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Kidnapping rumors MUPD says group chat message claims are not credible

By Natallie St. Onge

natallie.stonge@marquette.edu

Recent group chat messages claiming there were attempted kidnappings on campus were found not to be credible, Marquette University Police Department Capt. Jeff Kranz said.

The messages began circulating among students Thursday night, and the messages advised people not to walk alone on campus.

“We took every piece of information that came to our attention over these past few days and treated it as if it was not a false incident,” Kranz said. “There was no kidnapping. There was no attempted kidnapping.”

Kranz said MUPD responded to a call at approximately 6 p.m.

Thursday regarding a suspicious incident near 17th and Wells streets. He said the situation

involved two subjects who left the area in different directions.

“A prompt investigation turned up no evidence or victim of a crime, and the subjects involved could not be located,” Kranz said in an email.

University spokesperson Chris Stolarski reiterated that MUPD has found no credible evidence to validate the “inaccurate information being circulated on campus regarding safety issues.”

“MUPD’s investigations revealed that multiple individuals have made false reports to MUPD and circulated false information around campus about safety situations that never actually occurred,” Stolarski said in an email. “Lying to a law enforcement officer is a serious offense, and these individuals may face disorderly conduct charges through the criminal justice system.”

Kranz said no false police reports were filed with MUPD. The MUPD daily logs show two recent incidents of disorderly conduct. The first occurred Friday at 10 p.m. and was

reported at 11:30 p.m. The second incident occurred Saturday shortly after 2:30 a.m. and was reported around 1:45 p.m.

In each incident description, it states that a Marquette student sent a group chat message that was shared throughout the university in several group chats and social media posts.

The logs said these incidents caused “a panic and increased concern for safety among MU students and parents.”

In both cases, the logs said MUPD arrested each student and ordered each student to be referred for charges at the district attorney’s office. However, Kranz said MUPD did not arrest any students, but did refer charges to the district attorney’s office.

Kranz said he could not confirm whether the disorderly conduct charges in the daily logs were directly related to the kidnapping messages being circulated.

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Diversity panel convenes Lovell speaks with MU community to learn about issues

By Alex Garner

alexandra.garner@marquette.edu

Soledad O’Brien, a well-known journalist, moderated the “President’s Panel on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” Feb. 26 at the Lubar Center in the Marquette University Law School.

O’Brien and University President Michael Lovell were joined

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Annual Nieman Lecture addresses future of news

By Natallie St. Onge

natallie.stonge@marquette.edu

Journalist Soledad O’Brien delivered Marquette University’s Nieman Lecture Feb. 26 at 4 p.m. in the Alumni Memorial Union.

O’Brien’s speech titled “Reporting on Politics in ‘Crazy Times’” covered topics of diversity,

interracial relationships, local and corporate journalism, distrust in media, and news in the current political climate.

O’Brien has served as a television broadcast anchor and correspondent for networks like MSNBC, CNN and HBO. She formerly anchored CNN’s “Starting Point” from 2012 to 2013. She then went on to found Starfish Media Group in 2013, a multimedia production company.

Currently, she is the host of “Matter of Fact with Soledad O’Brien.”

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professor in the Law School and co-director of the Intellectual Property Program in the Law School; Christian Norfleet, a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences; and Cambry Getter, a sophomore in the College of Communication.

O’Brien said she had not seen university presidents have casual conversations with students about issues on campus at other universities.

“The first reason that we do this is that all of us — faculty, staff, administrators — are here for the students,” Lovell said, adding that

he wants students at Marquette to have a transformational change during their time at the university.

Lovell said interacting with students gives him the awareness that issues are happening on campus and allows him to try to change the campus in a positive way.

“We really need to think about how we change that experience for them so that they have support,” Lovell said.

Lovell said students of color

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O’BRIEN: Local journalists join in conversation Continued from page 1 “I do not think that I have solved the dilemma of how we tackle reporting at a time where journalists and journalism, frankly, are under attack, but I have some thoughts,” O’Brien said, to open her speech.

The Nieman Lecture is and event hosted by J. William and Mary Diederich College of Communication and part of the Marquette Forum, a yearlong series of events focusing on civic dialogue and state of democracies across the world.

O’Brien said she is worried about journalism and the president of the United States calling journalists the enemies of the people.

“Our cause is being attacked daily by outside forces who do it with great intention,” O’Brien said. “But every day I also see lots of evidence helping those very forces along because journalism is attacking itself.”

O’Brien said journalists have gone from being trusted to being considered “fake news”. She said the phrase “fake news” has “jumped the shark quite a bit”— a phrase that reaches a point of far-fetch craziness or moves past being slightly believable.

O’Brien said the loss of coal mining jobs in general gain more attention that the loss of media jobs.

“I think the phrase ‘fake news’ has run out of its usefulness,” O’Brien

said. “But there is still this feeling that we are sliding downward. It’s going to be difficult to turn around.”

O’Brien said her speech title, “Reporting on Politics in ‘Crazy Times’”, refers to her efforts to report meaningful, useful and contextual information to people.

“Crazy times —if you’re a print reporter especially— it means a landscape of layoffs and buyouts and downsizing. It’s bad,” O’Brien said.

O’Brien spoke of her televised reporting at major networks and the stories she was a part of. She spoke of opportunities and rewriting resumes when she felt like a job wasn’t allowing her to grow anymore.

O’Brien started at WBZ-TV in Boston.

“I got into news because I like to link stories,” O’Brien said. “I was removing staples from all three floors’ bulletin boards, but I loved it. I loved being a part of a team whose job was to pull together stories of the day.”

In addition to pulling staples and grabbing sandwiches, O’Brien said her goal was to learn journalism, and she knew there was more than what she was doing.

Within her speech, O’Brien spoke about her upbringing and the demographics in the journalism field. She also talked about media distrust and how the public perceives journalism in current political times.

The lecture was followed by a panel called, “Are Journalists the Enemies of the People?” that included local journalists and activists and was moderated by Dave Umhoefer, director of the O’Brien Fellowship in Public Service Journalism at Marquette University.

Umhoefer said the panel’s goal was to have a very candid discussion about the news media, the public and the public officials.

The panel included Greg Borowski, watchdog and projects editor at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; Louise Kiernan, editor-in-chief of ProPublica Illinois; Edgar Mendez, reporter at Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service; Orville Seymer, member of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council; and Markasa Tucker, director of AfricanAmerican Roundtable. O’Brien was also on the panel.

Umhoefer said last year there was a poll that showed more than one in three Americans believed journalists are the ‘enemies of the people’. He said most of the agreement identified as Republican or conservative. Four in ten were independents and one in nine were Democrats, Umhoefer said.

Umhoefer asked the panel if there was a new level of distrust in the media.

“Over time, I think you’ve seen

this erosion, but that maybe it’s been exacerbated in the last few years by the rhetoric and the intensity of it,” Borowski said, “But we’ve seen it in Wisconsin during the Act 10 protest back in 2011.”

Act 10 protest is also known as the Wisconsin Budget Repair Bill which was legislation proposed by then Gov. Republican Scott Walker and passed by the Wisconsin Legislature to address a projected $3.6 billion budget deficit, according to Isthmus.

In response, the budget enacted protests inside and outside of the capitol.

The 2011 Wisconsin Act 10, also known as the Wisconsin Budget Repair Bill,[1] was legislation proposed by Republican Governor Scott Walker[2] and passed by the Wisconsin Legislature to address a projected $3.6 billion budget deficit Borowski said when he started as a small community reporter in Indiana, there was a huge impediment to interact with the reporters — sometimes people would call or show up in the lobby to grab the reporter’s attention — but now there is no impediment.

“They can tweet at you, slam you on Facebook, send you a quick email,” Borowski said. “The ease that people can share their displeasure … more people are doing it and it’s being done more publicly.”

The dissolution of trust in the

media is something that has spun out over decades, Kiernan said.

“I think it’s true that it’s an ongoing, long-running problem, one that has been intensified by the last couple of years by political rhetoric,” Kiernan said.

Speaking to the point of empowering relationships between the media and its audiences and sources, she said it’s true that journalists used to have the most power, but she said that has changed.

“People can tell their own stories (through social media posts),” Kiernan said.

O’Brien said she was unsure about the poll question and Umhoefer touched on what it meant to be “the enemy of the people.”

“There is a sense that there is a narrative that is to be made,” O’Brien said. “I think our audiences are very smart; they see what is happening.”

O’Brien said she can understand the frustration from the audiences.

“I don’t think ‘the enemy of the people’ is the right phrase. I think it’s more beginning to understand there are motivations, financial considerations to even think about, thought processes. It happens all the time,” O’ Brien said. “And I think that’s what people are responding to.”

hygiene instruction in schools and nursing homes and assisting at the Wisconsin Dental Association’s Mission of Mercy,” Nenn said. “Our students also provide dental care to populations who don’t have access to routine dental care in Milwaukee and other areas of the state, from Chippewa Falls to Lac du Flambeau to Appleton.”

Through the dental school’s service, its impact extends beyond Marquette’s campus to different areas in Wisconsin and the City of Milwaukee.

Mary Lovell, a graduate student in the dentistry school, said D1 class, which is a first year dental school class, has a rotation in the Milwaukee Public School System where they interact with third graders and teach them the importance of oral health and hygiene.

“I know students here are making a positive impact on the area directly … We really are making a difference in our society,” Lovell said.

Nenn said being the only dental school in Wisconsin “means the residents of Wisconsin will always have access to quality oral health care pretty much anywhere in the state.”

William Lobb, dean of the dental school, said the school serves a significant number of

patients in the three clinics: the clinic inside the dental school and the North and South Community Dental Clinics within the City of Milwaukee. The patients range from pediatric to geriatric, and come from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds, Lobb said.

According to the dental school’s website, dental students provide services in the three clinics under the supervision of licensed dentists.

According to the website, the dental school and the other two clinics provide a full range of dental services such as, orthodontics, oral surgery, restorative dentistry, and more.

The dental school served 17,678 patients through 97,773 patient visits in Milwaukee clinics, Lobb said.

“The dental school is the largest provider in the State of Wisconsin for Medicaid dental services. Many of these patients don’t always have access to care elsewhere,” Nenn said.

Lobb said the dental school has also grown in recent years through the new dental school built in 2012, an increase in student enrollment to 100 freshmen a year and an additional postgraduate program in Periodontics, a specialty to prevent, diagnose and treat gum disease.

To celebrate the success and impact of the dental school, Lobb said the school is in the planning stages for special events for the 125th anniversary.

“Attending (the dental school) during the 125th anniversary is a humbling feeling because it

means I’m a part of a 125-year tradition of dental care throughout Wisconsin,” Lovell said.

“The legacy Marquette has left on the community is something to be proud of.”

Dental school celebrates 125th anniversary Students continue to do service work in city, across state

By Molly Glowacki

molly.glowacki@marquette.edu

The Marquette School of Dentistry celebrates its 125th anniversary this year as the first and only dental school in the state of Wisconsin since 1894.

“Celebrating the last 125 years shows the commitment Marquette University, dental alumni, the dental profession and patients around the state have to the School of Dentistry,” Conrad Nenn, the department chair of clinical services and the clinic director of the dental school, said.

The mission of the Marquette University School of Dentistry is to achieve excellence in education, research and service, resulting in high quality oral health care, according to the school’s website.

Nenn said the school is very focused on the service portion of the mission statement because of the students’ work in the community.

“Students can earn service points completing various activities like screening children for dental needs, providing oral

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living in cities or in surrounding areas of cities like Chicago or Milwaukee may feel isolated or unsupported coming to Marquette because it is a university with predominantly white students.

Getter said she knew what to expect when coming to Milwaukee. She said she thought it would be different at Marquette.

“I got here and the first thing I experienced on campus was being followed around by an MUPD police officer, with my mom, while I was in a Marquette hoodie,” Getter said.

Getter said she did not feel unsafe afterward, but she realized that race was an issue here.

“It wasn’t going to just be, ‘Okay, well, Marquette doesn’t deal with segregation,’ ‘It doesn’t exist at my university,’” Getter said. “It was, ‘This is reality and I can’t hide from it.’ It’s something that is going to happen, I can’t be okay with it, but I have to learn how to protect myself from it and speak up in a way that will prevent it from happening again.”

Norfleet said situations like these are frustrating.

“I know people after me are going to go through this (and) I know people before me went through way worse events,” Norfleet said.

Getter said she thinks Marquette needs to take a step forward beyond a conversation.

“We talk about it a lot, we bring it up and then it disappears,” Getter said. “I think that’s one of the big problems here.”

Murray said in addressing the issue of race, it is important to be proactive. “(We need) to think of steps (we) can take before (a) crisis or to ensure the crisis isn’t always

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From left to right: University President Michael Lovell, student Cambry Getter, journalist Soledad O’Brien, student Christian Norfleet and professor Kali Murray participate in a conversation about race on campus.

happening,” Murray said, adding that the university is currently in the position of reacting.

Murray said forming a task force or committee would also be a concrete step. She said this task force would be able to walk around campus and see where representation is present and where it is lacking.

“They could ask themselves real questions like, ‘Are there portraits of people of color on the wall? Are there stories of Marquette’s first Asian-American student (and) first Hispanic-American student?” Murray said. “Are these stories being told in that space itself?”

Murray said there has been a historic silence around the issue of race, adding that in Milwaukee, people do not talk about race because of segregation.

Norfleet said there were not many black male students on campus his freshman year.

“That’s a very blatant problem (that) the representation of black males on campus is scarce.”

Murray said when she

started at Marquette, there were seven other African-American women working with her as faculty. She is the only one left from that group.

“If you can’t actually have a sustainable presence for our African-American faculty, Hispanic faculty, Southeast Asian and Asian faculty, you can’t have students come into a room and feel comfortable,” Murray said.

However, she said she thinks the fact Marquette is having a discussion shows this matters in a real and present way.

Lovell said Marquette has a high overall student retention rate, but can do better when it comes to students of color.

Lovell said the university is discussing ways to create a yearlong dialogue among students so they will be better engaged and present in conversations about race. He said hearing the information one time in an online training session could remove valuable human interaction among members of the campus community.

tracked the subjects who disseminated messages about kidnappings on campus.

“A lot of resources were expended on this,” Kranz said.

He said the referrals for charges will go to the district attorney’s office today. He said typically decisions are made by the district attorney’s office the day of the referral, but he said the decision could end up pending for a week or so.

Kranz said the department was contacted by concerned students and parents since the messages about kidnapping began to circulate.

“We’re concerned when we’re seeing this stuff,” Kranz said.

“Our concern is to make people feel safe.”

If there is an active threat to campus, Kranz said a safety alert is sent to students, faculty and staff. This would first come in the form of a text notification, followed by an email with additional information.

Stolarski said 80 trained public safety professionals work consistently to prevent and respond to incidents. He said MUPD’s safety infrastructure includes more than 1,100 cameras, 450 BlueLight emergency phones, a command center, a campuswide text alert system, EagleEye safety app and a nationally recognized student safety program.

University statements are posted in residence halls informing students that the circulated messages are not credible.

Anyone with information about the circulated messages or alleged incidents should contact MUPD at 414-288-6800.

MUPD REPORTS MARCH 4 MUPD responded to a single car motor vehicle accident at N. 12th Street and W. Tory Hill Street. The non-MU driver was found to be operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. MUPD cited the driver and released him to a responsible party.

An MU student reported an unknown subject was harassing individuals in the 1600 block of W. Wells Street. The subject left the area prior to MUPD’s arrival.

MARCH 2 An MU student sent a group chat message which was shared

throughout the university via several chat groups and social media posts, causing a panic and increased concern for safety among MU students and parents. MUPD arrested the student and ordered the student into the district attorney’s office for charges. The incident occurred March 1 at 10 p.m. and was reported March 1 at 11:30 p.m.

An MU student sent a group chat message which was shared throughout the university via several chat groups and social media posts, causing a panic and increased concern for safety among MU students

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MUPD and FBI team up to host summer camp Applications to join law enforcement program now open

By Donna Sarkar

adwitiya.sarkar@marquette.edu

Marquette University Police Department and the FBI Milwaukee Field Office announced Feb. 20 the opening of applications to join the 2019 Future Law Enforcement Youth Academy.

Marquette University will serve as a home base and academic environment for the program’s second year.

Applications are underway at FBI.gov with a deadline of April 5.

MUPD Lt. Jill Weisensel oversees the programs. She said having this program at Marquette can show students what MUPD has to offer and encourage them to pursue careers in law enforcement.

The week-long overnight educational camp over the summer was created last year for high school students throughout Wisconsin in an effort to expose them to various local, state and federal law enforcement agencies and practices.

Weisensel said Marquette is the second agency to host the camp in the entire country. The first program took place on Yale University’s campus in 2015

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The students who participated in the law enforcement program last year stand by members of the FBI.

with the partnership of FBI New Haven and Yale University Police Department.

The program was developed by the FBI as a youth outreach program to help generate interest among students who want to go into law enforcement, Leonard Peace, FBI Public Affairs Specialist, said.

He said the FBI is trying to reach a younger population to expose people to the profession, hopefully leading them to go to college and pursue law enforcement.

The FBI provides a number of instructors and the camp also includes a day at the FBI office where students go to work with their evidence response team and

practice those skills.

“That’s pretty cool for the kids … they love seeing, like, a real FBI office and being able to meet “the Lovell of FBI” and buy FBI swag, so that’s a really fun day for them,” said Weisensel.

MUPD Capt. Jeff Kranz said the week consists of solving a “fake” crime. The students are split into teams and as the week progresses. Different classes give them new pieces of evidence and help them build their cases. On the final day, the students solve the crime and show how they integrated all the evidence from the week and applied everything they learned.

“It’s very unique because we take the fake crime from a local

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crime and develop it into something that meets federal government- so it covers all local, regional and federal agencies,” Kranz said.

Weisensel said the program is also fully funded by FBI Milwaukee Citizens Academy Alumni Association and MUPD and offered at no cost to all the students accepted.

She said the program had more than 100 applicants last year.

Thirty students were accepted, 15 male and 15 female.

Weisensel said requirements of the program typically includes having high school students between the age of 15-18 who are full-time Wisconsin residents and involved in their community.

There was also a GPA requirement of 2.7 as well as physical fitness standard requiring students applying to be engaged in some sort of sport or physical activity. Candidates were assessed through multiple-step interview processes and essays about why they would be interested in a law enforcement career.

“Some of them are actually anti-police and say that they’ve never had a good experience with a police officer and that they want to make a change and get into policing,” Weisensel said.

Weisensel said the group of student participants, as well as instructors, were well represented geographically and racially.

“Law enforcement tends to draw more white males in the U.S. but stats show that our department is more forward than that in terms of representation and it is something that we’re proud of,” she said.

Weisensel said she does not know the exact stats.

According to Data USA: Police officers, which analyzes shared US government data, 645,963 males currently make up the police workforce in the U.S. in comparison to 98, 738 females. The website also states 79 percent of police officers in the U.S. are white.

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Alum gives grant for spinal cord injury research Bryon Riesch was injured, paralyzed while at Marquette

By Margaret Cahill

margaret.cahill@marquette.edu

The Bryon Riesch Paralysis Foundation pledged Feb. 15 to donate $500,000 to Marquette’s College of Health Sciences to fund research, particularly that of Murray Blackmore, an associate professor of biomedical sciences.

Blackmore’s lab studies spinal cord injuries, but more specifically studies gene therapy, grafts of stem cells that go into the spinal cord and regrowing axons, which allow the brain to communicate with the spinal cord.

But Riesch said this foundation and its generosity toward Marquette has deeper roots due to Riesch’s story.

Riesch was a freshman at Marquette University in 1998 when his life changed forever.

Riesch said after jumping on a Slip ‘N Slide, his hand slipped out in front of him, he hit his chin and threw his neck back.

From then on, he was quadriplegic. Quadriplegia is paralysis of the body from the shoulders down that is the result of damage to the spinal cord, according to Avery Biomedical Devices, After the incident, Riesch said he can move his shoulders and biceps, but cannot move his triceps, fingers or wrists, and uses a wheelchair.

“It was obviously a huge change, going from (an) ablebodied person, young and your whole life in front of you, to someone who almost can’t move and your independence has been taken from you,” Riesch said.

Riesch graduated from Marquette in five years with degrees in informational technology and marketing.

Reisch and the foundation’s website said the Bryon Riesch Paralysis Foundation began in 2001. Janet Curtis, the director of development of the foundation who works closely with Reisch to secure funding, said the foundation has three main goals in terms of where it gives money.

“We raise money for medical research, which is what Dr. Blackmore is doing. We raise money for charitable grants, whether it be for wheelchair adaptation, vehicle hand control, ramps and then we give out scholarships so either the person who’s injured or a family member can go back to school and receive an education and gain their independence because the financial burden on the whole

family is so great when you are injured,” Curtis said.

Blackmore and the College of Health Sciences received $50,000 from the first grant in 2013. Each subsequent year, Blackmore has reapplied for the annual grant and received $50,000 a year for the past six years.

Blackmore does receive money from the National Institute of Health. According to its website is “a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the nation’s medical research agency — making important discoveries that improve health and save lives.”

But Blackmore said that while he receives some funding from the NIH, that money goes toward more short-term projects with a clear goal, while the seed funding he gets from the Bryon Reisch Foundation allows him to work on larger projects.

“It’s used for research on finding new treatments for spinal cord injuries,” Blackmore said.

“But what it’s really for is the crazy ideas that it’s very hard to get funding for. So it’s seed funding for exploratory ideas.”

But this year, Blackmore applied for the first time for a larger grant—$500,000 that the foundation will give to him in $50,000 increments over the next 10 years. He said he did this because applying annually for the money has significant disadvantages.

“The problem with that model is every year we’ve had to compete for the next pot of $50,000,” Blackmore said. “There’s pros and cons — competition can be good and it forces you to come up with the best idea and fight for it — but it makes it really hard to do any long-term planning. You can only invest in a short-term project.”

Blackmore said that he is excited to have the opportunity to have the money guaranteed for the next 10 years so he can focus on larger projects concerning stem cells, gene therapy, and axon repairing.

“We need the continuity and the certainty of having the money in order to launch long-term creative projects,” Blackmore said.

Blackmore said these methods can all contribute to finding a way to help those who are paralyzed.

Curtis said the Bryon Reisch Paralysis Foundation is happy to give the money to Blackmore.

“It’s truly because of the research Dr. Blackmore is doing,” Curtis said. “When we get applications for research, we have a community of different neurologists that look at the research and they will either grade

it as yes, no or not likely. And every time Dr. Blackmore’s research has come by, they feel that this really has a lot of merit and can be something greater and bigger.”

Reisch said he agrees and has always been supportive of Blackmore’s work ever since he first applied for a grant.

“He has an absolute amazing passion,” Reisch said. “One thing you have to have to have success and really make it in this field is to find passion. And he has it. He really wants to see individuals like me walk again.

He wants to see success. And he wants to make it happen and he wants to be a part of it.”

Reisch and Curtis are not the only admirers of Blackmore’s work in spinal cord research, as students who work in his lab said they also believe strongly in the work he does.

David Nowak, a senior in the College of Health Sciences who has been working in Blackmore’s lab since January of his freshman year, said he has had an amazing experience there and finds Blackmore and the work that he does “inspiring.”

“He does a really good job in turning his passions in to really good science, which I think is really unique,” Nowak said. “It’s really inspiring to see how he’s not afraid to motivate us, especially in regard to the Bryon Reisch foundation, and we get to do a lot of events with them and we see people in the community advocating for survivors of spinal cord injuries.”

Derek Gross, a sophomore in the College of Health Sciences, echoed this sentiment.

“Joining this lab this semester has been one of the most positive experiences I’ve had since I’ve come to Marquette,” Gross said.

Gross said he feels lucky to be doing research that benefits the community.

“It’s nice knowing that the project we’re on is going to yield some really important results that could help push the research for this problem in a really good direction,” Gross said. “And knowing that that work that I’m putting into this lab is actually contributing to that in a significant way, feels really good.”

Blackmore said that over the years, he and Reisch have become close personally. He even keeps a bobblehead of Reisch at his desk that he turns to when he feels disheartened.

“Some days, it’s not a good day so I’m like, ‘Good God, Bryon do I even keep doing this?’ and he says, ‘Yeah you’re alright,’” Blackmore said. “So he’s my inspiration to keep doing this.”

Blackmore said his relationship with the Bryon Reisch Paralysis Foundation is “mutually beneficial” because while the foundation gives Blackmore money to fund his research, Blackmore and with the students in his lab attend fundraising events such as golf outings, fashion shows for paralyzed individuals and Curtis said the College of Health Sciences hosts a bowling fundraiser in the Union Sports Annex to raise money.

The next golf outing is April 7 at the Silver Spring Country Club in Menomonee Falls, WI and Reisch said he hopes there will be many supporters attending.

But Blackmore said that since he sees where the money is coming from, the $500,000 grant he received impacted him differently.

“Obviously I was very excited.

But there was a feeling of …

‘Am I really worth it?’” Blackmore said. “Because here’s the

thing with the Bryon Reisch foundation, it’s just this local grassroots thing. And it’s just incredible that they’ve raised this much money because they’re not rich people. They’re just regular people who are reaching out to the community... so when the foundation says, ‘We think that you, Dr. Blackmore, are important enough that we’re going to take a big chunk of that hardearned money and give it to you, it’s awesome, but it also feels like a responsibility to make good on this investment because I know how hard they’ve worked to get this money.”

But regardless of Blackmore’s occasional moments of doubt, Curtis said the foundation believes in him.

“We really find merit in what Marquette and Dr. Blackmore are doing,” Curtis said. “We’re pretty conscious about where that money goes because we really do work hard to raise our money, so we have to make sure we do our due diligence in giving it to the research institutions that are going to really produce some type of finding for us.”

Reisch said he is thankful for researchers like Blackmore and is hopeful for the future.

“I’ve always had this dream of walking again ever since I was injured. I know back then I was not smart enough to be part of a research team to go out there and try to figure out how the heck to make this happen,” Reisch said.

“But I did know I had a heck of a story and I was halfway decent at raising money and I could help out that way. That’s been my goal and my passion or the past 20 years. In many ways it’s kept me going and given a lot of meaning to my life.”

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Professor Murray Blackmore (right) and student Derek Gross work together to analyze data in the lab.

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Facebook VP discusses innovating for good Keynote address talks of challenges, goals for company

By Emma Tomsich

emma.tomsich@marquette.edu

Michelle Morris, vice president of global marketing solutions for Facebook, presented her keynote address “Innovating for Good in Changing Times” Friday in the Alumni Memorial Union Ballrooms.

Morris’ presentation was hosted by the College of Business Administration, and it was a part of the marketing department’s Kellstadt Lecture series. In her lecture, Morris acknowledged some of the challenges Facebook has faced recently faced such as election integrity and data privacy.

“As a company, Facebook is committed to doing good,” Morris said. “We are trying to impact positive change by helping build communities and create meaningful connections between people. Technology is a powerful tool that can help make people’s lives better, and for us, doing good means a continuous foundational commitment to innovation.”

Craig Andrews, professor in the College of Business Administration, and Charles H. Kellstadt chair in the marketing department, said the lecture series is named after Charles H. Kellstadt, former CEO of Sears Corporation, who gave Marquette an endowment to help the marketing department provide lectures on topics about the study and practice of marketing that are of interest to local and regional business communities, Marquette students, faculty, staff and alumni.

When choosing this year’s speaker, Andrews said he wanted to select a high-level executive in marketing for a company that impacts not only the everyday lives of students, but billions around the world.

In her current position at Facebook, Morris said she works across Facebook’s automotive, financial services, real estate, insurance, restaurant and education fields. She said she leads a national team that strives to improve the way industries connect, communicate and influence business in a technologydriven society.

Morris also has previous experience working with other international companies, such as Google and Chrysler.

“Imagine in 15 years, the world has changed so much,” Morris said, in regards to Facebook’s 15th birthday in February of this year. “People are

much more connected across the world. They’re participating in online communities, growing businesses and everybody is sharing their lives online.”

Over this time, Facebook has grown to two billion users, Morris said.

“We recognize that we’ve made some mistakes, and we’ve had some missteps and some we failed to foresee,” Morris said.

“So we want to start by talking about it, and talking about some of the challenges that people, companies and governments are facing as we move forward together in the digital age.”

Since Facebook is in the tech industry, Morris said the company should be scrutinized because it plays a role in many people’s lives. She said the entire (Facebook) business is predicated on trust.

“If there’s no trust, people won’t spend time on our platforms,” Morris said. “If people won’t spend time on our platforms, we can’t offer valuable business outcomes to to advertisers that fuel our business.”

Challenges such as election integrity, content governance, safety and security, data privacy and digital wellbeing are all surrounding the future of the internet, Morris said.

“In many of these areas, we think we are building some of the most advanced systems in the world,” Morris said. “We were an altruistic company, as you can imagine. Every time we launched a product, we thought about all of the good that can be done with those products and services, and increasingly, we have to focus on what bad can also be done.”

Morris said the four steps her team is taking to address some of the concerns they see in the world, including trust, include continuing to make progress on social issues, building experiences to improve people’s lives, continuing to build businesses and communicating more transparently.

“This is the first year Mark (Zuckerberg) has actually set these goals for the company,” Morris said.

She said Facebook will be goal driving itself on and investing its resources into these four goals.

Mara Merritt, a sophomore in the College of Business Administration, said she thought it was interesting how Mark Zuckerberg created such specific goals and is holding the company to a high standard.

She said she attended the lecture for her business course LEAD 1050, and although she didn’t see any specific parallels from the lecture to her class, she thought it was interesting to

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Michelle Morris, vice president of global marketing solutions for Facebook, delivers her keynote speech.

learn about marketing in a way different from the classroom.

“I’m really interested in marketing, so a lot of what she said, especially about marketing at the global level, is super interesting,” Merritt said.

Meghann Witthoft, event and communication coordinator for the College of Business Administration and Graduate School of Management, said Morris’ global perspective is beneficial for members of the Marquette community who don’t necessarily hear other perspectives often.

“Most of the time, you will experience marketing in a theoretical sense from a student perspective, so it’s always really great to give students the opportunity to interact with someone who has real life experience in the role,” Witthoft said. “I would say also from a public perspective, it’s a great way to include the public and engage with Marquette and the College of Business Administration as well.”

Morris also discussed some of the big changes among people, communities and businesses that are occurring as technology continues to connect people in the world.

“From the world’s biggest social movements, to the newest business ideas, we think there’s never been a better time to have a good idea,” Morris said.

She said the average person is exposed to more than 10,000 ad messages per day, but not all of them are carefully noticed.

Morris said innovations are really important for advertisers and how they get the word out and work with the same audiences to promote their product. Morris said Facebook is constantly innovating to make experiences better.

“For us, it’s essential that we help people thrive in this electronic world,” Morris said. “We are building examples with a people-first mindset, which is really part of the core of what

we’re working towards.”

Although the marketplace is continuing to evolve, Morris said it is important for businesses to innovate through culture and build communities.

“A connected world is a better world,” Morris said. “It is one world that’s enabled by all this connectivity.”

As Facebook continues to innovate, Morris said she likes to think of one of her favorite posters that says, “This journey is one percent finished.”

“When we think about the global roadmap and the fact that there’s only 2.7 billion people connected in the world, and there’s over 7 billion individuals who deserve to be connected, whose lives would be better when connected, we really think our journey is really just one percent finished,” Morris said.

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Former NBA player speaks of national anthem Mahmoud AbdulRauf tells story of why he doesn’t stand

By Bryan Geenen

bryan.geenen@marquette.edu

Several organizations hosted former NBA player Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf Feb. 27 in the Alumni Memorial Union Ballrooms at 6 p.m.

The Muslim Students Association, the Black Justice Council, The African Students Association, Marquette University Student Government, Marquette Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion, Amnesty International and Campus Ministry came together to host the event.

Abdul-Rauf protested the national anthem before his NBA games. His protests in the NBA were very similar to that of Colin Kaepernick. AbdulRauf discussed the national anthem protests with students and went through his story to where he is today.

Abdul-Rauf said he came from a poor neighborhood in Mississippi. He was highly recruited out of high school. He went to college for two years at Louisiana State University from 1988’90. In those years, he played in 64 games and averaged 30.2 points per game his first year, and 27.8 in the next. He played alongside future all-star Shaquille O’Neal in his sophomore year and managed to claim the Southeastern Conference Player of the Year both years. He was drafted to the NBA in 1991 to the Denver Nuggets with the third pick of the first round.

In the NBA, Abdul-Rauf played for six years for the Denver Nuggets, two for the Sacramento Kings and one more for the Vancouver Grizzlies. NBA coach Phil Smith and College Coach Dale Brown described Abdul-Rauf’s talent as similar to the skills Stephen Curry has in today’s game. AbdulRauf was an incredible shooter and averaged 90.5 percent from the free-throw line in his NBA career.

In his first year in the league, Abdul-Rauf changed. He realized that he was not where he wanted to be as a person. He grew up in a Christian background, but he said his faith could not answer the questions he had. He consumed books and read everything he could.

“I could not stop reading,” Abdul-Rauf said. “One day, my friend came up to me and say hey, let’s try reading the Quran.

I read one page, then another, then two more. I looked up to my friend and said I’m going to become a Muslim.”

In 1991, Abdul-Rauf converted to Islam. In 1993, he changed his birth name, Chris Jackson, to Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf.

Abdul-Rauf chose to sit for the national anthem March 12, 1996.

In the games leading to that day, he had resorted to staying in the locker room, stretching or doing other things instead of standing.

Finally, he said he decided it was time for his fans and the NBA to know what he was about.

“They said it stood for one thing but to me, it meant something else,” he said.

He sat down during the national anthem and his career changed paths, he said.

Abdul-Rauf said his protests came from his reading into history and his views on what the flag and the national anthem represented. The flag for Abdul-Rauf was not about what it claimed to be, he said.

He was fined around $32,000 for sitting during the national anthem but he said his stock as a player dropped in the eyes of the NBA owners. Despite leading the team in points per game for four straight years, including 19.2 points per game in the 1995-96 season, the Denver Nuggets traded Abdul-Rauf to the Sacramento Kings. The trade took place three months after the game Abdul-Rauf decided to take a stand.

After that season, things got considerably worse for AbdulRauf, he said. His minutes got cut in the next two years, dropping from 35.6 minutes per game in the 1995-’96 season to 27.4 minutes per game in the 199697 season, and to 17.1 minutes per game in the 1997-98 season.

He started fewer games and only played in 31 games in the 199798 season, despite being in the prime of his career.

“My minutes dropped, I was traded. They said ‘We don’t know if you still got it,’” AbdulRauf said,” It was the same language I heard with Kaepernick.”

Abdul-Rauf talked about the similarities that he saw between his protests and those of quarterback Colin Kaepernick who protested by kneeling for the anthem in the NFL. Their protests might have been years apart but Abdul-Rauf couldn’t see any improvements from his time to Kaepernick’s. “Nothing has changed from my time to Kaepernick’s. I can see that there is good but I really can’t call it great,” Abdul-Rauf said.

Abdul-Rauf was in the dark and the choice to protest the National Anthem lined up with the trade just three months later.

After two seasons with Sacramento, he left the NBA for two seasons to play overseas.

He played overseas for one

season and didn’t play the next.

He made a return to the NBA in the 2000-01 season, only playing 11.9 minutes a game in the 41 games he played. He would not play another game for an NBA team. He talked about reaching out to get just a tryout.

“My agent would reach out to teams and they would say,’ We’re not interested, and it has nothing to do with his basketball skills,’” Abdul-Rauf said.

This happened multiple times, Abdul-Rauf said, and he suffered from their actions. Through all that, he carried on his protest. To this day, he refuses to stand for the national anthem.

His mission was never about himself, he said.

“My motivation was never to make money, it was just to help others,” Abdul-Rauf said. “I always tried to use what other said to make fun of me because it was fuel.”

He travels around the country

talking to groups and students about the discrimination he suffered and his peaceful protest of the national anthem, he said.

“In terms of the position I took, I will always take that position and I don’t regret that”, Abdul-Rauf said.

Faezh Dalieh, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences and president of Muslim Student’s Association, said she hoped for every person who attended the event learned from the story Abdul-Rauf told.

“We welcome and encourage everyone to come to our events and learn, no matter what you believe or what background you come from,” Dalieh said.

“A common misconception is that (we) only allow our group’s members to attend, but we want everyone to go.”

Paige Hunt, a senior in the College of Health Sciences and MUSG vice president of programming, said she was hopeful

students took the experience to attend, listen and ask questions.

“Being a student presented with opportunities like this one is a very unique experience that will not always be available after college,” Hunt said. “(AbdulRauf) can provide opinions and insight on issues that many students do not understand.”

“Muslim Americans face many trials that are not talked about enough,” Hunt said. “The goal was to open a dialogue about these issues so that we can hopefully continue these talks in the future.”

Abdul-Rauf said he uses his story of how he learned what the flag meant him to help others form opinions of their own. “The more I traveled, the more I talked to people, the more I read, the more my mind opened up,” Abdul-Rauf said.

“I hope we get to that point for everyone eventually.”

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Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf speaks in the AMU about why he chooses not to stand for the national anthem.

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Girl Scout cookies vary from region to region based on their names, their apperances, their tastes and even their recipes. Two different companies make the cookies for all of the U.S.

Girl Scout cookie sales have sweeter significance

Organization hopes to boost confidence in young women

By Kelli Arseneau

kelli.arseneau@marquette.edu

The start of March marks the beginning of Women’s History Month, and fittingly, Girl Scout cookie season.

While many people look forward to the annual announcement that a younger cousin or a coworker’s child is selling boxes of famous sweet treats, there is more to Girl Scouts than just providing widely-loved cookies that cannot be regularly purchased in a grocery store.

According to the Girl Scouts’ website, the cookie sale both raises money for Girl Scout troops and helps girls learn five main skills: goal setting, decision making, money management, people skills and business ethics. The exact date of when cookies go on sale varies from region to region, but it is typically between January and April.

“I just think like the whole concept (of Girl Scouts) is really important — (it is) just like empowering girls and women from such a young age to have the motivation and confidence to make

a difference and know that their chapter meetings. voices matter,” Siobhan Colleran, The Girl Scouts’ mission toward a senior in the College of Arts & creating a positive community of Sciences, said. girls dedicated to values like conColleran took part in Girl Scouts fidence, strength and leadership in elementary school, and said she similarly aligns with what it means had a positive experience with the to be in a sorority, Riley Donahue, organization. She said her history a freshman in the College of Busiwith Girl Scouts played a partial ness Administration, said. Both role in her decision organizations to join Kappa Delwere formed ta — a sorority that at similar has Girl Scouts as times: accordone of its philaning to the Girl thropies — during Scouts’ webher sophomore site, founder year.

Juliette GorAs part of its don “Daisy” philanthropy, MarLow brought quette’s chapter of the Riley Donahue together Kappa Delta works Freshman, first group of closely with Mil- College of Business Administration what would waukee Girl Scout become known troops, Colleran as Girl Scouts said. They annually set up campus in 1912, during the height of the tours for local Girl Scouts, where Progressive Era. Kappa Delta was troops come to Marquette and established in 1897, toward the bemembers of Kappa Delta divide ginning of the Progressive Era, by into groups according to major. four women at the State Female The Kappa Delta members then set Normal School — now known as up activities to teach the girls what Longwood University — in Farmthey do and learn in school. ville, Virginia.

Other involvement with the Colleran is far from the only Girl Scouts includes helping lo- Kappa Delta member to have cal troops with their cookie sales, a history of involvement with and both sending members of Girl Scouts and to have been Kappa Delta to troop meetings partly drawn to the sorority for and inviting troops to Kappa Delta its philanthropy work with the

“

Being a strong, independent woman ... was also kind of a part of Girl Scouts.”

organization. Donahue was a Girl Scout for nine years and joined Kappa Delta this year.

Donahue said being a part of Girl Scouts, and particularly the annual cookie sale, taught her values like perseverance and leadership. She said that one day each cookie season, her troop selected a public location — like a bank or grocery store — to set up a stand and sell cookies. They had to learn how to deal with different customer interactions and rejection.

“Being a strong, independent woman I think was also kind of a part of Girl Scouts,” Donahue said.

While her troop was very tightknit, Donahue said, they all had very different personalities, and she said she learned about dealing and working with a community of others, both in fun bonding activities and projects like the cookie sales.

Donahue said her favorite cookie was the Lemonades, but the lemon sandwich cookies are no longer annually sold in her hometown of Arlington Heights, Illinois. There are slight variations in Girl Scout cookies from region to region.

The cookies are created across the United States by two different companies: ABC Bakers and Little Brownie Bakers. Depending on which provider is used in a

certain region, the cookies sometimes have different names, look and taste different, or have entirely different types.

“My least favorite is the Samoas just because I don’t really like coconut, but they’re all really good,” Donahue said.

Little Brownie Bakers’ Samoas are very similar to ABC Bakers’ Caramel deLites — however, the two companies use different recipes, so the cookies are not identical. The same goes for the other cookie variations.

Both Colleran and Wylie Frydrychowicz, a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences, said their favorite cookie is the Samoa.

Frydrychowicz was involved in Boy Scouts for a few years. While Boy Scouts do not sell cookies, Frydrychowicz recalled having popcorn and holiday wreath sales.

He said his family annually buys a large quantity of Girl Scout cookies around this time of year, and although he does not currently have any boxes stashed in his room at school, Frydrychowicz said he is expecting to have some when he goes home for spring break.

“My family honestly just (buys) like a lot of Thin Mints because you just stick them in the freezer, and then they’re just really good,” he said.

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Yoga collides with breweries Unique space invites amateurs to feel more comfortable

By Grace Schneider

grace.schneider@marquette.edu

Milwaukee is known for many things: beer, cheese, Summerfest and more. But yoga? That likely is not on the list — yet.

Yoga has become a regular occurrence for many breweries in the Milwaukee area, including Third Space Brewing, Sugar Maple, City Lights Brewing Co. and Company Brewing.

MKE Yoga Events is an organization that works with local breweries to create a comfortable space for yogis of all levels to attend classes and enjoy beverages.

For MKE Yoga Events, tickets range from $15 to $20 and cover the cost of the yoga session and a drink.

Additionally, 25 percent of the proceeds are donated to a local nonprofit of the hosting business’ choice.

“Our mission is to take yoga out of the studio and bring it into places that are more accessible,” Jessica Hope, co-owner of MKE Yoga Events, said. “So we take it to places in the community, places that make Milwaukee unique.”

Sarah Fuhrmann, the other coowner of MKE Yoga Events, described MKE Yoga Event’s vision as creating comfortable, low-pressure environments for yoga.

“Grabbing pizza doesn’t have a place for intimidation, getting a drink after work doesn’t cause intimidation, so we thought that why not take yoga where everyone’s a little more embraced and accepted for who we are,” Fuhrmann said.

Fuhrmann said MKE Yoga Events works to partner with businesses that might not be as well-known in the community as others, but still offer quality products. She said the events have drawn people from “all walks of life.”

Hope said some businesses that have partnered with MKE Yoga Events include breweries and places like Historic Miller Caves, as well

as distilleries like Great Lakes Distillery and Central Standard Craft Distillery. Other places, like Classic Slice pizzeria and Sugar Maple craft beer bar, have also partnered.

MKE Yoga Events is hosting yoga at City Lights Brewing Co. Saturday and Company Brewing March 23.

MKE Yoga Events is not the only Milwaukee group to create yoga events in public spaces. According their website, the Milwaukee Art Museum hosts yoga about once a month.

Samantha Mitchell, a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences, said she has interest in attending MKE Yoga events.

“I’ve done (yoga) at the art museum, and I agree it’s a safe space and more people are willing to venture into it,” Mitchell said. “People don’t like going to classes because they feel like everyone there is very judgmental. … I think that’s such a great idea to bring it into other spaces and get people who normally wouldn’t go to go.”

Mitchell’s love for yoga was introduced to her by her sister, a yoga instructor. She said she finds yoga to be a form of meditation and mental practice.

Mitchell said she participates in yoga at Pink House Studio in Riverwest. On Marquette’s campus, students can take part in yoga classes at the 707 building. The classes are free and are offered Monday through Thursday.

Matt Reynell, an instructor at Urban Om yoga studio and the Wisconsin Athletic Club – Downtown, works with Third Space Brewing for its event “Yoga In Your Third Space,” which occurred Sunday and will take place again March 31. Reynell said the event happens about once every month.

“The general idea to start was kind of to combine things we love: yoga with our friends followed by delicious beer,” Reynell said. “I can’t think of a better way to start a Sunday.”

Reynell and his teaching partner Stacy Johnson, an instructor at Hot Yoga Milwaukee in Brookfield, have been doing this event for a

couple years now.

Reynell said the duo started out being passionate about yoga with hopes to share their practice.

“I think the combination of that, and that Third Space (Brewing) makes amazing beer and shares our positive vibes (made it) a pretty logical match for us,” Reynell said.

Tickets for “Yoga in Your Third Space” are $15, which includes a 60-minute class inclusive of all skill levels and a beer after the event.

“It’s a good time with good people,” Reynell said. He added that the event is “certainly for everybody.”

Yoga can be intimidating, especially for those new to the practice.

However, some instructors at these events offer ways for people to feel even more comfortable.

Fuhrmann said she recommends bringing a friend to yoga events.

“This is a perfect type of yoga class, where it’s calm, fun and it is more of a community style … so coming with your friends and knowing you’re going to drink and hang out afterwards (can help you not) worry about it. Our classes are inclusive and accessible,” Fuhrmann said. “Everything we offer in the class is achievable, no matter what your level of participation in yoga is.”

Even the most experienced yogis had a first yoga class at some point, Hope said.

“Trust the process and have fun with it and not be so serious. A lot of times I think we don’t allow ourselves to have fun and we tend to take things super seriously,” Hope said. “I think when you change that light on it and turn it into something fun, it’s a little more approachable.”

Reynell emphasized the importance of focusing on oneself in yoga.

“Don’t be (nervous). We offer options for everybody. Nobody’s watching you. Nobody’s judging you,” Reynell said. “In my opinion, this is a much lower-pressure way to try (yoga) if you never have because you might have just hung out at the brewery the day before.”

Registration for these events is available online through Eventbrite.

Photos courtesy of MKE Yoga Events

MKE Yoga Events hosts classes in unique spaces such as breweries, distilleries and the Historic Miller Caves.

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Students use Lent for personal growth watching TV, or wasting time with things like that,” said Hannah Barbosa, a freshman in the College of Nursing, and a participant of the Magnificat 40.

Growing up Catholic and attending a Catholic school, BarBy Ariana Madson bosa said she typically gave ariana.madson@marquette.edu things up for Lent, like ice cream or TV. For Barbosa, this Lenten With Ash Wednesday ap- challenge is something that carproaching this week, Lent will ries meaning and purpose, leadofficially begin. During this ing to a more encompassing time, it is Catholic practice to Lenten experience. give things up during the 40-day “A big part of what we are journey. For some on campus, doing is making sure we are all this means finding an item or a (getting sleep) and meeting up guilty pleasure to go without, once a week to do an hour of symbolic of the sacprayer torifice Jesus Christ gether… took. (we will) There is a much support deeper meaning beeach othhind Lent than just er during giving up something lent and for 40 days. grow in “Part of it is imifaith while tating Christ who we do it,” prayed and fasted said Nanfor 40 days … efcy Suarez fectively, it helps us Jimenez, assert the priority of a freshthe spiritual in our man in the life and the priorCollege of ity of the next life Arts & Scito this life,” Father ences, and Aaron Pidel, an asa particiHannah Barbosa sistant professor of pant in the Participant of the Magnificant 40, theology, said.

Magnificat Freshman, Pidel grew up in 40.

College of Arts & Sciences a Catholic houseF o r hold where giving S u a r e z up something was Jimenez, a common practice, though it Lent has always been a time of was not expected of them. As doing things more beneficial to the years passed, he changed the her Lenten spiritual journey initems he gave up. stead of just giving something “A lot of times I would just up. Instead of an hour of screen give up different foods, sweets time, she would pray the rosary or desserts … when I got older, I for an hour. sometimes gave up media things This year, along with the Maglike music or television shows or nificat 40, she will be doing the things like that,” Pidel said. most intense Lenten practice Though the items he gave up she’s done to date: going vegan. may be considered common, “I did a lot of research beforeother people he knew had given hand … I am lactose intolerant, up items such as condiments, so I’m already dairy-free,” Suhot showers and even sleeping arez Jimenez said. in a bed.

Suarez Jimenez said a chalThis semester in Straz, a few lenge is a good thing. This Lent girls are coming together to par- will be just that. ticipate in a Lenten challenge.

“It’s a challenge. … I like The challenge is called the challenges,” Suarez Jimenez Magnificat 40, which is based said. “It’s focusing on self-care off the Exodus 90, in which for and growing in faith.”

90 days, the book of Exodus Along with Suarez Jimenez is used as a prayer guide spe- and Barbosa, Katie Corr, a freshcifically for men participating. man in the College of Education, The Magnificat 40 is a short- will also be participating in this ened version, focusing on more Lenten challenge. prayer time instead of participat“It’s more intense than what ing in other world distractions I’d choose to do for Lent … I such as television. think it looks at your whole life “It’s a time of just growing in and goes through all the different your faith and being more inten- aspects, like the things we turn tional with what you spend your to for comfort, and I think it’s time with and on, so like not super wholesome,” Corr said.

Determination, selfcare play big role in Lenten promises

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It’s a time of just growing in your faith and being more intentional with what you spend your time with and on, so like not watching TV, or wasting time with things like that.”

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STAFF EDITORIAL

Action must be taken to prevent further racism on campus

Visiting journalist Soledad O’Brien moderated the President’s Panel on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion the afternoon of Feb. 26 at the Law School. During the panel, Marquette student panelists shared their experiences as people of color on campus. The students shared stories of enduring not only micro-aggressions, but blatant acts of racism.

Events like this one provide an opportunity to facilitate important conversations about race at Marquette, and University President Michael Lovell’s willingness to discuss the topic is a step in the right direction.

But more must be done to combat racism on campus than occasional events and conversations.

The student panelists discussed often feeling isolated as people of color. In fact, nearly 69 percent of Marquette’s undergraduate students are white, according to data from the Office of Institutional Research and Analysis. About 4 percent of undergraduate students are black.

Approximately 78 percent of fulltime faculty members are white, while about 4 percent are black,

according to the same data.

The experiences and feelings addressed by the student panelists must spark action by university administrators. Marquette needs to take a uniform stance regarding diversity on campus by intentionally implementing online training programs, diversity seminars, required interactive events — or a combination of these options — to promote student, staff and faculty awareness about race issues. A plan needs to be put in place and action needs to be taken.

Before students begin their freshman year, they are required to take online courses about alcohol awareness and sexual assault. Once students come to campus, they are mandated to attend workshops like Red Watch Band training for further alcohol awareness training. Students are also educated on sexual assault and university resources at in-person training events. Marquette should exhibit this same commitment to educating students about race and diversity on campus.

Oftentimes, when there are events about race and diversity on campus, they only reach a certain audience.

The people who attend are people who choose to go — usually, these are people who already care about the issues discussed. These important conversations need to involve all students, staff and faculty, including those who may perpetuate racism at the university and may not attend these conversations voluntarily.

If Marquette makes diversity training mandatory for students, staff and faculty, this would help ensure that university community members are receiving vital information about how to interact with others. Some students may come from backgrounds where they rarely encountered individuals with different ethnicities.

This acknowledgement comes with an obligation for the university to educate incoming and current students on race issues. Training could also help make students, staff and faculty of color feel more accepted by their fellow community members.

The university seems to have many forums and discussions talking about race relations on campus, but the administration has failed to follow through with actions. It is extremely important that all students, staff and

faculty — no matter their race or ethnic background — feel like they are listened to and are a valuable part of campus, and that requires intentional actions by Marquette to prevent racism on campus.

If race issues do arise, the university must be transparent and address the issues head-on. Students, staff and faculty should know that instances of racism and discrimination aren’t being pushed off to the side.

However, the university’s approach should not be solely reactive. Rather, it should be proactive.

Holding discussions about racism on campus is crucial, but the issue warrants more than just talk.

Students, staff and faculty should feel comfortable and confident that Marquette is a place where racism is not tolerated, but more than that, that racism is being prevented on the front end.

Administrators must reserve the time and resources to develop a uniform, action-oriented approach to help facilitate conversation and education about race on campus. A combination of an online training session, in-person seminar course and/or mandated events about race could be extremely beneficial. There is something very valuable about having discussions with people that are different than oneself.

The university needs to take prompt action to ensure that students, staff and faculty of color are not forced to endure continued acts of racism on campus. Marquette administrators must work together to develop a coordinated approach to educate incoming and current students, staff and faculty about race issues and respectfully interacting with others in a diverse community.

only 4 percent of college graduates who are 25 years or older volunteer their time to organizations, according to Volunteer Hub. This number can be increased if students in college volunteer and understand the benefits of their work. At Marquette, eighty percent of undergraduate students participate in community service. This number is higher than the average, but it could be even higher and make more of a difference in the Marquette community.

Students should be required to complete some sort of service in the Milwaukee area. This service could help students understand the city we are so integrated in, and the segregation and issues that are such a large part of the place we call home for four years. This requirement could be included with the introduction

level classes of philosophy or theology, and could be satisfied by being in clubs such as the Midnight Run or the Marquette Volunteer Corps.

This requirement could bolster involvement in these clubs, as many of these organizations these clubs rely on the clubs for volunteers and for serving these populations. Volunteers are worth $24.14 per hour on average, according to Volunteer Hub.. The worth of volunteers being well above minimum wage, sheds light on the value of volunteers and how much they truly benefit the organizations they serve.

There is also the issue of the “Marquette bubble.” This common phrase describes how although Marquette is located in a diverse city, the students often do not leave campus, and stay within the borders of perceived

safety. In reality, there is a lot to explore and many unique individuals that exist outside of campus. While requiring service is not an end-all be-all solution to the of lack of information about race on Marquette’s campus, it would be beneficial to use service as a way for students to get out of their comfort zones and step into others’ shoes across the inner-city neighborhoods. Service is an important way to get on one of the bus lines and travel to a place that may be unfamiliar, and learning from those unknown places and gaining new experiences could be a way to become accepting and gain understanding of the world. What is scary and unknown can create biases, and learning about new people and places can be the first step to breaking down those biases.

With Milwaukee being one of the most segregated cities in America, race is a prominent issue in the city Marquette students live for four years. It makes sense to give back to a community and become educated about racism, segregation and all the issues they cause in the city at the same time. Requiring service as early as freshman year, participating in service learning classes or joining a service club can be a first step to education of the whole person, and it can be the key to continuing uncomfortable conversations that need to happen on this campus.

Photo by Claire Gallagher claire.gallagher@marquette.edu

Soledad O’Brien moderated a conversation discussing racism on campus.

Service requirement needed to uphold Marquette mission Sarah Lipo

“Be the difference.” This motto is a cornerstone of Marquette’s Jesuit mission and is often the mantra heard across campus. It is also one of the first things students and parents hear when they step onto Marquette’s campus.

While the school is centered on community service and Jesuit values, there is no required dedication to this service. There is a strict curriculum requiring philosophy and theology classes to graduate, but there is no requirement to complete some sort of service during a student’s four years of being at a school so integrated into the city. In fact,

Sarah Lipo is a sophomore studying journalism and social welfare and justice. She can be reached at sarah.lipo@marquette.edu

Opinions

Tuesday, March 5, 2019

The Marquette Tribune

Jussie Smollett case Financial literacy courses crucial discredits real victims Nearly Aminah Beg

Jussie Smollett, an actor famous for his role on the television series “Empire,” reported to the Chicago Police Department in January that two men attacked him near his apartment building. These two men allegedly slipped a noose around his neck while yelling homophobic and racial slurs. Now, more than three weeks later, the CPD believes Smollett lied about this incident and has since charged him with disorderly conduct on the basis of filing a false police report.

The CPD spent countless hours reviewing street camera footage, and no evidence of the attack was found.

Before Smollett’s charge, many celebrities came out with statements of outrage against attacks such as his.

Not only did many influential celebrities make statements in support of Smollett, but Smollett himself told the public that he is working with the authorities and has been “100 percent factual and consistent on every level.”

He even performed his music at a concert following the reported attack and said to the audience, “I’m not fully healed yet, but I’m going to. And I’m gonna stand strong with y’all.”

After two persons of interest were released from questioning without being charged, Smollett issued a statement Feb. 16, which said how he is “victimized by claims” that accuse him of working with the perpetrators and continues to say “nothing is further from the truth.”

Smollett was arrested Feb. 21 for filing a false police report, which is a felony.

Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson discussed the motivations behind Smollett executing such an incident in a news conference on the same day of Smollett’s arrest. He stated it was because the actor was dissatisfied with his salary on “Empire,” but continued to explain how it is despicable that this incident has gotten more coverage than every gun violence case in Chicago.

Smollett recognized the pain and anger of the American public, especially in the climate fostered under Donald Trump, and he decided to take advantage of those who are victims of discrimination. The noose is such a deep-seated image to the African-American community due to the countless hangings of them in American history. Smollett used a potent description because he knew of the implications and publicity it

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would have. He understood the anger that would stem from AfricanAmericans and others hearing about such a case, so he used that to further his celebrity profile.

This was all based on the sole idea of the actor wanting greater pay, but the impact became so much more than that. If a celebrity gains a higher profile, they would attract more viewership to the show and receive higher compensation for it.

It became a spit in the face to African-American victims of real assault and discrimination. Not only is it disrespectful to the African-American community, but to the LGBTQ community as well.

Smollett went on “Good Morning America” and told Robin Roberts that, “You do such a disservice when you lie about things like this,” and described those who have doubts of his narrative as “offensive.” Smollett wanted the public to believe they were crazy for finding holes in his story.

His choice of falsely reporting an attack disrespects real hate crimes that occur daily in this country. It takes a lot of courage for victims to come out to the public about the abuse and attacks they face. The fact that Smollett called himself a victim is pure disrespect.

Most victims do not have the same celebrity status as Smollett. There are no celebrities tweeting with their support for the everyday person, but Smollett was able to get more coverage for a fake report than normal people do.

When incidents like these do get publicized, Smollett’s lies put even more doubt into the public’s mind.

This could have real effects to the point where Americans become more skeptical in believing the truth behind someone’s accusations. This resistance to believe victims makes it harder to hold perpetrators responsible for their actions. According to FBI data, there was a 17 percent increase in hate crimes from 2017 to 2018. Those that already place immediate doubt in victims’ accusations have just fortified their thought processes through the Smollett case.

There are real victims of hate crimes, and it is our job to take their words to heart and give them the respect they deserve. Their situations are not instances to be made light of or used for someone’s self-interest.

Most victims do not have the same celebrity status as Smollett.”

Aminah Beg is a sophomore studying public relations and cognitive sciences. She can be reached at aminah.beg@marquette.edu

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22% of 18 to 24-year-olds are financially stable

of 18 to 24-year-olds are financially at risk

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of college students

of college students say do not save they are very money on knowledgeable about a monthly creating and maintaining basis a budget

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Source: LendEDU & University of Illinois Graphic by Anabelle McDonald anabelle.mcdonald@marquette.edu

Matthew Harte

College is the first time many students experience independence in making financial decisions, which can lead to ill-advised and unsustainable spending habits.

These students will eventually need to learn how to budget, track expenditures and manage savings, especially in their lives after graduation. Marquette should consider implementing a required financial literacy course to ensure students are comfortable managing their money.

New research from the University of Illinois emphasized the distressing economic circumstances that many young adults are currently experiencing. The study deemed only 22 percent of 18 to 24-year-olds as financially stable. In contrast, nearly 70 percent were considered financially precarious or financially at risk.

These groups were more likely

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to default on credit cards and use alternative financing services, such as payday loans, which charge high interest rates and fees so recipients can receive a short-term cash boost.

This trend is likely exacerbated by a lack of skills in budgeting and expenditure tracking. Only 18 percent of college students reported that they were very knowledge about creating and maintaining a budget, according to a survey

by LendEDU, a financial advice website. In addition, more than 40 percent of students said they don’t track their monthly spending, while 58 percent reported not saving money each month.

One of the most common debt traps for college students is poor credit card choices. Most college students have a limited understanding of credit card terms and conditions. Many students may not know how to manage these cards, which hurts their overall financial well-being, according to research from Montclair State University. Despite this limited knowledge, many students still appear nervous about the potential negative impact of their credit card usage. About one-quarter of college students with a credit card worry that their card debt is out of control, with these students averaging a balance of $1,454, according to consumer banking corporation Sallie Mae. A required financial literacy course could get students on track for making better spending choices. University faculty can look to the University of WisconsinMadison, which currently offers a Financial Life Skills program in its School of Human Ecology.

The program was ranked as one of the best in the nation for financial

literacy in 2018 by LendEDU. The Financial Life Skills program consists of two one-credit classes that teach students topics such as how to budget, file taxes, use credit cards and manage debt.

One of the classes is specifically focused on monetary decisions after graduation, including purchasing a house or car, planning retirement savings and buying insurance. While the program is not a requirement at UW-Madison, Marquette should consider adding a similar set of courses to the core curriculum, as the skills learned in these classes have significant real-world applications for every graduate.

In adding these courses, Marquette could make up for the lack of quality financial skills education at the high school level. A 2018 report from the Brookings Institute found that only 21 states require high school students take a financial literacy course to graduate, and Wisconsin is notably absent from this list. The report also found that states vary greatly in the amount of time and quality of instruction they devote to financial literacy. Marquette has the tools and resources to significantly outperform the level of instruction of high school classrooms in this area.

Marquette should require financial literacy courses to ensure that students are able to independently and effectively manage their money. These courses will help students stay out of debt, as well as lessen concerns about major monetary events and decisions after graduation.

Matthew Harte is a junior studying political science and economics.

He can be reached at matthew.harte@marquette.edu

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HOWARD SCORES 33 ON HIS BIRTHDAY, BUT MU SUFFERS UPSET AT FISERV SPORTS, 16

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

McEwen emulates opponents

Photo courtesy of Marquette Athletics

Junior guard Koby McEwen practices against sophomores Jamal Cain and Theo John. He is redshirting this year after transferring but will be eligible for the 2019-’20 season.

Utah State transfer prepares MU for star players in BIG EAST

By John Steppe

john.steppe@marquette.edu

The Thursday before Marquette’s road trip to Providence College, the Golden Eagles were looking to sweep the Friars for the second time in the Steve Wojciechowski era.

There was no 17,000-plus crowd at Fiserv Forum, nor was public address announcer Mike Jakubowski exclaiming the starting lineups.

For junior guard Koby McEwen, who is redshirting this season, his game day starts in a film room for a meeting with coaches, fellow redshirt Greg Elliott, senior Matt Heldt and a couple walk-ons.

“It’s really my game day,” McEwen said. “I try to go out there and play to the best of my ability.”

The objective of the 30-minute meeting with the scout team?

Prepare Marquette for some of the toughest players in the BIG EAST. McEwen’s 6-foot-4, athletic physique means he could be tasked with simulating several different types of players. Wojciechowski said

McEwen usually takes one of the opponent’s best perimeter players, but that can vary.

Some days, he’s in charge of replicating quick point guards like Seton Hall’s Myles Powell or St. John’s Shamorie Ponds.

As he went from class to the Al McGuire Center Feb. 21 for the 2:30 p.m. meeting, he was not tasked with simulating anyone for the Providence game because he couldn’t practice. But that session was the exception, not the norm.

“It’s not that hard (to replicate players) because a lot of the good guards in our league, they usually do certain things that I do anyway,” McEwen said.

Other days, he needs to act like a post player, such as Providence’s Alpha Diallo, which he said is much harder to do. “(Diallo’s) game is a little different,” McEwen said. “He’s kind of like a tweener. He plays one position, but he could be the other position. …

The way he moves on the court can be a little unorthodox.”

He said Powell is his favorite player to replicate.

“All the plays are run for you,” McEwen said. “And you get to shoot it every single time from anywhere.”

But Powell is not the only fun

simulation he’s had. He said he associated much of that same “free” style to Ponds, who averages 19.7 points per game.

“You get to dance with the ball a little bit,” McEwen said. “You kind of just get to be free out there and do anything you want really. … Simulating any good guard is fun.”

He recently simulated Villanova’s Eric Paschall prior to last Wednesday’s game, even though Paschall is 5 inches taller and 55 pounds heavier than McEwen. Paschall, who averages 16.6 points per game, scored only four points on 2-for-9 shooting against the Golden Eagles.

“Even though (McEwen) isn’t the same height as Paschall, (McEwen) is physical and very difficult to guard,” Wojciechowski said. “It’s great to have somebody that can put pressure on the defense in ways that are similar to a guy that we (faced against Villanova).”

“Paschall was actually a fun one (to simulate), too,” McEwen said.

“He’s a little different. For as big as he is and how strong he is, he really plays like a guard. He can really handle it. He can shoot it. He posts up as well.”

Wojciechowski repeatedly praised McEwen’s competitiveness,

citing that as one of the reasons he’s able to act like so many different players in the league.

“The best thing that Koby brings is his competitiveness because that’s an attribute that all the great (players in the conference) have,” Wojciechowski said. “Koby has that in abundance.”

McEwen’s competitiveness was on full display in interviews when asked about guarding juniors Markus Howard and Sam Hauser.

“I don’t have problems stopping Sam,” McEwen said. “I don’t have problems stopping Markus, either, and you can quote me on that.”

The fifth-year head coach said McEwen’s adaptability is an asset he hasn’t always had.

“It’s a real advantage having (McEwen and Elliott) simulate what you’re going to see in a game because they give you a real approximation of terrific players,” Wojciechowski said. “You don’t always have that on scout teams.”

He said the scout team assignments have forced McEwen to do things he previously wasn’t comfortable doing. McEwen and Wojciechowski both said it’s also made McEwen a more vocal leader.

“He’s very vocal on the floor, and he’s really added to the atmosphere

of our day-to-day practices,” Wojciechowski said.

“I still need to work on that, but I feel like that’s gotten a lot better,” McEwen said. “When I first got here, I was kind of quiet and I didn’t want to step on anybody’s toes.”

As Marquette looks to remain in contention for a share of the BIG EAST regular season title against Seton Hall Wednesday night, he won’t be anywhere near the Prudential Center. Since he’s redshirting the season due to NCAA transfer rules, he can’t travel with the team.

While his teammates are on the road, he said he just goes to class, exercises and works with the managers to improve his game.

He said he’s excited to see the 16th-ranked team keep winning.

“It’s been crazy to see,” McEwen said. “I’ve been more than happy to see our guys do what they’re doing this year, and I hope it continues. …

It’s a great feeling for me.”

He still would prefer being on the court of the Prudential Center Wednesday night instead of just the film room, though.

“Lately I’ve been getting an itch to get back out there,” McEwen said.

“This time of year, I’ve been getting more and more anxious to play.”

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

King’s availability uncertain for conference tournament Senior guard suffers injury against Creighton Friday

By Dan Avington

daniel.avington@marquette.edu

Women’s basketball senior guard Danielle King had to be carried off the court at DJ Sokol Arena due to an apparent knee injury Friday night against Creighton. King did not return to the game.

King was seen on photos on Twitter Saturday and on the broadcast Sunday stretching and practicing with the team, but she did not play in the season finale against Providence March 3.

Team spokesperson Megan O’Shea declined to provide an update on King’s injury.

King’s incident took place exactly a week after Marquette senior forward Erika Davenport

had a season-ending lower body injury Feb. 22, which ended her collegiate career.

Heading into BIG EAST Tournament play next week and NCAA Tournament action the following week, King’s status will be a crucial piece.

The 5-foot-5 point guard has been having a stellar season as the team’s floor general. The Chicago native is averaging 12.4 points, 3.9 rebounds and 3.8 assists per game this season. She has also added 47 steals and an energetic presence on the defensive end of the floor.

King, who became the team’s newest 1,000-point scorer Nov. 9, is shooting 36.8 percent from beyond the arc this season. She is also one of two captains for Marquette’s senior-laden squad.

Head coach Carolyn Kieger and teammates have described King as an excellent leader.

Photo by Elena Fiegen elena.fiegen@marquette.edu

Danielle King dribbles the ball from the corner against Butler Feb. 22. She had 10 points and three steals.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Van Kleunen replaces Davenport following injury Guard records second start of season at Providence

By Dan Avington

daniel.avington@marquette.edu

When senior forward Erika Davenport went down with a lower body injury against Butler Feb. 22, Marquette needed another post presence.

Redshirt sophomore Lauren Van Kleunen has been that answer for MU. “(Van Kleunen) had a lot of enthusiasm, (and) she made tough plays,” head coach Carolyn Kieger said after the team’s game against Butler. “She had four blocks on (forward Tori) Schickel. She played personnel really well, followed the game plan and played with a lot of confidence.”

Van Kleunen finished the Butler game with a double-double. She had 10 points, 12 rebounds and four crucial blocks on Schickel, who is currently the Bulldogs’ 12th all-time scorer. Van Kleunen’s contributions kept the team within striking distance against Butler, although the Bulldogs still won.

With Davenport officially out for the rest of the season, Van Kleunen will need more performances of this caliber as the year progresses.

Even though she will be the one stepping directly into Davenport’s role, Van Kleunen said she knows

it will require the entire team to fill the hole Davenport left, not just her.

“Everyone needs to step up, including myself, just because of what (Davenport) brought to the floor,” Van Kleunen said. “We’ve got to be able to rise up. Everyone as a collective unit is going to, not just me.”

Van Kleunen said going up against Davenport in practice every day, before she got injured, has made her a significantly better player.

“She’s one of the best post (players) in the nation,” Van Kleunen said. “Her tenacity to rebound, to post up, to rim run, everything she does is always at 100 percent. She’s been a huge help.”

As one of the first players off the bench for the Golden Eagles, Van Kleunen has provided Marquette with a variety of skills.

“If it’s bringing the energy, I’ll bring the energy. If it’s (to) get rebounds, I’ll get rebounds,” Van Kleunen said. “Whatever our team needs me to do that night, I’ll be willing to do that.”

Kieger said she recognizes how instrumental Van Kleunen’s contributions are to the team. “(Van Kleunen) is a competitor.

She’s a leader,” Kieger said. “She does all the little things that you want her to do.”

As a 6-foot-2 guard-forward hybrid, Van Kleunen provides Marquette with versatility, intelligence and length on both ends of the floor.

On the offensive side, she has the ability to venture out to the

Photo by Elena Fiegen elena.fiegen@marquette.edu

Redshirt sophomore Lauren Van Kleunen grabs a rebound despite several nearby Butler defenders.

3-point line or to post up with her back to the basket.

“It helps a lot with spacing.

The guards are able to penetrate because teams can’t necessarily pack the paint,” Van Kleunen said. “They have to play us out on the arc because we have hot shooters that can shoot the ball and be able to post up.”

Meanwhile, on defense, Van Kleunen said she tries to use her length and knowledge of the game to combat opposition.

“Instead of using my speed, I try to outsmart my opponents as a defender,” Van Kleunen said.

“If they can get by me with my length, I usually can block their shot or just get a tip (and) alter their shot in any way possible, just by jumping up or being that threat in the paint.”

Kieger and Van Kleunen both said the redshirt sophomore brings energy every time she steps onto the floor.

“I’m pretty naturally energetic as a person,” Van Kleunen said. “I love playing basketball.

I love playing the game, so any chance I have to get out there is a privilege.”

“She’s phenomenal. She’s a

spark,” Kieger said. “We need her to do that. If she can keep playing that way, great things are going to happen for her.”

Moving forward, Van Kleunen said the rest of the team needs to worry about maintaining the same mindset as it progresses into the postseason. “(Kieger) always talks about never getting sick of winning and that speaks volumes to us,” Van Kleunen said. “We just want to cherish these moments with each other, but we also want to make big strides that Marquette has never made before.”

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Tuesday, March 5, 2019

MEN’S LACROSSE

Goalie combines academic, athletic passions with vlog Chris Rolfing uses YouTube to practice life after lacrosse

By Aimee Galaszewski

aimee.galaszewski@marquette.edu

Junior goalie Chris Rolfing found a new way of combining his academics and athletic passion this fall: vlogging.

During the fall-ball season, Rolfing filmed, edited and produced a video series to document the behind-the-scenes aspects of the men’s lacrosse program. He produced six videos in the series, and one of them attracted about 6,500 viewers on YouTube.

“I wanted to show the aspects of Marquette lacrosse that outsiders don’t see,” Rolfing said.

The goalie said he became interested in creating videos as early as sixth grade. He used to watch the YouTube channel Dude Perfect, which produced basketball trick shot videos. He then took his camera, went into his backyard and attempted to recreate them.

Rolfing became more avid in producing content when he started at Woodbury High School in 2012. He created lacrosse recruiting videos for friends, student-section hype videos and most notably, a documentary of his high school lacrosse team.

The Woodbury, Minnesota, native continued his passion at Marquette as a digital media major. He collaborated with a YouTube channel called LAXdotCOMtv to create a series that gives an inside look into the team.

“He gave a great little snapshot of everything that goes on,” teammate Mikey Zadroga III said.

Zadroga, a redshirt senior midfielder, was featured in the fifth episode of the vlog. The duo traveled to different landmarks, and they reminisced on the places they have been to in their past three years of friendship.

“It was nice to see me and Chris just collaborate and go over to different stops that we’ve grown fond of and share that with everyone else,” Zadroga said.

That one episode itself took over two hours of filming and a night of editing to fit Rolfing’s definition of perfect.

“He’s easily one of the most hardworking kids,” Zadroga said. “He’s always seeing what he can do to make his (videos) better. He’s very dedicated and passionate about it.”

Rolfing said he would try to get all his homework done early in the week and then picked a day later in the week to just edit videos.

The junior said he plans on carrying his film talents with him when he graduates from Marquette. He is interested in sports videography, and these vlogs are part of his portfolio.

Since the spring season is in full swing, he said more vlogs of the Marquette team probably won’t be coming in the next couple months. Rolfing is choosing to focus more on lacrosse, but he didn’t disregard the possibility of a few new videos coming out.

“I don’t know,” Rolfing said.

“We’ll see what happens.”

Photo courtesy of Marquette Athletics

Goalie Chris Rolfing is a digital media major. He has played 12 minutes.

MEN’S TENNIS

Rodecap’s squad looks to improve away performance Greg Anderson hopes team can win BIG EAST title again

By M’Laya Sago

mlaya.sago@marquette.edu

Marquette men’s tennis has gotten off to a rocky start on the road, losing five of its first six away matches in 2019.

With five away matches left this season, it is still possible for the Golden Eagles to end their away game season record 7-5.

Head coach Steve Rodecap said the doubles play is the leading factor in the team’s woeful road performances.

“When we’re playing up against good teams, we have to be able to steal some of those doubles points and take some pressure off of us,” Rodecap said. “That’s something that we haven’t done on the road yet.”

Road losses have come against the University of Iowa, Purdue University and University of Minnesota.

“Our components out there in doubles are really good and we’ve been in every single doubles point,” Rodecap said. “But we just haven’t came out with one of them yet.”

Senior Greg Anderson agreed doubles play is what is making the Golden Eagles fall short, but he

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Greg Anderson attempts a backhand. As a junior last season, he finished with an overall 18-11 singles record, and he was 15-5 in dual matches.

said he remains confident the team will be able to secure these matches once they pick up the right energy.

“At this point, we just need some momentum to get some doubles wins under our belt, and then I think we’ll get the confidence there,” Anderson said.

Road struggles are not a new phenomenon for Marquette. Rodecap’s squad finished last season

17-7 overall with a 2-7 road record.

Despite the road problems, Marquette won the BIG EAST title and appeared in the first round of the NCAA Championships.

Anderson said the team’s relationships will make a bigger impact on its BIG EAST Championship hopes than the team’s statistics.

“Moving forward, it all comes down to being there for your

teammates no matter what,” Anderson said. “(When) you have the opportunity to win a BIG EAST Championship (and) then going to NCAA, it all comes down to trust. … If we all have good trust going forward, then we can go for win No. 2.”

Meanwhile, the Golden Eagles are 4-0 at home and have a 15game home winning streak dating

back to last season, giving Rodecap plenty of reason for optimism.

“This is a different year, and these guys understand that … but I think they have bigger aspirations,” Rodecap said. “We were beat up pretty bad in the first round last year in the NCAA Tournament. …

They’re hungry for it.”

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Henry’s Peruvian mission trip, internship shape future Freshman defender went to South America before MU

By Zoe Comerford

isabel.comerford@marquette.edu

As a junior in high school, current Marquette freshman Ellie Henry had the opportunity of a lifetime: A twoweek mission trip to Peru to work in a children’s hospital shadowing surgeons on pro-bono surgeries.

“I was in the (operating room) the entire time watching,” Henry said. “I also helped set up the OR if they needed anything. Obviously I couldn’t grab (anything), but … I learned a lot about the specific type of sutures.”

At the clinic, Henry witnessed a variety of trauma surgeries.

The biomedical sciences major said her favorite was aiding with emergency surgeries.

“A kid came in (with) a severed heel because he fell off a motorcycle,” Henry said. “Another one, he had an arm amputation because there was a bus accident.”

A typical day for Henry in Peru lasted at least 18 hours. She said she woke up each day at 5 a.m. or 6 a.m. and then would have dinner at midnight.

Henry said most surgeons she worked with spoke English, but she needed help from the translator if there was someone that didn’t speak English.

She said the surgeons in Peru didn’t always know what to expect because people didn’t schedule appointments for specific operations. “(In) Peru, everything was experimental and on the fly. ‘OK, we have to get this done within this amount of time because otherwise we’re not going be able to get to this kid and we don’t want to push it back a day because these families are driving like six hours to get here,’” Henry said.

A year later, she took an Eden

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Freshman Ellie Henry defends a Notre Dame player in the 19-4 season-opening loss to the Fighting Irish Feb. 8. She is in recovery from an injury.

Prairie High School class as a senior which helped her get connected to surgeons, including one of her friends’ dad.

“Just being able to be back in the OR and be in that atmosphere here in America — it’s different because here the days are a lot more structured,” Henry said.

She said when she was in that class in Minnesota, she went to shadow her friend’s dad either for a clinical day or surgery once or twice a month. She said some of the key differences between the U.S. and Peru involved the materials and technology used and time spent. “(The United States) was a lot more organized with things,” Henry said. “Also, a lot more relaxed.

(The surgeon) had music playing and sometimes he’d be singing. …

Time-management wise, it was a lot slower.”

The internship during her senior year of high school included extra

time studying and evaluating cases.

She also took an anatomy class, which provided background going into surgeries. It also developed her professional leadership skills and she said it is one of the reasons why she chose Marquette, for its pre-med track.

“There were different leadership things he had us read in terms of preparing (for) how to speak up in an environment where I’m an intern,” Henry said. “How much credibility do I have never having studied this before?”

Some of those leadership skills she learned have translated to the lacrosse field.

“She’s very confident. She’s very driven,” head coach Meredith Black said. “She’s confidently driven. …

In a very unselfish way, she does what she wants to do, and she’s unapologetic about it.”

Black said she has seen Henry’s confidence grow over the past s

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emester, which is especially impressive as a freshman.

“She believes in herself, and that’s great,” Black said. “She has really high expectations for herself, and she has really high goals she wants to achieve. She’s the type of person that will achieve them because she’s very driven and believes in herself.”

The Eden Prairie, Minnesota, native knew from a young age she wanted to go into medicine.

“When I was younger, my grandma took me to this place, it was like this veterinary (clinic) and they were having this, like, clinic day,” Henry said. “They were doing surgery on this stuffed animal and started talking about this tool. … I passed out when they were explaining it. My mom was like, ‘You could never be a doctor now.’”

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biology and chemistry classes. She said she is planning for a minor in math.

“Her first semester was great, but we didn’t travel,” Black said.

“Now that it’s a little more strenuous a schedule, we’ll see, but I have no worries about her whatsoever. I know she’ll do great.”

Henry said she never thought about being a trauma surgeon until she went to Peru.

“With the trauma and ER, the experimental piece of it and problem solving on your feet,” Henry said.

She said talking to an anesthesiologist gave Henry an outlook that has stuck with her over the years.

“This surgery is going to change their life and going to fix them,” Henry said. “Pain is just going to be a factor in that. Pain isn’t going to kill them. … It’s almost like a firstworld thing that we overlook here.”

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Unranked Bluejays upset Golden Eagles at Fiserv Forum Turnovers plague Marquette against Creighton Sunday

By John Steppe

john.steppe@marquette.edu

Holding an opponent to 40-percent shooting from the field and 30-percent shooting from the perimeter is usually enough to win a game.

“If you would have told me this morning that we would’ve held Creighton to 66 points, I would’ve thought we’d have a great chance to win,” Marquette head coach Steve Wojciechowski said.

But the Golden Eagles could not get past their inability to hold onto the ball and stay out of foul trouble, suffering a 66-60 upset against the Creighton Bluejays at Fiserv Forum Sunday.

Turnovers proved to be problematic from the opening whistle. Five of MU’s first six possessions resulted in turnovers.

The Golden Eagles committed seven turnovers in the first nine minutes.

“We took a very high-powered offense in Marquette and really executed our defensive game plan almost to perfection,” Creighton head coach Greg McDermott said. “Our rotations and our activity with our hands knocking those balls loose and forcing turnovers was a big part of the game.”

McDermott attributed many of the turnovers to his team’s trap defense in the post.

“With their traps, it makes running offense harder,” Wojciechowski said. “If somebody makes running offense

harder on you, you have to be stronger (and) you have to be more fundamentally sound.”

“It’s definitely something we scouted. We just need to execute that better,” junior guard Markus Howard said.

“Guys off the ball weren’t really moving.”

Meanwhile, sophomore Theo John and redshirt junior Ed Morrow were in foul trouble for much of the game. They each picked up their second fouls in the first half.

“Foul trouble is part of the game,” Wojciechowski said.

“Whether it’s hard or not (to play with foul trouble), in order to win in March, you need to do hard things.”

Howard scored 21 consecutive points in the first half, which kept Marquette in the game.

He finished with 33 points. The Golden Eagles held the lead for most of the second half.

“It was just what the game called for,” Howard said. “I had to be aggressive.”

But like the rest of Marquette’s offense, Howard was silent for large stretches of the game.

He went almost eight minutes without any scoring to start the first half and more than nine minutes without scoring in the second half.

Howard said Creighton’s defense wasn’t significantly different from others he’s seen. The problem was with the execution. Wojciechowski and Howard both described the loss as “self-inflicted.”

“We didn’t really have any energy or life from the beginning of the game to the end,” Howard said.

“We can’t have that, especially in March.”

Howard’s performance helped him surpass Andrew Rowsey and Dwyane Wade as the program’s record holder for points in a single season.

The rest of Marquette’s offense was significantly worse.

The Golden Eagles averaged 0.896 points per possession, and no player other than Howard finished with more than seven points.

Howard outscored all of his t eammates combined.

Outside of Howard, the Golden Eagles shot 40 percent from the field and 33 percent from 3-point range.

Meanwhile, Creighton’s Martin Krampelj finished with a team-high 19 points on 8-of13 shooting.

Wojciechowski took full responsibility for the loss.

“It is completely and totally me,” Wojciechowski said. “Don’t be asking my players what went wrong. It was on me. … I have to do a better job. Period.”

Marquette (23-6, 13-3 BIG EAST) needs to win against Seton Hall on Wednesday and Georgetown on Saturday to ensure having a share of the BIG EAST regular season title.

The Golden Eagles no longer control their own destiny with conference seeding. Villanova needs to lose Saturday for Marquette to have a chance at the top seed in the BIG EAST Tournament.

Creighton’s Davion Mintz guards junior Markus Howard in the corner.

Sam Hauser attempts a block.

Guard Sacar Anim attempts a pass to Theo John in MU’s 66-60 loss.

Forward Ed Morrow looks for open teammate. He had four points.

Hauser shoots close to the block.

Photo by Jordan Johnson jordan.d.johnson@marquette.edu