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Site streamlines Film, Ariz. bill target bullying student orgs CollegiateLink offers year-round ‘virtual O-Fest’

By Erin Caughey erin.caughey@marquette.edu

Many universities and colleges across the country, including Marquette, continue to find new ways to integrate technology into their day-to-day operations. Student organizations are the latest beneficiaries of this trend in the form of the new CollegiateLink program.

The application of CollegiateLink on campus will serve as a new form of social media branding for student organizations.

Each organization registered with the program can create a customized profile, post discussions, promote events, hold elections and provide access to files on its page.

Student organizations can begin the process of registering on Marquette Involvement Link, Marquette’s application of the program, beginning Monday, April 16. Organizations can register events starting in August.

According to Katherine Trevey, assistant dean for leadership and vocation programs, students and

organizations currently have to fill out the paperwork by hand and give it to an OSD staff member who then manually enters the data.

“By moving to an online form, we are eliminating all of those steps, saving an estimated 2,500 pieces of paper and saving students a trip to our office,” Trevey said. The platform for submitting forms and applications will affect the Office of Student Development the most.

The greatest benefits will be in helping student organizations plan events, present information and market them around campus using one central location.

“All students will be able to search a directory of organizations, and there is a function that allows students to find organizations based on interests they select,” Trevey said. “It’s like a virtual O-Fest that is available year-round.”

Arica VanBoxtel, Marquette Student Government president, reiterated that Marquette Involvement Link will help in organizing student groups around campus.

“Involvement Link provides a lot of great opportunities to improve efficiency and creates a See Online, page 7

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Texas students rallied against bullying April 4 following the funeral of 16-year-old suicide victim Ted Molina.

MU profs, DPS join calls for awareness, education programs

By Andrea Anderson andrea.anderson@marquette.edu

One-third of American children, roughly 13 million kids, will

be bullied this year, and 8 to 20 percent of the student population are bullied once a week or more on a consistent basis, according to a Department of Justice report.

Now, a new documentary, “Bully,” and an Arizona law to stop cyberbullying are at the forefront of creating awareness of the emotional and physically damaging act.

John Grych, a professor and

chair of Marquette’s psychology department, said there are three different groups of children involved in bullying: bullies, victims and victim/bullies, which he said make up 25 to 50 percent of all American children in total.

Children who report consistent bullying, Grych said, make up an estimated 10 to 20 percent of See Bullying, page 7

Jobs outlook optimistic for 2012 college grads Top 10 Majors for Expected Hiring

It’s no secret that the economic downturn over the past few years has taken its toll on young adults looking for jobs out of college, but a new survey of businesses’ prospective hiring for 2012 suggests the times may be changing.

According the National Association of Colleges and Employers Job Outlook 2012 Spring Update, employers who responded to the survey reported that they plan to hire 10.2 percent more new college graduates in 2012 than they did in 2011.

Employers in the Midwest region hired 11,456 new college

graduates in 2011 and are projected to hire 12,343 graduates in 2012 — a 7.7 percent increase.

The survey results include 160 employers from across the country.

The new surveys are cause for optimism for some recent Marquette graduates who have been looking to begin a career.

“I had no idea it would be this hard to find a job,” said Eric Allen, a 2011 graduate of the College of Arts & Sciences. Allen studied international affairs and economic relations.

Allen has been living in Milwaukee looking for a job for the last 11 months. He said he spends up to 30 hours a week job-hunting while working 40 hours a week at a restaurant to pay the bills.

Allen said the majority of his friends are still transitioning into their first jobs. He said thinking about the competition for those jobs can be daunting.

“Internship experience is common now,” he said. “You need to find the right internship opportunities.”

Allen said he interned at the World Trade Center of Wisconsin and abroad during his time at Marquette.

“It just wasn’t enough,” he said.

Recently, however, Allen said he has noticed an increase in hiring.

“I have had more interviews in the last three months than in the previous eight,” Allen said. “I really feel like something will happen in the next few months.”

David Clark, a professor of economics at Marquette, said the prospective hiring increase shows the economy’s move out of the recession and further into the recovery stage.

The National Bureau of Economic Research, a private

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1. Engineering (69%) 2. Business (63%) 3. Accounting (53%) 4. Computer Sciences (49%) 5. Economics (22%) 6. Miscellaneous Majors (20%) 7. Physical Sciences (19%) 8. Communications (16%) 9. Social Sciences (16%) 10. Humanities (13%) Source: Job Outlook 2012 Spring Update — National Association of Colleges and Employers

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PEERS program finds increase in brain activity, social skills.

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DPS Reports Monday, April 9 At 11:29 a.m. a student reported being harassed by a known person not affiliated with Marquette. MPD was contacted.

Tuesday, April 10 Between 6:00 p.m. and 6:34 p.m. a student reported that unknown person(s) removed his secured, unattended property estimated at $55 from the Helfaer Recreation Center.

At 10:38 p.m. a student reported that unknown person(s) threw glass bottles from a window in the 1500 block of W. Kilbourn Ave. MPD was contacted.

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Thursday 12 REEL Poverty: Encounter Reality, Annex Court, 8 p.m.

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College of Arts & Sciences freshman Stephanie Lambert ties a blue ribbon in support of autism awareness.

The participants in the “We are currently applying PEERS program aren’t the for larger grant funding,” Van only people having their lives Hecke said. “Mainly what we changed in the process. Kirsten need is to really get more fundSchohl, a second-year doctoral ing for graduate student supstudent in the clinical psychol- port because the graduate stuogy program and a PEERS dents really run the groups. If

By Eric Oliver project coordinator, has seen we had more graduate support, eric.oliver@marquette.edu the life-changing effects first- we could have more groups, hand and believes anyone so that’s why we have 65 kids A developing therapy pro- involved in the program ben- waiting,” Unfortunately for the program at Marquette is helping efits. With regards to the chilteens and young adults with au- dren, though, Schohl was espe- gram, a lack of funding isn’t the only thing threatening it. A tism to develop social interac- cially enthusiastic.

“The participants of PEERS current debate in the diagnostion skills — and maybe change gain so much knowledge about tic world could change the ditheir brains in the process.

The PEERS (Program for the social interactions and social agnosis for autism, leaving the Enrichment and Education of skills they can utilize for the rest PEERS program would be at an Relational Skills) study, origi- of their lives,” Schohl said. “We impasse.

“It would mean that fewer nally designed at UCLA, is teach them the unwritten social individuals directed at Marquette by Amy skills that will would get diVan Hecke, an assistant profes- benefit them “I worry that the current proposals t h r o u g h o u t will leave ‘higher-functioning’ individu- agnosed with sor of psychology. colautism because “The brain is being plastic school, the diagnosis and flexible and changing,” Van lege, jobs and als without options for treatment becomes more Hecke said. “We look at chil- the many so- that is desperately needed.” interacstrict,” Van dren or teenagers with autism cial tions they will before and after intervention.”

Jeffrey Karst Hecke said. “It more “What we are trying to see is: have.”

Psychology doctoral student causes Since an symptoms to Does supporting the children’s be required to and teens’ development of April 2 Milfriendships change their brain waukee Journal Sentinel article receive the diagnosis.” on the PEERS program, the proVan Hecke said if the proactivity?” she added.

The PEERS program has al- gram has seen a tremendous in- posed changes become reality, ready had success in changing crease in the number of people many individuals in the PEERS the lives of people with autism. interested in participating. With program would no longer meet Since its inception, it has found all the positive buzz the article the diagnosis for autism.

“Our group is tailored to the a substantial increase in the ac- generated, the waiting list for tivity level of the portion of the the program rapidly expanded, ‘high-functioning’ individuals brain dealing with social inter- something Van Hecke has cher- who have relatively normal to ished. high intelligence,” Van Hecke action.

“We have over 65 kids on said. “They might show fewer To foster such growth, Van Hecke and the graduate stu- the wait list to go through the symptoms because they’ve groups, and learned to adapt. And if you’re dents involved then we have successful in teaching them in the study 35 young they may not show those things, teach students “We teach them the unwritten adults wait- those other red flags for sympand their par- social skills that will benefit them ing for that toms.” ents how to in- throughout school, college, jobs and Jeffrey Karst, a fourth-year teract in basic the many social interactions they will version,” Van Hecke said. doctoral student in clinical psysocial settings.

“The more chology, agreed but said the It’s like a form have.”

Amy Van Hecke children, teens definition of autism needs to be of therapy in Assistant professor, psychology and young changed. Karst has worked with that they try to adults we run the PEERS Program for two eliminate the feelings associated with the so- through the program, the more years as a group leader. data we have and the more com“I am all for improving the cial setting.

“We’ve already seen in the plex questions we can ask about classifications of Autism Spectrum Disorders, as I think the preliminary analysis that the the brain changes.”

However, with this recent diagnosis may be too broad as kids are showing more activity in areas of the brain that both growth in numbers, the PEERS it currently stands,” Karst said. respond to social things in the program has a growing need for “However, I worry that the curenvironment and are also re- more funds. Currently, the pro- rent proposals will leave ‘highindividuals sponsible for initiating social gram is funded solely by a grant er-functioning’ responses like eye contact and from the Autism Society, and if without options for treatment things like that,” Van Hecke it wishes to expand its opera- that is desperately needed.” tions it needs more money. said.

Psychology program explores social skills, changes in brain

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Santorum backs out of Republican race

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Surrounded by his family, Rick Santorum announces he is suspending his candidacy Tuesday in Gettysburg, Pa.

Romney all but seals deal and sets sights on White House

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After months of putting up a fight against former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum announced Tuesday that he is suspending his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.

Santorum’s departure clears the path for Romney to take the nomination. Santorum trailed Romney

in delegates, 252 to 645. A can- and released. didate needs 1,144 to secure the The announcement comes just a nomination. few weeks before the Republican “We made a decision over the primary in Santorum’s home state weekend that while this presiden- of Pennsylvania, where poll numtial race for us is over for me, we bers were tightening between him will suspend our camand Romney. paign effective today,” “While this presi“He has proven Santorum said Tues- dential race for us himself to be an imday at a press confer- is over for me, we portant voice in our ence in Gettysburg, party and in the nawill suspend our Penn. tion,” Romney said in Santorum also cited campaign effective a statement. “We both his three-year-old today.” recognize that what is Rick Santorum most important is putdaughter Isabella’s ailing health as a rea- Former Pennsylvania Senator ting the failures of the son for his leaving the last three years behind campaign. His daughus and setting Ameriter, who has a genetic disorder, ca back on the path to prosperity.”

While Santorum did not was hospitalized over the weekend

mention Romney by name in his speech Tuesday, he said he and his supporters would continue to speak out against President Barack Obama and to support the Republican nominee.

“We are not done fighting,” Santorum said.

Julia Azari, an assistant professor of political science at Marquette, said it is up in the air as to what the other candidates will do now that Santorum has left the race.

“It remains to be seen what will happen with (former House Speaker Newt) Gingrich and (Texas Rep. Ron) Paul,” Azari said.

“Those two candidates will face less pressure to leave the race than Santorum did, but it depends on how much they win in upcoming contests and how much attention Gingrich draws to himself. Candidates like Ron Paul, who wish to make an ideological point but don’t really enter the main fray of nomination politics, often stay in the race much longer.”

Now that Romney has all but sealed the nomination, both he and Obama can begin gearing up for the general election. Azari said Santorum leaving the race may not have a huge effect on the president at this point.

“Having Santorum in the race helped Obama in two ways: It kept some Republican attention on the internal fight and not on his administration, and it pulled the party to the right, which appeared to hurt its chances with some groups of voters,” she said. “However, I wouldn’t say this affects Obama that much. His main concerns are the economy, the economy and the economy.”

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Job statistics tell a Efforts made to curb assaults violence complicated story Sexual bystander training Unemployment in Wisconsin vs. the United States 69.4 percent of Wisconsin citizens participate in the labor force, compared to 64.7 percent nationally

69.2 percent of non-Whites participate in the labor force, compared to 63 percent nationally

27.1 percent of working Wisconsin families are considered low income, compared to 30.2 percent nationally

Source: http://www.cows.org/pdf/rp-LIWF.pdf

Wisconsin workers take on second jobs to make ends meet

By Monique Collins monique.collins@marquette.edu

Despite unemployment rates in Wisconsin dropping below the national average, more Wisconsinites are working multiple jobs to make ends meet, according to a March report by the Center on Wisconsin Strategy.

But unemployment rates are not the most reliable source for understanding Wisconsin’s recovering economy, said Noreen Lephardt, a Marquette adjunct associate professor of economics.

“One of the things that is happening in this economy is that you’re considered employed even if you work less than a full-time job,” Lephardt said. “So when the Bureau of Labor Statistics calls and asks if someone simply wants to be employed, it skews the data.”

Individuals who have given up their job search no longer impact the unemployment rate, Lephardt said.

“Jimmy Carter talked about the discouraged worker,” Lephardt said. “People on unemployment are looking, but they eventually just give up, so they are not counted into the unemployment rate because they’re not considered to be in the labor force.”

And despite decreasing unemployment rates, Wisconsin families are still dealing with the results of layoffs and pay cuts, according to the report.

COWS reported that 7 percent of Wisconsin workers aged 18 and older hold two jobs, which is 2 percent higher than the national average.

Lephardt said the number of Wisconsinites working more than one job is not necessarily due to financial struggles.

“We have high expectations of what is necessary in life,” Lephardt said. “There are some things people do to accommodate

59.3 percent of low-income Wisconsin families use one-third or more of their household income on housing, compared to 61 percent nationally

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12.2 percent of Wisconsin workers aged 18-64 are without health insurance, compared to 18.7 percent nationally

Graphic by Zach Hubbard/ zachary.hubbard@marquette.edu

their lifestyle.”

Jameela Asmar, a freshman at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Milwaukee resident, has several friends and family members who own businesses, work third-shift jobs and take on extra side work to maintain a comfortable lifestyle for their families.

“I think their situations have their pros and cons,” she said. “It really teaches them to appreciate what they have because they’ve worked so hard to get where they are.”

COWS also reported that minorities are the hardest hit by the current economy, with half of non-white workers and their families qualifying as low-income.

“Whites tend to have more ownership when it comes to property and jobs, so I think it leads to minorities rarely achieving their goals when the majority has it handed to them on a silver platter,” Asmar said.

Diana Dombrowski, a freshman in the College of Communication and Cudahy, Wis. resident, is familiar with the economic struggles families are currently facing.

“My dad works at Marquette but also does side work selling boilers to different Milwaukee businesses,” Dombrowski said.

“My family always hopes for long, cold winters, so he can sell extra boilers—it doesn’t make or break us, but it’s nice to have extra money.”

“I have a couple friends who will be working two or more jobs to save up for books and school supplies,” Dombrowski added.

Kate Venne, director of university communication, said the majority of Marquette students receive some sort of financial aid, with federal work study being an important factor in some students’ decision to attend Marquette. Alexandra Dossey, a freshman in the College of Business Administration, agreed.

“Being able to do work study was part of the reason I came to Marquette,” Dossey said. “It made it easier to pick a private university.”

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At the March 29 Marquette Student Government meeting, the MUSG Senate heard a presentation from university officials on Marquette’s sexual violence awareness and education efforts.

According to Chris Daood, assistant director of The Marquette Counseling Center and one of the presenters, students can partake in one-hour training sessions related to sexual assault bystander training.

“Sexual violence prevention efforts this year were comprehensive, providing a strong start point for ongoing training that will be provided throughout upcoming academic years,” Daood said in an email. “These efforts are intended to help students not only feel more safe, but also to increase knowledge about sexual assault and develop bystander intervention skills to keep their friends safe.”

Bystander training, focus groups and peer-led discussions “mobilize participants to recognize, intervene, prevent and/ or stop inappropriate comments, actions and behaviors. The entire campus community plays a valuable role in preventing acts

that violate the basic dignity of for Aurora Health Care, said the an individual,” according to Mar- SATC saw more than 500 victims quette’s sexual misconduct Web of sexual assault in 2011. page.

Beeson said both the SATC and Mark Long, a sophomore in the the Healing Center work with College of Business Administra- Marquette students. tion, said he would participate in “Anything that is available for the bystander training if he could another patient is available for a fit it in his schedule. student,” Beeson said. “The cen“I know a lot of people who ter has a long history of working take it seriously,” Long said. with the university in helping stu“People know right from wrong dents deal with the traumatic situon campus.” ation.”

In addition to the trainings, SuBeeson said he doesn’t think sanne Cooper was hired as a sex- the number of victims in 2011 ual violence advocate in Student should be cause for fear but addHealth Service last fall. ed that students should be safetyCooper’s position involves pro- conscious. viding informaChristopher tion to students Miller, vice “These efforts are intended to help about reporting president for options, obtain- students not only feel more safe, but student affairs, ing restraining also to increase knowledge about said Marquette orders and sup- sexual assault and develop bystander has made progport through- intervention skills.” ress in the last out the student Chris Daood year on sexual conduct and Assistant director, Marquette Counseling Center violence, stresscriminal justice ing the univerprocesses. sity’s awareness The Sexual Assault Treatment and education efforts.

Center located in Aurora Sinai “We want any student who is Hospital is one off-campus re- a victim of sexual assault to be source available to Marquette supported and to come forward students. so she or he can make use of the The treatment center serves many resources the university and Milwaukee and its suburbs and our community partners have to offers 24-hour care for victims offer,” Miller said. “We know that of sexual assault. The center has sexual assault is one of the most a liaison relationship with the underreported crimes but are opAurora Healing Center, a part of timistic that our extensive educathe Aurora Health Care system tion efforts are having an impact.” which provides emotional supMarquette has also set up a Web port to assault victims. page where students can get more Adam Beeson, a spokesperson information.

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Public Market’s seminars spread health awareness MU prof to speak about new form of disease control

By Elise Angelopulos elise.angelopulos@marquette.edu

The Milwaukee Public Market has begun a series of health-related seminars that will run through the middle of June. The “Science Cafes” are free to the public and feature presentations on immunizations, mental health and general wellness.

The series opened on March 27 with guest speaker Ty Carroll, an associate professor of endocrinology at the Medical College of Wisconsin and an endocrinologist at Froedtert Health Community Memorial Hospital in Menomonee Falls, who spoke about the danger of diabetes.

The next seminar will take place on April 23 when Ken Schellhase, a Medical College associate professor of family and community medicine and the associate director of the Center for Healthy Communities and Research, will discuss the importance in attaining certain health screenings and what those test results may prove.

Lisa Edwards, an associate professor in Marquette’s College of Education, will wrap up the series on June 19 with a platform of “positive psychology,” which involves recognizing the benefits of virtues such as forgiveness and hope and how such elements may assist in disease management.

The Science Cafes are

partly funded by the Clinical and Translational Science Institute of Southeast Wisconsin and by the Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Research and Education Initiative Fund, which is part of the Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin endowment at the Medical College of Wisconsin. The CTSI includes local institutions such as Marquette and the Milwaukee School of Engineering.

Paula Papanek, a Marquette associate professor and director of exercise science, works with the CTSI and said the Science Cafes are a major development in the institute’s outreach.

Papanek said the seminars’ topics are selected by a committee of community representatives.

Marquette professor of nutrition Barbara Troy said the Science Cafes can offer significant public benefits.

“We know that Milwaukee struggles with poverty, and with poverty comes health hazards,” Troy said. “To turn this around, awareness of healthier lifestyle patterns come first.”

While the cafe series has predominantly attracted a middleaged crowd, Troy said the seminars can appeal to young people as well.

But Haley Jackson, a junior in the College of Communication, said she can see why the series could lack a student presence.

“I probably wouldn’t go,” Jackson said. “It’s not super-convenient to get there, and if I had a health question I’d just go to (the Marquette Student) Health Service.”

Jackson added that should the health topics have direct correla-

Photos by Elise Krivit/elise.krivit@marquette.edu

Patrons enjoy their lunches inside at the Third Ward’s Public Market, the site of a series of ongoing health seminars.

tion to her situation or those of fellow students, attendance might increase.

Troy said she would love to attend the series but added that the motivational and beneficial aspects of the cafes may dwindle should the seminars fail to pro-

vide simple ideas that are easy to follow and implement at home.

Papanek said any information the series offers can help participants who are willing to listen.

“Education is always better than misinformation,” Papanek said. “If the seminars do nothing

more than make (people) better informed about their own physical or mental conditions, and as such they are better consumers or better jurors or healthier by even a little, then they are absolutely worth it.”

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Online: Registration, event planning among ‘Links’ to students central location for the many organizations on campus to provide information for members,” VanBoxtel said.

CollegiateLink is part of a network known as Campus Labs. The website was created in 2001. The goal for CollegiateLink, as stated on its website, is to “provide the tools for managing student organizations and encouraging growth and development as students engage in co-curricular activities.”

MUSG is working with OSD on the new software and has allocated $2,000 toward the effort, VanBoxtel said.

“With Involvement Link, MUSG is specifically working to include an online form submission for student organization funding,” she said.

Trevey said OSD is also focusing on helping students.

“Our office has a deep interest in connecting our students with experiences on campus that will help them learn and grow in ways that complement their classroom learning,” Trevey said. “This system creates that online presence, which is where students are connecting today.”

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Organization registrations, Event management, Activity fee allocation, Group communication

For students, club officers and student government leaders http://www.campuslabs.com/products/collegiatelink

Roster management, Officer elections, Co-curricular transcripts, Service hour tracking

Source: Campus Labs - CollegiateLink – http://www.campuslabs.com/products/collegiatelink/

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Bullying: Documentary tracks harrassed children, focuses on effects

Photo by Michael Zamora/The Associated Press and Corpus Christi Caller-Times

According to Marquette Psychology Chair John Grych, 25 to 50 percent of American children are affected by bullying.

the populace.

“In general, victims of bullying tend to be withdrawn, submissive and less popular than youths who are not bullied, and may exhibit low self-esteem, depressive symptoms and anxiety,” Grych said. “They may be viewed as ‘easy targets’ who will not fight back or seek help from teachers or other authorities.”

Children who engage in bullying, who Grych said constitute 10 to 20 percent of the population, are commonly a heterogeneous group with a variety of motives for their actions — one of which is gaining status within their

peer groups.

The smallest group, who are both victims of bullying and bullies themselves, make up 5 to 10 percent of children, Grych said. “(These 5 to 10 percent) tend to exhibit the poorest psychological adjustment,” Grych said. “They demonstrate poor affect and behavior regulation, impulsivity, poor academic performance, low levels of prosocial behavior, and elevated rates of anxiety and depression.”

Grych said these children often lack skills and popularity and react strongly to being teased by in turn acting out aggressively

toward others.

The documentary, “Bully,” directed by Lee Hirsch, was released March 30 in select theaters and will be released in all theaters Friday. The film is a call to end bullying in society and advocate for the awareness of bullying in schools and its effects. It follows five children over the course of a single school year. One family in the film lost their son to suicide after he was continually tormented at school.

Vincent Gray, mayor of Washington, D.C., announced Tuesday that he will implement a citywide plan to deal with bullying after

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Jobs: MU stresses networking in search non-profit, non-partisan research organization, declared the United States out of the recession in 2009, but it was not until this year that national hiring saw an increase.

“It is common to see unemployment improve after the economy (recovers),” Clark said.

Clark said he would not be surprised if hiring of new gradates increased as projected.

“Firms have been cutting costs and becoming leaner (during the recession) and the workforce is spread thin. Firms now need new workers,” Clark said.

Kristin Adler, employer relations manager of Marquette’s

Career Services Center, said the projected hiring increase is hopeful and heartening.

“It has not been motivating for students to search for jobs,” Adler said.

Adler said it could take six to nine months to find a job after college.

“You have to work for (a job),” Adler said. “Employers can be picky.”

She said one way to make yourself stand out is through internships and involvement on campus.

“I worry about the students who haven’t done anything but go to class,” Adler said.

Students should look for jobs in three ways, Adler said: job postings, targeting employers and networking.

“Eighty to 90 percent of your job search should be networking,” Adler said. She recommends using Marquette faculty and alumni as resources while searching for a job.

Marquette’s Career Services offers two one-credit courses through the College of Arts & Sciences to help students with career planning and decision making as well as job search strategies.

seeing the film. Gray plans to create a 14-member task force, a research report on bullying, a model policy and forums on bullying for D.C. agencies.

At a local level, Jill Weisensel, Marquette Department of Public Safety sergeant, helped develop the Marquette University Takes ACTION Bystander Intervention program. The program was developed in correlation with Marquette’s 2011 Sexual Violence Prevention training.

“In theory, (the program) encourages students to realize the many ways in which all people are similar rather than different and encourages students to create an environment in which bullying, harassment, or abusive behavior is not tolerated,” Weisensel said.

Weisensel said she believes the film will encourage dialogue surrounding the topic and the different perspectives people have.

“The documentary emphasizes the power that just one person can have if they stand up for someone,” Weisensel said. “Marquette takes pride in developing students and creating a community of ‘men and women for others.’ As a community, we believe in empathy and altruism, and to create empathy, people need perspective.”

Courtney Wesnofske, a graduate student in the College of

Education, said bullying must be addressed. She is currently obtaining her masters degree in school counseling and said she witnesses bullying on a daily basis at the high school in which she works.

Wesnofske said she believes cyberbullying, bullying via texting, email and social networking sites, is a serious issue for children. She said the speed at which information can travel helps create negative rumors.

“Think about it,” Wesnofske said. “The second you write something on a friend’s wall on Facebook, all 938 of your friends see it, plus all 1025 of her friends see it, and many others. You can tell thousands of people something in the time it takes to hit ‘post.’”

A recent bill passed by the Arizona House of Representatives seeks to derail this type of cyberbullying, making it illegal to post words or messages online that “annoy or offend.”

Grych said he does not see much of a point in the law because of its vagueness.

“It seems to me that prohibiting words that ‘annoy or offend’ leaves a lot of room for interpretation and would be difficult to enforce,” Grych said.

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A is worth a thousand words

Photo courtesy of Josh Arter

Marquette senior Josh Arter started a blog called Dear Marquette, based on an already existing Tumblr called Dear Photograph, to commemorate his graduation this upcoming May.

Visual storytelling pulls photos from the past

Novak’s blog, postmarq.tumblr.com, helps him “find Marquette in all things.”

After spending 24 years on We’ve all done it.

It’s the night before a giant test, campus as a former student and and you find yourself flipping current faculty member, Novak through an acquaintance’s study was looking to document his exabroad pictures on Facebook periences at Marquette. He wantinstead of opening a book. We ed to write but did not have the spend too much time procrasti- time for it, so he became interestnating on all of our various social ed in photography as a method of media platforms, and then com- communication. He chose Tumplain about how much time we blr because he liked the blog’s format. It allowed him to quickly just wasted. and efficiently But why do share his crewe take the “What caught my eye was betime to thoring able to see Marquette build ative, quirky and inspiraoughly “creep” tional takes on a potential history.” on life around new love interJosh Arter campus. est or watch Senior, College of Communication Tumblr has cat videos for allowed Novak hours on Youto engage and Tube?

We return to these sites be- help students in a more fun and cause they have become an outlet offbeat way. The social network to share our stories, especially draws a vibrant, creative and amusing crowd. through photography.

“I’ll go from login to laughter Within the past year, photo blogging websites such as Pinter- in one minute,” Novak said.

Novak said that it is important est and Tumblr and smart phone applications like Instagram have for a successful blogger to establish a specific voice. His blog is exploded in popularity.

Mykl Novak, Marquette’s Web an eclectic, lighthearted hodgeDevelopment Manager, prefers podge of everything blue and the multimedia blogging site gold. The website takes everyday Tumblr, which allows users to items — such as a Life cereal follow one another and share im- box, Monopoly cards and test ages, videos and text through “reSee Tumblr, page 11 blogging.”

By Liz McGovern

elizabeth.mcgovern@marquette.edu

Photos courtesy of Mykl Novak

Current professor and Marquette graduate Mykl Novak “finds Marquette in all things” through his personal Tumblr.

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answer sheets — and ties it back to Marquette.

Novak’s blog occasionally has a historical component. He shares pictures from his personal Marquette days and archived images from old Marquette yearbooks. The blog shows a timeline of girls wearing retro clothes and (gasp) smoking in Cobeen, McCormick Hall looking a little more dapper, and even Rev. John Naus, S.J., sporting a Turkey costume on Thanksgiving for all the students who could not go home for break. The blog is nothing short of nostalgic and sweet.

Josh Arter, a senior in the College of Communication, was also interested in Marquette’s history and wanted to do a project to commemorate his graduation.

He became inspired by dearphotograph.com. The website was created by two brothers who held up old childhood photographs against their locations in present day. The photos show time’s effect through the nostalgic concept of “then and now.”

The past summer, Arter went to Raynor’s Historic archives to look through old campus pictures. After sifting through thousands of photographs, he narrowed it down to 20 pictures for his project on dearmarquette. tumblr.com.

Arter walked around campus and took pictures of buildings while also holding up an old picture of the same location from several decades ago. He took a

picture of the St. Joan of Arc Chapel being moved to Marquette in the 1960s and compared it with the chapel today. He took a snapshot of O’Donnell Hall when it was a female residence hall with marble floors and wood panels, and set it against the backdrop of O’Donnell as men’s hall today.

“What caught my eye was being able to see Marquette build history,” Arter said. “There’s so much that goes behind the legacy of all presidents we’ve had here.”

Arter wants to continue the

“People want new ways to tell their stories with photos that shows their identity and what a place is all about.”

Tim Cigelske Marquette Communication Specialist

project by taking more “then and now” pictures of residence halls.

He thinks it would be funny to see how fashion, hair and the overall layout of the halls has changed.

The project has become a student and alumni favorite, gaining national recognition from professional photographers after a Marquette alumnus who works at the New York Times tweeted about Dear Marquette. Marquette is now encouraging alumni to submit their own pictures.

Novak said the biggest change he’s noticed at Marquette in the past 24 years (other than the fact that there’s better coffee now) is

the way Marquette shares information and tells stories.

“The pace of the information flow is changing,” Novak said.

“There’s an ambient and constant connection.”

Tim Cigelske, a Communication Specialist at Marquette, actively tracks social media trends.

He has noticed a huge rise in visual content in social media.

“People want new ways to tell their stories with photos that shows their identity and what a place is all about,” Cigelske said.

Pinterest, the digital website created to organize or “pin” different visual content, was created two years ago. However, the website has only become wildly successful within the past few months. According to The Huffington Post, the website hit 10 million monthly viewers faster than any other standalone site in U.S. history.

The same article points out that Pinterest is even gaining more attention than Facebook. The average Pinterest user spends 15.8 minutes “pinning,” versus Facebook’s average visit time of 12.1 minutes.

Pinterest makes it easy to give users exactly what they want. By creating specific “boards,” the site allows users to find specific niches and follow only what they want to, making it easy to avoid clutter. Cigelske said other social networks have yet to create such a specific “pick and choose” process.

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Nothing fake about Caffrey’s bouncer

Photo by Elise Krivit/elise.krivit@marquette.edu

Caffrey’s bouncer Nick Vanden Heuvel also moonlights as a comedian.

Vanden Heuvel takes IDs, serves up comedy bits

By Heather Ronaldson heather.ronaldson@marquette.edu

Photos courtesy of Josh Arter

Arter’s blog shows “then and now” photos of Olin Engineering (top) and the Alumni Memorial Union (bottom).

Fifteen minutes before his set at Comedy Café, Nick Vanden Heuvel scraps together Caffrey’s Pub receipts to organize his stand-up comedy routine.

He has thrown up at least three times from nerves but knows that supportive friends are in the audience waiting to cheer him on. With the announcement of his name, pronounced ‘Vandenhayvel,’ he hops on stage, grabs the microphone and for the next five minutes — rid of all stage fright — feels fully alive.

The 24-year-old Wauwatosa native is mostly known as “bouncer Nick” at Caffrey’s Pub, 717 N. 16th St., the campus bar he has worked at since he was 19. His beard, Brewers hat and blue-eyed look is almost expected at the front of the bar, where he sits next to the iChecked software and security camera. He passes the time sipping Rumple Minze and water on the rocks in a clear plastic cup (one that’s usually reserved for Monday night’s “Big Ass Beers”).

But “bouncer Nick” is far from the mean face he puts on for underage students trying to fool him with a fake ID. He is an energetic, unpredictable, good ol’ Wisconsin boy (as described by his Caffrey’s family) who has a heart for helping those in need.

Thanks to his close-knit biological family, he has a strong moral character and a knack for making people happy. How else do you explain his singing “My Heart Will Go On” with fellow bartender Mikey Daignault at last-call?

“Making people smile is my biggest high,” Vanden Heuvel said. “I’m only as happy as the saddest person in the room.”

Two minutes into his standup routine, the saddest person

in the room would be laughing hysterically at his spot-on Smeagol impression of a city bus driver.

Vanden Heuvel started doing comedy about three years ago. He performs every Saturday with “Bye Bye Liver,” the Milwaukee drinking play, at ComedySportz, 420 S. 1st St., in addition to his monthly gigs at Comedy Café, 615 E. Brady St. Soon he’ll finish The Second City’s 20-week improvisation and acting program in Chicago, and he’s considering applying for their conservatory.

As a sixth-grader, Vanden Heuvel moved from Wauwatosa to Erin, Wis. There he discovered his passion for entertaining people while participating in “solo humorous acting” forensics in middle school.

“That’s when I started to figure it out that being funny was a big goal of mine — to be in the spotlight, to entertain,” he said.

But he wouldn’t have to work too hard at it. Being funny has always come naturally to Vanden Heuvel, who grew up in a family where a sense of humor was a common trait.

“He’s like a kid stuck in a man’s body,” Brendan ‘Benny’ McCann, a senior in the College of Education, said of his best friend. “He runs life as a mature guy but has a childlike spirit.”

Maybe that’s why Vanden Heuvel was able to quote “Space Jam” word-for-word at McCann’s house after work at four o’clock in the morning. “Whenever he’s here (at Caffrey’s) and he’s not checking IDs, he’s dancing with people or making funny jokes,” McCann said.

“Build Me Up Buttercup” by The Foundations is the song that can really make him wiggle, said McCann, or anything Motown or by Marvin Gaye or Pretty Ricky.

“I am constantly a source of entertainment,” Vanden Heuvel said.

And for a man whose biggest fear is being average, it’s easy to understand why.

“If you’re not laughing, you’re not living,” Vanden Heuvel said.

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‘One Punch Homicide’ hits audience with truth

New documentary hopes to eliminate violence off-screen

By Matt Mueller matthew.mueller@marquette.edu

Photo Illustration by A. Martina Ibanez-Baldor /angela.ibanez-baldor@marquette.edu

In the recent action film, “The Raid: Redemption,” the film’s hero is punched, kicked, thrown through walls and tables, slashed, driven into the ground and shot at. It’s unflinchingly brutal, but in typical Hollywood fashion, he fights through the punches and the pain to defeat his enemies, wins the fight for his noble cause and, most importantly, entertains the throngs of testosterone-filled young men watching in theaters across the country.

But the movies are not reality.

While combatants in action movies can take punch after punch and keep fighting, many fights in the real world can end with just a single hit. And that one punch can end a life, put a person in prison and ruin the lives of families forever – not quite the ending we’re accustomed to.

Many films amp up the action to appeal to the audience, unaware of its consequences, but Madison resident Steve Kokette’s documentary “One Punch Homicide,” which will be showing at the Oriental Theatre on Thursday, April 19, focuses almost entirely on the tragic results of a fight.

“The thing that inspires me more than anything is thinking that ‘One Punch Homicide’ will help reduce the amount of violence there is,” Kokette said.

The documentary chronicles the real-life cases of homicides caused by a single punch. In order to tell the stories, Kokette interviewed several inmates who were

convicted of one-punch homicides, in addition to several people related to the victims of such crimes. Shots of about 30 victims’ gravestones are also interspersed throughout the film in conjunction with short antidotes about each incident.

The idea to make a documentary came to Kokette in 2008 after reading about a one-punch homicide in Madison.

“It made me, as you would think, feel sorry for the Sean Sanders, New Joshua Kati, Indiana nch One Pu victim and What: e York Inmate Inmate id the loved ones Homic Photos courtesy of Steve Kokette y, April of the victim,” The documentary features inmates, like the two above, who have been hursda T : n e Kokette said.

Wh . convicted of one-punch homicides and are now serving jail time. .m p 5 :1 “But I also felt 19 at 7 sorry for the only ones anx- put in the hospital or anything like will be told when the clip will be riental : The O e r guy who did the e h ious about that.” shown so they can choose to look W e hitting. He was interviewing Kokette also interviewed sev- away. The filmmaker, however, beTheatr 19 years old, and the inmates. eral of the victims’ families for the lieves that by showing the ugliness who thinks they’re $10 : Before his documentary. While some relatives and reality of fights and violence, t s o C going to kill somefirst prisoner declined to be in the film, others young people will realize the true body with one i n t e r v i e w, wanted to share their story and help effect of a punch. Kokette notes punch?”

K o k e t t e Kokette’s goal to reduce violence. that a similar technique is comLess than a week was ner- One of the parents of a killed Aus- monly found in anti-cigarette ads later, the filmmaker vous about the tralian boy even asked that the foot- and could be used to curb violence. read another article experience. As the interviews pro- age of his son’s one punch death “I participated in a study where about a one-punch homicide, gressed, however, Kokette’s fears be shown to the public in the film. they simply showed cigarette and the idea for a documentary were alleviated.

Kokette incorporated the video into smokers a really frightening film began to form in Kokette’s mind.

“They weren’t really intimidat- the film, but he admits he was hesi- of former cigarette smokers who After doing some research, he dis- ing or frightening or anything like tant. could only lay in bed and breathe,” covered that one-punch homicides that,” Kokette said. “In all five of “I thought more about that than Kokette said. “I don’t think I had a were much more common than he the interviews, the guys were like any other thing that was in the cigarette for two months after that, expected. someone you would meet any- work,” Kokette said. “There are so maybe we should be using those Kokette decided the issue needed where. There probably aren’t any those people out there who think types of tactics more often.” to be addressed in the hopes of halt- people more remorseful behind that we shouldn’t be showing So far, audiences seem to have ing violence. bars.” young people this kind of film.” taken well to Kokette’s film. In one The first step was interviewing The inmates’ stories also showed One of the big factors in show- showing, Kokette recalled a former the prisoners convicted of killing Kokette the tragic reality of their ing the footage was a research Marine, who admitted to throwing a person with one punch. In some crimes. These weren’t vicious kill- study Kokette found that said the the first punch several times in his cases, however, the states, includ- ers expecting to end a life. average American, by the time they life, vowed to refrain from throwing Wisconsin and Hawaii, refused “All five of them were stunned,” are 21-years old, has seen 200,000 ing the first punch ever again. to let the inmates talk about their Kokette said. “None of them deaths on film.

Testimonials like those from evcrimes to Kokette’s camera. thought that they would kill some“My feeling is that if kids are eryday people bring hope to Ko“Their feeling was that they did one. I believe all five of them had growing up seeing that many fake kette’s goal of showing the true, not want the interview to happen previous experiences where they deaths, it might be a wise thing often tragic impact a single punch because it might upset the victim’s had thrown first punches. One of to show one that’s real,” Kokette can have. families if they were to even see the them, Frank, said that he had been stated. video,” Kokette said. punching people since he was a The film’s website does note that The states were not the kid, and he had never even heard v i e w e r s of anybody getting

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Talk shows should be more than just fluff

Sarah Elms This week, I had an interesting assignment for my Race & Gender in Mass Media class with Dr. Ana Garner: Watch three hours of daytime network television, and analyze what you see. Since I am not usually at home during the day to watch TV, this was a relatively new experience for me.

The programming was what I expected: soap operas with over-thetop plotlines and mediocre acting,

court shows featuring no-nonsense one Asian American, Julie Chen, judges aggressively ordering people who all offer varying perspectives. to get their lives back on track, and Moreover, none of the women were talk shows discussing today’s hot sexualized by their dress or maketopics and trends. up, as is often the case with women It was difficult to take the soap on TV. operas and court shows seriously Unfortunately, my positive first because I knew impression they were intenstopped once the tionally exagger- Fair enough, people like their hosts dove into ated, but I was celebrity gossip, and maybe “The the content of the a little surprised Talk” didn’t want to delve into any show. by the content of hard-hitting topics right off the First up on the the talk shows. agenda bat. Alas, those sophisticated top- day’s I watched was a photo of CBS’s “The ics never made an appearance.

Kim Kardashian Talk” for the first walking home time, and, inifrom rumoredtially, I liked what I saw. The group boyfriend Kanye West’s house with of five female hosts is very diverse. a hickey on her neck. For the next There are two white women, Sara several minutes, the hosts discussed Gilbert and Sharon Osbourne, two whether the notion of a “walk of African American women, Aisha shame” still exists in 2012.

Tyler and Sheryl Underwood, and However, the main points I took

away from the discussion were, why would Kim Kardashian be walking home when she has a personal driver, and why wouldn’t she just cover the hickey with makeup since she is already wearing it on her face?

Fair enough, people like their celebrity gossip, and maybe “The Talk” didn’t want to delve into any hardhitting topics right off the bat. Alas, those sophisticated topics never made an appearance.

In an hour of programming, the group never once mentioned the economy, the GOP candidates, health care or even the price of gas.

I acknowledge the fact that the purpose of shows like “The Talk” may be to provide an escape from the stresses of daily life, but the featured topics do not have to be so limited.

The women discussed two viral

videos, one of “Dancing with the Stars” pro Mark Ballas and girlfriend Tiffany Dunn fighting over a scooter and a cigarette, and another of a restaurant patron who started a full-fledged brawl when she did not receive the entrée she ordered. The closest the hosts came to addressing an issue of any real social or political importance was answering the question, is there ever a license to cheat? After much debate, they all thankfully agreed there is not.

There is no doubt that all television programming is a form of entertainment, no matter what type of show it is, but shows like “The Talk” could easily be entertaining as well as intellectually stimulating. I wish they would give it a shot. sarah.elms@marquette.edu

Alabama Shakes’ first album gets listeners moving

Vocalist Howard’s strong voice carries band’s debut record

By Vanessa Harris vanessa.harris@marquette.edu

“Boys & Girls,” the first fulllength album from Alabama Shakes, is a supersonic blast of southern comfort and sex appeal in the form of bluesy electric guitar and a powerful female lead.

Hailing from Athens, Ala., Alabama Shakes has been playing together since 2009, and in the past year, the band has garnered a lot of buzz and anticipation for their recent release. “Boys & Girls” is a fusion of classic rock, Memphis blues, gospel and soul that simmers unbelievably through Brittany Howard’s vocals.

The southern twang hits hard on the first track and single, “Hold On.” A catchy guitar riff and the building intensity of Howard’s voice hooks you into the album before you’re even five minutes in. It’s almost like you’re transported to a juke joint as the album plays on.

Comparisons to The Black Keys, Kings of Leon and other bands with heavy blues and rock influences have already been made, but Alabama Shakes still manages to carve its own niche in rock and roll society. The album’s flexible arrangements and unique aesthetic helps to define the young band’s continuously developing sound. Alabama Shakes has so much potential because you can hear a variety of different elements in their music; it’s impossible for them to pigeonhole themselves as just a rock or blues band.

“Boys & Girls” evokes different sounds, yet still manages to be a fresh, new experience. Every track sounds live and bustles with energy, putting an emphasis on their small town roots. Occasionally, you can even hear an amp rumble in the background. It brings a sense of authenticity, something the music industry is often sorely lacking.

On the other hand, this live feel could possibly be the only downfall of the album. There are various performances online which sound better than some of the tracks on the album, but only because of the difficulty in capturing all of Alabama Shakes’ in-person oomph and presence on a studio recording.

The songwriting on “Boys & Girls” is solid and endearing. You might not have an epiphany while

listening, but the lyrics are relatable and relevant to everyday life and love. Sometimes, it feels like Howard could be singing about your own personal experiences.

At only 23, Howard’s raspy tone and texture puts so much emotion and passion in each song that it feels like she’s reaching out and touching your soul — or punching you in the gut. On the track “Heartbreaker,” Howard wails, “How was I supposed to know you was a heartbreaker,” over smashing cymbals and a haunting organ in a way that sounds so vulnerable and strong somehow simultaneously.

On ballads like “You Ain’t Alone” and “I Found You,” Howard roars confidently, shaking you from the top of your head to the soles of your feet, proving that she’s the glue that makes “Boys & Girls” a solid piece of work. The album’s strength lies in its ability to be playful and upbeat on tracks like “I Found You” and “Hang Loose,” but also to bring that sincere — and sometimes depressing — emotion that the blues is so well-known for.

“Boys & Girls” has a vibe that comes off effortless and natural. It has a sort of swampy soul groove which leaves you swaying your hips and bobbing your head. It’s a record that gets better with each listen.

Photo via Ato Records

Alabama Shakes’ much-anticipated first full-length album, “Boys & Girls,” was released Monday, April 9.

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The Marquette Tribune Editorial Board:

Kara Chiuchiarelli, Viewpoints Editor Tessa Fox, Editorial Writer Matthew Reddin, Editor-in-Chief Tori Dykes, Managing Editor Marissa Evans, News Editor Caroline Campbell, Closer Look Editor

Mike LoCicero, Sports Editor Sarah Elms, Marquee Editor Zachary Hubbard, Visual Content Editor Elise Krivit, Photo Editor

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Combat bullying another way

Thursday, April 12, 2012

TRIBUNE TRIBUTES MAKING EVERYONE’S DAY THAT MUCH BETTER

To: John Schneider... Go back to the 90s.

To: God ... Snow in April? Really??

To: Those involved with baseball everywhere ... Thanks for making sports worth watching again. At least until October.

To: Graham ... Thanks for the shout-out.

To: Michelle ... What did you guys do?!?

I’m still baffled.

To: Roommate ... I basically haven’t seen you since you came home from Easter Break at 6 a.m. I hope you are alive and well.

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Graduating isn’t time to stop dreaming – it’s time to start

Editorial Cartoon by Haley Fry/ haley.fry@marquette.edu

Loser, geek, four-eyes, fatty. Many children grew up either being called these names or labeling other people with them. The benefit our generation had is that once we went home, the name-calling and teasing stopped.

But the development of technology has changed things. Today’s children now return home from school only to be confronted with more bullying online.

Cyberbullying is clearly an issue, but we believe a recently passed Arizona state bill approaches the problem in a drastic and ineffective way. If the bill is signed into law, it could send people to jail for up to six months for saying anything that might “annoy or offend” someone else online.

The Internet is too vast to monitor every offensive thing said. Similarly, someone can easily disagree about an issue and “offend” someone without being a bully. We believe the flawed bill is unenforceable, inhibits First Amendment rights and will not resolve the problem.

For some cyberbullies, this increased supervision could discourage them from bullying. However, we at the Tribune believe that this law will not punish bullies, but rather just encourage them to not get caught. It’s very likely that these bullies will just find new methods of teasing.

Over half of adolescents and teens report being bullied online, and about the same number have engaged in cyberbullying, according to bullyingstaticstics.org. Similarly, more than 25 percent of adolescents say they have been bullied repeatedly through their cell phones or on the Internet. Even more startling, it is estimated that well over half of young people bullied do

not tell their parents about it.

Bullying, both online and in person, is clearly an issue worth discussion and prevention. However, hysteria won’t resolve anything. This Arizona bill goes from trying to prevent bullying to limiting people’s free speech – it is too extreme.

In this case, legislation will not change anything unless the culture changes first. Anti-bullying activists should look instead at examples of schools where progress is being made against bullying. New York City’s Harvey Milk High School, a transfer school designed for LGBT youth, and Milwaukee’s Alliance School offer safe educational environments for students who have been bullied elsewhere.

We recognize that institutions such as the Alliance School and Harvey Milk High are not realistic or applicable in all communities, but they do provide a model for what is working. Schools should study these establishments and implement tactics that work, such as emphasizing counseling and peer solidarity.

A key way to combat bullying is to refuse to be a passive bystander. We all know bullying is wrong, and if you witness it you should not just walk away silently. Bullying may not be particularly present in college, but a lot of us have younger siblings or cousins that are exposed to a bullying environment every day. Many of us will go on to be parents, and some of us will become teachers.

For the children of the future, we need to propose actual solutions to bullying, not just pat ourselves on the back for passing a bill that will likely solve nothing.

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giving. After years of planning and soul-searching, I can still only offer vague ideas to professors and relatives who ask about my post-grad plans.

The point isn’t to stop asking about the future. My bosses need to know what kind of work they’re prepping me for, just like my friends need to know Bridget Gamble where they can send my snail mail. My parents, most of all, deserve to know Over Easter break, the PGA Mas- what this outrageous investment of ters Tournament played nonstop in my theirs will amount to.

But when the nuts and bolts are stripped house, much to the dismay of my sister from the post-grad question, what’s left and I, who decided to boycott the event after the all-male country club denied to talk about? Should our dreams factor into our future plans, or are they strictIBM CEO Ginni Rometty a ly part of the membership because she is a cerebral colwoman. But when the entire Should our dreams factor into lege culture? family clustered around the At 21, I’ve TV after dinner on Sunday to our future plans, or are they accepted that watch Bubba Watson slip into strictly part of the cerebral my dreams his green champion’s jacket, college culture? make better we were more or less forced exercises for to pay attention. my imagiI’d heard the hot-headed nation than Texas native is a bit of a maverick amongst the rest of the PGA players. blueprints for my life. I’m more likely Watson, who has voiced concern over to be struck by lightning twice than run Augusta’s sexist rules, has no coach or the White House — I get it. But the experience in formal lessons, doesn’t process of dreaming is still valuable, own a suit and plays “Bubba Golf,” regardless of whether the dreams come which hinges on unorthodoxy and long true.

Dreams free us up for possibilities shots. In a recent interview, he revealed and give us much-needed footing. As that he’s always dreamed of earning a Masters championship, but “never writer Mary Schmich explains, “The made the (winning) putt” in his sub- larger dreams — to find expression, connection, meaning — are like sturdy conscious.

For an optimist, the possibility of suitcases. They get battered on the long failure can be just as compelling as the trip, but they don’t fall apart.”

Part of the pain of graduating is the chance of success. call to wake up from our dreams just as “If I have a swing,” Watson’s said, “I they were getting good. Senior year is have a shot.”

I admire that attitude, but college has when every aspect of academia comes made me too rigid to adopt it as my own. together and the possibilities seem infiI’ve committed myself to an all-or- nite. But we can’t get too excited. The nothing mindset: I can either pen award- real world, we’re reminded, has enough winning novels in Brooklyn post-grad- wishful thinkers.

No matter how beautiful our resumes, uation or bus tables at my hometown’s we’re not ready to be part of Ihop. Sucthe real world if we’re not excess has I can either pen award- cited about the absence of plans become a black- winning novels in Brooklyn post- and the possibility of failing. and-white graduation or bus tables at my Dreams will fall to the wayside, and not every “X” will mark the product of hometown’s Ihop. spot, but the point of dreaming an unvaryis to see a shot in every swing ing formuand have some faith in a planet la for me: teeming with pessimists. We work, try, sweat, work, bleed, cry, work, rinse, don’t have to aim for winning shots repeat. I’ve pointedly stopped talking or corner offices; maybe playing on about my dreams for fear of becoming courses where we don’t like the rules a stereotypical romanticizing humani- and someday rewriting them is enough.

Maybe a vision for the fairway is better ties major.

And to no avail. I still sound like a than a perfect final putt. dreamer compared to my classmates who’ve had jobs secured since Thanks-

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Jesuit ideals do impact real life people can feel social anxiety around them and how we have a campus brand of coffee called Jesuit Joe, I finally figured out my answer.

I said, “Mike, it boils down to this: If it weren’t for the Jesuit influence on the ideals at Marquette, I probably wouldn’t have picked up a hitchhiker last week.”

Let’s get two things straight: This happened over break, and it wasn’t a hitchhiker Ian Yakob by definition.

Having been in downtown Chicago that I was chatting with Mike, an old friend day, I endured quite a bit of soliciting, espewhom I hadn’t seen in four years, when cially from Greenpeace. On a side-note, if our conversation naturally turned to gradu- the guy who treated me as if my cell phone ation and our college journeys in general. was powered by Cadillac Escalades is readLet’s just say we were chewing the fat, ing this, I’m pretty sure I vanquished you cut-throat style. when I said you killed a tree for that sheet Actually, it was standard and pretty bor- of paper on your clipboard. He was aghast, ing. But then he asked but seriously, those about the Jesuit influence sidewalk pitchmen on my experience.

It boils down to this: If it weren’t need to stop assuming Of course, the first for the Jesuit influence on the ideals we’re all the worst ofthing I thought about was at Marquette, I probably wouldn’t fenders to their orgahaving two spring breaks nizations. thanks to Easter, but I have picked up a hitchhiker.

Anyway, back to the knew I shouldn’t whittle story that makes me it down to that. So I delook good. layed for a bit by talking So I make it back about how I don’t have too much contact to the parking lot, and before I fire up my with them other than the few Jesuits I had car (named Sonya by the way) I receive a had as professors. knock on my window. I’m thinking it’s anAfter stalling by talking about how some other solicitor.

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“Everybody goes through ups and downs. Every player does. We tried to put him in a position to succeed ... It didn’t work.”

- Dallas Maverick’s owner Mark Cuban on Lamar Odom’s departure

you have something in your teeth.

“If it can’t be you, these are precisely the people that you would want to see win the lottery.”

- Stephen Martino, director of the Maryland Lottery on “The Three Amigos” Mega Millions winners who have decided to remain anonymous

To my surprise it’s a distressed girl asking Marquette ideals. me if I have booster cables. After a relucIf they’ve slipped your mind, the four tant pause I say “yes” because I pillars are can’t lie.

Excellence, I set everything up since she’s The motto “be the difference” Faith, Service not familiar with jumping a car and Leaderbattery, and I of course know came full circle for me. It’s all about ship. Again, if exactly what I’m doing. Unfor- being the exception, not the rule. they’ve slipped tunately, the terminals on her your mind battery are so corroded that even don’t worry after scraping the Wisconsin because you Badger out of them, the most we can’t escape can do is get her lights to come on after 15 them. Nobody actively pursues them on a minutes. daily basis, but they find ways to sneak into We make casual conversation and I learn our lives. her name, to which I give the mental moniAbout 20 minutes into the drive, she exker, “The Hurricane.” I later learn she at- pressed a wish that the world worked like tends Northwestern, and that’s when the this for her regularly and that it’s a shame a Marquette inside of me came out. few maniacs out there ruin it for everyone.

“Well, where are you headed anyway?”

The Hurricane was right, and now the I ask. motto “be the difference” came full circle And that was it. I ended up driving her for me. It’s all about being the exception, to Kenosha on my way back to campus, not the rule. and her father, who works in Chicago, dealt I wish I had the wherewithal to quote the with the car later. part of the mission statement that says, “All Here’s why I attribute this to Marquette: this we pursue for the greater glory of God Had I already known where this girl and the common benefit of the human comwas going, I like to think I would’ve done munity.” the same thing out of sheer generosity.

Sadly I don’t have it memorized, so all I That’s not the point. The reality is there’s said in response was, “Yeah, this is weird.” a good chance the idea to ask where she was headed would never have entered ian.yakob@marquette.edu my mind if it weren’t for the influence of

“We made a decision over the weekend that, while this presidential race for us is over for me, and we will suspend our campaign today, we are not done fighting.”

- Rick Santorum

“That makes me so sad. I’m sorry, I can’t move on yet. I’m still in mourning. I don’t know that anyone else could bring it to life the way that he did.”

- Actress Jacqueline Emerson on director Gary Ross leaving production of The Hunger Games series

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women’s volleyball

MU prepares for last chance to improve Will face Iowa, Michigan State in first of five matches

By Michael Wottreng michael.wottreng@marquette.edu

Marquette volleyball closes out the spring season with a trip to Aurora, Ill. Saturday to participate in the Great Lakes Center 2012 Collegiate Tournament. The Golden Eagles will play five total games on

Saturday starting at 8:30 a.m.

“It will be a test of physical toughness as well as mental toughness,” coach Bond Shymansky said. “It’s a chance to test that endurance factor that goes into competing all day long and doing it at a high level.”

Teams will be split into three pools and the winner of each pool will be placed into the gold division to face other pool winners. The other teams will be placed into silver or bronze divisions.

Marquette was placed into pool C with a pair of Big Ten schools, Iowa and Michigan State. The Big Ten had three of the top eight teams at season’s end in 2011.

The tournament will be the Golden Eagles’ final chance to get game experience before the fall.

“We can see our strengths and we are polishing those and making those better,” junior middle hitter Danielle Carlson said. We are identifying the things that we really need to work on. If we

grow in our game in the spring, it will help us in the fall.”

Iowa hosted Marquette to start to the 2011 season in the Hawkeye Challenge, a match the Golden Eagles won 3-1.

Iowa was a young team last year and with only four upperclassmen on the roster, suffered a disappointing 11-19 record.

Michigan State is coming off of an NCAA Tournament appearance in 2011. The Spartans knocked off Arizona in the opening round before losing to the No. 1 overall seed

Photo courtesy of Marquette Images

Junior middle hitter Danielle Carlson is happy to see the team improving on its strengths but knows there is still work to be done this weekend.

Men’s Basketball

Stringing it all together Preseason retreat paid dividends for Golden Eagles

By Mark Strotman mark.strotman@marquette.edu

Like most college basketball teams, Marquette dealt with adversity this year.

Injuries, suspensions and a pair of losses heading into the NCAA Tournament tested the Golden Eagles’ will as much as any team in the nation.

But through every rough stretch Buzz Williams’ group perservered hanks to a piece of string.

Specifically, thanks to sacrificing for a piece of string.

The Marquette basketball players chose the team’s theme, “sacrifice for the string,” at a weekend-long preseason retreat held

by Williams and the rest of the coaching staff.

The team built chemistry by learning more about their teammates and, after choosing the theme, about what would be expected of them for the coming season.

Last fall, associate head coach Tony Benford called renowned sports psychologist Joseph Carr

to speak with the team during the “It’s a long season, and we go retreat. Carr had worked with ath- through a lot of highs and a lot of letes like LeBron James and Greg lows,” assistant coach Aki ColOden and had spoken with col- lins said. “So any time you’re lege teams in the past. going through those lows, we alDuring one of the sessions on ways talk about sacrificing for the the retreat, the team broke into string. And they understand. A lot groups to brainstorm possible of times they’ll say it to themphrases for the 2011 theme. Af- selves when they see things getter each group came up with their ting out of whack.” own ideas, they landed on sacriIt took the players a few days ficing for the string. to understand what sacrificing for “It’s about how everyone is in the string would accomplish later a tight-knitted family and every in the season, but the impact was time somebody drops the string, felt immediately. it’s not as tight as it can be,” “Within 24 to 48 hours, they freshman Derunderstood it,” rick Wilson “It’s about how everyone is in a Collins said. said. “You have tight-knitted family and every time “They were to help that per- somebody drops the string, it’s not as excited about son pick it up.” it and they did Each player tight as it can be.You have to help things on their took hold of an that person pick it up.” own to reinDerrick Wilson force some of actual piece of Freshman guard the things we string, one the team kept with had learned and them all year talked about long, and made a commitment in regards to sacrificing for the for the rest of the year to keep the string.” string as tight as possible.

The Golden Eagles were tested By holding the string, each in 2011, both with injuries to juplayer committed to make in- nior center Chris Otule and sophdividual sacrifices, overcome omore forward Davante Gardner, challenges and buy into what the and when four players, including coaching staff preached. Shirts three starters, were suspended for were made with two “S’s” tied together by a piece of string.

See Stringing, page 20

Texas in Austin. However, three of the top five Spartan players in sets played in 2011 were lost to graduation.

The lack of experience of Iowa and Michigan State will give Marquette a chance to continue to work on its blocking, Shymansky’s primary goal for the spring season.

“We are doing a lot of control drills and working on swing blocking in practice,” junior middle hitter Kelsay Mattai said. “We are focusing on the technique. In addition to game experience, we are taking time to focus on arm swing and footwork.”

Marquette averaged just over two blocks per set last season, good for 10th in the Big East.

In big matches last season, the Golden Eagles were overpowered on the front line.

A prime example came in the NCAA Tournament, when Marquette was able to muster three blocks in a loss to eventual national runner-up Illinois. The Fighting Illini dominated the net with 13.5 team blocks for the match.

Marquette may get a chance to avenge that loss this weekend with Illinois participating in the tournament. The rematch would not come until the division round, as the Fighting Illini play Wisconsin-Milwaukee to open play.

The competition on Saturday will be a big test for each team as they look forward to the summer. Shymansky values the chance to play other elite programs in the spring.

“Sometimes in the spring it’s about measuring yourself,” Shymansky said. “It’s not just how you think you are doing, but how do you stack up to other teams.”

Column

No need for oneand-done rule

Matt Trebby As I watched Kentucky win the national championship, I thought about how the NCAA talks about their student athletes going pro in something other than sports.

That may be the case most of the time, but for the best players in college basketball, it’s becoming very difficult to believe they are even student athletes.

We will never see Kentucky’s Anthony Davis, Michael KiddGilchrist or Terrence Jones again. Davis and Kidd-Gilchrist are “one-and-dones,” and while Jones stayed for two years, none of them ever planned on getting their college degree.

I don’t understand why the best high school players in the country even have to go to

college for one year. These kids are meant to play in the NBA for 15 to 20 years instead of in college for one.

The only league that should have an age limit is the NFL, as some high school kids could be seriously injured if they went pro early. Otherwise, if I’m the equivalent to Anthony Davis in a sport, I should be able to go pro whenever I want.

For me, it’s the same as someone who graduates from high school and joins the work force instead of going to college.

They don’t necessarily have to go to school to get a job. If they aren’t going to college, they probably have a profession in mind already.

If I am a high school player, and I know I am going to be a first round pick in the NBA draft, I would just want to go.

I am going to be a basketball player, so why should I have to go to college. Is there a class in college called “PRO 101” or “Intro to The Life of a Pro Athlete”? If there isn’t, I’ll just take See Rule, page 17

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the facts Franklin continued her dominant season with first place finishes in the 100 (12.43 seconds) and 200-meter dash (26.13 seconds) in the women’s team’s 100-90 win over Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Thursday. Franklin totaled 17 points for Marquette in all, with three points apiece coming from second place finishes in the 4x100 and 4x200-meter relay. Franklin also placed fifth in the long jump (13 feet, 10.5 inches), an event she hadn’t competed in since high school.

Women’s tennis

Foltinger getting along just fine in new home Freshman enjoys American lifestyle, passion for sports

By Trey Killian robert.killian@marquette.edu

With the Big East Championships kicking off next Thursday, the Marquette women’s tennis team will need all the depth it can muster to hang with the competition. Midway through the spring, the Golden Eagles got a boost to the bottom of their rotation with the arrival of freshman Vanessa Foltinger.

Hailing from Malaga, Spain, Foltinger joined Marquette after suffering from a chronic IT band injury that kept her away last fall and for a good portion of the spring season.

Foltinger said prestige in the classroom and the efforts of coach Jody Bronson attracted her to Marquette right off the bat, leading to an easy decision to join the Golden Ealgles.

“It was Jody (Bronson) who contacted me at first and told me about Marquette, and I was interested right away,” Foltinger said. “Academically it’s a great school, and I started bonding with Jody immediately through our conversations.”

While her daily schedule is similar to the one she had back home, Foltinger said she was intrigued with differences between American and Spanish lifestyle in health and sports.

“People here seem more motivated to wake up and go for a run, and it seems like a healthier lifestyle,” Foltinger said. “Here everyone is a lot more into sports, and you can’t compare the amount of passion for college sports here to Spain. Girls also are a lot more involved in sports here with the basketball and soccer teams.”

Marquette’s passionate fan base isn’t the only thing

she’s enjoyed about her new home, however.

“I love the convenient online shopping,” Foltinger said.

“Here they have everything and it’s all available within a few days or a few weeks.

It’s also a lot cheaper here compared to Spain.”

Foltinger started tennis at a young age and knew basically from the time she could pick up a racket that it would play a big part in her future.

“When I was five my parents played a lot,” Foltinger said.

“My uncle gave me his racket, and I took a swing with it. He

noticed that I knew how to hold it well and told my parents to put me in tennis school. I was always playing with the older groups, and I really enjoyed it so I started competing.”

Language has been a non-issue for Foltinger in her adaptation to American life as she attended British schools for most of her life. This quality sticks out to Bronson and has helped for a quick and easy transition.

“Usually language is the biggest barrier especially when you miss most of the orientation activities and stuff that gets you acclimated to the school,

but she’s done well academically and being bilingual has helped her fit right in,” Bronson said. “It’s been a really easy transition, and we have a good group of girls that have really taken care of her.”

As far as idols go, Foltinger had an odd choice given her home country.

“I really like Roger Federer.

He has a lot of style and has a great demeanor,” Foltinger said.

“There’ve been so many finals between Roger (Federer) and (Rafael) Nadal, and I’ve enjoyed all of them without having to really pick a side. When

Nadal wins it feels great for Spain, but I still like Roger a little more.”

Bronson said Foltinger still needs work in her doubles game but she expects her to be a strong presence off the bench in the Big East Championships.

“She’ll see playing time at the conference tournament,” Bronson said. “We only have seven players over four days of matches so if you have the luxury of sitting someone to let them rest it’s going to help you down the stretch.”

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Rule: Delaying kids’ futures

Photo Courtesy of Marquette Images

Freshman Vanessa Foltinger has played tennis since she was five years old.

my money.

Not only does the rule force some kids to not fulfill their dreams and play in the NBA, but it also greatly affects the college game and not in a good way. I thoroughly enjoy college basketball, don’t get that wrong, but I wish the game would go back to the way it was. Now, it is becoming too much like AAU basketball for my taste. A lot of these would be one-and-done players’ games aren’t meant for the college game.

They also make life difficult for college coaches. Do you recruit these probable one-anddone players? You want a longterm commitment to your team generally, and you want players that you can imagine being on campus for all four years.

Nowadays, though, if you get a player to stick around for three years, that is considered an accomplishment.

Luckily, here at Marquette, only one player has left early for the NBA in the past 10 years — Dwyane Wade. Fans have been lucky enough to get to know Golden Eagles players during their time at Marquette,

which is what college basketball is all about.

Kentucky fans would probably disagree with me on that, as they will take their national championship with their two, possibly three, one-and-done players. They really are the only team in the country that prides itself on building their strength on freshman every year. Otherwise, most schools do a pretty good job of finding kids who will stick around for three or maybe even all four years.

Many a superstar made the jump right from high school to the NBA, including the game’s two biggest stars in LeBron James and Kobe Bryant.

Those guys weren’t meant to play college basketball, the same as as a few of this year’s freshman stars. Some kids are just meant to play in the NBA, and there shouldn’t be any rule that says they have to wait to do so.

With the current rule, all David Stern is doing is forcing kids to do something they don’t want to, and delaying the fulfillment of their dreams. matthew.trebby@marquette.edu

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Senior’s legacy will be difficult to top

Jermier looks to have a leg up on the competition in ’12

By Michael LoCicero michael.locicero@marquette.edu

Barcelona’s Lionel Messi is the best soccer player on the planet right now, and the foot he kicks with may have something to do with it. It is rare to find a soccer player who is naturally left-footed. Former Marquette star defender Kerry McBride kicked lefty, but her strong leg was actually her right.

That’s why freshman midfielder Jacie Jermier could play a critical role in the Marquette women’s soccer team’s success next season.

Jermier’s ability to take free kicks and corner kicks from the right side with her left foot could be difficult for opponents to defend against.

“We can use my left foot as an advantage where I can cut in and have a shot from a different angle than teams are used to seeing,” Jermier said.

“I can swing a shot differently than most people.”

Jermier broke her fibula in August before last season started

and was forced to redshirt but deemed herself back at 100 percent and ready for the fall.

Junior midfielder Rachel Brown said Jermier needs to keep improving her consistency, but Brown thinks Jermier’s background as a cross-country runner in high school should help her conditioning.

“I think she has been coming back great,” Brown said. “Right when she came back, she struggled because she wasn’t in shape right away, but I think she’s been keeping up great.”

Jermier has made an impact on the pitch this spring, scoring a goal in the Golden Eagles’ 2-0 win against Northwestern on April 2. She also had an assist on freshman forward Shalese Miller’s goal in a 5-2 win over Loyola Illinois on March 26.

Coach Markus Roeders is impressed with Jermier’s performance this spring coming back from injury and said the freshman will be in the mix with everyone else for playing time in the fall.

“We have to give her a little bit of time despite having been around in the fall,” Roeders said.

“You still have to go through the day-to-day rigors of being out there and learning and being exposed.”

Jermier was a four-year letter

winner in high school at McFarland (Wis.). She led the team in assists as a sophomore and had the most goals on the team her junior year.

Like many of the Wisconsin natives on the Marquette roster, Jermier was a member of FC Milwaukee and was part of the team that won the Region II Championship in 2011.

Jermier has admitted to a bit of rust in her game after being out for several months and said the coaching staff has gotten on her a bit for sometimes letting her mind wander on the pitch.

“There was a corner kick the other day, and I had my back turned to the person who was taking the corner for probably a good eight seconds, which is something the coaches tell us never to do,” Jermier said.

“That’s something that I should know, but I’m learning still, and it won’t happen again.”

If Jermier is able to turn some of those learning experiences into fuel to get better, fans may see the freshman out on the pitch more than even she expects.

“I’m young still and I need to learn a lot,” Jermier said. “Everyone hopes to play a lot, but I wouldn’t expect to get a ton of minutes, but I think some will be there.”

O’Brien’s career sets the standard for present and future

By Chris Chavez christopher.chavez@marquette.edu

When senior Tyler O’Brien arrived on Marquette’s campus as a freshman in the fall of 2007, he looked to make a statement about his potential as a runner early on.

Five years later, O’Brien has cemented a legacy with his name atop of most Marquette sprinting records leaving big shoes to fill next winter.

O’Brien posted good times as a junior in high school, but it was not until his senior year that he expressed interest in coming to Marquette as a sprinter. His brother, Colin O’Brien, is two years older than Tyler, but they both ran the same events in high school and were teammates. Colin would go on to run for Syracuse, while Marquette landed Tyler for some friendly competition in the Big East within the family.

Coach Bert Rogers recalls O’Brien’s arrival and quick transformation into a leader with the guidance of a strong upperclassmen presence on the team.

“He established himself as a leader in terms of his performances right off the bat. His role on the team was this goofy little freshman that was really fast,” Rogers said. “Over his career, he’s really developed into one of the best leaders I’ve ever coached.”

The reputation of being fast was established when he stepped on the track at Notre Dame for his collegiate debut. O’Brien would run the fastest 60-meter dash (6.94 seconds) and 200-meter dash (21.98 seconds) in school history.

O’Brien credits the energy he was filled with as the main factor that led him to that strong time in the 60-meter dash, which he has not broken since. He believes his

break-out performance came near the end of his freshman year during the outdoor season.

“When I opened up my 200 at 21.5 seconds, I knew that this was going to be a good year for me,” O’Brien said. “I placed fourth at the conference championship that year. I didn’t expect to make it to regionals, but I ran the school record in the 200 at the time and qualified. That’s when I realized I made my noise in the Big East.”

It was during outdoor season last year that O’Brien ran a race that everyone on the team would remember. Fueled by anger after he did not make the finals for the 100-meter dash at the Big East Conference Championship, he took out his aggression in the 200 by running the second-fastest time that day, 21.05 seconds.

His consistently strong showings would earn him captain honors starting during the 2011-’12 indoor season. O’Brien would only get better and raise his mark in the 200-meter dash with a personal best of 21.87 seconds at the Blue and Gold Invitational to start the season.

One of O’Brien’s final goals for his career is to make it back to the NCAA Mid-East Regional. With just a few weeks left in the season, junior Kyle Winter is starting to realize the big void that O’Brien will leave behind for next year. “(O’Brien) is a huge part of our team. It’s going to be tough not having him,” Winter said. “A lot of people are going to have to step up and make their performances count and do well. We can do it.”

The recruiting class for the upcoming year has been finalized, and Rogers feels strong about the motivation that O’Brien provides for the recruits with his name all over the record books.

“I feel good about the legacy that (O’Brien) has set for those future recruits to look at the record books and hear stories about this little red-headed kid that was really fast,” Rogers said.

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Junior forward Rachel Brown (middle) thinks Jermier has progressed well coming back from a broken leg.

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Stringing: ‘Life and death’

a half against West Virginia.

Through every low and every time the string was dropped, someone else was there to pick it back up and keep it taut.

With a new theme every year, Collins said the coaching staff’s hope is that players take themes from previous years and build on it for the future.

“It’s something that one group can pass down to the next, and then when they get there, they can combine the two or three or four,” Collins said. “And it just becomes a way of life for those guys.”

The metaphor helped the Golden Eagles mentally, but there also was a direct effect on the court.

“If coach Buzz tells me to pick up 94-feet and my guy gets by me, I know my teammates are waiting in the back court to help me so I can recover,” junior guard Junior Cadougan said. “If Jae (Crowder)

misses a shot, he knows Jamil (Wilson) is going to be boxing out the guy on the weak side so Vander (Blue) or Todd (Mayo) can get the rebound. We’re just sacrificing for each other.”

A 27-win season, a Sweet 16 appearance, two All-Americans and the Big East Player of the Year proved Marquette’s talent in 2011. But sophomore forward Jamil Wilson said none of it would have been possible without all 12 players buying into what sacrificing for the string meant to the team.

“The string is our team, and if someone lets down part of the string, our team is out of whack,” Wilson said. “It’s our life and death basically. It’s how we survive. If you hold your part of the string, we succeed or we don’t.”

Photo by A. Martina Ibanez-Baldor/angela.ibanez-baldor@marquette.edu

Junior guard Junior Cadougan said the string had real implications on the court.

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Men’s Basketball

Riebau learning life lessons Autry says manager plays a vital role to the team’s success

By Alex Busbee SMI Reporter, Special to the Tribune

In the bright lights of March Madness, the stars of the Marquette basketball team were on display. You know Darius Johnson-Odom, and you know Jae, but you probably don’t know Kal. Kal Riebau may not be the one dunking at the Bradley Center, but don’t underestimate his importance. Riebau is a manager, and the manager’s role is critical, as assistant coach Brad Autry knows well.

“Kal is a vital part of what we do, and he receives the same amount of respect and admiration as any of our other guys do,” Autry said.

Riebau was born with a partial left arm. As a child, he wore a prosthetic arm, but hated it so much he attempted to flush it down the toilet. He has to work harder to learn new skills, but it doesn’t interfere with his managing duties or daily life.

Managers do laundry, study film and do everything in between. They attend practices and even fly with the team to away games.

“We do a lot of individual workouts with the players, helping them get shots up or rebounding for them,” Riebau said. “It’s a lot of hard work, but it’s a lot of fun. We basically make sure everything functions the way it should and leave the rest up to the team.”

An Appleton native, Riebau played baseball until his senior year of high school, when he tried out for basketball instead. He devoted his summer to improving his game, spending hours in the gym every day.

He went on to make the team.

Although Riebau rarely played, Eric Eastman, Appleton North High School coach, saw Riebau’s contribution.

“He’s one of the best leaders I’ve ever coached,” Eastman said. “Not only can he get things

done, he can get other people to get things done too. You know he’s going to be working just as hard as you are, so you want to be right next to Kal because you know he’s going to be successful in whatever he does.”

After high school, Riebau applied to be a manager, landing the job his freshmen year and has been working there ever since.

“I realized that I loved the game of basketball after my senior year,” Riebau said. “I wanted to be a part of the game, whether that be coaching or doing something like this managing job. I just want to be around it because I love it.”

Buzz Williams and the rest of the coaching staff has taught Riebau much about the game of basketball, and he dreams of one day becoming a college coach. But they taught something else too. “(The coaches) talk a lot about basketball and strategies

and all the stuff that comes with the game,” Riebau said. “But just as often they talk about being the best person you can be.

Learning that stuff, you can’t put a price on that. You’re not going to get that at a coaching school.”

Riebau’s mom, Kara Riebau, has noticed the effect the basketball program has had on her son.

“I’m so proud of him, and I can see how happy he is,” Kara said. “What the basketball program has done for him — it has helped him grow up and meet a lot of interesting people and see a lot of interesting places.”

Kal has enjoyed his time as a manager so far, and is looking forward to his next two seasons.

“I really feel like I am a part of the program, and it’s a great feeling to have.”

Go online at marquettetribune.org to learn more about Kal and his life as a basketball manager.

For those of you not familiar with the goings-on of the Mexican soccer league Federacion Mexicana de Futbol — watch as all but three people on Marquette’s campus raise their hand — you should know that Club Santos Laguna is killing it right about now.

Los Guerreros sit in first place in the table at the moment and have thrashed back-to-back MLS opponents Seattle and Toronto to earn a spot in the CONCACAF Champions League final.

As Mugatu would say, they’re so hot right now.

Some would say, a bit too “hot.” Panamanian defender Felipe Baloy was just about to go to his gate at the airport when he stopped at the convenience store for some in-flight reading mate-

rial. On his way out, a cute boy no older than three and dressed in a full Santos uniform asked to have his picture taken with him.

Being a standup gentleman, Baloy kindly obliged and gave the young fan a memory he will never forget — and never live down. You see Baloy’s reading material, clearly visible in the picture, was none other than a Playboy magazine. The store’s transparent bag showed the world the player’s sophisticated choice in literary content and ensured he will be the laughing stock of the locker room for the next five years.

Don’t be too hard on the guy, though, I’m sure he reads it for the articles. andrei.greska@marquette.edu

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