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LEFT BEHIND SLAMMING THE DOOR Private investigator Robert Penny walked up to the porch of a white Florida home.

He knocked on the door. Shortly after, Penny found himself looking in the face of a stocky man with light brown hair.

The man, the Rev. Francis Landwermeyer, S.J., flashed a smile.

“I told him who I was and why I was there,” Penny said in a recent interview. “He stopped smiling pretty quick and slammed the door in my face.”

The slammed door stayed shut.

It was early summer 1978. Con-

By Matthew Martinez matthew.martinez@marquette.edu

versations with Milwaukee-area priests had led Penny to the doorstep. He was connected through a local law office to investigate Landwermeyer’s ties to former student Walter Spence’s death by suicide that April.

Melvin Spence, Walter’s father, found himself enlisting help from the private investigator after an inquest into his son’s death ended without vindication.

Melvin was running out of options, and Penny expressed interest in the case.

The inquest was ordered by the district attorney’s office nearly

a month after Walter’s death, in May 1978. It was intended to look into the cause of the death and whether it involved foul play, former district attorney Edward Michael McCann said in a recent interview.

McCann said the inquest would determine whether the district attorney’s office needed to open a formal investigation into the death.

“It was a sad case,” McCann said. “As a father myself, I felt horrible for (Melvin).”

McCann ordered the cause-ofdeath inquest out of compassion

for Melvin, he said.

Once it was clear to Melvin that Walter’s death was not caused by a push out the window, Melvin believed someone from the university pressured his son to take his own life. He wanted Landwermeyer on the stand.

“The father felt that pressure placed upon the deceased by someone at the university caused the deceased to take his life,” then-Deputy Medical Examiner Warren Hill stated in the medical report. “The father, however, did not feel, or have any evidence, to show, or prove, that pressure

placed upon the deceased by the someone … was done so with the intent to cause the deceased to take his life.”

No member of the district attorney’s office was present during Landwermeyer’s questioning in court. Hill and McCann both acknowledged this was highly unusual. Hill noted in the inquest that the district attorney’s office was short-staffed at the time.

There were, however, members of Marquette’s legal staff present.

Walter’s brother Jeffery Spence See LEFT BEHIND page 2

Manjee, Brophy win MUSG spring election Ticket received about 68 percent of vote out of 2,216

By Bryan Geenen

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Sara Manjee, a junior in the College of Business Administration, and Dan Brophy, a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences, won the Marquette University Student Govern-

lations, Meredith Gillespie, senior in the College of Arts & Sciences and current MUSG president, said.

“We’ve been able to do this because of all the support,” Brophy said. “We were able to win because of the people around us who supported us and the people who were willing to do this with us. That’s what mattered the most.”

Manjee said she is excited to move forward by continuing to meet people and make connections.

“I’m most excited to keep connecting with people,” Manjee said.

“These past two weeks, I heard a lot of stories and walked in the shoes of a lot of people. I’m excited and nervous and humbled to do that for another year.”

Manjee is currently the outreach vice president for MUSG, and Brophy is the legislative vice president.

On the other running ticket for

ment election March 29 in the Alumni Memorial Union. Manjee will be MUSG’s next president, while Brophy will be the next executive vice president.

The ticket received about 68 percent of the votes. There were 2,216 votes cast March 28, according to MUSG final results.

The results were announced at 5 p.m. in the Alumni Memorial Union after being postponed due to appeals proceedings regarding election vio-

Dan Brophy (left) and Sara Manjee will serve as president and EVP.

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LEFT BEHIND: Family left with questions Continued from page 1 remembered feeling that the university had “a lot of weight” in the courtroom. He said there were at least three attorneys present on behalf of the university.

“The room was loaded up with people, but the only ones there for my family was just the three of us,” Jeffery said, referring to himself, Melvin and his mother.

Hill went on to interview people with potential connections to Walter’s death. He said he reported his findings, including the transcription of the inquest, to McCann.

Over the course of the inquest, two people were subpoenaed and interviewed by Hill: one was Milwaukee Police Department Detective Steven Gnas, who reviewed Walter’s death, and the other was Landwermeyer, who was questioned at the request of the Spence family. Landwermeyer was still residing at the Jesuit residence on Marquette’s campus.

During Landwermeyer’s testimony, the former Marquette adviser said under oath that he altered Walter’s suicide note, removed personal effects from Walter’s residence hall room and physically disciplined Walter before his death on more than one occasion.

Hill, who acted as an intermediary between the Spence family and Landwermeyer, recalled that a member of the Spence family instructed him to ask Landwermeyer about physical discipline they believed Walter endured at the hands of the Jesuit. It gave Hill pause.

“I thought it was strange,” Hill said. “It seemed like this was the best way for them to get an answer about (the physical discipline).”

Before asking Landwermeyer about the physical discipline, Hill said in court he did not think it was “pertinent to the investigation.” He also told Landwermeyer that he did not have to answer the question.

“I asked the question, so I must have thought it was relevant enough at the time,” Hill said. “If I didn’t think it was relevant, I wouldn’t have asked it.”

McCann did not recall the specifics of this case, but he said the altered note was a breach of protocol.

“It shouldn’t be done,” McCann said. “You should not muck with an investigation.”

McCann said he would take into account the intent of the person altering a suicide note. In what he believed very strongly to be a suicide, McCann said altering the note to make the pain easier on the father would have been something he might have allowed.

Hill’s ultimate verdict was that the death was a suicide. The ver-

dict stated that Walter died by suicide “unassisted.”

“It appears that Walter Spence was upset over his inability to live up to his father’s expectations,” Hill said in the inquest. “It is evident to this Examiner that the deceased, with his inhibitions partially removed by alcohol, and in an effort to escape the aboveindicated situations … took his own life, and that no other person, or persons, unlawfully took, or conspired to take, his life.”

That was enough to close the case. No further investigation was ordered by the district attorney’s office into any of Landwermeyer’s activities.

“Looking back, I might have done some things differently,” Hill said in a recent interview.

“If it was 1990, we probably would have investigated it a little bit more. But the situation was different.”

The decision stood. Landwermeyer walked away.

“There was absolutely no evidence to support that he was thrown out the window,” McCann said. “This was a suicide. There was no foul play involved.”

The inquest ended with fewer witness testimonies than originally intended. Three Marquette students were supposed to be questioned.

Walter’s girlfriend Joanne Blake, his best friend Brian Gosizk and his roommate Patrick McMullen had already returned home for the summer and were unable to return to Milwaukee.

“There were so many people (Walter) came across (around the time he died), and the only person who made it to the stand was Father Landwermeyer,” Jeffery said.

The students were ultimately questioned Sept. 26, 1978 in another inquest at the beginning of the next academic year.

The Medical Examiner’s Office said it does not hold a copy of this inquest.

Melvin was devastated by the initial inquest’s verdict. He felt there were stones left unturned.

“They just kind of, like, held this meeting and then just put it to bed, and that was the end of it,” Jeffery said. “There wasn’t anything you could do.”

An autopsy report is missing from the medical examiner’s report about Walter’s death, and a spokesperson from the Medical Examiner’s Office said it appears an autopsy was never ordered on Walter’s body.

Hill said this would have been highly unusual, but not impossible. In the 1970s, Hill said some disagreements occurred between Milwaukee County officials and the Medical Examiner’s Office about coverage for legal fees if coroners were to make mistakes that resulted in legal action by family members of deceased

individuals.

Since legal fee coverage was not guaranteed for coroners, the amount of autopsies they were willing to perform decreased until the mid-1980s, when Hill said better legal coverage was granted.

Without the coverage, coroners could be taken to court without assistance from the county if an error occurred during an autopsy.

An autopsy could also be canceled by family members of the deceased if they were satisfied with the conclusion of death,

Photo by Claire Gallagher claire.gallagher@marquette.edu

Robert Penny is a former private investigator in Milwaukee.

Hill said.

Jeffery said he does not remember exactly how his parents felt about the performance of an autopsy on Walter’s body, but Melvin discussed exhuming his son’s body for further testing years later. Jeffery said this indicated that his father was not content with the findings of the Medical Examiner’s Office.

When the Spence family was allowed to view Walter’s body in their home state of Connecticut, Jeffery said there was a large thoracic incision in the center of Walter’s body that indicated some sort of examination.

The quick, open-and-shut inquest, the lack of an official autopsy and the absence of student testimonies made Melvin suspect that something was being covered up.

But after Penny’s doorstep confrontation with Landwermeyer, there was little the private investigator could do to answer lingering questions in the Spence family.

“I was far out of my jurisdiction (of Wisconsin),” Penny said.

Penny said he could have made “intense effort” to set something up with local authorities, but he believed by the time it was established, Landwermeyer would have relocated again.

There was a lack of concrete evidence that Landwermeyer was connected to Walter’s death, Penny said, which prevented the private investigator from pursuing further legal action against him.

At the end of his investigation, Penny gave Melvin a full report of everything he gathered: conversation transcripts, documents and eventually, information about the final confrontation with Land-

wermeyer. Melvin and Penny were the only ones to have full copies of the report. Penny said he no longer possesses his, and Melvin is now deceased.

Craig Heiting, the Marquette Tribune reporter who covered the events at the time, said he does not recall Marquette imposing consequences on Landwermeyer after the inquest revealed physical discipline.

Heiting dispelled the idea that physical discipline at the university was commonplace at the time. He said he did not experience physical discipline as a student at the university around the time of Walter’s death.

“I can tell you I was at Marquette for years, and I loved most of it,” Heiting said in a recent interview. “Nobody ever physically touched me. Nobody hit me, nobody tried to (discipline) me … to think that (Landwermeyer) could say that in an inquest hearing and he was still at the university was very distressing.”

Laura Dudley, who was a sophomore at Marquette in 1978 studying business, recalled that she was shocked when she heard Walter had been physically disciplined by Landwermeyer.

“I don’t even remember who my adviser was,” Dudley said in a recent interview. “I have no idea how (Walter and Landwermeyer) could have even developed that close of a relationship.”

It is currently unclear whether Landwermeyer faced disciplinary action by Marquette for his use of physical discipline.

University spokesperson Chris Stolarski said Marquette is not aware of any sexual abuse allegations against Landwermeyer stemming from his time at the university, nor is the U.S. Central and Southern Jesuit Province.

“Marquette does not tolerate any form of abuse or violence against minors or adults, and we have strict policies in place both to report and to adjudicate any instances of suspected mistreatment or harassment of any member of our community,” Stolarski said in an email.

Heiting said he was nudged by former university administration

officials to stop writing stories on the subject while he was a reporter for the Marquette Tribune.

Heiting recalled that he was talked to by then-executive vice president Quentin Quade about discontinuing the stories before anything was published, citing concern for the Spence family.

“I was encouraged not to write more stories, so most of (my coverage) did not get printed,” Heiting said.

After Heiting had his first story published, he said then-dean of the College of Communication James Scotton called Heiting into his office to congratulate him on a well-written story, but urged him to pursue a new series.

“I was a little worried because I had grants and loans and scholarships to go to Marquette and I didn’t want to jeopardize that,” Heiting said.

Stolarski said the university urges anyone who experienced abuse as a minor to report it to the proper authorities.

“If anyone at Marquette was harmed by Landwermeyer while he was assigned to campus in the 1970s, we express our deepest sorrow and our unyielding commitment that behavior of that nature would never be tolerated today,” Stolarski said in an email.

The former Marquette adviser would become a principal at Jesuit High School in Tampa, Florida. He faces at least one credible sexual abuse allegation from a former student there.

Unsatisfied with the findings of the inquest, Melvin would go on to take matters into his own hands to investigate his son’s death.

He would attempt to open the door Landwermeyer slammed.

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? In next week’s issue of the Marquette Tribune, learn about allegations against Landwermeyer stemming from his assignments as a member of the Society of Jesus.

Clara Janzen contributed to parts one and two of this series.

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MUSG: TEDx hosts ‘Rooted’ event bridge gap Moving Speakers between Marquette, forward broader community Continued from page 1

MUSG president and executive vice president was Peter Feider, a senior in the College of Engineering who is in a five-year program, and Faezh Dalieh, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences who is also in a five-year program. Feider was running for president and Dalieh for executive vice president. The ticket received about 22 percent of the votes.

Brophy talked of the past two weeks and how his and Manjee’s visits with student clubs and organizations helped the ticket along the election path.

“Every time over the past two weeks when we were smiling instead of feeling stressed was when we were at student organization meetings, talking with students,” Brophy said. “We got to talk about Marquette’s problems and its strengths and why this is home for so many people. That’s what we are most excited about in the upcoming weeks.”

There were three MUSG Senate races in which candidates ran unopposed. Andrew Braatz, a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences, Ethan Bowers, a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences, and Leon Mason, a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences, will serve as College of Arts & Sciences senators.

Henry Yang will serve as College of Business Administration senator. Alexander Burbach, a senior in the College of Health Sciences, will serve as College of Health Sciences senator.

Hannah Mauch, a junior in the College of Education, won for RHA executive vice president. Miracle Joy Faller, a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences, won as RHA president.

The three finalists for senior speaker include Jacob Zelinski, Margaret Cannon and Jennifer Fisher, all seniors in the College of Communication.

By Alex Garner

alexandra.garner@marquette.edu

Marquette University hosted its first annual TEDx event, “Rooted,” March 30 at 6:30 p.m. in Sensenbrenner Hall.

The event was hosted in partnership with Marquette University Student Government, the Graduate School of Management and the 707 Hub. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience with speakers that spark discussion and connection, according to its website.

“TEDx is about sharing ideas,” Parker Dow, junior in the College of Engineering and co-founder and student advisor of TEDxMarquetteU, Dow said.

Dow said TEDxMarquetteU wanted to help bridge ideas between Marquette and Milwaukee.

TEDxMarquetteU is studentrun. They hosted a TEDx-styled speaker series last academic year, which inspired the members to expand and organize a full-length TEDx event.

Kyle Hagge, a graduate student in the College of Arts & Sciences, said the theme of the event, “Rooted,” was selected because a lot of individuals are establish themselves in Milwaukee.

“A lot of people call Milwaukee home,” Hagge said. “We wanted to see how we could help students at Marquette, some who have only been here for eight months, call Milwaukee home.”

Hagge said they also wanted to bring attention to issues in Milwaukee.

The event opened with Joe Sweeney, author of The New York Times best seller “Networking is a Contact Sport” and former

sports agent. Griselda Aldrete, president and CEO of Hispanic Professionals of Greater Milwaukee and Paige Peters, engineer and CEO and founder of Rapid Radicals Technology, a Milwaukee based organization working on sanitation technology for wastewater also spoke at the event.

Sweeney focused on the question of how we can connect deeper with one another. He said the best connectors understand the importance of belonging, loving, meaning and significance.

“They know it’s about giving, not taking,” Sweeney said.

“It’s not about you, it’s about serving others.”

Aldrete spoke about how mentoring has impacted her life and how she mentors Hispanic community members in Milwaukee.

“My main goal is to break ceilings to give opportunities to Hispanic constituents,” Aldrete said, adding that she wants to make sure people feel empowered.

Peters spoke about the importance of finding a passion and working toward that passion, which includes building a skill set and guiding your life and time toward that passion.

MUPD responded to Cobeen Hall at 11:26 p.m. for a report of an MU student behaving erratically. MFD was contacted and Bell Ambulance transported the student to the Aurora Sinai Medical Center for evaluation and treatment. A second MU student was cited for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

MARCH 29 A non-MU victim was

pronounced deceased at 9:21 a.m. under suspicious circumstances in the 600 block of N. 19th Street. An MUPD investigation led to the identification, apprehension and arrest of the suspect. MPD is the primary agency on the investigation.

Unknown subject(s) damaged the victim’s secured and unattended vehicle and removed property in the 800 block of N. 22nd Street.

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For Peters, water became her passion. She has collaborated with the R&D Chair for Global Water Stewardship and the Madison Area Professional Chapter of Engineers Without Borders.

“It’s human, social and public,” Peters said. “It connects us all.”

The event closed with Anna Oakes, founder and CEO of We Restore Humanity, where she coaches entrepreneurs and leaders. Bria Smith, a youth activist and president of the Milwaukee Youth Council, also spoke at the event.

Oakes talked about being an impact entrepreneur and evolving the mindset about work. She said evolving in the mindset will increase fulfillment in how people spend their time.

Smith spoke about the importance of activism and the necessity for people to become uncomfortable knowing and listening to issues happening around them.

“Young people need to be in activism because our lives depend on it,” Smith said. “It’s our duty to win. It’s our duty to fight for our freedom. We must love and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.”

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EVENTS CALENDAR APRIL 2 Career Topics Forum: Social Sciences AMU 163 5-6:30 p.m.

APRIL 3 Humanities Research Colloquium Marquette Hall 105 4-5:30 p.m.

APRIL 4 4th Annual Dreamers Gala AMU Ballrooms 5-8 p.m.

Panel on Human Trafficking Cudahy 001 7-8 p.m.

APRIL 6 Pride Prom 2019 AMU Ballrooms 7 p.m.- 12 a.m.

APRIL 7 Symphonic Band Spring Concert Varsity Theatre 2-3:30 p.m.

CORRECTION The original “Slamming the door” story included information about lawyer Alan Eisenberg, and it claimed that he assigned private investigator Robert Penny to Walter Spence’s case. In fact, Eisenberg did not assign Penny to the case and had no direct role in it. The story was updated to reflect this change. The Tribune regrets this error.

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Annual St. Baldrick’s day event raises money Evans Scholars house hosts in honor of alumnus

By Molly Glowacki

molly.glowacki@marquette.edu

Marquette University Evans Scholars students hosted their biggest philanthropy event, the St. Baldrick’s event, March 30 in the Evans Scholars House to support childhood cancer research.

Evans Scholars and other Marquette students and staff showed their support by shaving their heads or cutting off eight inches or more of their hair.

Joanna Hernandez, a senior in the College of Education and Evans Scholar, said 28 people signed up to shave their heads for the event.

But students and faculty could sign up during the event if they were inspired to shave their own hair.

Yaitzell Noriega, a sophomore in the College of Health Sciences and Evans Scholar, helped organize the event for the first time.

“It’s for a great cause that I wanted to be a part of,” Noriega said.

The Evans Scholars at Marquette have been running this event and raising money for the nonprofit St.

Baldrick’s Foundation for 11 years.

During these years, the event has raised more than $100,000. This year, the Evans Scholars’ goal was to raise $15,000.

On the day of the event, the Evans Scholars House was decorated with green balloons, posters and streamers. Students sold raffle tickets to raise money to reach their goal.

Noriega said the Marquette Evans Scholars raised between $10,000 to $12,000 through raffle tickets and donations for St. Baldrick’s, and more donations flowed in during the event as well to help them reach their goal of $15,000 for the year.

According to the St. Baldrick’s Foundation website, every two minutes a child is diagnosed with cancer. About 300,000 children are diagnosed worldwide each year.

St. Baldrick’s specifically focuses on children due to the many different types of childhood cancers, making it difficult to find cures for every child.

The Evans Scholars at Marquette started hosting the St. Baldrick’s event in dedication to Devlin Gray, who graduated from the university in 2012.

Gray was diagnosed with acute

myeloid leukemia at 11 months old, according to the Western Golf Association Evans Scholar Foundation’s website. He was in remission, but when he was four years old, he relapsed and was diagnosed with a leukemic brain tumor. Since Gray’s recovery from the tumor, he attended Marquette and supported St. Baldrick’s wearing a leprechaun outfit each March to raise awareness about the foundation.

Andrea Coria, a freshman in the College of Arts & Sciences and an Evans Scholar said she didn’t know childhood cancer research was underfunded.

Four percent of United States federal funding is solely dedicated to childhood cancer research because there is a greater focus on adult cancer, according to the St. Baldrick’s website Hernandez has been a part of planning and organizing the event for each of her four years at Marquette, and she said that many people who participate in the event return every year. “(The event is) making a difference and helping children,” Hernandez said. “And it’s great seeing so many people involved.”

Xavier Cole, vice president of student affairs, attended the event

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Students and community members shave or cut their hair at the event.

and shaved his hair, which he said he has done for three years because it benefits eradicating the cancer.

Cole said the Evans Scholars have done “a wonderful job at promotion and fundraising. … I feel that the students have made an impact every year.”

Charla Replogle, a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences, said she shaved her hair because the event is a “really good cause, and honestly, it’s just hair. It’s a fun thing to do, and it feels nice to be bald.”

Marquette students share thoughts on recent college scandal involving well-known figures Admissions process involves qualitative, quantitative factors

By Margaret Cahill

margaret.cahill@marquette.edu

When Wil Marino, a sophomore in the College of Engineering, heard about the college admission scandals that included highprofile celebrities, he said he felt upset and that the scandal still bothers him.

Stars like Lori Loughlin, known for her role as Aunt Becky from “Full House”, and Felicity Huffman from her acclaimed role in “Desperate Housewives”, were among other high-profile celebrities who were charged with accounts of bribery and fraud to influence college acceptance decisions by U.S. federal prosecutors March 12.

The New York Times reported that the 11 universities involved in the scandal included Yale, Stanford, Harvard, University of Southern California, Georgetown, Northwestern, University of California—Berkeley, University of California—Los Angeles, University of Southern California, University of San Diego, University of Texas at Austin and Wake Forest University.

“Hearing about bribery in ad-

missions for college is upsetting, because I believe that all colleges should be merit and academicbased when selecting students,” Marino said. “Imagine if a school only took students for their parents’ ability to donate or their national recognition or fame. That would leave those whose parents work hard for their student’s education and students who are geniuses and who worked very hard in high school out of options if they only applied to that school.”

Other students, like Devin McCowan, a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences, said it doesn’t bother him as much as long as students can keep up once they actually attend the college.

“I’m personally like, ‘Okay, you cheated your way but now we’re both here so let’s see how you do in the classes,’” McCowan said.

“But for a lot of people, they feel that their work should be valued.

And I think that’s an American thing, too. We value independence and we value hard work. So if you didn’t work hard and you didn’t do it yourself, you aren’t following the American ideal.”

McCowan said he finds it interesting that this scandal arose in the midst of conversations about Affirmative Action and college admissions.

“There’s just the fact that there

is this way to get into college if you have money, but when you’re trying to get into college and you don’t have money, but you’re historically discriminated against and you’re trying to get that affirmative action, it can be an equalizing force in a lot of ways,” McCowan said. “But (affirmative action) gets called into question all the time, but stuff like (this scandal) doesn’t always.”

Parents like Loughlin and her husband and fashion designer Mossiomo Giannulli used large sums of money to convince athletic recruiters to recruit their daughters to the University of Southern California. The daughters had never been on an athletic team at USC. Huffman used her fame to bribe standardized test proctors in order for her children to receive the accepted scores.

About 50 people were indicted, among them parents of potential college freshmen, athletic recruitment officials and college admission counselors.

Lindsay Barbeau, a senior admissions counselor, said the university has processes in place, such as a honor code statement that students sign when applying, that would prevent this from happening at Marquette.

“This type of ethical behavior is

not tolerated,” Barbeau said. “We pride ourselves in being a Jesuit University and therefore upholding the highest standard of ethics. We believe this so strongly that our students are required to take various courses regarding ethical dilemmas.”

As a senior admissions counselor, Barbeau said she finds this scandal very unethical.

“Honestly, I truly believe that this “scandal” is more of a privilege scandal,” Barbeau said. “People involved were using their money to influence decisions and as a whole our office doesn’t condone this.

I strongly believe in the value of hard work.”

Marquette University spokesperson Kevin Conway said Marquette embraces a fair admissions process.

“In alignment with our Catholic, Jesuit mission, Marquette University remains committed to ensuring that our holistic admissions process is built on care, compassion and integrity,” Conway said in an email.

“Marquette’s history is rooted in educational access—first for immigrants who were not welcomed elsewhere, and then in 1909 when we became the first Catholic university in the world to admit women for undergraduate study.”

Conway said in keeping with the Jesuit practice of “cura personalis”,

or “care for the whole person,” Marquette’s rigorous admissions process includes both quantitative and qualitative assessments.

“We are called upon to keep a Marquette education accessible to a diverse population of students, and to offer personal attention and care to each member of our Marquette community, from the application process through Commencement,” Conway said in an email.

Conway said the athletic recruitment process at Marquette also strives to be fair to students.

“The Office of Undergraduate Admissions and the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics work closely together to ensure that all student-athlete standards and processes are lawful and ethical, and are carried out with the integrity required by our Catholic, Jesuit mission,” Conway said in an email.

“Anything short of that will not be tolerated.”

Marino said he believes this should be the case at all schools to ensure all students have equal chances at acceptance.

“In my opinion, the unbiased nature of admissions and schools should be mandatory and based on scholarly merit and the things you did in high school, not based on wealth, power and fame,” Marino said.

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Program helps incarcerated return to society Project RETURN provides services for former inmates

By Alexa Jurado

alexa.jurado@marquette.edu

Project RETURN will host a screening of the documentary “13th” in Cudahy Hall April 13.

The documentary covers the problem of incarceration and what inmates experience.

“A lot of people don’t understand how big of a problem mass incarceration has become and if it continues as it has been, we’re going to have a really big problem in the future, and we’re already experiencing that now,” Katie Schulz, a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences, said.

Ed de St. Aubin, an associate professor of psychology and board vice president of Project RETURN, said there will be panelists following the film, including history professor Rob Smith and, social and culture science professor Meghan Stroshine, local psychotherapist Anita R. Holliman and Alfonso James, a former inmate.

“A lot of it’s about the racebase to the incarceration dynamic and why African-Americans in particular are disproportionately arrested and sentenced,” de St. Aubin said. “We’re hoping to get a lot of community folks and Marquette folks. That’s a big part of the internship program that I like, too, is getting Marquette students out of that bubble that sometimes exists on this campus.”

Project RETURN, Returning Ex-incarcerated people To Urban Realities and Neighborhoods, was created in 1981.

Project RETURN offers various services for those who have been incarcerated in the Milwaukee community, including employment services, alcohol and drug counseling, housing services and support groups.

“We exist to help men and women returning from incarceration with their re-entry needs,” Wendel Hruska, executive director for Project REUTRN, said. “Everything we do is on a one-on-one basis, it really depends on the individual and what they come to us needing help with is what we’re going to assist them with.”

Hruska said the film articulates and goes through decades within the 20th century from slavery to Jim Crow laws, the Ku Klux Klan, the war on drugs and the rise of the prison population that ensnares people on low-level drug offenses.

“If we do not prepare them for re-entry, more times than not they’re going to go back to what

they know: survival,” Hruska said. “We need to be able to make sure they have the necessary tools and resources at their disposal so that they don’t have to go back to criminal thinking patterns or addictions.”

Marquette University students have been working with Project RETURN since Hruska started working at the organization 19 years ago.

De St. Aubin said the organization started in a basement of Cross Lutheran Church, less than a mile away from campus.

“Undergraduate students used to walk over and do GED tutoring and they would have meals together, so there was a lot of fellowship and camaraderies, and that’s kind of continued,” de St. Aubin said.

Though service learners have gone through Project RETURN for years, Hruska said an internship program began around seven or eight years ago. Students can enroll in a class through the psychology department and work at an organization for the entire academic year, spending eight hours in the field each week and one hour with de St. Aubin to reflect on what they learned.

De St. Aubin thought of the internship program after he joined the board about 10 years ago.

“I got to know what (Project RETURN) were doing, and it occurred to me that they were very much aligned with Marquette’s social justice mission and reaching out to folks who are marginalized,” de St. Aubin said.

“There’s only so much you can do in a classroom, so I started to conceptualize this internship program where students could put some hours in the field, and we would meet back on campus and talk about psychological aspects of race relations and changing one’s life around and criminal thinking and then it grew from there.”

De St. Aubin said when the program started, he began with two interns. Now, he said there are 19 students signed up for the next academic year. He called it a “very high impact learning experience.”

“You can really get immersed in the re-entry world and understanding the issues surrounding re-entry,” Hruska said. “Students learn a lot more of what the actual struggles and issues are that individuals returning from incarceration face.”

Schulz is an intern with Project RETURN. “We get to visit prisons,” Schulz said. “That was one of the coolest things we’ve done so far … just getting to talk to the inmates while they’re there and hear about what they want

to do when they get out and letting them know we’d be a good resource for them.”

Hruska said interns have participated in support circles and other programming, as well as worked with staff on specific projects happening within the organization. While the tasks of service learners are “ever-evolving,” what the interns do is much more in-depth.

“Because it is a little bit more time a week, and for a more extended period of time, the interns really get the full breadth of what we do as an organization, as well as much more intricate details,” Hruska said.

De St. Aubin said two or three weeks of orientation occur before an intern starts.

“If you do the whole year, the depth of that relationship is way more significant, so I really like to do that,” de St. Aubin said.

De St. Aubin said students are getting exposed to things they would not on campus.

“They’re matched up with people, with Project RETURN, who have been gang members, many have been in prison, so

they’re forming these kind of relationships that are pretty phenomenal,” de St. Aubin said.

“By the time they’re done, the relationships they built are deep, they’re being invited to picnics and weddings, and they’re meeting people’s newborns.”

De St. Aubin said there’s a reciprocal relationship between the student interns and the agencies, in which the students benefit, but they also contribute to agencies work and missions using their skillsets.

He also said students have come to him saying the experience pushed them out of their comfort zones, and it’s been career-changing.

“Even if it doesn’t impact their career, it definitely changes their attitudes and thoughts, whether it’s in race issues or stigma around inmates,” de St. Aubin said. “It’s the idea that they’re going to have a ripple effect.”

Schulz said she hopes to work in prisons when she is older and said de St. Aubin encouraged her to apply for the Project RETURN program.

“I’m hoping to go to law

school and get more involved in prison legislation, mostly because of what I’ve seen here in Milwaukee and the huge amount of segregation,” Schulz said.

Hruska said policymakers often cite a tight budget asking for resources for previously incarcerated citizens. Hruska said he wants people to recognize that the vast majority of people who are incarcerated today in the state of Wisconsin are going to be returning to the community.

“We are only beginning to recognize the true nature and the true impact that mandatory minimums and tough-on-drug crime laws have had on our country, which have been detrimental,” Hruska said.

“If we do not prepare them for re-entry, more times than not they’re going to go back to what they know: survival,” Hruska said. “We need to be able to make sure they have the necessary tools and resources at their disposal so that they don’t have to go back to criminal thinking patterns or addictions.”

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University launches website as part of initiative First-generation students can look online for help

By Emma Tomsich

emma.tomsich@marquette.edu

To increase support for first-generation students at Marquette, the university launched a website dedicated to its growing population of first-generation students.

The website features information about academics, finances and other resources, in addition to a first-generation network of students and faculty created to provide advice and mentorship to first-generation students.

The website is designed to help eliminate barriers to student success and provide resources and information in a simplified way, Jennifer Reid, director of student affairs assessment, communication and student government, said.

Reid said the website’s purpose is twofold: to act as a portal of information that helps with the transition to college and to support first-generation students through the network of trained individuals who have agreed to serve as mentors and support systems.

Reid said she was a first-generation college student herself and found it difficult to navigate the college scene. She said it took her seven years to graduate with her bachelor’s degree from the University of WisconsinMilwaukee because she did not know what she wanted to study and did not have a support system to channel her interests.

“We want people to graduate in four to five years,” Reid said.

“That’s a goal of the institution, so we will do whatever we can to make that happen.”

Reid said the website was born out of requests from firstgeneration students during a focus group conducted by the university last spring. “(The students) had expressed a number of different challenges that they have faced, one of which was navigating Marquette’s website and finding information,” Reid said.

Reid, along with assistant vice president for student affairs Joya Crear; associate director for hispanic initiatives Jacki Black; associate vice provost for academic support programs and retention Anne Deahl; and graduate assistant in the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion Alan Chavoya worked as a team to agree what content should be featured on the website.

She said they started creating the pages for the website in the

summer, and then the website had to go through a review and approval process by Marquette’s content management system.

Chavoya was one of the main content creators for the website.

When deciding what information to include on the website, Chavoya said he looked into other institutions to see what websites and documents of advice they offered to first-generation students.

“By reading through these websites or documents and comparing the content with my experience as a first-gen student at Marquette, I began to think more thoroughly about what kind of information a student with minimal familiarity with Marquette would benefit most from having,” Chavoya said in an email.

He said he also talked to other students about their experiences in order to have multiple perspectives.

“My hope is that the content on the website can be reviewed by students, faculty and staff and modified as needed,” Chavoya said in an email. “As Marquette changes and as new students enter campus and bring forth new experiences, this website will have to be dynamic and respond to what our firstgen students need to know in order to succeed.”

Currently, 20 percent of the university’s undergraduate students are first-generation students, but that number will continue to grow, Reid said.

As that number grows, the university is working to increase support for first-generation students, Reid said.

She said the university is developing a first-generation college student network and creating other initiatives for first-generation students.

“Since (the network) just got up and running, there is no formal program in place,” Reid said.

Right now the responsibility is on students to reach out to members of the network, but the university is waiting to see what students suggest and will work with them to make modifications if necessary, she said.

“Students express how important those relationships are, and a lot of them just arise organically,” Reid said. “A lot of the people on that list are first-generation students themselves, so I think they just have a personal desire to help firstgeneration students to be successful, knowing that they have their own challenges.”

Brianna Kratz, a graduate assistant for Marquette law school events and facilities, is a member of the network and was a first-generation college

Photo by Ricky Labrada ricardo.labrada@marquette.edu

Jennifer Reid said the new website is to help first-generation college students with resources and tips.

student herself.

Kratz said she became a member of the network after she received an email asking her if she wanted to join.

She said she thinks it’s important for first-generation students to be willing and brave enough to reach out to somebody in the network.

“Recognizing that need in yourself takes a lot of self reflection,” Kratz said.

She said she wants first-generation students to know there is a gigantic support system of students and faculty who want to help them. “(This initiative is) important largely because it’s a really good way of seeing representation and understanding that there are people here who either are students, were students or are allies for first-(generation) students,” Kratz said.

Rosita Hernandez, a freshman in the College of Arts & Sciences, said that when coming into college, she was academically ready but lacked guidance when applying to college.

“I had the moral support of my mom, but being a first(generation) student, she didn’t give me the guidance for it, so that’s where I struggled a bit,” Hernandez said.

With the help of her college counselor in high school, Hernandez said she was able to relieve the stress of applying to college on her own.

Unfortunately, Hernandez said not all first-generation students came into college as prepared as her.

“I felt ready academic-wise because I came from a college prep high school. However, I know that’s not the case with all first-(generation) students,”

Hernandez said. “I know that my friends who are first-(generation) went to public schools, and obviously public schools here in Milwaukee are not as funded, I would say, so they’re not as prepared as most kids.”

Hernandez said first-generation students have a mindset that they shouldn’t ask for help.

“We tend to think, ‘Oh, we’ve gotten this far by ourselves, we can get farther by ourselves,’” she said.

Hernandez said it has taken her time, but she is now able to reach out to the Marquette community for help and go to office hours with professors.

“Since our parents can’t help us with (some things), Marquette making an effort shows that it’s a school that cares,” Hernandez said.

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Challenge invites Milwaukee campuses to join 1881 Productions promotes marathon test for runners

By Bryan Geenen

bryan.geenen@marquette.edu

1881 Productions, a for-profit event-organizing company of Marquette University students, has added a university challenge to this year’s Milwaukee Marathon this Saturday.

The university challenge allows students, alumni, and faculty to run with their school. 1881 Productions put out codes on social media that individuals can use to enter the university challenge when they register for the marathon online. The codes are on 1881 Productions Instagram and Twitter accounts, and to further help spread the word it sent the codes out to Marquette, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Milwaukee School of Engineering for them to put in newsletters, school emails and to post on their own social media accounts.

The event has three different categories of courses including a 26.2mile marathon, a half-marathon of 13.1 miles and a 5K. All three

events will end up at the Milwaukee Bucks’ newly-constructed, live block entertainment complex, the Fiserv Forum, in the heart of Milwaukee, according to the Milwaukee Marathon website.

“The purpose of the Milwaukee Marathon was to bring together all the different communities in the city,” said Thomas Biegler, a sophomore in the College of Business Administration and chief financial officer and founding member of 1881 Productions, When Marquette teamed up with the current owners of the marathon, Rugged Races, they decided they wanted to focus on bringing together communities in the Milwaukee Marathon, Biegler said.

The goal that 1881 Productions had in mind when it created the university challenge was to help bring together schools in Milwaukee, Biegler said.

“Essentially, universities will be represented by their students in the Milwaukee Marathon. The top time (with) the top ten student times combined will be the winner,” Biegler said.

The participants times correspond with their registration code and are entered as part of the

school’s times.

A lot of our other events is booking Isabella Station, a sophomore in places, getting food and what not. the College of Communication and With the Milwaukee Marathon, it’s associate project manager for 1881 not just booking a venue, it’s bookProductions, ing the entire city,” said 1881 ProBiegler said, ductions has Biegler said they helped set up had to hire a lobthe entire marbying firm to conathon. vince the alderman “We’re into shut down the volved in city for the day. blocking off They also had to get the streets police involved for and actually security and needplanning it. ed 26.2 miles of The route, the traffic cones. marketing, the The Milwaukee Thomas Biegler Marathon will pass tickets sale, Chief financial officer, by the Harley-Daeverything.” founding member of vidson Museum, Staton said, 1881 Productions Miller Park and “The goal of the university Veterans Park. challenge was to get more memBiegler said the marabers of the community in Mil- thon will be going through waukee to participate and become highlights of Milwaukee. more involved.”

“Our thought was if we’re runThe Milwaukee Marathon, ning past the schools in the heart which has around 8,000 runners, of Milwaukee, why not have them is 1881 Productions’ biggest un- be involved in some way?” Biegler dertaking. Biegler said the com- said. “Why not have them represent pany was only expecting around their school, that part of Milwau5000-6000 runners. kee and just create some friendly “There’s so much that goes into it. competition to help the students

“

Our thought was if we’re running past the schools in the heart of Milwaukee, why not have them be involved in some way?”

represent (their community) and give them a little more reason to run?”

Christine Hazel, the assistant director of development and advancement at Marquette, said she looks forward to run in the Marathon.

“Our office developed an initiative to help develop team bonding and we kind of made a pact with the key runners in our office,” Hazel said.

Hazel and her office group are going to be participating in the 5K portion of the Milwaukee Marathon. She said she heard about the university challenge through the Running with The President Facebook group, which is a university group that allows students to to run with University President Lovell.

“I think it’s great for our group and we have people who aren’t participating in the running who will be helping to volunteer,” Hazel said.

Marquette students, faculty and alumni can sign up online and use their specific code — which can be found on 1881 Event Productions Instagram page at “1881eventproductions” — to join the university challenge.

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From left: Sophomore actor Jackson Hoemann, junior actor Cooper Adams, and Director Maureen Kilmurry chat after a Sunday afternoon rehearsal for “The Rivals,” which opens Friday.

Classical-period play comparable to 1700s romantic comedy

By Kelli Arseneau

kelli.arseneau@marquette.edu

As the annual period piece in its production season, Marquette Theatre opens “The Rivals” Friday at 7:30 p.m. The play runs April 5-7 and April 10-14 at the Helfaer Theatre.

Written in 1775, “The Rivals” is a comedy that tells an interwoven and complicated love story. Captain Jack Absolute falls in love with young heiress Lydia Languish, but because Lydia wants a romantic love story like she reads in novels, Jack pretends to be a poor army officer named Ensign Beverly. Meanwhile, Jack’s father wants to arrange a marriage between Jack and Lydia, but Lydia is only in love with Jack’s false identity. Confusing exchanges of letters follow, as multiple suitors pine after the same person and confuse identities.

Although written over 240 years ago, “The Rivals” coined a term that is still used today. According to ThoughtCo., the word “malapropism” — which refers to the use of an incorrect word in place of the correct word because they sound similar — is named

after Mrs. Malaprop, Lydia’s guardian and one of the comedic leads of the play.

Maureen Kilmurry, an adjunct instructor in the Theatre Department and director of “The Rivals,” has taught at Marquette for 21 years and has directed for about 20.

Kilmurry said planning for “The Rivals” began about nine months prior to the show’s opening. Auditions for the show were held in October, and rehearsals began in February.

“The Rivals” involves a large set, elaborate costumes and challenging dialogue.

“The show takes place in Bath, England, so everyone’s got accents,” Agnes Connolly, a junior in the College of Communication, said.

Connolly said the actors playing servants have “cockney” accents — the dialect associated with the British working class.

The upper class have traditional, proper British accents, people from rural areas have country accents — which border on Scottish — and one character has an Irish accent.

Connolly plays Lucy, Lydia’s maid who is viewed by many characters as innocent and simple, but actually gets involved in delivering letters and revealing information.

“She’s just making bank by revealing people’s secrets,” Connolly explained.

Cooper Adams, a junior in the College of Communication, plays David, the servant of Bob Acres, one of Jack’s friends.

“I think just a general challenge is, I mean, of course the language … but just actually understanding what you’re saying,” Adams said.

“You need to do your research before you come in to even the first rehearsal.”

Jackson Hoemann, a sophomore in the College of Communication, plays Faulkman, a friend of Jack’s who has his own sub plot with his love interest Julia, whom he expresses anxiety and jealousy over.

Hoemann said a challenge he faced in the production process was developing his character to be a real, believable person.

“I feel like, with the style of how the play’s written, and with all these period mannerisms, and just everything being, like, of the 1700s, it would be so easy to just go ahead and be like, ‘Hey, these are stock character tropes, and we’ll just play them like that,’” Hoemann said. “But these are all real characters, and they all have their own, like, personalities and emotions, and they’re all dynamic.”

Hoemann said portraying believable characters, specifically

through language of the mid18th century, has been a challenge for the whole cast. However, Hoemann said everyone has made progress.

Like Adams and Hoemann, Kilmurry also said the language of a period piece requires actors to put in work to learn how to portray the story to the audience in a believable way.

There is a “…big leap of making the words you’re given by the playwright, so when (the actors) say them, they’re their words; you feel like that actor owns those words,” Kilmurry said. “So it’s the same challenge as Shakespeare, kind of. Even though it’s, you know, 150 years closer or whatever, it’s still not exactly like we talk, and to make it their own and not just words is crucial or the audience will never follow.”

Hoemann said the play’s costumes might be his favorite of all Marquette Theatre productions he has been a part of.

“All the guys are wearing tights,” Hoemann said. “And we’ve got … shoes with heels and buckles, and then, we’re all wearing breeches too, and it’s a lot of layers, a lot of vest, a lot of coats, a lot of tri-cornered hats. It’s very much clothing of the time.”

All the women, Connolly said, wear corsets and layers of skirts.

And all but one actor wears a wig,

Kilmurry said.

The cast is made up of 13 actors that play 14 roles; one actor plays two. Additionally, Kilmurry said, there is a “deck crew” who is in costume during the show but helps move set pieces. There is also a costume crew to help actors get in their costumes, two stage managers, lights and sound crew, and builders. Guest scene designer Julie Ahlgrim, a Marquette graduate, designed the set. The show’s costume designer is artistic associate professor of digital media and performing arts Debra Krajec, and the lighting designer is artistic assistant professor of digital media and performing arts Chester Loeffler-Bell.

“I love doing period pieces, and often those are the ones I get to (direct),” Kilmurry said. “The Shakespeare gets thrown my way … to me that’s a really fun challenge, is bringing them to life to modern audiences and, you know, that there’s a reason they’re still done.”

Hoemann agreed the play can resonate with modern audiences.

“This is basically the 1700s version of a modern romantic comedy,” Hoemann said.

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Lil’ Sibs Weekend offers chance for family bonding Event features bingo, bowling, bouncy house, breakfast

By Ariana Madson

ariana.madson@marquette.edu

This Friday and Saturday, Marquette University will host Lil’ Sibs Weekend, which consists of fun activities for students and their siblings, offering them an opportunity to bond.

Lil’ Sibs Weekend is an annual event put on by the Residence Hall Association, Abbey Karpick, a junior in the College of Communication as well as the president of the RHA executive board, said. She said the weekend is an opportunity for students in dorms and apartments to sign their little siblings up to stay the night and participate in fun events.

Karpick said planning for the weekend began in February. She said many meetings were held to make sure the events would be in place and run smoothly.

In planning, RHA made some changes from last year’s events by implementing a two-day check-in period to allow those

who do not want to stay two nights to have the option to stay one night. This year’s events will be localized at the Annex, the AMU and The Commons.

Karpick said the biggest change is that RHA are allowing people to make it more of a customizable weekend in which the ticket itself is free, but participants can add on whatever events or items they want, like extra T-shirts, which would have an added cost of around $12.

The festivities begin with Friday’s check-in at the AMU and a movie at Varsity Theatre. There is a second check-in on Saturday morning at the AMU. Saturday includes activities like a pancake breakfast at Schroeder Hall, an inflatable bouncy house in West Town Square, bingo games in The Commons, bowling at the Annex and a field day.

The field day will take place in the North Commons Field and include lawn activities and games. There will also be snack options including dirt cups, a chocolate pudding dessert with crumbled cookie topping and gummy worms.

Michael Aiello, a sophomore in the College of Engineering

who participated in the weekend last year, said he is excited to have his younger brother come back to campus.

“He really enjoyed it and I was told later that he was talking to our parents a lot about it,” Aiello said. “I asked if he wanted to come visit and stay the weekend and he was really excited about the idea.”

Last year, the brothers checked out events like the magic show and bowling at the Annex, as well as spending quality time together just hanging out.

“It was fun because we have each other’s phone numbers and we Snapchat each other, but we got to hang out more as friends,” Aiello said. “It was cool reconnecting.”

For Madeline Smith, a sophomore in the College of Health Sciences, this is the first Lil’ Sibs Weekend she and her younger brother are participating in.

“I think we’re going to go bowling and we’ll probably kind of just walk around Marquette, play soccer and frisbee outside and maybe go down to the Third Ward and show him more of Milwaukee in general,” Smith said.

Last year, they were unable to

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This year will be sophomore Madeline Smith’s first Lil’ Sibs Weekend.

participate in the weekend because it overlapped with Dance Marathon, a fundraising event for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. Smith said she is excited to spend time with her brother and see all the families on campus.

Many students participating, their younger siblings and those who planned the weekend

are looking forward to seeing it come together.

“I’m super excited to see new faces on campus,” Karpick said.

“I like making students feel welcome on campus and creating a space for students and their siblings to hang out.”

Interested in the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises and a spiritual community of fellow travelers?

The Ignatian Associates are inviting

young and older adults and families from the Marquette family of alumni, staff, and students who are residents in the Milwaukee area to attend an informational session and reception.

Informational session & reception details:

Tuesday, April 16, 2019, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the lower meeting room of the Gesu Parish Center, 1210 W. Michigan (directly behind [south] of Gesu Church). Parking lot entrance of 11th St.

Who are the Ignatian Associates?

Born out of the Wisconsin Province of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), the Ignatian Associates is an autonomous organization of lay people from all walks of life who practice the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises in daily life and join together to share their faith and their intention to live in faithfulness and service to others. Ignatian Associates gather in monthly pot luck dinners, small faith sharing groups, community gatherings, book reading groups, social events, and practice shared leadership.

Milwaukee Ignatian Associates <<iaramoscommunity1992@gmail.com>> “Love reveals itself in actions more than in words.”---- Ignatius of Loyola

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Free speech executive order demands clarity

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Advising process requires additional resources from university

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Changes to the academic advising process would help to better prepare students for class registration.

Being a private university and having less students than public institutions, Marquette University is able to offer advising resources for students to stay on track with their academics.

However, the current structure of advising can cause unnecessary stress, confusion and unclear communication between advisers and advisees.

For some more popular majors, advisers must divide their resources and time between a large number of students. Many advisers are also professors, which can mean short advising appointments and less individualized attention for students.

This can be overwhelming for professors to juggle and is unfair to the students they are responsible for.

Students shouldn’t have to fight for time with their advisers and should be able to access them for meetings whenever necessary. Advisers are advocates for students and it is important that they are regularly available to help students.

This advocacy is only effective if advisers are given more time to be available to their students.

Marquette could alleviate stress for students and advisers by making advising a more specialized practice. This could mean hiring a separate, dedicated staff whose sole job is to provide insight to students as academic and professional advisers.

These advisers could have the time to dedicate to the paths of study and academic programs they specialize in, like Study Abroad and the University Honors Program. They could also be more available for walk-in meetings much like how other resources operate, such as the Career Services Center.

In the current system, there should be increased support for professors who are also advisers. This support could come in the form of further resource guides and time for advising to alleviate stress. The resources could focus on helping advisers better understand programs and departments that may intersect with their advisees’ paths of study. The workload and pressures of the many responsibilities can easily build up for professors, and it is important that they can manage their positions as both advisers and educators.

More cohesion among advisers would be beneficial for students who have more than one major or are involved in programs, like the University Honors Program. Anne Deahl, the associate vice provost for academic support and retention, said in an email, “Advising (and advisor resources and training) is planned and delivered slightly differently in each college.” These differences can be felt by students, who are often left

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frustrated by the apparent disconnect between various advisers.

It is essential that all student majors and programs are addressed and understood by advisers in order to keep students on track for graduation. The creation of a specialized advising staff would allow advisers to spend adequate time on student career paths and allow students with more than one major to have reliable, consistent contacts for all their academic planning questions.

Another feature Marquette could implement would be a system to provide feedback for advisers. Much like how students currently have the option to provide feedback for professors, the university could create a system for advisers to receive constructive criticism from their advisees. Each student has a distinct and unique experience with their adviser and should be granted the opportunity to share their experiences with the university so that improvements can be made.

If the advising process was to be streamlined, it could help give students a more straightforward understanding of requirements to complete their degrees. It could also help lighten the load on professors, while simultaneously giving them increased resources to do their jobs more effectively.

Matthew Harte

President Donald Trump issued an executive order March 22 to promote free speech on university and college campuses. While open debate is crucial for academic settings, Marquette administrators should demand greater clarity on ways the executive order will be applied. This clarity is needed given the potential for the executive order to be selectively enforced to promote speech that aligns with the president’s views.

The executive order states that federal grant-making agencies, such as the National Science Foundation, must work to certify that colleges receiving funds respect federal laws and regulations providing for free and open debate.

Public universities are required to abide by the First Amendment, while private colleges are expected to comply with their “stated institutional policies” on free speech, according to the order. If schools are unable to ensure these free speech protections, their federal research funding could be revoked by the agencies, in collaboration with the Office of Management and Budget.

Marquette’s institutional policies make a variety of references aimed at respecting free and open discourse, which could be examined for compliance with the executive order. Marquette’s guiding values encourage “vigorous yet respectful debate.” Additionally, the university’s demonstrations policy provides recognition of the need for “free discussion and rational persuasion.”

The perception that free speech and respectful debate has been limited in high-profile ways at many universities deserves recognition.

In March 2017, student protesters at Vermont’s Middlebury University violently interrupted a talk by controversial social scientist Charles Murray and injured a Middlebury professor who was with him. At the University of Pennsylvania, protesters shut down a speech by then-CIA Director John Brennan through chants and shouting in April 2016. Even Marquette encountered a small-scale free speech incident in February 2017, when a faculty member commented on Facebook that they would attempt to deter students from attending access to an event by conservative political writer Ben

Shapiro, as they worried Shapiro would confront protesters that he encountered before the event.

The agitators in these cases showcased a clear lack of recognition for respectful debate and opposing viewpoints. However, highprofile free speech incidents of this nature are extremely infrequent and appear to be on the decline. In 2018, only nine universities experienced an attempt from students or faculty members to disinvite, protest or block a guest speaker, the lowest number in over 10 years, according to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. In comparison, there were 36 disinvitation attempts in 2017, while 2016 experienced 42 attempts.

Given this decline, the necessity of the executive order is questionable. The vagueness of its language should also cause concern. The order doesn’t give guidelines on how schools will be examined for their effort to protect free speech.

There’s no mention of necessary protections that universities must provide for controversial speakers or directions for professors to foster environments of free speech in their classrooms. Because of this lack of guidance, there’s no way for universities to know if they’re fully complying with the executive order.

This vagueness should lead to concerns that the order will be selectively enforced to protect the interests of the political right, as Trump has a long history of trying to suppress speech that he disagrees with. The Committee to Protect Journalists found that Trump has made more than 1,000 Tweets criticizing, condemning or threatening journalists and the greater news media since announcing his candidacy for president in June 2015.

In one notable instance from May 2018, Trump threatened to revoke press credentials for journalists who write negative stories about him. It’s hard to imagine Trump having a more objective approach to free speech enforcement when it involves college campuses.

Universities around the nation face the potential to lose federal research funding based on Trump’s vaguely written executive order. Marquette administration should demand greater information on ways the order will be enforced to ensure it can’t be used for partisan gain.

Matthew Harte is a junior studying political science and economics.

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

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Golan Heights recognition suggests political implications Aminah Beg Last Monday, President Donald Trump signed a proclamation to officially declare Israeli sovereignty over Golan Heights, which Trump explained from his Twitter account to be an action “of critical strategic and security importance to the State of Israel and Regional Stability,” even though the state of Israel is one of the last countries with concern for safety.

Israel captured Golan Heights, a historical Syrian region located in the Eastern Mediterranean area, from Syria in 1967 and then annexed the land in 1981. When Israel seized the territory, it also displaced 130,000 people along with it. Israel’s control over Golan Heights is not recognized internationally. In fact, the United Nations declared the annexation of Golan Heights as legally invalid. Even though Trump made his declaration, the U.N. announced that its position has not shifted. This Trump policy goes against any step in the direction of a peace agreement in the Middle East that the United Nations continues to work toward.

The acquisition of Golan Heights

by Israel created further conflict between Syria and Israel. The proclamation undermined the code of the U.N. in terms of its principles of peaceful resolution of conflicts and the unacceptability of the control of a territory by force. The control of a territory by force is exactly what Israel did in Golan Heights.

By Trump’s validating the acquisition of Golan Heights by Israel, it

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was openly enthusiastic about Trump’s Golan Heights declaration.

defied the message the U.N. has been trying to send globally. It creates a false idea to leaders everywhere that similar actions of forceful possession will be unchallenged by global powers. The displacement of large groups of people cannot be justified, but Trump’s action did, in fact, attempt to justify it. Now, no form of peace or resolution can be created between Israel and Syria to end the conflict.

Not only does this hurt Syrians, but Palestinians are also greatly affected in this decision. Israel now understands that any form of occupied territory acquired in a defensive war is fair game, so this could lead to the seizure of the West Bank. Israeli occupation blatantly violates Palestinian civilian human rights through the continued murders and displacements of Palestinians by Israeli soldiers.

Palestinians have already been punished by both Israel and the Trump administration through the

closure of the Palestinian Liberation Organization’s office in Washington which was an organization dedicated to the resistance movement and liberation of Palestine. The administration also terminated any form of American assistance to Palestine such as halting U.S. funding for a UN program that assists Palestinian refugees and cutting more than $200 million in aid in 2018.

Proclaiming Israeli sovereignty of Golan Heights was done solely to inflate Trump’s ego and build up his reputation looking forward to the 2020 election. This move reverses the position American administrations have held for the last 50 years. Through this proclamation, Trump allows himself and his supporters to believe that he is taking a stance. Even if this change completely disrupts and violates the state of surrounding nations that Israel has historically upset, it clearly does not matter to the leaders of the US and Israel.

Firm support for Israel by the American president guarantees a large proportion of certain voters will back Trump in the next election, such as conservative Republicans and evangelical Christians because they have been statistically proven to support Israel. Trump is clearly looking ahead to see what policies he can currently enact to ensure support in 2020.

Giving Trump more support causes those who continue to feel violated and oppressed by the Trump administration to lose hope for the future of this country. The administration disregards human rights concerns through actions such as the Muslim ban on immigrants from Muslim majority countries, stricter immigration from the southern border and the termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program for children who were brought to the U.S. Those who were affected by the aforementioned policy changes will not be helped if Trump garners more

seems not to understand the importance of exercising the right to vote, as shown by the 2018 midterm election voter turnout of just 49.3 percent according to Vox.com . Even more alarming is that this was an improvement from the dismal turnout of the 2014 midterms where only 32.7 percent of the population eligible voter population made it to the polls. Compared to other developed nations, these figures are alarmingly low.

Countries such as France, Mexico and Germany had an average voter turnout rate approximately 10 percent greater than that of the United States during 2016, according to the Pew Research Center.

This lack of participation in America’s elections poses a fundamental problem to the democratic nature of the country. The low voter turnout during elections effectively creates a situation in which the public officials voted into office may not accurately represent the interests of a significant portion, or even majority, of their constituency.

In turn, this misrepresentation threatens the system by which a democracy is intended to operate. As a result, measures which would drastically promote voter participation

rates are required to ensure that those elected into office, and in turn shape the policy decisions of America, are actually selected by the individuals over whom they exert influence.

Of the plausible solutions to this issue, legislation which mandates participation in elections is the most effective and best remedy. Although somewhat alien to the U.S., the concept of mandatory voting is an idea which has already been implemented by more than 20 modern nations throughout the world, most notably Australia, where citizens are required to visit a polling station on election days or incur a small fine of approximately 20 dollars.

As a result of these laws, voter turnout in these nations is incredibly high, such as Australia where the electoral participation was over 87 percent during their 2016 elections, according to the Huffington Post.

By implementing similar laws in the United States, it is almost guaranteed to remedy the low voter turnout rates and thereby ensure that elected officials actually represent the ideology which a majority of their constituents subscribe to.

However, it should be noted that such an endeavor would require a

significant amount of funding from the federal government. Namely, aspects such as providing transportation to and from polling stations, and public service announcements regarding polling dates would be costly. Political parties, who have traditionally provided these services, likely would be unable to accommodate a massive increase in participants, particularly during the first couple years of implementation.

Furthermore, states which currently employ voter identification laws would likely have to either abandon the practice of requiring state ID at polling places or streamline the process of distributing voter identification cards in order to ensure that citizens are in fact able to comply with a mandatory participation policy.

Despite the fact that voting has historically been a personal responsibility of the United States citizenship, the poor turnout rate of the populous has demonstrated that measures need to be taken to make participation in selecting public figures not just an activity for the politically savvy, but a civic duty which individuals are required to fulfill.

Although some may see such a proposal as an unnecessary

support through helping Israel.

At the White House conference last week when Trump declared Israel’s sovereignty, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used praiseworthy and extravagant rhetoric when he compared Trump to the Persian Emperor Cyrus. The leaders were similar due to their dedication to the protection and defense of the Israeli people. The bond between these two leaders continues to unjustifiably favor Israel through promoting actions such as withdrawing from the nuclear deal with Iran and recognizing Jerusalem as the country’s capital. These actions are also motivated by the large amount of political funding Israeli organizations, like AIPAC, supplies to the United States. Now, U.S. politicians feel almost forced to return favors to Israel since the country’s financial support in the American political system. Israel’s financial influence continues to corrupt the structure and policies of the U.S. Hope for peace in the Middle East, specifically for the Israel-Palestine and Israel-Syria conflicts, is dismissed because of Trump’s Golan Heights declaration. To combat Trump’s destructive policy shifts, the American people can work to ensure that he does not get the support required to get reelected.

Ensuring that people vote and understand the dangers of Trump’s administration can allow for a better future for both America and innocent civilians of the Middle East.

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

Mandatory voting legislation would prove beneficial

Jackson Mozena

The United States is one of the most successful examples of a democracy in world history. Particularly over the past 50 years, a vast majority of the American public has been afforded the opportunity to nominate individuals, who they feel accurately represent their own beliefs, to positions which allow them to influence the lives of their constituencies.

As a result, the legislation created by the United States government is highly dependent on individuals actually participating in both local and federal elections. Without the input of citizens, official policy positions implemented by the government have the potential to stray from the interests of the people. Therefore, it is imperative that the right to vote in America be treated as a civic duty which individuals are required to participate in. This would ensure that the U.S. government continues to represent the interests of the general population.

Currently, the American public

obligation, it is important to remember that the American public ultimately possesses the power to determine the future of the nation.

As a result, it is imperative that the American population actually participates in a process which will have a tangible impact on every aspect of their lives.

Jackson Mozena is a freshman studying criminology. He can be reached at jackson.mozena@marquette.edu

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Washington develops on faceoffs

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Thomas Washington runs the with the ball in the head of his lacrosse stick. The freshman was born in Minneapolis and was a four-year letterman in lacrosse at The Blake School.

Freshman adds flexibility, gives head coach Amplo options

By Dan Avington

daniel.avington@marquette.edu

Not many college coaches would choose a freshman recruit over a top transfer. But that was the exact decision of Marquette men’s lacrosse head coach Joe Amplo.

One year ago, Thomas Washington was in his final year as a faceoff specialist at The Blake School in Minnesota, dominating all of his competition.

University at Albany sophomore Zack Ornstein was coming off a freshman season where he went 56 percent at the faceoff dot, but he lost the starting role to the nation’s top faceoff man, TD Ierlan.

Both Washington and Ornstein were interested in becoming Golden

Eagles, leaving Amplo with a choice to make.

The choice of faceoff specialist came down to Ornstein or Washington. Amplo chose Washington.

So far, Amplo’s choice has not disappointed, as he has played very well since the start of the season.

Washington was recently named the BIG EAST Freshman of the Week after going 10 of 17 at the faceoff dot against No. 14 Georgetown. The 5-foot-6 faceoff specialist has won slightly more than 56 percent of his faceoff attempts this season.

It’s been an up-and-down season for the freshman out of Minnetonka, Minnesota, after an injury-riddled first few weeks.

“I pulled my hamstring the first game of the season, (and) then I went back two weeks later and re-pulled it against Detroit Mercy,” Washington said. “But it’s good to go now.”

After that first game,

Washington, known by his teammates as “T-Wash,” led the country in faceoff percentage, which he said was special despite the limited sample size this early in the season.

Washington had only taken nine faceoffs and won eight of them.

As a sophomore in high school, Washington originally committed to Syracuse University, but then flipped his commitment to Marquette, citing Amplo as the main reason.

“Amplo was the factor behind my decision,” Washington said. “I realized he was a coach that really cares about me and that I could have a big role on this team.”

Washington was also a football player in high school. He said his experience on the gridiron comes into play during faceoffs.

“It helps with the mental aspect, just because I was a running back, so I really have to stay focused (in both positions),” Washington said.

“It helps with clearing the ball once

I have it and seeing the field.”

Amplo said Washington’s athleticism is his best attribute.

“He’s dynamic. He’s a really good athlete,” Amplo said. “He could be very instrumental (for us).”

Washington’s emergence as a reliable faceoff player has given his team a “three-headed monster” at the faceoff X. Each player brings a distinct style to the faceoff X. Along with junior Jared Hershman and freshman Jack Devine’s contributions, the coaches have a variety of options to run out.

“We all have different styles so that’s really helpful,” Washington said. “If one style’s not working, we have something completely different we can throw in.”

Washington said his style is a mix of the other faceoff players.

“Devine is pretty raw, but he’s quick and just battles for the ball, and Hershman is really polished, so I try to combine both of their styles,”

Washington said.

But Washington recognizes that his game still has some holes, especially after he gets out into the open field following the initial faceoff.

“My shot needs to improve a lot, also my passing, looking to throw it to the attackman rather than taking the shot every time I have the fast break,” Washington said.

Even though he was named the BIG EAST’s top freshman last week, Washington is remaining humble.

“It’s exciting, but it’s just the beginning,” Washington said. “I have to keep proving myself every week.”

Ornstein got the better end of the first matchup between the two, though. Ornstein, who ended up transferring into Villanova University, went 5 for 9 at the dot Saturday compared to Washington’s 0 for 3.

Amplo still believes in his dynamic freshman.

“He’s got potential to be really impactful,” Amplo said.

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Seniors bulk up back line, play key role around crease Connolly, Ehlert provide steady nature to defense

By Aimee Galaszewski

aimee.galaszewski@marquette.edu

Junior defender Nick Grill gets a lot of attention for his part in Marquette men’s lacrosse’s defense, but there are two overlooked veterans: seniors Brendon Connolly and Jackson Ehlert.

Connolly made the move from long-stick midfielder to defense a few years ago, so he brings plenty of versatility to the Marquette defense. “(My versatility) adds a whole new perspective,” Connolly said.

“It was a tough transition, but Nick and Ehlert really helped because they taught me the ropes.”

The 6-foot-3 senior from Towson, Maryland, saw some minutes in his first two years before having a breakout year in 2018. He started all 14 games and led the squad with 17 caused turnovers. “(Connolly) is such a steady

performer,” Amplo said. “He knows the game really well.”

Amplo said Connolly can run the field, play transitions, pick up ground balls and make plays that many defenders cannot.

“He brings calmness,” Ehlert said. “He never gets too high or too low.”

Despite their similarities in positions, Ehlert is the opposite personality of the reserved Connolly.

Ehlert started his collegiate journey playing for the Community College of Baltimore County-Essex. He transferred to Marquette his sophomore year and elevated his style of play to the next level.

“From the day (Ehlert) has been on campus, he’s been a really valuable player for us,” Amplo said.

Amplo said his personality is the same on and off the field.

His teammates and coaches described him as goofy, confident and aggressive.

“Jackson is an unbelievable cover guy,” Connolly said. “He works harder than probably

anyone I know, and he just loves to get after it.”

Ehlert said his adjustment from CCBC-Essex was smooth and simple, taking on a leadership role ever since getting to Marquette.

“As a senior, I’m going to try to set good examples by doing the right thing at all times no matter what the situation is,” Ehlert said.

Connolly, Ehlert and Grill create a defensive unit that is fast, physical and polished. They credit their successes to their coach, who is a former defenseman.

“You can tell he definitely ‘rides the D bus,’” Ehlert said.

“He wants Marquette to be known for defense.”

Amplo’s not afraid to admit he enjoys coaching defense more than offense. It helps when he has players like Connolly and Ehlert.

“Those guys have seen everything that college lacrosse can throw at you,” Amplo said.

“They put a lot of pressure on themselves, and they have high expectations.”

WOMEN’S LACROSSE

Losing streak extends to three MU falls to Villanova 15-13 in the team’s conference opener

By Maddie Adams

madison.adams@marquette.edu

Marquette women’s lacrosse lost 15-13 to the Villanova Wildcats in a close game Saturday afternoon.

Both teams had scoring runs at different points in the game, but the game remained relatively close throughout.

Senior midfielder Lindsey Willcocks scored Marquette’s first goal before graduate student Charlotte McGuire scored MU’s next three goals to get an early hat trick.

However, Villanova used a 4-0 run to end the first half with a 9-4 lead.

“We just need the ball,” head coach Meredith Black said. “We can’t score without the ball.”

The Wildcats came into the second half with goals from Kim McDonough and Brittany Bruno in the first three minutes. These goals extended Villanova’s lead to 11-4, which was the largest lead of the game.

The Golden Eagles answered with a 7-0 run in the middle of the second half to tie the game at 1111. Goals came from Willcocks, junior Megan Menzuber, freshman Shea Garcia and senior captain Grace Gabriel.

Menzuber, Garcia and Gabriel are usually reliable options for Marquette’s offense, but they did

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Lindsey Willcocks runs with the ball in her stick against the Wildcats.

not score until the second half.

“At halftime we talked about keeping up our ball movement and trusting each other in our passes,” Willcocks said.

Villanova took a 13-11 lead following goals from Bruno and Nicole Concannon, but then Marquette tied it again after Willcocks and Garcia put shots in the back of the net.

Marquette could not hold on any longer, as two Villanova goals in the last three minutes resulted in the 15-13 final score.

“I think the problem was consistency throughout the whole 60 minutes of the game,” Black said.

Despite losing the team’s BIG

EAST opener, the Golden Eagles have a lot to learn from this game.

“This one obviously stings a little bit, but it also gives us a chip on our shoulder,” Willcocks said.

“We are ready for the next one, and everything we learned today is just going to make us do even better next time.”

Marquette (6-7, 0-1 BIG EAST) will continue conference play next Saturday against Butler at Valley Fields at 4 p.m. Central Standard Time.

“We have to have confidence and we need to believe,” Black said.

“We have to learn how to play consistently and find that way of climbing higher and higher.”

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Jackson Ehlert has appeared in 39 games in his collegiate career.

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Horning, Leva provide viable options, experience in goal Junior, sophomore combine for formidable duo in net

By Maddie Adams

madison.adams@marquette.edu

Women’s lacrosse head coach Meredith Black has an unusual thing to brag about: her back-up goalie.

“I always say we have the best back-up goalie in the country,” Black said. “Both (starter Julianna) Horning and (backup Sophia) Leva are really strong goalies and I have all the confidence in the world in them.”

Horning is a junior captain and usually the starting goalie for Marquette, while Leva is a sophomore and the back-up goalie.

Black said she appreciates the depth of goalies on Marquette’s roster. In the Golden Eagles’ most recent game against Villanova University March 30 Horning started out the game, but Leva was shortly substituted in and was what Marquette needed in the goal that day.

Both Marquette’s goalies

weren’t always protectors of the cage. Along with goalie, Leva played other positions in high school.

“We had three goalies, so to keep from sitting on the bench, I played wherever I was needed, which kept my stick skills sharp and also shaped my style of play as a goalie,” Leva said. “I could understand the mentality and positioning of an attacker.”

Leva’s versatility allows her to prepare her team’s attackers while also giving herself a better idea of how to defend against opponents’ attackers.

Horning had a late start to the position.

“I started playing lacrosse in first grade as a low attacker and didn’t begin playing goalie until around sixth grade,” Horning said. “I think being a goalie is a completely different game.”

Aside from the quick reflexes and strong focus necessary, the position also poses a mental challenge.

“The mental aspect is the toughest part of this position,” Horning said. “Learning the technical fundamentals is pretty

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Junior Julianna Horning (far right) has started in all 13 games in 2019. She has a 34.1 percent save percentage.

easy, but being able to stay positive can be hard as a goalie.”

That includes having a short memory.

“In the position of a goalie

you have to have a short memory because the reality is that you are going to get scored on.

It’s a fact,” Leva said. “You have to be able to mentally

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MEN’S SOCCER

Louis Bennett, team visit landmarks accross the pond Matches against English professionals test MSOC during trip

By Daniel Macias and Tyler Peters

daniel.macias@marquette.edu tyler.peters@marquette.edu

After 12 years of waiting, Marquette men’s soccer completed a once-in-a-lifetime trip.

During spring break, the team went on its first foreign tour in program history and visited head coach Louis Bennett’s homeland, England.

“This rounds off a student-athlete’s experience,” Bennett said.

“Our sport demands a lot of time so (when) we can do this, we kind of are paying (the student athletes) back.”

“The trip gave us a good idea of what England is like,” sophomore defender Josh Hancock said. “I feel like the team got a really good taste of what England can offer.”

Donars helped fund the trip.

Senior defender Patrick Seagrist documented the entire trip in a seven-minute video.

“Personally, whenever I go to travel—whether it’s with friends or family—I always make a recap so that in the future I can look back at something (as) a memorable experience,” Seagrist said. “This was a trip of a lifetime, and I wanted to

capture every moment I could. In the future, I could show my friends and family. People who are coming to Marquette in the future can look at what we experienced so we can give back.”

Highlights of the trip included visiting London and Manchester, witnessing two Premier League soccer games, a Union of European Football Association Champions League game, competing in four matches against professional teams and of course, sightseeing.

Bennett said the team packed a lot into the trip including training, visiting Oxford University, touring London, seeing the queen and going to a professional soccer game.

For Seagrist, one of the more memorable moments was going to professional soccer games.

“The difference between the professional games (in the United States) and the professional games (in England is) there’s a lot more of an atmosphere overseas,” Seagrist said. “(The) fans are more involved (and) it seems like the players are in a sense more passionate because it’s their lives basically.”

Bennett said in England, soccer is not just a sport. It’s a “tribal following.”

“It’s a part of the culture. There are a lot of people where (going to soccer games) is their hobby—it’s their passion—and I wanted our

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Marquette men’s soccer visited England over spring break. The team attended two Premier League games.

guys to feel that,” Bennett said.

Seagrist compared the atmosphere of a soccer match in the Premier League to the atmosphere of American football games.

“To put it in perspective, it’s the craziness of an NFL Super Bowl game times an absurd amount,” Seagrist said.

Marquette also played four games against professional teams based in England. They faced professional teams’ youth squads: Hundersfield Town U19, Wolverhampton Wanderers FC U18, West Ham United U18 and Oxford United U23.

Marquette went undefeated, winning three games and having a draw against West Ham U18.

Bennett said he put his players outside of their comfort zones in terms of on-the-field play.

“It’s very interesting for our guys to see that (the opponents) are playing for their living,” Bennett said. “They are only 16, 17, 18.”

Seagrist said the level of play during the four games was quicker and more physical.

An example Seagrist gave about the intensity was in regards to free kicks. In college, when a team

takes a free kick, they might take a little more time to set up. In England, they play the ball right away.

“I got the feeling (our players) were grateful for the opportunity of playing (against professional English teams),” Bennett said.

Now Bennett is hoping this generation will help the next generation go on a trip.

“When they leave here and they’re 10, 15 years into their own careers, I think they’ll want to give back so that the next generation can go,” Bennett said. “I’m kind of proud of that.”

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Henry, Golden Eagles look to improve from 4-11-3 finish NCAA Tournament remains on team’s radar for fall 2019

By John Steppe

john.steppe@marquette.edu

Five months after Marquette women’s soccer concluded its first losing season since 1995, there’s still a bitter taste in the players’ mouths.

“None of us were satisfied,” junior goalkeeper Maddy Henry said after the team’s exhibition game Saturday against Iowa.

Now the program is looking to use its spring exhibition season to springboard itself from a four-win season to becoming a contender for the BIG EAST title in 2019.

“It seems like a lot to go at after last season, but frankly with the turnaround we’ve had lately and the players we have, I think we can do that,” Henry said.

Henry and the Golden Eagles will have plenty of challenges following head coach Markus Roeders’ first losing season as head coach at Marquette.

“We can’t turn back the time,” Roeders said. “Last year is what

it is. You learn from it. More than anything, nobody wants to have that experience again.”

Marquette is losing a sevenperson senior class that includes its leading scorer Carrie Madden, a player who played on the Philippines national team, Ryley Bugay, and former All-BIG EAST Freshman Team honoree Jamie Kutey.

The Golden Eagles are also losing freshman defender Katie Koker, who played in all 18 matches in 2018, after she announced her transfer to Minnesota.

The team’s turnaround from a disappointing 2018 season had a hiccup Saturday. It lost 3-1 to Iowa, a team that finished 114th in the NCAA’s Ratings Power Index last year. MU was without seven players, including Kylie Sprecher and Abby Hess. Roeders said some who played were not necessarily 100 percent healthy, either.

It has forced defender Maddie Monticello to play out of position.

“It sucks not having them out here right now, but I do like the adversity that it’s put us under,” Henry said. “We have players playing in different positions.”

Roeders said the team needs to be

healthier heading into the fall season to have a chance at the team’s ambitious 2019 aspirations.

“We have to be healthy,” Roeders said. “Then we have to play within ourselves. … We might have to be a little more scrappy than pretty sometimes.”

The Iowa game Saturday showed glimpses of what Marquette is looking to do next year, but the short-handed Golden Eagles left fans restless.

“I’m sorry, but that was crap,” one fan yelled during the first half.

Roeders admitted progress will be made in “baby steps.”

“You see more and more glimpses of it,” Roeders said. “We’re still young in some areas.”

Roeders is also not putting too much weight into the result of the 3-1 loss.

“You want to win, but we could have an all-out winning (spring) season, and it doesn’t necessarily translate to the fall,” Roeders said.

“You need to learn how to win as well, but it’s not everything.”

Henry said she’s hoping this adversity prepares Marquette to return to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since her

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Maddy Henry takes a goal kick. The junior had 100 saves in 2018-’19.

freshman year.

“Honestly, freshman year, it was cool, but I didn’t realize the weight of it at the time,” Henry said. “Going back and being able to appreciate it even more, especially as a senior, that would be a dream come true.”

Henry is confident her team can return to the NCAA Tournament.

“Hell, why not?” Henry said.

“Senior year, I’m ready.”

Roeders was a little more realistic, but he has the same goal.

“We want to put our flag on the mountain top,” Roeders said. “At the same time, we have to be realistic and look in the distance and see where it’s at. In between, it’s a process. … It’s going to be hard work.”

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Program ends indoor season, strive for outdoor success Meet in Orlando opens second half of track and field year

By Matt Yeazel

matthew.yeazel@marquette.edu

Marquette track and field finished the indoor season Feb. 23 second on the men’s side and third on the women’s side. Now the team is looking to carry that success to the outdoor season, which started March 15.

The outdoor season started with a spring break trip to Orlando to compete at the University of Central Florida’s invitational, the Black and Gold Challenge.

Rachel Seraphine set a Marquette women’s freshman record for the pole vault, clearing 3.70 meters. Joe Keezer and Bre Marchan also set personal records in the 400-meter and

100-meter races, respectively.

It was the team’s first chance to practice and compete in warm weather outdoors.

“We got a few days practice in which was nice in the good weather,” head coach Bert Rogers said.

“If we get some good marks early, great, but really we’re still training and building up for the rest of the year.”

Rogers said he’s excited about the transition to the outdoor season because it benefits MU’s athletes.

“Going outdoors benefits us a lot,” Rogers said. “There are events that shift a little bit and play to our strengths outdoors.”

The indoor season started in January, and the team only had about a two-week break before the trip to Florida, so there’s not much of a break between the indoor and outdoor seasons.

Rogers said the team will typically take a few days off after

indoors to recover, but then it gets back and ramps up the training.

“We cycle training with harder weeks and easier weeks throughout the indoor and outdoor seasons,” Rogers said. “We get our rest when needed and then build back up and get where we need to be.”

The program is coming off successful BIG EAST seasons in 2018. The men won the conference championship last season convincingly, finishing 50 points ahead of second-place Villanova.

The women finished third behind Villanova and DePaul, the same results as this past indoor season.

“We know we’re a strong team,” Rogers said. “If we bring that continual energy to practice every day, we’ll be right back in the mix.”

With both teams finishing just five points behind the teams in front of them in the standings during indoor season, Rogers said

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Hiedeman named All-American Senior adds another accolade in final season on campus

By Tyler Peters

tyler.peters@marquette.edu

Marquette women’s basketball senior guard Natisha Hiedeman earned 2018-’19 Women’s AP All-America Honorable Mention honors Monday.

This is the second time in program history a Marquette player has been selected to an AP AllAmerican team. Krystal Ellis is the only other player to do so.

She received the award in 2007.

Hiedeman won BIG EAST Player of the Year and was a unanimous selection to the AllBIG EAST First Team and BIG EAST All-Tournament Team this past season.

Hiedeman broke several program records this year and had the most points scored by a senior with 617. She also had the most 3-pointers made by a senior with 93, and she is MU’s all-time leader in 3-pointers made in her career with 301.

Her career high in points was set this season against Seton Hall Feb. 17 with 34.

Although known for her offensive abilities, Hiedeman led the team this season in defensive rebounds with 214. She also led the team in steals, assists and blocks.

Her 1,913 points scored during her career at Marquette is the third highest in program history behind Ellis and teammate Allazia Blockton.

Photo by Elena Fiegen elena.fiegen@marquette.edu

Hiedeman attempts a layup.

Photo courtesy of Marquette Athletics

Madison Ricciardi jumps over a hurdle at the Joey Haines Invitational.

the teams will be extra motivated for competing outdoors.

“There’s definitely a fire under us,” Rogers said. “It’ll probably be

a slim margin again, and hopefully it falls our way this time.”