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Manitowoc adds Martell Sophomore earns city council spot through hard work By Allison Kruschke allison.kruschke@marquette.edu
As Marquette’s newest student government president, executive vice president and senators take office, one student will also settle in to a new role as an elected official — at the city level. Tyler Martell, a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences, was elected to the City Council of Manitowoc, Wis., on April 3. Martell, who is a Manitowoc native, won the election with 56 percent of the vote, getting 336 votes to former Alderman Gary Moore’s 265. After unsuccessful campaigns for Manitowoc’s school board and the seat he won last Tuesday, Martell is happy to be one of the new faces on
Manitowoc’s city council. “Unless you count being my senior class president in high school, this is a completely new experience for me,” he said. Martell said that while he hadn’t initially planned on pursuing the seat, he changed his mind after his alderman had decided not to run for re-election. “I think for democracy to function properly, people deserve choices, and I felt it was my responsibility to give the people in my district an alternative,” he said. As for how he plans on managing being a college student and living an hour and twenty minutes away from the district he represents, Martell said that he wants to approach his new job with the same dedication he does to school. “I’m really excited about gaining a deeper understanding of how local government functions,” he said. Over break, Martell answered some of the Tribune’s questions.
Q and A with Tyler Martell: Q: What made this campaign successful? A: Simple: The message of fiscal responsibility and the support from my family and friends. Local politics is all about working hard and reaching out to voters, and with the tremendous support from my family and friends, we were able to outwork my opponent. I owe this to them. Q: How do you plan on managing being a college student with your new position? A: It’ll be a challenge, but I’m up for it. Between committee meetings, boards, commissions and common council meetings, I will have to be in Manitowoc roughly five evenings each month.There will also be a lot of reading to do, and I plan to treat it like another class. The third component of this job, and the one that I look most forward to, is constituent relations. I think being See Martell, page 7
Experience defines new VP
being employed here earlier this broad-based input on people’s imacademic year. pressions, thoughts, feelings about Yet what finally made DiStan- the university,” DiStanislao said. islao take the leap to the execu- “Basically we are looking for peotive vice presidency wasn’t any of ple’s ideas on strengths, where the those previous experiences. opportunities are (and) where our “Basically what drew me was, limitations might be.” By Erin Caughey initially, (University Arthur Scheuber, the erin.caughey@marquette.edu President the Rev. Scott) vice president of adminPilarz’s energy,” she said. istration under DiStanislao, complimented her Mary DiStanislao’s career path “And then having arrived engagement with Mardidn’t seem tailored toward her here, the place is very quette’s campus thus far. new executive vice president job at magnetic and the energy “Mary has already beMarquette. Once a rival Division I is palpable.” DiStanislao worked gun to actively engage the women’s basketball coach at Notre campus community and Dame, and more recently hold- previously with Pilarz on ing to various senior leadership a project at the Universi- DiStanislao leadership team, in particular through our strategic positions within the University ty of Scranton during his planning process,” Scheuber said. of Pennsylvania’s athletic depart- time as president there. As executive vice president at “She has held numerous leadership ment, DiStanislao’s transition to Marquette’s administration doesn’t Marquette, DiStanislao oversees positions and brings a breadth of student affairs as well as adminis- experience that will be critical to seem the most logical jump. trative areas like pub- shaping the future of Marquette But this will not be lic safety, information University.” DiStanislao’s first time systems, facilities and To accomplish her goals in stradealing with Marquette real estate services, the tegic planning, DiStanislao and administration issues, union, the residences Pilarz plan on holding multiple foor with broad, nonhalls and human re- rums with students as well as ones athletic administration Pilarz’s sources. with the faculty of each college at issues. She received Cabinet Last month, DiStan- the university. her doctorate degree islao participated in a “The heart and the soul of the in higher education This is the first installment from the University in a multi-part series on student forum with the university are the students and the of Pennsylvania while Father Pilarz’s changing president where stra- faculty. As administrators, we are tegic planning was the the skeleton, the skin and bones. working for its athleadership team. main topic of conversa- We support and we protect,” DiSletic department. Here tion. DiStanislao said tanislao said. “We do what we have at Marquette, she has served as a member of the Pro- strategic planning is a topic she to do to make this a great place.” DiStanislao also said she and vost’s Committee for Academic and Pilarz will continue to discuss Planning and Budget and part further with the Marquette com- Pilarz have similar personalities, which makes their working of the peer review of Intercolle- munity. “(The goal) is really to get as giate Athletics at Marquette since
DiStanislao eager to work with Pilarz on campus concerns
See DiStanislao, page 7
INDEX
DPS REPORTS.....................2 CALENDAR.......................2 VIEWPOINTS.....................8 CLOSER LOOK...................10
STUDY BREAK....................12 SPORTS..........................14 CLASSIFIEDS..................18
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Rep. Baldwin goes “On the Issues”
Photo by A. Martina Ibanez-Baldor/angela.ibanez-baldor@marquette.edu
Mike Gousha (left) and Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) discuss political issues and her upcoming campaign for a seat in the U.S. Senate.
National health care, fiscal policies leading topics
from the Republican field, including Speaker of the Assembly Jeff Fitzgerald, former House representative and gubernatorial candidate Mark Neumann and former Gov. Tommy Thompson. By Allison Kruschke “There’s quite the GOP food allison.kruschke@marquette.edu fight going on on the other side,” Baldwin said. U.S. Senate candidate and Baldwin continued to highcurrent House Rep. Tammy light her achievements in standBaldwin (D-Wis.) talked health ing up to interests and fighting care, the debt crisis and her for her constituents, including campaign yesterday when she her amendment to President went “On the Issues” with Mike Obama’s Affordable Care Act Gousha. that allowed people to stay unStudents, staff and commu- der their parents’ insurance covnity members gatherage until age 26. ered at Eckstein Hall Gousha brought to discuss Baldwin’s “There’s quite the up the deliberations campaign for cur- GOP food fight going being held by the rent Senator Herb on on the other side.” U.S. Supreme Court Kohl’s seat, as well about the Affordable as issues such as naTammy Baldwin Care Act and its contional security and U.S. Senate candidate stitutionality, asking Rep. Paul Ryan’s what steps Baldwin (R-Wis.) budget. would take to start Gousha opened the discussion from the ground up on health by asking Baldwin why she was care reform should the law be inspired to run for the U.S. Sen- declared unconstitutional. ate and leave her current, “safe” “I had exposure at a young district, the solidly Democrat- age to how important health leaning Dane County. care programs are,” she said. “I “I decided to get into the race would continue to fight for the for a number of reasons,” Bald- most complete health care covwin said. “Middle-class fami- erage.” lies are struggling, and people Ryan, who represents Wisare making big sacrifices. I am consin’s first congressional unafraid to stand up to inter- district and chairs the House ests for middle-class families, Budget Committee, recently and they need a champion right proposed a budget plan that has now.” received much scrutiny from the While Baldwin is the only president and other Democrats. Democrat running for the seat, she faces multiple opponents See Baldwin, page 7
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