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Volume 96, Number 16

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

New president, new hopes, new ideas First forum with Pilarz had town hall feel with new plans By Katie Doherty kathleen.doherty@marquette.edu

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The Rev. Scott Pilarz answers student questions in his first ever forum as Marquette University’s president.

The Rev. Scott Pilarz answered student questions Monday night at his first MUSGsponsored presidential forum. Questions ranged from tuition to diversity to Greek life. Instead of sitting in the provided chair, Pilarz set a conversational tone as he opted to stand and move amongst the crowd. He said the chair was too formal. One student asked Pilarz about the process and training that goes into becoming a university president. Pilarz said he had no previous training when he took the job as the

University of Scranton’s president. He also said there is no one specific method of becoming a president. “The learning curve at the beginning was very steep,” he said. Originally intimidated by the position, Pilarz said he had a lot of “on-the-job training” and asked questions to learn and grow as a president. He said the presidents of Jesuit universities form a community that is very helpful and welcoming. Pilarz said as a president, he had to learn to trust his faculty because it is impossible to micromanage everything at Marquette. Besides living in the Campus Town East apartments, Pilarz said he tries to engage and interact with students any way he can while still getting his footing on campus. One student said See Pilarz, page 5

Sex ed. debated Lakefront future bright Legislators want schools to promote abstinence lifestyle By Olivia Morrissey olivia.morrissey@marquette.edu

Some Wisconsin legislators are looking to alter the Wisconsin Healthy Youth Act to allow schools to emphasize abstinence in sexual education classes as the only way to avoid teen pregnancy. But local advocates of the act say stressing abstinence to teenagers will not be effective. Emma Hynes, Wisconsin population health service fellow at the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, said the abstinence effort is misguided and could lead to health issues for teens. “Basically, the consensus is that if you tell youth not to have sex, they’re still going to have sex, but they will just do so in an unsafe way because they have not been taught effective STD and pregnancy prevention strategies,” Hynes said. “You would be shocked by some of the myths that adolescents think are truths, like you can’t get STDs from oral sex or you can’t get pregnant the first time you have sex.” The proposed Senate Bill 237 would give local school boards the ability to customize their

sexual education programs and opt out of the requirement to teach contraceptive use in schools, a notable change in the state’s current law, the Health Youth Act. The act aims to reduce risky behavior among teenagers by providing medically accurate, age-appropriate and comprehensive education. It was proposed in 2009 and enacted in 2010 after several years of increased rates of sexually transmitted diseases and teen pregnancy in Wisconsin, most notably in the city of Milwaukee. From 2006 to 2008, teen birth rates (births per 1,000 females) among women ages 15 to 19 remained relatively high in most Wisconsin counties, with 10 counties exceeding a birth rate greater than 37.6 per 1,000 females. The highest birth rate during this time was seen in Menominee County, with 138.5 births per 1,000 women, followed by Milwaukee County, with 63.8 births per 1,000 women, according to the Wisconsin Youth Sexual Behavior and Outcomes report by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services. In 2008, 1 in 12 births in Wisconsin were to teenage mothers, a 13 percent decrease since 2000. Both the state and the city of Milwaukee saw a stagnant birth rate between the years of 2006 and See Abstinence, page 5

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DPS REPORTS.....................2 CALENDAR.......................2 VIEWPOINTS........................6 CLOSER LOOK....................8

STUDY BREAK....................10 SPORTS..........................12 CLASSIFIEDS..................14

Photo by Martina Ibañez/martina.ibanez@marquette.edu

Planning committee seeks to redevelop the city’s lakefront area.

between three and five years, and could be paid for through tax increments, Cudahy said. Regardless of how it’s funded, Cudahy said the current state of the lakefront has several areas where it can be improved. “No one wants (the downtown transit center) there, not even the bus drivers,” he said. “It’s ugly and blocks the view of the lakefront. We can do a lot better than that.” Cudahy said the intersection that gets tourists to Summerfest and Discovery World is a disaster and could be safer for visitors. “We are proposing a spiral structure that descends on the other side,” Cudahy said. “It would be very attractive and very good for tourists.” The Hoan Bridge, which caused traffic problems in 2001 when there was a crack in the steel support, could also be improved, he said. “There’s no way to walk across it,” Cudahy said. ”And the two big spurs on the freeway don’t belong there.” The committee wasn’t the only group involved in the planning. The Milwaukee Department of City Development was involved as well, according to spokesman Jeff Fleming. “(This is) a great opportunity for Milwaukee’s lakefront,”

The Milwaukee County LongRange Lakefront Planning Committee presented a plan to redevelop some of the area’s most desirable real estate along the lakefront. According to Michael Cudahy, a Milwaukee philanthropist and member of the 13-person

committee, the plans include redeveloping the downtown transit center, reconstructing Lincoln Memorial Drive and Michigan Street and improving O’Donnell Park. The plans also involve reconfiguring the Lake Interchange and making improvements to the Hoan Bridge, including a bike and pedestrian path. “Essentially what we’re doing is making the lakefront more accessible and attractive,” Cudahy said. He said this area has the most valuable real estate in Wisconsin and that if a developer wanted to build in the area, they would be in a “fabulous spot.” The renovation could take

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The team faces a critical matchup with No. 1-ranked UConn. See PAGE 12


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