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Volume 96, Number 11
Grant to fund nursing center Midwifery program set up to combat infant mortality rate By Katie Doherty kathleen.doherty@marquette.edu
The federal government awarded the Marquette Neighborhood Health Center a five-year, $1.5 million grant to fight high infant mortality rates in the area with the founding of a nurse-midwifery practice and a breast-feeding support program for at-risk women. According to the 2010 City of Milwaukee Fetal Infant Mortality Review (FIMR) Report, black infants were nearly three times more likely to die than white infants in Milwaukee from 2005 to 2008. “In Milwaukee, these deaths
are concentrated in a few zip codes, where unsurprisingly the levels of poverty, joblessness and other social problems are also extremely high,” according to the report. The 53233 zip code, which includes Marquette’s campus, was one of the three zip codes with the highest density of infant mortality in Milwaukee. “Our hope is that by creating … a place where women in our community feel comfortable, they will seek care sooner,” said Margaret Faut Callahan, dean of the College of Nursing. Callahan said research shows two areas of patient care the center will focus on can make a difference in infant mortality is prenatal care and “pregnancy centering care,” which deals with the patient and her ability to care
Wisconsin Avenue bridge out of commission
Photo by Elise Krivit/elise.krivit@marquette.edu
Downtown communters will have to make adjustments to their daily transit as the Wisconsin Avenue bridge will be shut down for up to 10 months while it undergoes a rehabilitation process.
See Infant, page 5
Joke tweets behind panic Capitol police debunk fake news reports by The Onion
no indication of a joke. It read, is that the First Amendment in “BREAKING: Witnesses re- the wrong journalists’ hands is porting screams and gunfire a very dangerous thing,” Ranheard inside the capitol build- dazzo said. ing.” Randazzo concluded the The tweets went out to The statement with an Onion-typiOnion’s more than three mil- cal piece of sarcasm. By Sarah Hauer lion followers. The “We will continue sarah.hauer@marquette.edu Onion then further to report on this indeveloped the story “We at The Onion cident, as well as the The Onion, a satirical news with tweets marked feel it would be hundreds of more the hashtag irresponsible to organization, caused a stir by despicable acts ConThursday when it tweeted Con- #CongressHostage, comment on such ... gress commits every gress was holding 12 school- and later linked to a day,” he said. children hostage and demand- satiric story describ- reporting” Joe Riepenhoff, a Joe Randazzo ing the supposed ing $12 trillion in ransom. first year Marquette Editor, The Onion Some readers thought the situation. law student, said Although The Ontweets were true, others thought The Onion is obviThe Onion’s Twitter account ion declined an interview, the ously satirical in nature. had been hacked and the rest editor, Joe Randazzo, issued “You would have to be preta statement to the ty aloof to think The Onion is knew the truth – it press saying, “We real,” Riepenhoff said. was all a joke. at The Onion feel it But U.S. Capi- “This Twitter scam Herbert Lowe, journalism would be irrespon- professional-in-residence, said tol Police took the was clearly an initial claim seri- ill-advised attempt to sible to comment on he emphasizes how to responsisuch irresponsible bly use social media as a jourously, releasing a use social media.” reporting, nor will nalist in his classes. He said statement that said, “Twitter feeds are Herbert Lowe we succumb to un- while people understand that reporting false inforJournalism professional-in- founded sensational- The Onion site provides satire, residence ism until all the facts that tone combined with immation concerning have been thorough- mediacy and emergency might current conditions ly obscured.” at the U.S. Capitol. mean that satire can be lost in The humorous reports pro- translation. Conditions at the U.S. Capitol are currently normal. There is duced by The Onion are pro“This Twitter scam was clearno credibility to these stories of tected by the constitution under ly an ill-advised attempt to use the First Amendment, which social media,” Lowe said. the twitter feeds.” The first tweet of the scam, grants freedom of the press and He wondered whether which was printed as a story freedom of speech. The Onion considered the “If there’s a lesson that can on the front page of The Onion’s newspaper edition, gave be learned from all of this, it See Onion, page 5 INDEX
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011
STUDY BREAK....................10 SPORTS..........................12 CLASSIFIEDS..................14
Man injured on 16th and Wisconsin Wounds came from accident, not foul play, MPD says
Police Department also responded. The man’s medical records are private information and cannot be released. Anne Schwartz, public relations manager for MPD, said By Katie Doherty in an email that the incident kathleen.doherty@marquette.edu was not a crime and there was no evidence of foul play. A 51-year-old man not asClare O’Meara, a sophosociated with Marquette re- more in the College of Educaceived medical treatment after tion, said she saw ambulances he was injured Sunday outside and a fire truck outside of of McCormick Hall, accord- McCormick as she was walking to Capt. Russell Shaw, as- ing to Valley Fields to watch a sociate director of the Depart- soccer game. ment of Public Safety. O’Meara said she saw an Shaw said ambulance pull it was unup outside Mcclear what “They were doing compressions and Cormick. exactly hap- kept shocking him.” She said she pened, but Clare O’Meara saw another amthe man alcome Student eyewitness bulance legedly tried after the first to board a one. Milwaukee County bus on “They were doing compres16th Street and somehow hit sions and kept shocking him,” his head causing lacerations O’Meara said. to his face. She left the scene to attend The man was conscious the soccer game and said she when DPS arrived on the was unsure of what happened scene, but soon lost con- after she left. sciousness, Shaw said. Paramedics preformed CPR at the scene and the Milwaukee Fire Department and Milwaukee
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Sen. Ron Johnson discusses his first year working in D.C. See, PAGE 2
Healthful options needed to end the MU food desert. See PAGE 6
Packers and Brewers and Badgers, oh my. See PAGE 12