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Volume 96, Number 26
Thursday, December 1, 2011
More help for academic woes New program to assist students at risk of failing out By Katie Doherty kathleen.doherty@marquette.edu
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Academic Services Coordinator JohnRae Stowers will work with students to avoid or end academic probation.
Students on academic probation now have an additional resource for help with their studies available at the Office of Student Educational Services. The program, led by Academic Services Coordinator JohnRae Stowers, helps students plan strategies to end their academic probation or avoid being placed on it in the future. It also integrates reflection into study skills and suggests
changes students can make in their daily lives to benefit their schoolwork. Stowers was hired specifically to run the program introduced this year and to provide students with resources to resolve their academic troubles. Students will first be contacted for an initial meeting with Stowers before their progress is determined on a case-by-case basis. Some of Marquette’s colleges already have their own programs in place for students who are at academic risk. Others may now require their students on academic probation to make an appointment with Stowers. Although academic probation See Probation, page 7
MKE leads Mass gets a makeover Chicago in jobs During 2010, city posted lower unemployment rate By Olivia Morrissey olivia.morrissey@marquette.edu
Competition is nothing new between Milwaukee and Chicago, and a recent report shows Milwaukee County is pulling ahead on the employment front. According to Scott Brave, senior business economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, the Milwaukee area — specifically Milwaukee, Waukesha, and West Allis — has seen one of the highest rates of job growth in the nation over the past year. This conclusion is based on the findings of both the monthly Regional and State Employment and Unemployment Summary and the Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment monthly reports, released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Compared to the Chicago area — specifically Chicago, Joliet and Naperville — Milwaukee has seen a much larger increase in employment during the recovery
period of the 2008 economic recession, according to Brave. Brave said the monthly reports have shown that employment levels in the two areas have stayed roughly parallel over the past two decades, but that trend is changing. “(This trend) is as one might expect for two cities that are so close geographically, but the correlation has recently faltered,” he said. The phenomenon is evidenced by the most recent release from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment report for August 2010 to September 2011. The report shows the Chicago area maintained a near 10 percent unemployment rate for the year, while Milwaukee County maintained a near 8 percent unemployment rate for the same time period. Abdur Chowdhury, professor and chair of economics at Marquette, said the slight increase in job growth in Milwaukee County is not derived from large companies like those populating the area of Chicago. “What has helped Milwaukee County to attract jobs, compared to, say, Chicago, is the growth of
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This update is the largest change since the Vatican II revamp in 1969.
Mixed response to new translation of Roman Missal By Andrea Anderson andrea.anderson@marquette.edu
English-speaking Roman Catholic churchgoers across the world might have entered unfamiliar territory Sunday when they walked into Mass. That was when most of them first encountered an updated translation of the Roman Missal, the text of prayers and instructions used to celebrate Mass, which has remained mostly static
since the revisions of the Second Vatican Council in 1969. Mass itself, the central ritual of the Catholic faith, has not been changed, but the translation has stirred conversation regarding the Vatican’s decision-making process of updating and changing the Missal. Questions of whether the new translation was worth the hassle and money have also resulted from the change. The new translation is the result of more than 10 years of reading, translating, correcting and exchanging drafts between committees, scholars, experts, Vatican officials and even the Pope himself. It was finally approved this year and went into use in all Englishspeaking countries last Sunday,
for the first day of Advent. Timothy Johnston, director of liturgy in Campus Ministry, said the Missal has seen several revisions in the past decades. The most prominent of these was during the Vatican II councils, when the first vernacular translations of the Mass were instated. Previously, all Masses, regardless of the congregation’s native language, were required to be celebrated in Latin. Johnston said future translations included a temporary translation in 1985 and an updated version in 1998. In 2001, the rules regarding the formal and literal translation process became stricter, and a translation closer to the original Latin text was requested by Pope John Paul II. “The fact is that we needed a new translation,” Johnston said. “The process was not so good but the outcome was something beautiful. The providers (priests) are saddened because they know we could have gotten a better, richer prayer prior to now, but at least it has happened.” While Johnston was pleased with the outcome of the Roman Missal, many Catholics are not so happy about the translations, saying it is too far off from the English language and does not flow naturally like the older translations. Others find the specific changes
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