Morse said. “She talks to me before games and at halftime about what to expect from which teams and what I should do to be a better player against them.”
Photo by Daniel Alfonzo/daniel.alfonzo@marquette.edu
Freshman guard Arlesia Morse’s 7.0 points per game in Big East play is 3.1 points per game less than her season norm.
around Dwyane Wade, to whom many may give all the credit. But Crean made Wade. Wade had scholarship offers from Illinois State and DePaul before Marquette offered. There’s no chance Wade would have become the player he currently is if he went to Illinois State or DePaul. Talent goes undeveloped and wasted all the time. Without Crean, Wade’s talent would have wasted away as well, and Marquette would never have gotten to Final Four. Marquette has only had two coaches take it to the Final Four: Crean and Al McGuire. That run in 2003 with Wade changed the program forever.
Would Marquette be in the Big East without that Final Four appearance and Crean? Maybe. But it still might be in the currently average Conference-USA. Crean deserves credit for bringing Marquette back to the national stage, which started with the Final Four run and concluded with its entrance into the Big East. So next time Tom Crean’s face is on the jumbotron before a game, think about where the program is, and where it came from. I hope you realize none of this would be a reality without Crean, and I hope you don’t waste your time booing him. matthew.trebby@marquette.edu
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men’s basketball
The unnoticed cog in MU’s potent offense
Cadougan ranks fifth in the Big East in assists per game By Mike Nelson
michael.e.nelson@marquette.edu
Junior Cadougan hip bumped Davante Gardner and proceeded to throw up his rendition of the threegoggles with a big smile on his face after knocking down his fifth 3-pointer of the season in Tuesday’s 67-47 victory over South Florida.
The junior has had much to smile about in this his first full season as Marquette’s starting point guard. He is fifth in the Big East and 33rd in the nation in assists per game (5.6) and fifth in the Big East in assist-to-turnover ratio (2.4). Over the previous six contests, Cadougan has posted a 2.8 assistto-turnover ratio, with 42 assists and only 15 turnovers, including a 5:1 ratio against South Florida. Cadougan said nothing has changed for him during the stretch. “I’m trying to get into the paint. I’m trying to find my teammates,
and my teammates are knocking down shots and just trying to take care of the ball,” Cadougan said. “If I take care of the ball then I give my team a better chance to win.” On a team with Big East Player of the Year candidates senior guard Darius Johnson-Odom and Jae Crowder, Cadougan’s contributions may go unappreciated by some. “He’s the motor that makes us go on the offensive and defensive end, picking up the point guard full court,” Johnson-Odom said. “He just does a lot of things for
Photo by Elise Krivit/elise.krivit@marquette.edu
Junior guard Junior Cadougan has posted a 2.8 assist-to-turnover ratio over the team’s last six games.
us that go unnoticed.” Unnoticed acts include serving as an extension of the coaching staff on the floor. “On the court he puts guys in the right position. Guys may not know what to do sometimes, but he’s putting them in the right position at different times in the game,” Crowder said. “That’s what you need on every team.” Crowder said Cadougan’s performance this year should earn him recognition as a top-two point guard in the Big East for his versatility. “He can score, and he brings other things as well. He plays defense very well, and he’s a big body. He’s a floor general,” the senior forward said. But against Georgetown on Jan. 4, coach Buzz Williams opted to give sophomore Vander Blue more minutes in the second half than Cadougan (17-7). Cadougan didn’t describe the situation as a “benching” nor did he and Williams discuss it after the game. It came down to simple facts. “I was in foul trouble, and Van (Blue) was doing a good job at the point, so (Williams) kept him in the game,” Cadougan said. But Crowder said the decision served as a wake-up call to Cadougan. “After that game he really took pride in doing the thing that he
brings to the table which is getting guys in the right position,” Crowder said. “He’s really turned things up mentally and physically.” And before Marquette’s biggest non-conference game of the season, Cadougan was suspended for violating team rules, forcing freshman Derrick Wilson into the starting point guard position in a brutal road-game environment. It’s an experience Crowder believes made Cadougan a better basketball player and human being. “That was a mistake,” Crowder said of the incident. “We all make them. That’s just something he learned from. I don’t want to say he needed it, but it helped him. I think it was beneficial to him as a basketball player and as a person. I think he got the best out of that situation.” Cadougan’s 6.4 points per game are sixth on the team, but he said scoring isn’t his biggest priority, nor should it be this year. That’s something he’ll do more next season. “I can score, but I would rather get my teammates going, because if I get my teammates going then we’re all going to play harder on defense,” Cadougan said. “My scoring will come. I’m not worried about scoring. I got one more year to score. I’m good right now. Everything’s flowing, and we’re winning.”
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Jae Crowder said Cadougan is a top-two Big East point guard.
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women’s tennis
UIC, MU in different places
Hush, Pimienta seek to continue winning ways By Christopher Chavez christopher.chavez@marquette.edu
The fall campaign served as an opportunity for coach Jody Bronson to assess the game of her new players. Freshmen like Ana Pimienta arrived and blended in well with the few upperclassmen on the team. The squad of players that Bronson has on her hands for the 2012 spring season falls under the young category. When Marquette’s women’s tennis team faces Illinois-Chicago this Saturday at the Helfaer Tennis Center, it will be a match up of youth against experience. Chicago carries four seniors on its team as opposed to Marquette’s two, Gillian Hush and Olga Fischer. The Marquette lineup will be much different since the two teams last met in Jan. 2011, when the Golden Eagles topped Illinois-Chicago 4-3. Hush posted a singles win in the last meeting and could share some of her knowledge of the opposition
with her teammates. A player not involved in that 2011 meeting, Pimienta did not seem out of place at the IU Winter Invitational last weekend. She went undefeated in singles play and paired up with Hush for a doubles match victory. Hush pointed out that the team chemistry is at a peak as she admired her entire team’s play over the weekend. “Everyone’s been playing really well and very consistent,” Hush said. “Everybody comes into practice with the best attitude, knowing we need to get better every time.” Consistency was a question for this team in the fall, and Saturday will determine who falls above and below the mark that was set for themselves before first match of 2012. Pimienta could be the key to the matches against Illinois-Chicago and Wisconsin-Green Bay. Bronson looks even further than that and could see her stepping up as a leader on this team. “She’s very capable of (stepping up). She hates to lose. She’s very hard on herself. As a coach, I have to say very little, because she knows. In the same respect, she’s very coachable,” Bronson said.
“Those types of players are the ones that are going to continue to get better and be very successful.” The doubles partners have not been announced, but Hush will be paired with a new partner this year. It could be Pimienta after their close match together in Indiana. Between her experience as a national doubles champion in Mexico and her recent doubles match with Hush, Pimienta has an edge most freshmen do not have. “Gill (Hush) and I do a really good doubles. (Playing with Hush) gives me a lot of confidence when I’m on the court,” Pimienta said. “She has a really strong shot, so that helps me finish for points and vice versa.” The lineup will be very different for Marquette as Bronson continues to juggle doubles partners and who plays in what slot. Chicago could be in for a few surprises with the raw talent, but Bronson’s ultimate goal of winning remains the same. “We expect (UIC) to step up to the challenge. If you’re playing great, or maybe not so great, the whole idea is that you find a way to win,” Bronson said.
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Former Marquette forward Jimmy Butler made a surprise appearance with his new teammate, Ronnie Brewer, at the South Florida game on Tuesday.
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Yao Flamingo (above) and his partners Dick Flytale and Stalion Iverson entertained and harassed the Bradley Center crowd Tuesday evening.
women’s volleyball Brief On Wednesday Marquette University announced that senior outside hitter Ashley Beyer has signed a professional contract with Lindesberg Volley of the Swedish Elitserien. She is the third Golden Eagle to sign a professional contract in the past two years, along with setter Nikki Klingsporn and middle hitter Rabbecka Gonyo. Beyer finished her Marquette career with the fourth most kills (1,214) and is one of only 10 players to post 1,000-plus kills. She owns a career hitting percentage of .207 and tallied 110 service aces and 818 digs in her career.
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Senior Gillian Hush teamed with freshman Ana Pimienta in doubles play last weekend and came out with a victory.
Jon Gruden has had a very distinguished career in the NFL in a relatively short period of time for a guy his age (48). He’s been a head coach of two NFL teams, won the Super Bowl with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and successfully converted to a commentator on ESPN’s Monday Night Football broadcasts. It makes perfect sense then that he would be featured on the cover of a book. That is, it would make sense if he would be featured on the cover a football book. A vampire romance novel, on the other hand, is not where his face belongs.
Yet there he is, his piercing gaze begging you to read him. He’s 50 percent sex, 50 percent fire, 100 percent vampire awesomeness. It has not been confirmed as of yet that it is in fact NFL Jon Gruden on the cover of Kresley Cole’s Lothaire, but the resemblance is uncanny. Would it really surprise anyone if it was Gruden’s handsome mug? After all he was named one of People Magazine’s sexiest men of the year in 2001. Didn’t think so. andrei.greska@marquette.edu
During her three-year career she earned three all-conference honors: First Team All-Big East in 2010 and Second Team All-Big East in 2009 and 2011. She was instrumental in Marquette recording a program-record 24 wins and reaching its first ever NCAA Tournament in 2011 where the Golden Eagles won their first round matchup against Western Kentucky 3-1 before falling to Illinois 3-0 in the second round. With Beyer’s signing, coach Bond Shymansky has had eight of his players sign to play professional volleyball.
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BIG EAST NOTEBOOK
By Michael LoCicero
michael.locicero@marquette.edu
Rutgers can still make run at the Big East title The No. 11/12 Scarlet Knights (17-3, 6-1 Big East) responded to a 62-57 loss at St. John’s on Jan. 17 with wins at South Florida and at home against thenNo. 21/19 DePaul (65-54). The win over the Blue Demons was the first of four games against ranked teams for Rutgers, which plays at No. 20/18 Georgetown (16-5, 5-3 Big East) on Sunday. The class of the conference has been Notre Dame and Connecticut in recent years, but Rutgers has plenty of chances to overtake the Fighting Irish and Huskies in the next two weeks. Rutgers currently is tied for second with the Huskies at 6-1 in conference with everyone chasing after undefeated Notre Dame (7-0). In the loss at St. John’s, senior guard April Sykes — the Scarlet Knights’ leading scorer at 14.4 points per game — tallied just six points on 3-of-7 shooting. Sykes responded with 23 points on 10-of-14 shooting in Rutgers’ 72-66 win at South Florida on Saturday. Sykes will have to score close to her season average for the
Scarlet Knights to have a chance to win their next three games. Other than the loss to St. John’s, Rutgers’ other losses have come at then-No. 9/9 Miami in double overtime and at home against then-No. 6/6 Tennessee, so the Scarlet Knights shouldn’t be ashamed of either of those. Rutgers also boasts wins over Georgia Tech and Louisville and should secure a top-four finish in conference, and subsequent double-bye in the Big East Championship tournament, with winnable games in its final six contests of the year. Jumble in the middle Georgetown sits at 5-3 in conference play, which places it in sixth place in the Big East, while Syracuse is 2-4 in conference play. The Orange are No. 13 in the conference standings. That means just two games separate eight teams from each other. So who will claim the final three spots and secure a bye in the first round of the Big East tournament? If the season ended today, the Hoyas, West Virginia and South Florida would be sixth, seventh and eighth, respectively. Georgetown and South Florida appear to have the easiest roads ahead, with just two
games against ranked teams left on their respective schedules. The Bulls’ three conference losses have come against ranked teams and they have already beat DePaul. Road games at Syracuse and Marquette, as well as a home game against Providence in the season finale will go a long way in determining the Bulls’ fate. Georgetown, meanwhile, has eight games left (most have nine left) and picked up a huge 64-54 win at West Virginia on Tuesday. The Hoyas travel to Villanova and Syracuse and host Providence in a critical threegame stretch in February. If Georgetown can upset Rutgers at home on Sunday, it should be able to lock up a bye in the conference tournament. At the opposite end of the spectrum, Syracuse still has to play four ranked teams in its final nine games, including road games at No. 16/14 Louisville and DePaul. The Orange will almost certainly have to win at Providence and Villanova and take care of business at home against Marquette and Georgetown to have a shot at finishing in the top eight of the Big East.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Player of the Week:
Jasmine Wynne
Senior Guard
Game of the Week: Tuesday, Jan. 31
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Week’s Stats
Points per game: 16.0 Rebounds per game: 5.7 Field goal percentage: 42.1 Photo via thebullrush.com
The Fighting Irish travel to St. John’s on Saturday before Tuesday night’s road game. If the Scarlet Knights want to overtake the Fighting Irish for
the Big East regular season title, a good place to start would be defending their home court with a win against the No. 2/2 team in the country.
Wynne scored 12 points and had three steals in the Bulls’ 7266 loss against Rutgers on Jan. 21, but followed up that performance with 19 points and three steals in South Florida’s 48-43
win against Seton Hall on Saturday. For the week, the senior averaged 15.5 points, 3.0 rebounds and 2.0 assists per game.
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