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Volume 96, Number 28
Larry Williams hired as vice president of athletics
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Staff size limits MU counseling Center focuses on short-term therapy, avoids ‘plateau’ By Katie Doherty kathleen.doherty@marquette.edu
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Williams introduces himself at a press conference held on Tuesday in the Alumni Memorial Union. He will begin his tenure at Marquette in January 2012. See Williams, page 18.
Marquette provides several resources for mental health concerns, including a counseling center, student organizations and peer health educators. But members of these groups admit their services can only go so far. One of the most commonly noticed lapses is in the counseling center’s inability to offer long-term therapy, due to limited resources. “In order to be able to avoid students waiting several weeks for an appointment, the counseling
center provides short-term therapy,” said Chris Daood, assistant director of the counseling center. “Most student concerns are resolved more quickly than this.” Nick Jenkins, the counseling center’s mental health advocacy coordinator, said while there is no set limit on the number of sessions a student can have at the counseling center, most students only need four to five sessions, at which the counseling may “plateau,” or stop growing more useful for students. Jenkins said if students need more than 10 sessions, they could refer them to another resource in Milwaukee. Daood said that many colleges have limits on sessions and a short-term therapy model for See Counseling, page 7
Freed alum Foley Occupy targets foreclosures returns to campus Journalist shares story of capture, captivity in Libya
know Foley. “His story became famous, and for him to come back and share it with all of us was a great experience,” Abudayyeh said. Foley began his journalism career freelancing for GlobalPost, a small By Olivia Morrissey online newspaper, and traveled to olivia.morrissey@marquette.edu Afghanistan in 2009 as a war correspondent. James Foley, a 1996 graduate On March 15 of this year, on asof College of Arts & Sciences, re- signment for GlobalPost, Foley turned to campus this week to speak landed in Libya amidst great chaos about his experiences as a war cor- as disorganized rebel forces fought respondent and prisoner in war-torn against now-deceased Libyan leadLibya earlier this year. er Moammar Gadhafi’s regime. Foley retold the story of his capFor days, Foley and hundreds of ture, imprisonment and freedom other foreign journalists reported on to a room filled with students, the violent pandemonium rocking faculty and old Marquette friends the rebel-controlled city of Bengyesterday at the Nieman Lecture, hazi. Foley described it as an expeheld in the Alumni rience both utterly terri“I found myself Memorial Union. fying and thrilling at the “His ability to straining to get same time. overcome a situation something new, Amid the uprisings, like that is amazing,” Libyan officials began something fresh.You said Janine Peterbarring the foreign jourson, a senior in the were always pushing nalists from moving College of Arts & the limits.” freely about the city. A James Foley series of checkpoints Sciences. “It really ‘96 Alum separated them from a makes you wonder what life has in store photograph or a story. after Marquette.” “I found myself straining to get Jordan Abudayyeh, a senior something new, something fresh,” in the College of Communica- Foley said. “You were always pushtion, moderated the question- ing the limits.” and-answer portion of the event and said it was an honor to get to See Foley, page 7 INDEX
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Occupy Milwaukee aims to guide citizens facing foreclosure to seek help and save their homes.
The ongoing Occupy Milwaukee movement held a “teach-in” Tuesday night on foreclosure as part of the National Day of Action to Stop Foreclosure. The teach-in was held to educate the community on the
process of foreclosure, its causes and how Milwaukee citizens can stop it. The organization also read laws stating a household must not pay more than 30 percent of its income on housing. According to the 2006 census, 56 percent of renters and 41 percent of homeowners were paying more than 30 percent on their housing in Milwaukee. The movement has looked to what other cities and movements are doing, including instances in which organizers have “occupied” the lawn of a home
to be foreclosed upon or otherwise physically blocked police entry into the home to stop the foreclosure process. Many came with pens and notebooks, and some attendees had homes in the foreclosure process. Danielle Meyer, a 2010 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and member of Occupy Milwaukee, said there is a shame that accompanies foreclosure. “I think in general there is a paradigm in society that tells
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Students plan film on basketball in Southeast Asia. See PAGE 2
Ian gets serious (weird, right?) about the dark side of Cosmo. See PAGE 9
See Occupy, page 7
Jason Segel makes Kermit & co. funny, relevant once again. See PAGE 11